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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1940)
THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. SERIAL STORY MURDER INCOGNITO BY NORMAN KAHL SSriSS'iSi. CHAPTER I TT was nothing you could put your hsnds on. The soft, pliant breeies of the rammer niRht thnt floated through Martin Sayler's spacious drawing room had noth ing to do with it It was the way you feel when you're alone on a dark night and you know that someone is reaching out to stran gle you. Only when you turn around, there's nobody there. Dale Appleby felt it. too. Ho lay slumped on his spine, in one of the overstuffed chairs near the fireplace. Even with his chest sunken, his head propped forward by the back of the chair, his body showed the sturdy, virile contour of an athlete. His blond hair was cut high at the temples, and the tightly drawn skin of his cheeky, the gently twitching muscles in his face, gave him a patrician air. "It's no use, Rhoda." Dale said' softly. "I just went over the whole matter again with Sayler in his study. I stay broke until he feels like turning over the money. And my mother's will is air tight." "It ought to be a good will." Rhoda Waters said. He wrote it Your stepfather may be rotten but he's a good lawyer." "Good enough to keep me a pauper and there's not one bless ed thing I can do about it." Rhoda's eyes brightened and her Hps curved into a tiny smile. "Yes, there Is. There's one way." "What?" "Murder him." TJALE'S head snapped up and his eyes fastened on Rhoda, but he didn't seem to hear her. "I there a clause in your mother's will that gives you the money automatically if your be loved stepfather dies?" Dale laughed uneasily. "There is, my love. But the suggestion: coming from you startled me ai bit." Rhoda rested her elbows on her; knees and propped her chin with! the palms of her hands. "Oh,i .Dale . . . what s the use? You know why be won't let you have the money. He hates me ... he doesn't want you to marry me." Dale lighted a cigaret and flicked tobacco particles from his white mess jacket "You know that't not the real reason, darling. Iff an excuse. He's greedy and cruel." He nodded toward the man and woman sitting near thej oroaa rrencn windows across the room. "They're his victims, too. So is George Barbour, who's in Sayler' den right now. This whole affair tonight asking all of us to dinner and torturing us with his hostile courtesy it's all part of the whole ugly scheme. Sayler cant Just exact his pound of flesh. He's got to watch his ictims writhe in agony." Dale was thinking of his mother then of the way she, too, had fallen into the clutches of the man who now gat in her house meting out his punishment Dale's mother had married Martin Sayler three years after her first husband died.: She died four years later, wheiv Dale was 20. Sayler had drawn her last testament and, under his influence, she had specified that Sayler was to hold Dale's legacy until her son became 21 nr until I In Sayler's opinion. Dale was re- aponsiDie enough to handle his own lortune. Rhoda reached over and took a eigaret from the coffee table be fore her. "I suppose I ought to tell you. Dale I saw Sayler the oiner day. He asked me to come over. He told me you would never get any or the money as long as you went around with me. He cauea me a a golddigger." Color rushed into Dale's cheeks. "Why, the contemptible" He stopped abruptly. The other couple was standing over them. Dale sprang to his feet until the blond woman seated herself on the far end of the divan. "I wish he'd get it over with whatever he wants," Hazel Leigh ton said. "I'm getting jittery." She couldn't have been much older than 30. She was stilli ;Pretty, but her excessive make-up and the dull platinum of her hair, made her seem somewhat older. Winslow Mardell remalnedl standing. The comer of his mouth! curled up to meet one end of his thin mustache. He placed one hand on Hazel's shoulder. "You know what he wants. It's the pay off, isn't it? Dear old Uncle Mar tin wants to welch and I'm bet ting he gets away with it." Hazel flared. "I wouldn't talk about welching, If I were you. You're not here to play chess with 1 the Old Master. Jf the grapevine! has it straight, there's a little mat-i ter of some gambling" "That's my business," said Mar-i dell coldly. "Mine and Sayler's , We'll manage to settle" I jyjARDELL stopped short. In the broad, arched doorway on the south side of the room stood two men, almost exactly the same height. George Barbour smiled. But no one was interested in ' Barbour. The others were watch-1 ing me man who stood beside him His body was more solid than Barbour's and suggested strength and utter determination. Shaggy eyebrows half concealed the steely glint in his eyes. "How cozy everyone looks," Martin Sayler said. Mardell stepped forward. "Arc you ready to see me now?" he demanded. Sayler grabbed Barbour's arm nd led him into the room. "I'll ee you at the proper time. There no need to hurry. I want I all of you to enjoy yourselves." His smile was almost savage. "George and I h RVA illat hnA - Sayler said. "We've settled lots of things." RliodH sprang to her feet "Why do you have to do this to us.' Why do you have to torture us" Can t you Just get it over witn: "There's no need to get hys terical." Sa ler said coldly. Dale had risen with Rhoda and had thrown a protective arm around her quivering shoulders. "She's not hysterical. She's just telling you what all of us are thinking. Why don't you get on with your bloody business?" Sayler's piercing eyes were lev eled on Dale for a moment. Sud denly his jaw clenched tightly. "Very well you asked for it." He turned to Hazel Lcighton. "I've a long distance call to make. It should take about 10 minutes. I'll see you after that." He wheeled and walked briskly out of the room. From where Rhoda was still standing, she could see him walk across the reception hall and shut the wide oaken door of his study behind him. QEORGE BARBOUR had slumped into his chair. His teeth clenched an unlighted cigar. Hazel Leighton kept consulting her wrist watch. After a while she sprang to her feet "I'm going in. He can't keep me waiting. Twenty minutes have passed it's 9:30 now." She strode out of the room. Mardell's eyes followed her. "And the condemned woman marched into the death chamber with a look of defiance on her face," he intoned. Dale frowned. "I don't think you're very funny tonight, Mar dell. Apparently you don't quite grasp" A scream cut him short. For a moment no one stirred. No one was quite sure what It was. Across the hallway, Rhoda could see Hazel clinging to the opened doorway of the study. "It's Hazel," she gasped. Dale ' was on his foct. He dashed across. I the broad drawing room with the ' t others on his heels. At the en- i i trance to Sayler's den. Hazel I i stood, unsupported now, her face : looking grotesquely nshen. "What's the matter?" Dale . asked. "What happened?" And : then he saw. They nil saw. The men stood, rooted to the floor, and gaped. Rhoda sought Dale's hand and clung to It ferociously. In the middle of the dimly lighted study lay Martin Sayler, his leg crumpled up beneath him, his face pressed flat against the sand-colored rug. Next to the inert body, a widening pool of blood caught the faint rays of the desk lamp in one corner and glistened gniesomely. (To Be Continued' OUT OUR WAY By J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE SIGNED AND SEALED KANSAS CITY, A couple appeared before James A. Kil- j nier, deputy recorder of deeds, i for a marriage license but before she accepted it the bride said firmly: "My husband has to sign this oath before we get a license and I wish you 'authorities' would witness it." 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