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By DENNIS WHEATLEY (Convrighi, 1937 NEA Service, 1 William w & Co. BEGIN HERE TODAY Investigating the murder of Blane, British financier, aboard Carlton Rocksavage's yacht, Detective Officer Kettering runs into a maze of conflicting circumstahces. Each of the ship's passengers appears involved in some manner. These include J.ady Welter, her daughter and son-in-law, Reginald and Mrs. Jocelyn; Count Posodini; the Bishop of Bude; and Inosuke Havashi. Only Nicholas Stodart, Blane's secretary, appears above suspicion, since he was in the ship's lounge all during the period in which the crime obviously was committed. As the investigation progresses, Kettering, taking advantage of Jocelyn's falsifying, spurs him to reveal that Rocksavage had the real motive for murder—financial gain. He reveals also that Rocksavage had boasted of being able to dress for dinner in four minutes, a feat conceivably enabling him to commit a murder and return to the ship’s lounge without arousing suspicion. Later, Kettering confronts Rocksavage with this revelation. Immediately Rocksavage counters that he saw Jocelyn himself near Blane's cabin at approximately the time of the murder. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering’s second examina- |

tion of Mr. Carlton Rocksavage, continued. —So0 you say you passed Jocelyn in the passage at 8:10? R.—I certainly did. so perhaps vou'll exercise vour talents in finding out what he was up to between 7:45 and 8:10. There was more time tor him to have done this job than me. K.—He hadn't got your R.—He certainly had. He's alwavs lived above his income. For the last five vears he's been entirely dependent on Lady Welter.

motive.

She’s in a jam because of those

fool papers she runs. She loses a packet on them every year, vet she won't give them up because she just lives for this Christian crusading business. If I'd failed to do a deal with Blane she would have gone under with me and young Jocelyn would have found himself on his uppers. He stood to benefit just as much bv Blane's death as I did. More, in fact. because even if Rocksavage Consolidated had gone down the drain I have other resources K.—I get your point, Mr. Rocksavage. R.—How about the Jap, too? K.—How about him? R.—Well. he stood to lose a million dollars if Blane had lived long enough to come to an arrangement with me. K.—I'd certainly some more about

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N BOLITHO BL Ny WN D0 Ae lat 8:05 on the night of Blane's! body prove such a thing? | must take my word for it. ) ~T id I want something L. W.—Oh, yes there is, young K.—I'm afraid : man. My maid was with me, help- | more than that. What were you ing me to dress for dinner. | doing all that time? | L. W.—Well, if you must know, I K.—Ah, now that puts 3 VEIV wis knitting a jumper. I only had different complexion on it, but

one sleeve to do so I thought I | why dns you tell me that before, | ould finish it before I went up to Lady Welter:

Sites ‘ dinner, L. W.—Because I didn't think | “g __can you give me any proof vou could be such a fool as to | or that? suspect a woman like myself of a | 1, w.—Yes. My maid knows just crime like this. | how far I had got with the jumper K.—Was she with you the whole | before I dressed that evening and time? | I left it finished on the table for L. W.—No, I rang for her when | her to press when I left my cabin I reached my cabin and she wi half an hour later. | with me for about half an Ho, K.—Can you produce the jumper, until I had finished dressing. Lady Welter? K.—Wait a moment, then, that en only gets us to about 7:35, and we ens gas. know Blane was alive at 7:45. You | lpoment . . . no, not .out of that

door. D’you mind steppi nt were already changeq and you hag | the next cabin for a I 20 minutes, therefore, in which you | .

| K.—So you say, Lady, but I want | L. W.—What impertinence!

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proof of that and, if you're a wise (To Be Continued) woman, you'll do your best to pro- in i Save this installment as evidence to help you solve the crime.

