THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 3? 1919.
6
OMAHA WILL BE
CENTER OF ARMY
BALLOON WORK
All Experimental Work to Be
Conducted at Local Post;
Activity to Be Greatly
Increased.
Over 1,200 men will be stationed
. at Fort Omaha in the near future,
. according to Maj. M. J. O'Brien, ad
jutant. This increase in men is made
neccessary by plans to make the fort
a center for balloon experimental
work for the entire army, announced
Tuesday at Washington.
. mere are tour companies at tort
Omaha now, the 9th, 12th, 17th and
mi
27th. Three additional companies,
probably companies which will re
turn shortly from overseas service,
will be stationed at the fort, Major
O'Brien says. This will make a
- total of seven complete companies,
which will be permanently stationed
here.
. Activity in lighter than air work
will also be greatly increased, ac
cording to Major O'Brien'
To Increase Capacity,
j "Fort Omaha was officially desig
' nated as the center for experimental
' work for the entire army three
; months ago," he said, "but it was
not made public until now. As a
, matter of fact, all equipment for
i balloon work has been tested at
Fort Omaha for some time. From
' now on the capacity of the fort will
be increased, and it will become one
"of the most important military cen
, ters of the country. Every new type
" of balloon will be tried out here
before it is used by the United
f States army."
The plan, as announced by the
chief of the air service, is to greatly
i, increase the activities at Fort Oma
i ha, but until the War department is
advised of various items carried in
; the military appropriation bill,
: which was agreed upon in confer
ence late Tuesday, the enlarged ac
? tivities at the fort will be specula
i live, it is said. Officers of the air
v service stated, however, that Fort
Omaha is to be made the one big
balloon center of the country.
Men Return to Fort.
f Air material and balloon men who
, have been stationed at Fort Crook,
; have all been moved back to Fort
;" Omaha to make room for the 20th
infantry, a portion of which arrived
yestern morning, Major O'Brien an
i nounced Wednesday.
; Wife Unable to Give
Reason for Ad Placed
I by Huzband in France
f
An advertiecment appearing in a
-, local pr.per yesterday brought ap-
prehensksn to lire. George A. Ben-
iamin. who is living with her
inother, Mrs. E. V. Fitt, 5310 North
r Twenty-fifth avenue, since her hus
; band left her and went to war with
1 the Sixth Nebraska regiment. The
advertisement follows:
t "To Whom It May Concern: The
i undersigned will not be responsible
f for any bills or debts contracted by
Mrs. George A. (Muriel Grace) Ben
' iamin after TuJy 1, 1919.
, (Signed) "G. A. BENJAMIN,
i 1st Lt. Signal Corps, A. E. F."
"What has happened to my hus
v band, I don't know," Mrs. Benjamin
said. "Something dreadful has oc-
curred. His letters became strange
and cold several months ago and
; now this notice in the paper is the
; finishing touch. I have not heard
:. from him for five months.
:i Mrs. Benjamin said her husband
' left her with debts to pay when he
went into the army.
Mrs. J. A. Benjamin, mother of
the officer, says he has written to
her that he will not return to this
' country.
"He wrote me that he would never
$ return to his home," she said. "I
begged him to explain why, but he
, said he simply could not."
, E. W. Fitt, father of Mrs. Ben-
- jamin, said that if his own son. G.
E. Fitt, who is at Camp Monitor,
. France, meets the lieutenant he will
"settle with" him in the old-fash-ioned
way.
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is young in spite of his three score years and ten.
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their thirties haggard, listless, weak, nervous men who take no interest
in life, just dragging out a weary existence, all in, tired and worn out
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WOMAN IN BLACK
By EDMUND CLERIHEW BE NT LEY
Copyright. 1919,
by
CHAPTER XI.
The Servant's Story.
"You noticed nothing unusual
about him, I suppose."
No, sir. nothing unusual. When
I answered the ring, he was seated at
the desk listening at the telephone,
waiting for a number, as I sup
posed. He gave his orders and went
on listening at the same time. When
I returned with the syphon he was
engaged in conversation over the
wire."
"Do you remember anything of
what he was saying?"
Very little, sir; it was something
about somebody being at some ho
tel of no interest to me. I was
only in the room just time enough
to place the syphon on the table and
withdraw. As I closed the door he
was saying: 'You're sure he isn't in
the hotel?' or words to that effect."
