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IRWIN r r- r i certain will blow an dL be the Maid wd id Im goin oin to pin it gs pad Miss M Estrilla's soul sUl held any motions in th that t moment but grief eaDd and l fJ had had she be been capable just jut I CB oa of suspicion she eho ho might have hav no noted ed tiny but significant sound The fire rca tape p a had creaked a little as though weight freight had been imposed at tho the bot bot- Qt It creaked again at intervals for fori forIt minutes but afterward i It I. rent next I n five liTe may when tho roar rear of a passing lath avenue venue eleva elevated d train drowned drown 1 I lighter sounds vow Now Im I'm ready to try said RoHl Ro Ro- Ji Jie Hl settling down at tho foot root of ot the then n U Dear you do look anxious I In ont n t t try to crowd the spirits that's spirit fays t the be be best t way but way but t remember tin this j this about abort the last control that that's e eme Be dearie deans me me for a month quiet a er eyes tiros J sought ought the distances hor her body bod ook Then came the tho chan change o which to Estrilla had bad watched K so I. I often and th Ith inch nth a a. fascinated eagerness erness Relies Ro Re lies lie's body relaxed and fell feU backward rd the chair Her lids gradually nd fM She breathed th as ns though asleep pOh p. p Oh 01 sad lady a again 1 babbled inching king Eyes Ere quite suddenly She aI 11 old hear Miss Estrilla shift shUt ea eagerly on r r couch conch conchI I uI cant can't stay lon long lone John s speaks speak cake Ho says sae he wants Trants you yew q quick ick John ohn is ie big biS an and nd strong Goodbye sad aad ad lad lady breath came hard bard her body wrenched a masculine voice followed the tho voice voice which h Ro Rosalie alio always alway as as- assumed when sho aho impersonated Capt Capt- John H. H Hanska II I I am hero here o again gain Margaret I love you I am ready to forgive Oh Db John thank you you thank thank God you you will when you vou you know For For John you havo have so 80 little to for forgive ve beside what I have aJr already aay forgiven As M usual Miss Estrilla made reply I I know And I 1 suffer But I 1 understand FirstI First I have told you yon how little I saw aw that night My flesh ash still clun clung to me ate Dle- Rosalie stopped here bore and scorned to gather her 1 body ody together as though struggling to assort assert moro mora power pov So So I J. do not not know know what happened even before I passed ont out out-it it came so 80 suddenly suddenly say say ay to o mo me again that you ma loved me So mu much h John dear that I can no not t all allAnd all all- tell you II And loU Dd I put put aside luide such a n love as al that for fur jewels w sl Yes John And when I searched your room the room the night ni ht I found you there I I would have havo h vo given them all aU to you vou if you had bad waked and spoken kin kindly ly to me mo But you were wore married married and and you roo would o ha died soon goon at the best Oh why not before this happened to I Juan Juan Juan- Was it Juan Juanf T I have told you that I could not sea eo clearly at that time time time- it is all confused contused Yes Yee dearest You could not understand understand under under- stand because of tho the clothes clothes but but dearest dear dear- eat est it was Juan who hold held tho the knife which went into your jour body Oh Db forgive forgive for- for give him moro more than mo He Ho is m my mJ 3 Sive he brother roth or he did it for me John me-John John JohnI I t I cant can't forgot forget his remorse when remorse when ho he cameto came camo cameto to me were me-were were you yon watching Did you see lee sect c No No-I No I was 8 not awake in spirit yot yet the quick quick ck the the voi voice e was growing weak ak H He He himself did not Dot understand then how you died He thought though t tho the knife kills killea Iou you He Ho worked works it all out afterward when afterward when JL t told him about your condition But then ho said to tome tome tome me C M My God I have hav run a into Captain taiD What is it what it-what what is It For Rosalie aUe had bad leaped from her chair chair run up to to the window shade at atthe atthe atthe the loot loot foot of the bed bcd thrown the sash saah wide wido open Into tho the room leaped two beside men The They ranged themselves the couch What y is it e screamed Miss la again in These are aro police detectives said Rosalie Rosalio in her natural voice IC They I havo have boon been listening behind that win win win- I dow They've vo come to find what you ou know about the death of Captain John ohn H. H Hanska Miss Mis Estrilla gave a little Bc scream cam which died in a rattle of or her throat 1 Her eyes ca caught ht at Rosalie Traitor she Bile managed to i gasp BP before she sho gave gaTe another scream and scream and fainted tainted a as Rosalie Rosa lie Le Lo Grange expected exp that she would Rosalie Rosalio rushed for water and restora restora- tives 1 II Got Get Get right at her as she comes out she