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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1932-08-25, Page 3..-.. f,�-�.,,r 1. .. Murder at Bridge By ANNE AUSTIN. SYNOPSIS. while you were making those poor girls play the hand over again,.I went through the same motions because you told all of us to behave exactly as we had done before—" Juanita $lelim is murdered at her dressing table during a bridge party. Bonnie Dundee orders everyone to take the places they held from l.he dealing of the 'death hand" until the bodyy was found. Penny Crain, Karen Marshall and Carolyn Drake .are the players; Lois Dunlap, Nita's only woman friend, stands beside them. Flora Miles is in the foyer outside Nita's room, telephon- ing; Janet Raymond is on 'he front porch; Polly Beale and her fiance, Clive Hammond, are in the solarium. At the end ..f the hand, Dexter Spra- gue, terribly nervous, comes in with Janet Raymond. The group is hostile to him, and the two go into the dining roomm to tellnNitalthetsco e,o to astle shzbed- did before, but collapses. • CHAPTER X. "I—see," Dundee agreed. Pretty clever, in spite of being al- most frightened to death, Dundee said to himself. But he had been just a shade cleverer than she, for .ie had been in this room ahead of her, and there had been no balls if greasy face tissue in the wastebasket then! He was passing out of the room, offering his arm to Karen, when one of his underlined notes thrust itself upon his memory. There was a conceited rush to the "Mey I see your bridge tally, please, girl who had fallen, sobbing and' If whimpering to the floor of the hall. 1 ut it was Dundee who reached her first, Dundee and not her outraged :.d excited old husband. "Mrs. Marshall—listen, please," he begged in a low voice, as he lifted her so that -her head rested against his aril. "You have been splendid—won- derful! Please believe that I am truly sorry to distress you so, and that very soon, I hope, you may go home, and rest." "I—can't tear any—more," Karen whimpered. Ignoring Judge Marshall's louder utustering, Dundee continued softly: " ou don't want the wrong person to b accused of this terrible crime, do ycu, Mrs. Marshall's... Of course 'not! And you do want to help us all '..sou can to discover vho really killed Mrs. Selim?" "I—I suppose so,}" Karen conceded, on a sob. "Then I'll help you. I'll go into the bedroom with you," Dundee promised h:r with a sigh of relief. To the others he spoke sharply: "Go back to the exact positions in living room and dining room and sol- arium that you occupied when Mrs. Marshall ran from the room." "I thine you're overdoing it, Bon- nie," Captain Sawn protested. "But —sure I'Il',ple that they mind you." With Karen Marshall clinging to his erm, Dundee Walked down the hall, beyond the staircase to an open door on his left—a door guarded by a lounging plainclothesman. Seated at the dressing table of the guests' lava- , ;'tory was Flora Miles, her -sallow dark face so ravaged that she looked 10 years older than when he had first seen her an hour before. "So you were in here when you heard Mrs. Marshall scream, Mrs. Miles?" Dundee paused to ask. "Yes—yes," she gasped, rising. "And that horrible man has made me stay in here— OE course the door was closed—before. I telephoned home to ask about nay children, and then I came in here to—to do my face over—" "You didn't hear your husband ar- rive?" "I—I didn't hear him arrive," Flora Miles faltered, her handkerchief dab- bing at her trembling over -rouged lips. "I—see," Dundee raid slowly. He stepped into the little room, leaving Karen to stand weakly against ti'e door frame. Without a word to Mrs. Miles he looked closely at the dressing -table top and into the shall wastebasket that stood beside it. "You—you can see that I cold- creamed niy face before I put on fresh powder and—and rouge," Flora Miles pointed out,with an obvious effort at offended dignity.. "After I cam back, 'My—bridge tally!" she echoed blankly. "Why- -it must be on the table where I was playing—" "It is not," Dundee assured her quietly. "Perhaps it is in your hands bag?" and he glanced at the rather large raffia bag that lay on the table. She'snatched it up, slightly averting her body as she looked hastily through. its contents. "It—isn't here... Oh, I don't know where it is! What does it matter?" Without replying, Dundee escorted the trembling little discoverer of Nita Selim's body into the large ornate bedroom, murmuring as he did so: w "Don't be frightened, Mrs. Mar- s ,all. The bod—1 mean Mrs. Selim isn't here now... And you shan't have to scream. I'll give