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r vwri The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C, April 5,1934 L MARRIAGE SYMBOL Are wedding rings tbe sort of thing • well-dressed woman onght to wearf They were criticised the other day by Lady Mount Temple on the ground that they matched nothing and M kllled N other rings. Most wires, however, would say that a wedding ring ought to be easily recognizable as such, and that, anyway, they pre ferred the traditional style. Realy, however, the tradition {s not ef long standing. The wedding rings of the early days of the Christian era were quite frequently marked with cross, and other rings here the- same symbol. Later, stones were set In the wedding ring, as in others, or It was engraved more or less elab orately. The plptn circlet of gold Is only about three hundred years old, and was Introduced as.a symbol of Puritan revolt against “gauds.” It is notable, too,'that the “tradi tion 11 of the prevented the appearance of the platinum wedding ring, or kept It from becoming popular. — London Tlt-Blta.^ ' SYNOPSIS % Waiting In the minister's study, Jim Franklin, about to b# married to Doris Carmody, Is stabbed to death. Peter Cardigan, novelist, and amateur detec tive of some note, with Sergeant Kll- day, begin the- offletal InveetHratten. Franklin, while waiting, had vieitore, among them hie mistress, “Choo Choo" T^aln; his intended wife’e father, Am brose Canmody; her brother, Rylie; Daniel Bullis, politician, and a woman In a blue frock, who had quarreled openly with Franklin. Rylie Carmody admits trying to stop the wedding, aft er being informed by Webster Spears that Franklin was still friendly with Choo Choo, despite hie approaching marriage. Kilday secures ths dead man’s keys. 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Cartnody’a take, in the hope of preventing the wedding. Fletcher, Franklln’e tnan- eervant, ia reticent An Interview with Milo Dunbar, Franklin’s law partner, and search of the dead man’s office, reveals nothing of Importance. Choo Choo admits her relations with Frank lin were to continue after hie mar riage. She says she was decoyed into visiting Franklin at the church by a telephone message from Fletcher, tell ing her to come. CHAPTER V—Continued —II— “He Mad a key. I suppose Jt’s there.” - “Mind if I try It r Choo Choo shrugged. “Nice of you to ask," she said. There was a trace of bitterness in her voice. ^ “I’ve al ready told you he had a key. fm not hiding anything.” T just want to make sure,” the de- tective retorted, over his shoulder, as he disappeared toward the living- room. When _ he returned, he nodded -toward -Peterr "It fits. ThurgHgtz Df~ ^ them." ■ “You sound dlaflppolDtedL’Lohaerv.ed Choo Choo. *T had hoped that key would help commented. “No matter. We’ll play the hand Just as It Is dealt" Peter frowned thoughtfully at his lean brown hands. “Miss Train." he put the question deliberately, “how did you feel about this marriage at "Marrying her P Choo Choo tossed her head. "He wasn’t marrying a girt He was marrying n social posi tion. Jim was going to be the next governor of New York." Kilday could cope with the wom an’s anger, where her Borrow, a short time before, hen silenced him. "And I suppose yon were going to Albany with him, ehr *T wouldn’t-have been so far away," retorted the actress. "If he loved you so much, why didn’t he marry you?" the sergeant Insisted. “Don’t be slay," the actress scoffed. "Wherd would Jim have been if he’d married an Actress? Wouldn’t the papers have had a good time on that? ‘Candidate for Governor Marries Show GlrL’ That would’ve been mur der. It would have finished him." “Aa lL tnrned oaL*’ repllnd Kilday dryly, “It was murder Anyway/ The girl shivered. “You’re wast ing time here,” she said In a quieter voice. "Why ddift you talk to Dan Bullis. Maybe he can tell you what happened- yesterday afternoon. He was sore at Jim, and he’d been try ing to see him. Bullis called me here, yesterday, wanting to see Jim. When I said he wasn't here, he swore. He said Jim was hiding from him, and that I was helping him. But he said he’d find him. If you really want to TfifiTwROcilled Jim Frftnklln, talk to Dan Bullis." “We’ve talked to Bullis,” Peter In formed her quietly. “We’ve come here to And out what you know. Miss Train." „ “I’m only telling yon where to go If you want information about the Franklin’s? You were In love with him, weren’t you?" Choo Choo moistened her lips, hut did not reply. Her dark eyes re turned tils stare, but the shadows concealed their expression. Finally she nodded. “Yes. I loved him. 