Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1930 — Page 9

DEC. 2, 1930

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BEGIN HERE TODAY When SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR DUNDEE Is summoned to the house of JUANITA SELIM, murdered during a bridge partv. he orders the guests to take the places thev occupied during the rlavine of the ‘‘death hand.” the time Nit a was killed. Onlv one guest is missing—RALPH HAMMOND. In love with Nlta. PENNY CRAIN. KAREN MARSHALL and CAROLYN DRAKE *lav out the hand. LOIS DUNLAP and TRACEY MILES are In the dining room: POLLY BEALE and her fiance. CLIVE HAMMOND, are In the rolarlum: JUDGE MARSHALL comes in soon after the beginning of the hand: JOHN DRAKE comes In lust before the end. having taken a long time to walk from the countrv club. DEXTER SPRAGUE enters at the end of the hand with JANET RAYMOND, who has been on the front porch, and they go Into the dining room. When Dundee accompanies Karen, who discovers the bodv out of the living room to go to the bedroom, he finds FLORA MILES, who hysterically says that she was in the guests’ lavatory, after telephoning her home. He be'ieves the is lvlng. and proves It when he finds her bridge tall” on the floor of Nlta's closet. Flora confesses •hat she went to the closet, after telephoning. to recover a note sent to Nlta at luncheon, which she thinks Is from her husband. , _ It Is an extremely affectionate note from Dexter Sprague. While Flora Is In the closet Nlta comes In. singing. Flora hears a bang or bump. and. thinking shat Nlta Is coming to the closet, faints, coming to consciousness on hearing. Karen scream. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER ELEVEN (Continued) “I couldn’t hear very well, all tangled up in the coat and ’way back in the closet, but I did hear a kind of bang or bump—no, no! not a pistol shot!—and because it came from so near me I thought It was Nita or Lydia coming to get something out of the closet, and I’d be discovered, so I—l fainted—” She drew a deep breath and went on: “When I came to I heard Karen screaming, and then people running in—But all the time that awful tune was going on and on—” “Tune?” Dundee gasped. “Do you mean—Nita Selim’s—song?"

CHAPTER TWELVE Fj'LORA MILES seemed to be dazed by Dundee’s vehement question. “Why, yes—Nita’s own tune. That’s what she called it—her own tune ” “But, Mrs. Miles,” Dundee protested, ashamed that the hair on his scalp pricked with horror, “do you mean to tell me that Nita was not dead then—when Karen Marshall screamed?’ “Dead?” Flora repeated, more bewildered. “Os course she was, or at least, they all said so Oh, I know what you mean! And you don’t mean what I mean at all ” “Steady, honey girl! ” Tracey Miles urged, putting his arm about his wife. “I’d better tell you, Dundee. . . . When we all came running into the room, there was Nita’s powder box playing its tune over and over ” “Oh!” Dundee wiped his forehead. “You mean it’s a musical box?” “Yes, and plays when the lid is off,” Tracey answered, obviously delighted to have the limelight again. “Well, of course, since Nita couldn’t put the lid back on, it was still playing. . . . What was the tune honey?” he asked his wife tenderly. “I haven’t much ear for music at best but at a time like that ” “It was playing ‘Juanita,’” Flora answered wearily. “Over and over Nita, Jua-a-n-ita, be jny own fair bride,’” she quavered obligingly. “Only not the words, of course, just the tunc. That’s why Nita bought the box, I suppose, because it played her namesake song—” “Maybe one of her beaus gave it to her,” Tracey suggested lightly, patting his wife’s trembling shouldder. “Anyway, Dandee, the thing ran on and on, until it ran down, I suppose. ‘I confess I wanted to put tire lid back on, to stop the 1 da,mn thing, but Hugo said we mustn’t touch anything—” “And quite right!” Dundee cut in. “Now, Mrs. Miles, about that noise you heard. . . . Did you hear anyone enter the room? _ . . No? . . . Well, then, did you hear Nita speak to anyone? You said you thought it might be Lydia, coming to get something out of the closet.” n n o “T DIDN’T hear Nita speak a word JL to anybody, though she might have and I wouldn’t have heard, all muffled up in that velvet evening wrap and so far back in the closet—” “Did you hear the door onto the porch—it’s quite near the closet—” “The door was open when we came in, Dundee,” Tracey interposed. “It must have been open all the time.” “I didn't hear it open,” Mrs. Miles confirmed him wearily. “I tell you I didn’t hear anything, except Nita's coming in singing, then