whispered to Inspector McGee in in passing That's tho time II Aint you going to etayl inquired McGee II No No Shell She'll be too busy hatin hating me ever to talk An there theres there's 8 two things I never want to watch Ones One's a D hanin hangin hang han in in an tho the others other's tho third degree And nd by tho the timo time Miss Migg Estrilla Estrill a was conscious again of the sights and sounds of ot this her terrible world word Rosalie was gone one nom from the room and Detective Kennedy police stenographer who ha haen had been en listening at tho apen telltale re register regi star ster of or the room below bolow was with t the tie about hog her bed bod coup roup of inquisitors CHAPTER The Tho Third Degree II And now we will take tae your statement statement statement state state- ment said Martin McGee Tho The first t brutal processes of tho the third degree were finished the finished the third degree that modern system of torture more terrible than the medieval by just so fIO much as os the mind is moro more sensitive than tho the body We do well as Rosalio Rosalie Le L Grange has hae said not to witness it Miss Estrilla lies lice back baek on the tho couch a bruised and broken soul ready now to tell all the truth troth because there thore is In hor her no more strength to lie Detective Banned Kennedy has drawn a table to the center cen con center conter ter of ot t the e room set out his pencils and his noto note books and prepared for his bis work McGee and Hunter expert Inquisitors In both sit whore she can not avoid their eyes if it she but look up up The door has hs bill naif opened in tho the midst dst of at the preliminary proceedings and into into in in in- to the shadow outside creeps Rosalie Le La Gran Grange e to listen with al all her cars The victim on the couch is no more pale and drawn than Rosalie as she stands there one hand on the lintel Your name and all about yourself first saws eay Inspector McGee urging gently genty now L Le Let t me omit omits as the export P police stenographer apher did certain expletives repetitions diva divagations which always mar testimony The police stenographer edits these theo extraneous word words out of official statements Let me omit too those passages of ot question and answer b by which the police refresh the memory o of the witness Let me just give the document as it was filed away in the tho archives of the Now York police depart depart- met My Mr name is il Margarita Perez 1 I Iam am thirty five years old and unmarried I was born in the island of Trinidad where I lived Jived all my life lite Juan Junn Perez is my half brother ten years younger than I. I Our father was the same lame but my mother was an Englishwoman iny my brothers brother's mother was Spanish My father was a a. cacao grower He lie was very rich once OMe but he lost much of his money When Wien he died four years a ago o he ho left eft my brother the plantations planta planta- bons and mo me a 8 very Tery small email income and tho family they thoy they were worth of 01 your our money My brother came camo into his property when he be was 21 He mana manage managed ed poorly and then ho had bad luck By last summer summer sum sum- mer he be was wa so BO near failure that there seemed to bo be only one way out out for for meto mo me moto moto to sell seU m my jewels and give him the money T r wanted to do that but he had committed hi his follies himself and would suffer for himself He lIe sa saw one more chance to save us We had ri rich h relatives in Caracas on the Venezuelan Ian lan mainland Ho He wont went there thero to see eco if they would help Caracas is not very verv far but it is is a lon long journey on thc the kind of boats and trains trams that nm nun inthe inthe in m the Indies and South America a. a Ho IIo was gone one three or four tour weeks He sent me mc only one letter letter- and it was BO so in ing ini that I felt Aro ro there was no hope Just before the that t letter arrived and after Juan Tulin left for Caracas Ca Captain tale John H. H Hanska came to Port of Spain pain from Antwerp Though h my father was Wall Spanish we lived live in in English fashion I was Wa free to meet men I met G Captain Hanska Hanka and fell feU in love lore with him him him- To bo bG continued tomorrow In Garrick's time many ministers minister had hada a decided leaning toward th the tho stage alaga The great leAt English actor suffered uttered a plague of truck clergymen Ho read many y of ot their plays and produced at least one The Rev Edward Young of Wet Welwyn parThe par par- ish author of ot Night Thoughts Thought wrote the tragedy of ot The Two Brothers I which Garrick produced Its reception I was owns a a. tragedy It was only fit tit to make an Icehouse of ot a a. theatre Young how- how over had counted his chickens chickens he he had promised tho the expected proceeds of I I his authors author's rights to the Society for tor the Propagation of the Gospel And here he shone Ho lie dipped deply Into his private ate I purse purle and made up the