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READ TIMS FIRBT:
John Tait, stepson of wealthy Cady
Tait, is enpaoed to marry Lucy
Burnham, a widow. In France-,
where the three were sojourning.
Lady Tait takes a dislike to Gillian
Dundas. a beautiful girl, who, it t.s
disclosed, is blackmailing Tait for a
past indiscretion. Back in London
Tait becomes alarmed when his busi
ness associate. Lord Mills, is found
shot to death. Mrs. Burnham takes
Miss Dundas 'under her wing’ much
to Lady Tait s annoyance. A luncheon
given by Lady Tait in honor ol Tait
ana his fiancee, ana attended by
John's cousins Alysia. Etta and
Clauu Saylor, is a poor success
owing to Tates apparent uneasiness
Tea u interrupted by the discovery
ot John Tail s body on lhe sidewalk
*n front ot Lady l ait s home. Sus
pecting he has been poisoned, Chid
Inspector Tuuitci ot Scotland Yard
investigates n hat appears to be mur
der and first questions the victim s
cousin , Claud Saylor. Talking with
Lucy Burnham , Fainter learns that
Tail received a death threat by letter
the same day Lord Mitts had kilted
himself. Then the inspector inter
views Lady Tait. Sea l Coin ter ques
tions Alysia and Etta Saylor, Tait s
cousins. When he reaches Gillian
Dundas, he finds terror und dread
written in hei eyes. Fainter learns
that two specks he had taken from
tho fingers of one ot Tait’s hands
were spun glass from an object
which probably contained the fatal
poison. Then he searches Tait s
rooms and buds certain deletions in
tin engagement book.
(NOW Go OV WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER 30
POINTER LOOKED next at the
dead man s ctieck foooK, a very re *
cant one There was a comfortable
balance senbbied on the back of the
last counterfoil. Pointer looked at
the pile of oid counterfoils fastened
together with a rubber band which
he found in a locked drawer. Two
things interested him Some tive
months was a check to Self for
Isou followed the next week by one
for £SO. 'i he same thing happened
exactly six months before. Here too
a check tor £SOO to Seif was fol
lowed by another to Self of £SO.
There was nothing else of interest.
Nowhere did any name occur that
might fit tiie erased blank in the
engagement hook Pointer took the
check hook and the old block of
counterfoils. Then he looked once
more through the engagement book
There were no other erasures nor
any other name that seemed to
properly tit the blank. The valet
professed an absolute ignorance con
cerning what was. or was not. in the
hoof.. An ignorance that, seeing the
book lay out on the table, struck the
chief inspector as overdone Did Mr.
Tait keep his PM engagement hooks?
Pointer expected a negative, but to
his Joy the man pointed to a locked
cupboard “Full of stuff of that sort.
Brought nvpr from a cupboard
they’re altering in his house.”
Pointer found inside it all he would
have desired—a pile of personal
hooks of ail kinds. But he had to
#ro back nearly a year in an engage
ment book before he found an entry
**t etter from VV. Wants me to go
there. Made an appointment over
th.- phone for tomorrow," and on the
following day was an asterisk. So
th* erased initial was probably W.
i here was no ether helpful entry in
th»- book After some fruitless, fur-
Mitr searches, he came on an old i
ea-.ii'-> bool; nearly six years old. In ;
'* he found several entries that <
■ihowed that Tait had often shot at i
h place called Pilgrim's Hall, and
that on each of ' Itese occasions there i
was always one name among Ids fel
low guns that did not vary, the name !
of \V estmacott. Probably, therefore, i
the host Pointer saw that by try
ing the letters on tissue paper over
the erasure, the name would exactly
tit in. ‘ |
Westmaeoit of Pilgrim's Halt . . .
sounded familiar. . . . But why the <
erasure, and the guarded entry today
at !1 ’ Me went to the nearest tele
nhorie outside the house and rang
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Jf® n^^.K y as . *ummovd all its sons and daughters to a “homecoming" to be celebrated in connection with
the _\K. W anniversary or-the birth of Daniel Boone, pioneer who led the first settlers into what the Amer
indians c?.iled Kaintuek. Celebration will center at Boonesborough, site of fort he established. Photos
•how bust of Boone, old picture of the fort and the site aa it looks today. (Central Press)
Advertise In The Dispatch
Pointer rang the bell at Lady Westmacott’^
up a young man about town who
acted a» one of the Yard’s voluntary
assistants In matters of this kind.
