Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1926 — Page 8

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SANDY

THE STORY SO FAR Sandy MrNKIL. in love with life, marries REN MURILLO. a rich Italian, to please lirr impoverished family. Tyranny by Murillo and frequent quarrels follow. A son dies at birth. HOB MeaF.II.. liar uncle. aids in plans for Sandy and her ntothrr to taken tr u lo Honolulu. Them she meets RAMON WORTH, who deelares his lore Murillo says he will never release her. JUDITH MOORE. a cousin tells Sandy love is everythin?. Sandy leaves .Murillo and accepts the Uindlv attentions o! Ramon, whose home she shares When her mother dies she leaves Ramon and goes to live with her cousin. Judith, DOUGLAS KEITH. the man whom Judith loves, introduces his triend. HAL HUMF.. a doctor, to Judith. Hr himself, falls in love with Sandy who reeiorocatrs his affection. This leave* Judith broken-hearted. Sandy nierts Ratoon Worth, who has returned from the Orient, and tells Douglas of his return. They plan to run aw ay together The day before. Sandy goes to Ramon's office at his urgent request. He shoots Sandy and commits auicldp. Sandy is taken to Hal Humes shack when it is learned that her name is collected with the scandal. Then Douglas is called before detectives, who learn that he was at Ramon's office on the day of the suicide. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER CIII Instinctively Douglas hunched, the square chin thrust out. Meager's eyes glinted coldly: ‘Now, I wouldn’t advise that, Mr. Keith. We're not trying to pin anything on you. We're giving you a chance to get clear on this. Come clean on the proposition and you'll he all light. But you can't fight this down and you can't lie (put of it. "You were in this room last Monday night. A man died here. Either he was murdered or he committed suicide. If he committed suicide there is certainly no reason for your silence. You should he willing to explain your presence here." Douglas stared before him, teeth sunk together. Meager went on quietly: "Come over here, Mr. Keith. Do you see this red stain? Someone's blood—the woman's blood. She crept from here, from the corner, right along here to the door." He pointed with the long, bleak finger: "Right here—left her finger prints—dozens of times on the floor. She reached the door. She had a hard time turning that knob." * • • Douglas swept his hand over his ihair. A quick, dizy beating of bis heart. Right along there Sandy crept—went creeping and moaning—getting to her knees, fumbling at the door. And Ramon sprawled' lifeless just there—behind him— The room clouded, swayed round with him. He stooped and looked at the blood marks. "Good God,” he thought, filled with panic, "I'm getting faint. What do they know? What can they know? Elevator operators word against mine!” He could visualize Ramon's body hulked inertly on the floor. And it now affected him as monstrous—lncredible and monstrous, that he, Douglas Keith, should be here, stifling, fighting guiltily—bullied and insulted as though he had actually murdered a man. Meager's voice drummed against him in an indistinct mumble. “You carried the girl away, Mr. Keith. Where have you hidden her? You see we know what happened " Douglas straightened himself an grily: "Then why ask me! I've told you I know nothing. I never met the man.” "And I tell you we've got you cold! And we know just what happened and you better come through. You better sit down here and make a clean breast of it.” He moved a chair slowly, cairniatingly, plopped it down directly over the area, where Ramon's body had lain. Douglas shuddered. His jaws felt stiff like cement. He stared at a window above Ramon's desk —a window that looked on a. court. Queer he hasn't noticed this window before. The shade was up- He could see into other offices. Directly opposite. but on the floor above, a man was standing. • * * A startling thing happened The man lit a elgaret, puffed lazily. Suddenly he glanced across. And he bowed! Immediately Douglas recognized him —Avery Middleton. They were in the same year at college. A smart Alec—Dougjas always thought him i smarty—regular Jimmie Freshie— Did Middleton know why he was in this office? Did he know that, a man had died here and he, arrogant young Douglas Keith was under suspicion; brought here to be unnerved and cross-examined? He had a hot, reckless notion to swing out his fists, bolt from the room. It appeared sinister that Middleton should stand there bowing to him—vicious and sinister. "You didn't notice that window before, Mr. Keith?” "I never saw that window before!" "Didn't happen to notice whether the shades wore up or down last Monday night?"

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Douglas threw him a look of fury, the frank, hazel eyes black and stinging. Unthinking he skirted the chair Meager had placed, pulled another to the table, slumped into it. "Vou didn't like the chair I placed for you? Why did you walk around! that spot? 1 notice you avoided it. Singular, that's w here Worth's body lay—” Douglas swung his shoulder as though blows were aimed at his face, lie folded his arms in set desperation. Whether the shade was up or down last Monday night! No! He hadn't j noticed. But why did Meager say it lin that cold, sneering way? He wanted to beat his fists against his teeth and curse furiously. And he thought: "God—Almighty God —will he keep this up much longer! How much longer?” He satv Meager's ugly hand reaching acress the table: “Kook here, Keith, you say you've never been in this office? How did you happen ] to know where Worth's body fell? You did know it! You refused to walk near the spot. And the first thing your eye fell upon when you came into this room was that blood stain in the corner. But you say you were never here. All right, then! Why should you refuse to say where you were on Monday night?” ''l've not refused.” “Where were you, then?'' "I was home.” The w hole evening?” "Yes.” ‘Think now. . .It tnay b possi hie that you came down to your office—that you may hate chanced to pass this building Perhaps you came in here on some other bust / ness....” i "I never came in here.” "And you're positive vou weren't near Third and Market at any time after !> o'clock last Monday night?" "Yes, I’m positive." “Now, listen, Mr. Keith. You were at home Monday night. You intended to remain at home. Don't you recall that a girl phoned you to meet her here. You came down and waited. She didn't show up. You got alarmed after waiting better than an hour. You went after her. You came up to this office. Things happened " • t *

