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The Basket of Snakes
By Charles Saxhy
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Published by Special arrangement with
Chicago Dally Tribune
la Two Parta —PART TWO
The
THE STORY SO FAR
Lakeholme, the home of Peter Mc
Ausland is a beautiful and massive es
ffor bravery overseas acd the conversa
fort, pleasing surroundings and conven
ience. This is as Dr. Hobyn and Mr.
Monteflore found it. They were busily
discussing the peculiarities of their host
and the conversation had turned to a re
view of a trial in which McAusland was
the leading figure. Mahan, a friend and
one of the few associates of McAusland
appears and asks the gentlemen what
was their verdict and was informed that
none bad been arrived at. Mahan, upon
questioning proved a mysterious charac
ter in the case. McAusland's estate is
about to be the scene of a diplomatic
ceremony in which he is to be decorated
täte, with everything complete of com
tion is taking place by early guests.
During the course of the talk, it develops
to Monteflore, who is a lawyer, that Ma
han is a valuable witness in the case.
About this time Peter McAusland and his
friend. Father Sebastian appear, and the
conversation turns to generalities.
"The east side!" he repeated. "There are
times when I almost suspect that Sweden
borg knew something. Have you read his
description of the city of the average
dead? A place of drab infinitude, where
shadows, unaware of their own death, con
duct a memory of buying and selling, a
mockery of spectral gains and losses. And
in the center of it all a hole that leads
down to the hells."
They had reached the lake, where swans
perched among the hedges aad the pines
doubled themselves in the still surface. A
piece of some placid paradise it looked,
but the clergyman's eyes were clouded by
And, now the story—
the visions which, it seemed, he had not
quite the slber to support.
"The hopelessness of it all," he went
on. "The snarling monotony, not aware of
its own deathly respectability that is so
terville; you have no idea of the prides of
the poor. Even their sins are without
spirit or joy. They circle round their hole
to hell, but they never really jump into it.
Down there are fire and brilliance and all
the things which they dare not face. But
here"—he paused, sweeping a hand tow
ards arrogance of Lakeholme —" here is a
man who has dared. Only McAusland him
self could tell what he has faced to tap
the goldei stream of the world like this."
"But is there so mach actual distress
in New Yc>rk?"
"Distress Is elways with us. Starvation—
no—except tî e bitter hunger of the spirit,
unrecognized except as a perpetual snarl
and whine. Against the glitter of the city
those districts are like a black picture on
a gold screen. How to get that gold into
the picture is the question. Money is the
only way I can see. There are times when
I could commit almost any crime if I
thought it would effect that."
II.
HE routine of Lakeholme was unspar
ingly English in its model, and dinner
had passed with a smother of food and
ceremony.
In a disjointed group the guests strolled
down the Cnrio Gallery. Vaulted ceiling
and walls of mosaic and dull gold; great
mirrors recessed in deep alcoves; rows of
cases containing things rare and strange
from the McAusland properties scattered
across the world's map.
"This gallery always reminds me of a
department store," Monteflore shrugged.
Mahan, walking at his side, stopped to
examine a case of specimens from the
South Sea islands. More curious than
curios, they seemed; had there been women
at Lakeholme they would have had to he
curtained. Their presence struck a reveaï
j n g Hide light on the character of their
owner,
... ...
A, *i to r. e ^ e n a r tinentR
And what comes
next on the Program?
T
"The signing of the will, I believe. Our
host has a touch of the dear old melo
drama abont him.
"The cast is complete," Monteflore caus
tically continued. "The benevolent million
aire, the mystic priest, and the gallant
young heir whom all the audience know
to he In for two hours and a half of en
gaging trouble. The rest of us are the
comic character hits. 1 presume. Even the
accused lady, though absent in person, is
here in spirit."
"What became of Mrs. McAusland after
the trial?"
"She refused all efforts at reconciliation,
took her son, and went to relatives on the
coast."
"That accounts for Oregon," Mahan nod
ded. "And Father Sebastian buried him
self on the east side. Odd that the two
proven innocent should have been the
ones to throw np everything and dis
appear."
