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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
lue Geranh&
by DOLAN BaKLEY
N. Rodman (Nina) Arkwright
is found mvurdeaed, at a resort hotel
in California. Joel Markham; who
operates a film laboratory controlled•
by Nina and who recently quarreled
withher, is, arrested. This dismays.
Janet. Cooper, hotel, swimming teach-
er, who's in love with Joel, Other.
suspeets include Adele Kramer, ex-
wife of Nina's husband; Kay Feld-•
wife of Nina's husband; Kay Feidanan
•
Mina's niece; Bobbie Craino, debu-
tante; and the hotel janitor, Mao,
whose .son, Danny McLeod, lost his
life int an air race promoted by Nina.
The next morning, Adele is killed.
Then, Janet learns that, just before
Nina was murdered, she went to a
man named Butterworth in the hotel
catering department and secretly or-
dered a place card for Danny McLeod.
for a dinner she planned, Hearing
that Joel has been released and has
returned to the hotel, Janet goes to
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his zoom and catches Bobbie crawling`I'any one,,"
about, picking up particles of some- Im "You mean you don't intend to
thing. ,, Bobbie ducks under the bed me what you think?"
and, before Janet can rout her out,
Kay• appears. Janet says nothing
about Bobbie to Kay—nor to Joel,
when- he comes to the room a' few
minutes later.
CHAPTER XX
When Kay was gone, Joel . sighed;
deeply and rose. Ile walked oven` to
Janet, bent and kissed the topof her
head.
She tools his hand, "Was—was the
jail awfill?"
"Just a jail," he muttered. "Bars
and things."
Janet suddenly remembered Bob-
bie under the bed. Now was the time
to drag her out and ask her what
she had been doing here in Joel's
rooni. Somehow ,though, Janet felt
,sorry for the girt -had no desire to
expose her in 'her ridiculous posi-
tion. Poor Bobbie was so .easily flus -
tared, and whatever she had been
picking up from the floor couldn't
be of any- importance. : She had
probably just been snooping around,
ineffectually trying to play ndetee
tive or something.
"Have you had breakfast, Joel,"
Janet asked, thinking that she would
get hint away and let Bobbie out of
her predicament.
"No -but I need a shave first."
"All right—I'll wait for you."
Joel went Into the bathroom and
began to run water from the tap.
When Janet Was sure that he was.
engrossed in shaving, she went to
the bed and bent down There was
dumpy little Bobbie, all in a heap and
looking like a scared rabbit.
"You'd better go now," Janet whis-
pered.
Bobbie, without a word, :began
inching out from under the bed. She
kept her eyes on Janet, as though
afraid of what the other girl might
do to her. Mien, with a quickness
unusual in her, she jumped up and
made for the door, It occurred to
Janet that she looked fatter and bul-
gier than ever in her slacks and silk
shirt as shb waddled out of the
loom.
When she was gone, Janet walked
to a window and idly looked out. The
terrace was below. To the right was
the dining space, To the left, the
terrace continued, making a paved
space under the windows of the kit-
chens and the catering department.
"Not right now. tome along."
"Wait a minute," said Janet. ,"
can be secretive if you want to,
I've a lot to tell you."
She • told hire, then, all that
happened, to her since she had
hint told him of her meeting
Rodman Arkwright • the prev
night, and of the events which
preceded and followed Adele's de
When she came to the story of
little black place card and of
talk with Butterworth, Joel frown
"I'd like to see that fellow b
I have breakfast," he said. '
tel
You
but
had
seen
with
bolls
had
SOME LINES TO: ACCOMPANY
AUDTIBON'S BOOB OF BIRDS
You axe a IoVer of the sky-blue wing,
The yellow feather,, and the ruddy
breast.
For you there is no more exciting.
thing
Than catching sight of some bright -
tufted 'crest
Beyond your window. In the winter.
Small creatures constantly 'becloud
. the air;
And be it cedar wab-wing, thrush, or
e1 -ow,
You lure them dotter with food and
. patient care.
So in the summer, on the leafy bough,
They shall remember you with trills
of praise, •
And teach their young, as only they
know how,
ath. To render gratitude for carefree
the days—
her-It •must have been for.bird-friends
ed, such as you
be That Audubon observed and wrote
and drew!
Adele De Leenw.
They went downstairs and To
end,
their way to the catering department.
The officef the t lits
o e man with the
goatee was empty. So was the Wolk-
room beyond'.
