Evening star., 1923-06-10
A Love Letter.


lently. She was so young. so small
SO alone-and so mysterious.
ct can't make you OUT" he shook
his head. But I'm for you. Miss Aus
tin. That is," he hedged. unless 1
find out something definite against
you. I feel / ought to tell you thal
you've enemies-yes. as the giri
looked up surprised, you've maze
enemies in this house. Small wonder
tho way you've acted. Now, why
can't YOU be chummy and soelaole
like?"
"chummy? sociable? With whom p
with all the boarders. There
Young Lockwood, now-and there
young Tyler"
'Yes. yes. know, / wiii-Mr'
Adams will try to be more soci-
able. Now-as toto DR.. Warins-
why did he kill himself"
Old Salt eyed her narrowly we
don't know that he did" he began.
But Mrs. Adams told me all the
details"-she shuddered. "and II that
room he was In was go securely lOVh'
ed that they had to break in. how
could IT be the work of-of another
well. Miss Austin. as they FOUND
q bad wound in the mans neck, just
under the right ear. wound tha'
produced instant unconsciousness anu
almost instant death, and as no weap-
on O. any sort could be found in the
room how could IL have been sui
cide?"
(Which would you rather think It?
the strange girl asked, looking grave
ly at him.
Well. TO me-Tm an old fashioned
chap-suicide always suggests cow
ardice. and Doc waring was no cow
ard: that I'll swear
NO. he was not
How do you know
Miss Mystery started at the sudden
IT heard him lecture, you know.
she returned: "and, too, saw him IA
his home Sunday afternoon, ana ne
seemed q fine mana fine man;
well. Miss Austin, Oid SAT- rose
To go. I'm free to confess you're
mystery to me. 1 consider myself
fair Judge of men-yes. and OF women
hut when a slip Of a girl like you
acts so strange, can't make 1t out
Now. 1 happen to know
look on her face and lamely con-
cluded: ,,
with which cryptic remark he went
away. ,.;, m
be- ". et, de,msnded his aggrieved spouse,
as the Adamses met in their own NJ
tie "Why S!trtA nothing, old Salt replied,
and his troubled eyes looked at her
pieadingly. "I don't think shes
'eWeil. / do. And maybe a whole
/ LOT wrong. Why, Saltonstan. Miss
| Bascorn says she saw Miss Austll
| traipsing acHoss the field late sunday
night"
| of it. She's a meddling OLD malo-a
shopping busybody.
"Tbere. now, you carry on like that
because you're afraid we will discover
something wrong about Miss Mvs-
terry" ol,e
..ernly. "You remember she's a
Young girl, without anybody TO STAND
I'm for her hereabouts. Now, you
know what a bobbery a few words
oan kick up. And we don't want
that poor ehiids name 5hat taufnea isnt pg true
don't believe Liza Bascom saw her
ont ON sunday night! I don't even
1aIiave She thought she did,
well, / believe it. Liza Bascom's
"Sbe worse: she's a knave! And
she hates little Austin. and she'd say
I anything, true or false. to harm the
But. Salt. she. says she saw Miss
| Austin all in her fur coat and cap
going cross lots to the Waring house
Sunday evening late.
"Car she prove it?''
81 don't know about that. But she
saw her" ~
"How does she know It was Miss
Austin? It might have been some
! body who looked like her"
won know those footprints"
THE Japs?'
You can't say they're the Jap s