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CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE—heroine, woman attorney. AMY KERR—Cilly’s murderer’s victim. JIM KERRIGAN—Cilly’s fiance. HARRY HUTCHINS—Amy’s visitor. . | SERGT. DOLAN—officer assigned to solves the murder of Amy Kerr.

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Yesterday: The web of circumstantial evidence tightens: around Kerrigan when Dolan points out that he might have been on the roof and hidden afterward in Cilly’s apartment until the confusion died down!

CHAPTER TEN

"WE not holding anybody yet, “Sergt. Dolan told Cilly as he and Martin were leaving. “I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody else in the house, to be on hand for a call down to headquarters. I'll be nonest with you, Miss Pierce, the one I'm most interested in is your friend Kerrigan. I'd like to know the reason he asked that girl up on the rvof with him. When I find that out ... well, we'll be seeing you.” As soon as they were gone, Cilly went back into the living room and looked into the Cloisonne vase for the newspaper clipping. She took it into the kitchen and held

it over the flame on the gas stove |

until it disappeared inte a fragment of black ash. Then she took Jim’s postcard from underneath her pillow and did the same thing with that. The words on the card dance before her eyes as the flames spread around them. “Taking the first plane I can make. Love. Jim.” ” ” ” HE hot gas flame scorched her fingers, but she held on until the card was nothing more than a mystifying memory. She breathed a great deal easier when both tasks had been done. It was 11:30 by the banjo clock in the living room when Cilly was ready to leave the apartment. Only 12 hours since the four of them had stood in this very room, laugh=ing and happy. Only 12 hours, yet one of them was dead and another had vanished in a cloud of mystery. What was behind it all?

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F AMY and Jim had known each other previously, as Jim’s note would seem to indicate, why hadn’t Amy mentioned it to Cilly before? Certainly she had heard Cilly mention his name enough. For that matter, she had spoken frequently to Jim about the friend who shared her apartment — Amy Kerr. If he knew her, why hadn't he said so? She suddenly remembered something she had quite overlooked. It wasn’t altogether her idea that the four of them get together last evening in order that they might become better acquainted. It had been equally Jim’s idea. He had, she recalled now, often asked her how she was getting on with the new friend who was sharing her apartment. What was she like? Where did she coms from? Casual questions, to be sure. They became important now only in the light of what had happened. Did Amy, as Cilly discussed her, seem familiar to Jim? Was her name familiar? If so, why hadn't he said: “I knew a girl once named Amy Kerr.” And if Jim knew Amy, how did it happen that Amy had not recogCilly .had mentioned it often enough at home. ” ” 2 : ILLY tried to figure it out as .she walked to the subway. Somehow it was easier to think clearly once she was out of the house. Perhaps there was something Amy had wanted hidden . . . prison, perhaps. That was why she tried to wipe out the past four years . . . why she still spoke of an Aunt Harriet who had passed away. Because she feared to speak of where she had been after she left Aunt Harriet, lest her secret slip out. ‘ Then the one all-important question returned. What did Amy's past life have to do with Jim Kerrigan? No matter what new track Cilly’s thoughts started out on, they invariably came back to that one vital problem. What was the secret which linked Jim and Amy? What had happened in Utah? In Bluefields, Utah. ; Jim had never mentioned Utah. He spoke of Chicago, for that was where he came from. He spoke of his father, whom Cilly understood to be in Chicago. He spoke of Mr. Maddox, the publisher of the Midwest Review, and a friend of his father’s who had given him a job as Eastern representative because of that friendship. He spoke of his mother, who died when he was only 12. He spoke of summer vacations on a ranch with his father, and Cilly could sense the deep bond between these two. “You'd love my dad, Cilly,” he had said one time, “Gee, how I'd like you to meet him . . .” and then his voice had grown suddenly wistful. s ”n ” ” HERE was no mystery to Jim. Cilly was certain of that. He'd only been in New York a few months, whereas Cilly had lived here always, as had her parents, and her grandparents before them. But that was unusual. Nine out of every 10 people you meet in New York came from the West or the South or from New England. It was after one o'clock when Cilly left the funeral parlors. And each time a shoulder brushed hers in the crowded streets, she started so violently that her own pounding heart-beats threatened to choke her. She was in no mood to put her mind on the work at the office which awaited her. She would have to turn ‘the Harvey brief over to someone else. It was a disappointment not to be able to finish it herself; Mr. Crowell ha given it to her especially. ;

