Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

past the big house; drove away from fragile ana
beautiful girl with fear living in her eyes, and painter
with the muscles of athlete, and his wrists inamed
by the poison of RhnS fOxicOdeHdroH.
Heinrich did not answer at once Fornss took his
eyes from the road long enough to look at Heinrich
in twentyfoW hours it ought to be, Heinrich
said. Maybe little longer.
There were odds and ends TO check Handley had
fled change of address slip in the Brewster post
Office directing that all mail be sent to ms New YORK
apartment Yes, there had - and how had Heinrich
guessed? - been substitute carrier on Route One on
March 6. He might have slipped up.
The White Plains police hadn't liked the man.
ner Of Mary Parkinss DEATH hadn't liked it at all The
guard rail was high enough But they had not been able
to prove that James Brent had left the Parins apart
ent half an hour before Mary Parkins fell as ne said
he had x that Clement ParSins had been there at
all as he said he hadn't.
Yes, the handwriting on the envelope addressed to
Roger HandIey in Brewster almost certainly that
of Mary ParkinS Yes her life had been rather heavily
insured, $4,000, with double indemnity, in case of
accidental death. payable to Clement Parkins.
At eight O'Clock Saturday evening, the trooper who
had stopped by the studio, pretext, called Heinz
rich at the Hawthorne barracks to say that it was still
Just on the wrists So Heinrich drove the few mikes to
White Plains and found that Clement Parkns was not
in his apartment but in White Plains Hospital. which
did not greatly surprise Heinrich.
no the resident at the hospital said, you can't
captain. He's under pretty deep sedation He's really
got it bad. All over. He'll live but - man. he must
have waded in it,
'Or" Heinrich said. got lot of it in smoke. In
room full of smoke, say
The doctor agreed; lot of it in smoke would
explain it, all right.
Spadework remained, of course, before they would
charge Clement ParkinS with the willful murder of
Roger Handey Some of it might take time, and not
be easy. How for example, prove that Mary Parkins,
with cause to fear her husband - earlier attempt
that had failed? written her fears to her brother?
The letter was certainly ashes the tardy letter,
read long after it could do her any good because
substitute mail carrier had slipped up. That it had
been read was obvious enough and that Handley had
summoned his brother-in-Iaw to explain and that
Parkins with no explanation available and with the
knowledge that murder investigation is never closed
had killed again.
n good deal to be dug into, to be proved. But
not that Parns had been in the when the smoke
filled it. and therefore when Handley died in it. That
had proved itself very intentionally for Clement
Parkins who would however, face more extreme dis
comforts.
Hadn't the man known Heinrich wondered, driving
north that his brother-in-aw had started smoky fire
with poison ivy brush kndling? Or, hadn't he known
that the ritant poison of Rhns fOxcOdend0H rides in
the smoke of its burning and is virulent there? He
would be asked about that matter Of incidental in
teres when he was in condition be asked anything
Heinrich drove on toward Brewster, with a cheerful
duty. AS policeman he must, perforce often brighten.
1t pleasant when he can with few words, erase fright
from girls dark eyes. - The End