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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-04-27, Page 6-0.•o,s- +r -40..+4-6 By ANNE AUSTIN, m4- SYNOPSIS. "Bonnie" Dundee, in New York inves- tigating the murders of Juanita Selim and Dexter Sprague learns from Serena Hart, successful stage star. that Nita married in 1918, was soon deserted, but not divorced. In 1922, a picture of Nita appeared with a story about the suicide of Anita Lee. Nita comes to Hamilton, aft r showing strange excitement over pictures of Hamilton people, and deposits $10,000 in cash, which Dundee labels "back ali- mony" from a husband who had married after he bad thought she Was .:lead. An attempt is made on Dundee's life contrivance He deds of an uces that the othal er two murders were mechanical. At the Selim house he finds that the gun was undoubtedly fired from a big bronze lamp, with a spherical shade, which was connected with the wires leading to a bell in Nita's room, which rang in the maid's room in the basement. Dundee drops in on Penny Crane, who Is playing anagrams with her mother, Idly he forms with the wooden letters the names of all the guests at Nita Selim's unfortunate bridge party, and suddenly• orms Nita name. He now knowshf CHAPTER XLVII.. "I fail to see any necessity for all thio secrecy and hocus-pocus," District Attorney Sanderson protested irritab- ly. "Why the devil don't you come clean and give us the low-down—if you have it!—on this iniserable busi- ness, instead of highhandedly- sum- moning Captain Strawn to my office, so that you can give orders to us both?" Before Dundee could a..swer, Capt. Strawn came to his assistance. "I worked with this boy for pretty tear a year, Bill, and never yet did he fail to make good when he said Ile had a pot on to boil. If he says it will boil over this evening, provided we hell, him, boil over it will, or 1 don't know Bonnie Dundee!" Sanderson scowled, but capitulated. "All right! What d 0Y0u � ant . "Thanks, Chief ! And thanks, Cap- tain!" Dundee cried. "First, I want to be excused from attending the ad- journed inquests into the two mur- ders, scheduled for 3 o'clock today." "O.K."' Sanderson agreed shortly. Second, after about an hour of rou- tine stuff, I wish you'd ask for another adjournment until tomorrow, on the plea that importan developments are expected today." "O.K. again!' "Third, I'd like you personally to request the appearance of every per - eon connected in any way with each of the murders, in your office this afternoon at 4 o'clock --so the whole bunch will be kept together and have no chance to go home or anywhere e'se until I am ready for thein." "Do you want the servants, too?" "None by Lydia Carr," Dundee an- swered. "After about an hour's in - nocuous questioning, please invite them to accompany you to the Selim house. For that"—and he grinned -- "is where the pot is scheduled to boil ever. I'd like everybody t( be there by 5.15." "Where do I come in?" Captain Strawn demanded, almost jel.lously. "I suppose you have plenty of plain- clothesmen at your disposal?" "Plenty. How many will you need?" "Enough to keep every person on Mr. Sanderson's invitation list under strictest observation until—the pot boils over," Dundee replied. "Are they to follow the whole gang clear out to the Selim house?" "Most decidedly: After the un- willing guests are safely within the house, your boys n,1.st guard the premises so that no one leaves with- out permission." "That's all as good as done," Strawn assured hien. "Now—about them inquiries you asked me to make yesterday of the secretary of the Am- eric. Legion." He drew a scrap of paper from his breast pocket. "I find that John. rake, Peter Dunlap and C':ve Hammond were all in service, in the —th Division, which was held up late in January, 1918, for nearly two weeks in Hoboken, before, the War Dept. could get transports to send 'em to France. Miles, who enlisted the day war was declared, was wounded and shipped home k.te in 1917. He was discharged as unfit for further service —spinal operation—from a New Jer- sey base hospital on Jan. 12, 1918. Furthermore, Judge Marshall was. in New York the whole winter of 1917- 1918, attached to the Red Cross in some legal capacity, He donated his services •vi . • and— " "All that doesn't matter now, Cap- tain, but thanks just the same," Dun- dee interrupted. "Now if your will both excuse me, I've got a lot of work to do before five o'clock today!" Dundee had not exaggerated. That Monday was one of the busiest days he had ever spent in all the 27 years of his life. He began, rather Strange- ly, by visiting half a dozen of IHamil- tcn's hardware stores, exhibiting a peculiar instrument and making an- noying inquiries as to when and to whom it had been sold. But at his sixth port of call success su complete- ly rewarcled his efforts that he was jubilant when he bade the mystified proprietor good day, a signed state- ment reposing in his wallet. Two other calls—both in office buildings—took up only an hour of his time, and a taxicab delivered him at police headquarters