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Show i ' - . -v- - .. . -. .. . -' ------ ; - ' !. CHAPTER I B' ONKIE DUNDEE tretched out a long aid rather fin pair of legs, regarding th patter of.- hit dark tjlue socks with, distinct' eft isf action; then he1 rested his black head irUh a sigh .of. satlaf action against th rich upholstery of an armcnatr not at auontenaea ior his use. .V-. -v. -H His cheerful blue ejea turned at last but ' not too Ions las(9 the small.- upright ' figure, eatetf'at a typewriter desk, invtoe corner of the office.' .?.'.:' y'"f'K Good tnornlns.Tcfihrriie called out lafcllr, and waited good-hiv iniredlj for tke itorm jfe brekt''; Miss 1 urain to, you : " ine nj the fingers did aoi stop an Instant, but . Duhdeo noticed' vitlslethat tne sum tacit stmenea eren, more rigidly and that there was vdv .1 J..I i . It ' -.1.' i.l " ' emeu ipus ,gi uie . urowai "But: Penny is to' mach more like you. Dundee protested,, unruf fled. "And why should rbclqrced; always to think of you 8a anions? legged bird, when eren our mutual boss. District Attorney .William S. Sanderson, has the vrmlex. . or calling you what yon 'area bright and Bhining new pnnyV I've known Bill - Sanderson since I was born." toe unseen lips informed him truculently, even as the unseen Jingers continued their fiercely etaccalo typing. iht That explains.. a lot!" Dun dee conceded handsomely. "I just wonder amidst all this bon- homme of BUI and 'Penny, why It-" . i only call Mr. Sanderson 'Bill' when I forget!" the small creature defended herself sharply. "Goodness "Good-ness knows I try to be an efficient private secretary! And I could be a' lojt more efficient it la.zy strangers didn't pluh) themselves down in onr best visitors' chair ahd try toJUrt t-ithVme. rl doti'i flirt! DoHoii; heart 1 tfo'f flirt with fftvitfc, you. you funny little EPehnyf' Dnndee'a voice was a lit- nle sad.-, the Voice of a man who JiShds'HWitStir grievously misnnder-Jtiood. misnnder-Jtiood. "it only want you, to lhe nne, if xop'ctii, and be -a Itttlc nice Jto me, fr jfljter ifll I-"" I VObM ktwwrJ.t" Pehny :v,.Crai jjerked..jyi 'Jlnisbcj letter from her typewriter "and spun about on her chair, to face him. "I. know you are I 'JIiv James lF. Dundee. Special rnvestTgator atVlolied to the office uf the District Attorney.' and that vod;JyaT'fsJt',td!drive me crasy if ybii&m itr . ; "C. aiiVDundee was genuinely im&zed, Bonttite. "I beg your par-ion par-ion inost humbly. Miss Crtlai ' TTl -oback my cell '' r "Your office -is- almost al bl and ilce. as Jhia one, Fenny retorted, aut her 'jkaftf, bright brown: ts softened: , - " .' " TSUNDfcE. did not fail to notice fT th anheiiing, nor dldlthVlittle heart-shaped face. wttU. ita low I j . a' a. a. . :. wiaow B-peaa, ' iia . itraigui. anoix Sose, and its, pointed little chin, hajDL on. the. other, day of tha. one tHla of&ce dner thlBga.'t tie -dtd hw bncVmote? ft'otti; daceioucn my , fil$s lealn!' ;pnnv: ctld., snrtnalnie to haireet jdgalmoit runilwt toward; wauvrwnien wur completely. lea?Ur4wers.;cablheta and yhelvea,nfille4 -with ;the records of Vhlch she wa tht proud custodian. Prolate on4 Guard lahship Notices JConsult County Clerk or the formation '-' - x : NOTICE TO CREDITORS m tne; District Jourt or utan intyUtah. rihtic Lumber Company, , a cor- l ration. Plaintiff vsTintie Giant tnes Company, a Corporation, ae-idintvT ae-idintvT ; -' :' - ..?'-' J '..'. jNotlce is hereby given that,credi- th vouchers agaiaat tne! Tlnuc ant Mina Co'rnpmjf'itb, (George ! X Rerem&.n. Receiver, on Vofr be te January 80, I93fc at:nisWflcif V-" GEORGE" BEGEMAN, Receiver: Tintlc Giant MInes b, Nov. 0. . 