The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-15
Saint and Simmer
BIZ ANNE AUSTIN

Wealthy RALPH CLUNY. es. was
married frivolous CHERRY LANE, 10.
69te f6n bsr 0 sseT F2IPH saying She
could not go on with the WyesSd4qllnngy
Cherrys elopement- with CHRIS W 5d- y
becomes known. News OF the murder IS
Kent from Cherrys invalid mother. but
She knows of Cherry's marriage. 49,.
Cherry has been engaged several times
Once she tried to run away with All
BERT ETTELSON. a slaTrled treVS jgt1y
saes%RanH qpd Tas TsSsSoefF Faiths e finance
Cherry admits that Cluny attempted
to force the marriage, but proIests her
-n Faith suspects Chris Wiley, thinking niing
he knew that E5drr ClunyE b Ree T Reilly Neff
Who drew up the viii testihes- that
Cluny made Cherry his chief beneficiary
The coroner's Jury releases O1terIyj
but Immediately she and her h9fsPan49
are arrested by DEVLiN. deputy dlstrlcb
dF FEs9itb is furious when Bob tells her AT
TORNEY STEPHEN CHURCHILL, who ON
he employed. thinks circumstances arg
against Cherry and suggests plea OIL
sSIf-defense as the best chance for her
< ST of torn strap suggests 6lew'
wait" Faith begged him, press
ing her fingers into her temples, as
she concentrated her overweight
brain on the problem. II think I've
come to the same conclusion you
have. Wen take it for granted that
this strap has something to do with
the man who made the queer foot
prints. The toe half Of the SHOE
all of the right shoe," she repeated
to herself musingly. "Oh, I'm sure
I'm right, Bob. The man was
cripple, Of course. All of the foot
prints were the same. That couldn't
be an accident, could it?" She looked
at him appealingly, with excitement
burning in her great brown eyes.
you're getting warm" Bob
laughed, his voice proud and tender,
Bob, the man who killed your I'M
Gle was q cripple, a man with a
wooden leg. That bit Of strap came
from the contrivance that fastened
the wooden leg to the knee, or
wherever it joined his flesh-and-blood
leg. The small of sweat-the mar
rowness of it, the long use it's had
is that what you had figured out,
Bob?"
Pretty nearly" Bob nodded. ''But
I'm afraid didn't visualize a
wooden leg. A man with a wooden
leg could make a whole footprint as
well as not. There would be an ar
tifcial foot, you know, which would
undoubtedly make a whole foot
print"
"Of course" Faiths voice fell
But I do think that the chaps
some kind Of cripple-he must be, of
course, to make footprints like
those. And the strap was, firmly
believe, fastened to his leg for some
reason or other, probably to re-
lieve the strain Of walking, even if
he used one half of his foot"
Then we've got to look for
cripple, Bobr' Faiths excitement re-
turned. "Have you told Churchill
about the strap"
ct found it after had talked with
Churchill. simply played bunch
In going back to the scene Of the
crime. I think I'll keep quiet about
It for a while. I want to have
talk with Cherry. Has it occurred
to you that she, having been Uncle
Ralph's private secretary, will know
great deal about his correspond
ence? She might know If there was
any evidence, in his correspondence
or from things he told her, that he
had had an enemy whose hatred
was strong enough to cause him to
plot Uncle Ralph's death? I'm go
ing to play a lone hand-with you,
of course, as chief thinker for the
combine" he smiled at her fondly,
until I see what he can unearth.
All Churchill can think of at present
is a defense of unpremeditated, justi-
fable homicide. I want to have
something very real and definite be-
fore I go to him with theory In
the meantime, there is something
both of us can do"
1T know" Faith nodded 1--WE can
keep our eyes peeled for cripples. A
man with one leg considerably short
err than the other, due to any injury