Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1938 — Page 30

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friend. DANNIE FEELEY—ofticer assigned to investigate Ludden Dombey’s murder.

. Yesterday: Tait agrees to bring Myrna in to Officer Feeley, who threatens arrest if she is not brought in to face the music. :

CHAPTER TEN

: Wie Bob Tait had left Dan1 nie Feeley’s office he went j directly to the line of telephone booths on the first floor. Anne Lester answered the telephone. «I've just got back from the shopping you ordered,” she told Tait. “Myrna is still asleep. Shall I wake her?” - > “Not until 11:30,” Tait said. “I want you to take her down to headquarters to see Dannie Feeley. You are to be there at 12.” 5 “You're not coming with us?” - “1 think it will be better if I don’t. I've just talked to Feeley, and I have a hunch that he’d rather I wasn’t around when Myrna is there.”

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to this structure that Tait guided his car. He rolled the coupe just beyond the green canopy and grinned to himself as the uniformed doorman hasteied beyond his accustomed post. _ “Thanks, pal. . . .” Tate tumbled out. “What’s the apartment number NE Leonard Macy? I'm looking for Tait walked into the ornate lobby. To the elevator boy he said, “Tenth floor, please.” In another moment he was at the door of Leonard Macy, the wealthy dilettante whose hobby was the de-|

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white coat answered the door. “My name is Robert Tait,” the newspaper photographer said. “I would like to see Mr. Macy.” » 2 ”

AIT sat in a small hallway, studied the small etchings hanging there. He was about to have a surreptitious look inside the apartment when a dark, heavy-set man almost blocked the entrance. Tait knew Leonard Macy by sight, but there was such a legend about his wealth and his eccentricities that even the celebrity-inoculated photographer was startled at his appearance. . “Ah,” Macy said, coming forward with hand outstretched. “Mr. Robert Tait. Newspaper photographer by profession. But for the moment =I trust it is only for the moment A =—you are at liberty.” res gia || Er a” 5 eT «Fea SE ic R The remark nettled Tait. It was : To WE 3 . : : none of Macy's business that he Le 3 0 LO . 0 _ NEVER a [1 ¢ RAR) was out of a job, but how had he : i NEE ; 7 ! ( wy known? Tait began to have an 4 g 7 PN AF: THEN RO DeTran inkling of why Dannie Feeley fsered) VOICE IN THE the man. “I'm not exactly at lib-| erty,” Tait said, shaking Macy's||’ hand. “You see, I'm interested in this Ludden Dombey business.” ' ° He ushered Tait not into the main room, but into a small book-lined study off the hallway. “Perhaps you can assist me, Tait. You newspaper fellows have helped me considerably in the past. This murder interests me because of its background. I refer to the phenomenon of swing music. Now— et us say tha S. mbey Kkille a Rh wa = Z ag" ‘the band leader. I feel—" Ta AL br: na =< 2k - —— i -_. ey So you Dick her?” Toit m- aio > WHAT DO YOU WP WELL, TH SPIDERS ( [[WHATS ALL THIS | [ HURRY-DIG OUT 2 LOOK HERE-- } FrUDsect RE RES MEAN, MYRA'S 1 HOLDING HER TILL I “4 || GAB ABOUT THE || ALL THE LARGE THERE'S ABOUT 100 Very simple. She had the most ’ i SAFE? WHERE [| RETURN WITH THE CASH BORDER? SCALE MAPS . YARDS VARIANCE to gain. We do not, of course, yet 1 Cl FOR LOVIE'S RELEASE - YOU'VE GOT AND Cy rr re aan o “J imagine you'd be one of the first to be called in case of war.” THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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theory is that her mind, a part « it, was unhinged by swing music. I have arranged for expert testimony on that. Dr. Darryl Mattise, the eminent psychiatrist.” “I know him,” Tait said. “And if- you'll pardon me, I think that Mattise is nuttier than any of the people he’s ever psychoanalyzed. As for swing music making people crazy, what about jazz?” “Oh, there’s quite a difference, you know. The very vocabulary of swing music ‘unconsciously reveals an unbalance. The musicians are known as ‘cats’ A flute becomes an ‘agony pipe’ and the music is ‘sent out of the world.’” ' Macy smiled. “You see, I have been making quite a study of this modern phenomenon. In fact, Tait, I don’t mind telling you, I have had a small interest in Dombey’s band for some time now.” : This information startled Tait. He could think of no suitable com‘ment, but there was no need for comment. Leonard Macy was talking on, suavely. “Those terms, my son, are indications of the world of the half known.”

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seen the American people appar- * _ ently go absolutely screwy. But underneath theyre plenty solid. © This swing music craze is nothing more dangerous than miniature golf was. And as for Myrna Dombery, ghe—" . Macy cut in quietly. “Ah .., .” he smiled slowly. “I believe I discover your interest. You are in love With the girl. Is that it?”

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