Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-02
BY MARY ROBERTS R1NEHARr

[ was out. She waited around, walking
| the floor and working herself into q
passion. When the doctor didn't come
back, she was in an awful way. She
wanted me to hunt him, and when he
didn't appear, she called him names;
| said he couldn't fool her. There WAS
murder being done, and she would see
him swing for it.
customer, and when she left. about II
o'clock, and went across to the Arm
strong place, l was not far behind
her. She walked all around the house
| first, looking UP at the windows. Then
she rang the bell. and the minute the
| door was open she was through 1t,
and into the hall"
How long did she stay?'
That's the queer part of it." Riggs
said eagerly. "She didn't come out
that night at all went to bed az
daylight, and that was. the last l heard
of her until the next day, when I saw
| her on truck at the station, covered
with sheet. She'd been struck by
the express and you would hardly
have known her-dead, of course. /
think she stayed all night in the Arm
strong house, and the agent said she
was crossing the track TO take the up
| train to town when the express struck
her."
another circle!" | exclaimed
Then we are just where we started. .
mot SO bad as that. Miss Innes,
Riggs said eagerly. Nina Darlington
came from the town in California
where Mr.. Armstrong died. Why was
the doctor SO afraid of her? The Car
rington woman knew something.
lived with Doctor Walker seven years,
and l know him we'll. There are few
| things he is afraid of. I think he kill
ed Mr.. Armstrong out in the west
somewhere, that's what I think. What
else he did don't know-but he dis
missed me and pretty nearly throttled
me-for telling Mr.. Jameson hese
about Mr.. lines having been at his
Office the night he disappeared, and
about my hearing them quarreling."
| What was it Warner overheard thu
woman say to Mr.. Innes, in the libra
! ry?" the detective asked me.
"She said I knew there was some
thing wrong from the start. A mar
isn't well one day and dead the nex1
| without some reason.
How perfectly it all seemed to fit!
CHAPTER xxx.
When Churchyards YaWn.
1t was on Wednesday Riggs told Vi
4 the story of his connection with SOM
Incidents that had been previously un
explained. Halsey had been gon'
since the Friday night before, ant
with the passage of each day l fel
that his chances were lessening.
knew well enough that he might b'
carried thousands Of miles in the DO,
car, locked IN, perhaps, without waite
or food. | had read of cases wher
bodies had been found locked in car
on isolated sidings in the west, ant
my spirits went down with every hour
His recovery was destined to be a.
most as sudden as his disappearance
and was due directly to the tram
Alex had brought to Sunnyside.
seems the man was grateful for his re
lease, and when he learned somethin
Of Halsey's whereabouts from anothe
member of his fraternity-for 1t is
fraternity-he was prompt in lettin
US know.
On Wednesday evening Mr.. Jamie
son, who had been down at the Arm
strong house trying to see Louise
!, and failing-was met near the gat
at Sunnyside by an individual pre-
cisely as repulsive and unkempt as tn
one Alex had captured. The man kne'
the detective, and he gave him piec
of dirty paper on which was scrawle
the words-"He's at City Hospita
townsville" The tramp who brough
the paper pretended to know nothing
except this: the paper had been pas
ed along from "hobo' in townsville
who seemed to know the informatio
would be valuable to us.
Again the long distance telephon
came into requisition. Mr. Jamieso
called the hospital. while we crowde
around him. And when there was
, longer any doubt that it was Halse!
: and that he would probably recover
we all laughed and cried together.
am sure kissed Liddy, and have ha
, terrible moments since when seer
! to remember of kissing Mr.. Jameson
, too, in the excitement.
RI Anyhow by eleven o'clock that nigh