Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1940 — Page 13

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New York Jungle

By Wray Wade Severn

YESTERDAY: Adam is dead, but Marta has only fainted. Revived, she tells Sidney she knows Adam is dead. Nella suggests her uncle may have slipped, impaled himself on the scimitar. But there is a bullet hole in his shirt front. Sidney orders all of them to remain together until the police arrive.

CHAPTER FIVE

They waited in the library for the police. ; Braitwood called on each one of them for a detailed account of all| actions from the moment the lights in the Jungle went out until the men returned with candles. Pat and Nella said they had cov-; ered their eyes against the light-| ning; Gundrum and the valet had crossed to the table for matches, neither having any in his pockets, Hugh and Sidney had remained near the door on guard. Apparent-| ly no one had been looking toward the lioness. : Pat said that Marta had become alarmed when the men remained upstairs so long. Adam had not spoken to them. Finally Marta had announced that she was going to find out what had happened. Then, they had heard her scream. Marta remained silent. Although Sidney had telephoned police headquarters as soon as they came upstairs, the officers did not arrive, Probably, he reasoned, the storm had made roads almost impassable. “There’s nothing to do but wait,” the attorney said. Suddenly Nella burst out, smell smoke.” Hugh smiled. “Nonsense. You're Shan smelling smoke, Nella,” he said.

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BUT I do smell something burning,” the girl insisted. “Don’t say that I've a neurosis about smoke. The house may burn down if you 0." . “A time-honored method of destroying evidence is by fire,” Sidney conceded. “I can't smell smoke myself, but Nella's senses may be keener than ours. It will do no harm to make sure. And none of us has been smoking since—since dinner.” “I look in Jungle, Mr. Braitwood. Maybe burnt match drop on animal's hair down there. “No, Togi,” Sidney said. “Gundrum, will you examine my gun? Notice that it has not been fired. Then run your hand over me and assure yourself that I'm not carrying any other weapon. Do the same with Hugh. “My gun had but the one charge, and I fired that at the lock as the cylinders will prove,” Hugh added. Gundrum searched them. “Just as you said,” he announced. “Will you do the same for Togi and me? Then if there is a fire and we have to separate we can vouch for each other.” No one suggested searching the women.

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fire together,” Sidney said. “That is| if you all are satisfied that we should.” No one objected. The two men retraced ther way to the Jungle below. The same darkness enveloped the place. Only the tiny flame under the percolator indicated the table; | the animals and other pieces of furniture were shut out by the wall of blackness. Hugh picked up two, candles, lighted them, and handed | one to Sidney. “Why should Pat have used that antiquated percolator?” Sidney asked. “I remember using an electric contraption in the past.” Hugh was puzzled. “Odd, too,” Sidney went on, “that only one fuse blew out in the entire house. You know, Hugh, if an electric percolator had been used that flame would not be there.” «Obviously, but where is the significance?” “There you have me,” Sidney confessed. He groped about the room. ” t-3 ”

“Originally the Jungle was two | rooms,” Hugh explained. “Adam had the partition removed. That's why the fireplace is in that brick pillar in the center of the Jungle. It may be there are two fuse boxes. There are two light switches. Adam planned to have all new wiring installed down here. . But he never did. This is out of date, wires. expo

sed...’ L He pressed a button in a pillar near the lioness and got no result. Then he tried the switch next tlie door. A flood of mellow light led half the room. oy must have turned off the lights when fresh globes. He was just putting them in when he came down from the ladder to help Nella open the door,” he said. «Naturally, when the lights went off he would suppose the entire system » had been struck,” Sidney suggested. He hurried to inspect the room more closely. “Nothing is burning here,” Hugh said. “Nella is marked by fire. She was badly burned as a child. She often imagines she “smells smoke.” : Braitwood nodded, paused before the figure of a huge ape. «I never could endure that orang, Hugh. He's an evil brute. Could a man possibly be concealed inside him?” ; The big engineer half smiled. «The fellow is solidly stuffed,” he replied. “Humans are So differently built they won't fit into animal forms without theatrical de-

vices. slew # HOLDING his candle high, Sidney made a tour of the windows. They were set high in the wall, all put flush with the ceiling. Hugh!” he called. “Here's a proken pane.” He pointed up at a window. a have been fired through this window. It is in direct line with Adam and the coffee table. He might have been outlined—" «Adam is facing the wrong way ‘ for a hit, Sid,” Hugh pointed out. «Though he may have turned.” Sidney held his candle over the block against which the dead man still leaned. “There are no marks on the waxed surface to show that he did turn around.” Stooping, he examined the gun which had lain so close to Marta's outstretched hand, though he avoided touching it. «This gun is cocked!” he exclaimed. “Would you believe that

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