Zurich Herald, 1932-11-03, Page 2Murder
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AUSTIN.
Juanita St.'.im is murdered at bridge.
Special lavestigater• Dundee, left in the
house with Lydia, the maid, finds from
Nita's chequebook that she deposited
$10,000.. After finding her will, sealed
and opened, he forces Lydia to admit
that Nita had thrown carbolic acid in her
face, burner-;; her, when Lydia tried to
keep Nita from killing herself.
They are interrupted by Tracey rules,
one of the guests, who ..a: he has come
to tape Lydia to his hone, if he may.
Dundee mar,: Nita's will to Lydia, which
shows her fear of being murdered. Lydia
s also everything
giving in instuctionhe will s asere
to
Ni it's cremation,
ridge
with dresses Ione again, maybe it
wor . look so funny, and there'll be.
nobody but you and Lois to sea me in
I , because I've said so in my 'ill. And
I want my hair dressed as it was the
only time I ever ,=ore the royal blue
elvet. A French roll, Lydia, with
little curls coming out, the left side of
it and hanging clown to the ear, You
brush the hair t-traight up the back of
the head, gather it together and tie a
bit of black shoestring around it, then
you twist the hair into a roll and
spread it high, pinning it down on
each side of the head, And don't for-
get the little curls on the left side!
tt tI hope I have enough hair, but if
it hasn't grown tong enough, you know
where those switches are that I had
made when I first bobbed my hair.. .
You a on't mind touching vie when I'm.
dead, will you, Lydia? I clo love you. .
Nita.'"
Dunne. was silent for a minute
after he had finished reading the
strange note and hat. returned it to
the envelope, along with the will. At
last he broke in an the desolate sob-
bing of Nita's maid:
"Lydia, how old was your mis-
tress?"
"You won't put it in the papers,
will you?" Lydia pleaded. "She—she
was -33. But not a soul knew it ex-
cept me—" •
"And will you tell me how old the
royal blue velvet dress is?" he con-
tinued. "Also, how long since girls
c -'essed their hair in a French roll?"
"The dress is 1,2 of 13 years old,'
Lydia said, her voice dull now with
grief. "I know, because T used to do
dressmaking during the war. And it
CHAPTER XXII.
"I'll read the note to you, Lydia, but
I: can't let you tooth it," Dundee said
sternly, warding off the woman's
frantically clutching hand --taking
good care that her fingers should not
touch either the paper on which the
rote to herself had been written or
the sheet which contained her strange,
informal will. Informal, in spite of the
dead woman's obvious effort to couch it
in legal phraseology.
Was Lydia's frenzy assumed? Did
she hope to leave hngerprin'cs now
which would account for fingerprints
she had already left on it? Was it
not possible that Lydia's had been the
prying fingers which bad opened the
envelope after Nita Selim had sealed
it with fear in her heart? If so, Lydia
Carr had found that she was her mis-
tress' sole legatee.. Revenge, coupled'
-with greed.... Whnt better motive
for murder could a detective
who had so good an opportunity as
Lydia Carr to dispose of the weapon?
The woman slumped back, an agony
of pleading in her single eye.
"Lydia, I think you know already
what this note tells you," Dundee said
slowly, watching her scarred, swollen
face - :tenth.
To his astonis.ement the maid nod-
ded, the tears starti.ig again. "I asked
her once what she wanted to keep that
old dress for, and she—she said I'd
find out sone day, but I never dreamed
she'd want it fol a—for a shroud'-"
For the second time that evening
Lydia Carr complet.ly routed Dun-
dee's carefully worked-up case against
her. It was inconceivable, he told him-
self, that a mind cunning enough to
have ve executed this murder would give
itself away in such a fashion. If she
1.ed indeed pried among her mistress'
papers said found the will and note,
Turns Out i0,000 Shoes a Week
CoYI H:�a'is
No wheel of fortune this, but a machine which welts thirty shoes
ata time at the rate of eight to ten thousand a week. It was exhibit•
ed at a recent shoe and leather fair in England.
