Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-09
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WHILE RERE:AD Oelia's letter.
! noticed that her mot hers eyes were
fastened on my face
"Qneer. don't you ihink?"
swell. Miss Cambridee-" !
wanted to say what poor Della had
said in her letter. that Miss Cam
bridge was the prying Kind. but |
didn't ] stopped right there.
1T may be nothing" Mrs. Randall
said. but thought you ought 30
see it, Della thought ii was funny
or she wouldn't have said So. ! for
got all about IL until | got on The
train this morning. and started to go
over her letters. You don't think
that Miss Cambridge
KILLED Della? ! don't. Mrs. Ran
dali" However. the suggestion made
me uneasy. didn't like the idea OF
Marcella Cambridge investisatine
the rooms in the house n she had
gone into Delia's room Della, a ser
Van1-she must have entered the
other rooms in the house. My room.
too. for I'd never left il locked until
Tuesday afternoon. i,ucN's room
The shoes were an excuse. pronan,v
the first thing Miss Cambridge
thought OF because she vas IN the
closet when Della came in The glti
the next day was munificen, one.
more so than she had ever made 10
any OF my servants before True
Miss Cambridge did give Clothes 10
the girls now and then. bun never
had she given four pairs OF prac-
ticaIly uew shoes al one time. Was
il a hribe?
BAIT ii was an awful thing TO even
think that she might have KILLED the
girl. simply because she had snooped
about the room, I .couldn believe
that Of Miss Cambridge
Anything more in The other let
ters?" | asked the woman
''Only abofli people IN the house I"
! ran through some or the Other
letters. bnt they we're iust wha: Mrs
Randall had said. gosSipy. homely let
tiers about everyone IN the house. all
OF them more or less the same. One
thing that struck me as significant
was that IN the letters ! read there
was no mention at all OF Mr.. Hem
ingway. ! asked Mrs. Randall If
Della ever wrote about him. and she
said she hadn't That he had emily
been mentioned in one OF the first
letters. never since then. SO Della
wasn't even confiding TO her mother
her love for Martin Hemingway
The letter which referred to Miss
Cambridge | gave to Sergeant Ross
to take TO Lieutenant Larrabee. He
would want to see il. Then. after
Mrs. Randall mad gone. went INTO
the kitchen. There was chance
that Della had told Grace about Miss
Cambridge's visit TO her room.
1t turned out that she had. al
though Grace had almost forgotten
tive incident.
I'VE talked about it at the time"
Grace said. that next morning be-
fore Miss Cambridge brought down
the shoes 1 told Delta not TO worry
because Miss Cambridge was rrob-
ably doing nothing but looking over
what she had. I'd forgotten until
now.
"TheE Miss Cambridge brought her
the shoes and Della was pleased to
death. She didn't have much. roor
child. and she was so grateful when
anyone did anything for her. Maybe
Miss Cambridge was looking TO see
what SIZE shoes Della wore. and
maybe she wasn't Mrs Starmoni
said that one night when she weni
for a walk. she was sure someone
had been ia her room. Nor that
there was anything there. but she
didn'i like the idea OF people looking
through her things She was posi-
tive heC ause the book she had been
readlne was lyme face down on the
chase tongue when she went OUT
and when she came back IL WAS