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Money- back guarantee. -- t #L ni iakuim DLAImmAIV r t STOCKnt POULTRY Med/cfnes are RbUbMb Tiro Franklin's body, ns he had last seen it in the rector’s study. "No, that was his answer, Miss Train. I'm asking how you felt?” "There are times,” said the girl distinctly, "when your feelings don’t count. I wash^ exactly happy over the marriage. You can’t expect me to say that Still,” her glance faltered before the novelist’s unwavering j-scrutiny, “I figured that I’d get over ; It Other people have." “Then when yon left Franklin there : In the study, you knew you were tell ing him good-by, for good, didn’t you?” Kilday questioned for the first time. “I didn’t say that,” the actress re plied quickly. Then, noticing the un- { lighted cigar in the detective’s hand. “Go on and smoke," she Invited. "I need one myself." She fumbled on the table by the stand and found a cigarette. Cardigan held a match for her. For a minute she puffed, deeply, as V though keenly” efijoying the smoke. Her glance traveled slowly, from one man to the other. “What made ; inquired of Kildav, finally. The sorgeaqtTffirugged. getting married, wasn’t he?” "Jim Didn’t Love Her—He Loved Mel Can’t You Understand ?> Me!” murder,” said the actress impatiently. “Do you think I’d kill tlwynan L love? Dan Bullis la your man: I tell you.” “Yes. You’ve sald^hat before," the novelist nodded, /‘we’ll take care of Mr. Bullis. Btft some people don’t think FrankWn was killed by a man. Miss TratfC They believe a woman that loved Franklin. She thought fbe had some claim on him, evidently. Iff. fact,” Peter waa remembering the atory Daniel Bullla had told of the ■cene In tbe study, "the threatened to rain Mm. If he went ahead with the wedding. Are you still rare you don’t know who Hist woman was?” “Say I” Choo Choo was eltt erect, her eyes stormy. “Why don’t you question-her? If this Is straight, she’s the one yon are looking for." Then she relaxed against tbe pillows "But this Isn’t on the level.” Her voice had gone flat, ift lt t waa. you wouldn’t be wasting your time here.” x “Perhaps It Isn’t wasted", said Peter. “Perhaps you are the very per son who can tell ua where we may find this woman In blue.” The actress did not answer, but her ayes watched the novelist's, guardedly. “Suppose you have told us the truth, as far as you have gone,” Peter con tinued. “Suppose you weren’t jealous of Doris Carmody, and didn’t care whether Franklin married her or not.” GOOD ADVICE AS TO IMPROVEMENT OP ROADSIDES Local materials for roadside Im provement can be utilized at a com paratively low cost, says Wilbur H. i, landscape architect of tbe ChooTJhoo wTheedT killed Jealousy.* and that -the motive was ~r A-Brik • Blackman's Stock Powder • Blackman’s Cow Tonic • Blackman’s Ckir-Med-Sal • BluW.fe&'ttku • Blackman’s Podtry Powder Highest Qumllty — Lowst Prlcm Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. 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"There’s one thing you don’t seem to understand. Jim loved me! He didn’t love that Carmody girl." "But he was marrying her." the sergeant declared, with finality. “You’re crazy!” Choo Choo stared at him angrily. “That means me, of course, and how do you figure I’d have done a thing like that? In the flrat place, I couldn't get away with IL Everybody knew how I felt about Jim. Even if I had wanted to, I wouldn’t have tried that, because I’d have known this was the first place you would come. “But you’re overlooking a bigger bet than that. I loved him. Why would I murder the man I loved? That doesn’t make sense." "If you thought you were losing him. It would make sense, all right," Kilday Interjected. “But I’ve told you I wasn’t losing him." “Forget about the wedding for a minute," Cardigan invited. He,rose and strode about the room aimlessly, but his eyes never left the woman who sat upon the bed. “You’ve been reading these ac counts of the murder." Cardigan in dicated the newspapers beside the, mere that Bounded strange. Miss TrainT’ looked like half of New York came around there io-see J\m. just before the wedding. They make It sound dike he waa quarreling with all -of them, too.” "Including yourself,” said Kilday. "Yes,” the actress admitted, “in cluding