The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 5, 1936, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1936. MURDER T BY LAURENCE SYNOPSIS: It seems clear to that i must have murdered gone ’ ton is convinced. But now Na: Featherstone tells Hylton that Dale de at her house, and takes him there to meet the young man. Dale has had to much to drink, Nancy says —and lets Hylton into a email, dark and musty room. Chapter 29 PRISONER ‘HB door proved difficult to open, j but Hylton called out cheer- fully, “I say, Miss Featherstone—” “Yes?” | “Give the door a push, would you? It's got stuck or something.” “No, it isn’t stuck—I’ve locked it” Fifteen seconds of silence fol- lowed this remarkable declaration. “You’ve—er—locked it?” Hylton asked at length. “Yes. The key’s in the lock now, on the outside, here.” “Are you playing some sort of a game, Miss Featherstone?” Hylton asked. “What's all this about, and where is Dale Shipley?” “t haven't any idec where he is,” @ voice explained apologetically, “and that’s why I had to do it. It ‘was the only way I could think of to stop ycu telephoning, and all that.” It isn’t pleasant for any man to realize that someone has made an utter and complete fool of him, and it says a good deal for Kingsley Hylton that he didn’t fly into a temper. “Look here, Miss Featherstone,” he said, “I do beg of you to be sen- sible. You must know that you are acting in a very foolish way and one that will get you intu trouble, seri- ous trouble.” “Oh yes, I realize all that, thank you.” “Well please have the sense to end it now, and I'll not say anything about it.” | “It's a very sporting offer, but I jcouldn’t possibly think of it.” ' “I'm sure you don’t realize—” “Oh I do truly—please don’t wor- Ty yourself about that.” “For God's sake, woman, have the sense to unlock that door and put an end to this damned {diocy. You can’t know what you're letting your- self in for.” “Yes 1 do—accessory after the fact, isn’t it?” Hylton didn’t answer .. . acces sory after the fact... what fact? he wondered how much she knew » «. Shipley had told her, of course, jand bolted, and she had hatched up jthis plot to help him. ... | And a day’s delay in getting out his description and warning all the Ports might easily mean losing him. A sudden access of impotent tem- per made him rattle the door handle vigorously. “Miss Featherstone.” “Yes.” “In the name of the Law I ask you to open this door at once and let me out.” A pause; then “Inspector Hylton, will you please listen to me for a minute?” “Yes, of course, what {fs it?” “I'm frightfuliy sorry that you are jgoing to be inconvenienced, but I’m not going to open that door for quite @ time yet.” “You're not?” “No. Of course you can shout if you want to; but I honestly don’t jthink it will be much good; you see [I'm all alone in the house until ten o'clock tonight and I'm going down |now to send the groom off on an all jday trip. I'm only telling you all this to save you tiring yourself out unnecessarily.” Hylton was finding himself rather stumped for suitable conversation. After a bit he said, “Miss Feather stone, why are you acting in this fabsolutely insane way?” It is p-t easy for an atmosphere of dramatic intensity to be estab- lished between two people separated jby half an inch of solid oak, but {somehow it sprang up between {those two at that moment, |. “Do you think I want to? Because had to. He must have a chance, I ouldn’t let you get him like that— like a pack of hounds.” ‘HAT was the last time Hylton \ was to hear Nancy Feather stone's voice for several hours. hen he realized that she was no ‘onger outside the door he first of examined his material surround- ings. The room he was in had origt- lly been designed as @ sort of rimitive strong room in the old ys when farmers knew nothing f banks; subsequently it had been ed as an apple store and a linen ONIGHTE WwW. MEYNELL room, and now it had almost passed out of regular use altogether. He found that by standing on the ottoman he could just see out of the narrow window—a slit some twelve inches by five. He had a splendid view of three horses graz- ing half a mile away on the other side of the valley. The walls were! solid and might have yielded to an; hour or two’s hard work with a! crowbar, but was a hopeless task to attempt with bare hands. 