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The Gold H ill News, Gold Hill, Oregon
UNCQNFESSED
M ary Hastings Bradley
Thursday, August 13, 1936
strength had gone out of me. I didn't
reach #ien to hit exhilaration,
".My God, how did you do I t r he
demanded. ‘T h a t waa the moat smaali
Ing accusation— "
I Interrupted. “Did you gel your lei
and charts for m a kin g the set
Then, for one unforgettable second, tens?"
shown; Illustrations of stitchen
"Kvery one. And burned them. The
It seemed as If the dead had moved
But she saw my wife on the bed,
needed; m a te ria l requirem ents;
and chill terror gripped us. but It was last one wasn't there — the hadn't!
You've pot her testimony to that.1*
suggestions for u v s rie ty of uses.
kept
It."
the
soft,
dark
hair
stirring
In
the
air
Harrldens voice had loudened; bel-
Send IS cents In stamps or
“Pm glad." I waa glad, too, for I
llgerance rang out of I t
arms fuU of towela. Lavender for from the withdrawn sheet.
coins (coins p re fe rre d ) for this
Harridan's
sake.
Hard
enough
Io!
“Not worth I t r the man thundered
the prince's room, pink for these two.
I glanced over at the bed. Mrs
pattern to The Sewing C irc le N ee-
Harrlden lay very small beneath that She carried them all Into ltandnl's “She waa worth the whole damned lot know that his wife was In love with
dlecruft D ept., 83 Eigh th A v e.,
another
but
harder
to
know
that
she
I
of
you!
I
’d
rather
have
her
little
Un
sheet “People see what they expect room, and when she came out ahe had
New Y o rk. N. Y.
i f | ha<l been thrown aside, repudiated.
to see," 1 said slowly. "Anson saw a forgotten the pink once—ahe told me ger than any woman's body,
W rite plain ly p attern num ber,
can’t
have
her-—
’*
1
said.
"I
did
go
In
after
(he
cat
)
dummy made of a comforter arranged she had to go back for them. I saw
your nam e and address.
on that bed
The room was dark her go In. . . . Afterwards 1 went to
Ills voice cracked, recovered. “P|| But when I saw the case there, I op
ened; you let her have a glance look for those towels. I thought—1
never get over her. And 1 11 take this ened It to look for thnae letters for
Apologetically my glance sought the out of the hide of every one of you. you. He caught me at It."
through the half open door, then you
prince. He was standing there with Out of you, you Interloper," he shot
Ills arm which had been lying along
closed It and went down to dinner."
at me, "looking In at windows, and the top dropped about my shoulders
No one spoke then. No one moved. s stupefied air,
I murmured. “I thought that— that out of you," and he thrust hit mot with a quick caress. “ You darling!"
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“But you kept worrying about that
If Anson had been killed there, at tled face towards Deck, “running a ft
I didn't feel like a darllnj. I didn't f
A crochet hook, some string I
body In the closet. Perhaps you hadn't
that time, then the pink towels would er another man's wife, writing your know that I even wnntod to be his and this sim ple p attern a re all i
taken the diamonds then — perhaps
still be there. But they were not, and damned rot to her beauty—"
darling. Ilia arm dropped to readily one needs to turn out this lovely
you had, but you realised you hadn't
the maid who had taken over the
about shoulders—It had about Letly ! p atterning of butterflies and flow
lie burst out. “She didn't want you. Van
made it look enough like a robbery,
Alstyn when he wanted her to ers— a ch arm in g contrast of solid
like an assault from outside. You room, on Anson's disappearance, said She was playing with you— trying to
she had found none. So I knew that
crochet and a iry stitch. G et busy
plague me. , . . You couldn't have coax Dan down from hla room
began seeing the situation.
