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l? SEPTEMBER 16, 1937 3- y KKiHTII INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS: A card game is in session in Elmer Henderson's penthouse atop a New York skyscraper. The players are: Henderson, Police Inspector Flaherty, Martin Frazier, Archie Doane, Max Michaelis and his fried Williams, a stockbroker. Tliey are waiting for Stephen Fitzgerald. When he fails to ap pear, a telephone call brings the j information that he is out with a j girl. Fitzgerald and Henderson I are both romantically interested in j Lydia Lane, the famous astress, | but Archie Doane reveals that she { is engaged to marry mm. j Doane leaves the party early ' when Fitzgerald fails to appear. A , short time later he telephones In- j spector Flaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzgerald , and Miss Lane dead in Lydia : Lane's penthouse apartment. When Flaherty and the medical examiner reach the apartment j they find that Miss Lane is still [ alive. She is rushed to a hospital i where blood transfusions and care promise to restore her. All circumstantial evidence points to Archie Doane as the murderer, ; especially when the murder gun is found carefully planted in the ] chimney clean-out in the basement, j "Tony/' he went on, addressing j Detective Marlinelli, "go down and bring the janitor up here. He can tell whether anyone went to the basement tonight unless he's in this himself. He might have a set of keys to every apartment in the house.'* "But hardly either a motive for this shooting or the opportunity to ^ purloin this pistol from the Highart Studios," remarked Micliaclis. "And that suggests to me that we have been overlooking a possibility. Where is Miss Lane's maid? Who is she? Does she usually stay out all night on Saturday night? When did she go out, if anybody knows? Where dne<s ?lir? or? W'Vir?n cViii iwno Ant ?" Worth looking into, Dan?'* "You bet that's worth looking into,'' replied the inspector. "Archie, you must know something about her. What "do you say?" "She's a French girl named Adele / ?I don't remember her last name, if I ever heard it. She had been with Miss Lane for. three or four years, I believe. She acts as her personal maid as well as looking after the apartment here." "Accompanies her to the Highart Studios, does she?" asked Michaelis. "Yes, nearly always. She serves as Miss Lane's dresser." "She could have got possession of this revolver, would you say?" f"Yes. there is no doubt that she could. She is on friendly terms with everybody at the studio and has the run of .the place." "Has she been at the studio since you last saw this revolver?last Thursday, you said it was?" "Yes, Miss Lane plays opposite me i in the film we are now making, and [ we were working until Friday night. Adele was with her on Friday, I am sure." "Was there any suggestion, at any time, of any animosity between Miss Lane and Adele ?" ' "No more than between Miss Lane and myself, so far as I know. The maid seemed devoted to her mistress.'1 "Is she temperamental?Adele, 1 mean ? Quick tempered ? Easily offended? The type that might do violent things under the stress of sudden rage?"' "You are asking for an opinion. Max," Inspector Flaherty interrupt- i ed. "Let him tell any facts that j might have a bearing on your question." ; "I yield to the police on a point of law," replied Miehaelis, smiling. "What about it, Archie?" "She threatened to shoot Fitz, once, if he didn't stop pestering her," replied Doane. "You know how he was?with women. He laughed it off. but he kept out of Adele's way after that." "I>id vou see or bear tbflt Incident yourself?" asked the lawyer. "No; but it was generally gossiped around the studio." "I suggest again, Dan, that you ought to find this girl Adele," said Michaelis. "You can conceive, as pAW-AIN'T^ THE YOU THROUG TAMNG TH HOUSE IpiCTUR^ET OF HAZARDS /IW Mac Arthur * ' '1 IPIlPiii!! ^gfrnn"'43iDa'a?: iTqjjp^ = T well as I, a situation something like: { this: i "Miss Lane comes home?never mind the time when she comes in. j now. Her maid is out for the even- ( ing, as usual on Saturdays. Fitz- ] gerald calls. Miss Lane, in negligee ] j ?her outer garments on the chair j where we found them, because she j | is not accustomed to hanging up her , own