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THE AtlMY POST MURDERS
By Virginia Hanson
The Characters
Kstherina Cornish, mijel, vlt.
Uing Elizabeth on a mid-ujejtern
Army post.
Eliubetb, Colonel Wrioht't
daughter,
Adam Drew, acting command-
ing officer.
Teiterdayt The strange girl U
found etabbed. The murderer
xoore my mandarin coat.
Chapter IS
Lost And Found
"DUT who ii she?" Barney de
manded.
"I strongly suspect that only
Dne person knows the answer to
that. Adam answered dryly.
Barnev said quickly. "Eliza
beth has been in the kitchen all
the time we were making coffee."
Shaw burst out eagerly, "And
Mary and I were together in the
lounge don't you remember,
Barney, you had just brought us
coffee?'1
I smiled a little. No need to pry
for alibis from now on they all
had the eeneral idea by now.
"Coffee," said Adam. "Kay, you
need a cup several cups. Here,
take my flashlight and go down
the other way, through the dress
ing room. Find Elizabeth and stay
with her until I come. , . . And
drink a cup for me."
To the left of the stage a short
flight of steps led to an unobstru
sive door opening on a narrow
corridor. I followed it past the
stage entrance, past two or three
tiny dressing rooms, and arrived
suddenly at the kitchen, a small,
compact room dimly lighted by a
pair of battered candles that had
evidently seen service before. The
aroma of coffee, the yellow light,
the general homey atmosphere,
were comforting.
Elizabeth's concerned eyes
viewed me from head to foot. She
swept a stack of paper napkins
from a high stool and established
me on it. An instant later my
teeth were chattering on the rim
of a thick white china cup and the
scalding, bitter fluid was shock
ing me back to some sort-of con
trol. "Don't talk," she admonished
me gently. "You're all right now.
There's only Annie and me."
1 saw her then Annie in her
decent black, the regal hat a frac
tion tilted, huddled In a corner be
yond the gas range, her wizened,
elfish face dismal and direful.
"When did you get here?" I
asked.
"Just now," Elizabeth answered
for her hurriedly. "She walked
herefrom the Carewes' quarters
"Dismissed, I was," Annie
croaked suddenly. "That whipper
snapper of a medico comes in and
throws me out me that has
known Evvie Carewe like a sis
ter me! 'I'll be speakin' to Mrs.
Carewe alone,' he says. So I says,
'Be damn, then, if I'm not needed
here my girl will be glad to see
me.' So here I am." And she
lapsed Into dark brooding.
I set down the heavy cud and
told her what had been happening
upstairs.
I had even Annie's full atten
tion. Horror, unbelief, then a kind
of despair registered on Eliza
beth's face. She made that futile
gesture known as wringing one's
hands.
"And Adam can do nothing?"
"Maybe now when the alibis
re checked."
"Such things ear.'t be allowed to
happen on Father's garrison," said
Elizabeth. "Oh, If he were only
herel They wouldn't dare!"
Suddenly the lights were on.
We blinked at each other stupid
ly in the abrupt glare.
Elizabeth blew out the weak
candle flames, and the acrid smell
of the scorching wicks momen
tarily filled the little room.
'An Inside Job
"TSAY "
I turned. Adam was stand
ing in the doorway.
"Feeling better?" he asked
cheerfully. "Care to help me a
minute?"
I rose, thinking with shame In
the bright, normal light of the
panic that had gripped me only
a few minutes before.
He was looking past me, his
round, good-natured face oddly
reassuring.
"You here, Annie? Good. Stay
with Elizabeth don't leave her
for a minute. I'm depending on
you'
I followed him Into the narrow
corridor. "Then it was ahort-cir-culted
up there in her room?"
He nodded. "Look, what did you
do with that note the typewrit
ten note?"
I stared at him blankly. Did I
Imagine a trace of suspicion, of
distrust In his candid eves?
"But but I don't know," I
stammered, trying to remember
and feeling guilty, because I knew
that in his plnce I would be sus
picious too. Still, I needn't have
told him about the typewriter if
I had Intended to destroy the not.
But if I had regretted that confi
dence? "I had It when I left her room,"
I said desperately. "At least I
think so. Perhaps it's in the other
room the vacant room. I may
have dropped it in the struggle.
"I looked there. It's not any
where in sight. I hopSd you might
have hidden it or still have it"
I showed him my empty hands,
the absence of pockets in my cos
tume. "Well, never mind. Only, do you
remember the name of that sani
tarium?" I nodded, and he seemed re
lieved. There were a handful of people
in the lounge Mrs. Orpington,
Mrs. Flower, the Shaws, Barney.
They watched us in ominous si
lence, I thought, as we crossed the
dance floor. Adam paused for an
instant.
