The Cleveland American (Cleveland, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 28, 1927 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER' LD—eRonald
famous in his special work—opplied
psychology—employs his leisure Gine
In the elucidation of crime mysteries
As the narrative opens be is interested
IA the murder in the small town of
Oak Ridge of a recluse Henry Moy
- gen With a young friend who tens
the story and Ashton aSalltain dia
trial attorney who is working on the
case be outlines the tragedy 'rile at
dinner in The Meredith hoteL
CHAPTER IL—The murdered man
his papers reveal bad been in New
Zealand where Doctor McAlister had
lived in his youth A young man Will
Harvart has testified be saw a woman
in the Morgan home the night of the
murder and make special mention of
a green cloak she was wearing Doc-
tor Reinhardt friend of McAlister
telephones he has a queer ease in his
a hospital and invites McAlister to see
the patient With his two friends the
1 doctor goes to the hospital On the way
be tells of a notorious pirate sully
Franklin who bad operated in New
Zealand waters Doctor Reinhardes pa-
tuft proves to be a young woman
who in unconsciousness mutters in a
language Reinhardt does not under
stand McAlister apparently does later
telling his friends the girl Is a South
Sea islander and her muttering was
In the Maori tongue lie has noted a
peculiar tattoo mark on her arm The
doctor gees a possible connection be-
tween the murdered New Zealander and
the girl
CHAPTER UL—Doctor McAlister and
his friend go through Morgan's pa-
pers An immense collection of maps
- interests them The doctor ends a
DOOSO and a pipe Used as a tourniquet
the Instruments of the killing The
method of the murder tells him the
Orime undoubtedly was committed by
one familiar with 1111111ffe customs The
two men find a Carefully bidden map
of a headland painstakingly marked
but without latitude or longitude and
the significance of the many maps is
: clear to them The dead man bad been
seeking the headland's location by lett
tads and longitude A gust of wind
blows out the light anill the investiga
tors are disturbed by the stealthy en
trance of a girl Seemingly sensing
their presence in the darkness she is
capes by the window The doctors as-
sietaat with a detective from the die
trial attorney's office stationed in the
house take up the pursuit at once but
the girl outruns them Giving up the
chase one of the pursuers stumbles
over a cloak lying in the vad and
recognizes it as the garment young
Harvey had described as worn by the
woman he claimed to have seen the
night of the murder
' CHAPTER IV—Discovery of the
cloak convinces Ashton the girl was
the slayer of Morgan and Harvey an
' accessory to the crime McAlister ar
ranges to make a scientific test of the
- guilt or innocence of Harvey The die
trial attorney thought Ienly skeptical
of the value of any li test agrees
to allow the doctor to make the ez
Raiment
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CHAPTER V—MiAlistere test proves
to the doctor that Harvey is innocent
but the investigation brings into the
e ftII the name of Jane Perkins who
by deduction the doctor assumes is
a housemaid or °they domestic assist
' ant living in the vicinity of The
Meredith McAlister appears confident
' he has a slew leading to the snurderee
iso organ
veiaireass gad4D 10 all
advertisement Of the' finding Of the
" cloak a young woman giving the name
of Jane Perkins and her position so
housemaid in The Meredith hotel °label
the garment McAlister takes two of
his laboratory instruments to The
Meredith for an undisclosed purpose
From the headwaiter at The Meredith
Wretins they learn there is a Jane
g Perkins Oinployed as a chambermaid in
' 7 the hotel In an interview by a ruse
the girl's arm is revealed showing the
peculiar tattoo mark which had been
on the arm of the girl at the hosPitsi
CHAPTER 17a—The discovery seems
to prove that Jane Perkins the girl
at the hospital and this by intuition
the girl who bad eluded them at Oak
Ridge are identical McAlister hypno
Uses the girl and in that state she ad-
mits the killing of Morgan knelling
