Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1930 — Page 11

NOV. 25, 1930.

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BEGIN HFBE TODAY JUANITA SELIM, lovely Broadway (lancer. is found at her dressing table shot through the heart, by KAREN MARSHALL when Karen comes to tell her the bridge score. BONNIE DUNDEE, special Investigator called by PENNY CRAIN, society girl, now the district attorney's secretary, contests CAPTAIN STRAWN’S theory that STlta was shot from the window ooposite the table by a gunman using revolver with a silencer. Dundee learns that Nlta went to the •■a-aroom at About 5:27. when TRACEY MILES came In. She asked him to make i orMtll* and he went Into the dining room, followed by LOIS DUNLAP r hen the bodv was discovered, at the 'd of the hand, no one was seen In the btirocm o- In the foyer outside. Dunce- ask: Btravn to hunt for RALPH HAMMOND, once Penny's property, but annexed tv Nl'a. Returning to the living room, he learns from Ferry that POLLY BEALE, engaged •o CLIVE HAMMOND, was missing from lunch. anJ that Nlta was annoyed by her unexplained absence. He notes that the women, except Lois ! Dunlap, who brought Nlta to Hamilton, r host)'* m their attitude toward Nlta At lupr.heon a note s delivered to NPa Pe.nv rays, but h 'nternj ted In her story by a crash alas angled cry from someone. NOW GO ON WITH HE STORY CHAPTER “IX -pARDON! Awfully sorry,” Clive a Hammond muttered, as he bent to pick up the fragments of a colored pottery ash tray which he and his fiancee, Polly Beale, had been sharing. “Don't worry—about picking it up,” Polly commanded in her brusque voice, but Dundee, listening acutely, was sure of a very slight pause between the two parts of her sentence. He glanced at the couple—the tall, masculine-looking girl lounging deep in an armchair, Clive Hammond, rather unusually good-looking with his dark red hair, brown eyes, and a face and body as compactly and symmetrically designed as one of the buildings which had been pointed out to Dundee as the product of the young architect’s genius. His chief concern seemed to be tor another ash tray, which sergeant Turner, with a grin, produced from one of the many little tables with which the room was provided. . . . Rather strange that these two should be engaged, Dundee mused. “Go on, Miss Crain,” the detective \irged. as if he were impatient of the delay. ‘‘About that note or letter—” “It was In a blue-gray envelope, with printing or engraving in the upper left-hand corner” Pertny went on. half closing her eyes to recapture the scene in its entirety. “Like business firms use,” she amended. “I couldn’t help seeing, since I sat so near Nlta. "She seemed startled —or, well, maybe I’d better say surprised and a little sore—but she tore it open and read it at a glance almost, which is why I say It must have been only a note. “But while she was reading it she frowned, then smiled, as if something had amused or—or—” “She smiled like any woman reading a love letter.” Carolyn Drake interrupted positively. “I myself was sure that one of her many admirers had broken an engagement, but had signed himself, “With all my love, darling—your own So-and-so!” a a a DUNDEE wondered if even Carolyn Drake’s husband, the carefully groomed and dignified John C. Drake, bank vice-president, had ever sent her such a note, but he did not let his pencil slow down, for Penny was talking again: “I think you are assuming a little too much, Carolyn. . . . But let that pass. At any rate, Nlta didn’t say a word about the contents of t he note, and naturally no one asked r question. “She simply tucked it Into the pocked of her silk summer coat, which was draped over the back of her chair, and the luncheon went on. Then we all drove over here, and found Polly waiting in front of tlie house. “She told Nlta she had rung the bell, out the maid, Lydia, didn’t answer, so she had just waited. “Nita didn't seem surprised; said she had a key, if Lydia hadn't come back yet. You see,” she interrupted herself to explain to Dundee, “Nita had already told us at luncheon that Poor, darling Lydia,’ as she called her, liad had to go into town to get an abscessed tooth extracted, and was to wait in the dentist’s office until she felt equal to driving herself home again fn Nita's coup. “Yes. Nita had taken her in herself,” she answered the beginning of a question from Dundee. “At what time?” Dundee queried. “I don't know exactly, but Nita said she'd had to dash away at an

