The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20

me from the first. He wondered why your father was interested 1T the Drimgold murder. l don't know whether he knew about your ia ther being in the building wher l the murder was committed or not At any rate he was suspicious and l he took q photograph that had been | published in q newspaper and dark cned the hair. The result looked enough like me to convince him that I'm the girl they're looking for.
 "If he tells the police I'll kill him." Norman Happ said.
 q think he's already told them. He and Vera Duchene are working together. They wanted me to swear to something that was false.'
 "What?"
 "They wanted me to give Vera Duchene an alibi."
 "Then she's the one who mur- dered Felding," he exclaimed.
 "No, l don't think she is. She fits into the picture some way. but 1 don't know just where. l have an idea Bob may think that she was the one who murdered Feld- ing. You see, my fingerprints were | on that whiskey flask. Detective Buchanan locked up the whiskey l flask in your fathers study and re- ported to Sergeant Mahoney. Bob Caise thought the fnGerprints must l be those of Vera Duchene, so ne slipped into the study and smashed the flask"
 Norman Happ's eyes narrowed. | we've got to get to the bottom of this thing" he said, "and the only way we can do 1t is by finding out | just where Bob and Vera fit into | the picture. Someone murdered | Drimgold. Someone murdered Har- ry Fielding. We have to find out who that someone was" You speak," she said. "as though It might be the same persons.
 He blinked his eyes thoughtfully and nodded slowly.
 Ut isn't at all impossible" he observed. "On the other hand we mustn't make the mistake of jump ing at conclusions before We have enough facts to warrant them" They were silent for moment Then Norman Happ went on with slow deliberation, "The man was dead when you entered the room ?' Yes"
 "You're certain? 2" "Yes. I felt his wrist And you went to the bathroom and got a drink out of his whiskey flask ?"
 "Yes."
 "How much whiskey was there in the flask ?''
 "I don't know. It was little over half full. l guess"
 She could see that he was driv- ing toward some point, but could mt anticipate what 1t was.
 Do you remember the brand of whiskey?" he asked.
 "Why, yes" she said. "That was one of the things Detective Blu chanan and Sergeant Mahoney were talking about. They said il was rather expensive and that it was rather a peculiar type of whikey for Q chauffeur to be drinking"
 What was the brand 2" he ask ed her
 "Buchanan wrote it on piece of paper and handed it to Sergeant Mahoney. l have the paper here in the drawer" She opened the drawer and handed him the folded piece of paper. He unfolded it and stared thoushtfully at it for few mo- ments.
 Do you know what time it was when you got back?' he asked.
 No. I'm not certain. It wasn t very long before daylight"
 And the books Dad gave you in the suitcase were stolen while you were gone?"
 Yes. You sec" she said. when that typewriter message Was slipped under my door thought you were the one who had written 1t. You see. we'd been talking about this woman in the black ermine coat, and ."
 He thrust the folded paper in his pocket.
 Come on," he said. You and I are going out and hunt clews."
 What do you mean?"
 Just what I said. We're going to hunt clews."
 But what clews are we going 10 hunt?"
 Were going to find out about that woman in the black ermine coat. We're going to find out about the car of which you have the li- cense number. But first we're go- ing to find out about that whiskey'
 What about it?" she asked.
 Simply this: Harry Fielding was tt one time heavy drinker. When he started working as a chauffeur he made up his mind he was go- ing to cut out booze entirely. He never took a drink all the time he