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' To Obtain Eh? finest Only once had he seen him thrown Dfl" his poise. That was when Kirby and Rose had met him coming out of the Paradox white and shaken, his arm wrenched and strained. He had been nonplussed at sight of them. For a moment he had let his eyes mirror the dismay of his soul. The explana- tion he had given was quite inade- quate as a cause. Twenty-four hours later Kirby had discovered the dead body of the Jap- anese valet Horikawa. The man had been dead perhaps a day. More hours than one had been spent by Kirby pondering on the possible connection of his cousin’s momentary breakdown and the servant’s death. Had James coma fresh from the murder of H071â€" kawa? A . 17‘ Mqu.‘ It was possible that the Oriental; might have held evidence against him! and threatened to divulge it. James,‘ with the fear of death in his heart,? might have gone each day into the! apartment where the man was lurkâ€" ing, taking to him food and news- papers. They might have quarreled. the strained tendons of Cunning- ham’s arm could be accounted for a good deal more readily on the hypoâ€" thesis of a bit of expert jiu-jitsu than on that of a fall downstairs. There were pieces in the puzzle Kirby could not fit into place. One of them was to find a sufficient cause for driv- ing Horikawa to conceal himself when there was no evidence against him of the crime. u. The time element was tremendously important in the solution of the mys- tery of Cunningham’s death. Kirby had studied this a hundred times. On the back of an envelope he jotted down once more such memoranda as he knew or could safely guess at. Some of these he had to change slight- ly as to time to make them dovetail into each other. 8.45, Uncle J. leaves City Club. 8.55, Uncle J. reaches room. 8.55-9.10, Gets slippers, etc. Smokes. 8.55-9.20, Olson Watching from W. fire escape. 9.10-9.30, gulls in Apt. 002 34A 00.7 1.3.3. 999 9.20-9.42, Olson busy on roof, with rope, etc. Then at window till 9.53. 0-9.53, James in Apt. 4-9.50, Jack and Phyllis in Apt. 5-10.05, Wild Rose in rooms. 10.00, I reach rooms. 10.20, Meet Ellis. 10.25, Call police. That was the time schedule as well as he had been able to work it out. It was incomplete. For instance, he had not been able to account for Hori- kawa in it at all unless he represent- ed X in that ten minutes of time un- accounted for. It was inaccurate. Olson was entirely vague as to time. but he could be checked up pretty well by the others. Hull was not quite sure of his clock, and Rose could only say that she had reached the Para- dox “quite a little after a quarter to ten.” Fortunately his own arrival checked up hers pretty closely, since 9.4 9.4 9.5 CHAPTER XXXVIII.â€"-Cont’d.) uncolored green tea 'procurable Superior to the best Japans‘ heéfd shot. m1ng Tmifis Appyogimately time Olson â€"EfifEN ’E‘EA (Cipyrmht Thomas Allen). BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINB So far as the dovetailing of time went, there was only the ten minutes or less between the leaving of the Hulls and the appearance of James left unexplained. If some one other than those mentioned on his pencilled memoranda had killed Cunningham, she could not have been in the room much more than five minutes before him. Probably she had been even less than that. James could not have left the apartment more than a minute or so before Rose arrived. It was quite possible that her coming had fright- ened him out._ . it must have been between half-past} nine and twenty minutes to ten. The X he had written in there was the‘ only possible unknown quantity. By! _the use of hard work and common sense he had eliminated the rest of the time so far as outsxders were con- cerned. W‘I-{li'r‘bgy put the envelope in at and went out to ggt _s_9rpe nil-ii it a morYlin’,” he self with-a smile. KIRBY INVITES HIMSELF TO A RIDE. The Twin Buttes man had said he would call it a morning, but he car- ried with him to the restaurant the problem that had become the pivot of all his waking thoughts. He had an appointment to meet a man for lunch, and he found his guest Waiting for him inside the door. The restaurant was an incon- spicuous one on a side street. Kirby had chosen it for that reason. The man who stepped into the booth with him and sat down on the opposite