The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-03-27

There vas no thought Of murder
In your mind when your niece re-
turned from Europe" Barry con.
tinued ~You felt secure In your
coming happiness. but the mind OF
woman In love In more keenly In
tuitise than at normal times. and
within q few days you realized some
thing which your nice, DID no,
dream of-that the man you loved
and hoped 10 marry had turned
from you. IL was not Ray Tudor
alone whom you hated then To the
point OF murder. IL vas the rom.
mon enemy Of all women oe middle
life. youth, yeuthi
you piarned 20 KIN her on shs
night OF IN. dance. planned 10 stab
her. I think. with the dagger from
the hall arrangement Of weapons
which found concealed In your
room an hour axo. and 10 that emf
you clipped into the pantry when
Iouis.'s attention was engaged else.
where and put into tho hot milk.
which tho young ladies we're In
drink. stx powders OF the drug which
Miss Pay had brought from Paris
for insomnia. q triple doss for each.
30 that neither would awaken II you
entered the room
ZOO meant the AMIR b hosk mn.
. suscide. but during the cAsrs you
learned from the lips Of Professor
sernycnov Of an essier method. and
ore practically safe from dlscov.ry.
as yon thought rou determined
immediately upon ~ adoption. and
that determination vas cryxfAilizssi
By . conversation ron overheard
upon the little porch which opens
Off the breakfast room. You planned
Il down to the most minute detail.
even to the use Of tho gas mask 20
save your daughter from harm.
After your guests had gone yoa
slipped down here to tho hail closet
To obtain the keys TO tho garage
from the pocket OF your motor coat
which hung there. You found there,
quite by acci6cn. q pair Of Mlsa
Fay's oast-off slippers. which Louise
hoped to have streteh.d for her own
use. and you managed TO put them
on. with a tardy thought for pos
sibls footprints which might be Jeff
On the ground.
You committed the crirne. max
ting the fatal mistake which have
already described and which you
learned OF In tn. morning whrn you
heard thu voice of tho very giri you
thought you had slain. ! could find
IL In my heart TO pity you at that
moment were u not that you planned
Immediately 60 throw the crime upon
tho shoulders OF Miss Ray. You re-.
called her slippers. which were stiii
sopplng wet. and you had them CON.
ceaisd beneath your negiigcs when
you demanded admittanco to the
room where your daughter lay dead
you thrust them under tho bed when
you knalt robhlng beside her body
Il suspected you first when you
appeared to desire to brfbs me. but
why you should have murdered your
own daughter was beyond mo until
learned by accident that she and her
cousin had changed beds with each
other during the night Then all was
clear TO me-"
''Yesi / did it, Mrs. Tudor rpranr
from her chair and pointed wildly nj
Kenneth Clayton where he sat TO
garding her with eyes OF unutierabls
loathing. "That~ma was mine. and
this mink stole him deliberately from
me. meant 10 get her out OF tn,
way and then he would come back.
There was madness IN her eyes, mad
ness In the cry which rang thru th'
room. Laurel, Laurell God know
/ would not have harmed you, my
babyi But II have lost all, you shall
not have him. Fayl failed once
but I shall nct fail nowT'
with n sudden spring she was upon
the girl. her fingers frightened viii
maniacal strength about her throat
Barry called 10 the waiting men out
side and leaped forward 20 the aid oi
the sheriff. Clayton and Captain
Warren. It took their combined
strength 10 tear the crazed woman
from her would.be victim.
TITS all over" Barry said. TAKE