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The BLA By E. PHILLIP Author of "Mr. Corio." "The enger." "TheJL SYNODS, tment at the Leland Ella, Mid Ashleigh, ls murdered _ iletgh diamond necklace Ko len. Thf New York police place the case In tb? li?nd? ot Sanford Quest, known and feared a* the master criminologist of the world. Ha take? Lenora. Ella's maid, to his own apartments and through hypno tism and the use of electro-telepathic- ap pliances discovers nor connection with th? crime, recovers the diamonds and arresta the murderer. Macdougal. Lenora's hus band, though nearly trapped to his death in a tough tenement house while engaged In the work. SECOND INSTALLMENT. 1 "THE HIDDEN HANDS." CHAPTER VI. Sanford Quest and Lenora stood side by side upon the steps of the courthouse, walting for the automobile, which had h-inome momentarily entan gled in a string of vehicles. A little crowd of people were elbowing their way out bn to the sidewalk. The faces, : ot most of them were still shadowed by the ? three hours of tense drama from which they had Just emerged Quest, who had lit a cigar, ', watched them curiously. "No need to go Into court," ho rc marked. "I could have told yon, from tbs look of these people, that Mac dougal hsd escaped the d<L*th sentence. They have paid their money-or rather their time, and they b-we been chested of the one supreme 'thrill." "Imprisonment for lite seems terri* ble enough," Lenora whispered, shud dering. "Can't sse the sense of keeping such a man alive myself," Quest declared, with purposeful brutality. "It was a cruel murder, fiendishly committed." They were on the point of crossing the pavement toward the automobile when Quest felt a touch upon his shoul der. He turned and found Lord Ash leigh standing hy his side. Quest glanced towards Lenora. "Run. and get in the car," he whis pered. "I will be there in a moment" "I Would not have stopped you lust now. Mr. Quest," said Lord Ashleigh, "but my brother is very anxious to re new his acquaintance with you. I think you mst years ago." Sanford Quest held out his hand to the man who bsd been standing a lit tle tn the background. Lord Ashleigh i turned towards him. "This ls Mr. Qqest, Edgar. You may remember my brother-Professor Ash leigh-as a man of science. Quest? He has Just returned from South Ameri ca." The two shook hands, curiously di versa in type, in expression, tn all the appurtenances of manhood. "I am ver? proud to make your ac quaintance again, professor," Quest said, "{?tad to know, too, that you hadn't forgotten me." "My dear slr," the professor de clared, as he released tho other's hand with seeming reluctance, "I have thought about you many times. Tour doings have always been ot Interest to me." "I au sorry," Quest remarked, "that our first meeting here should be un der such distressing circumstances I" Tho professor nodded gravely. "If you'll excuso me, prof ossorv" said Quest, *T think I must be getting along. We shall meet again, 1 trust." "Ona moment," the professor begged, eagerly. "Tell me. Mr. Quest-I want your honest opinion. What do you think of my ape?" "Of your what?" QueBt inquired dubiously. "Of my anthropoid ape which I have Just sent ttf tho museum. You know my claim? But perhaps you would pre fer to postpone your final, declalou un tll after you have examined the skele ton itself." A light broke In upon the criminol ogist "Of eonrssl" he exclaimed. "Pox the moment, professor, I couldn't fol low you. You ure talking about the skeleton of the spa which you brought home from South America, and v*htch you have presented to the museum hera?" "Naturslly." the professor assented, with mild surprise. "To what else? I ash sbsUufi^y cate. Mr.'Quest in the NorafiBHMcan Review next month; eli ' you, hovover, ss a fellow scienttsjr tim great 'and absolute truth7?y oIsM I? inconlcsiibie. My .de?etai wf 0 w$? to the world, with out ?. <&bv. th* absolute mtjjt W*tt?|o??| pro fessor Insisted. "You shelf be permit ted a special examination.-' "Very kind of you," Quest mur? nvsrvt. "We shaU mest again soon. ? hops," i tba pTofeaaor concluded cordially. "Good-nMirnia?. Mr. Quest!" The two wee shook hands and Quest took his seat by Lenora's side in the automobile. The professor rejoined his brother. .They entered ths taxicab and were driven alpinst In ..Hence to th? profee ? i?Ws Iu>??e-* large, rambling old house, situated in somewhat extendive hit UMsept grounds oe ?a? outskirts or Hew York. Tue Englishman glanced LGK BOX S OPPENHEIM Grex af Monte Vanished M*ts l?hredWay,"esc ot tho utan name produced by th? Company. Illuatratwd with lotion pk-tura production by OU? F. Wood.) around hiin. a? they passed op the! drive, with an expression of dlsap-j proval. "A more untidy looking place than