"She as home all day, but about IsEverest Doome
half-past four Mr. Drake came,"
I ydia said slowly, as if she too were
wondering. "She was awfully rest-
less, couldn't set still or eat. I ,ought
to have suspicioned something, but she
was during the war that girls wore was often like that—lately. Mr. Drake
their hair that way—I did nine in a stayed about an hour. I didn't see
Psyche knot, but the French roll was him leave, becaese 1 was Pooling
more stylish." - Nita's dinner... But little
it
"Did your mistress ever ;ell you did, because she didn't eat it, so there
about the one time she wore the was plenty for Mr. Sprague when he
dress?"dropped in about .seven."
Lydia shook her head. "No. She I "Did Sprague spend the evening?"
wouldn't talk about it—just said I'd I "I guest so, but I don't know. Nita
know sometime why . he kept it. • made me drive into town for a picture
li,zP4s�etpysir7itive:,
instinct of self-preservation, have pre-
tended total ignorance of the note's
contents?
"I'll read you th- note, Lydia," he
said, gently. "It is addressed, `il'Iy
precious old Lydia—'"'
"She was always calling vie that!"
t1 : n.aid sobbed.
"And she writes: `If you ever read
this it will be becau: I'm dead, and
you'll know that I've tried to make it
tie to you the only watt I knew. I never
could believe you really forgave me,
but maybe you will now. And there is
one last thing I wart you to do for
vie, Lydia darling. You remember
that old bine velvet dress of nitne that
you wer - always sniffing at and either
trying to make me give away or have
macre over? And remember that I told
yon that you'd know sometime why I
kept it? Well, I want you to lay me
on' in it, Lydia. inch a funny, old-
fashioned shroud, isn't it? ... But
Royal blue velv.t ' i., the skirt half-
way to the ankles,, unci sleeves with
long pointed ends, lined with gold
show. She was in bed when I go,
back, and" --but she checked herself
hastily.
taffeta, and finished off with gold tas-, "Did Nita seem strange --troubled,
sels. It's in a dress bag, hanging in i excited?Did she look as if she'd been
her closet." eying?" Dundee prodded.
"Do you think it was her wedding "I didn't see her," the maid acknowl-
dress, Lydia?" Dundee suggested, the edges,, "I knocked on her door,lbut
idea suddenly flashing into his mind. tobed, th ti 51le
"I don't know. 1 didn't ask her
that," Lydia denied dully. "Can I take
it with gine—and the switches :he had
made out of her curls?"
"P11 have to get authority to remove
anything from the house, Lydia;" Dun-
dee ' -.:1 her. "But .. ain sure you will
be permitted to follow Mra. Selim's
instructions.... So you're going to
accept the Miles' offer as a job as
nurse?"
"Yes, I'd rather work. Mr. and
Mrs. Miles have always been specially
nice to me, and I I could love their
c ildren. They're not—afraid of me."
"Perhaps you're wise," Dundee
agreed. "By the way, Lydia, did Mrs.
Selim have a pistol in her possession
at any time during the past week?"
The maid shook her head. "Not that
dP.i!
easily
relieved
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"Fres
from tem Gardenst$
render talnable assistance to tile
mountaineers.
50 far, howev:r,no attempt to fiY
over tlo summit has succeeded. Two
American airmen tried it at the be-
ginning of this year, lits only got up
to 15,500 feet, and the attempt macre
by Sir Alan Cobham in 1924 was aria
urtcuccessftli.
Aid by Autogyro
Perhaps, as Sir George Muemunn
has suggested, an autogyro might have
better luck. It Is certainly worth tvy-
ing. Aid of this kind ]vigil., make all
the difference on the final lap.
But whether' it is successful or not,
the 1933 Everest expedition is certain
to be a great adventure. And we .nay
well be proud of the feet that it is
again British mountaineers who are
to risk their lives iii this supreme
struggle with Nature in the greatest
and loneliest of her strongholds.
Ontario Wornarn 104'
Ata ®ad Tree
in the parish churchyard et Fort -
Inge). in Per,hshire there is a giant
yew which has the reputation of be-
ing the oldest tree in Europe.
This tree has been estimated to
be from 2,500 to 3,000 years did. In
1769, at which time the trunk was
intact, it is recorded that it had a
girth of 56 feet"and and a diameter of
nearly 18 feet. Today only two
fragments of Cite once enormous
trunk remain, and these are about
fourteen feet apart. It is remark-
able that the stens are still putting
forth leaves and shoots, •
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Windsor, Ont.—Ignoring the orders e fro Mrs. Brown
of doctors about the diet she should
observe and proud of the fact that
she enjoys her meals three times a
day, Mrs. Matilde Girard recently
celebrated her 104th birthday at the
home of her son in Lasalee.
