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CHAPTER XLVll—(Continued) “Please —in justice of myself, may I go back to the beginning of ipy—my relationship with Harry Borden?” the contralto voice quivered. , when Ruth was ready, \s*th pencil poised. ’ CHAPTER XLVIII “j WOULD prefer that you begin JL your confession with the story of how ‘Letty Miller’ came into existence, Miss Manning,” the detective sergeant decided. “There has been ample evidence so prove your relationship with Harry Borden—tour own story this morning and the evidence vo;.mteered by Frank Ashe, Jake Bailey and Attorney Walters. I think perhajp your visits to Mr. Hayward's office, ostensibly to inquire about insurance, would be a good starting point.” “Not ostensibly!” Martha Manning contradicted. ‘‘l really wanted to take out a small policy on my life in favor of my son. I hoped to save enough from my tiny salary, and to earn more in some other parttime. job. to pay the premiums. “The idea came to me when I had .followed Harry into the Starbridge building one afternoon. He did not see me until we were both in the lobby, and he refused to stop and talk with me. ‘•When he had rushed into an ele ator. I stood in the lobby, gazing blindly at the bulletin board, as If I were looking for the room number of a tenant. After a bit I saw the words ‘lnsurance Broker’ after the name Jojm C. Hayward, and the office number—742. I did not know Harry’s office was visible from Mr. Hayward’s window, didn’t know' it until I was actually standing at that window, I saw Harry at his desk, but he did not spe me. ' “Later, a physician in a free clinic told n e that I had tuberculosis, and knowing that insurance would be out of t he question, I w'ent in person to pass the news to Mr. Hayward. “I did not want to see Harry again, if only from a distance, and I was’so lonely the prospect of talking with so kind a man as Mr. Hayw'ard was pleasant also. But I had no plans, then.” “Ah! Plans!” McMann commented dryly, with a keen glance at Ruth to see if she were getting every word of the confession down in shorthand. “Just when were those plans made. Miss Manning?” tt tt tt “jfxN Christmas day, after my humiliating interview with Harry on Christmas eve,” Martha Maiming told him, the exquisite, throaty contralto faltering slightly. “I felt that somehow I must be in a position to see him alone not with his bodyguard. Jake Bailey, present. But to explain how I—managed, I shall haVfe to go back a bit. One evening early in December ” “Just a minute, Miss Manning! the detective interrupted. “Until this time —I mean, until the assumption of a disguise—had you ever made threats, vebal or written. upon Harry Borden s life? ’ “I had not!” the woman answered emphatically. “Nothing was further from my wish or intentionkilling him, I mean. I-loved him-” “And yet—you became ‘Lett,, Miller,’ a scrubwoman,” McMann reminded her. “But go on, Miss Manning. I believe you said something about one evening early in December ” . _ “Yes. One evening early in December when I had followed Harry to the Starbridge building, without getting a chance to speak with him, and was w'aiting for him to come out, a small army of cleaning women poured out of the building. It was just after 9. "One of the women—it was Minnie Cassidy, as I learned laterbooked so ill that I followed her into the street. She almost fainted, and I took her home, using the last cent I had for the taxi. “On Christmas day, when I was desperately casting about for a way to see Harry alone, I remembered Minnie Casidy’s gratitude, remembered, too, that she worked on the

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.“What's the low-down, Crys?’’ Winy demanded abruptly, when she and Crystal were alone in the double guest-room which the two girls, at Tony’s suggestion, were to share during their ■visit to the Jonson £irm. Crystal. lying very pale and thin upon the bank-up pillows of the i&rly American four-poster bed, smiled that odd. puckish little smile tbat seemed destined to be a permanent attribute of the new Crystal. “I suppose you’ve guessed most of || You were at the party long enough last night to know that Cherry was Hi a dangerous mood. Faith told me something of what happened. It seems that Cherry, tired of Alan Beardsley's too importunate attentions, because she really loves Nils, decided to use him to make her husband gloriously and satisfyingly jealous. i • fc“The only trouble with the scheme ■was that it didn't work. Nils just laughed at her. and refused to challenge Alan Beardsley to a duel. So Cherry was so furious that she raced home in their car. packed her things, bundled up poor Hope, and rushed back to Faith’s, prepared to camp there until Nils came after her, begging her to forgive him for something or other —heswi knows shat.* -Tony hugged her knees and chuckled. “So you banked on Cherry’s jealousy and arranged to get us both invited out here.’’ Crystal shook her head. “Nil? thought of you all by himself. I wouldn’t have dared try to take vou away from all the celebrations In your honor. But— please, Tony. W ptay 1 . to t^ true to myself, whatever that self

