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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. CL Thursday, June 25, 1936 UNCONFESSED SYNOPSIS Mary Hastintfs Bradley L«IU Seton, younp and beautiful, and •n expert on paintintfa, Is commissioned to go over the coHectlon of paintings In the horns of the wealthy Kellers In New York, where a party Is In progress. From her window she witnesses a man tn another room strike a woman. Short ly after Mrs. Keller sends up word, ask ing her to join the party at dinner. l.ella hastily dresses and goes down. She Is seated between Mr. Deck, a critic, and Monty Mitchell, a noted lawyer. Introductions follow. There are Mr. Harrlden, Miss Letty>, Van Alstyn, Mrs. rj>i CHAPTER III—Continued -4- When they went to examine the place where the body had been found, Monty Mltchqll threw a coat about me , and drew ma out with him. Perhaps he wanted ray observation, as he said; perhaps he was simply being kind to me, the outsider among those whis pering groups. The police had turned the head lights of their car on the shrubbery and every leaf stood out In brilliant detail There was not a bit of blood to be found anywhere, nor did they And any object which could have made the wound In her head. The dense bushes had received her body and eased It to the ground. '‘She was dead before she got here,” I heard the Inspector say. The ground had been so trampled toy the men who had lifted out Mrs. Harrlden*s body that all footprints were Indecipherable, and there were ao marks to j>e found of any ladder. "He must have had one, to get up there,” Donahey muttered, squinting ap at the smooth white stone facade, •a the spotlight from a car played over its high austerity. I heard Keller saying that the gar dener reported that all ladders were safely locked In their proper places. “Awkward sort of thing to bring along with him,” the Inspector mused. “But he might have used It on the walls and then here.” "And lugged It away with him?’’ said Mitchell. “Somehow 1 don’t see a sneak thief trying to lope along in conspicuously, with a twenty-foot lad der.” Slowly Donahey nodded, still study ing the window. “Might have got In somewhere else and used the window for a getaway." Mitchell debated that. “That’s a high drop — he’d have made a heavy landing and smashed the bushes. There Isn’t a sign of Injury to them except where Mrs. Harrlden fell." There Is no use In going over those hours, moment by moment, those hours In which we sat waiting or milled around, eddying to each report. There were lonely hours for me, for now Monty Mitchell ceased to concern him self with me and went busily about with the police* Very thoroughly they went over the place while Donahey Interviewed each melnber of the domestic staff. He in terviewed them separately, butlers, maids, cooks, laundresses, chauffeurs, the linen woman, the lodge-keeper, the boathouse-keeper, and not one of them had a suspicious thing to communi cate. All their testimony- was to the effect that it would be Impossible for any one to enter or leave the house without being seen. “Well, if it isn’t an outside Job it’s an inside,” Donahey retorted dispas sionately. “Somebody got in here somehow." I coold see that Donahey was let ting It stand for what it was worth at the present Between the interviews there were constant reports from the men who had been sent out to check up on things and the sum total ttf those reports was that the lodge-keep er said there hud been no attempts to enter and that there was no marks of footprints about the base of the walls or any ladder marks, or any signs of disturbance of the glass ce mented on the top of the walls be tween the spikes There were no footprints, either, in the sands where the side walls ended at the sea, and ao indications of a boat having been beached. The tide had been going out alnce seven and the shore was utter ly untouched except by water marks. “Well, that’s fine,’’ said Donahey sarcastically. “No way Into the grounds and no way into the house. Kxcept by the front door.” CHAPTER IV Copyright by D. Appleton- Century Co", Ino. WNU Service Crane, Mrs. Watkine and tjrlnce and Princess Kancini, guests. Leila finds • he is taklnK the place of Nora Harrl den. Dan Harrlden leaves the table, and Mitchell explains he has gone up to see how his wife's headache Is. He returns shortly. Deck, saying he must put In a call, leaves. Upon his return, he begs Leila to secretly take a mes sage to Nora “to take ho steps until I see you.'' Leila consents. Leila finds the Harrlden rooms empty and so In forms Deck. Coming out she passes Petty. Harrlden asks Princess Rancin! to run up and see his wife. The prin cess reports