seat was Hudson, the clerk whom James had accused of losing the sheets of paper with the Japanese writing. . “I’ve got it at last,” he said as he was alone._ _“Thou_g_ht _he never_ Would go out and leave the key to the pri- vate drawer inside the safe. But he left the key in the lockâ€"for just five minutesâ€"while Miss Harriman came to see him about something this morning. He walked out with her to the elevator. I ducked into his office. There was the key in the drawer, and in the drawer, right at the bottom under some papers, I found what I wanted.” I'iievfl-anded Kirby the sheets of pa- per found in the living-room of the apartment Where Horikawa had been found dead. The cattleman looked them over and put them in his pocket. “Thought he wouldn’t; destroy them. He daren’t. There might come a time when the translation of this writing would save his life. He couldn’t tell what the Jap had written, but there might be a twist to it favorable to him. At the same time he daren’t give it out and let any one translate it. So he’d kept it handy where nobody could get at it but himself.” “I reckon that just about evens the score between me and Mr. J_ames Cunningham,” the clerk said vmdic- tively. “He bawled me out before a whole roomful of people when he knew all the time I hadn’t lost the papers. I stood it, because right then I had to. But I’ve dug up a better job and start in on it Monday. He’s been claiming he was so anxious to get these sheets back to you. Well, I hope he’s satisfied now.” “He had no right to keep ’em. They weren’t his. I’ll have ’em translated, then turn the sheets over to the police if they have any bearing on the case. Of course they may be just a private letter or something of that sort.” The clerk went on to defend him- ,self for what he had done. Cunningâ€" ham had treated him outrageously. Besides, they weren’t his papers. He had no business to hold back evidence in a murder case because it did not suit him to have it made public. Didn’t Mr. Lane think he had done right in taking the papers from the CHAPTER XXXIX. ,. Try it today. to have 1'. Lane taking 1:! n he had me rathe 91w 3488 his pock- luncheon. told him- the anything in payment. It was wholly a gyatuitpgs IseE'vice. The cattleman had made inquiries. He knew of a Japanese interpreter used in the courts. Foster hix‘d re- commended him as entirely reliable. To this man Kirby went. He exnlain- ed what he wanted. While the Jap- anese clerk read in English the writ- ing to him and afterward wrote out on a typewriter the translation of it, Kirby sat opposite him at the table to make sure that there was no jug- ‘gling with the original document. The affair was moving to its climax. Within a few hours now Kirby exâ€" pected to see the murderer of his uncle put under arrest. It was time to take the Chief of Police into his confidence. He walked down Six- teenth toward the City Hall. At Curtis Street the traffic officer was semaphoring with energetic ges- ture the cast and west bound vehicles to be on their way. Kirby jaywalked across the streetdiagonally and passâ€" led in front of an electric headed lsouth. He caught one glimpse of the Idriver and stood smiling at the door nvith his hat ofl“. u .u. ...u ....- “I want to see you just a minute, MISS Harnman.’ May I come In?” ‘ . Her long, dark eyes flashed at him. The first swift impulse was to refuse. But she knew he was dangerous. He knew much that it was vital to her social standing must not be published. She sparred for time. “What do you want?” He took this as an invitation and‘ Whipped open the door. “Better get out of the traffic,” he‘ told her. “Where we can talk with- out being disturbed.” She turned up Fifteenth. “If you have anything to say," she suggested, and swept her long-lashed eyes round at him with the manner of delicate disdain she held at command. "I’ve been wonderin’ about some- thin’,” he,’ said. “When James teleâ€" phoned my uncle, on the evenin’ he was killed, that you an’ he were on the way to his rooms, he said you ‘were together; but James reached there alone, you an’ Jack arrivin’ a 'few minutes later. Did James pro- ‘pose that he go first?” AL: .‘AL A_..___“_ klvuv w... . The young woman did not answer. But there was no longer disdain in her fearâ€"filled eyes. 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