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Show r EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH Womans World Need Variety If You Want Balanced Taste i SEWING CIRCLE PATTFpmc; Semi-Forma- ls GERALD BROWN W.N.U. FEATURCi 413 Fensroad but what shall I tell the police? Tell them I left that you do not know why." Yes." He glanced at his wrlstwatch. Two minutes to go. Now, Miss Bigelow, I must ask you to tell me quickly what you saw from the window upstairs just before the shot. She closed her eyes and let a shuddering breath escape her lips. Her hands clasped and unclasped nervously. He thought she might faint She opened 'her eyes suddenly, tense, staggered, but determined. CHAPTER VIII "At first there was only Curt up the steps from the path coming she when She stopped running that cuts across from Charles reached it. For a moment, he Street." The old voice was pained thought he saw someont else, some- and hushed. I knew it was he one in a gray raincoat walking from away off. He always swagsteadily away into the fog. He could gered, sort of, and never wore a or man not tell whether it was a hat. There was also a a woman a woman, for the gray of the coat coming along the outer walk that mere a into dissolved the figure comes over the hill from Park odd blur. It only struck him as Street." or falter not turn did the that figure A woman in green? or come nearer. It just walked She looked in green. "Yes, sedately was the only word away. frightened. There was someone in terrible was There something else in a gray coat and hat coming the unruffled walk, because directly across from it and below where along Beacon Street toward the they peered out, something quite awful staggered, one hand to its chest, the other groping out blindly. It was a man, tall, wide, a dark shadow of agony, seeking to climb the Bigelow stairs. The doorbell pealed sharply, a ring of sheer despair. Miss Bigelow and McCale, in a single movement, ran out of the drawing room. McCale reached the stairs first, tumbling down them two, three at a time. The bell was ringing now, steadily, a shriek, as though someone leaned heavily Duke McCale, private detective, I guarding the wedding present at the Be eeniee that old Bigelow mansion. afraid of His Adelaide Bigelow more than theft In n converiatlon with Mis Bigelow he learns that she Is sorry now that she gave her consent to her niece, Veronicas marriage with handsome Curt Vallalncourt, as she has discovered that he is a fortune hunter and rake. He will control the entire family fortune of thirty million dollars. There are several cross currents In the are family, she tells McCale. While they talking and looking out the window, they hear a shot, and see two women hurrying away. The one in green runs toward the park. 1 , against ome-thln- g it The butler, King, came out of the back hall, a sour look on his face. But McCale was already wrenching open the door. A light went up in the hall as the startled manservant pushed a button. For a moment no one seemed to be there. The door gaped wide and black. Then, from around its edge, a bulky object slid, .slumped to its knees, lunged inward, then out flat Curt Vallaincourt turned his exquisite head once, opened his agonized eyes once, mouthed a word before he died. he muttered thickly Veronica, before bis heart bubbled up into his throat. It was then that Adelaide Bigelow dropped down beside him, cradling his head in her lap. Her tired old hands smoothed dark silky curls out of his eyes. A doctor, Miss Bigelow gasped. The police, McCale said curtly. But he may be dying a doctor. Tm sorry, he looked deep into ber eyes, but he is dead. He closed the door on the night, shutting it out. with the incredible thoughts which seethed through his mind. He barked an order to the butler, necessary action taking over his brain and body for the next few minutes. "Leave the body just as it is, he cautioned, adding, a police requirement, for he saw a look of dismay on Miss Bigelow's face. She was still sitting numb and stricken, on the carpet beside the body. The butler had his hands pressed tightly against his diaphragm, while perspiration, a prelude to certain nausea, stood out on his forehead. "Get yourself some brandy, man, McCale spoke briskly. And get the police department on the Call Wait a minute. telephone. Devonshire 1212 line 103 and ask for Donlevy, chief of homicide." The old man moved slowly. Perhe began. haps if you can, sir No. Better you. McCale grasped Miss Bigelow's We elbow in a reassuring grip. have less than six minutes at the most," he said, "before the department, or at least a squad car, will be here. Where can we have a minute to talk? Alone. The library, she ra.d, her