164 2$, ,8? :gec- price or t tooritim w; coKi Klf RECEIVER'S . SALE ' 'Of '.MIEAVAND -PERSONAL) : .4 - -pRopERTx;' v ; , ; in'-thev Diuti letw Court ; of Uhe burtlx Judicial District in and 'for tan county, siatO; or utan. - .Wasatch Holdina , - Company, a rporaUott,1 Plaintlfr, Va. . , Knight" ttenheimer, and 'Knight? Wool In- striea, lncorporated,.;a. corpora-;rt, corpora-;rt, Defetldlinta."'': ; - w - V. ' ' V :xLLry(H0$i or ;may; qQN- .t..;i ; s ?4 Please take notlcehat' upon the Htion of Victor J.HABfeciver I the Knight Woolen MVbf; a'corp-atlon, a'corp-atlon, for ran. order; Jmtiorizlng Id Receiver to sell all the proper?. ( and aaaeta of said odrporatlon, il, ; personaf and tnlxed, . yhieh 'd petition waa heretofore filed rein; and upon, the, o.rder of sale, de Dursuant tor said' petition, and Khort week- ha-had been ; nrlf tilntertaw to . gaa ,nv Hi:'-' 1 - " 2s i NUa Selim, mysteriously murdered vhile "dummx at bridge. "That's,, why I said just now that you were driving tne crazy. Thursday Thurs-day you took a whole folder of correspondence cor-respondence out of the letter files and put it back under the wrong initial." . 'I'm awfully - sorry. I shan't touch; your, files. again, Miss Grain." OHgo ion nd call ma Penny,", she conceded Impatiently. ''What do you' VrantJnow? . '. . And yon Lean get anything yon need out of the files If you'll just put the folder in the bottom drawer of my desk, so that I can flle.lt myself correctly!" Thank; you. Penny!" Bonnie rtuliy?v tonoavetheomDlefr tran-1fflnlTTr3ra reflbfteT fully, to nave the complete tran script, of The State versus Ma-glut.:iif. Ma-glut.:iif. 'aderson Is . det mined. tflf gefJi cont iction V where our forinerdieirlcti Attorney most inglorlously,;tailed The nec trikl cornea In n two weeka, aid. be wantalme -to try to uncover, armiss-ln armiss-ln 'llj&avitidence. - - ' -'t411w'0vd.i::'-'.nd stretched her short, sender body, to pulldowtt-thV two' heavy Volumes h-relr4: .''. , "WJthout a by-your-leate, Special Invesygator Dundee resumed his comfortable seat1 and; laid th first of tha ? Tiolnmes -'open . upon his kneea, But he djd not sieem to,take a greatcdea'ot interest-in the Jm-aatlUifrdf Jm-aatlUifrdf JnrMTlalnaae tot one,' BTuf ust; MaInt J. TATVnl4 ;yef vfollowed , tie small, brisk figure of Miss Pe-nelopo Pe-nelopo Craln as It-moved about te roomSLixd jji&t ears listened to the lnibels! HadnHah wearmt' aensitue, uuoan-neeieq Chords all other dsfys of -this first week of - his'attachmenr to" the 1 upon the-report and return of - the said Receiver of hiaproceedlngs pursuant to said order of sale,' and ipdn all the , proceedlnga and.' ile' herein,' a, motion jwill h& ' made in said caust on the V0 day of December, Decem-ber, at ten o'clock) A. M. of saJd date, or ai. soon .thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an order confirming and making' final and absolute without any" right of re-' demption the sale mde by said Re-j ceiver,.pursuant to the order here- in above " referred to, of all tbeT assets and. .properties, real, ptr4 sonal ; and mixed, of said Knight Woolen. J4lUs, corporation, or" vested 'jn said Receiver, to WasatCjt Holding Compkny, a corporation, and for, such other and further ret-lief ret-lief as to the court may. seem proper. ', Ingebretscn, Ray & Rawlinga, 1 ; Attorneys for Receiver..; ; Victor J." Bird, ' Receiver of, Knight Woolen Mills, a corporation. - v . - . . t Published.J3ec.: 7, ,14, 1930. . " NOttCE T6 CREDITORS ' In the District ' Court, of ' the Fourth ; Judlfclal District In and for Utah iCbunty, Instate of OJtah. . . Iri-th mattwr'b-thV-' Estate pf 'George H. Naylor deceased- 4 " Creditors svHlcpreaent claims with voucnera- tothe undersigned at the of flee of the Naylor Auto Company, West'Cente Street Provo, Utah, Oh or bf jfofc;the; SthrdajTof lFebruary - i, ':'; . ' ,V CIARENCE, tNAYLOR, Adminiatrator,: Estate.. Qeorge pH. " a. : , Naylor,, Deceased. George Parker, , t'V Attorney, v for Administrator. -Published.. Dec. -7; 4. 21-1, 1S30L district attorney's ojQcc? .