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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-07-28, Page 2Mu rder at Bridge ,By ANNE AUSTIN. SYNOPSIS. Juanita Seism is murdered during a bridge 'party. Questioning the guests Bonnie Dundee, special investigator, learns that Ralph .Hammond, in love with Nita. is missing. Dunee asks the guests to take the positions 'they held from the dealing of the 'death hand" ,rail the discovery of the body. Penny Crain, district attorney's secre- tary: Karen Marshall, Who discovered the body, and Carolyn Drake take their places at the bridge fable to replay the hand. Lois Dunlap, Nita's only woman friend, stands beside them, Flora Miles, who left the ronin before the dealing or the hand, goes to the telephone. Janet Raymond goes out on the front porch. Polly. I3eale, who was absent from luncheon, goes to the solar - tum, meeting her fiance, Clive Hammond. They begin to replay the bridge hand. CHAPTER VIII, "Oh, this is too horrible!" Karen Marshall moaned, as Penny Crain again slipped into Nita, Selim's chair and prepared to lay down her hand. And it was horrible—even if vitally necessary—for these three to have to go through the farce of . playing a bridge hand while on.: of the original players was now lyieg on a marble eot at the mor„ ue. But he said nothing, for Tracey Miles was already hovering in the doorway, ready for his cue to enter. Penny, or rather "Nita," as she seemed miraculously to become, was saying: "How's this, Karen darling?" at she laid down the ace and deuce of spades—Karen's trumps. "I hope you remember you are vul- nerable, as well as we are" Carolyn Drake remarked in a sorry imitation of her original cocksuredness—the of- fensive optimism of a bad bridge play- er who thinks she is really good—as she opened the playing by leading the kung of clubs. "And how's this, partner? A. single- ton in clubs!" Nita's imitator demand- ed triumphantly as she continued to lay down her dummy hand, putting the lone nine of clubs beside trumps; "and this little collection of hearts!" as she displayed and arranged the ace, Itr ti 'Why ,does i baby cry at night? How much should he weigh? • When should he creep—walk—talk? How much food does he need? What makes him too thin fat? You will find helpful answers to many questions about baby in "Baby 'Welfare." Write today for our copy. Use coupon below. E•ey The Borden Co. Limited, 50 Powell St., Vancouver, )3.C. Gentlemen; Please send me free copy of booklet entitled 'Bab, welfare." Name dddrem c w in lEilkG IE $1i&ND C;CrN7,LENS1 D, .MILK. Delidoust ling," Karan confided sweetly, as ,she reached for the deuce of spades ---the only remaining trump in the dinnnmy, "Good Lord, child!" her husbitnal ejaculated. "And spoil your cbluw to ruff clube in the dummy? , , head this!" and pointed toward the ei•x of diamonds. "I wish you'd got a puncture, 11u - go, and hadn't butted in before this hand was played," Carolyn Drake sputtered. "Thai was our only Chance, suppose, to have set them—" "Please don't mind," Karen begged.. "Hugo just wanted to help me, believe he knows I'm such a dab at bridge--" "The finest little player in town—a year from now," Judge Marshall en- couraged her ;;allantly, Smiling adoringly at him again, Karen took his suggestion and led the six of diamonds from the chummy; Penny covered it with the nine; Kar- en ruffed with the seven of spadee, and Mrs. Drake lugubriously contri- buted the four .of diamonds. "I can go, on getting my trumps out now, can't I, Hugo?" Karen quav- ered, and at her husband's smilin8. permission, she led the king, Carolyn bad to put down what she. must have foolishly thought would take a trick —the jack of spades; the dummy gave up the deuce, and Penny followed with Ler own last trump, the eight. Karen counted on her fingers, her eyes on the remaining trumps in her own hand, then smiled triumphantly up at her husband. "Why not simply tell us, Karen, that the rest of the trumps are in your own hand?" Penny suggested caustic- ally. "I—I didn't mean to do anything wrong," Karen pleaded, as she led now with the jack of hearts, which drew in Carolyn's queen to cover—Carolyn murmuring religiously: "AIways cover en honor with an honor—or should I have played second band low, Penny?" —topped by the ace in the dummy, the trick being completed by Penny's three. At that point John C. Drake march- es' into the room, strode straight to Dundee and spoke with cold anger: "Enough of this nonsense! I, for one, refuse to act like a puppet for your amusement!" (To be