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Show THE Thursday, November 7. 1940 TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, iddenWavs ,3: VAN CKF. w. H.U. By FREOERIC R VAN DE WATE-CHAPTER X Continued We hailed a taxi and drove to12 ward the Morello. Beside me, Coch"Maybe not," Cochrane answered rane smoked in silence tor some dreamily, "but he changed his name minutes before he asked with the to Ferriter, during the war." sleepy air he used when things were most important: "King George Gawd bless 'im "I don't suppose you've had time, changed his too," I jeered. The Innocent face before me during your toilet to give a thought to the fact that Everett used to be beamed. "He changed It to Ferriter," my Horstman?" caller droned. "It used to be Horst-man.- " "This nightmare," I told him, "moves too fast for me to think I stared. Cochrane's expression much of any one thing. What are was as guileless as a pan of milk. you brooding on now?" "I give up," I said at last. "I'm "Well," he said, "Horstman could not good at riddles. What' the an- be a German name, eh?" I nodded. swer?" He went on, softly: "I don't know," the reporter told me gently. "I hoped that, maybe, "And it was a German voice you we could find one together. And heard, over the phone, just before now I'm all muddled up. If it's any Blackbeard was killed?" of my business, what was your date He saw that he had pricked me with the pure young man?" and beamed. "Are you completely goofy?" I "You don't think," I asked angriasked. "What man?" ly, "that I don't know Everett's "The guy with the sneeze expression and the cologne," Cochrane went on. "He said he was waiting to see you." I looked at him hard. "Waiting? Where?" My astonishment seemed to comfort Cochrane. He beamed. "In here," he said. "It must have been Everett, though I've never had a closeup of him before. He blew a minute after I came. Seemed pretty anxious to go, too." "Who let him in?" I began and then remembered I had told Mrs. Shaw to admit any man who called. 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"Take good care of her, David," The family moved to Kansas City, she called after us. where one of her high school teachers. Miss Ida Lilly, was so conCHAPTER XII vinced that Martha had exceptional ability that she lent her the money to go through the University of Most of the first act of "Die went over my head, which, Michigan. Martha took to college perhaps, left me even with most theatricals like a duck to water. She taught for six months after of the audience. I was stirred more by the girl beside me than by the graduation, then went back to the She university to become head of the fat persons on the stage. watched their posturings and, when- property department In the college ever I dared, I watched her. "Didn't it get you at all?" head, Thomas Wood Stevens, too She was flushed and her eyes were an interest in her, and when he became head of the Bonstelle theater bright. I rose to let our seat neighin Detroit she went along. bors pass into the aisle. "If I am "It got too much of me," I told qualified actress her. "Shall we get out?" today, the credit must be given to "If you had an opera hat" she Mr. Stevens," she says. Afterward she went to New York, said, "I'd know you were itching to wear it in the lobby with the rest where she played in dramatized of the show-offMe, I'd rather ghost stories opposite Orson Welles. sit still. It takes time for me to More stock the engagement for the get my breath after Ring music. stage play, "Our Town" then to Let's just talk." Hollywood for the screen version of I said: "I'd rather, too. Will you the play. After that came "The Howards of Virginia." pick up where we were interrupted? Why hasn't Everett an alibi?" Then Do you like stampedes? "Aren't you," she asked, "the most persistent person?" Her smile don't miss "Arizona" if you want to faded and her face grew troubled. see the largest and most realistic She frowned and picked her words: cattle stampede ever attempted in "Measured by time, he hasn't If motion pictures. The 700 white-face- d Hereford cattle were puryou can stretch your imagination to believe him a murderer, he might chased for it and rehearsed for a have done it" "Then why" I began, but she took away my question. "Why did I clear him? Because It was idiotic to dream it's still crazy to think that Everett was the killer. When Captain Shannon began checking up, Agatha said I had been with Everett and I let it go at that I had been, too, but only for less than five minutes before you came in. How long he had been in our apartment before that, I don't know. He usually spends most of the afternoon in the workroom. He has a latchkey." Her eyes were dark with worry. I said, trying for lightness: "There are too many latchkeys." I I knew from the way she caught it her breath that the jest had hurt She sat for a moment, pleat"if" .'.i.