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Midge said with a slight effort:
i.jt will be lovely to be at Ains
ick again for Christmas.”
' Edward did not seem to hear
V He had gone far away.
’ she thought, He is thinking of
Henrietta and of John Christow.
Si'.ing here he had said some
ihing to Henrietta or she had said
something to him. . . Henrietta
jffht know what she didn’t want,
klThe belonged to Henrietta still.
ge aiways would, Midge thought,
belong to Henrietta.
pain swoped down upon hor.
The Happy bubble1 world in which
she had lived for the last week
quivered and broke.
ghe thought, I can’t live like
gjgt—with Henrietta always there
in hir mind. I can’t face it. I can’t
bear it.
The wind sighed through the
trees—the leaves were falling fast
now—there were hardly any gold
ones left, only brown.
Sbe said, “Edward!”
pbe urgency of her voice arous
d him. He turned his head.
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“Yes ”
“I’m sorry, Edward.” Her lips
were trembling but she forced her
voice to be quiet and self-con
trolled. “I’ve got to tel] you. It's
no use. I can’t marry you. It
wouldn’t work, Edward.”
He said, “But, Midge—surely
Ainswick—”
She interrupted:
“I can’t marry you just for
Ainswick, Edward. You — you
must see that.”
He signed then, a long, gentle
sigh. It was like an echo of he
dead leaves slipping gently off the
branches of the trees.
“I see what you mean,” he said.
“Yes, I suppose you are right.”
“It was dear of you to ask me,
dear and sweet. But it wouldn’t
do, Edward. It wouldn’t work.”
She had had a faint hope, per
haps, that he would, argue with
her, that he would try to per
suade her—but he seemed, quite
simply, to feel just as she did
about it. Here, with the ghost of
Henrietta close beside him, he,
too, apparently, saw that it
wouldn’t work.”
She supped the ring off her fin
ger and held it out to him.
She would always love Edward
and Edward would always love
Henrietta and life was just plain
unadulterated hell.
She said, with a little catch in
her voice:
^“It’s a lovely ring, Edward.”
“I wish you’d keep it, Midge.
I’d like you to have it.”
She shook her head.
“I coiildn do that.”
He said, with a faint humorous
twist of the lips:
“I sran’t give it to anyone else,
you kn .w.”
It was all quite friendly. He
didn’t know—he would never know
—just what she was feeling. . .
Heaven on a plate—and the plate
had slipped between her fingers
or had, perhaps, never been there.
* * *
That afternoon, Poirot received
his third visitor.
He had been visited by Henri
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path with her usual appearance of
insubstantiality.
Ho opened the door and she
stood smiling at him.
“I have come to see you,” she
announced.
So might a fairy confer a favor
oo a mere mortal.
“I am enchanted, Madame.”
He led the way into the sitting
room. She sat down on the sofa
and once more she smiled.
Hereule Poirot tnought: “She is
old—her hair is gray—there are
lines in her face. Yet she has
magic — she will always have
magic.”
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“I want you to do something for
me.”
"Yes, Madame.”
"To begin with, I must talk to
you—about John Christow.”
"About Dr. ChrisiJW?”
"Yes. It seems to me that the
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stop to the whole thing. You un
derstand what I mean, don’t
you?”
"I am not sure that I do know
what you mean, Lady Angkatell.”
She gave hind her lovely daz
zling smile again and she put one
long white hand on his sleeve.
‘‘Dear M. Poirot, you know per;
fectly. The police will have to
hunt about for the owner of those
fingerprints and they won’t find
him and in the end they’ll have
to let the whole thing drop. Bui
I’m afraid, you know, that you
won’t let it drop.”
“No, I shall not let it drop,”
said Eercule Poirot.
“That is just what I thought.
. . . And that is why I came. It’s
the truth you want, isn’t it?”
“Certainly I war.t the truth.”
