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Thursday, July 29, 1937 — ■ . 0 Sliifi 11 £IBIBS IIP* jffjj THIRD INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS: A card game is in session in Elmer Henderson's penthouse atop a New York sky scraper. The players are: Hender son, Police Inspector, Flaherty, Martin Frazier, Archie Doane, Max Michaelis and his friend, Williams, a stockbroker. They are waiting for Stephen Fitzgerald. When he fails to ap pear, a telephone calls bring the information that he is out with a girl. Fitzgerald and Henderson are both romantically interested in Lydia Lane, the famous act ress, but Archie Doane reveals i that she is engaged to marry him. Doane leaves the party early when Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short time later he telephones In spector Flaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzger ald and Miss Lane dead in Lydia Lane's penthouse apartment. "I wish you'd phone me, Fra zier, as soon as you find out more about it," Henderson requested. "You understand my curiosity? Will you let me know? I'll be waiting for word from you." "IH do that, gladly, old man. I'll tell you as much as Dan Fla herty will let me tell. He's the boss." ( "That's all right," grunted the policeman. "We'll give you a ring. Come on. Max. Come on, Frazier. Going now, Mr. Williams, or stay ing here?" a u,na*" lUtlfms * y |l" After diving from an airplane, V Harold Parkhurst is shown horo beforo he opened his parachute T tvs&i *' s Harold Parkhurst, parachute \ jumper, plummets earthward in a thrilling delayed jump. dA Hppt : ij He says about his cigarette: y "Camels give mildness a new .xXy meaning.They never jangle my nerves." Don't forget that - are m a^e from— , *-—■■■- , J~-~ -• Perfection On Ice "OEGARDLESS of season, weather or demand ■*• •• • your SCHLITZ is always fully aged: the finest, most refreshing, wholesome, and full-flavored beer that men and science brew. Be sure your refrigerator is stocked with delicious SCHLITZ. You don't have to cultivate a taste for it. You like it on first acquaintance . . . and ever after. JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY \ Milwaukee, Wis. Cfrrfrbt >917, Jm t*m» Bry»l M C»—a» iiwmwiiiyiiiiMiiiimiiiiiiiiiwiiimiiiwiw They had settled their poker winnings and losses while waiting and all moved toward the eleva tor. Williams glanced again at Henderson. "You're sure you, don't want me to stay with you?" he asked. "Sure," replied Henderson forc ing a smile. ''You're good to offer it." "By the way, Mr. Henderson, have you got a flask, or can you spare a bottle of that Scotch?" asked Max Michaelis. "Archie may need it. I would in his situ ation." "Certainly. Take this bottle. It's nearly full," said the inventor. Warned" by Inspector Flaherty, the little group of four said noth ing about their errand in the presence of the night elevator man and doorman of the Highart building. Williams said goodnight at the door and started off on foot through the three inches of fluf fy snow. The others had but a few minutes to wait before a big sedan with the Police Department shield on the radiator and a brass buttoned policeman driving, pull ed up before the door. Not until they were inside the car did any of them speak. Dan Flaherty was first to break the silence. "This looks like a tough case, Max," he said. "Sort of thing makes a policeman wish he didn't have any friends." "Jumping to conclusions, Dan, as usual?" asked Michaelis. "You THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA talk as if you thought Archie did it." "Suppose he did," retorted the Inspector. "I've got to bear down on him harder than I would if I'd never known him; the best I can do I'll be accused of trying to shield a friend." "I get you," agreed Michaelis, "but let me remind you that his calling you up was the act of an innocent man. He didn't have to do it. For all we know now, he could have slipped away and said nothing." "But his asking for you is the act of a man who realizes that circumstances look bad for him," countered Dan Flaherty. "Agreed," said Max Michaelis. "And I realize your position, Dan." "I don't need to tell you that I'll play fair in anything relating to Archie," growled the Inspector, "and I'll be glad to have your help. Max. You know that." "Even then, we've got a person al interest, all of us, in finding out who killed Fitz," Max Mi chaelis reminded them. "Our first concern must be for the living, but we must not forget our duty to avenge the dead. "All right, Dan, I wish you'd tell me just what Archie said to you over the phone," Michael is responded, as the car halted for the stream of after-theatre traf fic going up Seventh Avenue into Central Park, its progress slowed up by the fleet of scrapers and trucks of the snow-removal gang, already on the job. "What's the starting point? How did he come to be at Miss Lane's rooms? Did he explain that?" "Yes," replied the Inspector. "He said that he went to his own rooms when he left the game and had been there only, a few minu tes when his telephone rang and Miss Lan£, apparently greatly ex cited, asked him to come at once. Something terrible had happen ed, she said. He got on answer at her door. Got in through some sort of back entrance—he knew his way about there—and found Fritz and the girl