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Murder At Bridge
by ANNE AUSTIN author of "THE BLACK PIGEON*
AVENGING FMROSE BACKSTAIR"
CHAPTER XLAN
1. "No. I never met Nita's
the first
"If they are, I don't know any.. thing about it," the girl told him, and turned to another seeker after bund volumes of the paper.
"It doesn't matter." Dundee us. P. & O. BANKING
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PLEASE SEARCH FILES ALL THREE HAMILTON PAPERS FOURTH TO WEEK OF MAY ELEVENTH NINETEEN TWEN-Į TY TWO FOR STORY AND PIC-j TURES ON SUICIDE ANITA- LEE
name and the last had easted the error in the photograph. There was a picture of Nita Leigh, band," Serena Hart replied. "As with Nila's statement that the re- a matter of fact, she told me export of my death has been exalt- traordinarily be about him, and gerated, and a picture of the real | ARTISTS MODEL SAY NOTHING did not discuss her marriage with Anita Lee."
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"When did the mistake occur?" TO ANYONE NOT EVEN SAN- 1 got the impression that Mr. Selim undere asked, in great excitement, DERSON IF HE IS BACK STOP Colombo, Hengkang. Madras, Stranghai, Singa
Mat, she called him-wanted it
"Let me think Serent art WIRE RESULT kept secret for a while, but I don't know why. This was early in frowned. "Hullabaloo opened in-. 1918, az I've told you, though 1/es, about the first of May, 1922 awaiting an answer. from Penny obrved security. Current and Flied Depos
little more than eight have no way of fixing even the ap- proximate date, and New York was years ago."
Dunder reached for his own hat. 1 remember full of soldiers. 1 jumped to the conclusion that Nita in a fever to be gone, but to his had succumbed to a war ronance, surprise the actress stopped him, but I don't think she said anything a faint colour in her pale checks.
"Since you've from Hamilton, and to confirm my suspicion."
"When did she tell you of her are investigating the murder, you
met little marriage that is, when---in rela-have undoubtedly tion to the date of the wedding it-nelope Crain ?” self?" Dundee asked.
"The very day she was ried," Serena Hart answered.
the matiner, IT was late dressing tables were side by and as alw slipped out sires**
of her
the
mar- "know her very well. 11 hap Shes that she is private secretary Our to
district attorney, ruler side, when I work... Why
"I saw her as lead in the Easter [day at Forsyte four or five years "This dress?" Dundee asked, and Miss Hart explain, her tunded her the photograph of deals turned from The detective na ¡Nita n. the myal blue velvet dress de dusted it with powder, "and 11
the bad kept for 12 years.
"Yes" and
In his hotel, while impatiently! be passed the time by scanning all the New York papers of Thursday
the chance Land Friday, on
meeting with significant rovela tions concerning the private life of Dexter Sprague or Juanita Leigh Selim, united in death, by least. There BLR the press, at much space devoted to the theory New Yorkers involving the two
Pengers travelling Homeward are recom which can be exahed through the Purser of any mended to obtain Letter of Credit frous e, P. and O. or B. I, 8. N. Steamer or at any
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terest.
The Grat was 2 reusinder to the public that certain theatrical cal ature of Send: v. Feb. 9. hund car.
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at Dexter Spra Capital & Surplus over B$8,000,000 much empavement to Dolly Martin. Total Resourers over B$30,000,000 Every doseription of Banking vas impressed with her talent In Popular Ted' star of Altamont Serena Hart shud- art. Fars for her father, who had Putures, and that the papers of Fan! Exchange business transact
11, baal carried.* de from Hamilton to witness the Tuesday. Fe "Her hair wa, dried he
Current and Fixed Deposit Ac- that to although he had verformance, as prond parenta mrej Sparue's ow
counts in local and forelen cur wever it is long curls, and had hikely to do, to let her gn on the igement
So that i 1 x Nita sried to rencien opened for ellents. to take it down incore she could go -tago."
She
"So you Diet Roger Cain But
Savings Account and Safe De- commit suicide on Feb, 9--and her into the opening number.
attempted suicide, with its tragis Hosit Boxes, whirl to fae that she had been paused to ask.
Andia Corr, is
Branches and Agencies all over married that day, that he was g
"th, vor : n charming man, I consequences for feably hagy
in love, very much
more personality than probly the mason Dester Spr. the world. PO with e
picture star."
KAN TONG, PO. fat that her husband had a deed he daughter," the actress answered ur save me his
French
Did Nita let him
Chiot Manager. lo de her hair in the
arelessly, securelessly that Dan Dundee runded
persunde her to go into the binck- dee had a sudden hunch,
mall business, in order to hold his
informatione wandering, mercenary affections?"