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i= the circumstances, however, there was nothing else to do. Tomorrow she would have to be out for Amy’s funeral. And during the next few days, there would inevitably be many more conferences with Sergt. Dolan, or summons from him to appear at police headuarters. It would be much better . if she forgot the Harvey brief, and -adjusted her wark at the office so

that it would not require any immediate attention on her part. As she entered the Cannon Building, she was surprised to see Harvey Ames directly ahead of her. He stopped at the newsstand to buy a paper; Cilly noticed that it was the early afternoon edition. She wondered if any news of Amy’s death had appeared as yet. Mr. Ames turned toward the elevators and saw her. “Hello, Miss Pierce,” he greeted pleasantly. “Where’s my worthy secretary keeping herself today?” Evidently Sergt. Dolan had not seep him yet. “You haven't heard?” Cilly aske hesitantly. : “Heard what?” “Amy was killed last night, Mr. Ames.” “What?” “She fell from the roof of our apartment house.” Let the police, she decided, tell him that it was a murder.

2 ® » < R. AMES gasped. He stared, I open-mouthed, at Cilly. “You don’t mean—she wasn’t— that girl?” His words were jerky, nervous. . “What girl, Mr. Ames?” “That girl—in Brooklyn. St. Ann's

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-stupidly. “Why, I saw it in the

pared for the manner in which Harvey Ames took the news of Amy’s death. That he would be surprised, even a little stunned, she well expected. But he acted like a man suddenly stricken. His face blanched, he leaned against the wall as if to support himself. His dark eyes bulged. His collar choked him; he slipped one long finger underneath to loosen it. Harvey Ames was more than surprised at the news of his secretary’s death. He was terrified.

" » ” “ ow did you know, Mr. Ames?” Cilly asked him. “How did I know?” he repeated

paper. In this mornin’s paper, of course.” J That was a lie, and Cilly knew it. There had been nothing about Amy’s death in the morning papers. They were already printed and on the newsstands by midnight. If Mr. Ames had not been so surprisingly shaken, he would have realized that. The first details of the tragedy would, at the very earliest, be in the afternoon edition of the evening papers. And that edition Harvey Ames was holding in his hand. He had not opened it yet.

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RETTY, little Mrs. Bradly sat opposite her husband at the breakfast table and with an aggrieved air, buttered toast and poured out steaming coffee. It was inexcusable, she thought, for Mr. Bradly to appear before her at the table with his straight hair tossed every which way and his chin still unshaven! But the worst part of it was, he paid no attention at all to her when she spoke and just kept his head buried behind lhe morning's newspaper. Really, ne was an exasperating man.

After nearly three years of married life it was evident that Mr. Bradly was growing tired of her. Well, she admitted, she was growing tired of him, also. He was getting bald and disgustingly fat. Of course, she assured herself, his looks didn’t really matter. It was his indifferent attitude that irritated her. He was beginning to take her too much for granted. ” ” ”

FTER Mr. Bradly’s hurried departure for work, Mrs. Bradly went about the house doing the usual routine of work. Next Monday would be their third wedding anniversary and she vaguely wondered if her husband would remember it. Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a loud knock on the back door and she hurried through the tiny apartment to admit Bill Cole, the iceman. Bill was as handsome and as jovial as ever this morning and as always he set little Mrs. Bradly’s heart beating a trifle faster. She watched him admiringly as he took an unusually long time in putting the ice in the icebox.

