The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-27
Unseen Hands
A BeUildering DetectiUe/ Story
 By Robert Orr Chipperfield
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A A Et SYNOPSIS.
 w Two deaths, that of Mrs. Rich- B ard IlOrne and her son, Julian Chalmers, bring Barry Odell IVA detective, into the home. SuS-
 picion finally rests on Lorne, who #t himself has been theryfctfm of q X strange accident Tn making his
 % essisa6ong ahs ,id 1de ana is deaer.in nza.ed ey H to find out something about her, Ai and visits roorning-hou in N. which she lived before coming to Wi "A l0on'tic asylum!" the woman. 1 areplied with morbid relish. You hcould have knocked me down with a ~ Heather when I heard it. She told Eane she was goin' to san,tarfum to Mest, though she hadn't done noth- Elm while she lived here but moon s iaround the house; and she had hard f1y any callers, only one gentleman as ~ know of ,and him not often. It's funny her friends didn't look her up IbefoTe, if they was so concerned about kher'" tsanitarium?" The detectives thoughts kwere racing now: "On whose ad- Svfce did she go ?''
 "How should T know? ain't Etsnant's affairs. She was sad-like tThen she came. and she kept gettin' Edroopier and droopier5 as time went lon. but she was always Tsoft-spoken
 
 f1nythfn' funny; no more did Agnes, Der girl that came in by the day 5cxcept for her, Mis- Gael was all fAlone. It was, aftersthat gentleman fwho called no wand again had ben @ere for the next to the last time s4nat Mis- Gael sent for and told Nne she was goin' away to the sam f<.rnsm' bgt a she,d ,eti be. be back pack in few fM1y man helped her put her trunk in lEde taxi. That very. afternoon a inhovm' van backed up to the door and z E1he boss of it showed me an order SEo take out all her things and put ftnem in storage" w, Sergeant Ode1l continued to ques- tf1fon the janitress of the apartment sformerly occupied by Mrs. Gael. 7 kt "W11o told you that the sanitarium fko which Mrs. Gael was taken was a slunatic asylum " Ode11 drew a wallet ffrom his pocket and ostentatiousEy \ hselected a bill
 "The gentleman, sir; the one that kused to call on her" With an effort X Nthe woman wrenched her fascinated gaze from the wallet 1T never did ~Thear his name, but I guess he was 8.
 relation. He come in that afternoon before the movin' men was through, E Just as l was hayin' words with the wal1-paper. and he drew, me to one
 side land told me sMrs. Gael was crazy. He said she had been for a long time. and her family had made
 
 maybe shed be cured. You could 10ee Knocked me down.
 N What, was this gentleman 1ike?"
 Well. about forty, sir, guess Kind of handsome he was; but he looked like he'd done most every N thing there is and lot of it hadn t * agreed with him. He was gentle man, though; you'd only to look at pin to tell that. Not that it would he my taste to be wearin' a thing E shaped like a skull
 "A skull?" repeaed the detective. "The pin, sir. Some kind of a
 ypear1, it looked like, and it must have cost q lot of money, but it was just a the shape of skull: IL :. It t,s gives me
 paused for breath and then rattled N HOn: "wel1. after. the gentleman
 stalked to me he went up to the fiat
 where Agnes was wonderful what x fwas goin' to happen next; and he tole Saher. just what he told me- After aSfhe,d gone she came down and saio # she had got her a fine job out 1T H sget there. guess she went; for G Sanin't seen her again, eitfaer.''. 1A~s sswhen did all this happen 2# About nine months ago. sir. Th' fsfat's rented again now to famil, S "Never mind.'' Odell pressed thu ybfll into her hand. "I think Mrs N essaers friends will be able to locat'
 s.Thank you, sir. There was /: tyoung lady here askin' for her yes tNerday. too, my man tells me \ 1hope Mrs. Gael gets well; there's NHot that's crazier-actin than ne \. walkin' around loose.''
 w Oden glanced at his watch as h Sadescended the steps, It was
 sruick subway connection he. woul E roach the financial district Just I # lime to catch D1lke- . E N As he returned the watch to hl x Acket he glanced idly at hgur Nlterine by the curb and his trai shabby and uncouth, and the eye NEE which stared out at him from tn E thin. sick1y yellow countenance wer VA s1eerIv srnken. The man uttered M low imprecation and turned to run |# but in another moment OdeHs han fM gripped his shoulder and swung m IN about so that \ they stood face t l% face
 IN ed after all when you set fire to tn
 sSsssopsss' sr s,s you Taf Ri fat5P fsrtb5P tishtene' N T didn't! Honest to Gawd,
 woke up he was sittin' there dead
 the chair an you oa,,s an ns ae csudys, oanHr gu l& .sCome along and tell that to tf ENA Old Man down at headquarters
 OdeI signaled a passing taxi, an YIM fhruSting ms COWeTiHS- S1ptlee l I% ~6ollowed 'Two-forty Center stre
 and step onsthe gas!''
 As the ~ chauffeur obeyed Tor E nassed a shaking hand across his III @T'm wise dat I gotta do strete 0E for stickin' up youse an de oth' r,lv an keepin' youse hid in d. K boathouse, but never croake 0G Pete" \ cendiarism tackled on that will ho fl vo,, on another count too, II HEf friend" Odell promised grimly. ' s.Come again?"
 "Burnin' down that boathouse . conceal the body"
 ssNottin' doin'. Dat was acc INV dent De dope got to Pete, an wh, NN5 v ' sec he's croaked I falls back again & 5 dat table and over goes de lam Z% Hi Trn still cloudy from de dope an,