things?admits him, thinking ;, perhaps that it is Archie, or her j ^ maid coming back. He has learned { of her promise to marry Doane and , is furious. i "They quarrel violently. Adele. ] who perhaps is really afraid of Fitz ( n ...1 fo Unn iV.? niof/.l t?j ) the property rooms at the studio for 3 self-defense, comes in and misinterprets their altercation?or perhaps , interprets correctly Fitz's intentions . toward her mistress. She obtains the pistol from the place where she had concealed it, fires at Fitz and. missing him, wounds Miss Lane, j, Fitz rushes to take the gun from Wer?he was no coward?and she sheets him through the heart as he | overtakes her in the hall by the \ telephone stand. "What would a servant naturally do, then, in a panic ? She would j call for help, hide the pistol and van- j ish. Where would a servant naturally think of hiding a revolver? In the cellar. She had both keys to the \, apartment. She could slip down the cellar without being noticed: . "Archie," he went on, suddenly , turning to Doane, "are you sure it was Miss Lane's voice you heard i over the telephone? It could not | have been that of Adele. by any i. chance?'' !, "I was sure at the time," replied' Doane slowly. "I hadn't thought of j any other possibility. Now, on re- j, flection, I am still sure. Adele's i voice and Miss Lane's are in the j same register, but there are over- j tones which make them distinctly : different to one who knows them both. It was Lydia's voice." "Sure of that?" persisted Michaelis. "Voices arc distorted over the telephone, unless they are strongly marked, you know. How did the woman who called you address you? As "Archie" or as "Mr. Doane?'" "Neither," said Doane. "When T answer the phone I always say: 'Archie Doane speaking,' so there , was no need for anyone to ask who T was. It was Miss Lane's voice. I full sure of that. Besides, Adele would not have used the same phraseology." "She might have mimicked her mistress* voice, though. Had you thought of that ? Do you know whether she had any talent in that direction ?" "She had been on the stage, I believe," said Doane. "I hadn't thought of that." "What were the words she?who ever called you?used ? Tell us again, I won't you? You remember the ex- i act language?" "Yes, I remember it exactly. In j my profession, you know, one has to j cultivate a verbatim memory. The | words were: " 'Come quickly! Hurry! Something terrible has happened!" Then there was a loud scream, and nothing more." "Why do you say that Adelc would have not used that phraseology?" asked Inspector Flaherty. "Because the words were an exact quotation from Miss Lane's part in the talking picture we are making." was Doane's reply. "Adele might have heard them, but she would not use them as the first words to spring to her mind under stress. It would be natural for Lydia to have done that, as that part of the picture was rehearsed many times. All actors fall into the habit of quoting from : East Tennessee & Western North CnroJina Mofnr Transnnrfntion : Company. j Buses leave Boone for Johnson City, Knoxville, Chattanooga, all Alabama and Western States points at 7:30 a.m.; 12:20 p.m.; and 9:05 p.m. Leave Boone tor Lenoir, Hickory, Statesville, Salisbury, Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington and all South Carolina, Georgia and Florida points at 8:25 a. m.; 1:10 p. m.; and 5:10 p. m. For further information call bus station?Phone 45. E. T. .t V. N. C. TRANSPORTATION COMPANY /just waih.l 1 find akctheri hj ( book to raise the camera- c 1 now what did i do with that r ?) [film pack? ? WATAUGA DEMOCRAT-EVE! heir parts in ordinary conversation: t's subconscious with them." "St i!! I see something in Max's j dea," said the inspector. "Has Tony ! :ome up with the janitor yet? Tony! | Bring your man in here and take j some instructions. . I l want you to go through everything in the maid's room, next to the Kitchenette, and see if you can find my letters or anything which will jive a clue to her relations or associates Her name is Adele Something-or-other?French. She goes jut every Saturday and stays all r.ight. Perhaps she has a husband :>r a lover. Anyway, I want that jiri louim. gel me * i want her in i my office at?shall we say twelve j u? : .