Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1928 — Page 14

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r" THE STORY THUS FAK ' Steel*! flnjrer prints had bean found fa the apartment of the murdered Margaret Odell, but Vance believes Skeel had been hiding In a closet while the strangler did his work. Mannix, Dr. Lindquist and Cleaver all lie about their whereabouts the night of the murder. Spotswoode, who had called on the girl, had rushed to her door at the sound of a scream but had been reassured through the door that nothing was wrong. Later Skeel is found strangled, after promising to reveal the murderer. Vance has Markham invite Cleaver, Spotswoode and Mannix to his apartment for a game of poker, promisto name the murderer the next day. After the game's end Vance is unusually sober. CHAPTER XLIX (Tuesday, September 1; 1 p. m.) VANCE slept late the following morning and spent the hour or so before lunch checking a catalogue of ceramics which were to be auctioned next day at the Anderson Galleries. At 1 o’clock we entered the Stuyvesant Club and joined Markham in the grill. “The lunch is on you, old thing,” said Vance. “But I’ll make it easy. All I want is a rasher of English bacon, a cup of coffee, and a croissant.” Markham gave him a mocking smile. “I don’t wonder you're economizing after your bad luck of last night.” Vance’s eyebrows went up. WEAK AND SICKLY, FELT LIKE GIVING UP Lady Says Her Strength Gradually Came Back and Health Got Better After She Had Taken Cardui. "I have found Cardui to be an excellent tonic,” says Mrs. J. R. Burr of Wadesboro, N. C. “I was badly run-down. I dragged around the house, and was unable to do my work. “I have a large family, and I was not able to care for my children properly. “I felt so weak and sickly that I felt more than once like giving up. I was awfully discouraged. “I am the mother of nine children, so you can see what I have been through. After my last baby came, I did not pick up as I had before. “A dull headache would come on me In the mornings, and I had bad pains across my back and in my legs. I felt dreadful. No one knows what I suffered; it seems like a nightmare to me now. “After I got Cardui and began to take it, I soon began to get better. Gradually my strength has come back, and now I feel fine.” Many other women have written to describe the relief they have obtained through the use of Cardui. Sold by druggists everywhere.

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“I rather fancied my luck was most extr’ordin’ry.” “You held four of a kind twice, and lost both hands.” “But, y’ see,” blandly confessed Vance, “I happened to know both times exactly what cards my opponents held.” Markham stared at him in amazement. “Quite so,” Vance assured him. “I had arranged before the game, d’ you see, to have those particular hands dealt.” He smiled benignly. “I can’t tell you, old chap, how I admire your delicacy in not referring to my rather unique guest, Mr. Allen, whom I had the bad taste to introduce so uncermoniously into your party. I owe you an explanation and an apology. “Mr. Allen is not what one would call a charming companion. He is deficient in the patrician elegancies, and his display of jewelry was a bit vulgar—though I infinitely preferred his diamond studs to his piebald tie. “But Mr. Allen has his points—decidedly he has his points. He ranks with Andy Blakely, Canfield, and Honest John Kelly as an indoor soldier of fortune. In fact, our Mr. Allen is none other than Doc Wiley Allen of fragrant memory.” “Doc Allen! Not the notorious old crook who ran the Eldorado Club?” “The same. And, incidentally, one of the cleverest card manipulators in a once lucrative but shady profession.” “You mean this fellow Allen stacked the cards last night?” Markham was indignant. “Only for the two hands you mentioned. Allen, if you happen to remember, was the dealer both times. “I, who purix>sely sat on his right, was careful to cut the cards in accordance with his instructions. And you must admit that no stricture can possibly attach to my deception, inasmuch as the only beneficiaries of Allen manipulations were Cleaver and Spotswoode. “Although Allen did deal me four of a kind on each occasion, I lost heavily both times.” Markham regarded Vance for a moment in puzzled silence, and then laughed good naturedly. “You appear to have been in a philanthropic mood last night. You practically gave Mannix a thousand dollars by permitting him to double the stakes on each draw. A rather quixotic procedure, I should say.” “It all depends on one’s point of view, don’t y’ know. Despite my financial losses—which, by the bye, I have every intention of charging-up-to your office budget—the game was most successful. . . . *Y’ see, I attained the main object of my evening’s entertainment.” “Oh, I remember!” said Markham vaguely, as if the matter, being of slight importance, had for the moment eluded his memory. “I believe you were going to ascertain who murdered the Odell girl.” “Amazin’ memory! . . . Yes, I let fall the hint that I might be able to clarify the situation today.” “And whom am I to arrest?” Vance took a drink of coffee and slowly lit a clgaret. “I’m quite convinced, y’ know, that you won't believe me,” he returned, in an even, matter-of-fact voice. “But it was Spotswoode who killed the girl.”

