The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-19
OUT Of the NIGHT
Copyriqht, 1897, NEA Service, INC
BY MARION WHITE

PRISCILLA PlERCE-heroine
young woman attorney.
AMY KERR-Cilly's roommate
and murderer's victim.
JIM kERRIGAN-Cilly's fianee,
HARRY HUTChlNS - Amy
strange visitor.
SERGEANT DOLAN-offieeI
assigned to solve the murder oil
Amy Kerr.
Yesterday: Cilly hears the
whole tragic story of Jim's ms
fortune from him. Then he leaves
for Amy's office to examine he,
file of evidence against Worth
A moment later Cilly is horitiee
to notice that her window neal
the fire escape is now open!
CHAPTER NNN
Needless this time of any
danger to herself, Cilly rushed In
to the bedroom and carefully in
vestigated the open window. She
knew. beyond the shadow of a
doubt, that she had not opened
il. Someone from the outside had
reached over and pushed the win
dow up. very quietly. So that IN
the excitement of talking with
jim. she had not noticed. Why
had il been done?
No one had entered the room,
That was certain. No one could
have entered while she and JON
sat in the living room beyond, in
full view of this window. Then
why had il been opened?
She closed the window, locked
il this time. Perhaps the person
intended 10 return by way Of the
open window. But that would be
sheer folly with q policeman
in the apartment above, listening
for any suspicious sound, such as
the creaking OF the fire escape
under a persons weight. -.
Suddenly. Cilly saw the reason
for that window having been
opened 50 Stealthily.
The man wanted TO hear what
was being said,
lie might have recognized jim,
seen him come to the houuSe. He
might-Oh, a thousand might
have-beenS. The thing was
that he had heard the entire case
against him. Whatever suspicious
had lurked in his mind were
realities now.
He had heard Jim'S complete
story. He had heard about the
evidence against him in Amy'S
safety deposit box,
Cilly Stifled a cry that came 10
her lips. Jjm'S life might be
blotted out any minute, even as
had Amy'S. He was i'm terrible
danger, Sergeant Dolan'S case
against him was n trivial matter
compared TO this new menace,
The murderer was desperate now
else he would not have taken the
chance on coming back here after
having so nearly been caught in
the apartment above. He would
stop at nothing. And his only
safety Law in getting Amy's evil
dence before jim did
He would kill Jim TO get it,
Strangely. Cilly did not realize
ut the moment that she was in the
same danger, since Jim had told
her everything. All she could
think of was that Jim must be
warned. Somehow she must get
20 the Cannon building before
this man who had listened at the
window
II only Sergeant Dolau were
here, 20 20 with her. But she
couldn't wait for him. Every min
ute was important.
She thought of the officer up
stairs in the vacant apartment,
But he had orders 10 remain
there. e..
In the end. she left a message
with him for Dolan. Would the
sergeant follow her TO the Cannon
building, Just as Quiuckly rs he
could? II was important, ire
mendOuSly important.
She took the subway 20 Man
haitian. That was fastest. jim. in
his urgency, might have taken q
taxi. But Cillv knew the subway
would get her 20 the Cannon
building in half the time it would
take a taxi, even though every
second OF the trip would seem an
eternity.
For the first five minutes OF
the trip, she was in an agony of
suspense. II was as if the car
were a prison, holding her back
ward; she pressed her body hard
against the seat and beat mad
tattoo with her feet to speed the
train forward. At every station
she held her breath. lest she
scream out her frantic demand
for haste.
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry,
Jim'S life was in danger. Some
one he did not know, someone he
could not suspect, would meet
him in the Cannon building and
lead him TO his death. Someone
he did not know.
Then, quite suddenly, every
muscle i'm Cilly'S tense body re-
Taxed. For a long, breath-taking
moment she sat there, very calm
and very still. She had been
asleep. and had just awakened.
She knew who the murder was
As the train roared it was I'M
der the river, she went back in
her mind over the whole case.
The pieces fitted together in a
perfect pattern. What a blind
fool she had BEEN What a stupid,
unreasonin" fool,
She recalled the events which
followed Amy's death on Sunday