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" T "' ' THE MYSTERY OF AGATHA WEBB. By Anna Katharine Green, Autlurr of "The Leavcnu'orth CVwe,” “L'iJ'f MmTu l.atie," "Ilurid and liinQ" Etc., Etc. COPYRIGHT, 11)00, BY ANNA KATHARINE GREFN. On account of an error in making up the last installment of this >tory, thereby destroying the conn* ct on this chapter is r,- printed in it’s cor rect form, It is very annoying for the errors to occur but it is almost next to impos-ibili y to prevent them in a priri'ing office and we f eelconfi- dt-nt tbat our patrons awill appreciate our etfcrts and lock upon this one with leniency. CII-VPTEK XVII. MISS PAGE SUSPEC TED. A half hour later these men were all closeted with Or. Talbot in tin* Zabel kitchen. Abel had rejoined them, au.l Sweetwater was telling his story with great earnestness and no little show of privie. “Gentlemen, when I charge a young woman of respectable appearance and connections with so. h a re veiling crime us murder. 1 uo so with good reason, as I hope present!;, to make plain to you. “Gentlemen, on the night and at the hour Agatha \\ ebb was killed. 1 was playing with four < ther musicians in Mr. Sulla ’•hind's hallway. IToui the place will ie 1 sat 1 could see what went on in the; parlor and also have a clear view of the passageway leading down to the garden door. As the dancing was going on in the parlor I naturally 1 olu ;! that way most, and this is Low 1 came to note the eager ness with which during the tirst part of the eVenn: rederiek Sutherland and Amabel Page came together in the quadrilles ami country dances. Some time.s siie spoke as she passed him and sometimes he answer-m, hut not al ways, although he never failed to show he was phased with her or would have been if something- perhaps it was his lack of oeiifidcti'-o in her. sirs—had not stood in the way of a perfect under standing. She seemed to notice he did not always respond and after awhile showed less inclination to speak herself, though she did not fail to watch him and that intently. lint she didn't watch him any more closely than 1 did her. though I Halo thought at the time what world come of my espiou- j age. She wore a white dress and white shoes and was as coquettish and seduc tive as the evil out makes them. Sud denly 1 missed her. She was in the ...iuide of the dance one minute and entirely odt of it the next. “Naturally 1 expected that she had slipped aside with Frederick Suthcr laud, but uo, he was still in sight, hut looking so pale and so abstracted I was j sure the young miss was up to some so.-t of mischief. But what mischief? 1 Watching and waiting, but uo longer coutinlng my attention to the parlor. ! I presently espied her stealing along the passageway. 1 have mentioned carrying a long cloak which she rolled up ami hid behind flu* open door. Then she came back, humming a gay little song which didn't deceive me for a mo ment. ‘Good!' thought l. ‘site and that cloak will soon join company.' And they did. As we were playing the Harebell mazurka I again caught sight of her stealthy white figure in that dis taut doorway. Seizing the cloak, she wrapped It round her, and with Just one furtive look backward, seen, I war rant, by no one but myself, she van fshed In the outside darli. ‘Now lo note who follows her!’ thought I But no body followed her. This struck me as strange, and having a natural love for detective work, in spite of my devo.ion to the arts, I consulted the clock at the foot of the stairs, and noting that it was half past 11. scribbled the hour on the margin of my music, with the Intention of seeing how long my lady would linger outside alone. Gentle men. it was two hours before I saw her face again. How site get back into the house I do not know. It was not by the garden door, for my eye seldom left it; yet at or near half past 1 I heard her voice on the stair above me nod saw her descend and melt into the crowd as if she bad not been absent from it for more than five minutes. A half hour later I saw her with Fred erick again. They were dancing, but not with the same spirit as before, and even while I watched them they sep arated. Now where was Miss Page during those two long hours? I think I know, and It Is time 1 unburdened myself to the police. “But first I must inform you of a small discovery I made while the dance was still In progress. Miss Page iiad come down stairs, as I have said, from what 1 now know to have been tier own room. Her dress was, in all respects, the same as before, with one ^exception—her white slippers has been exchanged for blue ones. This seemed to show that they bad been rendered unserviceable, nr at least unsightly, by fhe walk she had taken. This In Itself -was not remarkable, nor would her pe culiar escapade have made more than »i tein|KU-ary Impression upon my Curiosity if she had not afterward shown an unaccountable and extraor dinary Interest in the murder which friad taken place In the town below during the very hours of her absence from Mr. Kutberland’s hall. This. In consideration of her sex and her being n stranger to the person attacked, was remarkable, and. though perhaps 1 had no business to do what 1 did, I no i’sooner saw the house emptied of master and servants than I stole woftly bark, and climbed the stairs to tier room. Had no good followed this Intrusion, which. I am quite ready to acknowledge, was a tritle presump tuous. I should have held my peace in regard to it; but as 1 did make a dis covery there which has, as I believe, an important hearing on this affair, I have forced tuyself to mention it. The lights in the house having been left burning. I had uo dittlculty In finding her apartment. 