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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-12-08, Page 7.1.-0.0-41- 4-.0. 404 41P-10.4-04,0,0,41.0.04,10”11.10-0*" •••••••••••••••••/..., •••••,,,/,:yr.114••• Murder at Bridge Ey ANNE AUSTIN, SYNOPSIS. Juanita .telim is murdered at her dressing table during a bridge party. Bonnie Dundee orders everyone to take the places they held from tile dealing of the 'death hand until the -body was found. Penny Crain, 1<aren Marshall, and Carolyn Drake are the players; 1-10i$ 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 'lie front porch; Polly Beale and her fiance, Clive Hammond, are in the solarium. At the end ef the hand, Dexter Spra- gue, terribly nervous, comes in with Janet Raymond, The group is. hostile to hlm, and the two go into the dining room. Haven starts to go to the bed- room to tell Nita the score, as she did before, but collapses., CHAPTER X. while you were making those -poor girls play the hand over again, I went through the same motions—ecause you told all of les to behave exactly as we had done before*" "I—see," Dundee agreed. Pretty clever in spite of being al- most frightened' to death, Dundee said to himself, But he had ben just a shade cleverer than she, for ie had been in this room ahead of her, and there had been no balls )f 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 concerted rush to the «l124 I see your bridge tally, please, girl who had fallen, sobbing and Mrs. Miles?" whimpering to the floor of the hall. 'My—bridge tally!" she echoed 3. ut it was Dundee who reached her first, Dundee and not her outraged el excited old husband. "Mrs. Marshall --listen, please," he begged in a low voice, as he lifted her so that her head rested against "his ann. "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 blustering, Dundee continued softly: " ou don't want the wrong person to b accused of this terrible crime, do you, Mrs. Marshalli. . Of course not! And you do want to help us all eou can to discover echo 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 her with a sigh of 'relief. To he 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 think you're overdoing it, Bon - tie," Captain Strawn protested. "But —sure I'll see that they mind you." With Karen Marshall clinging to his arm, Dundee walked down the hall, beyond the staircase to an open door on his left—a door guarded by a lotinging plainclothesman. Seated at the dressing table of the guests' lava - s 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— Of course the door was clesed—before. I telephoned home to. ask about my children, and then I came in here to—to do my face over—" "You didn't hear your husband ar- elver "I—I didn't heat him arrive," Flora Miles faltered, her handkerchief dab- bing at her tremblirg over -rouged lips. "I—see," Dundee raid slowly. He stepped into the little room, leaving Karen to tand weakly against t}'e door frame. Without a word to Mrs. Miles he looked closely •at the dressing -table top and into the small wastebasket that stood beside it. "You—you can see that I cold- ci earned my face before I put on fresh powder and—and rouge," Flora Miles pointed out, with an obvious effort at offended dignity., "After I came back, GOLD Syndicate TREM 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 making. For- tunes await those who get into the leaders. in these new •areas early, OUTSTANDING among these areas is 'Tyrrell Matachewan, and 'he outstanding pre- ferred property is that of Tyrrell Township McNeely syndi- aate. In the hands of pioneer min- ing men of repute, work has gone ahead steadily until the prOperty has shown all indications of a mine. ernesti MEN have done initial Work with their own money. To -day, with the element of risk reduCed, they invite elope:mt. A. limited number of the original units are still available at $100 each. These units are exchange- able for 1,000 shares of fully paid, non -assessable Capital Stock. RilIMEMBDR the story of Lake Shore. Clip the coupon below now for descriptive circular and map. Tyrrell Tovvnship McNeely Syndicate, 171 Y'onge St., Toronto, Canada Without obligation please furnish me with fail details, of Tyrrell Twp. McNeely Syndicate: . Name Addreint•a.. • • II .• • 11. • • 4 4 • V •• 4 V blankly. "Why- -it must be on the table where I was playing—" "It is not," Dundee assured her quietly. "Perhaps it is in your hand- 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: "Don't be frightened, Mrs. Mar- s all. The bod—I mean Mrs. Selim isn't here now. . And you shan't have to scream. I'll give the signal maself. I just want you to go through the same motions you did before." On jerky feet the girl advanced to 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 Strawn, 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 tLan 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 ..rept "Is this the order of your arrival?" Dundee asked them all. Penny, who was standing against th3 wall, just inside the doorway, spoke up, staring Flora with frown- ing intentness. "You're sort of mixed up, aren't you, Flora? I wan 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 fromethe— body, and called you, and you weren't here. And