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WOMEN WONT TALK
BY RENE RYERSON MART SSTSSSSVSt
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CHAPTER XXII
THE luncheon gong broke up
the conference.
I couldn't tell you what Clara
served to ui that noon. I made
pretense of eating by Jabbing
fork at the food on my plate
whenever anyone looked my way.
But I needn't have bothered. Wal
ter and George became involved
In a business conversation almost
immediately we sat down at the
table, and Kathy and Connie,
Judging from the expression on
their faces, were busy with their
own thoughts, and none too pleas
ant ones, either.
Kathy got up and excused her
self while dessert was being
served. I left the table myself as
soon as I decently could after that
and started fo my study. I wanted
to be alone where I could think
things out.
When I reached the hall Kathy
was coming down the stairs. She
had gone to her room and changed
into the flamboyant polka
dottcd dress that she had worn
the day of Derek's death! But she
wasn't wearing the coat that went
with it She carried that care
lessly over one arm.
I gaped at her open mouthed
and a hundred horrid suspicions
whirled through my head. She
moved quickly toward the hall
door, flinging an abrupt explana
tion over her shoulder. "I'm go
ing down to see Clint Maybe I
can persuade him not to give your
gun to the police."
Then she was gone before I
could say anything even if I had
been able to. As I stood staring
at the door swinging shut behind
her, the phone rang.
I answered it automatically. It
, was the telephone girl in the vil
lage. She said she had a telegram
for me, and asked whether she
should read it to me, or send it
out to the house.
"Bead it to me, of course," I
(aid.
It was from the Peabody Broth
ers Publishing Company and the
message was terse:
CLINT MATTISON UGLIEST
MAN WEST OF THE ALLE
GHENIES. TT is one of the tragedies of life
A that the people we know the
best we know the least I had
gone to a great deal of bother to
check up on Clint Mattison, sus
picious of him because I didn't
know who his father and mother
were, where he had gone to school,
how many love affairs he had had.
And yet Kathy, whom I had
known from a baby, was more of
en enigma to me than he was.
And Connie with her beautiful
sweet face . . . what did I really
know about Connie? She had
been a poor girl, she had had to
nurse for her living, and her
story-book marriage to Walter
had lifted her above all that. I
had thought that she loved Wal
ter, but might it not be ambition
and greed that motivated her?
And what would she do if some
one, who had known her too well
in her youthful past, threathened
that security and position? I had
told George that Derek had been
blackmailing Kathy. But what if
he had been blackmailing Connie?
And what did I really know
about myself? A rather arrogant
old woman stared haughtily back
at me when I looked in the mirror.
A woman with masses of white
hair, and a' flair for clothes. A
woman brittle and worldly-wise,
with violent emotions which even
sixty years of living hadn't burned
out But what was really in my
heart?
It wouldn't have taken much at
that moment to push me over the
edge into hysteria. And I knew
that wouldn't do. If it came to
the worst, I was going to need
all my vitality and my wits. The !
wing to do was to stop thinking,
to relax.
T WENT up to my room and low
x ered the shades and lay down
on the bed, but it was no good.
Sleep was a million miles away.
If I had had a sedative to take
but I'm so disgustingly healthy
that there's nothing in my medi
cine cabinet Then I thought of
Walter. He suffers from insomnia.
He probably had something.
I went down the hall and into
the back bedroom that he was
using as his dressing room and
Into the bathroom beyond it Sure
enough, the medicine cabinet was
crammed with bottles. There were
cold tablets, mouth washes, gar
gles, cathartics, and one bottle
bearing a pharmacist's label. I
opened It and poured a few of the
tablets into my hand. They looked
like the ones the doctor had left
for Margaret I read the direc
tions. Take one or two at bed
time. They were evidently sleep
ing tablets.
