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t - Death Among ITie Dunes Introducing Dr. Mordacai Wescott, investigator, who solves the problem at Dune House, down among the sand-dunes on the coast of North Carolina. ' By WILBORNE HARRELL ★ A Chowan Hepald Fiction Story. ; WHAT HAS HAPPENED Joaiah Fentress, millionaire sportsman, has been murdered at his home, Dune House, on the coast of North Carolina. Dr. Mor dacai Wescott, eccentric detective* is assisting Sergeant Crosby of the police to solve the crime. The police strongly suspect Octavio Fentress, the wife of Joaiah Fen tress, but Dr. Wescott believes her innocent. Dr. Wescott an! Jimmy Maguire, newspaperman and narrator of the story, is met at Land's End by Sergeant Crosby who is to escort them across the Sound to Dune House. On the trip, Captain Wayne, who is in charge of the boat,'tells Wescott and Crosby that Josiah Fentress, contrary to local belief, was a cruel, sadistic man. Sergeant Crosby quickly seizes upon this information as a motive for the crime and further proof of the guilt of Octavia Fentress. Chapter Four The inquest was held that after noon, and Mrs. Fentress was now be ing questioned, Crosby having just stepped down from giving a recital of the finding of the gun and the finger prints thereon that were identified as those of Mrs. Fentress. ‘Reddy’, ra ther nervously, had just told of find ing the body, and from the looks of her ghastly face I thought she was going to repeat her fainting act. Across the room with his eyes fixed on Mrs. Fentress’s face, now beautiful with a marble whiteness that told of much suffering, sat Crane, his eyes never wavering from the woman he loved and who was facing her inquisi tors with the resigned calmness that comes from exhaustion. Captain Wayne stood in the door way grimly surveying the tense tab leau before him. Wescott was the only one in the room at ease. He seemed to be enjoying the situation and an unlighted stogy at the same time. “She’s beautiful, isn’t she, Jimmy?” he whispered to me. “The face that launched a thousand ships couldn’t hold a candle to her.” The coroner was speaking. “Mrs. Fentress, will you please tell the jury ■how your fingerprints came to be on this gun, if they were not left there in the process of firing the bullet that brought about the death of your hus wmflgEmk -Am PINT J§Mj‘:k s3 ‘ 2o HyBX. jV/ ynffmd lyA I I • '“ •«*•’*• wmss.*.* > ■■*£:. '—'.»• ■ BCHENLEV DISTILLERS, INC I ’*■>■■' *. >f w ♦'■ v«i» v ' V • J wm^^tk ;.: fef;-. I A vSB’ " ". ' i 2 11 V - -V * I I **' ' • WM H|HHHpr KENTUCKY WHISKEY* A BLEND Ml MQQF* /OX GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS* SCHENLEY DIST.* INC*# FRANKFORT* ICY* * I band?" 1 In one deft sentence he had reached 1 the crux of the matter, and had ask- ] ed the one question that would prob- < ably clear her if she would answer 1 it. Wescott leaned forward, tense now. ( The room was as quiet as a church. ] Crosby for once was holding his cigar < still. Someone cleared his throat with 1 startling loudness, so quiet had things l become. ] “Come now, Mrs. Fentress, surely j there must be some reason for those \ prints.” 1 Octavia Fentress’s dainty hands were slowly tearing to shreds a wisp , of lace that did duty as a handker- , chief. ] “Please—please don’t ask me that, j I I ”. Her hands covered her ( face. Then, “I did it. I did it,” she , moaned. “I killed him.” And she , slumped to the floor. With one bound , Crane reached her before the stupified ! coroner had recovered his wits. “That’s a lie!” Crane shouted. “I , killed Fentress! She didn’t do it; she said that to protect me. I killed him, I tell you, I killed him!” The room was in an uproar. “Quiet —quiet!” shouted the coron er, his gavel beating a furious tattoo as he attempted to restore some sem- ; blance of order. His momentary sur prise had passed. A few minutes later when quiet had been restored, the coroner announced the inquest temporarily adjourned, but no one was to leave Dune House. He was evidently too flustered to con tinue; e'vents were coming too thick and fast for him. They were coming too fast for me, too, for that matter. It was obvious that Crane had made his spectacular confession on the ; spur of the moment and with some confused idea of protecting Octavia Fentress. I daresay that Crane had not the faintest idea what he was saying; the sight of the woman he 1 loved being subjected to such ruthless, although necessary, handling by the ■ coroner had simply brought the con fession to his lips as a subconscious ’ protective gesture. Now . . . Did Octavia Fentress tell ; the truth ? Did she really kill hen husband. Whenever I looked at her . I said, “No”, but away from her dazz r ling radiance