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STORY FROM THE START
Dr. Ronald McAlister, famous
in his special work — applied
psychology—employs his leisure
time in the elucidation of crime
mysteries. As the narrative opens
he is interested with Assistant
District Attorney Ashton in the
murder, in the small town of
Oak Ridge, of a recluse, Henry
Morgan. The murdered man, his
papers reveal, had been in New
Zealand, where Doctor McAlister
had lived in his youth. Will
Harvey has testified he saw a
woman wearing a green cloak in
the Morgan home the night of
the murder. Doctor Reinhardt,
friend of McAlister, telephones
he has a queer case In his hospi-
tal and invites McAlister to see
the patient. Doctor Reinhardt's
patient proves to be a young
woman, who in unconsciousness
mutters in a language Reinhardt
does not understand. McAlister
sees a possible connection be-
tween the murdered New Zea-
lander and the girl. A carefully
hidden map is discovered. A girl
enters the house in the darkness
and escapes, leaving a green
cloak behind. McAlister decides
upon a psychological test of Har-
vey.
hands come down softly on the arms
of his chair.
The next moment the word Dance
in my list brought the unexpected as-
sociation Policeman from Harvey.
At that the doctor rose and inter-
rupted the test. “I think, Phelps,” he
said, “that those negatives of yours
must be done. I’ll go on and read this
other list to Mr. Harvey.”
The errand he had proposed to me
was purely fictitious and the sheet of
paper he held in his hand was blank;
so 1 interpreted his interruption as in-
tended for the mere purpose of giving
him a chance to catechise Harvey
along some new line without causing
him to suspect the reason for the
change.
To give color to the excuse, I left
the room for a few moments, but it
will be easy to believe that I returned
as soon as I plausibly could. I found
Doctor McAlister pronouncing a suc-
cession of words'rather more rapidly
than I had read them from my list,
and the young man’s answer had
quickened,-too, so that to the ear they
were almost instantaneous. The words
were a list of the features of the
human face. Ears was the first one
I heard, and its association, instantly,
Coral; probably a reference to ear-
rings, I thought. Eyes produced the
adjective Black. Lips, ludicrously
enough, brought the involuntary ad-
mission, Kiss. And at that our sub-
ject went flaming red. His perturba-
tion was made perfectly evident the
next moment, when lie waited four
seconds after the word Hand, only to
produce the rhymed association, Band.
Nothing could have been clearer than
that, being on his' guard against mak-
ing another involuntary admission, he
had rejected whatever word had come
first, and consciously and laboriously
thought up another.
The next word Face, brought, as a
rather quicker response, the adjective
Nice. It did not occur to me at the
time that this was a rhymed associa-
CHAPTER V—Continued
With a feeling of excitement which
I found it hard to conceal, I began
reading those first twelve neutral
words. His answers came with flash-
like rapidity. He was a good subject
and he had entered fully into the spir-
it of the test. To my ear the interval
between my word and his was about
half a second. When I saw the record
afterward, I found that it averaged a
little less than that—about four-
tenths.
The word Pen brought the obvious
association, Ink. Snow called up
Shovel; and Song, Theater. The
twelfth word, Sign, called up the curi-
ous association, Woodland, which was
to prove of interest and significance
to us before the day was out. But I
had no time to think about it then.
Without varying the interval, with-
out varying the tone of my voice, or
raising my eyes from the list I held
in my hand, I pronounced the thir-
teenth word, Loops.
Tlie answer came, like a flash, and
It was Automobile. I glanced up as he
said it, and caught a faint smile of
reminiscence on his lips. Loops in his
mind were things to he looped, and
the circus billboards supplied the as-
sociation with automobile. The next
word Pipe, brought the simple asso-
ciation, Tobacco. To my mind his un-
hesitating utterance of that word was
as good a demonstration of his inno-
cence of the crime itself as a com-
pletely established alibi would have
been.
But we were only at the beginning
of our experiment. Neither the doc-
tor nor I believed him guilty. We both
believed that, hidden in some corner
of that mind of his, was a piece of
unsuspected knowledge which would
give us the key with which to unlock
the heart of the mystery.
Three or four numbers down the
list came another word, Map, which
might have drawn a significant reply.
The instantaneous association which
It brought up, however, was Europe.
After that came a succession of
words, straight Inventories of articles
to be found in various rooms in the
Morgan iiouse, but they all drew blank.
Never once was there a moment’s hesi-
tation.
So far our test proved, clearly and
exhaustively, that, in his testimony at
the inquest, our young man had
meant to tell the truth. I was re-
minded of the doctor’s words on the
night of our return from the hospital,
when he had warned me against fall-
Iftg into the error of thinking that
the unlikely could not happen. His
old theory of associative illusion,
Which had been made to look so fan-
tastically improvable by our discovery
of the cloak,;was practically proven
true in the very teeth of its improba-
bility by this test of ours.
But who was the girl Harvey knew
—’the' black-haired girl who wore a
green cloak, with the collar cut high
In the back? We were as far as ever
from the answer to that question.
And so far as I could see none of
his associates with the successive
words in my list brought out anything
of significance. Apparently we were
drawing blank cover. At the same
time, I was aware that something or
other had made my chief extremely
thoughtful. The way he wa3 opening
and shutting his hands and staring out
of the window, the perplexed frown
which knitted- his brows, made it clear
that there was only one link lacking
in some chain of association of his
own.
At last as I glanced at him in the
half second interval between my word
and Harvey’s, I saw that he had got
It; saw the sudden flare of excitement
kindle in his &yes and his two clenched
There Was a Scared Look in His Eyes,
but, Besides That, He Was Evidently
Extremely Angry.
tion also; that somebody he knew
pronounced it “flee.” But that the
doctor’s mind had jumped to this con-
clusion was made clear when, for his
next word, he himself gave out the
word English. •
This got an answer, but not the
kind of answer we were expecting.
