Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1937 — Page 38

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. CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE—heroine, young woman attorney. AMY KERR—Cilly’s roommate and murderer’s victim. JIM KERRIGAN—Cilly’s fiance. HARRY HUTCHINS—Amy's visitor. SERGT. DOLAN—Officer assigned to solve the murder of Amy Kerr.

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Yesterday—Dolan finds a note, in Kerrigan’s writing, asking Amy to meet him up on the roof after the bridge game the night of the murder. Cilly remembers now that Jim and Amy appeared to have known each other before,

CHAPTER NINE

apartment bell rang. “That’s Martin,” Sergeant Dolan said to Cilly. “One of my men. I've had him checking up on the

* tenants.”

Cilly opened the door for him. “Come in, Martin,” Dolan called. “What did you find out?” “Not much, Serge.” Martin was a tall, lanky man, commonplace in his plain clothes, with a mop of red hair and umerable freckles. “Looks as if everybody in the house was tending to his own business when the thing happened,” he said.

Dolan nodded. “Of course. Every-

~ . body’s always minding his own busi-

ness when a murder’s been done. Let's have it. Sit down, Miss Pierce.” : Martin consulted some notes he had made. : 8 8 8 ELL, there are 10 apartments in the house. Two to a floor. Johnson, the superintendent, has a place down in the basement. Miss Pierce and the other young lady here in 1-A. Couple named Terry in 1-B. Johnson tells me they left the house about 11 o'clock on Sunday night. He met them going: out the door with their bags. Said they were going away on a

little motor i es . “That’s gghts’ Cill reed. “Mrs. Terry stopped in shortly after 10

and asked me if I'd take her goldfish for a few days. There they are, over on the window-sill. They were going up to Fall River to visit Mrs. Terry’s mother.” “Funny hour to be leaving, wasn’t it?” “Mr. Terry preferred to drive all night. There would be less traffic on the roads, he said.” “Well, that takes care of the first floor,” Dolan said. “Who's upstairs?” 2 2 ” «rN 92-A there's .a Mrs. Elliot. Rather an elderly woman, Johnson says. But she’s not. in. Johnson and I looked the place over and it doesn’t appear as if she’s been home for a while. Rooms are all tidied up, windows shut down tight. Johnson says she’s away a great deal. She’s the last tenant that moved in. “Now in 2-B, there’s a family named Smith. Man and wife and 6-year-old youngster. Mrs. Smith tells me they were over in Jersey on Sunday visiting her in-laws. They left the youngster over there for a week. She says they didn’t get home until somewhere about 3 in the morning. Didn't know a thing about the trouble here in the house. They took a 1:20 train from

Rutherford.” : “Check up on that,” Dolan in-

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«y’LL do that. Now we come to I the third floor. Don't think we'll find anything there. In 3-A there’s-a couple named Carruthers, but theyre in Bermuda, Johnson tells me. Sailed a week ago Saturday on the Monarch. Ill check Apartment 3-B has been vacant for three months.” | : «We don’t seem to be getting anything on the tenants,” Dolan remarked. “Who's on the fourth floor?” «On the fourth floor.” Martin went on in his steady, phlegmatic voice, “in 4-A there are the Downeys. A mother and daughter. Mother’s a woman in her 60s, 1 should say. Daughter teaches school. The old lady from the look of her, never could pick up a body and throw it off the roof.” : “No,” Dolan agreed, it wasn't the work of a woman.” «pA Mrs. Wheeler lives in 4-B. Lives there alone, she tells me, and Johnson confirms it. Smartlooking woman, in her 30s. I'd say. A widow. Has a young niece that often spends week-ends with® her, but she was all alone this Sunday.” ; 2 2 2 ERGT. DOLAN shook his head S ‘negatively as he listened without comment to Martin's report. Cilly could almost read thoughts. One by one, he, too, was dismissing the tenants from consideration. In his hand he still held the crumpled note Jim had written to Amy. “On the fourth floor, there’s nobody we can pin the case on,” Martin was saying, “and I'd say we could check off the fifth floor, too. In 5-A there’s a man and his wife named Hunter, a middle-aged couple. But he’s a helpless cripple, paralyzed from the waist down. Sits

_around all day in a wheel chair.

