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MURDER IN PARADISE

"By Marguerite Gahagan

. THE STORY--Twe murders at Paraaise Lake renew the old romance between school teacher Mary 0’Connor, vacationing

there with her mother, | JB 3

* Maudie, and reporter Dennis Flynn, sent down. from the city to cover the story. Police’ are convinced sophisticated Herbet Cord was killed ‘by gangster Stush.

Verettl, although Cord’s death at first |

implicated Jeanie Morris, whom he had edurted for twe summers only fo bring Margie Dixon to Paradise this year os ‘Bis fiancee. Second mysterious death was that of Miss Millie Morris, Jeanie’s sterp spinster aunt, who kept locked in - her heart the secret of a girlhood ro- . mance with someone who signed his letters “Kit.” Other characters in the story are Liza Holmes, Miss Millie's maid who stays on with Jeanie; elderly Innkeeper Chris Gorden; local editor Tod Palmer, in love with Jeamie. Tod, Mary, Jeanie and Dennis spend & pleasant evening in the city. The next day Mary calls at Jeanie’s home and they discover that Liza is missing.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE . "THERE WAS a window open so that nice, musty odor that all good attics possess wasn’t so noticeable but it still had a faint suggestion of

camphor, and mothballs, and dried herbs. :

TI stood patting an old spool day-

bed that was.piled high with com-

forters, and back under the ‘eaves was a walnut chest with darlingi}

" drawer pulls. I was still feasting my eyes and roaming around, for

I knew this was a real treasure||

.and I moved over toward it when Ii} made out a white object back in’ the||

‘gloom. . | Well, why an into detail? It was “horrible enough. That white ob-

Jeet was poor Liza Holmes, hanging] |

from one of the rafters.

- 'I backed up slowly, nearly falling| | over the footstool. What Jeanie saw| |

in my face froze her.

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hy aor downstairs and into her! |

a: “Get dressed, Jeanie, snd I tell Jous about it after we get out of

here. one desire was to get as far ) from that house as I could. * She was- too terrified to argue, because by then she had begun to I. had found something horrible. It wasn't until. we were walk-

ing. “Why she hang herself, Mary? Why? Was it because she missed Aunt Millie so much? Still, Liza wouldn't forget me. She couldn't Just leave me alone.” “Maybe your aunt's death did something to her mind,” I suggested.

“can’t understand it. Aunt Millie left her money, you know. And Liza—well, she never ‘talked ‘much, but she did mention some things she was going fo do with her money. She was going to have

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