me." * “It seems to me you have over looked one of those callers,” Peter continued. “I mean the woman In the blue dress.” Choo Choo looked at him through narrowed eyes. “Who was she?" “That’s what I’m asking you," said Peter. She shrugged silk-clad shouldera. “How should I know? I didn't see anybody there In * blue dress” “Nobody else kaowa who she was either, Mist/Train,” declared the nov elist “We can’t find anyone who ever saw her before. We only know that she was Jealons of Jim Franklin —that she—” “Jealous?" Then the actress leaned hack, more calmly. “What Is this? Are yon trying to trick ms some way?" Peter shook his head. “There’s no trick to It" he replied limply. "Ap patently, thla waa another woman “Even granting that everything was Just as you have said, that would not have kept you from being madly jeal ous of Franklin, if you had discovered there was still a third woman—this woman In blue—that he loved." •"But I tell you I didn’t know there waa such a woman.” Choo Choo raised clenched hands above her head. “I, still don’t believe It. Jim wouldn’t have done that to me. I loved him. And he loved me' Can't you under- ttfindT Her Sh(T oear ^er lyreasr with her fists. Peter waited quietly until the actress’ storm of emotion had passed. “Per haps,” he suggested, “this other wom an heard of you yesterday, for the first tli^e. That being the case, she might have been the one wHo went to see Franklin, with vengeance In her heart.” There waa hatred In the glance Choo Choo turned on him. “You’re mighty sure tbore waa another woman, area!!, yon?” wae all she said. In spite of his certainty that there had been another woman, / and that she had played a dramatic, probably In the slaying of Jim Franklin, Peter felt that he wae mak ing no headway. He had succeeded only in antagonizing a wltnesa from which he had expected much assist- znce. _ Like every other trail they had followed, this, too, seemed to lead nowhere. And yet Choo Choo Train had been the last person, as far as they conld determine, who had Franklin alive. According to the mony of Nick Boyce and Dortofr Ab- Wharhy, she had been in the study with Jim Franklin after Daniel Bullla and the woman in blu? fiad left. And her motive, too. w^a apparent, If she had known of the existence of that other woman^/Or even if she hadn't, could he believe her statement that FranklinJs wedding was to have made no difference in her relationship with hi; H» wondered, too, at the woman’s apparent lack of grief. To be sure, there were moments when she ap peared grief-stricken. But they were only moments. She seemed to turn her emotions on and off. Jike a faucet, al most at will. Opposed to these argu ments, of course, were Webster Spears' activities; Daniel Bullis’ reticence con cerning his conversation with Frank lin; Rylie Carmody’s efforts to halt the wedding; the suspicions aroused by Callis Shipley’S movements, and, of” course, the woman in blue, still unex plained and as mysterious as ever. “Miss Train." the novelist inquired suddenly, “how well do yon know Webster Spears?'* . “Webster Spears? I’ve never heard of him."' - “Are yon sure a man by that name didn’t telephone you yesterday?" “If he had. I’d have heard of him." Choo Choo’s manner was eontempt- nous. “Outside of Jim and Dan Bullis, the only man who phoned me yester day was Fletcher," she declared. ‘Tvs already told you about that." Peter frowned. “What was Frank lin’s number?" he demanded curtly. She told him. "Do you mind if we use your tele phone?” “Certainly not.” Choo Choo handed him the instrument from the table at her bedside. Fletcher answered the call. ’This Is Peter Cardigan. Fletcher I called there with Sergeant Kilday to ask yon some questions last night remember?” ‘Yes, sir. I remember." “I forgot to ask you about your tele- •ptronc, rail to Mlsz Train, yesterday, Fletcher" Peter explained. “How did you happen to telephone her?" •“There must be some mistake, ait; t never telephoned Miss ‘Train.” The novelist hesitated, his hand over tbe transmitter, "What time did you say yon received that call. Miss Train r “It must have been about half past two,” replied the actress. “Think again,” said Peter, Into the telephone. "Didn’t you call Miss Train about two-thirty yesterday after noon?" Fletcher’s tone waa positive. “I’m quite sure. sir. I have never tele phoned Mias Train.” “Here, let me talk to him!" 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