The second sit of which the pagers supplied him was "What do you menu?" Miss Hart gleamed by Dundee himself. From For she was a child still~~ |
a new summary of Nita Leigh's only 20, lan ahe had been in the asked sharply.
chorus girl. business since she was a show
"OB, there was nothing actually last year of life as motherless, fatherless little drifter criminal, I suppose, but he is be-specialty dancer, double in pir-
lieved to hye withhekt some tures, and director of the Easterį 1 16...
"No, she did not tell me how old securities which would have helped play at Forsyte-on-the-Hudson, he was, where he came from, his satisfy his creditors, when bank- business, or what he looked like ruptcy was imminent," Dandee ea legal separation from her hus
As the days, plained. "Threve you seen him since and did not inquire. passed weeks, probably-shu besiken-January, that
me more and more silent and re-inve?"
or twice, she served, though once profested
1. Lavourite hair-dress with Between numbers she whisper- Phim
"Have you seen Mr. Crain ye ad to me again, telling me that her husband was so different, such arently? He deserted his family and Jumts totally unlike any inan she led Hamilton, in rather unsavory bad met on Broadway, or cblid, circumstances."
be
5 was.
"January?" Miss Hart appeared she was still terribly to need time for reflection. "Oh,
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did not show up for the perfect-first night of my show that opened was a Big-justed next night shein Innury, une at all. The
We chatted told me that her husband had left only five weeks.... her, after a quarrel, and had not of the Forsyte girls who are now It seems that she and in Hamilton, most of whim 1 wont returned, intently told him how she had to school with or have met at the vamped Benny Steinfeld, the big Easter plays," rexte producer, you know, into giv ling her a pot in his summer show, and that her 'Mat hnd flow into a rage, accusing her of having laven untrue to isim. She mentioned his desertion
ASAHI but
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"Do you know where Mr. Crain now 2 Dundee asked, have a message for him from Penny, which 1 should like to reach him.
"Why should see him again?" Miss Hart shrugged. “And I haven't the least idea where he is living.or what he doing now
14
.01 he shanki come cout, if
backstage after Temptation' What is the message fron
"Yes" Dunder prompter, Serena
went me **Well." on, uncomfortably, "I'm afraid 1
ather forgot pour Nita after Tens-Penny
Ja see
Sole Aventing Ty' closed, for my next work That her other wants him to
Iwas in stuck in Des Moines. After me home."
MITSUI BUSSAN
Thunder
a year of stock i got my chance in And I am sure Penny wants him
legitimate show on and one day I met her
answered
Broadway, on the
The mother is one back, ton, of the sweetest, gentlesti
st
KAISHA street. Sot having much to talk tragic women I have ever met
LTD. with her about. I asked her if she and you have seen Penn: for your- The disgrite has been SENER BEER BONGKONG and her husband were reconciled.elf.
She said no, that she had never very hard on them. It would b
would seen hins again. Then, in a burst of confidence, she told me that she plendid if Roger Crain
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hud hired a private detective out of back and redeem himself."
Half an hour later Bonnie Dun- her meager earnings to investigate
his home town, or rather dee, in the file room of The Ner the city that he had told her ho Yark Evening Star, was in posses- sion of the bound volume of the came from. The detective had re ported that no such person as Mutwspaper for the month of May. 1922. Under He caption, on the p Matthew Selim had ever lived there, so far as he could find out front page of the issue of May 3. I asked her if she was going to get which Serena Hart had quoted su picture of a a divorce and she said she was not seeurately.
that being already married was a laughing Nita Leigh, her
bobheil short, a rose between :
was
protection against getting married her gleaming teeth. Aus in the in haste again. After that, I rather issue of May 4 appeared two pie lust sight of Nita, and practically fures side by side-exotic, straight- forgist her, our paths being so very haired, sinal-eyed Anita Lee, who divergent."
had found life so insupportable. "And you never saw her again that she had ended it, and the sau Dnadoesked, very much disap-photograph of living, vital Nita pointed.
Height Ah, yes, two or three times-at
・i
openings, or on the street, but, we
When he returned. the files he never held any significant conver sition, Serena Hart answered, asked the girl in charge a ques- reaching for her hat. "Ok,.yes! Ition:
"Does this copyright Une was about to forget! shock in cpunexion with Nita, beneath this picture"-and he One afternoon-let's see, that was pofuted to the photograph of Nita
1
had quite a
.
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which made my first real success, mean that the picture was syn- you know-bought The New York diented?"
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