The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-04
Unsee1, Hands
A Be1UiIdeying DetectiUe Story
 By Robert Orr ChipperfieId

her; they let me stay beside her bed, 1 and over and over again l infected her with pin dipped in Rannie's tube. She thought at first it was ac- cidental, when I lifted her, in bed; but later she suspected the truth I saw it in her eyes, although those fools of doctors never knew.
 NThe night she died I crept up to
 fathers room and hid the needle in the folds of the couch on which he spent so many weary hours. Then l put another needle in. that embroid- cry. in case they looked for it, and went to bed. It had been so easy, and part of her money would be Ran nie's now.
 "But it was all Rannies. All the | money which was being dissipated
 by Julian and Gene, thrown away on
 gewgaws to deck her shallow pret- tiness by Cissie, like her mother be- fore her. I learned that Julian meant to demand all that had been left him, and so he had to be tl1e next The little death-germs were gone from, Rannie's room; but there were other ways, and knew that the moment would come. "One morning I went upstairs while Julian was shaving. He hadn't heard me enter, and as I stood watching
 him the way was shown to me. T called him suddenly and the razor slipped and made just a tiny cut in his cheek; but he laid it down and started to staunch the blood. I of
 fered to help him; but I snatehed l down for me to touch the towel to his face I slashed his throat instead! I knew just where to strike, for had been reading Rannie's books, and | Christine's first born didn't take long 1 to die!
 "Then the others began to be afraid, and I knew and felt my pow ! CT! It was sweet to me after the years when I had been merely to1er- ated. I used to look around the ta- i bic sometimes and try to choose
 which should be next; for they must all go now, and quickly Every bit 1 of food they put into their mouths meant so much money out of Ran
 nie's pocket, money which would help
 him to forget the injury I had done ! himi
 | 'I had read somewhere of a. mir
 TOT falling and killing some one; and
 thought of that heavy portrait over i the desk in the library and how l l could coax Gene to sit under it; for he would have been of age in another
 month, and decided that he must
 never get his hands on his property or t would be gone in year. /! "I was strong; nobody knew how ! strong I waS-''
 l.. Nobody knows how strong I amt" i A raucous echo burst upon their ears, :. and for a moment the mortified, fas- l cinated gaze of the others turned l frcnl the crazed woman to the huge ' I danced eXcitedly upon his perch and i, faithfully repeated the lnessa ge ! which he had at some past moment | of gloating triumph learned from her
 lips.
 'I was strong, but I couldn't break ! that cable which held up the picture
 until one day I overheard "a couple l Of workmen next me in Q crowded l car talking about a new electric file and what it would do. I we1t to an electrical supply i shop and saw those files; and one of them went away with me un- der my cape, although I had asked for and purchased only a toaster. thought I might need a big saw. too over in Brooklyn. Do you see how
 clever I am? No one could ever know.
 T hid the tools up in fathers room until I got Genes promise to go
 through the letters of coincidence and 1 l persuaded him to use that desk
 that evening: Then in the after noon when every one was out I slipped
 down, locked myself in the library,
 and filed through the strands of that
 cable so that they could not hold
 more than a few hours at most. After that I did the cleverest thing of all! l telephoned to the first carpenter S | shop whose number I could find in
 the book for them to send some one
 early on the following morning to , rehang that picture. before any of , the rest of the family were up. , didn't want them to notice those filed l cable-ends and they wouldn't have ,, if only that meddlesome old lawyer f there hadn't suggested calling in the ' ' polices
 Gro be Continued)