Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1937 — Page 12

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CAST OF CHARACTERS JILL WENTWORTH, heroine, tive debutante. ALAN JEFFRY, hero, artist. BARRY WENTWORTH, brother. JACK WENTWORTH, Jill's brother, SYLVIA SUTTON, oil heiress.

Yesterday—Mrs. Wenthworth finds her husband dead and Barry standing over him with a marble paperweight in his hand. Immediately she sends Barry to bad to avert suspicion. Later the house is aroused, but Jill is absent.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

“VEN in that moment of abandonment to grief, Jack had agreed with Howell that the authorities must be summoned. It was now past 8. The family physician was in the study and with him a group of men | headquarters. A sense of tragedy | and loss hung over the house, which only a few hours before had resounded to mirth and gaiety. A step away from the room where men talked in muted tones, Jack sat | with his mother and brother. His arm encircled Mrs. Wentworth com- | fortingly.

His hand touched the | shoulder of his stepbrother lightly, ! compassionately. “The poor kid,” Jack “He's really sunk over this. he loved father more than ized. He didn't know how it. He was always a funny kid.” Jill was going to take this terri- | bly hard. Dad had always petted | her so. It was kind of Miss Dex-| ter to have waited until these hard preliminaries were over before telling Jill.

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ACK'S face was drawn with suffering. He wanted to believe, as | his stepmother said, that his father | had died from a heart attack. But | there was the position of the body | on the rug, head up, with an open | wound on his head. If his father | had fallen and struck the andirons, | ke would have been lying face down- | ward. Unless someone had moved | him. And if someone had been with his father, who was that person? The inspector had learned that the heavy paperweight his father had used was missing. Why? “Mr. Wentworth.” Inspector Waldrop was standing in the door. He spoke in a low voice that bore, nevertheless, a certain professional curtness. “We've reached our conclusions,” the inspector said. “We agree with Dr. Lockwood that your father died of heart failure as a result of shock.” Jack felt his mother stiffen against him and Barry's shoulder relax a little under his hand. “But, we believe,” the inspector continued, “that shock was the result of being struck suddenly by some heavy object—" ® 8 = E broke off, his eyes sweeping H the trio. “It will be necessary to question the staff of servants, and talk with members of the family also. You are the only members of the family?” “We three and my sister.” «1 should like to talk with your sister, Inspector Waldrop said. “Routine. But necessary. You understand.” “Miss Dexter, please awaken my sister,” Jack spoke briefly. He became aware that Miss Dexter's usually expressionless countenance was working with emotion, and that her eyes were fixed on his strangely. He seemed to read in her queer gaze a struggle to communicate something. When she made no move to leave,

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Jack began again: “Miss Dexter—" And then as something clicked in | his brain, “wait, I'll go for Jill. I believe it would be best for me to break it to her.”

" O vou mean the girl doesn’t know her own father——" Inspactor Waldrop stopped in sheer astonishment. “We thought it was kinder ‘'o wait,” Jack answered sternly. As he | walked away, Miss Dexter got to her feet and pattered after him. Jack whirled. “Then you were trying to tell me something.” “Oh ves, Mr Jack. You see, Miss | Jill isn’t in her room.” “You're sure.” “Yes. Everything is in a whirl. She's gone.” “She can't be!” “She came up an hour or so after everyone had left. Everyone, of | course, except Mr, Montanne., I heard his car when it came around the drive. A long while after that 1 heard Miss Jill open her door. Then evervthing was very still. I couldn’t be sure.” “What time do you think it was | when she left?” “Close to daybreak.” » # LOSE to daybreak. The words | A formed in Jack's brain dully. | He went back to the sunroom. [ “The secretary has just informed | me that my sister went out early. | Probably to some breakfast or | other . . id | He realized his words were falling strangely, uncertainly. He saw] amazement in his mother's eyes, a | queer glint in Barry's and stark un- | belief in Inspector Waldrop's. “See here, young man!” the In-| spector's voice grated. ‘You're not | hiding out your sister—for some | reason.” “Hiding! I don't know what you | mean. And I'd thank you to be | careful in speaking of my sister.” | “No harm meant. But see here, this is ugly business. No time to mince words. We'll be compelied to talk with your sister.” “She’ll return presently,” Jack replied in a hollow tone.

» ® » ILL absent! What could it mean? «J Why had she gone? Why of all mornings in the world should Jill have left the house when any unusual act would be regarded with suspicion. And this was not merely unusual. It was something so bewildering that even he—-Jill's brother-—could find no explanation for it. Though, of course, there was one, He felt Inspector Waldrop's eyes on him. “Where's the telephone?” the inspector asked abruptly. Jack silently led the way from the room. His heart was sick within him as he passed the door of his father's study and saw the group | of men standing in a sober circle, talking in low tones.

