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Wednesday, December 2 1, 1938 The Capital Journal, Salem) Oregon Nine Henry. f PUBLIC LIBRARY I ' Caul C Anoeion- THE ARMY POST MURDERS By Virginia Hanson Th Character: Kathrln Corntah, mvalf. vlaltlna EllMbfth on a mld w.trn Army pout. Elizabeth. Colonel Wrlpht'a daughter. Adam Drew, act ing commanding officer. Yesterday: Ell7.abcth saya ah was alone at home when Anne waa ahot. but Annie aaya h waa there, too. f . Chapter 24 No'i To Be Shaken . 'That . Is no concern of Mrs. Wheeler's," she said in a queer, strangled voice. "Nor of you or anyone else." She grew calmer. "The matter was purely personal be tween Anne and me. It could have no 'posslble bearing on her death." Wild horses could not have drag ged more out of her, and Adam was tod Intelligent to try. He asked her to send Annie in to him and stood there watching her cross the dance floor In the rumpled pink organdy shephardess dress that was now so much more than incongruous. "And what do you know about that?" he murmured aside to me. He was nervous, alert, quivering with eagerness like a bird dog at point. "Your guess is as good as mine," I told him with something like dis may. Surely, surely Elizabeth was not mixed up In this. How ghastly for,. Adam If he were compelled to report to Colonel Wright that his daughter was the prise suspectl for the chain of evidence was growing stronger, link by link. Mo tive, opportunity, the weapon. No alibi for the shooting, and only a circumstantial one for the stabbing. Annie came In warily, like a cat Into a strange kitchen. Her eyes rested Inscrutably on me. swerved to Adam with no change of ex pression. His manner to her would have served as well for the colonel's lady. She perched distrustfully on the edge of the chair he held for her and folded knotty hands tight to gether in her lap. Her Hps were folded, too. and her faded blue eyes were shrouded In determined reti cence. It took a bit of wheedling to get her to unfold those Hps, and even when she did It was my impression that she had come prepared to say just so much and no more. In fact she said It several times, In varying forms, but the gist of the matter was that Elizabeth had been with her at the colonel's quarters from quarter of eleven until a quarter past. And she was not to be shaken in that stand. "But Elizabeth did not mention you." Adam protested good-humor-edly. "In fact she definitely stated that she saw no one while she was at home." 1 "She wouldn't be thinkin' of me. The poor dear thought you meant folks company." "And she didn't go back to tell you about Anne. How do you ac count for that?" I opened my Hps to say that she might have, but I thought better of It. And Annie did not contradict him. "She was that excited she forgot It," she said Coolly. "How did you 'Ind out about It. bv the way?" Annie blinked.' "It was that Mr. Nelson the big fellow. He drove up and come in hollering for Elizabeth, so I come down to see what he wanted. He told me about her." A brief spasm twisted the wrin kled face, the hands In her Up twitched. "He said he was on his way to the hospital, so I went up and put on me black and followed." "You were In bed, then, when he came?" "Where else? At that hour?" She sniffed loudly, as if to re mind him that she had her work to do and couldn't go sky-hooting around at all hours of the night and now look at herl I could almost hear the words chasing themselves around In her mind, but she was silent, in defer ence either to Adam's rank or to' the gravity of the situation. Adam leaned forward and low ered his voice. It's rather appalling By to see a man turn on his charm as easily as he would the ignition switch of his car. I had watched him do it all evening, but it oc curred to me that I had not no ticed when he directed It at me. Or had he? I took a rather mean satisfaction in seeing him fall this once, at lease. For It definitely did not work on Annie. There was a slightly ri bald gleam in her hooded eyes that vanished quickly as he stated his business the same business he had been trying to forward all evening, but with no success. ' A Woman Screams Adam continued to question An nie. Anne Carewe had looked to him like