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lh'e Blue Gera
Pim
by DOLAN BIR.KLEY
CHAPTER 1
Janet felt tke wind freshen as she
mounted the ladder; to the diving
platform. The sky above war the
lazy blue of a perfect summer day. .
This was August, it Was nearly
eleven o'clock in the inorning and,
from below, at the edge of the pool,
.came casual voices.
Jolliet thought, 1 mustn't •slip 11
can't fall.
As her hands took the rungs of the
ladder, she wondered that they shook
so 'little. The wind blew her hair
.now, and she remembered her cap.
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Her cap. It would be in the dress.
room where she had changed.
She thought, Perhaps they'll no
that I'm not wearing a cap. The
think it's odd. They nnight'even:go
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ing dressing room. She had gone in
icily, sniffing the air. She had pulled
tire' aside the shower curtain . and
y'll !there had .been Nina, with . . with
ess with . .
that something has upset me.
•
She almost faltered, then forced
herself to go on. The thought of the
empty space beneath, of her body,
being crushed on the concrete that
surrounded the pool, scarcely dis-
turbed her. It was so much less hor-
rible than what she had seen five-
minutes ago .
Reaching the platform, ,she step-
ped out on it and sat clown.
Below, was the' rectangle of the
pool. At one side of it five persona
sat or lay. •
To her right was the long build -
ling. which held the women's dress-•
ing rooms. Straight ahead was a
[like building for the men. To the
left and to her back, were the tall
wire fences of the tennis courts..
The fence and the dressing rooms
closed in the pool. The only entry
was the plank gate at the corner
where the two buildings almost met.
That makes it certain it's one of
them.
She stared at the figures below
her.
Kay Feldman. Slim and brown.
Her hair, which was really and am-
azingly the •color. of plantinum, spill-
ed over her shoulders. The slant of
her body, its lazy ease, betrayed
Kay's love of luxury.
Bobbie Craine. Short, dumpy, a
little bowlegged, her dark hair un-
ruly in spite of the best beauty ex
pers. Bobbie, who seemed' to have
money but who wanted a man. Des-
perately. Pitifully.
The man she wanted wasbeside
her. Jack Seyfert. Good looking and
indifferent, He tormented Bobbie
almost to insanity. Jack, who hadn't
much worldly goods and who meant
to sell himself high. Perhaps higher
han Bobbie could go.
Next to Jack, was Adele Kramer,
who wanted to be twenty but, in
stead, was a fading forty-two.
. At the end 'of the row, was Joe
Markham.
Frank Fingland. B.A.. LLB.
73arristor, Solicitor, Notary Public
Successor to W. Brydone, K.C.
Sloan Block Clinton, Ont.
You've got to get your cap. You've
got to walk past the .bunch, past old
Mac, and get that cap! e
Her head came upout of the water.
She swam to the corner of the pool
and climbed out.
Mac shuffled toward her. "That
was fine, Miss Cooper --just fine!
When I was younger, you know, I
was a professional diver. Dived at
aircuses."
"I know," Janet s a i d. 5 li e
thought, I knew that you'd watch me,
because of that.
Bobbie spoke thee? "Say, where's
Nina.. "Wasn't she going to swim
this morning?"
"She went out somewhere about
nine," Kay said easily ,then glanced
at Jack. "By the way, I thought you
and Nina had a date to go riding at
seven."
"We did, but she called me last
night and; broke it."
Bobbie giggled. "Jack, ,you should
not date married women—even when
their husbands are in New York."
His gray oyes stared at her. "Not
even when they're as pretty as Nina?
Be your, age!"
Old Mac put on an apoiogetie look,
as. though ho disliked to overhear
this'soit of badinage. He turned
back toward the door of the women's
dressing rooms.
Janet took two steps to follow
him, then stepped as mise saw Joel
coming toward her. •
"Hello, Miss Cooper. You must
have been born in the water." Joel's
brown eyes looked into hers. "But
something's wrong now. I can see it
in your face. What's the matter?"
