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By ANNE AUST!N,
SYNOPSIS.
Special Investigator Dundee believes
that Juanita Selim and Dexter Sprague
were murdered by a blackmail victim,
while the police theory is that they were
killed to Menge a racketeer whom Nita
ie thought to have betrayed. Of Dun-
dee's six possible suspects—Judge Mar-
shall, owner of the death weapon; Polly
Beale and Clive Hammond, who married
suddenly after Sprague's death; John
).)rake, Janet Raymond, in love with
Sprague, and Flora Miles—his case is
strongest against Flora.
In New York Dundee learns that there
are vague rumors of scandals involving
Flora and Janet, which Nita might have
known. From Serena Hart, stage star
and graduate of the Forsyte School, he
learns that Nita was married early in
1919, and that the dress in 'vvhich she
was cremated was Ler wedding dress.
Dundee is aobut to leave when Serena
asks him if he knows Penny Crain, say-
ing that she met her and Roger Crain,
who later failed in business and disap-
peared, at the Forsyte School. Dundee
impulsively tells Serena that Penny and
her mother would lik: to have Crain
back again. After wiring Penn,, Dun-
dee learns that on the ninth of Febru-
ary, when Nita tried, to kill herself,
Sprague was rumored engaged, but that
a denial was printed two days later. He
receives an answer to his wire to Penny.
CHAPTER XLIV.
With a sharp exclamation of ex-
ci,:ement and triumph, Dundee finish-
ed reading Penny's telegram:
HAMILTON EVENING SUN
DATE OF MAY FIFTH NINE-
TEEN TWENTY TWO PUBLISH-
ED STORY OF SUICIDE ANITA
LEE ARTISTS MODEL BUT PIC-
TURE ACCOMPANYING WAS
NITA LEIGH SELIMS STOP NO
CORRECTION FOLLOWED STOP
WHAT DOES IT MEAN
"What does it mean?" Dundee re-
? eated exultantly to himself. "It
means, my darling little Penny, that
anyone in Hamilton who had any in-
t'rest in the n.atter believed Nita
Leigh Selim was dead, and that the
:.gelling of her name was wrong, not
the picture itself! ... The question
is, who read that story and gazed on
that picture with vast relief r•
Two hours before lie had dismissed
as impossible or highly impractical
his impulse to investigate the 11 -year-
old scandal on Flora Hackett, who
was noes Flora. Miles, as told him by
Gladys Earle of the Forsyte School.
Even more difficult would it be to find
out why Janet Raymond's mother bad
taken her abroad for a year. Of
Bourse --he had ruefully told himself
—Nita Leigh might have been lucky
or unlucky enough to run across docu-
r entary proof of one of the scandals
.Karen Plummer. Suddenly a sentence
from Ralph Hammond's story of his
er gagement to Nita Leigh Selim pop-
pet. up in Dundee's memory: "And
once I got cold sick because I thought
she might still . be married, but she
said her husband had married again,
a-1 I wasn't to ask questions .,r worry
about him."
If Ralph Hammond had reported
Nita accurately she had not said she
vias divorced, She had merely said
her husband was n 'Tied again! Why
was Ralph to ask no questio: s? Di-
Jrced wives were not usually so reti-
cent....
Had Nita planned to commit the
crime of bigamy? If not, when and
when. and how had she see red a di-
vorce?
To Serena Hart, years efore, she
had denied any intention of getting a
divorce, for two reasons—because she
did not know where her husband was,
and because, being married &though
husbandless, was a protection against
matrimonial temptations.
To Gladys Earle, a year ago in
April, she had confided that she could
not marry again, because she was not
divorced and because she did not
know the whereabouts of her husband,
And so far as New York reporters
had been able to find out, Nita Leigh
had done nothing to alter her status
as a married woman during the past
year. And yet—
Suddenly Dundee jumped to his feet
and began to pace the floor of his hotel
bedroom. He was remembering the
belated confidence that John C. Drake,
banker, had made to him the morning
before—after the discdvery of Dexter
Sprague's . =refer. He •.ecalled
Drake's reluctant statement almost
word for word:
"About that $10,000 which Nita dee
posited with our bank, Dundee.. .
When she made the first deposit of
$5,000 on April 28, she explained it
with an embarrassed laugh as 'back
alimony,' an installment of which she
had succeeded in collecting from her
former husband. And, naturally, when
she made the second deposit on May
5, I presumed the same explanation
covered that sum, too, though I confess
I was puzzled by the fact that both
big deposits had been made in cash."
