Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1930 — Page 9

Sec. 30. 1930

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begin hire today Tn the murder ot .TOANITA SELIM there are est possible suspects. al! •uests t her urldge party. JUDGE MARSHA U '•’’per of the gun and utlencer wih hlch she aa shot, la one. JOHN DRAKE and FLORA MILEB. who wa* tn Nlta’a closet at the time of the murder 'eadlng a note she thinks ;a from her hu'hand. are two more. CLIVE HAMMOND. POLLY BEALE and JANET RAYMOND are the others. DUNDEE 8 ‘heory is that Nfta. recoenlzlne some or.' 1 In a group picture came down to black'! siL receiving 110,000 and a bullet, at and he warns DEXTER SPRAGUE to drop the scheme. CAPTAIN STRAWN thinks that Ntta was killed bv a New York gunman. Dundee thinks the killer will return to look for papers, which Nlta had burned, intending to drop the scheme and marry Hammond. At the ofPee the next morning. PENNY CRAIN tells him of an Impromptu bridge party at TRACEY MILZS' home, at which were all who had been a? the murder, except CAROLYN DP.AKE and Janet, and plus PETER DUNLAP Sprague came uninvited, was treated rudely by every one. and Anally made a very tactless reference to Nita’s death Prrnr if interrupted by Strawn on the telephone, who tells Dundee that there has been another murder. NOW GO 05 WTTTf THE STORY CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX •'ipvEXTER SPRAGUE has been U murdered,” Dundee answered the terrified Inquiry in Penny .Cfain’s brown eyes. ‘‘The body was discovered about nine this morning b yone of the Miles’ melds in what you described just now as the trophy room.’ . . . Shot—just below the breastbone, Captain Strawn says.” "The trophy room!” Penny repeated. in a dazed, slow voice. ‘Then—that’s where he was—all the time, after he disappeared so strangely last nights—” “Whoa. Fenny!” Dundee cried, his voice sharp with excitement. "Get hoi dos yourself, darling girl! You’re shaking all over. I want to know everything you know—as quickly and as accurately as you can tell it. Go right on with that story you were telling me!” ‘‘Poor Dexter!” Penny groaned, covering her quivering face with her hands "To think that he was dead all the time we were saying such horrid things about, him—'’ ‘Don’t waste sympathy on him, Penny!” Dundee cut in, his voice very gentle but urgent. "If he had heeded my warning Monday, he wouldn’t be dead now.” “What do you mean?” Penny gasped, but she was already trembling less violently. "Your warning—?” ‘1 had a strong suspicion that he was mixed up with Nita in her blackmail scheme, and I took the trouble to warn him not to try to carry on with it,” Dundee explained. "And no longer ago than yesterday afternoon I got what I was sure was final proof of my suspicion and begged Strawn to assign a plainclothesman to ‘tail’ Sprague, to see that he kept out of mischief. "I was afraid the temptation would be too strong for him, but Strwan wouldn’t listen to me—still clinging to his theory of a New York gunman. Feeling better now, honey? Can you go on? I want to get out to the Miles house as soon as I can.” “You’re getting very—affectionate, aren’t you?” Penny gave him a wobbly smile in which, however, there was no reproof. "I think I can go now— Where was I?” "Good girl!” Dundee applauded, and his heart was beating hard with something more than excitement over Sprague's murder. ‘‘You’d just told me about Sprague’s warning Karen not to leave the table when she became dummy after Judge Marshall’s little slam bid in spades.” tt tt u “I REMEMBER Penny said, 1 pressing her fingers into her temples. “But Karen did leave the tablej When Sprague said that awful!, thing, poor Karen burst into tears (and ran from the porch into the hiving room. “Jupge Marshall started to follow Mar, but Sprague halted him by apologizing very humbly, and then by allding: ‘l'd really like to see you llay this hand, sir. I believe I've mgot the cards to set you “C* course he could not have said anything better calculated to Hugo, who. as I said, is a Htlar fiend when it comes to i-p/ell, Hugo played the hand and his little slam, and then he In started to go look for Karen, ■Polly, who was Sprague's partI you know, told him in that way of hers to go on with ■ game and give Karen a chance ■■mve a little weep in peace. ■Tobably Hugo would have gone for her anyway, but just

