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Show Kathleen Norris Says: She would not tell you. You know that. She has not admitted it even to me. But I saw you, Mrs Bigelow. I know it was you. He waited, tense, as she puUed herself slowly together. She arose with cold determination. "Very weU, then," she said at last. I was going to protect her. God knows why. I didnt actually see the shooting. It was foggy, slippery, you know. I have very small feet and sometimes lose my balance. I was picking my way. I had my head down when the shot came. I was so frightened and for a moment dazed. I didnt know it was Curt. I only saw a man stagger a moment. He seemed to recover himself and walk on toward me. In my shock I stepped off the sidewalk and crossed the street. It was only when he feU to his knees on our steps that I knew something terrible had happened. It was then I saw Veronica running across the Common path. Veronica she drew herself up majestically. Why didnt you immediately come into the house? I should have thought "Oh, but I couldnt. Dont you She was CorneU now, loyal. see? ta- jftMtlve, I rf Cort Vallainmarry Veronic ll ' miUlon ,r dollars. unporta"! clue. , ourti former trrt S' i brother- . - Chicago, running b Venturer. b when around It - to fSistW. that he knew signif-- nsdli htteexii all met once or divorced her, you his his mouth, and closed. He looked Vfe , ,t jU that ,n expression . as words could, me." youU get from the direction ed of u strategically and of a iddenness cata-spyin- g on your wife at The White icourt last, werent t, ht he had explod-thabut curiously was ready for it. to I just happened them talking. What tomes and goes as efore suspect her, affair or some him say am with wished to keep from idea? has been ly-- r for the last three were the questions (ht- -he would ask not sure he i I, like a fool, I I as first, was have bam, allowing the ! himself. havent a You te se i, that might help against Veronica, a reasonable barb r aware that he fell mnself, in his own nth some success was over. lew the inquisition? ugly. your mother to McCale an-- i iment, in sudden fury. isk :er Mrs. you, Bige-somewh- at disgrun- istnt be spared, i all so sordidly go to the White before last? he there . . . I of the attack momentarily her Quickly she sank sn't less you know, he altercation with law and your m. t en-clu- b. tit to go anywhere iy daughter-in-la- a bit s harsh with my son. heard not to be-sh- e assured you came to see was tok came into her sagged as if the Jt to crack, m? McCale prod- - go to that lobby, but 1 re- - Curt VaUaincourt then? idnt go upstairs, there to get my rreled with Karen he had started out She said it very ied, what her if she had that he knew ied an-be- iy there. 1 M get nothing of now that she we of the tragic irmined to play. kr 'Non, then." he ise A M and disap-li- d yoj see. yes-he- n you were in at the time of ,ldds time 1 her fltbe 'bly a staggered the automat-r- r glass of sher- Her eyes were rrr. Her mouth mpered. l was You're mis- hard, his look gray rain-Mi- ss Ade- - have. voice youre working She Jroch J4aS Side CdfoSing to conspira-toril- y aU out in now. Im sorry, but I dont follow you. Oh, Lord. I thought you said you were a detective. Look. Veronica found out, somehow, that I had known Curt rather well. Dont ask me how. I dont know that We had a whale of a row over it, but I denied it Do you see? Now, if they get her for his his death, and the letters are found, it will prove she was right Dont you get it? It will give them a motive. If I can Many or two arms, or two can taka regular jobs; jobs don't always need two legs, jobs. Many of them can take part-tim- e eyes. By KATHLEEN NORRIS a serious crime committed, has to be made. When a person suffers from a devastating illness, convales- W! Dont tell me, in all seri- sensational reasons, but from that you want to protect simple common sense, we Veronica? have to lend money and send Of course. Why? Because it just occurred to me, clothes and food and build being a detective, that if you had hospitals and re - establish those letters you might just possi- trade for friend and foe alike, bly not destroy them. They make just to keep the world going such a swell motive. at all. Our late enemies are He bowed. "Not only that, my just as airy about asking help loyal young lady, but you seem to as are our allies. think as a matter of fact, youre It is for every one of us