anaheim-gazette 1931-12-10

Anaheim, Calif., Dec. 10, 1931 SIGHT UNSEEN by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART COPYRIGHT 1931 by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART FIFTH INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS Six people, Horace Johnson (who tells the story), his wife, old Mrs. Dane, Herbert Robinson and his sister, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and neighbors, are in the habit of holding weekly meetings. At one of them, Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the program by unexpectedly arranging a spiritualistic sance with Miss Jeremy, a friend of Dr. Sperry and not a professional, as the medium. At the first sitting the medium tells the details of a murder as it is occurring. Later that night Sperry learns that a neighbor, Arthur Wells, has been shot mysteriously. With Johnson he goes to the Wells residence and they find confirmation of the medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells them her husband shot himself in a fit of depression. The French maid admits she was out at the time Wells was shot, telephoning from a nearby drug store. Johnson goes to the drug store where the clerk tells him the maid phoned to the Ellingham house, telling somebody there not "to call that night." Johnson goes alone and investigates the deserted house. He is frightened by strange noises, as of an intruder in the house, but completes his investigation. He leaves the house and in his excitement carries off the fire tongs, leaving them in his own hall rack where his wife discovers them the next morning and reproaches him for his nocturnal wanderings. He also forgets to bring away his overcoat, which is carried off by the mysterious stranger. Mrs. Dale learns of his peculiar actions and charges him with possessing an unsuspecting bag. Have you still got them? He half rose—we had given him a chair facing the light—and then sat down again. "What letters?" "Don't beat about the bush. We know you have the letters. And we want them." "I don't intend to give them up, sir." "Will you tell us how you got them?" He hesitated. "If you do not know already, I do not care to say." I placed the letter to A31 before him. "You wrote this, I think?" I said. He was genuinely startled. More than that, indeed, for his face twitched. "Suppose I did?" he said, "I'm not admitting it." "Will you tell us for whom it was meant?" "You know a great deal already, gentlemen. Why not find out from where you learned the rest?" "You know, then, where we learned what we know?" "That's easy," he said bitterly. "She's told you enough, I darsay. She doesn't know it all, of course. Any more than I do," he added. "Will you give us the letters?" "I haven't said I have them. I haven't admitted I wrote that one on the desk. Suppose I have them. I'll not give them up except to the District Attorney." "By 'she' do you refer to Miss Jeremy?" I asked. He started and smiled faintly. "You know who I mean." We tried to assure him that we were not in a sense, seeking to involve him in the situation, and I even went so far as to state our position, briefly: "I'd better explain, Hawkins. We are not doing police work. But, owing to a chain of circumstances, we have learned "Mrs. Wells suggested that here, Horace," he began. "Were a legal mind on this. I'm not rather I think it unlikely. I case—suppose you tell him, I have no record of the nor Wells told that night in the reception room, with Cl in a corner, grave and white fragmentary, incordinate. B all at last. Charlie Elllingnam had killed Wells, but in a struggle. In story she sordid enough. She spared herself or her motive wanted luxury, and Arthur succeeded as he had promised were in debt and living be means. But even that, she add, would not have matter not been brutal with her. Her life very wretched. But on the subject of Chaunah she was emphatic. She there had been talk, but then no real bass for it. She had him for comfort, and he gave She didn't know where he was didn't greatly care, but she to recover and destroy some had written her. She was looking crushed as she told her story nervous to its elements, it was as for On the night of Arthur W they were dressing for a bad made a private arrangement lingham to plead a headache last moment and let Arthur But he had been so insistent had been forced to go, after sent the governess, Suzier, out to telephone Elllingcome, but he was not at his message was left with her turned salt he had already Johnson goes alone and investigates the deserted house. He is frightened by strange noises, as of an intruder in the house, but completes his investigation. He leaves the house and in his excitement carries off the fire tongs, leaving them in his own hall rack where his wife discovers them the next morning and reproaches him for his nocturnal wandering. He also forgets to bring away his overcoat, which is carried off by the mysterious stranger. Mrs. Dale learns of his peculiar actions and charges him with possessing an unsuspected sense of humor. He visits Mrs. Dane and tells her