The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-02

shaped.
1T STOOD out from the black rest
Of him. In daylight it just looked
wrong. But never could place it,"
He didn't undress? But"
Eyes. He must have lied to you.
You told me that when he talked
about 1t with you he said he I'M
dressed and sat and dozed in the big
chair by the window"
WYATT a moment, Tom. He
W didn't quite say that-but
did have that impression" She
Rugged her knees and bent her head
on them in concentrated effort to
bring back the exact words.
He said, I made myself comfort
able in the chair by the window and
dozed off there That was it,
Tom. I misled you. When he said
made myself comfortable, I took
it for granted he meant he I'M
dressed and repeated to you that
way. I'm aWfully Sorry!"
That was perfectly natural. I'd
have gone on the same assumption.
l suppose he took off his dress coat
and put on the bathrobe.
Nov that think about it, I re-
member something else that should
have told me lot. When he joined
us in Cousin Amos room he had a
very long robe on and it was drawn
close across his chest-lapped way
over. OF course that MD the white
shirt front and make him look en-
tirely different.
"How-hoW did he take it?" In
voluntarily Linda Shivered violently
and Immediately his hand was laid
over hers.
Don't talk about that, Binks.
Don't think about it,"
Il can't help thinking, she plead
ed. so its better to talk"
"Well-badly-"
HE Was-ViOlent?'
Clear off his nut. 1 told you it'd
be all a bunch of us could do to
manage whoever it turned out to
be- when the time came.
They sent four men-thought I
was crazy when 1 called, but some
how I put it over and we needed
every man of them. 1t wasn't
pretty scene"
Il suppose he killed Bunty?"
He laughed about it-jeered at
me-for caring about a fat old dog,
suppose. He was a maniac, Binks.
Yes, he went out that night and
prowled about
"CUFFERED from insomnia. An
~ other thing I forgot. When
We met in the city at the office early
in the week, he spoke of it-said
he always slept badly in hotels.
1T was just an illusion and I
forgot all about it. Added to this
blazing heat-this sort Of spell al
ways strikes a European as direct
from hell-he probably was all
keyed up from at least two and
perhaps three or four nights with
out sleep. The first night he went
out and roamed around-and Bunty
suffered for it.
You can imagine she'd be right
on the job with an unknown prowl-
ing about after midnight, poor,
spunky little cussl Then the next
night after the row at the club and
the dance, he came back to that
hot room-it was the worst night
Of all, you know-and knew he
hadn't a chance in the world 70
sleep
so he just made himself COM
Portable in the chair and probably
sat there brooding over the quarrel
and the insult he endured from
Cousin Amos, and full of morbid,
half-insane thoughts
And the door went rork-rork-
/ rOrk-"
His window was parallel with
that door and he could hear it
louder than any one else"
She sighed. Tom-we did
it. Thank heaven it's Overt"
But by a very narrow margin
he added soberly. The chance re-
mark Of Statlander and my i'm
preston of the shirt front
IF he'd kept his head and just
/ laughed at the idea
Wed have proved it but it would
have been a long, hard fight. This
way. Binks, his familyll hush it up
somehow. and I'll be bound he's put
quietly away and it never will come
to trial. Surely we won't push it.
Speaking of Mr. Statlander-"
Linda's impish grin was. in mo-
ment, as dauntleSS as ever. You're
not very complimentary about your
senior. are you, darling?'
We'll, he is an old fool. He's made
more trouble, unnecessary trouble"
Have you talked it over with
him?"
Lord. YES. We've all hashed and
re-hashed. After you pulled the
faint-don't be peevish, honey, you
had plenty of provoca ion and no
body blamed you!-ShaughneSsey
turned you over to Rosie and she
called up mother, and the two of
them bundled you of.
Meanwhile our Irish friend had
the time of his young life-a grand
yarn to tell and an audience that
was pop-eyed with excitement.
When got back-dog- tired. dis
hevelled and sick with worry about
you-they all fell on me like wolves
TO hear the end of the story"
ITO Be Concludedl
Last year, for the first time IN