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Murder At Bridge

by ANNE AUSTIN author of THE BLACK PIGEON

CHAPTER XLIV

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But he

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Men who stepped out of their

Paris, Feb, 25. clasa and went on parties with The international League chorus girls frequently did so un-Airmen has made awards which der assumed names, he reflected.

10 National trophies Serena Hart was authority for the include the following: blackmailing her own husband-information that Nita's had been In husband who had dared marry a sudden marriage. Was it not Kingsford Smith and Captain With a shirp exclamation of again, believing his deserted wife entirely possible that the man who All orders tocuted promptly at medarsts excitement and triumph. Dundee to be dead--and justifying herself married Nita in 1918 had done so half-drunk, both on liquor and in- finished reading Penny'

Medals of honour to Mrs. Vic- by calling it "buck alimony"?

fatuation, and that he had not trou. But-wasn't it, in reality, gram:

Hamilton Evening Sun date

matter what coerlon Nita had used bled to explain to Nita his motives tor Brace, the Duchess of Bed- Mra. Lindbergh. may fifth nineteen

twenty in getting the money, exactly that? for having used an assumed name ford, Mlle. Hiltz (for her Parts

Back alimony! And the or to write in his real name on the Saigon Alight). published story of suicide Anita Lee Artists Model but picture ac-

of her silence before the appllention for a marriage licence? and Mme. Bastie (for her world companying was Nita Leigh Selima world and the wife who was not lad Nita's private detective jour-record duration flight of 37 hours,

followed stop really a wife? stop no correction

Dirigible trophy to Dr. Eckener, less attempt to locate "Matthew what does it mean.

In a new light, Bonnie Dundeneyed out to Hamilton in a fruit-166 minutes).

of Graf Zeppelin fume.-Reuter. "What does it mean?" Dundee studied the character of the wo-Selim"?

to himself,

Bonnie Dundee ny awake for man who had been murdered- repental exultantly

make "It means, my darling little Penny possibly to

silence hours Friday night turning these with strong chance of solving both and a hundred other questions cases stop would like you here for that anyone

Hamilton who had in

eternal.

over and over in his too-active adjourned inquesta on both mur- the matter believ any intesest in

even mind, and slept at last, only to dere Monday stop mother improv- Lois Dunlap, had liked, ed Nita Leigh Selim was dead, and

of ed am on job again. that the spelling of her aune was loved her. The other women and awake Saturday with a plan

Since Dundee felt that there was through wrong, not the picture itself girls of that exclusive, self-centred procedure which he was sensible The question is. who read that clique of Hamilton's most

either of on that picture cially prominent women must have chance of success.

Gladys Earle had hinted at, or on story and kazde with vast relief?"

And he was right. Not in Man- Nita's strangely secret marriage Two hours before he had disliked her fairly well and found or highlyer congenial, in spite of their as impossible

Jealousy of her popularity with hattan, or in any of the other of 12 years before, he immediate of the crowd, or they boroughs of New York City, didily dispatched a wire to Sanderson, the 11-year-old scandal would not have toleratod her, re- he find any record of a marriage assuring him that vital progress Flora neketi, who

and Matthew Selim. Not only was I leave New York on the four o'clock Flora Mler, as told him by Gladys gardless of Lola Dunlap's chun-licence issued to Juanita Leigh had been made and that he would Earle of the Forstye School Pionship of her protege.

Gladys Earle had found her "the entirely probable that Juanita Leigh train west, arriving in Hamilton

morning at 8:50. Even more difficult would it be to

why Janet Raymond's weetent, kindest, most generous was a stage name and that Nitu Sunderson's wire, with its con. And out mother had taken her abroad for person I ever met"-Gladys Earle, had married conscientiously un-

course--he had rue who envied and hated all the girls der her real name, but it was fession of an interview on Dun- Leigh who were more fortunate than ahe, equally possible that the licence dec's trip to New York, had upsel A Fend Of Tally told himself---Nila

Serena Hart, former member of had been obtained in New Jersey him and left him with a cold feel-

ing of fear that, stumbling half Reserve Fond might have been lucky or unlucky

gave up his quest at in darkness, the district attorney When he enough to rus across document New York's Junior League and Connecticut. ary proof of one of the scandals of still listed in the Social Register,

Nita Selim and Dexter which Gladys Earle had told her,ad found Nita the only congenial noon Saturday and returned to his had unwittingly warned the mar or had dared to blackmail her vle member of the chorus she had in-hotel, he bought at the news stand derer tim by dark hints, as Miss Earle vaded us the first step toward star- a paper whose headline informed

An hour before he reached his Homber lud unconsciously suggested.