-. . Cunning Cun-ning little thins, for all her thornU ness and her sharpness with him. which .he now saw -that he. had deserved. de-served. ... . . Pretty, too. . . Darned pretty! . . . What color Was that' dress- of . her$- . Chartreuse, didn't they cajl it? Chartreuse with big brown dots in it. Bet it was sleeveless under that short little jacket of golden-brown chiffon velvet. . . . By JbVe-and Dundee lapsed into one .of the English-isms he had picked up during his six months' work in England as a tyro in the records department of Scotland Yard, before he had tome to HfcmUton to make a hum- Of course! Because it's Satur day and jrou" bave. ' the" afternoon off!" , Dundee finished, his' reverie aloud, to the astonishment of ;the smajl person-trying; tOiyeacU-at flla, drawer just aj lt aoo n her. f'l meaireldtejje4,- plain, "thiifeViei. ';Jsjt noticed: bo beautiful ypnt; costume X Is, and found a reason Xor.:Jt.'. ... , .ber-aj(t:dden color frt ; tbe creamy face and Peony sat. down abruptly in herr 1 swivel chair.i reached, across the Immaculate desk, snatched up a morning pape ahd't08sed it. without a glance. In her i tormentor's general direction. r iPage? three,. column"twow first 1tfenrBb;e t0rined;'bfa. :? ' r .BonhieJ - Dundee, grinned ?indu gehtly as h opeu'edr Thvjtfantiltpri Morning News. .? . i . My"old friendthe:aety edtf ress in, her very blsttyte, he? commented! as hebegatfrtdtread .SPV.t .- Tft r14 i Cellm- anI t harming member. Js entertaining h'Foryter;AlumSMe Brrde this .afternoon, luncheon t. , be . NOTICE IN BAkKRUP-CCY In the District Court, of the United; Unit-ed; States for the District of Utah. . In Bankruptcy Nb. 12295 . In the Matter of Ia D- Rowley, Vol. Bankrupt- ' - , To the CreoJitcrQf.4.. D Rowley, 1 of Spring .iller County of Utdh'land distrie taf orceaia; A. banjerupt.. ? . -y Notice is hereby given that -on the 26th day of' -November A. D. 1930, the -said L. ..p. Rowle, vas duly adjudicated bankrupt;: and that THE FIRST MEETING OF HIS CREDITORS 'will be held , at the office "of the. - undersigned Referee in Bankruptcy, 424.Beaaon Bldg., Salt Lake City Utah, on "the 20th day of December, 1930, at 1CT o'clock .a- m,, at- wnlchtlme the, said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine ex-amine the bankrupt,' .and .transact aucji other business, as may; proper-IX proper-IX ce, before sal4,meetng, . . . Salt Lake City, Utah,, . , . December ath.19301, 1 7 J..T- McCONNELU Referter in Bankruptcy. Published , Dec,' 7 '193(1.,; - Some nations pi-obably fel-In sending, aviators. 06 good Will tour 'that flight maxasiht.- y . -t WE NEED MORE CREAM and will-' J&k i PAT' CASH J)AIEY FOR XT. ; s. olson; Ms?. ; t- ; . serf ed at the exclusive new Break- . away Inn on Slierldan Road-' ! "I've read it rand I'm busy, to 1. shut ip!' Penny commanded. Quite meekly. Bonnia Dundee subsided, into a silent peruaal of an item he" was sure couldbarft no possible Interesr for htmsetf, in either a personal f'b? professional capacity. naleas Pnny'sname' wa In it simewbcri. . ? ; v V "after w,bicl) the Jolly party, of young matrons and maids will ad-jourp ad-jourp 'ta Mrs.i; Sellm'a dellshtful borne in the primrose' 'MeadpW Ad--dltlon." He; chuckled, and : dared to interrupt the high importance of pointingr-up pencils. ' ul say. that's funfiy lin't it?.;. ; 'Primrose 'Prim-rose Meadows Addition'!" "I don't think H's funny." Penny Pen-ny retorted coldly. "It so happens that, my mother named it. that my father went into bankruptcy trying to make a. $o of 4t. and that 'Mrs. Selim's delightful hbrnc' was built to be our home, and in which- we were fojtunftte enough to live only two months before the Crash came." " CfcH!" Dundee groaned. "Penny, Penny! l'n dreadfully sor ry." "Shut up!" she ordered, but her voice was huskier than ever with tears. Dundee's n:w thoroughly Intpr-ested Intpr-ested eyes raced down the column. "Although not an :.lumnn of that famous and select school for Rlil?.. Foray te-ou-tie-Hudson. jjj'aduattoa-from jjj'aduattoa-from which nieces any Uaniilton girl in the Vcty 'Inner ci.le of Hamilton society'. Mrs. Salim has been closely identified with ' the scluiol, Imving for 'the past two years directed and staged Forayte attfvual play whicU ushers in the