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The Russians have found out that Genera) Clay. the American zone commander is uot so much clay. o ~ If the United State- •» luiii-nt operated under the parliamentary system, the House vote of 329 to 74 in favor Os the Marshall Recovery Plan, would be considered a vote of <tofidence. — o o The American taxpayer is th*sort of person who smiles at the thought of getting a tax cut. although mindful that Uncle Sam will have a hard job trying to balance his budget. Now that Congress has put through the tax reduction Itili, many of the members will want to adjourn the session so that the important mutter of poP.ti. -an >• taken up. Q Q The army and navy stick to old fashions, which may be one reason for not getting new recruits. The air corps voted down the "new look" styles for enlisted men and the navy hasn't done anything yet to rule out the bell bottom trousers for sailors. Uncle Sam hould get in style. The Democrat congressional primary ra«« is enlivened with the entry ot Chester K. Watson of Fort Wayne, the third candidate to seek the nomination The fourth district needs a change, for many of the people are tired of the representation confined solely to be against everything. o o "As Christians, we support th--European Recovery Program in the conviction that it can be onof history's most momentuous affirmations of faith in the curative power of freedom and In the creative capacity of free men." says a statement adopted by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, under the president y of Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati. Even then 7-1 congressmen voted against the UH. o o —- When the Yugoslavs offer Italy the Gorizia area in exchange for Trieste, they are proposing to give Italians territory that is already theirs. This view is expressed by American State Departnpent

AN UNDERSTANDING, ENTERTAINING i Aim,fl AND LOGICAL EDIE S ifh out < Set against a background of society and wealth, this is a poignant and gripping story of two girls in love with one man. The unraveling of this emotional tangle, and the unusual way in which it is solved, make this a tale to be remembered. Beginning Monday, April 5, in UM ATI K DAILY DEMOCRAT

officials. Gorizia a tiftuntain town north of Trieste, cutinot begin to compare in value with Trieste, per- '• haps the most inßtorunt seaport t ' dts the Adraltic Sea. Thus the more the Yugoslav offer is examined, the more unimpressive it t seems . o_ o I Ih-catur welcomes the Junior ■ Chamber of Commerce, commonly known as the Jaycees. The local . roup is composed of alert young • jiu-n who wish to serve their community in a civi< and public-spirit-i , ed way. and no doubt, in the com- } ing months the opportunity for | this brand of service will be of f*-r«*« th*-,i>. Any ui'g.niliZ&tiui* that 1 has for its ideal, the rendering of ’ public service, should succeed and ’ does In the larger cities, tlfe Jay- • have proved their responsiilit ■>: citi.-i-nship through jbeir -p*n--oi-ship < f various community rograms. William Colfi-e. local . u.-main »■ ii-ent. heads flu- Deca•jlur chapter and we wish him and I his associates success and happi- > nest in their undertakings. o u Children's Friend: [, School offi* lais, tea* hers. * hildren. parents and citizens in gen,ierul were saddened by the unexpe* ted death of Miss Grace tliffee, ‘ beloved teacher and Junior Red Chairman, who devoted her life to the nations most precious ! j asset . . . children. For forty-five years Miss Coffee , labored with tervid zeal in her role as instructor in the Decatur I i public schools, preceded by two years experience as a township . school teacher. Mi**# Coffee symbolized the high<st standard attributed to the ' rchoolniarm. She was proficient .! as an instructor, kindly, but post- . five us a disciplinarian, sympa- - tbetic with her pupils' problems. , and meticulous in curriculum cov- ! ciaa*' Her »ii> ,-rity was mirror ed in the favorable leaction of the . children entrusted to her. II Beyond the class rootn. .Miss ! Coffee < ontributed outstanding publi* service as chairman of the Junior K<-d Cross in this county. She was the devoted director who J inspired the childrep to help | others, through lite noble concept I . that happiness comes in giving. . i Through her energetic and re■sour.e.ful spirit. Miss Coffee set j and maintained a record for the county in seeing that every school , was enrolled iu the Junior Red | , Cross, an accomplishment recog-i . nixed by national headquarters of! the humanitarian organization i A splendid woman. Miss Coffee’s I life is her own monument, built around the tutoring of youth to be11 come worthy American citizens and the personal exemplification of unselfish service to her com-| I 1 inunity.

