Show pg 85 m H Hill 1 Bit pa paLl Pi Ll C l X lT fc W W I M 1 m ll P ill m 11 ITY H 1 CASE iy SEQ M-l M f a fW EsS X 1920 1923 II GPo Gi P NAM SONe ON BEGIN rOD TODAY rov Y In Iii Harbor Harbor Gar Gardens e s Long Jong Island In lu an elaborate Inin li c l I EHRY end Ills his If 1 nn They cro as liS e guests c I 5 J I INMAN X A All ll lant rel t of or Myro's Myras and BUX HUNNY Y MOORE h gol 1 n l an anold old l lIr Ir if Perry 1 an artist artl t was ivas a can can- cain 11 for I of ur the Country Club Climb TIme oilier lend lend- lendIng 1 Ins l-Ins In Ing candidate as as S SAM AS- AS AX 1 X Perrys Perry's Ire tto as but cold OI l and md NIl ar castle She he neer IOU louge I never cr i vi ore colors She rol- rol col collected mi-c mi bits of ut if glass coil her ber latest was a n hottie hot hot- tie tic lo which aroused her hus husband band to scorn Myra Myra Ira J provoked or I at at a 0 grow ro roIn In Irig Intimacy between bet n 1 lerry rry and nI announces bhe ho holia hns lia made her hr u Ill In Iii ra fa 1 or of Inman Cutting cullin Perry ott orr That night SilO she sic quarrels quarrel with tier husband an Cud and alludes es mys to Ills his secret That night Meal Meal- Ins In surprises his iro lIh Inman nn and anil l or orders er th latter out of time the house houseLy b by The neat lIe morning Myrn Iyra's hotly is 10 discovered disco In the Candles Cardies burning nt at her bea head licad nm and feet bhe h F 11 10 up cip with whim mind and dressed 1 In gay cay colors III the butler us dis- dis Ms 0 rs near fleer r the t h lie body a n card caril marked The OI Work Work- of ut 1 Il The Tho doctor u hen lii lc I comes omI hInds finds lie death dath blo ns as struck with Mra's his whisky I Jolt bottle I 1 The coroner conducts nil 1111 anil It de that Id I'd t r Heath hn has disappeared peat peat-ed during the tho night In spite of th fact tuut In win dons Imm dons S O and doors hail lind been lod on un fl tho ho Inside Inman nn Moore am questioned the they built bolli exhibit au an degree o of nervous ncr ness NOW GO CO OX ON WITH TIlE THE STORY STOny IX The Tho Harbor Park ParI Country Club was over on the Park side but butis is s members s included many of the lens people as well wen A few of ot the less active spirits hobnobbed on the Iho porch and smoked as they somewhat eon con conservatively con conservatively discussed the Heath y Yet few of the exaggerated ac- ac accounts accounts ac accounts counts could be much worse tItan the true statements o of the awful Where hero Is Perry Heath ivas the question urged even more fre- fre frequently frequently fre frequently than Who killed Myra Arthur l Black ck one lne of the solid men of ot the club declared that It was that the tho murderer should be other than thap her husband husban 1 The H Heaths were by no means turtle doves was the tho way vay he put It And even cven recognizing the rights of the dead to nil nisi urn boa boo bon bonum urn um our Myra wag as as a saint In looks look I only She Sha sure looked like one though said Wallace Vallace Forbes an artist from the tho Gardens studio hos studio bungalow was not tar far front th the Heaths own Too I pale ale and wan for tor my taste remarked Sam Anderson who was a II true representative of the Park type Smiling bald bald- headed bald headed and with a 0 missing eye eye- eyetooth eyetooth tooth eye tooth ho he gave the Impression of being more interested in women ot of the earth earthy than in the Myra Mra Heath sort But he was a prominent clubman and was about to run for president The Tho disappearance of Heath clinches your election Anderson Black declared but the other an- an answered an answered Im not keen to be elected electea And anyway Heath will come comeback back he he must To my mind his absence is no Indication at all that he killed his wife wire Why should he Maybe as you ou 1 say Black tho the pair pall were not exactly dovey dovey lovey-dovey but few ew married peo- peo peo pie pic arc are nowadays Yet It doesn't lead to murder You'll have to find a bigger motive than mere Incompatibility before Ill I'll believe that Heath killed his wife What about that young chap her cousin or whatever ho he Is la Larry Inman said Forbes Yes hes he's her a cousin cousin a die dis distant tant one I 1 think But Dul why should he murder her Hes her heir put in Black who always vII's knew all about ov- ov business affairs motive but on the other hand Ive I've heard he ho was WIlS In love with the pale palo goddess Did you ou hear that when they found her dead she was all rouged and made eyebrows up-eyebrows up pencilled and this all this from Anderson who was a bit of a 11 gob gos- gossip sip go-sip sip Yes dYes and besides that there thero was wasa wasa a 0 red sash tied around her Black asserted And candles burning at her head and feet Al AI Cunningham who just then joined the group said Im I'm go go goIng ing to the tho Inquest Inquest this afternoon Wonder It if Heath will vIll bo be back bac for forIt forit It r You speak as liS It if ho bo had just stepped out on an errand Black objected Why man he ho Is the the criminal the murderer and murderer and ho he homade homade made his getaway Hell He'll never come back Do you know Heath de- de demanded demanded de demanded Forbes of ot Anderson Not Intimately at all but