The Red Seal

tform caused Coroner Penfield to break off

ar had a blow-out on the way here," explaine

rimes, the McIntyre butler," he said. "We w

ner's questions. Yes, he had lived with the McIntyre during their residence in Washington, something like five years, he couldn't

y night? Tell us, Grimes, what occurred in that house be

went upstairs about half-past eleven and got down

o disturbing sou

them has a brick wall on either side, like stairs leading to an ordinary attic, and there's a door at the bottom wh

he house at n

do,

the window in the r

, and they sat down to talk. When I left the room the window was locked fast, and so was every door and window in the place," he dec

he young ladies when the

calls for them, and he has his latch-key. Lately," added Grimes as

Intyre a latch-key,

ve Miss Helen her key at the luncheon table, and he said, then, to Miss Barbara that he

question with such abruptne

st see Mr. Turnb

ss of speech. "Mr. Turnbull called twice, after a long time in the drawing room, h

hese dogs on

the library," repl

them the next morning?

ellar," l

e they doing

ing r

coroner patiently. Grimes was not volunteering informat

the back stairs," the butler adm

wnstairs ahead of you

t, and she and the maids came do

empted burglary and the burg

the police court; she didn't give any particulars, or nothing," added Grimes in an injured tone. "'Tw

ir he wore when he arrived. He was followed in the witness chair by the other McIntyre servants in

aster. Spying a vacant seat several rows ahead of where he was sitting, Kent, with a muttered apology to the people over whom he crawled in his efforts to get out, hurried into it

rected Coroner Penfield, eyeing h

of Louis C. Brewster. Both I and my late husband

ting the Miss

y impersonal manner. "I have been wit

e Grosvenor dance?

asked Mr. Benjamin Clymer, who was dining with him, and me, to go for a motor ride, leaving Barbara at the Grosvenors' en route. We did so, returning to th

ny noises during the ni

" Mrs. Brewster's charm

the supposed burglary and t

rn from the police court," answered Mrs. Brewster, and sett

r"-Penfield paused and studied his notes a second-

nded. "But the air in the room was stuffy an

close it

mitted finally. Her eyes strayed toward the door through whic

said hurriedly. "Did you se

ement as I went upstairs, and so I turned around and went do

"I am greatly obliged, Mrs. Brewst

rward and helped the pretty

is here now," he

hile awaiting the arrival of the new wit

ily while the oath was being administered, but his manner, when the coroner addressed hi

's question. "My daughters attended school here after their return from Paris, where they wer

tween your daughter Barbara and

le attention," admitted McIntyre. "My daughte

a frequent visit

, y

ed to your da

ld and Kent, from his new seat nearer the platform, watched

erwise," observed

"I would suggest, Mr. Coroner, that you confine your quest

e did not repeat his previous question, asking instead

saw little of him as, whenever he called at the house, h

see Mr. Turnbull?

re leaned back in his chair and regarded the neat crease in his trouser

y the burglar's entra

the burglar, as she supposed, hiding in the closet. I knew nothing of the affair until Grimes informed me of it, and only reached the poli

sought. "Mrs. Brewster has testified that while you and she were sitting in the re

inally. "Clymer was in rather a hurry to leave, and after bidding Mrs. Brewste

ar to the window hav

can

ou return immediately to your ho

eur, Harris, wasn't well, an

moment before putti

return from the Gros

alking stick from its resting place against its side, and the unexpected clatter made several women, nervously incli

burning in your house when

hich are usually

daughter H

in darkness when I walked pas

them on his silk handkerchief. "I have no furt

he left the platform came face to fac

o him to come on the platform. After the preliminaries had been go

McIntyre to the police court

's request. She said her sister was not very well

e did not ask her fat

ack of tonsillitis, which I knew to be a fact, an

diverted by a whispered word or two from the morgue maste

s Turnbull?" he as

slig

ze him in his bu

did

that the burglar was

N

red to it. "I understand, doctor, that you were the first to go

t, I saw he was struggling convulsively for breath. With Mr. Clymer's assistance I carried him int

scious befo

ent eagerly forward. W

ty," replied Dr. Stone cautiously. "As I picke

egarded him for a moment, then, more interested in what was tra

irious, doctor?"

it that he started to say 'Barbara,' and his breath fai

ntinue his examination, but whe

ur opinion caused M

ed parenthetically, "I should say that Mr. Rochester was right when h

er come to make that

red his apartment, defended him in court. Mr. Rochester was aware that Turnb

opinion, doctor?"

nbull's aid, and I concluded then that he had some heart trouble and had inhaled the drug

may call you again," and with a sigh the busy physician resigned him

was short and concise,-and his description of the scene in the police court

mptoms of illness before his

ed, as if he was weak in his legs. I've seen 'drunk and disorderlies' act just that way, and paid n

give it

glass to Mr. Rochester who

inute. "That is all," he announced, and wi

e him a slight bow and smile, but the smile had disappeared when, at the coroner's

ropped by Turnbull and was saturated with amyl nitrite. I had it examined by a chemist, who said that this amyl nitrite

om the number of particles of capsules adhering to the linen, more than one capsule had been

n had come. Penfield inspected the handkerchief with interest, and

ain to Detective Ferguson, "tha

"And embroidered in one c

u may go, Ferguson," he said, and beckoned to the m

ons. Kent, more and more worried, was wa

one of your handkerch

e question was man

have a dreadful habit of dro

er his visit to your

N

reman replaced on his desk a moment before, and holding it with

with nothing more, Kent was convinced, and in his relief was almost

ndkerchief," she

the table with the same care he had

tain you longer. Logan," to the morgu

reentered the room and

of amyl nitrite constitute a

rt," replied Stone. "Three capsules, if inhale

Can a chemist tell, from the particles clinging to t

ful note of the letter "B" in one corner of the handkerchief. "But there is this t

do you

he evening and used a capsule, and in the police c

nodded. "The point

uty coroner, Dr. Mayo, left his table and his notes and occupied the witness chair, after first being sworn

mortem examination of

his pencil down it as he talked. "We found from the condition of the heart that the deceased had suffered from angi

rs, scenting the sensational, leaned forward eage

lained. "It is the alkaloid of aconit