seventh floor of this buiiding. 1 went to her. “I told her I needed work very badly, would take anything. She told me that one of the -cleaning ladies’—her ’partner’ on the seventh floor, as Minnie called her—had (ust quit, and that her place had not been filled. “It was Minnie -who took me to Mrs. Pellow the following Monday, but late Christmas day I had engaged a room in a horrible old rooming house under the name of Letty Miller, and in the guise of Letty Miller. “Just for a week, in case Mrs. Pellow checked up on my address. The gray wig and this dress” —she looked down at the faded calico thing she wore—“had been given me as a sort of souvenir of my part in ‘Stairs,’ a play in which I had made a rather notable success just at the time I met Harry Borden . . . Yes, I was an actress ” “That explains a lot,” McMann commented grimly. Martha Manning ignored the interruption. “No one but Minnie Cassidy knew that the new ‘cleaning lady’ had seen better days, was younger than she looked. Minnie was a good friend. But don’t think she suspected for a moment that I killed Harry Borden,” she added quickly as McMann reached for pencil and paper. “All right,” McMann conceded. “I hardly think that Tim Cassidy’s widow would connive at a murder. But—go on. You laid your plans to kill Borden?” st tt st "XTO!” Again that flashing de1N dial. “I merely wanted to be near him, to have easy access to his office, so that I could see him alone some night and make him listen. “I believed he still cared something—for thijppy, at least. But Jake Bailey ) always waiting when Harry Wicked at night, and my chance faHm interview did not come. I® “Not even ®May night, for it was nine when J*® left, and I had to leave the build* g, or be sought for and discovered by Mrs. Pellow. But I admitted Harry to his office that night with my passkey and he did not recognize me. “Friday afternoon I wrote one last urgent appeal to my son’s father, and on Saturday morning I telephoned to ask for his decision. He was not in, or would not talk —I could not know which. “I called later at 1:30, from an office I was cleaning, and Minnie herself answered the phone. I am sure that Minnie had no idea she wa£ talking with ‘Letty Miller.’ Harry -gave her a message for me. I was to call again in fifteen or twenty minutes. I —” “One moment, please. How did you manage your transformation each day from Martha Manning, switchboard operator of the Acropolis hotel, to Letty Miller, the scrubwoman?” McMann asked. “It was comparatively easy. Department store restrooms in the afternoon and any place in the dark —doorways, anywhere. It was merely a matter of putting on or taking off the wig. and making up or removing make-up, according to the role I was to assume. "This afternon I walked into a department store restroom as Martha Manning, and left it as Letty itfiller, without your man, Carlson, suspecting that the two were the same person. j “This afternoon I changed hats—carrying the extra one in my coat pocket, and turned my coat inside out. It is a reversible tweed, not the garment I wore this morning.” “I see,” McMann agreed, obviously chagrined. “Now about the second call to Borden Saturday afternoon—” “I had just entered Mr. Hayward’s office, intending to make my call on his phone and then clean his offices—” “Wait! You knew all along that Hayward had a gun in the bottom drawer of his desk, I suppose?” “No. I did not see it until I was ‘Letty Miller.’ I opened the drawer to thrust in a towel which was hanging out untidily, and saw the

may be. Oh, I know I sound like a girl evangelist, but ” Tony flattened her body suddenly upon the bed and laid her cheek against her chum’s. “Stop it! “You're right, and I love you enormously. I sound an awful lot like Cherry now and then, don’t 1? "She W£?s really a good sport so take two unwelcome guests the way she did. And I sunpose she’s been punished enough. Imagine losing a gorgeous young viking like Nils Jonson! “She must have been cold with fright, and tickled to death to have us as an excuse to bring her home. She can say to Nils: ‘Don’t think for a minute, young man. that I came home to see you! I had to come home to look after Crystal. I owe that much to Faith and Bob.’ Still and all. Crys, I don’t think being a close observer of the Jonson marriage is gqfng to help me get over that anti-marriage complex of mine.” The two girls lay very still for a while, their fingers interlaced, their qheeks warm against each other’s. Then Crystal drew a deep breath. “Tony—you know how I used to talk all the time about wanting to get maivied? . . % Well, now I want to be married. “there is an awful lot of difference, if you think about it hard. It was watching Fatih and Bob this morning that opened my eyes. Theirs is such a real marriage. They’re so unshakably married to each other, so deeply content, underneath little surface differences. They’re making something fine and big. I can’t *ay it without sounding Babbitty, but it’s true, all right.” (To Be Continued)

