The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-10
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE


Ut was 5 o'clock that Saturday
j afternoon when Bonnie Dundee
Sc out from Hillcrest to pay three
calls in the city of Hamilton. Dick
Berkeley, looking pale and i'll, was
ar ny as the detectives chauffeur
Dick had wandered forlornly into
Dundee's room just as his guest was
&c ting into his topcoat.
Going out, Dundee? &. F.. You're
lucy! I wish to God could get
av3y from this dump, even for an
hour. I feel like a prisoner"
Then I'll make truSty OF you
ard order you to drive me into the
citv" Dundee grinned.
hey set out in the boys road
ster. with Dick pathetically CRATE
full for the privilege, but strangely
silent. Finally, however, Dundee
asked him a question which gal
vanized his slumped body.
Dick. can you think of any rea-
son why your father should have
been willing to install Doris Mat
thews in a beauty shop of her own?'
"Dad?" Dick Echoed incredulous-
" Don't be an ass, Dundee!
Doris was a very beautiful and
appealing girl" the detective re-
minded him. your father is in
his prime and at what the novelists
call the dangerous age Almost
every man of that age feels the
urge for one more romantic fling. ,
LET me tell you this! If Dad
could have made such a fool of him
self. Doris would have LAUGHED in
his face-or slapped it! She was
the straightest-" He choked. then
went or d0ggedly: Besides, she was
in love with Arnold
Then 90 you think your father
so feared an ENHANCEMENT BETWEEN
YOU and Doris that he planned 10
bride her to discourage your atten-
tionS?"
..Bribe herl" Dick snorted con-
temptuouslv. "She didn't need TO
be bribed to discourage my atten-
tions. What the devil put such an
idea into your head enyway?'
ooh. nothing much" Dundee an
nounced evasively. Just something
she wrote to her sister. kathryn IN
England. She said she knew where
She could get as much as or more
than she needed to open shop.
He did not add that he he'd docu-
mentarv proof that George EerEeley
wa the angel that Doris had re
fer-ed TO.
"rHE didn't mean Dad" Dick re-
y torted emphatically L sup
nose she meant she could borrow
the money on a business basis
Now look here. Dundee! You II
save time and trouble for yourseli
if you'll take my word for it that
Doris Matthews was straight as a
string and good clear through to
the marrow of her bones.
ANY cock-eyed theory of yours
that makes her out otherwise is
the bunk"
so Mrs. Lambert and Wicket
have told me, to say nothing OF
Seymour Crosby" Dundee told him
cheerfullv. And Gigi is ready to
scratch my eyes out if dare ques-
ton Doris's integrity. And yet
Doris was murdered. Dick. by some
one to whom her life was men,
acct"
Dick stared at the young detec-
tive. then slowly his weak face
hardened into lines of character
"-ouve put your finger on it, Dun
dee" he said strangely. Doris was
killed because she knew something
which would have ruined the per-
son who murdered her. Doris
couldn't be bribed, she had to
diel"
"Iohnson?" Dundee suggested.
Lord, I don't know" Dick
slumped again into a miserable
huGdle beneath the steering wheel.
IF. johnson isn't the murderer, his
bunbling into the case as a first
cla.S suspect is the luckiest thing
that ever happened TO the 1end that
IS guilty Well, here's the city
hal. Want me to wait for you?"
Please. I Shan't be gone Ions"
Dundee answered. as he swung his
lons legs over the door he did not
trouble to open.
His destination was an Office on
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