How good-looking he was and what broad, powerful shoulders he had. How utterly different he was from Mr. Bradly. Bill Cole didn’t look at her as though he took her for granted. Not by a long shot. Bill Cole liked and admired her and he showed it, too. She paid him his money and with an entrancing smile assured him that she would be needing ice again on Monday. At the door he hesitated and then casually said to her: .

Mind Your “Manners

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative’ answers below: 1. Is it good form to announce dinner by saying “dinner is ready? 2. Should a woman guest at a small informal dinner in a friend’s house keep on her hat? 3. Should one invite guests informally for dinner and tell them to come at “about six?” 4. At a small party of six or 10 guests would each person be introduced as he arrives? 5. Is it good taste to continually speak of one’s husband as “he”? What would you do if—

Your husband wishes to invite as a house guest a friend of his whom you do not know? Should the invitation be sent out by— A. You? B. Your husband? C. In both of your names?

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“QAY, I've got two tickets for a theater Saturday night, and I was wondering if you'd like to go with me?” Mrs. Bradly gave a delighted little laugh. This was so very, very sudden. She wondered what Mr. Bradley would think if he heard that? And what nerve Bill Cole had to ask her! Didn't he know that she was a respectable married woman? But maybe’ he knew, too, that respectable married women sometimes. grew tired of their husbands, just as she was growing tired of Mr. Bradly. “Why, I really couldn't decide right now, but when you bring the ice on Monday I’ll give you my answer,” she told him. He seemed pleased with that and then, a smile, and he was gone, leaving her amazed and not a little pleased. Immediately, she hurried to look at her reflection in the mirror and what she saw there made her smile with pleasure. At 29 shé was as younglooking and as attractive as ever. It really was no wonder that Bill Cole took a fancy to her. But, of course, she wouldn't go out with him! However, it was very nice to think of it. Oh yes, it was very nice to think that someone liked and admired her. And the more Mrs. Bradly thought of it the more she liked it.

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T would indeed be fun to go to the theater with Bill Cole. Mr. Bradly didn’t like theaters. and never went with her. Well, she could easily tell Mr. Bradly she was going alone and then meet Bill Cole on the corner. Oh, but no, she wouldn't do that! It would be deceitful to Mr. Bradly and Mrs. Bradly just couldn’t be deceitful. The week-end dragged by slowly. Finally Monday morning came. Mr. Bradly appeared at the breakfast table, dressed neatly and clean shaven, but Mrs. Bradly didn’t notice. Her thoughts weren't on her husband.

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D° you know what day this ? is?) he demanded as he sat down. Mrs. Bradly was about to say that it was Monday and that Bill Cole was coming for his answer, but she checked herself in time. ‘Why, it’s our third anniversary,” she said. ‘How odd that I had for-

gotten.” : “That's a sign youre growing

she did all in her power to hurry her husband off to work early, for she had a lot of work to do before Bill Cole’s arrival. . ‘When the door had slammed behind Mr. Bradly she gave a sigh of relief and then raced through the tiny apartment, picking up the scattered papers from the parlor, making the bed and finally washing the breakfast dishes. When she was all through she took a cold shower and dressed with extra care. She chose a pretty blue morning frock which set off her blue eyes and blond beauty to perfection At last she was all ready and with nothing to do but to put out the ice card and wait until she heard him coming. ” ”® ”

Foren minutes passed, which seemed like hours to Mrs. Bradly. The only sounds through the tiny apartment were the ticking of the clock and the clicking of her high-heeled pumps as she paced back and forth on the linoleum. Again and again she powdered her nose and gave a little push to her wavy hair, After what seemed like an eterinty she heard someone coming up the back steps and then a loud knock on the door. Surely, it was he! Litfle Mrs. Bradly’s heart was pounding as she walked across the floor and opened the door. She gave a startled little Oh!” For where was the handsome, smiling Bill, and who was this ugly, power-ful-looking man in overalls? And why had he taken down the ice card? “You won't need this card any-

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