Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1931 — Page 21

OCT. 29, 1931.

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w BEGIN HEBE TODAY Klch old MRS. JUPITER is roblyd and murdered during the engagement parly an/L./lves for her secretary. MARY **ABKNESS Mary's itcranegrace brother. EDDIE. was to have been admitted at the murder hour. No one knows thl* but Mary. She her fiance. DIRK RUYTHER. who hunt* Eddie. He arranges * rendezvous with the bov. but over* sleep* BOWEN of the Star drives Mary there Instead. Eddie Is run down nd killed as he crosses the street to meet Marv. . INSPECTOR KANE droos the case, believing Eddie the murderer. When Marv Protests, he tells her MR. JUPITER and Dirk believe the same. Bowen tells Marv there is a racetrack gambler called THE FLY to whom her brother owed money. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER THIRTEEN 'Continued) As the bus topped a rise and began to coast down the other side, their voices became distinctly audible “Rotten for Dick, but I don't suppose he realizes it—men in love are so stupid—“Oh, I don’t think he’s so much In love—Don’t you? Why don't you think so?’’ Then shrieks of mirth, subsiding into giggles. “Oh, it's too funny—the family skeleton walking out and rattling just at this time — every family has one, they say—my dear, not the Ruythers! “Can you imagine a Ruyther walking around in his bones!” More shrieks, more giggles. u a a MARY turned hot and cold, and shrank down further to avoid any chance of being seen. Or w y ere they doing it for her benefit? She couldn't tell. Thank, goodness, they would get off presently. Mary was relieved to sec the big Tabor house loom up on the hill ahead. Just then Cornelia looked around, whether guiltily or not, Mary couldn't decide. “Oh, my dear!” she shrilled, “I didn’t see you there!” She popped up and came, back, followed by the other girl, and sat down opposite. “How's the murder coming nlong?” Cornelia seemed determined to blot out the memory of her former tearfulness by being unusually vicacious. “Dirk’s a beast. He just says it’s all settled, and he won’t tell me a thing more about it. Hot can a murder be settled if the murderer isn’t in jail?” Mary merely shrugged. So Dirk had seen Cornelia, had he? He hadn’t mentioned it. Cornelia's gaze rested curiously on the man’s topcoat lying across Mary's lap. “That’s not Dirk’s, is it? Twotiming him already, are you?” “It’s my brother's,” Mary said. Cornelia gasped. "Oh, my dear, I'd forgotten about your brother. You must forgive me. So sorry.” Mary's silence began to eat the edge off the other girl's gushing manner. “How’s Dirk? Seen his mother lately?” Cornelia asked at last. “How is she?” “All right, I suppose,” Mary answered matter-of-factly although she knew the question was meant to scratch. “Call me tomorrow and I’ll report. I’m dining there tonight.” “Oh.” Cornelia’s eyes slipped away evasively. “Well, we’ll be seein’ you, then. We’re coming, too. Ethel's honor, I guess. Nothing formal, you know'—just the family.” # # a MARY didn’t manage to act so well this time. Her face felt stiff as she smiled goodby. They were approaching the gates of the Tabor place. Cornelia and her satellite swished off the bus, Ethel casting a provocative glance at the busdriver as she bounced down the step. It was wasted; he was wiping off the windshield, and seemed unaware of her existence. Driving the bus along “Rotten Row” had made him impervious to flirtation; too many kittenish debs had thrown themselves at his goodlooking Irish head from time to tfme. Mary seethed with jealousy as the. bus ground on toward The Point, where the Jupiter mansion stood. “Sorry I can’t take you up to the door, Miss Mary,” the bus-driver said as he let her down. “Thanks, Bill, I’ll be all right”, Mary replied, throwing Eddie’s coat over her head as she ran up the drive. As she stood shaking the raindrops off the coat in the entry she thought Spence gave it a second

