Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-05

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Kendall ana Brcndu acotched her IN ST.
ttEcC iGr q flO!aCnt.
gan to cry very softly, as YOU saw her
few minutes ago. | replied that did
not think SO. but she shook her head
murmuring something about the grief
of her mother, who could not come in
time TO see her. | asked for her moth
cr's address and was Informed by a
police sergeant who had just been adj
mittcu to the room. coming under or
ders from Captain Neale, that Mrs
Simmons. the lanllady. had telegraph
ed to Mrs. Miller.
THE sergeant then came numbering
up to the side of the bed armed with Il
notebook and Il pencil. Without wait
ing for him to put a single question
Miss Miller told her story of the crime
as | told it to you. She had stepped
out upon the veranda and had almost
Immediately re-entered the room by
the eastern window. She neither saw
nor heard any one. Beyond a confused
memory of sharp and terrible pang,
sudden, unexpected and probably mean
ingless, because TIE mind is darkened
before it can comprehend, she can re-
call nothing. There was very little for
the sergeant to put down in his note
book"
did he believe herr" asked Brenda.
Eyes; l think the sergeant did" re-
piled Kendall. with a slight emphasis
on the noun. AT least the only indica-
ton of doubt he gave me was to ask
me in the corridor aftcrward whether
the wound could have been self inaict-
ed. | told him to dismiss the idea, and
he seemed to have no difficulty in do
ing so. 1t is not. at the first glance, Il
physical impossibilty, but practically
it is precisely that"
Suppose she should say that she did
it," said Brenda.
with apologies to Miss Miller,' re-
sponded Kendall. x must tell you that
that would not affect my opinion in
the least. 1t she has any desire to
shield the guilty, she cannot do it in
that way
Brenda's keen gray eyes searched the
physicians race.
do you believe that ?" she demanded.
Frankly" said Kendall, my opin-
ion is that Miss Miller knows perfectly
we'll who did this deed"
"And her motive for concealment?"
II leave that to her own heart" was
the reply. Yet it would seem that
there could be but one"
"A motive of the heart" said Brenda.
do you realize that this amounts to
an accusation?''
"Then let us not speak Of it any
MORE" said Kendall. LET us get back
to Mr.. Alden"
1--WE have already done So" She said:
but the doctor would not be drawn
into such an admission.
after the police officer had gone"
he resumed. Miss Miller asked me
whether note addressed to her had
been found in her ROOM answered
yes. and then she inquired whether
Mr. Alden had been informed Of her
misfortune. Fearing to excite her, !
substituted for the truth the fiction
that | just outlined to you, and my
pun Illllc patient ulcIeiy sighed. she
did not ask when she could see Mr..
Alden nor mention his name again
in any connection"
"From which you infer
Nothing whatever" insisted Ken
dali.
you do not trust me-" said Brenda.
not without bitterness. You believe
Mr.. Alden guilty of this frightful crime,
and you dare not say so in my pres
ence for fear that | may not be dis
Greet and you may be put into an un-
pleasant position"
II could scarcely be put into a posi-
ton more unpleasant than this one,"
said Kendall earnestly. II want to
tell you the exact truth about-about
everything that | know or imagine,
and it is deadly hard to do it when
you look at me as if were an enemy
This is as near as l can come tn an