11 4 q 'AGE SIX OUT of the NIGHT SY MARION WHITE Copyright, 1937, NEA Inc. CAST Or CHARACTER PRINCILLA PIERCE-wherolue Taunt woman attorney. AMY Kh'1111.--Cilly's roommate and murderr's victim. JIM KERRIGANCI! ly'a donee. HARRY III) TC III II 1 Antra Strange. visitor. SERGEANT DOLANmilicer Wailed to solve the murder et Amy Kerr. Yesterdays The ease et AT Kerr is complicated when Cilly receives a surprise card tram Jim Kerrigan advising he had take.' the arse piano to Utah. She thought of the ('tab clipping. Then Sergeant Dolan knocks at the door. CHAPTER VI C ILLY led Sergeant Dolan into the living room, remembering as she did so, that the had not as yet tidied it One could not put too much faith, she was thinking, in Sec.. geant Dolan's pleasant manner. It was reflected in the careless, good natured bulk of his six feet two, In the lightness of his speech, in the wide smile which came Co easily to his lips. But his rather small, quick eyes belied all that. They were shrewd and cunning. "I'm sorry to say, Miss Pierce," the sergeant said, seating himself in the most comfortable armchair, "that this matter of Miss Kerr's er--accident, presents itself in rather a different light this morn ing." ally sat down opposite him. "You've seen Mrs. Corbett then?" she asked. "Who is Mrs. Corbett?" he countered. "A neighbor from across the street She called a few minutes agowith some rather startling Information. I suggested that she get in touch with you immedi ately." "Um-m-m-rn." DIand scratched his chin. "Just what was this startling information?" he asked. (ILLY hesitated. It would be -'1 wiser at present, the decided, to do no more talking than was necessary. 'Perhaps it would be better ' Sergeant Dolan," she suggested. "for you to bear Mrs. Corbett's ' story from her. She intended to phone you, I believe." ' Dolan looked at Cilly shrewdly. "Here's a girl," he thought, "who's nobody's fool." Aloud he said: "She did get In touch with me. Thought I'd just stop in and get your version of the affair once more." "I'll be glad to answer your questions, sergeant," Cilly offered, courteously. She was more com posed now, more her natural well , poised self. , Sergeant Dolan took out his in , evitable black book and an almost useless stub of a pencil. long did you tell me : you've known Miss KerrAmy Kerr, that right?" "Yes." ally repeated what she had told the night before. She , met Amy some six months pre- - 4 vious, in the Cannon building, where they both worked. 'We , frequently met downstairs in the tea shoppe for lunch," she added. "Amy spoke of the difficulty in finding a nice place to live in New iYork. She had been staying at a girls' residence club and did not dike it very much. Finally I sug- . gested that she share this apart ' snent with me. That was two months ago." "Remember the name of this , residence club?" Cilly named a modest but well , timown clubhouse in the Seventies. - "Did she have many friends?" "Very few, I should say. Amy rwas a stranger in the city. I un rlerstood that she came from a town called Interlaken, in New Hampshire, where she had lived with an aunt. She came to New York less than a year ago and happened to find this position as secretary to Harvey Ames, of the real estate firm. They have offices on the same floor as ours." IN his book, Sergeant Dolan wrote: "See Harvey Ames." "What company did you say you were with, Miss Pierce?" he asked. "Crowell and Burns, attorneys." "Secretary, I suppose." , "No, junior attorney. I was ad mitted to the bar two years ago." Sergeant Dolan raised his eye brows. He looked CWy over with a new respect dawning In his eyes. "You don't say! Quite a young ster to be a full-fledged lawyer, aren't you? "I'm 27." "Twenty-seven, eh? Well, you don't look it. Not a bit of it. And how old was Miss Kerr?" "She was younger than I. We celebrated her 25th birthday to gether only a few weeks ago." Sergeant Dolan nodded. His eyes, never quiet for a second, were still roving about the room. They saw everything and they saw through everything, it seemed to Cals. He went on: "Was she unhappy about any thing? Worried?" "Not at all." "Had she quarreled with any body? Was there anybody, as far as you know, whom she particu larly hated or feared?" "Nobody that I ever heard of. of course, she didn't speak of her past very much." "Wasn't that unusual?" "Not with Amy. She was natur ally a reticent person; she never forced herself upon anyone." For the first time, Ci ily under stood the attraction between Amy and Harry Hutchins. They were so totally different , "Did she ever tell you why she left New Hampshire?' "No. I assumed it was for the same reason that thousands of girls leave small towns for New York. To seek a career." "Never mentioned any trouble at home?" - i,No. - "Never spoke of any enemies?" Again Ci Ily shook her head. "I'm sure Amy didn't have aa enemy in the world." S ERGEANT DOLAN leaned for- ward in his chair. His sharp brown eyes looked deeply into Cilly's gray ones. 'She must have had an enemy, Miss Pierce," he said. "Somebody wanted her Out of the way. She didn't fall from the roof, as we thought last night She was mur dered!" He wondered why Cilly showed no surprise. "I know it," she said dully. , "You know?" - "Yes. That is what Mrs. Cor bett told me. Her mother saw someonesome manthrow Amy off the roof." 'Tor Heaven's sake, why didn't you tell me?" he demanded irri tably. "You said that Mrs. Corbett had already communicated with you." Dolan nodded his head abruptly. "Yes, she asked me to stop in and see her. I haven't done it yet. There's always a dozen people ready with startling information in a case Mee this. What did she say?" - "Hex mother saw Amy sung bodily from the roof. Some crimi nal, some maniac, she supposed." Unconsciously Cilly shuddered at the recollection. That terrify ing, pitch-black roof. Not Dracula, up there, no foolish egurc of a silly Imagination. But a real flesh-and-blood murderer. A fiendish trap had been laid up there, and Amy walked into it blindly. Dolan shook his head negative ly. "More to it than that, I'm afraid. Me medical examination this morning disclosed no evidence of criminal attack, such as might be attributed to a degenerate, or a maniac. But it did disclose something elsesomething very curious ." - "What was it?" "The girl was strangledbru tally strangled with a piece of or dinary clotheslinebefore she was thrown from the roof." (To Be Continued) Snake skin came into promi nence as a leather in 1927. Since then, its use has increased rapid ly. Cobra and python skins make up the largest portion of the trade, but many other species are used. The planet Jupiter has a diam eter 11 times that of the earth. yet it can be seen in daylight only under extremely favorable condi tions, and then only by persons with exceptional eyesight. 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