And that was the last you saw
and heard of him alive?"
"No, sir. A little later, at half-past
leven, when I had settled down in
my pantry with the door ajar, and a
book to pass the time, I heard, Mr.
Manderson go upstairs to bed. I
mmediately went to close the library
window, and slipped the lock' of the
front door. I did not hear anything
more."
Trent considered. "I suppose you
didn't doze at all," he said tentative
ly, "while you were sitting up wait
ing for the telephone message."
"Oh, nor, sirt I am always very
wakeful about that time. I'm a bad
fsleeper. especially in the neighbor
hood of the sea, and I generally read
in bed until somewhere about mid
night." "And did any message come?"
"No, sir."
"No. And I suppose you sleep
with your window open, these warm
nights."
"It is never closed at night, sir."
Trent added a last note; then he
looked thoughtfully through those
he had taken. He rose and paced up
and down the room for some mo
ments with a downcast eye. At
length he paused opposite Martin.
"It all seems perfectly ordinary and
simple," he said. "I just want to
get a few details clear. You went
to shut the windows in the library
before going to bed. Which win
dows?"' "The French windows, sir. It had
been open all day. The windows
opposite the door were seldom op
ened." "And what about the curtains? I
am wondering whether anyone out
side the house could have seen into
the room."
"Easily, sir, I should say, if he
had got into the grounds on that
side. The curtains were never
drown in the hot weather. Mr.
Manderson would often sit right in
the doorway at nights, smoking and
looking out into the darkness. But
nobody could have seen him who
had any business to be there."
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"I see. And
now tell me this.
Your hearing is very acute, vou say.
and you heard Mr. Manderson enter
the house when he came in after
dinner from the garden. Did you
hear him re-enter it after returning
from the motor-drive?"
Martin paused. "Now you men
tion it. sir, I remember that I did
not. His ringing the bell in this
room was the first I knew of his
being back. I should have heard
him come in, if he had come in by
the front. I should have heard the
door go. But he must have come
in by the window." The man re
flected for a moment, then added:
"As a general rule, Mr. Manderson
would come in by the front, hang
up his hat and coat in the hall and
pass down the hall into the study.
It seems likely to me that he was in
a great hurry to use the telephone,
and so went straight across the lawn
to the window he was like that, sir,
when there was anything important
to be done. He had on his hat, now
I remember, and had thrown his
great-coat over the end of the table,
lie gave his order very sharp, too,
as he alwr.ys did when busy. A very
precipitate man indeed, was Mr.
Manderson; a hustler, as they say."
"Ah! He appeared to be busy.
But didn't you say Hist now that you
noticed nothing unusual about him?"
A melancholy smile flitted momen
tarily over Martin's face. "That ob
servation shows that you did not
know Mr. Manderson, sir, if you will
pardon my saying so. His being like
that was nothing unusual; quite the
contrary. It took me long enough
to get used to it. Either he would
be sitting quite still and smoking a
cigar, thinking or reading, or else he
would be writing, dictating, and
sending off wires all at the same
time, till it -almost made one dizzy
to see it, sometimes for an hour or
more at a stretch. As for being in
a hurry over a telephone message,
I may say it wasn't in him to be any
thing else."
Trent turned to the inspector, who
met his eye with a look of answer
ing intelligence. Not sorry to show
his understanding of the line of in
quiry opened by Trent, Mr. Murch
for the first time put a question:
"Then you left hirrj telephoning
by the open window, with the lights
on, and the drinks on the table: is
that it?"
"That is so, Mr. Murch." The
delicacy of the change in Martin's
manner when called upon to answer
the detective momentarily distract
ed Trent's appreciative mind. But
the big man's next question brought
it back to the problem at once.
"About those drinks. You say
Mr. Manderson often took no whis
ky before going to bed. Did he
have any that night?"
"I could not say. The room was
put to rights in the morning by one
of the maids, and the glass washed,
I presume, as usual. I know that
I the decanter was nearly full that ev
ening; i naa remiea u a iew aays
'hpfnrp QnH T crlanr at if wlin T
brought the fresh syphon, just out
of habit, to make sure there was a
decent-looking amount."
