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C. H. Finch Rites Hold I Funeral services for Clifton II Fili'.h. vvhi. died of s 11 t'l'< . 111 > >11 early! yesterday morning when his bed | caught fire and burned, were held j at Mt. Carmel Methodist church this' afternoon at 4 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Paul Carruth, pastor. Inter ment was in the family cemetery : about one mile from the church. Active pallbearers were Willis Blacl.tiall, Horsey Evans, Stewart Finch, Clyde Fii.· h. Cari.md («reen way and J. P. Mamm. Honorary. Ben Brown, .fames Is lington, Raymond Marslon, Ciiiw lird Daniel, Bill llight. Blaiuiic Hight, Dr. R. T. Upchurch, George llolden. Jack Parks. H irace Robin son, VV. O. Ellis. Willie Kittrell, Asa Wright, A. M Wjrne, Bert Moore. Fred Royster, C. D. Rose, C. M. Might, C. B. Finch, .Jr.. J. M. Baity, Frank Wortham. A. A. Bunn, 0. Badger Harris. Kmmett Mitchell. W. T. Hearne, S. W. Knutt. Harold Stone, E. O. Falkner, C. .1 Fk»mir<".. I Harold Anderson, Andrew Finch, B. ' M. Rowland, Arnold Harris and C. 1 C. Shaw. A host cf friends attended the sirvices ; ι :d many floral tributes were offered. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jewel Mundy Finch: three brothers, three sisters, a number ol niece, and '■"nhews. and his mother. GRAY Thumb-Wheel LIGHTER $1-50 „ __ Handsome, post-war styles in lighters are now available for your selection! New features: New Desiii s! Ioeal gifts. Select now from our outstanding collection — You're sure ti find the lmhter yuu want! LOUGHLIN GOODWYN Jewelers CHAPTER FOURTEEN FOI .L Y REMAINED stubborn and kc.pt twittering about his "hon or as a gentleman" and "discre tion." and ended, with more ':rm ness than I'd given him credit for: "I am deeply distressed that one of my best clients has been mur dered, almost et my door. L!ut I refuse to be dragged deeper Into tills crime. I won't say another word, no matter what you do to me. Please let me go baclc to my !i[ artment. I do not feel very vvelL" "In a little while," the inspector promised. "After you've had a last look at the deceased. Seeing you knew her so well I should think you'd want to." The prospect made Polly shake with horror. "No! Please! I'd rather not!" he assured his tormentor. "Is she still—In there?" He cocked his head in the direc tion of the g-uest room when he asked the question. And Inspector Barry answered: "No. in there!" jerking his thumb toward Neal's room and grabbing poor little Pol ly's arm with his other hand at the same time. "Come along, say good by to your late customer." Polly came along. But only be cause he couldn't help it. Dragging his feet like an unwilling child, he protested: "But 1 don't want to see her!" And: "Yon are taking me to Mademoiselle Tarrant's room. Why? Madame Ingalls couldn't have been kil'?d in there, why should she?" "That's w' at we all would like to know," inspector Barry threw the door wide. "Remove the sheet," he told a policeman stationed in side. Hunt and I had followed him, and the four of us stood silently looking at the dead Margot, who was si.il! clutching the rose-colored pillow. Polly made a choking sound and crossed himself. "How was she killed?" he gulped out at last. "Stabbed with a paper knife from the desk there," the inspec tor saiil tersely. "But—but there isn't any blood." "Happens that way sometimes. Internal bleeding," Hunt vouch safed, a shade less coldly than be fore. "Oh! . . . And why is she hold ing that pillow?" Polly was asking all the ques tions that were puzzling me. "A c c i d e η t," the inspector shrugged. "Must have grabbed it in falling. They'll pull it out of her hand when they—cr—take her away." Grabbed at the pillow in falling? My eyes went to the bed-divan with its heaps of cushions. Neal didn't like rose. That's whv she haft given me ore of the deep rose pil lows. and kept the oilier hidden— well hidden way back in a corner. To my intense relief Inspector Hairy h id no immediate chance of taking up his "comfortable talk" with me η pa in after Polly, and with hin the remaining press, had left. First, poor Margot's body was being removed. Then Hunt pro duced Claire, who went Into a graphic recital of the murdered woman's past, which led to much jotting down of addresses, facts and approximate dates by Mullins. And later, just as I thought I was in for it again. Dirk arrived, sur prisingly. accompanied by his fa ther. The old gentleman was in a tow ering rage and quite plainly re garded Margot Ingalls' murder as a direct attack against the exist ence of his expected grandchild. Anyway, he demanded no less than complète suppression of all public ity concerning it, and came near having apoplexy when the inspec tor Informed him calmly that the press had already been there and gone, and the violent end of the popular authoress would most like ly be headlined in the afternoon papers. In the end his wrath turned against me. It was all my fault. The sister of his son's wife had no business to live, all hy herself, in this mis erable tenement without doorman or elevator attendant, where any one could walk in from the street and murder people. "I won't allow it any longer," he stormed at me. 