the absence of Nora. Search Is fruitless. Harrlden admits that he had a row, and believes she is spite fully hiding. Letty tells of seeing Leila come from the room. Leila accuses Har rlden of having struck his wife. This Harridan denies. From the Harridens’ window Leila sees what proves to be Nora's lifeless body. A ghastly head wound caused death. Dan says she waic lying on her bed when he went to din- *er, and when he ran up later the room was dark. Thinking she was asleep, he left without seeking her. Mrs. Keller comes upon a pool of blood In the closet. A diamond chain Is miss ing. I group of men and women In evening dress, and the rtog of policemen fringing the borders of the Aubusson carpet. Donahey’s notes and papers were spread out on the table before him and among them was a list of the guests the Kellers must have provided, that be consulted now carefully, checking us off one by one. There were ten of us present now, beside the Kellers, for Deck had reappeared from the se clusion he seemed to have been keep ing, and Harrlden himself had come down and stood, grim and expression less, on the other side of that little table. Wlint Donahey wanted first was an account of the last time Mrs. Harrl den had been seen alive. Every one had seen her at late afternooon cock tails, then Harrlden reported that they bad gone upstairs to dress, a little be fore seven-thirty, be thought, that lat er be bad gone Into his wife's room and she had said she had a headache and would not go down. “About what time was that?” Harrlden considered. “About eight, ’d say. I know it was time to go down. I’d already dressed.” Not a word did he say about any other conversation between them, though earlier In the evening he had blurted out that there bad been a row, and that he’d been afraid of what his wife might do, In hysteria or dranaa- tics. Well, I did not blame him for holding that back. He was not called upon to offer up that secret bitter ness to the public. ... He must have felt sure that his friends would be careful not to repeat It; there was a solidarity that knit these people’s In terests together. He went on, "The maid saw her at that time, too.” "Anson,” mentioned Mrs. Keller, and Donahey’s pencil moved. “I rang for her Just as I was leaving the room, and I told her Mrs. Harrl den did not want to be disturbed or have any dinner brought up. No one was to come till she rang. I believe Mrs. Harrlden told her thla. No,’’ he amended, “I remember the maid said Mrs. Hag-lden did not speak to her. Anson merely saw her." “What was Mrs. Harrlden doing then?" Lying on the bed." He added. “The room was darkened, and she said she wanted to go to sleep." “What happened next?" "I went down and told Mrs. Keller. She did not want her table unbalanced so she sent for some one In the house.” “During dinner,” he stolidly con tinued, “I went up to see how Mra. Harrlden was. The room was still dark, and I closed the door without speaking, believing her asleep." “She was still on the bed—?" Harrlden hesitated. “I thought she was—I took it for granted that she was. I can not swear to It since the room was dark.” “At what time would you place your visit?” “Oh, sometime during dinner," he Jerked out, with his first betrayal of Impatience at the ordeal. “Early In the meal, I think, for there was time for some one else to leave the table for quite an Interval after I returned.” Donahey made a quick note of that. “Then what happened?’’ “Nothing. We finished dinner. Aft erwards, before they began on bridge I asked the Princess Rancin! to run up and see how my wife was. It was her visit that discovered Mrs. Harrl- den’s absence from the room—though I Closed the Door Without Speak ing. we have been told that some one else bad already discovered It, without mentioning It.” “Who was that?” Harrlden’s head Jerked towards me. 'I think the name is Seton.” My heart began to race as Donahey looked toward me; be could not fall to be struck, I thought, by something purposefully slighting, almost con It was our turn then, a bizarre icene, I thought, to be taking place In then. - . After a moment, Harrlden continued, that pale gray drawing room, the very deliberately, “I sent the princess « heavy^ Inspector ln^ his dark uniform because I thought Mrs. Harrlden aPgbt den? want a little attention from ^another seated formally behind that Incongru •asly fragile Inlaid tible, the strained woman—women always know what to r do for a headache. The princess came down and told me she was not In her room." I knew then why be bad chosen to give his testimony before all of us, re fusing privacy. He wanted the Prin cess Ranclnl to hear what be had to shy and be guided by It. “And that Is all you can tell us, Mr. Harrlden?” “That Is all 1 know." "What was your surmise when she was first missing?” “I didn’t have any. Thought she might be walking off a headache. We went out to look.” "You didn’t see any reason to sum mon the police — didn’t fear she bad been kidnaped?" Harrlden growled, "No." “You’ve no knowledge of any threat ening letters she may have received, or any previous suspicious circum stances ?’ ,f Harrlden grunted a negative. “Ncfvv what time was It when the Princess went to Mrs. Uarriden’s room?” “Just after dinner." “And what time was that?” “Couldn’t say.” "Oh, a little after nine-thirty,” Mr. Keller suggested. “After nine thirty,” he repeated. “And the deceased was last seen alive at eight o’clock—by Mr. Harrlden and the maid Anson—possibly alive at eight forty-five. . . . Now one thing more, Harrlden. How was the win dow when you left the room at eight o'clock? Was It open?” “Couldn’t say," Harrlden told him. “Probably closed or I’d have felt a draft” “And when you came up from din ner?” “Didn’t notice any cold air," “It was the maid who found the window open, Mr. Donahey," Mrs. Kel ler suddenly Interjected, as If she could bear no more of thla tedious verifying of what we were all by now familiar with, but Donahey waa not to he hurried. "I’m coming to the maid.. . . First I’d like to hear what the Princess Ranclnl baa to say about the room." He turned directly to the princess who waa seated now a little away from the table. “Was the window open when you went In after dinner?” “I think not,” said the princess. "1 noticed nothing unusual The room was simply ready for the night." “Where’s this Miss Seton that was up In the room before you?” “I’m Miss Seton," I said, my heart knocking. "When did you go up to the room?” I told him, “Just after dinner. Just before the Princess Ranclnl went” “How did you happen to go? Friend of Mrs. Harrlden’a?” “I had never met her," I answered. “I am a stranger here,” and I went on to tell him why I had come and what my work was. "Dow’d you happen to go up?" be asked me. There was no help for It; I had to go on with the story I had told them before. Aside from .my feeing of not betraying Deck—and that was strangely strong — I knew that he would hear my first story, sooner or later, and round upon me for untruth. I said, very slowly, “I went, because I thought I knew what had happened. I thought Mrs. Harrlden had a hurt check she wanted to hide and that I could help her cover it up. In my work 1 had pigments and stains with me.” "How did you know she had a hurt cheek?” “Because, from my wlntjpw, before dressing for dinner, I saw some man In her room slap her. I can’t be sure It was she," I stumbled on, “but It was In her room, the first big win dow at the north, on the front of the house, and I saw the figures of a man and a woman there, against the light.” “You mean you saw a man hit her?" Harrlden tried to Intervene. “Look here. Inspector—” but Donahey waved him away, his eyes steadily on me. “He didn’t exactly hit her," I said. “He Just slapped her. Then she went away from the window, and he seemed to follow and then one of them came and pulled the curtains across. Any way I couldn’t see any more.* "And what time was that?" “Some time before dinner. About seven-thirty—a little after." ‘Who was the man?" “I don’t know.” “You know what he looked like, don’t you? Big or little, tall or short? You say you saw him.” ”1 saw the outline of a man,” was all 1 could tell him. "There wasn’t anything to compare him with until she came Into sight and then I was so startled by what he did that I wasn’t really attending to what he looked like." “Well, was he taller than she was or shorter?” “Why, I’d say taller, but I couldn’t be sure,” I stammered. > ’’Ob, you couldn’t be sure l" 1 His tone was distinctly Ironical. “Seems to me, young lady," he commented, “you haven’t got a very good detecting eye." "A man might be a very good de tector of counterfeit notes.” I retort ed, heartened by my anger at him, ‘and not be able to describe people temptuous, in Harriden’s reference but, though his pencil made a quick, side notation, he did not question me glimpsed at a window—In silhouette. They were just shadows against the light." H’m. How about this, Mr. Harrl- Uarriden’a look turned towards me, and I could feel the heavy hatred la I did no! tt, like a weight apon me. blame him. I' “Oh, It’a a He," he said contemptu ously. "I think this girl Is a publicity seeker—or . worsen" Donahey was reshuffling his notes. “You say you and your wife went to your rooms a little before aevea thirty?" “Thereabouts. She went up befora I did.” “And you went directly to yous