THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928
T H E SPRIN G FIELD NEWS
PACK 81X
RELIEF FROM CURSE
Mid.
Simon Judd, amateur detective, and
William Dart, an undertaker, are v.ail
ing John Drane. eccentric man of
wealth, at the Drane place. Suddenly
the household is shocked to find that
John Drane has been murdered. The
dead man is first seen by Josie, the
maid, then by Amy Drane and Simon
Judd. The latter faints.
Police officers call and investiga
tlons begin. Dr. Blesstngton is called,
and after seeing the murdered John
Drane makes the astounding revela
tion to Amy Drane that her “uncle" is
not a man but a woman.
Dr. Blessington discounts the theory
of suicide, saying that Drane was de
finitely murdered. Dr. Blessington
comments on the fact that all the
servants in the household of Drane are
»ick, and that Drane has never dis
charged a servant for ill health Dick
Brennan, the detective, arrives to in
vestigate the case.
Brennen questions the persons in
the house, asking Amy if anyone had
any reason to kill her "uncle."
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"No; not a reason; not the slightest
reason!" Amy declared with absolute
positiveness. "I can’t even imagine
why anyone would want to kill my—
ancle.”
"And as far as you know, there was
so one in the house last night but
your uncle, Mr Judd here, Mr. Dart
and the servants?" Brennan asked her.
“I know,” he added "that you can’t
say whether others may not have
come in unknown to you.”
Amy’s eyes turned to Bob Carter.
“Yes, I was in the house lsyst night,"
Carter said.
"About when. Carter?” Brennan
asked:
"Late,” Carter said. “After eleven
and before twelve. Mr. Drane said he
wanted to see me; he sent Norbert to
tell me so yesterday afternoon—just
before we went for the drive, you
remember, Amy? There was no hurry,
Norbert said; either last night or to
day would do. I rather knew what he
had on his mind. 1 had asked him if
1 could marry Amy, and he had put ofT
answering me. So last night I happen
ed to pass here and I saw the lights
in the library and I came in.”
“Ring or knock or anything?"
"I went to the library door at that
side of the bouse and knocked on the
door, and Mr. Drane let me in.” Bob
said. “Mr. Dart was with him; no one
else. I said good evening to Mr. Dart
and Mr. Drane said we could go across
the hall to the dining room for a few
minutes, and we did. There’s one
thing I ought to tell you, I guess;
Just as we were going out Mr. Dart
said, ‘Now, remember what I told you,
John; 1 don’t approve.’ It was some
thing like that; he may have sail ’I’m
against it’ or I won’t have it.’ 1 was
rather excited, yoy see; what Mr.
Drane was going to say meant such a
lot to me.”
"Naturally,” a g r e e d
Brennan.
“Well?"
"That’s about all." Carter said. •"Te
went into the dining room and Mr.
Drane talked to me awhile. It was
mostly about my prospects and what
1 was planning to do with my life and
whether I would be willing to come to
this house to live after we were mar
ried—Amy and I. He said we had
best travel for a year, or stay else
where a year. After that he wanted
us, here. 1 told him that was what
Amy wanted—It was the only reason
she hesitated about marrying; she did
not want to leave him. So he said it
would be alright.”
“I’m so glad Bob!” Amy cried. “Im
so glad to think he was willing!”
“And then what?" Brennan asked,
seeing that Carter was hesitating.
"Well, it was rather queer,” Carter
said, blushing. “I thought It was
rather queer then, but It doesn't seem
so queer now—not when we know
what we know now. He asked if he
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John Drane ....... The Human Sphinx
Amy ..... - .........—..................... The Ulrl
Robert Carter _____ Her Sweetheart
WiUUm Dart _____ The Undertaker
Simon Judd .............. Friend of Drane
Dr Blessington .... The Family Doctor
Dick Brannan ---- ------- A Detective
Servants in the Drane Household
could kiss me.”
"He did?” Brennan exclaimed.
