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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Blue Geranium
by DOLAN BIK. LEY.
Mrs. Nina-Arwright is found"nnurd- says she's there to 'elude Mae, and ac- was mended but,'' in the case of Miss
ered in a dressing room of the swine-. cuses> him of the murder. The next .Kramer's flowerpot, there was only a
ming pool at a resort hotel. Beside morning, when Adele hei'sglf is found small amount of ,soil - not nearly;
her, is a broken flowerpot contain- killed, with a broken flowerpot be- enough to fill it." Loring spread his
ing a blue geranium. A missing fire side her, Janet decides to tell Loring hands. "There you are. 'Draw your
ax is believed to have been the weep- of her accusation against Mac. own conclusion."
on. 'Captain Loring of the police Meanwhile, Loring has :decided to re- .:At that rnomeiit, there was a sharp
leases that, the previous evening, she lease Joel. rapping on the door. Then, it open
met .her estranged husband and re=_ ed, and Kay glared in at Loring.
ceivedR $100,000 for a divorce; and "You'd better be sure that you have
that, later that night, her maid saw' a search warrant for my room!" she
her , take a flowerpot from a wallsaid said nnpatiently, said angrily. "Your men are making
an unholy messss .of things," .
"I'm sorry for that," Loring re-
plied calmly. "I think you'll find
they'll :put things back in order be-
fore they're through."
Kay's glance jerked to Janet. "Your
Mr. Markham just went upstairs. I
thought you'd like to:know."
Janet stood up quickly. "Thanks.
I do want to see him."
Kay smirked ,then withdrew.
Loring also ,stood up. "Thanks for
coming in with the information, Miss
Cooper. Pll see what I can do with
it„ •
From his flat tone,.Janet couldn't
tell whether or•not he attached much
importance to it. ,
She left and went directly to Joe's
room on the third floor.. There was
no answer to her knock, but there
seemed to be surreptitous movement
who could have smuggled the fire ax'inside the room.
out of the pool enclosure after Mrs, For the first time in her life, she
knelt and spied through a keyhole.
In the middle of the room was, Bob-
bie Oraine. She was on her knees,
picking up small particles of some
kind with one hand and placing them
in the palm of the other.
CHAPTER XVIII
"Well?" ,
neat theservant's entrance. Suspects as Janet hesitated. "What is it you
include Joel Markham, wbe operates want to say to me?"
a laboratory owned by Nina and who She took a deep ,breath. It's about
recently quarreled with her; Adele Miss Krasner. I didn't tell you be -
Kramer, ex-wife of her husband; Kay fore, but she .suspected some one of
Feldman, her niece and heir; 'Bobbie Mrs. Arkwright's minder. And —
Craine, debutante; and the hotel jan-
itor, Mac, whose son lost his life in
an air race promoted by Nina.. Joel
is arrested, to the dismay of Janet
Cooper, swimming teacher, who's in
love with him, That. evening, Janet
finds Adele hiding in her room, Adele
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it to the pool to investigate it in her
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R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEw-' have the right one."
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and .she claimed it was this same per-
son that she saw last night. outside
the servants' entrance, just, before
she ran up to my room to hide."
Lorng's Heyes narrowed. "Why did
you, keep quiet about this before?"
"I—I hated to cast suspicion on
some one who might be innocent"
"Let me decide who might or
might not be innocent," Loring snap-
ped. "All right — who is this per-
son?" l ii e l s
"The — the janitor—Mac," Janet
faltered. Then rushed on. "Miss
Kramer said he was the only person
Arkwright was killed. You see, Mr.
Jepperson sent hum out to -call the
police. And—and he has a kind of
stiff walk, you know, and wears those
baggy overalls. Ile might have had
the ax inside them."
Loring's face was expressionless,
"Did Miss Kramer think it was Mae
who followed her into your room last
night?"
CHAPTER XIX
Janet tapped on the panel of the
"Yes—but she didn't explain why door and rattled the knob. Through
she ran away from him er why he the keyhole, she saw Bobbie ' look
should follow her. I don't see how about feverishly, then crawl quickly
he could have known that she sus- under the bed.
peeted. him." Atthat instant, Kay's lazy -soorn-
"It's my belief that whoever fol. ful voice spoke just behind Janet.
lowed her was after that flowerpot You needn t look in there for
she had," said Loring. Markham. Some detectives. are quiz -
"The flowerpot? Why?" zing him in a room clown the hall."
"Well, first of all, let's consider the Janet, covered with embarrassment,
one found beside Mrs. Arkwright's stood up. "Thanks •. I —I'll wait
body. Hasn't it occurred to you what downstairs:
she had, or thought she had', in that Wait a minute, Miss Cooper. I
flowerpot?" i didn't send you up'here to see Mark
Janet shook her head. "No.". '-1 ham in the first place. I sent you up
"The money her husband gave her," because I want to talk to you. Sup-
said Loring. "We know that, when I pose we go into your friend's room if
she came' back to the hotel late that its unlocked.'
night she stopped and monkeyed: with I Kay reached out and tried the door -
one of the pots on that wall near the' knob. The door swung in.
servant's entrance. She appeared to ' Janet hesitated; feeling sure that
be afraid some one was following herwhatever, Kay had to say would be
and, after waiting a while, took one, unpleasant. Then, she followed the
of the pots, away. My guess is that
she hide the money in a flowerpot."