' her mother dying had sworn her to
vengeance on the n3IIN murderer of
the girl's father She has the skill of
the aboriginal "tracker" that of rec-
ognising a person by scent The doe
toe subjects Wilkins—at his own re
quest as a friend of the girl—and Jane
Perkins to a pecular test at the end
of which McAlister reveals it really
was Wilkins he was subjecting to ex
' Imination
t CHAPTER VIII—McAlister explains
to Ashton his reasons for the eiperi
silents and his conviction that Wil
king Is really Josiah Haines member
of Bully Franklin's pirate crew Mon
gan had slain his commander and is
caped when the band was broken up
The map McAlleter had found was a
key to Franklin's hidden treasure The
doctor's tests have proved to him Wil
king' connection with the killing of
Morgan through his hypnotic Influence
over Jane He had sent her to Oak
Ridge to steal the map which be be
hived Morgan had
CHAPTER IX—The three men dig
cover that Wilkins evidently aware
of his danger has disappeared McAl
later puts Jane into a hypnotic tate
and seta her on the man's trail through
her power of scent Rain rapidly con-
verted Into frozen sleet has tied up
all traffic end suspended telegraph and
telephone communication so that after
trailing Wilkins to a railroad station
they rind he has left for Oak Ridge
on the last train which tan he sent
out becaure of the storm
CHAPTER X—With Jane the three
men set out for Oak Ridge in en
automobile Asgoing there they leave
the girl still In a hypnotio state in
the car with the chauffeur and pro
cued to the Morgan howl There thee
end Wilkins or Haines has been there
secured the precious snap and es
caped with Jane—the chauffeur haw
log been absent for is few minute
—in the car which the party bad used
for the trip to Oak Bldg&
CTIAPTER L—No trace of' the
lbfritives la found TwO years later Mr
' Alistair receive a letter
' king confirming all the doctor's thee
tuna Jane now 01" Wilkins' 'wife
Through the in hefound Prenklin'e
treasure tio Istro htliett Mor
' won but pleads that the letter's crime'
mode the killing 'notifiable McAlister
egret" with him Winds doom sot wive
tho Location of th s th$ doe'
tot though know )os it elpodel to Cott
Celli it from Aohton while enjoying the
attorneys chogrin over hie discom
ltute aa he allow Itim to toad thr
letter
of way and thet begun singing the
words
The girl looked up at him and burst
Into a peal of laughter -
Ile stopped abruptly "What's the
matterr he asked r
"I beg pawdott rm sure" she said
'I couldn't help Tbat wee
such a funny lot of mimeo"
"ht my singing as bad as 'oar be
asked good-natural
' "Not the single' sir the noisei that
sent with ' ' '
"Oh yottlneah the language Didn't
you over hear that language before?"
'Do you call that a language sir?
-Does It Mean anything? - Do people
talk lika that?"Thea she went on
Without a pause "X beg your powdon
for bein' such a rattle dr And hero
your knife" L ' 4
IviPed It on her Spree and laid-
lt—on—the tenter -tablet then wiped
her band and started to pull down her
sleeve '
"That's a curious bit of tattooing
on your arms! the doctor commented
"Elow did you gomo by It?'
"I don't know" she replied Indiffer-
tinily "It's always been- there I
fancy: ever since I was too small to
remember anyway I hope your knife
won't get rusty air And I hope you
don't mind my laughinl at that bit of
song you lane
"Not a bit" said the doctor
don't wonderths-language struck you
as queer Yet It was common enough
down in the quarter of the world
where I was born"
"And where might that be sir?" she
asked
"Oh I meant the South Pactlic gen-
erally Where I lived was In New
Zealand"
"Fancy now l" she said obviously
pleased "That's where I come from
myself—Wellington New Zealand but
I never beard that language"
- "NO" be said "you'd have to go a
matter of a thousand miles or two
from Wellington to bear that It's
Maori"
"I never beard of him Is that all
sir? Shall I do up the rooms?"
Ile nodded but as she turned to
leave the room he called her back
"You're rather near-sighted aren't
you Perkins?' be said
"Oh no sir quite to the contrary
In fact I can see farther than most
people"
"Did you ever have your eyes
tested?'
