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Cotton occurs during the first three more frequent ~au~dering. Hang
New buses made of aluminum i to four weeks of the ginning sea. :,towels straight on the line rather
weigh from 1% to 2 tons less than
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THE STORY THUS FAR." Adam Bruce,And Tope suddenly was calm. taut consideration for this hurriedThe leaves of the cotton must be towels can mildew overnight in l~0t
Lacks Nitrogen FBI operator, on a trip to his old home, "Kell," he said. "I'm sorry aboutman, and something like sympathy, removed by chemicals in order for : weather.
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Imllye~Ptl°nal]Ydue toWeta lackWeatherof nitrogen.iS prlnci, andmurderedMrs, atT°Pe'autoT°Pecampf°Undoperateda manby tinent, unkind. But--had she any Kelll But I'm acting for the law i~ green leaves and this makes dyeing ! used as a yeast substitute for
Bee Dewaln. Mrs. Tope said the man faults? Were you jealous of her?"this matter; and Mr. Bruce here of the cotton difficult, bread making in Liberia.
was Mr. Ledforgc, head of New England "She was all right, sir," Kell pro- represents the Federal Government,
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ployee, Keli, had disappeared. Tope be. away, week-ends when I'd be at serious affair. Kidnaping is serious, land thought potatoes would shorten about to can carp and market tL
tiered Mrs. KeU's body would he found home, and when I couldn't go withKell. And so is--murder. I wc~a'U ~en's lives and make them um grated, tuna.style, u~der the name
in bottom of quarries in Holdom's car. her, with Mr. Holdom keeping me press you; but if you told us a little
Ledforge was said by his office to he in busy all the time." ealthy, t of "'Lakefish."
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camp, came running In and said that "Where would she go?" things out, and--in finding your
there was a man in the cottage--Tope "She always told me where she wife!"
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murdered man was found, her, sometimes, and she wasn't and shaking.
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CHAPTER VIII
The big man looked from one to
the other. "Why--yes, sir," he said
miserably at last. "My name's
Kell."
"That's much better," Tope com-
mented. "Where's the Holdom lim-
ousine ?"
But Kell responded with a coun-
ter question, his cheek suddenly
purple, his whole body shaking with
a sort of passion.
"Where's my wife?" he cried.
"Where's Mrs. Kell? Where is she?
What have you done with her?"
Tope said simply: "We haven't
seen her, Kell. Was that why you
came here? To look for her?"
"She's gone!" KeLI cried desper-
ately. "She's gone! I heard in the
village that there was some one dead
here. I thought it might be her--"
The Inspector looked at Kell's
feet; and he demanded:
"Let me see your shoes--the bot-
toms of them."
Kell, after a moment, lifted one
foot, standing on the other; and
Tope turned the lifted foot with his
hand to look at the sole. Kell top-
pled and almost fell; and Tope re-
leased his ankle, caught his arm,
steadied him. Then the old man
asked:
"Do you ever wear heel-plates?"
KelI's eyes flickered. "No sirI"
"Sure?"
"Why--I've got an old pair of
shoes with plates on them."
"Worn them lately?"
"No sir."
Tope nodded; and he said: "Kell,
, there were some things in the pock-
ets of those overalls this dead man
t wore. A valve-clearance gauge, and
a knife with a steel handle marked
in a scale, inches and centimeters.
Did you ever see a knife like that?"
Kell shook his head stubbornly.
"Well, that's funny," Tope protest-
ed. "That's queer! You work for
Holdom; yo~l're his chauffeur. You
live over his~garage. Well, this dog
blanket came from his garage; and
the overalls and sweater came out
of the machine shop behind the ga-
rage, where you keep your work
clothes. I think they are yours.
They're big enough to fit you. You're
an Englishman. That knife came
from England. I never saw one like"
it in this country."
"I heard that the coupe came
here," Kell muttered. "And she was
in it. She drove it away from the
house."
"Well," said Tope, "I don't know
where she is, but I can tell you
where the car is. It's in the quarry
hole, up in the mountains above the
Holdom place. We're lifting it out
tomorrow."
KeLI uttered a low, startled ejacu-
lation; and Tope stopped, expecting
the man to speak. When Kell did
not, the Inspector demanded:
"Know anything about that?"
"No sir." The answer was prompt.
"I suppose you didn't put it
there ?"
Kell cried harshly, on the verge of
breaking: "No!"