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IS father, who had been so alive, so vital and dominant but yesterday, now was dead. And the household was pervaded with an atmosphere of dreadful suspicion. As he passed the door one of the

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men spoke, raising his voice a little: “It was an inside job. There's not a doubt that someone who knew him well—" Inspector Waldrop said gravely: “I might as well be honest with you, Mr. Wentworth. I tried to spare vour mother the shock. We're certaim this is an inside job. Take that marble paperweight we found, by mere accident, shoved in between some magazines.” “I think “you're all crazy,” Jack muttered hoarsely. “What do you make out of that?” “The man who cleans your father’s study is positive that it was there | yesterday morning, holding down | some papers,” Inspector Waldrop re- | plied slowly. Jack dia not reply.

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understand the servants come on about 6:30. Is that correct?” “Generally. Sometimes later, after a party that had kept them all here very late.” “I see. We've questioned the head gardener, who apparently, is deaf, dumb and blind to everything. But the second gardener, Willis, and his wife gave some information. They were both awake at 6 o'clock—the time Miss Dexter and Mrs. Wentworth heard the sound of a fall, and also the time Mr. Wentworth's watch stopped. It was broken by the fall. Willis and his wife say the two German police dogs wouldn’t have allowed a stranger to enter the grounds without an infernal racket. Is that right?”

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ACK answered slowly: they're good watch dogs.” “Furthermore, there was someone with your father during the evening who smoked a cigaret. There are cigaret ashes on the smoking stand

” “Yes,

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by a chair that is close to your fzther’s desk. Close enough for the person in a fit of anger to have reached out and found the marble paperweight handy. Now, Mr. Montanne doesn’t smoke cigarets. Neither does your father. We've learned they were in conference together.” “I'm afraid all that is mighty flimsy evidence that dad was struck down, inspector.” “Maybe. But finally the servant who made his rounds after the ball found Mr. Wentworth alone in his study. He went about setting things in order, and he swears there were no ashes in the tray on the stand. I understand that you, your brother, and your sister do smoke cigarets.”

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“Barry and I—“Jack began and hesitated. = » » “ OUR sister does not smoke?” “Oh, good heavens, inspector, what insane thing are you insinuating?” “I'm not insinuating anything. Please answer my question.” “Jill doesn’ smoke generally. T've seen her take a cigaret on occa- | sions, Very rarely. She doesn’t like | them.” “But under nervous excitement—" John paled perceptibly; he did not answer. “We must question your sister,” Waldrop resumed. “We must know the reason why she left home before it was good daylight on a cold, snowy morning without a word to a member of her family.” He turned to the telephone. Jack stood like stone while the inspector spoke professionally into the receiver: “Call all cars with instruction to pick up Jill Wentworth, who is driving a custom-built tan Pierce .". » the license number is . . .”

(To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story.

BANK NOTE—By Glenn Reilly

AMMY trundled the decrepit touring car along the deserted road baking under the hot sun and squinted his eyes against the clouds of white Missouri dust. He gave Hipe a glance, asleep on the other half of the front seat. “Hey, wake up!” he shouted, reaching over to shake Hipe's shoulder. “How much dough have you got left?” The sleeper came out of his trance-like state with obvious lack of relish, He wrinkled his nose with distaste at the sun, the dust and the erratic -jolting of the old car.

| He reached into his trouser pocket

and brought out a handful of small coins

“I got 83 cents What do you want it for?” : Sammy gave a shrug of resignation. “It's not me that wants iti. It's this rolling teapot of ours. We've gotta get some gas pretiy soon or else we'll be moving all this dust with our feet instead of with tires.” “Yeh, but what about after that? And how about eats?” Hipe asked, reasonably enough. “Personally, I'd rather eat.” “Listen, sap,” Sammy pointed out. “We were lucky to be in jail in Texas where they give you some real money when they decide to let

| you go instead of some other state.

If we only got $10 we couldn’t have bought this excuse of a car to get

Mind Your Manners

EST your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Is “I'll come if I can” a gracious way to accept a verbal invitation? 2. Is it all right for a wife who receives a dinner invitation over the telephone to say “May I ask Bob if he has any other plans and then call you back’? 3. Is it necessary to answer a written invitation to a tea? 4 Is it correct to give a reason for not accepting a formal invitation? 5. Does a wedding invitation ever require an answer?

What would you do if— You receive a formal invitation— (A) Call your hostess on the telephone to tell her whether or not you can accept the invitation? (B) Give her your answer the next time you happen to see her? (C) Write a third person acceptance or regret on a small piece of white notepaper?

