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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. E ill ranLb g nn full of still other useful idea. complete cutting ar.d sew ? rections for each m-- clear, 7 Vi) lustrated. They many patterns and sa-.- By b gn nmE5 uniunms C Bea Ames William Just a kid, no older than Barbara. SYNOPSIS When he approached the house he saw a light still in his mother's bedroom; and upstairs he went quietly party, ilaps him. and attracti the attention in to speak to her. down. knocks the a ef polkeman. whom boy As he opened the bedroom door A he arresta htm. professor Brace of Harvard comet to the rescue and drives Barbara she signed to him for silence, and father see Barbara's borne. On the way they at he saw Barbara asleeD in his fa driving from the direction of hit officewite ther's bed, her cheek 12:45. but when he gets home he tells hit 11 IS and that he s been playing bridge U her soft hair loose around her head, at the club. Kent day Sentry reports his office has been robbed and a Miss Winet. looking very young, like a child. He former temporary employee, killed. The bent to whisper to his mother, and "ening papers luridly confirm the story, Mrs. Sentry said very softly, "Don't id Sentry takes It hard. Mary, elder wake her. She's worn out." daughter, tn love with Neil Ray. young terne at the hospital where the works, goet "You're all right, are you?" eft to dinner at Gus Loran's. Sentry's "She was so furious at Mary, and Mrs Loran s brother, Jimmy Endle. Mr. and Mrs. Sentry call on old Mrs. Sentry, terrified, and desperate. I had a and Barbara, alone, receives Dan Fisher, time with her. So I kept her here reporter, who advisea ber not to talk. Phil beside me. I've been waiting to Sentry, son at Vale, is disturbed at the to sober op her soort. Johnnie Bojd. on the way home from Barbsr Sentry. etliifi tear-staine- d, 1 in- h possible Implications and suspicion of Miss Wines' absence from her rooms for three days during August. He goet home to help. Sentry Is arrested and booked for murder. Dan Fisher explains the evidence against htm that the robbery was a fake, the safe opened by one who knew the combination, changed since Miss Wines' employment there that a back door key, a duplicate ef Sentry's, wat found in the girl's purse, and that Sentry, too. had been away those three dayt In August. Brace calls, and backs up Barbara in her denial tViat Sentry could have done It. because of the discrepancy of time between the slaying and their seeing Sentry on the road. Phil, showing the police over the house, finds his strong box open and his gun. which only his father knew of. gona. Meanwhile, the police find the stolen money burned In the furnace. Mrs. Sentry sees her husband, who swears his Innocence, and tells her he had known of the robbery and murder the night before, but failed to call the police, and came home at 12:30. Mary quarrels with Neil Ray. nd runs away with Jimmy Endle to the Caribbean. CHAPTER V Continued 13 burned through, broke, and embers rolled upon the hearth. Phil pushed them back into place again. He said miserably, "It's funny to think that everybody we know is talking about us, right now, while we're sitting here." Linda said, "You'll be surprised how soon even the newspapers will forget." "Do you know a reporter named Fisher?" he asked. "Barb says he's a friend of Joe's, a Princeton man. Nice chap." She shook her head. "No, I don't think so." And she said quickly: "Aren't reporters awfully clev er, sometimes? Maybe he could help you to find out new evidence or something." "Gosh, I guess there's too much evidence already." "Phil, you mustn't! I don't believe your father did it, Phil, no matter what they say. Someone else might have." And she said in brave reassurance, "You and Barbara and Mr. Fisher and I will all get together and see what we He said stoutly: "No, Lin, not you It helps a lot to talk to you, but I can't let you get mixed up in A log, can" I hear you come upstairs." "You've got a job on your hands, mother, taking care of Barb and me." He saw her eyes soft at his word, gratefully; and he thought how wise Linda had been. "Mind if I leave our doors open?" he asked. "So I can call to you if I have bad dreams?" "Of course not, Phil. Call me if you need me." "I need you all the time, mother." She held him close, her arms straining. She surrendered for a moment to her love for him; and she whispered, "Oh, Phil, Phil!" And she said, "But Phil we mustn't let Barbara know!" Barbara stirred in her sleep, murmuring; and Mrs. Sentry released her son, and Phil tiptoed away. She thought, alone in the darkness: If I had known how, tonight, I might have helped Mary, might have saved her. And I must take care of Phil and Barbara. They're young, young! They need me so . . . And she thought: I must be wise. She thought, like a prayer, with a humility new and strange to her: Oh, please, help me be wise! CHAPTER VI Mrs. Sentry knew in her heart that her husband was guilty. The fact that he had lied to her that night when she asked him