Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-08
ABOVE SUSPICION
ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD
copsh.

I served ruefully as he seated himself
I'm going To perform the autopsy
/ tonight. but there will be nothing Z
| it, and then I'm out of it until the
| trial, if there ever Is one. Sergeant
Eliot is using Zeke for a sort oil
Waterman since he discovered thai
| the window and inner door OF the
empty music room had been forced
and he's buster than a bird fo-
| around the place; but somehow
don't take much stock in that forced
| window. No burglary was attempt
ed, and IL the murderer wasn't q
stranger and had reconnoitered. he
would have found the man he was
looking for sitting unarmed within a
few feet OF those open doors. Mrs
Cayley tried TO bluff when | asked
her about those anonymous deatf
threats. but finally she had to admit
that her brother had received a few
such letters. evidently the work OF
some harmless crank. and no one
had paid any attention 70 them ex-
cept perhaps his ovcrZealous secre-
tary or poor. childish old Henry"
Geoff chuckled.
Eyes. She sent Lefty out when ]
was eatin' my dinner to bribe me
with a bottle o ginger pop to let on
TO you that Henry and that there
Dunn were a couple o half-cracked
fools and not to listen to 'em. She
was real anxious, though, to find out
what you thought and what the
sergeant had asked me. and / reckon
ally"
The doctors eyes twinkled.
sNT'.c tho nun, nip,p .,ppI 90
"WeII," Geoff rubbed his chin.
that there Letty's real faithful, but
then she's been with Mis- Cayley for
twelve years. Mis- Cayley's nus
band was an invalid and died ten
years ago. and four years afterward
she and Miss Mile and Lefty come
10 New York from Milborough,
peansy lvania. to keep house for Mr..
BenIard. Henry and William Dunn
was with him already
The visitor laughed until his fat
body shook.
II thought that was how it must
have turned OUT" he exclaimed.
Then his face sobered. Mrs. Cay
icy's afraid to have those letters in
vcstigated, for some reason, dread of
not0ricty, perhaps.
There might have been few
things in Benkard's life that wouldn't
look good printed in his obituary"
Yet | shouldn't be S'prised IL
they was anxious to find out for
themselves, anyways, just who it
was killed him. Lefty kinder limited
they wasn't exactly tickled to death
with the District Attorneys Teller.
and then she shut up quick. Maybe
thcrc'l be another stranger around
the place pretty soon who won't
flash no badge nor act like he was
leadiu' a brass band, but | don't sec
what he kin do; the tracks'll be all
covered up by that time"
"DO you mean YOU think Mrs. Cay
ley is going to get detective of her
own out from the city," demanded
the doctor.
Kinder looks that way, but o
course faint any business o mine.
Seems to me though. that il | want
ed to Stait on Il new tack and
thoaEht mebbc tho Teller that writ
those letters mightn't have md
nothin' to do with the murder after
ali. Ed have little talk with Zeppa."
The cook"
Seems to mo I'd kinder let on
what an ornery cusS | thought that
District Attorneys feller was and
that mobhe I'd use my influence
providin' | had any. that is. to cit
leave for her to go. seems sha didn'
know uotlln' about what happened