Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1934 — Page 2

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CHAPTER XXI tn the six months I had been at Shertvood Forest 1 had never seen so many visitors as there were the week-end after Seifert Vail was murdered. Persons in New York suddenly remembered long neglected friends in the sanatorium and enme by train and motor to see them. They were rewarded with the current gossip about the case, but by Sunday everyone was growing tired of the subject. It was so hot that day that the weather displaced erime as the most popular topic of conversation. Patients and visitors sat on cottage porches in artificial breezes, reading with morbid interest of the record-break-ing temperature in the city. Nothing at all happened on Sunday. It was too hot for anything to happen. Joe was not arrested. He was permitted to go about his duties on the grounds, and the deputy assigned to watch him did sc from a rocking chair on the porch of the main building. The gardener had become a local celebrity because of his long interrogation by the sheriff, and patients previously unaware of his existence stopped and spoke to him. When I went to see Mark In the morning, he seemed oppressed by the heat. ‘‘Even Sue’s cracking up, aren’t you. sweetheart?" he said in extenuation. “Can you believe it, Bob, she actually snapped at me this morning.” Sue looked charmingly confused. She protested. “You shouldn’t tell on me, Mr. Hillyer. I’ve already apologized." “it’s all right to tell old Bob," he answered. “I wouldn't betray you to John or Loren.” I didn’t like very much the way Sue laughed at that, and I told her it was insulting. "Heavens, are you getting touchy, voo?” she asked She became suddenly grave. “The murder’s demoralizing everyone here. Nothing’s been normal since it happened.” “How eould it be?” asked Mark, and then answered his rhetorical question. “Murder isn’t normal. It’s a dislocation—a violent departure from the normal—a reminder that we aren’t so far from savagery as we like to believe.” He warmed to his theme. "The act of murder is like a stone dropped in a pool. The first shock, the splash, is only the beginning. The disturbance spreads until the whole pool is agitated. In this ease. the figurative pool is Sherwood Forest. Those waves, those widening circles will touch all of us before it’s over.” Sue looked at him with apprehension in her eyes. “All of us?” she repeated. "In one way or another. You can see the first effects yourself. None of us quite trusts anyone else. One person has run away. Another, afraid of being involved, has lied. Everyone’s scheming to keep clear. Some of us. probably, innocent of any connection with the crime, fear that the investigation will bring other things to light. And all this may be only the beginning.” “He’s a philosopher as well as a detective,” I remarked, but Sue still looked troubled. 1 left Stark feeling depressed and , irritable. The day was long and unutterably wearisome. There was no one to talk to. Loren had vanished, and Sue went driving with John Calvert in the afternoon. I ' read the newspapers, worked a cross-word puzzle, ate my meals : without appetite and finally, early 1 in the evening, fell into a troubled sleep. 1 From an uneasy dream I was : abruptly jerked into full, terrified ; consciousness. I found myself sitting upright in bed with the mem- ! ory of a scream, heard or dreamed ■ nf. Still ringing In my brain. My scalp was tingling and my eyes 1 !

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by two sleel manufacturing plants which reported gross Income of sl,831.060 for the fitot three niuntlw of the year, and $3,090,000 for the second three montlus, an increase of $1,250,006. These figure*. Jackson pointed out. represent only business done within the state Os Indiana, as under a ruling of the department Indiana concerns have been privileged to defer reporting rtf income from sales made in interstate commerce, until courts have decided upon Ils taxability. One chain department store and an individual department store reported an immense of $817,000 in business volume. Combined receipts of the companies during the first quarter $4,095.01*0. Three five and ten cent store and variety chains reported a gain of 1209.000—from $1,699,000 to $1,878,ono. Combined receipts of two grocery chains increased by SIBI,OOO. A meat packing company showed an increase of SIOBJ>OO in income received from sales within the state

I watering. For long, long minutes I sat breathing quickly, feeling my heart pounding against my ribs. It was a dark night, and through my window 1 could sec nothing except the silent, dark bulk of the woods against the lighter earth. If I had actually heard a cry. ft was not repeated. Finally I sank back in bed and, glancing at my wrist watch, turned over to return to sleep. It was 11:30 then. Until two o'clock I lay awake, starting at every sound, tossing on the hot sheets. In the morning I was still tired and heavy-eyed. In the foyer on my way to breakfast I met James and Loren Ruxton. The iatter came hurrying up to me and asked excitedly, “Have you heard the news?”

