Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1930 — Page 11

, PEC. 3, 1930

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begin hire today _ When SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR DUNDLh is summoned to the house of JLANiTA SELIM, murdered at a bridge *artv. he orctert, the guests to take the Diace* they held during the playing of the ‘death hand.” when Nlta was Jellied. RALPH HAMMOND. In love with lilts. Is the only guest missing. FI/ORA MILES savs she was In the guests' lavatory, but Dundee finds her bridge tally on the floor of Nita's closet, proving she Is lying. Bhe admits she went to the closet to recover a note sent to Nlta. which she thinks Is from her husband. Nlta comes In while she Is In the closet, and Flora, hearing a bang or bump, fears she Is to be discovered, and faints, recovering consciousness when KARIN MARSHALL ecrcams on discovering the body. Dundee, finding It suspicious that CLIVE HAMMOND stayed In the solarium with POLLY BEALE, his fiancee. Instead of coming In to speak to his hostess when he arrlve.d, asks him when he last saw his fiancee prior to the party. Hammond refuses to reply, but Dundee savs he knows the answer. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER THIRTEEN “nnHEN why ask me?” Hammond 1 shrugged, but his red-brown eyes flickered toward Polly Beale. "I thought perhaps you could give me a little additional information,” Dundee soothed him. “You see. it happens that I saw you, Miss Beale, and another young man come into the Stuart House dining room about 1:30 today, just when I was thinking of lunch for myself.” “The mysterious 'other young man’ was Clive’s brother, Ralph Hammond,” Polly Beale cut in brusquely. “Your decision to lunch with your fiancee and his brother was quite a sudden one?” Dundee asked courteously. “Just when did you change your mind about Mrs. Selim’s luncheon party at Breakaway inn, Miss Beale?" The tall girl threw up her mannishly cropped chestnut head. “There is nothing at all sinister or even queer about it, Mr. Dundee! I was on my way to the luncheon, when I decided to drive past Nita’s house on the chance that she might like me to drive her over.” “Then you didn’t know that Mrs. Dunlap already had arranged to meet Mrs. Selim downtown this morning and to take her to the Inn?” Dundee asked, with his greatest casualness. “No! I didn’t hear of the arrangement,” Polly answered decidedly. “You were a close friend of Mrs. Selim’s perhaps?” Dundee prodded. “Not at all! But that would not keep me from doing my hostess a courtesy. ... It was about a quarter to 1 when I got here, I should say. Nita wasn’t here, nor was her maid, but I saw Ralph’s car parked in front of the house ” “Ralph Hammond’s car?” a woman squealed, but Dundee let Polly continue. “I rang and he answered the door. Said he was alone in the house, going over the premises at Judge Marshall's request,” Polly said evenly. n a a “'"r'HAT’S right—that’s right!” 1 Judge Marshall agreed hastily. “Nita—Mrs. Selim—wanted the unfinished half of the gabled top story finished up. Wanted a maid's room and bath, and a guest room and bath added to the living quarters already completed. “I gave the commission, for an estimate, at least, to the Hammond firm, or course, since they had built the house originally for Crain— Penny's father.” “I see,” Dundee agreed. “And you sent your brother, Mr. Hammond?” “He was the natural one to send,” Olive Hammond retorted. “Small job. All he had to do was to get together an estimate on adidtional furnace lines and radiators, electric wiring, plumbing, plastering, etc.” “Go on, Miss Beale,” Dundee directed. “Thanks!” There was sarcasm in her brusque voice. “But that's really about all I have to tell. Ralph complained that he was hungry and charged me with giving him too litle of my time—the usual thing. “I picked up Nita's phone, called Olive and made the date for the three of us. Then I called Breakaway inn, canceled the luncheon part of the bridge party with Nita, and Ralph and I drove back to Hamilton.” Dundee studied her strong, clever, almost plain face for a long minute. Certainly Polly Beale did not look like a liar—but he would have taken his oath she was lying now. Or rather not revealing the real truth behind the actual facts of her movements that day. For instance, could a simple plea of her future brother-in-law make her do so discourteous a thing as to break a luncheon appointment, especially when such a course not only would disappoint her hostess and her friends, but disarrange the seating plan of a rather formal party?

