Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1931 — Page 5

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BEGIN HERE TODAT JUANITA SELIM is murdered at bridge, four dvs laer DEXTER SPRAGUE airo ta murdered when he disappear* mysteriously from t bridge party at TRACEY MILES - home. Police think that Nita and Sprague were partners in some racket in New York, and Sprague followed Nita to Hamilton, bringing, down their pay. accounting for tne aIO.OOO Ni*a banked, which she explained as " back alimony. - * Sprague, they theorize. fearing he is followed, tries to escape from the Miles’ house through the trophy room window, but is shot. A telegram from New York saying that 'SWALLOWTAIL SAMMY -- BAVELLI. who had been Eeen often with Nita. was •taken for a ride -- soon after Nita'a departure, seems to confirm this. DUNDEE thinks Nita and Bprague were blackmailing someone, who he thinks may be FLORA MILES. His theory Is that Flora sees a note to Nita. written on her husband's stationery, and fears Nita already has told him. She shoots her. with a gun and silencer she has stolen from JUDGE MARSHALL another possible suspect. f*nd hides the gun on a secret shelf in the guests - closet. Returning to destroy the note, she finds it is from Sprague, and faints with horror at her unnecessary cime. CLIVE HAMMOND and POLLY BEALE, who married suddenly after Sprague’s death; JOHN DRAKE and JANET RAYMOND. who is in love with 6prague tried to commit suicide after his death, are also possible suspects. Dundee asks PENNY CRAIN, the district attorney’s -ecrefarv. if Miles loves Flora enough to kill for her. and she laughs heartily. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOBY CHAPTER FORTY "Why not let us suppose that Tracey himself killed Sprague to protect his wife, not only from scandal, but from a charge of murder?” Dundee countered. “Tell me, honestly, do you think Tracey Miles loves Flora enough to do that for her?” Suddenly. Inexplicably, Penny began to laugh—not hysterically, but with genuine mirth. n n tt are you laughing at?” V\ Dundee demanded indignantly, but the sustained ringing of the telephone bell checked Penny Crain’s mirthful laughter. “My Chicago call! “Hello! . . . Yes, this is Dundee. . . . All right, but make it snappy, won't you? . . , Hello, Mr. Sanderson! How is your mother? . . . That’s fine! I certaintly hope Yes, the inquest is slated for tomorrow morning, but there’s no use your leaving your mother to come back for it. . . . “Yes, sir, one Important new development. Can you hear me plainly? . . . Then hold the line a moment, please!” With the receiver still at his ear, Dundee fumbled in his pocket for a folded sheet of paper. “No, operator.) We’re not through! Please keep oflyrhe line. “ chief!” he addressed the district attorney at the other end of the long distance wire. “This is a telegram Captain Strawn received this afternoon from the city editor of the New York Evening Press. . . . Can you hear me? ... All right!” and he read slowly, repeating when necessary. When he had finished reading the telegram, he listened for a long minute, but not with so much concentration that he could not grin at Penny's wide-eyed amazement and joy. “That’s what I think, sir!” he cried jubilantly. "I’d like to take the 5 o’clock train for New York and work on the case from that end till we actually get our teeth into something. . . . Thanks a lot, and my best wishes for your mother!” “Why didn't you tell me about this ‘Swallow-tail Sammy ?” Penny demanded indignantly. “Tormenting me with your silly theory about poor Flora and Tracey, when all the time you knew the case practically was solved ” . “I’m afraid I gave the district attorney a slightly false impression,” Dundee interrupted, but there was no remorse in his shining blue eyes. "But just so I get to New York “By the way, young woman, what were you laughing at so heartily? I djdn't know I had made an amusing remark when I asked you if you thought Tracey Miles loved his wife well enough to commit murder for her.” tt tt tt PENNY laughed again, white teeth and brown eves gleaming. I was laughing at something else. It suddenly occurred to me, while you were spinning your foolish theory, how flattered Tracey would have been if Flora had confessed to him Saturday night that she had killed Nita because she was jealous!” “Which was not my theory, if you remember!” Dundee retorted. “But why is the idea so amusing? Deep in his heart. I suppose any man would really be a bit flattered if his wife loved him enough to be that jralous.” “You don't know Tracey Miles as .’ell as I do." Penny assured him, her eyes still mirthful. “He's really

