Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1937 — Page 14

CAST OF CHARACTERS KAY. DEARBORN—heroine who in- - herits a yacht for vacation. . MELITA HOWARD—Kay’s roommate and coadventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN-—the venturer. FORREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARPER—young scientists whose expedition turned out to be a rare experience.

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that the madman is DeWitt Montgomery, ecceniric who was sentenced to life imprisonment several years earlier for- a series of strange deaths on the island.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ’ ES,” the man went on, “it is true. Two years ago I egscaped—and for at least five years before that I had been making my plans. Plans for escape from prison, and plans for revenge upon the woman who had desecrated my teachings and caused my misery.” Kay and Grant were speechless. True, as the madman’s story

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and more certain that he must be DeWitt Montgomery. Yet the shock of his confession, and his frightening pride in it, had struck them with a terrible - impact. Harper’s manner changed instantly, for he realized now that there would be small chance to humor a man so obsessed. “You may imagine my disappointment,” Montgomery went on, apparently oblivious t6 their new attitude, “when I discovered, after my escape, that the woman I sought was already dead. But I a man of resourcefulness.

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revenge oneself.” den contrite gesture. “But I am boring you with my personal feelings, and that is not the way of a good heart. If you have rested sugiciently, I should like to show you the rest of my poor home.”

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AlMosT imperceptibly, Harper nodded toward Kay. All during Montgolgery’s story he had been studying this room while he listened, and he was convinced there was no escape from it. Perhaps in the movement from one room to another he would have an opportunity to better his position, catch Montgomery off guard. “Here is the library of which I spoke.” Montgomery swung open a paneled door, revealed a square room whose walls were lined with old volumes. The smell of book cloth ‘and paste, there in that slightly damp atmosphere, drifted heavily to Kay and Harper. “Please go in,” the man said. “I will 1at you browse a bit, for you must excuse me once again.”

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EFORE they could reply the door shut swiftly. Wordless, the two faced each other. This room was more of a prison ‘than the last. With a little cry, Kay Dearborn ran to Harper’s arms. “I'm afraid,” she whispered. “He's going to kill us. I can see it in his eyes.” Grant Harper gripped her shoulders. . “Steady, Kay. Nothing very bad has happened to us yet; and I still hope that if we show enough interest in this fellow, feed his ego a little, he may forget his intentions.” . “But why did he leave us? Where is he now?” Harper smiled down at her. “At least while he’s gone, we're safe.” He walked to one of the walls of books, ran his hand over a row of titles. “Obviously, the man was well educated. Probably when he first came to the island his mind was balanced, then the loneliness released some hidden spring and he got off on this idea of a new religion. Then the prison, and his obsession for revenge, _aggravated

"his condition.”

“I can’t think he was very well balanced if he wanted to live underground like this.” “I don’t know. - There’s been lots of cases where men have built strange living quarters which the average man would think eccentric. The curious thing to me is that newer cabin above ground—where your friends tell me you found that woman. I wonder why he built that? It’s possible that—"

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ARPER stopped suddenly, glanced toward the ceiling. “Kay! Wouldn't that cabin almost above here?” “Why—why, it could be! And that would explain how she disappeared.” “You're quite sure she was dead?” Kay nodded. “I'm sure-of it i . .” She shuddered, moving closer to him. “He must have taken the body down here somewhere while we were on the ‘Chinook’.” “If that’s true. then there’s| some: entrance to the cabin from below.” Hurriedly he began walking past the

shelves of books, testing them with

his fingers, looking intently at the facing of the shelves. But he [could find nothing which would indicate a secret exit from DeWitt Montgomery’s library. Suddenly he stopped, bent closer to the wall. “There’s something moving beyond here,” he whispered.

AY rushed forward, started to tap against the paneling, but Harper grabbed her wrist. “It may be Montgomery. If it is, we don't want: him to know we think there’s anything beyond this wall. Can you hear it?” : Kay listened: Unmistakably there was someone moving in a space beyond. Once she thought she heard a low voice, almost like a groan, but she couldn’ be sure that her ears were accurate so anxious was she to discover a way out of their seemingly hopeless dilemma. Fascinated, she watched Grant Harper remove one of the books, carefully test the partition beyond. «pry to signal,” she begged.” Harper shook his head. ‘It’s too dangerous. If—" 8 ” #

HE door at the far end of the room opened, and DeWitt Montgomery stood watching them. “Have you found a volume which interests you?” he inquired, smiling. Harper faced those wide, mad eyes. “Every one I've picked up interests me,” he said evenly. “perhaps I shall let you spend some time here. It has been many years since I have shared my lirv.” He came to the center of the room, leaned indolently against

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deh ish my little story—about DeWitt Montgomery.” “Of course.” » 2 2 “ S I say, I was greatly disappointed when I found that my betrayer was dead when I escaped

from prison. But I discovered that she had a daughter. That was when I returned to the island here with the daughter's address carefully kept against the time I would use it. I built the little cabin which you see above. Then I wrote, saying that I was an old friend of her mother’s and wanted most eagerly to do something for her. I wrote her that all I possessed was a beautiful little island on which was a cabin. I told her that I was old now. and wanted her to have the place.” Montgomery chuckled at the memory. “You see,

I could depend upon the fact that her mother would have been secretive about her own visit here.” “And this girl,” urged Harper. “Did she accept the gift?” “Indeed. As I knew she would. I even sent her the money with which to come.” At this revelation Kay Dearborn stood trembling. In a horrible flash of recollection she saw that inert figure in the cabin. She could restrain herself no longer in the presence of this mad monster. “Then she was the woman you killed!” she screamed. “I saw her— there in the cabin!” Montgomery's face grew suddenly livid. Impelled by blind anger he rushed at her, and was stopped by the impact of Harper's fist.