a girl in trouble. As a good friend of Anne's mother as al most a relative did she know why? Rage shook the little body sud denly. Venom gleamed in the mur ky eyes. Prying, and into the sec rets of the dead, was he? He could be better employed. And as for ask ing her, he might as well ask the man In the moon. She'd be likely to hear of it, now wouldn't she? She the colonel's maid of all work. Adam ' begged her pardon most humbly. His chagrin was so touch ing that she calmed a little. But if there had been anything else he wanted to ask her the outburst had driven it from his mind. She took her own departure, not waiting to be dismissed. She rose. "I'll be leaving you," she said and suited the action to the words. There was a pathetic dignity to the little figure in Its musty black as site disappeared from the room. Adam rather avoided my eye and his manner did not encourage com ment. I watched him pace the floor a couple of turns, then swing rather abruptly to the telephone. He inquired first about his call to the Omaha bank president, then asked for the hospital. "Better," he told me after he RADIO PROGRAM KSLM tSlfl KltiMclrt Thmtdtr F. M. 4:00 Pulton Lewii. Jr. 4: IS Newi. 4:30 Sands of Tim. ft:00 June Andtnon, Pianist. 5:15 Adventurrs of Oen, Sliafter Pirkir B:30 Johnny Lawrence Club. 6:4!t Dinner Hour Melodlet, 8:45 Tonlitht's Headline!. 7:00 Walts Time. 7:30 The Green Hornet. 9: 00 News. 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M. 1.45 Salvation Army Pro ram. 4 oo Aces, tac. 4:15 Mr. Kren. Tracer Lost Persons. NBC 4 10 Star of Today, ft 00 Stars of Today. 9 90 Oood News of 1919. NBC. 7 00 Kraft Muiic Hall. NBC. 9.00 Amo 'n' Andy, NBC 9 is standard Symphony Hour, NBC. 9 15 Catler Orehentra NBC. a iftN'ifr1nd Orrhtr, NBC. 10 00 Newa Flashes. NBO. Carl Anderson had hung up. "Still hopeful. I feel like a heel not to tell some of these people. But how can you know who you're talking to?" He sighed. "I'm afraid the banker Is out for the week-end." He lifted the receiver again, an nounced that he would be at the Officers' club until further notice and hung up. "And now for Charlie." There was a rather determined grin on his face, like a comedian with the toochache. The grin froze there suddenly, exposing all his teeth as though in some horrid muscular spasm. It was as much the sight of his as the sound of Lou Orpington's screaming that sent little Icy rivulets flowing down my back and along my arms to the tips of my fingers. Adam was suddenly gone, bound ing away miles ahead of me. I ran, calling shamelessly after him to wait, but of course he didn't hear me. She couldn't be badly hurt. I de cided dispassionately, for only a well woman could go on screaming like that. They were in the kitchen Lou, Barney, the Shaws, Mrs. Flower. The room seemed to be full of them. I dashed in pell mell, aware that Annie and Elizabeth were com ing behind me. And then I halt ed, arrested by their complete still ness, their silence. They were Just looking at something on the floor, something pale and sticky, drench ed in a messy, opaque fluid that was forming a puddle around It "It was In the freezer In the Ice cream," Lou was explaining In a high-pitched, hysterical voice. T was going to taste It I almost did then I felt something with the ladle and fished It out." A knife. Or was It a dagger? Adam was bending down, not touch ing it. "Did you have your hands on it?" he asked. "I why yes, on the handle." "No prints anyway, I'm afraid. Not now." Elizabeth said, "Let me see," soft ly behind me. (Continued tomorrow) 10:15 Schroeder Orchestra, HBO. 10:30 Hallenden Orchestra, NBC 11:00 Sir Francis Orchestra, NBC. 11:30 Olympic Hotel Orchestra, NBO. KflW-KO Kilocycles Friday A. M. 7:00 Story of the Month. NBC. 7:15 Trail Blazers. 7:45 Oreconlan News. 1:00 Today's Best Buys. 1:05 Ted White. Slnser. NBC 1:15 Jlnsletown Ossette. NBC. 1 30 Stars of Today. 9.00 Music by Curat. 9:15 The O'Neills. NBC :30 Smile Parade. NBC. 10 00 Benny Wlker"i Kitchen. 10:15 Martha Meade. NBC 10:30 Dangerous Roads, NBC. 10:45 Dr. Kates, NBC. 11:00 Betty Bob. NBO. 11:15 Arnold Orimm'i Daufhter. NBO. 11:30 Valiant Lady. NBC. 11 45 Betty Crocker. 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