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THE INDIANAPOLIS INES

She had found it not on a towel
bar nor slung carelessly, man-fash-
ion. over the tub, but at the bot
tom Of the hamper, otherwise empty.
She knew one didn't drop any
thing into a hamper by accident.
One lifted the lid and did it de-
h~berately. And men, she reasoned,
especially week-enders, never both
cred with hampers.
They expected to find a multitude
of clean towels, always ready, and
to have soiled ones spirited away
by the hand that brought the fresh
ones. If a woman had had the
room, the clew Of the hamper would
mean less. But a mani
While she had been thinking,
Linda had snatched from the bar a
used face towel, Strengthened the
remaining ones, dropped a fresh
cake of soap into the tub dish and
otherwise attempted to give the
room a done appearance which
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both downstairs? But probably it
isn't there-Ill just make sure
e n =
"A FTER clearing her own racks of
IL suspicion, Linda listened care
fully at the door of their room.
i hope every ones downstairs"
she said. ut seems quiet up here"
Tom looked out the window.
DE Vos and Statlander are down
on the lawn. Shaughnessey would
have no eason to be up here and
that leaves Pratt only"
III have to take a chance on
him. He'd be least curious of them
all and I'll act very much the house
wife If I meet him. In fact, I'll go
and knock on his door and, if he
answers, I can think up something
to ask him"
Determining by this simple
stratagem that Pratt's room was
empty, as was the bathroom which
ne and the Belgian shared, she
started her search at the other end
of the hall.
Plenty of towels there. but not so
many bath towels. How lavish men
were in their use! Two different
brands Of shaving cream and one
standard sunburn ointment, but
not the one she used. Only one
other possibility-the bathroom at
the other end of the hall, which Mr..
Statlander alone was using.
When she saw it she hardly could
believe her eyes. Creased-but the
creases running roughly from end
to end as though pulled strongly
apart from the hems-and, mark
ing the central one, an unmistak-
able smear Of yellowish grease. She
smelt it--yes. that was the charac-
teristic camphor smell!
Then with a CULVER of RETROSPECT
tive fear, she lifted the towel slowly
and placed it around her throat.
No, that didn't seem quite right.
She reversed the ends and felt the
smeared creases against the hot skin
at the back of her neck. Yes, it
had been pulled that way.
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would account for the disappear
ance Of the towel If it were missed.
She hoped. of course, that it
would not be. Then, draping the
several things she had collected
negligently over her arm. she re-
treated as quickly as she could
without actually running to the
safe harbor of her own room.
Tom had gone down. That was
sensible Of him. But it was dis
appointing, too. She would have
liked to show him her prize. Now
she must hide it. ,
Any n who knew enough to
conceal it in the first place might
try to trace it and with the dis
covery realize that he was suspect
ed. Under the mattress? No,
every one hid things there-it
would be the first place to look.
Behind a chest of drawers? No,
it could be plainly e if it dropped
to the floor.
She flew into her bathroom,
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THE HYPoTENUSE is the side
of a triangle opposite the right
angle. NINE. CURE discovered
RADIUM. The sketch shows a
CATFOAT.
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back until late tonight. DO you
know. I'll feel much better salts
fed if you viii stay the night here.
You are not mountaineering us
a bit-in fact, will like to have you.
And it will be so much ~pleasanter
If you don't feel you have to rush
of to get a late train to town.
DO let me tell Tom that you'll
stay over and then We can see to-
morrow how you feel about going
in"
Standing a step or two above
them, she had the advantage Of be-
ing able to study their faces care
fully, and on none but Marvin's did
she decry any sign Of displeasure
at the suggestion.
De Vos, reader than the others,
bowed with a quick, gracious incli-
nation and answered:
I shall be delighted, Madame.
That is most kind of you. But
please do not think you must ask us
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE (Con-
tinIed)

