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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1947-02-06, Page 3SYNOPSIS CHAPTER IIs Rocky Bjorkland, ildcCale's employee and friend, de- cides to do some investigating. He finds that the bride is heiress to twenty trillion dollars and that the !lashing and popular bridegroom appears to have plenty of money also. CHAPTER III McCale shrugged. "Plenty if I wanted to let it run away with me." He turned to Ann. "Did you line tap the Bigelows for me?" "With no trouble at all. The ref- erence books, newspaper files, and Who's Who are practically inhabit- ed by them. Here is the main out- line." She took some typewrittenn sheets out of a manila envelope and started to hand it to McCale. "Read it off," he said. "Rocky might as well have the information, too." "Well," she began, "the Perkins - es and the Bigelows go right back '—long before the Tea Party—if that's the sort of thing you want." "Skip that. Bring us up to date." "Okay. The money all comes from cotton mills in Lowell, and +slipper ships and the Oriental trade before that. The Perkinses and the Bigelows intermarried, and so on. Adelaide Bigelow, our client, and her brother, Joel, are and were, respectively, the last of the line. Adelaide never married. Jbel mar- ried twice. His first wife is dead. Is that clear? ..._- 'Perfectly." "Joel's second wife, Sybil, is ap- parently not of the royal purple. Her family only seems to go back a generation or two. She was a widow when he married her. She's a lot younger than he, too." * * * "He was seventy when he died, five years ago, and she was forty- three tlen. She had two children by her first marriage, a son, Steph- etrn, and a daughter, Victoria. Their same was Bennett, but he adopted them, and they changed to the Bigelow surname." "Then Veronica, the bride, is a daughter of this second marriage?" "No. The first Mrs. Begelow died in childbirth — that is, in giving birth to Veronica. The old gentle- man married Sybil Bennett three years after. Am I bawling this up?" "No, indeed. It's very clear. Go on." "There's not much more. Stephen was married two years ago. He's an airplane designer at present. He marries a girl from St. Louis — Swedish descent, but social and all that. A Karen Cristofen. Not much fuss around here about it." "What's that?" He picked up a folded square of paper that had fluttered from her lap to the floor, "Oh, I nearly forgot that. It's a rotogravure cut of Veronica Bige- low from the Sunday Herald of a few weeks ago." *• * McCale unfolded it and spread it flat on the top of his desk. The likeness of a very pretty girl looked up at him. "That really doesn't do her jus- tice, I shout(' say," mused Ann. "I 'understand she has gorgeous red hair and a beautiful figure." "Well, we shall se," said Duke, handing it back to her. "Tuck it away with the rest of the data and transcribe Rocky's notes for a •file on Vallaincourt, I'm, due at the ancestral mansion for tea with Miss Adelaide at five—or thereabouts. You and Ann hold the fort here. I'll call you. The Bigelow house was on that mound of Beacon street that slopes gently to Charles street and the ;Gardens. Ad3laide Bigelow was waiting for McCale in the drawing room on the second floor. A butler, old and quiet and unobtrusive, had answer- ed his knock and led him through a dim hallway, preceding hint up shark, thickly carpeted stairs. The room was at the front of the house. Heavy red draperies at the Wide high windows were already drawn. Frail Miss Bigelow stood in its exact centre, small and patrician, against the background of a huge black marble mantel. "Please do smoke," Miss Ade- laide said in her soft, ' troubled voice. "This room is rather over- powering, isn't it? It has never been changed since the days of my grandparents. It takes the children to cheer it up. They should be along soon. There was a rehearsal at the church this afternoon." She sighed. He was obsessed with the thought that although her voice was calm, unhurried, there was something empty anad trembling in her. He said slowly, his voice low, "Perhaps you have something to tell me before the others arrive." She looked up quickly, one fist tightly clenched in her lap. "Oh, no." * * * "Damnation," thought McCale. "What is the matter with this woman? Or is it me? Am I getting out of practice? I can usually catch something significant In my own subtle way, but this baffles me. I'll stake my life that there is some- thing seriously wrong in this. room, in this house. Something is going to happen." She rose and walked past him to the door, her dress rustling like dry. leaves. 