Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, December 13, 1930, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD Murder At Bridge CHAPTER SIX AMbotuh Bonnie DundM had tak- b Captain Straws'! Boae-too-ieBtle parting fiD witD gooa grace, n wii a rrjr thoughtful young detective who Mt about locking himself Id the bouse la which Nll Selim bad been aaurdered, and which ha bad pro mlaad to guard until midnight Oaptala Straws bad beatan him to tba Job that Taniaf by at least 20 minutes. Had tba old detect! tumbled upon something which Wun da, for all bla anactacnlar thorough neei, bad overlooked, or had been anaUa to turn ap tetania Strawn bad luppreassd It? Only bla optl mlitle faith la tba old detectlre'i wtlUngnen to co-operate with him, aow that ba waa ao longer a mem bar of Strawn'i homicide aquad, had kept blni from asking Strawn point blanb If tha "death chamber," at the newepapera would ba calling it, bad yielded op soma tangible, unmls takabla due. What If Strawa'a parting boaat waa aot aa Idle one, and ha really bad "the goodi" on Ralph Ham mond? Bad tba old chief been laugh ing up bla sleeve during tba fan of glaring out the "death band at ridge," and during tha merciless ealsalnc of eld Judge Marshall? But hla native eommonaenae quick ly routed bia gloom. Captain Strawn waa toft direct la bla method, too afraid of antagonialag tha rieh and Influential, to have permitted even a "epeeia! Investigator' from tha dis trict attorney'! office to torment those 12 people needlessly. Probably Strawn, feeling a little hurt at hir ing played second fiddle all arming, bad eimply wanted to get him fus aed, wai tti now chuckling orer the affect of hla parting bout. . , , Much eheered, Dundee lingered la tbe dining room whoaa windows ha bad made fait agalnit any Intrusion, ao that Mi task ef guarding the house alona might ba minimised. Aa ha glanced at tha table, with Its allver platea heaped with tiny eand wiches of earlar and ancbory paste, Ita tiny illrer boati of ollrei and aweet plcklea, ba dlscorered that ba waa Tory hungry Indeed. . , , Aa ba munched the drying sand wiches and alpped charged water the rarioua liquors for cocktails on tbe aldeboard offered a temptation which ba sternly resisted Dundee's thenghta boiled and churned, throw ing ap picture after picture of Nlta Retlm, allre and then dead: of Penny Grain bless her! hetnlng him at the expense of her loveltr to lifelong friends! of Flora Mllea. Irlng des perately and then ennfeislnr to a ehamrfnl theft: of Karen Marshall gallantly playing out tba "death hand"! of Keren's atrlrken. chlid'ah face when aba teamed that he eld erly bnsbend had met and at least flirted with Nlta Selim at a chorus girl' party, , . . Ruefully reflecting that appet'aere to aot make a aattsfaetory meal he betook blmaelf to tha dead woman's bedroom. Tee, hla memory had aarrad him well. Here waa her desk a small, feminine affair of rose wood, act la tha corner of tba room aearest tba porch door. Tha desk waa not locked. Aa T)nn dee let dowa tha slanting lid. whoaa polish waa Burred with many finger prints, be aaw that Ita contents were la a hopelesa Jumble. So Strawn had beaten him to this, tool Rid be Tonne; aa ail-important rlno In one of tha many little pigeon-hole and drawers, staffing It Into bin pocket Jnst before bumptious young "spa de! Investigator" arrlredt But Tkindee'a returning gloom waa Instantly dispelled. Tie re waa Nile's checkbook, a flutter of fllledln etnba attached to only ana remain ing blank check. So Nlta had banked with tha Hamilton National Bank, of which John O. Drake who ap parently hated hie fattlsh. fussy wife waa rlco president! Ano'ber tiny fart to ba tucked away . . . She had opened her account, apparentlr, on Anrll 21, tha day of her arrlral In Hamilton tha guest and employe of Mrs. Peter Dunlap. Probably I,ole Dnnlap hsd adranred her tha 1300 ai first payment for her prosper tlra work la organising a Mttle Theatre tnorement In Hamilton. Turning rapidly through stubs, Dundee stopped twice, whistling soft ly with amaaement each time. For on April 28, and again on Mar 11, Nlta Sellm had deposited 1.1000! Where bad aha got tha money T Were tbe snms, possihlr, transfers from accoanta 1n New Tork bnnksl Hardly