Show Saint Sai Sinner Dad youre you're not eating You'll be sick honey You look dread dread- dreadful dreadful ful ul now DOW And for mothers mother's sake you must must keep up Well We'll both go goto goto goto to see sec her after the inquest Is over and she mustn't suspect anything Looks to me like you two ho youngsters are forgetting some some- something something something thing Jim Lane said heavily If It they get hold of oC that will busl busi- busi business busl ness It will 1111 furnish them with a motive against Chen Cherry God have mercy on us If It that story gets out Dont dad Faith pleaded Be De sides the story atory cant can't get out until the will is probated can It 11 Bob Dont see how It can Bob Dob avoided her eyes and spoke with false alse nce Anyhow Cher- Cher Cherry's Cher Cherry's rys ry's got tie the coroner eating eating- out o of her hand and every man on the tho jury Is convinced she's tho cutest and sweetest little thing that ever eer ran rAil away to get married to a worthless scamp You You Yoa dont don't thin think Cherryll be mentioned in the coroners coroner's report then Faiths Faith's voice olce quivered ered with joy No I 1 dont don't Bob Dob reassured her stoutly If f they dont don't hear about this will business they wont won't be able to pin a motive on her And she hasn't tried to lie about being there or the time she was there She's freely admitted everything even e when it has been against her That will have weight with the jury I tell you They'll think she has nothing to hide and and she hasn't Cut But Bob Dob everybody's wonder wonder- ing lug wondering the same If thing thing it Cherry didn't do It 11 who did ild Theres There's not nota nota n a shred of ol evidence to connect anyone else with the crime anti and theres there's the tho time element dement too There Thero literally wasn't time for tor anyone else to do It it You arrived within live five minutes after Cherry Cheny had left You didn't touch him did you ZO Not No o I testified that I didn't I 1 sa saw w at once that he was 05 dead or Of course Dr Paxton made ex cx exhaustive tests teats when he got there Dut Its It's pretty sure that he be was as Struck down as soon as Cherry left the room room-by room by someone lying In III wait walt to 10 do do It by someone who knew that Cherry would be ac- ac accused acCused ac accused what Ive I've been saying to 10 myself over and over o Faith gasped But who who The man who made those queer footprints or someone concealed In the house Robbery was not the tho nb- nb motive tle tive jno Not a thing was louch touched d When the inquest t was resumed ChrIs Chrie Wiley took tho the witness chair chair After preliminary questions and after Chris had been allowed to tell his story ot or the tho elopement an account corroborated I I Cherrys Cherry's story In all essential de do- details tails the coroner asked Now low Mr Wiley Wiler while you OU were waiting tor fOl Miss Lane Iane who Is now Mrs Irs Wiley did you get out of ot your our car It was a crucial question It pointed directly to- to toward to toward ward Chris Wiley WUey as IlS a possible suspect and every person In the I room strained forward forward in eager cager- eagerness ness to hear the answer I I J did not get out of ot my car Chris Wiley answered firmly Did you see ace anyone during your our wait walt either entering the thc house by any means mean whatever or did you see Bee anyone anone on the tho lawn I did not phd Pid you see gee Mr Cluny through the Iho open window ti ot of his room I f did not Did you ou ever cr quarrel with Mr Cluny about Miss Cherry Lane or about anything else I did not I made mado no effort whatever to dissuade him from marrying In Miss Lane LIme II It concen concen- concentrated concentrated on her Chris Wiley smiled sligh slightly lIy That Is all Mr Wile Wiley for or the present Call Cail Mr fl Charles Reilly ZO Neff ef Oh Bob Dob Faith whispered In Inan inan Inan an agony ot of thread dread Ho drew up Mr Cluny's will VIII Will ho he tell Bob Dob wm vilI ho lie tell tell Tomorrow A motive for murder is II pinned on on Cherry Copyright 1926 NE Service Inc |