'"Shaw, go tell Elizabeth and
Annie to join you they're still in
the kitchen. And please, don't any
one go wandering off alone. I ll
be with you in a minute."
He waited for me to precede him
into the reading room, then closed
the door after us.
"Now the name of the sanita
rium," he said.
I told him. and he nodded. I
remember now.""
I had noticed the telenhone on
a small table in the corner.- He
spoke briefly to the soldier oper
ator, replaced tne instrument.
"im going to question tnem
again, he said. And after that
I don't know. This has got to be
an inside job, I'm afraid. I mean,
one of a small group. We've been
all over those upstairs rooms.
There's no one hiding there, and
I'd take my oath there's been no
one. There's dust half an inch'
thick over everything. I don't
know whose job it is to look after
the Dlace no one's. I susDect. ex
cept the chaplain, and he's on a
montns leave, The the Curtis
girl had dusted her room with a
towel. But nowhere else, except
where you were tied up, were
there any marks of disturbance.
And the window screens are all
latched on the inside. . . i'
Thwarted Curiosity
THE telephone pealed.
"Hello hello! Superintend
ent of Hillside Sanitarium? Doc
tor Moore calling. A former pa
tient ol yours, a Miss ttncl Cur
tis, has met with an accident. . . ,
Yes, fatal. We'd like to notify the
relatives. . . ."
He listened, said, 1 see, sev
eral times. Finally, "No, nothing
at present. I'll communicate with
you later. . . . Thank you, Doctor."
He replaced the instrument and
turned back to me. His eyes were
burning with excitement, with
thwarted curiosity.
"Miss Ethel Curtis has been a
patient there for three years. Dur
ing that time she has had no visi
tors and very few letters. Her
bills have been paid regularly by
a firm of Chicago lawyers Hunt,
Hope and Polk. Sounds incredible,
I know, but that's what he said.
She was a model patient, quiet
and retiring never mentioned
any living relatives. Had improved
in neaun miring nor residence
there, was in no sense confined.
Yesterday, that is Thursday, she
simply walked out. She had re
ceived a letterf presumably there
was money in it. One of the nurses
saw the envelope. No return ad
dress. Postmark " And he
named the town Ave miles from
the post.
He turned back to the telephone.
"I want a firm of lawyers in
Chicago Hunt, Hope and Polk.
Yes, that's what I said. Yes, of
course they're closed. Find out
where they live, get any one of
them on the phone. ... Of course
it will take time, so step on it."
He stood, passed a hand across
his eyes. "I m neglecting some
thingone of those things I ought
to remember and can't. Well, may
be it will come back."
"The gun?" I asked.
He looked at me oddly for a
moment.
"I've found It." he snid imnas
slvely.
He went toward the door. I was
suddenly horribly afraid. Not
Charlie's gun? But how could he?
He hadn't been to Elizabeth's
and the suitcase was locked.
It was then that I missed mv
evening bag. I remembered, in a
sudden, illuminating flash, that I
nnci leti it lying on the chest of
drawers in that room where the
murdered girl lay. Had Adam
found it or the murderer?
Suddenly I had to know. 1
"You're vou'ro sure it whs th
gun? Where was It?"
His hand was on the doorknob.
Hu turned and looked at me with
no expression whntevcr on his
lace.
"There had been two shots flroil
And it was where I expected to
find it in Elizabeth's car. It wax
her gun, you see."
And he was gone before I could
find mv voice.
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Tomorrows Cherkinc the allbla.
MISSISSIPPI WOMAN ON GHAPL1N WILL START
FIRS! TALKIE SOON
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31. AP)
Prrtidnt RoowvMt announwe. today
the appointment of Mm. Ellen Wood
ward of MlMlarippt to the Boclal Se
curity hoard. i
Mra. Woodward, who Is an aulntjini
administrator of WPA, will aurceed
Mlat Mary Dewaon on the Social Se
curity board.
The preaident aald he blltved Mra.
Woodward would nerve for five years
the balance of Mini Dcwson'i term
Aaked why the latter had rcflltmed.
Mr. Rooae'Tlt remarlcrd ahe rouUtn't
atand 11 and then added htirrlrdly
amld laughter he meant ahe could
not Hand the pare. There wiut no
question of disablement Involved,
the prealdent mid.
WINDOW Ol.ArtvS We aell window
glaaa and will replace your oroken
wtndowa muonaoijt. Trow bridge Cao
loot Work.
HOLLYWOOD, CMlf.. Dec. 31.
(AP Chnrlr Chnpltn will start
shootlrm hit first talking picture in
two wN-ks, hit studio manager. Al
bert Reeves, announced today.
