Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1926 — Page 24

PAGE 24

“The VANITY CASE” A Tale of Mystery and Love By CAROLYN WELLS

BE(iIN HERE TODAY MRS. 'PRENTISS see* mysterious lights in the Heuth household next door one idirht and the next day Harbor Gardens. Lraif Island, is aproK over the murder of MYRA HEATH and the disappearance of her husband, PERRY. House guests of the Heaths are LAWRENCE INMAN, heir to Myra's fortune, and , BUNNY MOORE, beautiful. vivacious, to whom suspicion points , because of her strange aptfons. Myra Heath cosmetics, never wore colors, yet when her body was found she was heavily rouged. She was a eolleetor of glass, and it was a rare old bottle from her collection that the murdere used to kill her. Candles were burning at her head and feet: nearby was a card marked. "The work of Perry Heath..’ The strange thing about Heath's disappearance is that the windows and doors were locked on the inside the night before aaa were found that, way in the morning. Fingerprint* of Bumpy and Innan were found on the bottle./ At the Country Club the murder is di* iwsed by SAM ANDERSON. Heath's rival for the club presidency; AL CUNNINGHAM. who is trying "to solve the crime and others. Meanwhile, TODHIJNTER BUCK. Mrs. Prentiss' nephew, has met Bunny and fallen in love with he. Bunny is amazed to get a phone call from Heath. He phones her again, saying Inman is the murderer. Bunnv faints under a grilling by DETECTIVE MOTT, and Inman confides to Buck that he saw Bunny ascending the stair* after the murder. Mott questions nil the servants and tells them to keep quiet. Anderson invite Cunningham to hi* house and there, while waiting for his host. Cunningham l* suddenly confronted by Perry Heath, who disappears es /mysteriously as he had appeared. Shortly afterward. Anderson comes in. and he reproaches Cunningham for letting Heath get awav. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER X<XV "Oh, I suppose it was just the old story of two men and one woman. I don’t think the baby girl was on the scene at all. I believe if she was seen coming or going on the stairs, it was after the whole show was over. I believe that Heath and his wife and Inman quarreled. Then nobody can say just how. that thing happened. It might well have been accidental. Perhrvps one man attacked the other and Mrs. Heath threw herself between them in an effort to help one or the other, and received herself the blow meant for one of the men.” ‘I never should have thought of that! But it’s darned plausible! I believe that’s just what did happen; for that, supposing Inmqn held the bottle, would make Heath loath to appear against him. IT Heath knew that killed Mrs. Heath, but did it by accident,, by her intercepting the blow meant for Heath, then I can see Perry doing just he did do. Go away, rather than testify to the truth. But when the girl, Bunny, is implicated, then Heath had to come hack and do what he could to save her. Oh, by Jove I see! Heath is sure this story will get to the ears of Inman, and thgn Inman will know that Heath is on his track, and if he doesn't confess, or to least, if Bunny isn’t set free of (ill suspicion, Heath will turn up again, and give Harry what for!” ‘‘Yes, that's logieally {hought out, Then, in that case, the sooner we make public Heath’s story, the better*. All right, old man, as you say, it’ll keep till morning, and .then we’ll go to see friend Mott. You must go with me, of course, and we • must put It to hint straight.” ( “Shall you go to tell Inman, top?” , “No. I "think we’d better let Mott ; ilo that. Indeed, I don't see that we > need figure in the matter at all exfcept to give the dope to Mott. It* 1 his business after that, and if he doesn't make Larry Inman stand up and take his medicine, then I think Perry Heath will materialize again. ■ And I hope I'll get a peek at him • next time. If he comes to you, tell -him I'm crazy to meet him.” "You take it all so lightly, Sam. ' I believe you have no heart, no real : emotion.” “I haven’t, much, to be frank with you. To me, old son, this is just a ; case and interests me only as a story , hook would. The Heaths, as you know, were never ifitimate friends of mine.Xand if I’m interested in the ; little Bunny, it's only aa in a pretty | awV unprotected child. I scarcely ; know the girl, personally." "Aty right, then, old man. See you ih the morning. Good night,” and Cunningham strolled away. But if A1 Cunningham was not making much headway in his detective/ work, Todhunter Buck began ; to feel ttfit he was getting along ; almost too well. After Larry Inman had told him ' of coming downstairs late at night i and discovering his cousin’s dead body—still warm-vßuck, was miser- | able with apprehensic/n. It was all very well to assure himself that nothing—no sort or kind of evidence • would ever make him believe In the possibility of Bunny's guilt, but, even If the girl had no hand in 'the murder, she must have known about it when she came upstairs, white and trembling, as described by Inman, and with vanity case dangling from her hand. Much as he wanted to do so, Buck • couldn’t believe Larry waiT lying, or