A patient, taking his morning walk, saw something floating on the water. It was the gardener's body.

“No," I said. 1 began to feel the same sensation of nameless dread I had experienced in the night. “Joe’s skipped,” said Loren. “Run away?” I said. "But he was under guard!” “The deputy got tired of sitting outside his room and ducked over to the kitchen to get a drink of water. Joe must have climbed out the window as soon as the deputy’s back was turned. They didn’t discover he was gone until an hour ago.” Two patients on their way to the dining room stopped to listen. One of them asked, “Did he take his clothes?” “No." Loren answered. He added, “I hear the sheriff thinks he's gone to New York to join his girl friend. Felipa.” The other patients looked at each other. “That settles it,” one said. “That proves he’s guilty. Finn should have arrested him, don’t you think, Mr. Ruxton?” The gray-haired man to whom everyone naturally deferred coughed slightly. His face was very grave as he replied. “You believe he left voluntarily? Even a gardener would not be so stupid as to Mgn his own death warrant by running away when there was no proof against him.

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1 fail to understand how anyone can entertain such an idea.” My fear returned, stronger than before. The banker's sunken eyes looked into the distance beyond us as though he. too. were seeing something terrifying. “I don’t see—” one of the patients began, but Loren interrupted. “Don’t let it worry you. Uncle Jim.” he said soothingly. “I worry because I have imagination,” Ruxton answered grimly. “I’m a sick man and a selfish one. 1 don't like crimes and investigation. Joe Barker is nothing to me. I told him only yesterday that I would see he was properly defended if I were convinced of his innocence and he were arrested. But I would have been relieved by some

assurance that he was guilty and that this Would end. “Now—” he came to a full stop. “Now I belive that Seifert Vail’s murder was only a beginning There will be worse—much worse—to come.” Those prophets who foretold the destruction of Israel must have looked like James Ruxton as he stood before us, his white hair a little disordered, his eyes burning with conviction, uttering his dread- ' ful prophecy. We were silent, uneasy. No one answered him. Abruptly he turned, took Loren’s arm and walked into the dining room. “Cirrhosis of the liver." Mark said when I told him of that prediction, "darkens the lives of its victims. One of its effects is acute melancholia. James Ruxton lives m a world of fearful shadows. The toxins in his body make it impossible for him to believe that life can hold anything but disaster. Don’t take his pessimism too seriously.” But the prophecy came true, while we were talking, while Mark was assuring me that Ruxton’s beliefs were hallucinations, a patient, taking his morning walk around the lake, saw something floating the water. It was the gardener's body. (To Be Continued) Conr ’cht. I BT J ( ’laytnn and f DUtribtiiM Kina F»«tures Syndicate.

ARIZONA WOMAN ' IS UNOPPOSED: Phoenix. Arlz. (U.R) 1 | sentativc Isabella Greenway, girl ( hood friend of Mrs. Frtnklln Roosevelt, will depend upon her , own popularity for reelectton this t fall, it is believed here. She may be unopposed, for JJe Democratic nomination. . • , WO n the lone Arizona seat n tht I|IIOUSP vacated by Louis Director of the Budgi_• , entrenched herself "iTn • CHAPTER XXII 1 was still with Mark when Sue. . pale and grave, told us of the'discovery of Joe Barker s body floating in the lake. Mark heard her brief recital without the faintest

