Show I Confessions I I I II I I Of a Bride I I I Bob Hears My Theory and Disagrees Then Then Accepts My Plan for a Dreadful Test I I must get out of doors Im I'm nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous I 1 cant can't breathe un under er a roof root l I 1 said to Chrys Perhaps you'll stay i with Mother this morning Chrys j I applied a comforting pat to my mr shoulder shoulder shoulder der and waved me away I wandered to the back of the park and sat down J Jon on a bench under the gay autumn i i foliage to think thin 1 and think Bu But my Illy I I thoughts were sadly out of harmony with ith the lovely fall faU day I They went vent round and round that l I lodd od odd likeness of i t Dabs Cabs to her mother Some day it would become very ery con con- Doubtless Katherine Miller realizes this after latter Chrys had commented commented commented com com- upon It so lengthily Doubt less Katherine realized that Doubt j her beauty was of a unique type to too rare to be simply freak or acci acci- dental In Dabs Babs It was destined to attract attention as the child grew aCCI 1 up And it was so peculiar as mere beauty and so extraordinary as re re- semblance that it might easily betray t the e relationship between the child and ami m U the woman I Might it not therefore become the thES motive for a shocking crime It would be absurd I 1 knew to o take my theory to the detectives for they had scorned my other theories theories Ee Be sides T i would have to discuss It with i Bob Dob lie He must decide If It It were best to let the police revive the Lorimer I scandal 1 I Mine fine was a a. a farfetched th theory ory unique even In the strange history I of crimes by unwed others One which could be attached t only to an all abnormal mother I Katherine Miller was was just just that She was subnormal primitive I Ire Ire- re remembered I her love lo letters to my hus hus- hus- hus band She wasn't clever but she was complex She schemed and planned to get her own wa way in the most roun round roundabout about fashion Cashion She actually relied upon other peoples people's goodness and sincerity sincerity sin sin- to make a shield for her own hypocrisy And how well her schemes worked Down the tho alley between the walls of box I heard mens men's voices Bob and Morrison were talking talling as they paced I l slowly toward me As they came camo camo I into the open and caught a first glimpse of me Morrison stuffed that pitiful bit of white lawn into Into his I pocket I couldn't bear to look at it it but I said Mrs Irs Chapin told me she me-she I she had to todo todo todo do so so Mr Morrison 1 she was nearly neaily I crazy When youve you've a minute to spare Bob I 1 want to talk tall with you you Of or course Morrison went on to the house and Bob sat down beside me 1 He looked ed awfully z tern stern stern never the the- less I 1 slipped my h hand nd Into his And AndI I hastened to explain my theory to him my him my strange theory as to the real mo motive lve leading to Dabs Dabs' abduction abduction- or murder Jane I dont don't believe she did H I dont don't believe the child is dead What grounds he had for defending the mother I 1 couldn't see but I joyfully joyfully joyfully joy joy- fully accepted his hope about the darling child Its a blind That stained blood-stained ruffle was put out for tor us to find My dear I wasn't with l Ii Miss Dims s Miller l more than twenty minutes last night fight I started to walk wall home through the park and I found that cloth in the bushes I called the chauffeurs and the tho yardmen and we hunted frantically frantically frantically fran fran- well until well know how until you ou late late late- I put I put my fingers over Bobs Bob's lips lip I couldn't bear to recall how I had acted about that that- long wait waft Bob Dob pulled d my hand down and held It in ent on That cloth was waa dropped by the ghostly gray shape you scared sc red away in the mist mist mist- It was put there to mislead us Im darn positive e Then Theil find tind Dabs Babs You can beat the detectives and besides you wont won't have to rake rale up the Lorimer scandal How do you mean mean find find her bet Make lale love make love mako love lo to the mother mother- I l' cried In in- desperation It sounds awful I know but were we're dealing dealIng dealing deal deal- ing with a p perfectly awful woman And its it's like offering you as as' as a Fa sacrifice sac sac- on pagan a-pagan altar altaI I. I moaned But nut its it's for Dabs Dabs' sake salte sake So So maybe I can go through with it il And then of course I 1 wept r t To Tu bo be continued f r |