Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-05


Last evening? Ali, that wasn't the
girl OF the picture. It's an intermlna-
BILE six days since I've seen her"
"No; | know II wasn't she, having
Heen your picture ana since then your
visitor OF last night The question Is,
Who was it,"
"Wait! How did you know that a
woman came here last nightr'
"From common gossip.
"And where have you seen her
eince?'
"0n the beach ut Lonesome Cove
Lonesome Cove repeated Sedg-
wick mechanically; then with star.
tied glance. Not the dead woman"
Kent nodded, watching him closely.
For space Of four heartbcats one
very slow and three very quick
there was silence between tliem Kent
broke It,
"DO you see now the wisdom Of
funkness?"
You mean that | shall he accused
VI iiA nus q Ihlll VI lltl hNAANllN
strongly suspected, at least
"On what basls?"
You are the last person known to
llnve seen her alive"
Surely that isn't enough?"
Not OF itself There's a brulse back
Of your right ear"
luyountarlly SedgWicks hand went
60 the spot
"WhO gave It to your pursued Kent
"You know It all without my telling
you" cried Sedgwlcl, "but never
raw lhe woman before in my life,
Kent 4 give you my word Of honor!
She came and went, but who she ia or
why she came or whore she went
have no more idea thn you have per
lops not nem'y so much"
"rherO You are wrong. I'm depend
ing ON YOU to tell me about her"
'Not II my lie hung on H. And
how could her being found drowned on
tho beach be connected with meY
81 didn't spy that SHE was found
drowned on the heach'
"You did no; pardon me; II was the
messenger boy But you said that her
body was found IN Lonesome Cove"
"rhat Il quite diilcrcut matter"
"Sho wasn't drownedT"s
~ should be- very much surprised
" the autopsy showed any water In
thc lungs"
but the boy said that the body was
loshcd TO gmtng, ana there were
chains on it-ls that trueY
at was lashed to a grating and man.
aclrd.'
"Mauaclcd3 What Il ghastly mys.
teryw Sedgwick dropped his chin IN
mediation, I'll she wasn't drowned
then she was murdered and thrown
overheard from a bont Is TINT ltI'
Chester Kent smiled nscrutably.
Suppose you let mo DO the question.
Ing q while You can give no clew
whatsoever to The Ideullty OF your yes
terdny's vlsltorY
There was the slightest possible hes
ilnilon before the artist replied "None
nlnlLr
"lf find II dlncult to believe lhot
what viii the Villagers think of II
when Elder Denneti returns from On.
dystown and tells his story, us he IL
sure to do2"
Does bennett know tie womonT
mo; but II isn't his fault TINT he
doesn't lie dld his best In the Inter
viewing line when no met her on her
way to your place.
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