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Field at breakfast the next morning they had already discovered the disappearance of mr. Field his bed wasn't slept in at all I think he could have committed suicide in the ocean well he was such a sneaky little man of course he he may just have gone for an all-night hike but in such weather I heard from my breakfast listening to the gossip all around me now in broad daylight I could hardly believe the thing had really happened last night and you know the hotel manager thinks it might be murder I've heard in pony for the police police I hadn't counted on that wait anything wrong young lady you look sick I I do feel a bit dizzy I I think I'll get some fresh air dear poor girl it must be quite a shock to her she came up on the table to be open out in the open air I let the wind cool my fevered face as I hurried down toward the beach it was only 9 30 in the morning a whole day in a whole evening before Michael could come to the body and the police would be around all day investigating snooping and all the time mr. Field would be sitting in my closet staring blankly out of his sightless eyes when I reached my cabin I put my hand on the doorknob and suddenly I went cold all over the door was unlocked I stood as still as a statue listening yes there was someone inside someone moving around only I had my handbag I had a pistol in it that I always carried for protection but it was inside on the dresser so slowly slowly I pressed the door open a half inch an inch and the door creaked thank you miss winter the maid was only the maid of course she'd be making up the bed why hadn't I thought of that it's I what are you doing at that closet with those keys they're just my past keys miss winter I was just going to tidy up the class I didn't ask you to do anything to that closet but that's part of the job miss winter I'm supposed to do it in all the role well you leave this one alone keep away from that closet you hear well yes miss winter I was only trying to help when I want your help I'll ask for it now please leave it once just as you say miss winter I'm sorry if I did anything wrong did she suspect anything I hadn't liked her tone I had I been so shocked with her now she'd surely think there was something in the closet something she shouldn't see at lunchtime I didn't want to leave the cabin I sat at the window and I could almost feel the sightless eyes of mr. field staring at me through the closet door just a minute miss winter miss Karla winter yes I'm miss winter I'm sorry to trouble you miss winter I am detective sergeant Smith from headquarters may I come in for a moment yes please do what can I do for you sergeant Smith we're out here investigating this mr. field business he hasn't turned up yet oh well I'm sure he will in time well I wish I could be so sure miss winter what do you mean we've gone through his room found some mighty queer things queer things seems this mr. field was in some sort of racket there's a good chance he may have been murdered I don't say yeah I understand you came up on the train with him yes that's true did you have any conversation with him on the train no none at all and you're the carol of winter who writes the mystery novels aren't you the same I've read every one of them darn good miss winter thank you you think you'll get a plot out of this I mean mr. field well I can't tell yet it's sergeant I wish you'd keep me posted on developments in case it does turn out to have a plot oh I sure will miss winter oh by the way we found this picture among the papers and fields room I'm showing it to everybody around in case they might recognize it it's an old newspaper item 10 years old can't figure out why he was carrying it around it's about a guy named white clip that's wanted for murder yeah take a look at him felt the blood racing in my veins pounding at my wrists the picture of the man named white clip who was wanted for murder with a picture of Michael Barrett bromo seltzer famous for fast-haired help is bringing you inner 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by the way you don't have to worry about our eerie spirits bothering you anymore now I've made a resolution that ghosts will not be allowed out of their graves after dark unless of course they have a past to leave the ground let's get back to the rock-bound coast of skeleton Bay and see how carola entertains the grizzly guest in her closet I don't remember now how I got rid of that detective Smith I told him I had never seen the man in the picture and send him away the day was interminable from my window I could see the guests moving about the beach but none of them went in swimming the weather was too rough and I wondered if Michael would be able to bring the boat over tonight if not how much longer could I sit guard over Mr. Field in the closet now and then I'd see detective Smith poking around on the beach and then without warning he was standing over the very spot where Michael had stabbed Mr. I watched him bend down and examine something was there did Smith know that that was the murder spot I saw him frown and he stood up and walked quickly away I had to know what it was he had seen there swiftly I slipped on a coat and went off I started toward the spot on the beach going somewhere this way there oh it's you detective going anywhere in particular oh I know I was just going up to the hotel for dinner it's almost dinner time you know well fine I'll walk up with you you don't mind not at all can I help you take your arm thank you sand is so soft all right still wet we had high tide last night miss winter yes are you a sound sleeper I do ask well I just thought maybe you might have heard something last night like a fight or something a fight I was just looking at the sand back there down near your cabin it's all messed up stamped around well what has that got to do with me or nothing at all except I think there was a fight there last night maybe that's where mr. Field was killed you think mr. Field was murdered it's beginning to look more and more like it miss winter somehow I don't know how I managed to get through with dinner I hurried back to the cabin and I stopped at the door shocked and unbelieving there was a light inside someone was in there this time I had my handbag with me I took the pistol out and once more I inched the door open it had happened the thing I feared the closet door was open and there was a maid stooping over the body of mr. Field oh what are you doing there the body it's mr. Field you killed them suppose I did what are you doing with that gun what do you think when was high and the weather was rough fortunately no one hurt the shot pushed her body into the closet next to the body of mr. Field and close the door I was a murderer too who is it let me in carl quick yes