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CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN “UP UNTIL THEN. Uli Mike came back from the West. Angela had the bonds, Inspector?" Catherine asked. “Yei. They were blood-stained. She concealed them among her own papers, afraid of the stains being noticed, until she could restore them without any questioM being asked." “And—questions were asked?" “Exactly. After Nye saw the lawyer, Harris, that day. he called Angela Wardwell. She had been, and still was. nervous about the leopard. She was the one who sent It to you. inspired by that letter on your uncle's desk. She was the one who tried to get it from your cottage in Brookfield later, afraid that someone, some day, might discover the use to which it had been put. She had an almost superstitious fear of it . . . Then Stephen Darrel) came beck and began making inquiries about your uncle’s death." McKee waited for Catherine to ask why. She didn't. There wasn’t so much as a quiver In her st the mention of Darrell's name. His earlier optimism began to dwindle. Could the damage done to her by those repeated blows be permanent? He was partly responsible. ... His uneasiness deepened. “About the bonds and the leopard. Inspector." Her low voice was clear, her gray eyes level. “Oh—well. Mike Nye told your aunt that as long as she was upset about It he'd get the leopard—which be did. Mrs. Wardwell brought the bonds with her when she went to the Fifty-ninth Street apartment that night Nothing was said about the bonds to the others. Nye was simply to discover them among papers of your uncle’s—for Harris and the income-tax people.” The car was skimming the edge of Yonkers, going south. “It was Hat who hid the bonds in my room In Clearwater and threw the envelope down into the snow under my window." “That's right And had her plan of having them discovered In your possession upset by Stephen Darrell. You've seen Mr. Darrell, Mias Lister?" Catherine had seen them aD'at the hospital, except Hat, who was in another hospital, behind bars. She hadn't died in that plunge through the window. It would have been better if she bad. Angela had come, and Tom and Francine and Nicky and Stephen. They were aH shadows, insubstantial and without any longer, any connection with her. Nicky had asked her to forgive bins and that was ally, toe. She wasn't going to marry him; she had made that plain. He had been angry about it That didn’t matter either. But politeness did. and the Inspector was being kind and she had a certain intellectual curiosity. He offered her a cigaret again This time she took one. It was easier to take it than to refuse. "What about Dutch Pete?" she asked. Inhaling smoke that had no substance. “Oh. that Dutch Pete finally contacted your sunt when she was oq the vay home from Nye* apart-

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ment on the night he died. It was the usual thing, Tve got information the police would like about your late husband's murder’ . . . Mrs. Wardwell biL She had to. There was one unusual eagle to IL Dutch Pete admitted he was in a spot, that he was Just out of jail. He did it to make her feel better, get her tc negotiate with him. He proposed Brookfield himself. 'Later on you could install me as your caretaker and give me a nice little pension'—something tike that." McKee shrugged. “He had Angela Ward well where the wool was short. She said she’d let him know, gave him a little money she had on ber. New York wasn't healthy tor him and be took off in the second-hand car be bought. You know what happened up there. He followed the family to Clearwater, then back to Brookfield. The next day, he contacted Angela for more money. “She hadn’t very much In cash. She told him so. told him she would give him what she bad. They arranged that she was to put what money she had into the cottage woodbox by four o'clock that afternoon. She actually deposited the twelve hundred and fifty dollars in the woodbox at around 3:30, and returned home. “Hat had overheard her telephone call to Dutch Pete—. emember Hat was constantly ow the qui vtve. She bad to be. Her safety depended on IL Very little went on that she didn't make it her business to keep inform* about She followed Angela to the cottage, concealed herself, waited uxiUl Dutch Pete arrived and then killed hen." "I didn't see her .. .• "No. and she didn’t see you. or I doubt whether you'd be alive now." "And on that final night . • .• McKee shrugged again. His feeling of guilt was increasing with every moment And yet without proof, what else could he have done but try and force the Issue? “It was pretty raw. I was afraid they’d see through ma. The footprints were a gamble at best Even if we had found anything good, the defense lawyer would have made mincemeat of IL I had to try and flush the perpetrator into the open. 1 knew the house would be watching and listening. PSorettl, the Assistant District Attorney, and I talked our throats dry tn whispers. Hat of course, was one of the listeners. As I say, she couldn't afford not to be aware of what wm going on. “She argued that I suspected Angela. I admitted I had no proof. You simply bad to be kilted, for a number of reasons You would supply the police with a MStprit; Pioretti favored you strongly. Moot important if you weren’t rmeevid. even if the police were at MUR and the case west unsolved, which it might wefl have done, Angela would ultimately and tn ber own time have turned John Wardweirs money over to you, if you w»re alive Bhe felt that she had connived in a erime and that tt wasn’t i riglrtfuMy ters." i “That's tmgneetble I wouldn’t ’ take g penny. Utete Jaflg'g rnemgr