Easter vacation! ' "Indeed, it Vas Mrs. R.liai's re mark able success with this years play, which caused Mrs. Peter Dun- I lap. long interested in a Uttle Theater for Ilamiltpu. to Induce the beautiful and charm Ins -oung directress to rettirn to Uamilton with Her. "Lovely N'itn' v.as elect od to membership a fortnisht ago: v.by a vacancy occurred, due to the resignation res-ignation of Miss, Alice Htrnifhi cy. who has gone, abroad:' for. a year' study in the 5orbon6e, Thi? two table club now includes: M.ej(l.um'e? Hugo Marshall. ' Trac'oy A-; ' M.iios, Peter Duulap. John C. Drake. Jii. uita Seliin; and Miss?s Polly l?caie. Janet Itaymou.i, and Peiiti;)e Crain," , . Dundee lowered ho picr jlixjI stared af the proffle of Distnrt Ai-torney Ai-torney , Sander?on"s private secretary.' secre-tary.' So she was a "society girl," a'forsyte'- girl Was that the reason, perhaps, why she had been so thorny with him, a mere "dick"? : ut therei'WaR morevand he read on: s.iaweU.khownr'tbe 'sir! have thir-Tien ilght bVidge-lari h-eon h-eon every Saturday afternoon mi the first of October to the: l. vt June,, and : a f bttdge-dinaer. m which . mere inen are graciously included, in-cluded, every Wednesday evening during the season. Mr. and Mrs. Tracey A. Miles are scheduled a next Wednesday's host and ' hostess." host-ess." " IiM oft.,my rKat to our o-'UejB4Urejw--vD$ndei comment ed with fale cheerfulnesL when he had: Jaid tbo paper back upon v rwinrs aesir. . sne mas:es nait a olunn of this ohr ltm) In what must 'be a meage Sataay bunch of Soet$tl6fe all over again, in the past tense, for an equally meager. Monday column. col-umn. -4 -;'?Llke"-brid:e Miss GrUurfirJ&sz r&z"srrii "V' NXBMACT CLAIMED PORTLAND, Ore., D.ec. W5 (UP.) Testimony of tb .intimateu friendship friend-ship ''between Nelson C. Bowles, young Portland "millionaire, and Irma G. Loucks, his ex-stenogra-her-paramour, waa before the coroner's jury here today in connection con-nection with the inquiry into the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Leone C. Bowles in the kitchen or Miss toucVs apartment. --r AjSQNG L All. of Iof..W. F. Han- son's Popular Songs , are at: AlVpusic, Stores . 1 . or direct fxom KHANSON WIGWAM Co. 4 i'F'iL V - DENNY snatched up the pjtpcr .and crushed It Into her; waste-basket. waste-basket. "I do! And I like my old friends, even if I am not ablefinan-dally, ablefinan-dally, to keep up. with them. V . . If that's why you've suddenly decided de-cided to, f top biing comrades.' "Please forgive me again. Penny. Pen-ny. w be begged gently. "You thought . I was a 'society girl." playing at work." she accused him as accurately asL if she had read his mfnd. "I'm notl l was born into that crowd, andvl stiii belong to it. because all of them are my real friends, but get this into your thick Scotch-Irish head. .Mr. Duudec!l'ni working because I have to. and atttt because 1 love it. too. and becauFe"l want to Ifeam to make enough Ijetore I'm many years older to give mother some of the things she's missing so dreadfully dread-fully sincte sincejtny. father failed and and ran away." c. "Ran s away?" Dundee echoed incredulously. in-credulously. How could any man desertJa daughter like this!'' "Ves, ran awxay!" she repeated flefIy. "t might as well tell you mjsett. Plenty of others will be willing to, as soon as they know' you are---roy friend. . . . As I told you, 'my father I used to call him Dad " and her voice broke "iny father wont bankrupt, hut before be-fore the courts knew it he had sent some securities to a to a woman in New York, and when he ! It us, he wont to her. because he hi-: mother a note saying so. His tle-U'tJUUed tle-U'tJUUed creditors here have tried to to catch him, but they haven't yet" J ' Very gently Bonnie Dundee took the small hand that was distractedly rumpling the brown waves which swept back from the widow's-pcak which made her forehead so irresistible. irre-sistible. It lay fluttering in his bigger palm for a moment, then Bnached itself, away. "1 won't have you feeling sorry for mef" she cried angrily. "Who owus your the Primrose Meadows house now . . . Mrs. Se-lim?" Se-lim?" he asked. 