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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1944-08-03, Page 6M SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk BY ELINORE COWAN STONE Last week: Jaspar, hiding at Chandra's home, tries M explain Itow Mrs. Talbert had ordered him 4o deliver the bonds to Christine. *uepector•• Parsons„ Wilmet, and l®111 arrive, trailing Christine 4imrough Lucille. Suspicion turns on Chandra. Mrs. Talbert was last been coming ant of his studio. CHAPTER XV "I take exception to that 'last poen,' Inspector," Chandra said Ovally. "However, it is entirely true at Mrs. Talbert was with me Cat night for an hour or. more." "A n d . afterwards," Inspector learsons continued, "so far as I can arn, she was notseen until her dead body was found." "But early this morning," the clairvoyant pointed out, "her car was also found — parked just across the Boardwalk from the 57th street dock.... Are you sug- Mesting that after I had warned 1 iss Thorenson where to look for she bonds I, myself, had stolen, X stabbed her cousin—with a dag- idr that anyone in Surf City could 1 entify as mine—and was also imbecile enough to leave her car barked just around the corner from ray own studio?" "What I'm suggesting is that you know a lot more about this business than you found it con- venient to tell me this morning." * * * "Now we're getting somewhere, Inspector. Because I know a lot more about this business than I did this morning." Chandra turned to Jaspar, who 'stood, glancing with a white, trap- ped look from one to the other. "This, my friend," he said, "is now a police affair in spite of any - tilting you can do. You must dis- regard Mrs. Talbert's wishes." "Wishes—what wishes?" In- spector Parsons snapped. "When Mrs. Talbert began to suspect that she was in danger, *he instructed Mr. Jaspar that no matter what happened he must not call the police." "He told you that?" "Mrs. Talbert told me that—the last time she carate to consult me." "So she carne to you for advice `--the night before her death—and the best you could do was to let her get herself murdered without any warning—and you supposed to be the slickest medium in the country!" * * Chandra's hands moved in a gesture of defeat which, even to Christine's unsympathetic eyes, seemed starkly sincere. "Mrs. Talbert," he said, "was a woman of several fixed ideas. One, which grew in her as she got older i and more eccentric, was the be- lief that, single-handed, she could outwit the world and the devil." "That's a weakness that seems to run in the family." The inspec- tor glanced toward Christine. "Perhaps"—Chandra's smile was 4848SIZ 34.50 0 0 0 0 D-.• .. o �<... 4 0 me Clever ... this Pattern 4848. How few pieces, how easy to sews The reis give wonderfully slimming lis. Use gay cotton or rayon. 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So they did sit down—Mr. Wil - met, obviously seething with curi- osity and afraid that the inspector might change his mind, stumbling over a stool in his effort to find a chair without making himself conspicuous. And Jaspar began his story all over again. * * * When he carte to the part about leaving the bonds in Christine's room, the inspector turned toward Christine and then toward Jaspar with frowning attention, and Chris - SHE'LL SIT "I'm ready to sit out this argu- • meet for two years, if neces- sary," says screen star Joan Fon- taine, above, currently suspend- ed after battle with producer Dave Selznick over roles offered her. She says she won't take any more "mousy" parts. tine recalled uncomfortably his words of that morning: "Perhaps it was even someone who counted on your keeping them safely for him:" A little later he interrupted, "If Mrs. Talbert had let the police go ahead when that young man was kidnaped, she might have got something for her money besides a heartache and a crop of mislead- ing and conflicting clues. First the boy was supposted to have been carried off and drugged in his own car; later it looked as if he had been decoyed into the swamp and drowned in a quicksand. I can't recall all the stories; but there's one thing certain; someone who knew the family well was back of that . , , By the way, you were employed by Mrs. Talbert then, too, weren't you, Jaspar?" * * 4. "Yes, sir." Jasper's eyes met the Inspector's with the calm of des- peration. But there's one rumor you may not have heard, Inspector," Chan- dra said quietly, "that Earl Tal- bert was not really kidnaped at all; but that he engineered the whole affair himself, and collected the ransom. I happen to know that there have been a number of checlis forged on Mrs. Talbert's account that have never been run to their source. I hal: ittforma- tion that Earl Talbert, under an- other name, apent several years In a California prison; and I have had a feeling, from time to time, that Mrs. Talbert, herself, was sure that he was All alive." * After a musing silence, the in- spector asked, "Just how old was this boy when he disappeared?" LONDON BED TIME Another day of robot bombs is done, but there's the long night yet ahead, so a London mother directs her children to the safety of an underground back -yard shelter. The little one makes sure her teddy - bear will be safe, too. "He was in his first year at col- lege." Jaspar hesitated and then went on, "I have been told that he was about to be expelled. . A—a matter of a forged check, dr." "A young man of that age could have changed —perhaps beyond recognition—in 12 years," the in- apector said reflectively. . Chris- tine wondered if she only imag- ined that he glanced toward Bill. "Well, go on, Jaspar." "'Well, sir, Mrs. Talbert had gone out :n her car- I was always worried when she went out alone at night, because it was generally known that she often carried val- uables on her person, sometimes large sums of money. She's done that ever since so many banks closed some years ago. And only the day before, she had taken those bonds I left with Miss Thor- enson horenson from the bank." * * * "You knew it. Does that make It general information?" "It was well enough known that the house was entered once, and there had been attempts to hold her up. .