The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-31
By vARICK vANARDY Author of
''The Two -Faced Man" "Alias the
n at Wind" etc.

ed recess much better than into it
from without, and from where she
sat, through the interstices between
] climbing rose-stems and interlaced
boughs of foliage, she caught
| glimpses of the figures around the
tennis courts, and of those upon the
| veranda.
She saw Betty leave the side of
Belknap and go into the house, laugh
ing; she saw Belknap, presently, rise
and stroll about the grounds with APP
parent almlessness, although-and
she found that she was watching him
intently, without having realized it
each turn that he made carried him
nearer to that same side entrance
from which she had just come.
She saw. too, that wheh. de had
passed behind the partial screen of
the nearer gardens, he glanced, fur
lively, this way and that. as if to dis
cover If notice was being taken of
his movements.
Then, OF a sudden, he started into
quicker motions, approached the steps
to the side entrance, sprang up them
and darted inside.
y 1t was then that Katherine's police
training-in other words, the habit
of suspicion-proved its value.
AS palpably as if the words of it
had been spoken into her ears, the
: truth about Senorita Cervantez was
betrayed to her.
Senorita Cervantez was not Senor-
ita Cervantez at ah-or, if she were
that-f C~ervantez. happened to be
really her true name, then her other
one, her first one, the given name
e that belonged to her and that had not
s been mentioned, was Roberta.
n She was the woman withethe voice
D.. She was the female accomplice of
Conrad Belknap, whose arrival at Ny
h quest she had been anticipating.
Katherine was dazed by the shock
at of the intelligence, and she sat very
20 still, indeed, in her rose bower.
it She had not dreamed of such {
" possibility-although she realized
that she might well have done so, fol
was not the time at hand when thu
accomplice was to be expected to ar
d. rive at inquest? Such a though
would not have occurred to her il
at widest imaginings if she had no
IT. seen and watched Belknap's action
lie. just then; but was not the time a
10, hand for the fulfillment of the car
ell rangements," for the appearance a
sh inquest of the accomplice, as re
vealed by the voices in the telephone
,e- "Assuredly,7 she told herself il
I'D audibly, there can be no mistake,
cit She recalled also the meeting bt
tly tween the two on the veranda, whe
of she was taking the senorita into til
house-Belknap's apparent amaz,
len ment because of the pianIste's il
ly, trinity, which had been natur1
nat enough at the time but which toe
err on an entirely new aspect in the Ii
eet Of the later revelation.
or He had not anticipated that;
had not expected it; it had amaz'
ze- him out of his studied reserve al
the calm-because he had not been to
to expect it.
IN "But why, why was he not told
nst Katherine demanded Of herself voiC
,m- lessly; and Immediately a great lig
Vas fell upon her.
cry 4Why indeed? 4" Katherine did 4
of give voice TO her thoughts, but tn
JOS were perfectly worded for all ths
ing and she replied to the self-ask
lful query:
ect, Because she did not know it HI
self until, upon that instant when S
r1ly heard my voice speaking to her
en- welcome, and recognized, she KIN
act that she would betray herself to
n on the spot, if she uttered a wo
r1ke That's why. And, oh, what "
$50, What splendid presence of NH
Iged What s~uperlative mental prepar
M ness for emergencies! And she ne
the once batter an eye"
that 1t would be difficult to descr
the preE7se effect upon KatheFi
Harvard of that suddenly acqui
n Acknowledgements, be it said with {
a Oh phasis, it was knowledge absoll
even though it had not been so M
to as suggested to her mind until t
moment of complete conviction Of
ICSen truth.
as 1t stunned her for the moment.
ner The face, the manner, the persol
ity of the senorita, had impress
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