The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-12
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that 1t would be unpleasant Tor you.
"Nonsensel I'm no--timid grit
I shall see him today. Will you ar
range it,"
Phil said. "I'n go with you. moth
err"
"No, Phil. Not this time" What
she had to say to Arthur none must
hear.
Dean Hare said tentatively: 81
don't know whether you care to hear
the-reasons the police give for the
arrest. OF course, the news
papers"
She thought of Fisher, the report
err; bullet Dean tell her If he
wished. She could think while he
talked.
She said, IT don't read newspa-
persl"
Hare nodded. 81 suppose not"
And, choosing his words, he went
on: "You see, the girl had key to
the back door. Inspector Irons came
Sunday morning to ask Arthur
where she could have got it, and Ar
thur suggested that Miss Randall
might have given it to her; but Irons
found that Miss Randall didn't have
a key to the back door herself.
There was a new lock put on two
or three years ago. Ike Tory, the
janitor down there, put it on, and
gave Arthur and Gus Loran keys.
"The Inspector took Arthur's key,
and he went out to get Gus Lor-
ans. Gus was in New York, went
over Thursday and didn't get back
till late last night; but Mrs. Loran
found his key book and Irons picked
out the key. He found that the key
Gus had was different from Ar
thurs, and from the one in Miss
Wines bag. But hers was a dupli-
cate of Arthur's; and her key
seemed pretty new, but Arthur's
was older than the other two, more
worn.
"The Inspector went back to try
the keys. They all worked in the
lock. He asked Ike Tory why they
were different. It turned out that
when Ike put the new lock on, a
year or so ago, only two keys came
with it; so he took an old key that
was something like these, ard filed
it down himself till it fitted the lock.
Ike takes pride in saving money
for the firm; did it to save having
a new key made, to save rs cents
or whatever it was. And he gave
Arthur the key he made, kept one
of the originals himself, gave the
other to Gus Loran."
He hesitated, and Mrs. Sentry said
automatically, II don't see anything
in that"
Hare was uncomfortable. "Well,
Irons believed he told her, "that
the dead girls key must have been
made from Arthur's, because they
matched perfectly, while her key
didn't match Loran's; so he had all
the locksmiths canvassed, and late
yesterday afternoon they found a
man who remembered making the
key. He remembered it, because he
noticed on the key that was given
him for a pattern that parts Of it
had been filed off later than other
parts; so he knew it had been made
out of a key originally meant for
another lock. He asked the customer
whether he wanted an exact dupli-
cate; and the customer said Yes" .
He hesitated; but no one spoke,
and he concluded: "They brought
this chap to Headquarters last night.
He picked your father out of line
up as the man who had the key
made"
Mrs. Sentry said nothing; but Phil
cried, Probably the police tipped
him who to pick!" Mrs. Sentry
thought: Phil is so young. Mr.. Fish
er told us all this. Phil must re-
member.
Hare said regretfully: "We1l, Ar
thur admitted last night at Head
quarters that he did have the dupli-
cate key made. He said he kept
it in his desk in case he lost the
other. He thinks Miss Wines must
have stolen it,"
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