The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1936, Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1936. BOOMIERA NG BY Acarna Curistle: SYNOPSIS: Frankie Derwent and Bobby Jones have set them- selves to find the murderer of Alan Carstairs. They thought they had found him too, in the person of Roger Bassington-ffrench. But now Moira Nicholson, wife of a doctor who runs a drug cure ncar the Bassington-french place, has given information which points toward her husband as the guilty man. Frankie is on her way to investi- gate the only really dumaging evi- dence they have against Rog the fact that a photograph of ‘Mrs. Nicholson disappeared from the victim's pocket, presumably while Roger was watching the body. Chapter 29 THE PICTURE ORTUNE fell in with Roger not far from the house. “Hullo,” he said. early from London. “I wasn’t in the mood for Lon- don,” said Frankie. “Have you been to yet?” he asked. His face grew crave. icholson, I find, has been telling Sylvia the truth about poor old Hen- ry. Poor gi e’s taken it hard. It seems she had absolutely no sus- Picion.” “I know,” were both tog when I came in. much upset.” “Look “Henry “You're back id Frankie. “They ther in the ‘ibrary She was—very here, Frankie,” said Roger. habit had a real hold on him. He hasn’t been taking it so very long—” Frankie interrupted. “Look here,” she said. “There's something I want to ask you. Just @ question. 1 hope you won't think I'm simply frightfully impertirent. “What is it?” asked Roger, his attention arrested. “Do you nd telling me whether you took a photograph out of that man’s pocket—the one who fell over the cliff at Marchtolt?” She was studying him closely, watching every detail of his expres- sion. She was satisfied with what she saw. “Now how on earth did you come to guess that?” he said. “Or did Moira tell you?—But then, she doesn’t know—' “You did then?” “I suppose I'll have to admit it.” “Why?” Roger seemed embarrassed again. “Well, look at it as 1 did. Here lam mounting guard over a strange dead body. Something is sticking out of his pocket. | look at i. By an amaz- ing coincidence its the photograph of a woman | know—a married wo- man—and a woman who | guess is not too happily married. What’s go- ing to happen? An inquest. Pub- licity. Possibly the wretched girl's name in all the papers. | acted on impulse. Took the photograph and tore it up. I dare say | acted wrong- ly, but Moira Nicholson is a nice lit- tle soul and I didn’t want her to get landed in a mess.” Frankie drew a deep breath. “So that was it,” she said. “If you only knew “Knew zled. “I don’t know that I can tell you just now,” said Frankie. later. It's all rather complicated. 1 can quite see why yon took the pho- tograph, but was there any objection jaying you recognized the man? Oughtn’t you to have told the police sho he was? “Recognized him?” said Roger. He looked bewildered. “How could f recognize him? I didu't know him.” “Alan Carstairs—you did know Alan Carstairs?” “Oh, yes. Man who came down with the Rivingtons. But the dead man wasn't Alan Carstairs.” “But he was!” what?” said Roger, puz- HE stared at each other. Then Frankie said, with a renewal of suspicion, “Surely you must have recognized him?” “I never saw his face,” “What?” “No. There spread over i Frankie stared at him. Suddenly she remembered that in Bobby's first account of the tragedy he had mentioned putting a handkerchief over the face of the dead man. “You never thought of looking?” | went on Frankie. No. Why should 1? “Of course,” thought Frankie, “if T'd found a photograph of somebody 1 knew in a dead person's pocket, 1 should simply have had to look at | the person's face. How beautifully incurious men are!” She paused for & moment. “Poor little thing,” she went on. “I’m so terribly sorry for her.” “Whom do you mean? Moira Nicholson? Why are you so sorry for her?” “Because she’s frightened,” said Frankie slowly. “She always looks half scared to said Roger. vas a handkerchief favored her, for she | the house | has absolutely got to be| cured. It isn’t as though this drug | | Wish for a doctor to hav “I may | death. But what is she frightened of?” “She's sure her husband's trying to murder her,” said Frankie abruptly. “Oh, my dear!” he protested. “Sit down,” said Frankie. “I'm go- ing to tell you a lot of things.” She gave him a clear and careful had found the bedy. She kept back only the fact that her accident had not been genuine, but she let it ap- pear that she had lingered at Merro- way Court through her intense de- sire to get to the bottom of the | mystery. “Is