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Show THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING' Antoinette Peyton, senior at tho University of Marland, resents Pator-son Pator-son Thayer's attentions to Ivy Welch, eoventeen-ycar-old coed, and there is a stormy scene, the tension bMng: Increased by Max Vernon, another student, reproaching Ivy for "breaking a date" with him. Thayer and Vernon Ver-non threaten each other. Prof. 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 tell3 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 does so, visiting him at a fraternity house. Vernon leaves tho house almost al-most Immediately after her departure. Welch goes to see Thayer, and after he leaves, Carmiclno, frat house janitor, finds Thayer dead, stabbed in the throat. The Marland bank is robbed of $100,000, the robber escaping with tho money after being badly wounded. Jim Hanvey, famous detective, detec-tive, comes to investigate tho robbery. Randolph Flske, the bank president, presi-dent, tells him he believes Vernon was driving the car in which tho rob-! rob-! ber got away. Thayer, Flske says, 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 tho murder mur-der and robbery. Tony Peyton, Larry Welch, and Max Vernon are under arrest as Thayer murder suspects . . , '.m |