“You don’t tell me!” Markham spoke with undisguised irony. “So it was Spoteswoode! My dear Vance, you positively bowl me over. “I would telephone Heath at once to polish up his handcuffs, but, unfortunately, miracles —such as strangling persons from across town —are not recognized possibilities in this day and age. ... Do let me order you another croissant.” Vance extended his hands In a theatrical gesture of exasperated despair. “For an educated, civilized man, Markham, there’s something downright primitive about the way you cling to optical illusions. “I say. y’ know, you’re exactly like an infant who really believes that the magician generates a rabbit in a silk hat, simply because he sees it done.” “Now you’re becoming insulting.” “Rather!” Vance pleasantly agreed. “But something drastic must be done to disentangle you from the Lorelei of legal facts. You’re so deficient in imagination, old thing.” “I take It that you would have me close my eyes and picture Spotswoode sitting upstairs here in the Stuyvesant Club and extending his arms to Seventy-First St. “But I simply couldn’t do It. I’m a commonplace chap. Such a vision would strike me as ludicrous; it would smack of a hasheesh dream .... You yourself don’t use Cannabis indica, do you?” “Put that way, the idea does sound a bit supernatural. And yet: Certum est quia impossible est. I rather like that maximum, don’t y’ know; for, in the present case, the impossible is true. “Oh, Spots woode’s guilty—no doubt about it. And I’m going to cling tenaciously to that apparent hallucination. “Moreover, I’m going to try to lure you into its toils; for your own—as we absurdly say—good name is at stake. As it happens, Markham, you are at this moment shielding the real murderer from publicity.” Vance had spoken with the easy

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assurance that precludes argument; and from the altered expression on Markham’s face I could see he was moved. “Tell me,” he said, “how you arrived at your fantastic belief in Spotswoode’s guilt.” Vance crushed out his cigaret and folded his arms on the table. “We begin with my quartet of possibilities—Mannix, Cleaver, Lindquist and Spotswoode. Realizing, as I did, that the crime was carefully planned with the sole object of murder, I knew that only some one hopelessly ensnared in the lady’s net could have done it. “And no suitor outside of my quartet could have been thus enmeshed, or we would have learned of him. Therefore, one of the four was guilty. “Now, Lindquist was eliminated when we found out that he was bedridden in a hospital at the time of Skeel's murder; for obviously the same person committed both crimes—” “But,” interrupted Markham, “Spotswoode had an equally good alibi for the night of the Canary’s murder. Why eliminate one and not the other?” “Sorry, but I can’t agree with you. Being prostrated at a known place surrounded by incorruptible and disinterested witnesses, both preceding and during an event, is one thing; but being actually on the ground, as Spotswoode was that fatal evening, within a few minutes of the time the lady was murdered, and then being alone in a taxicab for fifteen minutes or so following the events—that is another thing. “No one, as far as we know, actually saw the lady alive after Spotswoode took his departure.” “But the proof of her having been alive and spoken to him is incontestable.” “Granted. I admit that a dead woman doesn’t scream and call for help, and then converse with her murderer.” “I see,” Markham spoke with sarcasm. "You think it was Skeel, disguising his voice.”

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“Lord no! What a priceless notion! Skeel didn’t want any one to know he was there. Why should he have staged such a masterpiece of idiocy? “That certainly isn’t the explanation. When we find the answer it will be reasonable and simple." “That’s encouraging,” smiled Markham. “But proceed with your reasons for Spotswoode’s guilt.” “Three of my quartet, then, were potential murderers,” Vance resumed. “Accordingly, I requested an evening of social relaxation, that I might put them under the psychological microscope, as it were. “Although Spotswoode’a ancestry was wholly consistent with his having been the guilty one, nevertheless I confess I thought that Cleaver or Mannix had committed the crime; for, by their own statements, either of them could have done it without contradicting any of the known circumstances of the situation. “Therefore, when Mannix declined your invitation to play poker last night, I put Cleaver to the first test. “I wig-wagged to Mr. Allen, and he straightway proceeded to perform his first feat of prestidigitation.” (To Be Continued) Elderly Man Freed From Rheumatism Bloating and stomach pains were also relieved. Tells how. Elderly people whose lives are burdened by rheumatism, backache, or stomach distress, will read with interest a letter recently received from F. L. Pratt, 72 years of age, 821 Whitman St., Rockford, 111. He writes:— “I was hopelessly sick for five long years with stomach trouble and rheumatism. The rheumatism in my shoulder gave me intense pain. Whenever I ate anything, gas would form, accompanied by severe intestinal cramps. Dizziness would attack me so frequently that work became almost impossible. I was weak and tired all the time, rolled and tossed all night, and got up more tired than when I went to ted. Recently I started taking Viuna. Already my rheumatism is gone and the dizzy spells have entirely ceased. The gas trouble is nearly gone and my stomach pains have stopped. I am eating well as I could ten years ago. It seems hard to believe, but it is true, every word of it.” yinna kete promptly bn slagglak >owelg, lazy liver and weak kldnojs. It purifies the blood, clears the akin, restores appetite and digestion, and brlDgs new strength and energy to the whole body. Take ft bottle on trial. Then If you r re not glad you tried Viuna, your money will be refunded. $1 at druggists or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine Cos., Indianapolis, Ind. C VIUNA The Wonder Medicine

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