You
Anson had taken her towels and
But hla voice had taken on a new on a set!
held her for a week. , . . she was my
thought of opening the window. So
gone." I raised my eyes again to Har
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girl, mine I And you leave me with gravity. ''I’ve never met any one like
you went upstairs, halfway through
rlden. “I knew the pink towela were
her. Clear out, all of you. Leave me you, I-elta Seton. I'd be a belter man
dinner, and when yon were opening
KATINO HEAVY POODS
for these rooms. So I asked the maid
alone with her while I've got her. If I had. You're all loyalty, all cour
the window, you realised jou could
brings on highly a r ij stomach conditio*
to look In here—you were downstairs
age.
I
told
you
you
looked
like
a
fair
make It look like suicide. So you
• Clear out. Clear out."
— morning t a lta
ll r" distress. Milnesia»
then—and she did. She said the fresh
saint when I met you In that gallery,
original milk o f ! magnrsia in wafer form,
took your wife out of the closet and
towels were distributed In both bath
and I'm taking you as my aalut. My
quickly relieves i distress. Each wafer
thrust her out, down Into the shrub
CHAPTER XV
bright saint.”
u
equals 4 tens|monfule milk o f magnesia.
bery. Perhaps you had seen the blood rooms but that Anson hadn't taken
Crunchy, delicious flavor. 20c, J5c St U )t
away the soiled ones, I thought that
Mitchell entne out, carrying three
on the Boor—"
Reverse Charges
at druggists.
We wenL Incomprehensible as It
I
i
I An,on mUlht have been so nervous In
♦h it i PP^
1 h ,d * <’Dt* r fee,,nK thes* rooras ‘ bat she had hurried away may seem, that terrible, that extraor tumblers of amber liquid on a Iray.
M rs . Luna— 1 w an t to get a
that I was wrong. I said. “I think you
you forgetfully, and gone for some re? dinary scene ended with our stream I saw his quick eye< taking us In, but | divorce.
h ad nt seen
seen It—
It - b but
u t you
It I son, again Into the prince's room. ing out of the room, like dismissed If Ills expression changed, Ids voice
you thought
thought It
L a w y e r H abeas— W hat are your
wise to lock that closet till you could where she met her death. . . . But children. We left Harrlden alone with was cheerfully unheeding, “Here you charges?
are.
Hot
toddles.
Sugar?
Lemon?"
look It over, later. You locked It and that wasn’t so,
M rs. L un a—O li, I'm not going
his dead.
At Last!
"I'm telling her what a wouderful
came down again to dinner."
to charge anything. I'm w illin g to
an
“Anson never left the room alive.
The world seemed to go to pieces girl she la,” said Deck gaily.
pay you to get it fo r me.
I remembered how he had come She began to talk to you about some about me after that. I was ns weak as
Electric
Mitchell
put
the
tray
carefully
on
down to dinner. I think we were all thing she had to tell at the inquest.
a rag. The tears on my face were a little table before the sofa and sat
Razor
remembering It. Coming down stol- There was something on her mind, a
W hy He Needed Job
tears of tiredness. L’nseelngly I blun down on the other aide of me. ' She's
At a price
r ?ay,ng h,S .’ i ' i ’ “ ’ tIU I hankl,erchlei .he had seen drying 'on dered through the group at the head
" A m I bright? Why, I'v e won
a thorough fool of a girl, to trail Into
within the
sleeping.
Going on with his meal. | a radiator. —
several new spaper com petitions."
The corner was not torn of the stairs; I heard a voice.
that room after a cat— to open that case
h of all
Talking to Letty Van Alstyn.
Prospective
E
m
p
lo
y
er
—
Yes.
off—you didn't tear that off till you
“Miss Seton—” It was Donahey.
for your letters— for I suppose that but 1 need a boy who is srnurt
“You were thinking you could make came to pin the diamonds In IL She
<><-»« » « • I l U . , Ik » ! loa.oo ,o a r
He said slowly, “About that and •he waa looking for your letters?
It seem either accident or suicide and knew she had to tell about It, but she
during business hours.
rá e n o s I r r i t a l o
> o a r ohto — Ib o
iron— how do you know—”
Knowing all the time how grave the
kas a k l . k . ik o b o a rd o l i Uko
after dinner you asked the princess didn't want to. She told me that any
W ell, tills was during business
evidence was against her. . . . A thor hours."
