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JTheBarnwel^PeopIe-SenlinelJ^ n.WEDDING MARCH MURDERfc by MONTE BARRETT Copyright, HIS, by th« Bobbt-Marrill Oo. WNU Btrvlc*. Lil SYNOPSIS Wbitlnr In th« minister's study while the wedding: procession Is being mar shaled, Jim Franklin, about to be mar ried to Doris' Carfhody, is stabbed to death. Callls Shipley, one of the brides maids, is obviously in a state of anxiety. Peter Cardigan, novelist, and amateur detective of some note, with Sergeant Kllday. of the New York po lice, begin the official Investigation. The dagger used by the murderer is found.—Franklin,' while waiting!—Khd many visitors, among them his mis- treas, an actress, “Cfroo Choo’’ Train: his intended wife's father, Ambrose XJarniody; Tiff ‘"brotheTS^ Ry 1 le; Daniel Bullls, wellrknown politician, and an bnknown woman in a blue^ frock, who Bad quarreled openly with Franklin. •— — ' ■ ' ii \ ■ ■ 1 CHAPTER II—Continued - ., —♦— ' ■— “Where had you been, RoyceT” Kll day wheeled quickly to the newspa per man. “Out in the vestibule of the church, looking for Milo Dunbar,” replied Royce. “For me?” Dunbar looked at the editor Inquisitively. “Jim wanted you to do him a fa- vor.’Mftick explained. , „ “We^ come to that later”. Kllday Interrupted Impatiently. “When you got back here to the sacristy, did you aee Bullis, or hear anything of his quar rel with FrahfcUn?” “No.” \ “How about the woman >4n blue? Did you see her? Was that Cnoo Choo Train?” N - “No, I didn’t see her. But It couldn’t have been Choo Choo," Royce war quite postttvE Choo Choo “es^ tered later, from the outside door. Fm sure she hadn’t been here before, becauSe Jim was surprised to see her."- »V. .. . —“A«d you never‘saw the woman tn blue?” Nick shook his bead. “Both she and Bullis must have left by the back door. This is the first T had heard of either of them.” “Didn’t Doctor Abernathy say any thing about them?" Kllday persisted. Royce meditated, frowning. "No, he never mentioned them. I remember he did say, This is the strangest wed- ding I ever saw.' I didn’t know he was referring to these visitors, how- ever. v !—Doctor.. Abernathy leaned forward quickly. “Teii them what you sal^ln reply to that, Mr. Royce,” he urged. T don’t remember—what did I say?" Inquired Royce. “You said," the rector’s face flushed with sincerity, “ ‘It may be stranger, before It’s over.’” “Yes,” Nick smiled. T remember saying that now.” “Just what did you think was going to be so strange, Royce?” Sergeant Kllday was quick to. follow op the *Td like to know where? I couldn’t locate you.” “Let’s get all this straight” Kll day, hands behind him, studied Royce shrewdly. “Shortly after you and Franklin arrived, Rylle Carmody came? He was evidently very angry. Both you and Doctor Abernathy saw him. He talked with Franklin In the rector’s study, and then left hurriedly. Later Franklin confided the nature of this quarrel to you, and you went out In front In search of Mr. Dunbar, but were unsuccessful In finding him. “While you were away. Doctor Ab ernathy was called to the telephoner and when he came out he found Frank lin quarreling with a mysterious wom an In blue—a blond. Franklin declared the woman was hysterical over a trust fund and hurried her Into the study. Inhere they quarreled. This woman was not Choo Choo Train, because Choo Choo was wearing green. At any rate, while the woman was still In the study, Daniel Bullis came here de manding to see Franklin. He refused to wait, and pushed on into"the study In spite of Doctor Abernathy’s warn ing that Franklin was busy. Then you came back, Royce. “And when the doctor told you he had never seen such a strange wed ding, you tojd him It might be stranger,' before it was over. You say you were referring to Rylle Carmody.” “I was,” declared Royce emphat ically. , “Never mind that now” Kllday brushed aside the Interruption. “Neither of you saw the woman In blue or Daniel Bullis leave the study. But Just a few minutes before the ceremony was to start, you say that Mr. Ambrose Carmody came back to see Franklin.’ I believe your Inference "Was that they quarreled.” T can . explain that.” Ambrose Car mody broke.In. "I did have an argu ment with Franklln. 'Just before we left the house for the church, some onctetephimwl. TT was tB a anbnyitious message. Normally I wouk? have paid no attention to It. But It so vitally concerned the welfare of my family, I thought It deserved recognition. After reaching the church, T asked Franklin for an explanation.” “What was that message, Mr, Car mody ?’’ “It concerned this actress, “ Choo Choo-Train. I was Informed of her affair vylth Franklin-" Royce hesitated- “That gets back to the reason Jim asked me to go out in front and find Milo Dunbar," he began ■lowly. ■' “And to Rylle Cnrmody’s quarrel with him, Jus| after we ar rived here.” “Did you bear that quarrel?*’ “No. Jim told me about^it D,OCtor Abernathy was here when Rylle'came, though. He can verify that part Of It.” The rector nodded, reluctantly^ It seemed to Peter. “It was about twenty minutes to four,”: Royce continued. “Rylle drove up to the side of the church in a roadster, and came In here demanding • to see Franklin alone. He was beside himself with anger. “Doctor Abernathy Invited him to use his study. He and Jim were In there about two minutes, 'fhen Rylle rushed out He didn’t stop to speak to either the doctor or me. He left the church very hurriedly and drove off In his car. I watched him from the door, there.” “But you fc say Franklin told you about this quirrel?”' “Yes. Immediately afterward, be called me Into the study and ex plained that some one had told Rylle about his affair with Choo XSfaoo Train. The boy had come to demand ' an explanation. Jim bad told him the r truth. There was nothing else to do." Royce left his chair and walked restlessly about the room as he con- , tinned his story. Tt seems that Rylle demanded to know’If the affair had ended. Jim made the mistake of try ing to talk to the boy as one man of the world to another. It didn’t work. Rylle declared he was going to stop the wedding. Before Jim could stop him, he rushed out of the room, and was gone. “Jim was worried. He was afraid the boy might cause eome sort of dis turbance during the ceremony. He was just wrought up enough to d^ such a thing. So he asked me to burry out In front and find Milo Dunbar. Mr. Dunbar Is—or was—Jim’s law part ner. I was to explain what had hap pened and ask him to keep an eye out for Rylle, when he entered the church. Jim was certain that Mr. Dunbar could handle it “But I couldn’t locate Dunbar. That ' was why I was gone so long. But Rylle wasn’t there, either, and I finally decided that the boy would be all : right, after he had had time to think things over. At any rate, I couldn’t re- maln away any longer, as it was about time for the service to’start So I came on back here.” T was right there in the church, all the time,'* declared Milo Dunbar. • His alert gray glance was fastened oh the newspaper man. “Was it a man’s voice, or a worn an’s?" demanded Peter Cardigan. “A man’s.” * ' *AhcTyou asked Franklin about it?” "Yes. When I reached this room, both Royce and Doctor Abernathy were present. I inquired for Franklin, and they Informed me he was in the study. 1 knocked. Franklin opened the door almost Immediately. I don’t know what had become of all these people they say had been In the study. There was no one else there at the time. I told Franklin what I had heard, and demanded an explanation. I made-lt- elear-that T-had- to know the- truth befpre the wedding. Franklin denied there was any truth in the mes sage. He gave me his word as a gen tleman on 4t and I believed him.” "That was all then?" Kilday prompt ed him. / ‘That’s exactly what sha’d like to do.’ Jim said. ‘Come on In here where i can talk.’ And he pulled her toward the door of the study. That’s the last I saw of Choo Choo.” Who fat Fletcher?" Kllday wanted to know. . “That’s Jim’s man-servant,” Royce explained. . \ “And that was the last you sew of Franklin, too?" Inquired Peter. Yes. But I spoke to him after that." “When?" Royce faced Peter squarely. “When Callls Shipley, came,” he said. “Califs Shipley? Who is that?” “See here, this is preposterous,” Am- brose Carmody interrupted angrily. S CalliS was one. of the bridesmaids. 5He was ouTin front all of the time.’-’ “Oh. no. she wasn’t,” Nick denied. “She was back here just before the wedding. She came running In the side ^oor, very—excited and out of breath. " ‘Where’s Rylle? la he back here?* she wanted to .know. ■ ’ T told her I didn’t think so. ” ‘Then" where is Jim Franklin?" she asked me breathlessly. ‘She, was so agitated, I was afraid something was Wrong, particularly in view of what had happened between Rylle and Jim, Just a short time Before. So I knocked on the study door. “Jim asked me what was wanted. “‘Have you seen Rylle Ytermody?’ she asked him. ‘He isn’t Jn there, Is he?’ “When Jim said he wasn’t, the girl sort of caught at her throat, and said, ‘Oh.’ “I could see she was very much ex cited. ‘You’d better let me take you around front,’ I urged her, but she said, ‘Oh, I’ll be all right,’ and left the way she had come.” “Mr. Royce,” demanded Kllday blue dress?” The newspaper, man hesitated. "Why, yes, I think she did,” he said finally. This Week f? Arthur Brisbane Looks Like War She Shot, but Forgets One Lady Hitch-Hiker $1,000,000 Well Spent -rGeneral Hayashl, new Japanese war minister, says that if war comes It will be Russia's fault, Japan longs only for pqpce. You/remember hear ing something like that In 1014. At the . same time, Stalin, who doesn’t seem to knpW that it is polite to say “I love everybody,” was telling the Communist party In Moscow: "We everybody not to poke their warn snouts Into the Soviet, potato patch.’ (He should have said “his snout.”) The Russian gathering roared ap proval, expressing fullest confidence and delight in anything Stalin might ah to fid. “ ' T Stalin added that Japan Is not the only country with an ambition to “wage war against the Soviet Uplon and share Its territory." £*>rae Euro pean nations have that Idea, accord ing to Stalin. He Is supposed to mean Germany,. General Hayashl -says It Is silly to talk about war between the United States and Japan, and he Is right Rnnsla, In her present state of rev olutionary enthusiasm, would keep any, country busy. “You leave my husband alone!” ap peals to many Jurymen. Miss Inez Lindsay, young, was In a car with Mrs. Ella Mae Mumford’s husband, firs. Mumford shot Inez, killed her, admitted It. but told the Jury she really could not - remembe/ anything about It. The Jury said she was lu- Prlmltlve Justice, Indicating that the “sacred marriage tie” Is taken more seriously in some places than In others. ImmortstFifafei Is Che Field of Science Who are the world’s greatest scleo Mats? Nineteen shields, containing nineteen, names of outstanding sa vants, ornamented the balcony of the great hall of science at tbs Century of Progress exposition at Chicago last summer. Those selected and their fields are: Biology, Aristotle; mathematics, Archimedes; mathematics, Euclid; astronomy, Hipparchus; anatomy, Leonardo; physics, Galileo; atron- omy. Huygens; physiology, Harvey; mathematics, * Newton; chemistry, Lavoisier; chemistry, Dalton; biol ogy, Darwin; medicine, Pasteur; physics, Faraday; physics. Helm- holts; physics, Maxwell; chemistry. Mendelejeff; physics, Rowland; physics, Herts. In commenting on their selection. Prof. Henry Crew, head of North western nhlversfty’s department of physics, aatdr “We do. not list these names ■■ the nineteen greatest scientists In history. Bat they are great names In science—names whose selection we can defend.” Dr. Bierce's Favorite Preecription makes weak women atrong. No alcohol. by druggists in tal ng. i iblets 0^1 J DOlu or liquid.—Adv. With Good Reason Yox popull Is the voice of the peo ple, and it says, “Ouch!” nemos DeitoTtf* Reid had letimed to count la tfcg Id fashion of counting hls^fbs- One day ho was counting them again and again and finally shook hfa bead In bewilderment, holding op Us bonds for bis mother to solve the dif ficulty. v “Well, look, es far as I can see toy hands look Justxthe same hat this one has only five fingers,'” he holding up the first hand ho had counted, and then thrusting ng the second one, "but this one has ten I” Keeps Skin Young Here's Quickest, Simplest Way to Stop a Cold . sprang -to his feet “You’re making a terrible mistake," he cried. “Callls Shipley wasn't the wom an In blue—not the woman In blue I sqw. That—wh/, that's absurd.” His fingers fumbled with his handkerchief as he mopped .his brow. “I’m sure she was out In the vestl- bule*. In front.” added Ambrose Car mody. “You’re getting nowhere, Jumping about this way, trying to con nect Innocent people, with the crime.' sergeant Kllday frowned slowly, from one man to the other.. Then he turned back to Nick Royce. “You say GalHs Shipley came back here after Doctor Abernathy left the room? She was the last visitor?” Royce nodded. “There couldn’t be any mistake?” —“Not a ohance—You see,. I’ve met color in his face, Carmody gave no out ward sign of emotion. T can substantiate a part of that, volunteered Doctor Abernathy. “When Mr. Carmody left the study, I heard him say, T have your word for It?’ and I heard Mr. Franklin say, ’You have.’ ’’ Peter Cardigan interrupted with a question. “Did you take advantage of Mr. Carmody’s presence to inform him of this quarrel which had so dis turbed you?’’ be asked the rector. “No." Doctor Abernathy again moist ened bis lips. “I decided against It"* “But earlier you had made up your mind to tell \hitn,” the novelist per sisted. "What caused you to change your decision?” “1 only Intended to Interfere If, In my opinion, there were cause to ques tion the advisability of proceeding •with the ceremony,” replied the rector slowly. “After consideration, I de cided this was not true. The woman In blue had coufirmed Franklin’s state- ment that her qnarrel was of a btixl- ness rather than a personal nature. Of course,” he added, “It would have been different had I been present when Miss Train, the actress, arrived. This Is the first I bad heard of that” “H’m,!” Sergeant Kllday digested this In silence for a moment Then be turned to Royce. “When was it Choo Choo arrived on the* scene?” “After Doctor Abernathy had entered the church,” said Royce. “When Mr. Carmody left the study, Doctor Aber nathy walked to| the door with him. Mr. Carmody walked around the out side of the church. The last thing I heard him say was, ‘Let’s start on time.'. It was then only about one mlnnte of four. Doctor Abernathy turped to us and asked If we were ready. Jim said we were. Doctor Aber nathy then entered the church, through this door. I was stauding here, by the door, leaving It open .a crack so that I could see what happened Inside, so, naturally, my back was to Jim. “I never saw. Choo Choo enter. The first I knew that she was here, was when I heard Jim say, ’What are yon doing here? I thought I told yon to stay away?* “She said, *1 Intended to, Jim, until Fletcher phoned me that yon said to come, after all,’ she said. . “Jim denied that he had told Fletcher to phone, and they started to quarrel I was afraid they could be heard in the church. ' •"Pipe down,’ I warned them. Do Miss Shipley ■ dozen times, recently, at parties given for the bridal party.” “But you never saw - the woman in blue that Doctor Abernathy told us afiout, did you?" “We’ve been over that,” Royce de clared impatiently. “I was out In front, looking for Milo Dunbar.” The sergeant turned to the rector. "How well do you know Callls Ship- ley, Doctor?" ‘Tve known her all her life. I christened the child.” “There Isn’t any chance that yon ouTd be mistaken, then?” -Kllday"! worried the question, like a dog with a bone. “You’re positive that the woman In blue you told us about, earlier, could not have been Callls Shipley?” “I am positive of that," declared Doctor Abernathy, and his manner was convincing. l£l)day was baffled. “What do you make of this, Peter?" The detective turned to his friend for suggestion. “Jim Franklin was murdered at or about the stroke of four. He arrived here at twenty minutes of four. In that twenty-minute Interval, eight peo ple visited this room, that we know of."’ Here he ticked them off on his fingers. “Doctor Abernathy, who was In the church when Franklin was killed; Nick Royce, who was his best man, and claims he was standing right at this door at the time of the murder; Rylle Carmody, who was to have been his brother-in-law, and who quarreled with him In the stndy, ac cording to two witnesses; Mr. Car- -modyr tOWay rTarrckr TarpectfuTTy toward the banker, “who explains that he came to demand the truth from Franklin regarding Choo Choo Train; Callls Shipley, one of the bridesmaids, who did not see Franklin while she V&s here, but did see Nick Royce; an- ottfisr woman, dressed In |>lue, like Miss Shipley, who has not been Identi fied; Choo Choo Train, the actress, who is supposed to have been to love with the dead man; and Daniel Bullis, who evidently was very angry when he entered the study without knocking.- - “All this," he threw out his hands In a gesture of despair, “In twenty min utes, and we can’t find anybody that seems to know anything.” “And yet we have enough to go on,” Peter expressed a confidence he did not entirely feel “We can talk to Choo Choo Train. We’ll want to ask Daniel Bullis some questions. We can discover something of Franklin’s pri vate life from his man-servant, Fletch- -vTI' Whom Mr. Royce mentloqed, which may put us on the tret! of the mys terious woman In blue; we can locate and Identify that woman; we can ques tion Callls Shipley and discover why she was so eager to find Rylle Car mody, and what she was doing back here in the sacristy, when, as s brides maid, she was supposed to be #lth the bridal party, in the front vestibule, and jre -can look up Rylle Carmody. who quarreled with Jim Franklin as shortly before—" J (TO BR OONTUnmX) The President fixes dollar value at fifty-nine and six-hundredths cents. That Is the official