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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"The Case of Jennie Brice"


7:00--Lights cigarette and paces floor. Notice that when Mrs. P.
knocks, he goes to desk and pretends to be writing.
8:00--Is examining book. Looks like a railway guide.
8:30--It is a steamship guide.
8:45--Tailor's boy brings box. Gives boy fifty cents. Query. Where
does he get money, now that J.B. is gone?
9:00--Tries on new suit, brown.
9:30--Has been spending a quarter of an hour on his knees looking
behind furniture and examining base-board.
10:00--He has the key to the onyx clock. Has hidden it twice, once up
the chimney flue, once behind base-board.
10:15--He has just thrown key or similar small article outside window
into yard.
11:00--Has gone to bed. Light burning. Shall sleep here on floor.
11:30--He can not sleep. Is up walking the floor and smoking.
2:00 A.M.--Saturday. Disturbance below. He had had nightmare and was
calling "Jennie!" He got up, took a drink, and is now reading.
8:00 A.M.--Must have slept. He is shaving.
12:00 M.--Nothing this morning. He wrote for four hours, sometimes
reading aloud what he had written.


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