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BfMURDER UPSTAIR&ffi)
[[]_- />/ ADAM BLISS \cgjg/
DEAD THIS FIRST:
Lieutenant Kirk Larrabee is in
vestigating the murder of Andrew
Darien, a middle-aged bachelor who
teas stabbed to death with a carving
knife as he slept in the boarding
house of Alice Fenny. After ques
tioning 'Alice, her seven remaining
hoarders, the maul and cook in de
tail, (mrrabce learns that Darien was
generally disliked und that he pos
sessed a small fortune. Alice is
a maced when the detective tells her
she i till inherit $200,000 through
Darien's will. While Larrabee and
Alice are talking, they surprise
Llidr.e, the eoolc, listening at the door.
Alice has to explain a list of nnee
dotes she has compiled about every
one in the house to Larrabee. They
disc uss all of the boarders again,
including Lucy, Alice's ohl friend,
Who has been seeing a psychiatrist.
In. It udetnur, Lucy’s psychiatrist,
surprises Aline with a visit at almost
midnight. Dr. Ttudemar, convinced
that Lucy is abnormal, fours she
may have committed the murder.
Keturnino from the inquest. Larra
bee asks Alice about llr. Jtudemar’s]
101 l the night before.
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CHAPTER 25
1 HAP A UIIAN'GE, at last, to get
In some of ttie questions 1 wonted
io ask. *1 .ifttMenant I .ariabee. is Pr.
Rudemar a reliable man?"
Os course Lucy bad praised him
to the skies and 1 bad heard of him
from oilier people, too. Everyone
&aid be bad an excellent reputation
in Ids field. But I wanted Larrabee’s
opinion of the man.
"Dr. Rude mar has done some fine
work. Mrs. Penny. He is entirely re- I
liable, of course. He often does work ]
for the police. Last year he was j
the most important witness in the
Moxley case. You remember that,
don't you?"
1 had read the case casually in the
newspapers at the time, but knew
nothing more than I had read.
"We think very highly of him as
&D alienist in t.he department.”
“And you—personally?”
"I don’t know Rudemar intimately.
Merely as an alienist, but I think he
is all right. He's not a quack, if
that’s what you mean. He was a
brilliant surgeon before lie took up
psychiatry.”
My head was still throbbing, al
though I had taken three aspirins
before I went into the courtroom for
the inquest.
“He knows his business, then?”
“Decidedly so. Mrs. Penny.”
That pricked the balloon structure
1 had been building up. J wanted
Larrabee to admit that Dr. Rudemar
was a faker. Then I would know he
was wrong about Lucy. Now. I didn’t
know what to think, nor where to
turn. Kirk Larrabee said Dr. Rude
mar knew what he was talking
about, and the specialist had told me
he thought Lucy killed Andrew
Darien It wasn’t a pleasant situa
tion for me to be in. In my heart I
thought Dr. Rudemar was wrong,
but that thought, although it. com
forted me a little, wasn't enough for
my peace of mind.
Lucy, this morning, had been the
aaine as she was yesterday. Brighter.
K anything. More nnimaled. She
had decided 1o go abroad, she said,
after everything was cleared up. and
wanted me to go with her. She
wouldn't take no for an answer. Jt
wa« time | had a re- 1 and with
S. C. House Votes
Troop Withdrawal
(Continued in.rn raj One.)
ftwiftly toward a vote on a resolution
making a sinnlar request of Gover
nor Olin Johnston.
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I Andrew Darien * money —i winced
when she said that, thinking of what
1 »tie doctor had told me—there was
! nothing to keep me in my bearding
house. Besides, l<4 have nobody left
after the police quit the house. 1
humored iter as much as I could,
half promising to go with her, and
she got out some knitting she was
doing for Emery's baby—her grand
son—and busied herself with it all
morning.
