Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1937 — Page 18

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By DENNIS WHEATLEY

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

BEGIN HERE TODAY Boarding Carlton Rocksavage's yacht, Golden Gull, off Miami, to investigate the disappearance of Bolitho Blane, British financier and Rocksavage's chief competitor in world soap trade, Detective Officer Xettering finds strange marks on Blane's cabin carpet and blood on the curtain. Kettering examines all passengers, ineluding Nicholas Stodart, Blane's secretary; Rocksavage and his daughter Ferri; Lady Welter; Reginald and Mrs. Jocelyn, Lady Welter’'s daughter and son-in-law; the Bishop of Bude; Count Luigi Posodini and Inosuke Hayashi, Kettering finds in preliminary interviews that Rocksavage sought a merger with Blane to save their companies; that Lady Welter is heavily interested; that Hayashi, Japanese agent, sought desperately fo sell, to either Blane or Rocksavage, a huge soap monopoly; that Posodini is an ex-convict; that the Bishop was involved in an unsavory army scandal; that Rocksavage’s former partner died mysteriously in his office. Later, Stodart details to Kettering his life as secretary to Blane. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Detective Officer Kettering’s fourth report, continued. HIS morning, immediately I received the outside information | upon various members of the party | I proceeded to a new analysis of | the situation and composed a fresh draft of possible motives. POSSIBLE MOTIVES—9-1-37. MRS. JOCELYN—Nil, as far is known at the moment. COUNT POSODINI-Nil, as far as is known at the moment, but the Count is now identified as the | ex-convict Slick Daniels, so I hope to be able to make him talk, | as there must be some special reason for Reginald Jocelyn having asked him on board, when he was quite unknown to any other member of the party. MR. ROCKSAVAGE—Strong motive to do away with Blane, as pointed out in previous analysis. | This becoming even stronger on! confirmation of the precarious situation of his companies.

| Murder is not your racket, Slick, | so you've got nothing to be frightened of if youll come clean, but if you don’t, Slick, youre in a | spot; you're in a spot, my boy. P.—You've said a mouthful. If you can't get the right guy you'll | get the wrong, rather than fall

| : on board makes it easy money.

K.—You know how things pan |

{ out, Slick. ‘It's a bad break, but that's just how it might be. P.—Will you play ball with me, if I play ball with you? K.—Sure I will, Slick. you didn't do it. You're a man and a sharp. This isn't your | racket, but you've got to tell ine just what you know. P.—0. K. Shoot the questions.

I know

K.—You were in the lounge un- | til 7:45 the night before last with |

Mrs. Jocelyn, then, according to your previous statement you both

| down on your job, and having me |

con |

went below together. You turned up {in the lounge again at 25 after 8. | It doesn't take a man 40 minutes to | change his clothes and I want to know just what you did during that time. P.—Well, it was this way, chief: That dame’s sweet on me. K.—Which dame? P.—Why, Mrs. Jocelyn. She's a good looker, too, but I make it a | rule never to mix business with | pleasure. K.—So you | ness? P —There you are, what did I | say?

were here on busi-

| walking. You bulls are all the

I same.

(To Be Continued)

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THE BISHOP OF BUDE-—NI], as | §

far as is known at the moment, | but his possession of a letter from | Blane mailed from New York on | the fifth shows his acquaintance | with the murdered man to be far stronger than he would have us believe in his first statement. This letter lays such stress upon the friendship existing between the two that it reads to me much more like a threat by Blane that, whatever might occur on the vacht, the Bishop had better keep his mouth shut. This is supported by the suggestion in the cable from Scotland Yard that there was some unpleasant, scandal in which the Bishop was involved in 1917. n n un ADY WELTER—Motive in her case, which was weak in our first analvsis, is considerably strengthened by the cable from Scotland Yard, in which it appears that she has been expending a portion of her fortune for numerous years in supporting a noncommercial group of papers. Further, that she lost a considerable portion of | her capital in the Hatry crash, and is now principally dependent upon her holdings in the Rocksavage company. MR. HAYASHI--Ni] as far as is known at the moment, but the fact that he wrote to Blane, asking for an appointment brings him much more under suspicion. If it can be proved that he visited Blane's cabin between 7:45 and 8:15, when he appeared in the lounge, it will look very much as though he is our | man. MR. JOCELYN--As a dependent of Lady Welter his motive is considerably strengthened by the facts about her financial situation which have now emerged. From the report of his activities previous to his marriage with Lady Welter's daughter it is obvious that he something of an adventurer and, | since he was frequently writted. probably unscrupulous where | money is concerned. Moreover, he is responsible for having introduced into the party a known i criminal, Slick Daniels, alias Count Posodini. MISS ROCKSAVAGE--Nil, far as is known at the moment I then proceeded to re-examine the whole party. ” » n

Detective Officer Neame's shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering's second examination of Count Posodini.

~—Good morning P.—Hallo, hallo, Sherlock Holmes? K.—Very busy indeed, Mr. Daniels P—Well, now, just fancy vour people being as quick off the mark as all that, K.—You don’t deny ii? P.—What's the use, friend? I kept up the little bluff yesterday because I had half a hope that vau might lay your hands on the man who gave Blane his rightaway. Then 1 could have gone back to business without any sort of trouble from you folk at all, but it was only half a hope and I knew that if vou didn't get your man you'd pick it up that the Count stuff was all hooey by | today, K.—Well, that's frank. anyhow. Now, what do you know? P.-—I don’t know nothing. I swear by Almighty God . . K.—Cut it, Shek, cut in a spot. You know you? P.—So that's the line, is it—trying to frame me, are you? K.—Not a bit of it. I want your | help, that’s all. P.—Oh, veah! That's what all vou guys say, and once I start to shoot my mouth I'll say something I didn’t mean, then you'll be on me and I'll be for the hotsquat before | I know what's happened. No sir. I'm not talking. K.—Now, look here, Slick, I'm not trying to frame you—honest. But you're in a jam, boy—in a jam.

