Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1925)

»JT!* Advertising Section (Tr.MOTION PICTURn \M I MAGAZINE t\ suspicion and jangled nerves they had left behind them in the morning. Margot's room was still patrolled by Quinlan and Boyle. Mrs. Bellew hovered about them, bubbling over with theories that no one cared to hear. An addition to the company presented himself, in the person of Cornelius Hart, plain-clothes detective from Headquarters. The last-named made the impression of being cold, shrewd, a trifle intolerant. He had brushed aside reports at second-hand. He had been waiting for her, and so for the third time Margot found herself in the witness box. Hart listened closely and occasionally prodded her with questions. "Miss Anstruther," he said at last, "I think you have a very powerful imagination." "But the policeman saw what I saw," she protested. "Sure. Boyle's an Irishman. They believe in the banshee where he comes from. He heard your story, and was all set for something to happen." Boyle growled indignantly, but did not speak. "The difficulty in accepting the arm you tell about is that it was attached to no body," went on Hart. "Isn't it a problem worth solving, that an arm, apparently attached to no body, did certain definite things ? Put it that way." Hart shrugged. "This room has been searched over and over again. There are no tracks of a person having hidden under the bed." "Yet I found a hollow in the nap of the carpet, where a finger-tip pressed down the match," said Margot. "Maybe. It's fluffed out now. I can only say there isn't the slightest evidence that a crime was committed, or attempted. So it doesn't seem to concern the police department." "Then, you are finished with the case?" "Not quite. Sleep elsewhere tonight, and I shall leave Quinlan to guard this room. If he has nothing to report tomorrow, we'll be thru." It was late before Hart and Boyle actually decided to go, and Margot, overcome by fatigue, dismissed Eugene also. She went down to the basement, where Mrs. Bellew had offered her a cot. Mechanically, she set about combing her thick, red hair, preparing for the night, while she closed her cars to the tedious chatter of the landlady. She could not shake off the premonition that the mystery would soon take a new and fantastic turn. Yet she hoped for a few hours of rest, now — now, when she needed it so grievously. The discovery that she had forgotten her pajamas forced her to appeal to Mrs. Bellew. "I've got to run up-stairs for something," she said. "Will you go with me? I'd rather not go into the room alone, with that policeman there." "Of course, dearie, of course. He's a hard-looking cop, I'll say." They climbed the stairs and knocked lightly. When Quinlan let them in, they stood for a moment with him in the dark, while Margot explained her errand. "Seen anything?" she questioned softly. "No, Miss," he whispered back. The next moment, he stiffened, and threw his arm out to bar their way. "Shh! 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