The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-21
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Which made you rush up to Mrs.
Nane only TO be- repuise5. Wore.
you repnlaed? Were you not with,
heF. In her studio. when the deadly.
Estot was fred?"
AT the unexpected accusation.
the young man shrank back, then.
sprang from his chair.
.ThIssls what you IN your policeI
slang call. d 'frame-tfp.' isn't IT..
You've got to hung the-the muir.
der on someone, | suppose, and SO.
am to be the goat?"
BY no means" Barry also had.
risen. .You must realize the.
strong ctrcumstantia' case against
you, but / do not think you are.
guilty."
Barry continued quietly:
do you know why? Hecaus0
lever since this Interrogation was
started, In spite OF the damaging.
admissions you male against y9ur.
self, you have deliberately equIy1s
Gated and cyadei and I think I
know the reason" Barry's :ono.
tsoftoned and deepened. "I5 believe.
You did care for Mrs. yane, honor.
ably and sincerely, and, It is fol
that very fact that I ask you to.
tell us the truth now"
For IN instant tho young man
hesitated. and then sinking OncS.
more into his choir he buried us
face in his hands.
At last Gordon 11add raised his
head, and upon his white, set face.
there was written implacable res
solve.
"You win. Sergeant Barry! j
! would die myself before I would
willingly rake up anything aga4ns.
the memory OF the woman i loved,
even though she had played mer-
ctlessly with mo, only u turn nc
down irreyocably in tia end, but
there's some mystery about this
whole thing that l don't under.
stand, and II may fl @ way haya.
some bearing upon the manner OF
her death. No breath OF scandal.
has ever touched her. Neverthc-
less she must have had some
source Of income, for her studio
was observation-disclosures palatiali
compared to. this-and her war
work and fits OF idleness which
she INDUCED in later were alike.
unrenuneratiye!."
His voice broke and Sergeant
Barry waited a moment before
asking:
why did Mrs. Naae return to
America last autumnfH
Gordon Ladd shrugged.
"a whim OF hers, we all.
thought:N we would not have been
surprised had she announced her
departure for China. There
was nothing-nothlng deAnite
between US two, you know. I.
was simply one Of many who vera
permitted to adore her at IL Ills
lance. The rest forgot, but /
didn't; / followed her to New
York aand when / found that sue
cess had crowned her bizarre
talents and yet she was living III
this-thIs howell. l was asnazsi
beyond words! In the artistic
colony in Paris false conventions
are unknown, and when I discover
ed that this studio here was vacant
I took It just so that I might be
near her, even though she still.
laughed ut my wooing. Then
then l began TO notice this AN
Griswold."
His voice was hardly percsptlhlY
on the last words and Barry re-
marked:
IF the report We get on !E.m
tallies with his own account 1T
himself, he is a highly respectable
member of society,""
"oh. l know all about him!
MI anybody knows, .I-4nean. Tvs
looked him up" Eadd cried de-
family.
What I want to know % :hts:
why 10 he living hidden away II, a
cheap, makeShift stu,iio Iuildi.g
like this. q man with al. his
money? Why was she, a brilliant
artistic success, content even tor a
day in such surroundings after the
luxury which had always been
hers? Why did he-reputsh;y n
confirmed womanhaterl call upon
ner, ana why did she even permit
or tolerate his acquaintance, she
who was accustomed abroad to the
society Of notable men?"
Why did you not ask herr"
Il did. but she always pit me
on; told me he was an American
tyne that she had almost forgotten
and that he amused her. A week.
ago ! couldn't stand 1t any logger;
l. proposed 10 her for the last Tina,
and when she laughed at me as
usual | must have lost NY head.
and gone a bit too far, for she told
me seriously at last that she w0lld
ltevnr be- ny Wis"
Con LadG pat;>cA. his clLnr...
lei lat DIS tlghtenloS uKtil the
knGa les showed w1;te.
II kept away from her after
th.:t IL til tonight, wiaa I catTr II.
las ttld you and saw her bidding
hi"l goodnight IN .as IL, ~:
above. There's no love Inst be-
tween them, / could swear to thati
She was jeering at him, andiif ever
hatred looked out OF i mans eyes.
1t looked out of his. aad vet gone
how the sight drove mo wild!
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