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SYNOPSIS
OPSIS
CHAPTER XXI: McCale is surnmoned to
Ebaat Lynn's apartment, where Shari has
been shot to death. Ho notices that a
iitelure is missing from the wail.
Chapter XXII
Donlevy wrinkled his brow,
°Come now," he said. "You're too
romantic, Duke. I've'got to be con-
vinced. Besides, some of our clever-
est murderers are pretty young
women of good American family
and background, Then, too, my in-
vestigating staff, the D.A.-they're
all satisfied. Everyone except you."
He smiled. He was very • sure of
himself and confident.
"Yes. I know. I seem to be
unique. You're not arresting her?"
"We can wait for an inquest, I
think. And you—?"
"I want the truth, of course." Mc -
Cale showed his teeth in a danger-
ous smile. "I'm going on with the
investigation, as you know."
* * *
Beside McCale, Veronica Bigelow
lay• back against the seat of the taxi
cab, silent. She looked drained of all
vitality, a figure of carved gray.
stone in terror of her inner
thought. There was the distilled
essence of tragedy in .her young
lace, a face too • young to be so
harrassed, so bewildered. She seem-
ed to have grown up overnight, and
the growing had been too sudden,
too awful.
MeCale spoke to her gently. "I
want to help you, Miss Bigelow.
Really I do. But first you've got
to believe in me. I must probe deep-
er than the police --maybe hurt you
snore—but your Aunt Adelaide ex-
pects a miracle from me, and so—"
"I know." She opened her eyes.
"A few more questions can't matter
now. Go ahead."
* * *
"I'm taking it for granted that
you were nowhere near your home
yesterday afternoon at the time of
-the murder. Right?"
"I wasn't, Mr. McCale." She was
intense, earnest. "I can't say where
I was at the exact, moment, but i .
didn't kill Curt. 1 couldn't have. I
couldn't kill anybody, least of all
Curt'
"Did you love him ?"
Her eyes grew big as the question
startled her into a consideration of
the fact as it was.
"I—of course—I suppose I did."
She fumbled for words. "It was
like going round and round in a
great surge of something—some-
thing exciting—whenever he was
near me, whenever I thought of him.
But it's now—now that I know that
it's over, that he's gone forever—
dead—that I wonder if it was love.
I'm so empty.
* *
"But how can I be*
it's the
emptiness of lost love? "It's more
like—oh—" She broke off, burying
her head in her arms. "1 don't
know."
"I think I understand,', he said
quietly.
"About the scrap of letter you
found—a letter to Curt."
"Yes, that. I was sure it Was from
Vicky. She's always been so funny
about Curt. Her attitude seemed to
be that because she had known him
first, she had priority rights over
him. Something like that. I was
shattered by that note and what it
implied. And when I accused her,
she was so hard in spite of her
denial. In a foolish moment I gave
it to Aunt Addy. I was so upset."
"I know that," he said. He hesi-
tated, not sure whether to go on,;
then decided to risk her shock at
what he had to say. "It is cruel,
perhaps, to tell you now," he began,
"but necessary.. We haven't much
time. The inquest is the day after
tomorrow and—"
"Oh, but do. I'm able to stand
anything after—" she shuddered—
"after this afternoon."
"You see," he said bluntly, "the
thing you suspected, the plot to gain
control of your inheritance, was
real, It was a diabolical plot—all
were in it.'
"But no—no. • You're wrong, Mr.
McCale. Oh, I don't mean about the
plot. You're wrong in thinking 1
didn't know about it. 1 was so
horrified ... Well, I went first to
Chris—and . . ."
* * *
"You went to Chris Storm?" A
signal flashed through his mind. He
clamped his teeth together hard.
"Yes. He was furious, of course.
He wanted to have it out with Curt
then and there, but I persuaded him
not to. 1 said it was my job and
that 1 would do it."
"And did you?"
"Yes. I went right to Curt before
the rehearsal, the day before—before
he died. But you see, 1 was wrong
in one thing. Curt confessed to the
orginal plot. That was true enough,
but—"
"But what?" McCale's mind was
working furiously, conjurhig up all
kinds of absurd visions. He pulled
himself up abruptly.
"You sec," she said carefully, a
tremor •in her voice, "Curt loved
me. He really did. Oh, 1 know.
He'd been a hellion all right. He
told me a great deal about himself
that day — about his past — about
Shari Lynn. But for once, it was
the real thing with him. He could
hardly understand it himself, but
there it was. He was truly in love
for the first time in his life. He was
going to turn his back on them all.
We were going to be happy together.
There wasn't anything they could
have done after we were married."
"Had he told them?" His voice
was soft, insistent.
"Oh, no. I think he realized the
danger, because someone was watch-
ing him,"
"You mean—"
"Yes. He told me we'd have to
the careful right up to t he 'Flour of the
wedding. He joked about it a . lot
because he considered it funny. He
said, 'Set a thief to catch a thief,' or
'When thieves fall out,' Things like
that. He supposed they were sus-
picious because he'd been seen with
Shari Lynn. The papers had got
hold ofit, you know."
"Didn't he know who was follow-
ing him about? Did' he say whether
it was a man or woman ?"
"No. He said I wasn't to worry
about it. That was all." She began
to cry softly.
Sp that was it, he thought. He
remembered interpreting the light
that smouldered so intently in
Curt's eyes. He remembered saying
to himself, "If ever a man loved a
girl—"
* *
His reverie was broken as the cab
came to a halt. He looked out. They
were in front of the Bigelow house.
Veronica had stored crying, was
pulling herself together to face the
ordeal of homecoming. He helped
her out and paid the driver. He
didn't speak until the taxi had driven
off. ,
* * * •
"That afternoon—the one before
yesterday—when you and Curt came
into the living room, he flashed you
a signal with his eyes."
"You noticed that?"
"Yes. What dd it mean?"
"It meant that. everything was all
right, that 'he'd destroyed everything
—his letters, his associations, every-
thing that tied him to the past. It
was as if he said"—her vbice broke
—"as if he said, 'Look, darling, the
past is all finished. I'm _ clean,"
McCale blinked his eyes, cleared
his throat. "All right," he said.
Then, "I'm not going in with you,
Things to do. Lots of them. Chin
up, now. I'll see you tomorrow.
Good -night."
"Good -night." She made an at-
tempt at a smile. "And thank you"
(To Be Continued)
Music in Bed—At a music merchants' convention in Chicago,
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bearable. It's a small, lightweight fibre -glass piano designed,
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Sunday School Lesson
Fall of the Southern Kingdom
2 Kings 25:1-12; Jeremiah 37
Golden Text --• Righteousness ex-
alteth a nation: but sin is a reproach
to any people,—Proverbs 14.34.
The Kingdom of Judah was a
small kingdom set between the great
empires of the ancient world, It was
always in some danger from its pow-
erful enemies and . especially from
their ambition for conquest and
world domination, The life of the
people and the policy of their rulers
were affected by factors over which
they had no control.
It would seem that our great
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measure determined by conditions in
the rest of the world.
* *
It was always so. The oceans
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that, instead of having our borders
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United States.
Despite the peaceful attitude and
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making. We ;:av that we are not,
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We can learn from the lesson of
Israel and the fall of the Kingdom
of Judah.
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that kingdom lay in the preservation
of her own integrity, and in honest
dealing with neighboring nations.
It was this that prophets like Jere-
miah proclaimed as the only right
course. But neither King nor people
would listen. They turned their own
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If we would heed the lesson of
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our internal life. Nothing would
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