Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-06

with e smile. @Dp you remember
ms, mud cry Wethernill gave when
we returned to the room and once
TO- / Stood before the set1eee Oh.
ne Iurne6 il nf cry we'll. l had said
the, pur criminals in France yer NOT
Sery gentle with their victims, and he
pretended that it was in fear of what
Allie. Gelie might be suffering which
had Torn that cry from his heart.
But IL was not So He was afraid
deadly atraid-not Tor Mile. Celie,
hui tnr himself. He was afraid that
u mad understood what these cushions
mac 70 Tell me-"
WHAT Gid they tell you?" asked
Ricardo.
"5pI know now. said Hanaud.
They were TWO cushions, both in.
tented, and indented in different ways,
The one 81 The head was irreRularly
Misunderstanding shaped had
pressed npon il 1t might have been
q tace-. might not: and there was
a little brown stain which was fresh
ant which was blood.
THE second cushion had two SEN
arsls Impressions and between them
d cusnaoa Was forced up in a thin
ridge; zas these impressions were
Q deSaaae- ] measured the dis
ssau between the two cushions, and
J -esA sAs that supposing-and it
vas <rgs s>5positon-the cushions
IA n@eE .Syed since those impress
sas..a were made, a girl of Mile.
~ssass hsssss lying stretched out I'D.
q Eae z6e, would have her face press
1z cnTx1 EDon one cushion and her
tesF tnsreps upon the other.
Very Suspicious.
Ho~, the impressions upon the sec
cnd cushion and the thin ridge he
tween them were Just the impressions
which might have been made bv a
pam OF Shoes held close together. But
that woUld not be q natural attitude
Ior any one, and the mark upon the
head cushion was very deep.
supposfnS that my coniectures
were true, then a woman would onlv
ite like thai because she was heir.
Less because she had been flung there
she could not lift herSelf-
cause, tn a. word, her hands were
ned behind her back and her fee,
fastened together.
Well, then, follow this train of
reasoning my friend. Suppose my
we had nothing but
con1ectures to build upon-were true,
~ woman nung upon the sofa could
nave said so; she could have had M
reason for concealment. But II n,,,st
be Mile. Celie. There was the slit n
the one cushion and the stain on the
other which. Of course, I had not ac-
counted for.
"There was still, too, the puzzle ~
q Footsteps outside the glass doors
" Mile. CeHe had been bound upon
the sofa how came she to run WITH
ner limbs from the house? There was
answer" -
Yes" said MI. Ricardo.
question. Suppose that Mile, CHI
a after all. the victim, not the ac.
compiler suppose she had been fnno
tied upon the sofa; suppose thaf
somehow the imprint OF her shoes i'm.
on b ground had been made. and
stnat she had afterward been carried
away, 10 that the maid might hr
cleared OF all complicity-in that cass
y becarne i~nteliigibls why the other
footprints were scored out and her.
~ NHEEaN&EL srfrGNa4t5-IE%f t.alrNTge
The Presumption OF Guilt.
The presumption OF gut,t wo;,,d
ta,l Upon ner. There would be aproo1
tnae ran hurrtedly from the room
ana spranx into a motor car ofsba,
W free viii Eut again. ~ +hs,
theory were true, then Helene va,r'
quisr wa tho accomplice and moi
Mile. Cclie," ny
Il follow that" Ma
Then ! found an interestine rtaa.
OF evidence with regard to the stranss
woman who came; i picked I'M 4 ians
REQ hair--a very important Macs ~
evidence about which 1 thoIrht q.
pest to say nothing at ali. Il ~.
Mile. ceiie's hair, which is fair. nov
vauquier'a. which ID black: nor MEa
Dauvray,s. whichJs dyed brown. ~.
y charwcman's, which n grss.
ROOM" SSSaeh
Yes" said Mr.. Ricardo Z. .sr,,,
we are coming to the pot of cresn !;
In that room we learned IN
Helene Vauquier, At her own r.a,sa..
'had already paid II a visit. - a 49,
2 Commissaire said that Vhe hsS
Kept his eyes on her the whais s.rs.
But none the less from the v,nnns.
y saw me coming down IN ross
and that he could not have 1nra -
MADE sure, unless he had turnad M