did he actually say he had seen
me come up the steps?"
mo- don't think his words
could be Interpreted that way. He
Just said he ran upstairs, drip
ping" Linda stopped rather alb
ruptly.
She doubted whether it would be
polite just now to suggest that
some n else had noticed the ten
sion between Marvin and her hus-
band.
Tom, %meditating, did not notice
her sudden stop or thought she had
come to a period.
"Well-we won't forget it. 1t may
be a bad slip. It's a contradiction
at best. You told the story about
fainting-how did he take that?"
How should he take it? Per-
fectly natural-but rather bored as
I developed my sensations. I got
that in about feeling as If I were
strangling. Did it very nicely, If 1
do say it myself.
"Oh, his manners perfect, Tom.
He really seemed sorry about the
whole occurrence and sorry, but
not too sorry, about me-"
CHE hesitated whether to mention
- the talk about the boat. After
All. De Vos actually had not asked
her to take him out in it and
Fleur's appearance in hers was such
an obvious reason for the turn Of
the conversation.
Then Tom struck off another tack
and she forgot this vague posi-
bility.
Linda, you didn't go into Cousin
Amos room before I locked it up,
did you?"
Not since-it happened" she
said, "why?"
That business of the railing be-
ing put back worries me. 1 don't
quite like it. I suppose any one
might do it abstractedly. Parsons,
perhaps, when he inspected the
place.
but whoever did it might have
gone back into the room. There
may have been something-some
proof Of the attack on you. After
ell, you haven't a shred of proof
now"
She had slipped off her sports
dress and put on a soft afternoon
chiffon that wa cooler, but not too
dressy in its effect. Standing by the
window, she looked out on the
darkening waters f the Sound.
Yes she said slowly, II think
/ have. From the feel of what went
around my throat, I'd say it was
a towel-a turkish towel. Now it
happens that yesterday, at the ten
mis- tournament, the back of my
neck got sunburned.
Il was sore all evening, so after
we came home from the dance and
/ took off my dress I smeared on
great gobs of salve. I thought I
was going to bed, you see. Then
we decided on a dip, so I just shook
Off my clothes on the floor and got
into my suit without thinking of
1t again.
THAT towel-it was pulled tight,
Tom, and there'd be Smears of
sticky salve on it where it rubbed
the back of my neck"
Sure it was a towel?"
|"Yes-practically sure. 1t was
rough and wadded up thick. I
think I sort of clutched at it.
Anyhow, I've been turning it
-
talking and my impression is clearer
and clearer"
"Binks-if it's in the house, you
must find that lowell"
Yes"
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Short Burrows

XXTELL, as was expected, Con-
w gresham Louis Ludlow of the
overwhelmingly wet Twelfth district,
voted dry. Which leads me to
suspect that the poet may have had
Louis in mind when he penned the
lines:
The midwife laid her hands upon his
skull
And said: BE thou dull, be thou dull
Utterly disregarding the Dem
ocratic state and national platform
planks pledging repeal, Congress-
man Arthur Greenwood, of the
Seventh district, also voted against
repeal.
Greenwood has been associating
with Ludlow and that proves the
truth of the saying The worst Of
it is, dizziness is catching"
Howell Ellis and Ralph Young,
public service commissioners, are
seen together so much that some
day they will be mistaken for the
Siamese twins. But it isn't love that
makes them so close. The common
fear of losing their jobs when Nc
Mutt becomes Governor is the tie
that binds.
Young probably will vote with
Ellis on the question of reducing the
rates of the Indianapolis Water
Company, the hearing of which be-
gan Wednesday,
And while these hearings we're
underway, Commissioner Jere West,
the silent member of that body,
cat-napped. 1t doesn't make much
difference if he doesn't hear the evil
dence, they tell me, because West
will vote with the majority any,
how. He always has in the past.
Which brings to mind the pos
sibility that there may be no ma
jority. Since Harry K. Cuthbertson
resigned, there are only four MEM
bers of the commission and a two
to two vote would mean a hopeless
deadlock until the vacancy is filled.
How about it, you lawyers? Who
would decide the tie on the public
service commission?
4 n 4
If the truth were known Governor
Harry c.. Leslie is enjoying life
more than any n else in the state.
He doesn't have to worry about
a thing, for in exactly one month
he turns over the keys to Paul v.
McNutt.
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ARQK
a DAY
'oY BRUCE CATION