'TThe lovely N'ita?" Her voice was scorntul. "No. She rents it 'from Judge Hugo Marshall or is supposed to pay linji rent." she. added with a trace of malice. "Hugo "Hu-go Is an old darling, but he i fearfully fear-fully weak where pretty women are concerned,.. Nlta Selim had known Hjfifco 'In New " Ybrk sojaehow , 1 and 'as 'soon, as Lois Mrs. Dunlap, rJfijf'an liaii got Nit a off the train, the stranger in our midst hied herself her-self to Hugo's office and lie s been tagging after her ever since. . . , 'Though most of the" inen" !n our crowd are as bad or worse than poor old Hugo. . How Karen keeps on looking so blissfully happy " "Karen?" Dundee interrupted. 4-jRS. HUGO MARSHALL," she explained impatiently. "Karen "Kar-en made her debut a year ago this last winter a darling of a girl. Judge Marshall retired judge, you know had been proposing to the prettiest girl in each season's crop of debts for the last 20 years, and Hugo must have been the most nonplussed.' 'perennial bachelor' whoexer led a grand march when Karen snapped him up. . . . Loved bim actually! Andtbey've been blissfully, happy ever since. . . . A, baby boy three months old," she concluded in her laconic style. Then, ashamed: "X don't know why I'm gossans like thlsi" "Because you can't find another - .blessed scrap of work to do. you 1tttle efficiency fiend," Dundee laughed. "Come on!' Gossip some - more. My Maglnty- case will wait A 11 afternoon, to be mulled over While you're losing your ' hard- I SlETIPIEIHl KIIlEAVY UDlUTSf rj I J I Jk I XI 2 wr I ANCHOR. . 6-Ply 4.75-19 $10.50 S.25-20 6,0 pa 9 0.ob-2q "jpirfvv -i - j, 233 , WEST. CENTER ST. earned salary at bridge with rich women." , "We don't play for high stakes." she corrected him. "Just a twentieth twen-tieth of a cent a" point, though contract con-tract can run into money even at that. The .winnings ..all go to the Forsyte ScJtpJarship ' Fund. On Wednesday evenings the crowd plays fir higher stakes a ten tit and winners keepers. Therefore I can't afford to go, unless I sink so low as to let my escort pay my losses which I sometimes do." she confessed, her brown head low for a moment. "Is this Mrs. Peter Dunlap a deep-bosoraed club woman, who ; starts Movements?" he asked, more to bring her out of her depression than anything else. "Bigger and Better Babies Movements, and Homes for Fallen Girls, and Little, Theater "Movements?" The brown head flung itself up sharply, and the brown eyes- hardened hard-ened into bright pennies - again. "Lois is the sweetest, finest, most comfortable woman, in Hamilton, and I adore her -os does everyone else, Peter Dunlap hardly niore than the rest of us. She is interested inter-ested in a Little Theater for Hamilton, Ham-ilton, but she won't manage it. That's why she got hold of Nita Selim. Lois will simply put tip barrela of ' money, without missing, them, and give a grand job to a little Broadway gold-digger. Funny thing is. she really delights in Xita. Thinks she's .sweet and has never had a real chance." "And what do, you think?"' Dundee Dun-dee asked softly. ph I suppose I'm a cat. but I can see through her clearly. Not that she's bad; she's simply an opportunist. She's awfully sweet and deferential and 'frank' with women, but with men well, she simply tucks her head so that her black curls fall forward enchanting-ly. enchanting-ly. gives them one wistful smile out of her big eyes that are like black pansies and the clink pf slave chains! . . . New go oa and think I'm catty, which 1 suppose I am :'- T30NNIE DUNDEE grinned at her reassuringly. Not for him to explain that practically all women and many men found themselves 'gossiping" when he led tljein, on adroitly, for reasons of his own. .Which helped make him the excellent excel-lent detective he was. of course. "So all the men In