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a dear in spite of being a dreadful bore most of the time, but the truth is. Tracey hasn't an atom of sex appeal, and he musFrealize it. . . . Os course we girls have all pampered his poor little ego by pretending to be crazy about him and terribly envious that it was Flora who got him —” “But Flora Hackett did marry him.” Dundee interrupted. “She must have been a beautiful girl, and she was certainly rich enough to get any man she wanted —” “You would think so, wouldn’t you?” Penny agreed, her tongue loosened by relief. "I was only 12 years old when Flora Hackett made her debut, but a 12-year-old has big ears and keen eyes. “It is true that Flora was beautiful and rich, but—well, there was something queer about her. She was simply crazy to get married, and if a man danced with her as many as three times in an evening she literally seized upon him and tried to drag him to the altar. “Her eagerness and her intensity repelled every man who was In the least attracted to her, and I think she was beginning to be frightened to death that she wouldn’t get married at all, when Tracey came to Hamilton to work in her father's business. “She began to rush him—there’s no other word for it —and none of the other girls minded a bit, because, without Flora, Tracey would have been the perfect male wallflower. “They became engaged almost right away, but didn’t get married for six months—l suppose old Mr. Hackett made Flora wait. All the girls were freely prophesying that even Tracey, flattered by her passion for him, as he so evidently was, would get tired of it, but he didn’t, and there were three marriages that 1 June.” ! “Three?” Dundee repeated, rather | absently, for his interest was wandering. “Yes. Lois Morrow and Peter Dunlap, Johnny Drake and Carolyn Swann, and Tracey and Flora,” Penny answered. “Although I was 13 by then, and really too old for the role, I had the fun of being flower girl for Lois and Flora both.” “Do you think Flora really was in love with Tracey?” Dundee asked curiously. “Oh, yes! But she’d have been : in love with any one who wanted : to marry her, and the funny thing is that, with the exception of Peter and Lois, they are the happiest married couple I have ever known. “You see, Tracey never has got over being flattered that so pretty and passionate a girl as Flora wanted him . . . And that’s why I laughed! t> a a “ftnraceY. with that deep-rooted inferiority complex of his would have been so flattered if Flora had told him she killed Nita out of jealousy that he would have forgiven her on the spot. “On the other hand,” she went on, “if Flora had told him that Nita had documentary proofs of some frightful scandal against her, can’t you see how violently Tracey would have reacted against her? “Oh, no! Tracey would not have taken the trouble to murder Sprague, when Sprague popped up for more blackmail!” “Perhaps he might have, if the j scandal dated back before the marriage.” Dundee argued. “Let’s suppose Sprague did pop up, and Flora turned him over to Tracey. “When Sprague appeared apparently uninvited last night, Flora must have been on pins and needles, trying to make Tracey treat him decently and hoping against hope that Tracey simply would pay the scoundrel all the blackmail he was demanding " “Which is exactly what Tracey would have done, instead of taking the awful risk of murdering j him in his own home,” Penny cut iin spiritedly. “Besides, Tracey ; wasn't gone from the porch long enough to go outside, signal to | Sprague in the trophy room, shoot him when Sprague raised the I screen, and then hide the fun. j “I told you Tracey was gone only I about a. minute when he went to see if Sprague’s hat and stick were gone from the closet.” "Did Tracey and Flora both step outside to see their guests into their cars?” Dundee asked suddenly. "Tracey did,” Penny answered. “Flora told us all goodnight in the living room, then ran upstairs to j see if Betty was still asleep. . . . "But remember we didn't leave | until midnight, and Dr. Price says

Sprague was killed between 9 and 11 last night.” “Dr. Price would be the first to grant a leeway of an hour, one way or another,” Dundee told her. “Os course, if Tracey did kill him. he let Flora believe that he had given Sprague the blackmail money he was demanding. “For it is Inconceivable that a woman of Flora Miles’ hysterical temperament could have slept—even with two sleeping tablets—knowing that a corpse was in the house.” “Oh. I’m sick of your silly theorizing!” Penny told him with vehement scorn. “Listen here, Bonnie Dundee! You probably laugh at ‘woman’s intuition,’ but take it from me—you’re on the wrong track!” “Oh, I’m not so wedded to that particular theory!”Dundee-laughed. “I can spin you exactly six more just as convincing ” “And I shan’t listen! You'd better dash home and pack your bag if you want to catch the 5 o'clock train for New York.” tt n u “TT'S already packed and in my office,” Dundee assured her lazily, “Got lots of time . . . Hullo! Here's the home edition of the Evening Sun,” he interrupted himself, as a small boy, making his rounds of the courthouse, flung the paper into the office. He reached for it, and read the streamer headline aloud “Italian gangster sought in bridge murders.” ... I wager a good many heads will lie easier on their pillows tonight.” “Let me see!” Penny commanded, and snatched the paper unceremoniously. “Oh! D! you see this?” and she pointed to a boxed story in the middle of the front page. “‘Bridge Parties Canceled.’” she read aloud. “‘The society editor of the Evening Sun was kept busy at her telephone today, receiving notices of cancellations of bridge parties scheduled for the remainder of the week. “Eight frantic hostesses, terrified by Hamilton’s second murder at bridge—ah! that’s simply a crime!” “I’d rather not play bridge for awhile myself!” Dundee laughed, as he rose and started for his own office. “And don’t you dare leave the room when you become dummy if you have the nerve to play again! Remember, that gun and silencer are still missing!” “What do you mean? . . . You don’t think there’ll be more ?” Dundee became instantly contrite before her terror. “I didn’t mean it, honey,” he said gently. “I think it is more than likely that the gun is at the bottom of Mirror like. “But do take care of yourself, and by that I mean don’t work yourself to death. . . . Any messages for anyone in New York?” Penn’s pale face quivered. “If you—happen to run across my father, which of course you won't, tell him that—mother would like for him to come home.” At intervals during the sixteen - hour run to New York, Penny’s falterng words returned to haunt the district attorney’s special investigator, although he would have preferred to devote his entire attention to mapping out the program he intended to follow when he reached the scene of the first act of the tragic drama he was bent upon bringing to an equally tragic conclusion.

(To Be Continued.!

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