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MURDER BY LAURENCE SYNOPSIS: About the only thing Inspector Hylton feels very sure of ig that old Arthur Burdett waa clubbed to death. The ancient miser’s death did not leave any traces of grief on the faces of Hope Enderton’s inhabitants. Nearly ev- erybody, even the gentle John Fen- tons who keep the village store, had a grudge soainet Burdett. But 80 far the only persons about whom Hylton knows anything suspicious are Dale Shipley, wastrel half nephew of the deceased, and Lums- dale, Burdett’s manservant. Hylton has decided to ride to hounds. Chapter 20 HUNTSMEN BOLD INGSLEY HYLTON — despite the social drawback of his fll assorted hunting clothes, largely borrowed from his landlord — was feeling happy. He enjoyed a day's hunting, and it was long enough since he had had one. True his mount was long past the first fine flush of its youth, but Hyl- ton felt instinctively towards the old horse a bond of sympathetic fel- lowship. He reined back to the outer fringe of the animated little crowd at the Five Ways Post and studied the scene attentively. Mrs. Reeves looked splendid on her big dark bay, he noticed particularly how smart and trim her hair was looking; be- side her Nancy Featherstone was on the dowdy side of workmanlike; Reeves, who managed not to see the Inspector, looked the thruster that he was, and nobody would have mis- taken Dale Shipley for anything but @ horseman. Hylton ran his eye over that quar- tet of diverse people a score of times. They had all been under one roof, as he knew, when the murder had been announced, and one of them, more than one, knew more about the matter than nad been admitted. A long night's reflection had not made the Inspector any more pleased with the way the case was going. True, Lumsdale still had a good deal to explain; true, too, that friend Lumsdale was already, on the Inspector's orders, subject to a fatr- ly close though unobtrusive super vision; but Hylton had a feeling that he was skimming on the sur- face of deeper waters than he knew of, and he would not be satistied un- til a good deal which he was certain was at present being hidden from him came to light. Doctor Chambers came tiptutting up on a great ungainly brute that had landed him at various times in practically every ditch in Sussex; he seemed to know everyone and to be popular with them all. It was not a big field, and there was only a sprinkling of pink coats outnum- bered by the people in ratcatcher and the usual healthy assortment of sporting farmers in clothes as diverse as their mounts. “Hounds, gennelmen, please.” The pack, eighteen and a half couple, came pad-padding along. their waving sterns like a feathery forest above them. Hard conditioned hounds these, willing to face briar and bramble and the most punish- ing of going, sobeit they could do the one thing their nature craved for—kill. Inspector Hylton eyed them re flectively and it crossed his mind that there was a good deal! of human life reproduced in miniature in a hunt. The wind frespened a little and men turned to one another and prophesied, divergently, ignorantly | and unscientifically, of that most mysterious of all nature’s mysteri- ous things—scent. T was this little puff of freshening wind that carried the first signals of danger to the sleeping vixen tn Seven Acre Spinney. She slept, and slept deeply, but, as with all wild things, one of her acute senses re- mained on almost undiminished guard, and her soft muzzle had hard- ly done twitching at the danger- laden wind before her eyes opened and she was wid2 awake. Man! The vixen lifted a fore paw and licked it where a sharp stone in the bed of a brook had cut the pad @ little. Then, as though coming to a sudden decision, she shook her- self, turned her muzzle up hill and set off at a great pace as straight as an arrow for Hangman’s Holt. The Morechester Hunt was in for the fastest thing of its life. Kingsley Hylton’s hack from the Hoops had not always been a mere hack. It had come down by a long series of successive degradations to that ignominous position; it knew a great deal more