how he had carried off the fire-tongs and left behind his overcoat in his excitement. She then tells him she had advertised for the tinder of the pocket-book and turns over to Johnson an answer she had received from one having guilty knowledge of the crime. Dr. Sperry announces he is to be married to Miss Jeremy when the club meets again. Hawkins, the butler, is identified as being the person who answered Mrs. Dane's advertisement. Johnson's missing overcoat is mailed to him, but the letters contained in a pocket are missing. Johnson and Sperry do some detective work and uncover the fact that somebody with guilty knowledge has made away with some letters. Hawkins the butler, is suspected as well as as Ellingham, a friend of Mrs. Wells, of knowing who the clayer is. The investigation has reached its final stages. Now Go On With The Story There was, on the contrary, a definite place beyond which the medium could not go. She did not know who had killed Arthur Wells. To my surprise, Sperry and Herbert Robinson came together to see me that morning at my office. Sperry, like myself, was pale and tired, but Herbert was restless and talkative, for all the world like a terrier on the scent of a rat. "Hawkins will be here soon," Sperry said, rather casually, after I had read the clipping. "Here?" "Yes. He is bringing a letter from Miss Jeremy. The letter is merely a blind. We want to see him." Herbert was examining the door of my office. He set the spring lock. "He may try to bolt," he explained. "We're in this pretty deep, you know." "How about a record of what he says?" Sperry asked. I pressed a button, and Mise Joyce came in. "Take the testimony of the man who is coming in Miss Joyce," I directed. "Take everything we say, any of us. Can you tell the different voices?" She thought she could, and took up her position in the next room, with the door partly open. I can still see Hawkins as Sperry. She was looking crushed and she told her story nervously to its elements, it was as for On the night of Arthur W they were dressing for a bar made a private arrangement lingham to plead a headache last moment and let Arthur But he had been so insisted had been forced to go, after had sent the governess, Suzier, out to telephone Ellingham come, but he was not at his message was left with him it turned out, he had already Ellnor was dressed, all but gown and she had put on a wait for the governess to help her. Arthur was in his room, and she heard him about having no blades for razor. He got out a case of remembered where the stranger was too late. The letters beside it, and he was comer, with them in his hand. She was terrified. He had one, but that was enough. Something and turned away his face as he went toward revolver had been hidden children, and she screamed. Charlie Ellingham heard door had been left unlocked governance, and he was in there. He ran up and the two men. The first shot was fired by struck the ceiling. The second doubtful about. She thought volver was still in Arthur was all horrible. He went stone, in the hallway outside. They were nearly mad, then. They had dragged and then faced each other... Herbert was examining the door of my office. He set the spring lock. "He may try to bolt," he explained. "We're in this pretty deep, you know." "How about a record of what he says?" Sperry asked. I pressed a button, and Mise Joyce came in. "Take the testimony of the man who is coming in Miss Joyce," I directed. "Take everything we say, any of us. Can you tell the different voices?" She thought she could, and took up her position in the next room, with the door partly open. I can still see Hawkins as Sperry let him in—a tall, cadaverous man of good manners and an English accent, a superior servant. He was cool but rather resentful. I judged that he considered carrying letters as in no way a part of his work, and that he was careful of his dignity. "Miss Jeremy sent this, sir," he said. Then his eyes took in Sperry and Herbert, and he drew himself up. "I see," he said. "It wasn't the letter, then? "Not entirely. We want to have a talk with you, Hawkins." "Very well, sir." But his eyes went from one to the other of us. "You were in the employ of Mr. Wells. We know that. Also we saw you there the night he died, but some time after his death. What time did you get in that night?" "About midnight. I am not certain." "Who told you of what had happened?" "I told you that before. I met the detective going out." "Exactly. Now, Hawkins, you had come in, locked the door, and placed the key outside for the other servants?" "Yes, sir." "How do you expect us to believe that?" Sperry demanded irritably. "There was only one key. Could you lock yourself in and then place the key outside?" "Yes, sir," he replied impassively. "By opening the kitchen window, I could reach out and hang it on the nail." "You were out of the house, then, at the time Mr. Wells died?" "I can prove it by as many witnesses as you wish to call." "Now, about these letters, Hawkins." Sperry said. "The letters in the Her suspected who had done it, but he did not know. He