continued.) Neighbour She sits there at her window, Looking out, And you wonder what it is She's thinking about. king, eight and four of hearts; "and also this!" as a length of diamonds -- ace, jack, ten, eight, seven and six slithered down the glossy black sur- face of the bridge table toward Karen Marshall. "Now if you don't make yoa.r little slam, infant, don't dare say I shouldn't have jumped you to five!" "This is where I enter," Tracey Miles whispered hoarsely to Dundee, then, at a nod from the young detec- tive, the pudgy little blond man strode jauntily into the laving room, proud of himself in the role of actor. "Hello, everybody! How's tricks?" he called genially, loudly, but there was a. quiver of horror in his voice as well. Penny was quite pale when she sprang from ner chair, but her voice seemed to be Nita's very own, as she sang out merrily: "It can't be 5.30 already! Thank heaven I'm dummy, and can run away and make myself pretty-pretty for you aad all the other great big -men, Tra- cey darling!" Dundee's keen iteral memory regis- tered the slight difference in the word- ing of the greeting as reported by this psuedo-Nita and the man she was running to greet. But he made no comment. His eyes were busy taking in the mounting ,lush on Tracey Miles' florid, round face, the involuntary glances of repugnance exchanged by Karen Marshall and Carolyn Drake, ant the sudden brimming of tears in Lois Dunlap's kind eyes. How fondly she must have looked upon her protege earlier that afternoon! But Penny, as Nita, was already straightening Trace" Miles necktie with possessive cogmettish fingers, was coaxing, head tucked: "Tracey, my ownest lamb, won't you shake up the cocktails for your poor litle Nita? Everything's ready or, the sideboard or I don't know my precious old Lydia, even if her poor jaw does ache most horribly." Then Penny was on her way, or rather on Nita's journey, to meet death, pausing in the doorway to blew a kiss from her fingertips to the fatu- o sly grinning but now quite pale Tracey Miles. Unobtrusively, Dundee drew his watch from his pocket,. palmed, it as he looted..' La ',..e k" f ; h „ 1 co, �3�mt8 As Tracey, ''�i es p sse • e tsi; bridge table Lois Dunlap linked her arum in his, saying in a voice she tried to make gay and natural: "I'm sailing along, Tracey. Simply dying for a sip of Scotch! Nita's is the real stuff which is more than my fussy old Pete can get half the time! -and you know I Io zthe cocktails." The two passed on into the dining room, the players scarcely raising their eyes from their cards, which they held as if the game was real. Dundee, his watch still in his hand, advanced to the bridge table. Strolling from player to player, he took mental photographs of each hand, then took (TRIPLE PLUS) Serve Kraft Velveeta to your family oftener! 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"If we take one more trick we set them." "Fat chance!" Penny obligingly re- sponded, and Dundee, relieved, knew that the farcical game would be played now almost exactly, and with the st.me comments, as it had been played while Nita Selim was being murdered. Thanks to Penny Crain! Bridling and with a 'great s •w of triumph, Carolyn Drake the the of. a ds to You know she isn't staring At any one thing, For nothing ever happens That's interesting. There's just a row of houses Along our street, And : just the ad of . e • ; le is deiicious (Write Salado, Toronto, Ior excellent recipa) • 268 A Republic of Prairie Dogs On returning from our expedition m quest of the young Count, I learned that a burrow, or village, as it is termed, of prairie dogs had been dis- •covem•ed in the level summit of a bill, about a mile from the camp. Having heard much of the habits and .peculi- arities of these little animals, I deter- mined to pay a visit to the community. The prairie dog is, in fact, one of the curiosities of the Far West, about which travellers delight to tell mar- vellous tales, endowing him at times with something of the politic and so- cial habits of a rational being, and giving him systems or civil govern- ment and domestic economy, almost equal to what they used to bestow up- on the beaver. The prairie dog is an animal of the coney kind, and about the size of a rabbit. He is of a sprightly mercurial nature; quick, sensitive, and some. what petulant. He is very gregarious, living Ir. large communities, some- times of several acres in extent where innumerable little heaps of earth 3w the entrances to the.subterran- ean cells of the inhabitants, and the well -beaten tracks, like