"It is usually the innocent who do the
the lawyer* returned.
desk,
strange things.
"Guilt Is more apt to he circumspect. This
is the way in to the study."
McAnsland's study was a surprise. With
its silken hangings and gilt chairs it more
resembled a man's idea of a woman's bou
doir, save for the incongruous mahogany
There was probably a private starcase
concealed somewhere above, but the only
entrance from the gallery was by one of I
those mirror lined alcoves which held a
sudden turn. That hidden entrance lent
an intriguing air of secrecy to the place.
One could imagine almost anything as
taking place in that hidden nest. McAus
land was awaiting them with the attor
ney who had drawn his will. In that pink
setting, with firelight and shaded lamps,
his silvered geniality made him look like
some barbered Santa Claus scattering gifts.
Munificent gifts they proved as the will
was read. Everything without reserve to
"my dear son, Hugh Peter McAusland."
Hugh, standing in the window, paled as
he listened. Then came an added hush as
the dryly legal tones went on.
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Peter McAusland deceasing without legal
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Impossible, not even McAusland was cap
able of quite that; they must be hearing
amiss Hobyn was frankly open mouthed
beneath his clipped, bottle brush mustache;
Monteflore bent forward, startled into the
eminent counsel. Hugh had flushed and
his fingers were unconsciously destroying
silk curtain at his back. Father Sebastian
might have been carved from some gray
green stone. _ ,
". . . the Reverend James Clinton Dal
honsie, now otherwise known as Father Se
bastien of the mission church of Saint Mary
u
the Sorrowful, cty of New York. . . .
The whole estate to Father Sebastian,
should Hugh die without legal children. It
took all the combined social training of the
group to surmount that moment. Only Mc
Ausland was the same, nodding delightedly
like some miraculously frosted child. An
unbelievable man, for a quarter of a cen
tury he had been bent in bitterness until
it seemed that his mental and physical tis
ues must have "grown that way." Now,
by some unconceivable contortion, he was
leaning as far in the opposite direction.
It was the doctor who first recovered
from the general surprise, clapping Hugh
upon the back.
"You will have to wait, my boy; I gave
your father another lease of life this
morning."
"Thank God for that," Hugh breathed,
"Amen," Father Sebastian pronounced,
"And to you, lad, a happv marriage and
soon I hope. And the Church of Saint
Mary the Sorrowful is always open for
christenings."
The signatures were witnessed and they
trooped out again. Mahan was- last with
Peter McAusland at his side. The short
passage from study to gallery was un
lighted, and Mahan halted. Surely when
he came in he had turned at a sharp angle,
yet there right ahead of him was a- glimpse
of the brilliantly lit Curio gallery,
McAusland nodded at the other's sur
prise.
I
"That is merely a reflection." he ex
plained. "One reflected from the mirror
that faces the gallery; we calculated the
angles with precautions, you know. As I
sit in my study with the door open I can
see jny one who approaches, or who even
crosses the gallery here."
Mahan examined the angling of the
mirrors and an involuntary, "But if you
can see them, then-" rose to his lips.
But he cut it short, substituting a smile
of understanding.
"And persons seen in reflection unknown
to themselves, are seen so differently," he
said.
"One catches them off gnard like that,
McAusland returned, rubbing his plump
hands in satisfaction,
there may
household.
you might remember I mentioned
suspicion."
So that was his place here in this Lake
holme affair, Mahan thought, as he pre
pared for bed that night. Ilis was the role
of the impartial observer who was to re
member having been told something.
As he considered that, there came a tap
on his door, and Hugh McAusland's voice.
I just came to make sure that you are
he said.
Have
One never knows
even be treacheries in one's own
Should anything happen to me,
that
being properly looked after,
as he entered at Mahan's bidding,
yon everything you want?"
"Everything, thanks."