voice stronger. McCale Slips Out Ahead of the Police "I want your help, he began, and rushed on, for he lived in the world as it is and knew that there were things he might do if she could remain a little while outside the police orbit Im going to be out of here before the police arrive. Oh but please You must He held up his hand. understand this. There may be some way I can lessen the publicity this case is bound to stir up. Dont think I mean to obstruct justice. Im aot that kind of detective, but you must understand that once the police come into this, you will have no peace. ; Your privacy, your home, your very lives will be ripped wide open. Her face was I understand." bleak. If I am He went on rapidly. here when the police arrive, I will be ded up for hours, maybe with If I the preliminary investigation. am not, I can perhfaps discover something before they W. I know Donlevy, Chief of Detectives. I can-talto bjm tomorrow, what I must do is get a head start. want, for instance, to search VaRa incourts rooms. Where does did Ve live? as if prompted to explain away his disillusion in her. A long moment passed. She turned to the fire. He went out. There was no one in the hall The body of Curt Vallaincourt lay long and dark and lifeless, half in, half out of the light thrown by the scones on each side of a console table. McCale stopped by the still form, avoiding a puddle of congealing blood. He heelt and noticed that Curt had been shot a little above the heart, at close range, as if someone had walked up to him and let him have it. It was a miracle he had managed to get up the steps to the door. A less virile person would have dropped dead in his tracks. He frisked the body until he came upon a key ring that held a number of keys. Satisfied that one of these must be the key to the dead mans apartment, he rearranged the clothing, walked to the door, eased it open and slipped out He was hardly across the street onto the paths of the Common when the sirens started walling and tearing up Beacon Hill. At Park Square, McCale hopped into a cruising cab which put him down at 413 Fensroad in six minutes flat despite the increasing drizzle and the traffic congestion of that time of day. n was a big hunk of concrete and stainless steel. He stopped before Vallaincourts apartment and listened carefully, his ear to the door. After hed entered, he stood completely still, testing the silence that hung heavily about him. A wide doorway at his right gave entrance to a large living room. He stepped toward it, soundlessly. The quiet of the place was disturbing. It was the intense, pregnant quiet of a room so recently occupied that the effluvium of that occupancy still hung in the air. There were two doorways in back and a little to the left of him as he stood motionless in the center of the carpet. Not a board creaked or a pin dropped, but the hair on the back of his head stood up warn-inglMoisture beaded his palms. He swiveled slowly, expecting anything. A woman stood in the first doorway. Tall, dark, voluptuous, she lounged, white-facebreathless, in a peculiarly familiar attitude. A tall wide man seeking to climb Hooded, discontented eyes looked the Bigelow stairs. steadily at him. Her face was so house. I couldnt see very well The white she seemed all lipstick in the of so many lights. If she had person was almost directly under glare had a cigarette in that mouth the window and I was concentratMemory tugged at McCale and he ing on on Curt knew it was Shari Lynn. She wore On this side of the street? a dark green wool dress! Yes. Who are you? he said huskily. the was crossed Whoever it had street, then, for the figure had been She moved slowly toward him, eyes For a moment he ignored on the opposite side when McCale wary. looked. That someone must have her. You were a fool to come directbeen almost at the door when the he said then. here, ly was shot fired? The murderer? Apprehension widened her eyes Man or woman? he snapped. I I couldnt telL I was watch- for a moment, bringing out unsuspected lines in her face. She sat ing Curt I told you. But the hat. You said the fig- down unsteadily on a chair and ran ure had on a gray raincoat and a nervous fingers through dark dyed gray hat. Surely you could recog- hair. Shes scared, McCale thought nize the sex from the hat? He perched perilously on the arm I was watching Im sorry of the Empire sofa, shaking out a Curt" cigarette from a pack directly into "Yes. Go on." I just cant remember what hap- his mouth in one motion. He spoke pened then. Curt and the woman over the flame of his lighter. Curt Vallaincourt has just been in green almost met at the gate, but he was a little ahead. I thought shot. Watching her closely he