WOMEN WONT TALK
BY RENE RYERSON MART nVTK!?,Ev.,S&
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CHAPTER XXI
THE thing as I saw it was Just
crazy enough to bo possible:
CUnt Mattlson, a gangster, wanted
by the police, renting the Cottage
as a hideaway, and then having
bis plans upset when Derek Grady
came to Kraiktower to hide, too.
And here was where another
detail dovetailed perfectly. It had
been the morning ot the day we
found Derek's body that Mattlson
had come up to the big house to
pay his rent. All I had to do was
to suppose that Derek had seen
Mattison and recognized him at
he went back to the Cottage, and
that Mattison had shot Derek
rather than risk exposure, He had
0 gun. I had seen It the night in
the Cottage when I had fled from
the Thing on the path. He had
taken a gun and a flashlight out
of his desk.
Of course, there was the book
, Mattison had given Kathy to read,
the one she had left on my desk
in the study. But it Mattison was
as clever as he appeared to be, he
might have figured it was safer tc
assume the name of a real writer
and supply himself with some oi
said writer's work to make it more
convincing.
I was quite excited about it by
the time I reached home, and the
first tiling I did was to look in the
study for Mattison's book. I got
the publisher's name and address
from the fly leaf and then con
vinced the telephone girl in the
village that I really wanted to
send a telegram.
Sulkily, she read the message
back to me:
PLEASE WIRE FULL DESCRIP
TION CLINT MATTISON AU
THOR OF TIME FOR MURDER
URGENT.
T GOT downstairs the next day
just in time to see George
Baker arrive. He stepped out oi
a gray convertible with red leath
er seats, and I blinked twice to be
sure I wasn't looking at a cut from
Esquire,
Kathy gave him her cheek and
he pecked at it before piping up:
"Ghastly business, isn't this, dar
ling?" I grunted. How Kathy was go
ing to stand his inane remarks
the rest of her life was more than
1 could imagine.
But Kathy, with a straight face,
assured him that it was a bad
business, and George shook hands
with Walter and Connie and came
toward me. And I was conscious
only of my personal dislike for
him! It seems impossible now that
I shouldn't have felt some pre
monition at that moment of what
his coming meant . .
' ' It didn't take a clairvoyant to
see that George was plenty both
ered about the notoriety centering
on the girl he was going to marry,
and that he was at white heat to
clear it up at once. He said that
most of the papers were letting
Derek's death slide as a gang mur
der, but that there were all kind
of rumors going around. I asked
what kind ot rumors, but he
wouldn't be specific.
He had the attitude that we
were too stupid, or too naive, to
know how to handle the situation
and it put my back up. I smiled
at him, and slipped the knife in
casually. "George, I think you
ought to know that the police have
discarded the idea of a gang mur
der even it the newspapers have
not"
He ogled me rather foolishly.
"What what do you mean?"
"The Chicago police have checked
up on Derek's Chicago pals, and
not one of them could possibly
have been near Kraiktower the
day Derek was killed."
George took out an expensive
handkerchief and mopped his
brow. "Then that leaves "
I" gave the knife a mean turn.
"Just us here at the house as sus
pects and the servants are ac
counted for."
TJE stared at me. I went on. "You
have guessed why Derek came
here, haven't you?"
"To hide, I suppose."
"Nothing of the kind. He was
blackmailing Kathy."
That certainly punctured
George's opinionated smugness.
He nearly fainted. It was the only
fun I had had that day. But it
didn't last long. He mopped his
brow again, and his logical mind
seized upon the one thing that had
stopped the police from making
any arrest so far. "After alL it
doesn't really matter as long as
the police haven't found the
weapon."
The weight settled back on my
heart "But they have," I said
I
FUNNY BUSINESS
"J jusl drifted while
tonelessly. "A friend of ours is
going to hand i. "ver to them to
day." Walter gave me a murderous
look. He hadn't thought my frank
tactlessness a bit funny. He told
George about the gun being found
in the pool, and the bit of cloth
caught in its trigger.
George looked desperate, and it
was then he said the thing that
started everything moving to ita
swift and appointed end. "That's
fine! All the police have to do
now is check that bit of cloth with
the clothes of all you suspects and
find out whose coat or dress was
covering the gun when it was
fired. , There'll be powder marks
on it, and probably a hole whers
the bullet went through, certainly
a hole where the gun hammer took
out a piece of the cloth."
All at once I was seeing Connie
as she had been dressed that
morning, the morning of the day
Derek was killed. Connie in that
slack suit with its dark coat cut
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like a man's. The slack suit thai
I had thought since she had worn
to cover the bruise on her arm
. . . but . . . she could have carried
a gun concealed in a pocket of that
coat!
And Kathy flying down tin
stairs when Mattison and I went
out into the hall that morning.
Kathy in a polka-dotted sport
dress and wearing a black wool
coat with huge patch pockets!
For that matter I had worn
black that day myself.
(To Be Continued)'
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