"Measured for glasses do you
mean sir?" she asked "No sir I
sha'n't never come to them"
"Sit down in that chair a minute"
said the doctor with an easy assump-
tion of authority "No not that one
this big chair here I want to see If
your eyes are as good as you think
they are"
The chair be Indicated and in which
she rather reluctantly seated herself
was deep and soft and heavily uphol-
stored Neither the doctor nor I en-
joyed sitting in it however because
the curve at the back thrust one's
bead forward at an unnatural angle
"Lean back" commented the doctor
"all the way—so"
When Ale Wile seated to his satisfac-
tion: be wheeled the chair around with
its back to the table and then adjust-
ed the powerful electric reading lamp
so that it shed a beam horizontally
above the girl's bead
She surveyed these preperadons a
little nueamily "It's like haying a
tooth pulled" she said
"Not a bit" said the doctor cheer-
fully "Ws not Wag leisigirt I only
want you to look into this little mirror
and tell we what you am"
Be held it up before her eyes as he
volts It was circular slightly (wp-
m and was adjusted upon a long
Ivory handle: Ile bald it above her
head so that she had to strain her
eyes upward to see It at all and at
"I Montt See Anything but a Spot os
Yellow Light"
such an angle that it reflected MP
light of the reading lamp stralght Int
her eYelL '
-
' "I don't see anytiang at all but l
spot of yellow light" '
'r "You only see oner questioned tip
doctor
lilie pulled °tit his watch' and glancti
t it "Don't mind what Fm doing'
le admOnlohed her "Look steadily at
Ihe little mirror Let Joe know hml
ong It Is before you begin to see tr
if 0101Rt Pro"
to atom) perfectly atilt before het
except that the hand which held th
mirror pertnitied It 1 o swing rot
t lowly potiutomwlee hotore- he
I though always tit an englo Ont eel
the beam etraigla Into tier eYes
From my eibrher of the nom
welched him breathlessly Of tourse
It wu perfectly obvious to see What
be was doing The examination of bar
eyes had &PT! I mero pretext His
Nil object In' Inducing the girt to
strain her eyes upward was to throw
her Into a hypnotic sleep The method
'be had taken was an ottl-fitsbiteed
oneaad one pe rarely geed At tne
laboratory he hypnotised People al:
most daily by the simple and almost
instantaneous process Of having them
Lie dew and telling them that UM
'we going to sleep- But that method
was absolutely dependent upon a con-
dition which could not exist hem The
patient must expect to be hypnotized
I and be in I State of willing submission
We bad Mt Moon 'to suppou that
Zane Perkins 'would submit herself tO
any such test AS that in the bandit Of
strangers And even with his mirror
he would not be able to hypnotise her
If she should suspect'that thia was
what be was frying to do and should
Milt But Ms conlident :friendly
manner his easy assumption of ate
thorityc the fact that he came from
the same part of the' world as ber
self—all this speedily disarmed sule
picion
At the end of three or four minutes
of silent the doctor turned sway and
laid his little mirror upon the table
"It's five minutes past eight" be
said with a second glance at his
watch We haven't any time to lose
Close all the windows that's the fret
thing to do—end lock them And then
we'll bolt both doors—it won't do to
take any chances—and in general try
to be ready for anything she may do
I think you'd better stand behind her
chair over yonder where she won't
see you at first Now—are you readyr
Be stationed himself where he bad
stood before just a pace or two away
from the chair where the girl lay
asleep His eyes were shining and
every line of the attitude of his big
sinewy body bespoke' the relaxation
possible only to nervous systems of
very high order the relaxation that
is ready to exert its utmost effort in
any direction that is braced against
nothing because It Is expecting any-
thing And then softly at first but rowing
louder he began to hum once more
that old Maori death chant
From my station behind the chair I
could see nothing of the girl except
one hand which hung out over the
arm of it' I fixed my eyes on that
and as I stood there saw it change
saw In It the index of some mysteri-
ous incredible transformation 1 that
must be permeating every fiber of her
body It had been Jane Perkins' hand
a moment ago—a chambermaid's hand
pudgy lifeless inexpressive Now In-
definably It was different altogether
different The fingers stretched apart
a little as If they tingled with the
warmth and life of a new current in-
tenser more electricet The hand
opened wide then' slowly clenthed
Itself into a fist and last of all it