likely that a little Broadway hanger-on had hsd io much bird cash on deposit. Then where had she got It fHOOO at a time, bar In Hamilton? Blackmail? . , , Hastily rml thor oughly Dundee ran through tha re maining check stubs. ... No record at all of a check for rent made out to Judge Hugo Marshall! But there waa a atub that inter ested him. Check No. 17 Nlta bad spent her money larlshly was filled In as follows, in Nita's pretty back hand! No. IT 9000. May , 1930. To Truit Dipt For Investment. Had John C. Drake, who aa rice president In charge of trust! and In vestments had doubtless handled tba check, wondered at all whera tha $0000 bad coma from? One other rerelation cam out of tha 23 filled. In atubs. On erery Mon day Nlta Belim had drawn a check for $40, to her maid, Lydia Carr. A rain Dundee whistled. Forty dol lars a week was, ha wagered to him self, more money than any other maid In Hamilton waa lucky enough to recelre! Nlta In a new light on over-generous Nlta I Or waa Pilta berseit paying Diaeamau on a isjsji scale? Ha reached Into a pigeon-hole whole contents a thick packet of unused enretopea had not been die turbed by Strawn, and waa about t remoro an enrelope In which to place tha all-Important checkbook, when he noticed something illghtly peculiar. An envelope In toe middle of the packet looked rather thicker than an empty case should. . . . But It waa not emnty. And across tha face of tbe eipenslre, cream colored linen paper was written. In that same pretty, rery legioio oacg- hand- TO BE OPENED IN CASE OF MS HEATH Juanlta Leigh Sellm. Hla heart hammering, and hla fin gers trembling, Dundee drew out two close-written aheeta of creamy notepaper. After all, who had better right than he to onen It? Waa ba not the representative of the die trict attorner? . . . And ba hadn't damaged the envelope. It had open ed very easily indeed Ita flap bad yielded Instantly to his thumbnail..; Wait! It had been too easy. Be fore unfolding tha letter or what ever It was, Dundeo aiamined the flap of the envelope. . . . Yeal He waa not the first to onen It since Ita original aealing, Ood grant ha hadn't destroyed any tell-tale finger print! in his criminal haste to learn any eecrct that Nlta Belim hid re canted herel . . . I'ernspe ita ner self had unsealed the letter to make an addition or a correction? Well, whatever damage had been dona was dona now, and ba might aa well read. ... Five minutes later Bonnie Dun dee was racing through the dining room, pushing open the swinging door that led Into the butler's pan try. Wher tha devil were tha rteps that led down Into tne Basement t A predons minute waa lost before ha discovered that a door In tha dark back hall opened upon the eteep stairs. , . , An unsbidrd light, dangling from the celling, revealed the furnace In one corner of tha big basement, laundry equipment In another. He plunged on. . . . That must be the matd'e room, behind that closed door . . . Ood I What If she had escaped, while he hsd been munching caviar and anchovy snndwlrhes? A fine guard he'd been. , , , And It wasn't aa 11 be hadn't bad a dim loipleioa of tha truth. The knob turned easily. Ha flung npon the door. And then hla kneel nearly gave away, in tremendous waa his relief, nor there, on tne thin mattress of a white-enameled iron bed. lay the woman he so ar dentlv desired to aea. She had been asleep, and tha aolae ha had made startled her Into pinlo sy waaenimess. instinctively ner hand flew to the mined left aide of her face. "What? Who?" tvdli Cirr gasped, struggling to a sitting posi tion, only to fall hack aa nausea swept over her, "Yon remember me?" Dundee panted. "Dundee of the district at torney'a office. I questioned you this afternoon " The woman closed the single aye thst bad escaped the accident which had marred her face so hideously. "I remember. , . , I'm sick. , , I told you all I know" "Lidls, why didn't you tell me that It waa vour mistress. Mrs. Se llm, who did that?" Dundee de manded sternly, pointing to tha wo man's sightless left eye and ruined cheek. (To Ba Continual") LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Looking Over The Ground I Bf" is 11 r l A TOZEN POOW. VrvrAH-rc" NOT tUr A. 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