The inspector went to the tall corner-cupboard
and opened it. He
tookout a decanter of cut glass, and
set it on the table before Martin.
"Was it fuller than that?" he asked
quietly. "That's how I found it this
morning." The decanter was more
than half empty.
For the first time Martin's self
possession wavered. He took up
the decanter quickly, tilted it before
his eyes, and then stared amazedly
at the others. He said slowly:
"There's not much short of half a
bottle gone out of this since I last
set eyes on it and that was Sunday
night."
"Nobody in the house, I sup:
pose " suggested Trent discreetly.
"Out of the question," replied
Martin briefly. Then he added: "I
beg pardon, sir, but this is a most
extraordinary thing to me. Such a
thing never happened in all my ex
perience of Mr. Manderson. As for
the women-servants, they never
touch anything. I can answer for-it;
and as for me, when I want a drink
I can help myself without going to
the decanters." He took up the de
canter again, and aimlessly renewed
his observation of the contents,
while the inspector eyed him with a
look of serene satisfaction, as a
master contemplates his handiwork.
Trent turned to a fresh page of
his notebook, and tapped it thought
fully with his pencil. Then he looked
up and said: "I suppose Mr. Man
derson had dressed for dinner that
night."
Cterainly, sir. He had on a suit
with a dress-jacket, what he used to
refer to as a Tuxedo, which he usual
ly wore when dining at home or in
formally." "And he was dressed like that
when you saw him last?"
, "All but the jacket, sir. When
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My Heart and My Husband
ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of
"Revelations of a Wife"
Why Madge Almost Quailed at
Lillian's Good News.
I felt as if though' my
should be veiled before Alice
combe's bared soul as she
eyes
inadvertently revealing it in her eyes
and words. She was wholly
unconscious, f,or instance, that she
was always so careful to refer to the
principal as "Mr. Stockbridge," had
just called him "Kenneth," and that
with an intonation which betrayed
the passionate ardor of her devotion
to him.
She was clearly overwrought, and
I was afraid that the sharp critical
eyes of the high school pupils might
read and speculate upon her emo
tion. I must do something to save
the situation, and that quickly.
"Look here!" I said practically
"You're too upset to teach any more
today, and it's too hot to hear reci
tations regular act of cruelty to the
pupils as well as ourselves. Just
let me take assembly duty all of
the classes I'll let them read or
occupy them in some way and you
go to the rest room or office and get
yourself together. You 11 have time
to get Mr. Stockbridge's routine
work out of the way so that you
can get out of here when school
closes."
A look of relief flashed into her
eyes. She was too quick of percep
tion not to see the advantages of my
plan, too sensible to waste my time
and hers with futile objections.
"You're right about the heat," she
he spent the evening in the library,
as usually happened, he would
change it for an old shooting-jacket
after dinner, a light-colored tweed,
a little too loud in pattern for Eng
lish tastes, perhaps. He had it on
when I saw him last. It used to
hang in this cupboard here" Martin
opened the door of it as he spoke
"along with Mr. Manderson's fishing-rods
and such things, so that he
could slip it on after dinner without
going upstairs."
"Leaving the dinner-jacket in the
cupboard?"
"Yes, sir. The housemaid used
to take it upstairs in the morning."
"In the morning," Trent repeated
slowly. "And now that we are
speaking of the morning, will you
tell me exactly what you know about
that. I understand that Mr. Man
derson was not missed until the
body was found about 10 o'clock,"
"That is so, sir. Mr. Manderson
would never be called, or have any
thing brought to him in the morn
ing. He occupied a separate bed
room. Usually he would get up
about eight and go around to the
bathroom, and he would come down
some time before nine. But often he
would sleep till 9 or 10 o'clock. Mrs.
Monderson was always called at 7.
The maid would take in tea to her.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Mander
son took breakfast about 8 in her
sittingroom as usual, and everyone
supposed that Mr. Maderson was
still in bed and asleep when Evans
came rushing up to the house with
the shocking intelligence."
"I see," said Trent. "And now
another thing. You say you slipped
the lock to the front door before
going to bed. Was that all the
locking-up you did?"
"To the front-door, sir, yes; I
slipped the lock. No more is consid
ered necessary in these parts. But
I had locked both the doors at the
back, and seen to the fastenings of
all windows on the ground floor.
