at when I was a boy."
Ruth liked this jolly, hearty, big man from the start. He was inclined to
joke and tease, she thought; but with it all he had the kindliest manner
and most humorous mouth in the world.
He turned to Ruth when the door was shut, and asked seriously: "My dear,
is Miss Gray where she can hear us talk?"
"Why, no, sir," replied Ruth, surprised. "The door is shut--and it is a
soundproof door, I am certain."
"Very well. I have heard Grimes' edition of the affair yesterday. Will you
please give me _your_ version of the accident? Of course, it _was_ an
accident?"
"Oh, yes, sir! Although that man ought not to have made her climb that
tree----"
Mr. Hammond put up a warning hand, and smiled again. "I do not ask you for
an opinion. Just for an account of what actually happened."
"But you intimated that perhaps Mr. Grimes was more at fault than he
actually _was_," said Ruth, boldly. "Surely he did not push her off that
tree!"
"No," said Mr. Hammond, drily. "Did she jump?"
"Jump! Goodness! do you think she is crazy?" demanded Ruth, so shocked
that she quite forgot to be polite.
"Then she did not jump," the manager of the Alectrion Film Corporation
said, quite placidly. "Very well. Tell me what you saw. For, I suppose,
you were on the spot?"
"Yes, sir," said Ruth, not quite sure just then that the gentleman was
altogether fair-minded. Later she understood that Mr. Hammond merely
desired to get the stories of the accident from the observers with neither
partiality nor prejudice.
Ruth repeated just what happened from the time she and her friends arrived
in the Cameron car on the scene, till they reached the Red Mill and Miss
Gray had been put to bed.
"Very clear and convincing. You are a good witness," declared Mr. Hammond,
lightly; but she saw that the story had left an unpleasant impression on
his mind. She did not see how he could blame the motion picture actress;
but she feared that he did.
When Ruth tried to probe into that question, however,
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.
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