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Zurich Herald, 1932-11-10, Page 2Murder at Bridge By ANNR1 AUSTIN, SYN ()PSIS. Juanita Selim is murdered at bridge. Lydia,-•ei� maid, says she loved Nita and shows Suecial 'investigator Dundee pre - seats she gave ' er. Tracey Miles, one of the guests, ret,•••ns and offers to take Lydia bone ith him. Nita's will, leaving everything to Lydia, shows Nita's fear of 'murder and also g'i . es a new motive Tor the crime. Lydia knows nothing of the $10,000 Nita deposited since she came to Hamilton. In a note to Lydia, Nita tells her to dress her for cremation in a velvet dress, 12 or 13 years old, which Dundee sus- pects.is a wedding dress. lie learns that Nita went out with Ralph Hammond. The night she made the will she saw Dexter Sprague, who left her upset. Dundee asks 'Miles if he saw Ralph at Nita's houoe when he called that morn- ing. Someone had been occupying them As late as last night! Weaving swiftly through the three vaunts, like a blood- hound on the Scent, Dundee collected the few but sufficient proofs to back up, his intuitive conviction. A. copy of The Hamilton Evening Sun, left in en armchair in the sitting room. All win- dows raised about six inches from the bottom, so that the night breede stir- red the hand -blocked linen drapes. And, clinging to these drapes, the i' int but unmistakable odor of eigaret smoke. Finally, with a low cry of tri- umph, Bonnie Dundee flung back the Ile plodded wearily up the basement hand -blocked linen spread which cov- ered the three-quarter sizedbed and stairs and on into the kitchen. Per - discovered that the sheets and pillow haps the ice box , cases, though clean, Lad, beyond the ea': in it—the fruit intendea for Nita's shadow of a doubt, b n slept upon. and Lydia's Sup=day breakfast. Those Bending so that his nose almost caviar and anchovy sandwiches had tctidied a pillow -case he sniffed. Porn certainly not stuck wi'h him long... hde! Who was the man who had He wes making his way toward the, Slept in this bed last night? (To be continued.) Michael CHAPr:.ER XXIII. "Unusual?" Miles repeated, frown- ing. "He was a little short with me because he was busy, and, I suspect, a little jealous because I'd come call- ing on Nita-" He broke off abruptly, in obvious distress. "Look : ere, Dun- dee! 's dit?e''s mean to say that, but I eapp,, you'll find out sooner or later--= Well, he fact is, the whole crowd knows Ralph Hammond was ab- solutely mad about Nita Selim. Want- ed to marry her, and made no secret of it, though we all thought or hoped it would be little Penny Crain. He's teen devoted to Penny for years, and since Roger Crain made a mess of things and skipped out, leaving Penny and her poor mother high and dry, we've all done our best to throw Penny and. Ralph together. But since Nita came to town—" "Was Nita it love with Ralph?" Dundee cut in, rather curtly, for he had a curious distaste for hearing Penny Crain discussed in this man- ner. "Sometimes we were sure she was," Miles answered. "Sh.: flirted with all of us men—had a way with her of making every man she talked to think he was the only pebble on the beach. But there was something special in the way she lool-ed at Ralph. - . Yes, I think she as in love with him! But then again," he frowned, "she would treat him like a dog. to drive him away front her but she always called him back— Oh, Lord!" Le interrupted himself with a groan. "Now I suppose I have nut my foot electric refrigerator when he stopped as suddenly as if he had been shot. The kitchen door, which he had t•iken especial pains to assure Mins:elf immediately after ,..ie depart - There the forest -side in Grasmere Vale rounds imin Y There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was urs of Captain Strawn and his men, his name; was standing slightly ajar! e An old man, stout of heart, and "Someone had entered this house.istrong of limb. Dundee stared blankly tt the door, His bodily frame had been from youth which was equipped with a modern' mo Bit to age lock. Someone with a key . Of an unusual strength: his mind was why had the door been left ajar? To keen, make escape easier? Intense, and frugal, apt ,,or all affairs, With the tee of his shoe Dundee And se his shepherds calling he was pushed the door to, heard the click of prompt the lock, then, all thoesi;''ht of food rout- And watchful more than ordinary men. ed from bis ~rind, mal a quick but Hence he had learned the meaning of almost silent dash into the dining all winds, room to secure one of the ptir of tall Of blasts of every tone; and often - wax tapers, which, in their silver times, candlesticks, served as ornaments for SoutWhen others heeded not, lie heard the the sideboard. h If the intruder was still in the Make subterraneous was locked, when h.: had made 74Aifi cef CeS Among the many good stories Geo. Jean Nathan tells about his literarY friends (in "The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan" emphasis on "intimate") is this one of Sinclair Lewis; "One afternoon a year or so ago," chuckles Nathan, "our hero (Lewis) called me up and somewhat mysteri- ously