In the morning everything was as I
had left it"
(Continued Tomorrow.)
PHOTOPI.AY8
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in
"The Stronger Vow"
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said. "And, of course we have
authority to do anything like this
in Mr. Stockbridge's absence. He
dismissed school in the hottest
weather."
She was gaining control of her
self. I saw this with a little jubi
lant self congratulation. I turned
briskly toward the stairway as I
heard the clatter of the feet in the
lower hall.
"Get away from here at once," I
commanded. "I'll take hall duty,
also telephone for my taxi, will you,
please? And let me tell you a
secret. I've had many premonitions
of impending tragedy, and they gen
erally turned out to be barefaced
deceiver?. Don't pay any attention
to them."
She was in just the semi-hysterical
mood to be swayed by whatever
mental pabulum was offered her.
I saw her face brighten before she
hurried away to the seclusion of the
teacher's room and knowing that I
had adverted an impending break
down, I salved my conscience for
the falsehood I had told her con
cerning the premonitions which so
often had come to me. and so often
had been tragically fulfilled.
If I had any lingering prick of
the conscience it was dispelled when
a few minutes before the close of
school session she came into the
assembly hall, poised, alert, with
only a strained look in her eyes to
show that the horror of suspense
had not wholly left her.
A Respite.
"Your taxi will be here in a few
minutes," she whispered. "I'll take
charge here now. And I don't
know how to thank y5u won't
try. But I guess you know. Good
by." Her grateful eyes, her relieved
face remained my mental vision all
the way to the city. I fervently
hoped that no happening such as her
hysterical fancy pictured would
wipe that look from her face in the
next few days.
But my first sight of Lillian, Alice
Holcombe, Kenneth and Millie
Stockbridge the whole Bayview
enviroment faded from my mental
vision. My friend s eyes were
alight with jubliance over the quest
successfully consummated. She
gripped my hand with strength that
made me wince. She saw it, relaxed
the grip and grinned understand
ing. "You must excuse my vehemence,"
PHOTOPLAYS
ANITA STEWART
in
"MARY REGAN"
FANNIE WARD
IN
"THF CRY
OF THE WEAK'
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she drawled, "but 1 believe I am
almost excited. Here, let's get out
of this and I'll tell you about it."
She hurried me to the taxi line,
the first one available, waited until
we were well away from the crush
of traffic around the station she
kn ows that I am nervous in a crowd
of autos before we spoke.
- "Well, I've got the lady as safely
as if I had her sewed up in a laundry
bag," she said at last.
A sudden thought made my heart
beat suffocatingly.
"Are we oh our way to her now?"
I asked.
Lillian turned shrewd, appraising
eyes upon me.
"W'hat's the matter?" she queried.
"I don't know," I parried.
"Here, none of that!" Lillian com
manaded tersely. 'Just remember
to pack away your nerves and shut
the trunk lid on 'em, and at the
same time trot out your nerve and
give it a grooming. This is no time
for nonsense. But not necessarily
for publication, only as an evidence
of good faith, I'll whisper to you
that we are going home before we
sally forth to meet and conquer the
dragoness."
(Continued Tomorrow.
PHOTOPLAYS
TO,
TODAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
P. M. Continuous 11 P. M.
Trapped!
TRAPPED-by his fingerprints:
She thought he wag her husband
but he knew he was an ex-convict,
standing in a dead man's
shoes. What happened when the
police came? A wonderful pic
ture that will live in your mind
for weeks!
Rupert Julian
Creator of
"The KAISER, the Beast oj BerVn
"The FIRE I
IF.LIMGER8"
From the widely-read
story of the same name,
which appeared in the Sat
urday Evening Post. .
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Admission:
Uncle Stabs 16-Year-Old
Girl Following
Quarrel Over Daughter
jMtiia Mangiamelli, 16 years old,
stabbed yesterday afternoon by her
uncle, Fred Palania, 1428 North
Seventeenth street, is in the Fred
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Palania attacked his niece in the
front yard of their home. He quar
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ance of his daughter Eva, who left
home a week ago, and accused her
of being the cause of the disappear
ance. In full view of neighbors, attracted
by the violence of the quarrel, Pa
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ran screaming toward the Frederick
hospital, several doors from her
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been found.
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Club Cables Clemenceau
The Irish Self-Determination club
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