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Then, beginning with the death of Hiram Holladay, I laid the case before her, step by step. She listened with clasped hands and intent face, not speaking till I had finished. Then she leaned back in her chair with a long sigh. "Why, it's horrible!" she breathed. "Horrible and dreadfully puzzling. You haven't told me your explanation yet, Mr. Lester."
"I don't have to think!" she retorted sharply, with a toss of her head. "Miss Holladay hasn't any dark green gown nor light one, either. She never wears green she doesn't like it it doesn't suit her." "That will do," said Mr. Royce, and the girl went back to the witness room without understanding in the least the meaning of the questions.
We must remember, however, that Rogers's office was not brilliantly lighted, and that he merely glanced at her. Still, whatever minor differences there may have been, she had the air, the general appearance, the look of Miss Holladay. Mere facial resemblance may happen in a hundred ways, by chance; but the air, the look, the 'altogether' is very different it indicates a blood relationship.
At any rate, Miss Holladay had awaited her return, had noticed her agitation; had, perhaps, even seen certain marks of blood upon her. The news of her father's death had pointed all too clearly to what that agitation and those blood-spots meant. She had remained silent that she might not besmirch her father's name, and also, perhaps, that she might protect the other woman.
The old man glanced at me and bowed toward another door. I saw it was a private office and entered it. The door swung shut behind me. There was another old man sitting at a desk, sharpening a pencil." "'Is it you, Frances? he asked. "'No, I said, stepping before him. 'It is her sister, Monsieur Holladay!
Royce curtly; and without answering, the woman turned and led the way up the stair and to her mistress's room. Miss Holladay was lying back in a great chair with a bandage about her head, and even in the half-light I could see how changed she was. She seemed much thinner and older, and coughed occasionally in a way that frightened me.
In the meantime gold was discovered in Idaho and Montana, and Holladay, encouraged by his big subsidy from the Government, put stage lines into Virginia City, Montana, and Boise City, Idaho. In 1866 the Butterfield Overland Despatch, an express and fast freight line, was started above the Smoky Hill route from Topeka and Leavenworth across Kansas to Denver.
"Now, Mr. Rogers, how long a time elapsed after the departure of the woman before you went back into the inner office?" "Not more than three or four minutes. I thought perhaps Mr. Holladay was getting ready to accompany his daughter, and I didn't wish to detain him." "And you found him, as you say, lying forward across his desk with a knife in his throat and the blood spurting out.
"Yes, it does; only, as I say, such an explanation seems absurd." She sat for a moment with eyes inwardly intent. "There's one theory which might explain it part of it. Perhaps it wasn't Miss Holladay at all who returned from Washington Square with the new maid. Perhaps it was the other woman, and the barred windows were really to keep Miss Holladay a prisoner.
Twenty-five years ago Holladay, who was then just working to the top in Wall Street, drove himself too hard it was when the market went all to pieces over that Central Pacific deal and had a touch of apoplexia. It was just a touch, but I made him take a long vacation, which he spent abroad with his wife. It was then, by the way, that his daughter was born.
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