the signal mfself. I just want you to go through the same motions you did before." On jerky feet the girl advanced tb Nita's now deserted vanity dresser. "I—I was calling to her all the time," she whispered. "I didn't even wait to knock, and I—I began to tell her how much we'd made off that hand when I—when she didn't answer... - I didn't touch her, but I saw, I saw—" Again she gripped her face with her hands and was about'to scream again. "I know," Dundee assured her gent- ly. Then he shouted: "Ready!" Herded by Strewn, the small crowd of men and women came running into the room, Judge Marshall leading the way, Penny being second in line... . Penny second! Why not Flora Miles, who had been nearer to that room than any of the others, if her story was true? Dundee asked himself: But all had crowded into the room, includ- ing Polly Beale and Clive Hammond, lefore Mrs. Miles crept in. "Is this the order of your arrival?" Dundee asked them all. Penny, who was standing against thl wall, just inside the doorway, spoke up, staring r'' Flora with frown- ing intentness. "You're sort of rnixed up, aren't you, Flora? I was standing right here until the worst of it was over— I didn't even go near Nita, and I know you didn't pass me. I remember that Tracey stepped away from the— body, and called you, and you weren't here. And then almost the next min- ute I saw you coming toward him from—from--over there!" ' And Penny pointed toward that cor- ner of the room which held, on one angle, the door leading to the porch, and on its other angle the window from which, or from rear which Nita Selim had been shot. "You're lying, Penny Crain! I did no such thing!" Flt ra Miles cried hysterically. "I came running in— G LD Syndicate TR E M ENDOUS. development now going on throughout Northern Ontario presage a gold boom of magnitude. New camps are opening up rapidly. New mines are in the snaking. 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Featured by the guimpe of striped silk and jaquette carried. on the' arm, this is ono of the re- cent street 'dresses displayed in Paris shops. 'London Ramblings Statuary Wins Praise The Queen Alexandra memorial, recently unveiled liere, Is a distin- guished addition to London's statuary. It derives an added significance from .11114 fact that. its sculptor was Sid Al- fred Gilbert, whose statue of Eros, in the center of Piccadilly Circus, has, by time 'and sentiment, become part of the very fabric of London. Since the unveiling of the statue of Eros in 1893, London has had no other work from this sculptor, and the new inemorial Is hailed as in keeping with the artis- try and genius of this craftsman. When the veil fell from the Alexandra memorial, there was revealed an elab- orate bronze group in which the vet- eran sculptor has delineated the characteristics of "the sea king's daughter from over the sea." "Faith, is del cious (Write Salads, Toronto, for. excellent recipe) 268 South Africa, Kenya, Canada, Aus- tralia, Ceylon, the Malay Straits, New Zealand, all find indirect representa- tion in the House of Commons during Hope and Charity furnishes the motif question time, when issues affecting of the group, which is in the form of a Great Britain in gelation to these great throne on which is seated a crowned figure, Charity, supported on either side by two meditative charact- ers representing Faith and Hope, The broad effect is a harmonious flowing of graceful lines, pleasingly suitable to the. niche in which the group has been placed. This niche is set into the wall of Marlborough House, over- looking Friary Court, the outer court- yard of St, James's Palace:, In recent weeks Londoners have beea;''flockiug to see the statue, which is dramatical- ly lit up at night by two big lamps; whose towers are an integral part of the monument. Can it Ever Have a Rival? Big Ben is eyeing with suspicion a tower which Is steadily rising on the new Shell -Mex building in the Strand. From his strategic site on the edge of the Thames, at Westminster, Big Ben •is beginning to think that the tall more beyond the fact that Clive Ham- tower near by is offering something in mond had dashed. out to circle the the way of a rival. It looks suspici- ously like a clock tower, he seems to imagine, although he booms out the hours and quarters with his old de - "Better let this bunch go for the fiance, knowing that nothing that present, hadn't we, boy?" Captain comes to Loudon in the way or clocks house and look oved the grounds, and that John Drake had been fully occu- pied with a hysterical wife. Strewn whispered uneasily. "Not a thing on