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."
The oath: "I do hereby promise
my wife 1 won't go out at night
after we are married. I will
I not play cards. . . I will onlv
call on women when accom-!
panied by my wife. I will not !
drink any more than my wife i
allows. I will let her be boss in
every way."
The groom signed.
writ, whut no
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THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William
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Persian race.
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11 To Impart
energy.
13 Musical note.
14 Court (abbr.).
15 To load.
16 Vicious.
17 Building lot
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19 Bridle straps,
21 Old wagon
tracks.
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22 Particle.
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39 Sea tales.
41 Daring.
22 Greek god of 42 Varnish
war. ingredicnls.
26 Slothful. 43 Ye.
27 Inherent. 44 Pertaining
29 Citizen. to air.
30 Genus of bees. 45 Baseball team.
31 Dolt.
32 Neuter
pronoun.
S3 Enthusiasm.
34 Fittings.
36 Small fly.
37 Observes.
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the
machine.
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revolutionized
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2 Pipe smoke.
3 Fury.
4 Bee line.
5 Mist.
6 Unit
7 You and me.
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10 Refined
woman.
thedressmak- 12 Guns.
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27 Gaiter.
28 Drunkards.
30 Sound of
sorrow.
33 Tedium.
34 Malefactor.
35 More
fastidious.
36 To thrive.
37 Fern seeds.
40 Affirmative
vote.
41 Common verb.
42 Circular wall
44 August
(abbr.).
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