New Britain herald., 1924-11-15

audience"
 "Mr. Kent didn't come till three or four minutes later"
 What did you all do in the meantime?"
 "I don't know --- nothing much, think. I found Miss Raynor at my side, and I think I grasped at her. we rather clung together. MT. Finley continued to stare at the pistol and he kept on rubbing it with his handkerchief; Mrs. Ray nor didn't do anything, just stood and stared"
 You said she was going out"
 "She turned and came back, and stood in the doorway. Then Mir. Kent came and he flew to her side"
 Without looking at Mir. Ray nor?"
 He didn't seem to as I recol- feet. He rushed to Mrs. Raynor, and put his arm around her for she looked as if she would faint"
 You like Mrs. Raynor?" Zizi asked this quite casually.
 q don't know" Eva returned slowly. "When l first came here I hated her. She was Raynor's wife - she had everything that he had long ago promised to me. You can imagine what a tilted girl feels to- ward her successful rival. I came prepared to hate her - but l meant no wrong to her. I came here to get satisfaction of one sort or another out of Douglas Raynor. I wanted to make him suffer as much as he had made me suffer. l wanted money but l also wanted to make him suffer mentally and physically, both. l gave him the ar senic, in sufficient doses to scare him and 10 make him ill -- but ] didn't mean to kill him. proposed to stop short of that, Well, then. when Mir. Finley came, I found I could hurt him by suggesting that Mrs. Raynor still cared for Mir. Finley.
 "All in all made Douglas Ray nor pretty miserab and I'm glad of it. He vented his anger on his wife but l couldn't help that. If she did shoot him - it was no more than could be expected of woman who had borne all she could bear, No one but myself knows what awful misery that man heaped on her head. If Nancy Raynor is accused -- if she is tried, I will go on the stand and testify to cruelty she received, 10 ignom- iny and scorn that was heaped on her. and to brutality unspeakabNe that she endured, until no jury in the world would give any verdict but full and entire acquittal. Yet even with all that, even though l pity her from my heart, cant say I like her. We are not congeniaL she doesn't like mo - but my sense of justice will make me wit ness for her, if it ever comes 10 that
 Good for you, Miss Turner," Ziai cried. Now. will your sense Of justice go so far as to answer a fep' qucstions?"
 Certainly
 Then, knowing Mrs. Eaynor fair Iy well, as you must, do you think sho is a woman who would take her husbands life = no matter what he had done to make her miserable""
 No 1 do not. But"
 You're going to say We can't vouch for a desperate woman. But want your honest opinion. Aside from the facts of seeing Mrs. Ray nor fleeing out Of the sun parlor that night. aside from any thought of evidence you would be sur priscd 10 learn that Mrs. Raynor was a criminal"
 "Very much surprised. She is of the martyr type. She suffered in silence
 "she gives me that impression" Zizi said.
 Nancy Eaynor is woman who loves very few people. She adored her father, she worships her brother and she is passionately in love with Mir. Finley. She is friendly with Miss Matte, but there is no real affection there."
 Nobody could be very fond of that old maid" Zizi said, in a tone of pity rather than reproach." And it's her own fault - she's so prying and curious. Well, now, Miss Turner, here's another ques- lion. Do you think MT. Finley could have committed that mur- der?'
 Yes. l do."
 "I thought you were sure it was Mrs. Raynor who shot"
 I've told you again and again don't know which one 1t was! I've thought 1t over and over - I've pictured out the scene with both of them, and all l can say is - it was certainly one of them"
 What about a man from out side?"
 That man from outside is all very well, if you can find him"
 Where are you going?" she asked ss she caught up with him.
 Down to the falls" he replied, batting her thin little hand as she pushed ii through his bent arm.
 Its true" Wise said, "Rny jury would exonerate Nancy Rsynor 1T she had shot her husband - but want 10 prove that she didn't" And that Mfr Finley did7 2"