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BLACK as*. SOMBRERO 'Tj CLIFFORD KNIGHT «-» ..~~vY« Elsa Chatflpld If disinherited by her Aunt Kitty who dies of an overdose ol tnorphinr. Hunt Rogers and Barry Mad ison go to Mexico to solve what they be lieve to be Aunt Kitty’s murder. On ar riving they find that Elsa’s party has preceded them by plane. James Ctaese bro Is murdered, Elsa's father, Ram, meets death from the sword of a marlin, and George Rumble Is murdered and thrown Into the sea near the dock. Rog ers questions Berta. Sam’s wife, and on examining the quirt with which Elsa had beaten Cbesebro discovers that It con ceals the knife that killed Cbesebro. Rogers visits Lombardo and names each of those who had a motive for killing Annt Kitty. CHAPTER XIX "The time Rumble died is impor tant,” he said. "The hands of his watch were stopped at nine-nine. But that is an impossible hour; Rumble was alive at that time and with us in the bar. He checked out of the hotel at ten-thirty, and dis appeared. His body was found float ing later near the wharf. His bag, discovered in the water at the edge of the wharf, indicates that he was. In spite of his quarrel with Dwight Nichols, determined to go aboard the Orizaba and accompany us awordflshing the next day. Rumble was like that, senor; he was a strange man. “The hour of nine-nine has no meaning, unless we can explain it satisfactorily. That, I think, is quite simple. Of course, the watch could have stopped of itself, but I’m sure ( that's not the explanation. The first day ashore after the Orizaba ar rived in Mazatlan, we met Rumble on the street. The time of day was mentioned. He looked at his watch, which I noted did not agree with mine. In fact, it was two hours slow. He explained it by saying that he was still keeping Los Ange les time, which is two hours slower than Mazatlan time. "Now, then," Rogers went on ear* nestly, “assuming that, on the night he died, his watch was still keeping Los Angeles time, what does that signify? He must have died at elev en-nine. That simplifies things im mensely. Where were we all at that time? Barry Madison and I at that time were on board the Orizaba. The others—Elsa, Dwight Nichols, Sam Chatfleld and Reed Barton—came aboard about mid night. Reed Barton arrived alone at the wharf, having had to go around by his hotel for his things. Elsa, her father, and Dwight Nich ols went to the wharf together. What time, Reed, did you reach the wharf?” "How long had you been waiting when the others arrived?” "I’d have to guess. Hunt. Per haps twenty minutes. Maybe half an hour.” “Did you see anything of Rum ble?” "No." Rogers turned to Dwight. "What time did you reach the wharf?” "Oh,” said Dwight, "we left the hotel at a quarter to twelve. Went down in a taxi. Shouldn’t have taken five minutes.” "Now, this question, Dwight: Aft er Barry and I left you and Sam Chatfleld together, what happened? Were you together the remainder of the evening?” Dwight was slow to answer. At length he replied: "No. Sam and I separated at ten-thirty. He said there was something he had to do yet before he could go aboard the Orizaba. He came back about an hour later. It was eleven-thirty, at any rate, when I met him again.” "Perhaps, senor, we have made a wrong assumption somewhere— our discussion has not disclosed the murderer. Perhaps." he paused, his manner somewhat hesitant, "perhaps this testimony you've heard just now seems rehearsed, senor; but I assure you it is not. I have realized that Dwight Nichols and Sam Chatfleld could not have been in each other’s company all that evening but I have not known the facts until now. "Earlier," Rogers continued, a new note of confidence coming Into his voice, "I assumed that it was proper to exclude from suspicion all those persons who, subsequently to Katherine Chatfleld’s death, died by violence. I named Chesebro, Sam Chatfleld and Rumble as victims of and not the probable killer.” "Yes, sir.” "Consider for a moment Sam Chatfleld—” "Senor Chatfleia?" "Yes. He had a most excellent motive for killing his sister. Mrs. Nichols, some months ago said this of him: 'He clutched decency to himself with all the passion of a fierce new love.’ Now, then, had not his sister, an unmarried woman, disgraced the family by bearing a child? Had she not committed an even greater wrong against his daughter Elsa? “And so—” Rogers drew from his pocket the rotogravure clipping and gave it to Lombardo. "After Sam Chatfield had died, I found this on his desk at the rancho. Senor Lom bardo, you did not know Chesebro, and, therefore, the point is lost upon you. But the child in the picture bears an unmistakable likeness to Chesebro. I believe that Sam Chat field did not know that Chesebro was the guilty man until this pic ture from the paper came into his possession. When it did, Chesebro already was in his house in bed and suffering from a heart attack. Dwight Nichols and Sam Chatfleld were of similar build and height. How easy for Pedro, if he did actu ally see Sam Chatfleld on his way to murder Chesebro, to confuse him with Nichols! "Reed”—Rogers turned abruptly to Reed Barton—-“your fish knife was used to kill Rumble. Can you explain that away?" Reed Barton sat staring over the rail at the town. He shifted his long legs and said: ‘‘I can tell you Elsa what I think happened, Hunt. The knife was in my room at the hotel the morning I was arrested. Later, when I went to get my things to gether for the fishing trip, I looked for the knife to take with me, but it was gone. I did not see it again until I found it on Senor Lombardo's desk at headquarters." "Do you accuse anybody?" "No. But there is this to think about: While I was in jail, I asked Mr. Chatfleld to get my watch from my room at the hotel. He brought it to me a couple of hours later. I’ve since investigated and I'm con vinced that Mr. Chatfleld is the only one who visited my room and could have taken it." “Ah, so?" breathed Lombardo, "Felipe," the conversation shifted swiftly into Spanish, as Rogers at last addressed the older of the two mariachis, "I want you to answer some questions." "Si, senor." "Did Senora Chatfleld send you and Pancho with a note to the rancho?” “Yes, sir." "Did you see anything of Senora Chatfleld when you returned to the wharf?" "No, sir. And when the launch is gone, Pancho and I go toward the town. Just as we are leaving the wharf the senor with the big som brero and the fine clothes he passes us going out onto the wharf. And behind him not very far is another senor following him. This is Senor Chatfleld. Pancho and I recognize him but we do not speak. We are loafing on the street pear the wharf all the time, and soon Senor Chat field comes walking very fast to ward the town. He does not see us. Tancho asks: ‘What is his hur ry, Felipe?’ and I 3ay I do not know. Then I wonder if the senor with the fine clothes is still out on the wharf. And I say to Pancho, “Let’s go and talk to the senor,’ be cause he is un gran Caballero, and perhaps we can sing for him. “Well, senor, we go, Pancho and I. But he is not on the wharf. We think the launch has come and tak en him, only the time is too short. But we do not know.” Silence fell upon us at the con clusion of this lengthy account. Rog ers thanked the youth and turned to Lombardo. “Senor,” he said, "are you satis fied now, as I am satisfied, that when Sam Chatfleld separated from Dwight Nichols at the hotel that night, he followed George Rumble to the wharf because he feared that Rumble would tell what he knew, and killed him with the knife he had taken from Reed Barton’s room? And threw the body from the wharf and tossed the bag and the weapon after him, and then returned to meet the others of the party at the hotel?’’ "Yes, Senor Rogers, I am satis fied.’’ "The death of Sam Chatfleld can have been only an accident. It oc curred before the fate of George Rumble was known, and for that reason confused me. A perfectly natural accident, I should say, and a fate justly due the man.” "I agree, senor.” Rogers abruptly left us and went to the companionway. He disap peared for a few minutes, then re turned carrying the huge black som brero with its silver ornaments. He stopped before us, turned the hat upside down and his fingers slipped inside the sweatband. He drew out a slip of paper, and held it out to Lombardo. "The handwriting Is that of Rum ble,” he said. I noted the imma ture, schoolboy writing I’d seen be fore. "You can verify it at the newspaper office. You will note the names in the following order: Mad ison, Barton, Rogers, Nichols, Chat fleld, Chesebro. Those are names of the men in this party, excepting Rumble’s. You note