Ward-Thynne worked in the Ascot
office of St. Jatnes’ when it was a
question of admission to the Royal
Enclosure. His mind was a perfect
card index ot people in society,
though he could not have earned
threepence a week as far as the rest
of his attainments went.
Who was a Westmacott? Appar
ently the owner of a place called
Pilgrim's Halt some five to six years
ago?
"You mean WestmacotT. the multi
millionaire, Westmacott of Pilgrim’s
Halt and Park Pinnacles and Mari
ners and two hunting boxes in the
Highlands, and a huge house in
town —11 Palace Green? Sort of
Second Lord Shaftesbury. He's been
out in China for the last three years
or so. carrying on a relief mission
of his own.”
Pointer asked if he was known to
be a friend of a Mr. John Tait, who
was a co-director with Lord Mills on
some companies.
“Very great friend indeed. They
were at New and regularly have
gone fishing together in Norway for
years 1 should say Tait is YVest
macott’s particular pal And besides
that. Tait’s Miss Henrietta Naylor’s
cousin, you know. What does that
signify? Dear me. how little you
chaps at the Yard really know, when
it comes to important things! VVest
macott was going to marry her. and
then suddenly turned and whizzed off
to help the Honduras earthquake
victims on the spot. Left the lady
high and dry. Nice girl too. Rather
a hit out of his line—a hard riding,
hard swearing, and probably hard
drinking young amazon then. She’s
turned herself into the equivalent of
a Salvation Army lass since, and it
doesn’t suit her "
The man at the other end was
warming up. "And then of course
Lady Ida! Lady Ida! YVestrna
cott’s widowed sister-in-law who acts
as his hostess and keeps his houses
open now lie’s away. Yes. John 'l’ait
and Lady Ida were at one time
rather bracketed together. Oh. not
as Westmacott and Etta Naylor
were. The last had the banns all
but read out. No. but people rather
expected something would come of it
in due time with regard to the other
two. Only nothing did, YJjhen was
this talk? About two yfcars ago
more or less. Since then. Tait seems
tn’ve dropped out of Lndv Ida’s cir
cle. Anything else?”
He was warmly thanked, and
Pointer rang through to his own
rooms at the Yard. Had any fresh
(Copyright, 1981)
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934
information come in? Very much
so. The first test of the blood of
the dead man had proved the ex
istence of a deadly dose of the pot*
son mixture named by Dr. A, agent
It had been administered directly tnt«
the blood. By a cut, a prick, an in
lection of some kind.
“Or a splinter," Pointer mentally
added.
Pointer’s next step was to driv*
to Palace Green It looked as though
eleven referred to that, and not to
Miss Dundas’ studio
Palace Green is one of the rew
unspoiled streets ot targe houses
still left in town As yet no buses
roar through it, and it remains broad
and stately, facing Kensington Pal
ace and the Gardens. Westmacott'*
was one of the largest of the houses,
and an end one. Along its side ran
a passage way into Church street.
A very high wall with a door In It
protected the garden from being
overlooked. He rang the bell, sent
in his name only, and asked to see
Lady Ida on “a matter concerning
Mr. John Tait”
He was shown into a fiercely mod
ern room where the chairs and
tables seemed belter suited to a sub
marine in their metallic economy of
line and space than to a London
town house. The usual flashing
cushions were piled everywhere, a
heap of them in one corner around
a steel radiator. The lighting waa
concealed, the ceiling cc'ored. the
floor metallic looking. Altogether
Pointer was quite prepared for the
ultra smart-looking woman who
came in a moment later with ‘he
inevitable cigaret-holder stuck at an
angle from pillar-box red lips. In
age the woman was perhaps 40.
Very handsome, and a more resolute
jaw and eye he scad not often met.
“Thou shalt want e’er T will" should
have been the lady’s motto, what*
ever her family. But she looked at
him very keenly, and she had coma
in very quickly in answer to his
message.
“From Mr. Tait?” she asked.
Pointer hesitated to allow her to
make some further remark. That
might be enlightening, for he thought
she was disturbed by his visit.