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April 3 — The Engeler store doses at Bluffton and the building Is leased to the Penney company Mrs Ernest Tope seriously burned while starting a fire with kerosene at her home on Washington street Contract awarded to Sam Cook for painting county Infirmary build Ings Secretary Mellqn recommend* a tax cut of |2D1.0i«.000. Peter Meyer, of Vera Cruz, is shot to death while in bls car at Shelbyville, believed to have been murdered by a companion Good Friday Is to be observed here this week Business wiil cease three hours, from 12 to 3. step +give Previously reported 37.859.35 Lewis Rumschiag Sec. Il « 14 Washington , 7.00 Sunny Circle Home Ec. Club of Preble ............. 5.00 Dewey Plumhley Sec. 9 Union 600 Court House Officials 28.50 Henry J. Ebrsam Sec. 33 Monroe .. ........... 13.00 Howard Bluhm Sec. 21 French .. ... 8.00 Rolland Beer Sec. 22 Monrtoe 31.00 g. E. Winans Sec 29 St. Mary's.... .. 7.00 Floyd Baker Sec. 5 Jefferson 1.00 Ivan Duff Se< 11 Hartford 15.00

has nothing to dr with me. 1 tcld her so." The river slid by on the right Some of the big ships were in. “How did you know it was Hat who had killed Uncle John. Inspector? Bhe seemed no more guilty than any of the others You mentioned a man named Mr. Zantmi. What had he to ... T" McKee explained the garage and filling station owner's connection with the Wardwella. "Zantlnl bad been caught selling black gas. He came to New York to get your uncle to intercede for him with the local prosecutor. One of his pleas was that be had sold gas to Miss Hat La Mott He said he bad sold it to ber. a tankful of it on the evening of December the 9th." The car bad come down the ramp and they were proceeding east The city was all about them, vast, indifferent. enveloping. "December the 9th," Catherine said in a faint voice. It was the night Hat bad spent at his shack with Stephen Darrell. "Yea. Your uncle said that Hat La Mott was not In Brookfield that night Zantinl gave him proof she was." The Cadillac rolled along the Avenue of the Americas Paint dribbled on one of the new signs. Jefferson Market the clock that was always wrong in the square tower. The ear slowed, went around the corner and stopped before the iron gates of Lorilard Place. McKee got out helped Catherine out, and they wont along the small cobbled walk under trees that were leafless now, and into the bouse and up the stairs. Catherine unlocked the door. The November skies were gray, the living room dim. cheerless. The cleaning woman bad left a fire laid. McKee pot a match to It. Catherine threw off ber coot and eat down In a chair near the hearth. The Inspector had more to say. She waited. "Miss Lister. 1 asked you awhile ago whether there was any dissension, any cause for disagreement between Michael Nye and Mr. Darrell, and you said no. Isn't it a fact that on Saturday morning, the morning of Saturday, December the 10th, you gave Mr. Nye reason to think that Mr. Darren hag—misbehaved toward you ?" That was one way of phrasing It What did it matter now? Catherine looked at her bands. That's true." -Isn’t K also trarthat a mtle eariter that morning yen Stopped tn ewsxpini idly at Mr, Darrell's hoewaf" She nodded stiffly. "And yss found Mlm La Mott with Mr. DarreU and you assumed that Mas La Mott had spent the ■MM there?" Another nod. "Wei, you were right Mtee La Mott dM spend the sight there bm cauee .. .• Thea be told her. and the pieces finally tell into place and what Stephen Darrell had done with the missing eleven hundred dollars was at last axplainad—aad Catherine‘s fßs Be Osaeiedit)

