Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05

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"Pipingv'
| "Did she show it?'
"Never a bit. Always looked fresh
as flower
Then, although she came far, she
didn't walk far to get here. There's a
road back of the hill yonder and a lit
tie copse in an open field where mo-
torcar has stood. l should say that
she had driven herself there and come
across the hill to YOU"
Gould we track the carr" asked
Sedgwick eagerly.
mo farther than the main road.
What is the latest she ever left here
when she arrived afoot?"
"Once she stayed till half past G.
begged her to stay and dine. but she
afew into herself at the mere sugges-
| ton" 80. .l...<
Half past 6. Allowing for a half
past dinner and time to dress for it.
she would have perhaps twelve to fif-
teen miles to go in the car. The name
she gave is obviously not her own, not
even, l judge, her maiden name"
! SedgWick turned very white. do
you mean that she is a married wo-
MANI" he demanded.
How could you have failed to see
it?'' returned the other gently. "a
young girl of breeding and social ex-
perience would hardly have come to
your studio. A married woman might
who respected herself with full conf
dence and knew with the same conf
dence that you would respect her And,
my dear boy" added Kent. with his
quiet winning smile, you are man to
inspire confidence. Otherwise I my
self might have suspected you of hay
ing a hand in the death of the woman
on the beach,
Never mind the woman on the
| beach. This other matter is more than
life or death. Is that fimsy supposi-
ton all you have to go on?"
mo. Her travel. Her wide &C
quaintance with men and events. Her
obvious poise. And. reverting to tan
gible fact. as clinching evidence, there
are her gloves. which she always
I wore.'
what about her gloves?"
you never saw her left hand, did
you."
"Oh. I see. You mean the wedding
ring. Well. l suppose" continued
Sedgwick, with tinge of contempt in
his voice. she could have taken off
her ring as easily as her gloves
There was no answering contempt
in Chester Kents voice as he replied:
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removed, leaves an unmistakable mark
What the connection between her and
the corpse on the beach may be is the
problem. My immediate business is to
discover who the dead woman is"
"And mine," said Sedgwick hoarse-
ly, Ito discover the living"
well at least start together" re-
piled Kent. Conner
Twenty minutes of curving and dodg-
ing along the rocky roads in Kents
runabout brought them to the turn
pike in sight of the town of Annalaka.
"The inquest is set for II o'clock"
said Kent.
"All right" said Sedgwick with equal
taciturnity.
They turned a corner and ran into
the fringe Of crowd lowering about
the town hall. Hating his machine
in a bit of shade. Kent surveyed the
gathering. At one point it thickened
about man who was talking eagerly,
the vocal center Of a small circle Of
silence.
elder Bennett said Kent, hack
from Cadystown. You'll have to face
the music now. One word of warming:
Don't lose your head or your temper
if the suspicion raised against you by
bennett is strengthened by me. My
concern is to get to the bottom of this
matter. There is something the sher-
if knows that~I don't know. Probably
it is the identity of the body. TO force
him into the open it may be necessary
for me to augment the case against
you"
Ought to be ready for arrest?'
! Hardly probable at present. No; go
On the stand when you're called and
tell the truth and nothing but the
truth"
"But not the whole truth?"
Nothing of the necklace. You won't
be questioned about that. By the way,
you have never kept among your ar
tistic properties anything in the way
of handouts, have your
mo-
81 didn't suppose you had. Those
manacles are sticker. DON'T alb
solutely do not like those manacles.
And on one wrist only! Perhaps that
is the very fact, though. Well, we
shall know more when we're older;
two hours older. say. Whether we
shall know all that Mr.. Sheriff Len
Schlager knows is another question.
don't like Mr.. Schlager, either, for that
matter"
bennett has seen me-" said Sedg-
wick in low voice.
Indeed, the narrators voice had alb
ruptly ceased and he stood with the
, dropped jaw of stupefaction. One aft