Show WEDDING MURDER Ii f by MONTE BARRETT tr ht un by the Bobbs Merrill Co Wl Ice t SYNOPSIS sting In the ministers minister 8 study Jim Un gin about to be married to Doris ody Is stabbed to death Peter gan novelist and amateur detec- detec detect t some s me note with Sergeant KIJ- KIJ begin the gatlon gin while waiting had visitors g thorn them his mistress Choo Choo his Intended ICe 8 father Cather Am- Am Carmody her brother I 1 Bullis politician and a woman blue frock who had quarreled t r with Fr Rylie Carmody s trying to stop the wedding aft aCt aCtIng lag Ing Informed by Webster Spears Franklin oM still friendly with Choo despite his approaching age Kilday secures the dead keys Callis Shipley ono ot of the maids Is contradictory In her herra herrs rs ra to Questions but the Invest Invest- learn nothing ot of Importance with Bullis Is also fruit fruit- Spears admits informing j Carmody of Franklin s relations Choo Choo for Doris Carmody s sa a f In the hope ot of preventing the ng Fletcher Franklins Franklin's mon n nt nt Is reticent An Inter low with Dunbar Franklins Franklin's law lav partner p pearch of the dead de man s office Us Is nothing of importance Import Choo admits her relations with Frank Frank- vere Pere to continue after his mar mar- She says she was deco decoyed ed Into g g at the tho church by a aone aone one message from Fletcher tell tell- tellier teller er to come ier i 1 Continued V r 11 e had bad a key hey I suppose Its It's iuM t If I try It koo oo Choo shrugged Nice 1 of you she said There was as a trace I In her voice volee Ive Ive I've al- al air r J told you he had a key hey Im I'm not g anything thing just want ant to make sure the dee de- de dee e retorted over his shoulder as dIsappeared toward the living en he returned he nodded I d Peter It fits That's six of I un n sound disappointed observed i 7 Choo thad had hoped that key would help Ind some one else the detective No matter m Well We'll play phy band just as It Is dealt ter fer frowned thou thoughtfully at hIs brown hands Miss Train hethe hE the question deliberately how ion ou feel about this marriage ot of kIlns kIln's You were ere In lose lo with weren't Verent your you r fO Choo moIstened her lips but butI I trot not reply Her dark es e ees es reed re td ed his stare but the shadows theIr Y I loved him What tr to That did you think of this mar T 1 Cardigan repeated Ice more she lingered over her Jer er her head bent hent now so that as i Impossible to read the e Ares of of her face does It matter what Ight I Ight the girl ans answered ered finally L ag getting married wash wasn the t he your answer R 0 o Peter wished that It were er enough and that he be need no rr norr probe this girl Irl s wound HE tIed fled himself with the memory ot of Franklins body as he had last It In the rectors rector's study No as his answer Train Im I'm 1 at how you felt feIt here are times said the girl when your feelings dont don't c t- t tI I wasn't happy 0 oser er marriage You can t e me to that Still her glance faltered re 1 e the novelists novelist's unwavering tiny n i 1 figured that Id I'd get over ther people have ve en wizen hen you left Franklin there te study you yon knew you were tell him good by for good didn t tI I questioned for the first say sav that the actress re- re Then noticing the un und und d cIgar In the detectives detective's hand n and smoke she fhe invited I one m She fumbled on hie ble by the stand and found atte a atte tte CardIgan held a match r a minute she pulled puffed deeply as keenly enjoying In the smoke moke lance traveled slowly from one oneo o the other at made you ask ack m me that she of Kilday finally sergeant shrugged shrug He wis married married wasn't he hey alf smile curled about the girls girl's Irl's and was as gone a ah aas as asas s I It hid h h as come sic He WM was F ng ng a position she he saId quick tin never ne loved lo Doris Carmody eti el m me i idid did love you con con- But But that ns finished yes wasn't It By the wedding I weddIng said the girl slow slow- goIn going to mike any differ r JIm and me We bad ha d 11 over that mean you were going on the e as before The detectives detective s as Incredulous Choo Chao haled t n a cloud of o f e shat hat J I mean elated For a detective I you yo u terribly dense sometimes sometime can say bay that now y 1 Kilda y d d rr dead 1 only telling you what JIm and an d decided d The rhe girl leaned for for- for v Theres one thing you yo t u i eem cem to understand JIm lo cd lose d He didn t lose lo that Carmody y a t he was marrying her tb the e rat nt with finalIty Marrying