Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-24

nee cured and given Miss Tillst poison.
an News? haven't heard frol
r him."
Nella gave her a look of be
he wilderment. Didn't you find you
IN letter."
is letter."
= at came by special delivery las
= night about nine. l didn't want tt
lie wake you, SO just tiptoed in ane
h laid it on the desk"
Y why, no, Nella," said Georgine
IS slowly. Il didn't happen to find it"
y She could not afford to meet
f Todd's eyes, nor anyone's.
"Oh, dear, do you suppose that
? in the dark laid it down under
= something, or missed the desk en-
: tirely?"
You might have done. I'll
look" She gazed at her plate and
ate steadily. The letter could not
have fallen to the floor, for she had
been all around those baseboards
this morning, tapping them. A
letter from Dyke: in her minds
eye she saw a page in her own
handwriting, lying face upward on
the carpet near the door. It had
borne the words, How much did
Mary Helen tell your"
| "Barby's going to get tired,
spelling out that story" Todd re-
marked. 81 wish we had some
thing to give her for change. You
haven't any illustrated books, Nell
la? Or some old pictures that
might have story connected with
them"
mo, Pm afraid not" said Mrs.
Peabody, unless you count those
photograph albums. There's one
in the drawing room"
THAT ought to do" He was
beautifully casual. FINISHED, /
Georgine? We might have a look
to see if it would interest her." :
Georgine went with him obedi- &
emily. There was method in this Il
lrrelevance, she thought. For one :
thing, the folding doors cut off L
one's view of the stairs, and any =
If the family could slip up to the F
second floor within the next few II
minutes. He wanted them to have &C
ne opportunity. 81 81
These are fine specimens" sh
odd said, turning the pages of the M
lush album on the handicapped :
able. He swung toward the door re r,
if to make sure his voice would CT
e audible. Twill you look at the lie,
entleman in the hand-painted pa
e! And here's family group, on Ste Ste
le front porch of this house -
ord, kind of uncanny, seeing the ~
ID place when it was new and ste
lose trees were small; doesn't cat
ok real. This must be Miss Till &c &c
!. Seems to me Mrs. Labare had =
arger copy of this same picture" 30
There was no answer to these you
and Todd glanced at 1O'
eorgine. Then he strolled over to
corner whatnot and picked up =
small reading glass from one Saw
Its shelves. "See if you can find witt
what those pieces of jewelry WIN
re, he murmured. Den
1 say, Mary Helen" said Todd -
o the hall, "Barby's going to arr
We us crazy asking what all
Sc rings and pendants and what
were, that your great-aunt had -
her heydey. Was that ring an
ethyst?"
larry Helen, on her way into the
ing room, turned and came
oss the hall. 'No, topaz" she =
lnterestedly, bending over Rhe,
album. "a great big one; she m pesle
st have paid fifty dollars for it." FIRE.
And those six stones on that Cola
chain? It's a lille homogeneous :
ee that one plain piece among fisns
he baroque." mate mate
those were amethysts," Mary p1 h E
en- said. Il never cared for
n at all, myself, unless thew -
e deep-colored, and these were Mari,
). l hate this kind of iewelry have
way. 1t wasn't worth a thing. @ ehlldr
they seemed to like it in the ~
ties"
ia anyone come up to see you, -
ing, while you were FINISHING ,o,- :
: lunch?" c n0ar
heard coupla people 90 into frigera
bathroom" said Barby with enough en-
kness, "but 1 didn't see who. $500.
odys been even to this end of new neWn !
nall, Mamma, and I'm kind wiIlistt
red of reading"
'orglne closed the doors to the s9ss mr.
oiio OpeIeQ the COnnectino One-thi
rom her room to the sewing c apPTox !,
!. one heard Todd beginning water
Try about the gentleman in i huall ~,
'ock-coat, as she hurried over Electrici
e desk. The manuscript. as h About
al expected, was untouched ]. c. M NJ,
vas Just possible that the let -
ad fallen down behind the
0 be caught on a ledge of the
'oard; but it had not. She
sure what the mid
intruder had wanted: the
IN answer to hers in which
I'd asked that innocent ques-
which might have been in
TED, by any one of three or III
ersons, as an ominous one.
'hen the intruder had failed
lt-had he attempted to do SEQ
oily harm before she could relic
and
mere IL was. How very SIM indit
q now natural if 1ooked. tbe ing :