£^SuiUui SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSISTI .Toved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians foi Colds Headache Neuritis Lumbago Pain Neuralgia Toothache Rheumatism V ’ * > \ S , DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART I 1 ’ llk : 1 1 whiclyiontains proven directions. / w of 24 and 100—Druggists, la tt* trade mark of Barer of SaUcylicaci*

even misrepresenting in the* slightest degree. One of Teddy’s facilities was a real flair fori the truth. All his life, he had almost invariably been able to tell when Any one spoke falsely. It was a sort of insight or second sight, that told hitn at once of a speaker's insincerity. This trait, of itself, was a strong asset in the matter of detective work, and the only trouble was, it 'was working against. Toddy’s own desires and intentions. He wanted to clear Bunny frym the faintest breath of suspicion, but every effort he made seemed to result in further evidence of her implication in the tragedy. He sat on his aunt's porch in tHe increasing darkness of the evening, just at the same time that Cunningham sat on the porch of Sam Anderson, across the Gaybrook bridge. His thoughts, dwelt on the thing Inman had told him, and he tried his best.to twist it around to seem a point in Bunny’s favor. This, he was totally unable to do, qnd so he let his mind drift back to the girl herself and her exquisite beauty. More than mere beauty of feature, he told himself, it -was beauty of soul. Why, that angel could no more harbor a guilty thought than a seraph could! From which cogitation it is plain to be seen that Todhunter Buck was vel-y much in love. Indeed, he even went so far as to let his fancy play in numbers, even in rhyme. To himself he murmured: 't , \ "Your eyes—of a tender, windflower blue, With innocence back of them, looking through—” It wasn’t really inspired verse, but it pleased his aesthetic sense! and carried a little balm of his torn heart. Then he came back to earth, and .tried to decide what he must do. He had elected himself Bunny’s knight errant, he meant to fight for her aria mort and ala mode and any other dramatic way he could find. Moreover, he meant to he practical and if being practical meant smuggling the girl out of Harbor Gardens, then, out she must go. For Toddy Buck was of quick decision and rapid action. He fully believed that Inman had seen Bunny, just as he had* described. Buck didn’t want to believe this,—far from jt but Larry had sounded truthful and Tod believed him. This didn’t necessarily argue Bunny guilty in any direct way, hut it did seem to prove that she knew of Myra’s death at'that time, and that fact would explain why Carter feund dier sobbing so bitterly when she went to her room to tell her the news next mornifig. Toddy tried to. reconstruct the scene that Bunny left when she went upstairs, but this he was unable to do. He thought, it must be that she saw Myra dead, but whether she had seen her killed or pot, he had no idea. If she had. why didn’t she raise an alarm? Unless, —No,, ■ he would never believe that Bunny had herself applied the colors of her vanity ease to Myra’s face! Well, he thought, with his usual rapid conclusion, he must ask her about it. It might- be hard td do that, but not so hard as to wait in suspense, and perhaps have evidence piling up against the girl he loved. j(To Be Continued) BRITAIN FACES REVOLT England Suffers First Fangs of Industrial Revolution. LONDON, Sept. 10.—England must face the bitter truth and permit about 10 per cent of her export trades to melt away, according to J. M, Keynes, the Cambridge economist. "Great Britain is suffering the first pangs of another industrial revolution,” he said in an address. "Only two alternatives face the country. One is to struggle on, ineffectually, as we are at present. The other is to allow the least profitable of our export industries—amounting to about 10 per cent —to wilt away, thus conserving our resources for exempt industries which do pay. "The Conservatives are all for struggling on, ineffectually, and now Mr. John Wheatley, the Socialist, has ranged himself with them. This Is a mistake. We should husband our resources. We cannot afford to waste them any longer."

