Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-13

n n r. FOTHERBURY was dead
M None of DR.. Eastley's njec
V lions or ministrations was b
4 / any avail. He gave 1t up a
1axton, who had stood beside him
I'VE must get him out of this. East
ley, you and will see to 1t. The others
stay here"
He summoned the sentry at the door
go and tell the servants that Mr.
Fotherbury has had stroke and Is
unconscious. Bring back one: SEND
another to tell young Mr.. Fotherbury
We're going to take MN 70 ms room on.
The man returned with the fright
ened Ferris. Laxton, Eastley and the
footnnan carried Mr. Fotherbury away
The door closed behind them.
Redslade, Somerf1eld and I were left
in the library. Somerfield and / sat
quietly down. Neither OF us spoke
Minutes dragged by till Laxton came
He took his former place and re-
rarded us for a few minutes with q
Wrinkled face.
"a dannable evening" said he. The
words broke the spell which had para
lived our speech. IT could kick my
self! He was too quick for US all.
A short way out of the maze for Fother-
buryl Perhaps the best way for all OF
us7"
He looked the question at Redslads'
Certainly 1t was" said Reoslaoer
harshly. 1T settles everything"
Whatever Redslade thought, for me
and Somerfield it had settled nothing
In the scene just passed Laxton had
deliberately accused Fotherbury OF
Amurdering Pell, and Fotherbury had
headed guilty in the most convincing
open to him.
This business had me guessing be-
e." Somerfield said, breaking q
ence of several moments. Whats
pened now gets me guessing harder
IAN ever, professor"
"That SOP" Laxton asked. 81 thought
that when asked Mr.. Grenofen to
send that message to MIR. Redslade, you
saw through it. I said there was some
body in the background behind Mar
ling-no question Of that. I'll tell you
And Laxton told us in a series of
From the first hint of q connection
between Pell and the escaped prisoner,
to his glimpse of a rough looking Gus
toner with a black bag In the Woodcot
From the puzzle of that midnight
digging to Fotherbury's anxiety about
the missing book.
theory of Roman remains to the con-
Viction that Fotherbury knew 1t was
absurd and that 1t cloaked some other
From his own adventures in the cor
ridor at Newplace to the certainty that
his assailant knew the house like a
book. and therefore to his FIRST suspicion
about the identity of. the escaped
prisoner.
Then" I interrupted, almost as soon
as Pell was killed, you had Fotherbury
and Redslade and some link between
them in your mind?"
"Only as shadows" Laxton said
"Will the Seabroke Grenofen Red
slade combination put me on the flrn
trail. I knew that Pell was not sho
by his ghost because the ghost wa.
working hand in glove with Pell.
the Dover affair looked into. It hat
taken place Immediately after the sal
of Newplace by Smithins to Fother
bury"
1--WE couldn't quite see, when we go
that letter from you, what had put vol
on to Ostend." I interjected.
Just circumstantial things. I'd haC
q report on the suicide of Redslade."
In the end, what we unearthed a
Ostend settled Laxtons last doub
about the personality of the fugitive
lowering between two theories o
the murder of Pell-a Marling Theory
and a Fotherbury theory-he resolves
to take the short cut and call in thu
only man Is a position to settle thu
question, Redslade.
Redslade was able to I'LL the blank
by telling the story of Pells life aftel
his release from prison.
WAS Pell duping Fotherbury all tn
time he WAS here?"