any of them—" "Not quite yet, sir, if you dont mind," Dundee answered in a low voice. "Will you take them back into the living room and put them under Sergeant Turner's charge for a while? "hen there are one or two things I'd ilk to talk over with you." Mollified by the younger man's def- erence Strewn obeyed the suggestion,, to return within five minutes, his gray brows drawn into a frown. "I hope you'll be willing to take full credit for that fool bridge game, Bort nie," he worried. "I don't want to look a chump in the newspapers!" "I'll take the blame,". Dundee as with—with the rest of you, and I rushed over there just to see if I could see anybody running away across the meadow—" "My wife is right, sir," Tracey Miles added his word aggre9,sively. "I saw what she was doing—the most sensible of all of us—and I ran to join her. We' looked out of the win- dows, both the side wi.idows and the rear ones, and out of the door onto the porch. But we didn't see anything." Surprisingly, Dunc:ue abandoned the point.. "And you were the only' one to touch her, Sprague?" "I—believe so," Dexter Sprague an - send in a strained voice, "T laid my hand on her—her hair, for an in- stant, then I picked lip her hand to wee if -if there was any pulse left." can ever supplant him in the eyes of tho world. All the same, Big Ben has some reason for jealousy at the grow- ing structure in the Strand. The clock to be placed in the new building will beat Big Ben in size by three feet, al- though in weight Big Ben will more thau hold his own. Each of the two dial faces of the new clock will be 25 feet square. The diameter -'f Big Ben is 22 feet. Big Ben's minute marks are 14 inches apart but the new clock will. not bother with such distinguish- ing istinguishing features. It Is not even going to have numerals. It Is claimed that it will be quite easy to tell the time to the minute by the marks which will be made on the face in lieu of num- places are tabulated for query and re- ply. The House seems to• have the world as its constituency, and there is something dramatic In the idea that the member for, say, the Western Isles, also takes cognizance of affairs running. tar be: ned the boundaries of the' place for which he sits. This in- terest arises naturally from the world- wide interests oil. Britain as a sea and commercial people. The member for the Platting division of Manchester, for instance, 'naturally takes an in- terest in the cotton output af India, since it is a topic of first-rate import- ance to the people who actually placed him in Parliament. sured him, with a grin. "But that; ,crass:. The newcomer will be worked 'fool'bridge game'—and I admit it w a horrible thing to .have to de -a -',J. me a whole bunch of facts that'n to be very useful." "Por instance?" Strewn growled. "For instance,ls Dundee answered, "it told me that it took approximately eight minutes to play out a little slain bid, when ordinarily it would have taken not more titan two or three min- utes. Not only that, but it told me the names of everyone in this party who could have killed Nit Selini, and— Good Lord! of course!" And to Captain Strawn's amaze- ment, Dundee threw open the door of Nita's big clothes closet, jerked on the light, and stooped :e the floor. (To be continued.) ' by electricity, and the current will be arranged that the clock will run ct hours ca its 'own' initiative should there be a breakdown in the supply. eyes?" "She—she was dead." "And her hand—did it feel cold?" tract from the Queen's Journal' terations of the river banks.. It is re - "Neither cold nor warm—just cool," selected from The Letters of Queen cognized, of course, that flood control Sprague answered in a voice that was Victoria (1886-1901). Edited by may be necessary in the protection of nearly strangled with emotion. "She George Earle Butyls. lite and property. But the "wardens" —she always had cool hands-" are desirous of safeguarding beauty, Queen Victoria and Sarah Bernhardt Cimiez, 22nd April, 1S97 — at half - past six the celebrated and famous actress Sarah Bernhardt, Who has been acting at Nice and is staying in this hotel, performed a little piece for me in the 'drawing -room at her own request. The play was called "Jean Marie," by Adrien Fleuriet, quite short, only lasting half an hour. It is extremely touching, and Sarah Bernhardt's acting was quite mar- velous, so pathetic and full of feel- ing. She appeared muck affected herself, tears rolling down her cheeks. She has a most beautiful voice, and is very graceful in all her movements. The story is much the same as that of "Auld Robin Gray." The two who acted with her were also, excellent, particularly the one who took the part of Jean Marie. When the play was over, Edith L. presented Sarah Barnhardt to me, and I spoke to her for a few mom- ents. .Her manner was most pleas- ing and gentle. She Said it had been such a pleasure and honor to act for me, When I expressed the hope that she was not tired, she answered, "Cela m'a reposee."