(Tuesday, September 11; 9 p. m.)
Ten minutes later we were ringing the bell of a stately old brownstone house in East 44th Street.
A resplendently caparisoned butler opened the door, and Markham presented his card.
“Take this to the doctor at once, and say that it’s urgent.”
“The doctor is just finishing dinner,” the stately seneschal informed him; and conducted us into a richly furnished reception-room, with deep comfortable chairs, silken draperies, and subdued1 lights.
“A typical gynecologist’s seraglio,” observed Vance, looking around. “I’m sure the pasha himself is a majestic2 and elegant personage.”
The prediction proved true. Doctor Lindquist entered the room a moment later inspecting the District Attorney’s card as if it had been a cuneiform inscription3 whose import he could not quite decipher. He was a tall man in his late forties, with bushy hair and eyebrows4, and a complexion5 abnormally pale. His face was long, and, despite the asymmetry6 of his features, he might easily have been called handsome. He was in dinner clothes, and he carried himself with the self-conscious precision of a man unduly7 impressed with his own importance. He seated himself at a kidney-shaped desk of carved mahogany, and lifted his eyes with polite inquiry8 to Markham.
“To what am I indebted for the honor of this call?” he asked in a studiously melodious9 voice, lingering over each word caressingly10. “You are most fortunate to have found me in,” he added, before Markham could speak. “I confer with patients only by appointment.” One felt that he experienced a certain humiliation11 at having received us without elaborate ceremonial preliminaries.
“This isn’t a professional consultation14, doctor; but it happens that I want to speak to you about one of your former patients—a Miss Margaret Odell.”
Doctor Lindquist regarded the gold paper-weight before him with vacantly reminiscent eyes.
“Ah, yes. Miss Odell. I was just reading of her violent end. A most unfortunate and tragic15 affair. . . . In just what way can I be of service to you?—You understand, of course, that the relationship between a physician and his patient is one of sacred confidence——”
“I understand that thoroughly,” Markham assured him abruptly16. “On the other hand, it is the sacred duty of every citizen to assist the authorities in bringing a murderer to justice. And if there is anything you can tell me which will help toward that end, I shall certainly expect you to tell me.”
The doctor raised his hand slightly in polite protestation.
“I shall, of course, do all I can to assist you, if you will but indicate your desires.”
“There’s no need to beat about the bush, doctor,” said Markham. “I know that Miss Odell was a patient of yours for a long time; and I realize that it is highly possible, not to say probable, that she told you certain personal things which may have direct bearing on her death.”
“But, my dear Mr.—”—Doctor Lindquist glanced ostentatiously at the card—“ah—Markham, my relations with Miss Odell were of a purely17 professional character.”
“I had understood, however,” ventured Markham, “that, while what you say may be technically18 true, nevertheless there was an informality, let me say, in that relationship. Perhaps I may state it better by saying that your professional attitude transcended19 a merely scientific interest in her case.”
I heard Vance chuckle20 softly; and I myself could hardly suppress a smile at Markham’s verbose21 and orbicular accusation22. But Doctor Lindquist, it seemed, was in no wise disconcerted. Assuming an air of beguiling23 pensiveness24, he said:
“I will confess, in the interests of strict accuracy, that during my somewhat protracted25 treatment of her case, I came to regard the young woman with a certain—shall I say, fatherly liking26? But I doubt if she was even aware of this mild sentiment on my part.”
The corners of Vance’s mouth twitched27 slightly. He was sitting with drowsy28 eyes, watching the doctor with a look of studious amusement.
“And she never at any time told you of any private or personal affairs that were causing her anxiety?” persisted Markham.
Doctor Lindquist pyramided his fingers, and appeared to give the question his undivided thought.
“No, I can’t recall a single statement of that nature.” His words were measured and urbane29. “I know, naturally, in a general way, her manner of living; but the details, you will readily perceive, were wholly outside my province as a medical consultant30. The disorganization of her nerves was due—so my diagnosis31 led me to conclude—to late hours, excitement, irregular and rich eating—what, I believe, is referred to vulgarly as going the pace. The modern woman, in this febrile age, sir——”
“When did you see her last, may I ask?” Markham interrupted impatiently.
“When did I see her last? . . . Let me see.” He could, apparently33, recall the occasion only with considerable difficulty. “A fortnight ago, perhaps—though it may have been longer. I really can’t recall. . . . Shall I refer to my files?”
“That won’t be necessary,” said Markham. He paused, and regarded the doctor with a look of disarming34 affability. “And was this last visit a paternal35 or merely a professional one?”
“Professional, of course.” Doctor Lindquist’s eyes were impassive and only mildly interested; but his face, I felt, was by no means the unedited reflection of his thoughts.
“Did the meeting take place here or at her apartment?”
