Zurich Herald, 1944-08-03, Page 2+>s SERIAL STORY
Murder on the Boardwalk
BY ELINORE COWAN STONE
Last week: Jaspar, hiding at
Chandra's home, tries to explain
lltow Mrs. Talbert had ordered him
to deliver the bonds to Christine.
'gnspector.. Parsons,. Wil.met. and
Bi 1 1 arrive, trailing Christine
through Lucille. Suspicion turns on
Shandra. Mrs. Talbert was last
ween coming out of his studio.
CHAPTER XV
"I take exception to that 'last
peen,' Inspector," Chandra said
coolly. "However, it is entirely true
that Mrs. Talbert was with me
•that night for an hour or more."
"A n d afterwards," Inspector
Parsons continued, "so far as I can
'learn, she was not seen until her
stead body was found."
"But early this morning," the
clairvoyant pointed out, "her car
was also found — parked just
across the Boardwalk from the
7th street dock.... Are you'sug-
Besting that after I had warned
Miss Thorenson where to look for
the bonds I, myself, had stolen,
II stabbed her cousin—with a dag-
ger that anyone in Surf City could
identify as mine—and was also
imbecile enough to leave her car
parked just around the corner from
shy 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
snore 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 othr;.,
"This, my frienlda'.. he said, "is
now a pour.3 affair in spite of any-
thilig you can do. You must dis-
"regard Mrs. Talbert's wishes."
"Wishes — what wishes?" In-
spector Parsonsna ped.
ry nen Mrs. Si.aleert began ?to
suspect that she was in clanger,
she 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 cane to consult me."
"So she cane 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.
"Airs. Talbert," he said, "was a
Woman of several fixed ideas. One,
which grew in her as she got older
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
enigmatic—"you are more right
than you guess, Inspector. . . .
Another of her ' peculiarities was
that she thought police are all a
set of clumsy bunglers... • I am
setting forth Mrs. Talbert's view-
point, of course, not my own.
Otherwise, I shouldn't be advising
Mr. Jaspar to tell you what he's
told me."
"Well," the inspector's tone was
uncompromising. "I'm listening.
He'd better make it good."
He glanced around at the others.
"You might as well sit down,
since you're all in this from the
ankles up "
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 cane 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 -
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"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,
sir."
"A young pian' of that age could
have changed—perhaps beyond
recognition—in 12 years," the in-
spector 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 suns 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 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."
f "Can you psit your hands on any
of those notes?"
"No, sir. Mrs. Talbert always
burned them."
Inspector Parsons' smothered
ejaculation was eloquent.
"Did Mrs. Talbert have any-
thing of value with her when she
disappeared?" be 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. Talbert'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 -
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 night 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?"
* * *
"Yes, sir." Jaspar'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
yyjiolg affair himself, and collected
the ransom. t happen to know
that there have been a number
of checks forged on Mrs, Talbert's
account that have never been run
to their source. I hay,. informa-
tion that Earl Talbert, under an-
other name, spent 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 still alive."
* * *
After a musing silence, the in.
Spector asked, `just how old was
this boy when" he disappeared?"
one drew a sharp, hissing breath.
The inspector did not glance up;
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
Emnma's murderer."
"Go on, Jaspar," he prompted.
"Well, sir, about 9 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—in Mrs. Talbert's handwrit-
ing." you are prepared to identify
Mrs. 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, 1940, Winston
Churchill spoke from rndarIgered
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 as de Gaulle and
Churchill spoke, four years ago,
required an act of faith, says The
New York Herald Tribune. Now,
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phecies has not yet been accom-
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Farmers cannot afford to be sen-
timental and yet, sometimes, it is
hard not to be. This morning for
instance, the trucker came in to
pick up a cow. To him she was
just another cow for the stockyards,
but to us she was affectionately
known as "Old Cicely". We had
raised her from a calf. The child-
ren had pail -fed her when she was
young. They had straddled her
back whenever She was in the
mood to .let them. She had, in fact,
grown up. with our children. She
was the last relic of our early farm-
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 gums. To have tried keeping
her another winter would have
been asking for trouble, so regret-
fully we said good-bye to our faith -
full bossie. Poor old Cicely, she de-
served a better fate than to end her
life as bologna.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were
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. * * .
mental moments but they are mer-
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,
What would we do without a
hone -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 grand 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 hint to work on
our farm. That was nearly twenty
years ago. Charlie was with us
about 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 Fray tribute to
Charlie as a brave soldier who laid
down his life in service for his
adopted country.
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
LESSON
August 13.
THE PRIEST IN THE LIFE
.OF ISRAEL.
I Samuel I: 1-4:18.
PRINTED TEXT, I Samuel
2:27-30, 35' 4 12-18.
ilI2�. -:•–• 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 IT;' 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 1090-1050
B. C.
Place. — Almost all the events
are located in the city of Shiloh,
northeast of Jerusalem.
The House of Eli
And there came a than of God
unto Eli, and said unto him... 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 kickye at my sac-
rifice and at amine offering, which I
have commanded in my habitation,
and honored Thy sons above me,
to make yourselves fat with the
chiefest of all the offerings of
Israel my peopte."
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 me shall be lightly esteemed."
God honors those who honor Him
by putting His gifts to the best
possible use. They who despise
Gocl by treating His service, His
word, His day lightly, irreverant-
ly, as though these Are of little im-
portance, will be 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 him a
sure house; and he shall walk be-
fore mine anointed forever."
There sems 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
judgment of Gocl.
Eli, The True Priest
"And there ran a man of Benja-
min out of the army,... And he
said, How went the matter, niy
son?" 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 sin
in his own family, he did not love
God enough to rebuke his sons. •
Ark of God Is Lost
"And he that brought the tidings
answered and said... And he had
judged Israel forty years." What
a recital of defeat, disaster and
death! But all else seemed of little
acount compared to the loss of the
Ark. To Eli it was a sign that God
had forsaken his people. If only
Eli had been more concerned about
the moral and spiritual lif • of his
sons, of Israel, he would have had
no need to be concerned about the
safety of the Ark.
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