what time it was might not in itself have been enough to convince her; but she had a deeper certainty. She remembered in retrospect so many circumstances, meaningless in themselves at the time, that now assumed a damning relevance. Any husband and wife whose days and nights for twenty-odyears are spent together do come to be akin; do come so close to one another that thoughts are shared. One speaks, out of silence, of a certain thing; the other answers: "I was just about to say that myself. How d strange!" So, looking back, remembering the jewel on her birthday in Septhis." conhis remembering "I'm already in it, Phil! I'm in tember, these last few weeks, restraint anything you're in. I always have memberingas women will in mobeen, always will be." ments of distress and hurt and anHe stared at her; and suddenly wrong he had done her afraid of what he saw in her eyes, gerthat twenty years ago, she knew. He stood up. "I'm going to take you was a murderer. home," he said. He chuckled. "BeAnd Mary knew; and made the fore I start realizing just how big a more vulnerable by the very standhelp you are." ards which had kept her head so "I want to be. I don't have to go, high the collapse of her life was yet, Phil." Defiantly, as a child complete. He said, "Yes you do." And he which is hurt whishes to wound confessed: "I'm sort of like a sick others in turn, she had cast herdog, Lin. I well, I want to be self away. And Phil knew; and even Grandalone." She nodded, assenting, undermother Sentry had refused to let She had walked over her love for her son blind her to standing. from her home not far away. He the probability of his guilt. Thus walked back with her, through the of those who had been closest to crisp fall night, a half moon bright Mr. Sentry there was left only Barthrough the almost naked branches bara, enough a child to have a of the trees. She huddled in her child's trust and to say despite the loose warm coat, the collar high, world's opinion: "No. He did not her hands in her deep pockets; and do it. No!" She had seen him come he strode beside her at a swinging home before the hour when Miss pace, so that their blood ran faster Wines was assumed to have been and clean air drenched their lungs. killed. On this peg she hung her They came to her home without loyal faith. It was Dean Hare who without speaking; and he stopped at the foot of the steps, his head bare. intention shook her. He came to "Good night, Lin," he said. the house next morning to consult Mrs. Sentry about plans for Mr. "Thanks for coming." He saw her eyes brimming. "Poor Sentry's defense. "You know, of course," he said, Phil," she whispered. "I wish I could help." "that the Grand Jury voted an indictment? We had to expect that." "You havel" "So there will be a trial?" "Oh, more, morel" she whis"Yes." pered, smiling through her tears "How soon?" "You've no idea, Phil! I want to hold you close, like a baby, and "Well, the State will want time to corrdprt you. You're such a little prepare its case." He looked at her hesitantly. "I want to talk to you boy, such a dear boy," He grinned. "You're not so big about a lawyer," he said. "I thought of Mr. Crowninshield. He's an able yourself, Lin!" "I'm big enough," she promised trial lawyer, but he has never hanhim. "My heart's awful big. It's dled criminal cases. Nevertheless if we could have had him" Just filling me." She asked: "You won't be able "You're the best friend a fellow to do it yourself?" There was no acever had." "More than that, Phil," she insist cusation in her tones; only regret. "I had hoped you might. You were ed. "I love you." "Sure, sweet kid, I love you too!" Arthur's She checked herself, and He kissed her, as he might have changed the tense of the verb. "You kissed Barbara, and she clung to are Arthur's friend." "That wouldn't be fair to him," 'aim, and he said: "There! I've got to go now. Mother and Barbara are he said. "I do very little trial work, alone." Ellen, and no criminal work at all." "I'll walk back with you," she of"Will you speak to Mr. Crownin- fered. He chuckled. "That could go on all night," he pointed out; and she said triumphantly: knew "There, you did smile! Good night, Phil." cvi could. He walked home straight and she was. trong, thinking how 1 sei SEWSH )H0Wto shield?" He coughed. "I'm sorry. I have done so. He is too busy to take the case." For a moment, silent, she thought: Mr Crowninshield made excuses, but really he refused because h thinks Arthur is guilty. j and Phil came down the stairs as they stood m the hall, Barand Mrs. Sentry said: "Go to and her; He obeyed bara, Phil." y when the door was closed behind her Dean Hare, she stood with an in shoulders against it, thir.kxg this as though fashion, inconsequent somehow typified all the tragic confusion into which their lives had be m fallen, that now Arthur would know even not did she the jail and where the jail was. Then wearily she turned back into the living - room. Whatever happened, the children needed her. She found Barbara sitting very still in a big chair there; and the of