yours. Edgar, I never saw," he declared. "Your grounds have become a jungle. Don't you keep any gardeners?" T keep other things," he said seton* ly. "There is something in my garden which would terrify your nice Scotch gardeners into nts if they found their way here to do a little tidying up. Come Into the library and I'll give you ono of my choice cigars. Here's Craig waiting' to let us in. Any news, Craig?" "Nothing has happened, sir," he re plied. "The telephone is ringing in the study nqw, though." "I will answer it myself," the profes sor declared, bustling off. The ' professor took up the receive from the telenque. His "Hello!" was mild and inquiring. He bad uo doubt that the call was from some admiring disciple. The chanr*: in his face as he listened, however.' was amazing. "George," he gasped, "the greatest |, tragedy in the world has happened5 My ape is stolen!" His brother looked at him blankly. "Your ape is stolen?" he repeated. "The skeleton of my anthropoid ape," the professor continued, his voice growing alike in a-idno-i: and firmness. "It hi the curator of the museum who is speaking. They have just opened the box. It has lain for two days in lan anteroom. It is empty!" Lord Ashleigh muttered some thing c little vague. The theft of a skeleton scarcely appeared to his unscientific mind to be a realizable thing.. The professer turned back to the telephone "Mr. Francis." he said, "I cannot talk to you. I can say nothing. I shall come to you at once. I am on the point of starting. Your news has overwhelmed me." . Ho laid down the receiver. He lodked around him like a man in a nightmare. "The taxicab ls walting, sir," Craig reminded him. "That ta most fortunate," the pro fessor, pronounced. "I remember noss that I bad no change with which to pay .bira.^ I. must go back. Look aft: er my br?ther. And, Craig, telephone at once tc Mr. Sanford Quest. Ask him to meet me at the museum in twenty minutes. Tell him that noth lng most stand in the way. Do you hear?" The taxicab man drove off, glad enough to have a return fara In about half an hour's time the profes sor strode up the steps of the museum and hurried into the office. There was a little crowd of officials there, whom the curator at once dismissed. He rose slowly to his feet His manner was grave and bewildered. "Professor," he said, "we will waste no time In words. \ Look here!" He threw open the door of an ante room behind his office. Tr;* apart ment was unfurnished except for one Measuring the Footprints. or two chairs. In the middle ot the nncarpeted floor was a long wooden box from which'the lid had jost beea pried. "Yesterday, a* 70? know from my note." the curator proceeded, "I was away. I gave orders that your ease should be placed h?re that I myself should enjoy the distinction of open ing it An hour ago I commenced the task; That ls what I found." The professor gazed blankly et the empty box. "Nothing left excej/t tb? amsU," a voice from' tho opaa doorway re? . marked. They glanced around, quest waa sundlng there, and behind hhs Le nora. The professor welcomed thea eagerly. -This ls Mr. Quest, the grmt erin> Inologist," he explained to the curator. Quest strolled thoughtfully around th* room, glancing out ot each ot tb* windows in tara. He kept close to tba waQ, and when he hsd finished he drew out a magnifying glass from his pocket and made a brief examina tion of the box. Then he asked a few questions of the curator, pointed out i one ot the windows to Lenora and whispered a few directions to her. She at once produced what, seemed to be a foot rule from the bag which she was carrying, and hurried into the I garden. "A little Invention of my own for measuring footprints," Quest ex* plained. "Not much use here, I am afraid." Quest stood over the box for a mo ment or two and looked once more out of the. window. Presentir Le nora returned. She carried in her hand- a small object, which she brought silently to Quest. He glanced i at it in perplexity. The professor peered over bis shoulder. "It ls the little finger!" he cried "the little finger of my ape!" Quest held it away from htm criti cally. "From which band?" he asked. "The right hand." Quest examined the fastenings of the window before which he paused during his previous examination. .He turned away with a shrug of the shoulders. "See you hiter. Hr. Ashleigh," ho concluded laconically. A newsboy thrust a paper at them. Quest glanced at the headlines. Le nora clutched at bis arm. Together they read it In great black type: E8CAI-? OP CONVICTED PRIS ONER! Macdbugaf, on His Way te Prison, j Grapples With Sheriff and Jumps From Train I Still at Large, Though Searched For hy Pease of Pellet. CHAPTER VII. The windows of Mrs. Rheinholdt's town house were abl?se with light A crimson drugget