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man have any relatives except his

man have any relatives except ms
father
"No. 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; whoswere her peo-
pie? What was her maiden name?"
81 don't know. She :ad met young
Venner while visiting some sch DOL
friend, but on that point my men,
DRY is vague. None of her own peo-
pie came forward at the time of the
elopement and when her mind gave
way it was old Venner who had ner
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 the testimony Of
others show that you had plenty Of
time after leaving hei in a rage to
return here for a pistol, climb down
the fire escape, rush to that vacant
house next door of which you pos
sess the keys, and from one of it's
windows 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
ago and saved the thousands upon
thousands that she has wrung from
me.
That vacant house is out of the
question unless someone broke IN,
for the only keys to it are in my
office and my clerk can testify that
they have remained undisturbed for
months in 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"
"No one could have come up the
fire escape without being seen By
Policeman Boyle, who stood just be-
low; that has been established. "
Barry added, still with deliberate
intent: "SuppOse he had been con-
cealed on, the fire escape for some
little tmfe before Boyle appeared
on his rounds, he must still afte.
the crime have assembled instead Of
going down to the street level and
where could he have gone? 1t has
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 remains only your apartment
CHAPTER X
The venerable house which hal
once held the law offices of Venne1
& Scully had long since given place
to modern business block.
Fourteen years was indeed a long
time, as Griswold had said, but
Scully would surely recall the de-
tails of the tragedy which had made
him his partners heir. However.
when Sergeant Barry had run the
| gamut of stenographers and found
himself behind the door marked
>"Philip Scully-Private," he saw con.
J fronting him well-groomed young
man who obviously had not reach
ed the age of 30.
The young man rose and extended
! an affable hand.
"Mr. Barry? What can l do. fol
you, sir?"
He paused as Barry shook his
head.
: "I'm afraid I've made a mistake
I've come we'll recommended, but il
was to another Mr. Scully, a law
partner of the late-M Mr. Venner."
Indeed! l take it that you are !;
stranger here, Mr.. Barry, DAME
Scully, but he gave up active prac
tice some five years ago. I tool
his place"
"There are some things from
which a man cannot retire." Barr!
interrupted. 81 come we'll recon-.
mended-by the district attorney O
New York City"
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