Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-11-24

but they could make out two figures,
standing together. The women were
curious, and, leaving the fence, they
went back and by roundabout path
down to the road. When they got
there the car was still standing, the
headlight broken and the bonnet
crushed, but there was no one to be
seen"
The detective went away immedi-
ately, and to Gertrude and me was
left the woman's part, to watch and
wait. By luncheon nothing had been
found, and / was frantic. l went up
stairs to Halsey's room finally from
sheer inability to sit across from Ger
trude any longer and meet her terror
filed eyes
Liddy was in my dressing room, sus-
piciously red-eyed and trying to put
a right sleeve in a left arm-hole of
new waist for me. l was too much
shaken to scold.
What name did that woman in the
kitchen give?" she demanded, vicious
ly ripping out the offending sleeve.
"Bliss. Matte Bliss" l replied.
"Bliss. NJ. B. Well, that's not what
| she has ON her suitcase. 1t is marked
N. F. c."
The new cook and her initials trou-
| bled me not all. ! put on my bonnet
and sent for what the Casanova liv-
| eryman called a stylish turnout"
| Having once made up my mind to a
| course of action, am not one to turn
back. Warner drove me; he was
| plainly disgusted, and he steered the
| livery horse as he would the Dragon
| Fly, feeling uneasily with his left foot
for the clutch, and working his right
elbow at an imaginary horn every
time dog got in the way.
Warner had something on his mind,
and after we had turned into the road
he voiced it,
heard a part of a conversation yester-
day that didn't understand. II wasn't
my business to understand 1t, for that
matter. But I've been thinking all
day that I'd better tell you. Yesterday
afternoon, while you and Miss Ger.
trude were out driving, | had got the
car in some sort of shape again after
the fire, and | went to the library TO
call Mr. Innes to see II. went into
the living room, where Miss Liddy
said he was, and halfway across the
library | heard him talking to some
one. lie seemed TO be walking up and
down, and he was In a rage, can tell
YOU"
What did he say?"
"The first thing | heard was-ox
cuse me, Miss lnnes, but it's what he
said, The damned rascal he said
III see him in'--well. In hell was
what he said In hell first. Then
somebody else spoke up; Il was a
woman. She said: I warned them
but they thought | would be afraid
~ woman! Did you wait 10 see who
Il was?"
Il wasn't spying Miss luues." War
ncr said with dignity, "But the next
thing caught nay attention. She said.
Z knew there was something wrong
from the start. A man isn't we'll one
day. and dead the next. without some
reason. / thought she was speaking
4 of Thomas
"And you don't know who &c vast" |
exclaimed Warner you bad the key
10 thls whole occurrence in your
hand and o.. Hul see itt"
However t..r. wAs nothing to be-
done resolved to make Inquiry
when ! sof h4w. aud in tba meau
limr. my present ,saud absorbed ur
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tus from bog what she EueH. ur su.
pretrl uf liaIaeya d appearance
. rul here. u4 iu etyFy direction
turned uaH baHed
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