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glance. He continued to study it as he took it from her. It had a rather obvious, plaid pattern, which seemed to interest him deeply. To her question about Mr. Jupiter, he answered absently. “He’s in the library, playing patience. And you'd best hurry on, he's been asking after you since breakfast. ’E don’t like poker, and none of the chauffeurs plays cribbage. Ah,” he broke off—so you konw that young man then?” “What young man?” Spence shook the coat angrily. “The young man who tried to ‘crash the gate’ at your party, the night Mrs. Jupiter was killed,” he answered. It's his coat, I’d swear. Now hew did you come by it, Miss Mary, if I may ask?” CHAPTER FOURTEEN WHAT young man, Spence? What are you talking about?” Mary eyed the old butler, fearful of what he might be about to reveal. He looked so vindictive as he held Eddie’s topcoat aloft and glared at it as if he would have liked to shake its owner. Under the stress of emotion, his usual west end English left him and the Cockney came out. “He had the face, if you’ll believe it, Miss, to call himself a doctor, and try to force his way in. Yes! And when I told him you’d neither invited him nor sent for him, that impudent he was he tried to walk past me into the ’ousel I put my ’and up and I said ‘None o’ that, sir!’ I said —” “When was this, and who was it, Spence?” Mary demanded, impatiently. “It was the night of your party, Miss Mary,” the butler explained. “Os all them that came and asked to be let in without tickets, he was the freshest.” Obviously the man’s parting jibe had left an indelible mark on the old servant’s sensitive spot—his dignity. “Why he looked at me as if he'd have liked to do me in, that he did! But I thought as he might be a friend of yours, so I explained about the jewels and the need to keep out thieves. “But did he take it like a gentleman would? He laughed, if you’ll believe it, and he called me an ‘old fool,’ he did, and said ‘Mind you count the spoons!’” His wrathful mimery would have been funny if Mary had not been so preoccupied with the identity of that mysterious visitor. “But who was it, Spence? My brother?” “Not your brother, Miss,’ Spence expained testily. “I told you as ’ow ’e was a stranger, and no gentleman, either. ’E had that coat on, as sure as I’m living, with the collar turned up about his ears, like this.” “Are you sure?” “Sure! When you come in like that, with that coat over you, it brought it back to me as plain as if he was standin’ there.” “But this is Eddie’s coat, my brother’s,” Mary told him excitedly. “Oh, Spence, would you know the man again if you saw him? Oh, do you see what this means?” She seized the surprised old servant by both arms and danced him around. “It means somebody else tried to get in, somebody else DID get in, and took the things and did it all, just as I said! Not Eddie! “Oh, Spence, you old lamb—why didn’t you tell me this before?” B B B THEY are still talking it over hours later, Mary and Mr. Jupiter. across the little green baize card-table drawn up before the library Are. Early dusk had falen because of the rain, and tea things sat disregarded on the table between them. Spence, rendered completely agog by the possibility that he had brushed horns with a thief and murderer, was in and out on a variety of self-made errands, ears open to hear all that was said. He had guarded the portals better than he knew, and virtue shone as a garland on his grizzled brown. He was convinced already that he had met the brute in single-handed combat, and subdued him by the majesty of his person, alone. Mr. Jupiter, however, was slower to kindle over the idea.

“You can’t be sure it's the same coat,” he said. “If the man was a thief, would be try the front door?” He snorted disbelief. “It’s the same coat,” Spence reaffirmed stubbornly. “I’ve seen thousands of them in London, and not ha’f a dozen in New York, sir. And it’s old, sir, and fair in threads along the edges. “Struck me odd at the time, sir, a man in evening dress like that sir, wearing a disgraceful coat like that —begging your pardon, Miss Mary.” “It’s old, surely,” Mary agreed. ‘ It was Dad's and Eddie came into it when Dad died. It was big for him, but he needed it—times when he hadn’t any other.” Mr. Jupiter remained silent. He was unconvinced, but he was thoughtful. Mary continued eagerly. “I shouldn’t have thought it the same coat, myself, only that it was that very same night, and his trying so hard to get in, and being so nasty about it. And Eddie’s coat was gone, somehow—lost or loaned or something. I’m sure of it. “Mr. Bowen, the reporter, and I both heard Eddie say plainly when he was lying in the ambulance, ‘Make him give me back my coat.’ And when Eddie came to meet me that day when—that day,” she swallowed hard and went on, “he had no coat on, Just his blue suit, all mussed and wrinkled. “And it was cold. I remember I wore my fur jacket and nearly froze in that reporter’s open car—” ' “But he didn’t get in, you say, Spence,” Mr. Jupiter turned to the butler. “Not by the front door, sir, that’s certain,” Spence agreed. “But,” he added with a side-glance at Mary, “the side door was open.” “And how would he know that?” “He might just have tried it, sir, and found it open.” “Or mightn’t he have heard Eddie telephoning me?” Mary put in. “Eddie knew all sorts of men,-gam-blers and so on. Mr. Bowen was telling me today there’s a racetrack gambler they call The Fly, and he thinks Eddie meant him when he was out of his head and mumbling. Only he wasn’t out of his head—he knew what he was saying. But he was weak, and we wouldn’t pay attention. Thats’ what I believe!” “Hold on,” Mr. Jupiter chided. “You’re going pretty fast. You been seeing that reporter lately?” “Why, yes.” Mary was a trifle dashed. “I—l lunched with him today. He's making an investigation of his own, and I’ve promised to help him.” “It’s not his business. Kane’s the man!” Mr. Jupiter’s stick came down with a rap on the velvet carpet. “But Kane’s given up,” Mary argued. “He thinks the same as you all do. That Eddie’s guilty, or if he isn’t, what difference does it make? He’s dead. But it makes a good deal of difference! To me! And to— E—ddie, even if he is dead and can't speak for himself. “He was a foolish kid, but he wasn't bad—not a murderer! I won’t stand by and hear him called one. Haven’t I the right to clear his name if I can?” The old man’s eyes flashed. “The right to lose your young man, too, if you’re not careful!” “Lose Dirk? Why, what’s that to do with it?” Mary asked aghast. (To Be Continued)

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