Hulbert Footner

Name: The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX
Author: Hulbert Footner

The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

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“The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX”, published in 1925, is a work by Hulbert Footner. It explores elements such as Whittall, Fay and Storey.

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ The crisis was precipitated by an innocent question of Fay's. “Why are you so quiet, Rosika?”
“I am thinking of that poor lady who is dead,” said Mme. Storey gravely.
It was like an icy hand laid on each heart there. A deathly silence fell on us. It seemed to last forever. I felt paralyzed. Mrs. Brunton was the first to recover herself. She was afraid of Mme. Storey, and dared not be openly rude, but her anger was evident enough in her voice.
“Oh, I say! What a thing to bring up at such a time and place! I'm surprised at you, Mme. Storey!”
“We are all thinking of her,” said Mme. Storey. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Mrs. Brunton had had a hard life, and Whittall's twenty millions blinded her to all other considerations. There is no doubt but she loved Fay as if she had been her own child.
Now, Whittall, when he heard this, executed a rapid volte face. A moment before, he had seemed absolutely suffocated with rage against Mme. Storey; now he turned against Mrs. Brunton, and roughly silenced her. “Mme. Storey is our friend,” he said. “You have no reason to speak to her in that manner. This is an important matter. She knows what she is doing.” ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Mrs. Brunton flung herself down beside the girl and wrapped her arms around Fay's knees. “It is all lies!” she cried. “All lies! It was I who shot Mrs. Whittall!”
I have not the heart to describe the painful scene that followed. Fay was broken-hearted, of course, but the shock to her proved to be less than Mme. Storey had feared for. It turned out that for weeks past Fay, with the clear instinct of a simple heart, had divined that her companion was carrying a load of guilt on her breast, though of course the girl had no idea of its nature. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Even the gentle Fay was resentful. “It's not fair to Darius,” she murmured.
“Darius is a man, and must face things.”
I glanced at Whittall. He had the look of one braced to receive a fatal stroke.
“I am so sorry for her!” murmured Fay distressfully. “I often think about her and wonder—But Rosika, is it my fault that I am happy? that I have everything, while she is dead?”
Mme. Storey made no reply to this.
“She solved her problems in her own way!” cried Mrs. Brunton excitedly. “Who shall blame her? Can't you leave her in peace?”
“She did not kill herself,” said Mme. Storey slowly. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ The aging woman with her touched up cheeks and dyed hair looked like a caricature of herself. Everybody around the table looked stricken, clownish, scattered in the wits. I'm sure I was no exception. Only my mistress was as composed as death.
“Fay,” she asked, “what were you doing on the evening of September eleventh?”
I turned absolutely sick at heart. Mrs. Brunton and Whittall loudly and angrily protested. The exquisite girl shrank away from Mme. Storey, and went as pale as paper. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Whittall asked my daughter and me to have lunch and tea with her at her place. And when we were having tea out in the pavilion, the whole thing seemed to unroll itself before me. I thought of the first showing of 'Ashes of Roses' that was coming soon, and what a good chance it would give me, and I made up my mind I would try again that night. I knew I wouldn't have any trouble with Fay, because she doesn't care for pictures, and I could easily persuade her not to go. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ In due course I went home to change my dress, and then proceeded to the hotel. I saw the inspector waiting in the lobby, and nodded to him as I passed. When I was shown up to Fay's suite I found that I was the first to arrive. Katy pounced on me to learn the inner reasons for her mistress's second extraordinary change of plans, but I had no heart to gossip with the maid.
There was a table ready set for six persons. It looked lovely with its snowy cloth set off with glass and silver and flowers. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Storey relentlessly. “Not much time for pleading. No! somebody was waiting for her in the pavilion with the gun ready.”
“But it must have been her lover!” wailed Fay.
Mme. Storey sat looking straight ahead of her, pale and immovable as Nemesis. “It was somebody who is among us here,” she said.
You could hear the tight breasts around the table laboring for breath. Each of us glanced with furtive dread at our companions. Whittall broke again.
“Well, who?—who?—who?” he cried wildly. “Out with it!”
“Somebody among us here?” quavered Mrs. Brunton in a high falsetto. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Then her excited questioning of the maid. Katy swore that she had neither touched nor even seen the gun. She had not yet reached that drawer when her packing was interrupted, she said. The girl got the idea somehow, that her own honesty was in question. She had no idea that her words were convicting her mistress. Fay finally came back to her seat with a wandering and vacant air. She kept repeating: “I can't imagine—! I can't imagine—!” The inspector looked very grave.
Mme. Storey remorselessly resumed: “I recovered Mrs. Whittall's pistol this morning. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ Brunton jumping up. “Must we submit to be insulted here in our own rooms? Mr. Whittall, are you going to permit this to go any further?”
“No!” cried Whittall, banging the table. “This woman is taking too much on herself! She has no right to catechize us!”
Mme. Storey looked at me. “Bella,” she said, “admit the gentleman who is waiting outside.”
As well as my legs would serve me I got to the door. Inspector Rumsey was in the corridor. He came in.
With a wave of the hand, Mme. Storey introduced him to the gaping company. ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ I was only conscious of the weeping girl whom I loved.
“It's a shame! It's a shame!” I heard myself crying. “She didn't do it! She couldn't have done it! Look at her. What does your evidence amount to beside that?” ”

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Hulbert Footner, The Three Thirty-Twos — Chapter IX (1925)

“ The pistol found in Mrs. Whittall's hand, that is to say the one from which the fatal shot was fired, was subsequently given by Mr. Whittall to the captain of the precinct. I obtained it from the captain this afternoon. The number is 13418. Here it is.”
She produced the weapon from a little bag that she carried on her arm. She handed the sinister black object to Rumsey, who read off the number “13418,” and handed it back to her. ”

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