Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-14

side, but had arrived not later than one
o'clock.
Tell you how know" said the clerk.
"The clock struck ono while she was on her
way upstairs And set that clock every
morning by Western Union time. tele.
phone their Office"
Jenkins pursed his lips. The railroad and
Western Union time would not vary. Tho
woman of the taxi must have arrived later
than the woman Of the motor, which had
parked outside. .a ~
OF course. granting that there were errors
in the time Of the two clocks upon which he
based his theory. his theory fell to pieces
Only-how did 1t happen. on this lonely road. \
over which on such day as yesterday little
traffic passed. that tho woman Of the tad.
the dead woman, had managed to acquire
another machine? Could she have had It
waiting for her? That was pretty far-fetched
reasoning. Jenkins could not accept 1t.
But only one woman had driven away
from the Inn. Even SO! There were stairs
leading to the balcony outside the dining
room windows. He leaped to his feet and
almost ran upstairs to the private room.
detective on guard unlocked the door for
him, and he entered. The murdered mans
body had been removed, but in all other par
ticulars the room was as it had been yester.
day. and it would so remain until after the
coroner's jury had viewed it.
Jenkins opened the French window
Nyl.
sun was shining brilliantly today. He
looked toward the road. How easily, II s
person knew that the one he-or she
sought was in this dining room be-
hind him. for that person to leave the
driveway, cross the lawn. mount the EM
steps, That would account for NS M.: M%
the fact that only one woman was men. 1#$
toned by the clerk. by the waiter. by Is
the other employees.
He descended the fight Of steps.
There. at the foot Of them. were the
imprints Of heels. Why. in the soft S#
earth, one could trace where woman #s
it must have been woman by the M
size Of the footprints and the depth Of S
the heel holes-had come across the %##
He turned back to the Inn, got into %
his car, and drove to Headquarters He %#s
had made that commonest Of all police SSH
or detective errors-he had leaped to
conclusion adopted a theory. and com.
placently assumed that it must be correct.
But he was not welded to It. Or, II he
had been, he got a speedy divorce. And.
because he desired to serve his city moro
than he desired any personal aggrandize-
ment. he swallowed his pride and telephoned
Kennedy of the Bulletin. Had only himself
been concerned he would have let Kennedy
write any condemnation Of the administra.
ton Of the police force that occurred to that
young mans fancy. looking forward to the
moment when. laughing last. he might laugh
best. But any and every attack upon the
force hurt more than the force: 1t hurt tho
other city officials. who were endeavoring
to give Hilstown a clean and efficient ad.
ministration.
"oh. Kennedy" he said II have some
later stun on the Hillcrest matter"
"Shoot It," said Kennedy. The Chief
thought that he detected chagrin in the re-
porters tone
"You may state." said Jenkins "that the
police have discovered and identified the
body Of the murdered mans wife. but that
from evidence in their possession they have
reason to believe that there were two women
concerned in the killing"
Peterson talked, eh?" said Kennedy. He
made no effort to hide his chagrin.
"Yes-he talked" laughed Jenkins.
"And we wasted a good twenty dollar
BILL" said Kennedy. "Oh, well, it doesn't
matter. Anything else, Chief"
well, we expect to locate the missing
other woman shortly" said Jenkins.
Kennedy guffawed. "Erpect is good.
Don't mean hope do you. Chief? All
right, much obliged"
The men on the Bulletin played fair. even
though they fought the administration. The
Bulletin could not now claim to have
achieved more than the force and thus dis.
credit even though slightly. Jenkins de.
partment, He turned back to his desk and
applied himself to the problem OF the ols'
covery Of the second woman in the case.
But he could do nothing more than have the
citys garages visited to ascertain. If pos
sble, II any woman had left car there.
He hoped for no result from this. but it was
worth trying.
But, while he was willing to try this. his
own belief was that the woman who had
driven that car away from Hillcrest had
not stored it in any public place. Shed be
,oo clever. So. because the case interested