Under his smile Mahans glance was keen
as he looked at the other, standing irreso
lutely just inside the door. He seemed a
young man under stress, which is a thing
that youth never understands. Of course,
from his age. he must have shared in the
stresses of the war. But that had been a
general affair, wile this, whatever it might
be, was something private, locked in his
own person. Mahan remembered times
when he himself had been driven to seek
comfort in unlikely quarters. As a rule it
merely meant some one to listen to him.
"I have everything," he repeated," exceptl
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"Îtk ong is since you left the west?"
three weeks," Hugh answered, as he lit
a and wandered uneasily about the
ro °rpV * feel like a fish out of water here."
there are ways of becoming amphibi
ons.
. I don't know that I want to," Hugh
u. in the conservatism of his youth.
'.f., 100 » another turn, fingering at objects
without seeing them. Mahan smoked quiet
iy. certain that sooner or later the young
fellow would talk.
'I dont want that
out at last.
money," Hugh burst
I never wanted to come here
at ail. All this means nothing to me. I
" a(1 *? y own Hfe out there and this is
changing it a n about."
What had you planned for yourself?"
i »! ? a!S starting out in civil engineering.
1 had Just got my first job on a big
power project up in the Cascades. I loved
it.
There was pride In that announcement,
one could imagine him, standing on the
cage of some great gash in the earth, done
up in gray cords, much leather, and all
the cub engineer's consciousness of being
v1 Î?t an< I picturesque.
'I never wanted to come to this damn
place—I merely came because of .
things . , .«
Because of his mother, he meant. That
was the reason for Father Sebastian's
P^sence. too. This belated paternal recog
» »? °f Hugh was the final vindication
or Mrs. McAusland. She. and not Peter
McAnsland. She, and not Peter McAusland's
wealth, was the force which had drawn
them both to Lakebolme.
Mahan let Hugh talk. Most of it was
mere irritation and homesickness for the
west, but the relief of speech was like
pricking a blister. He was probably un
conscious of how much poison he let out.
At last he gathered himself for departure.
'Sorry to make a nuisance of myself but
it is good to see one of my own kind of
"Where is Father Sebastian? I sent for
him—O. there he is. Come, padre. 1 heard
you wished to run into town, and here is
Hugh Just going. A nice tete-a-tete drive
Thanks so much . . . good
night."
An engaging young man, and all the
more so for being a trifle lost just then.
I rom an open window Mahan looked out
on the stretches of Lakeholm, graying
under a rising moon. That pink and gold
study remained with him as a somehow
sinister memory. It must have been in
tended for Mrs. Ausland. A glowing hidden
heart of the house it should have been, but
for twenty-five years it ha dbeen empty of
all save the brooding bitterness. A curious
man, McAusland; and a queer squirming
world, all beads and tails. . . .
III.
It was late before Mahan strolled along
the terrace next morning. He had break
fasted in his room. Preparations were afoot
for the day's event; decorations hanging
flags along the avenue, a truck load of
roses being brought in. Through a bay
of leaded glass he saw McAusland and
Hugh together in the study, and in a few
moments they came out.
"Anything yon need from the drug store,
Mr. Mahan?" his host inquired,
sending Hugh on a little errand. The fact
is"—he paused, glancing about in humor
ous caution—"but don't let Hobyn know It.
Aspirin ; 1 have a rotten headache and
theres the luncheon to face. Hobyn hates
aspirin and would make me lie down and
perhaps countermand the whole affair. But
yon won't give me away."
Hugh smiled mechanically. He never
addressed his father except as "you."
sometimes actually distorting his sentences
to avoid a more intimate form. McAusland
went gaily on.
I am
humor, seeming to see nothing strange in
this enforced intimacy between his son and
the man whom be himself had accused of
being that son's father. His jokes kept one
almost afraid of what he might say next.
There seemed actual Intent under that
genial exurberance. And through it all per
sisted the sense of the unseen presence of
the woman who had never entered that
house. It was a relief when the car rolled
away with that ill assorted pair.
for you both. A chance to confess your
sins, Hugh. Don't he too hard on him,
father. Remember we were all younger
once. Just the aspirin, my boy, and don't
let Hobyn get wind of it."
