New Britain herald., 1924-11-04
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that your explanations and ex- cuses. 50 far, have no real weight as evidence ,in your favor, and for heavens sake. if you know any thing definite or truly prejudicial to any one else. tell 1t - and help your own cause!"
 Dobbins spoke emphatically.
 Now" he went on, what I'm getting at is this. If you have enough real doubt of Miss Turner, say so and I'll go straight and hunt her down and face her with the question"
 T don't know" and Mans worried face showed deepest doubt. Tt does seem so awful to accuse a poor nurse of crime, with 50 lit- tie tc suggest It."
 Maybe I can add little" and as the short, sharp tones fell on their ears, Miss Matte glided into the room.
 i've been listening" she said, seating herself. T make no bones , of doing that. in any matter con- | corning my brothers death. I've heard all you two have said - and I must confess Nan, think you're pretty fine. I don't believe, now you poisoned Douglas - l believe your story of the drugs and the cure - you see know you better ] than MT. Dobbins does. an shocked, of course, to learn thai Douglas hankered after morphine it's disgraceful - but to my mind it's a small matter compared with
 the question of who killed him
 Now, I always disliked the Turner
 woman, and moreover. I alway' thought there was something be
 tween her and Douglas. l meal
 something that happened befor
 she came here.'
 That's what I want to get at.
 cried Dobbins,s eagerly.
 Come to me, then" said Mis-
 Hattie, calmly. Mrs. Raynor young and trusting - she's reall
 unversed in the ways of women 0 , the world I don't say she didn' , shoot my brother -- she suffered Lord knows! and in a moment c | desperation but that's not th t point at present. If Nan didn't giv } Douglas poison then Eva Turn CT did. My brother had lament t able episode in his life about twer
 ty years ago. } With Eva Turner" asked Dol
 bins quickly.
 e That I don't know. But the girl t name was Fife Talcott and e might have been Miss Turner, III - der a different name"
 s Miss Matte settled herself t her chair, almost as if prepared E enjoy the recital.
 e Tt was when my brother VI If perhaps forty years old He was e widower. Fife Talcott was a chor 0 girl, and Douglas fell madly in 10 ,- with her. He had no idea of ma Il rying her, but he lavished every g
 tention on her.
 et Well, one night they were drl 'r ing out somewhere after the tn
 ater, and there was a motor act
 dent. Miss Talcott's leg was brok n and she went 10 the hospital. s se was there nearly year ,and |h i'd she came out she did not eXac' " limp, but she could never dan d again. Of course, this ended T Tt stage career, and she turned to " brother for support.
 Ut This he refused, and ,k brought a breach of promise s h. against him. It was settled out n court, but the girl was not at u- satisfied with the arrangeme' g. made for her, and she vowed sh - get even with Douglas sooner h. later. My brother only laughed t." this. But I heard that during K, stay in the hospital she had lie yeloped an interest in nursing
 had an aptitude for 1t. That IS
 I know -- but. If you put two nL tuo toeether-"