The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-02-20

is inexplicdble, unless the man
has a disordered mind, and used
insane methods to cover his
tracks. Then there's the glove,
you can't get around thatl'
That glove might have been
put in her hand by anybody
That sol By a professional
burglar, sayi / really believe
"Oh, let up on that professional
burglar businessi Nc burglar is
going off without his loot when
he has uninterrupted time enough
to kill a person twice, with poison
and then, to hide that, with a
fractured skull! How do you ex-
plain, even in theory, those two
murderous attacks?'I
Good Lord, man, / don't
know It's all the most inexplic-
able muddle. / don't see how any
of the things could happen, but
they did happenl You're the de-
tective, not III Aren't you ever
going to discover anything9"
II may as well own up, Mr..
Haviland, j am beyond my depth.
There is a belief among detectives
that the more bizarre and amaz-
ing the clues are, the easier the
deduction therefrom. But i don't
believe that. This case is bizarre
enough, in all conscience, yet what
can n deduce from that paper
snake and that squeezed up glove Z
1t was all up in a little wad, you
know, not at all as if it were care
lessly drawn from q mans hand,
or pulled off in a struggle"
There was no struggle. The
features were composed, even al
most smiling"
Il know it. That proves it was
no burglar. Well, I'm up a tree.
/ wish you felt inclined to call in
Fleming Stone. He's the only
man on this continent who could
unrayel it all" ~,
Fl want to get him, but Miss
Stuart won't hear Of it. I'd have
to have either her authority or
Loria's."
"But Mr.. Loria gave you full
swing, in that cable"
Eyes, for ordinary business
matters. But this is different.
I'D have to have assurance that
he'd pay the bills before / en-
gagged Stone. I've heard he's
some expensive"
rive heard that, too. But, by
|Jove, I'dflike to work with him
Or under him. / say, / wish
you copld bring, it about"
"I might cable Loria on my
own, and not mention it to Miss
Stuart until I get the permits
sion"
EDO. For, as you say, the two
ladies cannot possibly be involved,
and T., for one, don't believe that
nincompoop Count ever pulled off
such a complicated affair all by
himself,
9sWhat about the widow he's
visiting7"
"Ah, there you have i'll Those
two are in it, but there's more
mystery yet"
HI9d like to have it straight
ened out, /" said Haviland thought
fully. SIN a way, / feel respon-
sible to Loria, since he has put
me inRcharge. And il he wants
me to get Stone, I'll be glad to
do, so. As you say, it can't affect
the ~girls--that stuff Anita made
up was only to bother Pauline
You see, Pauline came back at
her with a counter accusation.
They're both unstrung and upset,
aud they scarcely knew what
they're saying.
"Then there's that French
maid"
"Oh, Estelle. She's a negligible
quantity. She's ~hysterical from
sheer nervousness, and she lies
so fast she can hardly keep up
with herself"
well, think it over, and, il
You see your way clear to, call in
Stone, I'll be mighty glad. If
the Frenchman is the guilty par
ty, Stone will nail him and prove
lit beyond all doubt. And, if not,
we surely don't want an innocent
man to swing"
"'That we don't" agreed Havi.
land.