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Os course the explanation was obvious. She had wanted, first, to see Nita and remonstrate privately with her for having so involved Ralph Hammond, when he was tacitly known to “belong” to Penny Crain—one of the sacred crowd. Failing that, she had found Ralph himself, and had not expected to find him; had talked with him about Nita, had quarreled a bit with him, perhaps, over his behavior. And the crisis had become so acute that Polly arbitrarily had called upon Clive Hammond and then had forced Ralph to accompany her. , . . “Do you know, Miss Beale, why Ralph Hammond did not keep his engagement with Mrs. Seiim this afternoon? Or rather, his promise to appear for cocktails and to be Miss Crain’s partner for the rest of the evening—dinner and dance at the Country Club?” “I do not!” Polly said crisply. “Hammond?” “Neither do I,” Hammond retorted angrily. “Then it was not to discuss Ralph Hammond and his—affairs, that you beckoned Miss Beale to meet you in the solarium upon your arrival?” “It—was not!” tt an A SHADE too much anger and emphasis, Dundee decided. And he wished heartily that Strawn’s detectives would not delay much longer in bringing the missing young man into this already involved examination. “You say that you both were in the solarium from the time of your arrival, Hammond, until Mrs. Marshall screamed,” Dundee*continued. “Just what did you see and hear?” Dundee watched their faces keenly, but again they were wellbred, expressionless. It was Polly Beale who answered: “Naturally there was not a deathless silence, but I am afraid we were not listening. We were rather engrossed in our conversation. “We were seated—near no windows—and I for one saw nothing, as well as heard nothing that I can recall.” “Hammondy” “That gees for me, too —absolutely!” Abruptly abandoning the engaged couple, Dundee turned to Miles. “You were the second arrival, then?" “Yes, I parked my car along the curb in front of the hoftse,” Tracey answered readily. “And I came right on in, and Nita jumped up—” “Yes. We’ve had all that twice before,” Dundee interrupted cruelly. “Now, Judge Marshall—” “One of my friends gave me a lift from town,” Judge Marshall voluntered pompously. “Chap named Sampson. You may have heard of him —fine fellow, a good lawyer. “We played bililards together at the Athletic club, and when I was about to call a taxi—my wife having the car here—he offered to drop me here on his way to the Country club. . . , N-no, I don’t remember the exact time, did not consult my watch.” “You came directly from the road into the house, Judge Marshall?” “Certainly, sir!” “Did you—er, see any one?” “You mean, sir, did any one see me?” Judge Marshall demanded with pompous indignation. “No, no one, sir! If my word is not good enough for you, you can think what you damned please!” “I think we are all getting a little too tired, Mr. Dundee,” Penny Crain suggested, almost humble in her weariness. “I’m truly sorry,” the young detective apologized. “But I can’t leave things like this. . •. . Mr. Drake, you have said you walked over from the Country Club. “You must have approached the house from the driveway, the side of the house which contains Mrs. Selim's bedroom. ... Is that right?” u u u “M ORE or * ess ’ exce P t that I lVJLskirted the house rather widely and arrived from the road, stepping upon the front porch, and walking directly into the hall. I saw no one outside or near the house when I arrived,” Drake answered, with less than his usual nastiness. “And saw no one running away across the meadows?” Dundee pressed. "No one at all.” Drake retorted. “I wish to God I could truthfully say that I saw a gunman,, with a mask and a smoking revolver, skulking through the wildflowers, but the absolute truth is that I saw no one.”

“Thank you, Mr. Drake Now—Mr. Sprague ‘of New York.’” Sprague's nervously twitching face reddened darkly. “I—l took a bus. I have no car of my own. I got off the bus on Sheridan road, at the entrance to Promise Meadows.” “I see. And you walked the quar-ter-mile to this house?” Sprague’s hand fumbled with his cravat. “I—of course I did!” “I see. . . , Now, Miss Raymond,” Dundee pounced unexpected, so that the red-haired girl went very white beneath her freckles, “you obseved Mr. Sprague toiling down the rutty road, hot and weary, but romantic in the sunset?” Mrs. Drake let out a nervous giggle, then clapped her hand over her mouth. “I—l wasn’t looking that way,” Janet Raymond stammered. “I—l just went out on the porch for a breath of fresh air ” “And you were completely surprised when Mr. Sprague came wabbling up the .flagstone path?” Dundee persisted, for he knew she was lying, knew that she had stationed herself there to watch for Sprague. “I—yes, I was. He stopped and talked for awhile, before we came in and joined Tracey and Lois in the dining room, where Tracey was mixing cocktails. “But,” she flared suddenly, “I don’t see why you have to badger all of us, when it must have been Lydia, the maid, who killed Nita, because- —” “Oh, Janet! Shame on you!” Penny cried furiously. (To Be Continued)

FIRES IN STATE SHOW INCREASE Hogston Reports Loss of Indiana’s fire loss for the fiscal year ending Oct. 1, was $9,665,799, or $2.98 per capita the annual report of Alfred E. Hogston, state fire marshall filed today, discloses. There were 841 more fires than in the previous year, despite the department’s increased educational program, Hogston points out. “Hard times always result in more incendarism,’ Hogston said. Largest increase was in rural fires, 1,372 being reported this year as compared to but 905 in 1929. In cities under 5,000, fires increased 235, the total being 1,148, and in cities of more than 5,000 increase of 139 to a total of 3,326 was reported. Loss in cities of more than 5,000 was $4,083,954: cities of 5,000 or less, $1,956,019 and in rural districts! $3,625,826. Indianapolis reported 630 fires and $890,167 loss. In cities of less than 5,000, Beech Grove reported the largest loss, $646,143, due to the Big Four shops fire. The secretary of state’s report for state police shows 3,588 arrests for the year, a decrease of 202, and fines collected totaling $14,376. State banking department reports register a $56,376,2000 shrinkage in assets of banks under department control during the year. Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, recommends in the report the requirement of three months’ notice of withdrawal for building and loans. Former Pastor Dies Bit United Press WARSAW, Ind., Dec. 3.—Dr. Frank N. Palmer, 60, former pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Warsaw and for many years associated with the Winona assembly, died at New Smyrna, Fla., according to information received here.

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