1 knew it by the fol- derols scattered about. But I did not i stop to look at them. I was on a search for her slippers, and presently I came upon them, thrust behind an old picture in the dimmest corner of the room. Taking them down, I ex amined them closely. They were not only soiled, gentlemen, but dreadfully cut and rubbed. In short, they were ruined; and, thinking that the young lady herself would be glad to be rid of them. I quietly put them Into my | pocket, and carried them to my own home. Abel has just been for them, so you can see them for yourselves, and, if your Judgment coincides with mine, you will discover something more on them than mud.” Dr. Talbot, though he stared a little at the young man's confessed theft, took the slippers Abel was holding out and carefully turned them over. They , wore, as Sweetwater had said, griev- J ously torn and soiled and showed, be sides several deep earth stains, a mark or two of a height red color quite tin-, mistaknble in character. “Blood.” declared the coroner. “There Is no doubt about it. Miss Page was where blood was spillett Inst night.” "1 have another proof against her,” Sweetwater went on. In full enjoy ment of his prominence among these j men who, up till now, had barely rec ognized his existence. "When full of the suspicion that Miss Page had had a hand in tin* theft, if not the murder of Mrs. Webb. 1 hastened down to the scene of the tragedy. I met this young woman issuing from the front gate, i Sin* had just been making herself con splcuous by pointing out a trail of blood on the grass plot. Dr. Talbot, who was tlmre. will remember how she j looked on that occasion, but l doubt if he noticed how Abel here looked, or so much as remarked the faded {lower tin* silly boy had stuck in his button hole.” “1 did not.” ejaculated the coroner. “Yet that flower has a very important bearing on this case. He had found It. as he will tell you. on the floor near Patsy's skirts, and as soon as I saw it in his coat, I hath* him take it out and keep it, for. gentlemen, it was a very uncommon flower, the like of which can only be found in this town in Mr. Sutherland's conservatory. I remember seeing such a one in Miss Page’s hair, early in the evening. Have you that flower about you. Abel?" Abel liad. stnd being tilled with im portance. too. showed it to the doctor and to Mr. Fenton. It was withered and faded in hue. but it was umn'.s- takably an orchid of the rarest de scription. “It was lying nesir Batsy,” explained Abel. "1 drew Mr. Fenton’s attention to it at the time, hut he scarcely no ticed it.” “I will make up for my Indifference now," said that gentleman. “I should have beeu shown that flow er." put in Knapp. "So you should.” acknowledged Sweetwater, "hut when the detective instinct is aroused it is hard for a man to be just to his rivals. Besides. I was otherwise occupied. I had Miss Page to watch. Happily for me. it had been decided that she should not be allowed to leave town till after the Inquest, and so my task became easy. This whole day I have spent in sight of Mr. Sutherland’s house, and at nightfall I was rewarded by detecting her end a prolonged walk in the gar den by a hurried dash Into the woods opposite. 1 followed her and noted carefully nil that she did. As she had just seen Frederick Sutherland and Miss Holliday disappear up the road together, she probably felt free to do as she liked, for she walked very di rectly to the old tree we have Just come from and. kneeling down beside it. pulled from the hole underneath something which rattled In her hand with that peculiar sound we associate with fresh bank notes. I had approach ed her as near as I dared and was peer ing around a tree trunk when she stooped down again and plunged both hands into the hole. She remained in this position so long that I did not know what to make of it But she rose at last and turned toward home, laughing to herself in a wicked but pleased way that did uot tend to make me think any more of her. The moon was shining very brightly by this time, and 1 could readily perceive every de tail of her person. She held her bands out before her and shook them more than once as she trod by me, so I was su e there was nothing In them, and this is why I was so confident we should find the money still In the bole. “When I saw ber enter the bouse. 