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Then on my face doth not glad color steal Like shining waves, or hill-tops' sunrise glow?" One of the others was the poem of which I spoke once before, the poem which had been suggested to her by her desolate sense of homelessness on the first night of her arrival in Penfield.
Although Hayden proved himself reluctantly regardful of the butterfly lady's very evident desire to be left alone, he did not at once leave the hotel. Instead, he strolled into the office and after loitering about there for a few moments, he was just leaving when he encountered Penfield, Horace Penfield.
At his request that her first mission be to deliver a sealed packet at the office of Richard Penfield, in the lower West Side, she evinced neither surprise nor displeasure. It was all in the day's work, she protested, as Keenan talked on, giving her more definite instructions and still again impressing on her the need for secrecy.
Frisbie was grinding his heel into the hard soil of the mesa. The argument was growing rather acrid; and Penfield and the two drivers were interested listeners. It was high time for a diversion to be made, and the assistant made it. "We have used five hours getting down here, and we'll need as many going back," he put in.
Colbrith evidently wished to know why his train was going in the wrong direction. Hector applied the brakes and stopped in obedience to the signal. "Do we send back?" he asked. "No," said Ford sourly. "Let him send forward." Penfield was the bearer of the president's question. Would it be necessary to discharge somebody in order to have his commands obeyed?
Turnbull, who masqueraded as a burglar on a wager with Miss McIntyre died suddenly from angina pectoris," explained the deputy marshal. "Just a case of death from natural causes," broke in Rochester. "Please write out a permit for me to remove Turnbull's body, Dr. Penfield." Helen McIntyre took a step forward.
"Then you cannot swear to the window having been re-locked?" "I cannot." Penfield paused a moment. "Did you return immediately to your house from the Saratoga apartment?" "I did" promptly. "My chauffeur, Harris, wasn't well, and I wanted him to get home." Penfield thought a moment before putting the next question. "How did Miss Barbara return from the Grosvenor dance?" he asked.
For answer Penfield took from the pile of clothing on the table a white shirt and pointed to a discoloration on its glazed surface. "When I first saw this shirt on Mr. Spencer it reeked of perfume," he said sternly. "Submitted to chemical tests, I find a blood stain was partially removed by azurea. Again I ask, what was your object in attempting to remove the blood stain?"
Wheeler's warnings about Stephen, in the first weeks of her stay in Penfield. She recollected Parson Dorrance's expression, when he found out that she had paid her rent in advance. She tortured herself by reviewing minutely every little manoeuvre she had known of Stephen's practising to conceal his relation with her.
A quick word of explanation sufficed, and then the younger of the newcomers entered the elevator. He recoiled at sight of Spencer, then advancing tested the dead man's pulse and heart. "This is a case for you, Penfield," he exclaimed backing out into the hall, and without a word the coroner took his place beside Spencer. The young physician turned to Vincent.
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