Answers 1. No. 2, Yes, 3. No. 4. Yes, if one wishes. 5. Yes. An invitation to a home wedding should be answered. And one should answer an invitation to a church wedding if he is also invited to the reception afterwards.

Best “What Would You Do” solution—(C.).

“Sammy eyed him suspiciously.”

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| LL right, We'll make a strike | somewhere soon. We afford to be picked up by the highway police hitch-hiking along | these roads. Not with our records! They'd slap us in the pokey so fast it'd make our ears swim!”

“All right yourself, buddy. You can call the plays if you're so wise. I'm just the silent partner. There's your gas station just ahead there.” Hipe pulled his hat over his eves and went back to his interrupted slumbers. : The ancient equipage groaned to a stop next to the gas pumps outside the little roadside shack and [Sammy climbed out to stretch for his money and carefully counted their total assets. “Make it a dollar forty worth pal,” he instructed. squeeze the pump! We've got a long way to go!” The man chuckled as he ground away at the crank. Sammy eyed him suspiciously. “What's funny, fellow?” he quired.

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yh OTHING much, only that last remark reminded me of old Durkin. He just passed here on the way home, and if I do say it myself, he's the tightest man in the county!” Sammy looked up from the bucket he held to the radiator and narrowed his eyes. This guy was about to make some wisecrack, he thought, and he was certainly in no mood for wisecracks. | “Yep, old Durkin's been at Mary- | ville for nigh onto 20 years calling | himself an investment broker. Lives over at Dover because the taxes are cheaper,” the man went on, conversationally. “Every Saturday | like this he walks home like usual with his satchel filled with maybe two, three thousand dollars’ worth | of bills in it. He's too skinflinty to own a car.” “You mean he carries money and walks?” Sammy inquired.

3 ELL, I reckon bank notes is just like money, isn't it, stranger?” the man smiled, hanging the nozzle back on the pump. “He gets them from all the farmers around here.” Sammy carefully counted out the money and clambered into the car before he remembered there was no self starter. He got out with the crank. It might pay to stall a little and give the old guy a chance to get well out of sight before he started the car. Hipe gumbled at being awakened a second time, but stopped when Sammy explained the details of the knowledge he had gained from the gas-station man. “We can knock this old guy over easy for his dough. Then we can highball into town, ditch this old rattletrap and grab a ride on the cushions before there's been time for any alarm or anything.” Hipe listened with a grin. “We can eat,” he estimated, complacently, “Oh, how we can eat on two grand!” » » » T wasn’t five minutes before they caught sight of the lone, bent figure moving purposefully along the parched grass at the side of the road where the dust wasn’t so thick. Sammy pulled up alongside and stopped. “Want a lift, pop?” he invited, with what he hoped was a pleasant smile. The old man had stopped,

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SATURDAY, NOV. 18, 1937 FLAPPER FANNY

By Sylvia

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“All right, I'll send back your presents. Bu! don't forget that you busted the squirt-gun and the perfume bottle didn't have any stopper.”

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Q—Why does the moon rise later each day? A—The moon makes one complete circuit around the earth eastward from a given star back to the same star again in 27% days. The earth

moves around the sun about 27 de-

ABOUT THREE THAT MORNING, LOOIE AND MOE, SAWA LIGHT IN MY STUDY AND DROPPED IN TO CHAT. THEY MENTIONED HAD SEEN THE BOY AND THE SOA.-- AHEM--GENTLEMAN LURK =

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| will not cross it until the earth has | (had time to rotate through this | angle of 12 degrees.

too, and looked up at Sammy and | Hipe dourly. “Nope, I can walk,” he said, iras- | cibly, “Been ‘walking 20 years. | Won't do me no harm to keep right on!” Sammy had been covertly inspecting the old man's appearance. His | wrinkled blue suit was shiny and | his hair had been allowed to grow | to an unkempt length. Still, the | man at the station had said he was | a skinflint! Sammy nudged Hipe. |

Hipe hopped out and suddenly | pinioned the old man's arms while | Sammy possessed himself of the | satchel. With a wheezing roar they made the four miles into town, pull- | ing up to the red brick station just | in time to abandon their ancient crate and run for the train pulling out for Kansas City.

y ICE work, buddy!” Sammy complimented. “Couldn’t have worked out better if we had jlanned it. When we get to K. C. . . .!” The conductor came along the aisle and stopped suggestively. Sammy beamed expansively and opened the satchel. He reached inside, then held it to the light to peer at its contents while his hand riffled them. Then his face purpling in consternation, he withdrew one of the bank notes and waved it speechlessly at Hipe. Like the rest of the banks notes in the satchel this one started: “I promise to pay” . . .!

| in 1908,

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| the stars will be 13 degrees east of |

the previous night. But in the interim the sun will have moved about 1 degree eastward among the stars, so that the moon will be | 12 degrees further east of the sun, | and at 10 o'clock lacks abbut 12 de- |

grees of being on the meridian, and |

The earth rotates 1 degree in about 4 minutes. | Thus the moon must cross the | meridian on the average abdut 51 | minutes later every day.

