New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-07

see the Lakes"
Peter Cams spoke little while hi
partook of the light meal. He en-.
joyed the spectacle OF Brendon'i
hearty appetite and bewailed his In.
ability to join him in red meat and O
Flint of Burton.
They entered the smoking room
presently and then Brendon, very
much to his surprise, heard an as
tonishing lecture which left him
under the emotions OF fourth-form
schoolboy after an interview with his
head master.
Mr., Cams ordered coffee, took
snuff. and babe Mark listen and not
interrupt.
You're detective inspector of
''and Scotland Yard is still the high
water mark OF police organization in
the world. The Central Bureau In
New York is pretty close up, and I've
nothing but admiration for the
French and Italian Secret Services;
but the fact remains: The Yard is
flrst; and you've won, and fairly won
your place there. That's big thing
and you didn't get 1t without some
work and some luck Brendon.
But now--this Redmayne racket
In word, your conduct of the affair
don't square with your reputation.
Your dope never cut any ice from
the start"
Brendon did not hide his emotion.
but kept silence while Mr.. Cams
ha1naI him 70 v,in nf
"A great many of your 'cast-iron
facts were no facts at ALL"
what were they them"
Elaborate and deliberate fictions,
Mark"
He paused again, applied himself
to his gold box, and then proceeded.
Now see how reason bears on the
evidence of Robert Redmayne and his
trick acts since first he disappeared.
A thing occurs and there are only
certain ways-very limited in number
to explain it, Either Robert Red
mayne killed Michael Pendean, or
else he did not. And If he did, he
was sane or insane at the time. That
much can't be denied and Is granted.
If he was sane, he committed the
IIluTutT Will d iloIiNU, anu PiNetJ
careful inquiry prives that no motive
existed. Then, assuming him to be
sane, he would not have committed
such a murder. The alternative is
that he was mad at the time and did
homicide on Pendean while out of his
mind.
But what happens to mailman
after a crime of this sort? Does he
get off with 1t and wander over
Europe as a free man for a year?
Granted the resources of maniacal
cunning and all the rest of it, was
It ever heard that lunatic went at
large as this man did, and laughed at
Scotland Yards attempt to run him
down and, capture him? No, Mark,
the man responsible for these impos
sible things isn't mad. And that
brings me back to my preliminary al
tentative.
II said just now. Either Robert
Redmayne killed Michael Pendean, or
else he did not And we may add |
that either Robert Redmayne killed |
Redmayne or else he did not.
But we'll stick to the first proposition
for the moment And the next ques-
lion you must ask yourself is this:
Did Robert Redmayne kill Michael
Pendean?' That's where your facts
Is you call them begin to sag bit,
NY son. There's only one sure and
certain way of knowing that a man Is
lead; and that is by seeing his body
md convincing the law. by the testi-
mony of those who knew the man in
life, that the corpse belongs to him
and nobody else" "
They chatted for half an hour and
Mr.. Cams attained his object, which
vas to fling his companion back to
he beginning of the whole problem
hat had brought them together.
Tonight, in the train" said Peter.
I shall ask you to give me your
,ersion of the case from the moment
hat Mrs. Pendean invited you to
AXE up"
CHAPTER Mi.