lanes and streets, show their mobility and rest- lessness. According to the accounts given of them, they would seem to be continually full. of sport, business, and public affairs; whisking about hither and thither, as if on gossiping visits to each other's houses, or congregat- ing ongregating in the cool of the evening, or after a shower, and gambolling together in the open air. Sometimes, especially when the moon shines, they pass half the night in revelry, barking or yelp- ing with short, quick, yet weak tones, like those of very young puppies. while in the height of their playful- ness and Clamor, however, should there be the least alarm, they all van- ish into their cells in an instant, and the vIlIage remains blank and silent. As we approached, we could per- ceive numbers of the inhabitants seat- ed at the entrances of their cells,' 'while sentinels seemed to have been posted on the outskirts to keep a look- out. At sight of us, the picket guards scampered in and gave the alarm;; whereupon every inhabitant gave a; short yelp, 01' bark, and dived into his! hole,'his heels twinkling in the air as if he had thrown a soiierset. We traversed the whole village, or republic, which covered an area os about thirty acres; but nota whisker of an inhabitant was to be seen. Mov ing quietly to a little distance, we lay down upon the ground, and watched for a long time, silent and motionless. By and by, a cautious old burgher would slowly put forth the end of his nose, but instantly draw it in again.: Another, at a greater distance, would emerge entirely; but, catching a' glance of us, would throw a somerset,i and plunge back again into his hole.' At length, some who resided on the' opposite side of the village, taking' courage from the continued stillness,• would steal forth; and hurry off to a distant hole, the residence possibly of some family connection, or gossiping friend, about whose safet;- they were solicitous, or with, whom they wished to compare notes about the late oc-, currences.—From "The Crayon Mis- cellany," by Washington Irving. Male Butterfly Has Odour Like Clover, Says Expert Washington. -- According to Mr. Austin H. Clark, butterfly specialist of the Smithsonian Institute, the male butterfly exudes a fragrance of the flowers they patronize. comma"• y'l 4e ' -butterfi Pigeon "Camera Man" Carrier pigeons are being used in Germany to take aerial photographs., These are often wanted for particular; purposes, and to make i mem by means' of an aeroplane is rather an expen-1 sive business. By means of a wonder- ful new miniature camera, ;pigeons -can to: take the m ua`red su The method used is ingenious. Birld which can be relied • upon - to " fly straight home to their lofts are seict.1. ed. They are then liberated so that: the place to be photographed lies bel tween the point of release and the: home loft. The camera has a time shutter, which can be set to operate to within' a fraction of a second. The speed atl which particular birds fly is known; from previous records, and it is fount, that they fly at an average height of about 500 feet. The figures having been worked out,' the camera shutter is set to operate; at the exact moment that the bird will be crossing the place or the building to be photographed. The bird is then released, and at the loft waits an as- sistant who removes the camera. Experiments have shown that extra -i ordinarily good photographs can be obtained. PE1EqOUGH BOAT°F©R QQV(R FIFTY YEARS. 'wax wore, OWN A OAT Pleasant waterways are within reach of almost everyone. A boat will give you and your family a lot of safe, healthy fun. 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I thought you could at least hall the ace of dia- monds and that Karen would certain- ly have one, as I only had four of them—," "And the dummy sitting there with a string of six diamonds!" Penny re- tarted; then, with a shrug, "Oh, well! Play bridge!" for Karen was sitting staring at her cal: s helplessly. "I—I guess I'd b atter get my trumps out," Karen—now almost a genuine actress, too—breathed tremu- lously. "I do wish—wish Nita were playing this hand. I know I'll muff it somehow—" "Good kid!" Dundee thought, and took the liberty of patting Karen on her slim shoulder. The girl -wife threw him an upward glance of gratitude through misty eyes, then led the six of spades,. Mrs. ,rake contributing the four, dummy taking the trick with the ace, and Penny relinquishing her three. "Let's see that makes five of 'em in, since I trumped one trick," Karen "said, as she reached across