hinted that I had better be at his house in West Tenth Street (New York) at seven o'clock that evening if I didn't want to miss something good. Since he is generally as .mys- terious as a traffic cop, my curiosity was aroused and. at seven promptly i was on the scene. house he could be x owhere but in Lha unfinished half of the gabled top storey. The nearer stairs were those in the bark hall, and Dundee tcok them two at a time, regardless of the noise. Who had preceded him stealthily? By the aid of his lighted candle he dis- covered an electric skitch at the head & the stairs, fli,:kee it on, and found And,truly, at all times, the storm that himself in a wide hall, one wall ofdrives which was finished with buff -tinted The traveller to a shelter, summoned plaster and three doors, the ether of him ro-igh boards with but a single door. Up to the mountains With his candle held high, so that alone its light should not blind him, and well Amid the heart aware that it made him a perfect tar- mists, get, Dundee opened the unpainted door That came to him and found himself in the dark, musty- heights. smelling room that had served Nita —Front Wordsworth's poem, Selim and the Grains before Ler as a "Michael," storeroom. From the ceiling langled a green cord ending in a cheep, clear - glass bulb. But its light was suffi- Honor British Racer dent to penetrate even the farthest Daytona Beach, Fla.—A lasting tri - low nooks made by the three gables. bute to the memory of the late Sir He blew out his candle and dropped it Henry Segrave, famous British race car driver, is underway here. The city has begun work on a new 'avenge' t0 -Ae nautea..iu crone of -W6 sportsman, who twice established world speed records on the ocean. speedway here before he was killed in a motorboat accident at Lake Windermere, England. music, like the �4 U 1 T E A "Fresh from the Gardens c discovered there was nothing in the and House "Lord"' business. That it was a self-, Jack Three other male guests, as nlys assumed, empty title. And I learned iousl summoned, they told me, the truth from the "Lord" himself as Jaelc builds,' 3111eeoratee. t least were procedure already there .... After a cock- � to how he came to take it. e tail or two, we were bidden to sit to ` built and decorated by a high school inner. In the middle of the meal, I it seems—according to "Seventy class in Illinois. In previous years the noise Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say, n' "The winds are now devising work for me!„ our host arose and excused himself. Years a Showman" (being the mem Returning a few minutes later, he in- oirs of "Lord" George Sanger)—that formed us that be had to have a min - he got into a legal conflict with Buf- falo Bill, and that during the trial of or operation performed and had just telephoned the surgeon to come over. We• had been invited, it appeared, to stand around and be company while the operation was going on. Protests being of no avail, we had to enter- tain Lewis while the surgical perfor- mance was in progress. "'Looking at you guys, gives me such a pain,' he observed, 'that the other one in comparison won't seem so bac).' " He had been of many thousand and left him, on the ' t thedamnedest way as us less now.• -.+ a • . ;,,o , ikax,.I:haa.i . + incr_.. human spill, DandeeT But lust because a one of Nita Selinrs empty wardrobe young man's in love, and happens not to show up at a party , is no reason to think he sneaked up to the house and killed the woman he loved and wanted to marry. For I'm not so dumb that I haven't seen the drift of your damn- able questions, Dundee! . Do you knew Ralph Hammond, by any chance?" he conclude-'. his round face red with anger. "No—but I shoul.t like to meet him," Dundee retorted. "He seems e'aite hard to locate this evening. "Well, when you find him," Tracey Miles began violently, his blue eyes blazing with anger, "you'll soon find you've been barking up the wrong tree! There's not a cleaner, finer, straighter—" "In fact, he is a friend of yours, leeiles," Dundee answered soothingly, "and I respect you for every word you've said.... By the way, did all of you go to tlhe Country Club for din - tier after you left here?" Somewhat mollified, Miles answer: ed: "All of us but Clive Hammond. He said he was going to have a look around for Ralph bireseif. Seemed to have an idea where he might find him. . And, oh, :yes, Sprague disappear- ed in the scramble. He hasn't a car and nobody thought of offering him a lift. Guess be took a bus into Hamil- ton... Ab, here's Lydia! . Hello, Lydia!" he called heartily to the wo- man who was standing, tall and gaunt, in the doorway. "Mighty glad you're coming to look after the kids!" From behind the black veil which elea,ped her ugly black hat and hid her scarred face, Lydia answered in the dull, harsh voice that was character- istie of her: .. • "Thank you, sir. I'll do my best." She made no protest when Dundee, with a word of embarrassed apology, t4 -went :rapidly through the heavy suit - 'lase rhe had brought up from the b:• sentient with her. And when he had finished his fruitless search, she knelt an i