South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-28
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49, IA MYSTERY STORY OFNEW YORK
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! come with me TO lawyer!"
That's right" said Rosalie lie
Grange shortly. Inspector MCGEE,
you can excuse us!"
Not for a WHILE" said Inspector
MCGEE shortly Madame, l must
have your official statement as to what
you have just told me-befOre l let
you leave"
Now Constance had risen; and
Betsy Barbara, in a state of sup
pressed fury, stood beside her, flashing
sparks from her golden hair and her
blue eyes and her little white teeth.
Inspector MCGEE stepped TO the door
TO summon a stenOgrapher. And
ROsalie. quick as thought slipped up
beside Constance.
Not a word more than you can
help about this proposing TO you-nOt
a word" she whispered
step into this room, ladies'" said
MCGEE. III join you in moment.
We won't need you, Mrs. LeGrange."
Alone with the inspector. Rosalie
lie Grange stood regarding him from
top TO toe. He faced her in a little
embarrassment, which he covered with
bluff.
We'll, you carried your pretend off
nicely" he said; "anybody'd have
thought you were sore on me-
For answer Rosalie drew up a cor
ner of her fine, firm. upper lip.
Sometimes" she said, II hate a cop"
Martin MCGEE laughed uneasily
Well we got the goods" he said !;
motives established, all right"
You got the goods, not we" replied
Resale; don't you count me in on
that game. Third degree! on the
likes of her."
But Inspector MCGEE, more inter
ested just then in his professional
problem than in what any woman
thought of him, was pursuing his own
train of reflection.
In love with Hanska's wife-and
Hanska'd mistreated her-and she
wanted a divorce and couldn't get it.
Wade and Hanska had Quarreled
Wade goes up there with his curio
shop and lays it down on the table.
They quarrel again. Wade's fencer
He picks up that knife and lets him
have ii just by instinct. Then he
walks out of the door and gets ratified
| and beats it. OF course, it would be
| hard to establish first-degree murder
! on what we've got now-but Wen get
it,"
"You think so, do you?" replied
/ Resale. My, don't promotion make
a smart man of a pavement-pOunding
cop!"
Guess you don't know" replied
| MCGEE, what this man Wade said
| when we pinched him in Boston and
told him what it was for?"
NO"
He said: L didn't kill him. but by
| God I'd like to shake hands with the
man who did," In the inspectors
voice there was an air of ffnality and
! triumph.
Did he say that?" asked Rosalie;
"did he say that?" She unused for a
| Of
human conduct drawn from her large
| experience.
Martin MCGEE" she said at length,
II told you a while ago / wasn't go
ing to monkey with this thing. But
I'm an old fool-and I'm in tiny
own way, as 1 always worked"
MCGEE laughed.
Il thought you couldn't keep out"
| he said, but you'll run against Law
renee Wade at the end"
AS the two strange women came
| through the door, they found Resale
| lie Grange waiting. Constance looked
| her full in the eye; and suddenly her
hands went up to her own face and
| she surrendered herself to her misery.
! And oddly enough, she turned in her
| distress not to her friend and com
| paniOn Betsy-Barbara, but to this
strange woman. AS a bruised child
runs to its mother, she ran 10 Rosalie
/ lie Grange and bowed a weary head
! upon her shoulder. Rosalie took heI
| to the bosom on Wilhelm her own
! queer way-she had borne the bur
| dens Of thousands for 80 years long
You poor lamb" she exclaimed; ;
you poor lamb Now it's going to be
| all right dearie-and you're comm
home with mel"
And that" said RosaHe lie
! Grange as she retold this tale to the
only person who ever enjoyed her full
| confidence, was the queerest way
that ever I saw Of solicitin' custom
| for a boardin- house"
(TO be Continued)