Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-22
ABOVE SUSPICION
ByROBERT ORR CIfIPPERFIELD


, I'm sorry, Geom. | didn't think
/ could ever make such Il fool of my
! sell az this. but when | came To you,
although 1 knew you'd do your best
to help me, | hadn't any idea that
YOU had way of actually proving
my innocence u? your sleeve Is
there anything 1 can do"
Eyes. three things. after you
drink this here coffee" Geoff pour
ID out u steaming cup and brought
it to his guest then sat down and
began removing his shoes. I'm
goln' to take a swim in the crick
and git into my good clothes sos
| kin make the next train to the
city. First of. | want you to
Promise me that youll come over
twice a day regular and feed and
water the mare and the dogs. II
YOU got took up. which is likely.
don't forgit in the excitement bout
your folks and Miss Mile and all
10 hX it for one % the men from
Your pas place that YOU kin trust
to take core o EN- stddy till | sit
home agin."
Il promise. Gcoff. Id move all
thrce of them over to our stable
bors talk They shall want FOR
rothing while you're away
AN right. Now. when | get cool
ed Off in the CriCk sos [ can think
clear I'm g0in' to write n letter, and
I'd like for YOU to take it to Doc
Hood Go as roundabout a ways
you Kin find to his house: | don't
want no more folks to see YOU than
YOU gotta meet up with Geon
picked up his shoes and rose. after
that. I'm gOin' to ask YOU to do the
hardest thing of all; go home and
wait II Sergeant Eliot should
come for YOU with II warrant. don t
make no fuss. but traipse right long
with him over to the county seat.
Mehbe he'll let you telephone to Doc
Hood nfOrc YOU start, just tellin'
him what's happened. and I'll put
it I'm this here letter to him to git
word 10 Miss Mile. Don't try to
zee her in the meantime. but while
I'm takiu' my swim YOU Kin set here
and write her a note that III put
in with my letter tn the Doe il YOU
like. and hell make sure it reaches
her own hands
You're the hest scout in the
world. Geoff," cried Rupert broken
ly. Il don't know how I'll ever
thank yuu--'"
Never You mind bout that now"
Geoff interrupted. III. you'll take
my advice You'n git your pa aside
soou's he comes back from the city
and tell him all bout a week ago
tonight, i0st as You told it 10 me.
Then tell him You come here today
and eVerNthin YOU kin recollect |
said to YOU. if you're took mp, you
ask him to see Doc Hood atore he
So much as gifts his lawyer on the
telephone. | gotta move consider
able quick now. il I'm goin' to ketch
that there two-twenty. Here's Il
pen and paper and the inks over on
that shelf"
Or. Hood had paid a long and
wearisomG round Of visits that
morning IN his rattletrap little car
and eaten his monday meal at the
farmhouse of a patient far inland. 1t
was mia afternoon before he drove
into the stable where once his old
horse and buggy had reposed He
was hot and tired. and all day long
Gcoff's cryptic remark about the
murder had ranked in his puzzled
brain. 1t was in vain that he re-
called every point of Zoe Dawus
story; it revealed nothing that he
had not known or suspected before
excepting that Lane had planned
with her to ruin Bernhard and then
tried to buy her silence. Bernhard
had long been threatened with
death, hut they had known that
since Dunns account of the anony-
NOUS letters. and these couldn't very
well DO traced at this late date with
only the evidence in hand. What
in thunder had Geoff meant by say
ing that no murder had been COM
nitted?
The doctor passed through the
hack entry md locked into the