about hunting than all the young borses out that di put together, and when ft discov- ered that the man on its back was; not altogether a fool at the game it set out to enjoy itself. Hylton went with the *e: he was convinced, maybe | W. MEYNELL for a mile, but the pace was terrific, and three wide fields of plough put the old hack at the tail of the hunt. | ‘The Inspector wasn’t sorry; he had never intended to waste all the | morning chasing a fox, he was after another sort of killer. Instead of fol- lowing the other laggards through a field he turned up-bill, trotted along the headland, and finding a conven- ient gap forced his way on to the | gateway in tbe bottom corner of the | road. There followed a slight argument ! with the hack whose ancient blood ; was fired with the excitement of the | chase; but Hylton won, and was presently trotting steadily back to- wards Hope Enderton. The bunt had already travelled in a rough | quarter of a circle so be was not as | far away from the village as he might have been, and before long be was knocking at the door of Fielden Cottage, which Sergeant White had already pointed out to | him as belonging to Dale Shipley. ME SOMERS opened the door, ; and her first cheerful smile at seeing a gentleman in riding clothes (such as they were!) soon yielded to a very different expression when | Hylton began to ask questions, and she realized who he must be. | “I'm afraid I’m rather foolish | about times and things like that,” the Inspector said affably. “I just | wanted to get it all quite plain about last Monday night.” { “I can’t tell you what | don’t know.” | “Quite so. It's what you do know | 1 want to get at Mrs. i “Somers, thank you. “Well, now, Mrs. Somers, let me ; see; did Mr. Shipley have dinner | here on Monday evening?” i “He did not. He went over to Cap- | tain Reeves, where he often does | g0.” ! “I suppose he motored over there?” “No. He walked.” i “Walked?” “That's it. ‘Mrs. Somers,’ he said to me, ‘it’s a fine night, and 1 think | 1 shall walk. I'm giving myself plenty of time.’ ‘That's right, sir, 1 said, ‘do’; and that’s all there was about it.” “What time was that, Mrs. Som- ers “A quarter to seven exactly; 1 heard St. Leonard's strike.” Hylton considered ... a quarter to seven. Young Shipley certainly had allowed himself plenty of time. The Inspector already knew trom an intensive study of a six-inch Ord- nance Map of ‘he district tnat a moderate walker could hardly take longer than twenty minutes to get from Fielden Cottage to the Reeves’ place. “He took his stick?” “He always does when he goes walking.” “Does Mr. Sliipley often go walk- | ing in his dinner clothes? “Perhaps he doesn’t; but what’s the harm in folks walking out on a nice night if they’ve a mind to?” “I don’t say there’s any harm in it, Mrs. Somers.” “That’s what | think. | must say 1 can see a deal more harm in fer- | reting about in other people’s busi- ness, if you ask me.” The Inspector took his leave ol this formidably loyal retainer and mounting his horse trotted gently over to Ferney House. A scurry of dogs greeted him in the drive and kept up an ear splitting din until | the door was opened by a maid a : deal younger and more susceptible to the presence of a mere male than the excellent Mrs. Somers. Hylton found no difficulty in per- | suading her to tell him all she knew about Monday evening. “L suppose it was rather a rush for you with a party on and everything,” 1 he said sytupathetically. | “Oh, Mrs. Reeves always gets wor- ried when there's anyone coming, } you’d think it was Royalty coming | to dinner.” | “And Captain Reeves wasn’t back | till late, was he?” i “Oh, the Captain. He’s all right. | i] | | | TONIGHT I He was back just about half past five. He came back before from hunting and then went out some where again.” “And was back at half past five. 1 | see. And the guests, were they all | up to time?” “No, they weren't. Mrs. Reeves ts | always on at me about being late, so 1 made a special effort on Monday, | in spite of Cook and her slow oven | and everything. The little clock in the hall struck half past seven just as 1 went