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ungodly hour, so that Lydia could, make her 10 o'clock dentist's appointment, and so that Nita hersel could get a manicure and a shampoo and have her hair dressed, so I imagine she must have left not later than 15 or 20 minutes to 10.” "How did Mrs. Selim get out to Breakaway inn, if she left her own car with the maid?” “You saw her arrive with Lois,” Penny reminded him. "Nita had told us all about Lydia’s dentist’s appointment when she was at my house for dinner Wednesday night,” Lois Dunlap offered. “I offered to call for her anywhere she said, and take her out to Breakaway inn in my car today. I met her. at her suggestion, in the French hat salon of the shop where she got her shampoo and manicure—Redmond’s department store.” "A large dinner party, Mrs. Dunlap?” Dundee asked. "Not large at all. . . . Just twelve of us—the crowd here except lor Mr. Sprague, Penny and Janet.” ‘‘Who was Mrs. Selim’s dinner partner?” Dundee asked. "That's right! He isn’t here,” Lois Dunlap corrected herself. ■‘Ralph Hammond brought her and was h;r dinner partner.” "Thank you. . . . Now, Penny, You were saying the maid had not returned —” "Oh, but she had!” Penny answered impatiently. "If I'm going to be interrupted so much—Well, Nita rang the bell and Lydia came, tying on her apron. “Nita kissed her on the cheek that .wasn't swollen, and asked her why she hadn’t let Polly 'in. And Lydia said she hadn't heard the bell, because she had dropped asleep in her room in the basement—dopey from the local anesthetic you know,” she explained to Dundee. a a tt “r— SEE," Dundee acknowledged, A and underlined heavily another note in his scrawled shorthand. "So Lydia took our hats and summer coats and put them in the hall closet, and then followed Nita who was calling to her, on into Nita’s bedroom. "We thought she either ■wanted to give directions about the makings for the cocktails and the sandwiches, or to console poor Lyria for the awful pain she had had at the dentist’s, so we didn’t intrude. "We made a‘ dive for the bridge tables, found our places, and were ready to play when Nita joined us. Nita and Karen —” "Just a minute. Penny. . . . Did any of you, then or later, until Mrs. Marshall disqovered the tragedy, go into Mrs. Selim’s bedroom?” “There was no need for us to,” Penny told him. "There’s a lavatory with a dressing table right behind the staircase. I. for one, didn’t go into Nita’s room until after Karen screamed.” There was a chorus of similar denials on the part of every woman present. At Dundee’s significant pressing of the same question upon the men. he was met with either laconic negatives or sharply indignant ones. "All right, Penny. Go ahead, please.” "I was going to tell you how we were seated, for bridge, if that interests you,” Penny said, rather tartly. i "It interests me intensely,” Duni dee assured her, smiling. "Then it was this way,” began Penny, thawing Instantly. "Karen and Nita and Carolyn and I were at this table,” and she pointed to the table nearer the hall, “Flora, Polly, Janet and Lois were at the other. ! "We played at those tables all af- , temoon. We simply pivoted at our i own tables after the end of each ; rubber. When Nita became dummy—” "Forgive me,” Dundee begged, as he interrupted her again. “I’d like : to ask Mrs. Dunlap a question. . . . ; Mrs. Dunlap, since you were at the other table, perhaps you will tell me I what your partner and opponents were doing just before Mrs. Selim became Dummy.” Lois Dunlap pressed her fingeri tips into her temples, as if in an effort to remember clearly, i "It’s—rather hard to think of bridge now’, Mr. Dundee,” she said |at last. "But—yes, of course I re- ‘ member! We had finished a rubber } and had decided there would be no time for another, since it was so ; near 5:30—” | "That last rubber, please, Mrs. Dunlap,” Dundee suggested. "Who