yes Michael Michael I thought you weren't coming it's been a dreadful day what happened here and I'll show you is he still in there see for yourself a woman who is she the maid she opened the closet while I was out you killed her yes Michael I had to their detectives at the hotel looking for mr. Field hmm I suppose if I was smart I'd kill you too and there'd be no one to talk yes Michael that would be smart go ahead kill me if you can I knew he couldn't kill me because I had seen it in his eyes we were two of a kind both wild both reckless both eager for the thrill of danger he too wanted to be like the wind we had both been brought together by some force stronger than either of us and we loved each other carl darling Michael we have worked to do hmm I'll take them down to the boat I'll help you we carried mr. Field in the maid down to the boat there I'll take them out away and dump them and after that Michael after that then I'm going home to your house on the cliff on the other side of the bay yes Michael take me with you what take me with you to your house up there on the cliff I'm sorry I can't you can't why can't you it isn't anything I can tell you what are you hiding up there in that house on the cliff you mustn't ask now please carl you mustn't ask you're married you have a wife up there no I haven't then what I can't tell you but are you going away are you leaving me forever not forever you go back to the city I'll come to you soon I returned to the city and waited I waited a week a month but Michael Barrett did not come I wrote to him but there was no answer and then one evening I saw him I was returning home in a taxi and I saw him standing across the street looking up at my window and when he saw me get out of the cab he turned and started to hurry away Michael Michael please don't go away Michael why did you try to run away don't you know you're afraid yeah let's call it that but you love me Michael don't you carl it's no good there's nothing but ruin for us both if I stay we'll be together for it's impossible I won't let you go back to that house on the cliff I don't care what it is you're hiding up there I won't let you go back goodbye carl wait I'm going you better forget about don't go yet mr. white clip how about that too I saw the old newspaper clipping mr. field carried I see why are you looking at me like that you know why I killed mr. field because he tried to blackmail me about that old murder but dear Michael I'm a good deal smarter than mr. field you see I write mystery novels so I know how to handle such things what do you mean it wouldn't do you any good to kill me I've written all about you your real name and about that old murder it'll be found if I should ever be killed I see Michael darling I'm blackmailing you but there's only one thing I want from you your love it shouldn't be so hard for you to meet my terms all right carola you win we'll be married tomorrow soon after we were married Michael began going out evenings once sometimes twice a week and staying out all night he'd return late the next day when I asked where he had been his temple would flare up into something terrible I stopped asking but I couldn't rest I had to know where he went one evening I followed him he boarded a train for skeleton Bay at skeleton Bay he set out to walk from the station and I followed it was no longer summer the trees were bare and the night was forbidding I kept behind him when he skirted the bay to the narrow road which led up toward his house high on the cliff it was a small stone house the wind whistled around it and against it and above it I stole to one of the windows it was barred like a prison carefully I raised my head above the seal and peered into a lighted room Michael was there with a woman for the first time in my life I knew the meaning of frustration and jealousy Michael had told me he wasn't married but this woman I had helped him to do murder I had killed for him I had lied to that detective for him and all the while this was the secret he had been keeping from me I opened my handbag and took out the pistol I looked into the room again the woman was alone now Michael was gone so you came up after all I got you sneaked out you knew I was here I'm sorry you saw through that window is that your secret that woman part of it but it's the part you mustn't know but I do know that's why I've got to kill you that knife you've still got that knife yes and I've got this much he fell at my feet and I looked down and watched him die and now I knew why I had really come to Skeleton Bay that first day it was for this to kill Michael Barrett so he did it last you killed him you the woman in that house you saw me killing yes I saw you what are you going to do about it help you dispose of the body of course help me dispose of the party those were the very words I had said to Michael Barrett down there on the beach and now this woman was saying them to me who are you I'm Elizabeth Whiteley I'm Michael's sister sister and you want to help me dispose of the bar you see the bars on those windows yes I have been a prisoner in this house for 10 years what Michael killed the man I was going to marry 10 years ago he murdered him but the house this Michael brought me here he kept me prisoner because he knew if I got free I'd tell the world he was a murderer then that's the secret the secret wouldn't even tell me I shot her yes I killed her too there outside the house and she fell beside Michael and I rolled both bodies over the cliff down into the sea this is the end of my book the best mystery novel I have ever written I know that in writing it I deliver myself into the hands of the law but I can't stop I can't help myself so now I am finished I will mail it to my publisher and wait for Detective Sergeant Smith to come and get me it looks as if Carol is mystery novel will earn a lot of money after she's executed but I'd say it's a tainted money hmm why tainted because she'll be dead in a ghost can't own money so taint her you know Carol I would have been better off if she'd remember that the pen is might hear them the sword because the sword is leading her right back to the pen any you know today just about everything depends on speed now you take headache products bromo seltzer is famous for giving speedy relief from headaches but that's not all bromo seltzer gives you three-way headache help first it quickly fights the pain of a headache itself then it soothes the upset stomach and jumpy nerves that may come with a headache and bromo seltzer is even fast to fix just put a teaspoon full in a glass had water watch how it fizzes in a split second so sparkling and refreshing to take so fast in helping your headache all three ways but don't just take my word for it neighbors next 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