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then Flora came back. Bhe said Betty was asleep at last and that her temperature was normal, and when she heard about Karen, she offered to take her hand until Karen felt like coming back.” “What did Drake do then? He’d been playing anagrams with Mrs. Miles, you said,” Dundee interrupted. Don’t you remember?—l told you Johnny had taken Peter’s place at our table after Peter refused to breathe the same air as Dexter Sprague,” Penny .reminded him. “Ralph and I, Lois and Johnny were playing together, and just at the time I became dummy, Sprague became dummy at the other table. He rose, saying he had to go telephone for a taxi and passed from the porch into the living room.” "Where is the telephone?” “The one the guests use is on a table in the hall closet, where we put our things,” Penny eplained. “You can shut the door and hold a perfectly private conversation . . . Well, wc never saw Dexter Sprague again!” "Good Lord! Another bridge dummy murdered!” Dundee groaned. “At least the newspapers will be happy! . . . Didn’t anyone go to look for him after the hand was played?” “Not straight off,” Penny answered with an obvious effort to remember clearly every detail. "Let’s see— Oh, yes! That hand was played out before Ralph had finished playing his, at our table, so I was free to pay attention to the other table. "Flora said that since they couldn’t play another hand until Dexter came back, she thought she’d better hunt up Karen, who hadn’t come back yet.” “How long was Mrs. Miles away from the porch?” Dundee asked quickly. “Oh, I don’t know—ten minutes, maybe. She came back alone, saying she had found Karen in her bedroom—Flora’s room, of coursecrying inconsolably. "Flora told Hugo he’d better go up to her himself, since she evidently had her feelings hurt because he hadn’t followed her In the first place. “Tracey, who wasn’t playing bridge, you remember, because he had given up his place to Sprague, asked Flora if she’d seen Sprague, and Flora said, in a surprised voice, ‘No! I wonder where he is all this time,’ and Polly said that probably he’d gone to the lavatory, which opens into the main hall and is next to the library . . . Well, pretty soon Judge Marshall and Karen came back—” "Pretty soon?—Just how long was Judge Marshall gone?” Dundee pressed her, his pencil, which had been flying to take down her every word, poised oyer the notebook he had snatched from her desk. “I can’t say exactly!” Penny protested. “I was playing again at the other table. I suppose it was about ten minutes, for Ralph and I had made another rubber, I remember. “Anyway, Karen was smiling like a. baby that has had a lot of petting, but she said Hugo had promised her she wouldn’t have to play bridge any more that evening, so Flora remained at that table, playing opposite Hugo, while Tracey played with Polly. As soon as Tracey became dummy, Flora suggested he go look for Sprague.” “And how long was he gone from the porch?” Dundee asked. “Less than no time,” Penny assured him. “He was back before Polly had finished playing the hand. He said he’d gone to the hall closet, where Whitson, the butler, would have put Sprague's hat and stick, and that he had found they were gone. “Tracey said he supposed Sprague had ordered his taxi and had decided to walk down the hill to meet it, and he added that that was exactly the kind of courtesy you could expect from a cad and a bounder like Sprague—walking in uninvited, making Karen cry, then walking out, without a word, leaving the game while he was dummy. “Flora spoke up then and said it was no wonder Dexter had left without saying goodby, considering how he’d been treated. “Then Tracey said something ugly and sarcastic about Flora’s being disappointed because Sprague had decided not to spend the whole evening—” “A first-class row, eh?” Dundee interrupted, with keen interest. “Rather! Flora almost cried, said