—Ex- Milk Bottles Vanishin,a There is in London au organization for the sole purpose of finding and re- storing to the London Milk companies the milk bottles lost by their careless customers. About 6,000,000 stray bot- tles and about 22,000 mislaid churns are thus traced and restored to their rightful owners every year. But the "returns" fall very shcrt of the total number of losses. One large milk company reckons its annual loss to be 5,200,000 bottles, worth thr pence each. Get Together! (According to M, Jean Esclaudon an address to the French Academy of Science, the continent of Europe has moved 15 feet nearer to the Un- ited States in the course of the Iast five years.). Oh, the East may be East, and the West may be West, But the twain shall yet meet and ride proudly abreast! And think what a great deal of time we shall save When severed no more by the far- reaching wave. We shan't have to go to the films for to hear The accents Noe York holds deserv- edly dear; Oh, won't it be poifectly splendid to meet The cuties and guys in the very next streets If gangsters are needed, well, here are the lot— We'll have the whole bunch of 'em right on the spot. And discussions on debts will con- tinue, perchance, As MacDonald leans over the pier of Penzance. T?'e hikers of England will ramble dry -shod, From Mumps to Manhattan, from Cowes to Cape Cod; And airmen won't drive their Tela- . tions half frantic By foolhardy flips o'er a vanquished Atlantic. The rum -running racket will fall to the ground When Campbeltowns somewhere in Long Island Sound, For long-distance cargoes need hard- ly be sent When the bootlegger strolls into Burton -on -Trent. —Manchester Gnardiaii. • Changeless Bu. Ever Changing London, immemorially old, adapts itself most agreeably to the changing ideas of modern days. Fleet Street, for instance, may 1- - a narrow, crowd- ed thoroughfare, with ancient build- ings huddling themselves into se- cluded courts and laces but it is still a street capable of being dignified by an all -glass structure, such as that re- cently erected for one of the daily newspapers. The new buildings in the modern manner take their place in the Loudon scheme of things as a mere matter of routine, as if the older buildings somehow knew that the newcomers after all made little dif- ference to the grand ensemble that London is. Epstein may adorn a mag- nificent ajnificent structure that is the entrance to au `underground station, but the griffins and. gargoyles in Fleet Street and the Strand grin on as of yore, say- ing to themselves: "We see so many new things come and fit into Loudon that it is rather unimportant!" Safeguarding the Thames The' formation of a society for the preservation of the rural character- istics of the Thames .focuses attention on improvements which are contem- plated by the authorities in regard to Rood control. It is generally recog- nized that flood control, carried to its • most efilcierit point, will mean the dis- appearance of mauy of the pictorial and rural qualities which the Thames possesses id its upper reaches, and there is a growing sentiment in favor Of exercising vigilance in regard to any developments that may detract from the charms of the river. The new society ---the Thames Wardens Society —is seeking to secure the cooperation of dwellers on the shores of the rives with a view to "watching the ameni- ties" in the event of contemplated al - Urges August iawin. A prompt plowing of lands harvest- ed during the early Summer is advo- cated by Professor E. R. Gross agri- cultural engineer at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Plowing is an operation that should follow the harvesting of a crop rather than one that should precede planting or seeding, he says. If plowing takes, place soon after harvesting, stubble and weeds are turned under, soil mois- ture is preserved and a mulch of green manure is formed which the heat of the Summer will tura into valuable plant food for the next season's crop. The soil is left open, ready to receive its share of moisture from the Pall and Winter rains or snows. "Mechanical farming overcomes ob- jections to plowing in the heat of the month of August," states Professor