Show THE n WEDDING MARCH MURDER by MONTE Ccpyrl ht 1111 by WNU BARRETT th Srvlc 0 SYNOPSIS 4 m l" th mlnltr' Jim Tnkiln about to ba marriedstudy to u tabbed to death Dorl Carmody Peter Cardigan novelist and amateur detective of aome note with Sergeant KIN day begin the official Investigation Franklin while waiting bad visitors among them his mistress “Choo Choo” Train his Intended wife’s father Am °ro her brother Carmody Rylle Daniel Bullls politician and a woman in a blue frock who had quarreled openly with Franklin Ryu Carmody admits trying to stop the " wedding !? lnformd by Webster Spears that Franklin was still with Choo Choo despite his friendly approaching marriage Kllday secures the dead man s keys Callia Shipley one of the bridesmaids Is Is hsr contradictory answer to questions but the Investigators learn nothing of Importance An Interview with Bullls is also s Webster Spears admits informing Rylie Carmody of Franklin’s relatione with Choo Choo for Doris Carmody' ake In the hope of the preventing Fletcher wedding manFranklin’s servant Is reticent An Interview with Milo Dunbar Franklin’s law partner and search of the dead man’s office reveals nothing of Importance Choo Choo admits her relations with Franklin were to continue after his marriage She says she was decoyed Into visiting Franklin at the church by a telephone message from Fletcher telling her to come CHAPTER “He there” had V — Continued —ll — a key I suppose It’s “Mind If I try It?” Choo Choo eh rupped “Nice of you to ask” she said There was a trace of bitterness In ier voice “I’ve alI’m not ready told you he had a key hiding anything” “I Just want to make sure” the detective retorted over his shoulder as he disappeared toward the living room When he returned he nodded toward Peter “It fits That’s six of “Marrying her I Choo Choo tossed head “Ho wasn't marrying a He was marrying a social posiJim was going to be the next governor of New York” Kllday could cope with the woman’s anger where her sorrow a short time before had silenced him "And I suppose you were going to Albany with him ehr “I wouldn’t have been so far away" retorted the Octrees “If he loved you eo much why didn’t he marry you?" the sergeant hef girl tion insisted “Don’t be Billy” the actress scoffed “Where would Jim have been If he'd married an actress? Wouldn’t the papers have had a good time ou that? for Candidate Governor Marries Show GirL’ That would’ve been murder It would have finished him” “Aa It turned out" replied Kllday dryly “It wag murder anyway" “You're wastThe girl shivered ing time here’” she said In a quieter “Why don’t you talk to Dan Maybe he can tell you what He yesterday afternoon at Jim and he'd been tryhim Bullls called me here When wanting to see Jim He I said he wasn’t here he swore said Jim was hiding from him and that I was helping him But he said he’d find him If you really want who killed Jim Franklin talk to Dan Bullls” “We’ve talked to Bullls" Peter Informed her quietly “We've come here to find out what you know Miss voice Bullls happened was sore ing to see yesterday Train” if “I’m only you want you where to go Information about the telling heart” them” “You sound disappointed” observed Choo Choo “I had hoped that key would help me find some one else” the detective commented “No matter We’ll play the hand Just as It Is dealt” Peter frowned thoughtfully at his lean brown hands “Miss Train” he put the question deliberately “how did you feel about this marrlape of Franklin’s? You were In love with him weren’t you?” Choo Choo moistened her Ups but did not reply Her dark eyes returned his stare but the shadows concealed their expression Finally she nodded “Yes I loved him What of It?” “What did you think of this marriage?” Cardigan repented over her Once more she linpered answer her head bent now so that It was Impossible to read the expression of her face “What docs It matter what I thought?” the girl answered finally “He was getting married wasn’t he? That’s your answer” “No” Peter wished that It were answer enough and that he need no longer probe this girl’s wound lie fortified himself with the memory of Jim Franklin’s body as he had last “No seen It In the rector’s study that was his answer Miss Train I'm asking how you felt?” “There are times” said the girl distinctly “when your feelings don’t count I wasn’t exactly happy over the marringe You can’t expect me to Still” her glance faltered say that before the novelist's nnwaverlng scrutiny “I figured that I’d get over It Other people have” “Then when you left Franklin there In the study you knew you were tellhim for good didn't ing for the first you?” Kllday questioned time “I didn't say that” the actress reThen noticing the plied quickly hand cigar In the detective's “I “Go on and smoke’’ she invited She fumbled on need one myself” a found and the stand by the table match a held Cardigan cigarette for her For a minute she puffed deeply ns though keenly enjoying the smoke Her glance traveled slowly from one man to the other “What made you ask me that?" she Inquired of Kllday finally The sergeant shrugged “lie was getting married wasn't he?” A half smile curled about the girl’s and was gone as momentarily lips “He was quickly as It had come marrying a position” she said