The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-31

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Probably by fall from the cliff to
the rocks below"
And the fall broke the manacle
from the right wrist?"
1.-THE broken manacle was never on
the right wrist"
That's merely conjecture" said the
lawyer.
mo; it's certainty. A blow heavy
enough to break that iron. old as It is,
must have left mark on the flesh.
There was no mark"
why should any one put one hand.
cuff on woman and leave the other
dangling?"
Suppose the other was not left dan
glingT
"Where was II, them
"On the wrist of some other person.
possibly"
"a man had chained the woman to
himselfT' said Sedgwick incredulously.
more probably the other way
round"
"That's even more unbelievable"
"Not If you consider the evidence.
You will remember that your mysteri-
GUS visitor, while talking with you. car
ried heavy bundle. The manacles
were, infer, in that"
"But what conceivable motive could
the dead woman have In dressing her
self up like a party. going to meet a
man and claiming him to herself?'
L..
must look for bizarre motives. Just at
present I'm dealing with facts. The
iron was on the left wrist of the body:
therefore 1t was on the right wrist of
the unknown companion. II is natural
to perform quick, deft act like snap
ping on handcuff with the right hand.
Hence, presumably, your visitor was
the one who clamped the cuffs"
"And the man broke or hisT
"Yes. But only after a struggle, un-
doubtedly. II could find a man with
badly bruised right wrist I should
consider the trails end in sight. You'll
make inquiries, will you, Mr.. Balm"
81 will; and will keep an eye on
Len Schlager and the doc. Anything
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After the lawyer had made his way
into the darkness Kent turned to his
host. This affair is really becoming a
very pretty problem Why didn't you
tell me of your meeting with Simon p.
Groot"
"Who?"
"The patriarch in the circus wagon"
ooh, I'd forgotten. Why, when was
trying to trail the woman / CHANGED
upon him and asked If he had seen
her. He hadn't"
"He had. Also he heard a terrified
cry shortly after. The cry, he thought.
was in a mans voice. Simon T. Groot
isn't wholly lacking in sense of obser-
Walton"
"a mans voice in a cry? What
could that mean?"
"Oh, any one of several hundred I'M
thinkable things" said Kent patiently.
"Wait She must have attacked
some other man as she did me. She
was going to a rendezvous, wasn't
she? Then she and the man she went
to meet quarreled, and he killed her
Wy tuIOWiuS uti ONth tuC Nuh
"And the handcuffs|
Sedgwick's hands went to his head.
'That, of course, is the inexplicable
thing. But don't you think that was
the way she met her death?"
mo"
"Then what do you think?'
"Never mind that at present The
point Is that Simon p. Groot naturally
supposed you to have been mixed up
In whatever tragedy there was going.
You've an unfortunate knack of manu-
featuring evidence against yourself,
Sedgwick. The redeeming feature is
that the sheriff can't very well use II
to arrest you"
II don't see why"
Kent chuckled. Don't you see that
the last thing the sheriff wants to do
is arrest anybody"
mo, I don't"
"Why, he has the body safely buried
now. You'll remember that he was In
great hurry to get 1t buried. Identi-
fication is what he dreaded. Danger
of Identification is now over. If any
one should be arrested the body would
be exhumed and the danger would re-
turn in aggravated form. No; he
wants you suspected, not arrested"
HE is certainly getting his wish"
"For the present. Well, I'm off,"
"Why don't you move your things
from the hotel and stay here with
me?" suggested Sedgwick.
Getting nervous?" inquired Kent.
ut isn't that. but l think ! could
make you more comfortable"
Kent shook his head. THANK you.
but / don't believe I'd better. When
I'm at work on case need privacy.
No house, not even a mans own, can
possibly be so private as strange
hotel"
Perhaps you're right" admitted the
other with laugh. then lapsing into
pronounced gloom for the first time
he said, lit seems pretty tough that
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