Count still busy Mi:

it. that,

You're don't

'* You're an old-timer, mixing in with

this swell crowd. Why? You didn’t

come here for sun-bathing and big- |

game fishing, and you didn’t come here to invest a million dollars in soap. What's more, you've got a gun down in your cabin. =" ” n

~—There you are—what did I P say? Just because I'm known to the bulls you're jumping to it that I bumped off Blane. What's a gun, anyway? Your bunch have never known me to use one, have they?

X.—No, that's the whole point. |

“What's the matter?” asked Frank in my

HEN Kay was asked to teil fortunes at the annual Charity Bazaar in Maplewood, she agreed good-naturedly and went out to purchase a book on palmistry. The first free evening she had, she settled down to study it. By the time she had finished Chapter 2,

| she felt that reading palms was go-

ing to prove interesting. She looked at her own pink and white palin and checked with the diagram at the beginning of the book. She saw that her heartline and her headline were parallel and both very clear. Neither one controlled the other. The line of fate crossed them neatly. As she read on through Chapter 3. she thought how much she would like to test her newly ‘acquired knowledge on Frank's and Jim's palms. Of course, she didn't really believe in this sort of thing, but it would be fun to learn if her opinions of them checked with whatever she found in the lines of their hands. Frank, though barely 30, was already vice president of the bank in Maplewood, might be president some day. If Kay married him, she would lead the usual social life of the wife of a successful man. She rather liked the idea. She was very proud of Frank for a beau. Success gave a man a definite aura of distinction. Frank was tall, broad-shouldered, handsome, and well-tailored—when-ever Kay entered a room with him she could feel the rather envious glances of other women. She had many interests in common with Frank. She was almost sure that she was in love with him. Jim was a struggling young architect. Kay had known him all her life and never thought of him without a surge of deep affection. She knew he was in love with her, but she doubted whether he would ever ask her to marry him on what he was making. Me ‘was far from handsome, having a tousled mop of reddish hair and irregular features. He had an infectious smile. though, and was the best-natured fellow alive ” » n Of the night of the bazaar, Xay looked well in her gypsy costume. The red skirt, yellow blouse, and purple handkerchief drawn over her smooth dark hair, intensified a certain exotic quality which she always possessed. Her fortune-telling proved to be quite popular, and everyone agreed that she did it rather well. She hadn't had time for an intensive study of the palmistry book, and had forgotten the meanings of certain lines, but talked fluently and improvised when she couldn't remember, In the middle of the evening, Jim ame into her little tent. She studied his hand with interest. She told him he had imagination. determination, and artistic ability, His heart, she said, was inclined to control his head, His expectancy for life was well above the average. Then, Kay doubled up his fist

and told him sweetly that he was !

to be married only once.

"Youre sure I'm to be married |

at all?” he asked.

“Of “courte,” ‘said ‘Kay, pointing |

out the single deep line below the last joint of his little finger. “That's all I wanted to know.” He grinned, and went away without even asking her if he were to have money. No one before had failed to ask that question.

« NW n Fam came soon afterward. Kay could see no artistic ability

whatever in his hand, but it showed |

| money—a, great deal of money.

taken, Tt couldn't be, and vet. it was! The headline and the lifeline

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. “Do vou read criminal tendencies palm?” were quite distinct, but there was [no heartline! Kay laughed, a little nervously. “What's the matter?” asked Frank. “Do you read criminal tendencies in my palm?” Kay laughed again, and started {making up the usual things. She [told him that he was going on a | long journey and that a blond was [coming into his life in the near future. Then, she doubled up his fist and announced. that he would be married three times. “But ‘I prefer brunets.” | said, “and there's only one I want to marry——" | For a moment, they gazed at each other, To Kay, it seemed sudden- | ly that his eyes were a trifle on the old side. She couldn't help wonlering if he did have a neart. . . ”n n » eventually vielded his to another, and Kav went on with her palm-reading. | Finally, the strain of continuous | talking began to tell 6n her. Exhausted, she decided to quit. She closed the flap of her tent and went out into the milling crowd. She saw Frank taking dol- | lar chances on an automobile | which he didn’t need. It was toward Jim, however, that she walked. He had been playing a game requiring only 10 cents a throw, and had just won a turkey. She said softly at his elbow, “If you'll bring the bird around to my apartment tomorrow, I'll cook it i for vou, Jim.” He wheeled. brown, lit up. “Swell!” He looked at her a moment. “You must be worn out. Kay. How about letting me take you home?” She went home in his battered little car. It was comforting to.put her head on his shoulder. . . .

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MONTH later, Kay and Jim were married, after agreeing that Kay would keep her job. By pooling their salaries to meet oxpenses, they could manage very comfortably. A few days after the marriage, Kay was putting the palmistry book away on a shelf when she casually opened it and glanced at the diagram in front, Suddenly, she stiffened, and looked at it closely. She had made a mistake! Prank aidn’t lack a heartline—he lacked the line above, the Circle of Venus. | His heartline had been so short and so placed that she had mistaken | 1t for the other, but now she realized | her stupid error. Well, ‘it didn't | matter—not now. She didn't believe in this sort of thing, anyway. THE END

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