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l, Suppose the letters had nothing to do with it?"
 But why suppose it? I must leave suspicious to you and to the police"
 You spoke of the danger or harm resulting to Doctor Nether- ton. Have you done all you can to prevent that danger?"
 What do you mean?" she asked.
 If you believe pr. Netherton to be innocent, is there nothing you can tell that will help to establish his innocence? To clear his name from any taint of suspicion?"
 The warm color flushed her cheeks. Bill is innocent, absolutely innocent. No one can prove any thing else"
 q know I have no real right to interfere Jimmie paused to let i his words sink in, although one of the parties concerned asked me to help them. We want, if possible, to punish the guilty, but, most of all, we want to save the innocent" She looked away from him, the old troubled look coming again into her eyes. Do you not suppose v she whispered, T would help you l if I could?"
 1 Would you? Think it over Miss Blake. Think over all it may mean to Bill-and others. Then, If there is anything-will you let me i know?n
 Once more she hesitated. When she spoke it was in new mood there was something of defiance i'll it. You are wrong, MT. Haswell. Altogether wrong. The whole thing 1 is as great a mystery to me as it is to you. I hope you will dis cover who killed my aunt. I wish it as much as any one for all you have done. But there is nothing I can do to help you
 As he walked toward the Wade'S home he considered what Marjorie had told him, but more conjectur- i ally, the thought of what she had not told him was uppermost as he greeted Nancy and gave her Mar l tories message. It was forthwith arranged that the little party from Pathways should go over to Mer- TOW Craig the following evening.
 In the morning Jimmie played a round of golf with Nancy, meeting Evelyn and Lionel on the course. Evelyn repeated the invitation to the Wades and Jimmie for bridge that evening and passed on. In the distance was Captain Stirling and another man, the one-armed golfer making some accurate long drives
 In the afternoon he went to see Roscoe and again met Superin- tendent Richmond, who seemed greatly discouraged. "The safe way to commit murder is on inn pulse. Every plan you make is a source of danger If a man hates
 another, there is murder in his heart Suddenly the chance to kill
 is offered and he takes it. Tha;
 sort of crime is the most difficul, to detect"
 Are you talking at large or with reference to the Querdling case?' . asked Jimmie.
 ITO this case, of course. I an coming back to my first idea that the chauffeur did it. He was furi. ous at her, she was there under , the image and he gave it a shove , No one saw him and nothing car
 be proved"
 T follow the argument" sais
 Jimmie, "and to some extent agree , The visit to Ben Acres for the ham F mer was not the only walk tha
 evening"
 On the way back to Bens, o : coming back, he went around b. n the Dutch garden and saw hi chance"
 r What about the empty car? , asked Jimmie.
 f He thought it would put us of
 the track, but our failure to trac Q it justifies cur doubting it's exis tence.'
 If. as Jimmie suggested, Collet f and Mrs. Frater had seen it, tot d Richmond said it might not hay
 been the same one.
 Richmond had seen Green agail h he said, but the chauffeur stuck | l his story. Certainly proof would | ', difficult. Others had the san # opportunity as the chauffeur, wit
 apparently stronger motives-ns Q anger only, but very definite gail ', Jimmie left him, little thinkir
 what the night was to bring fort T, Copyright, 1880, J. B. Lippinco II Company u Jimmie stumbles upon a ten-