Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-02-13

Odcil looked up at the last obscr-
walton.
| Miss Meade? She seems to be the
least considered OF amy one in the
household"
Yet she is running them all now
in an unobtrusive way. Porter and
Kelly and Smith all tell me the game.
| ! took run up there myself ycs;cr-
day afternoon and had "a talk with
her. She seems quite crushed by the
| evidence OF the attempts on the lives
! of her nephew and her brothcr-in-
law: AMI don't think she believes
| for "a minute that there was anything
| questionable about the death Of the
| other hoy and OF her sister. I.ornc
himself is much better and wants to
see You. He sent TithcrcdEc down
here for you: but told him that you
! were working on the case and might
not show up for several days"
And Gene: did he return to the
house the night before last? Is por-
ter still ON tho job?"
Yes. but the kid has turned sulky:
| shut himself up in his room AMI
wouldn't talk to anybody. Smith sent
in his report late las; night"
SMITH" In tho stress OF swift
! moving events Odcll had not thought
Of the ACKNOWLEDGMENT whom he had
detailed to watch the Inancuvrcs of
the tcmperamcntal elder daughter Of
the house. What did he have 10
say"
The chief rrinncd.
shes a clever little girl. that Miss
Cissic. Slipped out of the house yes
tcrday morning about 10 o'clock and
went to the Fitz- Maurice Hotel
smith was right behind her. and he
! heard her ask the girl at the tclc-
! phone exchange FOR York 1857 which
happens to bc ID number OF Farley
! Drew's private wire. Smith got in
to the neat booth and heard her end
az the conversation. She kept insist
Ing on seeing Drew and she wasn't
satisfied with the excuses she got
for she fouuccd out Of the booth in
temper and taking n tnAi al the no.
tel entrance drove straight to the
E"llcmondc Annex.
AZ the desk there they told her
the same story that Miller got from
Sims the other night and tina, guess
she had just received herself over tn"
telephone. Smith says that sh. was
whit" with rage when she came out.
but for all that she must have hal
her wits about hcr. for she saw AMI
recognized him"
Captain Lewis paused with a
! chucklc and the detective demanded:
What did she do them"
Led him abou, In" town hy tho
nose lie says no old-timcr could
! have pulled any clcvcrcr stunts than
| she did TO throw him Off the track
changed cabs half a dozen times.
lodged in and out Of department
stores and hotels and zigxaggcd from
one side Of the city to the other,
doubling on her own trail all the
time. And where do you think she
wound up?
At u dingy little sccond-rate
apartment house west 90 tho park: q
walk-up. with letter boxes and bells
in the vcstibulc."
Did Smith find out what she was
doing there? Whom she was calling
on"
The party she was looking for was
gone. Smith saw her read over tho
names on both sides OF the vcs,ibule
two or three times: and when she
came ont she looked discouraged
The janitor was sweeping the side
walk, and she stopped To speak TO
him for minute; SO after she had
got in her taxi Smith wen; I'D to
him, slipped him "a buck and asked
him whom tho young lady had been
looking for. lie said IL was one
or the tenants who had gone away
sick eight or nine months before. a
Mrs. Gael"
Gael" odcll repeated That's
the name Of the woman whose hus-
band divorced her and brought in
Drew as correspondence
SO little Miss Chalmers was not so
unsophisticatcd as she had seemed
Her desire To see Drew must have
been desperate. indeed to have led
her TO east aside al! ordinary convcn-
lions and seek him at the home of the
woman he had discarded.
Exactly" the chief responded dry-
~ SHE didn't know where else TO
look for him apparently. for she
went straight home from there; and
Smith says that she had II scene with
her aunt which reduced the poor wo-
man 10 tears. anu thtn locked herself
in her room. So much for his report
Taylor searched Genes room night
before last when he beat il TO keen
his date with Drew, but he didn't find
anything except clothes and stun for
outdoor sports; skates and tennis
rackets and polo and golf and hockey
sticks. He went through Miss
Mcadc's room yesterday morning and
the one her sister used to occupy.
but found nothing suspicious in eth
CT of them. Of course lie won't
have an opportunity 10 get into
l.ornc's room for some time 10 come
and the younger son. the hunchback
is still sick; but left Taylor on the
job on the chance that you would
turn up today and might need him.
The outside men report nothing do
ing"
And Kclly?" The detective. in
mentally gathering up the loose
threads Of his investigation at the
point where his abduction had inter-
ruptcd it, recalled the fourth man.
to whom he had assigned the task
of searching for the tools with which
the picturc-w wire had been severed
and the ton step of the stairs sawed