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WOMEN WONT TALK;
! BY RENE RYERSON MART . 'SKXgX&VZ
ATTEMPTED MURDER?
' ' CHAPTER XVII
, CHAW cams back while we were
still at the table. He aald he
didn't want to Interrupt our din
ner 'and that he'd talk to the
.servants first
i I gave him the use of my study
. and we finished our meal in a de
pressed silence and retired to the
living room to await our turn lor
, questioning.
It must have been an hour and
t half before he finished with the
' help. Imogene Lake was the last
one. Shaw kept her in the study
: a, long time and when she came
i out she was dabbing at her eyes.
She gr.ve one quick scared look at
, us in the living room, as she
passed through the Hall, and then
!' the went straight upstairs."
f t found myself In sudden panic
! 'going over the possibilities of what
Imogene could know. She slept in
' a bedroom in the tower. She
: hadn't even been in the house last
i night
, What I didn't know until long
.' afterward was that Shaw hadn't
been asking her about the night
' before. He had been hammering
away on our alibis for that first
day. And he had worn her down
I until she had admitted something
,. she had never intended to, tell.
Shaw summoned us to the study,
, one at a time, first Mattison, then
' Will Grady, his wife a deputy
went over to the tower and
brought her back with him Wal
. ter, Connie, and Kathy.
I wondered why he saved me
, until the last but I soon found
out He waited until I was seated
, and then he asked me to tell
everything I could remember
1 about the night before. I began
: ' with Margaret's hysterics, and my
' visit to her in the night when I
' ' put two of the sleeping tablets into
a glass of water to dissolve, and
finished with that awful moment
: when Clint Mattison and I had
rushed up to her room in answer
" to Clara's frightened summons.
CHAW dldnt Interrupt me once,
i but I saw him glance frequent
1 ly at the notes he had taken from
' the others and I felt the hot blood
t rising in my face.
" ' "I suppose you thought It nec
' essary to hear the others first so
' -you could check my story," X said
I bitterly.
' He had ' the grace to look
ashamed. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Kraik.
I I'm only trying to get to the bot
' ' torn of this plot on Margaret
Grady's life"
) - I wasn't going to let him get
away with that He had no proof.
-. I cut in. "You make it sound like
. attempted murder."
He just looked at me for a long
: moment and that rattled me more
; than words. Then softly as a cat
on the prowl:
"What do you think It was?"
"Suicide attempted suicide."
"Why?"
"Why? Her grandson's death, of
fr course. It broke her heart" I
realized that I was talking too
- fast It made my words sound
.rehearsed. I tried to relax.
. . . . Shaw spoke very mildly. "Let's
se she'd" lost other relatives,
"' nadnT she?" This boy's mother
and her own husband. Did she
try to ommit -suicide when they
died?"' ' "
"But this was different" I in
sisted desperately. "Don't you see.
t. X :wasnt only "Derek's dying it
. was -the way' he died, the dis
grace." ;c jl
: Shaw, eyes held mine. "You
honestly believe that she tried to
' commit suicide?"
: -1 nodded my head, blinking back
the tears. A silence fell on the
, room. -Through it I could hear the
: almost inaudible whir of the elec
'.. .trie clock on my . desk. The desk
V behind which Deputy Shaw sat as
' it it belonged to him.
' ' He shot his next words at me.
Then -why did you break the
"drinking glass that the sleeping
- medicine was in?"
..,........
r, "T7HE nightmare was not ended!
s. '.. "It was an accident." I tried
.to ".sound, tart and impatient, but
my voice cracked. "We that is,
.Mattison and I were lifting Mar.
.. . 'large't up on her pillows, so she
'' tduld breathe easier, and one of
;hjr sleeves you saw the Chinese
-robe I had on with the wide
:- lleeves brushed the glass off the
: table."
' "And then you managed to step
on it" Shaw finished dryly.
There was really nothing I
could say to that I waited.
"You did a thorough job of it,
too," he went on. "But even at
that there were a couple of pieces
' big enough to get some fineer-
FUNNY
"He heard thai an occasional
prlnts from. We found Margaret
Grady's and yours."
I breathed again.
Shaw looked at me hard. "It
just won't wash, Mrs. Kraik. You
don't believe that Margaret Grady
tried to commit suicide any more
titan I do. Women your age and
hers don't take that way out
You've lived too long. You know
there isn't any trouble so bad you
can't see it through." He leaned
toward me. "Your very action
proves that you don't believe it
Sure, her fingerprints were on
that glass and yours both neatly
accounted for. But you thought
that somebody else's would be
there too. That's why you broke
the glass."
I knew then that I had been too
clever.
Shaw continued to glare at me
for a moment and then he got to
his feet I decided it was time to
play my last card. "But, Deputy,
why would any of us want to
harm Margaret of all people?"
Sam Shaw looked down at me
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COM. 1MI IV Mi MMiet. MC Y. H. H& U. L HT. Off.
'Remember way back when we I
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BUSINESS
tornado goes through this ,
mockingly. "You should have
been an actress, Mrs. Kraik. Three
of you were at the inquest yester
day. You heard me tell the coro
ner that I was coming out here
today to question Mrs. Grady
about her grandson's death.
Could It be, that somebody here
didn't want me to talk to her?
Could it be, that somebody was
afraid she saw something from
her bedroom windows the day
Derek Grady was murdered?."
(To Be Continued)
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