TINE amazing effect of a chain
l. of accidents on the lives of
human beings forms the theme OF
I'll Wind" James Hilton's new
novel.
The most casual happening, says
Hilton, can have an ultimate sig
nihcance too profound for human
understanding. In Ill Wind" he
sets out to cite ar example to
prove it.
A planters hat blows off On the
shore of an island off the Malay
coast. An unimportant event?
Surely, but because of it there is a
murder, which causes a lynching,
which leads to an armed insurrec-
ton.
Because of this, an English school
ma'am mentioning in Switzerland
posters the daylights out of a Lon
don business man. Because she
pestered him the business man gives
a hearing to a Rumanian inventor.
Becaues he got this hearing, the
inventor is moved to go to Holly
wood and crash the movies-and,
ultimately, to die in a South Amer
lean jungle.
Because he did that, a Russian
emigre goes balmy, and that causes
the emigre's sister to shoot a Boil
shevik delegate to a peace meeting
in Geneva-which, in the end,
menaces the peace of the whole
world and paves the way for a new
war.
It's an ingenious yarn, toldd with
irony and intelligent insight. It's a
trife disconnected, unfortunately,
and the thread of the story is hard
to follow. But it's not bad reading.
Published by Morrow, it retails for
$3.50.
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CHAPTER
TOMS hands clenched uncon.

TOMS hands clenched uncon-
IL sciously. Whoever has that
towel will have something to say to
mel" he exclaimed. Your blessed
little neck, Binks-l Look every
wherel Don't mind pokitg into bu-
reau drawers"
IN abuse my h~ousewifely privi-
leges to the utmost" Linda made a
grimace as she rubbed her throat.
But the others sat in the sun. They
may have burned, too"
"A mans collar protects his neck
to some extent. One or two may
have a touch Of it, but you're not
apt to find every one in the same
house using the same salves, either.
That camphor smell makes the stuff
unmistakable.
But, while you're looking, you
might watch out for different sorts
Of ointment in the various rooms"
IF I find the towel, shall 1 take it
away?"
BY all means. If that stuff really
shows, it'll be obviously soiled. That
shouldn't arouse suspicion-to have
it disappear, I mean. But will it be
there so late in the day?"
There's a chance, but it's only a
chance. Rosie usually goes around
before time to dress for dinner and
leaves out fresh linen. With all
the excitement, she may not have
had time. Usually, she would have,
but so much has happened"
Even finding it later in the
laundry would mean something. But
for heavens sake, Linda, look now!
Stop talking and get busyl"
Here goes!" She went toward
their own bathroom.
"Why start there?"
ct would be a slick trick, wouldn't
it, to plant it on us while we were
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LOOMING demurely downstairs,
~ Linda heard voices in the room
beneath and at the foot of the stairs
met the three guests whom she
would least have liked to encounter
five minutes before-De Vos, Stat
lander and Marvin Pratt.
She greeted them with friendly
solicitude and suddenly altered her
plans. This was the time to breach
the next step in her campaign.
There's no word of DR.. Boyle,
she said. land there's more than
a fair chance that he won't get
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W.
kMOS PEABODY. elderly cousin OF
LINDA AVERILL, falls TO his death
from the second story balcony OF the
Averiils' Long Island home.
Linda reaches him lust before he dies
IN time 70 hear him gasp a few words
which convince her he was murdered
Linda PUSHES upstairs. Some one tries
TO s~trangle her and she falls in a faint.
There are four guests in the house
AL suspects Of The crime. They are.
Mr. 5IAILANDER. business associate
OF TOM AvEIaILL; CAPTAIN DE VOs.
handsome Belgian MARVIN PRATT.
former sutton OF Linda's. and LIAM
SRAUGBNESSEY. Irish writer.
When Linda tells her husband what
Happened. she persuades him they must
Nefp these four men IN the house until
they can decide which one Is guilty,
rest.
Tom and Linda are aided in their
plan when DIR. BOYLE. official medical
examiner. end word that every one
must Temain until he has questioned
BOYLE is on a fishing trip and can not
return for several hours.
Linda overhears a conversation be-
tween Sh%aughnessey and ROSIE, the
maid, concerning a shirt Rosie has
promised 70 launder
Tom and Linda talk 70 each guest IN
turn, but learn little. Linda believes IL
was 2 Turkish towel with which she was
E~trangled.
she had put sunburn ointment on her
shoulders the night before and II she
can find a towel marked with this oint-
meut 10 may help them locate the muir
Noru r. ~ trvrrry rrrr crOpv
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GsDA1M ET47IW URN

