The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-27
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CHAPTER XVII

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Might have been some of the
servants" suggested Mrs. Prentiss.
Eyes, it might easily have been.
And the second trip, as we may call
the time when the big light was
again flashed on for a short time,
may have been other servants, come
to confirm the news already told"
Now you're ronancing," Tod
hunter Buck broke in. II say, Mr..
Cunningham. I'm keen on this de-
tective business myself I wish you'd
let me help you, I'll promise not to
be a nuisance"
"Glad to have you. I've no illu-
sions regarding my own powers.
but have a capacity for work, and
a bulldog tenacity for digging at a
clew"
Good Well then I think you've
no right to assume the servants any
more than the guest Of the house
hold. Nor, to my mind, have you
any more reason to suspect them,
than that the murderer, himself re-
turned to the scene Of the crime two
or three times. There's no argu-
ment that he shouldn't. He killed
the lady and in all probability he
afterward made up her face In that
strange fashion. But it is quite as
likely that he was in and out OF
that room, and that he snapped on
and off the big lights as that any
one else did. Why, If the guests or
servants had gone there inadvertent-
Iy. and had seen that awful sight,
they would have given an alarm at
once"
That's so, To-day" said his aunt.
looking adniringly at her nephew.
II wish / had looked more carefully
for shadows on the blind. I did
sometimes see one moving vaguely
about, but it was so indistinct that
recognition was impossible"
You didn't see any one out Of
doors? Any one leaving the prem.
ises?'
Nov, you speak of it, seems as #
l did see some man sort of sneakin'
out. But it wasn't Perry Heath. 1t
was short, thickset fellow, and
I'm pretty near sure 1t was that
Katie's young man. I've seen him
before,-he always brings her home
after her evening out Katies
nice girl. a respectable girl. and
she's engaged to her beau. But they
do stay out awful late. My, If she
was my maid, she's be in the house
and the back door locked by 10
o'clock. And no other maid sneak
in down to let her in, neither. But
Mrs. Heath. now, she gave her
orders. and then she just took for
granted they was carried out! Yes
that's Myra Heath all over. Shed
give implicit and explicit directions
to that bunch of servants over there.
and she'd assume they're all abeyed
to the letter Land, they amt! She
always held her head so high
regular Johnny. Look. In The.Air. she
was Well. poor thing, she'll never
hold her head high again"
Her servants were not loyal
then?"
oh, loyal, in a way They liked
her for all her airs, but of course
her for all her airs. but of course,
its human nature to scamp service
if nobody's looking
"Oh. sure. But do you think the
servants were up and about at that
hour Of the night?"
you heard what the girls told at
the inquest"
Yes. And they seemed honest
and Straightforward. Emma let
Katie in and then went back to her
room. Katie visited the icebox, and
then went TO her room"
Yes" Mrs Prentiss spoke dubi
ously. That's what they said. And
like enough twas true. But what
became of Perry Heath? How die
he get out and where did he go?"
WAS he man to be friendly
with the maids? Would Emma, say