Show Saint Walt watt l Faith alth begged him press press- Ing pressIng press her fingers Into her hel temples temple as she tho concentrated her over over- overwrought wrought brain on the tb problem 1 think Ive I've Iv como come to the same sam conclusion con con- con conclusion you have hove Well We'll take tike It for tor granted that this strap hasson has bas son sor or to do with the man nun who made the tho queer footprints The toe loo halt half of at Iho tho shoo shoe lio all of ot the tho shoe all of ot the right shoe she to herself herselt musingly Oh Im I'm sure Im I'm Im I'm right Bob The rhe Th man was a cripple of ot course All ot of the footprints were the same That couldn't be b nn on accident could It She looked at nt him appealIngly with excitement burning In her great brown blon eyes Youre settIng getting warm Bob laughed his bis voice proud and ond ten ten- tender tender ten tender der Bob the tho th man who killed your our uncle was a cripple a II man with a wooden leg ler That bit of ot came from the th contrivance that fastened the tho th wooden leg lee to the tho knee or wherever It joined his blood ind flesh blood leg Ice The Th lh smell ot of sweat the the narrowness ot of it It Jt the thelong thelong long use its it's lt had Is hid 1 that what you figured out Bob Dob Pretty near nearly Bob nodded But Im I'm afraid I 1 didn't visualize II a wooden leg lee A man min with a II wood wood- wooden en cn leg lee could snake mike a II whole who foot foot- footprint footprint footprint print as ns well as s not There would bo be al in artificial foot toot you know which would undoubtedly a whole footprint Ot course Faiths Faith's fell tell But I do think that tho the chaps chap's some somo kind ot of o crIpple ho cripple he must be ot of course to make mako footprints like those And the strap was I firmly believe fastened to his bis leg Ice for some somo reason or other probably to re- re relieve re relieve lieve hove the strain of ot walking even It Ithe ho he used only halt half of ot his foot toot Then weve we've got cot to look for tor II a crIpple Bob Faltha excitement returned Have Ilave you told Church Church- Churchill Church ill about tho the strap strip I 1 found it after atter I had talked with Churchill I simply played a hunch in going colne back to the scene of the crime I think Ill I'll keep quiet about It for a while I want to havo o a 0 talk with Cherry Has lIas it t oc occurred curved to you OU that she the having been Uncle Ralphs Ralph's private secretary will know a great deal about his correspondence She might know It there was any evidence In his 1113 correspondence or from things thinG's he told her that he hid had had bad an on enemy ho hose e hatred was strong enough to cause him to plot Uncle Ralphs Ralph's death Im I'm going to play a lone with hand with you ou of o course coulse as chief thinker tor for the combine ho smiled at her fondly until I zoo what we wo can ran unearth All Ail Church Church- Churchill Church ill III can think ot of o at present la ts s a II de de- de do Censo of ot unpremeditated justifiable homicide I 1 want to havo have some some- something something thing very ery real rial and definite before I go co to him with nth a theor theory In the meantime there thIo is something both bothof bothof ot of us can do Faith nodded We e I f know can keep Our eyes peeled for tor cripples A man with one leg lee considerably shorter than the th other due duo to lo Ill an Injury In the war for or Instance would make mak footprints like Ilk that wouldn't lie he lie Jle H would Bob nob added grimly Nov ow darling weve we've played detect detect- detective ive lye tong long enough Im I'm t goinG home and let you 1 0 get somo some rest By the tM the way lIy i sent ent a 0 basket ba of hothouse fruit and und s some om me French chocolates to your mother Ordered them by phone on the th way out here Youre the th dearest person In the thew w world Faith told him is ILS she clung to him In a a night good em- em embrace em embrace bra brace e Oh Bob Dob I cant can't bear to think of Cherrys Cherry's sleeping In a cell Those Thos awful iron cots cots- cots those thos thin gray prison blankets blankets- blanket Bob flushed with embarrassment I 1 sent s nt a bundle of ot things to her from tny y two apartment apartment two pairs ot of borderud rose border woolly blankets and anda anda a gay cay Czechoslovakian lo aklan rug rue for tor tho floor Sh She hasn't been Il yet BannIng will let us make mak ml ke her comfortable She hasn't been yet indicted Indicted Faith repeated then breaking Into wild sob sobs she sh ran from the th room bitt bit the die Jail and llio tho hospital ho Copyright HIT by NEA Service ice Inc n |