"All right," Tope said sharply,
pressing his advantage. "Why didn't
you bring Holdom and Ledforge up
[here to their homes last Friday?"
i And, quickly: "Now, don't lie! We
know you left New York, with them
In the car; and we know you got
home alone. What did you do with
Ledforge and Holdom on the way?"
After a moment Kell answered:
"Why--I had engine-trouble, sir. It
looked like a long job to fix it; so
they hailed a car and got a ride
to Springfield, told me they'd come
on home by train. I got the car
fixed quicker than I expected, and
came on, and met the train at Mid-
dleford, but they weren't on it."
"Hah!" said Tope scornfully.
"Took you long enough to think of
that! Where have you been since
then?"
"Looking for Mrs. Kell---places I
thought she might be."
"Where?"
"Well, one was in Boston, and one
in Worcester. Then Mr. Ledforge
had a lodge back in the hills where
he sometimes went for a rest. I
thought she might be there."
" "Why?" Tope demanded; and Kell
hesitated, did not answer. Tope
t, ?"
cried: Well, was she.
"No sir," said Kell, and Tope de-
manded sharply:
But you foUnd~some one there.
"Mr. Eberly was there. But he
hadn't seen her."
"Eberly?" Tope looked at Adam.
"He's there now?"
"Yes sir. He and Mr. Lcdforge
sometimes went there together."
Tope frowned, startled and dis-
turbed. "Did Mr. Eberly know Mrs.
KeH?"
"Oh, no sir, but he said no one
had been thereI"
his brow heavily. "It made me
crazy, sir," he confessed.
Adam realized--and his hair pric-
kled at the thought--that Kell spoke
of Mrs. Kell in the past tense, as
though she were dead!
Tope asked: "Where were you last
week-ehd? Ten days ago? Up here,
or in New York?"
"In New York, sir. Mr. Holdom
couldn't get away."
"Mr. Ledforge in New York?"
"I don't know, sir.' .......
"Sorry, Keli, but I am acting for
the law in this matter."
"Mrs. Kell?"
"She went to Boston to see her
cousin."
Tope nodded; and he went on, in-
sistently: "You used to work for Mr.
Ledforge. How did you happen to
leave him?"
"Mr. Holdom wanted me."
"Did Mrs. Kell approve of the
change?"
"Yes sir. She didn't like my work-
ing for Ledforge."
"Did you? Was he a good boss?"
"You could never tell about him,"
Kell explained, almost abstractedly.
"One day he might be as friendly
as you could ask; and the next day
he might not speak to you at all,
sir. You wouldn't know him for the
same man."
Tope stared at the big man for a
long time. Then he asked casually:
"Mr. Holdom treat you all right, did
he?"
"Yes sir!" The big man was at
ease now, quite off guard.
And Tope asked sharply: "Then
why did you hit him over the head
and leave him beside the road down
near Hartford Saturday morning,
unconscious, with a fractured skull?"
Kell swayed where he stood, and
his ruddy cheeks drained white.
"Why did you?" Tope insisted.
"Why, Kell?"
There had been no warning in his
manner, nothing to stiffen Kell to
resistance. And the man stam-
mered now:
"He told me to, sir! Made met"
Adam, at this admission, whistled
soundlessly, and grinned with de-
light at Tope's shrewd guess so in-
credibly confirmed.
"Nonsense!" Tope said curtly,.
"You mean to say he told you to
kill him?"
"No sir, just to hit him," Kell
urged, almost pleadingly. "Hit him
over the head. He told me to hit
him and leave him."
He stopped suddenly, and Tope
prompted: "Go on! Go on!" And
when Kell was silent, Tope said
harshly: "Come, Kell! You hit Mr.
Holdom because he ,told you to.
What's the rest of it?
But Kell, a new strength in him
now, put on a mask of courtesy, of
incredulous surprise.
"I, sir?" he said. "I don't know
what you mean, sir. Mr. Holdom
hurt? Not badly, I hope, sir?"
Tope grinned, and he looked at
Adam Bruce. ,This man's t~o much
for me, Adam, he said. "I guess
he could help us if he wanted to.
I judge he doesn't know that Mrs.
Kell really spent last week-end--"
Kell said furiously: "Keep your
tongues off her!"
