Bisbee daily review., 1913-12-12

slight bleeding from the nostfil
 caused probably by the fall--"
 ''That will do" said McGee--'wait
 second-you didn't perform any au-
 topsy on his head2 You didn't look
 into his brain?"
 What was the use?" came back
 Clesrys voice. little defantly. He was stabbed in the heart. wasn't heY"
 Now who's lyin'7" said Rosalie Le
 Grange. as she hung up the telephone But there was still snaTl in Me. Gees voice as he spoke;
 "You think you can monkey with the
 lawi Youl You think you can set l crooks loose just as you please and
 get away with it! It's all very well
 for you, but look at the fix you're leav- ! ing for me. The Hanska case is ! cleared up Wade is innocent. We've 1 had the wrong man all the time. That's l joke enough on us. But when we | find the right one, he gives us the slip. The Big Commissioner will get | roasted by the papers and hand 1t to i the Deputy Cornish. and the Deputy ! will pass the buck down to me, and | I'll have to report how it happened 1 Yes. and I will. tool" he burst out | m tell. all right! Conniving at es- cape. You know what that means 2"
 Is 1t felony or a misdemeanor 9" | asked Rosalie. T sort of forgot which
 1t was at the time I committed it."
 Look here" said McGee, you can't | bluff me"
 'I know I can't" said Rosalie. "an' l 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' lt. | Why did l do 1t? I've answered that. I couldn't trust you or any man alive to let that poor boy off. Apoplexy? ! You snorted when his sister said 1t. an you'd be snortin' now if you had
 him here in front of you. They'd ! laugh him to the chair. I've saved you | the necessity Of killin' an innocent
 man. An I ought to be thanked, not | kicked"
 You'll get worse" said Martin Mo Gee; 'you1l go up-that's what will ! happen to you!"
 Now will l." mocked Rosalie. break ! ing out her dimples, full.blazon, for
 he first time in two days. What an | awful trick on a ladyi Especially when you'll have to do it yourself. | You're the only witness-the only per
 son who knows that 1 promised to | deliver Estrilla. You're the only per. | son that's heard me confess let him i get away. So you'll be put on the ! witnessstand, an then I'll be put on he stand. An I'll testify how the New York police were baffied with the real criminals passin' right under their ! noses twenty times a day, an how poor boardin- house keeper that used | 70 be 8 medium-jest a plain, good old 1 ,oul-took a hairpin an a thimbleful
 of common sense an got confession ! an made you all fools. My lawyer'n | get it in; an if he don, the papers
 will, because I'll tell 'em.
 ] 1"Marty McGee," she added, Tets | git down to cases. You can't do a ! thing to me that'll help your position
 at all. I'll go to jail for life an never l tell where Juan Perez has gone. But if you'll listen, I'll show you just how | 10 fix this without trouble for any
 body"
 Inspector McGee was now playing | with flexible paper-knife. his down.
 cast eyes fixed upon it as be twisted it
 back and forth.
 | How" he asked in voice from
 which the bluster had gone.
 | Rosalie established herself comfort | ably in her chair.
 l Well, it's a funny thing for US to do-you an me-tell the truth. Not l quite the truth, either; the truth fixed ,up little, which is the best kind of a
 lie that is. Give out what happened
 but say your own smartness cleared
 up the case, not mine. Get Dr. Cleary
 to certify that he found apoplexy at ] 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 packers i drop him. Say the theory that a man | died of apoplexy just when a 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 beginnin' So you held Lawrence Wade until you made sure. Say you
 suspected Miss Estrilla-Miss Perez | from the first, an learnln' that she
 was superstitious. had her worked by
 a police stool-pigeon who played at
 bein' a professional medium. Say your men listened to the seances, an
 broke in at the end an pulled the
 whole story out of her. An If that
 ain't awful near the truth, I never ! made up lie that was"
 T fail to see how that excuses us
 for letting Estrilla-Perez-go, said
 Inspector McGee, with a stir of sar. 1 casm.
 That point" said Rosalie, ''is 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 Estrilla done 1t all herself Wed
 never thorght atSut their changin ! clothes. An when you got the con i fession. you sent out to arrest him, but he was gone-probably tipped of I somehow. How, search mel I haven't thought out a good lie there. Maybe
 you'll have to invent that yourself