Johnson says he’s never been out of the chair in the four years they've lived here.” -“That lets him out,” Dolan commented. “What about 5-B?” “Vacant.” . .¢Um-m-m-m.” Dolan shrugged his powerful shoulders. He took a wallet from his’ inner coat pocket and slipped Jim’s note ‘into it, alongside of the Southern Pacific timetable he had found in Amy’s bag. Carefully he put the wallet back into his pocket and rose to

2 o i «xy ET'S get going, Martin,” he 4 said. “We still have several other angles to check.” Cilly rose, too. “Just a minute, Sergeant,” she pleaded, “what about those vacant apartments? Anybody —a vagrant, for example—might have hiden away in them.” Dolan turned to his assistant. “What about it, Martin?” “We thought of that, Sergeant. Johnson showed me 5-B. In the first place, the door was locked, and he has the only two keys to it. In the second place, he’s getting it ready for some new tenant moving in on

the first, and Saturday the floors

scarped and shellacked. Anyone ming down from the roof—which covered with tar and soot and -would have "left some tracks

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se HAT about the other vacant apartment?” Cilly asked him. “The one on the third floor?” “We found it locked,” Martin said. “Johnson is the only one that has a passkey to it.” “Someone might have come down the fire. escape,” Cilly suggested. “He could have passed 5-B, which is vacant, and 4-B, without awaken=ing Mrs. Wheeler, and climbed into 3-B.” Martin shook his head negatively. “The window from the fire escape was latched. He couldn't have opened it from the outside without breaking a pane of glass. Besides, from what I hear, before the young woman fell, there was a scream— ioud ‘enough to awaken the neighborhood. It awakened Mrs. Wheeler. If any man passed down the fire escape, she would have known ” "

Cilly wondered where else a man might have hidden. Nobody came out of the house immediately after the accident. Cilly knew that. Amy had fallen directly in front of the house, less than 10 feet from the front entrance. As Cilly knelt on the ground beside Amy’s body, she would have seen whoever came through the front door. Only one person did. Mr. Johnson, the superintendent. He had come up from his apartment in the basement to see what had happened.

UDDENLY ‘a few light dawned on the problem, and for the first time the strands of the terrible’

web of circumstances and coincidence which was encircling her loosened. their hold. Jim must have come down from the roof before Amy fell. If he had come down after the accident, Cilly

would have seen him go out the front entrance. Or the police would have found him, still on the roof. Jim couldn’t have been up there when it happened! She almost wept for sheer relief. There was a new ring of confidence in her voice as she turned to Sergt. Dolan: “Mr. Kerrigan couldn’t have been up on the roof with Amy,” she pointed out with conviction. ““Because he couldn’t have gotten out of the house after the accident without all of us seeing him. And he wasn’t on the roof, or you would have seen him when.you wetn up! That clears him, in spite of the note, doesn’t it?” «en . . Sergt. Dolan grinned. : “I'd be a fine detective,” he said, “if I were as trusting a ‘soul as you'd like me to be, Miss Pierce. How can I be sure that he didn’t come downstairs and slip into Apartment 1-A, where a young lady who believed him to be 100 per cent O. K. could easily hide him until the rumpus died down!” Cilly gasped. The strands of the web had only relaxed momentarily, to strengthen themselves for a more tenacious grip. :

(To Be Continued)

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“ H, for gosh sakes, Glen, quit bothering me. Go away. Don’t you ever have to work?” Patty stood back and frowned at the ragged spot she had just painted on the water line of the sleek sailboat propped on the ways. :

The tall young man grinned down at the 5-foot-2 of redheaded energy before him. Clad in her old oncewhite coveralls, now paint and grease from top to bottom, she looked like a willful child playing at painter. : Glen’s grin widened. “That's what you. always say, Patty, and this time you're going to have your wish at last.” He was dabbinng at the blobs with a handkerchief. “Phooie!” she said, and turned back to her painting.