He bustled them off with incurable good
you, you
with yourself until the luncheon?" Mc
Ausland asked. "Ride—motor? Or Hobyn
is looking for some one to go round tbe
links with him. Monteflore, 1 suspect, is
in his room practising a speech for the
day's- occasion. My own little impromptu
of stammering thanks is already typed and
learned."
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Mahan's usually pleasant grayness had
« strely quality that morning. He knew the
mood which was upon him, cooly aloof,
intensely watchful, even though there
seemed nothing to watch. Fie never invited
that mood, but he never fought it when
it came.
It was that, rather than his own choice,
which answered : "I was planning to exam
ine the exhibits In your gallery."
"A-ha." McAusland exclaimed, digging
him in the ribs with a Rabelaisian under
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esting—eh? Of course, I understand that
your interest is purely scientific. It is re
markable what a number of unsuspected
scientists those South sea cases have dis
covered amongst my visitors."
Mahan was in no hurry; it was some time
before he lounged into the gallery, and he
was still there when Hugh returned and
went through the mirrored alcove into his
father's study. A moment later he came
out again, looking vaguely up and down
the long vista.
"Have you seen my—Mr. McAusland
lately?" he asked.
Stress again, Mahan thought, as he
looked at the other. Probably that drive
with Father Sebastian had been hard on
rawed young nerves. Electric projects in
the Cascades were scarcely an adequate
preparation for the peculiar little hells of
a complicated society.
"Mr. McAusland was in his study a few
moments ago." Mahan answered. "I heard
him give orders for Father Sebastian to be
called there as soon as he returned."
"Well, 1 put the dope on his desk," said
Hugh. "Ke ll see it when he comes back."
He lingered, frowning nnseeingly at the
curiosities, his mind busy with Its own
private affaire. There was speec
up behind bis tight lips, and in
their barrier crave way.
"I simply can t stand this place," he
burst out. "I have had my mind made up
ever since that will business last night.
I'll stay through this French shindig this
morning, of course, but as soon as that
is over I'll pack up and Just tell the old
man that I'm going back west"
"You will probably be more at home
there," Mahan agreed.
"It isn't so much that. It Is—somehow
I can't quite believe all this."
"You mean?'
"Damned if I know what I mean,' Hugh
answered, as he strode irritatedly away.
Mahan strolled from case to case, stop
Some of them are quite Inter
b dammed
a moment
ping long before each one. A little later
Father Sebastian entered the gallery and
paused at his side. From the study came
the sound of a radio loud speaker dropping
stock reports.
'Manganese referred, hundred seven
eights—^United Textiles, ninety-four a
< U iar î? r ' „ , ^
bather Sebastians mouth angled ,<tterly
as bo listened. •
The voice of our modern god, he said.
"There was a time when the command
monts burst through on the thunders of
Sinai. Now all that the lightning seems
able ^to bring is the shibboleths of Mam
IU ®P- ' . , ,
He passed on, leaving Mahan to Lie con
temptation of the weirdest case of all. A
strange contract those frank indecencies
of barbarism displayed in that house,
which was the last word of civilization
A few moments later-Father Sebastian
came out again and passed quickly without
speaking. A man pursued, he looked, as he
flung away down the gallery's length.
Mahan waited a few moments longer, ap
parently engrossed in the speciments be
fore him. Then, as if he had seen all that
he wished of the McAusland curious, he
walked away.
The day's event was at hand, and it was
time to assume the more formal dress it
demanded. As Mahan made himself ready
a knock sounded on his door.
"Mr. Monteflore wished your presence in
the private study, sir."
Monteflore, not McAusland—but Mahan
betrayed no surprise as he heard it.
Downstairs the huge halî. much like the
foyer of a theater, was filled with flowers,
Hags and groups of important looking
men. Guests were arriving ; out on the
I terraces were batteries of moving picture
cameras, with news reporters vainly trying
to look as if they were mere ordinary
human beings.
