Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-24

bookf Wen, Just one little thing. DsA
you And any blood on the nosssnsr
"Horev the record" came back Dr..
Cleary's voice AFTER half.manuts;
.slieht Needing from the nostril
caused probably by the fall"
"That viii d." said McGee-~wak
q second-yeu didn't perform any au-
topsy on his head? You didn't hook
into his bratn!"
what was tho usef" came back
Clearys voice. little del,antly. "He
was stabbed in the heart wasn't he!"
Nov who's lyin'?' said Resale 10
Grange. 40 she hung up the telephone.
| But there was still q snarl II NC
Gees voice as he spoke:
"You think you can monkey with the
law! You! You think you can set
crooks loose just as you please and
get away with It! It's all very we'll
for you, but look at the fix you're Deav-
ing for me- The Hans1kA caso 10
cleared up. Wade 10 innocent. We've
had the wrong man all the time That's
Joke enough on us. But whom We
And the right one, he gives us the
slip. Tho Big Commissioner will get
roasted by the papers and hand It to
the Deputy Cornish, and the Deputy
will pass the buck down TO me. and
I'll have to report how it happened
Yes, and l will. tool" he burst out.
.1'n tell. all right! Conniving at e.
cape. You know what that me4nsr"
''Is 1t felony or . misdemeanor ?"
asked Resale. II sort Of forgot which
It was at the time committed it."
i Look here" said MCGEE. you can't
blum me-"
81 know l can't" said Rosalie. IAN
you can't me. either"
"Come, out with It then-what have
you done and why did you do it,"
| "As for what I've DONE" said Ros-
allie, "tellin' you would be spoilin' 1t.
Why did I do it? I've answered that
I couldn't trust you or any man alive
to let that poor boy of. Apop3sxyf
You snorted when his sister said It..
an you'd be snortin' now II you had
him here In front Of you. They'd
laugh him to the oa~ir. I've saved you
the necessity Of KILN an innocent
man. An ought to be thanked, not
kicked"
| You'll get worse," said Martin Nc
Gee; you'll go up-that's what will
happen to you'll"
Now will l." Knocked Roealie. break
ing out her dimples. full-blanon. for
the arst time in two days. What an
awful trick on q lady! Especially
when you'll have to do 1t yourself.
You're the only witness-the only per-
son who knows that I promised to
deliver Estrilla. You're the only per-
son that's heard me confess let him
get away. So yo~u be put on tho
witness stand, an then Ill bo put on
the stand. An I'll testify how the
New York police were bemed with the
real criminals passin' right under their
noses twenty times day, an how
q poor boardin house keeper that used
to be medium-jest q plain. good old
| soul-took hairpin an thimblefu1
Of common sense an got a confession
an made you all fools. Ny lawyer'h
get It in; an II he don':, the papers
will, because I'll tell EN-.
Marty McGee." she added. Tets
git down to cases. You can't do .
thing to me thatll help your position
at all. Ill 80 to Jail for life an never
tell where Juan Perez has gone. But
IL you'll listen, I'll show you just how
to fix this without trouble for any
body"
, Inspector MCGEE was now playing
with a flexible paperknife. his down
cast eyes fixed upon 1t a. he twisted 1t
back and forth.
How" he asked In voice from
which the bluster had gone
Rosslie established herself comfort
ably In her chair.
well, It's . funny thing for us to
do-you an mo-tsll the truth. Not
quite the truth. either; the truth fixed
up q little, which is the best kind Of q
lie that Is. Give out what happened
but say your own smartness cleared
up the case, not mine. Get DR.. Cleary
to certify that no found apoplexy at
a more careful autopsy. made after
the Coroner's inquest, but that he sup
pressed the report at the request of
the police. You can force him to do
that to save his skin: his work Is get
tin careless enough SOS one more
slip would make his political hackers
drop him. Say tho theory that man
died of apoDlexy just when . knife
was held at his breast ready for him
to fall on It. was SO strange an un-
usual that you couldn't believe It in
the besinnin'. So you held Lawrence
Wade until you made sure. Say you
suspected Miss Estrilla-Miss Perez
from the first, an learnin' that she
was superstitious, had her worked by
a police stoolpigeon who played At
bein' professional medium. Say
your men listened to the seances. an
broke in at the end an pulled the
whole story out of her. An II that
amt awful near the truth. never
made up a lie that was"
II fail to see how that excuses us
for letting Estrilla-Pere.-go." said
Inspector MCGEE, with stir Of sar-
casm.
That point" said Rosalie. lis the
best thing I've thought out-the very
best. Up to the confession-that's our
story-you hadn't the least idea but
Miss Estrdlla done 1t all herself. We'd
never thought about their changin'
clothes. An when you got the con-
fession. you sent out to arrest him,
but he was gone-Drobably tipped on