past it. And then, of | bes ted ; tional League were postponed on is ! Lopez Funeral SPORTS BY JOVE ‘SENATORS WIN FROM BROWNS INDIANS GAIN ON YANKS, WHO WERE IDLE; RED SOX DOWN TIGERS Special to The Ci NEW YORK, July zen) 25. i 1 | ! ke hington Senators defeated the; Louis Browns, while the gold-| Boston Red Sox triumph- | ed over the Detroit Tigers. i The Cleveland Indians gained | a half-game on the idle {York Yankees by ov ‘defeating the Philadelphia Ath- letics. The game scheduled — be- tween New York and Chicago in} the American League be| played at a later date. All games scheduled in the Na- account of rain, The summarie: AMERICAN LEAGUE | At St. Louis i KH. E. Washington 1015 3) St. Louis a Batte: : Weaver an Beltor;) Caldwe'l and Hemsley. R. IL B.S -710 1) Ash | Batteries: Mareum, Wilson and ; R. Ferrell; Sorrell, Lawson Myatt. i i . H. E.j 10 1 20 At Detroit Boston Detroit At Cleveland Philadelphia .............-..--- 8 Cleveland . i Batteries Rhodes, Flythe and; Hayes, Moss; Galehouse, Feller | and Sullivan, i New York at Chicago, to be! played at later date. i NATIONAL LEAGU® i All games scheduled postponed | on account of rain. SOCIAL LEAGUE TILTS NEXT WEEK Games in the Social League] for next week follow: Monday—Sanitary 's. Commodity Room, Tuesday — Administration vs. y Department. Wednesday — Lopez Funeral" Home vs. Commodity Room. i Thursday—Administration __ v: Department ; i | Friday—Sanitary Department} | . Lopez Funeral Home. Standing of the league: Club— W. L, Home 6 Sanita Department 5 ; Adminis tration 3 {Commodity Room 1 Room .... 1 ‘ALL-STARS TO TARS TO MEET COCONUTS PLAYERS Tomorrdw: afternoon at the, Navy Field the All-Stars will cross! bats with the Coconuts in the! fourth game of their series. The first contest was tie, and! the Coconuts won the second and: third games. Should they cop tomorrow contest, the series will be over. The Stars will use Robert; Bethel on the mound and, Al Rod-| riguez will catch. For the Coconuts the battery will be Baby Suarez and Joe Me-} Gee. The game will be called at 4 m. Pet H 50 P. course, when | told them dinner was { — i} ready, Mr. Shipley hasn’t come, if you please. What's the good of be- ing punctual, I'd like to know?” (Copsrrghs, 1936, Laurence W. Meynell) A mysterious hair-dressing aps nt turns up, Monday. ese fi ilustrator, rt oday’s Birthdays, Elizabeth W. Wilson of Cam-! Wright, movie director, noted mathema- | Washington, N. C., 58 years ago. bridge, Mass., tician, born 40 years ago. Univ. of California, noted geolog- ist, born 75 years ago. Governor Martin L. Davey of Ohio, born at Kent, O., 52 year? | ago, Maxfield Paitish, noted artist- — | Prof. Mooris R. Cohen of New Prof. Andrew C. Lawson of the! york, noted philosopher, born in bern in Philadlephia, ‘66 years sg ei eiey William De Mille, play- born at} LEAGUE STANDINGS; AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— ow. New York . 59 ) Cleveland oa8T: Detroit - 49 Chicago . 48 Boston - 50 Washington 47 St. Louis . 29 j Philadel phi. - 29 39 516 NATIONAL TEAGUE Russia, 56 years. | Dr. Margaret F. Washburn of Vassar College, psychologist, born in New York, 65 years ago. Subscribe to The Citizen. Club— sChicago .... St. Louis .. Pittsburgh New York Cincinnati Boston | Brooklyn Philadelphia : a - 54 46 47 44 42 31 sages SH 3 35 42 43 42 48 37 54 and |< liantly. 1538] woccceccces| THROUGH SPORT SHORTS ABOUT, LOCAL SOFTBALL PLAYERS... Armando is still playing a great game at short but his hit- ting is far from normal. see McCarthy, Higgs, Stanley Kerr have also fell down in their batting. oi ee J. Walker is pitching great ball. He struck out 15 batters in four Floyd Villareal is the pl: that is hitting the old app!e on the nose. Sones Hopkins is catchnig the same steady game, and Ingraham, who plays on Thursdays, is the same old “Wrinkley”; his arm as good as ever. a se is C. Gates has won four games and lo:t one, striking out 19 bat- ters, sees s old man fin through a game. et BE Hale, at second, , although he is in lump. a batting Gabriel is hitting but stil’ throws the ball away once in a while. eee and in Ward pitched one game