1 set out to rind you. but the courthouse room was empty, and It was a long time before I learned where to look for you. But at Inst a fellow at Brighton'* comer said he saw four men go by on tbelr way to Zaltel’s cottage, and on the chance of rinding you among them I turned down here. The shock you gave me In announcing that you bad discovered the murderer of Agatha Webb knocks) me over for the mo ment. but now I hope you realize, as I do. that be could never have had an ac tive band In ber death notwithstand ing the fact that one of the stolen bills has been found to have been In that wretched man’s possession, for — and here Is my great point—the proof Is not wanting that Miss Page visited this bouse as well ns Mrs. Webb's during ber famous escapade, or at least stood under the window Iteneath which I to have been made by the foot that wore that slipper.” The con.in r. with a quick glance from the slipper in his hand up to Sweetwater's eager fin e, showed a de elded disposition to make the experi ment thus suggested, but Mr. Fenton, whose mind was full of the Zabel trag edy, interrupted them with the ques tinn: “But how do you explain by this hy pothesis the fact of Janies Zabel trying to pass one of tin.* .S-D bills stolen from Mrs. .Webb’s cupboard? Do you con sider Miss Page generous enough to give him that money?” “You ask me that. Mr. Fenton? Do you wish to know what I think of the connection between these two great tragedies?” “Yes; you have earned a voice In this matter. Speak. Sweetwater.” “Well, then. I think Miss Page lias made an effort to throw the blame of C W: l / % v. If lit ■■ ^ V [difi “A footprint ran hr firm there—compare it with the HU^pcr.” • her own misdoing on one or both of these unfortunate old men. She is suf ficiently cold blooded and calcinating to do so. and circumstances certainly favored her. Shall 1 show how?” Mr. Fenton consulted Knapp, who nodded his head. The Boston detect- i ive was not withounniriosity as to how Sweetwater would prove his case. “Old James Zabel had s<*en Ids broth er sinking rapidly from inanition. This their eondith n amply shows. He was weak himself, but John was weak er. and in a moment of desperation he rushed out to ask a crumb of bread from Agatha Webb or possibly—for I have heard some whispers of an old custom of theirs -to join Philemon at his yearly merrymaking and so obtain in a natural way the bite for himself and brother he perhaps bad not tin* courage to ask for outright. But death had been in the Webb cottage before him, which awful circumstance, acting on his already weakened nerves, drove him half insane from the house and sent him wandering blindly about the streets for a good half hour before he reappeared In Ids own house. How do I know this? From a very simple fact. ’Abel here has been to Inquire, among other things, if Mr. Crane remembers the tune we were playing at the great house when he came down the main street from visituig old Widow Wal ker. Fortunately lie does, for the trip, trip, trip lu it struck his fancy, and he has found himself humming it over more than once since. Well, that waltz was played by us at a quarter after midnight, which Axes the time of the encounter at Mrs. Webb’s gateway- pretty accurately. But. as you will soon see. It was 12:50 before James Zabel knocked at Loton’s door. How do I know this? By the same method of reasoning by which 1 determined the time of Mr. Crane's encounter. Mrs. Loton was greatly pleased with the music played that night and had all her windows open in order to hear it, and she says we were playing ’Money Musk’ when that knocking came to disturb her. Now. gentlemen, we play ed ’Money Musk’ just before we were called out to supper, and ns we went to supper promptly at 1:45 you can see Just how my calculation was made. "Thirty-five minutes then passed be tween the moment James Zaliel was seen rushing from Mrs. Webb's gate way and that in which tie-appeared at Loton’s bakery, demanding a loaf of I bread and offering in exchange one of the bills which had l>eon stolen from the murdered woman's drawer. Thirty* . five minutes! And he and his brother were starving. Does it look. then, as if that money was In his possession when be left Mrs. Webb’s house? Would any man who felt the pangs of hunger as he did or who saw a brother perishing for food before bis eyes, al low 35 minutes to elapse before he made use of the money that rightfully or wrongfully had come Into bis baud? No, and so I say that be did not have I it when Mr. Crane met him. That. In* ■tend of committing crime to obtain It, be found It Id his own home, lylnj} on bis own table, when, after his frenzied absence, be returned to tell bis dread ful news to the brother he had left be- j bind him. But bow did It come there? you ask. Gentlemen, remember tbe footprints under tbe window. Amabel Page brought It. Having seen or per haps met this old man roaming In or near the Webb cottage during tbe time sbe was there herself, she conceived tbe plan of throwing upon blm tbe onus of tbe crime she had herself commit ted and with a slyness to be expected from her stole up to bis borne, made a j hole in the shade hanglijg over ao open ! window, looked