The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-04
HEARD AT THE CRIME CLUB
BY FRANK FROEST
This Weeks Story:
Creeping Jimmie"
Copyright. 1919. by the HcClur. Newspaper syndicatsb

time he passed mp the gravel drive OF
the Red House NE had asSimllated a
large not OF local gossip.
liyrcy met him ON the vcranda nv
dear man" he exclaimed. you dop,:
mean that YOU have walked out, |!
I'd known, I'd have sent the car"
Adhur>, flashed a d%,Sarming smile
at him "Ivc thoroughly enloyed the
walk, thanks. This is a beautiful dis
tiIrt."
VERY well, come along In You
wont trouble to dress for dinner. You
are Just IN time
Il was at the dinner table that the
detective caught his first glimpse OF
Mrs. Sheet. Somehow she was dif
icrcnt from the type ll, imagination
had suggested She was beautiful
! there Vas no gainSayiug that-hut 1t
was with a yiyaclouS southern beauty
now married by the dark rings that
cuclrcIrd the dullcd eyes. She could
not have been more than 3, and her
voice was low and musical as she
spoke TO the detective.
Il can't realize it," she said Il
cam rsalizc that he j., gonc-that |
am
\ crash interrupted her, and Livrcy.
with an apology, rang Tor a servant to
pick up the knives which he had acci-
d%cntally swept of the table.
| They say that You have got the
man who did it," she vent on with a
quick catch OF her breath. "Iou think
you will be able TO prove that he did
it? Ii IS dreadful OF me, | know, Mr..
Adhurst, but"-ior the momen, her face
llamed and she clinched her fists
paSSionately-"l could kill him myself.
- For the sake OF a few paltry
Jewels" 80
She rose abruptly and left the table.
Liyrcy seemed little affected either
by her emotion or her abrupt depar-
turc, sad, very sad" he observed
periunctorily, and applied himself to
the soup. AdhurSt followed his cx-
ample without comment There were
one or two things he would have liked
to ask Mrs Sheet, but they could wait.
This tete -a-tc,e meal with ~l.,yrey
had a certain plQuancy Tor him, Tor he
had begun 10 conceive that the place
he occupied in the family affairs oi the
dead man might be worth considering
There are always possibilities oi
surprise in even the most ordinary case
Of murder, and Adhurst had had too
much experience ever to feel sure
Creeping l,mmie-though things on the
face OF II were against him-might be
able definitely TO prove his innocence
And II Jimmie were not guilty. i, wa,
advisable to find out what other per
son nigh, have a motive for wishing
Sheet out OF the way. The bunch oI
flowers that the detective had Dough,
on his way 10 the house had gained
for him the local gossip that there had
been talk OF a separation between Mr.
and Mrs. Sheet, and that his brother.
in-law was an infreQuent and unwel.
come visitor to the Red House. Still
II might all be country scandal with.
ont foundation.
Yet here he was, with the body q
Lawrence Sheet scarcely cold. aSsum.
ing all the airs OF a host in the hous,
and rcpoSing within the detective
breas, poke, was a cipher wire /,
Scotland Yard requesting inquiries in
TO his career, II was all very haz,
and indefinite, and Adhurst knew N
had to walk warilyN
What ] can't understand" said liv
fcy, Us where the diamonds have gone
II is possible, | suppos, tina, this ma,
YOU have arrested has passed Them /,
a confederate OF hidden them"
Easily possible agreed Adhurgl