was cerhe turned his head to look at her. tain that it wasn't news to her that . . . Im not sure. Then Im sorry. Its all confused. There was she already knew. Who are you a dick? I didnt just the shot. I closed my eyes, I think. Then you were behind me kill him." You were there. and I did notice someone the womShe was guarded now. Her eyes an in green, I believe, running af? narrowed and she clutched the into the fog. Then she went to an old, battered glass with shaking fingers. Youve desk that stood in a comer of the got to prove that, copper. Im not the police." room. Pressing a spring that "Then who are you? What are opened a secret drawer, she took out a small envelope from which you doing here? What is this, a shakedown?" she shook a piece of paper. He shook his head. Im private dick. I am, however, investiShari Lynn Tells gating Curt Vallaincourts murHer Story der. Youd better have this. She spoke almost furtively, and added, Curts Apartment If the house is searched, theyd Yields No Clues be bound to find it." Curiously, she seemed relieved. He took it over to the light and saw it was the merest comer off He soon found out why. A crafty look slid into her eyes. She almost the edge of a letter. smiled. when you control the dough Listen, then. Im not saying I to lover. me, your promise know Curt has been killed. dont will be ours, I'll even admit maybe I was near es to crime. Ila, ba. enough to have seen it done. I "This, then, he said, straightenmight give you information as to ing up, "is what really sent you to who did it, mister." me. Im listening. But make It I found Yes," she murmured. quick. I want to frisk the place it in the drawing room grate. It before the cops crawl all over it. was, surely, a note to Curt. He must She understood the necessity for have tried to burn it in this house. speed and went on hurriedly. I You see how it proved almost all was up here having a couple of my suspicions?" drinks with Curt before he went to "Yes. I decided the wedding rehearsal He returned the fragment to its to wait until he got back. He was envelope, slipped the envelope into gone a long time too long. I his inside pocket. No time to lose grabbed a cab, and got out at the now. music shop near Park Square. I "The woman in green had red was paying off the taxi when I saw hair, didnt she? he asked, coldly. Curt cutting across the path to She looked for a moment down Beacon street into an abyss of sheer terror. "You followed him?" "I I dont know, she faltered. She hesitated a moment, a look I was looking at Curt." of doubt coming over her face, as Disappointment and wrath if she were not sure of saying the Bashed across his eyes, was as right thing. That pause made a lot quickly gone. He only said, "Cour- of difference in McCale's calculaage, then Ill see you tomorrow. tions. She put out her hand imoulsively. (TO BE CONTINUED) Four-thirtee- y. By mine confided to that she never seemed to have as smart looking clothing as her friends, although she spent as much as they did. After checking her wardrobe, we found that she made one error from season to season. Its an easy error to fall into, and one you may be guilty of without perhaps realizing it This friend of mine had found one basic dress that she liked and she bought a similar one every year, even though in a slightly different color. Although the basic design was becoming to her, it finally became so monotonous that she felt she was not having any variety in her wardrobe, as were her friends. Every woman should realize that every season requires something entirely different in the way of color and design if she is to be completely happy about her clothes. 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If you dont do this, theres bound to be trouble during ironing. If it is a cotton shirt you are washing, make the first rinse water warm, the second cool. Rinse twice. Starch while wet but consult the man as to how he likes his shirt starched. When you hang the shirt to dry, try to get most of the wrinkles out of it by shaking them out. This makes the ironing easier. When dry, dampen slightly and roll in a towel, but do not wad the shirt too tightly as this will create wrinkles that just need to be ironed. Start ironing with the wrong side, of the collar, then go to the right side. Yoke and sleeves are next. Then iron down the front of the shirt so as to shape the shirt properly. If you make an addition to the ironing board about the size of a bread board, but quite a bit lighter and pad this, it can be slipped over the regular board and used for shirts. Fashion Forecast minute ideas for ere Special pass of fara designers, in the book. 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