“I see I haven’t explained my
self very well. I’m trying to find
out just why you won't let things
drop. It isn’t because of your
prestige—or because you want to
hans a murderer (such an un
pleasant kind of death, I’ve al
ways thought—so medieval.) It's
just, I think, that you want to
know. You do see what I mean,
don’t you? If you were to know
the truth—if you were to be told
the truth, I think—I think perhaps
that might satisfy you? Would it
satisfy you, M. Poirot?”
“You are offering to tell me the
truth, Lady Angkatell?”
She nodded:
“You yourself know the truth,
then?” '.
Her eyes opened very wide.
“Oh, yes, I’ve known for a long
time. I’d like to tell you. And then
w* could agree that—well, that it
was all over and done with.”
She smiled at him.
“Is it a bargain, M. Poirot?”
It was quite an effort for Her
cule Poirot to say:
“No, Madame, it is not a bar
gain.”
He wanted — he wanted, very
badly, to let the whole thing drop
. . . simply because Lucy Angka
tell asked him to do so.
Lady Angkatell sat very still for
a moment. Then sne raised her
eyebrows.
“I wonder,” she said. . . “I
wonder if you really know what
you are doing?”
• * •
. Midge, lying dry eyed and
awake in the darkness, turned
restlessly on her pillows.
She heard a door unlatch, a
footstep in the corridor outside
passing her door.
It was Edward’* door and Ed
ward’s step.
She switched on the lamp by
her bed and looked at the clock
that stood by the lamp on the ta
ble.
It was ten minutes to three.
Edward passing her door and
going down the stairs at thi* hour
in the morning. It was odd.
Th$y had all gone to bed early,
at half past ten. She herself had
not slept, had lain their with
burning eyelids and with a dry
aching misery racking her fever
ishly.
She had heard the clock strike
downstairs—had heard owls hoot
outside her bedroom window. Had
felt that depression that reaches
its nadir at 2 a.m. Had taought
to herself, “I can't bear it — I
cant bear it. Tomorrow com
ing—another day „ . . Day after
day to be got through.”
Banished by her own act from
Ainswick—from all the loveliness
and dearness of Ainswick which
might have been her very own
possession.
But better banishment, better
loneliness, better a drab and unin
teresting life, than life with Ed
ward and Henrietta’* ghost. Until
that day in the wood she had not
known her own capacity for bitter
jealousy.
And after ell, Edward had
never told her that he loved her.
Affection, kindliness, he had never
pretended to more than that. She
had accepted the limitation, and
not until she had realized what
it would mean to live at close
quarters with an Edward whose
mind and heart had Henrietta as
a permanent guest, did she know
that for her Edward’s affection
was not enough.
Edward walking past her door,
down the front stairs.
It was odd—very odd — where
was he going?
Uneasiness grew upon her. It
was all part and parcel of the un
easiness that The Hollow gave her
nowadays. What was Edward do
ing downstairs in the small hours
of the morning? Had he gone out?
Inactivity at last became too
much for her. She got up, slipped
on her dressing gown and taking
a flashlight, she opened her door
and came out into the passage.
It was quite dark, no lights had
been switched on. Midge turned to
the left and came to the head of
the staircase. Below all was dark,
too. She ran down the stairs and
after a moment’s hesitation
switched on the light in the hall.
Everything was silent. The front
door was closed and locked. She
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VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 13—GP)—
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tried the side door, but that, too,
was locked.
Edward, then had not gone out.
Where could he be?
And suddenly she raised her
head and sniffed.
A whiff—a very faint whiff of,
gas.
The baize door to the kitchen
quarters was just ajar. She went
through it—a faint light was shin
ing from the open kitchen door.
The smell of gas was much
stronger.
Midge ran along the passage
and into the kitchen. Edward was
lying on the floor with his head
inside the gas oven, which was
turned on full.
Midge was a quick, practical
girl. Her first act was to swing
open the shutters. She could not
unlatch the window and, winding
a glass cloth around her arm, she
smashed it. Then, holding her
breath, she stooped down and
tugged and puiled Edward out of
the gaS oven and switched off the
taps.
(To Be Continued)
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