gun then. That was early last week —Monday, I believe. But even then I had no idea of ever using it. But l remembered it—later. “On Saturday afernoon I entered Mr. Hayward's office at five minutes to two, to telephone Harry as he had requested. I was happy. I thought he meant to listen to me at last.” (To Be Concluded) HOLD3NUNS IN TORTURE DEATH ‘Unseen Hands’ Mix Glass Dust With Food. BY HANS THOMAS, United Press Staff Correspondent PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March 26—A murder by prolonged medieval torture was disclosed here today after the arrest of three Borromeaus nuns said by police to have knowledge of the mysterious death of Dr. Afanasovich Cymbaloff, director of the hospital at Kuttenberg! Bohemia. A thorough investigation disclosed that Dr. Cymbaloff was murdered, police said. The investigation brought out that for a long time “unseen hands” had I mixed glass dust into his food, slow- | ly destroying his digestive organs. It also was disclosed that at the time of the director’s death his assistant physician at the hospital was seriously ill. The police discovered a book on mediaeval torture in one of the hospital wards. That furnished a clew to wprk on and later they found ground glass such as caused the death, in handbags of the three nuns. • * So far the police have been unable to establish any motive for the crime. But they were working on a theory that the nuns feared that Dr. Cymbaloff might reveal alleged irregularities on their part. The disclosures of the Cymbaloff murder, following as it does the Promenhoff murders last week, when two women were found mysteriously slain, has caused a tremendous sensation in Czechoslovakia.

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Automobiles reported .to police as stolen belong to: W. B. Byrley, 1227 Naomi street, Chevrolet coupe, 11-917, from Virginia avenue and McCarty street. Joseph E. Wilhelm, 55814 North Tremont avenue, Ford coupe, 88-024, from New Jersey and Ohio streets. Ralph Turner, New Ross, Ind., Ford coupe, 42-227, from parking space at Marmon Automobile Company, on Kentucky avenue. Reported by police department, Peru, Ind., Erskine sedan, 403-804, stolen by two men who robbed taxi driver and put him out of car in country.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: P. B. Smith Automobile Company, Capitol avenue and Georgia street, Maxwell touring, found at Rural street and Brookside drive. Normal Patterson, Rushville, Ind., Ford roadster, found at Toledo and Wabash streets. Paul Montgomery, 424 West Norwood street, Ford roadster, found at Market and New Jersey streets. Paul Montgomery, 424 West Norwood street, Ford roadster, found at Lexington and Villa avenues. Ford coupe, license M 2-107, found at Lexington and Villa avenues. Herman Jolitz, 2242 South Pennsylvania street, Chevrolet coupe (stolen in Indianapolis Feb. 10), found in Toledo, O. Overland touring, no license, no certificate of title, found at Muskingum and Cora streets. FISHERMEN TO MEET IN CHICAGO IN APRIL Plans Are Made for Convention of Izaak Walton League. Bu Times Special CHICAGO, March 26.—Preparations for the forthcoming seventh annual national convention of the Izaak Walton League of America, to be held at Chicago, April 18, 19 aifd 20, are going forward apace. The headquarters for the convention will be at the Stevens hotel, where 2,000 rooms have been reserved for delegates without regard to reservations made at other hotels. Dr. Henry Baldwin Ward of the zoology department of the University of Illinois, at Urbana, who is president of the national organization already has secured speakers of national and some of them of international reputation, who will address the contention. As the list is not yet complete the names of the speakers can not yet be announced. General Manager Fred K. Doellner at national headquarters of the league is the recipient of the enthusiastic reports showing that in many, cases large delegations are intending to attend the* convention. SMASH AT ILLITERACY 1,000,000 Women Will Be Taught to Read and Write by May 12. By Timet Special WASHINGTON, March 26.—T0 teach 1,000,000 illiterate mothers to read and write by Mother’s day—a feat to be accomplished by Sunday, May 12, is the challenge issued today to all educated people by Mm. Cora Wilson Stewart, director of the national illiteracy crusade. William Allen White is president of the crusade, and Glenn Frank, Jane Addams and Dr. John H. Finley axe among its officers.

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