that every name is crossed out in the same heavy pencil line, except the name of Chatfleld. For what it’s worth, it’s the evidence, Senor Lombardo, offered by a dead hand. By what means he discovered Sam Chat field’s guilt we'll never know. The slip was found only last night” "I am satisfied, Senor Rogers,” Lombardo repeated, rising. "I shall go ashore now and set Pedro free. He cannot be guilty now.” As the two shook hands and went down the ladder, followed by Felipe and Pancho, the launch appeared with Elsa, Margaret and Berta, ea ger now to come aboard, to leave Mazatlan behind them. They paused to say goodby to Lombardo and Doctor Cruz and the two boys, and then came up the ladder. We stowed the launch and lashed it down, and an hour or so later in the full sunshine that beat down upon us out of a hot sky we lifted anchor and dropped down stream toward the long swells of the open ocean. [THE END] ELEC 'to d r I C TI Om TOD ENJOYED /IT By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. A MAN who has met so many motion picture stars that he can’t even re member how many he’s known told me that Joan Fon taine is really pretty wonder ful. Vitality, intelligence, : warmth, sensitiveness — she has them all, said he. He seems to be right. A girl who grew up with her and her sister, Olivia de Havil land, told me that Joan always did know what she wanted, and how to get it. Well, when she came to New York after finishing “French-j man’s Creek” for Paramount, she ; wanted a vacation with her hus JOAN FONTAINE band, Brian Aherne. So she took it, in a quiet comer of Connecticut— and sandwiched work as a nurse’s aid in with doing the marketing. You’d never have known, if you heard Marlene Dietrich recently on the CBS Playhouse, in “Manpower,” that she started for the broadcasting studio in fear and trembling. Back in August, 1942, she appeared on that same program—and fans prac tically mobbed her when she got out of a cab in front of the impres sive building. This time she wore old clothes—and the doorman didn’t want to let her in! -* Here’s perfect casting: Samuel Goldwyn has engaged Victor Mc Laglen for the role of the pirate known as "The Hook” In his tech nicolor production of "Treasure Chest.” McLaglen will be a good pirate, even though he will be the nemesis of Bob Hope, and so in volved in comedy. Hope's cast as a touring actor who gets Involved with a boatload of pirates. -* Lewis E. Lawes, for many years warden of Sing Sing, calls "New Prisons—New Men" "the first pic ture I have ever seen which clearly portrcys the all around activities of a modern prison in operation.” It’s the latest of the "This Is America” series. -* Ruth Brennan, daughter of Wal ter, begins her screen career in a small role in Selznick’s "Since You Went Away." Not wanting to trade on her father’s fame, she used the name of Lynn Winthrop—but the only person she fooled was herself. Her father's been signed by War ner Bros, for one of the top roles in support of Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and to Have Not.” -* The Blue Network's glamour star, Gertrude Lawrence, is one of the proudest women in America, since the American Red Cross gave her her first stripe for 1,000 hours of service. Everybody who knows how much time and good hard work she gives to aiding the war effort feels that she ought to be the most deco rated gal in America; she’s never too busy or too tired to do whatever she can. --- “One Man’s Family" got its start on the air as a sustaining program on NBC way back in April, 1932 Carlton E. Morse had been writing and producing radio programs like “Chinatown Squad" and “Twisted Tales,” but felt that the story of life as it is to the average American would appeal to the public. First thing anybody knew, the public made it a weekly listening habit— and it still is. -* Nancy Kelly would like to spend winters on Broadway, on the stage, and summers in Hollywood, in pic tures—if she manages it, let’s hope she’ll get better picture assignments than she’s had recently. At 17 she was sensational in “Susan and God,” on the stage, and the movies ] grabbed her. To an unprejudiced ! onlooker it seems that she’s capable of far better work than she's done ! so far. -#- • ODDS AND ENDS Note to girls—Dick “Henry Aldrich” Jones is thrilled, hut also embarrassed, by all those letters