Tope whirled on him. Having
goaded Kell to anger, he was about
to press his advantage; but he saw
in Kell's eyes an insane fury which
checked him. It was not fear that
restrained him, but rather a reluc-
phoned the Ridgcomb police that the
coupe had been stolen--telephoned
from New York. You didn't do that,
did you? You weren't in New York
Saturday morning, were you?"
"No sir," said Kell.
Then they all heard a car on the
drive, and Tope spoke to Adam.
"That may be Mat," he said; and to
Kell, while Bruce turned toward
the d_ogr: "This is Mr. Cumberland,
the District Attorney, Kell. I'm
afraid he'll lock you up." He add-
ed "
: If we get any trace of Mrs.
Kell, I'll let you know."
Then Cumberland came in, Mrs.
Tope beside him. Adam admitted
them both, shut the door. i
Tope made explanatSons--summed
U '
p Kell s statements--and silences.
Mrs. Tope spoke quickly.
"Inspector," she suggested, "Kell
w'ofiic~ ]~now Mr. Ledforge if he saw
him." .... _
Tope's eyes quickened. "That's ~
ri "
ght, he agreed. He chuckled.
"Ma'am, I never thought of that.
Of course he would." He spoke to
Cumberland, eagerly. "Let's get up
there---let Kell see l~xn, see if he
knows hip ."
A moment later they were all in
Cumberland's car, and soon they
turned into the byway that led to
Amasa Dewain's farm. The ambu-
lance of Will Banion, the undertak-
er, was backed up to the kitchen
door; a laden stretcher was just be-
hag wheeled out of the kitchen as
they arrived. Amasa Dewain, heavy,
ponderous, silent, stood in the light-
ed doorway.
They approached the stretcher;
and Cumberland said to the under-
taker: "Will, let this man see hireS"
A sheet was turned back; an elec-
eric torch threw its beam on the
dead man's white face. Tope and
Adam thrust Kell forward.
"Look at him, Kell," Tope direct-
ed.
And Kell--though they could feel
the muscles in his arms contract--
looked steadily enough upon the
dead man.
"That Mr. Ledforge?" Tope de-
manded.
Kell shook his head. In the wait-
ing silence his hoarse tones were
clear.
"No sir," he said sullenly ....
When Will Banion heard Tope
speak Ledforge's name, he pressed
nearer, incredulous, astonished. He
cried:
"Ledforge? The Utilities man?"
Mat Cumberland started to speak;
but Tope. interrupted hi~. "You're
Will Bamon?" he asked crisply.
"Yes."
"Well, I want you to forget what
you've heard," Tope sternly direct-
ed. "This isn't Ledforge. You heard
Kell say so. Now get along to town•
Doctor Medford here?"
"He's gone ahead, going to meet
me at my place, Banion said meek-
ly, and turned to his task. When
the ambulance was gone, Tope spoke
to Cumberland. "Heard from young
Dane?" he asked.
Yes, he telephoned awhile ago
that Holdom can make the trip to-
morrow. They'll be here by noon."
Tope nodded, and he spoke to
Cumberland. "You'll want to lock
Kell up, of course. Drop Mrs. Tope
and me at the Mill, and then you
can take him along to town."
Back at the Mill, they found Ned
Quill talking at the door with Bee
Dewain. The trooper reported to
Tope: "Well, sir, I've been up at
the quarry. Got some wreckers on
the job. They say they can get the
car out of there tomorrow morning."
Tope nodded, and he said.-, "Quill,
this man is Kell, Holdom's chauf.
feur."
"Sure, 1 know him," Ned agreed.
"We caught him in Faraway
awhile ago," Tope explained. "He
probably came in the limousine, left
it around near here somewhere. See
if you can find it."
"O.K.!" Quill assented.
The District Attorney suggested,
almost regretfully: "You know,
Tope, if this had been Lectforge, we
could find plenty of people around
that migh~ have had a grudge
against him. Most of us put money
into his securities. Amasa Dewain,
for one."
"Whoever killed this man, it
wasn't anyone around here, Mat,"
Tope said shortly.
"How do you know?"
"]3 a
ec use some one from outside
is checking up on it. I told you
there were two men here Monday
night trying to trace the car--Whit-
lock and Beal. They slipped away
early. I'd like to talk to them; but
there's no telling where they are
now!"
Bee Dewain said. triumphantly:
"Oh, yes, there m, Inspector!
They're here--came back a few
minutes ago. Mrs. Priddy's giving
them supper right now!"
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