Would a woman who has com
mitted murder knit on a baby’s
sweater contentedly? Smile to her
self as her fingers flew through soft
pink yarn? J doubt it. But Lucy
knitted all morning in the living
room, with a basket of pink yarn at
tier feet. Lucy who had killed a
guinea pig in Dr. Rudemar’s office
Monday afternoon. Murdering a
tiny animal she was hypnotized into
believing was Andrew Darien!
It was too much for me to figure
out. I tried to rest my brain by
going over what the other people in
the house had done this morning, 20
hours after Mr. Darien’s murder.
Marcella Cambridge had gone to
school as 1 said, and had come back
at 9:20. After I left her, she went
into the library to do some research
work. Several times when I went
through the living room T saw her
thrnu- h the open doors of Uie
i library, her gray head bent over her
' hook, her fingers making notes.
Mrs. Starmont I didn't see. Grace
took her breakfast to her, and said
she was reading in her room. I think
: Grace lied, or else Mrs. Starmont
! was pretending to read while Grace
was there. When I passed the door
to her room on the second floor at
10 o'clock, I heard low sobbing be
hind it. I wanted to go In. but
didn’t.
Janet didn’t appear for breakfast,
and I took a tray up to her. think
ing she might want to talk to me.
I knocked, but she called out that'
she didn’t want any breakfast I
tried to persuade her from the other
side of the locked door, but she
wouldn’t be persuaded, so I finally
left the tray on a small table in the ;
hall. At noon when 1 went up it
was still there. That was Janet
Robert Talbot spent the morning j
In Hie dining room playing solitaire. '
Hours at it. He was playing when
Delia. Larrabee and I left for the
inquest at. 1:30. 1
Mr Withers had gone 1o his room
n motion by Representative Bennett
of Marlboro to vote shortly after noon
1 on a resolution of Representative
Arrowsmith. of Williamsboro, call
ing on the governor to cease “inter
■ sering with the operations of the
high may department,” and to recall
the troops.
The resolution also . contained a
, provision to put the House on record
HENDERSON (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935
i | immediately after breakfast, and n
t mained there until noon when he
s came into the pantry for a snack of
i lunch. His appetite was coming
t back, for he ate almost all the plate
l of sandwiches 1 had prepared, and he
. had tw'o helpings of salads.
1 Martin Hemingway remained In
5 the dining room all morning with
Mr. Talbot, reading a stack of pa
' pers and clipping from them, llis
papers were spread out at one end
• of the long table, and Mr. Talbot’s
5 cards at the other. He didn't *ut
■ much for lunch, a couple of crack«rw
- and a glass of milk. He said it wan
r his usual lunch, and I had no way
■ of knowing because I wasn’t familiar
- with his luncheon habits. He has
1 never been at home at noon before.
! It w’as a queer morning. 1 had
L never had one before like it. Janet's
1 attitude puzzled me. along with what
Dr. Rudemar had said about Lucy.
"Won't you tell me what Dr. Rude
mar said to you last night?” It was
Kirk Larrabee speaking. I had com
pletely forgotten him and Hie cur. 1
was so startled I jumped.
“You'll have to ask him.” I re
turned.
“I shall, don’t worry, when he gets
back to town. I called his office and
his secretary said he’d gone east this
morning by plane. To New- York.”
Larrabee had discovered in his
usual way, I suppose, that 1 had lied
to him, but I didn't care. I’d ou-
to lie and lie about Lucy, if
he knew now what T knew about
Lucy, she’d he in a cell in half an
hour charged with the murder of
Andrew Darien.
"The knives were all safe?”
“All safe,” 1 answered. “I shall do
the same with them tonight.”
“You act, Mrs. Penny, as though
you expected another murder."
“I don’t know what to expect, but
1 do know that i ll never feel com
fortable and safe in that house again.
As soon as all this is over I’m going
to give it up and go away.”
