The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-02-28


cept it, she was only allowing 1t. dim
ly, to take form, when returned to
the room that day with my hand full
of letters written by Danny. Hand
writing, as surely as fingerprints,
Miss Macdonald says, proves identity.
She asked me, straight. whether
had seen Danny writing the checks
and addressing the envelopes. I an
swered. straight and positively, that
l had. land Miss Macdonald had
warned me that people often thought
that they saw things they did not
see.)
| had not. had seen the person
whom ! supposed was Danny writing
checks and addressing envelopes.
had turned my back on her, and had
walked to the door. when she called
after me and gave me the envelopes
containing the checks
Danny herself had written those
checks and had addressed those en-
velopes on the third OF July. Owing
TO all the furOre that had been going
on In the house that day, she had left
her desk before she had torn the
checks from her checkbook, and had
never gone back to II to finish her
task. II is possible that Gabrielle
had deliberately arranged that, also:
but | think not. At any rate, she had
had the checks In her possession. and
had waited for date that had
three, or an eight in 1t, to produce
them. Circumstances and | played
well into her hands that day; she had
only TO insert one in front of the
three to make me her fool
Miss Macdonald, as you have seen.
Dlames herself and not me for the
mistake. She says that she should
have known better than to believe me:
or, TO quote her exactly, she should
have doubted your accuracy OF OBJ
servatiOn." But, not until the morn
ing that we found Daniel Canneziano
murdered did 1t occur to her to
doubt it.
She says that 1t was not clairvoy-
| ance, not intuition, not even common
sense. that it was nothing but a mem.
DRY that took her, that morning.
| straight back to the idea that
Gabrielle Canneziano could be the
guilty person. Oddly. the conviction
had come to her before we found
Canneziano's body.
Sitting across the table from Ga
brielle, posing as Da ~. that morn
| ing at breakfast, she had thought,
| idly, of the breakfast that she and
Danny had had together in the dining
car. She had taken her chair, that
morning, just as Danny had handed
the order slip for her breakfast to
the waiter. Too vaguely to be certain
that 1t was really memory, she
seemed to see that slip of paper COW
cred with writing. Just then. with
the aroma of coffee in her nOstrils,
and With her iced grapefruit and rolls
in front of her. she remembered thar
it was the same breakfast both she
and Danny had had that morning.
Would such small order cover an
order slip with handwriting? Not, ii
was certain, with the neat nandwrit-
ing that had made out those checks
and addressed those envelopes. Right
then she resolved to lose no more
time; to get, as soon as possible.
sample of the handwriting of the girl
who was sitting across the table
from her.
Canneziano's murder, discovered In
the next half hour, strengthened her
vague suspicious into as much of
certainty as she ever allowed herself
before she had positive evidence.
AS have written, she spent the
following week in efforts to get that
evidence; at last, fearing that she
was suspected. she detailed the task
to me.
You have seen how | failed. How
Gabrielle at once SAW through my
trick Of attempting to disable my right
hand by burning it; and how, realiz-
ing that she was trapped, she had
run upstairs, first to satisfy her long
ing to be herself again, even for q
few brief moments. then to taunt
John, and. finally, TO take her own life.
For think, in spite of her denials
to John, that she killed herself be-
cause she knew that she was trapped,
though her vanity and her audacity
| held to the end.
IL knew | should have no trouble
in making you believe that silly doll
| story" she said. sit was the truth,
| knew, too. that the dick would read
the code letter. She was so slow
| about 1t, that | had to steal II to make
| her do it. 1t was time, you see, for
the gentle Danielle's story to be veri-
| fed.
Don't fancy that I had overlooked
not fool. | thought of it before !
killed the girl. There were a dozen
ways | could have gotten around it
could yet get around it. If necessary,
| could even have disabled my own
| right hand. | had rather planned. at
| first, to do that. But, later. found
that l loved my pretty little white
hand better than had supposed. Just
as have discovered that | loved the
| gay Gaby better than | had supposed
| so well, indeed. that | have decided
that death as Gaby is infinitely prefer
able to life as the shiny nOsed
| Danielle. have seen this coming.
/ have not cared.
81 got rid of that cur, Canneztano.
1 not because was afraid of him. but
| because he tried to double-cross me-
| had promised to do much for him,
after you and were married; and he
would have sold me out for few
thousand dollars. lie came here.
hoping that Danny might pay him a
pretty sum for his silence about my
| past. He knew his mutt0ns. She