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by DOLAN BIR.KLEY
Mrs. Nina Arwriglit is found mur- !beside her. Captain Loring of the affair—seemed to feel responsible for
dered at a resort hotel. Beside her, police believes both women weree, hill- his death.
is a broken flowerpot In her hand, : ed for $100,000 Which Nina recently RRodman paused and gazed at Janet,
are some newspaper clippings about received from Rodman for a divorcee. as though expecting her to say solne-
a flier, Danny McLeod; who was lost He thinks that she hid' the money in thing. When she didn't, he stared in_
ona trans -Pacific flight the spon's'or- a flowerpot but .nixed the pot with to the bowl of his pipe for a moment,
ed, Those•conneetedi with the case in- another one, and that Adele later ob- then suddenly looked up again.
elude Janet Codger, hotelswimming tained the right one. One strange "I'd like to know, he said casually,
teacher; Joel Markham, young chem- angle of the case is that Nina had "just what you did with that place
ist who was associated with Nina in planned a dinner party with all -black card you. took away from the table
business; Rodman Arkwright, her es- decorations. Tenet and ,Joel learn in the little banquet room this morn -
banged husband; Kay Feldman, her that she secretly arranged to have a ing."
niece; and Adele Kramer, R1odman's place set for Danny McLeod. Janet Janet stared at hiin speechlessly,
ex-wife. The next .morning, Athelia is tells Loring this -and _discusses the So this was what he had been lead-
found killed, with a broken flowerpot case walehint. When he leaves her, ing up to! - Haw month else did he
he advises her to keep her room door know about the card?
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}Deiced. 1 "From where I sat," he continued,
1 GRAFTER XXYI • name on the back of. the card in front
I;eft alone, Janet sat down by ' a of You. I saw what that name was—
window, and took Joel's .outline of Danny McLeod. When I went back
the case from her pocket. 'later to check up, the •cards. were
She read through it, then decided : there in a heap, but that one was
to add the information •that Loring missing, P went to the catering de -
had just given Her about the green 'Pertinent just in time to see you
hat. That would partly fill in the leave. Now I want you to tell me
gap that existed, between eight -thirty 'about it,"
•Intl midnight on the night before,'
"I can't tell you, Janet said Bbl
Nine's death-betweeir the time she „
had met Arkwright and bhe time she ly;, Captain' Loring wouldn't like it."
had been seen by her .maid beside the Oh!" Rodman raised his brows. "St
wall outside the servants' entry, the police know about it? What
does Loring think it means?"
I donit know—and T wouldn't tell
"I could see that there was a second
tuit-
Janet had obtained a pencil and
was
s writing drown the details about you if did,"rted.
' Nina'•s purchase of the green hat I see." Rodman paused. "Well, in
when there came a knock at the door. any case, it's obvious that Nina's
"Who is it?" she called. dinner party eoncerned McLeod in
"Rodman Arlcwright.» some way. There are various,
SurTrised and puzzled, Janet went y Pos-
th• d' •
sibil'ities. .It could be that she was
"Y�,?„ him and was giving the dinner to
Rodman smiled pleasantly. "May I announce it. Or it could be that he'd
come iu for a minute? There's some -
,been found' at fast and that she was
thing I want to say to you."going to bring him back into the
' He sauntered into the room, palled, world with a theatrical gesture."
out a pipe and took some moments ' "res." Jamb aside stiffly. "Either
ightimg it and getting " it to draw of those explanations is possible."
properly. Janet resumed her place ` Rodman leaned forward, fixed his
y the window and waited, wondering eyes on her. "But we know, don't
what had brought him, we, that neither of them is the right
"I've had a talk with Kay," he said explanation?"
inally. "In the course of the convex- "I — I don't understand you,"
ation, I discovered that she had been I "Miss Cooper, you know, don't
ry rude to you. In understand she that most fliers carry good -1
told you to stop meddling in this ease. charms—especially on the kind of
Well, I want to apologize for her. McLeod undertook?"
toa Dor• and opened' rt. planning some sort of memorial to
.b
Frank Fingland. B.A.. LLB.
