The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-18

/ IKE reptile to me, and | think
Howard was truthful when he said
she was poison to him but she was
beautiful. That doesn't quite seem
the WORD. And it wouldn't be love-
ly. 1t had to be something poison
Gus, and she did not try much to dis
guise it. Probably that is why Blair
was infatuated. He may have fallen
really in love with the little brute
because she was vile and danger
Gus.
Il do not know whether she really
was attracted to Howard or just
wanted to make trouble. Maybe he
was the type Of man who could fas-
cinate her, just as Acton was the
type of man who could be fascinated
by her.
IF he'd been interested in the
girl Maisie would have pulled her
own freight, but | was sure he
wasn't, and l am sure now. 1t was
just his wild contrariness. The
night it happened, which, come to
think of it, was night before last,
we We're at dinner separately, that
is Howard and I, and Blair and the
poison. Blair left her for a moment,
and she mOtiOned to Howard to
come to her table. He did, and as
he was talking to her he did not see
Blair behind him. Blair shot him.
She got up, went to Blair's side,
took his gun from him as if she
thought of hiding it and shot him.
He fell on top of Howard and there
you were. Then she began to
shrek. That seems to be the end
of the Turner will as a police case.
There's a boy, isn't there, who in
herits? 1t was wicked to keep him
from his fathers money, but then
it was the father who did, and he
knew what he wanted. l suppose the
police will make it more or less un-
comfortable for me for a while, but
when l am permitted to ! am re-
turning. | have some money. Ash
ley was generous to me. but he was
eXtravagant in everything he did
and there never was much to lay
aside. I'm retiring to scratch up a
respectable living. AS a careerist
I'm quite plainly through, but a fell
low continues to live. Vixen l can
I'll see you, if you have an inter,
est for more details. The police
here will think funny I'm writing
to lieutenant of Chicago police.
and when you take another look at
it, isn't it funny? Adios.
"Maisie."
The lady was right as to the
French police. Commissioner Rus
sell had a cablegram of inquiry
which Stanton answered by letter
giving an outline Of the Turner will
crimes and making plain Maisie's
lack of completely. That, he thought,
might help her.
Another letter brought young Mr..
Turner back to mind, being from
him. He inquired if any of the men
involved in his fathers viii had de-
pendents who might be suffering
from what had been caused by it.
He wrote:
You know / would not have in
terfered, if l could, TO preTent my
father and these men having it out
to his satisfaction, but as to other
people, that is an entirely different
matter We are to have so much
money that it will be almost disturb
ing, and | know that if my father
thought that in having ii out with
these men he had hurt a canary
! bird or kitten belonging to one of
them he would have been hurt him
self. SO let me know, Lieutenant,
if you know of any canaries. We
think We'll add another half acre to
the garden and maybe buy a Yer
mont farm. Drop in on us some
time. Mr.. Darling sends you his
regards and expresses his hope to
see you again."
Stanton sent the young man the
name and story of Maisie and had
in return a telegram reading. Good.
Get her address," Later in the
year, in July, the lieutenant was
back in the East, on leave from the
Chicago department and on a duty
which contained more personal dis
tress than he had experienced in
any other police case. Young Tur-
ner implOred him to come. Mr.. Oar
ling and his servant Pompey had
found dead in the Newburgh home
1t was the opinion of Mr.. Oar
ling's physician that his patient had
died of a heart attack as he sat in
his chair. Pompey had fallen in the
hall, his head resting on chair
An injury at the base of his skull
could indicate a blow. 1t could
also be explained as consequence
of his fall. 1t seemed fairly incred.
ible that Mr.. Darling and his serv.
ant had died hand in hand, as II
were, of natural causes, but it would
have been accepted as the fact if il