'prang open again distended to
widest reach with galvanic quickness
which Jane Perkins' nerves would
never have been capable of command'
lag
The doctor broke off his remg and
there followed for one dead moment
a allence which was shattered at the
end of it by a strange weird half-suppressed
outcry The next instant the
girl had flashed out of her chair and
stood confronting me The quickness
of her motion was absolutely Inde-
scribable Her face was now the one
we bad seen In the hospital and bad
glimpsed dimly In the dark in Henry
'Itorgan's study
At the eight of roe she shrank
crouched rether for something about
the action suggested that it might be
followed by a spring Her band
flashed to her bosem and explored
there for something—a knife prob
ably—that it did not find What she
I would have done then whether she
would have flung herself upon mun
armed I do not know but the doctor
began speaking to her just then quit
etly authoritatively and in the Maori
tongue He was not trying to soothe
her fears or at least not doing It fn
any way that is commonly practiced
by us modern people He was giving
her orders orders which he was pre-
pared to enforce by brute strength if
she should snake it necessary So
much was plain from his manner
Of course I could not understand a
word he said The girl cowered at the
voice but it seemed to reassure her
for all of that The Wild light in her
eyes died They became sullen She
squatted on the floor In a corner of
the room Evidently chairs and their
uses were as strange to her as her
present attitude would have been to
Jane Perkins
Then began one of the strangest
scenes I ever witnessed Except for
what I could gather trod their faces
and from the inflection of his ques-
tions and her sullen half-defiant an-
swers it was totally unintelligible to
me Even the Inflections told me little
for the language Itself is spoken in
I queer sort of sing-song which be-
trayed no family relationship with any
other language I ever heard But in
the doctor's face I could read strange
matters—excitement dawning compre-
hension and dawning horror too It
was strangely tantalizing to know that
this mystery the clue to which I had
vainly sought was in process of be
'ing unraveled right before my eyes
'and I was as Much in the dark as
ever -
'' Then as If the doctor bad read my
thoughts be spoke to the girl In Ent
lisb) - - ‘ k-
‘ l'Efinenna' be Sald"I am talkng
English I am going to ask you mow
' tlone in English and you will moist'
stand me hid you undemend what
t said then r
The girl nodded And yet I was at i
ft(
that if I bud spoken to her she wo d
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not have comprehended a worst It
111 b3 Its way as straptc sod Perfeyt
I demoularation of the possibilities
hypnotism as I bad ever seen The
doctor coiled in lane Perkins' memory
to act as the girl's Interpreter '
"What b the man' name" the doe-
tor asked "the man Who sent your
:answer Was two words that
soluble& like "Ose Zane I saw that
for a Inomezt It purled the doctor In
Much as It did ins But the next mw
leant evidently be understood for his
face lighted rather tirtroll'' ' '
'You came ewer did you without 4
the thing be sent you to gear
She nodded
And you hadn't been told to kill
the old man You didn't mean to kM
him when you kola into the house?'
She answered With a deep-throated
Vittoria even to MY oars unmistak-
ably in the negative
"Then why did you kill bimr
" She dung her bead back her eyes
blazed defiance and from her Ups
poured forth a torrent of 'speech "
'Stop? said the doctor "If you
can understand English you can talk
It too Speak In the same language
I am speaking in and tell why you
killed him"
"I was sworn to kill him"
The words came thickly slowly
clumsily for tongue and lips were
finding difficulty with them but they
were clearly and quite intelligibly Eng-
lish I saw the doctor's face light up at
the sound of them for it was the com-
pletion of the most interesting exper-
iment he had ver tried The girl
was still submerged completely in her
wild primitive under-self She was
no more Jane Perkins than as if she
had occupied another body altogether
and yet by the strange hypnotic power
of suggestion the doctor was com-
pelling her to use Jane Perkins' knowl-
edge of English to talk with
"Who swore you to such an oath?'
he asked
"My mother when she was dying
It was a vengeance He had murdered
my father He murdered him before
I was born" -
"If It happened before you were
born" said the doctor quickly "then
unless you knew beforehand that
Henry Morgan was the man you were
sworn to murder how did you know It
when you found him in that house?'