Gross. "When horses are used the teams may he changd at noon or larger teams may be used to lighten the load. The plowing will help con- trol ontrol the noxious weeds, such as Can- ada thistle and quack grass, which may invade the land in late Summer. Unplowed fields frequently harbor in- sects during the Winter. A thorough plowing with good coverage is, there- fore advantageous in controlling these pests and is particularly effective in checking the corn borer. "The extreme rush that often ao companies early Spring work in wet seasons or on poorly drained lands is avoided and late plantings cease to be necessary if the laud is plowed in the Fall, Land that has lain fallow dur- ing the Winter and has a tendency to- ward erosion should be terraced. Ter- racing as a practice in the agriculture of the country is rapidly increasing and presents a means of permanently controlling erosion and of conserving soil fertility." "What did ' you do, Judge Mar- shall?" Dundee asked abruptly. "I took my poor little wife away from this room, laid her on a couch in the living room, and the telephon- ed the police. Miss Crain stood at my elbow, urging me to hurry, so that she might ring ou—as she did. Your line was busy and she lost about five minutes before getting you," i "And the rest of you?" Dundee "Nothing spectacular I'm afraid, 1 Mr. Dundee," Polly Beale answered inher brusque, deep voice, now edged with scorn. 'urther questioning elicited little asked. She—"i have just joined t anti -gossip league." 110—'1 suppose the idea is confine gossip to your own nie bets and not let it get outside'," 11e to to so that the Thames may remain a pic- turesque river even when it becomes a well -regulated one. • Empire -Wide Parochialism Britain's international ramificatiolis find expression nowhere snore Strik- ingly than in the House of Commons. To "sit in" at question time in the House is to listen to the stoic of an Empire on which the sun never sets, Members of Parliament may as in the majority of cases, be returned to the House on strictly domestic issties, but it with pleasure." every ftlamber soon becomes a pro- tagonist in the drama of'world affairs, Happiness is a roadside plant grow - whether he will or no, India, Burma, Ing by the way, of usefulness. Striking a Happy Mean A good many people will agree with the eminent autho}ity who said that it is better to live a full, intense life for half a century . than a dull, senile .e.e. one for 100 years. If mere existence is an end of life, then the man who can stay alive longest is the happiest. But this doesn't work out as a practical thing. The ideal combination, of course, is a Iong life packed to the brim with activity. Unfortunately, In- tense activity usually burns out the body fairly rapidly. A happy mean—if you can find it —will give ou your fair measure of years and a similar measure of, activity. Holland Plans Economies The Hague. — Drastic economies are suggested in the new report of the Retrenchment Commission which has just been made public. It is proposed to abandon the home Naval Flying Service, to suspend for the present drainage work on the remaining part of the enclosed Zuider Zee, to close many of the schools and to replace men teachers With women in the first two classes of the elementary schools. The garrisons at Surinam an Cu- racao would be reduced considerably, and the 5 per cent. reduction in offi- cial salaries would be made 13 per cent in the case of unmarried offi- cials and 8 per cent for those who are married, the cuts to be perman- ent. The saving is estimated at 101,866,000 guilders. The commission observes that pub- lic expenditures have increased in late years far beyond revenue and taxable income, has decreased from 30 to 50 per cent, The proposed economies, the report says, may thus he only a first step, to be followed soon by others Scandal "No one, says Jerome, "loves to tell a to le of scandal except to him Who loves to heir it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tone by showing that you do not listen to Strength God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything he wants us to do.—Ruskin. We do not know how cheap the seeds of happiness are, or we should scatter them. oftener.—Lowell. o eco ornical ?1t3'�,sr.� "?e"+?6afi'�S' .•a -Is : e t est c� i•se s.Ncrossa: ]ss a tt•:Lt� 6 E srPSIe :0::mt.v Kraft Old -Fashioned Salad Dressing offers everything any- one could ask for in exquisite, refreshing flavor, yet it's sold at a price so low it's within the reach of everyone. Get some to -day. 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