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THE ARMY POST MURDERS
By Virginia Hanson
The Character
Kitherin. Cornlih, myttlf, U
Uing Elizabeth an mid-uteiMni
Army pott.
EliMbetb, Colantt Wright'$
daughter.
A dim Drew, acting command
ing oJicr.
YetUriiy: Shaw propoiu tht
theory that thi bullet may have
been meant for Barney.
Chapter IS
On The Wrong Track
TXCITEMENT burned In Adam'i
eyes.
"Well? I'm listening."
"Why, I was in the reading
room, here, this afternoon, polio
lng up for the party. I'd come over
to make sure there were enough
dishes (or the ice cream. That stuff
must be melted to soup by now!
They were to deliver it at eleven.
The balloon dance was to have
been the last before the intermix
ion."
Adam made a gesture of im
patience.
"Get on with it What time were
you over here?"
"Rieht after the polo game,
Must have been between five-
thirty and six. 'mere's usually
two or three soldiers in the read
ing room, but they'd cleared out.
The piece was empty as a tomb."
He paused, shivered. "Tomb is
rignt. ...
"Well, as I said, I was policing
up a bit in here when I heard
what I took to be a Distol shot. I
tore to the reading room door it
was shut and -pened It.
"Barnev was standing in the en
tryway with a box of colored light
bulbs in one hand and the pieces
of one at his feet I said, 'What was
that noise?
"He said, sort of weak, 'It did
make a noise, didn't it? Must be
the arched roof. I dropped a bulb.
"But when I got up to him I
could see his face was white and
he was shaking so the bulbs all
danced and rattled. And I could
smell burnt powder.
"Well, that was his story, and he
tuck to It. But i tninK somebody
was gunning for him and he knew
It And that would mean
"That somebody got the wrong
person tonight uia you see any'
one? Outside, I mean?"
"I never noticed. There were
tars passing the polo game was
oust over, as i say, i never no
ticed.
"He would have been an easy
mark there in the doorwav.
Adam mused; "he was all in white."
6uddenly I remembered some
thing that turnrA me cold. What
mean uoudi was lining my mina
with Dictures of Elizabeth? Eliza
beth, determinedly alone, leaving
the club before Taps; Elizabeth,
n hour ago, standing in her own
front door looking sick with
what? Horror? Disappointment?
Fear? And now Elizabeth taking
me tacttuny nut nrmiy nome rrom
the polo game, leaving me there
nd propelling her shiny little car
DacK past tne long row or omcers
quarters, past the Service Club,
past the chapel, past the Post Ex
change, and so out of sight among
the small, orderly row of quar
ters known as Noncoms' Row.
And Shaw had said there were
ears passing. Passing the Service
Club.
I wanted to deny those sus
picions. I did deny them. I was
ashamed of them. I despise people
who are always looking for evil
where only good appears.
Yet the recurring pictures were
important; they had real signln
cance if I could have puzzled it
out But I didn't know them well
enough the principals in that
night's tragedy. And even Adam,
when, toward morning, I told him
all the things that were troubling
me, was slow to see where they
pointed.
Horrible Understanding
I TURNED my thoughts resolute
ly In a new direction. There
was still Shaw, the man who had
tried to spoil Swede's beauty. I
hadn't been able to lit that In with
the murder of Barney's fiancee.
But suppose the killer had intend
ed the bullet for Barney?
We had only Shaw's word that
he had been in the reading room
that afternoon when the first shot
was fired If it was a shot.
Couldn't he have fired at Barney
from in front of the building, run
around the side and in at the door
of the reading room? It would be
a smart move to tell the story
first, before Adam could hear it
from Barney's lips.
It was easy to discount his
wife's story of refusing to marry
Barney. No girl in her senses
would have made such a choice
between the two men. A more
likely surmise would be that she
had made a desperate play for
Barney, only to find that he had
been amusing himself at her ex
pense and Shaw's. She was prob
ably still in love with him; that
would account for her turning
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against Anne. And wasn't that I
motive for shooting her?
On the other hand, why would
Shaw, at this particular juncture,
decide to put Barney out of the
way? Anne was doing that for
him.
I had floundered into confusion
again. Barney or Anne? And
strong motives for the death of
either. Against my will my
thoughts circled back to their
starting point. Strong motives.
Elizabeth, if she loved Barney.
Charlie.,. . .
But I refused to think of that
Adam was pacing the floor with
?uick, nervous strides, his open
ace mirroring indecision.
"But if that's true I'm on the
wrong track I've been asking all
the wrong questions." He frowned
thoughtfully at Shaw. "Who hated
him? Who on this post would be
glad to see him dead?"
Shaw turned a seasick sreen.
The man who tried to spoil Swede's
beauty.
He moistened his lips and I saw
them form a word. Charlie. He was
going to bring that up again. But
a sudden thought as visible as a
shadow on his face, intervened
and he brushed aside Adam's ques
tion with one of his own.
"Where is Swede, by the way?"
Something in his tone arrested
Adam. The two men stared at each
other in rather horrible under
standing.
"You're thinking . . ," Adam's
voice trailed off. He crossed the
room to a crowded hatrack.
reached down from the top hook
a white uniform cap.
"You you think the murderer
might try again?" Shaw's voice
was a little shrill. "Adam waitl
Where are you going? What about
me?"
Adam nausea at the side door I
had used more than an hour before.
"I'm going to bachelor quarters
after Nelson. I'll either bring him
back here or set somebody on to
guard him, ju.it in case. You stay
here; I'll be right back. Look
have Mrs. Orpington in and see
what you can get out of her. It
probably won't be much, but keep
her until I get back."