Out of the front of her blouse she
pulled a little chamois-skin bag wbich
hung about her neck by a fine gold
chain
"By this" she said "It had be-
longed to him the murderer My
mother kept it and gave it to me so
that I should know him"
For an instant I did not understand
but immediately after the way she
had detected our presence in that
room by the smell gave me an inkling
"Then you can tell people by their
odor?" the doctor asked
"As a dog does" she answered sim-
ply "He murdered your father you say
before you were born? Do you know
who your father was? What was 111s
name?"
"Flanka" she answered
For an instant the doctor gazed at
her wide-eyed then turning away to
conceal his excitement he struck one
Palm softly throe or four times with
the other fist
Presently be turned back to the girl
"Did your mothee swear you to any-
thing else?
"Did she Srse pm anything When
she diedr
"No" a
"Not even a mesenge? I mean did
she tell you anything anything about
Flanka?"
"She told me these words" said the
girl "she said them a great many
times 'Ouan feel tl owe Ten 'out? "
That is the best reproduction I can
make of the sound of them I sup-
posed she was speaking in Maori
UM glancing up at the doctor I saw
that be was as much puzzled as I
was
"What's thatr he asked "Say it
again"
She repeated the syllables glibly
and without the slightest variation in
her inflection of them
"What does that mean?" be ques-
tioned "That's not your language
nor mine"
She shook her head
"You don't understand it yourself?'
Again she shook her head and re-
peated once more the queer meaning-
less syllables
There was a moment of silence the
doctor gazing at her in a puzzled way
all his faculties concentrated upon this
fresh mystery
In the midst of that silence the girl
sprang suddenly erect and from her
tense attitude it was evident that she
was listening that she had heard
something To our cars all was still
"Hearing abnormal too" murmured
the doctor in a swift aside to me
Then he spoke to the girl "Paneli
na" he said "you are to go into that
other room and wait until I call for
you When I want you I will call
'Perkins' and you will come out be-
lieving that it is the first time I have
called you from the bedroom You
will remember the knife and vase of
water but you will believe that you
have dreamed it And when I call
the word 'Perkins' you will wake up
and come le Go now" Be unlocked
the door as be spoke
She obeyed without hekitatIon
that time I myself heard footsteps All
proaching down the corridor
"Go in there after her Phelps" said
tre doctor l'Ond see that the Findowo
and doors in all the other rooms of the
apartment are locked anti bolted
' Then come back here as quickly at
you can" ' - '
I heard A lapst the door just as
000ft
was finishing the Wk end Immediate-
ly afterward heard the doctor open It
When I returned to the sitting room
he turned toward me and Spoke rather
quickly There was a note of sup-
pressed excitement In his voice
bere's Ashton come to pay
OM a call"
-11 Without:waiting for Ine te comment
on the situation be turned back to the
distdct fitttorneyit
tH1 thought it not untiketet besaid
!1 that with ens tepttoflOr another
yott would make Us a 'visit this eve-
ning" - s IK t
41 nit'lialiner rwatCPS'rfi&ly7ne utral
iteithet friendly: lethe' old9w0' 'nor
bostile as It Might b114 been:e1-
Pelted tal 'wetter: OW gepit in 'the
laboratory a it
Ashton flushed 4tle "Oh I've
Coins to apologlie' he said' "My le
cusation egainstyou and tdr Phelps
this afternoon Was quite unwarranted"
We both spoke at once at that dis
claiming any offense and the doctor
after a glance at his watch concluded
by Asking him to sit down and offer-
lag WI a cigar I very much hoped
that both these Invitations would be
' deellned for with that OM In the
next room and Wilkins' knock mo-
mentarily expected at the door It was
rather too close quarters to be com-
fortable But my chief seemed to be
perfectly at ease
"I'll confess" he began lighting a
cigar of his own "that Pm a little cart-
ons to know what caused your change
of heart what it was that convinced
you that Phelps and I aren't engaged
In a conspiracy to thwart justice"
—"I am afraid I am a self-convicted
egoist" said Ashton "It took an hour
or more for the thought to occur to me
that there are other people besides
myself living in The Meredith and
that Jane Perkins might have given
that place as her address without any
reference to me whatever might have
given It in perfectly good faith So
when I came home to dinner I made