- ER-'MAGriW&D * /moT MEG ~ / 1 HEERO SOMEBODV CPWIM* / men % -r \ I S OBBIKi' AM ALLE'-/ rat I -—~ ( LVHE. X—-X UH —— CAM LOV/EL 1-A\S TELLER MASTbA MAUE. A AL.ULN/ fiX \jjpti good home- -TOK A^CLIOUAIRE. VBE. GItTIJHOME ‘SICKv I . ’H\S MAkISiOKI J o _ , „ _ LXR.W.ILIPIM3 PRW PUMPINh \, \ r c ISZ6 BHT W*A stsvet me.

/MOWING- / OOM-rn OW6ONIT, 602Z.'V/W° N!> se HoiO HUCH TfcfllflEt? IT /%?.• aai ✓ rr ■ * _ „ ijvruwT- SHoOLDft KEfr CLOSER vJMMos ML- ?- I CIW SEE 1?(' FRENCH SHoflE. oSfff 5 |2sr. 6,?tA ' r pCOJT"- 1 CftriT HOLD ON 1 /©'LL. *1 ■Antx NOD wt-WL fWMVt Got vet s‘ rn getting coloI! cone o?7d i SSI much longer -in all in- im “mikot BRB IO A HftlL IT |jm* MBW- I <UKi m ft &L ~ 'ln' ' -fir - sou>--e,Loa : ai.o& tSt V OCT Ht KftS , / / \ S? - ~ [/) / / . -, . WS.LL *

UC£?£ AQk WAA STS AM’ TLL 6g7 )7~ WAY, 7 WS ISA 3fT f l ygs . ) ;o woo lbakjg 14v / wIV 70 Pix 7WIS JmM owanv way FE==h * cuculoo S jos T struck. \ J&LUEuay Av\y 7 cuckoo yA A ' mom& fcovl clock': J=E: pipteeai" J 1 ' . ‘ ' ....1..1.. .I— ....

COMMITTEES ON ANNUAL CHURCH RETREAT GIVEN t Expect Successful Institute at Scout Reservation Sept. 27. • Plans are being worked out bymembers of subcommittees to make the second annual ministerial retreat. to held Sept. 27 at the Boy Scout reservation; under auspices of the Church Federatipn of Indianapolis, one of ttfe most successful religious institutes ever arranged In Marion County. Members of the general committee in charge of plans for the retreat are the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of the Seventh Christian Church, chairman; Dr. John W. MeFall, pastor of Broadway M. E. ■Church, and the Rev. V. W. Counlard, pastor of Second Moravian Church. Other committees are: Arrangements—The' Rev. Jac Kelewae, First United Presbyterian Church, chairman; the Rev. G. H. Gebhardt, Carrollton Avenue Reformed v Church, and the Rev.

OUT OUTLWAY—By WILLIAMS

[Thomas R. White, Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church. Transportation Transportation—The Rev. Elmer Jones, St. Paul M. E. Church, chairman; the Rev. C. J. G. Russom, First Reformed Church, and the Rev. Henry T. Graham, Westminster Presbyterian Church. Publicity— The Rev. U. S. Clutton, Tuxedo Baptist Church, chairman; the Rev. D. H. Richardson, Centenary Christian Church, and the Rev. J. F. Seelig, Fifty-First Street M. E. Church. Reception—The Rev. J. Dunkel, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church; Dr. Edwin W. Dunlavy, Robert Park M. E. Church, and a third man not designated yet. I Finance Campaign Later The federation will hold its artnual financial campaign Oct. 4 to* 23, M. D. Liipton, chairman of the finance committee fias reported. An international doll party will be participated in by Indianapolis Sunday school and church children in which an exchange of dolls with the children of > / Japan will be made early ner: year, according to plans of the women’s department of the federation, of which-Mra. John R.-J*rrett is chairman,. Jewish and Catholic Churches of Indianapolis will be included in the annual church directory this yeur. A speedometer for a locomotive 1 has been devised. ' It employs a magneto generator, driven from .one of the engine wheels, with anindicator in the cab.