Had Nita, by any chance, been tell-
ing a near -truth? Had she been black-
mailing her own husband—a husband
of which Gladys Earle had told her, who had dared marry again, believing
or had dared to blackmail hex victim his deserted wife to be dead—and
by dark hints.
But this new development could not
be ignored. A picture of Nita Leigh
as a suicide had appeared eight years
ego in a Hamilton paper, and the
kaper had either remain.et uncon-
scious of the error .r had thought it
not worth the space for a correction.
Eight years ago in June three wed-
dings had occurred in Hamilton) The
Dunlap, the Miles, the Drake wed-
ding. And within the last year and
a half Judge Marshall had married
justifying herself by calling it "back
alimony"?
In a new Iight, Bonnie Dundee stu-
died the . character of the woman who
had been murdered ---possibly to make
her silence eternal.
Leis Dunlap had liked, even Ioved
her. The other women and girls of
that exclusive, self-ee itred clique of
Hamilton's most socially prominent
women must have liked her fairly well
and found her congenial, in spite of
their jealousy of her populcrity with
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the nen of the crowd, or hey would his apartment, On the living room
not have tolerated her, regardless of floor, touching the door, he found an
Lois Dunlap's ehampiolrship of her envelope--uns'amped and bearing his
name written on' a typewriter,
(To be continued,)
protege.
Gladys Earle had found her "the
sweetest, kindest, most generous per-
son I ever met" --Gladys Earle, who.
envied and hated all the ..iris who
were more fortunate than she.
Serena Hart, former member of
New York's Junior League and still
listed in the Social Register, had found
Nita the only congel,.al member of
the chorus she had invaded, as the
first step toward stardom, And Ser-
ena Hart had the reputatior. of being
a woman of character and judgment,
a kind and wise and great woman. , .
Finally, Ralph Hammond had loved
Nita and wanted to marry her.
Was it possible that Nita 'Se1im's
only crime, into which she had been
lest: by her infatuation foe Dexter
Sprague, had been to demand, secret-
ly, financial compensation from a hus-
band who • had married and deserted
Ler, a husband who, believing her
dead, had married again?
But who was the man whose picture
—to spin a new ;h ory ,Nita had
recognized as that of her husband
among the hale members o" the cast
of "The Beggar's Opera"? Dundee
studied the picture that contained the
entire cast. Again despair overwhelm-
ed him, for every one of his possible
male suspects was in that group.. .
Batt he could not keep his thoughts
from racing on. . , . Men who step-
ped out of their class and went on
parties with chorus girls frequently
did so under assumed names, he re-
flected. Serena Hart was authority
for the information that Nita's had
been a sudden marriage. Was it not
entirely possible that the reran who
r:arried Nita in 1918 had done so
half-drunk, both on liquor and infa-
tuation, and that he had net troubled
to explain to Nita r,is. motives for
having used an assumed name or to
write in his real naive on the applica-
tion for a marriage license.
Dundee lay awake for hours Friday
night turning these and a hundred
other questions over and over in his
active mind, and slept at last, only to
awake Saturday with a plan of pro-
cedure which he was sensible enough
to realize promised small chance of
success.
And he was right. Not in Manhat-
tan, or in any of the other boroughs
of New York City, did he find any
record of a marriage license issued to
Juanita Leigh and Matthew Selim.
Not only was it entirely probable that
Juanita Leigh was a stage name and
that Nita had married consciertiously
under her real name, but it was equal-
ly possible that the license had been
obtained in New Jersey or Connecti-
cut.
Whea he gave up his quest at noon
Saturday he bought a paper nose
headline informed him that Sergeant
Turner was even more discouraged
than himself. For the big type told
the world:
JOE SAVELLI "GETS" BROTH-
ER'S SLAYER.
And smaller headlines informed the
sensation -loving publie: "Swallow-
tail Sammy" Severn's Death Aveng-
ed By Brother Who Surrenders to
Police; "Slick" Thompson, alleged
Member of_Sanm�y's Gang, Shot to
Death on Sixth Avenue.
Still smaller type acknowledged
that Joe Savelii, after giving himself
up, with a revolver in his hand, had
disclaimed any knowledge of or con-
nection with the murders of Juanita
Leigh Selim and Dexter Sprague.