“The
cat
licked
IL
You
can
have
to go up—you talked of a row be one might have washed out a hand
W . »kali ool » llo n .p l Io lo ll to a ka n
ough-going fool,” he Insisted firmly,
tween yon, of her overwrought state kerchief. She tried to explain it to It tested, but I'm sure. You heard
• ohaio, bow la l«M S gea r «are OO
him say, ’I f you know— that—you did "but—an endearing one. I grant you
“14 t e e t r a s a r .
o f mind, of her hysterical threats. you.”
Motherly
IL’ "
that.”
tub new n u
t i r m u f bazos
You created the impression of a neu
W eary W illie— You say de lady
Harrlden’s eyes were like sheet
» I I I O ..I rh a n a o » o o r l . » < r.o m o d k o k it» ,
I smiled over the top of my glass at treated y e r like y e r was her own
"The
cat—
the
cat
put
you
on
to
It?"
rotic, Irresponsible woman, ready for lightning upon me.
k a i K » l i i a i , » a » m e o tb o r »koro, i m i
» r » a ll» la r llo a a a d b a ilo r roooll».
He stared at me again. “I ’ll have to him. "Mercy, not Juatlee, Your Honor!" kid? W hat did she do?
any rashness. . . . You didn't want
“She told you about IL She may
"I hope you never have to aay 'Your
T h o r » r o r I» g n M p ia la d , l om a» r.__
Dusty Rhoads— Yes; she told
that closet opened. When Mrs. Kel have said, too, that she couldn't swear get that andiron,” he added glumlly,
p io lo « l t k rood «0.1 « k ie d o » : n a t a l ta
Honor,'" he replied, soberly.
•se. n t i K A N T r . c n n m u r a ic a m
ler had the housekeeper unlock it, you that Mrs. Harrlden was on her bed “at once."
me te r wash m e face and comb
• « • I n . l a n y m o ,h » n !r » ! o r r l e r l r l e a l k »
Deck leaned forward, across me. m e h air.
I got away from them then. I went
were quick to enter. You said there when she had looked In at eight. She
“
O p e r a ia » a a 11 O r a » ! ta lo r-
a
knot
of
police-
VH
°.W
do
you
thlnk
“
"‘
»"<1«.
Monty?
downstairs
where
was nothing there. Then they found was a very simple-minded girl, anx
on've
Just
been
talking
with
R
ig
ht
the
F
irs
t
T
im
e
men
tn
a
huddle
told
me
that
the
ex-
I
Te
Ju*
‘
b‘*
n
tn|klng
those
«■
IC
ST 00 . poolpald.
the blood. You realized you had to ious to be truthful. You lost your
reilowa. Is there enough of a cose?”
L ittle M a ry — I 'l l bet you can ’t
cltement
above
had
been
having
Its
make It look like robbery.”
head—you may have tried to bribe
■ZTBA si 'K ítali
“To hold him — yea. To make It * uess w hat sister said about you
I f t * e r a r d o r re a rh o e a» » lib ia Id
My voice grew slower, raggeder. “1 her as you did me upstairs— you gave repercussions here. I let them stare;
ira — wo » I I I Inclu do t t l lt t K , a <ll
stick—no.
Not
unless
something
more
Just
before
you
cam
e
in
don't know when you picked up the your alarm away.
And then you
o r t T H K H I I ’ K ’ • I r I i ’ l ' H W A I S S I ' . R w - i ll T o A a I.C k M t
turns up. Unless he makes more of
1 • Hidebound— I h aven 't a sin-
diamonds—perhaps at the beginning Jumped for her. You choked the life
an
admission
than
he
has
done.
.
.
.
8Ie
idea,
M
a
ry
.
1
'ÎÜ Ü
............ ....
when you meant to make it seem the out of her. You looked up and down
Leila, here. Just did a brilliant bit of
L ittle M a r y —Oh, you guessed It
’M
“ ” '
* * * ••m
work of an outside thief. After you the hall. It was empty. You bad only
guesswork.
