The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-02-20

is inexplicable, 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 that"
"That glove might have been
put in her hand by anybody"
"That's so! By a professional
burglar, say! I really believe"
ooh, let up on that professional
burglar business! No burglar is
J 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 attacks9"
Good Lord, man, I don't
know! It's all the most inexplic-
able muddle. / don't see how any
of the things could happen, but
they did happen! You're the de-
tective, not I! Aren't you ever
going to discover anything?"
Il may as well own up, Mr..
Haviland, I 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 1 don't
believe that. This case is bizarre
enough, in all conscience, yet what
can one deduce from that paper
snake and that squeezed up glove?
1t was all up in a little wad, you
know, not at all as if it were care
lessly drawn from a mans hand,
or pulled off in a struggle"
"There was no struggle. The
features were composed, even al
most smiling"
II know it. That proves it was
no burglar. Well, I'm up a tree.
l wish you felt inclined to call in
Fleming Stone. He's the only
man on this continent who could
unravel it all"
II 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"
GIVE heard that, too. But, by
Jove, I'd like to work with him
Or under him. / say, I wish
you could bring it about"
II might cable Loria on my
own, and not mention it to Miss
Stuart until / get the permits
sion"
edo. For, as you say, the two
ladies cannot possibly be involved,
and I, for one, don't believe that
nincompoop Count ever pulled off
such a complicated affair all by
himself"
"What about the widow he's
visiting7"
"Ah, there you have it! Those
two are in it, but there's more
mystery yet"
"I'd like to have it straight
ened out" said Haviland thought
fully. Gin a way, l feel respon-
Esible to Loria, since he has put
me inQcharge. And if 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,
and they scarcely know what
they'r saying"
"Then there's that French
maid"
"Oh, Estelle. She s a negligible
quantity. She's h~ysterica1 from
sheer nervousness, and she lies
so fast she can hardly keep ur
with herself"
"Well, think it over, and, il
you see your way clear to call il
Stone, III be mighty glad. Il
the Frenchman is the guilty par
ty, Stone will nail him and prove
it beyond all doubt. And, if not
we surely don't want an innocent
man to swing
, "That we don't" agreed Havi
land.