expression. He turned to me and said quietly, "I wish you’d go down there, Bob.” , As I went down the corridor leading to the lobby, I passed a nurse and one of the doctors. They nodded to me silently, curtly. The man on duty at the switchboard in the lobby answered his calls in a subdued tone. Two waitresses from the dining room stood in a corner of the lobby, whispering. They looked frightened. I went out the front entrance and immediately it became apparent to me that the news had spread with its usual rapidity throughout the sanatorium. Usually at that hour patients on exercise were strolling through all parts of the grounds. This morning I saw only three, and all were converging on the woods behind Lakeside Cottage. In several cottages I could see other patients sitting at the windows, with the curtains pulled back. I hurried to the woods and entered again that silent path I had traversed the day we had hunted for some trace of the vanished Felipa. The familiar oppression of that lonely, quiet place overcame me once more. I thought of Felipa and shuddered. It seemed almost as though Mark, lying in that isolated room of his, out of contact with the world, had developed an ancanny instinct for disaster. I remembered that he had sensed murder the day Vail had been killed. In the same way he had felt that there was something fatal about that still, black lake. We had not found Felipa dead in it, as he had expected, but now it had become the scene of death. I wondered if some day its deep, cold waters would yield up Felipa’s body, too. When I came to the edge of the lake, I saw that the news had been slow in reaching me. Already a dozen patients were gathered in a silent group cn the shore, watching a rowboat that was slowly approaching them. One of the deputy sheriffs was rowing it and in the bow sat Finn. As they came closer. I could see another figure in the stem—a dark, inert figure lying in a puddle of water. None of us stirred or spoke as the boat grated on the gravel shore and Finn stepped clumsily out and pulled it up. He leaned down and took out of the boat a coil of wet rope, attached to something that looked like an anchor. It seemed somehow familiar. In a moment I remembered the day we had looked for Felipa’s body and had found the overalls the murderer had worn. Finn had sent a deputy to town for a grappling hock—later taken to the sanatorium tool shed—and it was that hook which the sheriff had lifted from the boat. Finn and his deputy lifted out the body of the drowned gardener. Water dripped from the sodden overalls. They laid the body on the ground and Dr. Calvert, who had been waiting apart from the rest of us, stepped forward and covered it with a blanket His face was white and his jaw set so that his cheeks were hollowed. Finn and his deputy wrapped the body in its rough covering and lifted it. Slowly they started along the path leading to the sanatorium. Dr. Calvert picked up the grappling hook and followed, sweeping us with a cold rebuking glance as he passed. They disappeared and immediately a babble of conversation arose around me. Those who had come late wanted to hear all about the discovery of the body, ano the ethers supplied that information Listening, I learned that both Joe s body and the rowboat were

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voters. _ „ Htiilesmaiil at the Roosevelt wedding and schoolgirl chum of th.- presidents wife, she gained her election last fall largely from those associations. But since then she has been tireless In working for matters of local concern to various sections of the state. She has kept her constituents p<*ted with step-by-Ktep accounts of the progress of their bills. And when the one issue of sectional Interest to the state the Economy Act revision ■tame before the House vetoed bi President Roosevelt, she cast aside ties to the White House and voted to override the Chief Executive's veto.

found floatmc tn the lake. When the sheriff arrived, he puiled in the boat with the boathook and rowed out to Joe's body He had found it anchored by the grappling hook, with the line twisted around his right wrist. After a decent interval we began moving along the path, still discussing Joe's suicide, for everyone was convinced that he had killed himself. The general reaction was one of relief, vails murderer was revealed, and he was dead. There was nothing more to fear. I was not so certain of that as the rest were, for I knew more than they. If Joe had killed VaiL the change of room between Vail and Ruxton, Vail’s expected visitor, and above all. that phonograph recorc that haunted Mark and me, were nothing but accidents that had no connection with the crime. Mark’s conviction that they were not accidents, but part of a pattern we were unable to assemble, had affected me so that it seemed incredible that the gardener had killed himself. I tried to face the thought that if that were not true, he had been murdered. The white, set face of John Calvert as he had stood on the shore, suddenly came before my eyes so vividly that for a moment It blotted out the woods around me. I felt suddenly ilk and I stumbled and almost fell in the path. 1 had remembered Dr. Calvert telling Mark, Sue and me that he had insisted that Joe should not be arrested. Immediately after that eame another memory—Dr. Calvert, emerging from Felipa’s room on the morning after her disappearance, denying that there had been a note on her table, as Clendening had said. 1 walked on blindly, thinking over and over, "Is that why Calvert kept Joe out of jail?” When we came out of the woods, the sheriff and his deputy, with their shapeless burden, were entering the rear door of the hospital. 1 watched until they had gone inside, and Dr. Calvert after them. Then I went into the lobby, filled now with patients talking excitedly. I went back to Mark’s room and found him there with Sue. “It’s true,” I said. “I saw them bring his body ashore." “Any marks of violence?” Mark demanded. “I had only a glimpse of it," I answered. Then Sue broke in: "Why did you ask that, Mr. Hillyer? Surely you don’t think he was— Her voice faltered and Mark finished the sentence for her. "Murdered? I don’t know,” he said. “I’d like to think he wasn't." Sue put her hand to her throat. “You sound as though you think he was, she said. Her voice was almost a whisper, and her eyes looked large and frightened in her white, lovely face. Mark laughed. “Don’t pay any attention to what 1 think, sweetheart, he said. “I’ve got a melodramatic imagination." “What do you think?" she appealed to me. “I believe we had better wait until we learn more.” I said Sue arose suddenly. “That means you don t think he drowned himself either, she said. “Please, please. you think he was killed, don’t tel! anyone. Ihe patients are nervous enough now. Wouldn’t ft be th r m be!iev< ' ove L instead of starting apain ” »h‘l? WoU ' d ’” Mark * aid ’ “ an<l Ptobably more rational, too " “.'°u’ re iust ‘Qins to reassure me, she answered. I laUßhcd easi >y- 1 thought tinctoX Ver “V n h 'T act more con ‘ vincingly You don t need reassurance," he said. “You’re worried for yourself. Well, darhng. 1 m not to m amunr* panicking the other patent.’’’ smiled wanly at him “I know you re not. I’ m