'Tack your things and come out to Elmpoint with us. At once! And stay there till this incredible scandal blows over. "I'll throw a cordon of guards around the estate. I won't let a newspaper or a reporter through it," he promised the inspector, and then threatened me: "And I'll kill you, so help me, if you breathe a word about all this to Dita." After a good half hour of rav ing he calmed down and listened to reason. The outcome was the de cision that Dick should return to Elmpoint at once, break the news to Dita as gently as possible, and induce her to call me on the phone, so that I could take over his good work by acting cheerful and un concerned. My leaving town and hiding out in Elmpoint was, of course, out of the question. The police needed me, Inspector Barry and Hunt assured the worried old gentleman. However, they shared his objec tion to my staying in the apart ment alone with Kosn, and greeted with entl:"..;i;usm Claire's offer to move in '■·.■"· guest room, as soon aa the police were through ran sacking Murgot's possession* for evidence. Also, they atroce! that the house service, as it was now, didn't afford sufficient protection. Inspector Barry promised that, from this hour on, no one would be able to enter, or leave, the Lincolns fleld without the knowledge of the law. Tho premises were to be watched, In three shifts, the clock around and, to make the presence of tho police less obvious, door men's uniforms were to be procured for the watchcrs. At the expense of Richard Pearce, Sr. After all this had been decided, Dick, his father. Inspecte Barry and Hunt all left In a bunch, and Claire and I sat down before the fireplace, too exhausted to utter a word, until, after a while, Rcca came in to inquire if we wanted our lunch in the dining room or to have it brought to us on a tray. Talking of food, after the trag edy of the morning, actually seemed a little indecent. But the very word "lunch" had a reviving effect and soon we were eating. Afterwards, when Rosa had re moved the trays, we both kicked off our shoes and curled up—Claire on the sofa, I in the deep chair op posite it, trying to relax and rest up for the next instalment of the inquisition, which was sure to come in the afternoon. "Nice, refined way to torture, our police system," Claire said drowsi ly. "Did you break down and tell all while I was dinning into the boys what they ought to write about Margot?" "I did not," I boasted. "Hell and high water won't make me hand Deanc over to them. And neither will Hunt Berwick." "Hm, yes. Hunt. Appropriate name the lt d has," Claire yawned.: "Also a swell physique and a face you'd love to touch." It sounded funny from Claire. "I'm surprised! YOU falling for our [psychological sleuth!" I teased her with a weak chuckle, and then, ashamed of being amused by any thing under the circumstances, cud-, died deeper into my chair in search of the ideal position. Something cracklcd as I moved. I put my hand down between the loose cushion and the back of the chair to see what had made the sound, and suddenly sat up straight, my stockinged feet on the floor and every trace of drowsiness gone. In my hand was a thin sheaf of letters, held together by an ordi nary rubber band. Letters in Mar got Ingalls' familiar hand, written on her equally familiar thin, Eti/fi notppaper. (To Be Continued) Those putt-war planners ought (u do something about extending the strawberry phi rtrake season. 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Ad ditional wiring, bathroi m improve ment.- and new electrical equipment for the c. unty's 1.741 farm and rural homes already served with electricity will be included, it was said. Running water, tiled bathrooms and repli o:ncnt o: outmoded plumb ι g lixUires head the list cl most wanted !';,nn home features. D. P. Korst, chairman of the council's res idential ton.stnictitni α mmittee, re \ t.!led. One in five farm families throughout the nation plan bathroom improvements, he said. Expenditures in the county will be part of a $66,397,000 program to be undertaken by North Carolina farm ;rd rural home owners in the next five years, the study revealed. An estimated $2,294,900,000 on sim ilar impn vements to present elec tric service will be spent in the na tion during the period, it was indi cated. Star Pitcher Bobby Feller has re ceived an offer of $300,000 from the Mexican league. Is that greenbacks or dollars Mex? 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