Barrister, Solieltor, Notary Public a
Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Ve
Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont.
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DR. G. S. ELLIOTT You've a perfect right to take an ing J i Janet was bewildered What on
t
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Phone 203, Clinton
erest, and I, personally am very glad earth had a good -luck charm to do
o have any one discover anything with the reason for Nina's dinner
they 'Dan that might help to catch my party?'
wife's murderer." j "Yes," she said, "but what—"
Janet didn't know quite how to . Abruptly, Rodman rose, "Well, I
nswer. She wouldn't have expected won't take up. any more of your time.
chime Arl.-wright to go out of his Give my regards ,to Loring."
ay to apologize to any one. ',She had With that, he strode to the door and
zed him up as a playboy with little went put.
ought for any one but himself. This
dden 'conceal for her feelings seem -
out .of character, and she sensed
that it wasn't the real reason for hie!
Fora moment, Janet sat still,
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CHAPTER XXVII
visit. dumbfounded by Rodman's abrupt de -
"Another thing,l he went on. I
parture. Then ,she leaped up angrily
wanted to ask you about Adele Kram -
j and started after him, He must be
er. I understand from Loring that
she spent last night with you, and I made to explain what, he meant by
gather that he thinks she was killed his reference to good -luck .charms in
this morning because she had got !connection with Danny Meteod's
possession of the money I gave Nina.Iltghtl
Dirt she say anything last night that As she hurried from her rooni,-
would lead you to suppose that?" she saw that the glazed -glass door
Janet hesitated, then decided that, at the end of the corridor was still
since he had surmised so much, there swinging: from his passage through
it. She went to it and was
uld be no harm in telling him of it, about to
put
events of the previous night. She her hand on it, when she , heard
so ,then told how Adele had slip- voices beyond it,
ped forth in the morning with the She stopped, listening. The voices
flowerpot under leer arm: were Rodman's and ]Lay's,
didn't get much out her,'
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"Dial she say anything to you about she heard Rodman say.
the flowerpot?" he asked, , "But you did' get .something, didn't
"She didn't even tell me she had you?" Kay asked tensely.
it'' She'd hidden it overnight in they "A little. She said the police
shower." �1 know about 1VIleLeoces name' on the
Rodman frowned. "I suppose Lon- place card, but she didn't get the
ing thinks she had the money in it, drift when I led up to the reason for
It's amazing what people will do for I the dinner. Her face rooked genuin-,
moneyl To thinly that any one would ely blank. I asked her whether ebe
inmit murder.merely for the sake knew that fliers usually learried a
$100,000. And to think'that Adele good -luck charm of some sort ane "
s willing to run the risk of being j Kay broke in sharply, "You should -
ed for it! She must have known n't have• been so definite! Now, she'll
guessed the risk she was taking,' go to Loring and start him to looking
she must have guessed that the' for .something like that!"
ney was the motive for Nina's "Nothing definite in it," said Rod-
rder. At least, that's what -Loring man, "What you gave IVIcLeod had,
nks, isn't it—that Nina was killed its 'other uses."
the i'coney?" Rodman shot a "Yes—that's' true," Kay agreed,
in glance at Janet. "Still, it was a heck ,of a gift to
I—I really don't know what he hand a man like: McLeod at the start
nks," she lied. "He isn't exactly of a long flight. You might just as
confiding type." well have handed him a gun)"
She felt anger rising within her, "Hush!" Kay said quickly. "Some
she saw now why Rodman had one might hear you! Come on—.let's
e here. He had learned. that she go outside."
been having private talks with There was the sound of retreating
ing, and, he was trying to pump footsteps.
