Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1930 — Page 11

my. 27, 1930.

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY JUANITA BELTM Is murdered as *h<! Alts at har dressing tabic while she Is dummy at a bridge nartv. Ouestionlng the ftlfit*. BONNIE DUNDEE learns that RALPH HAMMOND, tn love with Ntta, la inismrg Dtirdee, after trying to get a connected story of the afternoon, finally aa'<s the guests to take the positions they held from the dealing of the ’death hand” until the discovery of the bodv. PENNY CRAIN, the district attorney's secre ary: KAREN MARSHALL, who discovered the body: ar*d CAROLYN DRAKE take helr places at the bridge table to replay the hand. LOIS DUNLAP. Nlta s onlv friend, stands beside them. rt_ORA MILES, who left the room before the dealing of the hand, goer, to th telephone In the foyer outside Nlta's bedroom. .JANET RAYMOND goes out on the front porch. POLLY BEALE, who was inexplicably absent from luncheon, goes to the aoUrlum. meeting her fiance. CLIVE HAMMOND Dundee wonder whv Hammond did not coroe *n to greet his hostess They begin to replav the bridge hand, with Karen declarer, and Penny acting as Nlta Karen's partner Karen gets the bid for six spa te: , doubled and redoiib’ed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORI CHAPTER EIGHT "/'AH, this Is too horrible!” Karen V/ Marshall moaned, as Penny Crain again slipped into Nita Sulim’s chair and prepared to lay down her hand. And it was horrible—even if vitally necessary—for these three to have to go through the farce of playing a bridge hand while one of the original players was now lying on a rnarbla cot at the morgue. But he said nothing, for Tracey Miles already was hovering in the doorway, ready for his cue to enter. Penny, or rather “Nita,” as she seemed miraculously to become, was saying. ‘‘How’s this, Karen darling?” as .he laid down the ace and deuce of pades—Karen’s trump. "I' hope you remember you arc vulnerable, as well as we are,” Carolyn Drake remarked in a sorry imitation of her original cocksuredness—the offensive optimism of a bad bridge player who thinks she really Is good—as she opened the playing by leading the king of clubs. ‘‘And how’s this, partner? A singleton in clubs!” Nita's imitator demanded triumphantly as she continued to lay down her dummy hand, putting the lone nine of clubs beside trumps; “and this little collection of hearts!” as she displayed and arranged the ace, king, eight and four of hearts; “ and also this!” as a length of diamonds—ace, jack, ten, eight, seven and six slithered down the glossy black surface of the bridge table toward Karen Marshall. “Now If you don’t make your little slam. Infant, don’t dare say I shouldn’t have jumped you to five!” “This Is where I enter,” Tracey Miles whispered hoarsely to Dundee, then, at a nod from the young detective, the pudgy little blond man strode jauntily into the living room, proud of himself in the role of actor. “Hello, everybody! How’s tricks?” he called genially, loudly, but there was a quiver of horror in his voice as well. Penny was quite pale when she sprang from her chair, but her voice seemed to be Nita’s very own, as she sang out merrily: "It can’t be 5:30 ali'eady! Thank heaven I’m dummy, and can run away and make myself prettypretty for you and all the other great big men, Tracey darling!” a tt u DUNDEE'S keen aural memory registered the slight difference in the wording of the greeting as reported by this pseudo-Nita and the man she was running to greet. But he made no comment. His eyes were busy—taking in the mounting flush on Tracey Miles’ florid, round face, the involuntary glances of repugnance exchanged by Karen Marshall and Carolyn Drake, and the sudden brimming of tears in Lois Dunlap’s kind eyes. How fondly she must have looked ■upon her protege earlier that afternoon. But Penny, as Nita, was already straightening Tracey Miles’ necktie with possessive, coquettish fingers, was coaxing, head tucked: “Tracey, my ownest lamb, won’t you shake up the cocktails for your poor little Nita? Everything’s ready on the sideboard, or I don’t know my precious old Lydia, even if her poor jaw does ache most horribly.” Then Penny was on her way, or rather on Nita’s journey, to meet death, pausing in the doorway to blow a kiss from her fingertips to the fatuously grinning but now quite pale Tracey Miles. Unobtrusively, Dundee drew his watch from his pocket, palmed it as he noted the exact minute, then commanded curtly: “Go on!”

