Thursday, March 21, 1940
The Capital Journal, 5alem, Oregon
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Henry
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Yesterday: Acirianne Wells accubcsI
Klncnld or murdering Joan Kent. Newa
comes tnat Lainrop nuu utn wn iw
In the hospital. I
Chapter 21
Twenty-two years ago Joan's fa
ther, Warner Kent, an attorney, was
mysteriously shot to death. I shiv
ered, it was curious that the father
and the daughter should both die
by violence.
And the story of Warner Kent's
death was strange. In March, 1914,
he was found with a bullet hole in
his head and a revolver lying a few
feet away, In his private office in
Wall street. The case was officially
closed as suicide but rumors per
sisted. A socially prominent girl was
supposed to have been closeted with
him for two hours the afternoon of
his death and the gossip at the time
was that she was madly in love with
him.
All of this happened when Joan
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-.was two or three years old. Was it
coincidence, I wondered, or could
her death be linked with her fa
ther's?
The story the papers carried of
Joan's death held no surprises until
I came to the bottom of the column,
An arrest was to be made shortly. A
woman. As far as I knew I was the
only woman the sergeant suspected.
He got interested in others, but he
seemed always to come back to me.
The account was continued to
page 3. I was so excited that I kept
dropping pages of the paper until I
found the rest of the story. And
there, much to my surprise, I found
a fairly concise report of Sergeant
Long's interviews with the people
in the house. And more amazing-
there was an old photograph of me
when I won a prize for a painting at
a Paris exhibition. So it took, not
eight years of hard work, but a mur
der to get publicity. I felt a little
grim about that.
A soft knock sounded at the door
I and I jumped up. It took all of my
t courage to cross the room and open
that door after Dlrck's warning.
Much to my relief it was Mary Ann
Rogers. She was wrapped up in
heavy blue bathrobe over her green
frock with a wool scarf knotted at
her throat.
"I look a fright, I know," she
smiled, "but it's so cold in our place.
Do you mind if I come in for a little
while, if you aren't going to bed, of
course? It's pretty late," she added,
then whirled around quickly as
Richard MacDonald came up the
stairway. She turned back to me
with a breathless laugh. "I'll be with
you in a minute." she said shrilly,
"I forgot something."
And then she followed Richard
down the hall. I could hear the mur
mur of their voices and I was pretty
t curious, but when she came back in
a minute or two she said nothing
about it. I told her I was delighted
to have company, and (hen we pull
j ed our chairs up close to the fire-
place.
Mary Ann leaned back in the
chair, stretching he- slim legs com
fortably before her on the stool. She
lighted a cigarette, smoking
thoughtfully. It was warm and
pleasant in the room and the fire
was drawing beautifully. I turned
out all of the lights except the small
one on the wall over the fireplace.
'Nervous as a Cat'
"You know," she bent forward un
expectedly, her brown eyes on
mine, "this is getting on my nerves.
I've been sitting around all after
noon and evening and I'm as ner
vous as a cat, and worried, too
Adrianne is in there crying all of
the time."
I didn't know what to say, so
Just murmured something non-com'
mlttal.
"I can't make her stop. It isn't
very cheerful," she aided, with (
short laugh.
I thought of the paper. "The Ser
geant isn't going to arrest her, Is
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but it may have been my imagina
tion. What seems to be the matter
with her?" I asked.
Mary Ann wrinkled her forehead.
'I don't know," she said slowly,
"except that she's terribly upset, I
don't think the Sergeant has threat
ened to arrest her. It's just that
her name was in the evening pa
per." She paused.
I got up and went over to the
table for a pack of cigarettes. "All
of our names were in. I said.
Mary Ann nodded slowly. "I know,
but when she saw hers she was
wild."
I curled up In the chair again,
"Well, it isn't the pleasantest thing
to be mixed up in."
For a moment she was silent.
"She's afraid of something." she
said suddenly in a taut voice. "I
don't know what it is; I can't figure
her out at all.
'She was upstairs with Mr. White-
field last night, you know."
"Yes, she finally told me. But it
isn't that. At least I think it's
.something else that's worrying her,
She's huddled in a chair by the
window and all she does is cry. She
won't even talk." She shivered, "It
makes me nervous. And she's as
pale as a ghost."
Mary Ann's face was pale and
drawn and the rouge on her round
cheeks stood out in two bright spots,
'I took a lease on the apartment
we're in now," she said unexpected
ly, "and then I found I couldn't af
ford it alone when the dress shop
needed me only half days. So I told
Mr. Kimball and he said that a girl
had been trying to get an apart
ment in the house. He suggested
that she share mine. It was the only
way out for me, so I told him to
have her come to see me. It was
Adrianne. I think she knew Harry
Kincaid and wanted to live here on
account of him. She's been here four
months now and I still don't know
anything about her." Then she add
ed irrelevantly. "Your friend, Mr,
Kolff, Is very nice."
I suppressed a smile. Dirck,
gathered, had made an Impression.
Before I could answer there was a
terrific crash from the stairway.
We Jumped to our feet.
I thought the whole house had
collapsed.
Mary Ann gripped my hand and
we stood motionless, too startled to
move.
"Murder!"
The voice was Mrs. Evans' from
somewhere in the hall.
Somehow, to hear her shriek was
reassuring. She was such an Idiot
and spent so much time screaming
that I Imagined nothing serious
had happened. However, I opened
the door with due caution and we
peered out into the hall.
Mrs. Evans, attired in a flagrant
ly red and very unbecoming coolie
coat, was at the top of the stair
way glaring down at the very flush
ed and perspiring Sergeant Long. He
was limping up to the second floor
swearing at the top of his lungs. It
seems that he had come back from
the hospital and was on his way
to Joan's room to poke around a
little more. At the top of the stairs
he caught his heel on the brass rim
of the step and fell the whole flight,
I was surprised that he hadn't
broken his neck, because he was a
very heavy man. His ankle was
wrenched badly, though, but that
didn't prevent him from button
holing a man who was coming up
the stairway. I had to look twice
and then I wouldn't have recog
nized Mr. Whitefield If it hadn't!
been for the heavy coat. He was
the sort of man you could meet
every day and never recognize,
"Just a minute there." He
caught Whitefield by the arm as
he came up to the hall. "There's
something I d like to ask you.
"Why, Sergeant." the man said
with mock politeness as he took
off his hat, "you told me I could
go out this evening."
Carl Anderson
Presbyterian 'B'.
Circle Entertained
Dallas Circle B of the Presbyte
rian church met at the home of
Mrs. E. B. Bossattl Monday after
noon for a business meeting fol
lowed by several hours of sewing
and a tea hour.
Floyd McCann and Miss Dorothy
Top of Eugene, were guests of the
group and Mrs. Howard Hall was
new member. Other members
present were Mrs. A. J. Cleveland,
Mrs. Roy Donahue, Mrs. E. V. Dal-
ton. Mrs. Walter Duff, Jr., Mrs.
Paul Bollman, Mrs. E. W. Cruson,
Mrs. Maurice Dalton, Mrs. W. C.
Leth. Mrs. Del Reinemer, Mrs. Ora
mel Shreeve, Mrs. Wayne Page, Mrs.
C. E. Phelps, Mrs. V. V. Grant, Mrs.
J. F. Spooner and Mrs. Bossatti.
The next meeting will be held at
the homo of Mrs. Cleveland.
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(Continued Tomorrow)