Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-10-18

ard" She was silent. Rocky sat
down beside her, took her hand.
please wait"
mo. no." She got up. IL can't
wait. l have a right to know. I'll
I'll ask Mr.. st. Gardens what It's
all about. I'll tell him everything
remember. He will tell me. He
won't keep me In agony any longer
l can't bear this uncertainty. Any
thing is better"
Rocky sat with his head down
looking into space.
She controlled herself, looked at
him gravely. did ROCKY? Did
do-that awful thing?"
Rocky looked at the carpet mis-.
erably. "D-n 1t, how do I know
| can only ~guess-llke everybody
else"
"Then II isn't a sure thing?'"
"Oh, they think It's sure. all
right" His lips dropped unhappily.
Perhaps you-went out of your
mind"
"Then 1t was--I did-that is
Rocky, | can't be a murderess. |
didn't kill anyone" Her eyes, bag
gard and strained, searched his
face for an answering faith.
She found 1t. He looked back at
her squarely. That's the way |
feel about It."
"Rocky, you're a wonderful
friend" Their hands gripped.
I'm not. ! wish I could be-"
81 couldn't kill anybody"
~ know you couldn't. He patted
her head, against his knee. 1--WE
always known that about you"
''Then why" she turned sudden
ly TO him. why is there such a
mysterious silence about mel Why
we're we arrested7 Why have we
been racing like mad away from
New York;" She stared at his
quiet face for a terrified second. II
know I'll ask the police. I'll go
to the stationi | must find out"
"Wait-don't you see, Doris? I'm
only trying to help you"
She stared into his eyes then.
Her hand dropped suddenly to her
lap. II did, then. I did kill some
one"
Rocky's silence was terrible to
her. She drew close to him. 81
didn't, Rocky. | didn't. Tell me /
didn't. Why, | couldn't have killed
anybody, Rocky. | know that much
about myself, don't II" She looked
at him pitifully. He took her hand
and held 1t tightly.
After a while he said huskily,
That's the way / feel, Doris. That
you couldn't nave"
"Please tell me how 1t happened"
Still Rocky paused. AT last, his
cheek close to hers, he said slowly,
"It's-been in all the papers. It
happened the day / sailed. So |
didn't e much about 1t until ! got
back. Then-of course your picture
has been everywhere"
MY picture"
He nodded. TITS you, all right.
l didn't e 1t until that night you
tainted when you saw 1t. But
you didn't remember when you
came to, again"
She brushed her hair back from
her damp brow. But Rocky, what
dld-what am / supposed to have
done?"
Rocky cleared his throat and
tried to speak In a matter-of-fact
way. why, this girl is supposed
to have shot her husband with her
fathers gun and then"
She could not speak. She had
shrunk away from him, covered her
face with her hands.
"Then she disappeared" went on
Rocky. He leaned over and tried
to take her hands. Must | go ONT"
Doris raised her face. But
Rocky. don't you remember | was
with my husband In the cab7 He
was still alive then. Someone else
must have shot him %afterward. He
was awful. Rocky. and | was afraid
Of him, but you remember. don't
you, how / left him? didn't shoot
him"
Rocky's hand pressed nervously
over his hot brow. II think you
perhaps you haven't been WELL" he
stammered.
You mean," the words dropped
with a bedraggled courage, "you
mean I'VE lost my mind"
Il mean | think you lost II for a
short time, when-when this hap
pened."
"How did you known | mean how
have you learned anything about
mel"
IL thought you guessed. The
papers have been full OF It."
what do they say7"
Rocky looked away as II he we're
detaching the subject from her.