New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 17

E FICT] W\ THIS HAS HAPPENED “Handsome Harry” Borden is shot between one and four o'clock Sat- urday afternoon. Ruth Lester, his secretary, finds his body Monday morning sprawled beneath the air- shaft window of his private office. McMann, detective sergeant, ques- tions the following suspects: Mrs Borden, Borden's estranged wife and mother of his two children; Rita Dubois, night club dancer, with whom Borden was infatuated; and Jack Hayward, Ruth’s fiance, whose office is acr the narrow airshaft from Borden's private office. McMann's belief in Jack's guilt is strengthened by his discovery that Jack’s pistol s missing; by Jack’s admission that he returned to the seventh floor Saturday afternoon, and by the testimony of Micky Mo- ran and Otto Pfluger, elevator boys. Bill Cowan’ Jack's friend, unwilling- ly tells of having heard Jack threaten Borden's life Baturday morning. McMann questions Benny Smith, Borden's office boy; Ashe, his man- scrvant; Minnie Cassidy and Letty Miller, seventh floor scrubwomen; Cleo Gilman, Borden's discarded mistress, and Jake Bailey, his body- ‘guard. Martha Manning is brought into the case by Ruth's clever detective work. She swears she last saw Bor- den Friday night but admits phon- ing him three times Saturday after- noon. When McMann pointblank ae- cuses her of the murder she defies him to bring forward anyone who saw hev in the building Saturday. Benny Smith bursts in upon them and hysterically confesses to the murder. His confession is full of loop-holes and they realize he is trying to shield Ruth, who he be. licves is to be arrestgd. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIII “Well, darling,” Ruth said, after she and Jack Pyaward, had deposi- ted lightly burdened trays upon a table in a far corner of the cafeteria, “this has been a busy morning! Net result—a confession!” i “What!" Relief flared in the young insurance broker's eves. | “Why didn't you tell me as soon | as we met?” | Contrition sobered Ruth’s vivid little face. “Forgi me, darling! I've raised your hopes, just to dash them. It was just n(lnny—l)'lng‘ like the darling little idiot that he is, because he thought McMann was going to arrest me! TI'll read you his whole ‘confession'—I took it down in shorthand, at McMann's request — when I've transcribed it Of course Benny was half delirious with fever, but I'll never have a nobler compliment paid me—" “You're a siren and a cradle snatcher,” Jack told her severely. “IU's a good thing I'm going to mar- ry you and withdraw you from cir- culation. Any other developments this morning?" Smiling delightedly, the girl told her sweetheart of Cleo Gilman's stimulating visit and its ludicrous | «ffect upon dour old McMann. *“I really believe, Jack,” she conclud- ed, “that if Cleo hadn’t just mar- ried one of the most uppity of the Upper Ten, that our detective de- partment's shining light would have tried to date her up. He may do it yet. But I wasn't making any idle boast last night when I said I was going to take charge of the murder investigation this morning.” And then she told him of her visit to M. Borden and to Minnie Cassidy, resulting in the discovery of the orchid-tinted let- ter in the secret drawer of Bor- den's desk. “Good work!” Jack dutifully, but Ruth was quick to| sce that a shadow settled in the eyes she loved. He acknowledged the shadow by adding, hesitatingly: | “But I can't help feeling sorry, sweet, that poor Martha Manning has to be draggzed into this. I'm sure she didn't kill Borden, and | - well, there's something ahout; applauded like a malicious, son yet, | Let's have that woman that gets you—" “Jake Bailey, another of our morning callers, puts ¥t a little dif- ferently,” Ruth retorted. “He says Miss Manning ‘got’ Borden, but he doesn’t mean exactly what you do. - I'm sorry, dear! I understand how you feel, for I've been feeling meddling little beast myself, ever since she told her whole, pitiful, tragic story.” “Don’t feel too badl Jack urged tenderly, his hand closing over hers tightly. “McMann would have got on her trail within a few hours anyhow, since there must be any number of people who knew of her and Borden's affair, . . But what did McMann get out of the poor thing, with his damnable third degree methods?" Ruth neglected her soup and sal- ad to recount every detail of Mar- tha Manning's story, * in the order in‘which McMann had extracted it. “I'd like to choke that bully! Jack interrupted fiercely, when Ruth told him, with astonishing vividness, how the detective had secured the woman's fingerprints. “Haven't you learned your les- red-nead?” Ruth chided him gently. “I should think you'd never utter another threat so long as you live." “I suppose some lip-reading de- detective has already made a note of my slip of the tongue, and if Mc- Mann is ever bumped off, I'll be accused of the crime. But along, sweetheart! I promise do be “cut along” rapidly, de- scribing with wry humor the va- rious tilts between Martha Man- ning and Jake Bailey, Borden's bodyguard. “But against his will,” shc con- cluded, *“Jake did do Miss Manning a good turn. His professional pride would not let him admit that Mar. tha could have been close enough to him on the street so that she could see the pattern of his shirt and tie, without his seeing her. So it all boils down to this: Bailey himself, “as much as he hates Miss Manning, because he believes she killed his story of having been in the Star- bridge Building Friday night, from about hali-past eight till a few