But this new development could reputation of being a woman of that moment, even more discourag-

of character and judgment, a kindled than himself. For the big type destination on Sunday morning heon Ayres

went into the dining car and found told the world: picture. not be ignored. A

Jose Savell Muicide had apnd wir and great woman.

"gels" brother's a copy of the Hamilton Morning Nit Leigh a

Finally, Ralph Hammond had

News beside his plate. And on in a Hamil- |peared eight years ago

loved. Nita and wanted to marry layer. had and the paper

And smaller headlines informed the front page was a photograph of Changebas to paper.

dend Nite, her black hair in a either remained uncensefors of her.

Was it possible that Nita Selim's the sensation-loving pubile:

"Swallow-tail Sammy" Savelli's French roll, her slim, recumbent the error or had thought it not worth the space for a correction.nly crime, into which she had

been led by her infatuation for death avenged by brother who sur-body clad in the royal blue velvet

Beneath the picture Eight years agy in June three Dexter Sprague, had been to de-renders to police; "slick" Thomp-dress.

shot to death on sixth "What part does the outmoded weddings had occurred in Hamil mand, secretly, financial compenson, alleged member or Sammy's the caption:

royal blue velvet frock which Nita tom The During, the Miles, the nation from a husband who had gang.

Still smaller type acknowledged Selim ebose as a shroud play in Drake wedding. And within the married and deserted ber, a hus avenue,

that Joe Savelli, after giving him-the solution of her murder? That last year and a half Judge Me band who, believing her dead, had

his is the question which Special In- be obtained on application. shail, after proposing season after married again?

But who was the man whose pleself up, with a revolver in season to the most popular debu- tonte,

had married lovely little tureto spin a new theory-Nita hand, lind disclaimed any know-vestigator Dundee, attached to the Karea Plummer Suddenly a sen-ad recognized as that of her husledge of or connexion with the district attorney's office, and due

Ralph Hammond's band among the male members of murders of Juanita Leigh Sellm home tence from

of his engagement to Nita the cast of "The Beggar's Opera" and Dexter Sprague. Ntory Leigh Selim popped up in Dan-when Lots Dunlap had proudly ex- dee's memory: "And once I got hibited the

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floor, touching the Bubscribed Capital married. he she said her husband had married his pulses, Dandee took the bunch Captain Strawn that Savelli angle living room again, and I wasn't to ask ques of photographs which Lois Dun-is complete washout stop have you door, he found an envelope-un- Pald-Up Capital Jap had willingly given him, and made any progress along other stamped and bearing his name fecere Fonda.. tions or worry about him."

If Ralph Hammond had report-studied the picture that contain-lines stop have informed report written on a typewriter.

you working Independently she had noted the entire cast-the pictureers ed Nita accurately Kaid she was divorced. She had merely said her husband was mar- ried again! Why was Ralph to ask Divorced wives no questions? were not usually so reticent.

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And so far as New York report- era had been able to find out, Nita Leigh had done nothing to alter

her status as married during the past year.

woman

Moreover,

if Niin bad secured either divorce or a legal

certainly maid, Lydia Carr, separation, her

have known of it. And Lydia had vehemently protested more than once to Bonnie. Dundee that she knew nothing of Nita's husband, ugh she had worked for the

comedy dancer for five years. Surely if Nita, loving and trusting Lydia na she did. had en- her husban)

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during the inst year, her maid would have been the first to know. of them. And yet-

Suddenly

Dundee jumped to his

feet and begun to pace the floor of

hla hotel bedroom. He was re- membering the belated confidence that John C. Drake, banker, hind made to him the morning before- after the discovery of Doxtor recalled Sprague's murder. He Drake's reluctant statement almost word for word!"

"About that $10,000 which Nita deposited with our bank, Dundee. When she made the first de- posit of $5000 on April 28, she explained it with an embarrassed laugh as 'back alimony, an install-

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hus. in collecting from her former band. And, naturally, when she made the second deposit on May 5. 1 prosumed the same explana- tion covered that aunt, too, though I confess I was puzzled by the fact that both big deposits had been made In cash."

In cash!

Had Nita, by any chance, bean talling a near-truth? Had she boon

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