the table to lead from dummy. As if the words were a cue—which they probably were—Judge Marshall entered the room at that moment. Judge Marshall, making a great effort to be as jaunty, debonair and "young for his age," as he must have thought he looked whet- the real game was being played. At his step Karen lifted her head, smiled tremulously, and greeted her elderly husband with a childlike joy and a womanly tenderness: "Hullodarling! . . I'm trying to make a little slam. I may have been foolish to bid, but Nita jumped, me from two to five spades---" "Let's have a look, sweetheart," the; retired judge suggested p nnpously, l and Dundee gave way to make room for him behind Karen's chair. But befoe the judge looked at his wife's cards, he bent and kissed her, on her flushed, fair cheek, and Karon' raised a hand to tweak his gray mus- I tache. Dundee, with a raised eye- brow, querried Penny and the girl ; nodded shortly, conveying the info' mation, grudgingly it is true, that this was the way the scene had really' been played when there was no gna- t actiing, y 1 ,1 'm gett'ln�g" out my Vi;umps, flax" I wonder what she's seeing That we can't see In such a quiet street As ours seems to be. —Ferry Adams in The Chicago Tri- bune. w;s "She said on her wedding day that she'd go through everything for him." "Well, I guess she has. I loaned him a ten spot this morning." Worst Bug Year in Decade Declares U. S. Statistician Springfield; Ill.—This Is the most prolific bug year in a decade, says A. r. Surratt, Federal agricultural sta- delan. He warns the residents of Il- linois cities that oat lice have spread from country road to city street to in- fest the eyes, ears, head and clothing of the townspeople. One Mattoon resident said he drove through a cloud of oat lice so thick they covered his windshield and he had to stop and brush them off. Oat lice do no particular damage to crops, Mr. Surratt said, but they are only one pest enjoying a boom year. Chinch bugs and Hessian fly, nemesis of small grains and corn, are flourish- ing. EASY TO PLAY That is why CONN SAND INSTRUMENTS help you make quicker progress. TAY A CONN and note the differ- ence, See Our Complete Stock of New Models. Corin-l.eedy Musical instruments Limited 10 Shute' Street - Toronto faint, sweet :fragrance of red clover blossoms of the flowers of the com- mon milkweed. This comes from scales within a little pouch on ,each hind wing of the male, toegther with a faint, cockroach -like odor. The fe- male emits only the latter, but much stronger and more disagreeable. This butterfly, Mr. Clark says, is a great wanderer, particularly fond of flying along the seacoast or along the bank of a wide river. It has been reported 100 miles at sea. The common orange and black regal fritaliaxy, Mr. Clark found, gives out a strong, sweet, spicy odor resembling that of sandalwood. The blue butter- fly of the middle Atlantic states has an exceedingly delicate odor compar- able to that of newly stirred earth in the spring or of crushed violets. The odor of the abundant weilow clover butterfly Mr. Clark describes as that of sweet grass, This insect, he found, has a decided preference for yellow flowers. If a cloud obscures the sun, it at once seeks a place to rest, the first choice being a yellow clover leaf or a yellow leaf of any kind. The tiny sulphur butterfly exudes a pronounced fragrance suggesting dried hay, while the closely related orange clover butterfly has a constant and very uniform odor suggesting heliotrope, the study revealed. About the most common species throughout the East, the cabbage but- terfly', emits a faint odor, difficult to detect, which is comparable to that of mignonette and sweet briar, according to Mr. Clark. The great family of swallowtails, he says, present a range of odors. The blue swallowtail, com- mon about flower gardens, exudes an odor suggestive of carrot flowers. It is. described as one of the most ag- gressive of all butterflies. Mr. Clark records one instance in which one of the species actually chased an English sparrow for more than 50 feet, each fl, ing at a speed of approximately 25 miles an hour. The closely related yellow swallow- tail, an inhabitant of woodlands, has an odor described by Mr. Clark as "like certain brands of honey bis- cuits." Ain't Nature Grand? Two small boys were hunting in the woods, and one of them stopped and picked up a chestnut bur, I "Tommy!" he called excitedly. "Come here. I've found a porcupine egg!" More Truth Than Poultry. 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