"Where's the trash basket 'where
Butterworth dropped the card " Joel
asked.
When Janet pointed, it out to hint,
he lifted it and set it on a table—
began to remove its contents.
Janet said, "He tore up the card.
It's in little pieces."
"If it's• here," said Joel.
'In the end, they found no tiniest
fragment of the card.
"That's queer," said Janet. "I sup-
pose Butterworth took it."
"Perhaps," Joel answered tersely.
"Now, let's have breakfast."
During the meal, which they had
an the terrace, he wassilent and pre-
eccepied,
Once, Janet tried to rouse him with
a question. "Could it possibly have
been the bits of Beard that Bobbie
found en your floor?" she hazarded.
Joel's eyes swung to meet hers;
"Janet—you've got to promise nee
something."
"Why, yes. What?"
"That you won'tgo into my room
again for any reason whatsoever."
Janet nodded but, in spite of the
warmth of the on on the terrace, she
suddenly felt cold. Joel's room. Why
shouldn't she go into it?
CHAPTER XXI
When George was removing the
dishes, Joel asked him to bring sev-
eral
everal sheets of writing paper. When
the paper was brought, Joel took out
his fountain pen,
"It's time we did a little figuring
on this case," he told Janet. "Sonne
of the erewier elements might fall
into place if we make an outline. I
Under the urge of a new idea, Jan- think we'd better begin with day be-
et pushed open the screen and leaned fore yesterday, with Arkwright's get -
0
b
0
t
p
ut. She wondered how much could
e heard of a conversation carried
n below. Could some one have
heard Nine's instructions to Butter -
Werth about the last place card?
She was still leaning out, trying
o see the windows of the catering de- "I don't know of anything else
artment, tvhen Joel spoke behind
her.
ting here. He arrived' by plane in the
mortising, called Nina and tried to get
her to lower the price for his divorce,
but didn't succeed."
Joel wrote this down then thought
a minute.
significant that happened during the
day.
was under the bed?" he In the evening, Nina had die-
"Whosked: ner with Kay. After dinner, the
Site cit ew in and Tooled at hien, but maid, Colette, helped her change into
her tweed suit and a black hat. Her
a
d
u
idn't answer, clothes are important becausesome
e. made an impatient gesture. ,
where that night, she acquired that
I'm not deaf Janet. Who was it?" ght, q
"Bobbie' Oraine."
"What the devil was she doing un-
der my bed?"
"She was in here when Kay and I
came in," Janet said, then went on
somewhat reluctantly to tell what she
had seen through the keyhole. "I -I
thought I'd let her getaway I think
the was just snooping, and I felt
sorry for her -hated to expose her?'
Joel took hold of Janet's elbows.
mut.-
,
der! It's no time to feel sorry for
people or to help there out of fixes."
"But Bobbie is so young and naive. returned and took
I don't think she was doing anyone of the pots,
harm:" It's Loring's theory that she hid the
money in a flowp ,but
green hat that ordinary she wouldn't
have touched with a ten -foot pole."
"She arrived at Arkwright's hotel
room at about eight -thirty," Janet
offered.
"And he paid her one hundred
thousand dollars in cash. Then—let's
see. Next, I think, comes the part
that Colette saw when, at about mid-
night ,she looked -out of her window.
She saw a woman, whom she believed
to be Nina, doing something with pot-
ted geraniums., The woman walked
away, stood for some moments as
though watching for some one, then
"Listen—you found her in a room
where she didn't belong. You saw
her hide under the bed. You, know
that she listened in on your convect--
sateen with Kay, and on Kay's with
me. And notice, please, that she
wasn't young enough nor chive en-
ough to tell you what she found on'
the floor in here!"
Joel turned suddenly and, began to
walk about the room with: his eyes
fixed on the carpet. Near the bed-
posts, he bent and examined a trace
of brown' powdery stuff, This he.
scooped up with a bit of paper and
showed to Janet.
then
er of ac-
s iccidentally took the wrong one,"
"She must have gone at once into
the hotel lobby," Janet pointed out,
because both Colette and the night
clerk mentioned the time as mid-
night."
Joel's pen made scratching noises.
"Lobby," he muttered. "She wore
the green hat, had the flowerpot, and.
showed the effects of either an axci-
dent or a beating. That's all for the
night. What's the first far yester-
day morning?"
"Kay said that Nina tapped at her
door at about nine and asked if she
were awake."