Q—Where and when was Billie Burke born, and when did she begin her career on the stage and screen?

A —She was born in Washington, D. C., Aug. 7, 1885, and began her | career ‘n 1898 as a linguist, appear- | ing in the principal music halls of | Austria, Germany, Russia, France | and other European countries. She | made her first appearance on the stage at the Prince of Wales’ Theater, London, in “The School | Girl,” in May, 1903. Her debut as a “star” was made in New York, | in “Love Watches.” She | began her film career in 19186,

Q—What was the crime of Dona- | tello in Hawthorne's ‘The Marble Faun’? | A—He flung a stranger from the | Tarpeian Rock to his death. The mysterious stranger had been following Miriam to the point of persecution, and an encouraging nod | from Miriam led Donatello to the | rash act. From that moment Dona- | tello and Miriam are linked together | by their guilty secret.

Q—Is the town of Wise, scene of the trials in the famous Edith Maxwell case, located in Virginia or West Virginia? A—-Tt is the county seat of Wise County, Virginia,

Q—-Who composed “Moonlight and Shadows,” and what picture is it from? A—Prederick Hollander and Leo Robin, from “The Jungle Princess.”

Q—Who invented the lightning rod? A—-The first lightning rod in the world was set up by Benjamin Franklin in of

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YOUR HEALTH |

By Dr. Morris Fishbein American Medical Journal Editor |

NE of the most common of the | skin diseases is psoriasis. This | condition occurs usually in people who are fairly well, It is distinotly |

| a skin disease although it fis be- |

lieved to have some constitutional |

background. Psoriasis appears in people of any

| age—from childhood to adult life, It

may affect either men or women. Usually the condition gets better in the summer and worse in the winter, |

Psoriasis has been found from |

| usually on the backs of the arms |

and the fronts of the legs as well as | on the chest and occasionally on | the scalp. The condition may also |

| spread to the palms or affect almost |

any portion of the body although it | is more rare on the face, ” ” » N this condition the reddened spots become covered with scales which are of a mother-of-pearl color. When the scales are removed, a tiny bleeding point will be seen where they have been attached. It is, of course, possible for a condition like psoriasis to be subjected | to a secondary infection, although

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| this does not occur frequently. The

cause of psoriasis fs not known. In some instances there may be a hereditary influence, However, it is | rather rare to see two or more cases | in the same family. | It has been suggested that the condition is in some way associated | with diet, that it fs caused by al parasite or an infection, that it is due in some manner to a wrong action of the glands, but none of these suggestions has been proved to represent the actual cause in the condition. It is possible by adequate treatment to bring about relief of psoriasis, at least for a while. This involves the application of a considerable number of different preparations to the skin in various orders,

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| convicted speeder, while breaki SO THEY SAY | rock in a St. Louis or The challenge to our country to-| quarry. day is that citizens lay aside all personal prejudice and join in the fight to preserve the republic. ~For-

mer Governor Landon,

A new world war and catastrophe are not so inevitable as a great | many people think. They are pos- | sible, but not inevitable, and it » a wholesome thing to bear in mind, —H. G. Wells, famed English writer,

Apparently the stock market is in the position of a patient who is suffering from a variety of ailments, | —Professor O. M. W. Sprague of | I believe it entirely consistent Harvard University, (with our continuing readiness to — [limit armaments, to maintain a deWe have taken the rattle-traps fense at sea sufficient to insuse the off the street. Now we have to get preservation of our democratic therattlebrains-—Safety Court ideals and the maintenance of =a Judge J. M. Braude of Chicago, | righteous peace President Roose-

Germanw must have colonies! veil The old peace treaties must be| Go your way with serenity, to see scrapped! — Premier Mussonili of [things as they are and not as they Italy defends Germany's colonial seem to someone else, for no one ambitions. |else is you.--Dr, John Edgar Park, mr | Wheaton College president, I'm glad I was caught and sent | a——— down here and brought to my| Already the powder train Is hee senses before 1 killed someone with [ing laid to start war hysteria in the my truck. I am slowing down for| United States-Willlam J, Oameron, the rest of my life.~Floyd Stewart, Henry Ford's secretary,