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Thursday, April 15, 1937 The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon cate* thing». Perhapa there'» I the building, a sound of weeping, somebody boob enough to thifck he like a dreary wind, ran through the could murder Ace and then forge church. Ace's endorsement on the check. I did not want to go to the grave. Has the check been cashed. M ar- but I did. Somehow, most deeply garet?" I I desired not to see what had been 'No. The day I heard of Ace's the splendid body of Ace lowered death, I went over to the bank to into the earth . . . given over to stop payment. They said I couldn't decay . . . Yet I went. A large do that without a court order, group of his friends accompanied They told me it hadn't been Ace. Bruce Hexson was not there, cashed.’* Mrs. Thelford told me that he was "W ell, we'll watch that point any- «o ®ick with a bad cold that he BY- how,” Patrick assured her. "Was wouldn't be able to enter Ace's will that all you saidT” Patrick went for probate before Saturday. I saw both Doctor Marden and Caro. on. " I wish you hadn't felt obliged 'No. 1 said one other thing and it was the only other thing I did to go to this funeral. Aunt M ary,” Copyright Inca Haynes Irw in say. I said. ‘Ace Blaikie I hope Hopestill greetid me. when I re turned. you die the death you deserve I ” W N V Servico. " I didn’t feel obliged,” I an Patrick stroked the back of his head, then he clasped his hands swered, "but I wanted to go. Ace there and let his head rest against was one of my oldest and dearest them. “ What did Ace do with the I friends." Was Caro there?" check?" T U E S D A Y — C o n tin u e d Yes," I answered. "H e took off his helmet and put — 13— She wasn't intending to go,” __ .. . „ . . the check inside— in the sweat- When Margaret Farrweather ap- j>and •• Hopestill explained. “ We were peared in the doorway, my thoughts, ..Was anything e ls e r. planning to go places and do things curiously enough flew at once to -Nothing—so far as Ace was con- together this afternoon, to get this Bessie. It was the common devas- cerne<i •• horror out of our minds. But tation in their faces which linked | ,.Did' you see Tony Torriano go ' nfter luncheon, she telephoned me them together in m y mind. Bessie's ff bushes? that her grandfather insisted on her face had turned the strange gray 1 No.” I attending the funeral. which dark skins assume under "You say, ‘Nothing—as fa r as I ‘‘They sat together,' 1 said torment either physical or men Ace was concerned.' ” Patrick’s "Doctor Marden looked frightful tal. M argaret’s flesh had gone voice held an interrogative note. ly exhausted. This terrible thing waxy. Hers might have been a "As I went back over the path, has worn on him as much as any- dead face—if it had not been for I thought I heard a stir in the hody." the burning intensity of the har- I “ I don t see why he made Caro rowed eyes. "Not' ,oud go," Hopestill grumbled. “ She say» " I went over to th e jx ilic e sta- mere sUr, A cat might I she hates funerals. She knew Ace, tion to see you Patrick she an- made of course, but not awfully well.” ncunced in her strange, dead voice, p a tri- ___ k -, ______ »Pi- h gray eyes had I ____ Well, I suppose he has the "but they told me that you were 1 turned ralrlCK s lr,sn He still rested his French point of view, I explained, brilliant. here." head against his clasped hands. I'^le s lived many years in France. Patrick drew a long sigh. By For a moment he did not speak. There they make so much of death, its depth, I gauged the extent of but his eyes never left Margaret. I Funerals and burials are extreme- his relief. “ Is there something I ly important events.” She did not speak either. can do for you, Margaret?” " I don’t think Caro liked Ace “ M argaret,” Patrick began, "you Margaret looked at him hard. and I are old friends and we’ve particularly,” Hopestill declared. " I must talk to someone,” she said , forty ye>„ I "Although I don't know why I bring J , v lV . J Z it’ T t h e sur ™ d P ^ a p s > « « « . YoU kn0* * • » .Up * 'h' n dead- p ° ° r ° ld / U i «av Fve always been fond of you and Ace. face unbelievable. I can only say ' The telephone rang and Hopestill that I am telling you the exact answered it. “ Yes, she’s here. truth.” Yes. Yes. Come right down!” Still Patrick remained silent. holding