Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1934 — Page 2

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by JOAN CLAYTON and MALCOLM LOGAN

SYNOPSIS Seifert Vail, the most unpopular patient at exclusive Sherwood Forest Sanatorium, is murdered. Two wounds are found on the body; one apparently from a sharp weapon and the other, from a dull, rusty instrument. Dr. John Calvert and Mark Hillyer, playright and patient, agree the wounds could have been caused by a pair of scissors. Felipa, the maid, discovered the body when she went into Vail's room to turn off the phonograph, Vail, a former opera singer, broken-hearted over the death of his wife, had a habit of repeatedly playing the record "Waiting For You” sung by himself. Dr. Calvert claims Vail had been dead an hour before the phonograph started playing. Vail shared a cottage with Willis Clendening, Milton Cross and James Ruxton. Ruxton’s nephew. Loren, and Dr. Calvert are rivals for the affections of Sue Faraday, Mark's nurse. Ruxton had changed rooms with Vail the day before the crime because the former's room had a private entrance and Vail expected a visitor he wanted to receive secretly A letter the victim received from New York is missing. Sheriff Finn asks Felipa how she knew Vail had been murdered when he had been covered and the wounds were not visible. She appears to be hiding something and, next morning, disappears. Clendening claims he saw a piece of paper under the clock on Felipa’s table, but no trace can be found of it. Mark, Bob Fowler his secretary, and Sue are discussing the case when Loren arrives. CHAPTER XIV “Well, well,” said Mark, "A neat vanishing act.” He grinned at Loren. “Going to miss her, Loren?” “Now, don’t put ideas into Sue’s head,” he protested. “You know why I used to talk to her. Sue.” Sue nodded. “Because she was homesick and liked to talk Spanish with you.” She smiled at him very innocently and added, “Os course, if she hadn’t been pretty, you might not have taken the trouble.” “Meow,” said Loren. Suddenly he became thoughtful. "Say! That’s where she’s gone—back to Mexico! She always talked about going back some day, and I’ll bet you that’s where she headed for when she skipped out of here!” “Maybe,” I said, “but the important thing is, why did she go?” “Why, indeed?” said Mark. “That’s the interesting question.” He turned to Loren, smiling. "Le gusta a usted Felipa?" he asked. Loren laughed. "Clara, nay," he said, "eg una hembra formidable!" “You speak Spanish fluently,” Mark observed. "Lo aprendiA en "No, en Cuba." Espana?" “Is that polite?” Sue interrupted. “Mr. Fowler and I don’t speak Spanish.” “It wasn’t important in any language,” Mark answered. “Spain is my favorite country, next to Broadway, bwt I find that I can’t talk about it with Loren. He hasn’t been nearer it than Cuba. And he tells me Felipa is formidable, which is h'gh praise. Maybe it’s as well for you she disappeared. Sue. And.” he added, turning back to Loren, “speaking of disappearances, where were you when all the excitement was going on yesterday?” “I missed it all,” Loren answered regretfully. "I went to the village after rest hour to have some films developed, and I didn’t even know Vail had been murdered until I got back just before dinner." “I hope you can prove where you were during rest period.” Mark said. “If the sheriff doesn’t begin to get somewhere soon, he'll probably be prowling around looking for people without alibis. Now, if you had a pair of legs like mine, you wouldn't have to worry." Loren shot a quick glance at Sue. Then he answered lightly:

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“I know gentlemen are always supposed to get themselves in trouble protecting the fair name of women —in detective stories, at least. But if necessary I'm going to drag Sue’s name in the mud. Do you mind. Sue?” She smiled at him, but it seemed to me that her smile was strained. “I don’t mind a bit.” “Well, Sue and I were taking a walk in the woods,” Loren said. “We’ve got photographs to prove it, too, haven’t we?” She nodded, and Mark said, “If you’d been near Lakeside, you might have seen something inteiesting.” “We were near Lakeside!” Sue said. “We were around the lake all the time, weren’t we, Loren?” “Yes,” Loren answered. “Why, I even took a snapshot of Lakeside Cottage, just before Sue came.” “What time was that?” Mark asked quickly. “Oh, it must have been a good while before the murder. A little after two, I imagine.” “You didn’t see anything unusual around the cottage, did you?” Loren looked thoughtful. He seemed to be trying to visualize the cottage as he had seen it. “No,” he said slowly. “If I’d seen anything out of the ordinary, I’d have remembered it.” Mark sighed. “It’s too bad you didn’t keep your eye on the place. You might have saved the sheriff a lot of trouble.” Sue stood up suddenly. “I’m going for your mail, Mr. Hillyer,” she said in a low voice. She started for the door, keeping her eyes straight ahead. “I’ll walk to the office with you, Sue,” Loren said. “See you soon, Mark.” The girl did not answer him. He followed her out the door as we said good-bye. Mark, without moving his head, cocked his right eyebrow at me and looked up with a sly grin. He said softly: “I hope our juvenile lead thinks up a better story than that for the sheriff.” He saw my look of surprise and added, “He decided he needed an alibi so badly that he invented one, and if I know Sue, he’s getting fits now. ... 1 wonder why he wanted an alibi. I wonder . . ,” “How do you know he invented it?” I demanded. “Bob,” said Mark, “you’re a perfectly straight man; you always feed me the right questions. But you’re a heck of a detective. Do you remember asking where Sue was when you visited me yesterday afternoon?” “Yes, now that you mention it.” “But you’ve forgotten what 1 told you.” Mark wagged his finger at me. "A detective never forgets. I told you she went out at five minutes of three.” “Well?” “Lord, you don’t even remember things two minutes! Didn’t you hear Lo-rn say just now that he took a f ■ of Lakeside Cottage ttle alter two o’clock, a few es before Sue arrived? One ox >se statements is wrong, because Sue couldn't have met him before three. ’ “That’s so!” I exclaimed. “Say, Mark. You said I never remember anything. Well, listen to this. On the night of the dance. I saw Loren talking to Vail outside the dining room, and I saw something passed between them—something made of metal. It caught the light from the window,” "Interesting,” he answered calmly. “What do you think it was?” “It might have been the revolver they found in Vail's room.” I said. “Maybe Loren got it for Vail, and that’s why he wants to keep out of the investigation.” Mark seemed very unimpressed. “I’d certainly never have suspected Loren,” I said. “Oh, he isn’t the only one.” Mark said. “Now, there’s Clendening. He’s got quite a talent for seeing

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disappearing papers, hasn't he? There was the letter Vail was supposed to have received from New York, and then the paper, or note or whatever it was that disappeared from the table in Felipa’s room this morning.” “You don’t believe he saw it?” I asked. “I don’t say he didn’t, and I don't say he did. I observe merely in the judicial manner of your genuine detective that he’s a very sharp-eyed lad to see so many things no one else sees. Now, supposing there was a note on the table, how do you think it dteappeared?” "When we went into the room, the screen was raised," I answered. “So you assume that someone came along, reached through the window and swiped it. Well, I can think of an easier, not to say more obvious, way than that. Dr. Calvert entered the room alone, didn’t he?” “Oh, surely you don't suspect him, too! Why should he steal it?” Mark looked at me through narrowed eyes. “I’m not saying he did. I’m only saying that if there was a note, it could have been stolen more easily by John Calvert than by anyone sneaking around in the bushes. He could just put it in his pocket and deny it was there when he came in.” I had never liked Dr. Calvert very warmly, but I experienced a dull feeling of disappointment and disillusionment as I considered this theory and remembered Felipa’s fear of the doctor. First Loren had lied to create an alibi. Now Mark was destroying my confidence in John Calvert. It seemed that I could trust no one. “I thought you were Calvert’s friend,” I said irritably. “I am,” Mark answered briskly. “But I can’t allow sentiment to interfere with the machine-like and inexorable precision of my mind.” “What are you going to do. then? Advise Finn to search him?” Mark smiled at me, and there was no trace of mockery in his expression. “No. I’m not going to do anything about it. I’m such a good friend of John’s that if I find out he exterminated the sanatorium pest. I’m not even going to let you know. Give me a cigarette, will you?” He became absorbed in blowing smoke rings, but there was too much breeze and presently he stopped. “I’m thinking about Felipa,” he said. “She didn’t seem very bright to you, did she?” “No. Look at the hole in her story—how she knew Vail was dead without touching him.” “That doesn't necessarily prove she wasn’t bright. We always overlook the obvious when we lie, as witness Loren, who's bright enough for all practical purposes. That only proves that she expected Vail to be murdered. Perhaps she heard him quarreling with someone, or heard him threatened.” "And when she saw he was dead, that flashed into her mind,” I said. Mark barely nodded. He went on, “If that’s true, she may have been fearful that she was next on the murderer’s list. If she’d been questioned privately and handled a little more gently, she might have told. But she wanted to keep out of the mess, and the sheriff frightened her. “If that’s why she ran away, perhaps she left a note behind putting the finger on someone.” “Don’t you see where that leads you?” I cried. “Right to Calvert! If he stole the note, it must have incriminated him." “Or someone he wanted to protect, assuming that there was a note and that someone didn't reach through the window and snitch it,” Mark amended. "Anyway, we’ll never see that note, if there was one. Whoever took it has certainly had time to destroy it by now. Maybe the sheriff will find Felipa. though." (To Be Continued)

