| Show cia axx Lk l rant pose We couldn't be seen from any direction In fact we had to push back great growths to see When you got it pushed back there here were stone paths A birdbath bird birdbath birdbath bath with a child holding a bird Ird A table and two Chairs in one corner Some grass One path led ed to the back d door or which gave into the house Straight across and a little toward the house was the big solid iron gate at the street It was a most unpleasant wait I If you moved rivers of rain ran down your neck If It you didn't move it ran down anyway I should h have ve bet the girl wouldn't appear a T L HE girl came Freddy clutched my arm She was was better prepared for or the weather than we were She wore a yellow slicker and hat hatto hatto hatto to match She came carne almost into the center of the tiny garden and stood a minute looking straight ov over r the wall vail toward one of the great apartment houses She seemed to o pick out a particular one and rivet her gaze on that Occasionally Occasionally Occasionally Occasion Occasion- ally she would w uld lower her head and wipe her face with a handkerchief chief I often have looked out over the great city from our own comfortable comfortable comfort- comfort able ible apartment and thought of its beauty at night But looking up from a little well of a garden is different Tall thick m masses es of stone and brick towered in the blackness punctuated occasionally occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally by lights lights lights-lights lights that were steadily going out and intermittently intermittently intermittently intermit intermit- flashing Clashing on The girl paced nervously fretfully fretfully fret- fret fully ully but always she would return to o the same spot and look up shading her eyes with her hands to keep out the rain Three times she raised a finger and moved it slowly before her as if It she counted the he stars and stopped at one particular particular particular par par- star star There weren't any stars 4 S SOften Often she pulled back her slicker sleeve slee and I thought I caught the the flash of an illuminated dial on a Watch Then she walked back to the house returned suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly took another look into the night and was gone running quickly as if to avoid rain in which she had stood so long W W. E GAVE her some time before we went back over the wall though why I 1 dont don't know Bush shrub and ivy were so thick that I 1 doubt if we could be seen in day- day light ight but ut Freddy was watchful making us lie he on the wall until he hemd had md carefully surveyed the street beyond it itI I 1 took off my hat in the taxi and squeezed the water out of It She was there for exactly one hour and thirty-seven thirty minutes watching I said Watching for death he answered answered answered an an- simply But the girl cant can't be watching for death You mean she doesn't know she is watching for death Mack while we crouched in the r rain in to tonight tonight tonight to- to night a young girl some place in our city was foully done to death F was I REDDY was right It was ayoung a ayoung ayoung young showgirl She was stabbed to 16 death by Gramercy park at two o'clock exactly Nothing could have saved her life Freddy said ald that morning at breakfast as as he put down the paper That makes number six Mack but here is our detective who looks like Jike a detective It was Sydney Willowby He lIe was all smiles all good cheer and andall andall andall all important with his information tion We work fast he told Freddy and picked up a piece of toast to nibble on it It This girl now Ella Villa See Sec Page 4 I t Column 1 |
