The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-11-20
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"A8 not To-Day ~ my future nome
will Be: that II. II I 60 where some
Of my good friends expect ne TO-.
Mrs. Hogarth had written. with
grim humor. "Ths moths and light
midges are . nuisance. II that use
less dusty doesn't put my screen
IN Monday. I'm going to shake his
teeth Gown his throat Somethins
very strange about his putting %
that job. lazy ~ he n l more
than halt believe g. s. Or G. B. has
bribed him to leave my window IN.
screened. It's been ive years since
I've had such . strong presents.
ment Of disaster ~ I've had today.
Wrote the police commissiouer 20
send . pla~tnclothes detective.
suppose 10 will laugh at me and let
me die like 3 -"
The iirst part 81 the days entry
ended here. and undoubtedly had
been written before the visit Of
Norma Paige AID Bonnie Dundee.
But y was the second page. marked
Later" which had made Dundeeis
heart lungs sickeningly.
more troubled" Mrs. Hogarth
had written. waveringly. % ie her
hand had been TREMBLING with rage
Or WEAKNESS. "Norma has deaed
me and GOT herself engaged 70 that
Circumstances. Walter Styles. Told
her ! was going 70 change my viii
tomorrow. But Oh, l don't knovi
I'm sick Of meddlins with other
peoples lives. I've GOT . lot Of fun
ana excitement out OF It. but nov
wtsh'l had never started the whole
foolish business. The police aren't
such fools % ] thought them. They
sent"
THC entry stopped abruptly On
the Incomplete sentence. Had
she been Interrupted b. Z knock On
her door. or had her murderer
entered noiselessly from the porch.
~ the low. unscreened window.
and cut short the old woman,s last
Communication to her diary and her
life. at the same timer
but Why should 30 close tha
oook9" dundee pushed aloud.
And here d her fountain pen. On
the desk. not on the door. whore n
would probably have dropped Il she
mao osss startled b. a attack
Fine points. son.. strawn
grinned. But what I'm i-nteresfed
q y having : chat With NJ. Emil
6evief and With NJ. Dusty.
RhodeA Step outside ana ten
Wilkfns ! want him.
Dundee sbeyed. undins the d.
tectise md Mr., Rhodes taIklns "a.
gether u low voices q the head 81
the staira. i uniformed policeman
Was patrolltns the hall. o see that
40 boarder made . bolt Tor the
etairs. All doors we're closed. but
Dundee could Imagine what excite
menf and terror lurksd II each Of
those rooms.
.Wiikins." strawn began, 4
want you to SGT . list OF al OF
dusty Rhodes usual hauntp from
biz wife. and send : couple Of men
out g try % round hin %. ouick!.
~Aa6 Seyler1" uundee dared
question bis chit
A0h. ! set the machinery IN mo
tioa % drag him u before left
headqusTters.. Strswn answered..
~ AT1. Hoearth admitted, the
police ofo not such Tools . eoue
peepte think. The heye ought @
y % BIZ trail b this time
And now. nundes. : want sou u
hlde yourself bshlnd that sersen-.
and - pointed q . greon burlap
scseen q thfee sections that eeer
ceeled to staeieasry wash hasin-
ard listen u % tho boar6er9
stories. Might - veil make oofss.
to. Who .has the roem aest doori''
~ 10 polated toward To vest el6o
a the house. "Henry DoWdf AL
right Wen have him Ii nrst."
Ito e c0ntlnued)