Behind That Mask by Harry Stephen Keeler
Author:Harry Stephen Keeler [Keeler, Harry Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 1938-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER XIII
Miss Jones Comes to the Rescue
The silence continued for the fraction of a minute, and was then broken by a feminine voice, very honest sounding, and very straightforward.
âLaura Jones speaking, Mr. OâRourke. That isâthis is Mr. OâRourkeâof the Chicago Police Department, I believe?â
âYes, âtis, Miss Jones. Miss Jones, do youâoh, whatâs your full name and address, Miss Jones? Now that Iâm talkinâ to white people, Iâll make a note or two.â OâRourke sniffed audibly into the telephone system.
âLaura Bartlett Jones, Mr. OâRourke. 225 West Pratt Strâwell, no, itâs called West Ninth Street now. 225 West Ninth Street.â
âUm. Yes. Now Miss Jones, you know this fellow Yin Yi?â
âOh yesâvery, very well. I taught him music for years. Heâs from this city, you know.â
âSo I understand. Well you know heâs in a murder jam here in Chicago? Or wasâup to about five minutes ago!â I could almost hear OâRourke scratching his head.
âSo I understand, yes. That is why I got up out of bed, and dressed, and came over here at Mr. OâConnorâs request.â
âWell, Miss Jones, Iâll try to make this briefâso that you can get back to bed. I understand this fellow called you up tonight?â
âYes, thatâs correct.â
âWhat time, about?â
âOhâabout 9 oâclock. I naturally didnât bother to go look at the clock because of a mere telephone call, but it was just about at 9.â
âWhat did he say?â
âWell he said he had been in Indianapolisâhad expected to stay longer, but had suddenly received news that called him back to Chicago, and regretted that he could not see me. Heââ
âListen, Miss Jones, do you know you were talking to him?â
âWellâIâm sure I couldnât mistake his voice. He has a very, very distinctive voiceâyou canât mistake it.â She paused, helplessly. âPlease remember, Mr. OâRourke, Iâve seen him off and onâor gotten a phone call from himâwhen heâs been visiting in Indianapolis. So I couldnât mistake his voice.â She paused again. âBut besides this, Mr. OâRourke, heâhe jokingly asked me whether Iâd ever yet gotten the circular white stain off my grand piano where he set the glass of water down. Alsoâhe asked me a purely technical question about piano-playingâthat was quite typical of him.â
âHow do you meanâtypical of him, Miss Jones?â
âWell now, thatâs a long story, Mr. OâRourke. And as I understandâthe costs of long-distance connectââ
âNoâgo ahead, Miss Jones. Weâve the whole night. This is our business hereâto clear peopleâor to indict âem. But when you get done, I may tell you some interesting stuff about how evâry amateur murderer does just the thing this fellow didâand in the same way he done it. But gettinâ back to our topicâwhat did you meanâtypical of him?â
âWell, I mean typical of his queer-acting brain. For he was always a queer character, Mr. OâRourke. He thought in channels altogether different from other people. At least he did, when a boy. And I say boy because he still seems like that to me. I met him, you see, first in his latter teens. And he proceeded to grow up, while we here in Indianapolis watched him.
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