New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1922, Page 9

EISABEL, OS BEGIN HNERE TODAY FAY TUDOR, wealthy orphan, suffers a nervous breakdown in Jrance after learn- ing of the death in battla of her brother, Wilbur, She returns to the Tuder es- tate In Sandy Cove and is met by her tive widow, . IDOR, and the latter's daughter, LAUREL. The summer colony is fright- ened by the reported presence of a *‘wild man" whom Fay believes she has seen peering in the windows of the Tudor house, SHERIFF HULSE and his friend, SERGEANT JOHN BARRY, a New York detective, Investigate, Fay Is attracted by the personality of CAPTAIN WARREN, her brother's friend, who was with Wilbur when he fell. On the night of- Mra. Tudor's dance, KENNETH CLAYTON, wealthy philan- thropist, who s thought to be in love with Mrs. Tudor, proposes to Iay. —She rejects 'him. After the dance, and he- aurel confesses to Fay that < with HARRY CADMUS, an old love of Fay's hut for whom she has long ceased to care. Fay congratulates Laurel and wishes hor happiness. The girls slecp in the same room. In the morning, Laurel is found dead from asphyxiation and murder t Fay breaks the news to her Aunt Clara, GO ON WITH THE STORY “Doctor Green, Mrs, you to go to her. She frightens me; I don't understand her! If she would only break down, and ery or faint, I would know what to do for her, but numbed the shock seems to have her."” Tudor wishes T RANDERS == were not heart disease what can have caused my cousin's death?" “Until the coroner performs an autopsy we cannot he sure. Miss Tu- dor, are you a light sleeper? Would you know if anyone entered the room during the night?" “I cannot be sure. I returned from France in a highly vervous condition, you know, and that would predispose my awakening at the slightest sound, but I was.overstimulated last night by the excitement of the dance and T re- mained awake until long after Laurel herself had dropped off to sleep.” “How do you feel now, Mi Tu- dor? Does your head feel heavy or congested? Are you in the habit of taking any narcotic or sleeping po- tion?" “Oh, never. usual, head Barry. My Sergeant fecls quite as Why do FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1922 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Gl Low For High Q Hart, Schafner & Marx Suits and Overcoats at Prices shat can’t be Equalled for Value. Sport Suits, Norfolk The doctor vanished down the hall. Sergeant Barry motioned toward the window seat. *‘Miss Tudor this may turn out to be a mere case of natural death, but should it not, it will be a matter for Sheriff Hulse, and he has asked me, unofficially, to give him the benefit of Goif and Four Button Models—$30 my services.” “You mean—spicide?” Fay started in horror. “Laurel had everything in the world to live for! told you how happy she W night—happier than she has been in all her life before.” “Do you mean that something had occurred quite out of the course of existence for her. mance?” “Yes, only to be told of it today, but her highest approval. to be his wife.” “She was thoroughly happy in the prospect? You knew of no other ro- been so graciously received by her moth- mance which would not have er?” “None whatever. perately in love, as was Harry. 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Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithia- water drink which everybody should take now and then to keep their kidneys clean, thus avoiding serious complications. A well-known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it is only trouble. See us at The Auto Show McKONE TIRES “The Tire with the Service Built In.” CORDOVAN TUBES Superior to all others. R. M. Healey M MAIN STREET Tel. 2750 I have already last ever ordinary A ro- It has not been announced as yet; in fact, her own mother was the affair would, I know, haye met with Young Lieu- tenant Harry Cadmus had asked her Taurel was des- If it S ————— “YOU WILIL, NOT THINK ME U KIND IF I FEEL THAT I WANT TO BE ALONLE?" you ask? Your questions just now made me think of suicide, even though I knew how manifestly impos- | sible such a thing could be in con- nection with my gloriously happy | little cousin. Are you suggesting now that there may have been something ! far worse, that some hideous, un-| speakable 'ctime was committed in| that rgom last night? Do you mean —murder?” She broke off as the door at the farther end of the hall opened sud- denly and Mrs. Tudor appeared, lean- ing upon the doctor's arm. “I must see her! You shall let me in! 1 do not believe you, any of you! It cannot be that my baby is dead!" “*She is, ma'am, though 1 am mighty sorry to say it.” The sheriff produced a key and unlocked the deor. She seemed not to have heard, but méade her way with the slow, meas- ured step of a soomnambulist to the