Into the room where John sat. saw that he was there alone and asleep, and. creeping In by tbe front door, laid on tbe table beside blm tbe $20 bill and the bloody dagger with which sbe bad Just slain Agatha Webb. , Then she stole out again and in 20 minutes more was lending the dance again In Mr. Sutherland's parlor.” “Well reasoned!" murmured Abel, Sweetwater, with a quiet smile cal culated to bide his disappointment went on as if perfectly satisfied. "Meanwhile John awakes, secs the dagger and thinks to end ids misery with it, but finds himself too feeble. The cut in his vest, tin* dent in the floor, prove this, but if you cull for fur ther proof, a little fact, which some if not all of you seem to have overlooked, will amply satisfy you that this one at least of my conclusions is correct. Open the Bible, Abel; open it not to shake it for what will never fall out from be tween its leaves, but to find in the Bi ble itself the lines I have declared to you lie wrote as a dying legacy with that tightly clutched pencil. Have you found them?” "No.” was Abel's perplexed retort. “I cannot see any sign of writing on fly leaf or margin.” "Are those the only blank places in tin* sacred I took ? Search the leaves devoted to the family record. Now. what do you find there?” Knapp, who was losing some of his indifference, drew nearer and read for himself the scrawl which now appear ed to every eye on the discolored page which Abel here turned uppermost. "Almost illegible.” he said. "One can just make out these words: ’Forgive me, Jamt's—tried to use dagger—found lying—but hand wouldn’t—dying with out—don’t grieve—true men —haven't disgraced ourselves—God bless’— That is all.” "The effort must have overcome him." resumed Sweetwati r in a voice l : -p which he can fully excluded all signs of secret triumph, "and when Jauies returned, as he did a few minutes lat er. he was evidently unable to answer questions even if Janies was in a con dition to ask them. But the fallen dag ger told its own story, for James pu-k- ed it up and put it hack on the table, and it was at this minute he saw. what John iiad not. the $2() hill lying there with its promise of life and comfort. Hope revives, lie catches up this hill, (lies down to Loton’s. procures a loaf of broad and comes frantically back, gnawing it as he runs, for his own bun ger is more than he can endure, lie- entering his brother’s presence, lie rushes forward with the bread. But the relief has come too late. John has died lu Ills absence, and James, dizzy with the shock, reels back and sue cumbs to bis own misery. Gentlemen, have you anything to say in oontradir tion of these various supposition;-?' For a moment Dr Talbot. Mr F* n ton and even Knapp stood silent: then the latter said, with pardonable dry ness: "All this is Ingenious; but, unfortu nately, it is upset by a little fact which you yourself have'overlooked. Have you examined attentively the dagger of which you have so often spoken, Mr. Sweetwater?" "Not sis i would like to. but 1 noticed it had blood on its edge and was of the shape and size necessary to inflict Un wound from which Mrs. Webb died." "Very good, but there is something else of interest to be observed on ii Fetch it. Abel.” Abel, hurrying from the room, soon brought back the weapon lu question Sweetwater, with a vague sense of dis appointment disturbing him. took n j eagerly and studied it very closely ; But be only shook Ids head. ‘‘Bring it nearer to the light.” sug gested Knapp, "and examine the little scroll near the top of the handle.” Sweetwater did so and at once chang ed color. In tin* midst of the scroll were two very small but yet perfectly distinct letters. They were "J Z.” “How did Amabel i’age come by a dagger marked with the Zabel ini tials?” questioned Knapp. "Do you think her foresight went so far as to provide herself with a dagger ostensi bly belonging to one of these brothers? Aud then have you forgotten that when Mr. Crane met the old man at Mrs Webb's gateway he saw in his hand something that glistened? Now, what was that if not this dagger?” Sweetwater was more disturbed than he cared to acknowledge. "That just shows my lack of experi ence." he grumbled. "1 thought 1 had turned this subject so thoroughly over In my mind that no one could bring an objection against it." Knapp shook his head aud smiled. “Young enthusiasts like yourself are great at forming theories which wei) seasoned men like myself must regard as fantastical. However," he went on. "there is uo doubt that Miss Page was a witness to. even if she has not profit ed by, the murder we have been consid ering. But with this palpable proof of tbe Zabels' direct connection with tbe ; affair I would not recommend ber ar- i rest as yet” “8be should be under surveillance, though.” Intimated the coroner. “Most certainly,” acquiesced Knapp. As for Sweetwater, be remained si lent till tbe opportunity came for blm to whisper apart to Dr. Talbot when be said: “For all tbe palpable proof of which Mr. Knapp speaks—tbe *3. 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