Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-23

were uncommon good to my old ma
/ admit the cart to string 'em up
seeing what she'd become, she, 90 was
such a pretty, perky young lady. She's
got pluck, Miss Cissy."
Eyes, she always had. She was a
fine young girl" said the other mar
Comic, amt it, to think she's got
1900 a year in her own right, too?'
Fifteen 'undered!" gasped the other
earn, you're codding! When / saw
EN- they didn't look like fifteen 'undred
pence"
Il didn't say she touched it, did I?'
jeered the other. " I said she'd a right
to it. So she has. That's where it's
comic. She can't touch it because it'd
give him away, see? She had to leave
that behind with her good home and a
lot Of other things, and / guess she's
sorry by now she was such a fool"
mo, 1 think she amt" said the
husky voice. II see EN- together, and,
whatever she feels, she amt sorry, I'M
less it's for i'm"
We'll, she's got a right to be that,
anyhow
Il dunno" said the other, IF a mar
bumps off is own father"
Jaw, you don't believe that, this time
O. day." said the other, in a voice of
superior acumen.
100 did it, then, if e didn't"
"Ah, that's telling" jeered the other,
in a voice that said, "but l can tell.
20 course e did it," insisted the
husky voice. Didn't all the servants
ear i'm quarreling with the old man?
Didn't e go off in a mad rage? Didn't
e bolt for it directly after the murder
an Miss CisSy with imp"
They bolted because they saw the
evidence was dead against them. But
that doesn't say he did it. And nobody
saw him do it, anyhow"
What does that matter? He could
ave sneaked back across the grounds
while the old man was walking the ter
race, an done it, nobody KNOWN"
He wasn't the only one who could
have come sneaking back after a quar-
rel" jeered the sharp voice.
Il know what you're getting at
the husky voice was a taunt-"that
what's-his-name, the fy-by-night cou-
sin who's got the Manor now. But
that's tripe. e was in is 'otel, two
miles away. he servants saw i'm &C
to bed, an ALL
Eyes, they did-hne alibi, that!" The
other was bubbling with triumph. only
some one else saw him sneak across
the fields and knife the old man in
the back-an' then sneak back the way
he came SO that the hotel servants
could swear that they called him early
in the morning"
'Lummy!" said the other, in awe
"you mean it, Ben? Some one saw
i'm, you say? At that time O. night?'
Some one setting snares in the Biz
Spinney which looks down on the ter.
race" chuckled the other. ut was 9
moonlight night, too"
why didn't e come forward, then?'
He had no right in that spinney,'
said the other, who was obviously en-
Joying his companions WI AN he
had no right to set snares-"
"Poaching-'oo was it, Bill Jones OF
Slick Sam?"
Don't matter" said the smart one
THE police had a down on him, any
how, and then the man he saw dc
it., the cousin, could tell things abou,
the shooting up of a keeper that mean
at least a life stretch"
ssh k Sam, by guml" cried the other
in awe. AN e saw it all, Benz"
you know there are big stone
statues all along the terrace at thu
Manor" the man Ben explained. THE,
are hollow. The chap showed the knife
into the mouth OF the grinning one b,
the steps down to the lawn-it's still
there, like as not. It's a sure hiding
place and he wouldn't risk finding an.
other"
The man went on to describe thu
murderer sneaking of In the shadow.