bedside, where shesfell upon her and took the small rigid hand in hers. The sheriff had remained respect- fully outside the door, but like a shadow the young police sergeant had passed him and stood motionless now behind the kneeling figure. “My baby! Speak'to me! only sleeping, you will awaken But the parted blue-white lips gave no response, and the fixed stare of the glazed half-open eyes convinced the | well-nigh crazed mother that her plea had fallen upon ears forever deaf, and with the first outburst of tears she| bent her head upon the- coverlet- of | the bed. | FPay came swiftly forwgrd and with Sergeant Barry attempted to lift her aunt to her feet. “Don’t touch me!" Mrs. Tudor | turned hysterically upon the girl and | then her face quivered and she cried appealingly: “Oh, Ifay, can't you see| 1 want to be alone? That I could not endaire sympathy just yet? My grief is my own! My own!" | IFay drew back in pitiful, shocked | amazement but the doctor nodded to | her reassuringly and himself escorted | the sorrow-stricken woman to her| own apartment. | I was scarcely dressed voices sounded from helow, which the nasal accents of Shaw mingled with deeper, more re- | sonant tones which made KFay catc her breath sharply. How had Ken- neth Clayton learned of their trag- edy? What had brought him here? CHAPTER VI Ifay shrank instinctively meeting with Kenneth Clayton now, but as a privileged family friend his presence was not amiss at this time | of the tragedy. | As she descended the stairs she realized all at once that her head did not feel quite right in spite of whut‘l she had told Sergeant Barry, and in a sudden fit of dizziness she clutched at the ballustrade, Kenneth Clayton met her at the foot of the stairs and his hand closed warmly about hers. “Is it true that poor Laurel—" “She is dead “I suppose “Of course, You ‘are | when among | from a Mr. Clayton.” lara is prostrated.” but she—she tak so strangely! She could not b the truth at first when 1 told he “That would be only natural, dear. I won't ask you now if you have given a thought to our little talk last night, but 1 have come to offer my services to both you and your aunt in any pos- sible capacity.” “Oh!” Fay cried in genuine dis- tress. I am sure that Aunt Clara will be deeply gratetul, but you will not think me unkind if 1 feel that I —1 want to be alone? 'This has all come so suddenly that 1 don't feel T can discuss it even with so—so good a friend as you."” The coroner's nasal tones sounded from the stairway. “It isn't whether it's likely or not, doctor; it's what the evidence proves. 1 don't care if the other girl zot off Knees | - Coroner — and Higher Copyright 1922 Hart Schaffner & Marx Splendid Values in Ch The Newest Styles of Men’s Soft Hats at $3.00 ildren’s Top Coats at $6.00 ,$1, $1.50 $2 50c ——— (here isn't a sign of gas in the room. her companion. This here's a case of asphyxiaion.” | “You heard?" There followed an indistinguisha- | think that it ble murmur in Doctor Green's dep-|could it have been? recatry tones, and then the coroner's lighted by electricity, stubborn rejoinder: |of the house; there “The blood test will tell. I the indications that 1 suspect from|fire in the grate. the appearance of the skin this going to be one of the biggest cases|smothered to death the country ever knew.” been awakened?" The front door slammed. As the| “Don't try to loud, measuged steps ddscended from 'dear.” the veranda Ifay turned In horror to ly. “You 1 thi know wh In five minutes ‘‘Pape’s Diapepsi Gases Fl Acidity Indigestion Sourness Dlapepsin® o veldeves sto- | store; a you, if what don’t want a slow remedy wihen your | IDHIE wanka 8l Bl 3 ferments. and sour uses headache, di eructations of a ) mach d which you tress in five minutes. [ f stomach is bad—or an uncertaly one|cq —or a harmful one—your stomach is!se too valuable, You mustn't injure it with drastic drugs. 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Just bec: ions and a steamer from Pearsall’s launc tries of one or two residences were brok enterprising tramp, Iwas cooking up a fi luntil this morning's a [to drive it out of asked. “They But how The room , like all the rest is not even a gas and we had no 3esides, how is it could have and 1 not even was nk about it, my tan: BHn shuddered at an alarmist | white, drawn face, ove of dizziness swept ove She got to her fee steadily, with one ha ming head. “Really mind, 1 think 1 rest.” On the stairs face with her aunt. composed, but very blue cyes there was tured look. “My dear, n’’ ends atulence e s I was beside myself. what 1 thought or s Fay kissed her anc stairs, Despite her she could not think the problem confron istence. But nted girl had not he contact with the|piness which life col tlon vanishes. 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