Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1940 — Page 22

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Murder

Incognito By NORMAN KAHL

WINSLOW MARDELL-—a gambler.

GEORGE BARBOUR — Saver: haw | Partner 1

LIEUT. OLEARY police Phvestipator

YESTERDAY -O'Leary ouestions Dale about Savier's Ddasiness and possidle ehemies, aad about ‘the pests, covered whlocked. O'Leary finds & re- | Teate protecting Savier from a breach of Promise action. We wummons Havel Leighton

CHAPTER FOUR | HAZEL LEIGHTON) walked into the study, it was quite | apparent she had completely re- | coverad from the shock of finding Saylers body. Aloof and self-com-posed, she stood poised in the qoorway for a moment, as if Waiting for Lieut. Oleary to acknowledge! rer presence The police officer was still seated

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Qt Sayler's desk, engrossed in sev-|

eral gocuments ne had spread be- | fore hit. O'Leary finally looked wp, | and ther © Was the trace of a smile | on his face. Miss Leighton?” “I'm Lieut. Olieary here and Sit down, please.” Heutenant didat get wp Calmly Hazel walked toward the Beutenant Tt was only when she | reached the dark, jagged stam in | the middle of the room that ae | hesitated a moment and carefally | stepped around it. OlTeary motioned her into a chair that had Deen placed to the side of the desk at his right “Miss Leighton,

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body,” he said ! She lighted a cigaret. “Yes It! Was pretty much of a shook” | Did you enter this room at ali” “Not until the others came. If ust screamed I couldnt help |

it. And then I felt weak, so I hung! onto the door and stated at the! ay until Dal e and the rest CAE | from the drawing room You didnt toRoh anymhing?” "Not a thing

Ror a n nt, Hazals eyes fal- | tered w1 r yes,” she said Stowly | “Mr. Sayler was a Iswyer, you Know, end the check was part of a business matter he was handling for

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me. “What kit a of business? “T dont think that matters” O Leary held out a single sheet | of paper, clipped to a tan legal | Jacket. “Did it have anything to do with this?” “Why, I dont know = » = OUGHT ® tell you OTeary interrupted. release—a release from pos-| sible future breach of promise action! against Martin Sayler. Theres al space down here for you to sign. You | won't need to now.” | Hazel sat forward in her chair and | gested her elbows on the desk. © nt understand it.” ol O'Leary looked strajght st th blond woman and gestured nity | with a cigar he took from his vest) pocket. “Oh, yes, you have, Miss) Lefghton. I'll tell you what it means. Sayier was going to give you $5000 £0 you wouldn sue] him And he was| going tom ake sur hat you couldnt | swe. Maybe you'd bet tter tell me the rest. Hazel sat very ri hair glimmer ing in desk S— All right she said. “I'll tell tter. Then you lot of ideas a nt 80. O'Leary struck a mateh and held ft to his cigar. “Right.”

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Sayler was one of the lowest perBONS I ever met,” Hazel said. “Funny

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about that . I thought I loved him. Hes got a kind of veneer that

doesn’t show up so badly under the right Kind of light We went together for almost a year He wanted me to Ig mary yy him, but I ashy sure. And then last week, he made me | i} an offer this offer x was never | Wn se insulted in my life. I had known |H toward me was chang! ing But l didn t know wit a rotter | he was ur atl he tol d me the wedding | was off and offered me $3000 to bel

& good girl. I § lapped Nis face.” | Q'Leary leaned back in his swivel | chair

Why were you here tonight. || then, Miss Les ghton® | Hazel avoided the officer's eyes. | "I don't know. There was somethi ing | about that man \ I can’t tell you wh at exac | He asked me to! came, and I bnew why he wanted | me here. I didnt want to come I had no intentions of nl Untile tonight and then something | Just seemed to draw me here. I § wish I hadnt now.” I can understand that” O Leary. From Sergt

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vestibule stepped Chief,”

the doorway, Carroll into the room. “Look, said the ser-| geant. “The boys have been doing | a little checking, and the medical | examiner telephoned. First of all, we checked the phone company like | you said. They'd know if any long | distance calls were made here to-| fight. There wasn't any | O'Leary nodded. “Which means | Sayier never reached his desk. He was Killed right after he left the others in the drawing room--on his way back to the desk.” Carroll squinted ‘Right. And here's what the medical examiner has to say. He made a quick cheek end he said the bullet hit Sayler from the right at an angle, and gtruck his Heart. It knocked him off like a building collapsed on him.” “Which means that the shot must have been fired from somewhere near that window . . . right®” “Right. . . . Only it wasnt-not through the window, anyway.” O'Leary's eyes became quizsical but he waited for Carroll to cone tinue. EE & & “THE BOYS have been going over the grounds with a comb.” the sergeant explained. “There aint any footprints. And the window ain't been touched . . . not from the out-

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took on the inside will show some. thing.” OTeary grunted. “They won't show anything. »

“Yeah, sure” Carroll assented.

* We just thought we'd better, though —the old routine”

“The angle of the shot is all wrong —— of the other windows?”

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that would give us the right angle?” “Right again,” said Carroll.’ “Theres only one answer I ean see, Sergeant.” O'Leary said. “Whoever committed the murder was right here in this house-is prob. ably still here.” Hazel Leighton gasped.

(To Be Continued)

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