Roger Schaffter Sec. 30 Monro. . - L.. S-73-Harold Schatnerlob Sec. 21 Union .... Y -- 38 00 j Henry C. Miller Sfec 15 Preble ’ 3W Mrs ErnMt Fisher Sec. 27 St Mary's 1 50 Knights of Columbus .... 10 00 TOTAL 37.854.10, HUNTINGTON (font From Page One I ed seeing him. pieced together his description and that of several othdr persons. This description

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CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT Hat nad spent the mght in Steph.ns shaek. She bad spent the night there because she had killed a man and bad sought refuge in the seclusion of Stephen's shack on the river. Within a mile ot the Wardwell bouse and a quarter of a mite below Stepnen's she bad mewed down s la'xirer namrd Dykes. She knew she bad killed him. Hit and run—she didn’t stop. She didn’t dart go on home She had broken a head tamp and battered a fender when she str.ck and killed Dykes She was known for her reckless driving. Her car would be examined. Die police behind. her uncle's house ahead, no one had seen ber on her wsy over from the Merritt Parkway. She turned into Stephen's driveway, put her car in Stephen's garage and locked the doors it Hadn't yet begun to rain; be: Urea were smooth snd had left no tracks Stephen wasn't home when she got there. He came tn and found her. She was half mad with terror. She made him swear again and again before she told him the truth that no matter what happened, he would never betray her. She forgot one thing, thv she hsd had her tank filled at ZanUni's on the other side of town He didn't serve ber himself, one of his attendant* did, but Zant!*! saw her, through the windows of the filling station. He didn’t connect her with the death of the laborer. Dykes; be eimply used ber as a lever to get John Wardwell to Help him with the local court. But—the moment John Wardwell beard Hat had been tn Brookfield, he guessed. He sent for Hat that day in New York. He had taken the hundred thousand dollars in bearer bonds from hie safe. The bonds were on his desk. He tohl Hat that, instead of going to her eventually, they would go to the Dykes family. Thcn-sbe killed him. There was no warmth in the fire. Catherine said, “Will Hat . . . ?" McKee said, “No. Your cousin won’t suffer the usual penalty. Miss Lister. We're checking on it now. but I don't think there’s much question of the strain being in ber. Her father and mother’s death when she was a child wan t accident. Richard La Mott was Insane. In a fit of jealousy he deliberately ran the car with his wife in it o’? the raflfl. . . .• At Catherine’s expression of slow horror, be said gently, "Oh. Hat La Mott won’t be so badly off. considering. Money can do a great deal." Tnerv was 8 pause. McKee looked At hta wa’ch again. “AU clear, Mias Lister?" It was very eiear-cWitMthto revelation about what had happened two years ago between Ftephen snd Hat, prison gates shut firmly on Catherine Stephen had been tn the right She bad been m the wrong. It wasn’t Stephen who had insulted sad injured ber. It was she who had done that to him There was a step on the state The door opened and Stepbw. came in. McKee bad been waiting tor bus, ft WM up to Barren oow Be said good-bye, that be would see them later, and went

1 was given to the newspapers ants broadcast ovn- the ata'e poik-e I radio. t • Huntington ' police said they i read the description in a Fort Wayne newspaper which had been sent from hore They remeaitiered seeint the man In that city for the past few days-slnce he kft here —and his sion followed. Sheriff Bowman was to confer today with prosecutor Myles F. Parrish relative to action against Lamb here after disposition c.t his case at Huntington. The prosecutor lodged a charge of ! issuing a fraudulent check against

