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Ladley stopped the boat, looked back at us, bent over, placed a piece of liver on a platter, and reached it over to the dog. Then, rising in the boat, he bowed, with his hat over his heart, in our direction, sat down calmly, and rowed around the corner out of sight. Mr. Holcombe was in a frenzy of rage. He jumped up and down, shaking his fist out the window after the retreating boat.
"Peter found it floating in the lower hall." He opened the door wide, and let me in. The room was in tolerable order, much better than when Mrs. Ladley was about. He looked at the slipper, but he did not touch it. "I don't think that is hers," he said. "I've seen her wear it a hundred times." "Well, she'll never wear it again." And then, seeing me stare, he added: "It's ruined with the water.
And if she had not worn it, how did it get in the water? The newspapers were full of the Ladley case, with its curious solution and many surprises. It was considered unique in many ways. Mr. Pitman had always read all the murder trials, and used to talk about the corpus delicti and writs of habeas corpus corpus being the legal way, I believe, of spelling corpse.
Terry came in the afternoon, and together we hung the dining-room rug out to dry in the sun. As I was coming in, I looked over at the Maguire yard. Molly Maguire was there, and all her children around her, gaping. Molly was hanging out to dry a sodden fur coat, that had once been striped, brown and gray. I went over after breakfast and claimed the coat as belonging to Mrs. Ladley.
Ladley in jail and Lida out of the city for I saw in the papers that she was not well, and her mother had taken her to Bermuda I had a good bit of time on my hands. And so I got in the habit of thinking things over, and trying to draw conclusions, as I had seen Mr. Holcombe do.
"He found Peter, the Ladleys' dog, shut in a room on the third floor." "Was there anything unusual about that?" "I had never known it to happen before." "State what happened later." "I did not go to sleep again. At a quarter after four, I heard the boat come back. I took a candle and went to the stairs. It was Mr. Ladley. He said he had been out getting medicine for his wife."
"It's the neighborhood's annual debauch. The women are busy keeping the babies from getting drowned in the cellars, or they'd get full, too. I hope, since it's come this far, it will come farther, so the landlord will have to paper the parlor." That was at three o'clock. At four Mr. Ladley went down the stairs, and I heard him getting into a skiff in the lower hall.
Perhaps he was expecting another kitten or It is hard to say how ideas first enter one's mind. But the notion that Mr. Ladley had killed his wife and thrown her body into the water came to me as I sat there.
"All right, Mr. Graves," I said. He pushed the parlor door open and looked in, whistling. "This is the place, isn't it?" "Yes. But it was up-stairs that he " "I see. Tall woman, Mrs. Ladley?" "Tall and blond. Very airy in her manner." He nodded and still stood looking in and whistling. "Never heard her speak of a town named Horner, did you?" "Horner? No." "I see."
Ladley was not well, and I I went to the drug store." "You've been more than two hours going to the drug store," I said. He muttered something about not finding any open at first, and went into his room. He closed and locked the door behind him, and although Peter whined and scratched, he did not let him in.
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