to help practically convinced yourself that the world toward convalescence. If Shari Lynn has possession of those you are merely a good, honest citiletters. Suppose I tell you that the zen, with kindly impulses in your police have them safe under lock heart, think it out. If you have been and key. Evidence, you know. fortunate enough to find God in your "Its a lie! then add earthly pilgrimage, Yes, he said, so far as I know, prayer to your thoughts. Think hard, it is a lie, but how did you know? pray hard, not Just for hungry babies She shut her lips together and in Poland and Germany and Italy, just glared at him. but for our own men. You may go, he said UnconThink think for five minutes what A hard nut to crack, aU was cernedly. "Ill talk to your sister-in-lasome of our boys paid for this war, McCale made of her. next. See you at the in- Take the boy you love best, the boy for whom your hopes are highest, "If Id quest misunderstood, rejected. A few minutes later, the sound of whether he be seven months, seven gone right in, everyone would have known, wouldnt they? Id have had the piano playing stopped abruptly. years or 17 years old. Picture that to say Id seen Veronica. I couldnt Shortly afterward, the door opened boy suffering. Suffering hard steady and Karen Bigelow came in. do that I couldnt. pain, from one of those thousand inthink, he observed, that of juries of which we say so lightly, McCale wondered why, if she all"Ithe you belong least well, the doctors dont know ex couldnt face telling it then, she of all to Bigelows, this house. what it is. Some delicate actiy was able to be so glib about it now. "You mean, perhaps, that 1 am internal fibre incurably torn, some I slipped down the other side an oracquisition let us say an essential inch of bone rotted away, of the street to the drugstore for nament? some infinitesimal splinter pressing met I Stephen there, .cigarettes. "Exactly. You can tell me more on eyes or brain, and your magyou know or dont you? about them than anyone. nificent is going to wear Yes. I have seen the police reShe made Oh, but I couldnt. all his life that chiselled, weary look Will he said you so not gravely. ports," a slow, somnolent motion, that means pain. send your daughter in please? much in horror or disloyalty as of He Might Be Your Son. She accepted her dismissal with deadly Indifference. Your own boy that roughneck out the air of an actress taking a cur"I think you can, he persisted. in the sandbox who already this tain call. Let me tell you what I know to be morning has been riding his bicycle with You were farewell all true. acquainted Youre making your like Barney Oldfield, coasting down tour, McCale chuckled to himself, Curt VaUaincourt in Chicago at his slide, splashing in the lawn sprin about the same time Stephen Bigehis mind busy with her treachery. klers, climbing the apple tree, that You never would have guessed low was, shaU I say, rushing you outlaw who presently will come in You knew his that Victoria had been up most of into matrimony? for his chop and baked potato, his the previous night. The circles un- wife, too, Sarah Linsky, wasnt it exhausted nap he might be one of der her eyes were no darker than the present Shari Lynn? them. She was watching him covertly He might be one of the hundreds usual She slunk in, her mouth the lashes. her under from long same insolent gash of red. who walk with a crutch; he might be was all A hard nut to crack, wearing a patch over one of his McCale made of her, as he smiled The Ugly Plot beautiful eyes, or sitting sighing, to himself. with his forehead gripped by his Begins to Shoiv hand, when the dreadful inevitable Too bad you werent able to find "I know you finally consented to comes back. He wont marry; your letters in Vallaincourts aparthe continued. pain marry Stephen, he wont burden his girl with this. ment last night, he opened. wondered why. He wont complain much, or talk She TU confess, Ive She did not seem startled. She shifted her position impercepmuch of the mud and the loneliness tossed her dark head. her long white hands and the dying in south Italy. He Oh, you know that, do you? How tibly. placing on her knees. wont tell you of the morning he was did that get out? a aU winter with "I had suffered one of the other fellows, trying My assistant, who helped you She touched her arm. Just to take an island beach despite dripsearch. He was quite smitten by pain here. I thought