Harry now can sit back and grin
about everything from hunger
marchers to a license tag war with
Kentucky. His salary still contin-
ues, whether or not he works.
1 see by The Times that Senator
Arthur R. Robinson Oittle Robby
to YOU is opposed to recognition Of
Russia.
The answer is obvious. Robby
knows that even if he recognizes
the Russians, they will refuse to
recognize him.
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Me@D7dM MI ss azaA

A little premonitory shivcr went
over her. Then she went on calmly.
Its probably just hung over some
body's towel bar. No one would
think 1t would be a giveaway.
"Oh, Tom, that's a clewl You
really think that whoever has it-?"
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trained elephants awaited the man-eater. How
Tarzan would have smiled, amused by this small
army hunting a single animal. even though it was
the largest and most powerful of cats. He who
he'd. when badly wounded. strangled a lioness-
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snatched down towels already there
and draped the soiled n over a
bar. Then across it she hung other
bath towels and, over them, sew
eral face towels.
Feeling very well satisfied with
the place Of concealment. she
dabbed powder on her nose and
hurried after Tom.
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both downstairs? But probably it
isn't there-Tll just make sure"
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OFFICER SHOOTS
MERCHANT COP
Wounded in Foot Trying to
Halt Burglar.

James Parker, SIS, of 924 West
New York street, merchant police
man, was recovering today from a
wound received early Sunday when
he was shot in the foot by a police
man while seeking to halt a fleeing
burglary suspect.
Parker was aiding patrolmen Judd
and Reinking whom he had called
when he discovered two Negroes in a
store operated by j. r. Erganbright
at 784 Indiana avenue.
Judd, who was guarding the rear
door, saw two men run to an auto
mobile. He seized one s=n, who
was in the car, and the other fed.
The officer released his hold on the
man in the car, who escaped, and
fired at the feet of the fugitive.
Parker rounded the corner just as
Judd fired, and he collided with the
fugitive, receiving the shot in his
foot.
The fleeing Negro was captured,
and gave his name as Gilbert Han
cock, 20. of 734 Darnell street.
A large quantity of cigarets and
cigars we're found in the car, which
had been reported stolen earlier in
the night by A. B. Griffith, 125 West
Market street.
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Legal Bids, Proposals
NOTICE TO BIDDERS


