Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-07-29

seen your picture, and since then your
visitor Of last night. The question is,
Who was it?''
"Wait! How did you know that
woman came here last night?"
"From common gossip"
"And where have you seen her
since?"
ION the beach at Lonesome Cove"
Lonesome Cove" repeated Sedg-
wick mechanically; then with star
tied glance. Not the dead woman
Kent nodded, watching him closely.
For a space of four heartbeats-one
very slow and three very quick
there was silence between them. Kent
broke it.
do you see now the wisdom Of
frankness?"
you mean that l shall be accused
Of having hand in her death?'
Strongly suspected, at least"
"On what basis?''
You are the last person known to
eave seen her alive"
Surely that isn't enough?"
Not Of itself. There's a bruise 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 l never
saw the woman before in my life,
Kent-I give you my word Of honor!
| She came and went, but who she Is or
why she came or where she went l
have no more idea than you have-per-
/ haps not nearly so much"
There you are wrong. Pm depend
ing on you to tell me about her,"
''Not if my life hung on it. And
how could her being found drowned on
the beach be connected with meT
Il didn't say that she was found
drowned on the beach"
you d1d-no; pardon me; it was the
messenger boy. But you said that her
body was found in Lonesome Cove"
THAT is quite a different matter
''She wasn't drownedT'
"1 should be very much surprised
if the autopsy showed any water in
the lungs"
But the boy said that the body was
dashed to a grating, and there were
chains on it that true?'
''It was dashed to a grating and man
acled"
''Manacled? What a CHASTITY mys
!, terry" Sedgwick dropped his chin IL
meditation. eff she wasn't drowned
then she was murdered and thrown
overheard from a boats that it?'
Chester Kent smiled inscrutabIy
: Suppose you let me do the question
ing a while. You can give no clev
whatsoever to the Identity Of your yes
terday's visitor?"
There was the slightest possible hes
, itation before the artist replied, ''Non4
at all"
eff find it difficult to believe tina
what will the villagers think Of i
when Elder bennett returns from Ca
dystown and tells his story, as he /
sure to dor
docs bennett know the woman
mo; but it isn't his fault that b
doesn't. He did his best in the intes
viewing line when he met her on ne
way to your place"
''She wasn't on her way to M
5 place. objected Sedgwick.
bennett got the notion that sh
was He hid behind bush an
: watched"
: did he overhear our conversation?
HE was too far away. He saw til
= attack on you. Now, just fit togethe
these significant bits OF fact. Th
body Of a woman. dead by violence
found on the beach not far from her
The last person, as far as is known.
j have seen her alive is yourself. Sh
called on yon. and there was COLI
= guy. apparently vehement. betwee
! you. eliminating in the assault upo
d you. She hurried away. One migl
a we'll guess that later you followed b.
Is to her DEATH
% Il did follow her, said Sedgwick
low tone
a For what purpose?''
Ia 10 find out who she was
It Which you didn't succeed In doing.
' She was too quick for me- II
% blow OF the rock had made me gidd
= and she got away among the thicketa
= That's pity One more point
suspicion. bennett. you say. saw yoq
picture, The Rough Rider He W
g g tell every one about It. you may |
a. sure
!. What Of it?''
20 The strange coincidence Of the ID
y ject and the apparent manner az d
unknoWn's death"
: People win hardly suspect that
4 killed her and set her a0nlft 6oe.
d. model. suppose" said the axt1t d
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