The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-02-02

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Nov kssp still and listea. ne
Qo0os eautioosly around il the aasa-
nass. Anally discovesiAg The wallet un-
Der u pillow. caat you - Il your.
sslfi.
He vas leaning forward. sxcitedly,
and could almost 80 The grevso0e
trass1y ~ was depicting.
"6he draws oat tAe wallet. Thsa,
perhaps she remembers the alligatoe
bag and o. the possibility that the
notes are tAsfs. instead Of in the
pockstbook. she gropes around for It.
Suddenly. the man awakes and clutch.
- at the nearest object. perhaps her
neck chain. which breaks.
1T 10 all IN silence: the man 10 still
stupidly drunk. But he holds her in
. tight grip. Then the tragedy. She
must get away: in . minute the car
will be aroused. Such . woman. ON
such an errand. does not 60 without
some sort Of . weapon. in this case
. dagger. which. unlike . revolver. 10
noiseless.
with . quick thrust-shes . big
woman and . bold one-she strikes.
Possibly Hotchkiss 10 right about the
lsft-hand blow. Harrington may have
hsld her right hand. or perhaps she
held the dirk in her left hand ~ she
groped with her right. Then, - the
man falls back and his grasp relaxes.
she straightens and attempts 70 get
away. The swaying Of the car throws
her almost into your berth, and. trem-
bling with terror. she crouches behind
the curtains Of lower ten until every.
thing 10 still. Then she goes noise
lessly back to her BERTH"
nodded.
1T seems to fit partly, at least"
said. I'm the morning when she found
that the crime had been not only fruit
less. but that she had searched the
wrong berth and killed the wrong
man: when she saw me emerge, un-
hurt, Just rs she was bracing herself
for the discovery Of my dead body.
then she went into Mysteries. You re-
member. I gave her some whisky
1T really seems . tenable theory.
But, like the Sullivan theory, there are
one or two things that don't agree
with the rest. For one thing. how did
the remainder Of that chain get into
Alison Vests possession?"
"She may have picked 1t up on the
floor"
"We1l admit that" said; "and I'm
sure I hope 10. Then how did the mur.
dered mans pocketbook get into the
sealskin bag? And the dirk. how &C
count for that, and the blood stains!"
"Now what's the use." asked NC
Knight agsrievedly. "of my building
up beautiful theories for you to pull
down! We'll take It to Hotchkiss.
Maybe he can tell from the blood
stains II the murderer's finger nails
were square or pointed"
"Hotchkiss is no fool" said warm.
ly. Under all his theories there's q
good, hard layer of common sense.
And we must remember, Rich, that
neither of our theories includes the
woman at Doctor Van Kinks hospital,
that the charming picture you have
Just drawn does not account for ALI
son Vests connection with the case,
or for the bits Of telegram in the Sui.
livan fellows pajamas pocket. You
are like the man who put the clock to-
gether; you've got half of the works
left over"
"Oh, go home," said Mcknight, dis.
gustedly. "1'm no Edgar Allan Poe.
What's the use Of coming here and