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 Fred and Kenyon had seen to that, as I've mentioned. Win took her to Paris and brought her back to live with him on an allowance.

Maybe from the first she had had her eyes on the old man's insurance; but I didn't think so. I thought, "She got into this marriage with an idea of an easy get-away with a pile; and when Ken and Fred fooled her, she decided to fool them; she saw Keeban again and they decided to get that insurance money. But they had a big difficulty with that; they had to do more than merely 'croak' old Win; they had to do it so Shirley would not possibly be connected and so the insurance money would be paid over to her and she could get away with it."

There, surely, was a job for them when the family and friends thought what they did of Shirley.

Fred was saying to me, "Ken and I got bothered about that insurance. In the first place, we didn't want Shirley to have the money, half a million for marrying father; then it was costing us over thirty thousand a year to pay the premiums; and, also, we figured it might be dangerous as a temptation.

"Not that we thought Shirley'd kill father