| Show Sinner But what Is doing doing- Bob Dob l 1 voice was a de tie tie- wall wail Two weeks have passed since Cherrys Cherry's ut un anti l he haa has only a little more mor than two Iwo wee weka lis before the tile tria trial So far tal as ai I 1 can see e h he hasn't doia done donen donca n a single solitary thine They rhey were alone alon In the tile living ing room of ot the th Lane Lano home Bob anti and ai l eta staring ring at each other with Ith tired eye ces eyes which they y had topped stopped trying to 10 mae beam cheerfully Slut Dut beneath this despair and love hove o ed steadily un no- no falteringly deeply Sometimes Sometime during those these hard days das Faith felt as It If Bob nob were wei-o a as much a part of 01 i hr or ai as a her always bus busy hands l or 01 her hel very heart No Xo matter If their hell marriage I might alight be b delayed aith l told her he self elf they lied had fused into Inlo a M truer marriage than than- any man of God could sanctify They had 1 become one in 10 aen and tenderness fear and hope StrAngely enough It had been lieen Cherry CherlY who had once on tried to lo get Bob for tor her ber own own wr who had brought them together toc Oh I guess ues he lies hes doing dolne the best be he lie can Bob answered hr hor dispir Justice or Ju or the th legal In In- In of o Justice seems Justice to te 1 1110 lIle Immensely unfair ThIe rhe law lair S 'S that a defendant Is L innocent nt until hub it turns right richt around round and offers all tho tim machinery of the th courts to the prosecution The defenso defense h has bas basno no Ito help whatever from front the th law Jaw la III n preparing a case the tho attorney has haa e and ever every every- everyone ono one at his disposal Tho rho defense cant can't even onn get hold of oC the grand brand Jury mInutes minute cant can't examine the dead mans mana papers cant can't force torce wItnesses to testify while th tho pros pros- edition could subpoena the tho th pop laU n ot Of the whole count county fla made s any head headway ay at all Faith cried lIeI l hands hand trembled over o tho the little pile or of soft black crepe d do de clime chine In her which lap lap she ho was fashioning i Into Inlo a dress for tor Cherry to t wear wi at the tho trial lies Ica found an old man who w will wiil testify that he hc saw a taxIcab In the tho th alloy behind Uncle Ralphs Ralph's hOuse at at 30 the th night of oC the tho th murder And Anil a couple ot of police detectives who were sent to the house right after acter I 1 reported I hestand Uncle Ralphs Ralph's death dath will tak take t th he stand land to say aay that they saw aw auto auto- automobile mobile In iii the snow The 1 he I only trouble Is 18 l they th y dont don't agree ei I as aa to the th kind ot of tire trea treads treads- Oh these Faith u- u plod ed They make mak mo me m alc attention wouldn't pay any at at- at to your our story of oC o the tIle toot toot- foot prints under the th window and aDd these lh wit dim detectives detective dont don't even en men tion track tracks of oC o an automobile until un theAll Churchill pumps It t out of ot them All before or r 1114 hat ot should have hav gotten rott n l be be- be foro fore tho coroner at the Inquest then maybe mayb they wouldn't have hav In 1 in- in Cherry ry as u th the only pon who vho had both bolh motive o and anti Im I'm sick ot of o world I A a dozen people c could hoIn hae ha hav snooped around tha ha hat bouso in hI that quiet street with Ith all the tho neighbors gone ton off oft to the th wed ding and no one ono would have ha b any ally the wiser wilier you rou forget forret tha the snow siow Bob re- re reminded reminded minded her with a a slight ll bt fond smite at her vehemence It If someone had planned to 0 murder 11 lr Cluny Cluny-as Cluny a someone did he he could have hidden 1 long before llio snow SIlO now started to fall 1 and ana anti even afterward ard for tor fresh i snow now covered cred his root foot prints printa pretty prelly quick Oh I know Im I'm expecting an ai an awful lot of 01 Churchill but what hat are art you ou pay pay- payIng Ing Ins him for tor Certainly not to sit alt up In n hIs hi office behind a screen scree of 01 of cIgar clear smoke and twiddle thumbs Have 8 you ou had any Ilek luck lookIng hooking for tor cripples cripple yet ct dear dc the she Add added dd d In a vole Ive 1 0 v gotten so that I wont ont w t do anything 1 but look at legs elS el'S and feet when Im I'm on the th streets Bob shook his hia head No 0 but Ive I've not elven up hope pe And by the th wa way Churchill has been pretty buy busy on one thing thing- trying to Irac trace the tite sender ender of that foIn threatening letter r which I foun found und l ln in n Uncle Undo files Co I A I o friend frilo to 0 aid alii Copyright 1927 NEA Inc Ine i |
