Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1938 — Page 16

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CAST OF CHARACTERS MYRNA DOMBEY—Heroine. Wife of ; the sensational swing band leader. > > 3 =

o ° ROBERT TAIT — Hero. Newspaper i \ ° photographer—detective. : ; ) = ¢ 3 : — 3 ; - 3s . 9 Ral] > ANNE LESTER Myrna’s closest : i Te 2D — < =

. friend. DANNIE FEELEY—Officer assigned to investigate Ludden Dembey’s murder.

: Yesterday: No trace is found of the missing musician. The prosecuting attorney seeks to tighten his case against Myrna,

CHAPTER TWENTY

; DEcosoiamwy Bob Tait sat in his apartment, tearing the wrapper from a photo magazine. It -was one to which he had mailed, ‘some weeks before, a set of pictures 3 snapped with his miniature camera { : oh > = Z Ves = in the Golden Bowl on the nigat| ; : ; : : z SE ‘that Ludden Dombey was murdered. havi : a. : 2 : < il NG “Out of a job, and not yet well ac-| « ; : : : 4 quainted with Myrna, he had in| 1 hired him to mals the suionce laugh 3 He right places while : hen an mcs Which, at Shs ARS NHR A rie JER] | (STOMENRRITRISY- | | SR A NER me y ¥ : : i aN = Mh ME ALL ‘ROUND,THET'S FLAPPCR FANNY > By Svivia ASMILIN AT EACH N TH MOON "S51 | / SWEET--SO PURTY---AN'EVEN NDER H

ment, had seemed nebulous to say 7 IN TR NC INTO 2 andl 3 . ; % / AS EF SHE IS A LI'L ROUGH--SHE.

“the least. Now as he tore the wrapper from : : NN / SEEMS SO KIND-HEARTED---

the magazine he was startled to see a printed ribbon across the face of the cover, and on this red strip ‘were black letters proclaiming: ON THE SPOT PICTURES OF THE ‘MURDER OF A SWING KING: With nervous fingers, Tait turned ‘to the pages. He gazed at them ‘now with a feeling of bitter loathing. But it was too late for regret. Almost against his will Tait gazed ‘at the three prints reproduced on the large facing pages of the magagine. One was of the Golden Bowl early in the evening Ludden Dombey had been murdered. The “tom of the swing cats” was on the plat-

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acteristic form. The second pi | Et A ey oe pr IF FARMER BROWN HAD ACTUALLY SEEM TO Y'SEE, WHEN after Ludden Dombey had been \ diag SIX COWS AND BOUGHT BE ENJOYING I'M FIGURING killed, It was 3 picture of confu- y fe, TWO MORE --- HOW : THESE EXAMPLES! THESE OUT --- sion, of momentary chaos, of men os w/, A MANY ‘WOULD and women in that awful moment ; 2 when tragedy is dawning on their befuddled minds. The third picture had been snapped a few moments later—showing one mob rush- . ing toward the exits, and another “mob, morbidly curious, pressing its bulk toward the body of Ludden Dombey.

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pointed out, masterpieces of candid | |j¢.2¢ photography. They were examples| oo == 3 ' > if I'm elimi {YOUVE CROSSED WY PATH ONCE TOO OFTEN, ‘ONCE A FOE O' BULL DAWSON'S (GIT READY TO BE PKKED UR YOU WOBBLE - : { A PADDLE! You've thrown me off my game! YOU won’t care if I'm elimi- , y ASW (BAN! GIT ME » of the reason Robert Tait was rated| nated in the neighborhood match and never even see the finals.” ME YOUNG BUCKO, AN’ HERE'S WHERE WE IR ALWAYS A FOE! KNEED SOFTIE, J A60IN’ YO LET YOU PRI”0| WE ANT BIG ENOUGH FER : "A SETTLES , . WE IT! : 7 A MAN TO wi! (sis1.)|

the best modern photographer in _seven states. GRIN AND BEAR IT But as Tait looked at them now they seemed nothing more to him than a tangible evidence of his be- | trayal—his betrayal of lovely Myrna! Dombey. He knew, with the sure instinct of those who work in the. world of newsprint, how effective’ those photographs might be against Myrna Dombey. | In a trance of preoccupation he, began studying the picture he had |: taken just after the fatal shooting of Ludden Dombey. Suddenly he noticed something that he had not

noticed before. It was a slender, 4 — 2 : . ‘wisp-like pillar of smoke. He went C : , ~ : ‘ I : ( FrEckLes, ——= Is m2 sar, © . to his desk and took out an en- 5 WV, : ¢ wl he! YOU WERE WEBLEY'S PRETTY . 1 OVERHEARD BECOME A MEMBER, graver’s magnifying glass, studied — : ) : Far j GRAND, WS WEAK THIS YEARS SUCH BIG oF THAT CLus, Your, the reproduction again. : FRECKLES / ! SCHOOL GRADES CAN That snake-like wraith was not, ONLY RUN IN She J a he discovered, from a cigaret or a || = FROM cigar. In the first place, its character was not that of a spray of smoke from tobacco. In the second, the| photograph showed quite clearly that nobody directly beneath that wisp of smoke was engaged in smoking tobacco in any orm whatsoever.

