The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-04-10
CHAPTER xv1-continu4d.

mean ! quite agreethat one
could easily tell the difference be-
tween a spoken ~soliioquy. and re-
marks addressed TO a hearer. Bat
you heard no repliesf" h
"None at all. But l hold that
is noe peculiar, for while Miss
Carrington's voice was especially
high and carrying, an ordinarily
low voice would not be audible
through that closed door. You
can prove that by simple expert
ment. -" -n. &,ss - .
81 have" said Fleming Stone:
ST have tried it, and as you say,
an ordinary voice In q low tone is
not audible. But Miss Caring
tons must have been raised un-
necessarily, to allow of its being
heard.
Stone watched Anita's face as
she listened to this. But she only
replied, with a shrug of indiffer-
ence, II can't say as to that. /
heard every word clearly, that's
all I canrtell.' .,srr o. ,a,
Suppose she had been talking
TO n picture of someone, say a
photograph Of Miss Stuart or Of
Mr.. Iioria, or of Count Charlier,
would her tone of voice then be
expliaabief''a l6@ I, ~ la 81
Perhaps. But she would have
have had to imagine wildly the
person there before her. A,s4 And.
again, Miss Darlington had no
such photographs in her rooms.
All her family photographs III
this library, in frames or cases.
She WIS methodical in such mat
ers. She has series of pictures of
Miss Stuart and Of Mr. Loria from
their childhood to now, but they
are all in order III the cases over
there Anita made a slight mo-
ton Of her hand toward a mahog-
n cabinet mo, Mr.. Stone.
whomever or whatever Miss Car
rington was talking to, it was not
a photograph Of any OF her rela-
tivc.i or friends. As you know,
there was none discovered in her
laeoHn, so what could she have done
with 1T" .... ~. -. ..
THAT'S true, Miss Frayue. But
hass''5 the theory of a living per-
,sen In there also inexplicable
r,onitsY IL somebody was there,
ii was, Of courss. someone well
known and whose presence in the
horsc was anquestionably correct.
But her remarks, al I read them
4 from your notes, imply different
auditors. T. Granting for q mo-
mont that Miss Stuart was there,
why would Miss Darlington say,
Henri, Henri, you are the mark /
aim at21" '
III admit that must have been a
soiiioquy or an apustrophe to the
man she wanted to marry, though
he was not present.
"You have no thought, then,
that Count Charlier was pres
emit"
"Certainiy not! The idea Is alb
surd. Miss Stuart was in there
with her aunt, and I'm sure it was
some remark of Pauline s, which
4. Of course, did not hear, that
madc Miss Darlington speak of
She count as If to him
Glow, then, do you account for
the presence of Count Charlier's
glovef"
aMiss Stuart put it there as a
blind"
"And how did Miss Stuart get
itf"
"Easily. The count had been
spending the evening here. He
may have left his glove by mis-
take-or--'
'"Or Pauline may have abstract
cd it purposely from his coat
pocket during the evening with a
prearranged plan to do all just as
ase did do" ~. >...f
MISS fraynel you can I mean
90 assert your belief that Miss
Stuart SO far planned the crime as
to intend TO cast suspicion on
Count Charlier by al of that
gkovei"
why mott IL Pauline Stuart
il responsible for her aunt
death, l assure you, Mr.. Stone,
she is quite clever enough to pre-
arrange all details, and to plan SO
adreitly that suspicion should fall
on someone else. Miss Stuart is
far mere crafty and deep than
you csaa have, any idea of | have
known her for four years, and
can tell +ru she is FAR from in