stretched down the steps to the curbstone. A long row of automobiles stood -waiting. Through the wide-flung door was vis ible a pleasant Impression of flower* and light and luxury. In the nearer of tb* two Urge reception rooms Mrs. Rheinholdt herself, a woman dark, handsome and in the prime of Ufa, waa standing to receive ber guests. By her side was her son, whose twen ty-first birthday was being celebrated. "I wonder whether that professor ot yours will comet" she remarked, aa the stream ot incoming guest* slack* ened for a moment "He hates receptions," the boy re plied, "but he promised he'd come. I never thought when he used to drill science into ns at the lectures, that he was going to be a tromendr.ja big pot Mrs. Rheinholdt's plump finger toyed for a moment complacently with the diamonds which hung from her neck. "You can never tell in a world like this," she murmured. "Here he is, mother!" the young man exclaimed suddenly. "Good old hoyt I thought he'd keep his word." Mrs. Rhclnhcl?t assumed ber most encouraging and condescending smile a* she held out both hands to the pro fessor. "It ls perfectly sweet of you, pro fessor," Mrs. Rheinholdt declared. Mrs. Rheinholdt breathed a sigh of relief as she greeted, her new arrivals. The professor made himself univer sally agreeable in a mild way, and bis presence created even more than ine sensation which Mrs. Rheinholdt had hoped for. In her desire to show bim ample honor she seldom left his side. "I am going to Uko you Into my husband's study," she suggested, later on in the evening. "He bas some ape cimeua of beetles-'* "Beetles," the. professor declared, with some excitement "occupied pre cisely two months of my time while abroad. By all means, Mrs. Rhein holdt!" "We shall have to go quite to tba bach of thc house," she explained, a* she led him alobg the darkened pas sages. The professor smiled acquiescently. His eyes rested for a moment opon her necklace. "Ton mast really permit me, Mrs. Rheinholdt," he exclaimed, "to admire 1 your wonderful stones. 1 am a judge ot diamonds, and those three or four in the center ?re, X should Judge, unique." She held them ont to Tuba. Th* protest sr laid the end of the neck lace gently in th* palm ot his band and examined them through a horn-rimmed eyeglass. "They are wo rider roi." be murmured, "wonderful! Why-" Ho turned *wt7 a little abrurtl?. Th*y had resiled the back aV. tb* bovie and a door from outside hal just i*>?a opened. A maa bad crossed Ute threshold with a coat over his ami and waa standing now looking at tb em. "How extraordinary !? the professor remarked. Ts that yon. CraigT' "Yes, fdr,- be replied "There 1* * rainstorm.?? I ventured to bring your mackintosh." "Very thoughtful," lb* professor murmured approvic;*'?. T bar* S weakness," he went on, turning tn bis bestes*, "for always walking boan* after an evening like this. In lae day time I ass ?ofiteet te ride. At wight I have tb* fancy always to wtdk." Wo don't walk half enough- Mrs. Rheinholdt sighed, glancing down st her somewhat portly figure. "Dixon," .ho added? terning to tb? footman who 7?NJ "Stolen!" Mr?. Rheinholdt Shrieked. had admitted Craig, "take Professor I Ashleigh's servant Into the kitchen and see that he has something before be leaves for home. Now, professor, if you will come thia way." They reached a li tilo room in the far corner or the house. Mrs. Rhein holdt apologized'ss elie switched on tba electric UghtB. "It is a queer little placo to bring yon to," sha said, "hut my husband used to spend many hours here, and he would never allow anything to be moved, "iou tee, tho specimens are in these cases.'.' The professor nodded. His general attitude toward tho forthcoming ex hibition was merely one of politeness. As the first case opened, however, his msnner completely changed. Without ; taking the slightest further notice of his hostess, he adjusteu a pair ot born' rimmed spectacles and commenced to mumble eagerly to himself. Mrs. Rheinholdt, who did ?ot understand a word, strolled around the apartment, yawned and finally-interrupted a little stream of eulogtetfXiot a word of which she understood, concerning a ? green beetle witta yellow spots. "I am so, glad .you are Interested, professor." ?he said. "If you don't mind, 1 will rejoin my guests. You will' find a eh or ter, way back if you [ heap along the palnjace straight.ahead i and como through the conservatory." ."Certainly! With pleasure!" the professor agreed, without glancing up. Mrs. Rheinh'olfllS1* reception, not withstanding tho temporary absence of its presiding spirit, was without doubt an unqualified success. In one of the distant rooms tho younger peo ple were dancing. Philip Rheinholdt* 1 with a' pretty young debutante upon bis arm, came out from the dancing