girl's hands clasped the arms the chair so hard that her knuckles were white. Phil was beside her, whispering some reassurance; but Barbara was like stone, and Phil looked at his mother appealingly, in that field." And he proposed, helplessly. She tried to muster a tone of "Suppose I bring him to see you." she confidence. "Well," she well, cheerful assented, do," "Very thinking: The man is probably a said, "it's a relief to be doing someshyster of the worst type, but Dean thing, planning something. Dean" would not recommend him if there Barbara said, "Mother! Are you were any better way. If Mr. Falk- going to let Mr. Hare be father's ran will only believe in Arthur's in- lawyer?" nocence, I can accept him. Even Mrs. Sentry began, "There's a if I don't like him. If he will save Mr. Falkran- -" Arthur . . . But the girl cut in. "Because She heard steps on the stairs, and you mustn't! You mustn't, mother. Barbara came in, hesitant for a Mr. Hare thinks father killed her. moment, then valorously cheer- I know he does!" ful. Phil said gently: "Now don't be "Oh, hello, Mr. Hare! she said. that way. Barb. You're just strung "I didn't know you were here. How's up, and worried, and tired. Mr. father?" Hare nobody thinks that, Barbara, "He sent a lot of messages to It's just what they call a prima you all." facie case. They have to have a "When can I see him?" trial, but not even Mr. Flood" "Soon, now. He'll be in more Barbara demanded: "Do you be- comfortable quarters." lieve he did it, Phil?" ' Of course not!" "Why?" she asked, puzzled. "Do you, mother?" "They'll move him to the County Mrs. Sentry even smiled. "Bar- Jail," Mr. Hare explained. "Oh!" Her color faded, and she bara! After all, I'm his wife, you confessed, "I thought for a moment know." "But do you?" you meant he was coming home." "Don't be silly!" Mrs. Sentry said: "Not right Barbara came storming to her away, Barbara. You see, he's been feet, shaking, trembling. She cried indicted." "I know," she assented. She ap- pitifully, "Mother, you don't, do pealed to Mr. Hare. "Does that you? Please!" And Mrs. Sentry said, "Of course mean he has to be tried?" "Unless the District Attorney nol not, child!" "Mary did! Or she wouldn't have prosses the case." Her eyes lighted, her tone quick- run away." Barbara cried pitifully. ened. "The District Attorney? Mr. "Oh, tell me the truth, mother, Flood? Does that mean he can let Phil!" And Phil said in a great voice: father go?" we know he didn't Hare shook his head. "He can't "Barb darling, He couldn't! We all know do it. do that, Barbara, unless he's sure that!" your father is innocent." Barbara held his "Then why "But father is!" she cried. "And haven't we all beeneyes. to see him, inMr. Flood knows it! I told him! stead of just mother? He'll think You see, I saw father come home we've deserted him." that night, just before one o'clock, Mrs. Sentry answered, "Mr. Hare and Miss Wines wasn't killed till advised " after one." The girl cried furiously: "Mr. Dean Hare looked quickly at Mrs. Hare! Well, I'm going to see faSentry, remembering tha she had ther, right now! So he'll know that told him Arthur was at home at someone " quarter past eleven. She shook her But in the end she did not go. It head, warning him to silence, be- was Phil who persuaded her to stay seeching him to protect Barbara's at home while he and Mrs. Sentry faith in her father; and saw his went, that afternoon. But she sent pupils dilate, and thought: He her father many messages. knows, now, that I know. And she Phil and Mrs. Sentry stayed ndl closed her eyes so that he might not Phil was long with Mr. Sentry. read them. shocked to see the change in his Then Barbara asked insistently, father. The older man's very voice "Isn't that so?" was altered, was and Hare said reluctantly: "Well, as a as though from huskydisuse.hoarse And long matter of fact, Barbara, they're not he said little; he thanked them sure about the time. There's some almost humbly for coming he said evidence which suggests that she over and over, "Ellen, you know I may have been shot earlier." didn't do it?" Barbara paled; but then she proAnd she said, "Of course, Artested, "Just the same, Mr. Flood's thur." And she told him Mr. Hare's a friend of father's!" proposal that Falkran be enlisted as "He must do his duty." defense counsel. Barbara cried desperately, "Well, "He's a good defense lawyer," I don't care!" Her voice broke. "I Mr. Sentry assented. And after tha't, want my father to come home!" there seemed no more to say. Mrs! Dean Hare rose. "I must go," he Sentry was perfectly composed "I'll bring Mr. when she bade her husband said, hurriedly. good-bFalkran to see you, then?" but when she and Phil had left Mrs. Sentry went with him to the the jail she trembled uncontrollably door, leaving Barbara alone in the (TO BE COXTIXUED) Probably he told Dean so, and Dean is sorry for me, trying to spare me, pitying me. Strange, to be pitied. I never needed pity before. I will not be pitied! Let me speak strong-). . . 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