Born in 1S28 in the French settle-
ment where she still resides on the
Ibanks of the Detroit River not far
ignores Dieting orders
tusi innnnnummin m t
British Climbers Plan a New from Windsor, she was the daugh-
ter of a captain in the British. army.
He served in the British forces in
the War of 1812. In 1848 she was
married to William Girard andthey
Assault on the World's
Highest Summit
,made old blouse
took new
•
aieetes„ il, etl,,, ware i, essi titmmnnmu itm a mai
"When I was planning my summer
wardrobe I get out all niy old clothes,"
writes an enthusiastic lady from Tor-
onto. "Way back in the closet hung
a chiffon blouse—perfectly good but
unwearable because it had lost all its
"Tan mountain must inthe end fall original color. I asked the druggist
to man. It cannot escape its doom." •lived in a log house which is now ,one day what I could use to color mY
blouse that didn't require boiling. I
knew boiling would ruin the delicate
fabric. He showed me Diamond Tints;
told n they were made by the
makers of Diamond Dyes, which in-
stantly made me feel sate about thew
because I know the duality of Diamond
Dyes—have used them often in dyeing
dark colors, He told me Diamond
Tints are the new way to get light
shades jtiht by rinsing or dipping. He
had all the popular. shades, but I chose
a delicate shell pink. It came out
beautifully and was so easy. - It was
just like finding a brand new- blouse!"
So writes Sir Francis Youngliusbancl' occupied by the son and his family
of the new assault on Everest, the with whom she lives. The place has
world's highest mountain, which is to been modernized to a marked extent
be made next year. I but the old log house is there cov
The new expedition will be led by ered with clapboards and lined in-
Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, who acquired 1 side with modern carpenter work.
much experience of climbing in the # Having lived during the reigns of
Himalayas while in the Indian Civil ;five British sovereigns, she recalls
Service: the activities of early days, the trips
Preparations for the expedition ; across the river i a canoe laden
started a week "or so ago, as soon as with vegetables which were sold in
it was know n that the Dalai Lama had t Detroit, the war cries of the Iroquois
corisentecl to a.unother effort being and Huron India•is, the howls of the
made to reach the summit. The;
timber wolves and the other trials of
mountain is in Tibet, and after the the pioneers. She also recalls vividly
SY.e told lire to, go on e , a ,,. 1924. expedition the Tibetan authors- the Fenian raids and tells with gusto
wouldn't need gine. But now I t'liinl, ties were reluctant to consent to an- of the fight which, prevented their
. other.
Fight -
back, her ac'oice sounded queer..
Maybe she was crying', but I don'tI Their attitude was understanuable , getting ginto the mainland from know—" enough. Those two very gallant gen- l g Island, then known by the In-
cl].an name of Des.Chree-Shosk0
"And this morning?" tlemen, Mallory and Irvine, had des- �—ee-
"She seemed all right—just excited appeared in the must in a final attempt Men resemble the gods hi nothing
about the party, and worried about my on the summit—and had never come so inner as in doing good to their fel-
tooth. Mr. Ralph Hammond come to back. Two years before, seven porters
hake the estimates on finishing up
the top floor, and we left him here--"
"What was her attitude toward Mr.
Miles when he dropped in on her -this
morning?" Dut,dee interrupted.
"Mr. Miles?" Lydia echoed, frown-
ing. "He wasn't here this morning,
or if he as, it was after Nita and I
left for town."
While the maid was packing a bag,
which Dundee would examine before
she as allowed to take it away with
I seen. And if she'd got one because! her, the detective rejoined Tracey
she was afraid, she'd a -kept it handy' Miles, who had made himself as com-
and I'd a -been bound to see it." fortable as possible in the living room.
Convinced of her ai;ecerity, he was "Lydia is going with you, and is
about to let her go to pack her bag grateful for your wife's kindness,"
when another belated question occur- i Dundee informed hint, and felt his
red to him. "Lydia, will you tell me heart warm to the boresome, egotistic-
what engagements Mrs. Selina had this
last week?" .
'The woman scowled, fanatically
jealous, Dundee guessed, of her anis-
tress' reputation, but at last she an-
swered defiantly: "Let me see.... .
