White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-09-02
Vance glanced at young Garden.


1T was you she wanted" he con-
tinued. Sand I believe her self
assurance was such that she did not
doubt for a minute that she would
be successful in attaining her goal"
Garden sprang to his feet.
Good God, Vance!" he ex-
claimed. you're right. I see the
thing now. She has been making
up to me for long time; and,
to be honest with you, I may have
said and done things which she
could have construed as encourage
ment-God help mel" He sat down
again in detected embarrassment.
''No one can blame you," Vance
said kindly. "She was one Of the
shrewdest women I have ever en-
countered. But the point of it all
is, she did not want only you-she
wanted the Garden fortune as well.
That's why, having learned that
Swift would share in the inner
itance, she decided to eliminate him
and leave you the sole beneficiary.
But this murder did not, by any
means constitute the whole Of her
scheme"
Vance again addressed us in gen
eral.
"Her whole terrible plot was clar-
flied by some other facts that Doc
tor Siefert brought out this morn
ing during my talk with him. The
death, either now or later, Of Mrs.
Garden was also an important in
teger Of that plot; and Mrs. Gar
denis physical condition had, for
some time. shown certain symptoms
Of poisoning. Of late these symp-
toms have increased in intensity.
Doctor Siefert informed me that
Miss Beeton had been laborat'ry
assistant to Professor Garden dur
ing his experiments with radio-ac-
tive sodium, and had often come to
the apartment here for the purpose
of tipping notes and attending to 9TH
err duties which could not convent
emily be performed at the univer-
sity. Doctor Siefert also informed
me that she had actually entered
the household here about two
months ago, to take personal charge
of Mrs. Gardens case. She had,
however, continued to assist Pro-
lessor Garden occasionally in his
work and naturally had access to
the radio-a ctive sodium he had be-
gun to produce; and it was since
she had come here to live that Mrs.
Gardens condition had grown worse
the result undoubtedly Of the fact
that Miss Beeton had greater and
more frequent opportunities for adj
ministering the radioactive sodium
to Mrs. Garden"
Vance turned his eyes to Profess
sor Garden.
"And you too, sir" he said,
"were, as I see it, one Of her in
tended victims. When she planned
to shoot Swift ! believe she planned
double rnurder-that is, you and
Swift were to be shot at the same
time. But, luckily, you had not re-
turned to your study yesterday aft
ernoon at the time fixed for the
double shooting, and her original
plan had to be revised"
+ ''But-but," stammered the pro-
lessor, chow could she have killed
me and Woody too?"
1.-The disconnected buzzer wires
gave me the answer this morning."
explained Vance. Her scheme was
both simple and bold. She knew
that, If she followed Swift upstairs
before the big race, she would have
no difficulty in enticing him into the
vault on some pretext or other
especially in view Of the fact that
he had shown a marked interest in
her. Her intention was to shoot
him in the vault, just as she did,
and then go into the study and
shoot you. Swift's body would then