L. W.—Proof! But how can any-

Cross-Country Flight

By William De Lisle Daily Short Story

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TRAIGHT and now— | wing might collapse and they would vou've got her.” |go hurtling down in a spin from June Warren obediently steered | which there could be no recovery. the plane toward the church spire | “Open your door — parachute!” on the horizon. Left wing low. She | Jake ordered. “Get clear first, then checked it with the stick and flew | i Go Yl os wn 3 KY” ’ n confidently. une passed a hand over her “The girl's got hands,” thought | Parachute harness, then slid her Jake Brvant, as he relaxed in the door back. The trembling wing rear cockpit. It was a gift he ap- | faced her. Still she kept the nose preciated; so many pupils in the | Of the plane down, controlling the Long Island flying school in which | Wreck bravely. It was not fear, he was instructor gripped the con- | ROWever, that held her in her seat. trol lever as though they were | You get out when 1 do!” she pulling an oar. | shouted to Jake, Over the church spire, at 4000 | oe Soe ent. oe Hy a i jump like that was an ordeal. Sup“All right, Dad,” came the girl's pose he A. ou nd he Te voice through his helmet phones. | oF Cf ng Do nL ye e They all called him “Dad” at the | “All right i» he ell d 1 oh flying school. Only 36 years old, Pao > ye ed, “eaning but Dad to a crowd of fledglings. | jor Taking control of the plane, he | : " swung it around in a vertical bank. | “Feel her when I land, but don't | MOMENT Jaten

tdi 3s eyes widen i i * - move anything,” he ordered June. y in dismay. A pro

| jecting handle on the door had | caught the ring of his chute and | pulled the rip-cord. There in the [cabin, a mass of silk was fluttering

less ease that marked all his | : work in the air, and made a three- | OPen, eae to smother them tin its folds.

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i of perfection | i p ; slammed her door, too. Jake was I i |

“Thanks, Dad,” said June, clam- | = ‘ boring out. Slender even in her HUD ite could not leave him

overalls, she looked up at him. “HOW | "5. 1 aid!” shouted Jake. “Get

cn it be before 1 can dG | ut pefore it's too late! I'll bring that? | the plane down!”

“I have seen students 80 up S010 | june turned toward him, shaking after five hours,” Jake replied soi- her head.

emnly. “That was the war—we take nen, she concentrated on ‘the ke ; NY no chances now. You'll do, say, 15 | tack of bringing the plane down. a opr ’ 1 ; yp => ? hours. If you're not ready in 20, |She didn't dare risk a turn. The : you'll never go alone with my con- wind had found gaps in the fabric; | ALLEY OOP sept ; " tv. WI We Fvi it was tearing away, strip by strip, ~ “Before you know it, DE TIVINE | and the wing was losing its lift. A 50 YWO - a? ; Tos ae Ah ) : ee . NT SCAT, EH? Y'WANTA to California!” June laughed. | turn might finish that deadly dis- FIGHT, DO VU AWRIGHT, YOU | | GREEN EYED MUTT, I'LL GIVE Y'SUMPIN TSNARL ABOUT!

I : p i p rae i t . Pout een WEG was Diels sid Hastily, Jake closed his door. June |

® n n HEY'RE in a position where they might be able to queer the pitch as a home producing firm by rousing national opinion against the monopoly going outside Japan, unless they're squared first. Their price was a million, so Hayashi wouldn't have got it all, but I'll bet he stood in for a pretty useful spiit. I wouldn't conclude, though, once I got the idea of coming to terms with Blane. but if my deal with him had fallen through Hayashi knew he could count on my signing up. It's plain sailing for him now Blane's out of the way. and you know what these Orientals are. He had a mighty strong motive to do in Blane in order to prevent Biane and me getting together. K.—That's certainly something to work on, Mr. Rocksavage, and I'll get down to following up what vou've said of Jocelyn and Hayashi right away. R.—Good. And there's no trouble I won't go to in helping your investigation. 1 don't need telling the sort of thing that people are going to say on account of Blane having died on my vacht, so it's to my interest, more than anvbody’s, that poor Blane's murderer should be brought to book. K.—Don’t worry, Mr. Rocksavage, we'll get him.