then A nervous ailment. sweat and stinting insects and your charms. I would never play again. I ping "That ox. rifle fire, and of the noon when Her lip curled. "So that sharp She had thought, of he works for you. He told me he thought he was carried to the hospital ship, her could she forget course, that was a policeman. never to be himself again. music in the bosom of a rich soWell, hed make a good one, at Today put your boy in his place. had been. she How life. wrong cial And then, if you will, go down on McCale chuckled. "Youd that beembroiled She found herself have recognized him if youd been and your knees. Apd rise from them retween a Jealous mother-in-lasolved that not one single war He the before. was on home night withhad She husband. a jealous wounded in your town is going Where duty here all that night drawn, therefore, to her Nordic to be left boy without the work that he were you, by the way? and boredom until unhaphauteur, can do. Many of them can take Thats my business. piness had driven her back to the jobs; jobs dont always need keyboard to find that sheer neces regular two legs, or two arms, or two eyes. Those Letters Could overcome to her her enabled sity Many of them can take part-tim- e illness, forced her to play again. Be Damaging McCale stood very straight and jobs. Not one in ten, they tell me, need be idle. Perhaps its mine. Or at least still before the glacial Karen BigeIf these boys were lying wounded the police may want an explanalow. Her hauteur and boredom and tion. Were you at the VaUaincourt complete indifference was beginning and screaming on some field near your house, how fast good women apartment, by any chance? to get him. "My little romp with Curt was he said would organize to help them. How Look, Mrs. Bigelow, fast they would be carried to the over long ago. very quietly, I know that Victoria Was it? he asked quietly, hard knew VaUaincourt and that was cool bed and clean bandages, the bunches showing along his jaw still going on even after his en- hot coffee and the opiates that mean comfort and love and care again Yes. Who says it wasnt? gagement to Veronica, and that he after the bleak years. The red wig you wore when still saw Shari Lynn as welL once some had you impersonated your stepsister, that you know, too, Veronica, each time you went connection with him. because you there. went to the White Abbey the night Youll have to prove that. before last to buy back some let Her eyes grew hooded and he saw ters from Miss Lynn. They must her hands tremble. His shot in the have been old letters or Vallain dark had been a good one. court would have had them and he said, smiling. "1 you would have had to deal with "Proof? dont ned to prove it Its him. The fact that he showed sur.' know a lot more aboul prise when you made the exchange Curt VaUaincourt with his the woman proved that. knew than you imagine in your What else do you know? she wildest dreams." asked wearily, her voice toneless 1 know A crooked Uttle smile curled the he hesitated. Well saw also mouth. the of her husband that your edges Almost blind, he runs prosperous farm. "Oh, what does it matter, anyexchange. Did you know that? TO BE CONTINUED) how? Were all sunk I did want .f i for Veronica, arent you? Now listen. If those letters come out, it will put her in a worse spot than shes ex-wi- i task. came close six-foot- reliminary. Brinhlen Buil in her anxiety, w He ioor. tor Why? She was impatient boldly took another See here she him, dropping her ousness, hsurd Jit JeJ pleading gesture. Shari Lynn has them. She must. You hinted at it the other night. You can act as intermediary get your cut anything. Only Ive got have them. really! the "Not me Cale. He accented iiinfuUy. "Whatever hoUowly, from him, prclhj BL WNU Featurea. self-style- d an $ed Bell Syndicate. those letters though. You know what I think? I think you know Ahere they are. I think you could et them for me. Why wont you work for me? I Id pay you said, well Ive got enough money. Her eyes were bright. What good would that do? She got up, turned her back to the window, and made a quick, cence is long and slow. War is both a crime and an get them back, I can destroy them. Chrisillness. We He chuckled cynically, striking tian peoples plunged into it, his hands together with a muttered and the fever of it burned into exclamation. No, he barked, not our very souls. 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