Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1940 — Page 16

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New York Jungle

By Wray Wade Severn

YESTERDAY—Hugh and Sidney find an open window in the drawing room. They also find Adam’s suite ransacked and a mass of charred paper in the grate. Pat remembers her pearls, discovers them safe in a secret hiding place. Sidney realizes the parole to all remain together until police arrive has been broken.

CHAPTER SEVEN AGAIN THEY settled down in the library, in moody silence. Finally ! Gundrum, who had been standing by the fireplace, said:

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We must all admit that as soon as the police arrive we'll be on the defensive. “No doubt about that,” agreed. Craig continued: “Now there are certain facts upon which we must all agree. . . . Langdon must have been shot either during the confusion after the lights went out, or while we men were upstairs. Agreed?” “Agreed,” Hugh answered for the Test.

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“I sat next to Pat all the time,” |*

Nella interrupted. ~ “I am merely stating the obvious —for a purpose, Miss Langdon,” Gundrum -said. “Forgive me for mentioning it, but you, as well as Pat, are Langdon’s heir. “Other motives for the crime will occur to the police. I, for instance, _cannot deny my former engagement to Pat, nor can Miss Hempfield ‘wipe out all that has been printed and widely known about the attention Langdon had long shown her.” Sidney stirred in protest, but Gundrum held up a silencing hand. “Langdon’s desk was ransacked, his room left in disorder. If we ‘can prove robbery and not a more ‘personal , motive for the crime, suspicion will be diverted from us.” - “Right you are, Craig,” Pat agreed eagerly. “But how?” | “It requires little imagination to! suspect robbery when a window is |

open and a desk rifled,” Sidney |}

added. “But how can one blame an | outsider for the murder when every bit of evidence points to someone Within the Jungle? Not that I am accusing anyone I. I was there myself.” “All that has occurred to me,” Gundrum- told them. “But imagine, ‘for a moment, that a thief was] -after something that Langdon carxied on his person, say the map of a diamond mine in Africa. He had Just returned from there.” “I never heard of such a mine,” Nella put in. “But it could be true.”

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“OF COURSE, it could be true.” ‘Gundrum warmed to his theory. It did not differ greatly from that Hugh had deduced while he and!

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Sidney had searched for the fire. * “Say the thief, failing to find what he was looking for in Langdon’s desk, came downstairs. He would not know the guns on the rack were loaded. He intended to hold us up. He saw the door was closed and it was his step that Nella heard in the hall. Say he Yas at the door when she spoke @nd to protect himself, he locked it instantly.” _ “Had it been opened he would have been detected before he could cover us all, as he might have done had he entered the room unseen,” Pat added. = “Exactly,” Grundrum went on. “Langdon’s odd behavior—and that he did behave oddly no one of us could well deny—may have been due to a fear that this map might be stolen from him. In the conJdusion, after Hugh had shot the Jock, the thief could have entered the room and have hidden under cover of darkness. In the terrific play of lightning, he could have seen Langdon, fired, rifled Adam’s pocket. Although it may seem improbable, it's entirely pos‘sible that he used the storm to ‘cover his movements, made his es<€ape upstairs and left the house by ithe open window in the drawing room.” “Your explanation is no more impossible than any other theory, or the facts, if it is not fact,” Sidney admitted. “But I remained on guard near the door just to prevent the| supposed thief from entering. While it was dark and I could see, except in the flashes of lightning, I'm positive no one did- enter the Jungle.” “I am trying to save us all from Antolerable scandal, Braitwood,” ~Gundrum replied, coldly. I couldn't endure having peo‘ple suspect that I had killed my “Uncle.” Nella began to weep again. +. “My position would not pe pleasant,” Sidney admitted, thoughtfully. “Neither would Hugh's. Considering our former relationships, the personnel . of the house party is ‘odd in itself.” He glanced at Pat. “How did you and Adam happen to invite us, Mrs. Langdon?” © “Until you and Miss Hempfield came downstairs, I had not the least idea Adam had invited you,” ‘Pat replied, reluctantly. : Xe “What about Gundrum?” =~ Pat flushed. “He happened to be driving this way and stopped to offer congratulations. Since we were ‘having other guests, I asked him .to remain.” . . . Sidney did not believe her, but he ‘made no comment.

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.. WHEN THEY summoned Togi, they found an answer. The valet explained: “Mr. Langdon say, ‘Togi, please telephone Miss Hempfield ‘and Miss Nella and Mr. Braitwood and Mr. Hugh, that I like them come up for week-end to see. my hew specimens.’ I do as he say.” “Should we decide to accept Gundrum’s theory, we must agree on what the murderer took from Adam’s pocket,” Hugh - reminded them. “But if we do agree, I want it understood that I, for one, will tell all I have’—he hesitated and concluded—“observed, if an innocent person is accused.” “Naturally, if we have reason so to believe,” Gundrum pressed aagerly, = re “We must hurry,” Nella cried. “I fiear a car down the road.” r= “you did not stand too near the door, Braitwood,” Gundrum took up quickly. “Pat, you heard your hus‘band speak of a diamond mine be- _ fore you married. That lets us all out, because if anyone of us ever ‘used a map or bought stock in a newly discovered diamond mine, we'd be convicted by the act.” The hum of the approaching’ car §ncreased. In another moment the police would be at the door. Yet Sidney hesitated. Where six persea were concerned, one of the

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