Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1940 — Page 15

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YESTERDAY: Questioning Marta shout the shadow on her window, Braitwood discovers it was Adam. Marta tells him then, of Adam's long fight against the narcotic habit, his victory, and the attempt to prove himself cured. A siege of fever in Capetown ruined all that. She had offered to marry Adam. But a gos 8ip column item, and the failure of her letter ‘to reach him, left ‘Adam believing . She had abandoned him. He married Pat.

, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ CLAD IN AN orange boucle suit * and framed in the green shrubbery |} % as she sat on a garden bench, Patricia Langdon looked like a tropical 5 bird. Even Braitwood admitted she was attractive. ? He thought Pat selfish. Had she really loved Craig Gundrum she /y Would not have married Adam. A professor's salary, while not comparable with 8 fortune such as Adam Langdon’s, was still sufficient ® for two if real love were present. ' For Adam, he did not believe she 2 a cared the least. Nor did he believe . - ie ; z SADIE HAWKINS 2 . rr - ] ” > Y G kl that Adam would have married any| o’ HED RALS : EMILY, NSS ¥ yor 1S <i v° girl, knowing he was a drug addict, had ‘not that addiction 'sapped his morale. | /4~ An airof relief characterized Pat. As Sidney dropped into a seat beside her, he guessed—r htly—that she had been thinking of the fortune she would soon inherit. The unpleasant notoriety they must all shoulder, but that would pass and her short ‘month as Adam Langdon’s bride would be but a dark memory. ‘T shall live in Capetown when this is over,” she told Braitwood. “The ‘sooner an ocean separates me from this blood-stained old house, the sooner I shall forget the unhappiness it has brought el) “Your people are in ca now, aren't they?” he asked. | : A . = No oy “Yes,” she replied. “What legal 35 Wo WHICH ONE E LLAPSED/ formalities must a wife go through| = ¥ : - before an estate is settled, Mr. Braitwood?” : i. For a few moments they discussed legal matters, then Sidney asked: “Did you know that the autopsy had revealed a considerable amount of morphine in Adam’s system, Mrs. Langdon?” > “Oh—1 feared that might happen,” she admitted in a startled way. 4’ “Adam had the habit. Or did you vknow it?” ci] “Recently I learned of it,” Sidney confessed. “I understand you had planned to send him ito a sanitarium?”

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can prevent outside interfeyence.” “I “imagine Dr, Bowman will agree,” Hugh said slowly. “It is my hope that she will throw off the psychic dumbness when she awakens, so that she can undergo questioning in her normal mind.” - “Ag her lawyer, Ill be with her,

Sidney found the captain in the drawing room. After he had sgreed to defer a consultation, Plowman revealed he had Boris Lesencoff on mind. “Could this fellow, Lesencofl, have struck Miss Langdgn and then faked a dive and a rescue when he saw you, Mr. Braitwood?” he asked. “Impossible. I saw the entire business, and I swear that I saw him long’ before he saw me.” . “His turning up here is unusual.

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“As routine it is necessary, but in my opinion you may count him out,” Sidney replied. “He. comes into this inquiry only as a man who rescued Nella Langdon from possible _drowning.” : “You can never tell in a murder case. According to reports I have just received, Lesencoff would have been glad to have Langdon out of his way. He was in love with Miss Hempfield himself.” (To Be Continued)

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