Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-03

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| $780," Todd said thoughtfully. 81
wish weren't such a good sleeper,
or that I'd had the sense to stay
awake deliberately"
She remembered, long after
ward, her vicarious pleasure at the
sight of Nella's radiant face over
the breakfast table. Early as it
was, the mail had come, and at
last there were letters from Gilbert
Peabody, four of them in a bunch.
"He's WELL" Nella whispered to
herself, "or at least he doesn't say
he's not"
Horace and Mary Helen, again
Unexpectedly at table, smiled at
her with W a seemed simple
pleasure.
"And an answer to mine about
the furniture" Nella said, becom-
ing businesslike. "He says to sell
it, just as 1 hoped"
Todd disappeared and Horace
went off to work, but Mary Helen
loitered leisurely. "I'm taking a
few days of my vacation now"
she volunteered with an agreeable
smile. "Why not, after all?"
Recalled from thought, Georgine
gave young Mrs. Crane a startled
look. Why not, indeed? Except
that late March was a curious time
for an unscheduled holiday.
Todd came downstairs and
started outdoors with portable
typewriter which he had managed
to borrow somewhere. He was
headed for the old summer-house.
Georgine followed him, hesitating
over how to begin her speech.
Something's bothering you,"
he said, turning to face her. "What
is it, the clothes?"
I'll hate to think of postpon-
ing our wedding, Todd dear, but
my dress is in that box. She flushed
a trifle, meeting his eyes. Inform
al or not, I want this to be some
thing we can both remember as
being-well, dignified and lovely.
If the box doesn't get here, all I've
got is year-before-last's silk jersey
that I've been wearing for five
days straight already. 1t just isn't
suitable. And I'd like you to be
proud of me-"
His agate eyes were attentive.
well skip the remarks about !
should be proud no matter what
you wore Let's figure this. If we
wait for the dress, it means a one
day postponement at most. Right?
And if we go home to Berkeley for
yet another dress, which is one
NOR alternative, we take out a
fresh license and wait three days
more"
EYES," she said hesitantly, all
at once perceiving the dilemma.
Another night deliberately spent
in this house, as against the dis
appointing wait, the formalities
all to be gone through again.
eff I'm to choose" Todd said,
"Tll take the lesser evil. Is it to-
then, instead of today?"
"You know" said Georgine ir-
relevantly, part of why I love you
is the way you understand femin-
inc reasons for things"
His eyes glinted with sudden
laughter. 'That'll do until some
thing better turns up"
She would have to spend another
night in the Tillsit house.
Georgine went out to the sum-
ner-house and found her intended
n the midst of sheets of yellow
paper. He was grinning as he beat
,ut half a dozen lines and ripped
he paper from the typewriter.
Todd's eyes went to the house,
md dwelt considerably on its fam
astic rear. "a painless death.
)'you know, I've thought a good
Ieal about the poison that was ;
lsed. It's easy to see why luminal /
vas chosen, not only because no
ne hated the old lady, but -
ause presumably the whole lot
lad access to it"
Look at 'em. Horace in the
Mary Helen acting rs
he doctors secretary and renew
1g the supplies in his bag, the
octor himself, Susie Labare car
1g for a number of patients WHO
hight have had it prescribed-if
he'd wanted a stock of luminal
he might easily have held out on
nose patients few times, given
m sugar pill instead. The Judge
light have had it himself, at some
me. Both Gilbert and Nella had
cen near Serena during her ILL
ass. It was rather clever" said
odd pensively, ITO pick out one
lat gave lots of latitude, when
would have been so easy to turn
lspicion toward just one person
I'd that would have been so much
ore dangerous.
How do you mean?"
look at the possible poisons,
ok at the choice this murderer
Id. Strychnine for pests and ar
mic sprays in constant use on
nch, cyanide in a photographers
udio, the whole pharmacopoeia
the drugstore and the doctors
e. It's almost an embarrassment
poisons. You could look around
d choose, slowly and carefully
Their like that charming gal in
e Browning poem, how does it