this really true?” he demanded, | “All this about the fellow Jones be- | ing poisoned and all that?” “Absolute gospel truth.” “Sorry for my incredulity—but the | facts do take a bit of swallowing, don’t they?” He was silent for a minute, frown- ing. “Look here,” he said at last. “Fan- tastic though the whole thing sounds, I think you must be right in | your first deduction. This man, Alex | Pritchard, or Alan Carstairs, must | have been murdered. If he wasn’t, there seems no point in the attack | upon Jones. So far that seems sense | —but I dcn’t see by what process of reasoning you fix on Nicholson as the criminal.” | “He's such a sinister man, and he’s got a dark-blue Talbot, and he was away from here on the day that Bobby was poisoned.” “That's all pretty thin as evi dence.” “There are all the things Mrs, Nicholson told Bobby.” She recited them—and once again | they sounded melodramatic and un- substantial repeated aloud against the background of the peaceful | English landscape. Rogers shrugged his shoulders. “She thinks he supplies Henry with the drug—but that’s pure con- jecture. She’s not a particle of evi- dence that he does so. She thinks he wants to get Henry to the Grange as a patient—well, that’s a very natural . A doc- nts as he can get. She thinks he’s in love with tor wants as many pat | Sylvia. Well, as to that, of course, I can’t say.” “There's her belief that he wants to murder her,” urged Frankie. pe cese looked at her quizzically. “You take that seriously?” “She believes it, anyhow.” Roger nodded and lit a cigaret, “The question is, how much atten- tion to pay that belief of hers,” he said. “It’s a creepy sort of place, the Grange, full of queer.customers, Living there would tend to upset a woman’s balance, especially if she were of the timid, nervous type.” “Then you don’t think it’s true?” “1 don’t say that. She probably be- lieves quite honestly that he is uy- ing to kill her. But is there any foun- dation in fact for that belief?” Frankie remembered with curious | clearness Moira’s saying, “It’s just nerves.” And somehow the mere fact that she had said that seemed to Frankie to point to the fact that it was not nerves; but she did not know how to explain her point of view to Roger. Meanwhile the young man was going on: “Mind you, if you could show that Nicholson had been in Marchbolt on the day of the cliff tragedy, that would be very different—or if we could find any definite motive link- ing him with Carstairs, But it seems to me you're ignoring the real sus- | pects.” “What real suspects?” “The—what did you call them— Haymans?” “Cayman: “That's it. Now, they are undoubt- edly in it up to the hilt. First, there’s the false identification of the body. Then there's their insistence on the point of whether the poor fellow said anything before he died. And I think it’s logical to assume, as you did, jthat the Buenos Aires offer came from them or was arranged for by | them.” “Oh!” cried Frankie, “I've just thought of something. Up to now, you see, I've been assuming that the Photograph of Mrs. Cayman was substituted for the one of Moira Nicholson.” “I can assure you,” said Roger, “that I have never treasured the | likeness of a Mrs. Cayman.” “Well, she was handsome in a way.” admitted Frankie. “A sort of bold, coarse, vampish way. But the point is this: Carstairs must have had her photograph on him as well as Mrs. Nieholson’s.” Roger nodded. “And you think—* 36, Agatha Christie) Events tend darkly towarg, trage edy, tomorrow. Coccccccccccoraseccocece| Today’s Horoscope} Pereccceeree~ceeeaecseeee Today produces an agitator. | In the calmer natures it will lead ; to reforms of a social character; in the more contentious it will mike a soldier, political leader, or j even an anarchist. There is an in-| cisive, sharp intellect, that may | lead to great distinction, if the ef-| fort is developed above exciting | the passions of people. KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District First Class—Fireproof— Sensible Rates Elevator Popular Prices Garage narrative of all that had occurred | since the day Bobby and Dr. Thomas {| | with Sam and Bill Malone on Sat- ; urday and had to stop because he | was all “tuckered out” for he had that he could not When asked by Bill ‘so jing doing. . | nether | Great Auk. ‘tient; some more are But let us get on with our SPORTS BY JOVE If the results tf the matches) ber one when he could have putted | as -played on Sunday are slightly | around in five. addled as you read them, do not | were allocated does not appear on! noon at 4:30 o’clock. |blame