the transmitter, he looked "About a week ago, Ace Blaikie over at me: “ Caro Prentiss is called at the house and asked me coming here.” if I would lend him some money. That’s nice. She'll be just in For many reasons, I did not want time for tea.” to lend Ace any money. I did not It seemed to me that there was like him in the first place. In an air of suppressed excitement fact—” Suddenly her dead eyes about her; for as we drank our blazed. “ In fact—I hated him. I tea, her foot tapped the floor. Once did not trust him either. When he I intercepted an interrogative look told me how much he wanted to in Hopestill's direction. borrow, I was appalled.” The instant 1 put my cup down, Patrick said, "How much was Caro and Hopestill put their cups it?” down. Hopestill arose and came "Ten thousand dollars,” Marga toward me. As though unconscious ret answered. ly drawn, Caro arose too, walked Patrick whistled. I said noth to Hopestill's side, stood with him ing. I could not speak. looking down at me. "What did Ace want that ten Aunt M ary,” Hopestill said, thousand dollars for?” Patrick “ Caro and I want to take you— asked. Now don’t get weepy and don’t “I don’t know,” Margaret an say no—we want to take you down swered. i'Perhaps I could guess, into the Spinney. We want to show but I ’d rather not.” She looked you something. I think I can give pleadingly at Patrick. you my word. Aunt M ary, that “ You’re right, M argaret!” Pat when you see what we have to show rick approved. “L e t’s confine our you, you'll be glad you did what selves to the facts. Did you lend we asked.” him this money?” Caro’s lovely voice reinforced “ Yes—but not at once. I told him. “ Please, Mrs. Avery, please, him I would have to think it over. please come! I t ’s something lovely." I knew that I would have to take I ’ll go, children,” 1 agreed. that ten thousand out of my prin And then, “ M ay Sylvia comi too?” I Thought 1 Heard a Stir in the cipal.* "Y es,” they chorused, “ we want Bashes. “ He called more than once?” Pat Sylvia to come.” rick interrupted. Flora, that I respect you and that ______________ _ _ first,” __ “ Caro and I will go Hope- ‘Yes, four times. I have , , the , days i 1 trust y °u- But r m the P°Uce I still declared. ’ ’And you and Syl- in my diary. Ace stipulated—re- chief here in this town. And it via walk behind us.” quested I mean,” she corrected doesn’t make any difference what j followed those two about the herself with the careful honesty I think, or believe. M y business I piazza, down the steps at the side, typical of her. “ that I give him a is to prove. I believe your story of over the path into the shade of the certified check. It all took time, course. But Margaret, I must ask Spinney. but he kept hurrying me. He want- you some questions. Maybe you Uncontrollably I began to trem- ed the money, I felt, for something won’t find them pleasant. I ’ve got ble. special. to do it though.” j fixed my eyes on the two beau "When was the last time he had “ Ask any questions you want, tiful young creatures ahead. Light been in your house before that?” i Patrick,” Margaret said. and shade poured a checkered Patrick asked. | “ Well, if I were a jury, the first stream upon them. That stream Ace Blaikie had not been in my , thing I ’d want to know would be flowed over their figures and house for |twenty-five years,” Mar- ! why you were willing to lend Ace poured into the earth. My trem- garet replied. Blaikie so much money, especially bling grew. Suddenly they stood “ Did you give him the money?” when you hated him .” aside from each other, stationed Patrick asked. “ I did it to prolong my sister’s themselves one on either side of “ Yes.” life. I made up my mind that Ace the path. Between their sentinel “ When?” should not enter our house again, figures, I glimpsed “ The night of the masquerade.” The last time he came, he said What a transformation! “ Where?” that if I couldn't lend him the My path had ceased to take its “ In M a ry ’s Spinney.” money, perhaps Flora would. I regular turning; it curved into a Patrick sighed again. “ About knew if he made up his mind to great loop to the left. And on the what time was it?” he asked. see Flora, nothing on earth could spot where Ace’s body had lain “ A little after ten th irty.” prevent him from getting to her. wa "How were you dressed?" And I was sure a meeting with him “ Did you two children do this?” “ I wore a black dress, a black would kill her. I was in agony ev- I asked, scarf over my head, a big black I ery time he was there for fear They nodded. I think I shall lace shawl of my mother's.” I Flora would hear his voice.” never forget the look on Hopestill’s How did you go to the Spinney?” Again silence. Margaret saved face; its anxious wistfulness. But ‘ I walked up the road toward the Patrick from asking the question Caro, more confident, smiled in a Park, turned off at M ary s path, | that hung almost visibly on his happy pride. walked past the Little House and lips. She went on. “ Ace Blaikie “ I picked up two bravas to help m et Ace—” She paused bleakly. made love to Flora when she was with the rocks,” Hopestill added Patrick waited. a slip of a girl. She fell in love “ And Caro went around to all your “ A t the exact spot where they with him. She loved him with her friends and begged flowers from found his body,” M argaret conclud whole heart and mind and soul, their gardens. She did all the ed. And when he transferred his af- planting. A pause, pregnant with awful fections to a mere light-of-love in To the right of the new path and possibilities, whirled between us Marshbanks, it nearly killed her. opening directly on it was a rock three. She was never the same girl after- garden. Field stones—the round, “ Did your interview take long?” wards. She never recovered from lichen-covered stones of New Eng Patrick asked gently. that. She has loved Ace Blaikie all land—made the four walls, made “ No, it took scarcely a moment.” her life. She loves him still. She at the back a triangular rock gar- “ Could you reproduce it for me?” can't help loving him. But she den whose top surface slanted to- “ Easily. I said, ‘Here is the hates him too.” wards the entrance. Tiny grassy check, Ace.’ He said, ‘Thank you! “ No chedk was found on Ace’s Paths of new-laid sod divided the H ere’s m y note for it ! ’ I handed body,” Patrick informed her. rest of the walled space into tiny him the check and he handed me “ I know.” Margaret arose to her flower plots. And those plots were the note. I have it with me. Would feet. “ I realize perfectly, Patrick, AUed, crowded with petunias, deep you like to see it?” that I am now under suspicion. I purple, pale rose and white; snap- “ Yes—thank you, M argaret, for hope you won't have to arrest me dragons, wine colored, pink and thinking of th at.” for a while. It would kill Flora, tawny; phlox, flame-colored, pink M argaret took a folded piece of She doesn’t know Ace is dead yet.” and white; zinnias of every zin- paper from her hand-bag and hand “ I shan’t arrest you for the pres- nia collor; the star-like Pride of ed it to P atrick. He examined it ent, Margaret,” Patrick assured Oxford; border» everywhere of on both sides, held it up to the her. “ I will ask you not to leave ageratum. light. "W ill you trust this with me Satuit—not even for a day.” | “ I t ’s beauuiun » | beautiful!” i I gaspeu. gasped. - “ • I « t ’s for a while?” exquisite. How on e irth did you “ Certainly, P atrick,” M argaret I t seemed to me thr.t the entire do it?” I took a swift mental foray “ Why that’» what town turned out to Ace Blaikie’« backwards. replied. “ By the way, M argaret, who’d funeral. It was held in the white you’ve been up to these two days! I added: “ Children, you have you make it out to? Oh yes, you’d vine-covered church, the most spa- cious in town. The service was done a wonderful thing. It wipes have to make it out to Ace.” brief. When the pall bearers bore out the terrible memory of—” “ Yes.” Patrick whistled. “ That compli- tha flower-wreathed coffin out of ; FTO BE CONTINUED) iiiwMiummiimmmwiMi Murder Masquerade Inez H aynes Irwin iiimmiiiiiiiiiitmnnmiiiiiii Builders for Ever *1 w as a sucker to bet I wouldn't shave again until you had to buy another Quart of Quaker State!* ’ HEN we build let us ’ ’ think that we build for ever. Let it be not for present delight nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank ua for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to conie when those stones will be held sacred, because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought suostunce of them, ‘See! this our fathers did for is ." —Ruskin. 8 Compliments are reciprocal. 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