It
was overwhelming ;
E X T R A B L A D E S COR TA BIC E t.E C
decided upon suicide you didn't speak a step or two to take to Ranclnl's
T K ’ C U 4 /O M <wfe«n Btwéefl), paria«« *
when she poured It all out—and It
BOYS! GIRLS!
of their disappearance. Bnt when you door. You saw his room was empty.
of ft f l i r a l H e el b taftM j oaljr (k k , piwt
fits.
But bow much of It can be
Read the Grape Nuts ad In another
saw It had to seem robbery, then you It was a desperate chance bnt yon
proved— ”
thought of them again.”
column of this paper and learn how
had to take IL You got her In the
He broke off. taking a drink. "About to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners and
It seemed to me that I had been room, you thrust her In the closet
that scene at the window," he re win valuable free prizes.— Adv.
talking forever In that world of ahad- You Wiped your prints off the door
Bas “ I ” , B a llard Mia., ko a lllo , W eak.
sumed. "Dan probably thinks Leila
owg. Not a word now out of Har You went hack to your room, and no
( C M F a a d B A V E Ibis A D V .)
Is
prepared
to
swear
to
him
now—
but
Nourish Friendships
rlden. Not a sign from him except one saw you coming ouL that—you_
are you?" he asked of me suddenly.
M ost friendships a re re al, but
that immobile attention.
knew— ”
I shook my head, perplexed. “I can don't put too much of a strain on
“I don't know now why you pinned
My voice trailed out the words au
s w e y to myself that I know It Is so them .
that chain In my dress that night," I tomatically. I t was the look In Kel
W N U — 13
33— M
— but I couldn't swear to a court that
said, and my voice shook over that. ler’s eyes that prompted them, that
I
recognized
him."
"You were furious at me because I uneasy, worrying, disquietude.
Tom
“But don’t say that yet to Dona
had told of the scene at the window Keller knew something. Perhaps he
hey," Monty counseled, “Our hope now
. . . but you were hating Alan Deck had seen Harrlden leaving the room.
Is for some admission.” . . . He went
even more—
Perhaps be had seen him In the hall.
on to tell us that he had been work
"Perhaps you saved out the big
I knew It with the strange wrought
ing on estimates about that gruesome
pendant intentionally from the first tip divination that possessed me; I
pool of blood, about the time It must
for him,” I said. "A man might have knew it so surely that I would have
have taken to form. He said, “That
hidden a single stone. . . . Your cried It aloud but Mitchell Intervened.
was why I was a little unexcited
chance came when you found his case
“You remembered to wipe the door
about Kanclnl or Letty — I couldn't
lying about. You stuffed the diamond knob, Dao, but you forgot Deck’s
persuade myself that either of them
under the cigarettes, but you couldn't taste in cigarettes. Luckies. When
had had time enough for thaL Now
get It back to him at once.
Yon you fonnd his case there weren't but
you, Alan, when you were upstairs,
couldn’t leave It out for him to find two cigarettes in IL not enough to
had Just a little more time— "
till all the outsiders were gone. Then hold a stone In place, so you crammed
“Thanks for nothing,” salt} Deck
you saw that he found IL”
It full of your own, making sure to
warily.
I stopped suddenly, utterly spent. I keep the diamond at the bottom.
Grant came, bearing a silver tray
was trembling from head to foot; my That’s where you slipped — nobody
“W hat Do They Want Me For
blood felt like Ice In my veins.
with coffee pot and cups. Behind him
Now?"
here smokes Macedonlas but yon. The
was Graff with another tray of sand
“Are we crazy — to listen to this case was full of Macedonlas"
wiches.
pack of lies?” Harrlden demanded. His
I
walked
through
the
glass
doors
un
“And you call that evidence?” H ar
"Splendid!" said Mitchell approv
brusk tone seemed to sweep away my rlden sneered. The man was gath
der the branching stairs. Into the
words like a house of cards. "Dona- ering his power again, full of defiant lounge behind the hall and there I ingly. "I'll pour the coffee. Leila, en
gulf this cheese sandwich. You look
hey— I want this girl arrested.”
challenge.