both dead— shot. "Said he had done" nothing be fore phoning me except to take a quick look around the apart ment to see if anybody was hid ing there, and that was all he said." "That fixes the time of the shooting pretty closely, then," was Michaelis' comment. "Archie left us about ten-thirty, perhaps a few minutes later. He phoned you about eleven-twenty-five. Give him twenty minutes to get here, another five to look around, and he must have been talking to Miss j Lane just about eleven o'clock. She, at least, was alive then. If the 'Something terrible' which she said had happened was the shoot ing of Fitzgerald, then that must have occurred Just before that. It's a quarter of twelve now. Whatever happened must have occurred within the last forty-five minutes." "If he's telling the truth," growled Dan Flaherty. "I can't make any other as sumption," replied Michaelis. "One thing we've got to remem ber," said Martin Frazier, as the car pulled up in front of Num ber 213 West Fifty-ninth, "is that Archie Doane is an actor. A good actor, trained to simulate emo tions which he does not feel, to wear a mask at will." "A point well taken, which is offset by the fact that when he does feel emotions he has diffi culty in hiding them," comment ed Michaelis. "We have only to think of his evident distrait dur ing the game this evening to re alize that." ■ Another Police Department car . was standing at the curb in front ' of the converted dwelling in which 1 Lydia Lane had her apartment, i and a uniformed policeman, on , guard at the door, saluted Inspec • tor Flaherty as he and his two companions alighted. "Medical examiner got here : yet?" asked the inspector. "Five minutes ago, with three ; plain-clothesmen," replied the po , liceman. "Is this the only entrance to the building?" 1 "Except the trap door from ' the cellar, and that's right here in front," the policeman answer ■ ed. "Nobody's been in or out since I got here." > "Let 'em in if you're satisfied they live in the building and have been out all evening," the inspec tor instructed him, "but take their apartment numbers in case I want to talk to them. If anybody wants to go out, send up to the pent house apartment for me. Where's the Janitor?" "I haven't seen him. I think he has a room in the cellar." "Better ring for him and keep him around to run errands for you," said Flaherty. "Any hall boys or elevator attendants?" "No; it's an automatic elevator. One of these push-button ones." The building had once been a rather pretentious mansion, which had been remodelled, after the New York fashion, into small suites. It stood between two tow ering new apartment houses, over looking Central Park. Yet, like most buildings of its type, it was tenanted at high rentals by those who preferred privacy and com modious rooms to the outward gorgeousness and cramped living quarters of the ordinary apart ment. It was clear enough at a glance that an intruder might find little difficulty in entering and leaving unobserved. There was not much room for Max Michaelis and Martin Fra zier after Dan Flaherty had in serted his bulky form into the tiny elevator. The inspector press ed the upper button and the cage ascended, to stop at a landing on the top of the building, five stor ies up. The elevator door opened upon a sky-lighted lobby, from which the stairs descended. To their ieft, as they stepped out of the cage, there was a door which apparently gave access to the flat roof; to the right, a door on which a small brass plate bore the name of Lydia Lane. Inspector Flaherty rang the bell and the door was opened by a tall, dark young man who bore none of the customary earmarks of the police. However Flaherty soon dissipated this idea in the way in which he addressed the fellow. "Hello, Tony," said the inspec tor. "What does it look like?" "Hello, Chief," was Detective Martinelli's response. "I don't know enough yet to make any thing of it. It looks bad ..." he glanced over his shoulder and lowered his voice as he spoke, " . . it looks bad for Mr. Doane." "Where's the Medical Examin er? What does he say?" Inspector Flaherty demanded, as he and his companions pushed through the door and into a square foyer from which other doors gave at opposite ends. One of these doors opened as he spoke and the Med ical Examiner himself came out. He reached for the telephone on a stand between the doors. "The girl's alive!" he said. "I'm going to call an ambulance." The penthouse apartment in which Lydia Lane lived consisted of a large studio on the north front of the building, overlooking Central Park, a smaller but still commodious bedroom on the sou therly side, connected with the studio both through the entrance foyer and by a dressing room which opened into both rooms, off which was a bathroom. Also open ing off the foyer, at the rear, was a little kitchenette with a tiny room for a maidservant adjoin ing. At the front, the structure, real ly a bungalow built on the roof, was set back some six or seven feet from the cornice, making a little roof garden on which French doors gave entrance. At the rear there was a much larger roof expanse, riinning back per haps twenty-five feet, where an L-shaped extension had been con structed. The windows of the bed room, the kitchenette and the maid's room opened upon this part of the roof, and