were partners, and just when was It finished?” a a a “'T'LORA”—Lois turned toward A 1 Mrs. Miles who had sat with her hands tightly locked and her great haggard dark eyes roving tensely from one to another —‘ you and I were partners, weren't we? “Os course! Remember you were dummy and I played the liand? You went out to telephone, didn't you?. . . That's right! I remember clearly now! "Flora said she had to telephone ( the house to see how her two babies —6 and 4 years old. they are, Mr. Dundee, and the rosiest dumplings —Well, any way, Flora went, to telephone—” "In the little foyer between the main hall and Mrs. Selim's room?” "Yes, of course,” Lois Dunlap answered, but Dundee's eyes were upon Flora Miles, and he saw her naturally sallow face go yellow under its too-thick rouge. “I played the hand and made the bid, although Flora and I had gone i down 400 the hand before,” Lois j continued, with a rueful twinkle of ' her pleasant eyes. "But when the score was totted up, I found I’d won a bit after all. Our winnings go to the Forsyte Alumnae Scholarship Fund,” she explained. "Yes, I know,” Dundee nodded. : ‘‘And then—?” ‘Polly asked the other table how j they stood and Nita said, ‘One game to go on this rubber, provided we make it.’ Karen was dealing the ; cards then, and Nita was looking ; very happy—she'd been winning pretty steadily, I think—” "Sorry, Mrs. Dunlap. .", . How did ; the players at your table dispose | of themselves then—that is, imme- i diately after you had finished play- I Ing the last hand, and Mrs. Mar- j shall was dealing at the other table? | “Lois screwed up her forehead, j “Let me think—l know what I did. I went over to watch the game at the other table, and stayed there j till Tracey—Mr. Miles—came in for j cocktails. I can’t tell you exactly ! what the other three did.” There was a strained silence. Dun- J dee saw Polly Beale ’s hand tighten i convulsively on Clive Hammond’s, saw Janet Raymond flush scarlet, watched a muscle jerk in Flora Miles’ otherwise rigid face. Suddenly he sprang to his feet. “I am going to make what will seem an absurd request,” he said tensely. “I am going to ask you all—the women. I mean—to take your places at the bridge tables. “And then”—he paused for an instant, his blue eyes hard—“l want j to see the death hand played exactly j as it was played while Nita Selim j was being murdered!” (To Re Continued) STEINBERG TO SPEAK B'nai B’rith to Hear Talk on World Jewry. Indianapolis B'nai B’rith has j scheduled a special program for its I meeting tonight, with Rabbi Milton ] Steinberg listed as the principal j speaker of the evening. He will talk on “Present Conditions of World Jewry.” Members and their ladies will attend. A musical program also will be provided at the meeting. Sidney Sternbeiger is president of the organization. HOPE HELDFOR LIFE OF AMERICAN CHESTNUT ! New Sprouts Spring Up Around Stumps of Blight-Killed Trees. .science Service. HARRISBURG. Pa., Nov. 25. The native American chestnut, tra- | ditional interior decoration of the Thanksgiving turkey, is showing | signs of a possible comeback. At- , tacked by a devastating fungus ; blight about twenty years ago, evl ery adult tree in the northern states | died down to the roots. The work of the disease has not y,. i finished in the south, where spread more recently, but even there all full-grown trees appear to be j marked for destruction. But around the stumps of the I blight-killed trees there appeared ; new sprouts, for the roots still were i living. These sprouts have been growing now for two decades, and many of them have reached young- | tree size. A survey of the sprout I | situation in Pennsylvania, by J. E. Aughanbaugh of the commoni wealth's forest research institute, indicates that there is hope after all for the native American chestnut. For the first time in twenty years, moderate quantities of chestnuts are being gathered. While the total is the merest fraction of the pre-blight chestnut crop, still it is regarded as a triumph that there are any American chestnuts at all left to be liarvested.

TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE

The faithful little monkey had trailed Tarzan from the Bagego village, and now he was prepared to go back to call upon the ape-man’s warriors to come to the rescue. But Tarzan wanted first to find the young German scientist for whom he was searching. So that night Nkima oeme down from the trees and slept in his master's arms.

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—By Williams OUR BOARDING HOUSE

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—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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