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 "Oh, nobody knows anything about her early life, where she came from and all that. Then, she has a fearful temper-Myra discharged her three times for impudence and tantrums"
 'It was certainly a crime of pas sion," Buck said, musingly. You see, Mrs Heath, for some reason, went down to the studio late at night. Then somebody came to her there, and had-must have had a discussion with her, that became a quarrel, a desperate quarrel, and re- suited in the person, who ever 1t may have been, impulsiveiy grab bing Up that bottle and bashing Mrs. Heath on the temple. When the poor lady died, the heartless, scul- less murderer, proceeded to make up that dead face, to see how she would look. And, you see, Bunny. they used your vanity case. That is pretty well proved. too, think. Now, how did that vanity case get back in your room?"
 Though Buck spoke casually, Bunny looked up at him quickly, to see if he were laying trap for her.
 But if 50. he got small satisfac- ton.
 T don't know" she said, simply
 Didn't you carry 1t upstairs, late at night, ct half past one, as Emma declares?"
 Todhunter Buck spoke gently, but he evidently expected an an- swer.
 "No," said Bunny. Emma made that up. She is born liar"
 Buck said no more, but lighting cigaret, he strolled out on the porch.
 Meantime, Al Cunningham was listening to Mott's emphatic state ments that the Moore Baby was the murderer of her friend and hostess.
 Larry Inman treated the idea with scornful contempt, but Cum ningham, with open mind, listened to the detective's arguments.
 You see, 1t couldn't have been Heath himself" Mott declared, be cause he went away after the house was locked up. I haven't a doubt but that he was the man seen by the chap who sat in the back arbor with Katie, at about one o'clock that night. In fact, the young fellow has declared~himself certain that IL was Heath who sneaked away from the house. We'll, the whole thing oc- cured after that, do you see? very likely Mrs. Heath saw her husband out, and locked the door after him. He was in the habit, I'm told, of going off to New York sudden ly and unexpectedly. and nobody thought anything of it. Then, say, Mrs. Heath came back to the studio. came to her there' ana that somebody killed her. It must have been somebody in the house. As to the question of Miss Moore, there are too many positive bits Of evidence against that girl to let suspicion stray in any other direc- tion. She was in love with the nus band, therefore, of course, jealous of the wife"
 Look here, Mott" Larry burst forth, T will not sit here and hear that child maligned without word of protest. Miss Moore is absolutely incapable of such thing as mur- der."
 Don't be absurd, Mir. 1nman.' Mott's tones were icy, relentless Lust because woman is young ana pretty, she can't be put outside the pale of suspicion. Miss Moore's are on the bottle. un- der your own. Miss Moore's vanity case was used. also her crimson scarf. Miss Moore was seen going upstairs with that vanity case in her hand after the time the murder is assumed by the medical men to have been committed. Miss Moore was found crying wildly in bed the next morning, when the servant came to tell her of the tragedy. She already knewit! I have check cd up all my facts, have sifted all the evidence, and l find no flaw In my reasoning, no loophoole of es- cape from my convictions. l, too, am amazed at such crime at the hands of such young and beautiful girl"
 Your arguments are not without truth and justice, MT. Mott" Cum ningham said, very seriously. And it does seem that you have evi- dence, of sort, against Miss Moore. Are you going to arrest herr"
 Not immediately. But she Is under surveillance, and an attempt to leave Gaybrook Harbor would. of course, result in her detention. But we have reason to believe she has of MT. Heath's move ments. He doubtless knows of her crime, and is lying low against the time when she can get away and join him. Then they will both dis appear and never be heard of again"
 You know this?" asked Cunning ham, gravely.
 Not by actual proof, but by the strongest implications. And here comes my messenger now, with word of Heath's present where abouts."
 Mott unfolded note brought him by a boy, and with a brief ejacula- tion of annoyance, he declared:
 Well, I suspected as much! When Heath telephoned Miss Moore this morning. he was in New York, in a pay station.'
 CHAPTER XXVII
 Though pretending a naughty in- to matters of gossip or scandal, the Gaybrook Harbor Country club was, to man, deeply in the Heath case.
 The club had members from both IL -. I l., ( l. Il