4 Hylton realized that for all prac-! tical purposes he was 2 prisoner un-! til Nancy chose to let him out, and the thought sobered and even, in a way, amused him. Turning his mind to what would come of Nancy’s escapade, he felt unhappy. Dale Shipley had done the! murder, of so much he now felt cer-! tain... how long dare the woman keep him locked up there? Even if it were only twelve hours, and Ship- ley acted with decision it might give him all the start he wanted. Hylton swore audibly, what a darned fool he would look when he’ got back to the Yard. Hylton sighed, drew one of his thin black cigars out, lit it, took a pencil from his note book and de voted himself to drawing chess problems on the conveniently bare plicated of Morechester. When she.had seen him safely off the premises she went into the drawing room and sat in front of the fire thinking. Like the man upstairs she, too, reviewed the events which had brought her to the present extraor dinary situation. She drew from her handbag a letter. It had come to her by the first post that morning, one of the very few that Dale Shipley had ever written to her; but she knew the handwriting well, and had been surprised to notice a London post mark on the stamp. With a; growing conviction that there was bad news in it, she had drawn out the letter and read it. Now, for the tenth time, she drew it out and read it again. It was written on cheap paper, bearing neither date nor address: “Dear Nancy, You won't see me for dinner tonight (they had ar- ranged to dine together, a fact which for twenty-four hours had colored Nancy’s life with happiness and expectation). I’ve to get away in a hurry, I daresay people will soon be saying nasty things about me but I can’t help that. Dale.” As soon as she had read that she had become absolut.ly cold with a sick fear. Dale had done it... half a dozen uncomfortab'e little whis- bers suddenly roared into an unen- | durable shouting in her head. And, ) somehow, she knew (and now real-) ized that she had known all along) that it was just the sort of thing} that Dale would do. } At half past ten she could not} stand being alone in the house any longer; she was eaten up with anx- iety to find out whether they knew in the village about Dale; if they didn’t yet, they soon would; she realized that was inevitable. Al- though she knew that it would do no good, she felt that she must go up to Fielden Cottage and speak about Dale to Mrs. Somers. When she got there the front door was open and Mrs. Somers was already in conversation with some- one. As soon as Nancy sag_who it was she felt quite sick with reawak- } ened fear... the Detective from Scotland Yard. ' They’! were’! after | him already, then. Shy ,overl d half a dozen quick questions and answers and realized that Hylton was himself only just learning about Dale. There and then, without the slightest idea how it could be ac complished, she realized that she must help Dale by delaying his pur- suers. Sitting in front of the fire in the drawing-room thus thinking over the events of that extraordinary morning, she actually laughed; but it was a laugh without much mirth in it... tragic fools, she thought, mankind must be to blun- der into the messes that they get into. Dale was just the sort of head- strong fool, of course, who would get caught up in the fatal and fan- tastically simple business of mur- der. And she was a fool seven times greater to be enmeshed in this ex- traordinary situation when she ought to be out hunting on the grey in the winter sunshine, with the day Tunning peacefully by in its normal way. (Copyright, 1936, Lawrence W. Moynell), The Whites enact a strange doe mestic scene, tomorrow. Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company Eifective pn 1935. Leaves Port Tampa on Sundays and Wednesdays at 2:30 P. M. arriving Key West 7 A. M. Mondays and Thursdays. Leaves Key West Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 A. M. for Havana, Tampa, Leaves Key West Tuesdays and Fridays 6 P, M. for Port For further information and rates call Phone 14. J. H. 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A, Rodriguez hit two safely for] winners and Gallagher did the same for the losers. Oyril Griffin was walked three; times in his four trips to the plate. i E. Rodriguez was touched for} six hits in the seven innings he} pitched. Carbonell finished the and struck out three. At one stage of the contest, } the Coconuts had the score 3 to @: in their favor. They scored one| in the opening frame and added two more in the third, while the opposition was being blanked. In the sixth the picked team put the game on ice and shoved} over another run for good meas- ure in the seventh. The Coco- nuts marked up their last run inj the venth. | Score by innings: R. H. E.} Coconuts 102 000 100—4 7 1 Picked Team— 000 005 10x—6 6 5! Batteries: Suarez and McGee; E. Rodriguez, P. Carbonell and Al. Rodriguez. |THE MUN game and was touched for one hit |. 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