The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1931, Page 6

MEBBE IM DENSE, BUT I CANT SEE THAT GERTRUDES HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR/ SYNOPSIS: Who murder- cus hand scnt a cione image fatally craching on Annabelle Querdling in her Dutch gar- den? Was it the writer of the @diath (hreats the spinster had tcdeived? Jimmie Haswell, whtm Evelyn Blake, Miss Querdling’s niece, consulted pre- viouc'y, is aiding the police in the cace. Suspects inelude the chauffeur who has been given crders to leave, and Joe Al- Ien, a discharged gardener. Evclyn's vister, Marjoric, tells he he found her aunt dead a few minutes after che and a fricrd, Dr. Netherton, had con- veiced with her in the garden. Evdyn and Lionel Duckworth, her lover, say they were in the mucic rocm singing when Mar- jorie reported the tragedy. Maj- ¢r Gresham in the garden aft- er the tragedy, does not catis- fy the cuperintendent regard- frg hic aections during the quartr hour preceding it. Chapter 7 SHATTERED ROMANCE “This is insolent,” fumed the major as Richmond indicated that his evasion was unsatisfactory Suddenly the major stopped short | and glared through his monocle. Then he started abruptly. “Very well, T'll tell you Miss Querdling had been a friend of mine for years and twice a weck 1 called on her. Last Tuesday I asked her to marry me” His glare at Jimmie brought only an encouraging nod. “She declined. I took her refusal “That's a lie,” shoute as a gentleman should . Then, last night, I started to walk over, al- though I was uncertain what to say to her. I suppose I walked slowly for that reason. It was deyilish difficult.” “Then,” said Superintendent Richmond, “that is the reason you waitéd on the lawn and did not go straight to the Dutch garden?” “It is. Now, poor soul, she i5 d@ead;” His voice dropped. “If I was reluctant to tell you, even in con- fidence, you will appreciate my reason.” Richmond again asked the major if hé had seen anyone in the gar- den. A negative answer made the question more specific. “Did you, for instance, see woman passing near the house, I mean, before Marjorie sed?” “No, I saw nobody." The major glared in the manner as he left the room Richmond grinned. proposing to Miss Querdling” He told Constable Roscoe to summon Qbe chauffeur. “If anyone here did it, he seems the most likely,” he old €xplained, but at Jimmie's sugges- | tion he decided to question the maid, Janet. “Pretty Janet Raynes, made ner- ¥ous by the circumstances, was put in a defensive attitude by the superintendent’s severity. She had been Miss Querdling’s parlormaid for eighteen months and had gone but of the house for only a short :fi gone near the Dutch garden. he said that on the night before : ‘had been only one caller, Mr, and that Miss Marjorie told her to take some coffec | hifn and her sister in the young “Faney his | “on the night before, but had | I CAL AN’ HER ADORABLE ladies’ room. “I left the coffee and| went out.” “Singing, n't they?” She| nodded and Jimmie continued. “Did you go to the garden?” | 'No, sir, not at first. The doc- tor came. He went out with stsK Marjorie.” “And you followed, or"-noting |her hesitancy—"did you listen to |the singing? Mr. Duckworth sings well, doesn't he?” She looked a little confused. “Yes sir. He sings beautiful. I did {listen for a few minutes.” “What was he singing?” “I don't know. It's that song | where he and the girl ride across| the desert. You can hear the {horse galloping.” | “I know,” laughed Jimmie. “A) lsong called “To the Desert” What |did you do then?” | Janet said that she had gone [out to tell Ted Green, the chauffeur tabout the song, but that he was Inot at the garage. “All right,” said Jimmie serious- {ly. “The first time you went to the garage Ted wasn't there. So you went back to the house. What was the song this time?” Janet went rather red. “They were doing the same one over in.” Then you went back to the gar- and found Ted. Is that right?” She said that it was and that |she had not asked him where he |had been when she first called. After lingering a few minutes she explained that she had gone back |to the house. “What was the song this time?” d Green at Richmond. Jimmie put in. “He was still singing, but—" The girl looked doubtful. It was about ‘Roses in September’.” “I know it. What then?” “They started another song and stopped suddenly. Miss Marjorie had come. She said something about Aunt Annabelle and an ac- eident. Bo I went and told Hetty. Then we heard all about it.” Ted, the chauffeur, she said, had received notice from Miss Querdling because he and Janet planned to marry. “You—neither of you ever ) thought of punishing her for what {she had done?” “No, sir. She was Miss Quer- dling.” The tone implied re- spect. She withdrew when the superintendent indicated he had happened | |no more questions to ask. Before going out to the garage to see the chauffeur, they questioned |the housemaid, Hetty Smith. She had attended to the bedrooms and (had spent the rest of the evening reading in the kitchen. She had heard the singing, but had seen no one, Ted Green, a big, dark fellow, said that on the evening before he |had been busy overhauling the ear. Richmond asked if he had been working all evening, and upon his |repeating that he had, aroused his |ire by saying, “Think again. I |say you were not.” “That's a lie,” shouted Green. |“No one came until T was wanted |to fetch the doctor.” When Rich- mond insisted that some one had come for him and he had been ab- sent, he corrected himself. “I was ‘hem every minute except when I HUMOROUS? @DTIC! DONTCHA UNDERSTAND THAT'S ONLY SARCASM!! ITS A ACT! LSIT RECOMMENDED Sale to Private Communi- cation Enterprise Is Advocated a private communication enterprise has been recommended to Presi- dent Hoover by the Inter-Depart- ment Commission studying elim- ination of duplication of communi- cation systems of the Govern- ment. Recommendations contemplate closing of twelve radio stations belonging to both the Army and Navy. T The commission said if the rec- ommendation is adopted it would save millions of dollars ‘annually. Col. Frank Griffin, in charge of the Alaska Cable in Seattle, said steps have already been taken to eliminate duplication and further said the Army has taken over com- munications at Sitka and the Navy station there has been closed. The Army is completing a station =t Kodiak where the Navy station will be closed. Whether private companies have attempted to purchase the Alaska Cable is not verified. went to the cottage to get a ham- mer Ben had borrowed.” “So you admit you were not there all the time. What threatening language did you use to Miss Querdling?” Richmond asked. “I didn't threaten. I only said, if she wanted to prevert folk mar- rying, she was a meddlesome old going for the doctor he followed the footpath just inside the lin| He hesitated momentarily as Jim- mie asked whether he had seen anyone. “No, but there was a car off the path just inside the links.” “Another car!” exclaimed Rich- mond. “Whose could it have been?” (Copyright, 1930, J. B. 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