Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1924 — Page 10

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening- oil the floor of the sun room of Flower Acres, his Lcn* Island home. Standing over the dead man. pistol in hand, is Malcolm Finley, former sweetheart ol Raynor's wife. Nancy. Eva Turner. Raynor's nuns, stands by the livht switch. Then Nancy: her brother. Orville Kent; Ezra Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss Mattie. Raynors sister, and others, enter the room. Pennington Wise, a celebrated detective, and Zizi. his girl assistant, are called to take the ease out of the hands of Detective Dobbins. Overshoes, the pnnt of which was left on the floor of the sun room, are found in the house of Gnrashaw Gannon, a servant. Nancy, attempting to shield someone, '•confesses'’ to the crime NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY • • fr-r-s HE rtery is a I no longer,” Wise said slow- - * 3y. *‘l kn< i-übber and who shot Douglas Raynor—but it was not Mrs. Raynor. “It wasn’t Orrv,” Xan cried out. "I asked Dolly Fay if he was wearing rubbers that night and she said no. She was on the bridge with him —” A great light broke upon Zizi. So Xan had been trying to shield h“r brother? How had she come to suspect him?" Rut Wise was speaking. *‘l will tell you—l must tell you all I know." he said. "Blit I have given my word Jo your brother. Mrs., Raynor, that when I learned the identity of the murderer. I would tell him first of all. You maj as well be told now, that Mr. Kent also confessed to the crime In order to save you. as Mr. Finley did. But since you didn't do It. these two gentlemen have no necessity for such heroism." “Orry confessed.” said Xan, her eyes wide with wonder, “to save me! Bless him!" "Yes. he said If you were not to be accused, he had no confession to make —hut If you were, then he would shoulder the crime himself. And I promised to tell him when I found out the truth." "And you have?" Xan spoke in an awed whisper. “And I have. Zizi. go yourself to Mr. Kent. Ask him to come here." Zlzi wont and returned quickly with Orville Kent. He entered the room, white-faced and agitated but walking with a firm step. He glanced first at h!“ sister, and seemed glad to see her in the protecting arm of Malcolm Finley. "You found the rubbers'”’ he said, as he saw them on a small table. A THREE DAYS’ COUGH IS YOUR DANGER SIGNAL Chronic rough* and persistent colds lead to serious trouble You can so p them now with Ore--incision, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creomulslon is anew medical discovery with twofold action; it soothes and heals the Inflamed membranes and kills the germ Os all known drugs, crecsore is recegnlsed by the medical fra'ernity as the greatest healinjj agency for the treatment of chronic coughs and colds and other forms of throat troubles Creomulslon contains, :n addition to i-reosote, other healing ebai.-i.'s which soothe and heal th- inflamed membranes and stop the irritation and in(lamination, while th • ■r* - - g on to the stomach, is absorbed into the blood, attacks the seat of the troii do and destroys the germ> that bad t lerious complies;ions. Creomuision is guaranteed s.Vis'aclory in the treatment of chronic cough* and colds, catarrhal bronchitis ind other forms of thr- it diseases, and is excel!*:.* for I Iding • - ester colds or the t! t Money refunded f any cough or cold, no ma ter of how long * standing, is not relic-.-I after taking according to dir-- ti.-ns Ask your druggist. f*reomu!sioti Cos. Atlanta Ga —Advertisement. fIF YOU HAD A NECK 3 LONG AS THIS FELLOW AND HAD SORETHROAT “Ain “LinF] H WAY] | DOWN m IONSILINE 5 ®xL The National Sore Throat Remedy ! * SHOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT ALL DRUGGISTS