But as Lady Ida said nothing, be
explained that Mr. Tait had bgen
picked nil dying near his house, that
his dead body had been carried into
bis stepmother’s house, and that, be
lieving that Mr. Tait had been in to
sec Lady Ida that morning around
11. he. Pointer, had wondered If she
had noticed anything odd. whether
he had looked ill, or if she had heard
him complain of feeling ill.
(TO BE COSTING ED)
President at Woodin Rites
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President and Mrs. Roosevelt are shown as they entered the Fifth ave
nue Presbyterian Church, New. York, for the funeral services for former
Secretary of the Treasury Woodin. Vice-President Garner and several
Cabinet officials accompanied the Prgsident and his party
(Central Press)
Insulls Reunited in New York
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.Back in the United .Ttateo ax er his long race from justice, Samuel
is shown (left) with his son, Samuel, Jr., at the rail of the S. S.
Eir-ic: ac he prepared to transfer to a government cutter at the
An.bross light outside New Ycrk harbor. Extraordinary secrecy veiled
government plans for transportation ct the celebrated prisoner to
Chicago. (Central Press)
As Insult, Jr. Awaited Father
Wh®rs Uncle Sam Plans $100,000,000 Airport Project
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Ayrial view of Governor’s ; Island and lower Manhattan, where the I
planning to build & gigantic airport, the cost of ]
WEST DELUGED BY DUST STORMS
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Snowplows have been placed into
use in lowa, the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Minnesota and surround
ing states as a result of terrific
dust storms which have swept
fine particles of dirt into hugre
drifts on th« highways and farms
Physieians investigate
An Intestinal Condition
is# fcUGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
•MUCUS COLITIS” is the name
given to an intestinal condition in
which large amounts of mucus are
formed. The patients are usually
nervous, under
weight, with
drooping or "fall
en” stomach and
Intestines. And
most important
es all in the cau
sation of the dis
ease, they are in
veterate cathar
tic consumers.
In order to in
vesti g ate the
production of
mucus in the in
testine, two re
search workers
at Rochester,
Minn., made an
especially
planned study of the question. They
believe that a certain amount of mu
cus is a valuable thing because it
acts as a lubrication. They found
that normally after an evacuation a
certain amount of mucus is formed.
Any kind of diarrhea apparently in
creases the amount of mucus.
This, as we may say,-’’normal” re
spon: e. is followed in an only slightly
Looking Backward
At This Date in History
\‘<<& v Hfe.
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• H. Vanderbilt the elder
This is the birthday of William
*l. Vanderbilt, who built railroad
systems and one of the largest
American fortunes, but is best re-.
ledI ed for a single phrase, “The
public be damned!”
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I hotweeiTGovernor's f« 1 a lines show the water g“P
" • a Island *nd Manhattan which would be filled in. |
- . (Qtntral Pr&l
The dust also has been disastrous
to stock, scores of cattle having
died as a result of eating dust
covered food. These photos show
farmers plowing away the dust
near Spencer, I*., where the drifts
were heavy.
exaggerated form In the action ot
certain cathartics such as senna and
rhubarb. Here the action of the drug
itself does not produce any mucus,
but as soon as evacuation Has oc
curred a considerable quantity of
mucus forms in the bowel. Castor
oil did the same thing, but the pro
duction of mucus was larger
These investigations certainly can
be interpreted to show that muot
colitis can be produced by heav?
self-dosage with cathartics, and »
great many of these patients have
brought the disease on themselves
because their naturally sensitive
bowels felt that they should be emp
tied and demanded stronger and more
drastic cathartics as time went on,
finally producing a state of irritation
which simply defeated the result
they had started out to obtain.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Six pamphlets
by Dr. Clendening can now be ob
tained by sending 10 cents in coin, for
each, and a self-addressed envelop#
; stamped with a three-cent stamp
1 to Dr. Logan Clendening, in care oi
i this paper. The pamphlets are;
, “Indigestion and Constipation," "He
ducing and Gaining,” “Infant Feed
ing,” “Instructions for the Treatment
of Diabetes,” “Feminine Hygiene’’
’ and “The Care of the Hair and Skin."
1.
Dr. Clendening
Looking Backward
At This Date in History
Capt. Schweiger of the G<
submarine J-19 had the blood o
1,198 persona upon his hands, a
y6ara a go today. Ke the '•o. *-
mand which sent the liner
to the bottom. May 7. 1915