A buzz of talk, tricolors and Stars and
Stripes, all the excitement of a great af
fair; in a few moments the official envoy
of France would be driving up to the
doors. But nowhere was there any sign of
„ host
IV.
The entire house party was gathered in
the study, Monteflore seated at the desk
with Hobyn beside him. On opposite sides
of the room stood Father Sebastian and
Hugh, and their positions gave the affair
the appearance of a tribunal.
"Shut the door, please, Mr. Mahan."
Monteflore croaked. "Are you aware that
our seriously
"Not seriously," Hobyn put in. "I got
at him in time."
"Legally seriously, since he has been
poisoned," Monteflore explained.
"Indeed?" Mahan inquired.
"Y'ou hardly seem surprised."
That was practically an accusation, but
Mahan merely nodded. Without invitation
he pulled forward one of the pink and gold
chairs and sat down.
"I am waiting to hear the circum
stances."
"Poison taken in mistake—or, as the evi
dence indicates, actually given to him in
place of aspirin," Hobyn expoundo-J. "The
original tablets had been emptied from the
box and bichloride substituted."
"I tell you I know nothing of it," Hugh
hurst out. "I put the box on the desk
there just as it came from the drug store
and-"
Monteflore checked him with an authori
tative hand.
"McAusland demands that we send for
the police and make an immediate arrest."
"A natural feeling for any one wPh a
stomach full of bichloride," Mahan re
turned. "And my part in the affair?"
"Any light that you can throw on the
matter. Hugh admits buying the box of
aspirin. Father Sebastian accompanied him
on the errand and was the only one aware
of it."
"Except myself," Mahan suggested.
"That is what makes you valuable as a
witness."
-Exactly,
some hidden knowledge
witness. Aud Father Sebastian »inil
u Uf , k we re at different times alone here in
the study, Hugh to deliver the package and
the other after Hugh had laid it on the
Dung"to U the ^window, his fingers
shredding again at the curtain whose de
structlon he had begun the evening before,
„t^Mahïn^wordï 6 at "
.. An excellent witnee«." said Monteflore.
"Mr. McAusland suggested that both these
gentlemen have had private conversation
-JJJ ÄSLly' "»SVlï «.SÄ
m i n( i t o you."
Mahan smiled, a? if from
An impartial
"Again the impartial a
whom men talk. Mahan smiled again,
,, How fortunate I am here. Last night
Hugh came to my room and he did reveal
far more than he knew. His state of mind
Hugh shot him a
smou iderlng glance, but Mahan went quiet
iy on.
"And yesterday Father Sebastian in
formed me of his conviction that there is
providence guiding the world and that
the only thing to do is to confiscate
wealth—by violence if necessary—and di
vert It to the poor."
"I still hold that belief," the Father put
in with hollow firmness.
"That's Bolshevism,'' Hobyn pronounced,
as If it were a new disease.
"Ah-ha," Monteflore interjected. "Now
let us consider tbe will, leaving all to
Hugh-"
no
"And I warned him that he'd have to
wait several years," Hobyn remembered,
with the satisfaction of one . who sees
things piling blackly up against another.
"Fifteen years, yon said, and to a boy
of twenty-five that seems a lifetime,"
Monteflore went on. "Then again there is
the clause leaving all to Father Sebastian
in case Hugh should die without issue—
and a death
chair is about as legal a death as there
for murder in the electric
ÎH.
Yon mean to suggest I substituted that
poison so that Hugh should be suspected?"
the Father groaned. "Good Ood, can such
things be?"
Mahan cheerfully said, "Your cas® seems
complete, Mr. Monteflore. At least yon can
not fail to bit one of them if you mak*
the charge broad enough. A hideous at
tempt hy a son against his own father;
or a still more hideous conspiracy by an
ordained priest against son and father
both."
"We have evidence enough to justify an
arrest, at least," Monteflore agreed, and
his hand went towards the besser on the
desk.
"One moment though,
"There are some things that we bare over
looked."
