Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-15

doing for her. IT seems aS if ] were
! continually asking favors of you. Miss
Adarc, every time we meet, Soon
shall he fairly swampcd in my indebted
ness to you 80
Docs that mean that you've got
something more for me-" she cried Gag
crly. "'rhp ease isn't ended. then
You haven't found the murderer
Paul shook his head.
"Not yet I'm afraid the motive
/ licS far back in the past somewhere.
/ We will have to find it before We can
( lay our hands on tho man. I'm telling
/ YOU this. Miss Adarc. because do
want your hclp once more. wish
/ You would try very hard TO remember
liz Mrs. Hartshornc over dropped hint
as to any possible experience she might
have had before coming here; anything
which might give us n starting point
/ prior 10 last autumn when she dropped
/ from the clouds, 50 to speak,
| "I'vc been doing that ever since the
murder" Rose declared "Puzaling my
head. | moan. to recall the least thing
about her
lOokInE Ha'k now can. So" now
cautious she was, but it struck mc then
as merely wclI-br"d rcticcncc I've
lain awake nights thinking over every
bit Of conversation | eau remember hav-
ing with hcr and two or three little
things have como back TO me that YOU
may be able 10 make something Of. but
they're awfully vague,
"Do YOU remember month or 50
ago when the papers were fun Of the
spring floods Of the rivers in the Middle
VEST | smoke ur il when | was sorting
her mail at the time. moro to make
conversation than anything else. and she
nearly had a til she said she had had
u frightrul experience aS child aud
. couldn't think Of food even now
| without going into y panic. | cannot
/ recall her exact words, but under
stood thrv had lived ON farm some
whore on thC bank of big river which
oycrHovcd and carried everything
away, She was swrpt nT downstream
for two DAYS rlinging to thc roof of n
chicken house before the wrockagc all
got stuck in n lam and she was rescued.
"Whcn | became interested and
started to ask questions she shut M like
a clam. but if YOU want TO find out
where she was raised YOU had better
look m the big floods around thirty
wears opo-"a
"Thirty =" Paul intcricctcd. Mrs.
Hartsbornr could only have been baby
then if she existed at an"
Rose smiled.
"T saw bv tho nancrs that oven thc
coroncr nut hrr down rs being between
tv.cuty five and thirty. but I'd hate ia
he hanging since she was that age
Mrs Hartsbornc's manicurist told me
once that in her line of business she
/ had learned lot of little iufalibIc signs
/ that give AWAY the wears as we'll as y
/ birth record could. and | lcaSncd from
/ her one vav of telling how old WON
an is that Won can't 20 wrong on, anG
/ which even the statistic cranks haven
| got hold of; that is by the number ant
! dontb or tho little lines across the fin
gc,. Joints They are scarcely creased
bcfor, twenty five. but after that they
seem to add about one year and cut
in dconcr all the time. m speaking. OF
course Of the women whose hands
aren't strained and drawn with toll
Mrs Uartshorne was nearer forty thar
thirty. if You ask me 80
What else did you rccaIlf' asked
Paul. amused by the ingenuity of hcl
reasoning. That is a point we'll taken
Miss Adare. and | will look into it,
"Well. maybe this is just toollshneS'
on my part-to attach any importance
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