Delia was better when we reach
home. The plain clothesman who
was driving must have cheered her
up. At any rate, she smiled at him
wanly when she got out of the car.
and I heard the officer say some
thing about Saturday night and saw
Delia’s slow nod. If it was a date,
it would be the first Delia had had
since she’d been with roe. She
wasn’t attractive to men.
I hurried into the kitchen to see
how Grace was getting along, and
saw that almost everything was pre
pared for dinner.
“Everything all right?” I asked as
I took off my hat and coat and put.
them in the closet on the back porch
as I didn’t want to go hiking i
three flights of stairs.
Grace understood what I meant.
I wasn’t referring to the dinner.
“Pretty quiet, except that I think
Mr. Hemingway and Miss 801 l had a
quarrel. I was going upstairs to see
if she wanted some tea —tlie po >r
thing hasn’t had a bite to eat all da 3
and I heard voices in her room, so
I didn’t knock. Thought T'd better
not.—they might be embarrassed, and
t.he door was closed, i didn’t hear
much, but it seemed to me that Mr.
Hemingway was mad. lie talks
loud when he's mad, you know.”
That sea red me for a moment
What right did Martin llemingwav
have in Janet’s room?
no HE COKTINUEU)
along with the Senate as refusing to
pass any highway legislation—which
the session was convened to enact —
a.s long as military control of the
load bureau continued.
Midwest Fearful
East Might Ruin
G. O. P. ’S Chances
(Continued from Page One.)
dustrial leaders that the New Deal
has imported the foreign philosopny
of fascism, socialism or communism,
that it seeks thereby to establish a
dictatorship and to deprive American
citizens of their liberty. It i s an ap
pealing thesois, doubtless. But it is
likely to carry much weight with the
average voter? Or may it turn out to
be a boomerang?
"There is a vital distinction be
tween the aims of the New Deal and
the inevitable results of its methods
ft is one thing to accuse the presi
dent of desiring to establish himself
dictator, and quite another to <;.iy that
New Deal philosophy, if pursued to its
logical conclusion, must lead to dic
tatorship.
“There is a world of difference be
tween charging the administration
with the intention of destroying pri
vate liberty and showing that unde,
centralized economic planning there
can be no liberty.
“It is questionable if the populace
is interested in hearing any of these
‘liberty’ arguments from business
men, however, and. even if it is in
terested, whether it will take them
seriously ”
A scene from “Fighting Pioneers” now playing
at The Vance Theatre.
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Push Your Sales Now
(Continued frow» Page One.)
sact > I think that business optimism
is today at a new peak for the re
covery period. This is very important
from the angle of those who are hand
ing the distribution of goods.
Danger of Piling up Goods
far since September the improve
ment in activity, at least in many
lines, has been due more to increas
ed production than to increased dis
tribution. Mills and factories in many
industries have been making goods on
the assumption that sales to ultimate
consumers must increase. The auto
mobile industry is a good example
of this. Hence, it is now up to sales
organizations to keep the ball rolling
!,! ‘d to prevent the piling up of these
goods. Sales managers can do more
for the country today than Presi
dent Roosevelt’s thousand and one
New Deal agencies and $4,000,000,000
dole rolled into one
There has been no period since 1929
when business concerns shhould be
more ‘‘sales conscious” than today.
F< r six discouraging years, sales ex
ecutives fought a losing battle. The
tide of business was running out and
they could do nothing to stop it. In
fact, I strongly disagree with those
who claim that the depression was
brought on by a break-down in our
distribution system. Our distributors
are merely clearing houses. They
cannot fairly be criticized for con
ditions over which they have no con
trol. Demand dictates the volume of
business. Purchasing power and de
sires in turn control demand. Man
ufacturers by failing to pass along
to consumers the great benefits of
mass production in terms of lower
prices are as much to blame as any
body for the break-down of demand
since 1929.
Get Sales Conscious
Now. however, the situation has
entirely changed. Distributors can do
a real service by driving their or
ganizations today. People ate In a
mood to buy. They do not have to be
“sold" by high pressure methods. But
when I say people are in a buying
mood today, I do not mean that sales
forces simply have to "take” orders.