I know him slightly Ive I've seen him hero at the club occasionally Ive I've never been In his hig house Then you dont don't really know him Hes He's not a 0 man of ot fierce passions or angry impulses If It ho he sensed trouble from Inmans Inman's at- at attentions at attentions to Mrs Heath he kill either cither o ot of them hed he'd put the tha y young ung nice man out of ot the house and merely shake his finger at his hl hi wife I 1 live IIvo over there you ou know and Im I'm acquainted with th the tho whole bunch Thero Theres There's a baby down there who's about as aspert aspert aspert pert a II little parcel as IlS often orten comes Name Namo of ot Bunn Bunny and I believe bellevo she's somewhat gono gone on Perr lf herself Oh well then there theres there's your n yourn Cunningham cried In In tense natured artist tired of his marble G Galatea latea of o a wife turns to baby doll for tor relief Falls des des- desperately dc in love o with the kid hid and decides that the line ot of o least re- re resl resistance rc sl Is to put Friend Wife Wito out ot of the way Doe Ioe Doci no so and skIps lie He wont won't return but return but tho the little girl will follow at the tho proper time Maybe said Black mack but Im I'm not going to the tho Inquest Sit all ali afternoon In a a hot stuffy sturry place only to havo have the tho thing adjourned or at tho most to hear bear an Open olen verd let Im not going either Ander- Ander Anderson Anderson son Ander-son son stated slated Oil Ohm it if I do Ill I'll just look 1001 in for Cor a 0 moment and stick t to the back of o the tho room so I Ican Ican Ican can get out easily Coroners ar fearfully winded long-winded And well we'll get the Iho whole proceedings from the papers The Tho New York pa- pa papers pa papers pers pen pers will feature this as QS Its It's really a 0 bizarre case cage Meanwhile tho the Heath home was In a 0 turmoil The police were In charge Doth Both Bunny Dunny and Larry as well as t tie e servants ero forbidden to leave the tho place The body of Myra lyra still In ts beautiful but n lay where It was Wals was found and m must st remain there until viewed by the tue Coroners Coroner's jury i i The studio was guarded guardell b by a policeman who sat eat just the close closed closel I door rhe The lounge was full of ot bustling people who vho with more or less authority fussed around Inquisitively Mrs Prentiss presuming on her importance neighbor as th thu nearest neigh neigh- bor came over O with a face faco ap- ap ap appropriately solemn to offer help ot of any sort In her power Bunny Dunny refused to see herIt her It at first but on a more Insistent flIes mes message sage tho the girl wept went reluctantly from her room downstairs to Greet th the caller caUer Her Item blue eyes cs shod traces or of tears and her Tier lips ups quivered qu as she came toward Irs Prentiss And for tor once the girl tailed failed to toot show an elert Interest lit at the sight of ot a I and looking good young good man For Bucl Buck had ac- ac ac accompanied companied his aunt partly as es- es es escort cort COIt but more from a desire to see Bunny Dunny herself herselt Npr Nor was he ho disappointed Jle He told himself on the spot that she was the loveliest girl he had ever seen and ond was as the tho one ono girl In the for him nod many such decisions and asseverations asse Bunny acknowledged ed his In- In In Introduction with minded absent absent politeness and asked them to come with her to the dining r room om where they could talk In more seclusion Who Is here Who Is 15 looking after Prentiss you demanded Mrs Pren- Pren Pren- Pren with her usual brusqueness Nobody said sail Dunn Bunny I I am all alone Id I'd go home but the pOlice wont ont v-on v i let me I haven't Sent word to my people le about yOt-of yOt of course they'll G cao e it when It nets gets Into the tho but papers papers but Its It's all so terrible terrible-so terrible so that awful awful that I couldn't bring myself to write about It and I just couldn't tele tele- telephone telephone phone I No no of course not my dear nut Bt you ou cant can't stay here helo alone alone- alone haven't yo you heard a word from Mr Heat Heath b Not a word Bunny's Dunny's face SOS rosy osy pink but her voice was WIlS calm and steady I cant can't Imagine where he went or what keeping him away ay Vho's In charge here what everybody t a asks ks Vh WIly nobody's In charge charse exactly JIll Mr Inman is in tome some ways and of course the servants keep tho house running JUSt as usual I see seea seea seea a few of Myras Myra's friends but not all of ot them them-I them I just cant can't O Of 0 cours you cant can't put In Toddy Buck Duck with real sympathy It oughtn't to be bo expected s oLyo of you I You must come over and stay I with me mc Mrs frs Prentiss Prenties ordaIned I and her nephews nephew's heart leaped I for Joy Oh no I cant can't do that Dun Dun- Dunny Bunny ny fly said The police wont won't I let t me leave this house and amid when they do I shall ot of course co go straight home And too I think I must look over oer Myras Myra's thing a little There Is I no one ono else to do It It and a woman ought to go over her desk and and-and and such things Yes yes yes-of yes of es of course Mrs Prentiss spoke a va vaguely But Dut my house Is la