her l I Choo Choo tossed her ber head He wasn't marryIng a girl TIc lie was marrying Ing a social position position tion Jim was as going to be the next governor ot of New York Kilday could cope with the wom- wom woman's nn's ans anger where her sorrow a short time before had silenced him And I suppose you were going to Albany with him eh I I wouldn t have been so far away retorted the actress If he lot 10 ed you so much why didn't he marry you the sergeant Insisted Dont be silly the actress scoffed bere would JIm hate ha been If hed he'd married an actress the papers have had h a good time on that tb for Go Marries Sho Show Girl That ve been mur murder murder der It would have finish finished ell hIm As It turned out replied Kilday y it It was murder any lY The girl ered You re wast- wast wastIng Ing time here she said In a quieter voice Why Why dont don't you t to Dan Bullis he can tell you what h yesterday afternoon He was ns sore at Jim and hed he'd been try trying Ing to see cee him Bulbs called me here yesterday wanting to see JIm When I said he wash t here he swore He said Jim was hiding from hIm and that I Is was s helping him But lie he said he d tend find hIm If you really re want to find who ho hilled Jim Franklin talk to Dan Bullis Weve talked to Bullis Peter In Informed informed formed her quietly We Wee ve e come hereto here hereto to find out what hat you know Miss Train I m only telling you where to go if f you ou want Information about the Ira I I I ra rat raI I t 11 Jim Didn't Love Her Her-He Loved Mel Cant Can't You Understand Me murder said the actress impatiently Do von vou think Id I'd kill 1111 the man I lose JOe JO e Dan Dnn Bullis is your man I tell you Yes Youve You've said that before the novelist nodded We 11 take care ot of Mr Bullis But some people don t think Franklin was killed by n a man Miss bliss TraIn They believe n a women wom killed him and that the motive was jealousy Youre crazy I 1 Choo Choo stared at him angrily That means me ot of course and how do you figure Id I'd hae ha done a thing like that In the first place 1 couldn't get away ay with It Everybody knew how I felt about I I Jim Es E Een en If I had want wanted d to I wouldn't have trIed because Id 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 1 murder the man I loved lo That doesn't make sense If if 3 ou thought you were losing him It would make sense all rIght Kilday Interjected But Ive I've told you I wasn't losing him about the wedding for a minute to Cardigan Invited lle He rose roseand roseand and strode about the room aimlessly but his e ees es ne never neer er left the woman who sat upon the bed Youve been reading these ac- ac accounts accounts counts ot of the murder Cardigan In the newspapers beside the bed DId you notice anything there that sounded strange Miss 1 Train replied the actress It hooked like half ot of New York came around there to see JIm just before I cameI the wedding 1 They hey make It sound like he was quarreling with Ith all ot of them too Including yourself said Kilday Yes the actress admitted Un tin eluding me meto to It It seems to me you have of 0 er ar looh looked d one of those callers Peter continued I mean the woman oman in the blue dress Choo Choo looked at him through ed cd C eyes es Who was she what Im I'm asking you said Peter She f shrugged silk clad shoulders How should I know I didn't see se e anybody there to In a blue dress Nobody else knows knos kno s she was either MIss TraIn declared the nov novell ell it We cant can't find anyone wIlD who ever saw her before We only Inow luo w that she was Jealous of JIm that she she- Jealous lealous Then the actress leaned hack more calmly What Is this Are you tryIng to trick me som Bome c wa way 2 Peter shook hIs head Theres n no trick to it It he be replied simply Ap patently this was another woman rl w C that loved Franklin She she had sonic some claIm on him evidently In fact Peter was remembering thE story DanIel Bullis had told of th the scene In the study she threatened t tc ruin him It if he w cot ahead w Ith weddIng Are you still sure you ou dont don't know who ho that w s Say Choo Choo was sitting erect her eyes stormy Why don t you question her If this Is straight she's the one you are looking for tor 1 Then hen she against ag the pillows But thIs Isn't on the level Her lIet voice had gone tInt flat If It was you wouldn't be your time here Perhaps It Isn't toasted said gRId Peter Perhaps you are the very per person person son who ho can ten tell us where we may find this woman In blue The actress did not answer but her Cj eyes es watched