I laid a couple of them on the
rim of the wash stand and started
to put the rest back into the bot
tle, and then paused, looking at
Uiem curiously. There must have
been two dozen of the tablets al
together. If one took them all
it would be easy to sleep and for
geteverything forever. I came
to with a guilty start Wnat was
it that Deputy Shaw had said
when he questioned me about the
attempt on Margaret's life? That
women my age didn't commit sui
cide, that we had lived too long,
been through too much to ever
think of taking the easy way out.
Maybe he was wrong. Maybe
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FUNNY BUSINESS
young Deputy Shaw didn't know
just how tired one could get
And something I had said in an
swering him then came back to
me. Something I had said not
really believing it myself at the
time, but had said hoping to fool
him. But what it it was true? I
held on to the thought for a mo
ment, examining it If it was
true
With a blinding flash of undcr
ttanding I saw the whole thing)
I knew who had killed Derek
Grady!
(To Be Continued)
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president
14 Weds
16 Kind of llama
(PL)
17 Wrongly
(prefix)
18 Net
20 Pillar
21 Sepal (abbr.)
22 Attempts
23 Gaelic
24 Bachelor of
Science
(abbr.)
27 Tomes
31 Salt
33 Before
34 Four (Roman)
35 Symbol for
sodium
36 Cuddled
39 Kind of bread
40 Of the thing
41 Rabbit
44 Benefit
47 Heights
(abbr.)
49 By way of
Answer to Previous Poxxle
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part of a cask
51 Ventilate
52 Interferes
with
54 Colonist
57 Grapple
58 Decayed
VERTICAL
1 Part of "be"
2 Cognomen
3 Fall in drops
4 Railroads
(abbr.)
5 East Indies
(abbr.)
6 Direction
7 Belongs to
Janet
8 Malt
beverages
9 Candlepower
(abbr.)
10 Kind of
cabbage
11 Disfigure
12 Cereal grain
13 Nova' Scotia
(abbr.)
15 Slaves
19 Two (Roman)
21 He was the
. U.S.
president
24 Bushel (abbr.)
25 Loolc Joyous
26 Oblique
28 Mineral rock
29 French plural
article
30 First woman
32 Babylonian
god of the sky
37 Steps
38 Contrive
39 Ship jails
42 Asseverate
43 Be carried
44 Cain's brothel
45 Indian
mulberry
46 Cast a side
long look
47 Dagger part
48 Woody plant
51 Coin
52 Most Worship'
ful (abbr.)
53 Lieutenant
(abbr.)
55 Toward
56 Royal Navy'
(abbr.)
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AN APE' ME??
V'MEAN VOU BEEN
THINKIN' ALL ALONG
THAT I WAS JUST
AN AK6
rEP... UP UNJTIU VOU, VERY
HUMAWLy, VOL) ST
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THROO&H ALL
THOSE ROMANS...
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VOU FOR JUST ' I I ' .' V -V I v - vz " imkouohj
A SORT OCA ) VOU- 1 A'Xik - -Aj"6 OOMAN UINBS.'
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Little Orphan Annie
By Harold Gray
BUT HOW CPU
YOU POS61BI GET
ME OUT 0 HERE.
if vou wwrr to?
AND IF YOU DID.
THEY'D KILL )"
ALL ABOARD AS FOR VOU, THERE IS JUST
THI6 SHIP I ONE LONG CHANCE! I SHOVE I
VflU. SOON I YOU INTO AN EMPTY TORPEDO I
BE DEAD, I TUBE THEN FLOOD THE TUBE I
ANYWAY- I AND SEND YOU OUT INTO M
WC-rff k THE RJVERl
IT MUST BE DONE
VERY QUICKLYl VOU
WILL HAVE TO HOLD
YOUR BREATH VERY
LONG -WE ARE DOWN
THIRTY FEET"
HT HERE I "TAKE THIS TO MY
I KID SISTER IN MILWAUKEE! I
B TELL HER I STRUCK AT LEAST ES
Vi ONE BLOW FOR AMFDU-fll I I
lVOURE 1 B -READY! TAKE A DEEP (flfil
r ASWEU. H BREATH! GOOD LUCK ! V