then almost the next min- ut3 I saw you coining toward him from—from—over there!" And Penny pointed toward that cor- er of the room which held, on one angle, the door leading to the porch, and on its other angle the window freer which, or from near which Nita Wine had been shot. "You're lying, Pem:y Crain! I did no such thing!" Fit ra Miles cried hysterically. "I came running in— with—with the rest of yoa, 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 aggressively. "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 adows and the rear'ones, and out of the door onto the porch. But we didn't see anything." Surprisingly,. Dundee abandoned the point. "And you were the touch her, Sprague?" "I—believe so," Dexter Sprague an- sered in a strained voice. "I—laid my hand on her—her hair, for an in- stant, then 1 pieked up her hand to eve if—if there was any pulse left." "Yes ?" "She—she was dead." "And her handr—did it feel cold?" "Neither cold nor warmL-just cool," Sprague answered in a voice that vas nearly strangled with emotion. "She —she always had cool hands—" "What did you do, Judge Mar- shall?" Dundee asked abruptly. "I took rny poor little wife away from this room, laid her on a couch in the living room, and then telephon- ed the police. Miss Crain stood at any elbow, urging me to hurry, so that she might ring e ou—as she did. Your line was busy and she lost about five minutes before getting you." "And the rest of you?" Dundee asked. "Nothing spectacular I'm afraid, Mr. Dundee," Polly Beale answered in her brusque, deep voice, now edged with worn. 1-$51JE 4p. 32-232 Smart Street Model Featured by the guimpe of striped silk and jaquette carried on the arm, this is ono of the re- cent street dresses diaplayed in Paris shops. London Ramblings Statuary Wins Praise The Queen Alexandra memorial, recently unveiled here, is a distin- guished addition to London's statuary. It derives an added significance frora the 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 memorial 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, Hope and Charity furnishes the motif of the group, which is in the form of a 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 t� 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 been flocking 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. more beyond the fact that Clive Ham- mond had dashed out to circle the house and look oved the grounds, and that John Drake had been fully occu- pied with a hysterical wife. "Better let this bunch go, for the present, hadn't we, boy?" Captain Strawn whispered uneasily. "Not a thing on any of them—" "Not quite y3t, sir, if you don't 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 lila, to talk over with you." Mollified by the younger man's def- erence Strawn 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, Bon- nie," he worried. "I don't want to look a chump in the newspapers!" "I'll take the blame," Dundee as- sured him, with a grin. "But that 'foal bridge game'—and I admit 4 -was a horrible thing to have to do—told me a whole bunch of facts that ought to be very useful." "For instance?" Strawn growled. "For instance," Dundee answered, "it told me that it took approximately eight minutes to play oat a little slain bid, when ordinarily it would have taken not more than two or three min- utes. Not only that, but it told me the names of everyone in this party who could have killed Nita Selim, 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.) only one to • Farther questioning elieited age Queen Victoria and Sarah Bernhardt Cimiez, 22nd April, 1897 — 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 much 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 tbe 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 pleae- 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- tract from the Queen's Journal, Selected from The Letters of Queen Victoria (18864901). Edited by Earle Buckle. George S110—"I have just joined the anti -gossip league." He --"I suppose the idea is to Odnfihie gossip to your own Mein - hers and not let it get outside." 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 beginnina to think that the tall tower near by is offering something 111 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- fiance, knowing that nothing that comes to London in the way of clocks can ever supplant him in the eyes of the 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 tliree feet, al- though in weight Big Ben will more than 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 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- erals. The newcomer will be worked by electricity, and the current will be so arranged that the clock will run for two hours cn its own initiative should there be a breakdown in the supply. Changeless Bu. Ever Changing is delicio t ere (Write Salado., Toronto, for excellent recipe) 203 South Africa, Kenya, Canada, Aus- tralia, Ceylon, the Malay Straits, New Zealand, all find indirect representa- tion in the House of Commons during question time, when issues affecting Great Britain in relation to these 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 far bea and the boundaries of the place for which he sits. This