- lhs)MaWaStfsW4BsMNtiissUIM ing her program with nervous fingers and I felt she was trying to JEAN ARTHUR control her voice. It was quiet when she said at last: then three weeks were spent month; in filming it in Rattlesnake canyon, "Grove is with lone tonight." I could find no answer for a mo- 18 miles from Tucson. Participatment She went on, as though she ing in the stampede with the cattle were afraid of silence: were ISO Papago Indians and 100 "They probably are out together American "pioneers." headed by right now. They always are, when Jean Arthur and William Holden. if he has one of these 'business enRemember Ingrid Berman, who gagements' that keeps him from won so many hearts when she made coming home." She turned and faced me. like ber one appearance on the Americhild who is sorry for a fault. can screen? You'll see her again "Maybe that's not fair. Maybe In "Legacy," planned as one of Coshe loves him. It's just that well, lumbia's most Important pictures of I'm jealous. I suppose. Grove and the year. It's being produced by I have been very close since we Robert Sherwood, were little children and now we're not That's not all. This murder Metro has new series under way seems to have turned everyone's for you; it's called "Keeping Comworld but Agatha's upside down. pany," with Frank Morgan and I'm frightened for Grove. He's walkIrene Rich In the father and mother ing deep into something. And I'm roles, and John Shelton and Ann afraid." Rutherford as the young couple who "Sure," I said, "I know how you keep company. The cast includes feel." Weidler and Gloria Virginia The thick voice I had heard over DeHaven. the telephone; the still unexplained Carol Bruce used to sell music disappearance of the murderer; Grove turning on the light in the sheets in the S and 10. Now she's Ferriter apartment; my struggle in on the air in Ben Bernle's show, the dark basement hallway; Ever- star in the Broadway musicale, ett's furtive raid on my room; my "Louisiana Purchase," and sings duel with his brother these were every night after the theater at the blown about by the strong wind of Waldorf Serf room. As if that music. Siegmund and his rival were weren't enough to keep her busy, fighting with swords on the stage. she's studying dramatic art When the clumsy contest ended I "Back In the old days, 1 couldn't found my palms clammy and my afford dramatic lessons, a I studied breath scant I might at this mo- by myself," she remarked the other ment be lying like the slain Hund-Irday. "I stood la front of a mirror I looked at Allegra. She had and made faces to go with the diamade life important. I was sweat- logue." She's getting ready to go to ing as the curtain fell. Hollywood after Christmas, to make Allegra. too, had felt the music's a picture an the Universal lot. me She watched spclL mop my face and, I think, read there someHorace Heidt fully recognizes the thing more than the effect cf an necessity for encouraging talent operatic tragedy. When our neigh- within his band you know that if bors had gone again Into the lobby, you listen to his "Pot o' Gold" proshe asked: gram. He eagerly introduces the "Just what Is your your Interest songs composed by Frar.kie Carle, in this mess?" the pianist nd he's delighted that I could tell from her eyes and the the recordings made by Fred Low-ersound cf her words that she had the band's blind whistler, are long while. I so successful; the record of "Tumkept that question tried to gain time. bling Tumbleweeds" has passed the "I don't quite know what you 20,000 sale mark. mean." She brushed that away with a ary Ot)M AS!) quick movement of her hands. it breaking auoy I torn the team the't "Mister." she said with hollow beer- part of stiln her nttert, end milt gaiety, "you wouldn't trifle with fretUnra; the uvnii to hot more time poor girl, would you? You aren't for radio. Hut you'll tee her mith the . . . Istnm just a spectator. You're In this up nihert in "tour Mothert" to your neck. I can feel It Why?" Turner, Judy Garland and lledj I rnlen hare tarrtnf in "1 he 7.iet. I taid slowly: . . . "Gone U ith the 9 ud "That's a hard one. Because if 1 Ild be (iw'Mift firr fnernl relemte ml told you the truth; if I said that my nil hall il rnrrd thrnp priret approximately murinterest in a murderer ar.d enrlj in January . . , Melt yn UnugUn der was chiefly almost entirely the hot timed netc Inn t term rnnuari h' pe 'hat I mirht help you. you vtth Metro: he't piU finished "Third finger, lsfi Hand" ntih Mrrrut l.ny wouldn't bl eve rre." . . . And Jatk Oakie hat timed to H UK (HMIMKUt make three putnret in ear mlh fuz. For delicious l I s. "Search me," Cochrane answered, "but he let himself out before I could learn who he was. You weren't " expecting a call from Mr. Ccr-Tsn- ttt r- - Wai-kuer- flew. fr a 11 half-uttere- d "I was not," I snapped and turning opened the bureau drawer. I didn't hear the question Cochrane asked. My face must have been strange for his own changed when I looked at him again. "He came here," I said slowly, "to search this room. He's been through the bureau." "Yon aren't Just spectator." "Did he get what he was after?" Cochrane asked. voice? You really can't think