Two hours later, Dundee received
a long telgram from District Attorney
Sanderson:
INFORMED BY CAPT. STRAWN
THAT SAVELLI ANGLE IS COM-
PLETE WASHOUT STOP HAVE
YOU MADE ANY PROGRESS
ALONG OTHER LINES STOP
HAVE INFORMED REPORTERS
YOU %V ORKING INDEPENDENT-
LY WITH STRONG CHANCE OF
SOLVING BOTH CASES STOP
WOULD LIKE YOU HERE FOR
ADJOURNED INQUESTS ON
BOTH MURDERS MONDAY STOP
MOTHER IMPROVED A.M ON
JOB AGAIN.
Since Dundee felt that there was
little chance of following through
either on the arandrls which Gladys
Earle had hinttd at, or on Nita's
strangely se':ut marriage of Li years
before, he inm+ediately .ii 'patched a
wiese to San.lcr=wn, assuring him vital
progress had been made and that he
would leaye New York on the four
o'clock train, arriving in Hamilton
S'inrday morning at 8.50.
Sanderson's wire, with its confes-
sion of an interview on Dundee's trip
to New York, had upset hint and left
him with a fear that the district at-
torney had unwittingly warned the
murderer that his special investigator so completely that it was not wear•'
:as on the right track. able. A friend who'had admired it"
An hour before he reached his des- asked me why T wasn't wearing it any 1
Citation en Sunday morning he wont more. On hearing the reason, she ad
into the dining car and found a copy j.vised dyeing it and recommended Dia-'
of. The Hamilton Morning News be-, mond Dyes. To make a long story
side his plate. And on the front page short, it turned out beautifully. I have:
was a photograph of dead Nita, her a lovely new dress that really cost
black hair in a French roll, her sling, just 15c—the price of one package of
recumbent body clad in the royal blue Diamond Dyes.
velvet dress. Beneath the picture was', "I have since used Dianicud Dyes
the caption: • , for both tinting and dyeing. They do
"What part does the outmoded royal either equally well. 1 am not•an expert
blue velvet frock which Nita Selim slyer but I never have a failure with
chose as a shroud play in the solution Diamond Dyes. They seem to be
oi her murder? That is the question )trade so they alweys go on smtlothly.
which Special Investigator Dundee, and evenly. They never 'spot, strentt
attached to the district' attorney's or-- 'or run; and fri:incis nove" ]snow tri'
lice, ana due hone this morning from things 1 dye n'ith 13;0110nd 1);ics Cl ' -
fruit
:ful detective work in New York i'crlyrcl at all!"
is undoubtedly prepared to answer."
Dundee was still seething with futile
x'age when he climbed the s stirs to
News Oddities
A Swell Hon. Letter
A Brooklyn vending company re-
ceived a letter from a Japanese cus-
tomer Wlrcll read.
"Highly Honorable Sir, --Me re-
ceived here damn fine shipment Tokyo
come one machine from your hon-
orable firm. She much well do.
Cause me make 42 yen first damn
day. Congratulations. Me decided
maybe buy more her fine machines
from honorable firm soon yet. Be
sure get one ready make up ship
Tokyo as her before.
"Wishing you thousand years'
luck, many fine flowers, Farewell
honorable sir to honorable family, to
damn fine machine come later."
•
Police Baffled
Last week New York police auswer-
iug a call from a Y.M.C.A. found.
Erich Baumann, 27 -year-old gymnast
strangled• to death in -his own sleep-
ing:. bag. Straps and ropes were fast-
ened tightly about his ankles, knees,
thighs, chest and neck, Anoth.e.r
rope with a. slip knot encircled his
neck and attached to his ankles in
such a way that any attempt to relax,
drew the noose tight. Friends had
planned a party that night to cele-
brate the issuance of his final eiti-
zenship papers. Detective Captain
John P. Macdonald called it "the
most brutal and mystifying murder
in his 50 years of service.
Spring Is Near
The Spring "freak crop" was ush-
ered in March 17th when an On•
tario paper reported the birth of a
five -legged lamb twelve miles north
of Kingston. The lamb is reported
normal except that an extra bind leg
grows from one shoulder,
Last week a show called "Marilyn's
Affairs" set a new and probably ,all-
time record on Broadway for the
length of a run. It ran exactly ane
night.
Britain to Try
Prison Newspapers
Crime News Will Be Barred
and Only Results of Turf
Classics May Be Published
esendon.--The first prison news-
papers are about to make their ap-
pearance in Britain. They will con-
sist of several foolscap sheets run off
on a duplicator and published weekly.
The sheets will be distributed to every
prisoner in his cell, where he will be'
allowed to keep it. The experiment is
being tried at Parkhurst and Exeter.
If it is found to be successful it will
be generally extended.
