The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-12
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BECIN HERE TODAY


yacht, Golden Gull, off Miami e
investigate the disappearance o
Boiitho Blame, British finaneie'
and Roeksay.se', chief eompeh
tor in world soap trade, Detective
Officer Ksttering finds strans'
marks on Blane's cabin carpet ans
blood on the curtain.
Ketterina examines all ps.sen
gers including Nicholas StodArt
Blane's secretary; Roeksavase ans
his daughter Ferri; Lady Weller
Reginald and Mrs. Joeelyn. Lad,
Weller, daughter and son-in-la~
the, Bishop Of Bude; Count Luis
Po.odini and Inosuke Hayashi.
Kstterinx finds in preliminary
interviews that Roeksavagc had
sought a merger with Blame te
save their companies; that Lady
Weiter is, heavily interested; thai
Hayashi, Japanese agent, sought
to sell a huge soap monopoly
either to Blanc or Roeksavagei
that the Bishop wa, involved in an
unsavory army scandal; that Pos
odiui 10 an ex-eonviet; that Rock
savage's former partner died mys'
teriously in his office.
Later. kettering questions Po'
sodini again, the count admitting
his police record and that Mrs.
Joeelyn was sweet on him." But
he adds, IL never mix business
with pleasure" Kettering at once
seize. on the slip Of the tongue.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIV
DETECTIVE OFFICER NEAME'S
SHORTHAND NOTES OF DE
TECTIYE OFFICER KETTER-
.ING'S SECOND EXAMNlA.
TION OF THE HONORABLE
MRS. REGINALD J0CELYN.
h: Good morning, Mrs. Joce-
Ign.
P.J.: Good morning.
n. Sit down, won't you? There
arc Just few more things ! want
to ask you about the night before
last.
Pr: Thanks-but I have al
ready told you all ! know.
h: All, Mrs. Jocelyn? i wish
I could be quite certain about
that.
lTP.J.: But aren't you? ] don't
know anything about Mr.. Blane's
death at all.
X: Maybe you don't, but l Just
want you to think very carefully
Fprget anything which you may
have said to me yesterday. Put
il right out of your head and l
promise I won't hold it against
you. I want you 10 tell me exactly
where you were in this yacht be-
tween the time of your leaving
the lounge with Count Posodini
and returning to it changed Tor
dinner on the night before last.
P.J.: But I've already told you.
I came below with the count, left
him at his cabin door and went
straight along to my own cabin TO
change. My husband can prove
that because he was there--lying
in. his bath-when | came in. =,
IN: Ever read a book called
The Saint in New York, by Leslie
Charters. Mrs. Jocelyn
P.J.: Oh, er-yes, | am reading
il at the. moment, but | suppose
you saw il in my cabin when you
searched the whole ship yesterday.
n: That's right. Where did you
get that book?
Pr: Count Posodini lent it to
me-.
H.: When?
P.J.: Well, as a matter Of fact,
il was the evening that were talk
ing about. He gave it to me just
after We came below, and | took
il to my cabin when l-went to
change.
r.: That's better. Now we're
getting somewhere. How long did
you stay in the counts cabin?
P.J.: / was never in 1t. he went
in and got the book and handed
II out to me through the door.
n: Now, Mrs. Jocelyn, this
won't do. Ihavc no desire to pry
into your private life, and If you
have been having an affair with
the! count that's nobody's bust
ness. Anything you say is just
confidential between you and me,
but you've got TO tell me the truth
because somebody on this ship has
committed murder, and somebody
Is going to the electric chair on
that account. You'd feel pretty
bad if that somebody was the
wrong person; just because you
failed to own up TO it that you
were talking TO them while the
murder was being committed, and
you were the only abb they had
wouldn't you?
P.J.: Please don't let's be melo-
dramatic, Inspector. I'm sure II
won't come. to that and. as I've
already told you. my husband can
prove i was in my cabin at 7;40.
He asked me the time as l came
into the bathroom and looked at
my watch. g., < =" -:
X: / am sorry but'I didn't be-
lieye YOU, Mrs. Jocelyn. It's nat
ural enough that you and your
husband should have got together
directly it was discovered that
there had been q murder done on
board. You fixed that time be-
tween you TO coincide with the
time you left the lounge but, at
the time you say you found your
husband in the bath. you weren
in your own suite at all.
P.J.:. Well, if you choose 70
think I'm a liar but l don't
admit that 4 am for one moment;
XII SEQ, That's your story and
you'ro sticking, to il. All right,
Mrs. ,Jocelyn won't trouble