silently smoothed the coarse, utilitarian garments he had disar- ranged. Five minutes later Dundee was alone in the house where murder had bee.. committed Tessler such strange 4. l,affling circumstances that after - toot. He was net nervous, but again h�. made a tour of inspection of the fl_st floor and basement, looking into closets, testing windows to make sure they were all locked. Everywhere there were evidences of the thorough- ness of the police detectives who bad searched for the weapon with which Nita Mine lied been murdered. In the basement, as lie had subconsciously noted on his headloni :lash to ques- tion Lydia Carr, the furnace doors „'hull, open, and thelids of the laun- c Y tubs had been left propped ttp, .. , the uilavaliing tt:arch. ., i:. it! You've go of making a chap tell everything he A quick tour conyincecl him thrid l,• lk an,. was concealed beh` tiunks, or behind one of the several pieces of heavy old furniture, un- doubtedly left behind by the dispos- sessed Crain "ah. fly. Big footprints on the thick dust which coated the floor showed him that he was being no Mort thorough than Captain Strawn's brace of plain- clothes detectives had been much earlier that evening. Two pairs of giant footprints.... . With an. exclamation he discovered a smaller, narrow pair of prints and followed their winding trail all around and across the attic. And then he re- membered... R..1ph Haniniond's foot - Tints, of course, made that morning as he went about his legitimate busi- ness of measuring and estimating for the job of turning the storeroom into odrooms and bathrooms. Dundee had not realized that he was frightened until he was in the hall again, facing one of the three doors in the buff -tinted plastered .wall, With surprise and some amusement, he be- came aware that his hands were trembling, and that his knees had a curious tendency to buckle. The fact that the door directly in front of him was open about two inches served, for some odd reason, to steady his nerves. Pushing the door wide open with his foot—for he never forgot the possibility of incriminating fingerprints which raight easily he obliterated he discovered a light switch near the door frame. The instant illumination from a ceiling cluster revealed a large bed- room, and, less clearly, another and smaller room beyond it, facing as the house faced toward She south, Knees and hands steady again, he investigat- ed the finished portion of the gabled storey swiftly. A charming :layout, he told himself. Had Penny Crain once enjoyed this delightful little sitting room, with its tiny balcony built out upon the sloping roof? And it gave him pleasure to think that this big, well -furnished but not fussily femin- ine bedroom had once been hers, as well as the small but perfect bathroom whose high narrow window overlooked the back garden. The closets, dresser rawers and highboy drawers were completely empty, however, of any trace of her occupancy or that of any other.... With these rooms going to waste, why—he suddenly asked himself—had Nita Seilien coaxed Judge Marshall to have the unfinished half of the gabled attic turned into bedetoms and baths.? Why couldn't Lydia have slept up here, if Nita thought so much of her "faithful and beloved maid"?' I But even is he asked himself the I question Dundee realized that the an -1 swer to it had been struggling to at - teed his attention,' These rooms had not been wasted! the suit the constant reiteration of the phrase "The Honorable William Cody" got on his nerves. At last he said: "Hang it! I can go one better than that, anyhow. If he's the Honorable William Cody, then I'm Lord George Sanger from this on." And so be was ever after. Speaking of titles, some years ago, John Galsworthy — his new novel One night Nathan and Theodore "Flowering Wilderness" is due this Dreiser sat together "contemplating the literary scene." Presently they got around to George Bernard Shaw. Said Dreiser: "The old fellow makes a sad idiot of himself trying to convince himself through other people that he's still young and spry. I had lunch with him in his fiat when I was last in London and guess what he did! "After each course, he jumped up from the table, grabbed hold of two chairs, placed them some five and a ,calf feet apart, adjusted his chin on one and his feet on the other, and then — in a horizontal position — chinned himself up and down on them for a couple of minutes. When lunch was over, and I was safely out of the place, he probably had to go to bed and rest up for twelve hours from the exertion of having impressed me, as he believed, with his remarkable youthful vitality." The saying, "putting on side" has an interesting origin. It seems that one of the first farm wagons had movable side boards. These side- boards were slid into place only when the driver had a good load, and then taken out again when the wagon was empty. But some of the less pros- perous farmers tried to give the im- pression of taking great loads to market when the yield was really light—says Marion Nicholl Rawson, in "From Here to Yonder": "Hank's got his side -boards on and hasn't got any load," a canny neigh- bor would chuckle. That was shortened into "putting on side"—to describe an acquaintance who is giving himself "airs' with noth- ing to warrant it. _ In the days of my youth a visit to Sanger's Circus was three parts hea- von and one part awe. Awe because the proprietor was 'Lord" George Sanger. 