turned his bright blue eyes on Miss Mill
ington. "Know what happened?" he asked.
She told him, quickly, of her arrival,
of the man with the soot-stained face, of
her black eye and the man's escape.
Uncle George's hands caressed the
rifle he held in the crook of his arm. "He
didn't come down the road or we'd have
seen him," he said. "We might still
catch up with him if he took to the
woods. You hop down to the Hunter
place and call the Sheriff, Miss Milling
ton. Joey and I will see if we can pick
up your sooty man's trail." . . .
Miss Millington was near tears when
she reached the Hunters' phone. She
didn't call the Sheriff. Perhaps it was
natural that in that moment of trial she
called Mr. Patrick Aloysius Molloy. Mr.
Molloy, assured that she was safe except
for a "beaut of a shiner," promised to
be there in ten minutes.
It took him half an hour, because on
his way up the mountain road Mr.
Molloy and Trooper Gilligan ran head
on into the Grabowski boy coming down
the mountain road. The Grabowski boy
wore blue jeans and a blue work shirt
under a battered leather jacket. His face
was clean, but when Trooper Gilligan
opened up the leather jacket he saw that
the Grabowski boy's shirt was spat
tered with blood. They dragged him
back to the scene of the murder.
Miss Millington was shocked. She
had put a great deal of faith in the
Grabowski boy. He protested he hadn't
been to Dave's that day. He finally
admitted to another crime to explain the
bloodstains an out-of-season deer the
Grabowski family needed for meat.
"The laboratory will settle that," Mr.
Molloy said, grimly. "Those bloodstains
came off Dave Champagne, you can be
sure. The boy lied about stealing those
automobile parts, and he had to silence
old Dave."
"You won't make a positive identifi
cation. Miss Millington?" Trooper Gilli
gan asked.
IVIiss Millington stared unhap
pily from her project number one to her
project number two. "I 1 thought he
was wearing coveralls, not blue jeans,"
she said. "But they are the same color.
And in the smoke . . . His face was black
with soot so ... "
"Take him away," Patrick Aloysius
Molloy said to Trooper Gilligan.
They had taken only a step toward
the trooper's car when a voice bellowed
at them from a distance.
Miss Millington and company turned
to look toward the brow of the hill. A
man came toward them a man in a
tweed suit, wearing a tweed hat and
carrying a blackthorn walking stick.
Directly behind him was the tall figure
of Uncle George Crowder, his rifle
aimed straight at the man's back. Joey
and the dog Timmy cavorted around
them happily. Even at that distance Miss
Millington recognized the town's most
influential citizen Mr. Horace Twin
ing, president of the Lakeview National
Bank.
Mr. Horace Twining was in a chatter
ing rage. "1 demand you arrest this
senile idiot!" he shouted at Trooper
Gilligan.
"What's wrong, Mr. Twining?"
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