El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-27
4 Ripping Detective Story

OF cheap opium which noated about
the stark mass Ike an aura OF evil.
and. lastly, he indicated the strange
row OF scratches. cuts rather-s
Here. n Tenant, look for your
The American looked.
An immense fireplace topped by a
mantel OF age darkened. carved ma
. hoEany. extended nearly the full
length OF the west wall, coming 10
within half a yard OF the French
window. and the dead mans chair
facing the latter, nearly touched the
former
The half circular arrangement Of
symmetrical cuts. instead OF on the
library table, as In the Jarvet case,
was on the plump mahogany column,
nearest the back OF the chair, which
supported the mantel piece. and. as
IN the sarTet case, bits OF rough. IL
brous cloth were sticking 70 some
OF the cuts. Tenant picked out one
and compared II to the one which
he had removed from Jarvets library
table The two were alike, there was
no doubt.
He turned TO Doumay.
Try and learn II anybody IN the
neighborhood saw a man enter the
house a little before the time OF the
murder"
when was that. DO you think7s
Tenant turned TO Xavier Roux.
when did that young Figaro cub
discover the bodyT''
at six"
"AlI right Let's see" He puzzled
"Oh, yes I have Il, Raoul Steynard
was a very busy man, away up IN
politics He must have used the
telephone a while lot"
Re took the receiver from the
hook and talked % central A minute
later he told the others the result
THE Etoile office called up Stey-
nard at half past five and talked TO
him Called up again ten minutes
later. They kept on ringing for over
ten minutes, but got no answer"
Yes" interrupted RouL. the old
servant was gone nearly the whole
afternoon Steynard was alone in
the house"
"Ail right, Doumay,'' Tenant con-
tinued, you ask around the neigh
borhood II they saw anybody enter
the house between twenty minutes OF
six and nearly six"
Couldn't tel me what the man
who entered looked ikeT" asked
Doumay. half maliciously; and he
chastened when Tenant said in a
matter OF fact way:
"Sure-thin: emaciated. very pale
complexion umpeds dressed n loose
overcoat very loose around the hips;
and !i,, a f.l.op1y sort O. felt hat
turbed, "the loose coat and the Hop
py felt hati Why, K Is the sil-
hOuette which Anne Houlbrecque saw
through the window Of the Jarvet
library when she came through the
garden the afternoon OF the murderi
Il Is like"
You're on. old fellow replied Ten
nant with dry chuckle. -Just Ike
Nile Angelo Lantaigne- Only he
laughed, -the party I'm asking D0u-
may to look for Il wearing trousers"
He continued while Doumay left the
room:
7 warn you, RouL. MILE. LantaIgne
has as good an abb for today as she
had FOR that other day. Perhaps even
better. For this afternoon she was
at rehearsal The whole company OF
the Theatre AleIandrs win swear 20
that I wouldn't arrest her II we're
you. he wound up with wink
s'M Tenant Piease-please-H
captain Roux staumered and blushed.
Then he gave ready excuse tina; I
he would have to 90 downstairs 70
look after things.
The reporters wiz be all over the
house ike rats" he said They viii
interfere with your 30 brilliant Wofz. I
The truth was that It made him
feel embarrassed and self conscious 1
TO be In the same room with James
Tenant for Hny length OF time. The
latter had called him e FOOL at the
time Of the Jarvet Investigation, and Z
the police captain, seeing the extra Z
ordinary similarity between the Jar I
vet and the Steynard murders. con- |
WINGED that both had been committed 4.
by the same agency convinced fur
thermors that since Angelo Ian I
ogIcal deduction be innocent OF the Z