The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-09-21
THAT AFFAIR AT
BY Burton Tss a. E. sssysnson
New York; Holt
New York-Henry Holt & Co.-1so7.

all quite positive that no stranger had
| passed the gate or entered the grounds
| during the morning. After l left you,
yesterday morning, started back to
the hotel to get my things together,
and in the hotel office ! happened to
meet the policeman, whose name, II
| seems, is Clemley. He was off duty
and seemed anxious to talk, so / took
him In to the bar, and got him q drink,
| and pumped him little on the aft
chance OF his knowing something he
! hadn't told me.
And you're still sure I asked him
| after while, that no strangers went
| into the Lawrence house yesterday
morning.
| ".Oh, yes. sir. he answered. Per
fectly sure. ! was on duty there all
the time. YOU know. There were
| good many people around. but ] knew
| them all. I've been a policeman here
| for 90 years. and there's mighty few
people ! don't know. The only strang-
er j noticed the whole morning was "A
fellow who stopped to ask me where
Miss Kingdom lived
you can guess, Lester how my
heart jumped when i heard that. Well,
he described him about as ! described
him to YOU
Even to his being a musician:" I
asked
"Welis no." Godfrey laughed. THAT
was long shot of my own. But he
told me the fellow was humning a
tune all the time he wasn't talking He
came along just about II O'Clock and
asked where Miss Kingdom lived; asked
also what was going on at the Law
renee place, and seemed much inter
ested In what the policeman told him.
He 'OlIed II cigaret and lighted ii as
he talked--rolled it. Clemley says, with
one twist of his fingers, SO expertly
that Clemley marvelled at il. FINALLY
he went on tn the gate out Wonder and
entered the yard. That was all Glenn
did he see him come out again"
"No-hc's certain hc didn't come out
While he was on duty. which was til
O'Clock in the afternoon or course.
he may have left by some other way
He could HAYES gone out by the alley
at the back of the lot.Sif he'd wished
to avoid being seen"
And you believe Marcia Lawrence.
met him hcre?"
Tn sure OF It, There can bc on,y
one explanation Of that !et,cr--it lie
manded price for slime: threatened
cXposure--at the church itself. perhaps
unless the money was,paid Miss Law
renee flew here with hvhat Jewels ana
money she could lays her hands on az
the moment gave them To him. and he
~
reward him ifshe'd keep the sccret--its
doubtful If SHE EaGt money enough al
hand to buy him off, for his demands
wouldn't be modest AT any rate. sh,
got rid of him for the moment. Hui
after he had gone. she " Herted that
she would always be AT his mercy
that she could never he Burr Cur;iss :
legal wife. supposc she should return
to the house and carry through the
farce or "a marriage Ger, lnony. she
would only he pre- pairing for herself
an agony OF suffering even more ter
rfble than that which she WAS then
enduring. The time would surely come
when she would be unmaaltcd before
her lover She could bear anything bat
that. She decided to end it-but to
end II in such a way that her secret
would be safe forever. So she lured
him away upon another trail, then re-
turned here and" He finished with
a significant gesture ut his throat
thought IT over; then l shook my
1T won't do, Godfrey" | said. 1T
won't hold together In the first place
how did this fellow know about the
Kingdoms? II he, met Miss Lawrence
here, they must be his accomplices."
II believe they are
Granting that, don't believe Miss
Lawrence killed herself. certainly
ooh ocueNt ANY SUCH ldNtaSllc theory
as that Miss Kingdom is working away
there in the cellar burying the body.
Why should she incur such a risk
as that?''
tive asked myself the same ques-
ton, depend upon 1t. Lester
And found no answer to it?'
mot yet" n
Miss Lawrence is on board the Um-
bria." repeated. trying to convince
myself. E 1
Then what is Miss Kingdom doing
In the CELLAR"
II don't know, but It's not what you
think" Ff3&
Well said Godfrey. rising suddenly,
I'm not going to theorize about it any
longer-rm going to find out"
ITO find out?' / echoed, rising too.
"Yes--I'm going to enter the house,
But you'll be committing a felony
"Oh. don't think I'll have to break
in. i believe that door yonder is un-
locked, Lester. Lucy Kingdom came out |
OF 1t. and Tin pretty sure it hasn't been
locked since"
"That makes no difference" pointed