just as the :factory whistles were sirening the' Yum. But there Dundee's restaging news that it w.ts 12 o'clock. !of the original seen' in the tragic He was lucky enough to find the drama ended. Everyone else, include fingerprint expert, Oarraway, in his' ii.g Lydia Carr and Peter . Dunlap, cubbyhole of an office, his desk almost', were huddled together in a far eor- crowded out by immense filing cabj ilei' of the living room. "Now, Mr. Miles!" Dundee called, "Your cue! Simply go into the dining room, with Mrs. Dunlap, to mix cock- tails. And Mrs. Miles, *ill you, pre- inets. Five minutes later Dundee sat at that desk, photographs of Dee:ter Sprague's dead body, just as it had been discovered on the floor of the tending that you are Nita Selim, go trophy room in the Miles home and to powder ,your face at Mrs, Selim's a labeled set of fingerprints spree( out before him. "You're sure there can have been no mistake?" he asked. "No chance that these fingerprint photographs were reversed when the prints were made?" "Not a chance -with my system!' "Fine!" Dundee cried. It was half -past two o'clock when Dundee, after a mach needed' lunch parked his ear in the driveway- of one or: the most splendid houses overlook- ing Mirror Lake—a home whose mas- ter and mistress were now attending an inquest into two murders. Half an ho ‘r later he climbed into -his roadster again, his head spinning. "Did I say ingenious?" he marveled. He drove directly to the Selim house, for he had much to do before the arrival of Sanderson's compel- sory guests at 5.15. His first visit there as 'o a small room in the basement—a dark cubby- hole next to the coal room. He had locked it carefully after exploring it the day before, for he had taken no chalice on leaving unguarded—as he had found it—treaspre worth more to him than its weight in gold. And queer treasure it was that he extracted now—a coiled length of elec- tric wire, which he and Ralph Ham- mond had measured the day before; a box of thunib tacks, an augur with a set of bits of varying sizes, r step- ladder and a hammer. Then Dundee's eyes fell upon a piece of hardware he had not expected ever to find. At 5.15 he was entirely ready for Sanderson, Capt. Strawn and their party of unwilling guests. They were all crowding about him -- the mien and women who had been Nita Selim's guests at her last bridge and cocktail party. "Not only are the bridge tables ex- actly here they were at this tinge on the evening of May 24," Dundee said, "Lut everything else in the house is precisely as it was then. 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Followed by a plainclothesman, a middle-aged man entered the living room. Tall, broad -shouldered, deter- mined, he strode to the bridge table, his handsome head upflung, his brown eyes fixed upoi. the widened brown Nothing is more distasteful to him Add9 Zest to the M al "Fresh from the: Gardens Einstein, the Traveller eyes of Penny Crain! "Dad!" the girl breathed; then joy- o't sly: "Oh, Dad! You've conte home!" But Dundee halted the reconcilia- tion with: "Please join the group in the corner, Mr. Cram.!" Regardless of the ensuing hubbub, Dundee strode into the dining room, where Tracey Miles stood at the side- board, pouring whiskey. Then the first faint notes of tink- ling music came from Nita's musical powder box. "As I have said," Dundee spoke kudly and clearly, "everything is now exactly as it was when Nita Selim was murdered! Permit me tt. show you all how that murder was accom- plished!" In a few seconds every person in the Iiving room was huddled in the wide opening into the dining room. Dundee spoke again, his voice slow and weighted with a dreadful signfi- cance: "Mrs. Dunlap, step on the bell be- : Bath the dining table!" Lois Dunlap dropped her empty whisky glass, her pleasant face going b'ank with amazement. "Step on that bell, Mrs. Dunlap— just as you did before!" As if hypnotized, Lois Dunlap be- gan to grope with the toe of Ler right Prr pfor the- slight bulge under the rug which indicated the position of the bell used fol. summoning the maid from the kitchen. With a strangled cry Tracey Miles seized the woman's arm and whirled her violently away from, the table. "Do you want to kill my wife, too?" be panted, his face the color of putty. (To be concluded.) Peppers and Tomatoes Successfully Grafted Every one knows that peppers and tomatoes go well together in a salad, but it may be news that they agree, too, when one is grafted on the other. The latter fact has recently been demonstrated by experts of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Pieces of pepper plants, they found, flourished when skillfully grafted on tomato plants, young green peppers appear- ing among the tomato leayes. Equally ,good results were obtained when a shoot from a- tomato plant was seal- ed on a pepper plant. Another example of queer grafts is a tomato shoot growing„on a potato; the two go well ,together, it is ex- plained, because they belong to the sane family. Another potato plant; en- tertains no fewer than five different