Black Will Carry
New Deal Defense
(Continued from Page One.)
ife he could. The New- York gather
ing’s declaration of hostility suggests
that they are implacable.
Such being the case, it clearly is
thie New Dealers’ view that the best
defense is an attack.
Senator Black is an ideal captain to
lead it.
For one thing, he has the temper
ament.. He is both an able and a
merciless cross-examiner. Some wit
nesses he can scare. If not, he can
enrage them and lead them into dam
aging (or seemingly damaging) ad
missions, while almost out of theii
heads with fury. Black himself, while
caustic (not to say insulting) always
is cool.
PLENTY OF AMMUNITION
Another item, Hugo has plenty o''
ammunition.
A.s previously remarked, he made
an efficient start with his inquiry be
fore congress last adjourned.
What he found out at that time ir.
vestigators have been poking into
ever since—and they do say rhnt no
has a lot more embarrassing ques
tions to ask.
The activities of big business in
Washington can be represented in
either one or two ways:
1. It can be represented as protec
tion of its legitimate interests. That's
the way big business l'eels about it.
2. It can be represented as subver
sive of popular government. That s
the New Dealers’ view.
MERITS DON’T COUNT
The real merits of tin: argument
don't matter much.
The issue is one of publicity:
Can the electorate be convinced that
big business is trying to lasciseiz *
the government? —or can it be con
vinced that labor is trying to com
munize it?
The two elements are advertising
in competition.
Wife Preservers
When making cranberry jelly, fill
4 few paper cups for the girl or boy
who takes a lunch to school, or to
j>ut in a box of “eats” for the coU
| Jtege lad or lassi®.
They must, of course, get their pro
duct before the public or the public
will buy from their competitors. Ad
vertising, by newispaper, magazine,
and mail, is just as essential and
vastly more profitable today than .
year or two back. We are in a real
“selling” zone and every business con
cern should put the pressure on its
sales and advertising campaigns.
The same comments apply to sales
men. They have passed through a
very difficult period—how difficult
only they can tell. Not only have
their earnings been low, but they have
been roughly handled by customer
and home office alike. Most bona
fide salesmen, however, have been
plugging along steadily, making their
calls and contacts. They have been
told that they were “sowing seed,”
but I know that to the vas* majority
of them it has seemed a mighty long
time from planting to harvest. Now
their opportunity is here. They should
work as they have never worked be
fore. By so doing they are performing
a real service, not only for them
selves and their families, but l'or their
companies and for the nation.
Where Sales Are Best
While I am speaking on the gen
eral subject of sales, readers may
be interested to know in which ter
ritories sales barometers are making
the best showing today—-The Paci
fic Coast and Rocky Mountain states
lowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, the Caro
linas, Florida, Mississippi, and Mich
igan are outstanding light now. Four
teen states are rated “good” on my
sales map against nine a year ago
and there are only four “blue” states
against eight last December. Fur
thermore. there are individual cities
even in “blue” states where trade is
exceptionally good. Dollar volume of
retail sales is roughly fifteen percent
above a year ago. Trade is less grati
fying in the big urban centers; but
in the rural areas it is very good.
If there ever was a time for busi
ness men to kick timidity out of the
back window and to push ahead on
progressive sales campaign, now is
the time. With but one or two excep
tions, every factor in the outlook fav
ors good business over the next year
or two. But there is another depres
sion coming some day. Hence, busi
ness men should make hay while the
sun shines! So my concrete edvice to
every sales organization today Is:
Push now your sales and advertising
campaigns. Strike while the iron Is
hot. Make this Christmas season the
best —not since 1929—but in history.
And salesmen, get your share of these
orders and commissions.
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we suggest , . , ,
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cheer, and kindly feelings. ...
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happy, “old-fashioned” holi
day season to everyone in our
community.
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Henderson N. C.