The Little River news., 1920-04-21

-NWGls RED
 He Had Built q Secret Passaaeway
 and his paSS-key would unlock every
 door there was. And iu addition to
 all this
 HE HAD BUILT 4 SECRET PAS { SAGEWAY.
 We found it that night and ex-
 plored it, familiarizing ourselves with
 all it's exits, greatly to the amazement
 and confounding of German. Con-
 meeting with the service elevator by a
 masked opening, it ran along the hall
 of each apartment. with entrances
 concealed in wall panels. It enabled Granders to wander at will through
 the apartments at night, leaving mys-
 teriOus notes to terrify his tenants, prying into the secrets hidden in their
 wall safes. listening when he chose ts
 their most private conversations. ex-
 amining the contents of their pockets. AS he had planned from the begin. l ming, he gained in this way much in- l formation that he was able to utilize to his financial profit without arous- ing suspicion. He" had discovered l Mrs. Moore said, secret stock marked ] movements one of his tenants was l planning and had made a small for tune out of the advance information. l Several injudicious, women he had 1 successfully blackmailed, turning over to agents who never came near the
 Granddeck the secrets he learned from letters he opened and telephone con- versations he had listened tas In the case of Rufus Gasten, he had plotted to, steal the Gasten pearls. Mrs. Moore explained, first terrifying the old couple into leaving the apart ment. the whispers that had. been heard coming of course frsm the se-
 eret passageway.
 But can't understand,' said why. after he had once got hold of the pearls in MT. Gaston's, absence he should have restored them, to their hiding place"
 "He had duplicate made of pIlony pearls.' explained Mrs. Moore. |e"It
 vas part of his plan not to. have any of the tenants discover the tliefts> for. a long time after they, oecurred.'
 'If he was so cautious" said the, district attorney. 'I am puzzled. as, to
 why he killed Miss Luran and Mn.
 Gaston. He must have realized that
 both murders would be thoroughly in
 vestigated."
 Both were accidents, so to speak, the girl explained. Each of them surprised him in their apartment, and. he had to kill them to make his get away. suppose he had been roaming. around so much he had got careless. "How about the revolver" askedi German. How did he come to plant, it in Neison's rooIn?"
 He was puzzled by Mir. Nelson but ting in on the Bradford case and if
 made him sore. I heard him and Wick; talking about it one day, and he said that he'd teach MT. Nelson not to in, terfere How? asked Wick. I'll
 happens.
 And was 1t he, who had me. dis. charged from my odfice?" n asked. eag- 1 erly.
 Sure it was He wrote a note. on 1 Mir. Gaston's stationery saying that ! you had forged a check after he had | befriended you. He wrote in the let
 ter that he was not going to prosecute | you because of your mother, but that
 he felt that you were unworthy of eist- l piOyment anywhere"
 l "I believe" said tha district atdor-
 ney, 'that that clears everything ap,
 except for one tAing-why, Mrs.
 Moore, did you aid him aud Wick in
 all these crmes?"
 ''Ee promised that if would help
 him he would get Eddie out" she
 cried. 'I was desperate Ed do any
 thing to get my hasband back"
 Gornia,ni and the district attorney
 exchanged meaning gaanees, While
 nothing more was said, felt sure as
 they departed that both were thinking
 solved the mystery for them certainl! deserved some reward, and I think W, all realized that tho only reward lift , ever could hold for her was the free dom Of her husband.
 Presently they went and left u alone. German. my mother, Barbara and I.
 "There are stul two things 1 cannO understand" I said, as We sat talkin, | it over ''The first is"-and l turne,
 to Barbara--"what was yonr sister dc 3 ing in this apartment on the night 0 3 the first murder? When I came a 9 from the Lutan apartment l caneh r her Just coming out of my door. l. could not help wondering if they AA n made her plant the revolver Barbara started up. bushng.
 "Oh, mo-" she cried, "it was nOthin like that. You remember few mo
 ments before you and I had been i your room, looking at the secret pas . sageway. Claire just then had com into my room looking for me. Sin