The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-21
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On q stormy November evening
DAVID BANNISTER meets
lift In the cab I'm which he Is
riding. Her handing opens and
he sees n revolver inside.
Next morning Bannister reads
that TRACY KING. orchestra
leader, has been found dead in
his apartment. Police are search
ing for an "unknown blond" who
visited King the night before.
Bannister. remembering the girl
in the taxicab, is puzzled.
He sees her again that morn
ing. The girl tells him her name
is JULIET FRANCE and swears
she knows nothing of the muir
der. She bcEs Bannistcr TO help
her and he agrees.
He goes 10 see his old friend.
JIM PAXTON, editor of the Ire
mont Post, and nrrangcs to work
on the King murder case for the
Post. Later he returns to the
hotel TO sec Juliet France and
learns she has disappeared.
Bannister goes TO see the room
In which King died, and finds an
object which he puts In his
pocket. MRS. KENNEBEC, who
lives I'm the hotel, tells Bannister
about the violent quarrel King
HOLLISTER, spinster, who lives
I'm the apartn, enta4beioyp Tling's.
Bannister takes n car downtown,
pulls from his pocket the object
he found in Kings room.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XI
ONE side of the cardboard was
gray and discolored. Bannister
:urned it over and studied the
photograph on the other side. 1t
Vas a photograph Of a man and a
woman-the man sitting down. the
woman standing, with one hand
resting on his shoulder.
1t must have been taken % or
30 years before. The woman's
iress was white, a rather elabor.
lte dress with ruffled skirt reach
.ng to the floor and lace about the
nodestly cut neck. A style Of dress
worn, Bannister thought, in the
early 1900's. In her arm she held
bouquet Of roses. She was a
pretty woman, young looking.
The man beside her was older.
He appeared rather formidable in
MS black suit which must have
oeen the utmost in elegance for its
lay. His dark hair, in Bannisters
Judgment, was badly in need Of
trimming. Bannister would have
dispensed with the heavy mus
:ache, too.
1t was, beyond all doubt, a wed
ding picture. No need to take in
such details as the bridal bouquet
Or the sprig of orange blossoms
pinned in the young woman'E
:oiffure. ~,
Yes. an old-fashioned wedding
picture. A curious thing to fine
with the golf clubs and cocktail
shaker and stack Of "blues" songs
in the bedroom Of the dead orches
ira leader. Bannister studied the
faces in the photograph. Neither
so far as he could see, resemblet
Tracy King.
He did not know why he had put
the photograph in his pocket ex
cept that he wanted to study il
further and Links coming had pre-
vented that. He looked at the bot
tom of the card and read, "Swanr
Studio" in flowing gilt script. Be
low in smaller letters was the
name Of a town he had never heart
of, located in another state.
For several moments Bannistel
looked at the two faces. Then ht
gave it up. There was certalnl!
nothing in that old photograph t
give him any information abou
Tracy Kings murder. Nothin!
whatever. He slipped the picture
back into his pocket and though
that, as an amateur detective. h
was probably the worlds worst.
STILL he had the story of Mel
- vina HOLSTERS quarrel witt