(To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

WRONG SLANT—By Edward B. Walker

T was stupid, of course . . . telling a stranger all your business; only Dot was the kind you tell things to. It was the way she’d look up at you, with her lips parted as if you were a big shot, and place her hand on your arm. Jack had been seeing her on the Bronx train every morning for a month before he started talking to her. She was good company, too, and they clicked right off. Before he got off the train at Pennsylvania station, he had her dated for that night. Dot’s stop was Times square, she told him. They went to a show but it was the drinks afterward that made him gabby. She didn’t seem to be pumping him at all. He told her he sold gadgets to cigar stores on consjgnment. . “What's consignments?” Dot wanted to know. “It’s like this, baby,” Jack explained, proud of knowing what consignments were when Dot didn’t. “I leave the stuff mornings and collect nights for what's sold. ’Sa sweet racket.”

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“ A> do you have to carry all that money on you?” she asked. “Only four or five hundred. But I don’t dress flashy or put on the ritz or anything. Who's going to know?” That was all he said but, when he got to thinking, he wished he hadn’t blabbed. : After that, he rode the Interborough—just in case—and didn’t see Dot again until he happended to bump into her on 42d St. a week later. “I don’t see you any more,” Dot said. “I take the I. R. T.,” he told her. And there he was‘again . . . telling all he knew. - -

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EXT morning Dot was on the I R. T. and that did surprise him. He sat by her, just the same, and dated her for a show again. They went out two or three times that week and Jack fell for Dot hard. And she seemed strong for him, too, but it affected her oddly . . . made her jumpy and cross. On Monday, when Jack was sitting with Dot, there were two strangers just across from them, not regular passengers. They were overdressed young men and their faces were hard and they kept looking at Dot. Jack weuldn’t have noted them only Dot was altogether too conscious of them. It had him wondering. At Pennsylvania station, the girl got up to leave the train when he did. So did the two hard young men. “Thought you went to Times square,” Jack remarked. “Pennsylvania station today,” she said positively. He shrugged and they crowded toward the platform together. ” ” 8

HERE was an awful jam and two or three times Dot was bumped against him before they got out of the train. At the turnstile the two hard young men edged in between him and Dot, crowding him toward a wall. “What’s the big idea?” Jack demanded, backing away. But any sap would know what was up, for the men’s hands were in their coat pockets and Jack could see the little cones of cloth pointed at his stomach. There wasn’t a policeman in sight. In a little alcove the shorter of the pair reached for Jack’s inside pocket where he always carried his wallet. But the wallet was gone. Jack was terrified at this, but he didn’t say a word while the men took what change he had and his wrist watch. : It didn’t take half a brain to figure that Dot had cased him for this stickup and then had doublecrossed the thugs by picking his. pocket. Of course, the girl wasn’t on the train next morning and it was weeks before he ran into her in a restaurant just off Times Square. ° 2 2 =z

UT Dot saw him first and, by the time he could get to the street, she was gone. He took a chance on the subway stairs at the corner and just made the train she had boarded. Two men, running right behind Jack, missed it and stood beating on the glass with their fists until the train pulled out. When Jack looked he saw that they were the stickups. Jack crowded down in the seat beside Dot and, with his lips close to her ear and keeping his voice low, asked coldly. “Well, baby, how’s the sap business?” » Dot didn't look at him . . . just searched the car frantically as if she were expecting someone,

“Your plajuiaies missed it,” he

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sneered. “But tell me, how's the sap business?” “All right!” she shrugged. know I cased you, but it was the first night we stepped out. After that—" “After that you double-crossed your pals.” : “Yes, and they know it’s phoney —been tagging me every minute since. I'm liable to get rubbed out

for it.” “Now, ain’t that tough!” Jack sniffed. “You expect me to break down and cry or write a poem or something?” “I don’t expect anything,” she

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ACK gave her a glance and he could have sworn Dot had started to look up at him . .. like he was a big shot. She dropped her hand back in her lap and began

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was carrying. Her long black lashes were quivering as if she were going to cry. Jack looked away. Well, she wouldn’t get away with the sob act . .. not with him. She could make a sap of him just once. “I'm getting off . . . next stop,” Dot told him. “But, please you stay on .. . one station more, anyway. Won’t you?” ! “Why not?” Jack said, mean 2s could be. “And I want to leave you this,” she said, thrusting the love-story magazine into his hands. “I want you to read a story . . . on page 15.” “I don’t read that kind,” he s “What's it about, anyway?” : “It’s—it’s about a business girl,” Dot told him hurriedly, for the train was already slowing down, “and the little sap let her heart spoil a sweet business deal. Goodby, now.” Through the car window Jack watched her running across the platform and wondered why he hated to see Dot going. Then the train pulled out and he glanced down at the magazine she had left

him. But he’d see how long the story was . . . look at the pictures, anyway. As the pages whirled open, released in his cupped palm, something dropped on his lap. He stared down at it and his face went crimson as he remembered how mean he’d been to Dot when she told him she might be rubbed out for it. Finally, he picked up his wallet and reverentially placed it in his inside pocket.

THE END The characters in this story are fictitious (Copyright, 1937, United Feature Syndicate)

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