Chaplin has tentatively selected
"The Dictator" aa his title. To ac
commodate the crowd acenes a lease
ta being taken on acereaRs In the
San Fernando valley, nearby,
Chaplin's new picture Is bnwd ou
a sell-conrelved Idea and he also
wrote the script.
SOCIAL SECURITY GRANT
ANNOUNCED FOR OREGON
WASHINGTON. Dee. 31 (AD
The Soelat Hecurity board announced
todav grants totaling 23 ,374 .703 tn
34 atntea for public assistance from
January 1 to March 81, 10?f The
allocations Included:
Oregon, aert, $0:10 0(14 blind. 915,
160; children, KJ,73.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author. Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Res. TJ. 8. Pat OS.
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blows from each other's t citv boasts 10,000 horees wlthtn Its
city limit, because It Is found I X. nlC JJ 'ifl WL ifL
that the anlmala are more economt- k lcZsSJn &Hlu
cal for short freight haula than are StSeY? JL Xjfe-i r";1 imJSi
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prostrated by summer heat and In- , f I'WCT'rfUy if jVy-n,.
ured In winter by slipping on frozen 1 CxZj. fcwr'm LgyCJr
streets, the American Society for the fta l m,4f " Jty-" -feB
Prevention of Cre.elty to Animals ,
maintains horse ambulances which 'frJ'TS W " ""PJ S f f ,:::8
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Bludgeon Boxer
Commdnly called the "manly art
of self-defense," modern scientific
boxing, strange as It seems, had as
its first world champlcn a man who
chose to subdue his opponent with
a club.
James Flgg la called the "Father of
Modern Boxing" and In 1737 he
fought and defeated Verf Sutton for
the championship of England of
the whole world for that matter.
The fight la sr. Id to have laated an
hour, which proves that there must
have been a little aclence or skill
used by the two men In ducking
crushing
cudgels.
Flgg was the first man on record
to engage professionally m bare
knuckle fighting, according to most
sport historians. In 1716 he Issued a
card, engraved by the great artist,
William Hogarth, announcing that
he "teaohed fencing, singlestick and
boxing."
Flgg proclaimed himself champion,
and In many booth-fights at county
fairs remained undefeated. He fought
and defeated Button three times.
Flgg died In 1734 of pneumonia.
Horse Ambulances Tomorrow: The mountain
Strange as It seems. New York Iwnuldn't be cllmhrd.
VANCOUVER.' Dec. 31 (CP) A
great war veteran of Lynden, Wash-
In a letter to a Vancouver newspaper
today offered to give one of his ' good
tlltt tn ar-srr-i Kllnrf naonn
pnough money to buy a home for his
lamuy or aeven.
The man. whose name the paper
withheld added that he could not
work.
"All I ask Is enough money to
buy, or build a home for my family
of seven."
Herman Aebl, of Vancouver made a
similar offer last week but so far
there have been no bidders.
DON FABER NABBED ON
CHARGE OF SPEEDING
OLYMPIA, WMh.. Dec. 21. (API
Coach Dan Faber of Albany col
lege. Portlana. and a member ol hla
basketball team, Robert Woldt. were
free on their personal recognizance
today, after their arrest for speeding.
They will return here Thursday
to face the charge.
TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Plays Sofe!
By HAL FORREF'
Flying low over a
idmely abchipelago,
after his e6caps
from the pirate
plame, tommy notes
a flock of biros
startled into sudoem
flight. . something
. . or .someone dow
below had frightened
THOSE SlBOSl
He 0ROP3 LOWER AMD
sights a whuf landing,
this small isle may
be skeleton key,
the rendezvous of
the sky buccaneers,
whom he 13. seeking
'if there's ANYONE.
HERE. I'M SURE: THEY
. j tUULDrfT HAVE
lt!El$ V heard my "dead-
C BETTER NOT RISK.
TAXIIN& THE 6HIP I
UP TO THAT WHARF, j
THERE MAY NOT BE
ANYONE ON THAT
ISLAND, BUT KY
HUNCH TELLS ME
NOT TO TAKE
ANY CHANCES I
1-TPKESSIP, B'ttNT STwnP INVtLOrt
HAL FCBREST, 1. TH tift,ftK MCPtL
AN OF TME VOUOMT-tBU.l NAVY flOHTtR.
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By EDWIN ALUEV
( HOW'RE WE ILL GET A A
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GET HER TO GRASS Jr1
S TAKE IT? J I THINK L sj(
i GIVE HER ,
THREE PlLLSfcO"'
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mem uuwri; rm
1
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I LOOKS SADl J
SHE MAKES
ME FEEL,
SORRY WE
GAVE HER
THE PILLS
1 1 1
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HOP THE FENCE.
BEN: I THINK
SHE'S COMIN'
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