value of each dol lar you earn and spend. Just what "value" means remains to be demon strated. One New York hanker fig- ores out that with .gold up and the dollar down, the "bank credit” of the United States could he expanded to about “three hundred thousand mil lion dollars.” ’That seemS a goddUeaT srfMfwyr If It be real money, or Is there any real mopey? The fact la that we have something more than seven thousand million dollars In gold, after raising the “value” of gold from about twen ty to thirty-five dollars an ounce. How that much gold can be spread out to cover SSOO.OQp.OOO.OOO would puzsi* a goldbeater Drink full flx» of water, y If throat Is sort, cnah Itepaat treatment in 2 ||a and diaeoive 2 Bayer hour*. - Aspirin Tablets in a hag —■— glam of ‘ Almost Instant Relief “With a humble and thankful heart” President Roosevelt tells the nation listening on the radio that he accepts the large sum raised to help-poor chil dren suffering from Infantile paraly sis. Ten mutton Americans -danced; ate. listened patiently to speeches, and the result Is $1,000,000 to be spent fighting disease and diminishing suffer ing. besides giving the President great pleasure, In connection with his fifty- second birthday. ^ That Is better than shooting off fire works or havjog an expensive review ^ of a great army, or elaborate fleet. Wcf Show common sense in some things. in this Way The simple method pictured above is the way doctors throughout the world now treet colds. Ask your doctor about this. And when you buy, see that you get the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They dissolve almost instantly. And thus work almost" instantly when you take them And for a It is recognized as the QUICK- gargle. Genuine BAYER Aspirin EST, safest, surest way to treet a Tablets dissolve so completely cold. For it will check an they leave no irritating par- ordinary cold almost as tides. Get n box of 12 fast as you caught it tablets or %>ottfc of 24 dT 100 at any drug store. \ ’ Does NOT HAMM me HEAMT If Miss Evelyn Clark, twenty-two, hitch hiker from Los - Angeles, was taken Into his car by Mr. W. H. Bybee, new ly escaped from the penitentiary. Miss Clark thought there must be some thing wrong about the sawed-off auto matic shotgun, rifle, automatic pistol and much ammunition that she no ticed In the car. When Bybee stopped for gas. Miss Clark drove off with his csfr, told the police. They got Bybee, who says: “I’ll shoot the next hitch hiker I see.” - , / ** Three courageous Russian scientists, Pavil Fedoseinko, Andrey Vasenko and Ilya Usyskln, whose names will be for gotten as soon as they are read, out side of Russia, sacrificed their lives in exploration of the air. They went op 67,585 feet, breaking all records, as high as though they had Mother Knows Little Boy—Mamma, what’s s sec ond stbry man? Mother—Your father Is one, dear. If his first story won’t do be always has s second.—Kansas City Star. Erie a Fevered City Pennsylvania has a Lake shoreline of approximately miles, yet the'CttruTEHi la aa the largest fresh water port In.the world. Make this lip test piled sixty-seven and a half Eiffel tow ers, one on top of the other, and climbed np. ' It was the highest ascent on record, and also thelongest fall when the gas bag crashed, broke away from the gon dola and returned to the clouds While It Is true that many billions are being spent, some, perhaps, not with the wisdom of*ahgels. at least all the money Is staying In the United States, spent In stores, feeding- fam ilies. relieving distress and depression. It isn’t being sent to Europe. Nobody knows anything about mon ey. It is all guesswork. And that applies to the learned, so-called finan ciers. When you’ye got enough gold to get along and transact business, yon’re on a gold basis and very proud of it. When your gold Is Inadequate, your need of money grows too fast, or your depression Is too deep, you get, off the gold basis, and try to seem proud of that What the facts are no one knows. cheeks, too, wUkoaS the natural glow of of rich, red . if they don’t of the reasons why your L OOK at them . . . and 4 make-up. Do they health, which comes from blood? If they do, make-up read on ... yon may find skin Is not dear and roar You cannot have red. lips, rosy cheeks, energy sad cheerfulness if your blood is in a ran-down condition. Lads of bemo-glo-bin, the red coloring, of the blood, ■say also Indicate a weakened condition of tho body . •. loss of strength ... poor appetite. 8.S.S. 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