The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-03
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 chauffeur was murdered last night you remember, the man who drove us out here in the limousine?"
 She hadn't anticipated the news being broken to her in, just this way, She stood for second star Ing at Happ and repeated the kword. "Murdered"
 "Yes," he said, murdered"
 :'Who did it?"
 We don't know"
 When was 1t done?" 4 Some time this morning" {" Jarvis Happ said. and his voice was filled with grim portent. 'I'm going to find out who did it," he said, If it's the last act of my life. And when I find out who did it, I am going to be absolutely and utterly without mercy. re- gardiess of who that person may I be. Do you understand?" She felt the color chaEEing in her face. Ys.'Et',
 why" she said. "do you say that to me?" Z
 ."'Because, he said erinily, "I want 1t definitely understood that I don't caye who the person may be--I am going to be absolutely without mercy" Y Happ moved away from the door. His manner became more at ease.
 "I wanted to tell you" he said. that the police were going to be ArtA 1xSrz vat fn nnf fYa l a panic when you heard them drive up."
 How long ago was was 1t discovered?"
 "Just a few minutes, ago."
 How did it happen?"
 we ali of us slept late this morning." he said. T had been rather a trying day yesterday. could well appreciate how utterly exhausted you were, and I, my self. had been under something of strain"
 She nodded, pleased that his un- dersta pding had saved her from the necessity of making excuses or explanations.
 However Happ said. "I wanted, to go to town. I pressed the buzzer which summons my. chauffeur. As you may have found out, Harry Fielding was my own personal chauffeur. He enjoyed my unlimited confidence and served no one but me.
 Unusually it is but a few minutes after I press the buzzer before he is at the door with the car. This time. after some IS minutes. pressed the buzzer again, think ing that perhaps he had oversiept When he didn't answer, I started an investigation. The housekeeper told me he had not been in for breakfast. so went to his room. He sleeps in a room over a shed in the back, a room which is isolated from the rest of the house. He was dead. He had been | sht and died almost instantly"
 She nodded her head mechani- cally.
 There was," he said, "just one thing which may be considered as q clew, clew so intimate in its nature that I didn't want to trust | 1t to the hands of the police"
 She raised her eyebrows.
 "Perhaps," he said. you will | understand what I mean when show you the clew. It was some thing which I found In the bath | room"
 She said clowly. you mean in the bathroom of the chauffeur's quarters?'
 "Yes." he said, and suddenly opened his clenched hand.
 Crumpled into ball in the palm of his hand was her handkerchief.
 Have you," he asked lever seen that before?"
 She clenched her hands until they were tight little fists. Her senses seemed to reel. She was ut- terly incapable of speech but, mer- cifuliy, she was spared the neces- slty of making an answer. for. at that moment. there was the sound of q throbbing siren, the noise made by tires as a car slid around corner at rapid speed.
 Jarvis Happ closed his fingers over a bit of linen and lace.
 Say nothing about this to any. one" he said. T am going to ,ien- tify 1t positively. and when I iden- tify it. 1 am going to take drastic steps,"
 Happ turned. noiselessly opened the doorc looked out Into the corridor. then nodded reassuringly to her and, slipsed out, csosingr4he door behind him.
 Miliicent stood quivering.
 Was 1t possible that Happ didn't know that was her handkerchief?
 Showing her the handkerchief