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One I
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LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
chuir and a hat had been tossed on the This was a valuable neckinco "get hold of a key?"
1935.
CHAPTER XLH
sitting at my dressing table and I taking anything before! I swear by There were five persona in the bed-pulled out the second drawer-that's all the nints fo
"Never mind," McKewan told her room with its low, modernistic furnish where I keep the jewel cabo. The ings in orange and, ivory and black. Case was there but something about gruffly. "Nobody's accusing you
It made me look at it. It didn't seem yet." All of the lights, to the room were to be the way I always keep it. Not He looked at Beuty again. "Is burning. Drawers of the dressing quite the same position, I mean. I there anyone else who has necesa to table had been pulled out and lot took the case out and opened it and the apartment? Anyone who could open. A dress tay discarded across a then I saw the necklace was
As he said the Inat, word Betty bed.
Mrs. Curtis answered. "It cost Carlyle straightened. Her dark eyes Betty Carlyle was the centre of $800," she said. "I gave it to my scenied to grow wider and she looked the group. She wore a gold-coloured daughter two years ago."
about the group, then back at the negligee that caught and held the light
Rolf spoke for the first time. detective. "All it onre she exclaimed, and she would have looked very "That's one of the strange things "Yes, there's someone! Why didn't beautiful except for the unger in her about it. There were two expensive I think? It happened to-day-this bracelets and some other jewelry morning and no one else was here!” face but I tell you I've looked!" she the box. Nothing was touched
exclaimed. "Everywhere. The neck- lace isn't here and sompone's stolen I know it was in my jewel case--"
"When did you see it last?" Mrs Curtis asked.
except
the necklace." "Can we see the room?"
3
*
Swinging around she pointed at They returned to the bedroom. Janet."That girl! Betty criel. McKeway paused for an instant to "She was here, this morning and she survey the room, then followed Betty took the necklate! Arrest her and to the dressing table,
make her admit it!"
"Petty!" Mrs. Curtis voice was shrill with dismay,
"Was it like this?" he asked. were all these drawers open 2"
"No, I did that after I found the
neckince was gone, I wanted to see if I could possibly have put it any, where else. But I hadn't. It's not
hero!"
Betty stamped a foot impatiently Why do you keep asking the same questions?" she demanded. "I told you I haven't seen it for a week. It was in the case where always keep it. I haven't been wearing the neck- lace just my bracelets." "And the bracelets?" "They're still here. That's one of things about it. Someone have come into the apartment
Patrolman Scott crossed the room! while I was away and taken the pearl and looked out of the windows. There necklace."
Rolf Carlyle moved toward a table was a sheer drop to the ground six stories below. "Whoever" took the and flecked the ashes from his cigarette into a tray. "You know I've nocice must have come through the door," he said. "And gone out the told you you shouldn't keep all that
same way." stuff here in the house," he said,
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"I gave her my key!" Betty went on quickly. "I told her to come here and get a book and bring it to my mother's house. The book was he EUROPE, NEW YORK
In the room—and she was a long time getting it. She made somie nort of excuse, I remember."
Ignoring the polleeman, Betly moved forward until she was directly in front of Janet,
"You took my necklace!" she cried. "And you'll suffer for it. I'll see that you go to jaill"
The air was electric. Four pairs
isn't safe. Why with your rings and roumns take a look at the other of eyes turned on the two girls-
those two bracelets and the other things you wear, there must be a couple of thousand dollars worth of
jewels in this room."
"More than that," Mrs. Curtis said. "The necklace cost $800"
•
A bell sounded sharply and Mario, the mald, who had been standing in
McKewan
suggested. "Seo Belty, angry and accusing; Janet,
white-faced and staring. For an in you find anything." "Now, Mrs. Carlyle," McKewan stant the room was perfectly silent. went on, "you say you've inade a Then Janet said, "You mean you thorough search but are you sure you think I took your necklace?" didn't just misplace the pearls? "Of course you did!". Couldn't you have dropped them into another box or possibly another drawer?"
"I know you disliked me," Janet went on, still in the same quiet, un emotional tane, "but I didn't know "I didn't!" Betty denied vigor-you could do a thing like this
"I know very well that I Before she could finish the sentence
the background, turned to answer it. ously and you can look for yourself. | McKewan interrupted, "Who is this
Marie's eyes were red as though she. had been weeping.
They've been stolen!"
Kirl?"
That's the police, I suppose," Betty A complete and careful search fail- "She's my secretary," Mt. Curtis said.
ed to reveal the pearls. MeKewan told him, "Janet Hill.* It's true she We might have been murdered in asked further questions. Belly ad came here on an errand this morning our beds for all that loot!" Rolf mitted that she had not
seen the but I'm sure Betty's mistaken. Janet grumbled as the four trailed Into the necklace for several days--possibly a didn't take the necklace." living room-Betty followed by Rolf week. It was kept inside Its Ow Betty whirled. "So you're still and Mrs. Curtis and lastly Junet. box in the jewel cane. She hadn't
to defend her?" she exclaim- trying to policeman and a smaller man in worn the pearls for a long while but ed. "You wouldn't believe me before a brown sull stood in. the doorway, she was sure she had looked at them but this
time
you'll have proof, i The man in brown stepped forward. at more than seven or eight days know she did take the necklace. She
"Mr. Carlyle?" he asked.
ago. Less than that, she thought, was here in this roon and she knew Patrolman Scott returned and re- where I kept it. Even Marie didn't ported there was nothing out of the know that! She's the only one who way in any of the other rooms. And could have taken no mode of entry to the apartment except from the corridor,
I
hery?"
"But you can't" Janet exclaimed. Alarm and fright were written on her face now, "You can't really mean you think that!"
"Belty, please" It was Mra. Curtis who cut in.
"I's Mrs. Curlyle," Betty told him. "You're from the palice, aren't you? Mrs. Carlyle, McKewun's my name and this is Patrolman Scott. I understand there's been a robbery! McKowan shook his head. "It's not a professional job," he said, "or "Someone has stolen ny pearl those bracelets wouldn't be here. necklace," Betty told him. didn't Who's been around who knew you miss it until this evening when I was had that necklace and could have dressing. The necklace was fo my taken It? How about servants?" 2nd Econ class jewel case where I
I always keep it"
There's only my maid," Betty You tell us just what told him.
the detective Interrupted| Marle Cacho had been standing by smoothly. "How did you happen to the door, alternately shiming and notice the necklace W419
missing? wiping her eyes, turned toward Betty, before the dressing table and swung What time was it then?"
"I didn't do it!" she cried, "Oh, Mis" one leg. All the others had gone. "It was about three-quarters of an Carlyle, you know I didn't do itt "Now then," said McKewar crisply, hour ago," Betty said, "Maybe. a Fifteen years I've been working in "open up! What did-you to with little less. My husband and I were some of the finest homes in Lancas- these pearls ?" going out and I was dressing. I was ter and nobody ever accused me of
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McKewan's glance took in all three "I think," he said, "we'd like to ask Miss Hill a few questions. private, if you don't mind."
A moment later he faced the girl. Patrolman Scott sat on the berich
To Be Continued).
bestar "George White's 19:15 fesses, Warren William does a splen- | Scandals," the melody-filled hilarious did plece of work as the attorney Berven revue which comes to the general and husband of Mis King's Theatre on Saturday. The Stanwyck. He is both convincing and presence of Miss Alice Faye in this effective in a rather difficult part. Fox Film sequence of the Senndals"
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