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Drake. "Let's see your hand, partner," Karen quavered, addressing a woman who had been dead nearly two hours; then she shuddered: "Oh, this is too horrible!" as Penny Crain again slipped into Nita Selim's chair and prepared to lay down the dummy hand.
Willard, Sergt. Ordway and Goodrich were permitted to visit the village today; the former returned in the evening with some roots and bread, the two last remaining all night. one of our party brought in a young sandhill crain it was about the size of a pateridge and of a redish brown colour, it appeared to be about 5 or six days old; these crains are abundant in this neighbourhood.
"Now, Miss Crain, I am quite ready, if you will forgive me for having kept you waiting." In a very quiet voice slightly husky, as always Penny began her story: "I think it lacked two or three minutes of one o'clock when you drove away.
Dundee reached for his own hat, in a fever to be gone, but to his surprise the actress stopped him, a faint color in her pale cheeks. "Since you're from Hamilton, and are investigating the murder, you have undoubtedly met little Penelope Crain?" "I know her very well. It happens that she is private secretary to the district attorney, under whom I work.... Why?"
Had Penny Crain once enjoyed this delightful little sitting-room, with its tiny balcony built out upon the sloping roof?... And it gave him pleasure to think that this big, well-furnished but not fussily feminine bedroom had once been hers, as well as the small but perfect bathroom whose high narrow window overlooked the back garden.
"Of course I recognized his voice instantly when he said, 'That you, Penny? and it's a wonder I didn't scream," said Penny Crain, fighting her way up through dazed bewilderment to explain in detail, in answer to Dundee's pelting questions.
Dundee cut in, rather curtly, for he had a curious distaste for hearing Penny Crain discussed in this manner. "Sometimes we were sure she was," Miles answered. "She flirted with all of us men had a way with her of making every man she talked to think he was the only pebble on the beach. But there was something special in the way she looked at Ralph.... Yes, I think she was in love with him!
One or two looked a little ashamed, but there was not a single voice to contradict Lois Dunlap's flat assertion. "Will you please go on, Pen Miss Crain?" Dundee urged, but he had missed nothing of the little by-play. "I wish you would call me Penny so I'd feel more like a person than a witness," Penny retorted thornily. "Where was I?... Oh, yes!
A murmur of indignant approval accompanied her tirade and buzzed on for a moment after she had finished, but it ceased abruptly as Dundee spoke: "Who's conducting this investigation, Penny Crain you or I? You will kindly let me do it in my own fashion, and try to be content when I tell you that, in my humble opinion, what I propose is absolutely necessary to the solution of this case!"
"Miss Crain has already told me all about that, and a good many details of the party itself.... By the way, where is Mrs. Miles now?" "In bed. The doctor is with her. She is prostrated from the shock." "Where is this room you call the trophy room?" Dundee asked. "No, don't bother to come with me. Just point it out. It's on this floor, I understand."
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