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By DENNIS WHEATLEY

(Copyright, 1937, by NEA Service, Inc.; illlam Morrow & Co.)

Bolithe Blane, British financier, disappears from yacht owned by his principal competitor, Carlton Rocksavage, off Miami. A note found in Blane's cabin, addressed to his secretary, Nicholas Stodart, indicates suicide since he faced bankruptcy. A memo written by Stodart shows Blane’s company stock, Argus Suds, dosing at a new low that day. Other passengers aboard the yacht Golden Gull are Miss Ferri Rocksavage, Rocksavage's daughter; Lady Welter, Reginald Jocelyn, Mrs. Jocelyn, Lady Welter's daughter and son-in-law; the Bishop of Bude; Count Lugi Posodini, and Inosuke Hayashi, Detective Officer Kettering, boarding the yacht at Miami, finds strange marks on Blane’s cabin carpet and blood on the curtain. Upon examination Rocksavage admits inviting Blane aboard to effect amalgamation of their companies. Cabin steward and ship's carpenter fill in next with routine details. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER SIX

Detective Officer Neame's shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering’s examination of Miss Ferri Rocksavage. ~—Good morning, Miss savage. Come right in. F. R—Good morning. K.—Come and sit down. There are just a few questions I want to ask you about this unfortunate business last night. F. R.—Certain]y; anything I can ao... K.—Would you just tell me, Miss Rocksavage, what you were doing, | and where you were, from the time | the yacht sailed until you went in to dinner. F. R.—When the ship left Miami I was sitting on the port deck with Mr. Jocelyn. K.—Did you see Mr. Blane come aboard? F. R—No. We were on the port | side of the ship: that is, we were facing out to sea. We sat there until about 7:15, and then we both went below to our cabins. I got interested in a book, so I was a little late in changing and I didn’t get up to the lounge until about 8:40. The other guests were all there, except Mr. Bolitho Blane and his secretary, neither of whom I had met, and I was just looking round for my father when the steward came up with a message from him. He said to me, “Mr. Rocksavage says, Miss, would you please take evervbody in to dinner, Mr. Blane has had a heart attack, so we are returning to Miami.” K.—And what happened then? F. R—I did as my father had asked me to do and I didn't know anything about what really happened until father told us all after we had anchored off Miami again, Just a few minutes before the police came on board. K.—Did you know of any special reason for this trip? F. R.—No. K.—Are vou certain of that? F. R—Well, it’s just a pleasure trip, like lots of others we've had on the vacht, but as there were several strangers on board I naturally assumed that some big business deal would be discussed during the time we were at sea. Father often uses these trips to entertain people with whom, if he were seen ashore, comment might bz aroused which would affect the markets. K.—I see. Thank vou, Miss Rocksavage. That'll be all for the moment.

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Detective Officer Neame's shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering’s examinati'n of the Hon. Reginald Jocelyn. —Good morning, Mr. Jocelyn Now, I'd just like you to tell me anything you can about this unfortunate affair last night. J—I'm afraid I can’t anything. J —Well, let’s hear what you were doing between the time of the ship's sailing and your going in to dinner. J—When the ship sailed I was sitting on deck with Miss Rocksavage. We stayed there until the ship was well out to sea and somewhere about 7:30 we went down to our cabins to change for dinner. I came up to the lounge at 8:30 and Mr. Rocksavage arrived soon after. A steward spoke to him and he went below, then a message came up that Mr. Blane was ili, so we were re- | turning to Miami. After that we went in to dinner. K.—Do you always take an hour | to change vour clothes? J. —Sometimes an hour, and sometimes two if I feel like it. K.—No need to get fresh now. Were you changing all that time? J.—I don’t see what the devil it’s got to do with you but. if you must know, I spent a long time lying in my bath. K.—Thanks. Now, this trip. You were in on the object of it, weren't you? J.—I don’t understand what you mean

K—Oh, yes you do. Bolitho Blane and Carlton Rocksavage were using this as a meeting ground to patch up a truce in the commercial war they've been waging. J —Oh; that. Yes. K.—That, yes! And how much more did you know about it? J. —Nothing, except that Lady Welter, my mother-in-law, has very large holdings in the Rocksavage companies, and that she always likes me to stand by so that I can advise her where her business interests are concerned. K.—Right. That'll do for the moment, Mr, Jocelyn. ® =

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Detective Officer Neame's shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering’s examination of (the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Yocelyn.

—Good morning, Mrs. Jocelyn. . Sit down, won't you? P. J.—Thank you. | K. —Now, just what can you tell | me gbout this unfortunate affair | last night? P. J—Nothing at all, I'm afraid. K.—It would help me to check up on things if you wouldn't mind giv- | ing me your movements from the time the ship sailed until you went in to dinner. P. J—I am afraid that's not going | to help you much and, after all, it's quite clear that this Mr. Blane took his own life, isn't it? K. —Sure—sure, Mrs. Jocelyn. It's ly a matter of routine procedure a I have to bother everybody like '

this. | be when the yacht left Miami? | P. J—I was in the lounge with |

| come downstairs,

| vou'll forgive me—the fine 1 man

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Count Posodini. K.—Anvone else there? P. J—No, not until Mr. Rocksavage arrived. K.—What happened then? P. J—We had more drinks and talked for a bit, then Mr. Blane's secretary came in and was iutroduced to us. There was some talk about his sending a message down

{to Mr. Blane, and just after that I ‘said that

I must go down and change for dinner. Count Posodini said that he thought he would, too, so we went below together. K.—What time would that be? P. J—About 10 minutes to 8.

