The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-01-01

why should any one put one hand
cuff on a woman and leave the other
dangling?"
Suppose the other was not left dan
gling?
Where was it, then"
ION 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"
mot if you consider the evidence
You will remember that your mysteri-
Gus visitor. while talking with you, car
RED heavy bundle. The manacles
were. infer, in that
But what conceivable motive could
the dead woman have in dressing her
self up like u party. going to meet
man and claiming him to herself?'
when you have a bizarre crime you
must look for bizarre motives. Just at
present I'm dealing with facts. The
iron was on the left wrist of the body:
therefore it was on the right wrist of
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to perform quick. deft act like snap.
ping on a handcuff with the right hand.
Hence. presumably. your visitor was
the one who camped the cuffs"
"And the man broke off hisT
yes But only after struggle, I'M
doubtedy. If | could find man with
a badly bruised right wrist | should
consider the trails end in sight. You'll
make inquiries, will you. Mr.. Balm"
II will: and | will keep an eye on
Len Schlager and the doc. Anything
more now? If not I'll say good night"
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?"
1.-THE patriarch in the circus wagon"
"Oh, I'd forgotten. Why. when l was
trying to trail the woman l CHANGED
upon him and asked If he had seen
her. He hadn't"
HE had. Also he heard terrified
cry shortly after. The cry, he thought
was in a mans voice. Simon P. Groot
isn't wholly lacking in sense of obser'
vation."
"A mans voice in a cry? What
could that mean?
"Oh. any one of several hundred un
thinkable things" said Kent patiently
wait! She must have attacked
some other man as she did me. Sh'
was going to rendezvous, WASH
she? Then she and the man she wen
to meet quarreled, and he killed he
by throwing her over the cliff"
"And the handcuffs?"
Sedgwick's hands went to his head
THAT, of course. is the inexplicabl
thing. But don't you think that wa
the way she met her death?
mo"
''Then what do you thinkT"
"Never mind that at present TIL
point Is that Simon P. Groot naturall
: supposed you to have been mixed u
in whatever tragedy there was going
You've an unfortunate knack of manu-
featuring evidence against yourself
, Sedgwick. The redeeming feature
that the sheriff can't very well use
F. to arrest you"
i, 81 don't see why"
Kent chuckled. Don't you see tha
r the last thing the sheriff wants to
l. is arrest anybody?"
, mo, | don't"
why. he has the body safely burie
- now. You'll remember that he was
a great hurry to get it buried. Ident
" fication Is what he dreaded. DANCE
OF Identification is now over. If an
q one should be arrested the body woul
}, be exhumed and the danger would r
It turn in aggravated form. No; b
n wants you suspected, not arrested"
r HE is certainly getting his wish"
For the present. Well, I'm off"
6 "Why don't you move your thin,
; from the hotel and stay here vii
- met" suggested Sedgwick.
y Getting nevous? inquired Kent.
8 1T isn't that, but l think l cou
It make you more comfortable"
4 Kent shook his head. THANK 20
but | don't believe I'd better. Wh'
I'm at work on case | need pr1vac
No house, not even mans own, CT
III possibly be so private as a stran
le hotel"
r, perhaps you're right" admitted t
other with a laugh, then lapsing In