Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-20
CHAPTER xxx.
A Scrap Of Paper.

- SSidP W ToPSis
For the first time In 20 years I kept
my bed that day. Liddy was alarmed
to the point of hysteria. and sent for
DR.. Stewart just after breakfast. Ger
trude spent the morning with me,
reading something-I forget what.
was too busy with my thought to lis
ten. had said nothing to the two
detectives. II Mr.. Jameson had been
there / should have told him every
thing, but / could not go to these
strange men and tell them my niece
had been missing in the middle of the
night; that she had not gone to bed
at all; that while l was searching for
her through the house / had met a
stranger who, when l tainted, had car
ried me into room and left me there,
to get better or not, as it might hap
pen.
And there was something else: The
man I had met In the darkness had
been even more startled than /, and
about his voice, when he muttered his
mufiied exclamation, there was some
thing vaguely familiar. All that morn
ing, while Gertrude read aloud, and
Liddy watched for the doctor, / was
puzzling over that voice, without re-
suit.
DR.. Walker came up, some time just
after luncheon, and asked for me.
GO down and see him. instructed
Gertrude. Tell him / am out-for
mercy's sake don't say I'm sick. Find
out what he wants, and from this time
not to be admitted. loathe that
man."
Gertrude came back very soon, her
face rather flushed.
"He came to ask us to get out" she
said, picking up her book with jerk.
"He says Louise Armstrong wants to
come here, now that she is recover
ing"
"And what did you say?"
II said we were very sorry we could
not leave, but we would be delighted
to have Louise come up here with us.
He looked daggers at me. And he
wanted to know If we would recon-
a patient, man, out from town, and
is increasing his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the way he put it."
Il wish him joy of Eliza" I said
tartly. "DiA he ask for Halsey?"
Eyes. / told him that we were on
the track last night, and that it was
only a question of time. He said he
was glad, although he didn't appear
to be, but he said not to be too san
guine."
do you know what believer" /
asked. 81 Helieve, as firmly as / be-
lieve anything, that DR.. Walker knows
something about Halsey. and that he
could put his finger on him. If he
wanted to-"
There were several things that day
that bewildered me. About three
o'clock Mr.. Jameson telephoned from
the Casanova station and Warner
went down to meet him. / got up and
dressed hastily, and the detective was
shown up to my sitting room.
mo news?" / asked, as he entered.
He tried to- look encouraging, without
success.
'It won't be long now, Miss Innes,"
he said. Il have come out here on a
peculiar errand, which / will tell you
about later. First / want to ask some
questions. Did any one come out here
yesterday to repair the telephone, and
examine the wires on the roof"
"Yes," said promptly; "but 1t was
not the telephone. He said the wiring
might have caused the fire at the
stable. went up with him myself,
but he only looked around"
Mr.. Jameson smiled
Good for you!" he applauded.
Don't allow any one in the house
that you don't trust, and don't trust
anybody. All are not electricians who
wear rubber gloves"
He refused to explain further, but
he got q slip OF paper out of his
pocket book and opened II carefully.
Listen he said. You her-d this