The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-23

number of recent pictures, includ-
ing Night Life" and boy, How
dy!" both of which have dancing
sequences.
Musical comedy programs for
the last year carry her name only
once, in the list Of Ladies Of the
Ensemble" Of the revue What
OF It?"
Miss Eloise Pendleton, head
mistress of Forsyte-on-the-Hud-
son, mentioned in the dispatch
from Hamilton, confirms the re-
port that Mrs. Selim, as she was
known there, twice directed the
annual Easter musical comedy
presented by that fashionable
school for young ladies, but could
add nothing Of interest to the
facts given above, beyond assert
ing that Mrs. Selim had proved
to be an unusually competent and
popular director of their amateur
theatricals.
YVES, that's correct, as far as it
u goes" Lydia commented, re-
sentiment in her harsh voice as she
returned the paper to Dundee.
Have you anything to add?''
Dundee caught her up quickly.
mo, sir!" Lydia shook her head,
her lips in a grim line. Then re-
sentiment burst through: "They
don't have to talk like she was a
back number on Broadway, just be-
cause she was tired OF the stage and
going in for moviesl"
District Attorney Sanderson took
her in hand then, pelting her with
questions about Nita's New York
gentlemen friends but he made
no more Roadway than Dundee.
1--WE know that Mia Selim was
afraid Of some onel" Sanderson be-
gan again, angrily. who was it
some one she'd known in New York,
or somebody in Hamilton?"
81 don't know!' Lydia told him
fatty.
"But you do know she was living
in fear of her life, don't you?" Dun
dee interposed.
'T-well, yes, I suppose she was"
Lydia admitted reluctantly. But I
thought she was just afraid to live
out there in that lonesome house
away off at the end of nowhere"
"Was she afraid of Dexter
Sprague2" Sanderson shot at her.
would she have asked him to
stay if she'd been afraid of him?"
Lydia demanded scornfully. "And
would she have asked him to rig
up bell from her bedroom to mine,
if it was him she was afraid off"
"a ben?" Dundee echoed.
eyes, sir. 1t has a contraption
under the rug, right beside her bed,
SOS she could step on it and it
would ring in my room, which was
underneath Nita's room. Mr..
Sprague bought the wire and stuff,
bored hole through her bedroom
floor, and fixed it all hisself."
did any one know Nita had
taken this precaution to protect
herself?" Dundee asked.
Mis- Lois did, because one day
not long ago she stepped on it acct
dentally, when she was in Nita's
room. The bell buzzed in my room
and I came up to answer it, and
Mia explained it to Miss Lois"
So that was why no attempt had
been made to murder Mia while
she sleptl Dundee told himself
triumphantly.
For of course it was more than
probable that Lois Dunlap limo
Gently had spread the news of Mia S
nervousness and her ingenious
method to summon help instant
ly.
There was a knock at the door.
Come in! All finished,
Carraway? Fine! II like to
see the prints as soon as possible,
and now I'd like for you to go over
to the morgue with Lydia, and wait
there until she has the body dressed
in these clothes, and the hair done
according to the instructions Mrs.
Selim left.
"I'll leave the posing to you, but
want a full-length picture as well
as head portrait"
n y q
A S Ly d as work-roughened
L A knuckly hands were returning
the funeral clothes to the suitcase,
another question occurred to Dun
dee:
Lydia. did you know, before 1
questioned you at the Miles home
yesterday, that Sprague had re-
turned for that bag he had left in
the bedroom upstairs?"
Her SCARED cheek flushed livid,
but the maid answered with defiant
honesty: Yes, did! He spoke to
me through my basement window
just before you come running down
to talk to me.