Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1910-06-29

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said. You and-and Jack left almost
al the time it happened The detective
here thinks that you-that we-know
something about it,
The devil he does" Halsey's eyes
were fairly starting from his head. L
beg your pardon, Aunt Ray. but-the
fellows a lunatic."
Tell me everything, won't you, Hal
sey?" l begged. Tell me where you
went that night, or rather morning,
and why you went as you did. This
has been a terrible As hours for all
of u.s.
He stood staring at me, and I could
see the horror of the situation dawn
ing in his face.
Il can't tell you where l went, Aunt
Ray" he said after a moment. AS to
why, you will learn that soon enough.
But Gertrude knows that Jack and l
left the house before this thing-this
horrible murder-occurred."
Mr.. Jameson does not believe"
Gertrude said drearily. "Halsey, If
the worst comes, if they should arrest
you, you muSt-tell."
Il shall tell nothing" he said with
a new steTnness in his voice. Aunt
Ray, it was necessary for Jack and
me to leave that night. I cannot tell
you why-just yet. AS to where we
went, if l have to depend on that as
oil CHI all al
thing is an absurdity, trumped-up
charge that cannot possibly be seri-
GUS"
Has Mr. Bailey gone back to the
city" I demanded, 'or to the club?"
Neither" defiantly; "at the present
moment 1 do not know where he is"
'Halsey," I asked gravely, leaning
forward, have you the slightest sus-
picion who killed Arnold Armstrong?
The police think he was admitted
from within, and that he was shot
! down from above, by some one on the
circular staircase"
Il know nothing Of it," he main
tanned; but l fancied I caught a sud-
den glance at Gertrude, a flash of
| something that died as it came.
AS quietly, as calmly as 1 could, I
went over the whole story, from the
night Liddy and 1 had been alone UP
| to the strange experience of Rosie
| and her pursuer. The basket still
stood on the table, a mute witness to
this last mysterious occurrence.
There is something else,'' I said
hesitatingly, at the last. 'Halsey,
have never told this even to Gertrude,
but the morning after the crime
found, in tulip bed, revolver. IT
| it was yours, Halsey."
For an appreciate moment Halsey
| stared at me. Then he turned to Ger.
| trude.
MY revolver, Trude!" he exclaimed
why, Jack took my revolver with
him, didn't he?"
"Oh, for heavens sake don't say
that" 1 implored. "The detective
thinks possibly Jack Bailey came back
and-and the thing happened then"
He didn't come back" Halsey said
sternly. Gertrude, when you brought
down a revolver that night for Jack
| to take with him, what one did you
bring? Mine?"
Gertrude was defiant now.
NO. Yours was loaded, and I was
afraid of what Jack-might do. l gave
him one l have had for a year or two
1t was empty
Halsey threw up both hands de
spairingly.
"lf that isn't like a girl" he said
why didn't you do what l asked yol
to, Gertrude? You send Bailey of
with an empty gun. and throw mine
in tulip bed, of all places on earth!
Mine was a 3S caliber. The inquest
will show, of course, that the bulle
that killed Armstrong was a 3S. Their
where shall 1 be-"
You forget" I broke in, that
have the revolver, and that no ons
knows about it,
But Gertrude had risen angrily.
Il cannot stand it; it is Away:
with me-" she cried. "Halsey, did no
throw your revolver into the tuliI
bed. think you - did-it-your
self"
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