Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
copyrioht, 1920. Fred A.. Rnopf.
r..,,,ight, 1870, bv the Public Ledger G
SYNOPSIS

SNNUIDlO
frank Spar1o, young London
..,r.nanerno,,, returning home from
~. ,ao,b late one night, sees couple
n f msn peerino into the corner of an
ou.",oon. Investigation reueols
S "s dead. murdered, 10 seemed. In
IT," b;s "nocket is found the name Ronald
pr pSetou. BdrriSter, Kings Bench
Wok. Temple, London" Breton as
,,sts he does not knoD the man. At
n, hotel he registered as John Mar
h"rv. Ho received but one pisitor, q
oIO o.u nell dressed man ioith gran
ho"rd, ~" ,Ho ordered ,ehisky and soda.
.o,;n1 for 4 il from handful of
pp"seysions, but hadn't q penny piece
bim ,pheit he pGs f0Hnd dead.
William Webster tells of sitting merit
W " Wabury whilo lobbying IN The
Tonsc of Commons the night of the
nUrder. and of Marbury's excitement
"n the appearance OF tall tocH-
dressed man--Stephem Aytmore, AT.
p They left the House together.
Seeking further information Spargo
sSoin riSits the hotel keeper. You
cSn tell NC anything yoh'd tell the
detectire," he says.
tAND HERE 1T CONTINUES)
uuE landlady rummaged in her pocket
i and produced an old purse, from an
,,ror compartment of which she brought
,ut small object wrapped in tissue
paper. .....-.. 80, Sc ..,...- ,-...,.,,
,,,er. 1--WE found this in number 20 this
morping--it' was lying under the dress
Inc table. The, girl that found it
brought it to me-, and thought it was
, bit of glass, but Walters, he says as
how he shouldn't be surprised if it's
. diamond. And since we found it the
waiter who took the whisky up to 20,
after Mr.. Marbury came in with the
otber gentleman, has told me that when
ne went into the room the two gentle
men were looking at paper full of
things like this. So there?" i...
Spargo fingered the shining bit of
stone ..r,
"That's n diamond--right enough
he said .Put it away, Mrs. Walters
i shall see Rathbury, presently and
I'm tell him about it. Now, that other
gentleman! You told us you saw him.
Mould you recognize him i mean, a
photograph of him? Is this the man?''
Spargo knew from the expression OF
Mrs. Nalters's face that she had no
more doubt than Webster had.
"Oh, yes ~ she said. ''Tbat's the
gentleman who came in with Mr.. Mar
bury should have known him in q
thousand. Anybody would recognize
him from that--perhaps you'd let our
hall porter and the waiter mentioned
| just now look at it?"
"I'll see them separately and see if
they've ever seen a man who resembles
this, replied Spargo. ,.
The two men recognized the photo
graph at once, without any prompting
and Spsrgo, after n word or two with
! the landlady, rode off to the Atlantic
and Pacific Club and found Ronald
Breton awaiting him on the steps. He
made DO. reference to his recent doings
and together they went into the house
and asked for Mrs Aylnsore. aa'
Spargo looked with more than uncom-
mon interest at the man who presently
came to them in the visitors room. He
Twas already familiar with Mr.. Ayl-
mores photograph, but he never re-
|membered seeing, him in real life; thC
member for Brookminster was one OF
that rapidly. diminishing body of legis
lators whose members are disposed tc
work quietly and unobtrusively, doing
syeoman} service on committees, obey
Iing every behest of the party whips
without forcing themselves into tht
5imehght. or selling every opportunit,
4 to air their opinions.
Now that Spargo met him in the fest
ne proved to be pretty much what the
journalist had expected-a rather cold.
6mannered, self contained man, who
looked as if he had been brought up il
school of rigid repression, and taught
not to waste words. lie showed nc
more than the merest of languid inter
est In Spargo when Breton introduced
MN, aud his face was quite expression
Jess when Spargo brought TO an end his
Driet explanation--purposely. shortened
of his object in calling upon him.
Yes he said indifferently. Eyes
u is quite true that / met Marbury ant
spent little time with him on the eve
ming your informant spoke of. / mel
MN, as he told you, in the lobby Of the