The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-28

he said. What did l tell you? Now,
Riggs, we are ready"
I'D never have come to you, Mr..
Jameson" he began, "if it hadn't been
for Miss Armstrong. When MI. Innes
was spirited away like. and Miss
Louise got sick because of 1t. l thought
things had gone far enough. I'd done
some things for the doctor before that
wouldn't just bear looking into, but I
turned a bit squeamish.'
Did you help with that?", | asked,
leaning forward.
NO. ma'am. l didn't even know of it
until the mex day, when it came out
in the Casanova Weekly Ledger. But I
know who did it, all right. I'd better
! start at the beginning.
: when DR.. Walker went away to
California with the Armstrong family
there was talk In the town that when
lie came back he would be married to
Miss Armstrong, and we all expected il.
First thing | knew / got a letter from
him in the West. He seemed to be
excited, and he said Miss Armstrong
! lad taken a sudden notion to go home
n he sent me some money. l was 10
watch for her. to see If she went to
Sunnyside, and wherever she was not
to lose sight of her, until he got home.
/ traced her to the lodge and | guess |
scared you on the drive one night, Miss
! Innes."
And Rosie!" l calculated.
Riggs grinned sheepishly.
81 only wanted to make sure Miss
Louise was there. Rosie started to run,
and trieI IN sion 1ar a nd toll In,. aYno
sort of a story to accoun for my being
there. But she wouldn't wait"
And the broken china-in the bas-
ket?"
We'll, broken china's death to rubber
tres" he said. Il hadn't any COM
plant against you people here, and the
Dragon Fly was a good car"
SO Rosie's highwayman was ex-
planned.
well, telegraphed the doctor where
Miss Louise was and | kept an eye on
her. Just a day or so before they came
home with the body l got another let
ter, telling me to watch for a woman
who had been pitted with smallpox.
Her name was Darlington, and the doc
tor made things pretty strong. If |
found any such woman loafing around
| was not to lose sight of her for n
minute, until the doctor got back.
well, l would have had my hands
full, but the other woman didn't show
UP for a good while, and when she did
the doctor was home"
Riggs | asked suddenly, did you
/ get into this house a day or two after'I
took it, at night?"
II did not, Miss lines. l have never
been in the house before. Well, the
Darlington woman didn't show up until
the night Mr.. Halsey disappeared. She
came to the office late, and the doctor
was out. She waited around, walking
the floor and working herself into "a
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 seq
him swing for it.
She struck me as being an ugly Gus
toner and when she left, about II
O'Clock, and went across to the Arm
strong place, I 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 opened she was through it and in
to the hail"
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 at day
light, and that was the last | heard of
ner until the next day when I saw her
on a truck at the station, covered with
a sheet. She'd been struck by the ex-
press and you would hardly have
known her-dead. of course. | think
she stayed all night in the Armstrong
house. and the agent said she was
crossing the track to take the up-traln
TO town when the express struck her"
Another c'rcle!' / exclaimed. Then
we are just where we started"
Not so bad as that, Miss Innes,'
Riggs said, eagerly. Nina Darlington
came from the town in4Ealifornia where
Mr.. Armstrong died. Why was the doc
tor so afraid of her? The Darlington
woman knew something. l lived with
DR.. Walker seven years and / know
him well. There are few things he is
afraid of. I think he killed MI. Arm
strong out in the West somewhere.
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