the no novelists novelist's guardedly Suppose you have ve told us liS the truth ns as far as you ha hale e gone Peter con continued Suppose you t of Doris Carmody and didn't care whether Franklin marrIed her or not Choo Choo winced then Cn granting that everything w wt just as you have e saId that would not have kept you from being madly l jeal jealous ous of If you had el discovered ed there was still a thIrd woman this woman oman In that blue he 10 loved ed But I tell you I didn't know there was as such a woman oman Choo Choo raised clenched hands abo abose aboe e her head I still don t betle believe e It it Jim wouldn't hale ha done that to me I loved lo him And he be loved me Cant t sou ou stand Me MeI I She beat her breast t with her fists Peter waited alted Quietly until the actress storm of emotion had passed Per Perhaps haps he suggested thIs this other w om oman oman an heard of you yesterday for the first time That being the case she might have been the one who went to see with Ith in her heart There was hatred In the glance Choo Choo turned on him Youre mighty sure there was as another woman area t you was all she saId In spite of his certainty that there had been another woman oman and that she had played a dramatIc probably fatal part In the slaying ot of JIm FranklIn Peter felt that he was mak makIng making Ing no headway He had succeeded only In antagonizing a witness from which he be had bad e much assist assistance assistance ance Like every ery other trail they hid h followed thIs too seemed to lead nowhere And 3 yet et Choo Choo TraIn had been the last person as far as they could determIne who had seen Franklin alive AccordIng to the test mony ot of Nick Royce and Doctor Ab Abernathy she had been In the study with Jim after Daniel Bullis and the woman In blue had left And AmI her motive too was apparent It If she had known n ot of the c existence of that other woman Or even If she hadn t t he helle e a her statement that wedding was to hale ha made madeno no difference In her relationship with him He wondered too at the womans woman's apparent lack of grief To be sure there were moments when she ap peered grief stricken But they were ere only moments She seemed to turn her emotions on and off like a faucet al- al almost al most at will Opposed to these arguments ments ot of course were Webster Spears activities Daniel Bullis reticence con concerning his conversation with Frank Frank- FrankIIn Franklin lin Rylie Carmod's Carmod s 's efforts to halt the wedding eddIng the suspicions aroused by Culls s 's movements and ot of course the oman In blue still 11 and as mysterious ns as e eser eer er Miss Iss 1 Train the novelist no InquIred suddenly how well do you know Webster Spears Webster Spears l Is le e a never heard of him Are you sure a man by bv that name didn t telephone you yesterday It If he had Id I'd have heard of him Choo Choos Choo's manner was as contempt contemptuous contemptuous OutsIde of Tim Jim and Dan Bullis the only who phoned me yesterday yester day was Pletcher she che declared Ive told you about that Peter frowned What s IS Frank Franken's I lIns lIn's number he demanded curtly She told him Do you mind It if we use your tele telephone telephone I phone Certainly not Choo Chao Choo handed h him the Instrument from the table ather at ather her bedside answered the call This Is Iq Peter Cardigan Fletcher I called there with Ith Sergeant Kilday to ask ash y j ou some questions ns last night remember Yes sir I remember I for forgot ot to ask you ou about your telephone tele telephone phone call to Miss TraIn yesterday Peter explained How did you happen to telephone her There must be some mistake sir I never telephoned MIss The novelist hesitated his hand band over the transmitter What time did you say you received that call Miss Train It must have been about halt half past two replied the actress Think again said Peter Into the telephone you call Miss 1 Train about two thIrty yesterday after after- afternoon afternoon noon 7 tone was as positIve Im quite sure bure sIr I ha base e never tele telephoned phoned Miss Train lore Here let me talk t to hIm I Sen Sens lag Ing the tenor of the servants servant's replies from Peters Peter's conversation she snatched the Instrument from the nov noy- eUst's hand What dId you say You never called me I Dont Don't be a tool fool many manI man I She slammed the receIver in place and faced the two men Just the same he dId call she declared stormily lIe He told me Jim wanted me to como come to the church J I dont don't know why hy lye he should lie about It TO DE OO CO t |