Notice is hereby given that the Board
Of School. Commissioners. of the City Of
Indianapolis, Indiana will until the hour
OF o'clock P NJ Tuesday July Is, 1882
$50 North Meridian street, Indianapolis.
Indiana. for:
Remodeling Boys Toilet in Barn at
Arsenal Technical Schools.
- Al IN accordance with plans and specifi-
cations prepared by the Engineering
Division of the Board
A copy of the plans and specifications
for said alterations and additions is on
file at the office of the State Board of
Accounts, Room S05 State House, Indian
aspE S Inda ana. and &C.. copies are also on
Commissioners, $50 North Meridian street.
indianapolis. Copies of such plans and
specifications may be procured by persons
the deposit of fifteen (S15.0Ol dollars as
security for their return in good con-
dition to the office of the Owner not later
than the date upon which the bids are
Proposals must be made upon blank
form No. 80, as prescribed by the Indiana
State Board of Accounts, Said blanks may
$50 North Meridian street. Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Proposals must be accompanied by a
certlhed check drawn payable to the
Board of School Commissioners of the
City. of indianapolis on an Indianapolis
Bank or Trust Company. for three 49,
per cent OF the amount OF each bid. Said
three 49, per cent to be held by the
Board until bids are rejected. Checks of
the successful bidders to be returned when
contract and bond are executed
In case a bidder whose bid shall be
accepted shall not within 1--WE Isl DAYS
after notice of the acceptance of his bid
perform his bid by entering into a written
contract with the Board. to perform the
work in accordance with the plans and
specifications. and within that time secure
the performance of his contract by a
surety bond. with surety or sureties to the
approval of the Board, his certified check
and the proceeds thereof shall be and re-
main the absolute property of the Board
as liquidated damages agreed upon for
such failure. 1t being impossible 10
estimate the amount Of damages such
failure would occasion to the Board.
The proposal shall be in the sealed
envelope with writing thereon plainly in
dicating the character of the work TO
which the bid re ates, as for example
BID FOR REMODELING BOYS TOILET
IN BARN AT ARSENAL TECHNICAL
SCHOOLS"
The right is reserved by the Board to
reject any or all proposals and to refrain
from accepting or rejecting proposals for
not more than fifteen t15i days
BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS
CT THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.
BY A. B. GOOD. Business Director
Indianapolis Indiana.
July l. 1882.
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Landlord Your Rental Reaches the There RESULTS ACT
SMITH FACTION
SUPPORT COAL
OF ROOSEVELT
0vertureS to Be Made to
3 Democrat Left Wing;
AL Is 0bdurate.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CHICAGO, July 4.-Democrats are
setting out on their campaign to
capture the White House for Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt with
their immediate objective the paci-
fication of the Alfred E. Smith wing
of the party, which is dominant in
the east.
This overshadows all other con-
siderations at the moment, for
Smith could be a dangerous foe.
The Happy Warrior" of 1923 left
heretofore his former friend and
successful rival arrived to accept
the Democratic standard-in any
thing but happy frame of mind.
There we're well-authenticated
reports from close friends Of the
1923 candidate that he would leave
soon for a trip to Europe--it would
be his first-and wear out his griev-
ances among the sights of the old
world.
What McAdOO Did
That's what William Gibbs Nc
Adoo did in 1924, after the Madison
Square Garden convention deadlock
between him and Smith had cheated
McAdoo OF the prize.
Reports also still are current that
Smith might enter third party
movement, but these seem to be
far-fetched.
The most obvious theory is that
Smith merely will drop out of the
campaign, and refuse to take any
part in it,
The bitterness he seems to hold
for Roosevelt appears to preclude
any chance of open support.
The Roosevelt strategy will be to
win, if possible, the support of those
associated with Smith in the
endeavor to leave him standing
aside as a disgruntled figure.
Overtures Made
The New York Governor made
preliminary overtures in his speech
before the national committee by
laVishing praise upon John j.
RaSkob, retiring chairman of the
national committee, and Jouett
Shouse, retiring chairman of the
executive committee, both of whom
were involved in the Roosevelt
movement which stirred up so much
underestimate bitterness. Roosevelt
referred to both as "old friends"
Some gestures of peace came from
the other side in the closing hours
of the convention.
John F. Curry, the inscrutable
chieftain of Tammany Hall, shunted
New York onto the vice-presidential
bandwagon of Speaker John N. Gar
ner, and offered a resolution OF
praise for Senator Thomas j.
Walshs handling of the convention.
Walsh defeated Shouse, the Smith
candidate, for the post.
This appeared to be beginning
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zines WANT ADS maze INTERESTING reao
Ing because interesting bargains Of mauy
kinds are listed &ere daily.
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SALMON LURE ACTOR

Edward Everett Horton and Direc-
tor to Fish in Pacific Northwest.
BIZ United Press
HOLLYWOOD, July 4.-Using
four-ounce tackle and 4O-pound
lines, Edward Everett Horton, &C.
tor. and Melville Brown, director.
will match their skill against the
strength and wileS of salmon in
the Pacific northwest.
To catch 50-pound salmon with
this tackle will. be their object
ar achievement which will place
them high in the estimation of
SportSmen.
Horton is en- route north by
steamer to join Brown and his wife
at Vancouver. B. c.. where they
will embark on a rented yacht for
the scene Of the salmon run.
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SNAKES FREED ON ISLE
NEAR N. Y. STREETS
Moat and Tilted Wall Will Keep
Reptiles Imprisoned.

By United Press
NEW YORK, July 4.-Forty-two
snakes of the Bronx ZOO have been
set free to earn their own keep on
a man-made island. with only an
eighteen-inch moat and tilted wall
to keep them from New York side
walks.
Keepers at the ZOO are proud OF
their ingenuity in safeguarding the
public from escaping reptiles.
Snakes, they explain, can not swim
and climb at the same time, hence
the moat against the wall assures
adequate protection.
The principle would operate for
the boa or cobra, or any other dead
ly serpent, keepers said, but they
were quick to demonstrate, but we
won't chance it"
Only the harmless variety of
snakes in the zoo were placed on the
island.