ay. Be as quick as you can. I'm in a hurry."

When she came back, she brought also the early edition of the Furmville
afternoon paper. He glanced at it, looking for Washington or Baltimore
news of Braceway's activities. He found it on the front page. The
headlines read:

FINDS NEW EVIDENCE
ON WITHERS MURDER

MORLEY GUILTY, OR--WHO?

Whereabouts of Murdered Woman's Husband
Not Known--Braceway Predicts New
and Amazing Disclosure.

The dispatch itself was:

"Washington, D. C., May 14.--That an entirely new light will soon be
thrown on the brutal murder of Mrs. Enid Fulton Withers, beauty and
society favourite of Atlanta and Washington, became known here today.

"Samuel S. Braceway, probably the ablest private detective in this
country, left this city yesterday afternoon for Furmville, N. C., the
scene of the crime, after he had completed an exhaustive investigation
here and in Baltimore of more or less obscure matters related to the
murder. Police officials here state that the negro, Perry Carpenter,
now held in the Furmville jail for the crime, will never go to trial.

"This, they claim, will be but one result of the work Braceway did here
and in Baltimore. The detective himself was reticent when interviewed
just before he caught his train, but, as he stood on the platform,
nobbily dressed and twirling his walking stick, he was the picture of
confidence.

"'I think you're safe in saying,' he admitted 'that the Withers case
hasn't yet been settled. We're due for some surprising disclosures
unless I miss my guess.'

"'Can you tell us anything about the suspicions directed against Henry
Morley?' he was asked.

"'It's Morley or--somebody else,' Braceway said smilingly. 'Anybody can
study the facts and satisfy himself on that point.'

"'Who's the somebody else?'

"'We'll know pretty soon. In fact, things should develop in less than a
week, considerably less than a week.'

"One of the interesting sidelights on this mysterious murder case, it
was learned this morning, is that the whereabouts of the murdered
woman's husband, George S. Withers of Atlanta, is at present unknown.
Dispatches from Atlanta say he disappeared from there the morning his
wife's funeral took place. Advices from Furmville are that he is not
there with his father-in-law and sister-in-law. Braceway said
yesterday he knew nothing