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As Tracey Miles passed the first brk ge table Lois Dunlap linked her arm in his, saying in a voice she tried to make gay and natural: "I’m trailing along, Tracey. Simply dying for a sip of Scotch! Nita’s is the real stuff—which is more than my fussy old Pete can get half the time!—and you know I loathe cocktails.” The two passed on into the dining room, the players scarcely raising their eyes from their cards, which they held as If the game were real. Dundee, his watch still in his hand, advanced to the bridge table. Strolling from player to player, he took mental photographs of each hand, then took his stand behind Penny's chair to observe the horribly farcical playing of it. Poor little Penny! he reflected. She hadn't had a chance against that dumbbell across the table from her. Fancy any ones doubling a little slam bid on a hand like Carolyn Drake’s. Karen's hand trembled as she drew the nine of clubs from the dummy, but Penny’s fingers were quite steady as she followed with the deuce of clubs, to which Karen added, with a trace of characteristic and rather charming uncertainty, the eight. “There's our book!” Carolyn Drake exulted conscientiously, but she cast an apologetic glance at Penny. “If we take one more trick we set them.” “Fat chance!” Penny obligingly responded, and Dundee, relieved, knew that the farcical game would be played now almost exactly, and with the same comments, as it had been played while Nita Selim was being murdered. Thanks to Penny Crain! a a a BRIDLING and with a great show of triumph. Carolyn Drake then led the deuce of diamonds, to which Karen added the Jack from the dummy, and upon which Karen shruggingly placed her king, tc find the trick, as she had suspected in the original game, trumped by the five of spades, since Karen had no diamonds at all. “So that settles us, Carolyn!” Penny commented bitingly. Her partner ro&e to the role she was playing. “Well, as I told you, I always double a little slam on principle. Besides, how could I know they would have a chance for cross-ruffling in both clubs and diamonds? I thought you at least could hold the ace of diamonds and that Karen would certainly have one, as I only had four of them —” “And the dummy sitting there with a string of six diamonds!” Penny retorted; then with a shrug, “Oh, well! Play bridge!” for Karen was sitting staring at her cards helplessly. “I—l guess I’d better get my trumps out,” Karen —now almost a genuine actress, t o o—breathed tremulously. “I do wish—wish Nita were playing this hand. I know I’ll muff it somehow—” “Good kid!” Dundee thought, and took the liberty of patting Karen on her slim shoulder. The girl-wife threw him an upward glance of gratitude through misty eyes, then led the six of spades. Mrs. Drake contributing the four, dummy taking the trick with the ace, and Penny relinquishing her three. “Let’s see—that makes five of ’em in, since I trumped one trick.” Karen said, as s'ne reached across the table to lead from dummy. As if the words were a cue—which they probably were—Judge Marshall entered the room at that moment. Judge Marshall, making a great effort to be as jaunty, debonair and “young for his age,” as he must have thought he looked when the real game was being played. At his step Karen lifted her head, smiled tremulously, and greeted her elderly husband with a childlike joy and a womanly tenderness: “Hullo, darling! . . . I'm trying to make a little slam I may have been foolish to bid, but Nita jumped me from two to five spades—” “Let’s have a look, sweetheart,” the retired judge suggested pompously, and Dundee gave way to make room for him behind Karen's chair. But before the judge looked at his wife's hand, he bent and kissed her on her flushed, fair cheek, and Karen raised a hand to tweek his gray mustache.

Dundee, with a raised eyebrow, queried Penny, and the girl nodded shortly, conveying the information, grudgingly it is true, that this was the way the scene really had been played when there was no question of acting. “I'm getting out my trumps, darling,” Karen confided sweetly, as she reached for the deuce of spades —the only remaining trump in the dummy. “Good Lord, child!” her husband ejaculated. “And spoil your chance to ruff clubs In the dummy?. . . Lead this!” and pointed toward the six of diamonds. a a a “t WTSH you'd got a puncture, Hugo, and hadn’t butted in before this hand was played,” Carolyn Drake sputtered. “That was our only chance, I suppose, to have set them—” “Please don’t mind,” Karen begged. “Hugo just wanted to help me, because he knows I’m such a dub at bridge—” “The finest little player in town—a year from now,” Judge Marshall encouraged her gallantly. Smiling adoringly at him again, Karen took his suggestion and led the six of diamonds from the dummy; Penny covered it with the nine; Karen ruffed with the seven of spades, and Mrs. Drake lugubriously contributed the four of diamonds. “I can go on getting my trumps out now, can’t I, Hugo?” Karen quavered, and. at her husband’s smiling permission, she led the king, Carolyn had to put down what she must h i,ve foolishly thought would | take a trick—the jack of spades; the dummy gave up the deuce, and Penny followed with her own last | trump, the eight. Karen counted on her fingers, her eyes on the remaining trumps in her own hand, then smiled triumphantly up at her husband. “Why not simply tell us, Karen, that the rest of the trumps are in your own hand?” Penny suggested caustically. “I—l didn’t mean to do anything wrong,” Karen pleaded, as she led now with the jack of hearts, which drew in Carolyn’s queen to cover— Carolyn- murmuring religiously: “Always cover an honor with an honor—or should I have played second hand low. Penny?”—topped by the ace in the dummy, the trick being completed by Penny’s three. At that point John C. Drake marched into the room, strode straight to Dundee and spoke with cold anger: “Enough of this nonsense! I, for one, refuse to act like a puppet for your amusement!” (To Be Continued) BONUS PAYMENT TO BEPRESSES Texan Asks Immediate Aid for Veterans. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—If the house ways and means committee refuses to report out his bill providing for immediate payment in cash of the soldiers’ bonus, Representative Wright Patman (Dem., Tex.) will seek to force action on the floor. He said today that, failing action by the committee, he would place his bill on the speaker's desk, from where, if it is signed by a majority of the members, it can be taken for i a vote by the house without action ! by the committee. “"If the government will pay the adjusted compensation certificates due 3,600,000 veterans of the World war in cash now,” Patman said, “the country will become prosperous." He estimated that these payments would range from ssl to $1,505. and would average $1,013. He contended that no change in the tax laws will be necessary. FINDS PEARL IN OYSTER Railroad Passenger Starts Rush on Diner With 575 Discovery. Hit Times Special EDMONTON. Alta.. Nov. 27.—Lionel Simard of Edmonton has anew pearl tie pin; a genuine pearl at that, and it cost him exactly 60 cents. That was the sum he spent for half a dozen oysters on the halfshell in the dining car of the “Continental Limited” of the Canadian National railways on his trip from Winnipeg to Edmonton. In one of the oysters Lionel found the pearl which was valued at- $75 by a jeweler who was a passenger. When he refused several offers to sell there was a phenomenal run on bivalves for the rest of the trip. No more pearls were found, but it was good for the company’s earnings.

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