She glanced furtively toward the
others—made sure they were not
close enough to hear.
"Nina," she whispered.
Joel's eyes flickered. "Nina? What
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THURS., FEB. 19, 1942
about her?"
"Sha—she's dead," Janet chocked.
"Hacked to death! Murdered! In the
dressing room next to mine. When
1: saw her, I dropped piny cap. I I've
ig+ot to get : it!
(To be continued)
(The characters in this serial are
fictitious)
"She's—she's dead," Janet chocked. "Murdered! When I saw her„ I dropped my cap. I I've got to get it!"
Being sorry for yourself is wasting
1 sympathy, on someone you know who
• It was because of Joel, of what he doesn't deserve it,
had- said, that Janet wee frightened i
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Joel wasn't like these other peo
ple. He hadn't inherited money an
its uses were unfamiliar to him. H
?tadii't come here to spend but t
pt well. He was a chemist, fiv
years .oat of college, and in tha
time already known in the field o
colorphotography. Overwork ha
put him out .of commission, had pu
him here among these other four a
the edge of the pool, had involve
rim
in something hidious whirl
only Janet had as yet'dlscovere
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. back there in the dressin
rooms.
Janet closed her eyes, but Joel's
image remained in her mind. It
would always be there - the drink
hair, the serious brown eyes ,the
chin with its hint of stubborness.
And Joel had said, right out whete
people could hear him, that Nina
Aikwriglit deserved killing.
Who had heard him? Joel could
not have done this thing! It must
have been some otic tvho was in the
garden when we were. Perhaps it
was Adele. She hated Nina because
Nina was married to the only man
Adele had ever loved. Perhaps it
was ICay. Kay is Nina's niece and is
to get her money . But does it
matter who heard Joel? Won't they
say he did it?
Janet opened her eyes and looked
beyond the pool to the white, tower-
ing hotel building on its little knoll.
The Hotel Quillaaj specialized in
'.ports and:, for that reason, it attrac-
ted a younger crowd than moat Cali-
fornia hotels. It hired people like
Janet to teach thein to dive. It
brought people like Nina and Kay to
pretend to wish to learn. It drew in
ople like Bobbie and Jack. It even
casionally got some •one like Joel
Janet's eyes, on the scene below,
gistered the fact that old Mac, the
aniter, had come out of the men's
ceasing rooms, and was approaehing
e women's .Dressed in overalls and
battered felt hat, he was carrying
s brooms and pail.
He'll find her now. It's •only a
atter of time. He'll knock at that
st dressing room ,then look in and
op everything he's carrying. I
could have told Joel—warned him.
Janet stood. up. "Mac! Oh: Mac!"
Tise man stopped in the doorway of
e women's quarters, and looked up
her.
`Watch this.'"
Janet, walked to the end ofthe
board, put out her arms. . Her hair
swept out behind as she arched over.
1 forgot my cap. My cap. No! .I
dropped it in that . other dressing
room—with Nina!
The water rushed up to meet her.
;She sliced in.
Of course the cap was in the dress-
ing
ressing room with Nina! She'd taken it
with her when, she locked her own
door --she remembered it swinging
against .her wrist. And then, that
odd oder .. .
The odor had come from the next
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To Assist All Mankindi
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Self Development" by Drs. Clyde
Merideth Jr. and Thomas Peck
Butcher of Emporia, Kan. Small -i
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chance to show their versatility, can'
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"Skill had much better be
developed at the expense of the dog'
than at the expense of the pedant.,
"For the past 18 months," they'
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from four to six hours at a time ...;
Only animals which are in the pound!
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which is much more humane than
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"Dog surgery has given us what
every surgeon covets—the opportu-
nity to practice a wide variety of
techniques, to develop ambidexter-
ity, and to learn to .think of tech-
nical problems which arise in the
course of an operation in terms of
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So far, the doctors have per-
formed heart, intestine, nerve and
throat operations. '
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