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the powder box playing its tune, and that bang or bump I told you about.” ‘And just where was that?” Dundee persisted. “I don’t know!” she shrilled, hysteria rising in her voice again. “I told you it sounded fairly near the closet, as if—as if somebody bumped into something. “TTiat’s what it was like! That’s exactly what it was like! And I was so frightened of being found in the closet that I fainted, and didn’t come to till Karen screamed—” She was babbling on, but Dundee teas thinking hard. Avery convenient faint—that! For the murderer, at least! But—why not for Mrs. Miles herself? Odd that she should faint! Why hadn’t she trumped up some excuse immediately and left the closet as Nita was entering the room? Was it, possibly, because she could think of nothing but the great relief of finding it was Sprague, not her husband, who had been writing love letters to Nita Selim? ... A Jealous woman “Miles,” he began abruptly, “I think you’d better tell me how your wife became so jealous of you and Nita Selim that she could get herself into such a false position.” Tracey Miles reddened, but one of his sunburned hands restrained his wife’s passionate defense of him. “It’s the truth that Flora is jealousnatured. And I suppose”—he faltered a moment, and his eyes did not meet his wife’s—“that I liked seeing her k little bit jealous of her old man. Sort of makes a man feel—well, big, you J-now. And pretty important to somebody!” “So you were just having a bit of fun with your wife, so far as Mrs. Selim was concerned?” Dundee asked coldly. The blood flowed through the thinning blond hair. not exactly,” he admitted frankly. “You see, I did take a shine to Nita, and if I do say so myself, she liked me a lot. .. . Oh, nothing serious! Just a little flirtation, like most of our crowd have with each other—” “Mrs. Miles,” Dundee interrupted with sudden harshness, “are you sure you did not know that that letter was from Dexter Sprague before you looked for it?” “Sir, if you are insinuating that my wife carried on a flirtation or —an—an affair with that Sprague insect—” Tracey began to bluster.

BUT Dundee’s eyes were on Flora | Miles, and he saw that her sallow skin had tigntened like grayish silk over her thin cheek hones, and that her eyes looked suddenly dead and glassy. “You fainted, you say, Mrs. Miles,” Dundee went on inexorably. “Was it because, by any chance, that this note”—and he tapped the sheet which had caused so much trouble—“revealed the fact that Nita Selim and Dexter Sprague were sweethearts or—lovers?” It was a battle between those two now. Both ignored Tracey’s redfaced rage. Flora licked her dry lips. “Nono,” she whispered. “No! It was because I was jealous of Tracey and Nita—” “Yes, and I’d given her cause to be jealous, too!” Tracey forced himself into the conversation. “One night, at the Country club, Flora saw me and Nita stroll off the porch and down onto the grounds, and she had a right to be sore at me when I got back, because I’d cut a dance with her—my own wife! And it was only this very morning that I made a point of driving —out of my way, too—by this house to see Nita. Not that I meant any harm, but 1 was being a little silly about her—and she was about me. too! Not that I’d leave my wife and babies for any Broadway beauty under the sun ” “Oh, Tracey! And you weren’t going to tell me ” Was there real jealousy now, or just pretense on Flora’s part? “You understand, don’t you, Dundee?” Tracey demanded, man to man. “I was just having a little fun on the side —nothing serious, mind you! But, of course, I didn’t tell Flora every little thing. No man does! Ther’ve been other girls —other women ” “Tracey isn't w r orse than the other men!” Flora flamed up. “He’s such a darling that all the girls pet him and spoil him ” Dundee could stand no more of Miles’ complacent acceptance of his own rakishness. And certainly a girl like Nita Selim would have been able to bear precious little of

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it. . . . Conceited ass! But Flora i Miles was another matter—and so | was Dexter Sprague. “You can Join me in the living room, if you like,” Dundee said shortly, as he wheeled and strode toward the door. Was that quick, passionate kiss between husband and wife being staged for his benefit? “Pretty near through, boy?” Strawn, who had been silent and bewildered for a long time, asked anxiously, as the two detectives passed into the halt “Not quite. I’ve got to know several things yet,” Dundee answered absently. a 0 T>UT in the living-room his mind was wholly upon the business in hand. “I’ll keep you all no longer than is absolutely necessary,” he began, and again the close-knit group—in which only Dexter Sprague was an alien—grew taut with suspense. “From the playing out of the ‘death hand’ at bridge,” he went on, using the objectionable phrase again very deliberately, “I found that no two of you men arrived together. . . . Mr. Hammond, you were the first to arive, I believe?” "It seems that I was!” Clive Hammond answered curtly. “And yet you did not enter the living-room to greet your hostess?” “I wanted a private word with Polly—Miss Beale—my fiancee,” Hammond explained briefly, “How and when did you arrive?” “I don’t know that exact time. Never thought of looking at my watch,” Hammond offered. “I came out in my own roadster. As for how I entered the house, I leaped upon the porch and opened a door of the solarium. “I walked across the solarium, saw Polly just finishing with bridge for the afternoon, and beckoned to her. She joined me in the solarium, and we stayed there until Karen screamed. . . . That’s all.” “Have you been engaged long, Mr. Hammond—you and Miss Beale?” Dundee asked, as if quite casually. “Nearly a year—if it’s any of your business, Dundee!” “And just when had you seen Miss Beale last, before late this afternoon?” Dundee asked. “I refuse to answer!” Hammond flared. “That at least is none of your damned business!” “I believe I can answer my own question, Mr. Hammond,” Dundee raid very softly. (To Be Continued) CONGRESS TO DEFEND FEDERAL POWER ACT Senate Will Seek Extended Control of Interstate Companies. Bu Scrinn-Hnxcard Xewsvaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Recent offensives against the federal water power act will be met by a counteroffensive in congress this winter with the .object of a extended system of power company regulation by the federal government. Senator James Couzens, chairman of the senate interstate and foreign commerce committee, will begin j hearings on the second of his two measures reorganizing the federal power commission. The first, already a law, provided for five full time commissioners instead of the three cabinet members. ; The/second is designed to provide | regulation for the first time of all \ interstate power transactions, and ;of the intricate system of holding | companies that the utilities have built up.

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TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE

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—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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