' some inquiries and was cool enough
by that time not to be overwhelmed
with surprise to end that the address
was apparently given in good faith
At any rate there Is a housemaid
named Jane Perkins living in this
hotel"
The doctor simulated no surprise
over this announcement Me merely
nodded calmly and said:
"You will not have seen her yet I
suppose"
"So you know about her too!" ex-
claimed Ashton "And you were
ahead of me again Well that's not
remarkable you kept your temper
and I didn't But though I haven't
seen her yet I don't believe you have
either because I have been given to
understand that it's her evening out"
"I suppose" said the doctor "that
"I Suppose" Said the Doctor "Thai
You Have Taken Precautions tot
Apprehending Her When She Comet
Back?"
you have Men precautions for appre
bending her when she comes back?"
"Yes" said Ashton "there's a man
on watch in her room now She
wont go far I understand she's been
ill the greater part of the week"
The doctor smiled and waved his
band toward the tetephone "You may
as well tell your man to go home" he
said "the girl's here"
Ashton sprang right out of his chair
"What's that!" he demanded "You've
got here here hiding her from me?"
"If I were biding her from you I
shouldn't have told you No she's not
in biding at all She's doing up the
bedrooms In this apartment She'll
come when I call her which I-mean to
do in a very few minutes When she
comes I mean to make a little examin-
ation of her mind to determine her
actual connection with the crime"
"I suppose" said Ashton rather sar-
castically "that you won't mind my
asking permission to contribute a few
questions of my own to that examina-
tion" "Not at all" said the doctor quite
simply "You may ask her anything
you like"
There was a little silence Thes
Ashton said Impatiently
' "Well what are yeti waiting for?"
"I'm expecting another visitor
When I heard your knock I thought
that you were he It's none other than
our friend Wilkins"
4k
him?'
laughed Wilkins!" he re
peated "What do 7 want of WI'
The'boctpr glanee0 t his watch
tom list il'i 'corning now
0 Why Wilkins knoWs 4 girl Wholis II
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pouted "What do 7 went of WWI'
'The'boctpr glance t Ma Watch
n"I' Pan that' tie 'timing now
MIN Wilkins knoWs I girl Ivbolls a
stupid creature mid rather email)
alarm d She ol he ulhiost suns to ItS
ounicstricken at tile sigpt of these In
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etruments Ali Igtruht p-$414 toe
the same ruy7 ti unwed and Sillit a
derisive smile at Ashton Thy put
them In the category of black-art ands
bocus-pocus and regard them with lb
mixture of contempt and terror But
she has confidence in Wilkins and b?
his submitting to be harnessed In thee-
tam xvzi ' vm 'praiiiiii to mamas isarr ''
Which b e has agreed to do it will quiets
'whatever fears she n3fir have" ' ''-'
'4 Ashton Inokett dubious Mreadr
Wilkins had tapped On the door
"Stop a bit Phelps" said Mil Wet
as 1Started toward the door 100lz
here Ashton! Vise a little plain corn-
i
'mon sense- for 'A minute Too don't
half believe yoUrself that this girt haw
'any guilty eónnection with the erime: '''
Which ':' Way 'Will you:- find ourthe
most? ' By making this girl feet that
there's Dothing to tbe afraid of that
We're simply investigating and not -
accusing bet at an? Or by putting ':
her through an old-fashioned 'third de-
gree'r ' ' - '
"Ali right" said Ashton ain't ft
your own way only I'll have my way '
tomorrow" ' - - 4' ' ":' ' '
' "There won't be any need of that' '
add zny chief "The Oak Ridge mye
tery is going to be solved tonight and
In this room solved down to the last
detail Open the door Phelps"
I imagine that Ashton himself was
not more surprised by the doctor'
prophecy than I was To be sure it
had penetrated further into the mys-
tery than Ashton bad I had shared:
with my chief the knowledge of Jane
Perkins' strange other sett I knew
that die mysterious savage creature in
fulfilling an oath which to her must
have posseased a religious sanctity
had committed what our more civil-
ized society called a crime And yet
I felt sure that Doctor McAlister-
meant more than that when he ha(t
promised Ashton the whole solution of
the mystery The heart the essenco
of the mystery was still unsealed B3r:
some process of reasoning or intuition
which I had not followed my- chief'
held that secret still unsolved In ther
hollow of his band and he meant teP
reveal it to us before the night was!