Catherine sat on urtstirring. Sbe didn't even turn her herd. Stephen came acroee the room. He greeted her in a pleasant voice, asked how sbe was, pulled a chair forward and sat down close to ber. His eyes traveled over ber face. •‘Die Inspector told you?" He pulled out a cigaret. tit IL "Yea,” she said dully. “He told me. I'm sorry, Stephen." "You should be." He said it without rancor, almost cheerfully. The walls of stone enclosing Catherine pressed in closer. She had done Stephen an irreparable injury, pr ‘judging him, harshly, without waiting, without trust, or faith. it was done now. It couldn’t be undone. Everything was gone. ... Nicky l”o the silences, Angela crushed. Hat tn a prison hoej ..tai. Nicky loved HaL He had always loved ber. She, Catherine, bad never been more than second best, and that only because Nicky bad known about Mike's will end thought she would have money. She had had one thing. Sbe had had Stephan DarreU, and she had thrown him away. Weil, it was finished. There was no help for IL Say a word of excuse and ask him to go. When he was gone and sbe was alone, she would have plenty of Ume to think things over. She wanted nothing else, couldn't bear .'.nythlng else. It was her portion. She had chosen it herself. It must be her portion from now on. Stephen pushed hta chair back and got up. He stood on Um hearth with hta back to the fire looking down at ber. There were things the bad to know before he went She sail “You were going to marry Hat because « . .• “Because I was responsible for her. and she hated you. If we were married, I could keep on eye on her. , . ." "Did you know she had killed Uncle John?" “1 suspected it I was never sura. Then, that last day. I saw Angela Wardwell on ber way across the fields. She had been at the cottage. .. . That sent me ep in the air again. That’s why I refused to say what I’d done with the money I drew out of the bank." "What did you do with It?” ’’Gave ft to Mrs. Dyaes, the poor woman for whom i was also partlaMy responsible, the widow <-f the man Hat kilted. It was an obiigatioo. John Wardwefi sent for me on tM evening of the day he <»ed. When I gut there at about S quyter past seven, the house was uarfl, and there was no sn•wvv to my ring IM we hsd tMked over the phena. I thick your was going to tell yoa the truth about Hat and myself. He wm also going to take care of the dead man’s widow I eouMat watt- 1 bad to leave for camp. <»t. After I beard John Wardwell was dead. J kept thinking ot Dykaff widow. When I gut back .. - -t*bt was wfcat you were going to ask Mike about on the night he was kilted?" "Yes. 1 couldn't get any tnfor- 1 •MU® out of HaL 1 wanted to I know whether John WgrgwaU bad < bad time to do somethlas for • Di kes’ wtoww and the toto-ShZ

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are four. ... 1 J quite a lot wh.le 1 «.u.r.'ulH jo wnen I was up there blfl field, while 1 ecu!ln 1 pvH much, 1 did give bn ’!» hundred on my wsy fr.rs tfl A log m the Ire tofflkfl a soft crash. 15 "You're go.nu' back o»'. tefl the Philippine*'.''' if A pause. Stephen xul flfl That depends ca you.’ 1! “On me?" “Yes" She didn't pretend to nssfl stand him. He was wkeiifl marry him In another sStfl world she had ones known isl wm as whe had been then, "fl have been heaven to tm J Stephen Darrell s »i’-—bit she was row. She hso oobfl give him or anyone "I'm sorry, Stephen." u The atmosphere of changed. The quiet went. Tfl crackled. Stephen rot nui ■ scorn was lashing. ehewM it at first, then she did. *fl ered away from him. dwflfl her hands elwped sM tap. He told her that she egotist, little, selflth. sfl hearted, that there was M Isl ness in her. no strength, ta J ago. Shir had mad* • Everyone made mistskes JL wasn't beg enough to scki •*« The wall nt stone that 10] safe, secure in her own wwfl of gravnms where «he d -F M to feel any more, begani “fl bta, leaving her defense.** ■ Stephen moved. She didtflj; up. She thought he wai «*| to the door. He wssaX *1 In front of her chair. her up cut of >L ShivehN.J expoeed to all the wtnde .-‘•fl she gased at him ughttesW ■ Be put an end to it were around her and he tag her and uiktrg M* 4 ] harshly and savagely *1 gently and heahnrly. and ering stopped and n*WW| wm quiet and »»"»“ "SI flow back into her and ajpaj tent and the beginning “Biscuits?” That wM TJ coherent word that got her amadous Stephen wm with a handkerchief. her hair back from •>« .Vj “Biscuits?” flhe k»»7 "J through wet lashes, hm sSgtatly med? w “BiseultA" *♦ “You were making I came hors Sunday haven’t had a «*1 Lord knows when. ’ you ean do it. myself- # Laughing, tear, on her started for'the kiteb« Cen behind ber, eras* nd on her aba**, arms were around her Kmorty this Um*, and M « -Not thte evening. 1“ oochtaita and dinn« ning. Well be marn^’J l bsld bar ctoea “and i <». you cao pmJtam «• cuitfl frequent# -