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slble for the grower to realif" fair income from his beet ' even though the production < year Is only » few tons per acre. In the local territory the benefit payment will probahly he basea on the 1933 production, since la ' year was the first time in three vears that beets were grown hen Mr calland pointed out Despite drought conditiohs In parts of the local heet territory, growers will probably receive a much and possibly mori from th.SYNOPSIS Seifert Vail, the most unpopular patient at exclusive Sherwood Forest Sanatorium, is murdered. Two wounds are found on the body; one apparently from a sharp weapon and the other, from a dull, rusty instrument. Dr. John Calvert and Mark Hillyer, playright and patient, agree the wounds could have been caused by a pair of scissors. Felipa, the maid, discovered the body when she went into Vatl s room to turn off the phonograph. Vail, a former opera singer, broken-hearted over the death of his wife, had a habit of repeatedly playing the record "Waiting For You,” sung by himself. Dr. Calvert claims Vail had been dead an hour before the phonograph started playing. Vail shared a cottage with Willis Clendening, Milton Cross and James Ruxton. Ruxton's nephew, Loren, and Dr. Calvert are rivals for the affections of Sue Faraday, Mark’s nurse. Ruxton had changed rooms with Vail the day before the crime because the former’s room had a private entrance and Vail expected a visitor he wanted to receive secretly. A letter the victim received from New York is missing. Sheriff Finn asks Felipa how she knew Vail had been murdered when he had been covered and the wounds were not visible. She appears to be hiding something and, next morning, disappears. _ Clendening claims he saw a piece of peper under the clock on Felipa’s table, but no trace can be feund of it. Loren Ruxton claims he was out with Sue at the time of the tragedy and took a snapshot of Lakeside Cottage a little after two o’clock, yet Sue had not left the hospital until five minutes to three. Mark's theory regarding the note in Felipa’s room is that Dr. Caldwell, having gone there alone, may have found the note but denied seeing it. CHAPTER XV The telephone on his bedside table rang. “Hello," Mark said. "Yes, he’s here. Sure send him right in." He turned to me with a satisfied smile. “Guess who’s about to honor us with a visit I Dave Finn, the bungling bloodhound of the law, the slipshod sheriff in person." “Does he want to see me?” Mark nodded. “Wants to sweat you about the mysterious doings this morning, I suppose,” He chuckled. “Am I all a-quiver with anticipation?" Sue came in at that moment, and she looked very distressed. She did not even try to smile at us. She avoided looking at Mark as she went by toward the porch. “Sweetheart,” Mark said. She stopped and turned, but still she would not look at him. 'Don’t de it," he said sharply. She drew in her breath sharply and color spread slowly in her throat and cheeks. "Listen,” Mark said. “I’ve only got a minute before the sheriff comes. If Loren asked you to hack him up, don’t do it. Don’t get yourself in trouble—and when you see Loren, tell him not to be a fool and try to lie to Finn. Get it?” She nodded, still staring at him, surprised and a little frightened by his clairvoyance “There’s nothing '.a worry about,” Mark said, smiling reassuringly. “Loren lost his head, that’s all. I'm not going to tell on him, but don’t let him know I’m in on it.” “I won't,” she said, and she smiled on him, gratefully, dazzlingly. “I’ve already told him to tell the sheriff the truth, but please tell me how you knew he was—telling a lie.” “Manana," said Mark. “The old hidalgo's about to rece)ve a visitor now. The sheriff’s heavy footsteps had already announced him. He entered at Mark’s command. "Well, Mr. Finn,” Mark said, smilmg and holding out his hand. “I’m awfully glad to meet you. I'm Mark Hillyer. This is Miss Faraday, my nurse. Yon know Mr. Fowler of course. Please sit down.”