“I believe I called on her at her home.”
“You called on her a great deal, doctor—so I am informed—and at rather unconventional hours. . . . Is this entirely36 in accord with your practice of seeing patients only by appointment?”
Markham’s tone was pleasant, but from the nature of his question I knew that he was decidedly irritated by the man’s bland37 hypocrisy38, and felt that he was deliberately39 withholding40 relevant information.
Before Doctor Lindquist could reply, however, the butler appeared at the door, and silently indicated an extension telephone on a taboret beside the desk. With an unctuously41 murmured apology, the doctor turned and lifted the receiver.
Vance took advantage of this opportunity to scribble42 something on a piece of paper and pass it surreptitiously to Markham.
His call completed, Doctor Lindquist drew himself up haughtily43, and faced Markham with chilling scorn.
“Is it the function of the District Attorney,” he asked distantly, “to harass44 respectable physicians with insulting questions? I did not know that it was illegal—or even original, for that matter—for a doctor to visit his patients.”
“I am not discussing now”—Markham emphasized the adverb—“your infractions of the law; but since you suggest a possibility which, I assure you, was not in my mind, would you be good enough to tell me—merely as a matter of form—where you were last night between eleven and twelve?”
The question produced a startling effect. Doctor Lindquist became suddenly like a tautly45 drawn46 rope, and, rising slowly and stiffly, he glared, with cold intense venom47, at the District Attorney. His velvety48 mask had fallen off; and I detected another emotion beneath his repressed anger: his expression cloaked a fear, and his wrath49 but partly veiled a passionate50 uncertainty51.
“My whereabouts last night is no concern of yours.” He spoke52 with great effort, his breath coming and going noisily.
Markham waited, apparently unmoved, his eyes riveted53 on the trembling man before him. This calm scrutiny54 completely broken down the other’s self-control.
“What do you mean by forcing yourself in here with your contemptible55 insinuations?” he shouted. His face, now livid and mottled, was hideously56 contorted; his hands made spasmodic movements; and his whole body shook as with a tremor57. “Get out of here—you and your two myrmidons! Get out, before I have you thrown out!”
“The doctor is gently hinting that we go,” he said. And with amazing swiftness he spun59 Markham round, and led him firmly out of the room.
“A sweet specimen61, that! Paranoia62. Or, more likely, manic-depressive insanity—the folie circulaire type: recurring64 periods of maniacal65 excitement alternating with periods of the clearest sanity63, don’t y’ know. Anyway, the doctor’s disorder66 belongs in the category of psychoses—associated with the maturation or waning67 of the sexual instinct. He’s just the right age, too. Neurotic68 degenerate—that’s what this oily Hippocrates is. In another minute he would have attacked you. . . . My word! It’s a good thing I came to the rescue. Such chaps are about as safe as rattlesnakes.”
He shook his head in a mock discouragement.
“Really, y’ know, Markham, old thing,” he added, “you should study the cranial indications of your fellow man more carefully—vultus est index animi. Did you, by any chance, note the gentleman’s wide rectangular forehead, his irregular eyebrows, and pale luminous70 eyes, and his outstanding ears with their thin upper rims71, their pointed72 tragi and split lobes73? . . . A clever devil, this Ambroise—but a moral imbecile. Beware of those pseudo-pyriform faces, Markham; leave their Apollonian Greek suggestiveness to misunderstood women.”
“Oh, he knows something—rest assured of that! And if only we knew it, too, we’d be considerably76 further along in the investigation77. Furthermore, the information he is hiding is somewhat unpleasantly connected with himself. His euphoria is a bit shaken. He frightfully overdid78 the grand manner; his valedict’ry fulmination was the true expression of his feeling toward us.”
“Yes,” agreed Markham. “That question about last night acted like a petard. What prompted you to suggest my asking it?”
“A number of things—his gratuitous79 and obviously mendacious80 statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly insincere homily on the sacredness of professional confidences; the cautious and Pecksniffian confession81 of his fatherly regard for the girl; his elaborate struggle to remember when he had last seen her—this particularly, I think, made me suspicious; and then, the psychopathic indicants of his physiognomy.”
“Well,” admitted Markham, “the question had its effect. . . . I feel that I shall see this fashionable M.D. again.”
“You will,” iterated Vance. “We took him unawares. But when he has had time to ponder the matter and concoct82 an appealin’ tale, he’ll become downright garrulous83. . . . Anyhow, the evening is over, and you can meditate84 on buttercups till the morrow.”
But the evening was not quite over as far as the Odell case was concerned. We had been back in the lounge-room of the club but a short time when a man walked by the corner in which we sat, and bowed with formal courtesy to Markham. Markham, to my surprise, rose and greeted him, at the same time indicating a chair.
