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I was almost as ignorant of what I wanted to know at ten o'clock on that memorable night as I was at five, but I was determined not to remain so. When the two Misses Van Burnam had retired to their room, I slipped away to the neighboring house and boldly rang the bell. I had observed Mr. Gryce enter it a few minutes before, and I was resolved to have some talk with him.
Van Burnam, of whom does the firm doing business under the name of Van Burnam & Sons consist?" "Of the three persons mentioned." "No others?" "No." "Has there ever been in your hearing any threat made by the senior partner of dissolving this firm as it stands?"
Burnam sat waiting to welcome him, as the friend of her young nephew. "Who's that going in at our house?" Mr. Fisher had asked, peering over the top of the pile of bundles in his arms. "It looks like Dr. Brownlee; but why should he be going there?" "Oh, dear; I hope it isn't anybody coming to call," sighed his wife, with the inhospitality born of a long day of tedious, unsatisfactory shopping.
I have seen nothing of either of them since." "Did either of them take a trunk?" "No, sir." "A hand-bag?" "Yes; Mrs. Van Burnam carried a bag, but it was a very small one." "Large enough to hold a dress?" "O no, sir." "And Mr. Van Burnam?" "He carried an umbrella; I saw nothing else." "Why did they not leave together? Did you hear any one say?" "Yes; I heard them say Mrs.
"I found it lying with a pair of gloves tucked inside it on an otherwise empty shelf in the dining-room closet. It struck me as looking too new for a discarded hat of either of the Misses Van Burnam. What do you think?" "Let me take it," said I. "O, it's been worn," he smiled, "several times. And the hat-pin is in it, too." "There is something else I wish to see." He handed it over.
Allie glanced thoughtfully about the pretty room, and out at her baby brother; then she turned back to her mother again, as Mrs. Burnam asked, "How do you mean, Allie?" "Why, after all our camping and fun, it seems good to sit down and visit a little, mammy. Don't you see, we haven't had a chance for ever so long, not since Charlie was hurt; and I enjoy it, once in a while.
They needed prodding now and then, and this is the way he prodded them. As soon as they gave signs of recognizing the hint he gave them, he turned back, and renewed his examination in these words: "Mr. Van Burnam, did your brother at your request hand you the keys of your father's house on the morning of the day on which this tragedy occurred?" "He did." "Have you those keys now?" "I have not."
That was before her marriage; before she had met either Howard or Franklin Van Burnam." I was so overwhelmed, that for once I found difficulty in speaking. I glanced from her to the white form in the shrouded bed, and back again in ever-growing astonishment and dismay. "You have seen her!"
"However much I may be needed at home, I I cannot reconcile it with my sense of duty to leave just yet," I confided to the reporter, with what I meant to be a proper show of reason and self-restraint; "Mr. Van Burnam may wish to ask me some questions." "Of course, of course," acquiesced the other. "You are very right; always are very right, I should judge."
All we want to know now is whether you can assert from any knowledge you have or from anything to be noted in the body itself, that it is not Mrs. Howard Van Burnam?" "I cannot." And with this solemn assertion his examination closed. The remainder of the day was taken up in trying to prove a similarity between Mrs. Van Burnam's handwriting and that of Mrs.
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