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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEIfl. UTAH 8 'ffiktf&B&" ?'(T W McCaU, prtvaU detective. at tka tmanUaf ta areddlar Bifelaw maasloa. Whflt ka Is talking vita IUy aid Miss Aatlaide aiomrat later. Cart tbry hear a ahoc. ' Vallaiaeaajt. Ik bride craom-ta-bla tlx (mat haOvay. McCale alias away before tlx poiiri arrive. aad burriea to VaUaineoarrs apartmeai la searek as lor does. Taere ke BtecU Shirt Lyma, a sinter, aad farmer aril af VatUiaraart. Ebe apparently ksowi af the ihootinf , aad betrays herself aader MrCale's derer questiecint. He aotet tbat sh ears a frees dress as did the aomaa be taw raaalai aaay from tke seeaa. Shari admits that she was aearby abea Valliincottrt was sboL Duke prtH Biel, CHAPTER IX "He was a long way ahead of mc. There wa$another darr.e coming up over the Hill road that meets the path he was on at the gate by the Bigelow house." "You're sure of that. Miss Lynn? Remember, you may be making a dangerous accusation." She Rage flared up in her. Jumped up. she accusation," "Dangerou screamed. "I should say tt was. She killed him that little Killed him. I tell you I saw ber. He's dead. Dead!" He crossed to her quickly, shaking her by the shoulders. "Take It easy. "You're in a spot yourself. Whoever It was that met Vallalncourt at that gate had on a green suit or dress." Angrily she brushed his hands from her arms, faced him. "I know that She had on a green suit. I saw it But I was a long way off, I tell you. Yoifre not getting me for this Just because I'm wearing this green thing. I wouldn't have killed Curt God, I loved him. I loved him." Her body sagged away from him. Her voice was low and harsh, was a cry of despair, as though her throat were all burned out. McCale left Shari Lynn slumped on the couch. He knew it was use less to talk to her any more. She wouldn't be of any help. n orHe went quickly through nate bedroom which had a fabulous connecting bath of chromium and glass. There were two closets of expensive linen and haberdashery. He bad never seen so many shirts, ties, shoes, socks, and collars cut-sid- e a department store. And he went through everything. But there wasn't a single thing to give him a lead, to use as evidencesnot a letter, a receipt, a bill not even stray address. The murdered man had played it pretty smart and close to the ground. Disgruntled, he went back into the living room and out the front door. n It was when 'the buzz- -' er in McCale's outer office announced . a late caller. McCale laughed, "How are you, BartT" blue-bloo- . d. nine-fiftee- Donlevy Trades Some Knowledge "Ready to take you over the hurdles for sneaking out on me this afternoon." Donlevy' smile belied his growL McCale smiled back at him steadily. He liked the man. He had the look of careful grooming not often associated with the police. You would place him at about forty; a large "man, bulking powerful and tall against the heavy door. He was of the new school of officers so widely heralded but often ridiculed college bred, scientifically trained and carefully chosen. "I'm not really sore," he began. '1 only wondered why you took a powder when you and Adelaide Bigelow were practically the only eye witnesses to this ghastly business. It dawned on me very soon when I found no keys on the corpse that you'd gone to Vallain-court- 's apartment to steal a march on me. Was that nice?" He raised an eyebrow facetiously. "Not nice, but necessary from my point of view. I've got second look before after your squad has a place and there's never been a hairpin left for us fellows." "What exactly did you find from being first this time?" "Nf ry a clue. The place was as clean as a bone. Beyond getting a jgood idea of what the lad who lived there was like, there wasn't a false whisker tor my trouble." "The setup he had was quite revealing, wasn't it? Pure Hollywood half DeMille, half Dorothy Draper. Very suggestive. Is that all you have found?" "I found a woman." McCale never felt tt accomplished anything to hold out on Don-levIt only promoted misunderstanding and ill feeling. It was much better to get the evidence first That was all. He watched the quick interest flash across Donlevy's eyes before he controlled it, before he said casually, "I would call that a clue, Duke." -Well?" he questioned. "Shari Lynn, the chanteuse, at present of the Latin Quarter and The Abbey." "Umm I've heard of her." McCale went on, then, to tell of his encounter with the night club singer. He told It alL what she had said, how she had looked, bringing the complete picture before Don- fine-tooth- y. levy in a manner vfleriwoit itmper BROWN GERALD that insured the detective of every detail. "You think then," the lieutenant queried when at last McCale was silent "that there was an old affair between them Something in your telling it makes me feel you are convinced that it was not too recent something Caring up again after a long time." He closed his McCale nodded. eyes a moment then opened one, as if the other still shuttered an inner thought. "I'm sure of it" he said. "I'm sure you'll find that they may even have been man and wife at one time that they have never been out of touch with each other for long." Donlevy digested this. "Then?" "Oh sure. Lynn was back there after any letters of htrs that may have kept. I don't think there were any there, however. There wasn't even a stray phone number chalked on the bathroom wall, if you get what I mean." "Quite. It was exactly as if the place had been cleaned of everything by the boy himself. Kind of disappointing, what? Because from everything we know, it doesn't seem as though that kind of gent would ever destroy a compromising