'l. want you to see the wedding gifts," was all she said, closing the door of her mind sharp- ly in his face. A quick black anger flared up in him. His impulse was to stalk from the house, but reason held him, reason and the disturbing unrest that had remained in his brain and nerves ever since her visit to his office that morning. He followed her downstairs. Heavy double doors intricately carved in designs of fruit Opened off the lower hall into an immense dining room. Table and sideboards were loaded with silver, lamps, ex- pensive glassware; rare, beautiful, odd, pretentious gifts for the bride and groom. * McCale walked around the dis- play slowly, nodding at Miss Bige- low's remarks: "Very valuable; an heirloom; priceless," and so on. He was ready to grant the necessity of protection for this collection, was beginning to push away the odd hunch he had been playing all day, when he felt, rather than saw, a sudden change in his client. A quiver rippled over her frail shoulders. Her hands, fluttered helplessly as she came to a sudden frozen stop. They had reached the far end of the table. He heard her gasp and looked down to see the strangest gift of all. it was a model, to scale, of a small modernistic house, set in miniature landscaped ground s. Complete with casement windows, sun deck, glass -walled patio, it was an architect's dream of the plus ul- tra in a civilized dwelling place. There was even a tiny roadster on the curved highway, a swimming pool in the rear, a statue in the small, geometrically plotted garden, The model had evidently been on display somewhere, for an engraved card attached to one corner of the base read: * * * Model of 1942 House—The Nest Crystal Cove, Nahant Architect—Christopher Storm Beside McCale, Miss Bigelow swayed. Her face blanched. With eyes half-closed, she reached for and held up in her trembling fin- gers a long legal envelope that had been lying beside the model. From it, the took a folded document, opened it slowly. Over her shoul- der, Duke saw it was a deed, ceding the property and buildings of Christopher Storm at Crystal Cove, i' ahant, Massachusetts, to Curtin V'allaincourt. (To be continued) ISSUE 0-1047 Accommodations for 400 Passengers The new XC -99, shown at Consolidated Aircraft, San Diego, Calif., can carry 400 passengers or 1,00,000 pounds of cargo 8000 miles --it's the world's biggest land-based cargo carrier! Six motors develop total of 18,000 hp', wingspread is 230 feet, length 1821, feet, tail is 511 feet high. It's a double -deck version of the B-36, has three times the capacity of the C-54, standard big transport of the war. It's being built for. Army and will be test -flown in April. Sunday School Lesson Jesus, the Bread of Life John 6:25-35, 56-58. Golden Text.—1 am that Bread of of Life—John 6:48. The Multitude Gathers It was the time of the Passover, about the middle of April and many persons were on the way to Jerusalem to observe it. Late in the afternoon the great multitude around Jesus was increasing and among the disciples alarm was felt for their foodless, shelterless crowd. Jesus demanded that they be fed. It • was ascertained that a boy had a very small amount, of pro- visions, five barley loaves and two small fishes, only a boy's meal; yet there were more than five thou- sand 'persons to be fed! The Multitude Is Fed At Jesus' bidding the multitude was arranged in an orderly man- ner. They were divided by the dis- ciples into companies of fifty• and a hundred and commanded to sit down upon the abundant grass. As to the precise moment the miracle was wrought, it is supposed that Jesus broke the bread partially and that the disciples carried on the process as they gave to each one his portion, the bread meanwhile increasing as they continued to break and distribute it. So the hunger of everyone, was satisfied and the fragments remaining were conserved by _ the provident Christ. The impression made by the miracle was deep, widespread and wholesome. At once the people identified Jesus with the .prophet predicted by Moses, meaning the Messiah. The Bread of Life The next day at Capernaum Jesus met many of these people and spoke to them about the Bread of Life. He declared that He is the Bread of Life, which means that He is the true and only sustenance and nourishment of the soul. Jesus drew a sharp contrast be- tween the physical and the sipirit- nal: the father ate of the manna and it was life to them as they wandered in the wilderness, but eventually they died. This "true Bread" which is from Heaven gives the spiritual life which has no end. "Godmothers" Expansion of social services in Britain and increased attention to child care have so broadened the scope of the Women's Voluntary Services that they will be converted to a permanent peacetime organiza- tion. Under the chairmanship of, Lady Reading, this million -strong army of women gave magnificent service to their country during the war. It has been decided to set up a corps of "godmothers" to look after neglected children and it is hoped eventually to provide a "godmoth- er" for every child in every institu- tion in Britain. They will take personal interest in the children, invite them to their homes, and generally give them personal attention and love to com- pensate for loss of their mothers. Rubble And Trouble If they 'started now, to remove the bricks, stones and other rubble from the streets in Essen, Ger- many, and 1,000 tons were moved daily, it would take 1.5 years to clear the city. That is the condi- tion of many German communities. The people live wherever they can lay their heads, Their existence is on a par with the animals. —Windsor Star. 700 Irak 7: ANErhc'j' r On 'CERTAIN DAYS' Of Month? 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