Mr. Sprague had Sunday dinner here,
and spent the afternoon,_but Sunday
night it was young Mr. Raplh Ham-
mond. He conte whenever she'd let
al, little cherub of a man when he saw
how Miles' face lit up with real plea-
sure, "By the way, Miles, you saw
Ralph Hammond when you called here
this ..t.otsiing, didn't you?"
"Yes," Miles answered, with some
ieluctance. "Ho answered the door
when I rang, and told me Lydia and
Nita had gone into town."
"Mr, Miles," Dundee began slowly,
hir,r... Monday night? .. Oh, yes! ; throwing friendliness and persuasion
She had dinner at the Country C
with the Mileses and the Drakes and
the Dunl'tps bili Miles brought her
Club
had been killed by an avalanche.
In all, the mountain hacl claimed
thirteen lives. It was no wonder that
the Tibetans thought the gods of Ever-
est were angry, and should not again
be disturbed.
It May Have Been Conquered!
Now, after eight years, they have
reconsidered their decision, and agreed
to a new effort being made. Whether
it will be successful, no one can pre-
dict; but one day, beyond a doubt, a
man will stand on the summit of Ever-
est, the Highest. point in the whole
world.
When the last assault on Everest
was launched, we knew very much
less about the Himalayas and about
High altitude climbing than we do to-
day. Yet Colonel Norton and Dr.
Somervell reached 28,130 feet, climb-
ing without oxygen. And Mallory and
Irvno are lnown to have reached 28,-
230 feet, and may have gone consider-
ably higher. They may even have
reached the summit, and lost their
lives on the way clown.
In any case, these four men got liigir
enough to show that the remaning 800
feet or so --Everest is just over 29,000
feet high—should not be impossible.
That is not to overlook or underes-
timate the difficulties. Every step of !
that 800 feet will be desperately hard. i
At these great altitudes it is an effort I
even to turn the head, and to lift one
foot past the other involves immense
strain.
Choosing the Best Route
Yet not only must the distance be
covered, but every foothold must be'
cut out with the ice -axe. Oxygen ap- I
paratus is therefore an essential for'
at least the top lap, even though carry-
ing it mist add to the burden of the
.clambers.
Then there is the risk of snowbl!nd-
nese, caused by the glare of the sun
on the snow, and or "high altitude
throat," a parched condition of the
throat which is very dangerous. Dr,
Somervell suffered from it in 1924.
Then, it is not certain that the
route first attemrted will be practl:
able. The summit maY be difficult
from a ineiintaineering point o-1 view,
spa„ •t tam the strain of the high alti-.
tude. Rite after route, indeed, may'
be chosen --and the way be barred just
trcc
eSS.
within few feet of s
That is one reason why it has been
suggested that airmen should cooper- ,
ate esitli the .clambers, Ari aerial re-
connaissance might determine what
so Ito raO t hopeful. route, and so
into his voice, "I know how all you
fi :ks stick together, but I'd appreciate
it a lot if you'd tell rile frankly whe-
home, because Mr. Sprague wasn't in -j Cher you noticed anything 'unusualin
vited. , . Tuesday night ---let me Hammond's manner this horning.
think! . . Yes, that's the night ;Nagel (To be continued.)
Marshall was here. Nita had sent for
him to talk about finishing up the —
attic—"
So that was the business engage-
ment" which Judge Marshall had
humped and hawed over, Dundee re -1
fleeted triumphantly.
"—and Wednesday night," Lydia
was continuing, "she was ata Inner
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Mrs.Selim�alone?"
""~ QUESTIONS ABOUT �� a
Hien? rt Lydia was curiously , Why does a baby cry at .night?
sentful, "I -Ie wasn't ever here. Nita{ How muck should ho weigh?
said to me she wished Mr. Peter liked , When should he creep—walk—talk?k?
her as well as Mis' Lois did." Ilow much food does
"Thursday night?"What snakes him too thin fat?
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"Mr, Ralph Hammond took her
somewhere to dinner, to some other
tewniI think, but T _wasn't twal0
wheff trey got hoirie. Nita never vTuld
would
Nita never r
got home e
heal
they W
let me set up for her—said I needed
my rest. So I always went to bed
early."
"And yesterday—Friday?" Dundee
demanded tensely. For Friday she had
been driven, to-rnalch g her lass will
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