The Washington times., 1933-02-28

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Here it is the way it stands"
stated Cronin. This here party
was named Ohio J. Holt. Age
"a. Was some kind of a conf
dental secretary or somethin'
to Fergus Hume"
"Old cheese-paring Fergy,
huh?"
Sure, the big traction mag
net. We'll, this here young
Holt and his wife have been
livin' here for it's between three
and four years. They don't
own this house, they rent. No
children; they got dog,
though-one dog. And one
servant. She's a colored girl.
She sleeps out, so she wasn't
here when this KILN comes
off. Oh, yes; Holt went to Co.
lumbia-graduated from there.
And he USE to be in the Ma
tional Guard"
Dig up any private dirt on
him? How did he stand
around here?"
First rate. Everybody we
seen gives him the name for
being on the up-and-up. He
drank some and once in awhile
he rolled 'em pretty high and
ne owed a few overdue bills,
they say, but nothin' serious.
Just a good fella, doin' the best
he can-that's how 1 figure
him"
Happy with his wife?"
Prom what we hear so far,
absolutely"
"That'll maybe bear lookin'
into" put in the Italian. you
can't never tell"
"She'S fair broken-hearted,
"I'll swear to that" said Gro
min, seemingly mildly irritated
by the tone of his partners in
terjection. I'VE only had one
little short talk with her before
she went all to pieces, but I'll
swear to that"
where is she now?"
In Her Room
"UpStairS in her room-with
d trained nurse with her and
two-three of the neighborhood
women. The doctors gone but
is due back later. She's all in,
= he says. So we're leavin' her
be-"
Go ahead" prompted Bray.
We'll, last night young Holt
was out. There's a neighbor-
hood poker club for stays only
that meets one night a week
at different members house,
and last nights the night. So
he goes. And Mrs. Holt, in due
time she goes to bed. Well,
the session must have lasted
pretty late because it's close on
3 o'clock this mornin' when
he gets in. Hearin' him comm
in, she sort of rouSes up but
is still pretty drowsy. He comes
on into the room where she is
they use the same room but
separate beds-and tells her It's
10 minutes to 3 o'clock and
that he broke about even in
the poker game. And he tells
her that he's drunk a lot of
coffee and so, even late as 'tis,
he don't feel sleepy and he
guesses he'll go in the spare
room across the hall and read
q spell. That's o. K. by her
and he comes over and kisses
her good-night-with him dead
so soon after, bet you she sets
a big store by that last kiss
and he taxes the dog with him
that's layin' at the foot of her
bed and goes out, and she
drops off and that's the last
she remembers until she wakes
up again and finds him back in
the room and he says to her
he kind of thinks he heard g
noise downstairs like a door
slammin' or Somethin' fallin' or
Somethin,' and for her to listen.
Well, she sets up in bed ana
listens but don't hear anythin'
and he says to her that prob
ably he was wrong about it.
bein' a little nervous from the
long poker session and the
coffee and all, but just to be
on the safe side he'll slip
down below with the dog and
see if everythin' is all locked
up and shipshape, and for her
to stay right where she is.
80 she does like he says,
not bein' scared xactly but
thinkin' it's probably only a
false alarm. Maybe if she'd
! known h was takin' along his
gun-a regulation thirty-eight
that he had from the time he
was a lieutenant in the Seventh
Regiment, she might "a been
more worried.
"Well, in a minute or maybe
two minutes, she hears a shot
downstairs.
A Game Woman
"She's scared stiff, naturally.
But she's a game little thing,
30 she jumps up and starts down
stairs. She gets about two
thirds of the way and from
there she can look through the
doorway yonder into the dinin'.