"What things?
Mahan rose as If what he were about to
say demanded action. Hands in pockets, a
half whimsical expression on bis face, he
meed slowly about the room. His preva
lent, pleasant grayness took on an almost
luminous effect. He spoke as though
thinking aloud.
"Angles of reflection, for one thing.
said Mahan.
■ »
Also the stresses of a beat rod. And then
again, our basket of snakes. The nearest
head to the nearest tail, of course, ^pd
they always seem to fit so well."
Hobyn's mouth opened, but Monteflore
barply before him.
"This hardly seems relevant, Mr. Mahan.
"No? And yet it is Joining the wrong
head to the wrong tail that constitutes the
Mahan answered. "Can
you take an iron rod which is bent sharp
ly in one direction and bend it as sharply
in the other? And have you ever known
McAnsland to bend that iron thing be
calls his mind? But if you merely turn the
rod around, what then? The same rod, the
same bend, but being turned around it
seems to be lient in the other direction."
"Really, Mr. Mahan-" Monteflore be
gan, but the other waved him quietly
aside.
"It is leading to augles of reflection. The
laws of them are such that if you see a
P® r9 <>n reflected in a mirror then that
Poi" 90 " can also see you reflected in the
glass? Hare you ever noticed that?
at the desk there what do you see
tha ï, nilrn ? r the passage? A slice of
the gallery. And any one standing in that
a, t ce of the gallery and looking into the
alcove sees the deflection of this study.
I myself spent more than an hour in
that particular slice of the gallery this
morning.
The atmosphere became vibrant as some
tightly stretched string. Hugh and Father
Sebastian glanced at each other, each in
was s
*»
real irrelvancy,
"Now for the angles of reflection. Per
mit me to open the door. You see that
mirror in the alcove which reflects the
curio gallery, and especially the case of
South sea specimens? A device that of
McAusland's for watching men when off
their guard."
"If this is actually leading to something
dlfinite
rasped Monteflore, but again
his impatience merely slid off Mahan's
coolness.
triumph, that now the truth of the other's
action was to be made known. •
"Twenty-five vears of bitterness," Ma
han went on. "A rod which could not
change its twist, but decided to turn
arouu q and look as if bent the other way.
\ splendid situation—a doctor, a lawyer, a
priest, an heir, a will. Only the undertaker
lacking;. Add an important occasion and all
that machinery of publicity out there. A
guiRle idea, the benefactor stricken down
a . greatest moment of his life by either
tp e sou ke i ia( i j us t acknowledged, or by
man whom he had once accused of
ixqug that boy's father. Whichever way it
went it would go far to prove that accusa -
t | OD right and to bring discredit on the
W oman whom he was convinced had
wri( . ke d his life happiness."
"You mean_"
It was doubtful which of the four had
spoken those words. Ail of them, probably,
an( j seemed as if none had breath to say
mure
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R not for nothing that, truth is ap
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M«l»an replied. If you will rake in those
ashes in the fireplace, or hare them
chemically analysed, you will find traces
at least of the tablets from that aspirin
ho*.
Thrown tuere by whom .
"There was only one snake in that
basket after all," said Mahan, with added
whimsy. "The nearest head really does
belong to the nearest tail. Buzz joins up
with poison. You will notice how it was
P r ranged that there should be a physician
jo l *! e house, and no doubt Dr. llobyu
fi****? 1 "MnA.winnI
,1 »«' 11 F J* r ',,î!. P A x,,lî „ iVinV^lf'who
1,rit t J 'Vh..
threw the 1
placed it with the bichloride tablets, of
which he then took two.
„Hugh flung himself impulsively towards
Mahan. Laying a hand on the young fel
*°' v 9 shoulder, Mahan went on.
"The Impartial witness, so carefully pro
*Wed, has given his evidence. Now. as the
representative of your father, unfortunately
taken ill, it is your duty to meet the
French marshal and carry through the
luncheon. After that you can do as you
please. You have been ackuowledged by
your father, and the whole country will
know of it.
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