did well. He hit three safely four tries, ’ F, Lopez, at Hernandez, at short, third, and M. both youn jend full of pep, are helping their {club win games. e+ es C. Sands is not hitting as did in the previous ser’ is a good fiel Wes * » but he a* Molina is doing “both, and fielding in grand style. ie. Caraballo is dangerous in the pinches. eee E. Sawyer, used in positions, always plays hard. eee « H. 368. Gates, catcher, is ies He’s a fast runner, ie 4:8 M. Tynes, F. Tynes and E. R s have done their Bicehing for ynes boys are hi Fae also, oe ting well over e+e First baseman Goss is a pl. who likes to win. : pinches and his 3 average is the most walked player in the So- cial League. i +s J. Roberts is now hitting + ee © Domenech is at short at pres- ent but his real position is in the outfield. ee ee Stickney, Barker and one of the} . Tynes boys make up the outfield ifor the Office outfit. Barker in a batting slump but fields bri!- oa ee Jackie Carbonell played in few games and did well for last-place Commodity Room. + <2 Soldano is erractic. <a. © a the Hancock is a good pitcher but gets poor support, = '9 6 + J. Villareal is hitting 368. i * 0.9 9 Nodine is fielding well but not \ hitting. The same goes for Art-; | man. teat Lewis has played only one con- eeee Pita, Barroso and Malgrat at | fielding excellent. Barroso is hi jting .425. TODAY’S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at St. Louis. Philade!phia at Cleveland. New York at Chicago. Boston at Detroit. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittstirkh at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston, and a good field- he’ hitting’ _ | Administration — different’ of | He hits well inj FUNERAL HOMERS NOW BACK INFIRST | POSITION ALONE DEFEAT=D ADMINISTRATION YESTERDAY, | TCRS WERE TRAILING BY SIX RUNS AT ONE TIME | Lopez Funeral Home gained possession of first piace in the being tied | with Sanitary Department ier one | day. The Embalmers, aiter trailing by six runs during the early part vi the game, defeated Administra- jion yesterday aiternoon at Bz view Park by the overwhelming score of 14 to 8. y in the first irame, bases loaded, Goss home run, scoring the Office boys. They added two more in the second canto, to bring the score to 6 to U. { dn the third inning, McCartay poled a four-bagger, with Acevedo on base, and Sterling hit the iong- est round trip of the evening, The score waa then 6 to 3. With the loaded fiith and the count 7 to 3, Ster- ling knocked the ball for the circuit and knotted the re. The final homer of the came in the sixth when {hit the ball out of the lot. Stanley (Shorts) pitched full game for the Lopez clan, al- lowing 12 hits. He waked one F. ‘Tynes pitched eight frames and walked seven batter: M. Tynes finished the game and three but did not allow a hit, al- with the knocked a dour runs for vases in the again game passed though the opposition scored a run} off of him, J. Roberts four tim connected safely trips to the pla out of five. Sterling and Goss was credited with two out of four. Acevedo and Arias hit two out of three. Score by innings: 8, HE: ! 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Thursday evening, 7:30 o'clock choir rehearsal. Pastor and at 7 Wednesday FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Jorner Simonton and Eaton Sts Joe A. Tolle, Pastor “The Truth Shall Make You Free” Church Sunday school opens at 10:00 a. m., under leadership of : Gerald Saunders, general super- ntendent. Each department meets in its own assembly room. Worship service at 11 a. Subject: “The Liberating Power jof Trath.” Epworth League 7 p.m. Miss Lucille president. | Evening service at 8 o'clock. | Subject: “What A’ Touch.” Mid-week prayer and praise service on Wednesday at 8:00 p. jm. | “For some tomorrow will the regular weekly Sunday Exertion.” t “Silence |times it is yellow. H \ i } meeting t Richardson, be school ning at 7:45 o'clock. Mrs. Joseph Sawyer, pe Gerald Saund- ers, choir director. SAINT PAUL’S CHURCH H ae {Corner Duval and Eaton Streets Sundays Morning Prayer, 6:45 a. m. 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