"You've turned against curled up In a corner of a huge di
another girl already."
I felt a terrible despair. No one
your friends, have you, for the sake van and soaked a pillow very thor
"The bacon sandwiches will be
oughly with my tears.
would believe. I had no shred of of—”
ready In a momenb Mr. Mitchell.”
proof. Nothing but that andiron—and
I
didn't
hear
any
one
coming
till
a
"For the sake of a girl you tried to
the blood on It could not speak. Nor
That food wag marvelous. The ba
blacken and a man you tried to hang voice said, “Here she Is,” and I looked
con sandwiches, when they came, were
could the dead under the sheet
your own guilt on," Mitchell flashed up to see Monty Mitchell and Alan
crisp and appetizing. We all ate as If
Mitchell's
voice came suddenly
hack, hla eyes as full of war as Har Deck standing beside me. I sat up
"Not so fast, Harrlden. . . . Dona'
and brushed the hair out of my eyes. we were famished, and under the stim
rlden’s.
hey, you’ve heard this story. I can
ulus of food and drink the talk went
“Evidence — you bet I ’ll make It I said helplessly, “I haven't any pow
eagerly back and forth.
supply a few details. That handker
stick as evidence.
You waited till der,” and Mitchell said cheerfully.
BEFORE YOU NEED A QUART
chief was dried on the radiator tn
Mitchell went on to tell whnt else
Neither have I," but Deck told me to
they were all around Deck, you
Mr. Harrlden’» own bathroom.”
he
had
been
working
on—
the
time
It
prompted Letty to ask Clancy for his look In the drawer of a writing table,
Harrlden’s voice rumbled out. “That’s
took rust stains to form. The ra
case, and Deck handed It over. Do and I went over to IL There was per
another He! You were Ustenlng to
fect field equipment In that drawer. diator bad not been rusted; there had
you
think
a
Jury
will
believe
a
man
that fool Anson.”
been tiny flecks In the paint on which
would do that If he had a diamond I needed I t ; I looked to myself as If
The name fell like a bolt upon me
hidden In It—a stone that would cost I had been left out In the rain a long the linen had touched unstained met
I had literally forgotten Anson In my
a l; and for rust to form. In those
his neck? . . . He’d have taken out time.
absorption In this first tragedy. Now
conditions, required more time than
"Keep your powder dry,” Deck ad
cigarettes
hla words, and their Implication, was some
But Deck
Just h and
an d passed
^ ’ u them back
the Interval In which Deck had ab
Tryfhe"Ffrs<QiMrt"tesL Drain
a shock galvanizing me to life ae-iin
lik e fhoi
a 1 handed It over. Just vised gaily. “ We never know when sented himself from the table.
“No H e " M it o h .it
¿ .. 2 ,
lke thaL And CIanc? »fave It to Let
the shooting may begin again." He
"No He,” Mitchell gave back
and
refill with Quaker State. See
‘•I’ve
been
pointing
that
out
to
Don
seemed In high spirits.
and | ty, and yon whispered her to feel It
his voice was clear-cut, authoritative
ahey all along,” he said. “You couldn't
to tell Clancy to feel it.”
how
far you g o before you have to
“What do they want me for now—"
— his courtroom voice. “The rust spots
He swung away from Harrlden. He I wag beginning and he said blithely, have left the handkerchief and re
add the first quart. And remember
on that handkerchief correspond ex
spoke sharply to a white face. “Why "They don't want you—we want you.” trieved It afterwards for you weren't
actly to the places where the paint
In Harrlden'» room afterwards. Only
didn’t you ask Dan for a smoke? You
. . . the oil that stands up longest
“What you want Is coffee," Monty on the threshold of Nora's. Your ab
has been flecked off on that particu
C M T | F il0 —
like his brand — you were smoking
' .