your crowd have fallen for Nita Selim, have they?" "Practically all, in varying degrees, de-grees, except Peter Dunlap, who has never looked at another woman since he was lucky enough to get Lois, and Clive Hammond, who's engaged to Polly Beale," Fenny answered reluctantly, her color high. "Including your young man?" T. haven't a 'young man,' in the sense of being engaged," Penny retorted, re-torted, then added honestly:. "I have been letting Ralph Hammond that's Clive's brother, you know take me about a good deal. . . . Ralph and Clive have plenty of money," she defended herself hastily. has-tily. "They are architects, Clive being the head of the firm and Ralph, who hasn't been out of college col-lege "so long, a junior partner. It was the Hammond firm that drew up the plans lor my father's Pxim.-" rose Meadows. Addition, bouses. He had .our house built as a sort of show-place, you know, so that prospective pros-pective builders out there could see how artistic a home could be put up for a moderate cum of money. But he didn't Quite finish even that left half the gabled top story unfinished, un-finished, and Nita has been teasing - 7 m .1 a-r ip il n e I- m k PStAntAd tlcally clian itCea ppnetpres PHONE 260 . 1476 V J ; " 1740 Hugo to finish it. up for her. It looks." she added with a. shrug, as if Nita will get what she wants as usual." . "And Ralph has acquired a set of slave chains?" Dundee suggested, with just the slightest note of sympathy. sym-pathy. "And how!" Penny assured him grimly. "A simile as out-of-date as my clothes are going to be if I don't get some new ones soon. Not (hat the crowd minds what I wear." she added loyally. "I could dress up In a window drape " "And be just as charming as you are In' that graud new paity dress you have on now," Dundee finished tor her gallantly. "New!" Penny snorted and turned back to her desk in a futile effort to find something left un done. Dundee ignored the rebuff. "How many suckers I mean, how many gentlemen with moderate incomes actually built in Primrose Meadows?" Mead-ows?" "Yon are inquisitive, aren't you? ... . None! Our house, ttr rather the one Nita Selim is living in now. is the only house on what used to be a. big Tarm. . . . Why?" "I was just wondering." Dundee said softly, almost absent-mindedly, "why the 'lovely Nita chose so isolated a place in which to. live, when Hamilton has rather a large number of 'For Rent' signs out just now. . . . Ry the way, know what time it is now? . . . Twenty to oik. Get your hat on, young woman. wo-man. I'm going to drive you out to Breakaway Inn." "You're not! I'm going to. take a bus. One runs from the Square right past the Inn," she told him firmly. AND just as firmly Dundee eeeoited her out of the almost deserted, rather dirty, old courthouse court-house to where his brand-new sports roadster was awaiting them in the parking space 'devoted, to tho motors vi those who officially served Hamilton county. "I know, why you want to drive me out to the Inn." Penuy told him suddenly, as the proud owner maneuvered his car through Saturday Satur-day noon traffic. "Youvant to see Nita Selim. Clank! Clank! l ean hear the padlocks snapping on the slave chains right now." "Meow!" Dundee retorted, then grinned down at her w:itU as much comradely affection as if they had been friends for years instead of for a couple of hours. "Is Nita very small?" he added. 'Little enough to tuck herself under the arm of a man a lot shorter than you," Penny assured him with curious vehemence. "And if Penelope Crain is no mean prophet, that's exactly what she'll do within five minutes after she meets ycu just as she is wistfully inviting you to join the other men for the cocktail party which is scheduled to break up the bridge game at five-thirty. Then, of course, you'll be. urged to. join us all at the dinner-dance at the Country Coun-try Club tonight" "Will she?" Dundee pretended to be vastly intrigued, which caused the remainder of, the drive to be a rather silent one, .due to Penny's unresponsiveness. Breakaway ,Inn was intensely Spanish in- architecture and transplanted trans-planted shrubbery., but its stucco walls; were. of a rather more violent raspberry color than is considered ju lie esthetic in Spain or Mexico. "There's Lois Danlap's car just driving up," Penny cried, her face softening with the adoration she had freely -professed for her friend. But it clouded again almost in ASSORTMENTS 32 for $1.00 16 for . . . 