minutes past nine.” “A few minutes past nine?” Jack repeated thoughtfully. “And she says she walked down the stairs and out of the lobby at that time 2" Sudden comprehension illumined Sudden comprehension {llumined Ruth's lovely face. “I sce what you mean! Why dldn't I think of that before? That's just when the little army of cleaning women and porters is pouring out of the build- ing. I've seen them a dozen times, at least. nine. T'll speak to Mr. McMann as soon as I get back to the office—' Jack interrupted, grinning: *I thought you were conducting his investigation, young lady! not make inquiries yourself? Pellow, charge Mrs the grand old dowager in of the cleaning women, must be in the building now. She comes on about two o'clock, 1 think, and ac's as a sort of house- keeper for the building, even be- fore the cleaning women come on. a go at her, darling. Now—eat everv leaf of that salad, or Papa spank! Ruth obeyed, but now and then a puzzled frown knit her brows. and her brooding blue eyes dark- ened. -« “What's the about, honey?"” last. Ruth shook her clear it of mists, That's the funny thing about it. . . In fact. I'm not so much thinking as—listenin, Spirit heavy thinking Jack inquired at head, as if to “I—don't know. “Listening ? Jack laughed. ou needn’t laugh!™ tested. “Dad did come to me messages ?"" Ruth -pro- in HOSE worst pains from rheumatism or lumbago { are eased by Bayer Aspirin just as promptly, just as sure as in the case of head- i aches. Remember, then, you need never suffer long from any attack of rheumatism, neuralgia, or neuritis, Bayer Aspirin brings quick come fort, and these tablets do not depress the heart. Keep them handy at home; carry the pocket tin. You will find proven directions for many mmportant uses in every box of genuine Bayer Aspirin. All druggists; every tablet bears the Bayer Cross. cut | boss, corroborated her | They're through work at | Why | sation, the uniformed Mrs, Pellow, there's something I'd | way door like awfully well to have you tell| Friday evening between nine and my dream last night and make me remember the orchid-tinted letter. And I believe that letter is more | important than it seems now, or Daddy wouldn't have—"" “It was your subconscious, get- ting in a chance to remind you of something you'd forgotten,” Jack explained easily. “But I'm glad, darling, that you had your littl: visit with your father, even if it was only a dream. He must have been awonder—Colby Lester." “He was,” Ruth agreed. “But shut up now, Jack, and let my sub- conscious work in peace. That's what I'm trying to listen to.” The girl frowned. Those poor, thin, tortured hands of Martha Manning’s. . . . What mute mes- sage had they been trying, with- out Martha Manning's knowledge or consent, to get across to her? And surely there had been some- thing else — something she’d made a mental note of as Martha Man- ning talked, something apparently trivial, ¢ . “Come along, daripg, if you| want to sce Mrs. Pellow!"” Jack in- terrupted, just- as Ruth felt that she was on the verge of receiving |a clear, strong message from her subconscious mind. Now it's gone!"” her future she reproached husband ambiguousl! bust she rose obediently. “He my check. You imay as well get used to paying for it, young man!” It was good to breathe in decp draughts of the sharp, cold air, to |feel the winter sunshine on their faces. With mutual, unspoken con- {sent, the two who had lived for |two days under a dreadful shadow |—a shadow which might material- | ize into a prison cell for Jack Hay- ward—stood for two or three min- utes on the edge of the sidewalk, content not to talk, merely to breathe deeply. Micky Moran, the elevator oper- ator of the car Ruth habitually uscd, told them where to find Mrs, Pellow: “She's in her office on the second floor—238. 'Way at the back of the building. I carried her up at two o'clock myself. and seen her go down toward her office.” The head cleaning woman, or possibly more accurately, the ‘“‘housekeeper” of the Starbridge Building, was fn her little cubby- hole of an office, just as Micky had assured the couple she would be, They found her at hsr small, cheap | desk, talking over “the telephone. | She nodded, and went on with her conversation: “Yes, Mr. Feldblum! I understand. 4 Yes, I'll ask Minnfe if she saw the paper that's missing, but all our cleaning women have strict orders not to move papers that are left out on desks. . . . All right, Mr. | Feldblum! Of course I'm very sorry, but I'm sure— Oh!” she cried angri- ly, as she replaced the receiver on the hook. “Hung up on me, as if 1 | was dirt under his feet! It's | Miss Lester, isw't it? And Mr. | Hayward? Any mnews yet about poor Mr. Borden, though a harder {man to get along with— But 1| shouldn't say a word, sceing as how he's dead—" | 0. nothing yet,” rupted the voluble Ruth inte flow of conver- name is Carlson, gul name? iling the life out of me, 8o get a minute to do my work | Ruth's smile broadened, for sh: | Mrs. Pellow had never enjoyed herself so much in her life. | sh annoying, 1 know. | pial. “There’s knew that Mrs. Pellow, a minute. cleaning women as they leave every | evening, o'clock 2" agreed let one siip past haven't got before one old with a satchel presents she'd swiped from—"" rupted, with apparently pathy 2 “You stand in the lobby and check | them out, don't you?" take low bridled. minute!” please, Mrs. Pellow, if you were in the lobby from nin interrupted. will prove my words!"” white-haired, “housekeepel stately, “My land! 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