Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-30

Begin Here Today
When Bonnie Dundee, former
member Of Hamilton's homicide
squad, now attached to the district
attorneys office, intrudes on Penny
Grain, district attorneys secretary,
he has no idea he will remember
later with keen interest everything
she talks about. Penny informs him
that she is going to q bridge lunch
con Saturday at the Forsyte Alum
nae Bridge club, which is Is being
given by an honorary member,
Juanita Selim.
Dundee learns from Penny the
story Of her fathers unfortunate
attempt to start a subdivision in
Primrose Meadows Addition. his
failure. and subsequent flight. The
house he had built is now rented
by Nita from Judge Marshall. Dun
dee drives Penny out TO the lunch
con, curious TO see the lovely Mia"
When he meets her. she f~lirtatiously
asks him for cocktails after bridge,
but is frightened on hearing he is
a detective. Dundee is interrupted
in his work late that afternoon at
the office by Penny on the rele-
phone. who informs him that Mia
Se,im has been murdered az bridge.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER II
As Special Investigator Dundee
drove through the city Of Hamilton
az a speed OF so miles an hour. his
way being cleared by traffic police
men warned by the shrill official
siren which served him as a horn.
he had little time to think connect
edly Of the fact that Nita Selinl
had been murdered during a bridge
game in her rented home in Prim-
lose Meadows.
Even after the broad sickness OF
Sheridan road stretched before him
he could do little more than try to
realize the shock that had numbed
him .... Lovely Mia" as the So
c:ety editor Of The Morning News
had called her, was-deadi How,
Why, he did not know. He had ask
ed no details Of Penny Grain ....
Funny, thorny little Penny
Judge Marshall has telephoned
police headquarters" she told him
hreathlessly over the telephone, but
I made him let me call you as soon
as he had hung up. ! wanted our
office to be IN or this right from
the first"
Beautiful. seductive Nita Selim,
almost cuddling under his arm with
in three minutes Of meeting him
dead! A vision Of her black eyes,
So WIDE and luminous and wistful
as they had looked sideways and up
ward to his. pleading for him TO
jcin her after bridge cocktail party,
nearly made him crash into a lum-
bering furniture van. Those eyes
we're luminous no longer. could nev-
er again snap the padlocks Of slave
chains upon any man-as Penny had
expressed II.
1850. Dead, And she had been
so warmly alive. even when size re-
treated from him a. his mention of
the fact that he was attached 70 the
office Of the district attorney as a
special investigator.
What had she feared then? Was
her death a payment for some re-
cent or long-standing crime? Or
was she simply withdrawing from
the contamination Of a fl~at-foot?'
.... Mo- She had been afraid
horribly afraid of some Interior
purpose behind his innocent courtesy
in driving Penelope Grain to Break
away Inn.
Well. speculation now was idle
He speeded up again. but was soon
forced 10 stop and ask his way into
Primrose Meadows. The vague d.
rections OF a farmers oyeralled son
lost him nearly eight precious sec
ends. during which his friend. Cap
tain Strawn Of the homicide squad,
might be bungling things rather
badly. But at last he found the
ornate pair Of pillars spanned by the
painted legend Primrose Meadows
and drove through them into what
soon became a rutted lane. Almost
a quarter Of a mile from the en-
trance he found the isolated house,
unnistakable because of the line
I'D Of private cars parked before the
short stretch of paved sidewalk. and
the added presence Of grim Unlocking
police cars and motorcycles.
So Captain stravn was out In full
force Dundee turned his own cal
into the driveway leading from the
street along the right side Of the