Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-16

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to get you there. For hours tele-
phoned and autographed. Then l got
Hartley. Come away from the trees
so we can talk without-without be-
ing overheard"
AS they moved to the center OF
the open space Graham indicated
Bobbys evening clothes.
why are you dressed like that,
| Bobby? You did come from town.
/ You can tell us everything you did
last night after l left you, and early
this morning.
Bobby shook his head, His answer
was reluctant.
II didn't come from New York
| lust now. was evidently here last
night, and | can't remember, Hart
| ley. can't remember scarcely any
thing"
Graham's face whitened.
! Tell u.s." he begged.
you've got to remember" Kath-
crime creid.
Bobby as infinitely as he could re-
cited the few impressions that re-
manned from last night.
When he had finished Graham
| thought for some time.
"Paredes and the dancer" he said
at last, practically forced me away
from you last night. It's obvious,
Bobby, you must have been drug
ged."
Bobby shook his head.
81 thought OF that right away. but
/ no 1y.r'r |
wouldn't have moved around, and
did come out somehow, | managed 10
get to the empty house TO sleep. It's
more as If my mind had simply
closed. as if il had gone on work
ing its own ends without my know
ing anything about IT. And that's
dreadful. because the detective has
practically accused me of numbering
nv grandfather. How was II done?
You see know nothing. Tell me
how-how he was killed. I can't be-
lieve lin such a beast. Tell me.
If | was in the house, some detail
might start my memory
So Katherine told her story while
Bobby listened, shrinking from some
disclosure that would convict him.
AS she went on, however, his sense
Of bewilderment increased, and when
she had finished he burst out:
But where is the proof of muir
der? Where Is there even sug-
gestion? You say the doors were
locked and he doesn't show mark
That's what we can't understand"
Graham sa.d There's no evidence
we know anything about that your
grandfather's heart didn't simply
give out but the detective is abso-
lutely certain. and-there's no use
mincing matters, Bobby-he believes
he has the proof to convict you. He
won't tell me what. He simply
smiles and refuses to talk.
The motive?" Bobby asked.
Graham looked at him curiously.
Katherine turned away.
"Of course" Bobby cried with
sharpened discomfort. I'D forgot
ten. The money-the new will he
had planned to make. The moneys
mine now, but if he had lived until
this morning it never would have
been. ! see"
ham said, "for any one who doesn't
know you
But" Bobby answered. "Howells
has got to prove first that my grand
father was murdered. The autopsy
"Coroner's out of the county"
Graham replied, land Howells won't
have an assistant. DR.. Groom's
waiting in the house. We're expect
ing the coroner almost any time
Bobby spoke rapidly.
IF he calls it murder. Hartley,
there's one thing we've got to find
out: what my grandfather was
afraid Of Tell me again, Katherine,
everything he said about me. | can't
believe he could have been afraid of
me"
He called you" Katherine an
swered, " waster. He said: God
knows what he'll do next He said
he'd ordered you out last night and
he hadn't had a word from you, but
that he'd made up his mind anyway.
He was going to have his lawyer
this morning and change his will.
leaving all his money to the Bed
ford Foundation, except a little an
nuity for me. He grew sentimental
and said he had no faith left in his
flesh and blood, and that it was sad
to grow old with nobody caring for
him except to covet his money. /
asked him if he were afraid of you,
and all he answered was: You and
Bobby are thicker than thieves Oh,
yes. When / saw him for the last
time in the hall he said there was
nothing for me to worry about eX-
cept you. That's all. 7 remember
perfectly. He said nothing more
about you
II wonder" Bobby muttered, ff
jury wouldn't think it enough"
Katherine shook her head.
There seemed so much more than
that behind his fear" she said. LAS
I've told you, he gave me a feeling
of superstition. 1 never once was
afraid of a murderer-Of a man in
the house. | was afraid of some
thing queer and active, but not HUI
man"
Body Strengthened.
would you" he asked "calI a
man going about in an asphasia
quite human? Somnambulists do
unaccountable thngs--such as over
coming locked doors"
Don't, Bobby! DON'T" RATHER
inc cried.
"Sh-h! Quiet!" Graham warned.
A foot scraped on gravel
Maybe the detective" Bobby sug-
gested.
He stared at the bend, expecting
to see the stiff, plain figure Of the
detective emerge from the forest. In