bert Kobiril>n camc to to see
me that morir.nj* at my office. Sperry,
like myself, was paie and tired,
but Herbert was reatle&s and talkaHHSml
H|S* tive. for all the world like a terrier'
on the scent of a vat.
"Hawkins wil be here soon," Sherry
-aid. zather casually, after I had
read the clipping.
"Vcs. He is bringing a letter from
Miss Jeremy. The letter is merely a
blind. We want to see him."
Herbert was examining the dooi
of my office. lie set the spring lock,
"lie may try to bolt," he explained. |
We're in this pretty deep, you
know.'"
"How about a record of what he
says?" Sperry asked.
I pressed a button, and Miss Joyce
came in. "Take the testimony of the
man who is coming in. Miss Joyce,"I
<: I. " Yak-.; everything wo say, I
any of us. Can you tell the 'differ-:
ent voices?
She thought she could, and took!
up her position in the next rcoin. with(
the door partly open.
I can -dill see Hawkins as Sperryi
set him in?a tail, cadaverous man
of <ood manners, and an English
accent, a superior servant. He was'
cool but rather resentful. I judged
that he considered carrying letters!
as it; n-> way a part of his work, and
that he v/e.s rare tut of his dignity^
-Brliss 5 c it my sent this, sir," lie
said.
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Iletbert, and he draw himself up. '
'"I sea," he said. "It wasn't the let-:
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"Not entirely. We want to have a;
talk wuh you, Hawkins."
''Very well, ;dr." But his eyes went,
from one to the other of us.
"You were in the employ of Mr. j
Wells. We know that. Also we saw
yoit there the night he died, but somej
I time after his death. What time did j
yon got \u that night?"
About midnight. I am not certain"
"Who told you of what had hap- j
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"I told you that before. 1 met the
detectives going out."
"Exactly. Now, Hawkins, you had
come in, locked the door, and placed
; the kc.v outside for the other servants?"
"Yes, sir."
"IIow dp you expect us to believe j
that?" Sperry demanded irritably.?
"There was only cue key. Could you
lock yourself in and then place the
key outside?"
"Yes, sir." be replied impassively.
"By opening the kitchen window, .1
could reach out and hang It or. trie;
: ail."
"Yon wore out of the house, then :
at the time Mr. Wells died?"
"I car. prove it by as many wit- i
ncsscs as you wish to call."'
"Now. about those letters, Hawkins,"
Sperry said. "The letters in'
the bag. Have you got them sti:7" i
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"Will you teil us how you jrot
them?"
He hesi ated. If you do not know
already, I do not care to say."
1 placed the letter to A 31 before
him. "You wrote this, X think?" I
said.
He was genuinely startled. Wore
than that, indeed, for his /act i
tvviched. "'Suppose I did?" he said,
"I m not admitting it."
"Will yon tell us for whom it was
meant?**
"You know a great deal already,
gentlemen. Why not find out from
where you learned the rest?"
"You know, then, where we learned
what we know?"
"That's easy," lie said bitterly.
"She's told you enough. I daresay.
She doesn't know it all, of course.
Any more than I do," he added.
"Will you give us the letters?"
"I haven't said 1 have them. 1
haven't admitted I wrote that one.
I'll not give them up except to the!
District Attorney
"By 'she' do you refer to Miss Jeremy
?" I asked.
He stared, and smiled faintly.
"You knew whom I mean."
\Y?? tried to assure him that wej
w o not. in a sense, seeking to In-!
volw i:"m in the situation, and I ever.I
v.-er.t : o far as to state our position.'
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"I'd better explain, Hawkins. W?'
are not doing police work. But, ow-j
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we have learned that Wells j
d'J not kill himself. He was murdered !
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"Then why is some one taking
down what I say in tee adjoining
ro on.?*'
He could only have guessed it, but
he saw rka; he was right by our
. aces. He smiled bitterly. "Go on," he
. ;tid. ' Take it down. It can't hurt
anybody. I don't know who did it,
and that's God's truth."
And after long* Wrangling, that was
as far as we got.
He suspected yrhe ad done it, but
he did not fcnov;. He absolutely refused
to surrender the letters in his
possession, and a sense c? delicacy,
I think, kept us ail from pressing
the question of ine A 3J matter.
"That's a peiscnal affair," he said.
I've Ka?d a good bit of trouble. Tin
thinking |ow of going back to England."
And, es I say, we did not insist.
When he had gone there seemed
to be nothing to say. He bad left the
same impression on all of us, I think
?of trouble, but not of crime. Of a
man fairly driven; of wretchedness
that was almost despair. He still had
the letters. lie had, after all, as much
right to them as we had, which was,
actually, no right at all. And, whatever
it was, be still had his secret.
Herbert was almost childishly crest
fallen. Sperry's attitude was more
philosophical.
"A woman, of course," he said.
"The A ill letter shows it. He tried
io get her back, perhaps, by holding
the letters over her head. And it
hasn't worked out. Poor devil! OnI>
who is the woman?"
I: was that night, the fifteenth
<!; \ after the crime, that the solution
i-amc. C'arne, as a matter of fact,
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Pleasant Day," when the bell rang.
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