The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-04
BY MARION WHITE
CAST OF CHARACTERS

CAST Or CHARAC l EKS
PRISCILLA PIERCE-heroine,
young woman attorney.
AMY KERR-Cilly's roommate
and murderer's victim.
JIM KERRlGAN-Cilly'S fisnee.
HARRY HUTCHlNS - Amy's
strange visitor.
SERGEANT DOLAN-offieer
assigned to solve the murder of
Amy Kerr.
Yesterday: The case stacks up
against Jim Kerrigan. Cilly finds
his name is Kerr, that he is
Amy's cousin. And Dolan charges
that Jim ran away with $4,000
in stolen securities for which his
father is serving a prison term.
Photographs show Jim and Allan
Kerr TO be the same person. The
picture in Amy's locket was Jim's
father.
CHAPTER XVII
At home in her living room,
Clly paced the floor. In her right
hand she held Amy lockct;
again and again she looked at the
picture il held. There was no
doubt about il now. This was
Jim'S father. The likeness was
unmiStakablc. This was James
Allan Kerr. a convict. And Jim
Kerrigan, whom she loved above
all else in this world, was the son
who mad run away and deserted
him,
You'll believe in me, no mat
ter what"
Over and over, his words echoed
in her brain. She prayed for faith
in a man so callous. \ man who
could run away.
jim would be- back. She was
sure of that. Just rs sure rs she
was that tomorrow morning
would bring another surprise. Do
Ian knew criminals; that was his
business. What he didn't know
was that there are still men 50
fine that the ycan only do the
right thing.
Such man was Jim kcrrigan,
and a thousand Police Sergeant
DolauS could never make Cilly
believe otherwise.
Jim would be back.
A treasured Priscilla Pierce
Strengthened her shoulders.
Jim would be back. II not to-
day. then tomorrow. II not this
week. then the week after. Soon
or or later, Jim Kcrrigan would
be back. and he would explain
each startling circumstance.
Still too ncrvouSly excited 10
think Of sleep. CiIly went into The
living roo maud sat down by the
window. The night was cool. and
the breeze from the bay delight !
fully refreshing. She looked !
across the street at the 81. Ann
apartments, into other living /
rooms where people gathered for
the evening.
All normal. commonplace peo- |
pie, each living his or her own I
private life secure in a tiny cubi- /.
Gle. Cliff jewellers. crowded to-
gethcr under one roof, yet each |
a stranger to the other. That is |
the way of New York, Cilly re-
Elected.
Just as easily could those across .
the street sit at their windows .
and look at the tenants of the .
Bayview. They could watch these ;
people carrying on their norma, .
routine Of existence. private and
undiSturbcd They could overlook .
the doingS Of each person in the !
hOuSe-and one of these persons /
was q murderer.
Suppose | were across the
street" Ciuy asked herself, what |
would | see in this house? Would |
| see people playing bridge, and |
listening 10 the radio, or could |
Sc clearly where a cloud of SuS-
piciOn hung over one apartment? |
Over there, could see these peo-
pie aS they actually are, and not |
as they pretend to be while the /
police are questioning them
The more she thought of il, the |
stronger became the urge TO get
across the street and regard the
different families in the Bayview.
But how?
The only windows which front
ed on the street were apartment
windows: she could not go over
there and ask someone 20 let her
sit in the front Window for a
while. She could walk across the
street and stand there, but stand