-ram now. gentlemen, to meet j in my office? Okay, Tony; two-j thirty this afternoon at Center j Street I shall be looking for you and : Adele. "Now let's see what the janitor I jays,*' he went on, as MartinclU left \ the room to begin his march for j Adele. The janitor turned out. to be a self-; possessed, middle-aged man whose; bearing suggested honesty and intel- i iigence. He saluted Inspector Fia- j herty and stood at "attention'9 as the i latter addressed him. | "Did you ever sec this gentleman ! before?" the inspector asked, indi-j mating Doane. "Yes. I've seen him coming in j and going out with Miss Lane on j many occasions." "Did you see him come in to the ! house tonight?" "Yes, I was sweeping the sidewalk after the snow had stopped when the gentleman drove up in a taxi. He seemed in a great hurry. He pushed the bell button for one of the apartments?I suppose for Miss Lane's?several times, then tried the front door. I don't know whether Miss Lane had pressed the button in her apartment which releases the front door latch, or not. It wasn't necessary, as it happened, because I had come out without my keys and set the night latch so that I could get in without trouble. The gentleman Mr . Doane??went in and I did not see him again." "He did not go to the cellar at any time tonight?" asked the inspector. "Not unless he went there immediately on entering the house," was the reply. "I went in not more than a minute or two behind him. fastNOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Under and by virtue of authority contained in a certain deed of trust executed by Charles L. Youncc and wife, to the North Carolina Bank and Trust Company, trustee, on the 20th day of November, 1931, recorded in Book 16, page 336, registry of Watauga County North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby, 'he undersigned commissioner of Banks, having succeeded to the rights and duties of the said trustee, will offer for sale, at public auction, for cash, in front of the Watauga County courthouse door on Tuesday, Sonf ombfir 21st. 1flS7 ?t KvpIup ! o'clock noon, certain, pieces of lan<l lying and being in Boone township, Watauga County. State of North Carolina, and described and defined as follows: All of three certain lots or tracts of land lying and being in the town of Boone, N. C., and being known as Lots J, 2 and 3 of Buena Vista Addition of the town of Boone, N. C., having such shapes, metes, courses, and distances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof made by L. A. Bunigarner, surveyor, on the 15th day of October, 1931, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning on a stake at the intersection of North Street and Carolina Avenue and on the northwest side of North Street and runs north 27 east 150 feet to an alley; then with said aliey north 51 we3t 150 feet to a stake in Jynaluska Straet; thence with Junaluska Street south 27 west 150 feet to a stake at the intersection of Junaluska Street with Norlh Street; thence with North Street, south 51 east 150 fecet to the beginning. Dated this 19th day of August, 1937. i\ HOOlJ. ! S-26-4C Commissioner of Banks. V- HAVE PATIENCE DEAR,\ I ONLY HE6LECTED TO PUl0/-"TT7 THE SLIDE OUT ON THAT //VnlI s U6TONE. ^^ 1^00, RY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. fr.ned the front door so that only per-; ?0!is with latchkeys could eater, and; 1 '.vent down to the cellar to bank my 11 tire. I sat there waiting to close i' the drafts, until the officer you have 1 stationed ir: front called for me. No-; body came into the cellar in that J time, I ahi sure." 11 *i!." said I inspector Flahc rty.; "You stand like a soldier. Were you j ever in the army ?" "No, but I was on the force, sir. Retired for disability ten years ago. and with my pension and the wages I get here I'm managing to send a boy through college. Name's Jenkms. sir." "I'll take your statement as true, Jenkins," said the inspector. "One tiling more, do you know the girl who works for Miss Lane?Adele ?" "Adele Marceau? Very well, sir. She's a fine young woman. We get along very well together: she calls me 'Uncle,' You see, I'm French on my mother's side and I've always nau me language so she likes to j come down and tallc to me. I hope j she isn't mixed up in this terrible: affair? Is it true that Miss Lane j Will pull through "It looks that way/' the inspector : replied. "We don't know how deep\ your friend Adele may be in this, or j whether she's in it at all. Has she been in your cellar this evening, by j any chance? "Early in the evening, sir. She j came to give me a French newspa- I per. About six o'clock that would j be, or a little before Miss Lane had ! just come in, she said, and was off for the night.'' 