-. And she'd had extor- tion notes." "Can you put your hands on any of those notes?" "No, sir. Mrs. Talbert alevays burned them." Inspector Parsons' smothered ejaculation was eloquent. "Did Mrs. Talbert have any- thing of value with her when she disappeared?" he asked. "Mrs. Talbert," Jaspar answered after a brief hesitation, "carried in her briefcase exact facsmiles of those bonds, She had had then made by—a person who was clever at that sort of work in anticipation of just some such thing as happen- ed. It was Mrs. Taibert's idea of a joke, sir," Jaspar explained. "You see, she'd spent a lot of money trying to get Mr. Earl back. She said that if she was abducted, too, the joke was going to be on the people who collected the ransom."- * * * Somewhere in the room some- one drew a sharp, hissing breath. The inspector. did not glance tip; he made no comment, Yet when he spoke, Christine knew that he felt as sure as she did that some- where in that group sat Cousin Emma's murderer. "Go on, Jaspar," he prompted. "Well, sir, about 0 o'clock the doorbell rang, When I answered, it was a special delivery messen- ger. I carried the letter to the light and saw that it was addressed to me—m Mrs. Talbert's handwrit- ing." "So you are prepared to identify airs. Talbert's writing?" "Oh, yes indeed, sir." Inspector Parsons took an en- velope from his pocket and passed it to Jaspar. "This is addressed to Miss Thor- enson, you notice, -apparently by her cousin. We found it in Mrs, Talbert's purse." (Continued Next Week) As Churchill Spoke Four Years Ago And on that grimmest of Bas- tille Days, July 14, 1040, Winston Churchill spoke from endangered but unconquerable Britain: "And I proclaim my - faith that some of us will live to see a 14th of July when a liberated France will once again rejoice in her great- ness and her glory, and once again stand forward as a champion of the freedom and the rights of man: "When that day dawns, as dawn it will, the soul of France will turn with comprehension and kindness to those Frenchmen and French- women, wherever they may be, who in the darkest hour did not despair of the republic." To speak es de Gaulle and Churchill spoke, four years ago, required an act of faith, says The New York Herald Tribune. 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She' was the last relic of our early farm- ing .days, and arm-ing:days,and had helped us weath- er the storm through those dread- ful years of :depression. Yes, Old Cicely was nineteen years old, and still going strong. There wasn't a thing the matter with her other than old age, yet she hadn't a tooth. in her head that wasn't worn down to the guns. To have tried keeping her another winter would have been asking for trouble, so regret- fully ave said good-bye to our faith - full bossie. Poor old Cicely, site de- served a better fate than to end her life as bologna. Wouldn't it be nice if there were a ranch or something, kept specially as an "Old Cows' Home." I wond- er how' many boarders it would have. Not many, I'm afraid. After a11, farmers may have a few senti- mental moments ' but they are me - cenary minded too and the returns from even a nineteen' year old cow will go a long way towards filling the coal bin for winter - suppos" ing there is coal to be got to fill it, * * 4. What would we do without a home -town paper? It keeps us in touch with people we haven't heard of in years. But unfortunately the news we read isn't always' good news. Last week, for instance, we read- in our local paper of the death in action of a young sergeant in the Canadian army. Charlie was a graud.boy. But I forgot, he was thirty-five, but we still think of him as the boy he,used to be. Part- ner's youngest brother, the last time he was in England, brought Charlie back with him to work on our farm. That was nearly twenty years ago. Charlie was with us abottt a year. Then he started mov- ing around and we finally got out of touch with him. We often won- dered what had happened to the boy — and if it were not for our local weekly we would still be won- dering, Now, as with so many others, we can only ray tribute to Charlie as a brave soldier who laid down his life in service for his adopted country. S UNDAY S CHOOL LESSON August 13. THE PRIEST IN THE LIFE OF ISRAEL. I Samuel 1: 1-4:18. PRINTED TEXT, I Samuel 2:27-30, 35; 4: 12-18. GOLDEN TEXT. — For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God. Heb- rews 5:1. Memory Verse: I will pray unto Jehovah. Jeremiah 42:4, THE LESSON IN ITV SETTING Time. — It is impossible, with the data we have, to determine ex- actly when Eli judged Israel. The fall of Shiloh is assigned by most recent historians as occurring about 1050 B. C., which would make the judgeship of Eli to be 1000-1050 B. C. Place. — Almost all the events are located in the city of Shiloh, northeast of Jerusalem. The House of Eli And there cane a man of God unto Eli, and said unto hint... and did I give unto the house of Thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?" Eli is reminded of that day when God set apart the house of Aaron to the priesthood. After such pri- vileges had been conferred on this favored house it was indeed a crime that its leading members should bring dishonor on their invisible King and Benifactor. "Wherefore kick ye at my sac- rifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honored Thy sons above me, to make yourselves fatwiththe chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people." The house of Eli had treated the holy sacrifices with contempt, The chiefest of the offerings which should have been God's they kept for themselves. Faithful and Unfaithful Priests "Therefore Jehovah The God of Israel, saith , , . and they that des- pise nee shall be lightly esteemed." God honors those who honor Him by putting His gifts to the best possible use. They who despise God by treating His service, His word, His day lightly, irreverent- ly, as though these are of little im- portance, will he lightly esteemed by God, "And I will raise me up a faith- ful priest that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build hint a sure house; and he shall walk be- fore mine anointed forever." There sees little doubt that the direct reference here is to Samuel. The faithful priest is contrasted with unfaithful priests—the sons of Eli — upon whom is to fall the judgement of God. Eli, The True Priest "And there ran a man of Benja- min out of the army,... And he said, Ilow went the matter, my sou?" Eli. never lost his deep con- cern for the holy things to which, God had long ago ordained him, He was a true priest and up to the time of his death he loved the things of God. Though in his. weaker days, when there was sire in his own family, he did not love. God enough to rebuke his sons. 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