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PAGE FOUR que By VIRGINIA HANSON Chapter 44 Her Excellent Brain BELIEVE that the murders were done without Felicia’s knowledge,” I said. “At least about Sandra. I saw her face when she learned of it, and she was shocked——” “But why did she worm her way in here three months in ad- vance? It was a carefully thought- out plan, and here was the brain that conceived it, in my opinion.” “And I shared her room last night! Gerald, she wasn’t the one who attacked me. Who was the man?” “The imposter at Fort Michigan. I had my eye on him from the first, but Sandra threw me_ off. at poor fool! could pit her- “Gerald—tell me at once: “You asked me two questions. Who was the bod e car? And who was t tacked you? follow me. “Either tell me or go away. Ii that’s your idea of soothing a sick Ppreciate “Kay, my dear, Only it seems so obvious. I keep forgetting your head is probably hazy yet. It was the chaplain, of course.” I stared at him. “I guess my head is hazy,” I admitted. “That doesn’t seem to make sense.” ‘Think it over a bit and you'll get it. Chaplain Henry, the chap- Jain Sandra had known in Texas, was ordered to Fort Michigan. He wrote to the adjutant. You were resent in the mess hall when ‘elicia told about the letter. She Probably thought if she didn’t the adjutant would, so it was good strategy. The letter asked, you re- member, about rooms, and also detailed his program of action, in- cluding his plans for purchasing a new Ford in Shica,o and driv- ing it here. “He even asked where he should stop for dinner. Dollars to crullers, as the saying goes, she wrote back and recommended Fieldstone Inn. I say again that hers was the mind behind this coup, and I have plenty of rea- son to think so. Her husband, after that near escape from the elevated station, was in need of a hide-out. She knew of his sus- ceptibility to poison oak, and there was enough of it around the post to give her the idea. The chaplain delivered himself into her hands. the sake of convenience, though it’s probably not his name —lay in wait at the inn. You were with me the night I tried to find someone who had seen him. I haven't been able to prove it, yet. But I know how it was worked. It’s the only possible way. An acquaintance struck up, a casual mention of Fort Michigan, and the offer of a lift. Once in the car, events probably took place much as described later, but with important omissions. The real chaplain was murdered, by chloroform, carbon monoxide, or some similar method which would leave no trace after the body was| burne “Felicia had been to Chicago that day. It was the following day, after I arrived, tt you she r bought that ged it the all the ex- h eded to make two trips to Chicago on consecutive well by prearrar deserted road. The body of the ferred to luggage com nent of her car. Bridewell drove the chaplain’s car back to cago, checked all his luggage at the La Salle Street Station and drove back to the place v car was later found abandon Felicia picked | him up t edge of t strippe : “Why? Why strip?” Two Reasons vO re . Felicia’s excel- lent but misguided brain again, I’m sure. First reason, the es would not fit . he made him- self a laughing stock, and there is nothing quite so disarming to suspicion as that. Oh yes, one m — the poison oak.} the most essential part . He had been seen, prints were known. e Felicia had made s and found that ing—like Sandra’s. The poison oak was meant to t care of that. I think he must have rolled in the ters stuff. Captain Jones had admitted that he was much too concerned about his wife to observe the phenomenal extent of the irri- tation. Otherwise his suspicions might have been roused.” “Of course the chaplain kept the brief case in order to prove his identity,” I said. I couldn’t seem to get over calling him the chaplain. “What was Felicie @o- ing all this time?” “Going quietly about her busi- ness. She drove home, locked her car in the garage and waited for the wrong girdle to arrive.” “I rode as far as the Post Ex- change with her that afternoon,” I recalled, shivering a little. “Ger- ald, you don’t mean——” “The body was unquestionably in the back of the car. Was she nervous, not anxious for your company?” “Yes. I suggested