Meager leaned down, peering up into Douglas' face. A cold, repug nant smile on the detective's lips Douglas stared back. With ever} world the young, clinched jaws be came more gaunt and tormented looking. "Things happened. You had to carry the girl out. she'd crept from that corner over there. Right over there! You see, we’ve got it all cold. Hadn't you better come through? I'm not trying to make it hard for you. We're willing to | listen to a story of suicide. We re willing to give you the break on it. You were there. Tell us what hap pened. Is you talk you ran prove j it was suicide And if you don't talk, we know's it's murder. You murdered him or the girl did. Sup pose you tell us what happened." "I don't know what happened. Meager! I wasn't here! I don't know what happened." “You’re going to stick to this?" "T stick to It!” "Then suppose I tell you that the girl's' come through” We've got hold of the girl and she's confessed the whole thing!” Douglas rose. He felt as though lighted swords drove with sharp points through his heart—suddenly and cruelly, lie saw Sandy with her hands shielding her face, and he thought, sobbing: "They've not found her! They’ve not got her. 1 turned back in time. This Is a bluff.” "What *do you say now, Mr. Keith?" "That no girl can make a statement to implicate me in this affair I have nothing to do with it. No one can prove that I had.” Meager's eyes narrowed He gave a long, musing whistle and got np abruptly. "I guess that's all for the present.” He pulled open the door He said meaningly, *'A good place you took the girl, but not quite secluded enough!” Douglas glanced at him with burning. accusing eyes. He stuck his hands in his pockets and gave no answer. But the moment he was free—the moment he was rushing up Geary St., he found himself blinking, biting at his lips,<telling himself iq a tortured way: "That's a bluff —get me to rush down there. They want me to lead them to her. I know them!” Yet he longed to reach Sandy—longed to speak with Judith. But he thought with anguish: “God—l ! don't dare! I can't risk it! They'd j follow.” ,

He was afraid even to call on Hal Hume. He went home. He found that j Emma was out. Queer for her to be I nt at noon time when he, said he was returning for lunch. He was about to fto out. To his astonishment. Newton, the. police reporter, was coming up the steps. Newton was excited. He extended his hand with nervous haste: Too had, Doug—too damn bad. Well stand by you. Jim told me to tell you he’ll stick by you. He’d like to get your side of it—like to explain why you were in Worth’s office!” Douglas walked back into the hall, closed the door brusquely: “I wasn’t In that office.” “Say, what's the use? They've got your finger prints—got them Saturday, when you handled all

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Th* International I'niforn Sunday School Lesson for Mar ','3. How to Deal Willi .\KKre**or. (ienrais 26: 12-2&. By William E. Gilroy, D. D. Editor of The ('ongrrgationalist Success always brings its problems and possessions Increase man's responsibilities. Isaac had inherited much from his father Abraham, but he had been shrewd In Increasing his possessions, and he had become a man of large herds In a pastoral societ>\ His enemies, the Philistines, envied him, but apparently they had no grounds for their enmity and their envy except that Isaac w-as apparently more prosperous. The Philistines showed their envy by filling up with earth the wells which Abraham had had his servants dig. Wells, of course, in such a socletj' represented a valuable basis of life for man and beast. The simple statement' that “Isaac diliged again the wells of water” which his father had dug, is full of rich spiritual meaning. The springs, of goodness and of prosperity that our fathers have unbared through digging and delving become clogged up through neglect and through positive acts of evil. ' Digging the Wells There Is always profound need of digging again the wells of water which our fathers were so zealous to dittco ver and maintain, fcaac, we

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are told, also called these wells that he brought to life once more by the names with which Abraham had called them. There is such a thing as a healthy reverence for the past that strengthens life in tire present. Apparently, also. Isaac discovered other wells, for bis servants “digged in the vafiley and found there a well of springing water.” Then strife arose between Isaac and the herdsmen of Gorar, who claimed this well. Isaac apparently was a man of peace, and he dug another but they strove for that also. Os the third well that be dug they left him In peaceful possession. He called the name of this well Rehoboth, "for now the Lord hath made room for ns, and we shall be fruitful in the land." t Abraham's Ideals It is interesting to see the peaceful ideals of Abraham finding expression in his son Isaac. It is a wise and sound policy to avoid petty quarrels, and it is not always a right attitude .to stand too pugnaciously for one's “rights.” Rehoboth, the name by which Isaac called the well, has been interpreted as meaning literally "broad places'' or “open places.” One commentator says that a modern English equivalent would be "freedom" or "liberty." Freedom and liberty are attained as much through avoiding strife as

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