The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-02-20
CHAPTER TEN Continued.

""They we arrested the Count"
Hardy began, and Anita screamed
an interruption
ARRESTED Count Charlier! Put
him in jailH"
Yes returned the detective.
81 found the other one Of that
pair of gloves, the mate to the one
in the lady's hands-where. do
you Supposed"
""Where?" 81.
"Rolled up in a pair of socks,
In the Counts chiffonier drawer;
Of course, to hide it, as it is not
at all easy to destroy a thing like
that while visiting"
~ know it, said Pauline
earnestly "it is hard. I've often
notice that when I've wanted to
burn a letter or anything You
cant do it unknown to the serv-
ANTS or somebody"
"Rubbish r. said Anita. SIT
would have been easy for the
Count to dispose Of a glove if he
had wanted to-. But he didn't. He
never committed that crime If
a glove was found, as you say,
somebody else put it there to in
terminate an innocent man. It's
too absurd TO fasten the thing on
Count Charlierl Do you suppose
he went tosthe boudoir and gave
Miss Darlington poison, and then
shook hands good evening, and
left his glove in her grasp? Non
sense The glove in her dead hand
was put there by the criminal to
impIicate the Count, and the glove
In the rolled up socks for the
same purpose and by the same
personl''
SPY Jove, Miss Frayne! You
may be rightl' cried Hardy.
.1'Somehow i can't see the Count s
hand in this thing, and yet"
And yet, he did It'll" put in
Hayiland. Have they really
jailed hint I'm glad"
I'm sorry, said Pauline, and
her face was white. "Did he
did he-e-confess2' The girls
voice .trembled, and she could
scarcely pronounce the words.
"Not he,' said Hardy; she
semed dazed, and declared his in
nocenee-but he was not convinc-
ing, He takes it very hard and
talks wildly and at random. But
you know what Frenchmen are !;
liable to go off their heads at any
.time.'a
"But look at it," reasoned
Anita why would the Count kill
Miss Darlington Why, he thought
Of marrying her"
mot much he didn't" and
Hardy smiled a little. "I size it
up this way: Matters had gone
so far that he had to propose to
the lady or clear out. He didn't
want to clear out, for then she
would take back the little matter
of $4,000 already marked for him
in her will. Moreover, he couldn't
realize that tidy little sum, which
he very much wants, so long as
she lived. To be sure, he would
have had far more had he married
her, bat that was not in his nibs'
plans. So he resorted to desperate
measures, He's thorough villain,
that mani Outwardly, most cor
rect and honorable, but really an
adyenturer, as is also his friend,
the dashing young widow"
"Mr. Hardy" and Pauline
spoke calmly now, tdo you know
these things to be true of Count
Charlier, or are you assuming
themi''
"WeH, Miss Stuart, / know hui
man nature pretty we'll, especially
male human nature, and, if I'm
mistaken in this chap, I'll be sur
prised. But, also, I've set afoot
an investigation, and Wei soon
learn his record, antecedents, and
all that. At present no one knows
much about him and what Mrs.
rockingham knows she won't
tell"
cit was very strange for Aunt
Lucy to give him that money
began Pauline musingly.
"Not at ALL" broke in Gray, 81
know all about that. Miss Car.
|ringt0n had a certain bunch of
bonds that amounted to just $780,,
600. In one Of her sudden bursts
Of generosity, and she often had
such, she decided to give those
bonds to five people. mean, tc
devise them in her will, not to give
them now. Well, four were Miss
Stuart and Carr Loria; Miss
Frayne and myself. And then she
hesitated for some time, but
finally announced that the fifth