Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1938 — Page 18

AL STORY— :

MURDER

By NARD JONES

+5: CAST OF CHARACTERS { MYRNA DOMBEY—Heroine. Wife of #- :the sensational swing band leader. T ROBERT TAIT — Hero. Newspaper - .Dhotographer—detective. ANNE LESTER—Myrna’s closest friend. ~- DANNIE FEELEY—Officer assigned to - investigate Ludden Dombey’s murder.

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Yesterday: Tait begins to reorganize the band under his managership and the members agree to help him and Myrna +. to the end.. :

_ *Y DON'T want to make any promises I can’t keep,” Tait told #Torchy” Stephens and the band he - had gathered inside his apartment. - “Before Lud was killed he was rid- " ing for another kind of a fall. He - was paying your salaries, all right, - ‘but it wouldn’t have been long before you'd have been out of jobs— because Lud wasn’t paying anybody -else. I'm going to try to hold off 2 the ‘wolves and get things straight- ~ ened out, but don’t depend on it. It’s a gamble, and nothing more. If s-there’s anybody here that doesn't

: ‘want to stick it out, we want to!

hear from him now.” “Torchy,” spoke up. “I'm stick-

ing. Anybody here want to slide?” §

The ensuing silence was the answer, and Tait turned to “Torchy” -Stephens. “Do you think PacificPlaza will try to poke a hole in our contract?” : “I. believe I can talk them out of ft if they do try it,” Stephens said.

“There’s a scandal clause in the ||

-. contract that they might try to crawl out through—but once I did a favor for Hoskins, the manager. 1 - took over Izzy Pico’s band when Jzzy got plastered on a night that Hoskins had advertised big.” “Good!” Tait exclaimed. “Then ~ gou’re the fellow to talk to Hoskins ~—but only if he brings up the subig I think the best hunch would 3 to keep showing up and doing = your stuff as if nothing had happened.” “Sure,” said Stephens. “That's what we’ll do.” tJ 2 ”

"-»g~HE next two weeks were hectic ones for Bob Tait. He and Feeley spent days going over the, Dombey papers, but there was con- - siderable extraneous stuff and in

"the end they did little more than|.

establish what Harris Rogers had told Tait in the first place. Ludden

--Dombey had been head-over-heels | ;

in debt. Feeley was frankly stymied, and was leaning heavily on the existence of the musician who had written “The Cat's Meow.” But he hadn’t yet been able to find him, though the city had been combed

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“No flattery, Officer—I didn’t even know he was a burglar. 1 thought he was my husband coming in!”

FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia

“The answer's ‘A gets 58 cents an’ B gets 42 cents.’ You never were as dumb about splittin’ profits when we were runnin’ that pop stand.”

and Feeley had wired his description to every conceivable musicians’ union in the country. | Barkley wanted a conviction, | Feeley knew, and Barkley didn’t] care much who got convicted. What _ the detective officer feared was that .Macy would spring something suddenly and make the police detec-

tives a laughing stock. | K

Tait, too, was painfully aware of | the situation, but he had never felt so utterly helpless. There was ~ one bright spot in the outlook— " The Swingateers were doing well. Under “Torchy” Stephens they were ~ as popular as ever, and nothing was ‘hinted that the Pacific-Plaza would | try to break the contract. = 2 2 = IME and again Tait found himself hating Dombey for the mess he’d made for Myrna. Often, as Bob Tait sat figuring “over the Dombey books, he'd be disturbed by the face of Myrna— Myrna’s eyes or her moving lips, getting between him and the sheet of paper. Perhaps Leonard Macy . was right,-and he had fallen in : love with her without knowing it. : Feeley had wondered about it, too. | . Dannie Feeley was a lot sharper * than anyone had given him public credit for. In the days following his talk with “Torchy” and the band, Tait consciously stayed away from Myrna _except when he had to discuss business with her. And he began to resent it a little when she would mention Ludden Dombey in a queer, reserved tone as though she and Lud had held a secret she would share with no one else. Heavy on Tait’s mind had been the fact that Leonard Macy owned a piece of the band. The records showed that he-had paid $1000 for it, probably took it at a time when Lud Dombey needed money badly and had appealed to Macy whom he knew. And on the third week of The Swingateers programs under “Torchy” Stephens he called the band together and asked them to take a temporary cut so that he could make an offer to buy. back Macy's interest for what he paid for it. He told them why — and every one of them agreed that under the circumstances Macy should be-out. : » 2 2 AIT took the certified check to Macy's apartment that night. “Bands aren't in your line, Mr, Macy, and I thought you'd be glad to get your money back. I suppose it was merely in the nature of a loan to Dombey.” “ Tait didn’t care for Macy's smile. «On the contrary, Tait, I'm interested in a number of things. Why ‘not a band? I'm perfectly content ‘to retain my share of The Swinga‘teers, Incorporated.” - “What would make you change your mind?” ~. “You mean what would I con‘sider a fair return on my investment? Well—you seem to be doing very well with the outfit, Tait. Su we said $5000?” : «But that’s absurd! ‘at least—"

-swer to your question,” Macy interrupted. “We can let matters stand. I'm not in the least worried about ‘my $1000.” : But Tait was. As he left Macy's ‘apartment he was plenty worried. : ,- the man wanted a share Jn the band—and he must have a ‘reason for wanting it. Could it be .. so that he could maneuver Myrna ‘into a hole?

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