"Not quite so brashly as all that,”
Carter said. "He laughed and laughed
and said that if we were French he
supposed we would kiss each other on
both cheeks. I said I had been kissed,
when 1 was given my cross. 'Then
you won’t mind if I do kiss you,' he
said, and he kissed me. I felt—well, I
felt sorry for him. that’s how I felt. 1
thought ‘Poor old fellow!' 1 knew no
body around here cared much for him.
and he was getting pretty old. That
sor» of feeling
And now. when I
know he was a woman!"
“It's bound to come out now and
again.” said Brennan tersely. "A wo
man can stand only so much without
affection. The very worst I’ve ever
known came to it now and again. And
then what did you as?”
“We talked a few minutes about
when the wedding might be. and I
said I would have to leave that to
Amy. Then he said—”
Carter hesitated a moment but
Brennan said nothing.
"He spoke about money," Carter
went on. "He said he had made his
will in Amy’s favor and that he was
leaving her everything he had. Then
he said she was a good girl; he said
very nice things about her and said
he meant to give her outrght a hund
red thousand dollars the day she was
married, if I did not object. I have
nothing of my own. you know He
said that he thought, living in his
hpuse and having to be mistress of it.
Amy should not have to be compelled
to ask him for money. He meant for
the extra expenses, the things I could
not pay for. I didn't see anything
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he was your mother?” Brennan UHkctl to."
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and Amy stared at him with wide
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eyes.
wrong In that. 1 didn’t see that it had
anything to do with tn y loving Amy.
Amy knows It's not anybody’s money
1 care for. So when we shook hands
and I came away.”
“Uncle John my mother?” she gasp
"Through the library again?” Bren
ed and put her fingers to her lips as
nan asked.
"No. Mr. Drane let me out by th is If In fear. "Oh, he couldn't be my
mother— he—"
door.**
"You knew your mother?" Brennan
"So you didn’t see Mr. Dart again?"
“No. I went down the driveway asked. "You see. Miss Drane, 1 don’t
know any of the facts; I have to ask
there and walked hime.”
"You haven't any Idea what it was for them. Did you know your mother?"
Bob Carter frowned with annoyance
Mr. Dart wanted Mr. Drane not to
that Amy should be annoyed. He
do?"
"Not really." Carter said. “It may looked at her and turned to Brennan
”1 can answer that,” he said "Amy
be they had been talking over Amy
and me and Mr. Dart didn't care for told me all that.”
“Let her tell me." said Brennan but
me enough to have me marry Amy.
Mr. Drane and Dart were old friends his tone was kindly.
"1 never knew my mother," Amy
—what they call ’cronies' almost Or
it may have been giving Amy so much
money in a lump that Dart objected to.
1 don't know.”
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“But your impression was (hat Mr.
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Dart referred to the talk you were
about to have with Mr. Drane?" Bren
nan asked.
"That's what I thought." Carter ad
mitted. "I hadn’t any doubt of it. I
thought to myself ’What business Is It
of his, anyway!' 1 don't like him
much, anyway."
P a re n ts should know
"And now, Miss Drane," Brennan
th e quite a large per
asked without a pause, "have you ever
c e n ta g e of children
seen anything that made you think,
are afflicted with de
even in the slightest degree, that your
fective o r painful vis
uncle was a woman?”
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"No,” Amy said without hesitation,
th eir studies Is th e re
and immediately changed her answer
sult.
to yes! “Never while he was alive,”
she said. “I never entered my head,
Make Appointments
not In the very slightest. But now I
Whenever Possible
can see things. He was so kind to
me.”
"Might not an uncle be kind?" Bren
Dr. ^Herman W. ITtoody
nan asked.
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“Yes, but not in that way. Affection
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ate is what I should say, probably, j
1 didn't know, you see—I didn’t think
—how a man woald be, but 1 can see
now, Mr. Brennan, that he was more
like a monther in the way he—In the
way he kissed me and smoothed my
hair. More like a woman, more like a
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