'Did she have anything else in heir hand besides the newspaper?" "Only a hag, such as ladies carry their lipsticks and such in.'" "Was it possible that she bad revolver? You saw the one'that was found in your chimney clean-out. Could she have put that there at that time?or at any time?" the inspector demanded. ^Illlllllll!lii!!!lill!ll!lllllil!llllllllll!ll (When 1 1 1 I Ufl L this week, don't == Building and L( the details of th been enabled to EE pendent of the 1 The Watauga I EE economic storm EE pression unseat ? alinuf cafAc == know more abo =E Home ownersh == the Building an their own hom< fine way to lay the educational H other eventualil = If you are not ? H tion, let us tell ] The Home | Watai I Loai ^TT" W H rivarrrr * ~ w "55> lHllillllHIIIIiilllUlilHHIHUllHiiilHlH ! 11/HERE ARE YOU ! HAZARD-1 SEE Y AID AN l-AND LONGTIME TO s I HNAU.Y PHOTO-- ( IJ 'THEY IHEH-HEH// / WERE " N -* i M J& ^ >'rv ; 1 v f _10 j D "Tt is possible, of course, but T should say unlikely. sir," replied Jenkins. "I was getting the ash cans up to the sidewalk on the hoist when she came down, and how long she had been there T. couldn't say. Slie < stopped only a moment after I saw I her. Just gave me the paper, said j she was off to her other job." "Her other job, h? What's that?" ! "1 forger, you didn't know, sir. For that matter, even Miss Lane doesn't know. Adele was afraid she might | not like her earning the extra mon- i ey, so she Jet Miss Lane think she i had a lover. But she works in a 1 night club every Saturday night. It's their busy night, you know, and they ! put on extra attractions. She has a ; song and dance act, 1 bcliev some- j thing quite Parisian, a la Montmar ire, if you understand what that : means." "A bit off color, eh? Does she do ! this act under her real name?" (Continued Next Week) New Orleans, La.?The world's j biggest ' juuii p?ic;rir? litts uecii created ; by engineers of the Freeport Sulphur company, who have pumped more, than 4,000,000 cubic yards of mud into a sulphur mine to plug underground channels. THE REINS-STUR ASSOCIA1 TELEPHONE 24 . PROTECTION FC Joining Pen 25c Each Men As Fo] Qu; One to Ten Years ? Ten to Twenty-nine Years i Thirty to Fifty Years < Fifty to Sixty-five Years I Illlllllillil!!lll!iiliillllll!ll!!lilll!!lllillllllii Im Visit bargain I forget to call by the office >an Association and let us e plan whereby hundreds ' own their own homes an andlord. building and Loan has w? s since 1921, came throut hed, and without one bit t institution there is, and ' utit. ip becomes comparatively d Loan Plan, and many w 2S, have found some insta aside a little money eaef needs of the children later tydready a sliareholder in tl ^ou all about it. Is the Safeguard of Amei iiga Build n Associa ary Nortl IMipiliillillillillllillllllllllllllllllllll , HAPPENED A HOWDOX 70 NOT1CE ' ? !OU KNOW'? EXPRESSIONS ru AT-i ^ ON THE FAMlLT"5 ^ACES.^^, ; _______ PAGE ELEVEN ??????___________ ?h. SI .50 PACKAGE, now S1.00 SI .00 PACKAGE, now fiOc BOONE DRUG CO. The REXAIL Store Jf AUCTION SALE of LIVESTOCK EVERY WEDNESDAY Bring your stock to our market and receive the highest market price. Buyers will be on hand to buy all kinds of livestock. [starts promptly at 2 o'clock. Come | Shouns Livestock Co. Shouns, Tonn DIVANT BURIAL ION, INC. . . BOONE, N. C. >R THE FAMILY riber . . . Dues Thereafter Hows: irter Yearly Benefit 10 .40 $ 50.00 20 SO 100.00 10 1.60 100.00 30 2.40 100.00 ? Boone ( hiys | of the Watauga EE explain to you EE of citizens have EE d become inde- == iathered all the == ![h the latest de- EE of loss. It is EE we want you to EE= r easy through = ho already own H illment shares a = l month against =E on, or for some = lis great institu- == ican Liberty = ling & | ition | iwestem Bank Buldg. H iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil
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