~~ Excitedly Tait tore out that page and shoved it in his pocket. An hour later he was at the Golden

Bowl in the Pacific-Plaza Hotel. In |} jo photograph, that wisp of smoke || d been just in front of a pal i Unerringly Tait found the spot, and : Na | | IME #1S PLANE, THE SPICER” TAIL BEFORE WE CAN oli ae en Fey : 5 a “as AND BENSON DASH THE GIRLS GET OFF THE GROUND! OFF INTO THE WIND AND == OF BULLETS AND THE VICIOUS "DOG e picture had been taken. He TO THE GROUND AND LEAP FOR THAT'LL BRING HIM RIGHT |. : FIGHT BEGINS J saw that the smoke had been at al THEIR. OWN SHIP... INTO U.S. TERRITORY! ; = point not more than two tables away —_ in a : . : S from the one at which he had sat ” 2 : with Myrna and Anne and Harris Rogers,

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“You bet you're worth more money than youre getting, Sneed—we need more men like you!”

E signaled to one of the Golden Bowls head waiters and the man hurried forward smiling. #Good. evening, Mr. Tait. You're early.” --:Bob nodded. “Do you suppose,| | i : a ‘Fred, you could find out who oc- \ 3 V {iS : ” SE 2 rt $ibied Spe isle gu Pete on LN = p— ) MS —— J lcoer. 1938 av nea SERV e nig u mbey was 1a. . ; — = T led 2” © WELL-LL «THIS 15N0T || T NEVER BOTHER YOu BEI! OF COURSE ,FOCTBALL Elles waiter looked disturbed. Tait | '| FOR NYA EXACTLY A KIO! SHE || WITH THAT WIND! AMATELR HAS NEUER MEANT MUCH TO MEoe Selle | : SENT HER PICTURE - [| BUT HERE ,COACA= | | TESTIMONIALS L OW YOU | STANDING, || 1 MEAN FROM A PRACTICAL could see that there had been in- j € we HMMM = NOT BAD! || GOSH we = EVER HEAR : SON) | | STANDPOINT { BUT THE FELLOWS structions from the management. Ye THES : ALL SEEM TO RELY ON Me g i ; 50 MUCH = WHY ,SHUCKS w. “Table 24? Perhaps I can, Mr. - tS / IT oe 20 Tait. Of course, sometimes there : Ee 4 : \ DOWN NOW FOR gre no reservations. The tables are : SE : ANNTRING simply occupied early and the party We PLANET JOPITER stays through until we close.” NOW H AS THE LARGEST | Loo ar lsteging WY to FAMILY OF MOONS.” i] > y : The Swingateers. There was no WITH THE DISCOVERY OF TWO

question about it, the band was as good as always. “Torchy” Ste-

shens was all right. Perhaps he id not have quite the glamor of 3 ~ Ludden Dombey—but that would OPNER come later, after “Torchy” was OF . ’ %

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surer of himself.

5 Tait turned from the band and Be saw Fred weaving his way toward y : Dr oF HERE, “Ill have to disappoint you, THER fe. Tai There was no reserva- CURIOUS MUD NESTS Es AN ES {in on that night for Table 24.” MADE BY MUD WASPS, ; Qe) «Thanks, Fred. I was afraid a Vp . , § BARRASSES A FELLER there wouldn't be.” Tait sighed. 7 Vi No, = > fg Ri MN 2 NO BE D, == WHERE'S eh wi ih AW ASH ee (5 MR A \ i, EVERYBODY? AIT stopped. His face went a ; = ® : a , little pale and he turned quickly in his ¢hair. Unmistakably he had caught a trace of faint perfume—the perfume of the girl in the entrance to the Claremont. The perfume that drifted on the black HAT 1s A hight down in Millbay when someéne had tried to kill him! His star- or MARTINGALE -t1ed eyes picked out a small, slender : \_____ COPR.1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. © sblond dancing beyond his table. Her| ANSWER—A martingale is a strap on the harness of a horse. Also “hair, honeycolored and perfectly : a part of a ship. : . done, shown from beneath a hat ; : $hat would have beén absurd on any jjons. That's his daughter. She umnist. If anyone knew her, Archie

4 f girl. Her eyes w : : Ne me” She seemed anawsre|COmes to the Golden Bowl almost|would—and he'd introduce Tait.

even of her partner, was lost in|every night. She—she used to be he magic of swing. : crazy about Mr. Dombey and for {To Be Continued) “2:“Who is that blond?” Tait asked,|a while she tried to get a job sing-{(All events and characters in this story “frying to keep his voice steady. ing in his band.” are wholly fotitigus) “< Pred" looked. “Oh, that’s Nelda| Tait was silent a moment. “I've Starr. : : got to meet her,” he thought. His) ~~ COMMON ERROR .>% “Nelda -Starr? Any relation to|eyes began searching the big room. ; iy afon Starr?” ._|At afar table he spotted Archie] Never pronounce banal—ban’-al on ckhy, the. syndicate. gossip col- lor bay-nal’; sky, bey:mal. ©