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CHAPTER XXXV Ining. Between eight and ninò o'clock. Why did sho-want to say Apparently Daisy Connor was next day he was at her house then? unconscious of the dramatic effect
of her words,
"I remember," she said, "because Mrs. Coleman and I were the only ones in the house Mr. Coleman had driven off in his car right after dinner Mrs. Coloman was in her bedroom and when the tolophono rang about eight o'clock I answered it..
That's what she said. I read it in the paper myself." She turned to Galney. "You wrote it, didn't you?”
sure it was about. eight o'clock when the first one came ?”
"It must have beeni. Dinner's at 6:30 and it's always after seven before they leave the table. I'd finished up my kitchen work and gone to my room. It could have "Yes," Gainey admitted, "I did. bean, maybe a little before or a lit- Don't you remember, Bannistor?tly after eight but it couldn't have You were there, She told us Parheen much later. Kor Coldrlian came to see her. Sald "And the second call came about he was an old fèiend and that he'd nino?" been out of town."
"It was'd woman's voice on the phone. Sho wanted to know if "That part of it was right," the Parker Coleman was there and Inald told them. "It was late in the said no, he wasn't. Then she said, nfternoon when he got home. He If he comes in soon will you tell came in a taxi and had his travel him Denise Long called?'
ling bag with him. He'd been away three or four days-on some kind of a business trip, his mother sald. ·
"I said, yes, I'd tell him. I went back to my room and looked at that
picture of Tracy 'King. I've got It In a silver frame I bought at Herbat's. Somehow I couldn't sco how a girl who was going to marry Tracy King could be wasting time on Parker Coleman. Not, of course, that Mr. Coleman isn't nice enough -only he's nothing like Tracy Kingi
"After a while I pleked up the book I'd been reading and went on with it. It must have been close to nine o'clock when the telephone rang again and I went down and answered it. it was Denise Lang agaln-I've heard her voice often enough to know! Is Parker Cole-
man there?' she asked and I said no, he wasn't. She didn't say any more but just "Thank you' and hung up.
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"You're positive it was Miss Lang who called the second time?" _ Ban- mister nakçü,.
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The girl nodded her head. " haven't any way to know for sure," she admitted, "but I think it was about an hour later. I didn't look at the clocks, so of course I couldn't absolutely swear to it"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934.
BY LAURA LOU
BROOKMAN
hini. "I suppose there are at least a hundred other young women in Tremont who keep framed photo- graphs of Tracy King on their dressing tables."
There are thousands of 'em! But "A hundred jocred Gainey
what of that?"
"Oh, nothing was just think #ng about it?"--
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The Now Territories Agricultural | Show is to be opened to-morrow at 2.80 p.m. The, vonuc la Shok, Wu Hul, which is quite close to the
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coremony.
Gainey sat up straighter. "Lookhui in ample time for the opening hero," he said. "I think she was
An excellent booklet giving the telling the truth, You should have acon how seared she was when she schedulo of exhibits and programme for 10 minutes before I could get is as follows: .. came in here. I had to keep at her has been issued. The programma
her to say anything! Now if it in the truth what's the rest of it?"
a.m.
Saturday, January 6.—10.30 a.m.
It was as near an explicit answer
"I should say," Bannister told gates open, 11 to 12.30 p.m. judg as they could get. Gainey asked him. "It means the rich and beau- the orto, 12.30 to 1.00 pm. several other questions. Then sud-tiful Doniso Lang www-going to theatrical performance, 1.00 to 2.00 p.m. Cinema, 2.30 p.m. formal denly Daisy Connor got to her fest, some pains to plant an alibi."
"Exactly! But why? She didn't opening by Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga.. "My land" aho exclaimed.
Sunday, January, 7--10.30 ñur” "Look at what time it's getting to need an alibiji
"Maybe it wasn't for herself." gates open, 10.30 to 11.30 I'd no Iden It was so late!
