"
"Killed her and thrown her into the river," I said. "That's what I
think, and he'll go free at that. It seems there isn't any murder when
there isn't any corpse."
"Nonsense! If he has done that, the river will give her up,
eventually."
"The river doesn't always give them up," I retorted. "Not in
flood-time, anyhow. Or when they are found it is months later, and you
can't prove anything."
She had only a little time, being due at the theater soon, but she sat
down and told me the story she told afterward on the stand:
She had known Jennie Brice for years, they having been together in the
chorus as long before as _Nadjy_.
"She was married then to a fellow on the vaudeville circuit," Miss
Hope said. "He left her about that time, and she took up with Ladley.
I don't think they were ever married."
"What!" I said, jumping to my feet, "and they came to a respectable
house like this! There's never been a breath of scandal about this
house, Miss Hope, and if this comes out I'm ruined."
"Well, perhaps they were married," she said.
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