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“Yes." Wise said, “and they tell ' the story of the crime. I promised you, Kent. I’d tell you first of all. Need I do so?" “Xo,” Orville Kent returned. “I’ll tell myself. I shot Douglas Raynor. You knew it. X'an —I think you have known it all along. I think you saw me that night. But you don’t know why. Not to rid the world of a beast and a brute—-although he was those. Xot to sa\L my sister from a life of terror and agony with a drug fiend, ' though he was that. Xot to set my sister free to marry the man she loves and who loves her—though I rejoice to know that will some day be possible. But here Is the true reason why I shot Douglas Raynor. I saw X'an putting tablets into his tea or coffee. Time and again I saw her do tills. And always furtively, stealthily, with a glance around to see if any one noticed. Then I saw Rayonr begin to show symptoms of poisoning—of arsenical poisoning. I went to a strange doctor in the city, and learned that they were the symptoms of arsenical poisoning beyond all doubt. I knew what Xan suffered. I saw the brute treating her more and more shamefully. and T was forced to the conclusion that my dear sister, unable :■ stand it any longer. had suc- • limbed to temptation to rid herself >f him. I did not blame her —not for a minute —but I wanted to save her from being a murderer —so I shot him for her. That is all." Kent sat quietly, not twitching his fingers or moving his hands now. but like a thoughtful, determined actor who had finished his part. "There is no more.” he said, after a pause. “I am not sorry—l rather hated to own up—and shouldn't have done so except in case of suspicion of an innocent person. Had there been more talk of an Intruder, had :he household been exonerated an 1 •he matter left unsolved. T should have kept silence, for what T did -.v.is not murder—one cannot murder a beast. It was Just retribution for that man’s awful fraud on my s:s ter —I only learned of that lately But, as and spid. my motive was not murder—it was to save my sister — , s T thought—from being a murderer. Imagine my feelings when I learned that she had not given him poison at all—but helpful medicine! However, the deed Is done. Xow. Xancy, darling, don't feel had about It—forget It all when you can Marry Finley, and let the years to come make up for all you have suf ft-:ed. I made a mistake —and for that mistake I atone.’’ A quick motion of his hand, so quick that It even eluded Wise, who had been watching for It. and Kenhad conveyed to his mouth a capsule of deadly and Instantaneous poison After all. It was better so. He must have been convicted—his molive, though bon of his affection for his sister, would have seemed oulxotie In the eyes of the law. and ever. If he had escaped capital punishment. long Imprisonment would have been a worse fate for Orry Finley led Xan away at oner, and Wise called the household servants to assist him In the necessary procedures. "How did you size up the rubbers so quick?” Zizl asked h!m. ”1 half thought they were Gannon's." ' I knew from the very tirs - it had to Kent.” Wise said, slowly. “But ! didn’t know his real reason. I thought, of course, be Just remove-1 Raynor to save his sister from fur ther unhappiness. I see now how that really high-minded man roul I bring himself to do it. It was partly brotherly devotion and portly a -flight twist in his not quite normal mind, that gave him the heroism needed. As to th® rubbers. wh®n I found a tiny speck of green paint on th® print on the floor, and when I learned that the little bridge had been painted not so very long ago. 1 ouldn’t help linking that tip with Kent. Then, wo had no proof that he was on the bridge at 7 o'clock. \s a matter of fact h wasn't. Dolly Fay's watch was fast and Kent .new it. He'd been watching hi.hance. he took advantage of Dcliy'.--tatement about the time, and utili zed it for his own alihl. He came • ip *o the house fully five or ten min Ites before 7. entered the sun room | i rid shot Raynor and dropped the | aistol and went out again. Then he j removed the overshoes —” "Dolly said he didn’t wear any when he was with her," Zizi objected. "He did, though Those slip-on affairs show so little that she didn't

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notice them. He removed them after the shot was fired, tin 1 hid them, probably in the shrubbery Later, lie hid them in Gannon's closet, which was a capital place-—if my little Zizl hadn't been clever enough to look there. Ever since, Kent has been waiting to see if his sister should be really accused, ami as soon ns she was. he was ready. "When he did confess. I knew he was really telling the truth, but I pretended to think he was making up in order to test him out. lie said at once that if .Mrs. Raynor was freed from suspicion lie would not confess, but if she were accused he was ready to avow the crime. A strange being, Kent.” "What made you first, think of Kent?” asked Zizi thoughtfully. ■'First, 1 think, when he said he walked up from the bridge admiring the sunset. There was no sunset at the time he prefended to come up —at seven. 1 looked up the weather records most carefully. I knew he j !irl about the sunset, or else he had rome about ton minutes oarlior. At | seven every vestige of sunset after- | effects had faded from the sky. Then next.. Miss Turner said positively that when Kent came in. a little ! after seven, he didn’t look toward Raynor at all, but only at his sister. .Vow, however solicitous for Mrs j Raynor lie may have been, he would j most certainly have glanced toward i the dead man—except that he had j seen him before. So I knew that the sigiit of the body on the floor was | not a surprise to him. From then 1 on, I've only been trying to prove i it up—or prove myself mistaken.” "Which you were not—which you never are,” said Zizi, with an j affectionate smile for the chief she j so adored. • • Kent’s hopes were fulfilled. A | year or so later, far from the beautiful but no longer desirable estate 1 of Flower Acres, Nancy Finley put ! her hand in that of her husband and ! set forth on a happy and tranquil | life journey with him. “Deary Orry,” she said softly, "his martyrdom made possible my | present happiness.” “As your martyrdom was for the I happiness of him and your father.” "Yes, dear, and now it is all past; j and we owe It to their memory as i well as to our own two happy selves to forget the past and live only in the radiant present and the rosy future.” "Together—always' together,” said Finley, his voice fraught with a happiness too great for further words. THE END.

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