in- terest arises naturally from the world- wide interests of 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 of India, since it is a topic of first-rate import- ance to the people who actually placed him in Parliament. Milk Bottles Vanishing There le in Loudon an 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 22000 mislaid churns are thus traced and restored to their rightful owners every year. But the "returns" fall very slit rt of the total number of losses. One large milk company reckons its annual loss to be 5,200,000 bottles, worth thr • pence each. London, immemorially old, adapts itself most agreeably to the changing ideas of modern days. Fleet Street, for instance, may la a narrow, crowd- ed thoroughfare, with ancient build- ings huddling themselves into se- cluded courts and lanes 'but ft 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 London 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 structure that is the entrance to an 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 ft into London 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 onimprovements which are contem- plated by the authorities in regard to flood control. It is generally recog- dized that flood control. carried to its most efficient point, will mean the dis- appearance of many of the pictorial and rural qualities which the Thames possesses In its upper reaches, and there is a growing sentiment in favor of exercising vigilance in regard to any developments that may detract from the charm oE 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- terations of the river banks. It is re- cognized, of course, that flood control may be necessary in the protection of life and property. But the "wardens" are desirous of safeguarding beauty, so that the Thames may remain a pic- turesque river even when it, becomes a well -regulated one. Empire -Wide Parochialism Britain's internatieleal ramifications find expression owhe strik- ingly than in the House of Commons. To "sit in" at question time in the House Is to listen to the story of an Empire on which the sun never sets. Members of failiainent May s in Ili 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 last 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 Noo York holds deserv- edly' dear; Oh, won't it be poifectly splendid to meet The cuties and guys in the very next street! 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. The hikers of dry -shod, From Mumps to Manhattan, from Cowes to Cape Cod; And airmen won't drive their rela- 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-distanee cargoes need hard- ly be sent When the bootlegger Burton -on -Trent. —Manchester Guardian. England will ramble strolls into Urges August P1 .wing A prompt plowing of lands harvest- ed during the early Summer is advo- cated by Professor E. la, Gross agri- cultural engineer at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Statin. 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 turn into valuable plant food for the next season's crop. The soil is left open, ready to receive its share of moisture from the Fall 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 be changd at noon or larger teams may be used to lighteu the load. The plowing will help con- trol the noxious weeds, such as Can- ada thistle and quack grass, which may invade the land in late Sumer. 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 ac companies early Spring work in wet seasons or on poorly drained lands is avoided and late plantings cease to be necessary if the land 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." Holland Plans Economies The Hague. — Drastic economies are suggested lu the new report of the Retrenchment Commission which bas lust 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 elasses of the elementary schools. The garrisons at Surinam am' Cu- racao would be reduced considerably, and the 6 per eent. 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 econoVes, the report en nay -111,4 a, first my, to be followed soon by others. Scandal atra, aa -a "No one," sayi Jerome,. "loves to tell a tale of scandal except to him I who loves to hear it. Learn then, to rebuke and check the detracting tone majority of cases, be returned to the by showing that you do not listen to Route on strictly domestic issues, but with pleasure, every member soon becomes pro-iit tagonist in the drama of world affairs, I Happiness .is a roadside plant grow - :whether he will or 110. India, Burnie, ing by the way of asefulnesa. Striking a Happy Mean A good many people will agree with the eminent authority who said that it is better to live a full, intenee life for half a century than a dull, senile 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 long 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. 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. SO econ mieai tt& -4 • Ott Kraft Old -Fashioned Salad Dressing ofCcrs everything any - ono could ask for M exquisiteft refreshing flavor, yet it's sold at a prim so ipm within the rcilth of oveltr ' ..• - Get some to -day. Try it and i-Was'llinstautly know why the favorite r.verywhcre iit t..anacia. Mc4,cie I! remit fT • akcsibkirmed, Salad Dressin