The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-11
CONFIDENTIAL
REPORT ,o sn's Z; BIZ.


/ Now let's have it.
p: Well, Jocelyn and | go
friendly on the Normandie, ane
one night / asked him if he ever
did a Job of work, OF just drifteo
around being the grand play boy
all the time. HE told me he wa:
in Lady Welter's outfit, and from
then on we got talking stocks anc
shares. He let il out that most OF
his ma-in-law's money was tied W
| in the Rocksavage companies ano
they hadn't been doing too wei
lately, because Bolitho Blame ano
his crowd had been hitting into
them right and left.
At the mention of Bolitho Blame
| lust saw red. I've never seen the
man. Honest, chief, | never have
but he did me dirt once that III
never forget. He came on board
the old Mauretania to see some
body off at Liverpool, and he no.
ticed me among the passengers
He recognized me from a snapshot
that had been taken on a preVi'
Gus trip when got intimate with
friend of his and-well-you
know my line of business, Chief,
| had skinned that friend of his
good and grand. He tipped oft
the pvrsuer. The purser told me,
afterwards, that he had. They
watched me specially during that
trim and caught ME out. That was
the first time and the judge sent
me down for lS months in Sing
Sing.
Now, i ask you. wasn't that just
devilish trick to play? 1t wasn't
as though | had taken wad OIL
Blame himself, but he must go and
point me out to the purser as a
suspect, and that put me behind
the bars. I've always sworn that
I'd get even with him one day.
g -
n: So that's how the land lies'
is it?
p: No, no, Chief, you've got me
all wrong. Didn't / say that once
a guy starts talking he let's HIM
self in. / didn't murder Blame. |
give YOU my word didn't.
K: I'm not suggesting that you
did, but now you've got so Tar
you'd better give me the rest Oh
the story. .
P: All right, then. When | went
off the deep end about Blame this
chap Jocelyn became mighty IN
terested and he said to me, Nov,
il you'd really like q chance to
settle your account with Blame l
can give it you. A. little party is
being arranged in about a fort
nights time in Mr.: Rpcksavage' 5
Yacht, for deep-sea fishing, SUM-
bathing and that sort Of thing.
Blame is going to be- one OF the
guests. Would you care to come
Well, / thought that over. |
didn't give Blame his, | swear l
didn't. That was the last thing IN
my mind. But ii seemed y grand
opportunity to get in with the
swell crowd, like this.
H.: How's the luck been run
ming? ,,
since / came on board. There's
been a little mild bridge evenings,
that's all. What d'you take me
for anyway? Think I'd go and
spill the beans by soaking this
crowd for a few grand first eve
ming we were out of port. No, SIR.
That's not the kind of man / am.
There might have been Just one
little card party one night before
we. got back to port, where maybe
I'd have been the lucky one, but
not so lucky that any OF these
people would ever have supposed
there was anything phoney about
me. I valued this connection
higher than that. II played my
hand right on this trip 1t was a
sure bet they'd be asking me par
ties when we got back to New
York. That's what Twas after, and
I wasn't going to, spoil it by any
funny stuff on the trip. -
X: Has Jocelyn said anything
TO you since you came on board
about the chance he had given you
10 settle accounts, with Blame?
p: Not a thing. I just took nm
at his word and came along and, II
YOU want the truth, by the time
we were one day out I'd just for
gotten every. word about that con-
yersation in the Normandie: l was
so interested in making these new
hook ups with the society crowd
that I'd even forgotten Blame WAS
coming on board until his seere-
tary introduced himself to Rock
savage two evenings ago just after
we sailed from Miami.
r.: You do believe though that
Jocelyn asked you: on board prin-
cipally because. he knew that you
had a grudge against Blame?
p: That's Gods truth. Chief
Gods truth, and if you ask me
something fresh must have hap,
pened to make Jocelyn so mad
with Blame that he sailed in and
did the Job himself before waiting