Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07

or the Kings Way" in Toledo.
the city of Spain where the IA
nous swords of the Crusaders
came from. you will marvel at the
heauty OF the little senoritas who
walk, close to the house walls, in in
terminable procession, always on the
inner side of the narrow pavement.
and always in one direction. They are
SO graceful, and softly litheSome,
these little senoritas, that, like the
celebrated heauX Of Florodora, You
will wonder if there can be any more
at home like them.
Perhaps some native gallant, with
wide, bell trousers and Carmine sash
tied about him under his jacket, Will
say to YOU, when YOU have expressed
your admirations:
But you have not yet seen the one
who is prettiest of them all. The one
who came from some place to Madrid,
and then down here to our old world
Toledo Come, we viii so TO see her.
There is u story about her, that no one
-.rowS but everybody talks about. 1t
h,,s TO do With a murder. or something
Exc that. But she is very beautiful.
Then. when you have come 10 the
Barbarossa, broad. well lighted
zoo modern and bright for tn" prone
Ladies of senors and senoritas. YOU
VIII turn to the left ana come tn a
revue. and a pantomin1". and q ballet.
1t is here, senior" Nuur guide may
say. that we shall find her. They
call her the Dancing Girl ri Toledo.
OF the story that * about her YOU
viii have TO hear elsewhere. As |
,;!y. we know of ii, but not just what
il is"
Then you Will see her. Not Il Span
isk girl. but of some other country
a he Mort N will
Gecde. But the SpaniarlS of Toledo
love her, and call her their dancing
girl. She's been with them something
more than a year or two, and every
~Cck or so she treats them to Il new
dance-Some new, fantastic thing.
that seems to be like Il hutter OF
silver leaves on q summer breeze.
An odd little thing. YOU will agree.
TO be spoken of as knowing something
If d murder.
But if, as it was with me. it should
''e Senior Luis DelmaS, the famous
Spanish detective who learned his
trade partly in our own Chicago, where
lie was once a rocky policeman. who
turns with you into the RarbaroSS;t.
lie will tell you about the murder that
the Dancing Girl of Toledo knows of,
and of Jean Matteau. the Apache who
said he was the murderer and who
must stay in the Stone Prison. at the
edge of Toledo. for another three years
or SO. although Senior DelmaS. the de
tective. will assure you that there isn't
- policeman in Europe who thinks
that Jean was the guilty one. The
Dancing Girl knows better, the Senior
Detective will say, but she and Jean
keep their secret.
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GABRIEL BARTOLOMEO was one
~ Of ho of
Toledo. son of "A family long associ
ated with the Eerdguas. descendants
III Columbus. Early he was sent to
England for university course, and,
icing Of a gay disposition, he spent
most of his younger days in Paris,
London and Madrid. There We're
many rumors. in those days. that he
was one of the most generous spend
ars along the gay stretches OF the
Riviera. From one of his absences in
France he had been home. i'll Toledo,
scarcely more than Il week when an
excited visitor to the police bureau,
which also is in the Barbarossa, in
formed the officials in charge that
Senor Luis had been found dead, Il
few moments before. stabbed, on the
floor of his bedroom.
The caller who brought the informa-
ion was an aged butler who had been
in the Bartolomeo service for more
than a generation.
With the usual quota of other func
tionaries, Senior DelmaS, in charge of
the investigations division OF the
Toledo police, went at once TO the
Bartolomeo house. The affair was of
extreme Importance, and delicaCy.
The Bartolomeo family is powerful.
of the old dons, and close to the King.
rs is the custom in such cases IN
Spain, the police were faced with a
twofold Notwithstanding the slayer
TO prompt justice and thWarting, so
far as possible, any features of
scandal.
Mystery shrouded the crime at once.
l.; had not been committed by house
breaker. that wdS evident. Whoever
had welded the knife had entered
quietly, and departed leisurely. There
were no signs of u struggle. and there
had been no robbery. Don Gabriel
wore a large diamond in his tie, a Gus
tom which still prevails in Spain. 1t
had not been touched, yet it was worth
many thousands of dollars. There
was gold in his wallet, and the wallet
had not been rified.
When they had gone so far the
police learned a thing which aston
ished them. Don Gabriel had been
married. it seemed; secretly, almost.
because no one of his friends and
rronieS knew of it. Not even his inn
mediate family. The young wife,
slim, fairy-like creature who seemed
ever to be at the point Of dancing, so
gracefully poised she was, had slept
in her room adjoining her husbands
throughout the night, unconscious of
what had taken place in the next, her
husbands bedroom. When she dis
covered the body, in the morning. she
screamed. 1t WAS her scream Which
allied the servants.
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WHEN the police asked. respectfully.
w if they might interview the young
and unexpected Sonora BartOlomeo.
she received them in her boudoir. She