CHAPTER XIV—Continued
Zaiia Graem glared defiantly at
Vance.
“I asked Mrs. Garden what I
could do for her, and she requested
me to fill the water glass on the lit
tle table beside her bed. I went
into the bathroom and filled it;
then I arranged her pillows and
v asked her if there was anything
else she wanted. She thanked me
and shook her head; and I returned
to the drawing-room.”
"Thank you,” murmured Vance,
nodding to Miss Graem and turn
ing to the nurse. “Miss Beeton,” he
asked, “when you returned last
night, was the bedroom window
which opens on the balcony
bolted?”
The nurse seemed surprised at
the question. But when she an
swered. it was in a calm, profes
sional tone
'T didn't notice. But I know it
was bolted when I went out—”
He turned leisurely to Floyd
Garden. ‘1 say. Garden when you
left the drawing-room yesterday aft
ernoon. to follow Swift on your er
rand at tneiT}. as M were, after he
had given you his bet on Equanimi
ty. where did you go with htfn?”
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been e general tendency to involve
various people m the criminal activ
ities here From the human and
psychological point of view the la
res has been both deliberately and
unconsciously clouded, until the con
fusion was such that no clear-cut
outline remained. And this created
an atmosphere which perfectly
suited the murderer's machinations,
for it made detection extremely dif
ficult and positive proof almost im
possible . . . And yet,” Vance
added, "some one in this room is
guilty."
He rose dejectedly. I could not
understand his manner: it was so
unlike the man as I had always
known him. All of his assurance
seemed gone. Then he swung round
quickly, and his eyes swept angrily
about the room, resting for a brief
moment on e^ch one present.
"Furthermore,” he said with a
staccato stress on his words, "I
know who the guilty person is!”
There was an uneasy stir in the
room and a short tense silence
which was broken by Doctor Sie-
fert’s cultured voice.
"If that is the case, Mr. Vance— >
and I do not doubt the sincerity of
your statement—I think it your duty
to name that person.”
Vance regarded the doctor
thoughtfully for several moments
before answering Then he said in
a low voice: "I think you arengKt;
sir " Again he paused and.
* taw
wae split by a woman's
and terrifying cry lor help, from
somewhere upstairs. As we reached
the hallway the nurse came stum
bling down the stairs, holding with
both hands to the bronze railing.
Her face was ghastly pals.
"Mr. Markham! Mr. Markhamt"
aha called hysterically. "Oh, my
God I The moat terribla thing has
happened I"
She had Just reached the foot of
the stairs when Markham came up
to her. She stood clutching the
railing for support.
"It’s Mr. Vance!" she panted ex
citedly. "He's—gone 1"
A chill of horror passed over me,
and everyone in the hall seemed
stunned.
In broken phrases, interspersed
with gasping sobs, the nurse was
explaining to Markham.
"He went over—Oh, God, it was
terrible! He said he wanted to ask
me something, and led me out into
the garden. He began questioning
me about Doctor Siefert, and Pro
fessor Garden, and Miss Graem.
And while he talked he moved over
to the parapet — you remember
where ha stood last night. He got
up there again, and looked down. I
was frightened—the way I was yes
terday. And then—and then—while
I did To
inf wtili a
*1 was inclined to
Beeton almset from the first, for.
although everyone here had,
through soma act, drawn suspicion
upon himself, only the nurse had tha
time and tha unhampered opportu
nity to commit the initial crime.
She was Entirely unobserved when
the put her plan into execution;
and so thoroughly familiar was she
with every arrangement of the
household, that she had no difficulty
in timing her every step to as to
insure this essentisi privacy.
"Subsequent events and circum
stances added irresistibly, to my
suspicion of her. For instance, when
Mr. Floyd Garden informed me
where the key to the vault was
kept, I sent her to see if it was in
its place, without indicating to her
where its place was, in order to
ascertain if she knew where the key
hung. Only someone who knew ex
actly how to get into the vault at a
moment’s notice could have been
guily of killing Swift.
"Incidentally, one of my great dif
ficulties in the case has been to
act in such a way, at all times, that
her suspicions would not be aroused
at any point."
"Her motive was not clear at
first," Vance explained, "and, un
fortunately, I thought that by Swift’s
death alone the had accomplished
her purpose. But after my talk
with Doctor Siefert this morning,
I was able to understand fully her
whole hideous plot. Doctor Siefert
pointed out definitely her Interest
in Floyd Garden, although I had
had hinta of It before. For Instance.
Floyd Garden was the only person
here shout whom aha spoke to mo
with admiration. Her motive waa
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hi a gesture of hopelessness and
despair.
"Yes!" she cried at Vance; "I
tried to kill you. Why shouldn’t I?
You were about to take everything
—everything—away from me.”
She turned quickly and ran up the
stairs. Almost simultaneously
Vance dashed forward.
"Quick, quick!” he called out.
"Stop her before she gets to the gar
den.”
But before any of us realized the
significance of his words, Vance was
himself on the stairs. Heath and
Snitkin were just behind him, and
the rest of us, stupefied, followed.
As I came out on the roof, I could
see Miss Beeton running toward the
far end of the garden, with Vance
immediately behind her. Twilight
had nearly passed, and a deep dusk
had settled over the city. As the
girl leaped up on the parapet at
the same point where Vance had
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a spectral silhouette against the
faintly glowing sky. And then she
disappeared down into the deep
shadowy abyss, just before Vance
could reach her.
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of Mrs. Garden's case. She had,
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work and naturally had access to
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Vance turned his eyes to Profes
sor Garden.
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"were, as I see it, one of her in
tended victims. When she planned
to shoot Swift I believe she planned
a double murder—that is, you and
Swift were to be shot at the same
time. But, luckily, you had not re
turned to your study.”
"But—but," stammered the pro
fessor, "how could she have killed
me and Woody too?”
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