WOMEN WONT TALK
' BY' RENE RYERSON MART .cVSS.
THE CATCH
CHAPTER XIX
AFTER lunch the four of us,
Connie, Walter, Kathy and I,
went out on the east terrace.
We were all Jittery from nerv
ous strain and it was with relief
that we saw long-legged Clint
Mattlson striding up from the
woods. Kb thy hailed him and he
came up on the terrace grinning
his attractive grin.
Mattlson remarked about the
weather, said it was grand or
something equally inane, and
Kathy agreed with htm with so
much vivacity that I sat up and
took notice. I watched her and
Mattlson and began to conjecture
like a .sentimental old busy-body.
Mattlson maneuvered the conver
sation around to fishing and re
minded Kathy of her unfulfilled
promise to go with him. He
wanted to know if the following
morning would be all right
Kathy said she couldn't, that
we had a guest coming and she'd
be tied up for a few days. I no
ticed that she didn't tell Mattlson
who it was.
Little Judy came bouncing out
'on the terrace through the study
" door and ran up to Connie and
hugged her tightly. Connie kissed
her and asked her where Jack
was. The cherub looked mysteri
ous, and a worried frown cleaved
Connie's white forehead.
But Kathy laughed. She had
glimpsed Jack and pointed him
out to the rest of us. He had
somehow escaped from Imogene
Lake's vigilant eye and had had
another try at Clint Mattison's
fishing gear in the hall. Now,
dragging a rod behind him he was
slipping stealthily from the back
hall door toward the lily pool at
. the far end of the east lawn.
Kathy started to call out to him,
but Mattlson stopped her.
"Let him alone. He wont hurt
the rod. Let's see what he does."
From beginning to end of that
affair Clint Mattison was my Jinx.
JACK knew what to do all right.
He perched himself on the edge
of the pool, got the stick back over
his shoulder as he had seen Wal
ter do, and then tried to fling it
forward over the water. Of
course the line unreeled as the
stick went forward, and Jack
threw down the rod and began to
pull the line in by hand. Connie
murmured worriedly something
about the hook and catching it in
his fingers.
Mattison said he'd forgotten
about that He started down the
steps and across the lawn toward
the pool.
By the time he reached him
. Jack was pulling hard on the line.
It must have been caught on
something. Mattlson picked up the
rod from the ground, reeled in the
line until it was taut and with
weaving motions untangled the
hook from whatever was hold
ing it
He started reeling in again and
at last stooped over and picked
something up from the shallow
edge of the pool.
Dropping the fishing stick he
turned and came back to the ter
race. On the flat of his palm he
carried a gun.
There was red rust at the end
of its short blunt barrel and on
the handle, and a shred of black
cloth was caught between the
hammer and the barrel.
I stared at it and wondered it
it was the one missing from my
desk in the turquoise room. It
looked like it But then all guns
look alike to me.
Mattison said something about
the water and the rust having re
moved any possible fingerprints.
Gingerly he thumbed the catch
and swung the cylinder out to one
side, and slowly turned it around
looking into the bullet chambers.
One bullet was missing. Kathy
was standing beside me. I felt her
shiver.
"We'll have to turn It over to
the police," Mattison said slowly.
"It's probably the gun that killed
Derek Grady."
I LIFTED my eyes from the gun
and looked back at the sun
splashed pool where Jack and
Mattison had found it It's an
artificial pool, part of the land
scaping of shrubs and evergreens
that form a backdrop to the side
lawn and reach from the circle
of the driveway to the ravine some
distance back of the spot where
Derek's body was found.
If the person who had shot
Derek wanted to return to the
. house without being seen, the most
natural thing in the world would
have been to follow the ravine
back to this line of shrubbery, and
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then approach the back hall door
using it for concealment just as
lack had done when he had been
trying to reach the pool without
being seen with the fishing stick,
t was as clear In my mind as
If 1 were seeing it actually hap
pen. The murderer stealing back
to the house our house, passing
within a few feet of the pool,
which is deep at the far end and
filled with lily pads, and on the
impulse of a moment throwing
the gun into the water hoping that
it would never be found.
I made my decision.
"There is one thing I think you
ought to know before you hand
that gun over to the police," I
said, and my voice sounded hol
low. "It Is probably mine."
I watched their faces. All I saw
was Incredulity and horror and
sick shock. Mattison's head jerked
up and he looked at me and I
tried to outstare the probing sus
picion in his eyes.
"I had one," I explained care
fully, "in my desk upstairs. And
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It's gone." "
Kathy was the first to recover
the power of speech. Her hand
was shaking as she took hold of
my arm. "Gram you don't know
what you're saying. Who would
have taken your gun?"
Against my will I found myself
remembering how convincingly
Kathy had lied to Shaw about
not knowing Derek.
(To Be Continued)
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