going in with her and she put me off. She went to see the—the chaplain, too, in the hospital. She was going to buy him some underwear.” “Very cool. She made use of everything. Even Immerman. think he really inspired her. Of course she stole his second in- signia_and planted it in the burned car- ‘what? Did you say something?” “Nothing—go on.” I was re- membering what the orderly had said the night before that rang a bell in my brain. That his uni- form blouse always hung in the kitchen when he wore a white coat to wait on table. The Authentic Touch “QHE made people laugh at the chaplain’s panties, and they couldn't take the chaplain seri- ously. Same way with the girdle. Always the authentic touch. How could anyone question the pre- dicament of a woman caught out in public clothed only in her girdle? “She drove that car out beyond the target range herself and ditched it, first having arranged the corpse in the driver’s seat— remember, he was a small man, and Felicia no weakling. A little kerosene spilled here and there, a candle sheltered from draft that would take an hour or more to burn down until it could ignite the soaked cushions, or oil-soaked Tags. = “She was scared white when she got back to the club.” “TI don’t doubt it. Suppose she had been seen—suppose the can- dle had gone out. They must have used carbon monoxide on the chaplain, in case the fire failed and the car was discovered too soon. Or she could always have gone back, in the small hours when everyone was asleep and made certain the second time.” “Gerald, who was Felicia? And why should she plan two awful crimes like that? Not just for money. I can’t believe anyone would do such things just for money. The theft of a child—and the cold-blooded murder of a good man——” “Ihe worst crimes are for money,” Gerald safd with quiet bitterness. “And they are usually committed by people who have convinced themselves that they have a grudge against the world. Like Sandra. You read that part of her document, didn’t you? The rest of it—the incriminating part —told how they fooled her, too. At least, the chaplain did; she never knew Felicia was in it. She simply knew Bridewell was an impostor; but when she confronted him with her knowledge he claimed to be a friend of the real chaplain. The story they hatched was that the chaplain had been refused leave to ge to the bedside of a dying relative and that he, Bridewell, had agreed to attempt the harmless deception.” “And Sandra believed that?” _“So she said; but perhaps she didn’t, really. At any rate, she saw a chance of turning a penny and hadn't the wit to make the obvious deduction when the car was burned, or to realize that she was playing with dynamite. The nearest she came to the truth was to think he might be a spy. “But that was later, after Ivan was killed, when she didn’t really care what happened, Ivan had been in Hollywood and, penniless, had hitch-hiked or bummed his way as far as Chicago. He came to her for money—probably not the first she “ad given him. When you and Julia interrupted them on the barge—yes, Colonel Pen- nant told me all that—they made an appointment to meet there later after the party broke up. That was why Sandra was so long in giving the alarm. “She waited until Mimi was asleep, borrowed her car and drove back out to the beach, ex- pecting to find Ivan waiting for her there. He was there, all right, but she didn’t find him. He must have been killed by Bridewell | while you girls were absent from the barge. And it was undoubted- ly meant to look like an acci- Obtain the maximum rental return on your property. See us about an FHA Title Improvement a Loan. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Serving Key West and Monroe County for Nearly Half a Century | - THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ° SOCIETY : Tri-Hi-Y Held Initiation Rites Key West High School Tri- Hi-Y* held informal initiation last Wednesday with girls parad- ing the halls in odd appare! rang- ling from mismated socklets and shoes, to skirts and blouses. Each bore a placard held on by two huge pins which pro- nounced that each girl was a Tri- Hi-Y pledge. On Thursday evening formal initiation was conducted by char- ter members Carolyn Cherry, president, Betty Lewin, vice- president, Eleis Sawyer, secre- tary, Ellie R. Gwynn, treasurer, Alicia Borges and Barbara Guerro. Tri-Hi-Y is affiliated with the national Y.W.C.A. New initiates into the organization locally in- clude: Copelyn Ramsey, Florence Adams, Sara Ann Lowell, Wilma Russell, Rosemary Demeritt, Vir- ginia Rodriguez, Olga Aguilar, Viola Whitmarsh, Catherine Con- ‘nor, Griselda Garcia, Betty Ann Pierce, Blanche Cervantes. * Club sponsor is Clara Lank- ford, counsellors are Mrs. Ernest Ramsey and Miss Margaret Neff. safety Newsman Visits For Weekend Harry Baker Turner, and Mrs. Turner, were visitors in the city over last weekend, staying at the Ove as Hotel. Mr. Turner is j editor of The Inquirer and Mirror of Nantucket, Mass. Other visitors registering at the Overseas. this past week in- cluded Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee of Los Angeles, Calif, and Mr | and Mrs. A. W. Seely, of Norfolk, Va. Both parties thoroughly en- joyed their stay here. William Lees Return To City William (Bill) Lee and Mrs. Lee returned Sunday afternoon from a month's vacation spent in and around Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Lee is local representative for the Miami Daily Ne Mrs. Morland Visiting Mother Mrs. J. B. Morland, who has been residing for the past year and a half in Honolulu, where jher husband, Lieut. Morland, is ationed, is visiting in Key West at the home of her mother, Mrs. A. D. Silviera ,on White street. St. Paal’s Auxiliary | Met Yesterday A beautiful worship service opened the monthly _ business meeting of the Woman’s Auxil- iary of St. Paul’s church yester- day afternoon. Report of the supply secretary, \Mrs. Nellie Curry, the missionary box to be ent during Advent will go to Vicks- burg, M Mrs. Madelain W sell, a former nurse in the church | hospital at Wuchang, China, told of the joy of receiving the boxes. Mrs. Mary Sweeting told of the activities of the Christian Social Serv and Mrs. Louise Grant, treasurer, gave her report. The U.T.O. custodian, Mrs. Rebah Sawyer, gave a short talk on the United Thanks Offering. The fall ingathering will take place Monday, Nov. 4, in the Parish Hall. The meeting closed with a meditation by Dr. Grace Lindley, {retiring national executive retary of the Woman’s Auxilia read by Mrs. Gloriana M. Bayly. A record has been made of this | meditation and will be heard at |the educational meeting Wednes- day. October 16, at 8 o'clock, in the Parish Hall. Present at the meeting yester- jay were: Mesdames Gloriana M. Reba Sawyer, Ella Bierna, Madelain Wassell, June Williams, Genevieve Sawyer, Ellen Tynes, Amy Shine, Mary Sweeting, Ma- trie Russell, Louise Grant and Nellie Curry Elks Planning Charity Ball Key West Lodge, No. 551. B.P.O. Elks. are planning to hold their Annual Charity Ball at the Country Club this year. According to present plans, the Elks expect to stage a Carnival Dance this year, on November g an attractive floor josed of local and out- Pritchard’s Orches- 1 furnish the music and a Cuban Quartette will also be on hand. showed that! | All-American Dance Declared Success | The All-American Dance, spon- sored by the Senior Class of Key West High School last Friday right, was declared quite a suc- cess by the committee-in-charge. Highlights of the affair were 'be- ing discussed as follows: Grand March—a military med- ley—led by Harry Knight, presi- dent of the °39 class, followed by Ray Pierce. president of °41 class, and Jack Murray, president, class of 40. All three were with es- corts. A box of Whitman’s candy presented Olga Aguilar and Tom- my Bowen, winners of the Prize Waltz. Judges: Harry Baker, Julio Lacedonia and Mr. Cara- ballo. Proceeds of the dance will be applied towards purchase of sound equipment needed for the school auditorium. Mrs. Benjamin Demeritt, P.-T. A. Room Mother, and Clara Lankford, sponsor of the class, were chaperons. \Mrs. Katez Left For Miami Mrs. Agnes Carey Katez left |for Miami last weekend following ja ten-day visit in Key West. | This marked the first visit to her native city in over 38 years, and Mrs. Katez was welcomed on all sides by her many friends who remembered her. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. 