Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-22
Continued from our last Issue,

SAID. FOR some reason Cayley con-
sidered it necessary to hide all
Marks clothes; not just the suit,
but everything which he was wear
ing or supposed to be wearing. at
the time of the murder. But he
hadn't hidden the collar. Why? Had
he left 1t out by mistake? So 1
looked in the cupboard. 1t wasn't
there. Had he left it out on pur-
pose? If so, why?-and where was
1t? Naturally l began to say to my
self. Where have / seen a collar
lately? A collar all by itself?' And
l remembered-what, Bill?"
Bill frowned heavily to himself,
and shook his head.
Don't ask me, Tony. 1 can't
BY Jove!' He threw up his head.
In the basket in the Office bed
room!'
Exactly"
But is that the one?"
THE one that goes with the rest
of the clothes? I don't know. Where
else can 1t be? But IL So, why send
the collar quite casually to the wash
In the ordinary way, and take i'm
meHSe trouble to hide everything
else!! Why. why. why?"
Bill bit hard at his pipe but could
think of nothing to say.
Anyhow" said Antony, getting
up restlessly, I'm certain of one
thing. Mark knew on the Monday
that Robert was coming here"
CHAPTER XVIII
The coroner, having made a few
commonplace remarks as to the
terrible nature Of the tragedy which
they had come to investigate hat
afternoon, proceeded to outline the
case to the jury.
ntony did not expect to learn
much from the evidence-he knew
the facts Of the case so well by now
but he wondered il Inspector
Birch had developed any new theo-
ries. If so, they would appear in the
coroner's examination, for the r
ner would certainly have been
coached by the police as to the i'm
portant facts to be extracted from
each witness. Bill was the first to
be put through it.
Now, about this letter, Mr.. Bev-
erley?" he was asked when his chief
evidence was over. did o see it
at alp"
II didn't see the actual writing. I
saw the back of it. Mark was hold
ing it up when he told us about his
brother"
you don't know what was in it,
then?"
Bill had a sudden shock. He had
read the letter only that morning.
He knew quite we'll what was in it.
But 1t wouldn't do to admit this.
And then, just as he was about to
perjure himself, he remembered:
Antony had heard Cayley telling the
inspector.
81 knew afterwards. / was told.
But Mark didn't read it out at
breakfast"
you gathered, however. that it
was an unwelcome letter."
ooh, yes!"
would you say that Mark was
frightened by it?"
mot frightened. Sort of bitter
and resigned. Sort of ooh. Lord,
here we are again!'"
There was a litter here and there.
The coroner smiled and tried to pre-
tend that he hadn't.
THANK you, Mr.. Beverley"
The next witness vas summoned
by the name Of Andrew Amos. and
Antony looked up with interest,
wondering who he was
"He lives at the inner LODGE"
whispered Bill to him.
All that Amos had to say was
that a stranger had passed by his
lodge at a little before three that
afternoon, and had spoken to him.
He had seen the body and recog-
nized it as the man.
"What did he say?"
"Is this right for the Red
House?' or. something like that. sir"
what did you say?"
II said, This is the Red House.
Who do you want to see?' He was a
bit rough-looking, you know, sir,
and I didn't know what he was do
ing there"
"Wen?"
"Well, sir. he said, is Mister Mark
Albeit at homer 1t doesn't sound
much put like that. sir, but I didn't
care about the way he said it. So l
got in front of him like, and said,
What do you want, eh?' and he
gave a sort of chuckle and said, 4
want to see my dear brother Mark"
"Well then I took a closer look at
him. and I see that p'raps he might
follow the drive, sir. you'l come to
the house. OF course I can't say II
Mr.. Ablett's at home And he gave
a sort of nasty laugh again, and
said, Fine place Mister Mark Alb
lett's got here. Plenty of money to
spend, eh?' Well. then I had another
look at him, but before l could make
up my mind, he laughed and went
on. That's all 1 can tell you, sir"
Andrew Amos stepped down and
moved away to the back of the room
nor did Antony take his eyes off him
until he was assured thai Amos in
tended to remain there until the in
quest was over.
"Who's Amos talking to ?" he
whispered to Bill.
Parsons. One of the gardeners.
He's at the outside lodge on the
Stanton road. They're all here to-
day. Sort of holiday for EN-"
II wonder If he's giving evidence,
too" thought Antony.
He was. He followed Amos. He
had been at work on the lawn in
front of the house, and had seen
Robert Albeit arrive. He didn't hear
the shot-not to notice. He was a
little hard of hearing. He had seen
a gentleman arrive about five min
utes after Mr.. Robert.
Can you see him in court now?"
rsked the oroner
Parsons looked round slowly. An
tony caught his eye and smiled.
That's him." said Parsons, point
ing.
Everybody looked at Antony.
THAT vas about five minutes
afterward?"
about that. sir"
Ibid anybody come out of the
house before this gentleman's ar
rival?"
NO, sir. That is to say I didn't
see EN-"
Stevens followed. She gave her
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