Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1940 — Page 20

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FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

New York Jungle

‘By Wray Wade Severn

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YESTERDAY: Sidney Braitwood, at“tor, and Marta Hempfield. actress, go te Adam Langdon’'s country home for the week-end. In love with Adam, Marta is puzzled by his failure to see her upon - his return from an African game hunt. Sidney, too, is disturbed by the quarrel between Adam and Marta At the house, they Add Adam out for a drive. When the hutler, Togi. shows them to © their rooms. Marta goes to the one she has occupied on previous visits. Togl explains that it ie already occupied, by Adam’s wife.

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CHAPTER TWO ADAM LANGDON married! And hot to Marta! Too disturbed for the consolation! of a cigaret. Sidney paced his room,! waiting for the dinner gong. He had advised Marta to leave at ‘once, using the pretext of an imaginary | ‘telephone call. Marta had refused. . Sidney understood her. If she re-! ‘mained, the other guests, all old friends, might assume that she and! Adam had had an amiable break before he left for Africa. On that as-|

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less bizarre, hey pride undamaged; nor would Adam himself realize how

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wood could scarcely credit his own, BENses A pleasant regime had alwavs marked week-ends at Langdon] Knoll Talk had always been good. ant the number of guests never more than a single servant could]. comfortably care for. : At last the dinner gong! Still in the .grip of incredulity, Sidney ‘descended to the library where the guests always gathered. A room of dark oak, old portraits and wide fireplace. it teemed with pleasant memories of Marta’s charm and Langdon’'s ready wit, Broken lives had no place in it. : Yet, -as he entered, the room seemed to have taken on a new character. A sense of uneasiness] marked the manner of the five persons present. Marta had not vet come down, but Adams Langdon—or what appeared to Sidney's shocked perception, the ‘shell of his old friend—stood by the ‘fireplace, talking to a smart young woman in an informal orange satin evening gown. A waxen pallor had replaced Langdon's usual ruddiness, ‘his handséme, oval head moved restlessly, even jerkily, and his eves had a fixedness oddly at variance with their blinking lids With visible. effort Langdon seemed to collect himself as he greeted Braitwood. He presented the girl in orange. “My wife.” . "Am 1 a surprise?” Patricia Lang.don smiled in lazy insolence.

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“Rather. How and when did it happen?” Sidney wanted to know. He recalled having met her sev-

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eral years before, though she had evidently forgotten it. She looked about and Adam was well over 40. One could not have called her dark, piquant face beautiful, but she represented modernity to the scarlet “tips of her slender hands. : “I happened to°he visiting English cousins who own a ranch at the jumping off place for Adam's Jungle. Adam became ill and remained here and so—" Marta entered then It was an ‘excellent - entrance. Sidney could find no trace of the emotion he knew must be agitating her When Langdon introduced them. Marta waz all sympathy swith the! romance of the situation. A great | actress, Sidney thought. The other guest—Nella Langdon. “the orphaned daughter of Adam's only brother: Hugh. his cousin, and. Craig Gundrum, a young professor of psychology—fell back a little and covered their curiosity with talk. “Ghastly,” Nella's pale lips formed ‘rather than spoke the word. “Did ‘you ever know such a cockeved party. Sidney? Pat was as good as engaged to Craig Gundrum before ‘she left to visit those South African cousins. And to think that Marta .should be here too!" . “How did it happen, Nella?” Sid-| ney asked sotto .voce. But there Nella, too, was in the

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chad coffee in Adam's trophy room, which had been christened the “Jungle.” Here Langdon kept his collection of modern and antique weapons and mounted specimens of "prizes gathered in his hunting expeditions. Except for a short hall rand a furnace and store room, the “Jungle” occupied the entire hase‘ment of the house. Usually a flood of light streamed from the ceiling but tonight mapgyv .of the globes had burned out. in

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the shadows and half light, the -animals looked larger than they actually were. Immediately Adam became the “showman. “What do you think of my new . lioness?” He placed an affectionate

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“hand on the beast's tawny neck. COPR. 1940 BY NEA SE . “Because of her sheathed grace, I've christened her ‘Marta’.” Pat Langdon's eyes narrowed as ghe glanced toward him. He was speaking directly to Marta Hempfield. His voice held the old tender note. Nella covered the situation quickly by calling Pat's attention to an old ‘Turkish sword, a gem in the collection. “This scimitar dates back to the _ Ninth Century, Pat.” She lifted ‘the weapon from its peg on the wall sand handed it to her newly made “gaunt. The blade was bare, except for the leather loop which formed its hangar. Pat moved to her place hefore the coffee tray, made an effort to >admire the weapon. { «gareful, Pat,” Gundrum warned. J wThat curved point is like a razor.” He took the scimitar from her and, : rather than ask her to move to let : him replace it on the wall, he ‘ crossed to the new lioness and slipped the cord with which the sword had been suspended over the

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" peast's neck so that the curved “point protruded beyond the tawny ~head. "Impatient at the dimness, Lang“don rang for Togi and ordered fresh ‘bulbs. No one paid any attention _'as the valet mounted a ladder to his task. Nella, Gundrum, Hugh] and Sidney had gathered about the | * coffee table, cups in hand. Marta ded with nails. For “and Adam remainder chatting near had hung where it wa the ape, when suddenly Nella said: |it moved ponderously. © «There is someone in the hall.” Nella turned the knob, “You imagine it,’ Pat glanced move at all ~at the closed door. “I sent the schauffeur into the village for gro-

“I certainiy heard the hall,” Nella persi characteristic Langdon ess, she crossed prove herself right.

ceries half an hour ago. There | “It must be stuck,” Hugh Langis no one else in the house.” footsteps in oiling.”

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joined the others and gave a mighty heave. There was no vielding. Then he knelt, lighted a match and peered through

years it] “There is no key on the other! At best, side,” he announced in a startled! Now, when |voice, “but. it looks as through we it did not are locked.in” (To Be Continued)

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