Gainey's look was uncompre-lectures to farmers, 12 to 1 p.m. You mean-Coleman?" hending. Then he said slowly, musical entertainment, 1.p.m. to 2 p.m. public health lectures, 2.30 Bannister nodded. "Could be, m. distribution of prizes by Mr. couldn't it?"
E. H. Williams, District Officer "Coleman!" Gainey repented. (North) 3.30 to 4 p.m. musical you don't think?!" "Say what are you getting at? entertainment.
Daisy Connor nodded her head
| Del emphatically. "I couldn't have I've got to hurry!" been mistakon about that," she She stood, nervously fastening said. "It was the same voice the buttons of her cont. Gainey heard before. And I've heard it was on his feet, too.. "I'm glad you plenty of other times, too.. It was came in, Miss Connor," he said. Denise Lang all right.”
Galuey drew a small square on knowing how much, of course, but "This may mean a lot. There's no a sheet of copy paper and filled it It's bound to help. We've got to in with black marks. Then he find out everything we can. looked at Bannister and said, police are doing their part" "Well-7′′
The maid's sharp exclamation stopped him. "Oh!" she said, “you aren't going to tell the police what I've told you, are you?"
"Don't you think they should know it?"
The other shook his hend, "T
can't make it out. Coleman cer- tainly wasn't at her home if Miss Lang telephoned to him. But why would she want to tell us a thing like that? I can't see any reason for it."
"Well, next morning when I saw the papera and read what had hap- pened to poor Mr. King I nearly Dalsy Connor said, "Humph!" in cried my eyes out. I couldn't think a tone filled with disgust, of anything except that I'd never "What do you think about it, Miss 200 him again or hear him sing Connor?" Gainey asked quickly, those beautiful songs. For almost
"I'm not saying what I think," A year I haven't missed a Thurs-the maid said. "I've told you what day afternoon at the State-except happened. That's all I know. It once last winter when I had the looked funny to me and I thought Bu."
somebody should know about it. "Bannister was growing restless. There's poor Tracy King dead, shot "But what has all this to do" He down in cold blood, and nobody's began.
been punished for it. Want to see Justice done!"
· Daisy Connor checked him. "Don't you see?" she asked. "I've "Yes," said Bannister, "that's told you Deniss Lang teleplioned what we all want to sec. Now to Parker Coleman twice that eve-about those telephone calls--you're
"I didn't say I think Coleman The
Miss Connor shook her head wildly. "You mustn't tell them," she said. "If you do I'll lose my job. I just know I will · Mrá. Coleman will find out about it and she'll fire mel Oh, please don't say anything to the police !"
if that's the way you feel about "Well, all right," Gainey agreed. it, although I don't see what harm It could do. But suppose I want to get in touch with you some time, How can I reach you?"
She gave him a telephone num
ber and told him when to cali. Then, with a last glance at the clock, she hurried away,
Gainey feaned back in his chair and looked at Bannister, "And that's that!" he said. "What do you think of it?" "Interesting."
Bannister
toid
shot Tracy King," Bannister went of his aunt's white cottago and on quickly. "I only said that if turned the latch. Ho had no ex- Denise Lang was trying to plan cuso for going home so early ex- an alibi it must have been for Cole- cept that he was simply out of man, or herself.. · I don't pretend to sorta. He couldn't see any sense office or understand it. I don't see why in hanging around the either of them should need an chinning with McNeal or the other alibi. Neither one has been ac- detectives. Nobody was getting cused of anything. But she told anything done. His mind was a tween eight and nine o'clock. If that refused to jibe. Bannister us Coleman was at her home be- hodge-podge of ideas and notions it's true she tried to reach him by knew that when such a mood came telephone at that time, of course on there was nothing to do but he wasn't there. Just another little wait for it to pass.
The hallway seemed dark as ho tangle in a mix-up that doesn't ending." seem to have any beginning or stopped inside. Then, becoming ac- customed to the light, he saw that the table. There was a letter ad- the afternoon mail was laid out on
eafd heavily. "Come on-let's get "It's too much for me," Gainey out of here."
At 3:80 that afternoon Bannister
alipped his key into the front door
dressed to him and Bannister picked it up.
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