The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-17

She didn't go near him. She edged
closer to John: but she answered
looking at him straight and lifting her
chin In a pretty. dignified way she
had, "Very, very bad times indeed"
She and John walked through the
room TO the stairway, and up the
steps. and out of sight.
Canneziano stood watching them.
dark, ugly look on his face. There's
filial affection for you" he said. And
then, with half laugh. as he lit an.
other cigarette, and shook the flame
from the match, "The girl is fool"
Miss Macdonald came down to
breakfast In the morning trim and
white as new candle. When we had
finished breakfast, she asked Sam If
she might detaip him. stayed on,
when the others had left the dining
room. She said pointedly, though pu
litely and TO Sam, not to me. that she
wanted to speak to him alone.
took myself off. But the open
window in the pass pantry was TOO
big a temptation: so | went in there.
softly, and stock far back and to the
side.
Her very first words took me right
off my feet. "NIr. Stanley" she ques-
toned do you trust your house
keeper?"
"Mary?' Sam drawled. swell, now,
| don't know as to trusting-but #
Mary was going on long journey,
to indefinite foreign parts, and felt
the need of my right eye to take along
with her, I'd loan II to her for as
long as she wanted it-no questions
asked 1 can't say that I'd go much
further than that, though"
was warm and glowing. Sam.
the old ninny, getting his dander up,
and to beautiful woman like that,
just because she had asked him
simple question.
She laughed; a CHEEKY, escaping
sort Of laugh, like something with
bright wings suddenly flying loose.
'Come back into the dining room,
then, Mrs. Magin," she calico to me.
You can hear better in here
came In, mite shamefacedly
1T was my overweening curiosity" ]
explained.
81 like people with curiosity" she
said. 81 understand them, too; be-
cause, | suppose, am one of the
most curious persons in the world.
Another thing, | have never found a
truly curious person who was a
wicked person. or course, one has to
be able TO discriminate between In
nate curiosity and the slyness of self
protection But, forgive me, Mr..
Stanley, / am chattering away your
time. Now then"
Uater we became accustomed to
that brisk professional opening of
her, that "Now them" as { signal
for getting right down to business,
but it was as surprising, heard for the
first time, as biting your tongue.)
Gabrielle Canneziano was last
seen, alive, where and at about what
hour?"
We told her.
"Did she seem at ease, happy, un-
troubled?"
said, "She was unhappy. troubled.
and frightened
did she speak to any one of you,
as she walked through the room7"
l told her about Gaby's gesture to
Chad, and about him following her to
the porch and talking to her there.
Chadwick Caufield2 The man who
killed himself when the body was
found?"
EYES,"
"Did he leave the porch with herY'
"No. He came straight back into
the house."
"What other members of the house
hold were in the room at that timer
Sam told her.
'That leaves her sister, and your
son and daughter as the only mem
bers of the household who were alb
sent at the time. How long before
Martha Stanley returned to the
house?"
Sam said, 81 was playing chess
But | know it WASN'T long"
at wasn't more than five or six
minutes" | said
"How long before Danielle Can
neziano came downstairs?"
l told her about Dannys calling
after Gaby. at wasn't much more
than ten minutes after she called no:
fifteen, am sure. before Danny came
downstairs
She went on with her questioning.
We had finished breakfast at eight
thirty O'Clock. At eleven thirty,
felt that she knew everything that
Sam and 1 knew about the case, and,
PROBABLY, deal more.
She had asked Sam to explain, in
detail, why he had entirely discounted
Chad's note of confession.
Sam said, rThe Dody was cold and
stiff when we found it. That is proof,
isn't it, thai she bad been dead more
than an hour?"
IF you are certain of that, it Is
positive proof that she had been dead
much longer than one hour
81 am certain. Well, until seven
O'Clock the boy had not been out of
my sight for one minute, after Gaby
walked through the room. alive, Cor
us all to see her, at four o'clock"
Miss Macdonald went on with her
questions. They brought us to Mar
tha's death. She took what seemed
like long time asking us questions
about Martha's health. Had she ever
complained of dizziness? Shortness of
breath? Indigestion? And all sorts
of other seemingly unimportant
things.
"Where," she finally asked, "was
this sleeping medicine purchased?"