guests—pepper, petunia, tobacco, to- mato and solanum sisymbrifolum (a. Member of the potato family). Anti-tobacoc leagues may find sup- port for their arguments in the fact that potato and tomato shoots do not thrive when grafted on tobacco plants. "The nicotine seems to hurt them," is is explained. On the other hand, a ,petunia, inserted into the salve tobacco pie.nt seems to enjoy the weed. Freak specimens of this kind have been grown not because they have any practical value, but merely to .demon- strate what can be done by grafting. In general, it is relatively easy to graft two or more plants of the sante family and difficult to combine unre- lated species. But a graft of English ivy on Hercules club demonstrates that this rule, too, has it* inevitable exception. Water Snake Shoes By Margaret Lee Ashley in The Commonweal. When I have them on my feet I am very slim and fleet-- I, eet—I, the silent one, who passes Through a labyrinth of grasses, Through a meadow wet and sweet. Presently I'll find a stream --- I shall be a silver gleam— I; the supple one, the swimmer, Shall be but a dappled glimmer Tlirotigh the ripples of a dream. If I wear them on Broadway Might some passing ,poet say (Deaf to babble and to bustle), ".Hark, I hear a tiny rustle!. There's some Woodland thing astray!"? Give me insight into to -day, and you May have the antique and future worlds.—Emerson. Might and reason is the only rock on which liberty can permanently rest. ---- Van Arburgh. flow poor are they who have not paticeoe.- Shakespeare. than the fact that the public busies itself with his private life. Members of his family must carefully keep from him all newspapers which contain ar- ticles about him, or pictures of him. If, accidentally, such a sheet does fall into his hands, he throws it away infuriated, or looks at his picture with a laugh, and says: `Bah! What a nasty, fat fellow." Although. lecture tours repeatedly expose him to the disadvantages of fame, to the annoyances and intru- sions of publicity, and to the painful experience of the sensational, Einstein has often been lured by far -away places. Travel increases inner free- dom. It makes one conscious of the diversity of man, peoples and land- scapes. It brings about an emotion- al experience which bears fruit for- ever. In the first •years of the post- war period, the yearning for a larger world was especially strong in Ger- many; all the more so since the war hacl introduced, almost throughout the world, a remarkable period of change which had greatly changed the char- acters of the different countries and their ways of living. It was especial- ly the realizaton of this change which made possible the wide influence of the theory of relativity on the circles of intellectuals of all nations. - Travel means not onlytherecep- tion e ep r c - tion of impressions, but a comparison of nations, scenery, cultures and fin- ally, a comparison of strangers with oneself.... For this very reason the creative power of travel cannot he re- placed by anything else. Of course, on the screen, we see the foreign landscape and also the faces of its inhabitants, but since the vivid at- mosphere is ]aakng the creative pow- er of comparison is also lacking. In his travels, Einstein has felt this pow- er very deeply. He has written a careful diary of his impressions, which is of literary, and even poetic im- portance. These .impressions ' are among the most valuable sensations of his life. His lecture tours led him through various European countries, .to North and South America and to Japan. Ho saw the European cities; he felt New York as the new capital of the world. Of all these journeys, that to Japan (1922-23), is certainly the most im- portant because of the multitude of scenic and human impressions which Einstein received. . . With keen eyes Einstein recogniz- es this fundamental trait of the Ja- panese: "He is impersonal, but not really reserved, because in his social life he does not appear to own any- thing personally which he would want to seclude or hide." .. Einstein also looks back .upon his life. What a change from his lonely and painful youth to the present! This journey, which assumes • more and more the character of a triumph- al procession, • which indeed contra- dicts his character, is, nevertheless, a proof of the meaning and success of his life's work. One could not have imagined it more beautiful and sincere. _How distant he used to be from other men! How shy and awk- ward! Now there are stretched to- ward him everywhere hands in hearty greeting.—Anton Reiser, in Albert Ein- stein, A Biographical Portrait." (New York: Boni.) PHEASANTS IN BARTER. In. return for 5,000,000 pickerel eggs and a number of ' Hungarian partridge, the government of North Dakota recently shipped to the gov- ernment of Saskatchewan 1,800 ring- necked pheasants, which will be dis tributed throughout the Province ft,r breeding purposes. 1 FASHION HINT "How to make my olcl short skirts conform to the new length was a prob- lem to me mitil I hit on this plan. 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