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.—And then? P. J—I changed and came up | to the lounge with my husband | again just as the dinner bugle sounded at 8:30. A few minutes later a steward came in and spoke to Mr. Rocksavage, who had just come in, and they both went below together. ! K.—Yes, go on, please. | P. J.—I was talking to my mother when a message came up from Mr. | Rocksavage that Mr. Blan: had | had some sort of an attack, and so we were returning to Miami. Feiri|

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Save sai we had better go in to dinner without her father, so in we went. K.—Just when did you know the real cause of the trouble? P. J—Not until the yacht was | anchored off Miami again.

board in a few moments. K.—Good. this just as a pleasure trip? P. J —Not altogether.

there must be something | wind. | that Blane and Rocksavage were

| the two soap kings, but I wasn't | particularly interested, because it’s | { not really anything to do with me. |

K.—Your husband advises your | mother, though, where her financial | interests are concerned, doesn’t he? |

F. J.—Yes, but we go about with |

mother quite a lot on social parties, | where no business comes under discussion at all. i K.—Thank you, Mrs. that'll do for the present.

(To Be Continued)

Jocelyn, |

Save this installment as evidence | to help you solve the crime.

FACE VALUE

By Leonora McPheeters

Daily Short Story *

She’d go off to the doctor's as if she couldn't get there fast enough.

EAR MR. M'CARTHY: It’s queer to be writing to a perfect stranger—me that hardly ever writes a letter or receives one, though I've read enough in my day! I have to. in my business! I always sar that. if you read a body's lelters, vou know whether to trust 'em for the rent or no.. It's a useful bit n. snooping for a poor widow woman that has to rent out her rooms for a living, in New York or anywheres else. Miss Harrison didn’t have no letters in her suitcase when she come to take my third-floor rear, but even without them, I could tell she was a lady. I said to myself, “She's gentry,” and give her room a special cleaning and darned the cur-

| tains.

Then, vour letters started coming

| regular from San Francisco. And I | always noticed that,

after one of them come, her eyes would be red, like she'd been weeping. She'd with that veil over her hat real stylish, which didn’t hide the fact she'd been crying, or anything else, and she'd go off to the doctor's as if she couldn't get there soon enough. And when I'd go upstairs, after she'd gone, there wouldn't be no sign of vour letter in her room, or so much as an ash. I'd tell myself, “She's a perfect right to cry, considering evervthing,” but I couldn't help wondering why she only cried when she

| got vour letters and why she would

And I'm sure gentlevou are—but I thought you must be letting her down.

burn em so careful.

ND then, one morning, her pillow was wet when I made up her bed, and I said to myself, “Mary Flannigan, you gotta look into this.” So it was only for her sake and not for curiosity that made nie steam open vour letter that morning before I took it up to her. It was a true love letter—it fairly tore my heart out—and I knew then that I'd been wrong about your ditching the poor young lady. You just didn’t know how it was with her, that was all. A good job you had, you said, and wanted her to come out to Frisco right away to marry you, but seeing as you'd only been with the firm a short time, there couldn't be no honeymoon now. She'd have to wait for that until summer, when you would take her to Honolulu. Well, I sealed the letter again and took it up to her, and after that, I

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fore I give em to her, and they was better than a continued story in the paper. You didn’t like it, you said, be-

cause she hadn't no intention of |

coming to Frisco yet but wanted to wait until summer for the trip to Honolulu. And then, come a letter

| that showed what a hot temper vou | have, and you told her for 2 vents you'd throw up your job and come |

to New York and get her. And you asked her what was eating her, anyhow. Well, Miss Harrison cried fit to Kill when she got that letter. I

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ND then, a week later, come your last letter saying that if she didn’t come now, she needn't come at all—that you were through, finished, done, and a lot of other words thaf you didn’t really mean. 1 didn’t give her that one, heaven

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forgive me. But when no more letters come, and she kept asking me every day if there wasn't no mail | for her and would look so woebegone when I said no, I just couldn't | stand it, it was so heartbreaking, | and I said to myself I'd write to you. | So if vou've got any sense at all, | young man, you'll write to her quick | and make up some reason Why | you've gone and changed your mind about being married right away, and | then youll wait patient like until ! she's ready to come out there, Because the doctor says that that | big cut she got on her pretty check in an automobile accident just after vou went out West hasn't healed just right and will need some more of that plastic surgery to keep ; her from having a scar. never forgive me if she knew about | me telling you, but I guess you understand the pride a young girl has about her face. Respectfully, Mrs. Mary Flannigan. P. S. Seeing as I'm a poor widow woman, I'd take it as a favor if | veu'd send me the money for her room rent. Poor thing, she's broke. after paying out all her savings to | those plastic surgeons. i THE END

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