Tracey knew good and well that she had only been playing up to Sprague before Nita's death, in the hope of getting the lead in the Hamilton movie, if Sprague got the job of directing it, and Tracey said. ‘So you call it playing-up, do you? It looked like high-powered flirting to me—or maybe it was more than a flirtation!’ “Then Flora told him he hadn’t acted jealous at the time, and that he knew he'd have been glad if she’d got the lead. . . . Well, just then along came Janet ” “Janet Raymond?” Dundee ejaculated. “I thought you said she had refused the invitation when Mrs. Miles phoned her.” “So she had, but she said she changed her mind, had been blue all evening and needed cheering up,” “How did she get in?” u a tt “QKE walked over from her house which isn’t very far from the Mileses’, and simply came up the path to the porch,” Penny explained. "Tracey asked her if she had seen Sprague on the road—it’s the same road Dexter would have had to take going down the hill to the main road—and she acted awfully queer ” “How?” Dundee demanded. “Exactly as she would act, since she was in love with him.” Penny retort "She turned very red, and asksd if Sprague had inquired for her, and Flora quite sharply told her he hadn't. Then Janet said she was very much surprised that Sprague, had been there, and that she couldn’t understand why he had behaved so strangely. "Then Lois said she might as well go fetch Peter from the library, since Sprague was no longer there to contaminate the atmosphere. She came back ’ “After how long a time?” “Oh, about five minutes, I suppose,” Penny answered wearily. “She came in, her arm linked with Peter’s, and laughing. Said she had found him reading a ‘Deadwood Dick’s thriller. . . , One of Tracey’s hobbies”—she broke up to explain —“is collecting old-fashioned thrillers, like the Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill and Deadwood Dick paperbound books. “Os course he didn’t take up that hobby until a lot of other rich men had done it first. There was never anybody less original than poor Tracey. ... Well, Flora gave up her place to Janet, and again played anagrams with Johnny, Peter taking his original place at our table. “Suddenly Polly threw down her cards—she’d been having rotten luck and seemed out of sorts—and said she didn’t want to play bridge any more. So poor Flora had to be the perfect hostess, and switch from anagrams to bridge.” “And Polly played anagrams with Drake?” Dundee prompted. “No. She said she thought anagrams were silly, and wandered off the porch and down the path, calling over her shoulder that she was going to take a walk. “Tracey asked Johnny if he’d mind mixing the highballs and bringing out the sandwiches. Said Whitson had left a thermos bucket of ice cubes on the sideboard, some bottles of ginger ale and a tray of glasses and sandwiches. “Told him he’d find decanters of Scotch and rye, and to bring out both.” , "So Drake left the room, too,” Dundee mused. “Oh, Lord! I knew I’d find that every last one of the six had a chance to kill Sprague, as well as Nita! . . . How long was Polly Beale gone on this walk of hers?” “She came in with a pink water lily—said she’d been down to the lily ponds, and that Flora had enough to spare her one,” Penny answered. “She couldn’t have been away more than ten minutes, because Johnny just was mixing the highballs, according to our preference for Scotch or rye—or plain ginger ale, which both Ralph and I chose. “After we’d had our drinks and the sandwiches, we went on with bridge. Polly and Johnny just wandered about the porch or watched the game at the two tables. And about five minutes after 11 Clive Hammond arrived, coming up the path to the porch, just as Janet had. “After he came, there was no more bridge, but we sat around on the porch and talked until midnight. Clive said he was too tired to play bridge—that he’d been struggling all evening with a knotty problem.” “I can sympathize with him!” Dundee said grimly, as he rose. “I’ve got my own knotty problem awaiting me . . . When that call comes through from Chicago, tell Sanderson the bad news, and say I’ll telephone him later.” (To Be Continued) Fire Loss Decreases By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 30.—The fire loss here during 1930 -will be about one-hlaf less than in 1929, according to Fire Chief Roy A. Knoblock. The loss this year is expt ted to total about $158,000. Last year it was $307,211.

TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE

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