THE INDIANAPOLIS -TIMES

SALESMAN SAM—By SWAN

BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES— By MARTIN

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—-By BLOSSER

WOMEN’S JOBS DOUBLED Swedish Civil Service Postions Now Number 17,177. Bu United Press STOCKHOLM, Sept. ID—Women now hold more than twice as many positions in the civil services of Sweden as'They did in 1913, the latest official statistics show. Before the war they numbered 8.838. Now they are 17,177. At the same time the number of men employed of the government has gone down from 83,275 to 83,156. Educational statistics also show that in the entrance examinations for Che Swedish Universities the percentage of failures is lower for girls than boys. While in the past five years 86.2 per cent of the girls have been admitted, only 80.2 percent of the boys have passed. SAYS PAPERS ARE LAX Can’t Hare British Dominions in Proper Order. Bu United Press LONDON, Sept.' 10.—An official of the Colonial office has complained bitterly that the newspapers, of the world ‘‘seem entirely unable to place the British Dominions in their proper order.” ‘‘The British Dominions have a well-established order of precedence,” he efplained. “Whenever an editor has .occasion to mention the several Dominior*, he should place them in

Bt TOR VOOR'M BROOM A £>Vi££PlM<s Bova! Akjp BOOVW >r fAIL'EP | x IHKIPIA-I'lV VMY* / / VOLiR/ 6RBAT l -TIM -t WOUZE \<2> XTO66LBR.! —'TAbpe \& A& Yzl \ CRAMPING NOOR OU\Jc,~-<bO OLP f I VJILL (SK/E Nod “iWe CHOICE A 7 or LBAVIH6 Vi A DtGkiWIHD U PALM. \A ffefm A ory HAtiP \f VaJoriH ][ II £/ L,, Borneo ! *. y ( -iVso al -me vee&roj | * I

this order: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South\ Africa, Newfoundland, Irish Free State, India. “The last-named Is an empire, not a Dominion, but when included among the D&tnlnlons in a colloquial sense, it should come after the Irish Free State.” t)PENS PUMPING STATION fyondon Now Has Largest Purification Plant. Bu United Press LONDON, Sept. 10.—London now has the largest imint In Europe for the pumping and purification of water. The minister of. health, Neville Chamberlain, has formally opened the new gigantic pumping station at Walton-on-Thames, built for a normal daily capacity of 17,500,000 gallons, which can be doubled in an emergency. f > The water supply Ms Urst run through eighteen primary n filters and is afterward run, through six secondary filters having a total area of five acres. The plant, Including eighteen miles of direct pipeline, cost nearly $8,000,00(5, WALES KEEPS /'DIARY Personal Thoughts May Be Worth Fabulous Price. Bu United Press a LONDON, Sept 10.—It has been learned that the prince of Wales 1b faithfully keeping & diary. Each

ODR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

night he writes into his book, in his careful rounded calligraphy, what he has done and thought during the, day. Ltke most diaries, the Prince’s record-book is highly confidential, but some day it may become a document worth a fabuloig? price. The Prince, judging by his public letters, has a keen wit and an observant eye, and it is confidently stated that what ho puts into his diary every night would be well worth reading If it became public. MINT ENTERS BUSINESS British Government Competes With Local Jewelers. Bu United Press LONDON. Sept. 10.—The British Royal Mint has entered the field of competition with local jewelers and medal makers. Officials of the mint recently an*" ■ nounced that the government’s money-making machines ‘ could readily'be converted to supply even the heaviest demands for medals and insignias. London jewelers are protesting against the government’s deCallouses HU Quick, safe, sure relief from jff pe'nful callouses on the feet, f flB CAt ell drug and shoe store* I SB DlSchaffs mJm Xino-pads 'S’^’

SEPT. 10, 1926

daring that the Conservative Government is reverting tin Socialism and harming their trade. Haitian faVmers still transport their products, nmstly on burro-back. There are only about 40,000 Eskimos in the entire Arctic area. e

DtiVßeglect Series Use Cetkera Now At the first sign of pimples anoint gently with Cuticura Ointment. After five minutes bathe with Cut!.. cu\a Soap and hot water. Daily use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment will keep the skin clear and healthy. Somp 25c. Ointment 26 and 50a. Tulcttm flge> Mold IHT* Cuticura Shaving