there was another French door' leading from the bedroom directly to the roof. To give the Janitor access to the roof and as a means of exit for tenants below in case of fire, another door, on the opposite side of the elevator shaft, opened froni the elevator and stair land ing on to a narrow passage which led also to the rear roof garden of Miss Lane's apartment. And up the side of the elevator shaft ran a vertical iron ladder, for the use of workmen in making repairs to the elevator machinery or the roof of the penthouse itself. At the rear of the roof extension which formed Miss Lane's roof garden an iron fire escape ladder led down to a courtyard. There were windows only on the front and back of the apartment. On both sides the building was hemmed in by the windowleSs side walls of the adjoining structures, which rose fifty feet or more above the roof of the little house. All of this was not, of course, immediately clear to Inspector Flaherty and his companions. Their first concern was with the facts, and with Archie Doane. They followed Detective Marti nelli into the bedroom while the Medical Examiner was telephon ing to Roosevelt Hospital. Smoke from the police camera man's flashlight was oozing out of a window which had been low ered from the top, and the first sensation of the new arrivals was the acrid odor of magnesium pow der. Stretched on a chaise lounge in thp farther corner of the room lay the body of Lydia Lane. She was attired in a flowered silk kimono, which had been partly pulled or thrown aside, revealing the dain ty silken lingerie beneath. The face whose pure profile had I made her the darling of the. screen was as beautiful in its white wax (iness as when the pulses of life had colored it. Her boyishly-crop ped golden hair seemed dark by contrast. One bared arm hung limply over the edge of the couch, its whiteness marred by a dark streak which began at a blue-bordedred hole midway between elbow and shoulder and coursed down to the ends of the tapering fingers which touched, it seemed almost caress ingly, the face of the man who lay on the floor in a crumpled, disorderly heap. Continued Next Issue NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION NORTH CAROLINA, SURRY COUNTY. John D. Lewis, Assignee, Elkin National Bank vs. John Park and Ruth Park. In the Superior Court By virtue of an execution di rected to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Surry coun ty in the above-entitled action, I will, on Monday, 16th day of Au gust, 1937, at 12 o'clock noon, at the courthouse door of said coun ty, sell to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy said execution, all the right, title and interest which the said John Park and Ruth Park, the defendants, have in the following described real estate, to-wit: BEGINNING at an iron in East margin of Gwyn Avenue; rims south 21-30 degrees east 58-4 feet to a point in same; thence north 55-30 degrees east 175 feet to a point in old line; thence north 21-30 degrees west 58-4 feet to an iron old corner; thence south 55-30 degrees west 175 feet to the BEGINNING. The judgment is in the sum of $1750.00, with interest and costs of court. This 13th day of July, 1937. H. S. BOYD, Sheriff of Surry County, N. C. By W. J. Snow, Deputy 8-5 Sheriff. "NOTICE State of North Carolina, County of Surry. In The Superior Court The Federal Land Bank of Co lumbia, Plaintiff, Vs. P. G. Scott and others, Defend ants. H. W. Beecher, defendant, ip the above entitled action, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Surry County to foreclose a certain mortgage on real estate situated in said Coun ty, executed by P. G. Scott and wife, Delia Scott, in favor of the plaintiff and to secure a judg ment for the balance due on the note secured by the said mort gage and costs, said mortgage bearing date of July 27, 1923, re corded in Book 91, at page 56, rec ords of said county; and said de fendant will further take notice that he is required to appear within 30 days after the comple tion of the service of summons by publication, before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Surry Coun ty, at his office in Dobeon, North Carolina, and answer or demur to the complaint which has been fi led in the office of the said Clerk, or the relief demanded therein will be granted. This the 16th day of July, 1937. F. T. LLEWELLYN, Clerk of the Superior 8-12 Court. SUGAR 10 Ifto Pounds tJv V Pounds sl-25 Modern Food Store Phones 89—309 BIGGER AND BETTER Values! A & Z STORE MID-SUMMER DISPOSAL SALE CONTINUES! Every item in this large stock of Dry Goods, Clothing*, Shoes for all the family, at new low prices. All summer stock must and will be sold regardless of for mer prices! f LADIES'SILK DRESSES Sheers—Laces Full Fashioned SILK HOSE Sheer Dress Voiles Batiste Ladies' Rayon Ladies' Voile One Table * «t S E S DRESS GOODS Value $1.94 97 c 12 c yard Shoes For All sHffil ™ eF Men's 1 shirts- £/+> / SHORTS J Men's Pre- J- , Shrunk ttAirritifmiAro wash NOVELTY SHOES Pants a i in 7gjc $1.49 Men's Children's ■Mf Dress oTfords Y Oxfords |LOO Value ■N: $1.64 79 c ■Hrl Men's ■H k I, WORK SHIRTS ■ Triple stitched, full cut and roomy. Boys' Overalls OVERALLS Sizes 4-16 Full Cut jm $1.25 Value 49C j 51.07 A&Z STORE MAIN STREET FXKW, N. C.
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