Our witness jumped to his feet, knock-
ing over the little telephone before
him, as he did so. There was a
scared look in his eyes, but besides
that, he was evidently extremely
angry.
“Now look here,” he said, “what
business is it of yours whether I go
around with Jane Perkins, or not?
She’s a respectable girl; she’s a lady.
What right have you got sticking your
noses into my affairs?”
For myself, I was too much aston-
ished by the result of the doctor’s ex-
periment to say anything.. For that
matter, my chief might as well have
been silent for any effect his words
had in calming the subject of our test.
He wouldn’t sit down. He wouldn’t
answer questions. He was through
with us completely. This he made
quite clear as he struggled into his
overcoat and clapped on his hat.
“Well,” said I when we were left
alone, “I don’t mind admitting that
I’m rather behind the procession.
We’ve discovered Jane Perkins, but
who she is, or what she is I don’t
know. And I certainly can’t see what
gave you the clew that ied you up to
her so directly.”
“Do you remember his association
with the word ‘sign’? It was ‘Wood*
land.’ ”
“Yes,” said L “It struck me as
curious.”
“It struck me as rather more than
that,” said the doctor, “because I had
an echo of the same association my-
self, and I spent ten solid minutes
trying to place it. I suppose my diffi-
culty came from the fact that it took
me so close to home.”
“Woodland avenue yon mean?” I
questioned. That was the street The
Meredith was on.
“Closer than that,” he said. “Do
you remember our own corner and the
street sign that marks it? It was
pulled around diagonally and bent into
a most disreputable angle as a Hal-
loween prank two weeks ago. So the
association was a perfectly natural
one to anyone who, during the past
two weeks, has been in the habit of
frequenting our part of the town.”
“But,” said I, “how did you infer the
existence of Jane Perkins from that?”
“Of course, that was only the start-
ing point,” he answered. “His whole
train of associations made it evident
that he had been ‘going around,’ as he
said, with somebody. The place in the
social scale occupied by that some-
body was pretty well determined by
the neighborhood of tlie street sign.
It’s quite tlie smartest part of town
for blocks and blocks all around there,
and it would be preposterous to as-
sume that Will Harvey calls at the
front door of any house thereabouts.
The young ladies who use the front
doors of the imposing residences in
our neighborhood don’t go to the sort
of dances that would call up tlie as-
sociation ‘policeman’ in any young
man’s mind. At any rate, it seemed
a reasonable inference to me that our
young friend had been carrying on a
harmless flirtation with some house-
maid. The scene of this affair was so
far away from his own home, Jane
Perkins was so utterly disassociated
in his own mind from anything per-
taining to the Oak Ridge mystery, that
his naive description of the black hair
and the green cloak of the woman
whose silhouette he saw upon the
shade becomes possible.”
“Well,” vsaid I thoughtfully, after a
little silence, “it’s perfectly evident
that we’ve done Harvey a service, al-
though he isn’t grateful for it just
now. We’ve cleared him, to our own
satisfaction at least. We’ve found an
English housemaid named Jane Per-
kins. She is, no doubt, the girl of
whom the profile on the shade remind-
ed him. The next thing to do is to
look her up, discover, if possible,
whether she happens to possess a
green cloak, with that particular kind
of collar. It’s likely enough, I sup-
pose. There are probably hundreds of
garments like that being worn in the
city this season. In the department
stores they make what they call ‘spe-
cials’ of those things, and sell them
in hundred lots, all exactly alike.”
The more I thought over the situa-
tion, the deeper my perplexity grew.
The test upon Harvey had utterly de-
stroyed my hope that we could get
from him any clew to the identity of
the strange, wild creature we had seen
in the hospital. Instead, it had led
us to a trig, snug, undoubtedly re-
spectable English housemaid named
Jane Perkins; and leading us to her,
it left us face to face with a coinci-
dence, or, rather, a series of coinci-
dences almost incredible.
“Well,” I resumed with a sigh,
“there are lots of young women with
black hair, and I suppose a good
many of them wear green cloaks. But
that a girl should have a profile like
that of the extraordinary creature we
saw in tlie hospital and later in Mor-
gan’s study—a profile like that and the
same colored hair and the same sort
of cloak, and still obviously a differ-
ent person altogether, is rather dis-
concerting. Ashton at least would
laugh at us if we told him we believed
it.”
“Tes,” said the doctor, “Ashton
would laugh. He laughs rather too
easily, that young man.”
Then, for the first time I looked long
and searchingly into my old chiefs
face. His eyes were bright with ex-
citement, his cheeks flushed and’ his
big, restless hands beating out a tri-
umphant tattoo upon the table top. He
did not look like a man whose plans
and theories had gone awry.
“There’s something,” I said curious-
ly, “that I don’t see yet.”
“You will soon,” he assured me, “be-
fore another day is out, unless I’m
mistaken. Have a little patience.”
There came a sharp knock at the
door just then, and as it swung open,
we saw Ashton standing there.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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“There is no Mr. Chairman and
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“We never asked him at all, he in-
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the automobile.”
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“Those ruts I do not complain about,
but I complain about the automobiles
which don’t get the blame they should
get for making such dreadful ruts in
the country roads.
“Let’s complain against the auto-
mobiles,” he ended.
“All .right, we will,” said the rest.
But one little chick, brighter than
the other?, said;
; “But, dh, gracious, mercy me, it's
foolish' to" complain when it doesn’t do
any good!”
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