my Quixotic impulses i would not stand the cold light of rea • son. Or, did she suspect Crane of the k murder? No, hardly that—Crane’s ■ alibi was unimpeachable, and Mrs.' TOE CHOWAN HERALD, BDBNTON.M. CL. THPMDAT JULY 23, 1058. s Fentress knew it. Then .who ? . . . What? . . . How explain her finger prints on the gun and her equally in explicable reticence concerning them? Who did it, if she didn’t? Outside, I joined Wescott. He was gazing out to sea and puffing like a locomotive on his stogy. His hat was off and the wind was whipping his hair into a tangled mess. His face bore <that expression of sadness that I had come to know so well as mean ing he had about reached the end of the trail. My heart gave a bound. Wescott knew! As I came up to him he turned to me. “Jimmy, this is no case for ordi nary detective tricks; Crosby with all his ‘evidence’ and ‘clues’ are unavail ing. But evidently he is going to place Octavia Fentress under arrest for the murder of her husband; and that must not happen, Jimmy.” His gaze again sought the far reaches of the horizon, and as though talking to himself, he said, “Time is short. We must act, and at once. Jimmy, I have a theory based almost wholly on a hunch, and I am going to act on that hunch. I know I will be treading on dangerous ground; I may be wrong.” Wescott turned away from his sea cazing and his eyes again sought me. “Did you notice Captain Wayne very closely, Jimmy? Did you notice any thing particularly striking about him —about his face, for instance? Was there a blemish or something that reminded you of someone else? Think, Jimmy, think hard. Where is that boasted close observation of yours?” Vaguely my brain stirred. There WAS something, but just what .... “When he smiled, Jimmy, when Captain Wayne smiled, what did you see? Think!” My memory clicked. “The dimple!” I almost shouted, .and Wescott smiled and said, “Now who does that remind you of?” “Why Octavia Fentress, of course.” On the stand that afternoon she had flashed one wan, tired little smile at Wescott, and there on her cheek had blossomd one of the most ravishing dimples I had ever seen in a woman’s face. And Captain Wayne had one such dimple, in exactly the same place, that sprang into prominence when he smiled. But what was Wes cott driving at? “Exactly. Mrs. Fentress, and no - ->w- - *■ - '.!«.. mm m naa j■■§ ' ||| |f|g Bj JH 2 W .. r-— -' £*£«SSLJ -Ford Trucks for's3 offer more thats new" than any other trucks ever did! 5.2 ! , BBBBBHBBMb ISSEjSwrawnMßMßtira. t- Deluxe Cab illustrated New Ford Economy Trucks are mak ing sales history right across the country! And it's no wonder! Over 190 completely new models ranging from* Pickups to 55,000-lb. G.C.W. Bra Jobs. 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Such a view does not at all insure an accurate translation. Many of these men deny the basic teachings of the Bible; they do not believe in the vir gin birth of Christ, in the resurrection of Christ, in eternal torment. Natur ally, it is impossible for such men to give us an honest translation. Their bias is evident in many places (see specially Isaiah 7: 14). 2. In the King James translation, words which were not in the original, but which have been added to insure continuity of thought, are in italics. This has not been done in the R. S. V. ( a good ■ example of this is Romans 5: 2. The King James translation of this is the more accurate). 3. The translators of the R. S. V. profess to use the pro nouns “thee” and “thou” for God. and i “you” and “yours” for men. By doing this they divorce many Old Testament prophecies of Christ from their New Testament fulfillment (see, for ex ample, Psalm 2. 7 as compared with • Hebrews 1: 5 and Psalm 45: 6as com pared with Hebrews 1: 8). 4. By introducing quotation marks, ; the translators of the R. S. V. have i arbitarily decided many problems of ’ interpretation about which there have „ SECTION TWO- always been honest differences of opinion. For example, evangelical scholars have always thought that the • words of Jesus to Nicodemus in the third chapter of John continued through the 21st verse. In the R. S. V., they end with verse fifteen. In conclusion, I feel that the Revis ed Standard Version is a good trans lation, but that it should be read with a good deal of care. Especially as you read it keep in mind the bias of the translators. It is my earnest prayer that within the next few years evan gelical Christian scholars will present us with a translation that is scholarly, accurate, and honoring to Christ, who is the Hero of the Bible. Rubbing It In Pletsch—“You look sore, old egg. What’s wrong?" Plumb—“l am sore. You know I was in the mile run. 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