Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1934 — Page 17

FEB. 7, 1934_

<3e UNKNOWN BLOND By I Igj BROCKMAN

Brr,l)i HI RF TOnAT DAVID BA.VNISTER ur,<l*r!k** to Had out ho XiliMS TRACY KINO, orchestra >•<*.'r Barr.lstcr la or. author and former newspaper mar. He aorka on the murder case aith OAINEY. atar reporter on the Po* Amitj those irusperted are JXLTFT FRANCE blond pretty and known to have vHi'ed King shortiv before ht death. HERMAN BCURLACH. !io wrote King a threatening letter, and JOE PARROTT down-and-out yaadertiie actor. It te ai*o known that MELVINA HOLLWTER midd> aged spinster, had Quarreled with Kin* recently AL DRUG AN friend of Kings, is found dead In a wrecked au-omobiie. Bmnis’er persuades -he police chief to let Julie* come to his a ir.t'a home, ostensibly aa a guest, on the theory that ts the glri believes herself free they can learr. more abou* her DAIRY CONNOR maid 1n the Coie-n-an home, tell* Oair.e-.- and Bannister that or. the right K. g was murdered his fiancee DENISE LANG ‘elephoned PAPKF.R COLEMAN tw.ee between 8 and 8 o'clock, although Denis* told police Coleman was at her home a* that time. Bannister arrives home and finds a letter waiting for him NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX r#r T'HE handwriting was unfa--i- miliar and the postmark was blurred. Bannister wts trying to make It out when he heard footsteps and turned. “David’" Kate Hewlett exclaimed from the doorway. "Is anything wrong? Arent you feeling well?’ Bannister laughed. “Why, of Bourse. I'm all right.” Mrs. Hewlett looked relieved. “Oh.” she said. "I saw you coming tip the walk and it gave me a start. It's been so long since you’ve come in at this hour I thought something must hav* happened.” Bannister slipped the letter into his pocket. “Can't a fellow knock off early just one afternoon." he asked, “without breaking a leg or something for an excuse?” “Os course you can.” his aunt agreed. “Come on into the living room. Ivp been showing Juliet some old pictures ” She led the way into the adjoining room. Juliet France sat on a low stoool before the davenport, a huge, old-fashioned photograph album in her lap. She looked up. smiling, as Bannister appeared. "I’ve just been seeing the cutest picture of you,” she informed him. Bannister took one look and tstopped, horror-stricken. “Aunt Kate,’ he demanded. “I thought you promised me youd never show any one these baby pictures again? You said ” Kate Hewlett's manner was unruffled. “Did I, David?” she asked. “Well, i must have forgotten. I was showing Juliet some of the old styles that used to be fashionable end we happened to comp across those others. She agreed with me that they're real sweet.” ' They are.” the girl told him. “I thought that one with the little wooly lamb—’’ Bannister’s groan kept her from finishing the sentence. He bent down and took the album. “Please.” he said, “let me put that thing out of sight.” "You’ll do nothing of the sort, ' young man. Sit down and stop making so much fuss.” Bannister sat down but he looked acutely uncomfortable. B B B HIS aunt asked a question or two and he answered. Juliet France arose ancf went to the window. “Why. It’s snowing!" she exfea limed. “It started just before I caught the car to come home,” Bannister told her. “It's not very cold, though.” “I love snow,” the girl said. “I'd like to be out ni it.” “Well.” Mrs. Hewlett suggested crisply, “why don’t you and David go for a walk?” Bannister looked at the girl. •“Would you like to go?" he asked. “I'd love it!”’ Bannister got to his feet. “You'd better bundle up." he warned. “It’s not cold, but after being in the ip'tiouse all day. you'll feel the difference.’” “She can wear my sweater under her coat.” Kate Hewlett said practically. "And my galoshes. I’ll got them right out!” Five minutes later they set out.

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, The air was filled with soft snow flakes, swirling and dancing. He looked down at the girl beside him. Her eyes were eager. bright as a school girl's. a B b Bannister said on impulse, “I'll race you to the corner!” It was more than half of a long block but he finished only a step or : two ahead. She came up. laughing and breathing deeply, her cheeks | pink. “Oh!” she said, “that was fun!” Exercise is what I’ve been needing. I guess.” he agreed. “Now that you re warmed up we car walk!" Bannister adjusted his long, swinging stride to the girl’s. “Let me know if I walk too fast for you," he cautioned. “You won’t.” * They set ofT briskly. The girl seemed content not to talk, as was Bannister. Presently they passed the corner lot where, in school days, ! his gang had played baseball. They reached the park. It was a park like hundreds of others in as many cities, but with the snow falling a little faster now than it had been. Winthrop park had real beauty. Trees and shrubs took on queer shapes with their glistening white covering. “Why, they're all like Christmas trees!” Juliet France exclaimed. "Great white Christmas trees. Look at that big one there. Isn’t it beautiful?” a a a BANNISTER agreed that it was. They went on to the rustic bridge over the lagoon which, a little later, would become a skating pond. ‘ There used to be a zoo,” he explained, but that went the way of all municipal appropriations Farther up thus path there's a place I used to like. It's high enough so that you can see most of the town.” Then went on until, standing at the top of the gradual incline. Tremont spread out before them. There i was little to be seen except an expanse of white, dotted with a myriad of lights. The wind was colder on the hill and Bannister drew closer to the girl as he pointed out familiar landmarks. “Getting cold?” he asked. She denied it. “Just the same," he said, "we'd better be starting back. It's a good walk.” The retraced their steps. The sky had been cloudy when they left the house but now* it was much darker. At a street crossing that was slippery Bannister took the girl's arm. He held it the rest of the way home, assuring himself it was no more than courtesy. The streets, really weren't safe. They reached the white cottage and stepped into the cheerful warmth and light. Bannister, helping the girl out of her coat, recognized a familiar odor, t “Popcorti!” he exclaimed. “Aunt Kate's making popcorn balls!” His aunt appeared in the doorway. "I'm not making them,” she corrected. “They're made.” Bannister disappeared into the dining room. He returned with a bowl filled with popcorn balls. “Take one,” he urged Julie. “They're one of Aunt Kate's specialties.” .‘‘They look marvelous,” the girl said, smiling. Kate Hewlett looked at her. “I believe the walk did you good, Juliet. Put a little color into your cheeks.” It was true. There was a light i in the girl's eyes, too, to match the glow of her cheeks. Bannister helped himself to a popcorn ball and sank back into a : chair, sighing with contentment. He was to remember the afternoon always because it was followed, almost immediately, by the most shocking event of those two weeks of drama and tragedy. <To Be Continued) An "electric nose.” which detects even very small amounts of mercury vapor in the air and sets off a ; warning gong, has been invented.

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When the instant of prayer arrived. La opened the door and leaped silently upon the dais behind the throne in which sat Oah. the false highpriest. Close behind her came Tarzan. and in that first instant both realized that they had been betrayed. for the dais was swarming with priests ready to seize them.

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Already one had caught La by an arm. but before he could drag her away Tarzan sprang upon him. seized him by the neck and jerked his head backward so suddenly and with such force that the sound of his snapping vertebra could be heard across the room.

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Then he raised the body above his head and cast it into the face of the priests charging upon him. As they staggered back, he seized La and swung her into the corridor along which they had approached the throne room.

—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

It was useless to fight, for the savage priest* would eventually overcome Tarzan and tear La limb from limb. Down the corridor they ran. Behind them came the yelling horde of priests and Oah screaming for the blood of her enemies.

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