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“Yes, I believe you will.” | integration. | Twenty lessons, 10 hours in the| Two thousand, 1500, 1000 feet. | air, and Jake knew that she was | Jake, man of action, suffering torready. His first judgment had nol | tures as a passenger, couldn't help been mistaken—she had those sen- admiring her skilful nursing of the sitive hands which mean so much in | stricken plane. Now, the vellow | riding and fiying. waste was closing in all around “Like to go up alone?” he asked | them. her, that morning.

® @ Ww -. FEW seconds before the time! came to level off, June banked | the plane delicately, missing a great sand wall, to pancake neatly in the | valley between two dunes. | “June!” Jake clasped her exul- Ro : } , my ih eS | tantly in his arms. “You don't need x or ( ANS ) 3 Zi = Fr Rais anxiety such as he had never known | this old pilot any more!” g y > BE Xo 195 ey NEA SERVI INC TT before. Why, he asked himself,| “Don’t I-—Jake?” _- should he be so particularly anxious | “Not Dad now, eh?” | about June's safety? He knew the | “When I call you Dad again,” said answer, | June, “you’ll be one—Jake!"” “Of course—Jake.” | Then, he was kissing her. Her voice trembled a little but, a | Some Indians, returning from a moment later, when she looked Ub lineie show in Yuma, approached {

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into his steady, gray eyes, there |the plane. One of them peered into 2 6 Pictured , ictur l A

was not a tremor, not a twitching | the cabin, then turned to his commuscle in her face. | panions. She was away and climbing into | “Whoopee!” he cried. the blue before he realized that she THE END had called him “Jake"—for the first | — time. { (Copyright, 1937. by United Feature She was up a thousand feet. | 2 i Py | Room to turn over. She banked | The characters in this story are fictitious.

and came around safely. Now she | Ask The Times

| had passed back over the airport. | Turn, glide and land. Wheels and | tail-skid touched together. Jake sauntered over as the plane | Jnclose a 3-cent stamp for reply rolled up to the hangar. | when addressing any question of “California?” called June, with a | fact or information to The Inmischievous smile. | dianapclis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice cannot be given,

“When you can put her in a spin and get her out again, when you nor can extended research be undertaken,

singer. 11.Bitter drug. 13 Female deer. 15 Strength. | IF 17 Related. L 18 Hazes. | 20 Lunar orb. 21 Thick shrub. 22 Superiors. 24 Male child. 25 Transposed. OR 26 Musical note. RIA 28 She is an —— prima donna. 31 Cherub. 56 Coronet. 34 Last word of 58 Meadow. a, prayer. 59 Exposes. 35 Roll of film. 60 She has a 36 Twisted about ———= voice. 37 Migrations. 61 She is a huge 39 Southeast. in motion 40 And. pictures

41 Grain. . 44 To have no VERTICAL 1 Indelible

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52 Monster. 54 Dirties. 2 Yellow metal. 3 Scarlet.

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Detective Officer Neame's shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering's second examination of Lady Welter. —Come in, Lady Welter. I hope you're feeling a little more reasonable this morning. I've got to ask you a few more questions and the sooner »ou realize that rudeness and obstruction will only prolong the ordeal the better it will be for you, L. WI find all this most tiresome. I've already told you that I know nothing whatsoever about this man Blane's death. K.—It hasn't occurred to vou I suppose that you might be charged with it? L. W—What! I? You're mad, my man. I shall report you. K.—You can make any report vou like but it won't alter the fact that vou had a very strong motive for wishing Bolitho Blane out of the way. L. W.—This is ridiculous. K.—Not at all. You lost a big

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can land on a handkerchief, fiy blind and learn just a few more tricks of the trade—CQCalifornia.”

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Q—Which section of the Constitution guarantees the right of citi- | zens to carry arms?

