South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-01-21

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Young man shrank back. then
sprang from his chair.
This is what you IN your police
slang call 'frame-Up', isn't it?
You've 90: 10 hang the-the murder
} on someone. ] suppose and so I am
20 be the goat?"
"By no means" Barry also had
risen You must realize the strong
circumstantial case against you, but
do not think you are guilty"
Barry continued quietly:
! do YOU know why? Because ever
since this Interrogation was started.
in spite OF the damaging admissions
you made against yourself you have
deliberately equivocate6 and evaded'
and I think know the reason
Barry's tone softened and deepened.
II believe you did care for Mrs. Nanef
. honorably and sincerely, and it is for
Z that very fact that I ask YOU TO tell
US the truth now"
] For an instant the young man
{ hesitated. and then sinking once
more into MS chair he buried his
face in his hands.
At last Gordon Ladd raised his
head. and upon his white. set face
there was written implacahle re-
solve
You win. Sergeant Barry I
would die myself before / would will
/ lingly rake up anything against tho
memory Of the woman / loved, even
/ though she had played mercilessly
with me. only TO turn me down ir-
revocably in the end, but there's
some mystery about this whole thing
/ that I don't understand. and II may
\ in a way have some bearing upon
\ the manner of her death. No breath
OF scandal has ever touched her.
! Nevertheless, she must have had
some source of ircome. for her
studio was uxurious-almost pala-
: tial compared 10 th.s-and her war
work and fits Of idleness which she
/ INDUCED IN later were alike unre-
munerative.'
/ His voice broke and Sergeant
I Barry waited a moment before ask
! ing:
why did Mrs. Vane return 10
/ America last autumn"
I Gordon Laid shrugged.
( "A whim or hers. we all thought;
We would not have been surprised
\ Lad she announced her departure for
/ China. There was Notwithstanding
definite between us two, you know.
/ was simply one OF many who were
/ permitted to adore her at a distance.
I The rest forgot. but ] didn't; l fol-
/ lowed her to New York. and when !
I found that success had crowned her
bizarre talents and yet she was liv-
/ ing in this-this hovel. 1 was amazed
I beyond words. In the artistic colony
in Paris false conventions are un-
known and when l discovered that
this studio here was vacant l took 1t
! just so that I might be near her,
/ even though she still laughed at my
woOing Then-then ! began TO no
tice this man Griswold"
His voice had hardened percepti-
bly, on the last words and Barry re-
marked:
IF the report we get on him tallies
with his own account OF himself. he
is a highly respectable member OF
society"
"Oh. / know all about him. All
anybody knows I mean. I've looked
him up" Ladd cried defiantly.
What I want TO know IS this: why
is he living hidden away in cheap,
make-shift studio building like this
q man with all his money? Why
was she. a brilliant artistic success,
content even for day in such sur
roundings after the luxury which
had always been hers? Why did he
l-reputedly a confirmed woman
hater-call upon her and why did
she even permit or tolerate his &C
quaintance. she who was accustomed
abroad to the society of notable
men?"
why did you not ask her.
Il did but she always put me off;
told me he was an American type
that she had almost forgotten and
that he amused her. A week ago I
couldn't stand it any longer: I pro-
posed TO her for the last time and
! when she laughed at me as usual 4
must have lost my head and gone g
bit too far. for she told me seriously
at last that she would never be my
wife"
Gordon Laid paused, his clenched
hands frightened until the knuckies
showed white.
"I kept away from her after that
until tonight. when I came in as !
told you and saw her bidding him
goodnight on the landing above.
There's no love lost between them, I
could swear 10 that, She was jeer-
ing at him. and II ever hatred looked
out Of a mans eyes. il looked out of
his. and yet somehow the sight
drove me wild
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