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•■Alone?” Dundee asked quickly.
"Yes. quite alone. The roof could ! !
he hcbu used hv by nnv any tenants of the j
building, of course, but there was j
no one at all but Phyllis when
found her. j
No one whom you saw. you:
mean?' Dundee corrected her. !
amended "I saw coldly. no one; ".Naturally 'Mrs. Lambrrtj I did I
not search the roof. I was - inter- I
ested only hi Phyllis. I lound iter I
seated on a stone bench near the!
coping which surrounded thq roof. I
fihe was weeping quietly, and X
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soothed her as best I could—”
"You asked her what was wrong? !
course, but she just shook 1
r heacJ Finally she began to;
laugh hysterically at herself, called
herself a little fool for behaving |
she was doing, and asked me to)
f ° down and send Seymour up fo|
her. Site said she had something
to veil him •
"She did not tell you what it I
was?”
"No. There was no need. I knew I
what was wrong, or believed I did ” I
sterical. "Simply because that she of was her condition?' ill and hy-'j
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GRIFFIN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 19:10
then: "Yes. I can give you no oth
er reason whatsoever.”
"Mrs. Lambert, did Phyllis threa
ten ^ commit suicide?”
"Certainly not. or I should noi
havP ] e ft her alone for a moment!"
Mrs. Lambert replied indignantly,
- j went, to give the message to Sev
mour and lie was delighted. He
believed the bad times were over.
Then I immediately went to Phyl
lis’s room and asked Doris to take !
up a w rap to her mistress, since i .
was turning quite, cold. X then went
to my own room and was undressing
for bed when I became aware of a
eommoticn in the street below. I
was trying to see what the
was, when Doris came
into my room, saving
'Yes Mrs. Lambert," Dundee said
gently, as the woman began to ween
silently, the tears runnilig down
her whit? cheeks. ‘Will you
me now if Doris ever—then or lat
er -confided her suspicions to you.
wiw.!ii^7h.’ .; ^ r~r^r-owrr-.
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Its Crosby s suicide?"
Mrs, Lambert’s eyes f!e\y wide
to stare at the detective incredul
ously. "Dorks? Suspicions?" she re
peated. "I don't know what you
mean. I am sure Doris knew’ no
more about Phyllis’s suicide than I
did, or than Seymour Crosby knew."
"Probaby no more, but as much
Mrs. Lambert!" Dundee retorted
significantly.
"Don’t mind him. Tixh!” Gic:
cried! stroking the pale ch.ek of
her. friend consolingly. Then to
Dundee she biased: "Can you blame
her if she fibs a little to protect
Phyllis Crosby's memory from scan -
dal?"
“X have told nothing but the truth
Giei." Mrs. Lambert said wearily.
"You were at the inquest, of
course,” Dundee persisted. "You
heard her father's testimony. Kr
on his wav to see his daughter
and take her home when she died
1 believe."
"Yea,” Mrs. Lambert admitted,
with sudden spirit: "Hut .1 believ-1
ed then and I -siill believe that Cub
len Benham- was lying. He had
consented to . her marriage to Mr.
Crosby, but he very mistakenly be
lieved that Seymour was marrying
Phyllis for her father’s money. Mr.
Beolvam said-be had received a let
from PhylUs. -s-sta# nq him to cti
bit: her $25,000 raid to Lt her cor if
home. But -he could not produce be
letter: said it had rio. troyro
1 don’t believe
“Yet,” Dundee "interrupted. "Mr.
Benham was on a ship h t t rrylnft
to his daughter's side, when she
was killed."
"When she commitliil suicide'
Mrs. Lambert corrected him. ,
"Pardon! And Mr. Benham had
unquestionably cabled his daueh
ter these words: ’Not another.cent
Come home,'" he reminded her.
"If she had ask'd his permission
come home. I fail to see why he did
not wait for her in New York,” Mr.-;,,
Lambert pointed out.
"Possibly lie wanted *o deal-per
ronally with the man who had made
her so unhappy." Dundee suggest
ed. Then, as Mrs. Lambert expres
: ?d her scorn only w ith her blazing
"Will you tell me whether
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jealous, or hud cause to be jealous
of any other woman?"