room and looked around amongst the I Utile knots of people. i "I wonder where mother ts?" ho re marked. "She told me-" Tho young man broke off lu thc middle of his sentence. He, too, Uko I many others tn the room, felt a sud den thrill almost of horror at the sound which rang without warning upon their oars-a ' woman's cry, a i cry of fear and horror. Mrs. Rhein holdt, her hands clasping her neck, her splendid composure a thing of tho past, a panic-stricken, terrified I woman, stumbled Into the room. 8he seemed on the point of collapse. Somehow or other,- th?y got her into an easy chair. "My Jeweler abe cried. "My dia monds!" . "What do you mean? mother?" Phil Hp Rheinholdt asked quickly. "Have you lost them?" "Stolen!" Mrs. Rheinholdt shrieked. "Stolen there in the conservatory!" They gated at her open-mouthed, in credulous. Then a still, quiet voice from th? outside of tba little circle intervened. ."Instruct your servants, Mr. Rhein holdt, to lock and bar all the doors ot the house," the professor suggestei. "No ono must leave it ur'll we have heard your mother's story." '. *T had Just.-taken the professor into the little room my husband used to call the museum," K..a. Rheinholdt explained, ber voice still shaking with agitation. "I left him there to exam ine soma specimens ot booties. I thought that I would come beck thr.ngh the conservatory, which is the quiekest wey. I -was about halt way across lt when suddenly I heard the switch go behind me and all the efeetria tights were turned; out I \ couldn't Imagine what had bapiveted. While I hesitated I saw-* Oho broke 6OWA aguie There waa no doubt about the genuineness ot ber terror. *T eher a pair cf hands--Just hands -no arms-nothing but banda-como oat et the darkness! They gripped me by th? throat I suppose ft wea Jusfc for a second- I think-I lost con sciousness for a moment, although I waa still standing up. The next thing I remember ta that I found myself shrieking and running here-and the jewels are gone!" "You saw no oner0 her ton asked Incredulously. "You hoard nothing?" "I heard no footsteps,-1 saw no ene," Mrs. Rheinholdt repented. The pro fessor turned away. "It you will allow me." he begged, "I am going to telephone to roy friend. Mr. Sacford Guest, tue criminologist "Stolen There in the Conservatory!" An affair so unusual as thia might at tract him. You will excuse nc" The professor met the great crimin ologist and his assistant in the hall upon their arrival. Ho took tho for mer at once by the arm. "Mr. Quest," be began, "in a sense I must apologise for my peremptory message. I am well aware that an or dinary ewel robbery does not inter est ron, but la tats ease the circum sts tee are extraordinary. I ventured, thc "ore, to summon your aid." S? (lord Quest nodded shortly. "Aa a rule," he said, "I do not care to take up one affair until I have a clean slate. There's your skeleton still bothering me, professor. How ever, where's the lady who waa robbedr "I will take yon to ber." the profes sor replied. Mrs. Rheinholdt's story, by frequent repetition, had become a little more coherent, a trifle more circumstantial, the perfection pf simplicity and utter ly Incomprehensible. Quest listened to lt without remark and finally made hts way to the conservatory. He re quested Mrs. Rheinholdt to wslk with him vhrougl, the door by which she had entered and stop at the precise spot where the assault i>?d been made upon her. There were one or two plants knocked down from the tiers on tho right-hand sids, and some dis turbance in the mold where some Urge palms were growing. Quest and Le nora together made a close investi gation of the spot Afterwards, Quest walked several times to each of the doors leading Into the gardens. "There are - four entrances alto gether," he remarked, as he lit a djar and glanced around the pUco. "Two lead into the gardens-one ls locked aad.the other Isn't-one connects with the back et the house-tho one through Which yaw came, Mrs. Rheinholdt, and the other* leadB into your reception room, Into which you passed after the assault. I shall now be glad lt you will permit me to examine the gardens outside for a few minutes, alone with my assistant. If you please." For almost a quarter ot an hour. Quest and Lenora disappeared. They all looked eagerly at the criminologist on his return. 'it seems to me." he remarked, "that from the back part of the house the quickest way to reach Mayton ave Euo would be through thia conserva iry and out of that door. This U a path leading from just outside straight to ? gate In the wall. Does anyone that you know of use this means ot exit?" Mrs. Rheinholdt shook ber head. "The servants might occasionally," she remarked doubtfully, "but not on nig'-* when I am receiving." 