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“Why. thanks, Mr. Hillyer. I'm glad to know you,” Finn said. He sat down heavily in one of Mark’s chairs, pulled his handkerchief from his pocket and began to mop his forehead. "Another scorcher," he said. "It ain’t often we get three hot days like this hand running.” He put his handkerchief In his pocket and began to pull his mustache. “It’s rotten weather for work like yours," Mark said sympathetically. “It sure is, and what a case, Mr. Hillyer! You know. I wanted to hold that girl as a material witness last night, but—” Mark nodded. “1 know. You didn't

I tv I / /If ' [li A" | -z v i Iu ’ 1 11 flEnm wiskhl li'i !yr IH • b "Sweetheart,” Mark said. Sue stopped and turned. “Don’t do it' be said sharply.

want to act too hastily. No one can blame you.”

Finn sighed. “It’s just • bad break, Mr. Hillyer,” “Did you want to see me, Mr. Finn?” I asked. “Why, yes,” he said. “I understand you was at the cottage this morning. I’d like you to tell me just what happened.” I repeated my story, and while I was talking, Sue rose quietly and went out on the porch. When I had finished, the sheriff nodded and said, “That ehecks, all right,” He shook his head and sighed deeply. J. m , atte 8 Bu ßßtestion, Mr. Finn? Mark required. The sheriff looked up hopefully. Obviously, he would welcome any advice that might lead him out of his dilemma. “Sure,” he said. you ’ ve established the fact that Felipa didn’t tske the ; a,n £°? th e, The sheriff nodded. You know that she’s a Mexican, and that she was saving money to return to Mexico?" Yes, I know ihac.” “Have you inquired whether she kept her savings on deposit with the business office?" “She didn’t have a cent there but a week s wages due her." “Then she must have had her money in the bank in the village ” she c!o«d h Vhy d ° n,t you “ cently?" d hel> aCCOUnt there ree„.Say ‘ j* lßl .’? a goo ' l Finn exclaimed. He sat thinking for a minute and then said. “If she did. it looks suspicious, don’t it? Ixioks Saway/ nned 10 make 8

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> “Yes. but I think mt f, J money is still therw. | f ran away on the S p uf '£*3 - went, with probably no > than she needed to get to If she did. and she trie,M 1 money out of the bank. i her. 1 don’t see how she ean without her savings.” i ‘‘That’s right, Mr. < got a good mind on you if yon ±2 mind my savin' so " w , .“Hove it” Mark answer-j. ning. And now let me idea off my mind. • away, she very probably went 1 that path through the woods. Im 1 the lake. That leads to the Z! road to Mount Hollins, and it’si« : much further from there thug.

to Cold Valley. She may hen caught the train there. Why itofl you look along that path?” “Say. I think I’ll make you i deputy!” Finn said. “Lord kncXl you’re more of a help than the tn fools I brought with me.” Mark did not answer. He M suddenly become very grave. & sat frowning at the foot of his bet Finn stood up, but as he wasabo* to leave, Mark held up his hand. “Have you found anything • indicate that Felipa might have left that note Clendening said he in her room?’’ he asked. “Well,” Finn said. "someM here in the sanatorium sent her I note last night." Mark sat up. “Really? Haw you been able to trace it?” “No, darn it! There’s a boa» the lobby for letters from one pan of the sanatorium to another. body dropped it in there last mgn and a bellboy took it dewn t« t» cottage.” “Did he recognise the wntn* on it?” “It wasn’t writing, hr r name«« printed out in pencil. I figure was what Clendening saw. “Lord,” said Mark. Than bad!” The sheriff caught the coT:taji« of fear from Mark’s v. ice. He » manded sharply. "What do 1' mean, it’s bad?* 1 and he sonMJ alarmed. I braced myself raen , 3 I,'i 1 ,'i for a shock. It seemed Mark was thinking of D' Calv'd connection with that vanished no» and was going to speak of it. (To Be Continued) wrlste. Ilia, br low Cl«jv>n ' M" 1 "’” nuuivuiM »» am r«««ur—

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