No! I ratTswrtir that such a
thought never entered Phyllis’s
head!"
Dundee wns silent tor a while, hi.
P y es narrowed in th ought Then:
. Dic) yon spp 1>)rls tt f> Pr thu
uu< , s( Mr.* ' '■ i,imberl?"
——, "No, not luiliT sTfF to
exnic 'sre
me upon my return to New York."
she answered "Her mistress death
was a terrible blow to Doris, and at
ter the strain of the inquest she col
lapsed. The papers said that site
wrnt to the home of an aunt. In
a London suburb - I r.inde a note
of. (he iiunt'r name and address and
: pi-; rinwev and delicacies
there, but did not go to see, her. .situ t
I myself was suffering from the
strain and iorm gfief. I went in
little village in the .south of France
and remained there,^ in seclusion,
until I .sailed for America early .hi
August.”
"Did _
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that lime?"
‘No. but I liaeVSeveral letters from]
RTiSr Hr was traveling over the
Continent, making 'a breve efnort r. j j
conquer his despair. For several
months I feared he would follow!
j PhylUs. Ww 1 said and everythinK m my own I letters could, to*
• te
mnke him happier."
"And yet. just 16 months after hh
wife's death. Seymour Crosby be
t>OH»r g '' Piiga« f< l u> be-wwrrlad io . an
other girl." Dundee reminded hei
: "No lair!" Otel proteste d, ma k
ing a Lire a, the detective and
j embrace rowing deeper "I've Into always Mrs. heard Lambert's that
widowers who were crazy aboqj thru
I wives get married again quick."
j Mrs. Lambert smiled dropped a
stateful kiss upon tne
j brown curls then explained to D un
dee:
••It wa.i r who infrodueec! him
Clorinda. and I who cm onraged him
i to try to titiri johive in n new
tilth a girl whom I esteem highly
When I wrote K Sevmour that 1 was.
1 nturnin? to America, he replied
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that he too was homesick. and
would join mo on tho Mauretania
On shipboard I became acquainted
with Mrs Berkeley and her da-ugh
ter^ansOntroduced them to Mr
Crosby. Seymour and Clorlnda were
obviously congenial from the
was temite.stuously I should not in vuy loti that eithei .Mr* j
beikeli : encouraged the attract n.
I bet she'did!" Qtg) giggl ed
Again Mr ,. LainberT^yniued rT
expression which made her look
most like a girl again, arid
beautiful "When it became fairly
obvious that an engagement would
result. Mr Berkeley begged, me
the ixist oi social secretary
I had never worked for n ow <n
my life and the pn -pect dis:.. vn!
me. but " she lit stated, ;in-n flung
her ilver-crowned head
1 '’- "The small remnant of my dead
hu.-band' estate was almost con.
exhausteri and it w-s. no
etsary lor tne to earn, money in some
Wi,v
Witv didn't you get married
Established JH7‘J
again yourself; Tb.h?'' Qlgt Isegan
eagerly You’re so beautiful and
such a lamb I should think every
plutocrat that looked at you—"
Mrs Lambert V delicate cheek*
flamed and 'he .tonped the nub
of wnros °V Living a handover til*
<’hMd> month I ececpted the peel
iion and Mrs Berkeley asked me to
begin my duties by engaging a b«t
ler and thoroughly Competent
te rsc i I,-aa^._Cl*>.rinf
!i l .had Itad .* letter from Wick
ftl wh,lp 1 WB * stin *u Prance, tell*
in * *>ie that he wa* returning to
America, and .v.-ng ha: he want
M ’ ;p, '“ nu ' ‘ I should again set
U * 1 ' '.nn.-hnunl On my ar
ri y al ir ’ Nl ’ w York 1 locate«l Wick
'**' Nnough an t -npioynent bureau
I an< * off( ‘red him (his port, which bt
®5 ce|),M * A day or so later ire wut
| DorUl 10 n), ‘ She was employed
on a Dine Island estate, but v nhed
ao.be wttti Wlekett again.”
; She simply adored you!’ Givi ret
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