Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-05
|ACASE EQRRL = Detectives
- ~ LEO BRUCE 90

| Williams addresses him. He is
interested. He forgets the some
thing in his Overcoat, and returns
to the other neSSieurS.
| But what is the effect? The
poor Enid! She has been waiting
for 10 minutes for her lover to
descend from the apple room, so
that she may do her part. But
still he has not come. And now
she hears the noise of the radio
suddenly increase as the door is
| opened. Someone comes, she
thinks. Someone will find her.
She is discovered. Her lover will
be hanged. But wait-there is
yet time. He has surely climbed
in now? Quick, to the door. An,
bien. he is there. He descends.
She returns to the room of DR..
Thurston and she screams. She
has saved his life, she thinks. But
she could not foresee that Amer
Picon, the great Amer Picon,
would investigate!
1.-THE chauffeur is what you call
nonplused. Why has she screamed
too soon? In a panic he runs into
his own room. Then, in a mo-
ment he realizes that he must
show himself at once, as soon as
possible. He joins you at the
door. He is relieved. His alibi,
though not as good as if he had
been with the cook, is still per-
feet. He will escape.
"What is there more to do?
He offers himself now to those
who seek the criminal. He is
calm, and confident. He fetches
the doctor and the policeman.
Why not? The doctor may now
examine the body, but it is more
than half an hour since the muir
der. It cannot be possible for
him to tell that she died just four
or five minutes before the scream.
And the policeman-but he is ac-
quainted with our honest Boeuf.
He is enchante that he should in
vestigate. So he goes willingly.
Nor is he troubled that the
ropes should remain concealed in
the tank. Why should he be? He
has seen that the screams of Enid
have been taken by all to be the
screams of the murdered woman,
so that his alibi is perfect. No
rope in the world can convict him,
he thinks, not having foreseen the
Intervention of Amer Picon.
"He made, however, one stupid
blunder, this SO long-sighted
young man. He arranged to meet
the girl on the afternoon before
he committed his crime. And he
tried to conceal that afterwards.
Then, when I wanted to find out
what his movements had been
that day, he fell plop into the
trap, and was caught as surely as
the little rats in the apple room.
Figure to yOurself-he has de-
cided on Friday to carry out the
scheme he has planned. Already,
as we know, he has in view the
public house he will take when he
has received the money. He has
made up his mind. He wants, of
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This he effects so secretly that
none see them go away in the car
together.
Perhaps the girl is hidden in
the back. Perhaps she waits for
him beyond the village. At all
events their meeting was con-
cealed. They drive to their GUS
tomary place, where it is unlikely
that they will be observed. They
leave the car where they have al
ways left it, and where it will
arouse no comment, since a car
may often be left near to a lovers
lane. They are quarreling. The
girl, perhaps, is impatient with SO
much waiting, and with her
lovers attentions to madame. He
must pacify her. He tells her of
his, decision-that the day they
have awaited is here. They COM
plete their plans. They smile
again. They return to the car,
and drive to the house-unseen.
Ito Be COntinued)