The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-07


Last evening? An. that wash
The girl OF the picture. us an III
IterminRbe six days since I've seen
her
No: I know il wasn't she. hayips
seen your picture. and since then your
visitor OF last night The question Is.
who was it,
Wait How did you know that a
woman came here last night?'
From common gossip
And where have you seen her
on Tie beach. AZ Lonesome
Lonesome cove. repeated sede
wick mcchanically Then with \
startled glance Not the dead wo
man, 9
Kent nodded. Watching him closely.
For a space OF four heart heats--one
very SLOW. and three very quick
there. ,t-ts -~iirrre- brtwcru- thVu. kent
broke IT,
Do You see now the wisdom OF
fraukness?
You mean that shall be accused
of having a hand in her death"
"On what basis?
You are the last person known 10
have seen her alive.
surely that isn't enough 90
NO, OF itself There's a oruiss
back OF your right ear,
Involuntarily Sedgwick's hand went
to the spot,
Who gave it to you?" pursued
Kent.
You know it all without my telling
you,- CRIED SedgWick. But / never
saw the woman before In my lie,
Kent give you my word OF honor
She came and went, but VINO she is
or why she came or where she went
| have no more idea than you have.
Perhaps not nearly SO much
There YOU are wrong I'm depend
ing on you TO tell me about her.
Not IL my life hung on il. And
how could her being round drowned
on the beach he connected with me!
Il didn't say that she was Iouhu
drowned on the beach
You did No. pardon me. IL was
the messenger boy. But you said
that her body was found in Lonesome
Cove"
That is quite different matter"
she wasn't drowned"
II should be very much surprised
II the autopsy showed any water In
the lungs.
But the boy said that the body
was lashed TO grating, and that
there were chains on It. Is that
true?"
1T was dashed TO a grating, and
"Manacled? What a CHASTITY mys-
terry, Sedgwicli dropped his chin in
IF she wasn't drowned,
then she was murdered and thrown
overheard from a boat. Is that it?'
Chester Kent smiled inscrutably.
Suppose you let me do the question
ng a while. You can give no clue
whatsoever TO the identity or your
visitor?"
There was the slightest possible
hesitation before the artist replied.
None at ALL
If find it difficult 10 believe that,
what will the villagers think OF il
when Elder bennett returns from
Cadystown and tells his story. as he
IS sure TO do?"
Does bennett know the woman"
NO; but it isn't his fault that he
doesn't. He did his best in the in
line when he met her on
her way 10 your place
She wasn't on her way TO my
place" objected Sedgwick.
bennett got the notion that she
was. Accordingly. with the true
delicacy OF our fine old
New England stock, he hid behind a
bush and watched"
did he overhear our converse
.ion?"
"He was too far away. He saw the
attack on you. Now, just At together
these significant bits OF fact. The
body OF a woman, dead by violence
Is founa on the beach not far from
ere. The last person, as far as Is
Known, 10 have seen her alive is your
self She called on you, and there
VAS a.cclloQuy, apparently vehement,
between you, eliminating in the as
sault upon you. She hurried away
One might well guess that later you
followed her 10 her death