that "I don't," I answered, "even know he has the guts to " was what he looking for." "If you knew," Cochrane broke in, "the number and variety of the CHAPTER XI things I can think, you'd be dismayed and grieved. Anyway, you Cochrane said gently: might chew on that a little, during "You might check if he's taken your wooing of the lovely heiress." anything." "Listen," I began and glared at By the mess in the bureau draw- him. He smiled sweetly. er, my visitor had not been a cool and careful seeker, or perhaps the "I don't want to hear a word," he reporter had come in before he answered. "Here we are at the could reorder the jumble of hand- scene of the crime." kerchiefs, neckties and the like. Walters, the night doorman, was "He's left me my razor," I told in attendance on a shiny town car Cochrane, "and that's what I need when our cab drew up at the Morelmost right now. If there's any more lo and Cochrane followed me into confusion you want to spread, you the foyer, unchallenged. Fineman can trot along to the bathroom with was on the switchboard. He seemed too dazzled at sight of me in formal me." In his cherubic face, his eyes clothes to notice the reporter and, at my request telephoned the Ferwere bright "You don't let business interfere riter apartment with your pleasure, laddie?" "Nobody home," he said, flicking "Not this time," I snapped, and down the switch. "The old boy, him that was pinched after the killing, he grinned. "Go ahead," he waved at the went out twenty minutes ago." "I wanted to see his brother." door, "I'll just sit here and think." Everett's absence cheered me. He was staring as though the opposite wall were not there when I Apparently, the furies had found another job and my way upstairs to returned. "Why should he want to rob the Paget apartment was clear, at last you?" he asked. "Him?" asked Fineman. "He "Why," I threw back at him. "should his brother want to kill me? hasn't shown since I came on. Til and while I dressed, I told him of tell him, if he comes." "Do that" I answered and turned my duel with Lyon. Cochrane lit cigarette and watched the smoke he back to Cochrane. He grinned at my newt. blew. He did not speak, until I bent "Well." he said, "we tried anybefore the mirror to tie my tie Then way. Good night to you. Prince he said in mild complaint: "I wish crime could be a little Charming. Have a nice opera. I more orderly. We pick up bits here think I'll nose around a bit Not In and scraps there and, put them all here, where I pollute the patrician atmosphere and run a chance of gettogether, they spell nothing." I was pulled two ways. I wanted ting heaved out on my neck, but outto stay and sift the day's events with side. I'll be seeing you, laddie." "I feel like a pup, walking out on Jerry in the hope of Cnding coherence in their madness. I wondered, you now," I said. "I certainly hope you do," Cochas I fidgeted and looked at my watch, if anything but the promise rane answered cheerfully. Miss Agatha and Allegra were in of this evening could possibly make the living room. There was coffee me willing to leave. "Why," Cochrane asked, narrow-eye- on the table beside them and its "should one of the Horstman-Ferrite- r fragrance for an instant made me boys try to kill you and the aware that I had missed another other toss your room so inexpertly?" meal. Then Allegra smiled and I "You tell me," I said. "I've got forgot prosaic food. She wat very fair in her black evening dress with ten minutes more, at most" "Then," ht answered, getting up, the frosty coronet In her hair; so "we better spend it elsewhere. Let's lovely of body and face, that I looked quickly away and endured the old go. laddie." "Go where?" lady's humorous glare. "We'll call on your friend Everett "David." Miss Agatha asked, "do Anyone in such beautiful evening you always appear everywhere exclothes ought to be able to get me actly on time with the look of one into the Morello. So far, the out- who has run the last hundred side lobby hat been my farthest yards?" north. Yoicks, my son." "I always run at least the last "Wait minute. We go to tee hundred when I'm going to see Everett I teil bim I think he robbfd you." I told her. me. He says he didn't And that'll Allegra giggled. Miss Agatha reb that How far does it get us?" torted: "Just about as far as you'd get "My dear boy, I've been whetby charging Lyon with felonious as- stone on which many men have sault But if the jittery gent is sharpened their gallantry for use on home slone and we can get to him others. You don't Impress me. Co well. I think he'll break down. He on to' your opera. It's Wagner and looks like the sort that can't take tt It serves you both right" And laotiie. when I'm crowded, I can I hpld the glittering, dral it." coat in which Allegra wrapped her"He had another nervous collapse self. The fragrance of her hair or whatever, this noon." I told my made me slightly a.ziy. She went corrraninn as we pulled cn our to her aunt and. bending, kissed her. costs. 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