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Ib i aire „f i,.. r „ wn will b" „ 111 1 “' 1 ’ '“11 ’’Mi s a , ed Hg pill", ’l.im up BM found a wav ...... b were pu.ztod nri(l String!,qi,,, Af "'' "i- l I>"y«i<’inns t. | lodged near n„. N“"tr<’ ( Ullh ri , ease of pn.-nm. to waah the is now well on lhe ~ ’ covery. ragg Get the Hah.- Tradp j( B O by ft, Mr. Hlßyer. P | cs ., ?1 ? mind me. " A few minute, later .h, room and Mark turned to m denly. "I want to know moreIf you can g.t w F lnn a qWl to come see me." I promised him 1 wnijM before we had t . me cussion, Sue returned. When 1 went to lunch after noon I nut loren iTWjg uncle in the lobby. \v c for a few minute, talking everyone around . f ;n,. the gardener. | l| “Have you heard the mor?” Loren asked. f Jj “No," I said. “What is it* I He lowered his v :ee. patients told me that whn examined Joo. they found ■ the fingers of on., hand “Really?” 1 exclaimed. nJH looks like murd. r " j Both Loren and his tincle The elder man put h:s hand i*SP! mouth and coughs .. ly. it does." he sai l He gloomily. "I hope the report true, cr exagg, rated.” | « “It’s probably exaggerate least.” Ixiren s.vd. smiling. know what a gos«ip factory MM place is. Everyone knows thing an hour b, -‘ r.- it happera.’B'l “Who examined J, e's body? I “Dr. Calvert. 1 believe." Ruxton said. “He u ually work here that r . do.” “Have you seen him Ruxton?” I 1 “No.” he said. He pulled handkerchief and ? thvred other cough. 'Tn . n me.’’ “I have an irritat .-n of the If you’ll excuse m,-. we luncheon." | « He turned away ■ c. arm was through • -. and leaned heavily or. th j I looked after th ■ ■. Janies Ruxton pr< babiy had little longer to enjoy panionship. He had aged since I had met him half a fore, and particu'. o to grow more ill and feeble Vail’s murder. He had alwtyslrEß cold, formal and controlled. der his calmness the shock of crime must have affected hxM| thought. losS I walked slowly along the dor after him and into the room, where I sat at my usual alone. There was a continual mur of conversati m ffe diners : the sanamore excited than it had day when Seifert \ ail was fK®" dead. |E| After lunch I lingered in TiM lobby, listening to the patients clustered there, as waited for the bus which most of them to ar. 1 ::: their tages. Ci J The rumor which I r,n me had grown with repetitiss.® ' heard one woman telling ar.'.wMthat the gardener’s :■ ill had fractured. Several : the ratfflß! spoke excitedly of leaving. of them seemed inclined tn and talk rather than r- mm to cottages for the ret walked over to the de.-k and spftHi to the telephone operator. “What’s this I hear about Jan I asked him. .■ He looked at me blandly. know a thing about it. .Mr. Fo»«M All I know is, he was drowned." | He might have been speakingaO truth, or he might have ing instructions not to talk; it impossible to tell. I went to my room still wond< ring whetbttß Mark had been right in his that Joe had killed nc"hcr Vailwß himself. Was the murderer alive among us? I (To Be Continued) g enoTTltm. 1»33. c > . Olitrlbutad b» tint ' >'• * ■

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