“There, a brushful of white when this is dry and it'll never show.” He straightened up. “Really, I'm serious. I'm going to San Francisco.” “San Francisco! You talk as if it were halfway around the world. Itll take you all of eight hours going and eight hours back. Go on away. Ill see you day after tomorrow.” She leaned over to dip her brush in t3e can of paint at her feet.

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LEN grinned down at the upturned face with its wide green eyes and the dark smudge beside the mouth. She was serious now.

“Tell me about it.”

“The company’s transferring me to San Prancisco. It’s a promotion.” Now Patty's eyes were shining. “Oh, Glen, I'm so glad for you. It’s grand. . . .” Her smile faded. “But T'll miss you.” “Thanks, Patty. I'll miss you, too. That is—I mean—unless you—oh hang it all, you know what I mean. Will you?” The corners of Patty’s mouth moved strangely. “Why, I do believe the man ‘is trying to pro--pose to me. And just look at me blush!” The glowing color spread from her cheeks to her slender neck.

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“I'm ‘a blundering fool, Patty. But I do love you, and now that I'm getting this promotion I can ask you tc marry me. Will you?”

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ITHOUT looking up Patty spoke in a low voice. “I'm

terribly sorry, Glen. But we both know it wouldn’t work. We're both redheads and we’d quarrel every five minutes. We always do. I think you're pretty grand, Glen, and it would be lots of fun most of the time. But I'm sure it wouldn't last.” She looked up at him at last,

and her lashes were wet. “But thanks heaps for asking.”

“Patty.” His eyes were beseeching. He took a step forward—and then she'was in his arms, his lips pressed to hers.

Then he held her away from him, looking deep into ‘her sea-green eyes. She lowered her long dark lashes, then slowly shook her head. His arms tightened about her.

At last he released her and she stepped back, not daring to meet his eyes.

“I've got to tear back to the office now, Patty,” his voice was low. “My train leaves in an hour. Ill write you when I get there. Please try to change your mind.” He stepped back and his foot struck the can of paint. It tipped over and he could feel the cool, sticky flow as it drenched his shoe. “Damn!” he muttered, and gave it a kick. =

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“ LEN! Oh, oh, oh!” Her eyes were blazing again. “That was my last of paint. And if I don't finish this afternoon I can’t get the boat in the water at high tide. Oh—oh, go away. I hope I never see you again.” He looked up from wiping the thick red paint from his shoe. “0. K. You won’t have to see me again. That was a fool place to leave a can of paint anyhow.” “It was not! That was exactly where I wanted it.” He straightened up and faced her, frowning. But as their eyes met the anger faded from his face. “Patty, I'm sorry .. ‘She looked down. “You see, we can’t even have a proposal without getting into a fight. I'm sorry, too, Glen. Goodby and good luck.” -

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RIVING up to town from the boat yard a long time later, she crossed the railroad tracks just as the signal began to clang its warning. Somehow the ringing of that bell brought home to her the full realization that Glen was really leaving. She wouldn't ever seé him again. She heard the train whistle as it approached the crossing she

take him away from her. Suddenly desperate, she pushed the throttle to the floorboards. In a cloud of dust she turned left and sped along the bumpy road by tae railroad. The train was already moving slowly out of the station as Patty skidded to ‘a stop beside the low platform. » ” 8

IKE a flash she was out and across the tracks. The train was picking up speed rapidly, but she had time to catch the handrail of the observation platform and hold on

Then strong hands caught her shoulders and lifted her over the rail, and a voice was talking in her

ear. “Patty, Patty, darling! But you “I know,” she sighed as she laid her head against his shoulder. “I said we’d quarrel every five minutes. But if I didn’t go with you I'd never have a chance to quarrel—and—and I was just thinking I'd rather quarrel with you than with anyone in the world.”

THE END The characters in this story are fictitious.

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