OUAHA&TAU I
lar radiator—and on no other In the them tonight. You’ll have to testify Mitchell cut In. “and we’ll have some sence gave time for radiator marks
is giving your motor the safest
I f any of the Impeccable staff of this but not for rust. And Leila found
house. That evidence Is conclusive.”
he prompted you."
lubrication. The retail price is 35^
establishment are about.” Briskly he rust In her tests.”
Mitchell stepped forward, confront
"Oh, Dan, Dan, It Isn’t sol" Letty went to the wall and rang a bell dan
ing Harrlden.
Deck
raised
his
coffee
cup.
"To
per
quart. Quaker State Oil
Van
Alstyn's
voice,
overwrought, gling In a tassel at the end of an old Leila—my salvation.”
“The Pity
first
Dan.
you death
tried t ™ m ^ Ä
^ . ' t Vrai’"
Refining Co., O il City, Pa.
drain, sobbed embroidered strip.
"Oh, you aren’t suved yet," said
“Grant," he remarked, as that func Mitchell drily.
— to Incriminate others. . . . Anson say anything.” You didn’t ask me to
tionary appeared, his white-vested per
was murder."
We talked about everything as it
“You shut up I” said Harrlden harsh-
“Anson?" he growled. “I never saw ly. “Shut up and keep shut up. d’you fection rebuking our everyday attire, came Into our minds; I remember
“Grant, Is there any coffee to he had?" asking about the crescent nnd Its
Anson."
hear? Let them talk their heads off.
“There will be, sir. In Just ten min strange appearance In Anson'» dead
“Oh, yes you did,” I flung out. That's all there Is to It—talk."
utes.”
“When she brought the fresh towels
hand and M itchells saying " It was
"No one will believe It, D a n " she
Good. And sandwiches, Grant. Not Just one of those things. Those things
to your bathroom. . . . You were In cried half crying. “No one will blame
your room or In this one all that pari yon for anything. We'll all forget It anything delicate, you understand. that you think are going to be clues
Get quick, almost miraculous relief with Cuticura q / \
Something with plenty of bacon In
of the morning. That hour when An
- y o u ’ll forget IL Nora wasn’t worth them or ham and slabs of firm, yel and turn out to be will of the wisps.
Ointment— for ever 60 years a successful, amaz- U I a THLE t ^
son had been killed.”
I know that Mitchell told us some
fngly effective OintmenL Soothes Itching torture,
low cheese.
Plenty of sandwiches, thing he had found out, that Letty
I remembered his testimony. That
“Wasn't worth It?"
He gave a
checks Irritation, promotes rapid healing of skin
he had heard no noise In Ranclnl's dreadful glare at her, then strode to Orant."
bad been In the room with Nora after
nnd scalp. Use daily along with mildly medicated,
“ Yes, Mr. Mitchell.”
room. “And If I had, I wouldn't have
they had come up to dress. She hnd
ror„
“ "‘I W' th " S,ng|P
he
super-emollient Cuticura Soap. Ointment 25c.
“And something handsome In drinks let that out when talking nbout the
cared." And I held fast to my little tore the sheet away.
Nora I l a r r l .
Soap 25c. Buy at any druggist’». For F R E E
thread of a clue — my clue that I den s still face lay before ns. We saw —and not In ten minutes, either. I'll prints In Hie room. She had said, “Of
sample, write "Cuticura” DepL 23, Malden, Mast.
thought had gone astray, that had the loveliness of her profile, like chis show you my Idea,” he added, and dis course my prints are there. I was
appeared with Grant through the serv looking for Nora—and then I was In
puzzled me so.
eled marble, the rigid, tinted lips, (he ice door.
I rushed on, “When I saw her In Io"?'
the room before— I went to dress. Just
la8hes’ rao“ onleg. on her
Deck nnd I went back to the divan, for a moment."
the hall that morning she bad her cold cheeks.
was glad to sit down again for the
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