"But if she did that and was mur-
dered for the money, why wasn't it
found on one of the persons at the
pool yesterday morning?" Janet
asked.
"Why wasn't the ax found on one
of them " Loring countered, with a
touch of disgust. "But forgetting
the ax for the moment, the fact thet
the money wasn't found might mean,
that Mrs. Arkwright had made a mis-
take and took the wrong flowerpot
away from the wall. Remember that,
acocrding to her maid's story, she
spent some time doing something be-
side that wall. That, we'll assume.
was when she was hiding the money,
Then, she moved away for several
minutes to make sure no one was
watching her, When she returned,.
she could have made a mistake in the,
darkness and picked up the wrong
pot."
"Wouldn't she soon have discovered
her mistake?"
"Not necessarily at once. Remem-
be the shape she was in—her face
bruised, her eye blackened. She must
have done considerable work that
night with hot and cold compresses.
I have an idea, though, that she did
discover her mistake in the morning.
That's why she was still carrying a
flower pot around with her. I be-
lieve she went back to the servants'
entrance, took another pot, and took
p d may br a watch on Mrs. Arkwright or, like
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other girl into the room. She glanced
nervously toward the bed, but Bobbie
was completely hidden beneath it.
Kay, after shutting the door, walk-
ed to a window and 1!t a cigarette.
"What I want to say will take a
very few words," she said over her
shoulder. "I'm asking you to mind
your own business."
Janet slid into a chair, "Just what
do you mean?"
"Exactly what I say. You seem to
be taking an undue interest in this
murder case — having private talks
with Loring and all that. Stop med-
dling. Don't forget that you are
nothing but a swimming teacher
here" Kay paused to stare at the
end of her cigarette. "Just keep to
your place and you won't have any
trouble." •
"She won't haveany trouble," a
quiet voice cut in.
Janet, startled swung round to
discover Joel standing just inside the
door.
He came forward, staring coldly at
Kay. "What's this all about? Are
you threatening Miss Cooper "
"Of course not," Kay drawled. Her
poise, however, plainly had been shak-
en by Joel's interruption.
"Are you suggesting that she with:
hold information from the police?"
Kay flushed! angrily. "Don't be
tiresome! You'd better mind your
own business; too. I think Nina was
right in tryin to, get you back, into
the laboratory - that's where you
belong! And that's where I shall put
you as soon as' I take control of
Nina's business!"
Janet's heart sank as she realized
that Nina's death hadn't altered;
things for Joel at all. He would still
have to make his choke between ruin.'
and work that might kill him.
Joel, however, seemed unmoved by
Kay's threat. He strolled to a chair
and eat down.
"You'll haveno say' as to what I
something valuable was hidden in one do," he said calmly. "You might as
of those flowerpots on that brick wall. well know now that your aunt left
Hence ,she investigated them last the laboratory to nee. You see, she
night and took one. The murderer made her will some e time ago, long
before we had our argument. That's
what I've been talking to the detec-
tives about. They've got the details
saw her and followed her. You pre-
vented him from cornering her last
night, but he did this morning."
"And the money'' Do you think it of the will from Nina's lawyers in
was in the flowerpot she had!?" New York."
Kay's face wore a frustrated fur-
ious expression. She blenched her
hands, then slowly unclenched them.
After a moment, she asked, "What
"I do. I believe that, when Miss
Kramer -was killed, the murdererhit
the jaekpol for that $100,000• of Ark-
wright's."
"Why do you think sa?" other provisions were there?"
"For this reason. The spilled dirt "1 don't know."
from the pot; found beside Mrs. Ark- "What about me?"
might filled it completely when it "1 haven't any idea."
Kay moved slowly toward the door
but, as she touched' the knob, Joel
spoke again.
"There's something I'dlike to de,
jlIiss Feldman'. I want to return to
you the amount your aunt advanced
to me when I first went into 'the
business."'
Kay looked round quickly. "Iiow
Much was it?"
"Two thousand dollars."
"But the,business is worth at least
half a million!"
"It is—now," said Joel. "But it
wasn't to begin with. It's worth that.
because I put in from fourteen to
eighteen hours a day at the labora-
tory — .because I used all the brains
or skill I have in perfecting the pro-
cesses that have made the enterprise
a success. I'm returning to you Nina's
investment, but ,the rest of the busi-
ness is mine. The sweat I've put
into it has really made it mine from
the beginning."
"But Nina gave you your chance!
Without her, you couldn't even have
made a start!"
"I was, grateful to her for that,"
Joel said heavily, "until she pulled
her last act mine until I saw that
she hada kept control, had even drawnn
up the original agreements with the
express thought of some day getting
rid of me and keeping the business
d'd built up . for her. Then I began
to think things out. Then I decided
that all she really.. owned was the two
thousand she had originally invested,
plus the dividends I'd paid her."
Kay's face twisted, revealing the
inner fury that possed her.
"Perhaps the police were right in.
the first place! Perhaps you did kill
Nina!" she accused.
"I'll tell you what I did do—I tried
to raise new capital. That's what I
was doing early yesterday morning
when I drove into Santa Monica. I
was literally beating on the door of
every person I thought might have a
thousand or so to lend me."
Kay remaiired motionless
moment, glaring at Joel as
she would gladly choke him.
Then, she fairly snarled, "You go
to the devil!"
She flung open the door and walked
out,slamming the doorbehind her.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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