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THE TRAGIC WEDDING By LIBBY'S death wai a her wedding shock da y a a It Neighbor folk would be shaktheir heads sadly People liked she was Sort of Libby near 40 but there was kindness and generosity In her heart Not that her death would be a surprise She was very (rail and a chronic heart sufferer Doc Hunt-lebad begged her to slip off with him and have a quiet wedding and avoid excitement But no She’d wanted to be with her family —what family she had and such as it was did ing With tightening throat Doc gazed down on the thin dark figure in the blue tulle wedding dress lying on the quilted bedding She'd fallen on the rag carpet they had toFd him when he arrived and one of the women guests had picked her up and placed her on the bed and had removed her stockings to massage her legs Doc noticed the heavy finger marks on the thin ankles Then his gaze swept to the digitalis bottle on the dressing table Libby's heart never bad been in such a bad condition that a (hot of heart stimulant hadn't brought her out of It But it was obviously a severe attack Her face was bluish her dark eyes bulging as If from an exploding heart A look of abject horror had torn open her mouth twisting her pretty face My husband was settln’ In the front room waitin' fer the preacher and you to come Doc’’ Cousin Laura said—Doc always called her Cousin Laura becausk triiamln’ tip the weddln cake 1 thought I heard Libby scream About aa hour ago It was I came in here as quick aa I could wash off my hands and there on the there she was floor but blue In the face" Cousin Laura was a woman with suspicious disapproving eyes Her hair was coal black Cynics had whispered that Laura bad married Grandpappy Bogle 40 years her senior for his farm He was stons deaf and couldn't (it was believed at the time) live more than six months Grandpappy had a son Harv Bogle living with him That was the family— Grandpappy Bogle Cousin Laura Bogle Harv Bogla and Libby Doc had always had an uncomfortable feeling that Laura hated him or at least resented his taking Libby from the family in Doc could hear Grandpappy the front room yapping away with the guests No matter what anyone aid to him he assumed that they were agreeing with him and went on yapping f "Where's Harv?" Doc said TIarv'l out to the barn sulking reckon— on account of the wedding" Cousin Laura said with evil ‘‘He ain't been in all suggestion day— didn't even coma in fer his dinner" Then she became thoughtful her black eyes slitting "Now wait a minute — I believe I seen him out on the back porch about an hour ago Yeah I did come to think of it" about Harv not understood wanting to attend the wedding He'd known that Harv Bogle had loved Libby like a man possessed He'd threatened a half dozen times to kill himself if she didn't marry him And when that didn't work "be fictfcally threatened to kill her Only yesterday he'd told Libby that Doc FULBRIGHT he’d rather see her dead than marrying the doctor--Doc bad brushed Libby's fears aside Harv was harmless Give him s month of fishing and squirrel hunting down in the Obion river bottoms and he’d forget It Doo bad assured her Ilarv was the bachelor type He lived from day to day felt no responsibility about anything The only thing he planned ahead waa hla tobacco patch out behind the barn Doc found Harv sitting on the He in the barnlot wagon tongue was distractedly scraping blue mud from his rough brogans with a "Yes Libby was murdered By the person whs would inherit the 200 seres of rich bottom land Libby’s land la certainly more tempting than Grandpappy Bogle’s red clay hills—” UTAH PROCESSING I W4r Bath Hla Vegetable Preparation Required rmnn Cktr Lfca Mia "How— how — " "Libby was picked up by her ankles and held upside down until she died from a heart attack That's how those bruises came to be on her ankles they certainly weren't caused by massaging Her heart 5155 Handsome Chair A handsome chair set done ia shape with the popular pineapple motif It’s a giant aize too measuring over eighteen inches from wing tip to wing tip! A nice idea for a gift butterfly Hsrs's (he wai Lib- by's cousin the only relative Libby had The first guests were Jest corn1 was in the in’ up the road kitchen RAY TIMES GARLAND rag carpets looked is if they’d Juji been washed a da) or so before Doc went to the wall telephone rang central and asked for ths sheriff "This is Doc Huntley Sheriff want to report s murder yeah out at Grandpappy Bogle's placs Doc hung Cousin up turned Laura stodd in the kitchen door her black eyes staring hatefully tori Slowly doubt and indecision her mouth open "Did you say ‘murder?’ ” Cousin Lanra was a woman ahiny woods knife He was a heavy-se- t man in tattered overalls grizzled his teeth showing the effects He of constant tobacco chewing didn't talk much and spent most of his time alone In the river bottoms His attitude towards the doctor was surly since Doc had started courting Libby Harv looked up darkly all afternoon "Been out here Harv?'' “Here and the bottom— if it’s anything to you" He kept on scraping mud ‘You were aeen In the back yard about the time Libby died” 'Died! Is she—’’ He studied Doc suspiciously Slowly conviction crept over his face "Somebody lied" he (aid dully and returned his attention to his shoe 'Harv I never talked with Libby about it But who gets Libby's property? She had a will didn't she?" Doc knew that Libby owned 200 seres of valuable bottom timber land where Ilarv did hia hunting and fishing "Naw" Harv replied "She didn't leave no will You sort of got left out didn't you Doc? If'n she'd lived through the day you'd have got yo'r hands on that land wouldn’t you?" Doc struggled to keep from getting mad His gaze shifted to the dry branch at the foot of the hilL Snarled sassafras grew on the bank and along the fence rows as if it had been forced out of competition for space in the rich bottom lands and relegated to the hills where competition for food was tired and hopeless Doc returned to the house looked around the barren red clay back yard Then he entered by the back way The back porch screened In eounter was at neat as Libby's room was just as neat The with auspicious disapproving eyes wasn't so bad that she couldn’t have gone on living a quiet life "Harv musta done it” "No Laura you lied when you said you heard Libby scream People don't scream with heart attacks If she screamed it was because someone was attacking her In that case you would have caught the person who was attacking her It would take time to kill her by holding her upside down till she died then straighten out her clothes and hair before escaping You only had to rinse off your hands you said" "Maybe — maybe I was mistaken about ths scream—" "Maybe But when I talked with you a while ago you must havt suspithought that 1 was getting cious You lied when you said you saw Harv on ths back porch If he had been on the back porch and had entered this room hs would havt left traces on the floor But there are no traces —not in this room nor on the porch nor in the yard" The mud that rich blue covers his JalcJca £o — By NANCY shoes" Jsjlha PEPPER Tour Coat Madame It seems Just yesterday that you were brooding about your faU wardrobe Then along cama the new look— and you had to start all over Well there’s never a dull again moment— because summer la coming and now’s ths time to worry about your summer coat What'll it be? 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