400 Prehistoric Walls Found Some four hundred prehistoric fort- ress or castle walls, many of them well preserved, have been found in the Province of Bradenburg. The oldest of these walls date from the Bronze Age (900 to 600 B.C.) Wheat 3,500 Years Qid Found More than half a pint of wheat be- lieved to be 3,500 years old, was found during excavations at Itembury Fort, England. allamenpo month—was offered and refused a knighthood. That is to say, he pre- ferred to remain plain Mr. John Galsworthy instead of becoming Sir John Galsworthy. It was quite a rarity for a man to ,refuse a prof- fered handle to his name, inasmuch as it is tendered him in the name of the sovereign and thus takes the na- ture of a royal command. The usual procedure is for some one interested to sound the person so to bo honored. As a rule, it is unnecessary to do much sounding. boys have translated their theoretical knowledge into the actual Construc- tion. of.a saleable house, but this,,is the first time the girls have participated by decorating and furnishing Its rooms. The trim English cottage, sturdily constructed, artistically* landscape) and tastefully furnished, which the Pupils have just completed, is element testimony of their capabilities. Ac- cording to the American Home Maga- zine, agazine, the house is, in every way, as finished as though mature architect, builder and workmen, instead of boys, had assisted in its construction, while the artistic, quiet atmosphere which the girls have achieved with little money, but with good taste and com- mon sense, would do credit to a pro- fessional decorator. The "Jack and Jill" house•is' an at- tractive six -room English cottage, with a spacious lawn, shrubs and pine trees. Inside, one finds the wall and floor coverings harmonious, and the chairs, tables and oter furniture prac- tical. Decorations and furnishings seem to "belong. Several pieces of furniture claim attention because they are usually well built—a davenport, two large stuffed chairs, a walnut din- ing table and chairs, and a sewing, cabinet. In each case, the boys have made the furniture. The girls for their part, have made the smart overdraperies and curtains, bedspreads, lamp shades,. sofa cushions, and have attended to the many ether details which make of Possibly Thomas Hardy and Rudyard the house a comfortable and restful Kipling may have turned a deaf ear 'home. to the voice of the charmer—at all School projects of this and of simi- events, It is generally believed so. Since the typewriter has almost done away with handwritten manu- scripts and collectors find them in- creasingly difficult to obtain, galley proofs of the works of modern authors, corrected by them have acquired a considerable value. Not long ago a first corrected proof of an old Kipling short story brought $360 in a New York salesroom. Kipling, for one, has long been aware of the commercial value attached to his handwriting and sloes not scatter it around promiseu- ousiy. I am told that his contracts contain a clause requiring the return to him of all manuscripts to which they relate, typed or otherwise. But in the case of Mr. Galsworthy some one blundered, for his name actually appeared in the honors list published in the newspapers as "Sir John Galsworthy." Explanations fol- lowed, but just what they were I have forgotten. It is not usual, how- ever, for authors to turn down a title. It was not until years later that I Fairbanks Jr. Favour's Danes see Evidently Doug. Jr. likes his dogs in largo editions. Hero him with his latest pet at his Hollywood home. we Once when a group of Wall Street bankers asked the late Iver Kreuger, spectacular Swedish "Match King," at a week -end party why he did not fall in love with some American girl "a nudge prompted no doubt with an eye to business as well as romance," says Earl' Sparling (in "K.reuger's Bil- lion Dollar Babble")—he smiled and said: "I prefer a Swedish match." Kreuger was fond of performing "little miracles," says Mr. Sperling. For instance: "He met some American women at luncheon in Stockholm one day. The spring had been late and colic. The American visitors spoke sadly of the absence of flowers on the countryside, 'Ah,' said Kreuger, 'you have not been. to the right places. You will came with me to one of my country places for tea this afternoon.' When they ar- rived at the country house that a::tor- noon they found the walks lined with rosebushes in bloom. Between lun- cheon and tea time Kreuger had ran- sacked the hothouses of Stockholm to provide them." Mr. Sperling who—as an American newspaper correspondent in Stock- holm—knew Kreuger, quotes him as once saying: "My success can be attributed to three things: One is silence. The sec- ond is more silence. The third is still more silence." 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