•• 1 Janet remained where she was,
That dinner Nina had planned was pressed against the corridor wall.
weird affair," he continued con- What did Rodman's last remark
exsationally. "Loring ,seemed to mean? You might just as well have
think, the other night, that it might handed• him a gamHad Kay given
have some connection with young 11/Le- Danny McLeod something that had
s death. You remember, Nina caused his death? Had she done it
me that some 'trouble. 'about it deliberately?' It was incredible!
coming up after all these years. What 'motive could she have had
ing has asked me what 1 knew I Had she feared, that, through Me-
at her backing McLeod's, flight, Leod, she might lose the money she
I didn't know Nina then:, All I hoped to inherit from Nina? Had she
ow is that, later, she seemed to 'feared that her aunt's interest in the
hay
a' sense of guilt about the whole young)flier might lead to marriage,
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and that McLeod,"unac'custome
Wealth, would go wild with his
wife's money, spending it feverislily
Had Kay 'acted; to protect her
financial outlook? It Was fent
but it was possible.
Could Nina, at this late date,
discovered what Kay had given
Leod, and had she set the stage
gruesome dinner panty at which
meant to expose: her niece? Had
learned of her plan and, to preve
had she—had she killed- Nina?
•
Janet shuddered, Certainly, it
evident that Kay feared the polic
vestigation and had enlisted Re
A.rkwright's aid in ,finding.. out
they knew. Anger surged tin?
again'as, she thought of
Rodman had come to her on :the.
text of appologising to her but
ually for the purpose of disoov
what she knew of Loring'sthee
Why was he working in; Kay's
half.? •
Baffled, Janet went back 'to
room. Slipping ito the chair by
window, she gazed out at the co
yard below and at the grounds
yond.
She saw Kay and Rodman s
on: a bench beneath a tree, with -
heade close together. Nearby,
Mae was sweeping a walk.
Then, Mr. Jepperson came
view, s1 iding along the walk.
noddnodded`to Kay and Rodman,
stopped to .speak to Mac. In ,
distance, Janet saw Jack and Bob
going toward the badminton cour
It Demand to her, suddenly
every one involved in the .case
ept Joel was in sight and, with
ought, came another. While
these people were out •of the h
why not go to Bobbie's room, and
whether rhe could find what
ad taken from Joel's room?
Rising quickly ,she went out
t e corridor and started toward
obby. First, she thought, she
get hold of a master key, for Bobbi
door would probably be locked,.
new that Jepperson had one in -
office and knew where he kept it.
Reaching the lobby, she saunte
est the assistant manager's offi
ow- that it was empty, then casu
urned back and entered it. It to
tit a few minutes to locate -'the l
nd to pocket it,
Then, leaving the office, she nut
or the stairs. She had soon climb
the third floor and found her w
Bobbie's door.
As she entered the room, she e
erienced a .moment of surprise. F
girl wibh the means that Bob
was supposed to have, the room seen
very unpretentious.
She began her search by lookin
der things — under the rug, t
d, the dresser, and an old-fas
nod' wardrobe. Then, elle explore
e bed further ,but found nothin
der the mattress or the pillows.,
The wardrdobe, which she sate wa
eessary because the room had n
set, contained an assortment
thing, all of. which she had se
bbie wear at one time or anothe•
ugh it was good .there was
alter amount of it than Janet ha
ected.
he found herself wonderi
other Bobibe was actually as ric
she was supposed to be. It woul
amusing if site had been baitin
Jac
with wealth that didn't exist
would be still funnier if she wer
• Jack because she thoughtthat
had money, The ironic thought
two fortune hunters deluding each
er brought a half smile to Janet's
s there seemed to be nothing at
suspicion's in the wardrobe, she
about to turn away , from it,
en it neer/ad to her to seaech
top of it. It was high but, by
ding on tiptoes, she could feet
g the top with her hand.
t first, her fingers encountered,.
smooth wood, under a coating
use. Then, they came in contact
1 something cool and slick. Pull -
the object to the edge, she saw
it was a patent -leather bag.
Why should it be on top of the
drobe? Taking it down, she saw
it was bulging.,
s 'site, began fumbling with the
h, it suddenly flew open, .spill -
a huge wad of paper money onto
floor. Janet stared, down at the
soca
greenbaeks, then stooped,
pawed through thein. They were
of Large denominations -- dozens
bills, some $500 bills ,and
some of $1000!
se caught her breath. The money
Rodman Arkwright .had given
!' This', must be it!
t 'that ',instant; a ;sharp knock
d
n ed on the door,
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