Evening star., 1955-11-13
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They Were All Uneasy


and there was kind Of wariness in the manner Of their
looking Although what on earth I've sot 70 be wary
about don't know, Pam thought Or Jey she ADDED IN
her mind She couldn't have told Jerry anything about
Well not anything important. Al least not very.
Il don't understand. Phyllis said and spoke duly. Il
just don't understand at all Fern just just feldcwn
those awful Stair" !"
Il became like game of tennis with many players,
played in the dark Try TO remember Bill had told
them; and seemed they tried But all they remembered
was apparently trivial.
There was something about boy next door" Phyllis
Pit remembered. "A good deal Older than she was
than We all were. Next door to Fern. A boy named -
She moved her hands heplessy. I've forgotten. she
said. "A name I'd never heard before. Something she
said something dreadful - happened to him suppose
he died Of something. r
.flo" Hortense Nctson said "She told me about him.
He didn't die. He went TO JAIL He was always saying
OH" She considered. Il think" she said he was
named Russell sOmethins.r She paused again Never
in my Life" she said did hear 50 much about people
I'd never heard Of Gossip about the past
Stanley Pitt stood up His impotence was evident.
Lock," he said. This IS my house. Captain.
These people my guests Is any Of this badserng st
ting you anywhere? And where there to get? Maybe
she had heart attack Maybe she ate something that -
He stopped rather abruptly rather % 4 he had stumbled
over something.
Weisand waited, but PHI did not continue. Thcn Bin
said they had thought of that The symptoms they had
pups might have been due to acute food poisoning But
she had eaten almost nothing during the cocktail period
The maid who had passed canap&s Of that Ger
tainy she had eaten nothing the rct had not And she had
drunk only ginger ale from freshly opened bOttle.
(which. Bin said. apparently yOu opened, Jeny."
Jerry North ran his right hand through his hair. He
looked at Bin blankly.
.Of course you did. Pam said so vigorously the
bottle cap few. Don't you -
oh" berry said. Everybody looked ct him rs that
crlnF,rreed ~
But be was interrupted By Pitt stl lcanng forward in
his chair .Wait" Pitt said. and put right thumb and
index finger tossthe, firmly, Is 4 70 hold thought
pinched between them. They waited
This place took her 10 lunch" Stanley said ITS
Ic place little downstairs place. but wonderful food
I've eaten there Of and On for years. But don't
suppose is too damned sanitary Not Like your labs are,
Clark. And the weathcss been hot And =" He seemed
10 remember something elsc and hsld this new memory
bcfween thumb and fneer. Miss Hmtey ate most 81
bowl Of npc Olives be said. Said she never seemed to
~ enough o. iiscm- And isn't there something that
can 81 into npe oiiycs7 That poison people7 He
put the heel Of cne hand his forehead God he said
-Do you suppose 4 was that7'
You mean food poisoning?" Wcigand said. ''Yes
years aso people cot i from ripe olives. But not
reccntly, that I've heard Of. New methods and -
.Ife olives are imported, Pit said. From Italy,
think Yes. Dlated pupils = read somewhere that
one cf The symptoms of food poisoning"
~Rieff" BIN said. .And tisc other symptoms match
quite wesI You my
But now he vas interrupted By unfcEmed policeman,
who brought him slip Of paper. Bin Weisand looked Il