7 ' ? butler stepped forward. He waa looking a little grava "I ought, perhaps, to inform yon, madam, and Mr. Quest," be said, "that J did, only a short time ago, suggest to the professor's servant-the man who brought your mackintosh, sir." he added, turning to the professor-"that be could, if he chose, make usa of this means of leaving the house. Mr. Craig is a personal friend of mine, and a member of a very select little club we bare for social purposes." "Did he follow your suggestion?' Sanford Quest asked "Of that I am not aware, air," the butler replied. T. left Mr. Craig with some refreshment, expecting- that be would remain until m> return, but a few minutes later I dipcove.'ed that be had left. I will Inquire in the kitchen if anything 1* known ss to bU move ments." He hurried off. Quest turned to tba professor. "Has he been with yon long, thia mah (Craig, professor?" be asked. - The professor's smile was illumin?t lng, bis manner simple but convincing. "Craig." bt asserted, "ls the beal servant, the rjost honest mortal whe ever breathed. He would go any di? tance out of hU way to avoid harming a fly- I cannot even trust him to pro cure for me the simplest specimens ol insect life. Apart from thu, he ls a man of some property, which he baa nd Idea what to do with. He ls. 1 think 1 may say, too dewted to me tc dream of ever leaving my service. ; "You tLUk it would be out of thc question, thea," Quest asked, "to asso ciate him v.ith th* crime?" The professor's coufideuce wss sublime. "I could more readily "associate you. myself or young Mr. Rheinholdt here with the affair." ho declared. Hla words carried weight. The little breath of suspicion against the pro fessor's servant faded away. In a mo ment or two the butler returned. "It appears, madam." he announced, "that Mr. Craig left when there was only one person in the kitchen. He said good-night and closed the door be hind bim. It is impossible to say, therefore, by which exit he left the house, but personally I sm convinced that, knowing of the reception here to night, ho would not think of using the conservatory." "MoBt unlikely, I should say," the professor murmured. "Craig ls s very shy man. He ts at all times at your disposal. Mr. Quest, it you should deBlre to question him." Quest nodded absently. "My assistant and I." he announced, "would be glad to make a further ex amination of the conservatory, if you will kindly leave us atone." Tboy obeyed without demur. Quest took a seat and smoked calmly, with his eyes Axed upon the roor. Lenora went back to her examination of the overturned plants, the mold and the whole ground within the Immediate environs of the assault. 8be absndoued the search at last, however, and came back to Quest's side. He threw away his cigar and rose. "Nothing there?" he asked laconic ally. "Not a thing," Lenora admitted. Quest led the way toward tb? door. "Lenora," he decided, "we t -*> up against something big. There's a new hand at work somewhere." "No theories yet, Mr. Quest?" she asked, smiling. "Not the ghost ot one." hs sdmitted gloomily. * . ? . . . Along the rain-swept causeway ot Vlayton avenue, keeping close to the shelter of tho house, his mackintosh turned up to his ears, his hands burled in his pockets, a man walked swiftly along. At every block he hesitated and looked around him. His manner was cautious, almost furtive. Once the glare of an electric light fell upon his face, a fae? pallid with fear, al most hopeless with despair. He walked quickly, yet he seemed to have no 'lea as to direction. Suddenly hs pair _d. He was passing a great build ing, brilliantly Ut For a moment be thought that it was some place of en tertainment. The thought of entering seemed to occur to him. Then ho felt a firm touch upon his arm, a man in uniform spoke to bim. "Step inside, brother," he invited earnestly, almost eagerly, notwith standing his monotonous nasal twang. "Step inside and find poaco. Step in side and the Lord will help you. Throw your burden away on the threshold." The man's first, impulse at being ad dressed bad seemed to bo one" of terror. Then he recognized the uniform and hesitated. The. man took him by tho arm and led him in. There were the i best part ot a hundred people taking j their places after the singing of. the hymn. A girl was standing up before I them on a platform. She was com mencing to speak, but suddenly broke off. Sho hold out her arms, to where the professor's confidential servant j sto?d hesitating. "Come and tell us your sins," she called out. "Come and have thom for given. Come and start a new life In ; a new world. There ts no one here who thinks ot the past. Come and seek j forgiveness." For a moment the waif from the j rain-swept world hesitated. 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