the typesetter or It seems that all of the have regions of the Dodo and But be a little pa- reader. score cards If you told you that Mr. | been taking lessons and improv- ing accordingly. that he played many hits jcount same. | what his score was he “Oh, I don’t know. hundred or si will r «you add them up.” proof-|the score card. joined the The four on their great celebrations {of the golf links. emember, it was Li Plummer had} as all Well, it seems about nine holes the fa: j ever sible and laws thrift? may, Percival’s hierogly replied, i give | me a “am Noth-, that as Hdrricane Bill says, ! Well, we did with the help of a ‘ly one with a y ICP.A. | jon play Sam and Berlin. i | | and was winner by a ‘But yesterday Mr. you anytime from the first hit the first round. how many he was and how they The | Winsome Willie Watkins, was be- . Li was his h Russell Kerr was help-} were made. cause M and Ir ing Li beat Kirchheiner. Mr. just a can do when they wish. Mr, 93 and Otto 97. discovered that Willie Mr. Plummer Irish admit that the up by which the scoring ended was} small sample of what they During the,da: among the.f Bill couple of strokes. Li could tell three hole reason, says opponent | times. | Pious William It seems! W \the winning side. |for some time This time goat went without supper. horeemen, as usual, ; had a very good match. and Kirch ever win by more ja one-point margin, jthat one point to win is as good penurious during these days when shion -is to get rid of what- u have as qui are passed against However, it is apparent from William ex-summen:pro, if ischenbaum got three, skin Eddies N but “Cubia “ties | while Doc'managed to g claims that as left out of the results of last Trish was 86; Li 90; Willie| Thursday; this because he was on the | If Willie than there will be in the vicinity But Doc admits 'B. Pinder, J. Moore, 36 and who wants to be ly as po be that it ies that the Jom bu Kin= on number 15. 17 pars were made some got a birdie on number three on! Something must have happened to that yesterday. 24 times among the playing field, the hole was parred In the foursome and Otto/| tioned of eight tries among them, | and|four were pars and eight ; The other three were fives. and Eddie number Of about! about 12, just men- | one © bir | { he| It seems that; Otto K. and Tim! ;}O. Caraballo, Kelly, D. Lopez, Al- | Tynes. ®., Garcia, Mr. Samuel Harris (our genial Postmaster) has recovered his in- dustrious personality and was busy playing against Bob Stowers and Berlin Sawyer. Sam says that number one gives him more! trouble than any of the others. | Pittman have been telling various! people that they beat Willie and) {Samuella and so a return match} ; Was engaged upon. Sam and W il) \lie gave a stroke on low ball but! {counted the aggregate as was. On! | previous occasions Tim and Otto walked off with the match but! [h Whenever he is play the hole, then it is the mud) He almost slipped in the trap. down Sunday a. m. | recovered his steadiness. played golf like nobody’s! . It seemed that Grandpa J. R. had been warned that Daddy | gave iim the jotteis! Berlin was after his \f ponents busines was just Daddy. Of le n ped th busine: not much. after her first game. Mr. led to get same because J. R.| y, a little too much for} course, ns given by our genial Post- ster helped Bob some and it is the the Cuba trip did} inconvenience Grandpa very Next week the | grand-daughter expects not too tired to; F 2. but quickly; scalp but} read, the putting | They (Ru !were fleas in the West. door-slamming | good fighter. Stowers to play| She and Bob! hardest lioles {are as follows: Earl catia got a couple of 1, 9, 8, 6, 7 and 4. last week Sam and Bill got to- gether and won the match 3 and! Otto will argue that it was | {one up but then he will His ©p-| about any golf term or point of ; argue | jscoring and refuse to admit that; he lost the argument even if you | rules to} Stil that is the way .Mr. | apoleon got sent to a couple of islands on a couple of occasions. | told him there were ians in Moscow than more ! there | streets of Key | Again they told him Mr. Duke of Wellington-guy was a’ Mr. thinks he was right. According to the (handi Numbers Nappy _ still} That 48’s which could not quite keep: ranged according to distance but 47-44 and Louis’! the experience of thes : rlie | wiched between with 44-48. Salas was sand-jthat the hard It}8. Then “ | seems Charlie will rock along with} 2, 4, 5, 1 }a good score and then go blooey |; to, get Bele j all at one time on one hole. 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