'S.0.S. Bingo Party Enjoyed The “SOS. Bingo Party” sponsored by the school children of Mary Immaculate Convent un- der the direction of Mrs. Frank Del Villar, was declared a com- plete success this morning. It | was held last night at St. Cecilia’s Hall. Special prize of the evening, a trip to Miami, was awarded to Mrs. Martin Wilhelm—the jack- pot went to Billy Roberts of St. | * Joseph’s school and the door prize was won by some visitor, | name unknown. About 100 other | prizes were given away. | Rev. S. J. Kelleher, pastor: of St. Mary’s Church, thanked resi- dents of Key West for their hearty cooperation in attending this affair which was staged for the convent’s benefit. Waite-Busby Naptials Sunday Rebecca B. Waite, daugnter of Deputy Sheriff Bernard J. Waite and Mrs. Waite, was married to Ewell Busby, member of the local Coast Guard forces, in a wedding ceremony performed at the First st church last at 8:00 o'clock. Rev. A. C. Riviere officiated. Mrs J. Waite, Jr., served as best man, and the bride was attended by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Bernard J. Waite. Jr. Only immediate | relatives were present. | Following the wedding the; young couple left on a_honey- | moon trip to an unannounced destination. YOUNG MEN URGED TO DRAFT QUESTIONNAIRE | (Centinued from Page One) lighten the task of the registrars, and speed up registration. Each registrant, it was an-| ‘nounced, will be required to sup-| ply the following data: | First, middle and last name;} , address, town, county and state; telephone number, or where may | be reached by telephone; age in! years and date of birth; place of birth (town or county); country | of citizenship; name of person who will always know regis- trant’s address, address of that person and his relationship to registrant; employer's name, and place of business or employment. VAN COSEL TO | FACE HEARING | (Continued from Page One) a frequent caller at his isolated home on Flagler avenue, and that this man may have helped Van Cosel in removing the body from the vault over seven years ago. Statutes of Florida call for a $500 fine or imprisonment for two years, if defendants are found guilty of wanton and mali- cious violation of graves or If Van Cosel is held for bond will likely be re- duced to $500. No one knew, whether he would, or could, fur- nish bail. Sunday ; Busby’s brother, Bernard | For Tax Colle. |aso ‘|NO MATTER WHERE, | YOU MUST REGISTER | (Continued from Page One) competent evidence on hand to prove your case. | @Q. I am going to be out of the | United States on registration day. ;| What must I do to avoid the pen- |alties of non-registration? | A. Present yourself to your lo- \cal board within five days after you get back in the United States, offer them proof that you were loutside the United States on Oc- {tober 16 (a ticket stub, stamped |passport, reports from your local newspaper, or affidavits from re- ‘sponsible neighbors would be evi- {dence enough) and register in the ordinary manner. Q. I am subject to selective service registration. but at pres- ent am in a reformatory. Will I get in more trouble if I do not register? A. Not unless you fail to reg- ister on the date of expiration of your sentence. This ruling also applies to persons in insane asy- ‘lums, jails and penitentiaries. Such persons will be registered j“on the day of discharge” by the superintendent or warden of the institution and your responsibility |from there on is to your local iregistration board in the voting |precinct in which you formerly jhad residence. Q. My working hours are such that I can’t get to the registration |board on October 16. What do I ' A. If your employer prevents your getting there on that da he is obstructing selective service |and subject to penalties under the ‘aw. In most cases registration day will be a holiday and persons jwho have to work on_ holidays | will be given time off to register. | LEGALS NOTICE OF ELECTION To the Sheriff of Monroe County, of the State of Florida: Be it Known, That I, R. A. GRAY, Secretary of State of the State of Florida, do hereby give notice that a GENERAL ELECTION Will be held in Monroe County, State of Florida, on Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in sNovember, A. 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