The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-01


she advance any statement there
that might throw light on her
death?"
Just what do you mean. DR..
Mayhew?"
Did she suggest that she knew
that she was dying. or that she
knew she had been poisoned Pc
yes" Tuck said quietly. with
a culver in her lip. "She said, I
know too much
The clock suddenly licked loud
ly, clearly, in the room.
you understood her, Mrs. For
roster? Do you know what she
nneant?"
"Yes-1 do.p
Does that not suggest to you
that she knew she was dying?"
Yes. think she knew. Before
we did"
"And she knew why she was dy-
ing? Why someone, let us say,
wanted her to die?"
YES"
"Mrs. Forester, did you get the
impression that Miss Lissey had
committed suicide?"
NO." Tuck said clearly. No"
Thank you. Charlotte Jean
Soames."
Charlotte Jean. with a very
white face and a nose red from
being rubbed in her excitement,
curtsied a little as she made her
answers.
miss Soames, did you put poi
son in any food or drink that was
served in Mrs. Forrester's house
on Sunday?"
INC, sir, l should say not. don't
know nothing about poison, sir"
We'll then, did anyone come into
your kitchen on Sunday and tam
per with the food?"
mo, sir. Nobody come into my
kitchen on Sunday for anything
whatever, except that Gordon
Deane, eating of all the cookies,
but that was after the rest had had
their tea, sir. Unless you mean Mr..
Devoe, and he only came for a
glass of water"
Hardly Herself
" 4 GLASS of water?"
"A Eyes, sir. For his mother, he
said. She was feelin' faint like"
Il see. Did he touch anything
except his glass of water?"
"He carried out a tray for me,
sir, but there wasn't no food on it"
IAN empty tray?"
mo, sir, it was a tray of teacupS."
Full, or empty?"
Full, sir. Mrs. Forester had
been pourin' in the garden, but
some of them wanted their cups
filed again, and the tea she had
wasn't hot enough so she sent me
in with the cups on a tray to fill
them in the kitchen. That was the
tray Mr.. Devoe carried out, sir"
Can you remember whether or
not Miss Lissey's cup was on that
tray?"
mo, sir. l never knew whose
cups they was"
He turned aside for moment to
Tuck. Mrs. Forester, can you an
SWer the last question:"
mo, DR.. Mayhem. I didn't know
that Mr.. Devoe had carried out q
tray of cups"
"You don't remember whether
Miss Lissey's cup went into the
house to be filed or not?"
I'm sorry, DR.. Mayhem, I can't
remember"
He turned back to Charlotte
Jean, now rubbing her nose fran
tically.
"None of the other guests were
in your kitchen at all, then?"
mo, sir"
"That will do, then"
Mr.. Deane was called next, but
he had nothing to i'd to the evil
dence. However, his wife had.
mo, I didn't notice a single thing
at all out of the ordin ry on Sun
day afternoon" she said, fumbling
with her belt and pulling at the
side of her strange hat. THAT is,
nothing that might explain at all
the terrible thing that happened
there - if it really did happen,
which l simply can't credit for
only ourselves were there. and I'm
sure"
81 gather that you did observe
something little out of the ordi-
nary, Mrs. Deane?" DR.. MAYHEM
broke in rather severely.
We'll, it wasn't particularly i'm
portant, and l really don't like to
speak of it. Poor Miss Lissey is
dead, and I'm sure it seems almost
sacrilegious."
What is it, Mrs. Deane, may !
ask?"
Must l answer, then? Somehow
it seems hardly delicate. It was Just
something. that indicated to me
that poor Miss Lissey was hardly
herself that afternoon. She was so
particular about her clothes. you
know, so particular, and had such
good taste. used to marvel at the
beautiful costumes she had-but of
course she had the leisure to think
about those things-weH, Unjust 60
Ont was just that she wore a
beautiful mauve lowered chiffon
dress on Sunday with horsehair
hat to match. and I happened to
notice-you will pardon the init
macy, of course-I happened to no.
tlce that she wore white slip un-
derneath it. Now she has a simply
lovely mauve slip that was made
with that dress, I've seen it several
times, and Pm quite sure She
couldn't have been thinking at all
when she dressed or she would
never have appeared in the white
one. Why, the mauve one made
simply all the difference in the
world"