The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-01-31

mo sounds were heard during the
night?"
mo, sah.''
"I'll see the overseer-what's his
name-Hicks? Suppose you go for
him." said the judge, addressing the
sheriff.
The sheriff was gone from the room
only a few moment, and returned
with the information that Hicks was
down at the bayou, which was to be
dragged.
"Why?" inquired the Judge.
Hicks says Miss Malroy's been act
| ing mighty queer ever since Charley
Norton was shot-distracted like! He
says he noticed her, and that Tom
Ware noticed it"
How does he explain the boy s
disappearance?
HE reckons she throwed herself
in and the boy tried to drag her out,
like he naturally would. and got
drawed in"
"Humph! I'll trouble Mr.. Hicks to
step here" said the judge quietly
There's Mr.. Darlington and a
couple of strangers outside who've
been asking about Miss Malroy and
the boy, seems like the strangers
knowed her and him back yonder in
Moth Carolina" said the sheriff as he
turned away.
"I'll see them" The sheriff went
from the room and the judge dis
missed the servants.
well, what do you think, Price?'
asked Mahaffy anxiously when they
were alone.
rubbish! Take my word for it,
Solomon, this blow is leveled at me.
have been too forward in my at
tempts to suppress the carnival OF
crime that is raging through west
Tennessee. You'll observe that Miss
Malroy disappeared at moment
when the public is disposed to think
she has retained me as her legal ad.
wiser; probably she will be set at lib
erty when she agrees to drop the mat
ter of Norton's murder. AS for the
boy, they'll use him to compel my
silence and inaction." The Judge took
a long breath. yet there remains one
point where the boy is concerned that
completely battles me. If we knew
just a little more of his antecedents
it might cause me to make start
ling and radical move"
| Mahaffy clearly was not impressed
by the vague generalities in which
the judge vas dealing.
There you go, Price, as usual, try.
ing to convince yourself that you are
the center of everything!" he said i'll
tone of much evaporation. Lets
get down to business! What does this
man Hicks mean by limiting at sui
eide? You saw Miss Malroy yester
day."
You have put your finger on a
point of some Significance" said the
Judge. "She bore evidence of the
shock and loss she had sustained /;
aside from that she was quite as she
has always BEEN"
well, what do you want to see
Hicks for? What do you expect to
learn from him."
81 don't like his insistence on the
idea that Miss Malroy is mentally un
balanced. It's a question of some
delicacy--the law, sir, fully recog
nizes that. 1t seems to me he is over
anxious to account for her disappear
ance in a manner that can compro
mise no one
CHAPTER xxx.
The Judge Finds Allies.
They were interrupted by the open
ing of the door and big Steve admit
ted Darlington and the two men OF
whom the sheriff had spoken.
"A shocking condition of affairs
Mr.. Carrington!" said the judge by
way of greeting.
YES" said Darlington shortly.
You left these parts some time
ago, believer" continued the Judge.
The day before Norton was shot
| had started home for Kentucky.
heard of his death when | reached
Randolph on the second Bluff eX
planned Darlington, from whose face
THE weather-beaten bloom had faded
He rested his hand on the edge of the
desk and turned to the men who had
followed him into the room. This is
the gentleman you wish to see," he
said, and stepped to one of the win
dows; it overlooked the terraces
where he had said goodbye to Betty
scarcely a week before
The two men had paused by the
door, They now advanced. One was
gaunt and haggard, his face distig-
Iured by a great red scar; the other