"Then the lobby again, where Nina
met Jepperson and gave instructions
for the dinner party, Again, we have
the green hat, the flowerpot, and the
condition of her face—this last some-
what concealed by a heavy coating of
powder. When she left Jepperson,
she went out on the terrace. That's.
when she contacted Butterworth. At '
about the time she was talking to
Butterworth, Arkwright was slipping
his fake telegram onto the clerk's
"Dirt?" she asked.
He nodded, put the bit of paper
on a table.
Then, he knelt and slid under the
bed. He rolled over on his back and
started exploring the bedsprings with
his fingers.
When he came out, his face was ins
scrutable.
He took Janet's hand "Let's go
and eat."
"But Joel! You haven't .told me
what you think Bobibe was looking desk
for or found!" came
"Promise me you won't mention "
this to any one will you?" he said. Pool
"Of course D won't." , (ing
in the lobby. That's how' he
to see her as he went out."
Arkwright followed her to the
and called her out of the dress -
owes, Janet supplied. "She
sante out holding the ,clipipngsi about
young McLeod. -.Arkwright says she
seemed upset and said that some sort
of, trouble was brewing in eonneetion
with McLeod's death."
"Whatever the trouble was," amus-
ed Joei, "her plans for the dinner
party seem to have concerred it in
some way."
"Brit howl" Janet asked,. "How
could serving a dinner, setting .a
place for a'dead than and giving the
effect of a funeral with black dec-
orations accomplish anything?"
"I wish I knew." Joel said soberly.
"Well, let's get on with our outline;
Arkwright says it was about nine
thirty when he left Nina. This is
corroborated by George, who saw
hien' leave the pool. The medical ex-
aminer places the time of death at
ten, but that's only approximate. He
might be off by half an hour. Still,
if Arkwright killed Nina, what be-
came of .the ax? It seems pretty
definite that he didn't have it when
George saw hien leaving."
Janet shook her head. "Nat even
Loring can figure out Khat became
of the ax."
"Welt, anyway, Arkwright's talk
with Nina is the last we know of her
before her death." Joel handed the
outline to Janet. "Look this over, and
then we'll try drawing a few coneius-
ions from it."
Janet read through it slowly, "I
think it covers all the important
points."
"It divides up," said Joel. "There
are two threads running through it
—the thread of the stoney and the
thread about Danny McLeod." He
put a finger on the first item. "This
i$ the beginning of the money thread
—this telephone conversation with
Arkwright in which Nina refused to
come down from the two hundred
thousand she wanted. Then, that
night, she got one hundred; thousand
in cash from him and, aceordiug to
Loring's theoay, later hid it in a
flowerpot.
"The next horning, we have the
beginning of the thread about Mc-
Leod.
cLeod. She arranged for a dinner at
which a place would be set for him,
and she secretly arranged to have a
place card made for him, Then, she
was seen with the clippings about
him, and spoke of hint to Arkvvright.
"In addition to those two main
threads, we have the mystery of the
green hat and the mystery of her
black eye and bruised face. On' the
night before het death, she went out
in an expensive black hat but return-
ed in a cheap green one, She returned,
too, in a battered condition, What
happened to her in the meantime "
"Arkwright says she was all right
when he saw her at eight -thirty,"
said Janet. "And she was still wear-
ing the black hat at that time. Per-
haps, after she left him ,some one
tried to rob her of the moneyhe
gave her. That might explain the
condition of her face, though it
wouldn't explain the change: in hats.
It might also explain why she hid
the money in a flowerpot when she
returned to -the hotel."
"Maybe," said Joel,. "but it could
not have been an ordinary hold-up by
a common thug. In that case, she
would have reported it to the police.
In stead, she kept quiet aobut what
had happened to her. When Ark-
wright asked her about her face the
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next morning, she told him it was
none of his business."
Janet frowned. "Yes --it does seem
queer that she wouldn't say anything
about an attempted robbery."
"Here's another queer thing." Joel
tapped the outline with his finger.
"She was still wearing that green hat
the next morning. Why? A robbery
or an emergency of, some kind might
explain her returning home in it the
night before, but it wouldn't explain
her appearing in it again in the
morning. She must have owned rafts
of hats, yet she continued, to wear
this cheap one which went poorly'
with the rest of her cosutme.
There's some hidden significance in
that green hat I'm sure of it!"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
(The characters in this serial are
fictitious)
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