South Bend News-Times, Volume 30, Number 287, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1913 — Page 4

4 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1913. THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES.

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V illUL liOV JllM hor interminable journey across the room. It occurred to her that however she finished and tied this complex web of hers, these mlsht be the last smiles on his lips tor many a weary day. He sat facing the door; he perceived her liirst; he rose with an expression of real surprise and pleasure. "Why, Mrs. Le Grange! How did you Kct here?" he said. Uut now his eye caught Betsy-Barbara. he, too. had risen, ns one who acts at last after Ion?,' strain of repression. Her color came and went; she was looking at Rosalie and then back at ilstrilla. "Miss Lane," said Rosalie in a quiet meaning voice, "we'll excuse you. Take you coat, dear." Kstrilla opened his mouth as though to protest, made an jnarticulate sound, stopped. A green tine came over his face; beginning at his mouth, it crawled upward until it enveloped his eyes, as a cloud-shadow creeps across a landscape. He leaned forward; his hands touched the table; and so he steadied himself. Rut never once did he turn toward BetsyBarbara, now vanishing almost at a run. His eyes were on Rosalie. "What does this mean?" he asked. "It means first that you had better sit down." she said. "The waiter's lookin' this way. A man in your position can't afford to make a scene in a public place." Kstrilla sank with an unsteady motion into his chair. At this physical support, he seemed to Krip his nerve. "What do you mean by my position? Whv do you come this wav Why " "Listen. First of all. I'm your friend. Cot that ri?:ht away! I'm here to heip you. An I'm In a hurry. So are you. Remember to hold on to yourself while I tell you what I've j;ot to tell. The police have your sister. By tonight they'll bo after you." Kstrilla pripped the arm of , his chair; the green shade crept back. He moistened his lips once or twice with his tonsue. "Remember!" went on Rosalie tindr her voice, "no scene. Hold on to yourself. Makin one now is the last thin you oui;ht to do. Is the bill paid? All rit'ht. Now pet your hat. Now put on your ulster. Yes, your loves an vour stick!" Kstrilla obeveil n,.r docilely. .now come wun me irito th. ti irl.' it" ifer liPivnitsp w can watch." "But my sister I don't care for myself I must so to " "I'm here," said Rosalie Le Ctranpe. "to do what I can for you nn' your si-ter both. Now come, I tell you or will you kcp on beln n fool?" At this dash of mental cold water, he r s . Rcsalie walked close behind him. ready to support him should he .Ktapi:fr. Outside, a park foot-policeman walked slowly down the path. Kstrilla saw him, started, hesitated. "Not unless you make a scene!" cried llcscdle. anticipating hia thought.

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' ' - i HE, AA'D toW) MAM ousr "I'm not arresting you can't you understand that?" She hurried him to a lonely park bench, half hidden in the shrubbery. When she turned to look him full in the face apain, his color was normal; he had regained his prlp. And he spoke with a touch of his old boyish Insouciance. "This is a litle melodrama you are stapingr, Mrs. Le Grange? Am I the hero or the villian?" "I expected you to be suspicious an' try to bluff this through." said Rosalie in her most matter-of-fact tone, "that's why I stole this note an' brought it here." She had been keeping her hands in her muff. She drew them out, now, and handed him tho vital paper: 4,I am telling to the police all I know of my part and my brother's part in the death of Capt. John H. Ilanska. I have confessed that we followed him to America to pet my jewels, and that It was my brother Juan who appeared to have stabbed him. "Margarita Perez." He read it. As he looked up he was still master of himself, but Rosalie could percieve behind his maska kind of vibration, an Inner agitation of all his nerves. Suddenly one. of his legs began to move as though the great muscles of the thigh were twitching. But his will still mastered his voice. "Margarita Perez who is she?" "She is your sister. You are Juan Perez not Kstrilla. You are from Port of Spain. You came hero to follow Capt. Hanska " "Where did you hear this?" inquired Kstrilla, with a pitiful attempt to put sarcasm into his voice. "I have been listening to her confession," replied Rosalie calmly. "She told the police after she signed that paper how you went into Capt. Hanska's room at night family jewels, how that on his strong-box woke to get your trick alarm him up, an how you killed him " But Juan Estrilla had leaped up now as though his nerves would be denied no longer. . "You are hero to betray me I know it now!" he said. Somewhere, somehow, the native cunning of him kept his voice low. To one passing, his action would have seemed but the gesture of heated argument. "You are a spy! She did not tell that she knows I did not kill him!" He stood shaking. "But what are you? Have the police sent you " "Now, Mr. Kstrilla," aaid Rosalie, in her most soothing tone, "I'm poin' to answer a lot that's in your mind before We sit right down an pet to cases. In the first place, we're alone here in the park. You're a young man an I'm an old woman. If you wanted to, you could pet away from me right now easiest thing you knowto duck into that shrubbery an run. If I was a female policeman comin' to git a confession an' then pinch you. do you suppose I'd go at it this way? Do you suppose I'd bepin by breakin' the news to you an pivin' you a chance to run before I learned anythin at all? You've been a fool all this time, Mr. Perez. Don't cap it all by delayin. when time is as valuable as it is." "How did you know where to find me if you aren't a spy?" said Kstrilla. "I sugpected this trouble was comin'," replied Rosalie I? Grange. "I sent Miss Lane to deliver you here at 5 o'clock because lts an out-of-the-way place an' quiet, .it down." Estrilla shook as he resumed his seat. "Do8 she know?" ho asked.

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