room ?” “That’s It.” “When did you go to your wife’s room?” *T told you. When I was dressed. To see If she was ready.” “And you didn’t hear anybody In the room before that?" “I did not," said Harrlden harshly. Donahey consulted a rough drawing he had already made of the arrange ment of the rooms. “Door shut be tween your rooms?” Harrlden appeared to reflect "It was," he said firmly. "And your dressing-room and bath were at the north end of her’s, I see. Couldn’t,, you have been there—and so not 6 heard anything?” “1 was all over the place, dressing," said Harrlden very positively, “and there wasn’t anything to hear.” “We—ell," said the Inspector, con sideringly, with an attempt at a sooth ing Inflection, “we have to look Into It anyhow, you know." * “You’d better spend your time,” ex ploded Harrlden, “In asking Alan Deck what he was doing when he left the dinner-table after I did. The maid saw him outside Mrs. Harrlden’s room." “All right,” said Donahey. “Where’s Mr. Deck?” Alan Deck’s tall figure came forward. "When did you go up stairs, Jdr. Deck?" Alan Deck answered slowly, “About nine o’clock or a little before, I’d say. I went to put In a call to my paper. I was outside Mrs. Harriden’s door,” went ou Deck, In a drawling, almost amused voice, “because I went past to the picture gallery on the third floor after • handkerchief I’d left there before dinner." “And Mrs. Harrlden’s door war closed?" “I think so. All the doors along ths hall were closed. I’m sure.” “And you didn’t go Into the room?* “Mrs. Harriden's room?" said Deck with that same half-amusement which grated so on my tense nerves. “No, Mr. Inspector, 1 did not go Into any room but my own. And the gallery." “All right. Now let’s have In tha maid,” said the Inspector. “She must have gone Into the room, since It was all fixed up for the night" They didn’t have to wait long fos Anson. In she soon came, the pretty, roay-cbeeked girl I had seen before. Donahey asked her a few preliminary questions, and she repeated what the bad already told of her coming to the door at eight o’clock and Mr. Harrl den’a telling her not to disturb Mrs. Harrlden, and of what the room had been like when she came to arrange It later. It waa dark, she said, and the bed mussed, aa If some one had been on it without taking off the cov ers, a comforter waa disarranged and the window was wide open. She had closed and locked It “Any signs of a struggle?” Donahey wanted to know and Anson looked ’’improved' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAYi • ' L chool i.esson By REV. P. B. F1TZWATKR. D. Member of Faculty. Moody Bible Inetltute of Chicago, ffi Weatern Newspaper Union. Leston for June 28 REVIEW: JESUS MEETING HUMAN NEEDS GOLDEN TEXT—Jesus of Nazareth . . went about doing good.—Acts 10:38. PRIMARY TOPIC-S-Jesus Our Best Friend. JUNIOR TOPIC—Because He Lives. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—Jesus Meeting My Needs. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC — Jesus Meeting the World’s Needs. "Oh, no," she said quite shocked, primly. She could not fix the time of her en try very positively but the room was her last, and she thought It was Just before the end of dinner. “There hadn’t been any noise yet In the ball,” she said Innocently. Then Harrlden barked out a sudden question at her. “What made you go In after I’d told you to keep out?” Anson looked straight ahead, and there were hints of a struggle within her. “Well, It was some time after," she said uncertainly, “and then, see ing the gentleman outside the door I thought be might have been In, and so she was awake, and It would be all right for me—” “What gentleman did you see?" Donahey slid In very quietly, though we already knew. As If against her will, her round, defensive eyes slid about and Indi cated Alan Deck. “Mr. Deck, It was," she said reluctantly. “Passing—on my way from the gal lery,” said Deck briefly. Donahey was picking up a fresh sheet of paper. “That’s all—for now,* he said, dismissing her with a curt nod. “There’s this other thing I want to clear up—that scene at the window before dinner.” "Oh, my God!” said Harrlden wRJi savage bitterness. “I know, I know.” Donahey’s vole* was professionally placatory for an liW slant. “You think the girl’s making It up, but we got to look Into It, Just the same. . . . She says she saw a man In there about seven-thirty. Now where were all you gentlemen about seven- thirty?” “The Prince Ranclnl was In hit apartment,” said the princess haught ily. “So was my husband,” said Mra Watkins. “Can’t the men speak for then* selves?" asked Donahey with the first touch of humor I’d seen In him. /TO BE CONTINUED) Longest City in World One