South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-11
TSAB Ell O STRANDED

NeQlalely upon It's ADOPTION, anu
that determination was crystallized
by a conversation YOU overheard
upon the little porch which opens of
the breakfast room. You planned II
down 10 the most minute detail.
even to the use OF the gas masE 20
save your daughter from harm. Aft
er your guests had gone YOU slipped
down here 20 the hall closet 90 OBJ
tain the keys 20 the garage from
the pocket Of your motor coat which
hung there. You found there, quite
by accident, a pair OF Miss Fays
cast off slippers, which Louise hoped
20 have stretched for her own use,
and YOU managed 20 put them on,
with a tardy thought for possible
footprints which might be left on
the ground.
You committed the crime. max
ing the fatal mistake which | have
already described and which YOU
learned Of in the morning when YOU
heard the voice of the very girl you
thought you had slain. 1 could find
80 In my heart 10 pity you at that
moment were it not that YOU plan
ned Immediately 10 throw the crime
upon the shoulders of Miss Fay.
You recalled her slippers. which
We're still sopping wet. and you
had them concealed beneath your
negIigee when you demanded ad-
mittance 20 the room where your
daughter lay dead: you thrust them
under the bed when you knelt sob
bling beside her body!
Il suspected you first when you
appeared to desire 10 bride me, but
why YOU should have murdered your
own daughter was beyond me until
I learned by accident that she and
her cousin had changed beds with
each other during the night. Then
all was clear TO me-"
yes, / did it," Mrs. Tudor sprang
from her chair and pointed wildly
at Kenneth Clayton where he sat re-
garding her with eyes Of unutter-
able loathing THAT man was mine,
and this mink stole him deliberate
~ from me. I meant TO get her out
of the way and then he would come
back There was madness in her
eyes. madness in the cry which rang
through the room. Laurel Laurel!
God knows I would not have harm
ed you. my baby! But if I have lost
all you shall not have him, Fay!
failed once. but I shall not fail
now"
With a sudden spring she was
upon the girl. her fingers frightened
with maniacal strength about her
throat Barry called to the waiting
men outside and leaped forward to
the aid of the sheriff. Clayton and
Captain Warren. 1t took -heir COM
bined strength 10 tear the crazed
woman from her would-be victim.
It's all over" Barry said Take
her away. Joe; YOU and Yarrell and
the matron."
Late that autumn Sheriff Hulse
paid his customary visit to Barry in
town and much 10 the honest cOun-
try officials embarrassment he was
taken one evening to cali upon the
great Professor Semyonov.
"S'ros YOU heard, Professor. that
the Tudor house back in Sandy Cove
burned down a month ago" he
asked. Miss Fay-that is. Mrs.
Warren-and the captain were away
in California on their honeymoon
and Mr.. William Tudor is still in
the hospital where they're curing
him of that shell shock or what
ever it was happened to him. Funny
how he came TO be lost and report
ed dead, wasn't it?"
Captain Warren saw him fall"
replied the professor, land after
the attack went out to what he sup
posed to be the body Of his friend
II must have been the body Of some
other young American officer"
Sergeant Barry nodded.
u heard a little about Il when
I called at the hospital to see young
Tudor" he remarked. He remem-
bers that the Germans got him but
he managed 70 escape. They must
have stripped him Of his creden-
tials. but let the marks OF his rank
on him. for he was treated as an Of
ficer all the way through"
There was a pause and then the
sheriff observed:
The Tudor woman never recov-
cred her mind before her death"
1T doesn't matter" Barry's tone
was grave. she escaped trial here
but she has gone to a higher court
before an infallible Judge, and we
know that her sentence will be a
just one
THE I'd.
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