to her desk, and took the telephone receiver off its hook. "We'll see if we cannot dig up something in the circumstances surrounding Mrs. Whittall's death that will give this foolish girl cause to stop and think what she is doing."
She called up Police Headquarters. "Rumsey," she said, "do you remember the case of Mrs. Darius Whittall who killed herself about two months ago?...Well, I suppose there was an inquest or investigation of some sort, and that the findings are on file somewhere. Come
to have considered what a dreadful blow it would be to her husband."
"Still," said Mme. Storey dryly, "if she had not done it, you would not be marrying him now."
"No-o," said Fay innocently. "I suppose not...Of course Darius is going to sell the house at Riverdale," she continued with an