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Four light trucks had preceded her with case goods, for Ragtown's store, she supposed. But the remainder of the fleet remained idle at Julia, and seemed to have no business. Jo was reasonably sure that, for old friendship's sake, Philip Demarest would see to it that she got all of his hauling, providing she could make deliveries to his satisfaction.
Philip Demarest was a large, portly man, with a ruddy, red face, blue-veined and kindly. He had come up from the grade, and was eminently proud of his successful climb. For thirty minutes he refused positively to talk business.
"Let her see for herself," he suggested, with a bland, almost fatherly, air. Doctor Golden took the book and approached Miss Demarest. "Here is a name very unlike yours," he pointed out, as her eye fell on the page he had opened to. "Annette Colvin, Lansing, Michigan." "That is not my name or writing," said she.
Demarest was seriously disturbed by the situation that had developed. He was under great personal obligations to Edward Gilder, whose influence in fact had been the prime cause of his success in attaining to the important official position he now held, and he would have gone far to serve the magnate in any difficulty that might arise.
"My men were just outside the door of the room where Eddie Griggs was shot to death, and none of 'em heard a sound. It's that infernal silencer thing. Of course, I know that all the gang was in the house." "But tell me just how you know that fact," Demarest objected very crisply. "Did you see them go in?" "No, I didn't," the Inspector admitted, tartly. "But Griggs "
The official's voice was charged with threatening as he went on. "And some one, man or woman, is going to pay for it!" "Woman?" Demarest repeated, in some astonishment. Burke's voice came merciless. "I mean, Mary Turner," he said slowly. Demarest was shocked. "But, Burke," he expostulated, "she's not that sort." The Inspector sneered openly. "How do you know she ain't?" he demanded.
Demarest put up a hand to conceal his smile over the police official's chagrin. Gilder, staring always at this woman who had come to be his Nemesis, was marveling over the beauty and verve of the one so hating him as to plan the ruin of his life and his son's. Burke was frantic over being worsted thus. To gain a diversion, he reverted to his familiar bullying tactics. His question burst raspingly.
The latter turned on him suddenly. "None of your insinuations," he cried. "She's as far from insane as I am myself. We shall find the room." "You, too," fell softly from the other's lips as he stepped back into the coroner's wake. Mr. Hammersmith gave his arm to Miss Demarest, and the landlady brought up the rear. "Upstairs," ordered the trembling girl. "We will go first to the room I occupied."
A platoon of poplars guards the river, and little pink almond bushes spring out of patches of violets. Miss Wilcox, calling herself Mrs. Demarest, lives in a charming old house surrounded by box hedges, paved paths lead through beds of old-fashioned sweet-scented flowers, stocks and wall flowers and mignonette and moss roses, lavender, myrtle, thyme and sweet geranium. Mr.
Miss Demarest visited her mother in Number 3 and noticed the room well, and particularly the paper. Now if she is able to describe that paper, it might not be so easy for us to have our story believed." For a minute all stood aghast, then Jake quietly remarked: "It is now one by the clock.
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