missive of any kind whatever." rt MATURCI to laincourt was her own chee-il- d near her rave." To get on with it the Garboish Karen is quite another ticket. As maskLke and cold as the Snow Queen. Concerned, but unruffed. if you know what I mean. She turned a shade whiter, if that's possible, but I got the distinct impression she'd only walk around the corpse and go on her way. A bit too controlled. "Victoria was next. She blew In with a book under her arm. Had been browsing around the Public Library walked home." McCale pursed his lips. "I imagine she screamed or.ee, made an inappropriate remark and had a long hooker of whisky on it." "You are very adroit." "I've an unusual mind. I guess," "What said McCale facetiously. crack did she make?" "She looked down at the corpse in a kind of mixture of fright and sheer excitement and said, Then someone did have the nerve'." McCale whistled. Donlevy turned a page. "Christopher Storm the guy that didn't get the girl or almost didn't what? He probably will now. He swears that he was walking back and forth along the lower Common path, hoping to intercept Veronica on her way home if she should Suspicion Settles On Veronica ' "Here it is, then, for what it's worth," he said. "There was, in the Bigelow house at the time of the murder, besides Aldelaide Bigelow and yourself, the cook, an up stairs maid, and the butler, King. The cook was preparing dinner. The maid, Kitty Shane, was hang ing around the kitchen. They're out, obviously. No motive, no opportunity. King was fixing a tray of hors d'oeuvres for the usual cocktail hour. He's out for the same reason. None of them saw or heard a thing until the prolonged ringing of the bell." "About five minutes after the cruising car got there, I arrived. It was then about twenty minutes since Vallalncourt had been shot Shortly after that the family be gan to wander in and I questioned them in the order of their appear ance. Sybil and Stephen, her son. came in together. She said she had wtlked from the church across the Gardens, stopping at Shackley's She had drugstore for cigarettes. chatted a few minutes with the clerk, whom she knew. She met Stephen as she came out of the store. He had been wandering along Charles street Jurt killing time, he said. Likes to watte in the rain-t- hat tort of thing." "There's a Jangled lad for you," McCaie waggled a finger. "Neurotic. Worried about his wife. Was probably out hunting her up, wherever she was." "Sybil is no calm, strong pioneer woman either. Collapsed like a balloon at the news. You'd think Val- - from becoming stained and spotted from perfume and toilet water bottles. Place a piece of wax paper tinder your dresser scarfs for sure protection. li 8074 U, 36-5- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 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So far, not a sign of it We've actually, used floodlights and turned up every fallen leaf, emptied every ash barrel in the panic, with no luck." moment warm w&u,r dip into a To Operator Guiding It point "Hardly coincidence." for the mm r. nasn rae r 'Drone' Plane Sends View that "That then, dm-se- permanent method. a New clotheslines are clumsy to put up. To make them more soft and durable, try first boiling the line for a few minutes in soapy water. a Overcast seams of rayon, silk, or wool to keep them from raveling. They can be overcast together or each edge separately as preferred. Do not draw threads too tight. some last minute shopping, saw it was getting late and got a cab at the corner of Boylston and He hesitated. ". . . she said." He let his last two words hang in the air. A conversational devastating abyss yawned, for McCale made no reply. Minutes ticked away. When he did speak, it was quietly. "She is the obvious suspect, of The accusation of course, Bart Shari Lynn; the fact that both Miss Bigelow and I saw a girl in green running away from the scene directly after the murder. Too bad she should have picked the corner of Boylston and Tremont street to get her cab. There are very few shops there and, as you have noted, the path running from the gate oppoa spot site the Bigelow house, over the hill by the cannon, ends at that preoiae "True. There is the possibility of a safe deposit box at some bank." "That's been checked. He had a small balance at a downtown bank, but no box of any kind." McCale bunched himself over his glass for a minute, musing. "It becomes very confusing, then. For he must have got rid of everything last night or today. Before" he stared unwinkingly at the rim of his glass "Just before he went to his death." A long minute went by, while the fire crackled merrily in the grat-ewhile each one of the three thought his own thoughts about this conjecture. It was Donlevy who finally shrugged it away with a sour look. Duke McCale paused In front of the big man, Donlevy. The gray haired police inspector looked up at him and said, "I suppose in re turn for your information you want to be brought up to date." McCale "That's only fair." smiled. Donlevy had never once let him down in a matter of this kind, though he covered it always with an air of assumed ill grace. to keeD your the edge of the bathtub and wall can be mended flat. with a wide strip of adhesive tape. Paint the mended tpot the same color as the wall. This is not a Tre-mon- In It's easy A crack between way. She didn't show, came on up to the house. There's a funny thing, Duke, them all breaking tip in jncsies after the rehcn-s- al Oh, well. We come now to Veron.-- a, the bride. "Veronica drove up in a cab the last to arrive. She was excited, I thought. She'd been doing "Take It easy. You're yourself. UaiSiileLu H U. come so he rip i l 14 anc ron 1 totl & SERUM I I |