Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1937 — Page 7
“Jill,” The Times’ new daily serial, begins today on Page 24.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
I was the following Sunday. Cilly was preparing tea in her apartment. She expected Sergt. Dolan. And Jim, of course. But Jim lived here now. They had been married the previous afternoon, with Sergt. Dolan, ironically enough, serving as best man. Just at this minute, Jim was checking their bags to the airport. Some time tomorrow they would be in Utah, to welcome Jim's father home. She peeked into the oven, to see if the biscuits had browned sufficiently. “There's nothing I like more,” Dolan had told her, “than hot biscuits for Sunday tea . . . It's not often, you know, that a tough old bachelor like myself finds anybody willing to bake them.” Well, Cilly was willing. If she lived a thousand years. she could never do enough for Sergt. Dolan. When she thought of that terrifying whirl of events the previous Thursday evening . . . the last awful second when she opened her eyes and expected to see Jim lying dead at her feet. . . . n n ”
NSTEAD it had been Hutchins whom the bullet had found—the
was always the wonder why Amy (ever kept up a friendship with him. {IT guess T must have been thinking {that when all of a sudden, like a series of flash-backs in the movies, a dozen other ideas popped into my head. Suppose it had been Hutchins hiding out in 2-A. Then everything else fitted together into a perfect picture. I had a curious feeling about him, ever since he was here Thursday evening . the wonder is that the truth didn’t dawn on me then. He was here with me [in the living room, and the outer | doorball rang. He mentioned something about a taxi for him, and walked right over to the buzzer. was surprised that he knew where to find it so quickly. It was that | familiarity with this apartment that [should have told me the story in|stantly. You'd have understood it, | Sergeant.”
» ” » OLAN shrugged. “Maybe I would and maybe I wouldn't. We can't account for the ideas that pop into our head, nor for those that pass us by.” “You remember the evening I found the Bluefields newspapers?” | Cilly went on. "They were thrown down the incinerator just a few minutes after Hutchins was here with me. He went upstairs immediately and cleared out any evi- | dence, I suppose. He came here twice | just to find out from me how the | case was going, to gloat, perhaps,
self-opinionated, superior Harry | shah he was getting awhy with jt so
Hutchins. She saw the stream of | red dripping from his hand, the] gun on the floor where dropped it. side the shattered glass of Ames
& Wakefield's front door, s or Sd | check on the phone call, Sergeant?”
Dolan, his
smoking.
service revolver
nicely. It was that telephone message he worked so neatly, and the
he hag | trip that night to Connecticut to And behind her, out-| Mail the note from a Mrs, Elliot to
Mr. Johnson, so you wouldn't investigate her apartment. . . . Did vou
“Yes, it was just as you thought.
It was no less than a miracle. | Hutchins rushed down from the
Not only once, but twice that eve- |
ning, Dolan had appeared at the | very second when he was heeded. . . . And now Harry saf=ly behind bars.
# " »
E didn’t stand a chance. The cards were stacked against The evidence Amy had left behind her was complete: There was the perfect activities, from the moment he stepped from the Utah plane three days following the theft of the bonds , . . the record of the hotel he had gone to immediately, the affidavit of the landlady in whose house he had lived next . the various transactions in disposing of the bonds, one at a time. Everything was there, except the final proof that he and the man Worth were one and the same. Once he was taken into custody, that was easily estab-| lished. A dozen people from the] bank identified the photographs which the police rushed to Blue-| fields, For the thousandth time, Cilly| asked herself why the truth had not | dawned on her before. What other reason would a girl like Amy Kerr have for pursuing a friendship with the man, if it weren't because in that way she could keep a close] check on him? She had acted her part so thoroughly. ” n =
N fact, her entire investigation was a marvel of intelligence work. | Sergt. Dolan himself remarked that. No special investigator, no group of investigators, could have done more. The discovery, for example, that | Hutchins was about to leave Chicago, when Amy arranged to be on the same train with him and strike | up an acquaintance. “Well,” as Dolan said, “it took nerve and | brains. To think such a girl was | done in .. That was the tragedy of it. Amy had done it all, single-handed, and given her life for it. Infortunately, however, she could not know when it was that Hutch- | ins finally became suspicious of her. Probably not until a few months previous, when, under the name and appearance of the elderly Mrs. El- | liot, he had taken the vacant fur- | nished apartment above to watch | her,
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ILLY took the biscuits, browned | to a golden crispness, out of | the oven. If Jim and the Sergeant | would only be on time ves, | here they were now, together. She | saw them through the kitchen | window. “Everything is nounced. Sergeant, be stone cold. right away.”
Hutchins was
him,
she anminutes,
ready,” “Another five
It was a very special feast — a |
combined wedding supper, thanksgiving and bon voyage sei. d-off. Sergeant Dolan contributed the flowers, a glorious corsage of orchids And after dinner
to the strange case.
“Say, how did you actually dis- |
cover Hutchins whs the man?” Dolan asked Cilly. “I don’t really know. Of course. somewhere in the back of my mind
sequence of his |
| otherwise—"
{ honest.
| to Mrs.
| fully.
and your biscuits would | . Come, sit down |
the | three talked long, finally returning
( roof and phoned Gloria Harmon from the apartment upstairs. Then,
most | after he got away from here, he hur-
| ried back to his hotel and recorded the call himself on the switchboard | operator’s pad. Neither of the night operators remembered doing it.” | “$. 8 0 i-*e WAS sure of that!” Cilly exclaimed. “Remember that hotel, Jim? We had dinner there one evening. It's such a small | place, and I guess there's only one | man on duty at night, to run the | elevator and handle the | board and sit at the desk. simple for Hutchins to write the (number down himself. Probably just about that time—1 o'clock or | so—there's a change of operators (anyway. Of course, you'd have dis- | covered it anyway, Sergeant, as soon | as the telephone bills came through.” Dolan shook his head. “I doubt it. If we definitely suspected him. | we could check, of course, but He shrugged. “The hotel operator would never say | anything about it. That would be reminding the telephone company that they'd forgotten to charge for one call, and few people are that There'd be no special record of it on the telephone bill Elliot because it was a local call from here. No, I don't
|
switchIt was
| think we'd ever have caught him
on slick.
the telephone slip-up. He's He figures things out careI worked all Friday trying to get somebody at the Ralston to identify him; he was there, I know it, to plant the bonds and that blue belt, but not a soul saw him. Oh, he'd have gotten away with the whole thing, if it weren't for that evidence in the safety deposit
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box. What bothers me is the reason he didn't try to get it sooner. Don’t you suppose, Jim, that he heard Amy tell you about it up on the roof?” ” 2 2
IM shook his head. ‘He couldn't have heard everything we said.
We were over near the edge, you |
one of the furnace stacks. We'd have seen him otherwise . . .” His voice trembled, and he lowered his eyes, as if to hide a guilt. He would always feel this guilt, whenever his meeting with Amy on the roof was mentioned. He felt personally responsible, as if he alone had lured her to her death. Dolan laid a sympathetic arm across his shoulder, ‘Try to forget it happened, Jim,” Dolan urged, very Kindly. He folded his napkin laboriously, cleared his throat. Then, in the brusque, severe voice that had so often frightened Cilly, he added:
“Well, I enjoyed the supper Lh best biscuits I ever ate, Priscilla.
see, and he must have been behind | What a girl you are! Smart, good-
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looking, and a good cook besides! Say, if ever the old man doesn't treat you right, just remember me, will you?” He grinned, and they all got up from the table, A few minutes later, Cilly and Jim, arm in arm, watched him from the window as he disappeared down the street.
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