8 Folders LINED ENVELOPES No Two Alike Toys Provo Patimit 2-: Gla s s rM 47 NORTH UNIVERSITY AYE. stantly. "And Nita SeUm. As Dundee helped bis, new friend r to alight his eyes were upon the two women being assisted by a uniformed chauffeur from Lois Dunlap'n limousine. In a moment the four were a laughiiig, exclamatory group. "Ob, what a. tall man you've got yourself. Penny darling!" the tiny, beautiful creature which could only be Mrs. Selim cried out happily. "May I, meet him?" I shouldn't let you," Tenny answered frankly, "but I will . . . Mrs. Selim. Mr. Dundee. . And Mrs. Dunlap, Mr. Dundee. . . . How are you, Lois? And Peter and the brats?' "All well, Tenny. Petey's off on a week-end fishing trip, and not one of the brats has measles, scar-, let fever or hay fever," Dundee heard Mrs. Dunlap . say in tha com fortafcle, affectionate voice, that went with her comfortable, pleasant pleas-ant face and body, ... Nice wo mall! ... "OUT .his eyes were of necessity "P upon Nita Selim. for that, miniature Venus was. as Penny had predicted, almost tucked under his arm by this time, her blacfc-pansv eyes vide and wistful, her flap,. soft black curls falling forward as $h coaxed: "You'll come to th? cocktail parly at my house at S:30, won't you, Mr. Dundee?" "Afrai.d 1 can't make it." Dundee smiled 'down at her. "I'm a busjj., man. Mrs. Selim. . . . You see. Pro special investigator attached to the district attorney's office." he. explained ex-plained very deliberately. "Oo-oh!" Nita Selim breathed. Then, step by step, she withdrew. And as she retreated, Dundee's keen eyes noted a hardening of the eyes, the sudden throbbing of a pulse In her very white neck. . , "No. don't mind about calling for me."' Penny protested a moment later. "Ralph has. already volunteered. volun-teered. . . , Thanks awfully V As Dundee backed out of tho driveway his. last glance was for a very small figure In a brown silk summer.. eoa. and iVpa.lesfc. :. yellow chiffon frock,' slowly rejoining, Penelope Crain and Lois -Dunlap. What tho devil had frightened her so? For she had been almost terrified. terri-fied. , . . Of course she might. 1m one of those' silly women who shudder at the sight of a detective, because they've smuggled in a diamond frpm Paris or a bottle of Bacardi frora HaA'Sua. .. . . But long before his car made the distance back to the city Dundee had shrugged off the riddle and was concentrating on all the fact he knew regarding the Magirity case. It was his first real alignment align-ment from Sanderson, and he was determined to make. good. Four hours later -ho - was interrupted inter-rupted in his careful reading of the trial of Rufus Maglnty by the rinsing rins-ing of the telephone bell. .Tat made four times he had had. to snap out the fact that District Attorney At-torney Sanderson was playing, soma, well-earned- golf, at . the Country." Club, Dundee reflected angrily. 4 , But the call was for him. And the voice on the other end of the w;Jre was Penny Cralu's(althougU almost unrecognlza&lV ' ! ' "Speak more slowly. Penny! Dundee urged. 'VWhafbat again? . . . Good Lordf You say' that' Nita Selim " After a minute of listening, and a promise of instant obedience, Dundee hung up the receiver. - ."My God!" he said alowiy. blankly. "Of all things murder at bridge:" "' ' ' (To Be Continued). if; . . 65c . $1,00 - : .,- I I 4 e s t " ' . ' ' !!. tm.,i.C.Atl. . Xi, mmm -.A. VT ' ' i -- .' " " " ( 1 a . - . , . ' . , . ' It -!-''' V i 1. - ' . " j " , . V . ' ' i, |