out -
I opened the door and told Wilkine I
to come in I had an impression that
he started a little at the sight of Ash-
ton and I didn't at all wonder since
I remembered the tacit understanding
between ourselves and him that this
examination of the girl was to be for-
the purpose of shielding her against
the district atorney rather than of be
traying her to him
But I had very little leisure for re-
fleeting on Wilkins' fears or misgiv-
ings because almost before I bad
closed the door behind him I heardi
the doctor call out "Perkins"
Well as I understood his experi-
ments and confident as I was in the
success of them I fourd it hard to go
on breathing steadily while I waited
for the response to the calrthativairtcr---
come from the inner room Would it
be Jane Perkins in her own proper
person who would appear in the door-'
way in answer to the call or would:
the occupant of her body prove to be
other wilder soul?
When she answered "Coming sir'''
I drew in a deep breath ot relief for it
was the voice of the girl who used
and abused English as her mother-
tongue The next moment she was im
the doorway She was not Fanenna
not the girl who with green blazing
eyes had flung that defiant challenge
back at the doctor only a few minutes
before And yet she Ntetruot pre-
cisely Jane Perkins either not then
stodgy thick-witted housemaid who
had giggled with such unalloyed de-
light as she fished for the doctor'
knife in the vase of water The girl
who stood there now looking at us haft
thoughtful troubled eyes Something
—an elusive memory a nameless emo-
tion a vague fluid thing that woull
not crystallize was perplexing her Slis
was trying to think which is seine-
' thing I am willing to wager that Jam
Perkins bad never done in her life
Naturally the first person I looked
at when I withdrew my eyes from her
was Ashton Ile was looking straight
Into her face and it was the same
face in a purely physical way that he I
had seen the night he went to the hos-
pital with us It was not until I saw
the look of blank indifference depicted
upon his own that the realization was
forced upon me that he would not
recognize her any better than I hat !
done From him my gaze Malted
round to the doctor and on the way It
took in Wilkins Both of them were
watching her both I guessed from
their faces bad noted the same inde-
finable difference that had struck me
It was the doctor who spoke
"Perkins" be said "here is Mr Asti-
r ton Ple is one of the assistants to tile
district attorney and he and I and
Mr Phelps here are interested in try-
lug to find out something about the
murder which took place at Oak Ridge
a few nights ago"
"Murder!" she cried with a gasp
"I don't know nothin' about any tour-
der sir"
"No" sold the doctor "I'm quite
sure you don't But we think It po
sible that you know some things which
will help us to find out who the aim-
' derer is Are you willing to help us?'
She hesitated a moment then turned
quite frankly to Wilkins
' "Is It all right Mr Wilkins?" she
'asked - Then quickly turned back to
the doctor "I beg your pawdou sir
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for askin' such a question but I know
Hi Wilkins and if be says It's alt
right--" ' '
t "It' all right Jane" be assured her
I Came up hire a purpose eo that
there'd he Jilting for you to worry :
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ly a few minutes
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person I looked
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looking straight
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went to the hos-1
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ifference depicted
realization was
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my gaze ilinited
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oth of them were
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'ho spoke
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assistants to the
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interested in try-
thing about the
lace at Oak Ridge
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about any mar-
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kink
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