junior misses have been sensling him, sealed icith /link im pressions of their lips . . ■ Latest addi tion to the “Silver Theater” is Mad eleine Lee, whom you used to hear as I “Amos 'n Andy's" Miss Blue ... O’ hen | Jan Feerce of “Great Moments in Mu ; sic” lets go with the full power of his I lungs, listeners fully expect the studio ] walls to be blusted apart . . . Hal Roach, former United Artists producer, has ] been promoted from major to lieu j tenant colonel in the U. S. army. Released by Western Newspaper Union. SPOILED FOOD Owing to the excellent food laws now in operation there are not many cases of sickness and death from spoiled foods, considering the great necessity of preserv ing food for future use. In Hygeia, the health magazine, published by the American Medical association, MaryC. Brown, Cedar Rap ids, Iowa, states that sight, smell and common sense are enough to enable Dr. Barton one 10 wu wnemer food is safe to eat. “Intelligent planning for the pur chase of foods according to the fam ily needs, plus a proper knowledge of how to care for foods not used immediately after they are bought, how to protect ‘left-overs’ that must be stored from meal to meal and how to detect spoilage, will pay large dividends in the avoidance of unsafe foods and in protection for the family budget.” The family cupboard is not a suit able storage place for cooked meat —especially luncheon meats and cured meats. All meat should be kept in one of the coldest shelves in the refrigerator. Further, once meat is purchased it should be cooked within a few hours as the average “home" re frigerator is nowhere near as cold as the refrigerator from which the meat was obtained. Another suggestion from Mrs. Brown is that while “leftovers” cooked and eaten may seem safe and saving, nevertheless, preventing leftovers is safer and more saving. The housewife should study her needs carefully and have fewer left overs. Leftovers should be heated again before serving which should be within 24 hours after the first cook ing. Food that has an “off” or unde sirable odor must not be used. Even boiling food with an "off” odor is not sufficient to make it safe. "If fermentation and gas appear, or there is mould on top of the food, discard the entire can—not simply the part that appears spoiled.” The way to detect odors is to heat the food and smell it when it first becomes hot. An odor is more no ticeable when the lid is first lifted. If in doubt, discard the food. Those afflicted with catarrh or oth er conditions affecting the sense of smell and taste are not qualified to judge as to the fitness of food for eating. • • • Sugar Gives Spurt Of Energy to Heart I have spoken before of the ex periments conducted by Harvard re search workers during the running of the Boston Marathon several years ago. The results showed that the amount of sugar present in the blood at the end of the race indicat ed the condition of the runner. The greater the amount of sugar present in the blood, the better was the phys ical condition of the runner and the nearer he was to being among the leaders at the finish. By having cer tain runners take more sugar daily during the following year and during the race of that year, these runners not only finished in better condition but were higher up in the race than they were the previous year. Why is sugar—dextrose—so help ful in giving energy to the muscles? In the Cincinnati Journal of Medi cine, Dr. Edward Podolsky, Brook lyn, states that treatment by dex trose is one of the most valuable procedures in the treatment of heart disease. The chief reason why dex trose is so helpful in heart disease is that it supplies so readily the nec essary food for the hard working heart. Another reason is that dex trose helps to dilate or open up the blood vessels so that it requires less effort for the heart to pump blood through them. Fortunately dextrose can be taken by mouth; the patient takes two or three ounces of sugar dissolved in a glass of water or weak tea three or four times daily for a period of two to three months. This produces a “lasting” effect. When sugar cannot be given by mouth or by hypodermic injection it may be given in the form of an enema. Another method often* used in hospitals is injecting the dextrose into a vein. 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