quick“Jim never loved Doris Carmody ly He loved me” did love you” Kllday con“ITe ceded “But that was finished yesI terday wasn't it? By the wedding mean” slowThe wedding” said the girl differ“wasn’t going to make any ence between Jim and me We had been all over that” “You mean you were going on — the The detective’s same as before?” tone was Incredulous Choo Choo exhaled a cloud of smoke "That’a exactly what I mean”' she declaredr “For a detective you can be terribly dense sometimes" You can say that now" Kllday objected “Franklin’s dead" “I’m only telling you what Jim and forI had decided” The girl leaned you ward angrily “There’s one thingloved don’t seem to understand Jim He didn’ love that Carmody me I girL" “But he was marrying her” the sergeant declared with finality ly GARLAND TIMES GARLAND She thought that loved Franklin she had aome claim on him evidently In fact" Peter was remembering the story Daniel Bullls had told of th scene In the etudy “she threatened tc ruin him If he went ahead with th Are yon still aure you don'l wedding know who that woman sitting Choo Choo waa erect her eyes atormy “Why donl you question her? If this Is straight she’i the one 'yon are looking for” Then she relaxed against the plllowa Her “But this Isn’t on the leveL" voice had gone flat “If It was you wouldn't be wasting your time here" It Isn’t wasted" aald “Perhape Peter “Perhaps you are the very person who can tell ua where we may find this woman In blue” The setresa did not answer bat her guardedly eyes watched the novelist’s “Suppose you have told ns the truth as far as you have gone" Peter continued “Suppose you weren't Jealou ’of Doris Carmody and didn't car whether Franklin married her or not” Choo Choo winced "Even granting that everything wai Just aa you have aald that would not have kept you from being madly of Franklin If you had discovered there was still a third woman— this woman In blue— that he loved" “But I tell you I didn't know there was such a woman" Gf6o Choo raised “1 clenched hands above her head still don’t believe It Jim wouldn't have done that to me I loved him me undeCan’t you And he loved Me!” rstand? 8ha best her breasi with her fists Peter waited quietly ontll the actress' “Pestorm of emotion bad passed rhaps" he suggested “this other worn an heard of you yesterday for the first time That being the case she might have been the on who went to see In bet Franklin with vengeance “Jim Didn't Love Her — He Loved You Understand? Can’t Mel Me!” snld the actress Impatiently “Do you think I’d kill the mnn I love? Dan Bullls Is your man I tell you” “Y’es You’ve said that before" the novelist nodded “We’ll take care of Mr Bullls But some people don’t think Franklin was killed by a man Miss Train They believe a woman killed him and that the motive was Jealousy" “You’re crazy!” Choo Choo stared at him angrily “That means me of course and how do you figure I’d In the have done a thing like that? first place I couldn’t get away with It Everybody knew how I felt about Even If I had wanted Jim to I wouldn’t have tried that because I’d have known this was the first place you would come “But you’re overlooking a bigger bet than that I loved him Why would I murder the man I loved? That doesn’t make sense” “If you thought you were losing him It would make sense all right” Kllday Interjected “But I’ve told you I wasn't losing murder" him” the wedding for a “Forget about He rose Invited Cardigan and strode about the room aimlessly his eyes never left the woman sat bed who upon the "You’ve been these acreading Incounts of the murder” Cardigan the newspapers beside the dicated “Did you notice anything there bed that sounded strange Miss Train?” “Plenty” replied the actress "It looked like half of New York came arouDd there to see Jim Just before the wedding They make It sound like he was quarreling with all of them too" “Including yourself" said Kllday “In“Yes” the actress admitted cluding me" “It seems to me you have overlooked one of those callers" Peter continued "I mean the woman In the blue dress" Choo Choo looked at him through “Who was she?’ narrowed eyes “That's what Pm asking you” aald minute" but Peter She shrugged shoulders I didn’t see “How should I know? anybody there In a blue dress" knows who she was “Nobody else either Miss Train" declared the novelist "We can't find anyone who ever saw her before We only know that she was Jealous of Jim Franklin — that she — " "Jealous?" Thqn the actreRS leaned “What Is this? back more calmly some Are you trying to trick me way?” “There’s no Peter shook his head “Aptrick to It” ho replied simply this was another woman parently There was hatred In the glance Choo Choo turned on him “You’re mighty sure there was another woman aren't you?” was all she aald In spite of hla certainty that there had been another woman and that she bad played a dramatic probably fatal part in the slaying of Jim Franklin Peter felt that he waa mak He had succeeded lng no headway only in antagonizing a witness from which he had expected much assist ance Like every other trail they had this too aeemed to lead followed And yet Choo Choo Train nowhere had been the last person aa far as they could determine who had seen Franklin alive According to the testimony of Nick