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Show THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING Antoinette Peyton, senior at the University of Marland, resents Patcr-aon Patcr-aon Thayer's attentions to Ivy Wolr-h. seventeen-year-old coed, and there is a stormy scene, the tension being Increased by Max Vernon, another student, reproaching Ivy for "breaking a date with him. Thayer and Vernon Ver-non threaten each oilier. I'rol. Larry Welch, Ivy's brother. Is appealed to by Tony to end his sister's friendship with Thayer. Welch and Tony Peyton Pey-ton are In love. Tony tells him she Is married to Thayer, but Is his wife only In name. Larry determines to end Thayer's association with Ivy. Tony persuades him to wait until she has appealed to her husband. She doeB eo. visiting him at a fraternity house. Vernon leaves the house al-" most Immediately after her departure. Welch goes to see Thayer, and after ho leaves, Caimlclno, frai house Janitor, Unds Thayer dead, stabbed in the throat. The Marland bank Is robbed of $100,000, the robber escaping with the money after being badly wounded. Jim Hanvey. famous detective, detec-tive, cornea to Investigate the robbery. Randolph FIsko, the bank president, presi-dent, tells him he believes Vernon was driving the car In which the robber rob-ber got away Thayer. FlsUe Bays, has been robbing Vernon of largo sums In card games. Reagan. Marland police chief. Induces Hanvey to take charge of the murder case, evidence Implicating Vernon In both the murder mur-der and robbery. Tony Peyton, Larry Welch, and Max Vernon are under arrest as Thayer murder suspects, interrogated by Hanvey, Welch Insists Thayer was alive when he left him, and Hanvey and Reagan are convinced con-vinced he Is lying. |