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The Seaforth News, 1947-06-19, Page 7'SYNOPSIS CHAPTER XXlc MuCa1e le nttmrnoned to �paH ,.yam's apartment, whero Shaul -has tigtn blot to death. He notices that a ',future la miming from the wall. 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 - tat murderers are pretty young women of good American family and background, Then, too, my in- vestigating staff, the DA.—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—?" want the truth, of course." Mc - Cale showed his teeth in a danger- ous senile. "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 face, 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, ince awful. McCale spolce to her gently. "l- evant 1;want to help' you, Miss Bigelow. Really 1 do. But first you've got to believe in mc. I must probe deep- er than the police --maybe hurt you more—but your Aunt Adelaide ex- pects a miracle from nie, and so—" "1 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. "l can't say where 1 was at the exact moment, but 1 didn't icill Curt, 1 couldn't have. 1 couldn't kill anybody, least of all Curt.' "Did you love hint?" Her eyes grew big as the question startled her into a consideration of the fact as it was. "I—of course -1 suppose 1 did."' She fumbled for words. "It was like going round and round in a great surge of something—some- thing exciting—whenever be was near me, whenever I thought of him. But it's now—now that 1 know that it's over, that he's gone forever— dead—that I wonder if it was love. I'm so empty. * * * "But /10w can 1 be sure it's the emptiness of lost love? "It's more hike—oh—" She broke off, burying her head in her arms. "1 don't know." "I think, 1 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, 1 was shattered by that note and what it implied. And when 1 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—" C i, 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; lit 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 abotit. it. 1 was so horrified . . Well; 1 went first t� Chris—and . * * * "You went to Chris Storni?" 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 seas my job and that 1 would do it, "And did you?" "Yes, 1 went right to Curtbefore 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 what?" McCale's mind was working furiously, conjuring 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, I know. FIe'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 tenly 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 be careful right upto the hour of the wedding. I -le 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 of it, 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 1 .wasn't to worry about it. That was all," She began to cry softly. So that WBS it; he thought. He remembered interpreting the Tight that smouldered so intensely in Curt's eyes. He remembered saying to himself, "11 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 stopped 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 voice 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 rap, now. i'll see you tomorrow. Good -night,". "Good -bight. She made an at- tempt at a smile. "And thank you.' (To 13e Continued) Music in Bed—At a music merchants' convention in Chicago, Marry Ann butts demonstrates a new invention that prom- ises to make confining illness or long convalescence more bearable. It's a small, lightweight fibre -glass piano designed for 'bed -ridden patients. LANK- l-HRSTJ 1/ow, i-am,:.F,1 Cauwsekot A Wife Who Is "Supremely Haply" DEAR ANNE HIRST: I think my * marriage is as near the ideal as * might be fount. I am a supremely * happy wife of 10 years, and have * two boys. We have a goal, 'happi- * ness for all.' This goal cannot be * reached except by careful and con- * tinuous planning, and WORK, * You - can plan, but without the * work it is no good; and you can * work at anything, and without * planning it is no good too often. * We all love each other, but we * have worked and PAID for our * happiness. "Before I was married I Made a study of marriage and of home- making just as you thoroughly learn the basic studies at school. 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But our domestic life and our policies and actions are in large measure determined by conditions in the rest of the world. * * * It was always so, The oceans once kept us comparatively isolated and we used our isolation so well that, instead of having our borders bristling with guns, as in Europe, we established 'and have kept the peace along an unfortified border of ;over 3000 miles between Canada and the United States. Despite the peaceful attitude and achievement of our two North American countries, we have within this 20th century been involved in wars that were not of our own making. We know that we are not, and cannot be, 'isolated. * * * What, then, should be our course? We can learn from the lesson of Israel and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah. Whatever safety there was for 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. 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