Royce and Doctor Ab she had been In the study ernathy with Jim Franklin after Daniel Bullls and the woman in blue had left And her motive too was apparent If she had known of the existence of that Or even If she hadn't other woman could he believe her statement that Franklin's wedding was to have made no difference In her relationship with him? He wondered too at the woman’s lack of grief To be sure apparent there were moments when she apBut they were peared She seemed to turn her only moments emotions on and off like a faticet most at will Opposed to these arguments of course were Webster Spears’ Daniel Bullls’ reticence conactivities with Frankcerning his conversation lin Rylie Carmody's efforts to halt the suspicions aroused the wedding by Oallls Shipley's movements and of course the woman In blue still unexplained and as mysterious as ever "Miss Train” the novelist Inquired "how well do you know suddenly Webster Spears?” "Webster Spears? I’ve never heard of him” “Are you sure a man by that name didn’t telephone you yesterday?” "If he had I’d have heard of him” Choo Choo’s manner was contempt“Outside of Jim and Dan Bullls uous the only man who phoned me yesterday was Fletcher” she declared “I’ve already told you about that” Teter frowned “What was Franklin's number?” he demanded curtly She told him “Do you mind If we use your telephone?” not” Choo Choo handed “Certainly him the Instrument from the table at her bedside Fletcher answered the call Fletcher "This Is Peter Cardigan I called there with Sergeant Kllday to ask you some questions last night remember?’’ “Yes sir I remember” “I forgot to ask you about your telephone call to Miss Train yesterday Fletcher” Peter explained “Bow did you happen to telephone her?” “There must be some mistake sir I never telephoned MIs Train” his hand over The novelist hesitated “What time did you the transmitter call Miss say you received that Train?” "It must have been about half past two” replied the actress “Think again” said I’eter Into the call Miss “Didn’t you telephone Train about yesterday afternoon?" “I’m tone was positive Fletcher’ quite eure air I have never telephoned Miss Train” I” him Sensme talk let to “Here ing the tenor of the servant' replies Peter’s she conversation from from the novsnatched the Instrument elist's hand "What did you say met Yon never called Don’t Fletcher? be a fool man!” She slammed the receiver In place and faced the two men “Just the same he did call" she “He told me Jim declared stormlly wanted me to come to the church I don't know why he should lie about IL TO BC CONTINUE©) UTAH glib reply (for I always knew my lessons) was 'I am Ian enemy of God a child of Satan and an heir of belL' “At that time I had reached tha mature age of four"— Literary Dl gesL Russia Removes Fairy Bans Childish Classics Restored Though the Russians Were by No Means the First to Consider Nursery Literature Dangerous If the belief Is widespread that the world Is going mad Is furnished In a quarter least to be Buspected— Russia That country has removed Its ban on children’ classics and fairy tales “Robinson Crusoe” Is first on the list of nursery favorites to be reprinted by the hundred thousand It may be that this book will not come from the press Just as Defoe wrote It for It has an element of piety that Soviet Russia does not formally endorse Robert Lynd of the (London) finds it difficult to understand how the Russian authorities originally came to believe that reading the nursery classics was likely to turn good Bolshevik children Into wicked reactionaries He points out that “The Emperor's New Clothes” Is "as sharp a satire on the ways of courtiers as any Communist could have written" Also he argues that the marriage of a poor man with a princess or a poor girl with a king might be used as propaganda for human equality but Ideas were rushing too fast In one direction for Soviet officials to see it that way lie draws upon America for support: “The American Republic has survived the perils implicit In fairy tales for a century and a half without ever having had to revise the stories so ns marry the to make the president Instead of tbe king and to leave Cinderella living happily ever after as the wife of tbe mayor of New York" Mr Lynd does the Russians justice In saying that they have not been the first people to suspect tbe presence of poison In nursery literature “There have been Puritans of ao stern a cast that they looked on fairy tales as frivolous lies which It was dangerous to put Into the hands of children" It might also be added that modern radicals have come near the Puritan Ideal by condemning fairy tales for another reason — that they give false Ideals of life Our early Puritans may have known nothing of these stories and so did not condemn them but the substitutes they offered are shown In a recent book by Dr A S Rosen- bach “Early American Children’s Books" upon which Miss Carolyn "Wells offers this comment In the New York Amorlcun: “To me the book Is of absorbing Interest because It convinces me of something I have heretofore refused to believe In — the stern and hearts of the Pilgrim Fathers I felt the awful tales of their strict and rigorous training of young peo- - 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