“There’s something further I wanted to ask you, Mr. Spotswoode,” he said, “if you can spare a moment.”
At the mention of the name I regarded the man closely, for, I confess, I was not a little curious about the anonymous85 escort who had taken the girl to dinner and the theatre the night before. Spotswoode was a typical New England aristocrat86, inflexible87, slow in his movements, reserved, and quietly but modishly88 dressed. His hair and moustache were slightly gray—which, no doubt, enhanced the pinkness of his complexion. He was just under six feet tall, and well proportioned, but a trifle angular.
Markham introduced him to Vance and me, and briefly89 explained that we were working with him on the case, and that he had thought it best to take us fully69 into his confidence.
“I’m in your hands, Mr. Markham,” he replied, in a well-bred but somewhat high-pitched voice, “and I concur91, of course, with whatever you think advisable.” He turned to Vance with an apologetic smile. “I’m in a rather unpleasant position, and naturally feel a little sensitive about it.”
“I’m something of an antinomian,” Vance pleasantly informed him. “At any rate, I’m not a moralist; so my attitude in the matter is quite academic.”
Spotswoode laughed softly.
“I wish my family held a similar point of view; but I’m afraid they would not be so tolerant of my foibles.”
“It’s only fair to tell you, Mr. Spotswoode,” interposed Markham, “that there is a bare possibility I may have to call you as a witness.”
The man looked up quickly, his face clouding over, but he made no comment.
“The fact is,” continued Markham, “we are about to make an arrest, and your testimony92 may be needed to establish the time of Miss Odell’s return to her apartment, and also to substantiate93 the fact that there was presumably some one in her rooms after you had left. Her screams and calls for help, which you heard, may prove vital evidence in obtaining a conviction.”
Spotswoode seemed rather appalled94 at the thought of his relations with the girl becoming public, and for several minutes he sat with averted95 eyes.
“I see your point,” he acknowledged at length. “But it would be a terrible thing for me if the fact of my delinquencies became known.”
“That contingency96 may be entirely avoided,” Markham encouraged him. “I promise you that you will not be called upon unless it is absolutely necessary. . . . And now, what I especially wanted to ask you is this: do you happen to know a Doctor Lindquist who, I understand, was Miss Odell’s personal physician?”
Spotswoode was frankly97 puzzled. “I never heard the name,” he answered. “In fact, Miss Odell never mentioned any doctor to me.”
“And did you ever hear her mention the name of Skeel . . . or refer to any one as Tony?”
Markham lapsed99 into a disappointed silence. Spotswoode, too, was silent: he sat as if in a revery.
“You know, Mr. Markham,” he said, after several minutes, “I ought to be ashamed to admit it, but the truth is I cared a good deal for the girl. I suppose you’ve kept her apartment intact. . . .” He hesitated, and a look almost of appeal came into his eyes. “I’d like to see it again if I could.”
Markham regarded him sympathetically, but finally shook his head.
“It wouldn’t do. You’d be sure to be recognized by the operator—or there might be a reporter about—and then I’d be unable to keep you out of the case.”
The man appeared disappointed, but did not protest; and for several minutes no one spoke. Then Vance raised himself slightly in his chair.
“I say, Mr. Spotswoode, do you happen to remember anything unusual occurring last night during the half-hour you remained with Miss Odell after the theatre?”
“Unusual?” The man’s manner was eloquent of his astonishment100. “To the contrary. We chatted a while, and then, as she seemed tired, I said good night and came away, making a luncheon101 appointment with her for to-day.”
“And yet, it now seems fairly certain that some other man was hiding in the apartment when you were there.”
“There’s little doubt on that point,” agreed Spotswoode, with the suggestion of a shudder102. “And her screams would seem to indicate that he came forth103 from hiding a few minutes after I went.”
“And you had no suspicion of the fact when you heard her call for help?”
“I did at first—naturally. But when she assured me that nothing was the matter, and told me to go home, I attributed her screams to a nightmare. I knew she had been tired, and I had left her in the wicker chair near the door, from where her screams seemed to come; so I naturally concluded she had dozed104 off and called out in her sleep. . . . If only I hadn’t taken so much for granted!”
“It’s a harrowin’ situation.” Vance was silent for a while; then he asked: “Did you, by any chance, notice the door of the living-room closet? Was it open or closed?”
“I suppose it was closed. I probably would have noticed it if it had been open.”
“Then you couldn’t say if the key was in the lock or not?”
“Good Lord, no! I don’t even know if it ever had a key.”
The case was discussed for another half-hour; then Spotswoode excused himself and left us.
“Funny thing,” ruminated106 Markham, “how a man of his upbringing could be so attracted by the empty-headed, butterfly type.”
“I’d say it was quite natural,” returned Vance. . . . “You’re such an incorrigible107 moralist, Markham.”
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