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T last, plans were made for the California flight. June's father provided a strong, fast cabin | monoplane, and thought that Jake |clares: “A well regulated inilitia should accompany her. “Not for | being necessary to the security of a | the flying,” as he put it, “but for | free state, the right of the people | the ground.” She assented more | to keep and bear arms shail not be | readily than he had expected. ‘infringed.” This is not interpreted | They wheeled the monoplane as a right granted by the Consti- | from the club hangar at dawn one | tution, and does not depend upon | morning. Ten minutes later, with [that instrument for its existence. | | : (June at the controls, the ground |The amendment means only that | portion of your fortune in 1929.| dropped away, and California be- | this right shall not be infringed by | vou've been paying up the losses on | came something more than a place | Congress; it restricts the powers of | these papers which you run for on the map. It was a destination. | the national Government, leaving years and now you are up against] The hours passed. The plane | all matters of police regulations for | it, because the Rocksavage com- | sped on—smoothly. The Alleghenies | the protection of the people to the panies in which the remainder of | vanished to the roaring tune of 165 states. The reference is to military | A short refueling | arms.

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Rocksavage benefits by this man | Blane's death just as much as I do. | stretch of desert beyond Yuma, | A—President, $75.000: the Vice -_ ant, $75,000; ic President and members of the Cabi-

K.—You're wrong there. Rock-| when disaster struck—disaster in soap companies, whereas you |to have flung itself at the plane | pre, S150, ee Justices Uy Siig Sy | haven't, so the motive is stronger in| out of nowhere. Fick? ourt, $20,000, except the | your case. Instinctively, Jake glanced below. | let Justice, who receives $20,500. L. W.—This is absurd, as though | The terrain on which he looked | Q—At what hour of the day did an elderly woman like myself could | down might have seemed to a the Titanic sink? murder a man and push him out | novice to offer safe landing, but | A—Tt struck an iceberg on Sunof the porthole. + |actually it was a treacherous belt | day, April 14, 1912, at 9:45 p. m. (In- " | of huge, razor-backed sand dunes. |dianapolis time) and sank two hours : | “Not a decent landing spot any- “ng forty minutes later. : | Ker re only 55, Lady Welter, | where in sight,” Jake growled in | Q—Give the number of islands | the capital, is situated on the island ture in the kernel turns to steam. tunnel the rear of the train is just | and a strong, well-preserved | June's ear. | their area, and the exact Lei Sof New Providence, area 85 square The steam is confined by the outer | entering and it will be another min- | woman at that. Let me assure you | » ‘of the Bahamas group ‘o0 | miles, + [covering until the pressure is great ute before the entire train has from my police experience thet UNE looked through the Window | A—_The group consists of | ‘Q—How can hard steel be magne- | enough to rupture it completely. cleared the tunnel. many a woman with less physical at her side. There, on the wing, | ma is P i apDros:- tized ? oy o say Q—Give the quotation from Macstrength than yourself could have | 3 d Sh the YiEw ! tely 29 islands, 661 cays and 2387 | Q—How long will it take a train | l A ee Rut done this business and ih Your case | Jammed Th qe TIENRG Vives, ay irovks, extending along a line from | . A—By placing it in a coil of wire lone mile long to pass through a |beth that Rs, Vey 8 | I'm a Congregationalist bacause my | court of justice. — Judge Jonah B Sou J hid No w | ig I Th owed | Florida on the northwest to Haiti. through which a direct current of tunnel the same length, traveling at | course 1s life. | father was. If he'd been a Meth- | Goldstein, Brooklyn, N. Y. . there Is no check on "your move. | flying Wiig i Sha pi pot a | Oe LL Trmaen Cuba and electricity flows. | the rate of 60 miles per hour? 7 A—“Nature's first course Re | or a Catholic, I'd have been | ments from the time you came now qrumming madly against the mated land rea is Saag ket i ped (What causes corn to POP When | A_pe jocomotive of the train its second course is aD the IG Ty ONY, ve get MO. | below with the bishop at 7:05 until IE fabric. miles, of Which the ay ae heat is applied? | will emerge from the tunnel one jis likened to death, and death to |gether?—Dr. Charles M. Sheldon,

ny : a) : ; ; “the death of each Omaha, Neb, clergyman, propesing you arrived in the lounge changed | Any moment now, the damaged contain 4424 A—Tt is caused by the sudden lib- [minute after it enters. However, as sleep. Sleep is “¢ square miles, Nassau, [eration of the . of the day's life.” merger of all churches. “ { pressure when mois- | the locomotive corzes out any 1

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