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and leave the country.
He halted in his restless pacing
and when he spoke again it was
with his face averted from the de-
tective.
Last October the janitor brought
a note up to me, n l found that
n had had the impudence not only
to break our agreement by return
Ing to America but had actually do
miciled herself beneath the same
roof and insisted that it was / who
had first broken our agreement by
stopping her allowance. and | must
come down to her at once for a per-
sonal interview.
II wen and then began a series
OF prosecutions which did not cease
until last night. She not only de-
| manded an outrageous income but
forced me to call upon her at regu-
lar intervals, on pain of announcing
herself as my wife and raking up
that whole wretched scandal | had
SO carefully lived down.
II thought when hat young fool
Gordon Ladd appeared on the scene
it might make a difference but she
was too Internally clever. Yesterday
h demanded a further increase IN
her allowance and 1t was the last
straw.
Early in the evening I went
down to tell her that | had reached
the end and would do no more but
she defied me laughingly. / left her
in a rage n as j assembled the stair
to my own apartments here | dis
~stinctly saw young Ladd mounting
from his. Understand, Sergeant, |
am not trying to cast suspicion on
him, | am merely giving you facts
and if she has played fast and loose
with him, many other and reck-
less men than he appears to be have
lost tL'ir heads over her in Europe,
as my foreign agents have kept me
informed. since that old Venner affair
in Cleveland"
Hint" Barry exclaimed thought
fully. Speaking of that case. Mr..
Griswold, did that misguided young
man have any relatives except his
father?"
mo. When old Venner died about
five years ago he left all his money
to his law partner, Scully."
And young Mrs. Venner, the one
who died insane; who were her peo-
pie? What was her maiden name"
II don't know. She had met young
Venner while visiting some school
friend, but on that point my memory
in vague. None of her own people
came forward at the time of the
elopement and when her mind gave
way it was old Venner who had her
placed in the sanitarium."
Mr.. Griswold." Barry leaned for
ward impressively toward the man
who stood before him. You realize,
of course that any help you may be
able to give us will be helping your
self as well.
you had the strongest motive for
killing her and that the testimony of
others show hat o had plenty of
time after leaving her in a rage TO
return here for a pistol. climb Town
the fire escape, rush to that vacant
house next door of which you possess
the keys, and from n of its win
dows fire the deadly shot through one
of her lighted windows"
Great heavens!" gasped Griswold.
"You know I'm innocent, Sergeant,
for if I'd meant to put her out of the
way l could have done so long 81
and saved the thousands upon thou
sands that she has wrung from me.
THAT vacant house is out OF the
question unless someone broke in,
Tor the only keys to 1t are in my
office and my clerk can testify that
they have remained undisturbed for
months in a stronghold under his
charge. If someone had not con-
cealed himself in her studio itself
during her absence for dinner there
remains only the fire escape"
mo one could have come UT the
fire escape without being seen by
I Policeman Boyle, who stood just be-
low; that has been established"
DO vt,xy aHdad Gti1I with 6plihprDta in
tent: Suppose he had been concealed
on the fire escape for some little
time before Boyle appeared on his
rounds, he must still after the crime
| have assembled instead of going down
| to the street level and where could
| he have gone? 1t his been proved
| that the roof offered no means of
| shelter. L can vouch for Professor
Semyonov, and Miss Shaw was in
her studio at the time, so there re-
mains only your apartment"
CHAPTER X
The veneral house which had
| once held the law offices of Ven
ner & Scully had long since given
place to a modern business block.
Fourteen years was indeed a long
time, as Griswold had said, but Soul
ly would surely recall the details Of
the tragedy which had made him his
partners heir. However. when Ser
geant Barry had run the gamut of
stenographers and found himself be-
hind the doGr marked philip Soul
ly-Private," he saw confronting him
a well-groomed young man who OBJ
viously had not reached the of
thirty.
The young man rose and extended