At present the policy of the Prison
Commissioners is to keep convicts in
touch with world events through the
chaplain . or some official who reads
once a week a summaxy of the week's
happenings to the assembled convicts.
Now what has been said verbally will
be typed out and duplicated. The
spoken bulletins sometimes pass over
the heads of the slower -witted pris-
oners.
The news sheets will be edited by
the prison governors and contain a
brief summary of the principal public
events at hone and abroad. ' Crime
news, however, is strictly ruled out, as
is news of. horse racing to prevent bete
ting, although results of such classics
as the Grand National and the Derby
will be included.
L'Atlantique Owners Sue
Paris.—The owners of the passen-
ger steamer.L'Atlantique, which burn-
ed in the English Channel early in
January, have now filed stit against
the insurers, seeking payment of 170,-
000,000 (approximately $6,800,0:00),
of which 12,000,000 francs was held
be New York companies.
The insurers proposed to repair the
vessel, but the owners claimed the
right to surrender the husk and col-
lect the full insurance.
1 SAVED IMPORTED DRESS
"After a little wearing, a lovely green
voile—an imported dress—lost color
Enjoy This Finer Quality.
"Fresh From the Garderns'
Blind Professor Foresees Great
Progress in Astronomic Science.
Williams Bay, Wis. Aniid the
quiet atmosphere of his home, a blind
man, who has taught many to learn
the secrets of the universe, visualizes
an amazing degree of scientific prog-
res,s during the next.100 years:
He is Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, for-
mer director of the Yerkes Observa-
tory, who won world .renown as an
instructor of astrophysics.
Whether man, within that period
or beyond it will find an answer to
the age-old question as to tht possi-
bility of intelligent life beyond the
earth, he is not prepared to say.
"It is reasonable to assume, how-
ever, that thousands of yellow stars
closely resembling our sun in physi-
cal and chemical characteristics are
quite as likely to have habitable
planets circulating about them as has
our sun," he said, "I suspect that
life would develop on a planet ready
for it as naturally as familiar pro-
cesses occur on the earth," And
methods of detecting and of trans-
mitting radiation, he added, "May de-
velop in ways undreamed of."
"But, .believing, as I do, that the
progress of science in the next 100
years will be even more rapid than
in the last, I think it unwise to set
limits 6n discovery for the -future." ;
The occasion for Dr. Frost's re.
marks was the recently announced
disccvery of Dean Charles B. Lip
man of the University of California
that bacteria had been found in the
interior of stone meteorites—a• fact
which has led some scientists to specs
plate further on the theory that
original forms of terrestrial life may
have been brought to the earth by
these aerolites hundred of millions
of years ago.
Pointing out that he was express-
ing a personal opinion and was speak-
ing in no way for Yerkes Observa-
tory, Dr. Frost said that positiva
proof of the existence of living or-
ganisms in meteorites would only
shift the point of origin to sone other
unknown body. In this conneetion he
also called attention to the slowness
of any inter -communication in sid.
erial spaces.
Vienna Opera Has Heard
' 3,074 Wagner Singings
In connection with the Richard Wag-
ner Festival, which started with a per-
formance of "Parsifal," writes the
Vienna correspondent of "The Sunday
Observer," London, it is interesting to
note that since the first production
here of a Wagner opera, in 1858—that
is„ seventy-five years ago—no fewer
than 3,074 performances of his works
have been given at the Vienna Opera
House, now called the State Opera
House.
"Lohengrin" has been given 6011
times, "Tannhauser" 476, "The Meis-
tersingers" 388, "The Flying Dutch-
man" 368, "The Valkyrie" 277, "Tris-
tan and Isolde" 204, "Siegfred" 195,
"Gotterdammerung" 179, "Rhinegold"
176, "Rienzi" 109 and "Parsifal," pro-
duced in Vienna for ..the first time in
1914 (when the rights of production
became independent of Bayreuth), 101.
FORTUNE
Fortune, men say, 'cloth give too
much to many,
yet she never gave enough to
any.
—Sir John Harrington.
But
SUCCESS
Many big successes result from
many little achievements.—Forbes.
"Man is no different, by and large,
from the days when he cracked down
•er a saber-toothed tiger with a toma-
hawk. Instead of tiger teeth, now he
wants money." ---Clarence Darrow.
Weary Willie --- "Dia you el
have all yer wanted of anything?"
Tattered Tom—"Yep, two things
—advice and water."•
In idle wishes fools' supinely stay;
be there a will, and wisdom finds a
way.—Crabbe.
Mae R. 1'., {ltl"h+ir
ISSUE No. 1 3 —'33
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