Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1940 — Page 16

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SERIAL STORY—

Murder Incognito

By NORMAN KAHL

CAST OF CHARACTERS MARTIN SAYLFR-—A lawyer with tee many enemies DALE APPLERY —Sacler's stepaon. REHODA WATERS-—Anplehv's flances,

HAZEL LEIGHTON — Savlier’'s sweetBeart.

WINSLOW MARDFELL-—A gambler.

GEORGE BARBOUR — Savier's law Partner,

LIEUTENANT O'LEARY—Police investigator.

| | i YESTFRDAY—FEvervone in the house | f= under suspicion. Riggs, Sayler's chaufWear, is brought in for questioning. Later, O'Leary Joins the five guests in | |

the drawing room. Suddenly, there Is

& shot.

CHAPTER SIX IT SEEMED HOURS after the | shot before anyone moved. Dale] Appleby, his face pallid, was the first to leap to his feet. | “My God—! Another one,” he gaid .in ® hoarse whisper. Hej started toward the study, and Mar-| dell and Barbour rose to follow him. | O'Leary barred thes way. “Never mind, gentlemen,” he said, “It's all right.” t Barbour seemed genuinely fright-| ened. “But that shot—" | “I ordered that shot fired,” O'Leary said calmly. “It was fired | from the den out of the window and into the air—harmlessly. No| one was hurt this time.” / “But why?’ Dale demanded. “Just to satisfv my curiosity,” said the lieutenant. “Sayler was shot to death. We know that. But no one heard the shot. Yet everyone heard this one. So Sayler couldn't have | been shot with an ordinary gun, Whoever did the job used a silen- | Cer | Slowly the men ambled back to their chairs. i O'Leary turned to Mardell. “May | T see you in the study for = few minutes?” Mardell bowed slightly and followed the officer out of the room. | In the den. Carroll was sitting at! ihe desk, going through some of the | When O'Leary and Mar-| he rose. “Hear it, |

drawers dell entered Chief?’ O'Leary's lips twisted upwards, | “What do vou think?” The lieutenant motioned Mardell | to a chair. “What were you doing here tonight, Mardell?” | e gnd self-composed, Wins- | Mardell leaned back In his | ‘Just = social visit, Lieutenant Savier asked me for dinner | along with the others.” From his pocket, O'Leary eX-; tracted a sheaf of papers, clipped | together. “You wouldn't Know any- | thing about these?” | Mardell tilted his head slightly | and glanced at the papers. Then, he smiled. “So you found them.” { veah.” said O'Leary, “in the top| drawer of Sayler’'s desk. A lot of dough is represented here—=$35,000. | Not exactly chicken feed. These] I. O. U's are yours, aren't they? | You signed them.” | “Sure they're mine.” | aren't

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= = u “GAMBLING DEBTS, they? Mardell said evenly, “maybe.” “Were vou going to pay them?” | “Certainly. Do you think—?” “Tonight? For the first time, Mardell seemed ill at e “Well, no. 1 didn’t have “W13t much cash on me.” O'Leary folded his Arms and breathed deeply. “All right, Mar- | dell. That's all for the time being. | Tell Miss Wategs and Mr. Appleby I want to see them.” { Carroll had slouched back in ai chair along the inner wall. He didn’t bother to get up when Dale | and Rhoda entered the room O'leary swung around in the | wivel chair. “I hope you two don't | mind being called in together.” Wwe it that way,” 8: id - Sit down,” O'Leary invited. “Mr Appleby, I want to know where vour stepfather's will might found “I don't know,” Dale replied. + “You don't know who'll get his money?” “No. I cant say.” “Do you expect any?” Dale exchanged a swift glance] with Rhoda. “I'll get my mother’s] money. That's written into her |

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will.” «will that.be very much?” “Yes.” “When your mother died, she left | gll her money to Sayler?” Dale looked at the “girl. “Tell him, Dale,” she urged. «I may as well,” the young man | decided. “Most of my mother’s money was left to me, you see— | but in a trust fund over which] Savler had almost unlimited power. | He didn't need to give the money to me, aven when I reach 21, if he didn’t feel like it—and he didn’t] feel like it.” | Did father

vou ever ask vour step-! for the money, Mr. Apple-| Ves—but he refused.” Why?” Dale flushed that—"

“I don’t think I tell ou why.” Rhoda ex-| ploded. “Martin Sayler hated me, | He told Dale he wouldn't release the money until I was out of the picture & Sergeant Carroll leaned forward. “Vou didn't like him very well?” Dale answered for her. “Frankly, we didn’t : “Okay,” said O'Leary. “Just one more thing—do you know where Sayler kept his papers?” “I'm sorry, I don’t,” Dale said. “I just wondered. There isn’t much in his desk.” O'Leary glanced at his wrist watch. ‘“Twelve-thirty. It's too late to do very much more tonight, Mr. Appleby, I'm going to ask a favor of you. I'd like everyone to stay here tonight. Can you arrange it?” Dale looked startled. “Of course.” Forty-five ‘'mjnutes later, the two officers were still sitting in the study All the lights had been turra oud. Chief, this case has me stumped,” raid Carroll ‘“veah” O'Leary responded, non‘committally “I don’t get it at all. A murder couldn't have been committed—and vet it was. All the suspects were in the other room, and the window wasn't opened, anfi—"

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