distinction about Honolulu la that governmentally It Is the longest city In the world. The city anti the county of Honolulu are conterminous^ both embracing the 40-mile-loag Island of Oahu. By legislative act Oahu, foi administrative purposes, was made ti reach out to Midway Island, 1,300 mllee to the northwest, and to Palmyra to land, 060 miles to the south. If tti main street extended the full length the city, U would be aaUto 1m§ The lessons of the quarter center In one supreme person and have one transcendent theme, Jesus Christ the world’s Savior. The best method of review for senior and adult classes will be to refresh the mind with the principal facts and leading teachings of each lesson. The following sugges tions are offered: Lesson for April 5. The great supper represents God’s gracious provision of salvation for mankind. The urgent Invitation Is ex tended to all to accept Jesus Christ as Savior, The makhrg of excuses Illus trates the sin and folly of men in re jecting God’s free grace. Lesson for April 12. The resurrection of Jesus Christ Is the supreme proof of the deity of Jesus Christ. The empty tomb is the divine guarantee that Christ was what he claimed to be. and that his offering on Calvary’s cross was accepted by God. Lesson for April 19. The center of Interest In this parable Is not the prodigal son or his brother, but a certain man w r ho had two sons. He who falls to see the heart of our Father God will miss the purpose of the parable. The whole of revelation as It pertains to a sinning race and a pardoning God is swept before us la this narrative. Lesson for April 26. The story of the rich man and Lazarus gives us a look Into two worlds. In this world the rich man lived In luxury while Lazarus begged at bis door. In the other world, their positions are reversed. Death Is com ing to rich and poor. Worldly condi tion Is not a test of man’s relationship to God. The rich man did not go to hell because he was rich, neither did Lazarus go to heaven because be was poor. Lesson for May 3. Forgiveness Is a Christian obliga tion. Humility Is a Christian quality. Gratitude is an uncommon grace. The nine lepers who were healed failed to express gratitude to the healer. Lesson for May 10. I’rayer Is an obligation on the part of the believer. Spiritual growth is absolutely Impossible without-It. -Men should pray under all circumstances. Lesson for May 17. Zacchaeus brushed aside all dlffl- fculties In order to see Jesus. He proved the reality of bis conversion by making restitution. lie was saved In stantly upon receiving Jesus Christ. Salvation Is a present reality to those who believe on Jesus Christ Lesson for May 24. Jesus warned against the scribes. They claimed to be loyal to the Word of God yet showed their lack of the saving grace of God. In connection with his teaching In the temple, Jqsus prophesied of his return and warned against unpreparedness as to bis com ing. ' Lesson for May 31. The last meal that Jesus ate with his disciples was the passover, the memorial of the national deliverance which pointed to the supreme deliver ance to be effected by Christ on the cross of Calvary. In connection with the passover, the feast of the new cov enant was instituted. This feast has a double Import, looking backward to the great deliverance wrought through Christ’s atoning death and forward to the even greater deliverance which he shall accomplish at his second coming. Lesson tor June 7. Jesus’ Indescribable agony In the garden shows what tt cost the sinless Son of God to Identify himself with the sinning race, when In anguish he sweat as It were great drops of blood. Lesson for June 14. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ was the greatest tragedy ■of ill history May the fact of the sinless Son of God suffering for a sinning race, move all sinners to accept salvation at his hand. Lesson for June 21. Jesus, having given the disciples the partitur message to evangelize the werld, ascended Into heaven. May these last words of our Lord be re ceived by us as our supreme obligation to take the gospel to every creature. The lessons of the entire quarter have been rich in teaching material. A faithful presentation of the Bible messages given should mean conver sion for some and growth In grace for many. Pray Continually Accustom yourself sradpally to carry prayer Into all your dally occupations. Speak, move, work, In peace, as If you wore In prayer, as Indeed you ought to be. Do everything without excitement, by the spirit of grace.— Fenelon. Great Design* Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the Inspiration of everything great. 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