It was not much. Inside of five
minutes Shaw was squirming; and
by the end of that time Jjou Or
pington was asking the questions
and Shaw was on the defensive.
To do him justice, she learned
little enough from him, and her
tongue sharpened.
A Woman In White
WELLI This certainly .J send
ing a boy to do a man's work.
Kind of in a daze, aren't you?
SiiDDOse I did know something.
I'd better not tell you you might
forget it before Adam gets DacK.
Guess I'll Just wait around."
She settled back comfortably
and gazed at the ceiling, her thin
red tips pressed tightly together,
her long bare legs nonchalantly
crossed. Shaw looked at her with
bafilod fury in his eyes.
"If you know anything you'd
better tell it before something else
happens.
"Something else," she murmur
ed, and behind her veiled eyes
brisk thought was nctive. "I see
vou think the killer was after
Barney."
Either she was very quick wlt-
ted or she did know something.
For the first time she betrayed
signs of nervousness. The high
arched foot in the silver sandal
that revealed her scarlet-tinned
toes began to lash like the tall
of an angry cat.
"I don't believe it," she said dc-
Anntl,, hot hnr Mtnnlra horl rtnlof
around their spots of rouge. "It's
that girl. She was looking for trou
ble and she got it Everybody's
crazy about Barney he's a prince.
If he wasn't she'd never have got
him. She shut her lips tight on
that.
"But you do see that you should
tell what you know. Time may be
important," Shaw wheedled.
."Fiddlcsticksl If I knew any
thing, don't you suppose I'd have
told it an hour ago?"
"But you said
"I said if I knew anything. I
don't. I've got good eyes and I
keep them open, that's all. You've
had us much chance as I have.
You've seen Anne Carewe, haven't
you? You've seen her parents?
Weill"
And that was all she would say.
I don't know what nrtide me look
over my shoulder. The long lower
flight of the stairway where I was
sitting was In semidarkness. But
the lights from the lounge were
reflected upward from the central
well of the Dunning and Illumi
nated the landing where the stairs
turned left about three steps from
the top.
A woman was standing there
a woman in white with floating
draperies. Her head was back, her
face white and contorted, and one
arm hung limp at her side. But
with the other she was making
fantastic gestures. Fist clenched,
she was doubling and straighten
ing it at shoulder level, as if she
were engaged in weird calisthenics
or us ii sne vtp uumiiiik some
thing dcsprnteiv hack that threat
ened her from Just beyond the turn
of the stairs.
(CopirltM. J. Virginia Hamon)
Tomorrow: The girl from the train.
WASIIINUTON. Off. H. (UP)
PnM!dnt Rooapvelt's monopoly In
YMMpnttng commute today heard
evidence purportlnn to allow that a
Hartford. Conn., firm which monopo
1Imi patcnta for manufacture of
mlllt bottlM earned 40.479,02fl from
Its patents alone during the pnat
15 vent.
P. CI. Smith, president of the
Mnrtfnrd-Kmplre company and tlrat
witness In the committee's Inquiry
:nlo the effecta of government pat
ent policies on monopolistic growth
dlilo'cd under questioning that hi"
firm not only control the mlllt bot.
tie pntents. but also haa a monopoly
on rn'-nu for on- of two method.
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Telephoning Vour "Voice"
Strange tu tt seems, no one has ever
beard your voice over a telephone,
and you have never heard anyone
else's. What la heard la purely me
chanical reproduction of the voice.
In making a telephone call to San
Francisco from New York, for ex
ample, your actual voice travels only
the distance from your mouth to the
mouthpiece of the transmitter.
In turn, the transmitter changes
air vibrations of your voice into elec
trical Impulses, and tt la these that
travel the 3000-mile distance to San
Francisco. There the electrical Im
pulses are again changed Into air vi
brations, which reach the listener's
ear In a fair reproduction of your
true voice.
Thus the telephone does not carry
your own voice thousands of miles, as
popularly supposed. In making long
distance calls; only an Imitation of
It covers the distance.
Hlgh-iind-Dry I'ler
Because of the shallowness of Its
harbor, Broome. Western Australian
seaport, found It necessary to extend
a pier almost a mile out Into the
ocean to accommodate large ships.
At high tide, ships are able to tie
alongside of this pier some 5000 feet
from land. At low tide, however,
quite a different picture Is presented.
The ship that formerly had been
floating Is then left "high and dry"
about 100 yards from the water I
Due to the heavy tidal change and
the natural shallowness of the region,
the water advances and recedes over
a mile with the flood and ebb tides.
Tomorrow: Does Finland owe the
United States a war debt?
HEAVY IN Mlf
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 14. (Spl.)
There were 4.08 Inches of rainfall In
Jacksonville during November, (ac
cording to figures released today by
Emll Brltt. voluntary observer Great
est fall was on November 1, with
1.95 inches. There was one-quarter
inch of snowfall on the 10th.
Mean temperature for the month
was 40.86 degrees; moan maximum,
48.53; mean minimum, 32.4. Coldest
days were the 12th and 22nd, with
lows of 21 degrees.
Precipitation since September 1 Is
5.10 inches, far ' below the 11.57
inches which fell during the same
period last year.
25 Discount on all
Ready-To-Wear and Hots
ETHELWYN B. HOFFMANN
GIRLS' SCHOOL FOUNDER
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 14. (AP
Miss Catherine Harker, who founded
the Miss Harker School for Oirls hsie
In 1902, died at her home as a result
of a heart attack last night. She was
Born In Portland. Ore., a member of
a pioneer Oregon family, and previ
ously tauRht at Mills college In Oak
land. Calif. She was a graduate rf
Vnssar. Survivors Include a sister.
Miss Sara D. Harker, associated with
the school.
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in town, he found that his wife had locked her-.
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