Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1939 — Page 17

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By ELINORE COWAN STONE

CAST OF CHARACTERS CHRISTINE THORENSON — Came to visit her cousin, found a mystery. BILL YARDLEY — Had a reason for - watching Christine. - GEORGE WILMET—Employed Chris. : tine as a Boardwalk artist. CHANDRA—Looked into the future— and into the past.

Yesterday—Bill’'s key holder is found on the beach. He tells of fighting with © 8 beachcomber, whom Christine knows to be her late cousin’s butler. Christine finds a dagger hidden in the wall. She wishes she had not given the inspector a false name, hopes to talk to him alone.

CHAPTER EIGHT 4) N:the way upstairs to the headquarters office, Christine heard the sergeant’s voice behind her—low, but she imagined, intentionally audible:

“Pretty neat, Inspector—that girl’s| -

being the first to touch that knife— if her own fingerprints were already all over it.” Christine said to herself “They're staging this for my benefit. I won’t let them scare me.” : . Nevertheless, she must have looked pale under the brilliant lights of the office, for no sooner were they all. seated than the inspector said to an officer at his elbow, “Get the young lady a drink. She looks sick.” Meantime another subordinate hurried in and put an envelope on the desk. “They've found Mrs. Talbert’s car, Chief,” he said in an undertone. “Locked and parked at the end of the 27th street dock.” : Inspector Parsons turned to Bill Yardley. “Now, Mr. Yardley, how long have you known Mrs. Talbert?” “After a fashion for 10 or 12 years.” But—why, he didn’t tell me this! Christine thought. “lI met her at a horse show where I was riding. Since then I've trained several thoroughbreds for her. But I've seen her very seldom.” “But often enough to borrow money of her?”

Bill flushed angrily under his tan.

“That’s a matter of record. You can easily find out—" : * “I have already found out,” the inspector cut in coldly. tary who always witnesses her papers remembers the transaction. Several years ago Mrs. Talbert lent you $20,000.” : “In return,” Inspector Parsons went on, “for a silent partnership in your firm—which, at the time, wasn’t worth $10,000.” “Mrs. Talbert knew that.” “But which is now worth many times as much. Your agreement with Mrs. Talbert was unusual. At the death of either of you, your ‘joint property automatically revert“ed to the other. On your repaying the loan it reverted to you. . . . Have you repaid that loan?” " “Not entirely.” he Che» PP HE inspector swung on Mr. Wilmet. : : “Mr. Wilmet,” he said, “you own some Amalgamated stock, I believe?” “Why, yes—yes, I have a few shares,” he admitted. “It might be interesting to know how you voted on that merger between Amalgamated and National

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holders’ meeting yesterday.” “Well,” Mr. Wilmet said nervously, “as a matter of fact, I didn’t to the meeting at all.” “You didn’t have to go. Someone else could have voted your stock by roxy.” «But I—why should they?” “Mrs, Talbert was interested in preventing that merger. Yet two days before the meeting, Mrs. Talbert’s house was suddenly closed, the servants sent on vacation, ane the telephone discontinued; and “Mrs.- Talbert, who owned enough ‘stock to stop that merger singlehanded, apparently went off somewhere on a trip. I believe some of the Amalgamated stockholders might know where she went and why. « . « Now when my men found you in that drug store, about 1, you said you had been attending a show from 9 until after 12 o'clock. Could you prove that?” = “No, sir.” Mr. Wilmet was white, but he spoke with a spirit that surprised Christine. “Why should I expect I'd have to? «And I must say, Inspector, that I resent your men’s:taking away the only comfortable pair of walking shoes I had. I've got bad arches, and these hurt me.” “you'll get them back. . . .. BY the ‘way, Yardley, suppose you step into the next room—and you”—he indicated Jaspar. “We want a look at the shoes you're wearing.” = EJ 2 ” S Bill and Jaspar filed obediently out, another. officer slipped in and handed the inspector a report.

«As I expected,” Inspector Par-|

sons commented after glancing at .the paper. “The only prints on that dagger are identical with those of Miss—Nevin, did you say the name is?—made on that glass she drank from a while ago. If there were any others, someone has cleaned them off.” % Christine started to say, “Inspector, my name isn’t—" But Inspector Parsons had swung again upon Mr. Wilmet. : “Now,” he snapped, “suppose you tell me why you introduced this young lady as ‘Miss Grace Nevin’?”

“Why shouldn’t 1?” Mr. Wilmet’s|.

ineffectual chin waggled truculently. “This young lady told me her name was ‘Miss Grace Nevin.’ I naturally pelieved it was. I haven't any reason to think it isn’t.” : “Yet an employee from the Cres view identified her as the young woman who registered at the hotel as Miss Christine Thorenson.” “But,” Mr. Wilmet persisted, “if * this young lady chooses to use a—=a pen name, I can’t see why it makes any difference to any one else.” “It makes just this difference— that it seems a singular coincidence that Mrs. Talbert’s body should have been found in the very concession where you were paying her own cousin to work.” ‘For a moment the inspector sat, - studying Christine with curious attention. Finally he sajd,/ “Miss _ Thorenson; there was a letter in your cousin's bag—stamped, sealed and a iS! you’d better read it.” “My dear Christine,” the letter

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