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[THE DAILY SHORT STORY

THE GREEN EYE

when a maid brought in -word that the two police officers who had ques- tioned her regarding her "horrible” experience wished to be admitted Miss Day was indignant,

"I woke up with a start," Alice Day Alice Day was resting in her. room said. "It must have been after 3 a.m. for I read till past midnight and it was much later before I dropped off to sleep. For a moment I lay still, wondering what had wakened me, con- scious that my heart was pounding frightfully. I was afraid, without "Why? Tell them I've already given knowing why, and then suddenly, over them what information I can. Have near my bureau, I saw a dull, greenish they no respect for the condition of glow. I wanted to scream, but my my nerves? Are they so stupid that throat felt constricted. It was like they can't remember that I've already an eye, staring at me out of the blackness, I waited, frozen with horror, and after a little the moved and I knew what it was.

eye

"It was the radium on a man's wrist watch. . It moved jerkily, in a

told them-*

+

"That," said a voice from the door- way, "is why we wish to see you. again, Miss Day." Inspector Fairley, followed by Rob Jessel stepped into the room. Jessel motioned to the maid:

He tossed

fashion that told me as plain as day to leave. "You see," Fairley, went what was happening. Then I did on, "we did remember what you told scream, and the eye moved swiftly to us, and checked up on it.” the window, and I saw the dim outline a package onto the bed. "Your jewels." of a form climbing onto the fire escape- outside."

Alice Day, pretty, dark-haired, pale lay back in the lawn chair and closed' her eyes wearily. "That's all I can tell you, Inspector. My jewels are gone, all of them. It was a ghastly experience. Please, there's nothing more I can say to help you. I fainted before help came If you don't mind, I'd like to be left alone."

"She certainly has a way of telling a story that makes your hair stand up, eh Inspector?" Deputy Inspector

Alice Day started. Some of the colour left her cheeks. "You-you re- covered them from the thieves—”

•

"Not from the thieves, Miss Day.. From the pawn shop to which you took them the day before you left for here. I found the tickets in your apartment. You were, smart not to bring them with you. Any kind of an investigation might have turned them up, and you couldn't afford to·· have that happen.

"You were smart, Miss Day, but you bungled this job, the way you bungled"

By James Freeman

Jessel grinned and lighted a cigarette. the Derek Savage affair.” The two men were alone on the screen- ed-in inside porch of the fashionable Seaside hotel.

-Inspector Henry Fairley scowled at his, notes, "Most dramatic," he as- sented. "Now, Rob, we must work fast.

"How dare you!", Alice Day's face was white. "What do you knowTM

of Derek Savage?"

"I know he's worth millions

and.

Miss Day is leaving here day that you were having an affair with after to-morrow. We want to get him, pretending to be a sweet and the goods on her before then.”

Jessel stared. "Goods on You mean "

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noble. woman of the world. You had'

her! your eye on his money, and you spent lavishly of the limited funds that were left over from your last affair- be ridiculous, Rob. Of with Jorry Carter, in order to im- course she did it. Trumped up press Savage.. Unfortunately, Jerry: story. Not a word of it true. Wants to collect the insurance, I fancy. What I want is a motive.”

"But how in the world do know"

you

a'

Carter, being a vindictive sort, turned up like a bad penny and throw monkey wrench into your latest ex- ploit, by telling Savage the truth about

you. Savage investigated, found that Jerry's story was true, and dropped you like a hot potato. "That can wait, I'm taking a found most of the details in a newspa- plane for New York. You stick per of a year ago. The account was around here and keep your eye on Miss small, because of your efforts to quash Day. Also ask questions. I want publicity, but that, with other infor÷- to know if she's had any hot love mation I had, proved sufficient." affairs lately. Wire me all the dope

you can at the Mikado hotel."

"You fiend! You heartless fiend!"

Inspector Fairley was having din- "Really? You call me that when you ner in the Mikado's dining-room had conspired to fleece the insurance.. when the expected telegram arrived, company ont of $25,000. After It was to the point, but lengthy. Savage called the deal off, your funds Fairley read it with satisfaction, were depleted to such an extent that Jessel, he thought, was smart and; you had to hock your jewels and then ́ thorough and level-headed. He de pretend this robbery so that you could served a promotion, if anyone ever did. collect the insurance. It might have worked. I or anyone else wouldn't Fairley spent two hours making have become suspicious and started telephone calls. Then he retired to to investigate, except for one his room and wrote until midnight. small slip-up. That green eye. Sud- The next morning he visited a cor- denly, you told us, you knew what it tain apartment on Riverside Drive" was. The radium on a man's wrist Later ho called at a pawn shop. Be watch Come now, Miss Day, if it fore, toon he dropped into a newspa were as dark as you stated how could per office and spent an hour looking you tell it was r man's wrist watch?' through the files of a year ago. Why not a woman's 7

very