open to you my dear and Im I'm sure when ihen you think It over you will see It would be wise for tor you to como come over there I expect Mr Heath homo home at any minute Bunny Dunny said 1 I shant shan't make mako any plans until e comes But ho may not come at all Mrs Prentiss began and stopped suddenly as she raw caw the grief and Imd horror on Bunny's Dunny's face And unable to bear up any longer Bunny Dunny put her head down on the tho kind hearted womans woman's v shoulder and cried SOm softly X Toddy felt dec decidedly out of It The girl ha haA not looked at him after arter tho the aunts aunt's presentation of him and ho he les m it To be sure she sho was nearly frantic with tear fear and ond anxiety but she might at least recognize 1 his Imis existence Nor was Bunny Dunny totally oblivious lous ot of tills this eager caser and would-be would help help- helpful helpful ful knight But nut the site was so distracted with her woe v She was vas still suffering from the shock of tha the af- af affair fair and sho she was distraught distraught ot at atthe the tho continued absence ot or Perry Heath Mrs was determined to see Myras Myra's body and having said saida a temporary goodby to Bunny Dunny she approached the guardian of the studio jUl just t as IS Wallace Forbes ott on the samo same errand bent arrived ed there IIi Ills His cajolery and her claim as asa asa asa a sort of ot guardian of Miss Moore won them an n entrance and tile the pair closed the Iho door behind them And stood almost transfixed at atthe atthe the tho scene before them Tho The blinds were drawn and the lights shaded but Myras face shone forth In a startling on- on un unearthly earthly beauty She l I EO so o alive olIve her care care- careless lesa less relaxed position seemingly that of ot a moments moment's abandon at rest You know her her- Forbes asked ot of Mrs Mra Prentiss Prentise who was also gazing as If it spellbound d at the strange beautiful countenance Yes but I never ne saw her look like this She Sho never used cos cos- cosmetics cos- cos cosmetics and amid she never wore gay colors No that's the In inexplicable thing Who fixed fixel her bel up like that and why Was it done be- be before be before fore rore she he was killed or killed or after Oh horrors Mr Forbes be- be before be before fore tore of course Nobody oven even a ghoul could paint tile the face faeo of a woman he had murdered It would seem geem so BO But whY would Mrs Heath paint up Ul like that or allow ow anyone any one else elso to todo todo todo do It tt Oh that Is unanswerable unanswerable- She might have consented 1 to try it for tor on one on a dare maybe Yes Yea that's true hut But then granting she did so and that she donned the scarf and the tho beads In the tho same game spirit of experIment who camo came In and killed her you dont don't think the he card z t I r ie ieA A r- r 4 I I i I I IE i u 5 I I I I 1 t 1 And for once the gid failed to on n alert l rt interest at at atthe I t the sight sigh of ra a str strange 1 C an and lo cd-lo g yOUng man means that it was as per her hu deed then Mrs Prentiss Prentise was straightforward of speech ch and she asked the question bluntly But l Forbes only ony replied by say say- sayIng sa- sa saIng say saying ing Do you I X dont don't know I know nov Perry Heath and ho he always seemed to tome tome tome me a II goo natured good natured going easy easy man but you cant can't tell wh t those quiet chaps chapa will do ICon on a sudden wild impulse You ou a detective No not a 11 real one but Im I'm Interested In the and es- es especially es especially so in this this- case e of its own ov strange an mini and bizarre effects and too because I know the people Implicated Well then Ill I'll tell you some some- something something thing thins and you ou can advise ad me mc whether to tell It to the Iho police or not Of Ot what nature Is your our secret Perhaps you'd better take it dl- dl direct di direct meet to the authorities No you OU listen Last night I couldn't sleep and pretty much all 1111 night I was UI up and around my room room and I 1 looked over here a lot And I saw goings and comings in this part o of the tho Heath house What sort of ot goings and com corn comIngs comings ings logs Not exactly the people but the lights they thoy kept snapping on en and andoff andoff oft off First there were full lights here Then about pa past halt t el- el el eleven even they all went the out out the lights I mean downstairs mean downstairs and two bed bed- bedrooms bed bedrooms rooms were lighted II UI up Then about midnight I saw a small faint light in this room title room studio ot of of-Mr of Mr Mr Heaths Heath's And not more than ten or 01 fifteen mInutes after arter that the full light II-ht lashed flashed on in this samo Bamo room Well Welt sir after aCter a II time those lights went 0 off and there remained only two small those sparks sparks those JG there that arc now burnt out I saw the two sparks low down through the window but I couldn't mako make out what they were I never thought thou of candles on the loor of O Of course not This story Is very important Mrs Irs Of course you must tell It to the police but go 10 on and tell me the rest Hurry it Along We ve may be Interrupted at any ammy now Well then thom thosa little lights kept on |