absolutely refused to surrender the letters in his possession, and a sense of delicacy. I think, kept us all from pressing the question of the A31 matter. "That's a personal affair," he said. "I've had a good bit of trouble. I'm thinking now of going back to England." And, as I say, we did not insist. When he had gone, there seemed to be nothing to say. He had left the same impression on all of us, I think—of trouble, but not of crime. Of a man fairly driven; of wretchedness that was almost despair. He still had the letters. He had, after all, as much right to them as we had, which was actually, no right at all. And, whatever it was, he still had his secret. Herbert was almost childishly crestfallen. Sperry's attitude was more philosophical. "A woman, of course," he said. "The A21 letter shows sit. He tried to get her back, perhaps, by holding the letters over her head. And it hasn't worked out. Poor devil! Only—who is the woman?" It was that night, the fifteenth day after the crime, that the solution came. Came, as a matter of fact, to my door. I was in the library, reading, or trying to read, a rather abstruse book on phychic phenomena. My wife, I recall, had just asked me to change a banjo record for "The End of a Pleasant Day," when the bell rang. In our modest establishment the maids retire early and it is my custom, on those rare occasions when the bell rings after nine o'clock to answer the door myself. To my surprise, it was Sperry, accompanied by two ladies, one of them heavily veiled. It was not until I had ushered them into the reception room and lighted the gas that I saw who they were. It was Elinor Wells, in deep mourning, and Clara Mrs. Dane's companion and secretary. While I am quite sure that I was not thinking clearly at the opening of the interview, I know that I was puzzled at the presence of Mrs. Dane's secretary, but I doubtless accepted it as having some connection with Clara's notes. And Sperry made no comment on her at all. Charlie Elingham heard door had been left unlocked governess, and he was in the room. He ran up and two men: The first shot was fired by struck the ceiling. The second doubtful about. She thought volver was still in Arthur was all horrible. He went stone, in the hallway outside. They were nearly mad, then. They had dragged them and then faced each other was for calling the police to surrendering, but she had away from the telephone. She ed., and I think it very per her whole thought was for ren, and the effect on them of such a scandal. And, if could help the man on it. It was while they were formulate some concerted they heard footsteps thinking it was Mademone she drove Elingham into the house, from which laughed to escape. But it was coming up the stairs. (CONCLUDED NEXT) Sunkist Promotion Three A Appointment of three new advertising managers for announced by W.B.Geertising manager of the Fruit Growers Exchange. Promoted are R.Z.Ellen mons and C.W.Ford, all of whom spent a number of years klist advertising department assistant advertising man Cook Jr., was transferred ecutive department some and is now secretary of it. "The rapid increase in vertising activities during has made this step advise Mr.Gelssinger." Our can many ramifications, but few general classifications, unings of merchandising, educational work, and my duction. Children Brush Teeth as Play in Health Game Here are Eldon Eastman and Helen Rosa brushing their teeth, one of the important items in the daily routine at the Orange County Children's Health Camp, under the big oaks in Santiago canyon. It is no trouble to get the children to perform this abolition on their teeth. It is a lot of fun to go through the drill all together. Eldon and Helen are great chums. One can see that they are "playing the health game" right, shown in their sturdy bodies and bright smiling face. Especially for Eldon has the Orange County Tuberculosis and Health Association been a friend in need and a friend in deed, as he now has a good foot to take the place of the one he lost. "The three assistants will continue to handle the work they have been doing. Each of them is well qualified for it." Mrs. Wells suggested that we come here, Horace," he began. "We may need legal mind on this. I'm not sure, or I think it unlikely. But just in suppose you tell him, Elinor." There was no record of the story Ellen Wells told that night in our reception room, with Clara sitting a corner, grave and white. It was segmentary, incordiate. But I got it at last. Charlie Ellingnam had killed Arthur Wells, but in a struggle. In parts the day was sordid enough. She did not care herself, or her motives. She had treated luxury, and Arthur had not succeeded as he had promised. They were in debt and living beyond their means. But even that, she hastened to do, would not have mattered, had he been brutal with her. He had made life very wretched. But on the subject of Charlie Ellingnam she was emphatic. She knew that she had been talk, but there had been real bass for it. She had turned to comfort, and he gave her love. Didn't know where he was now, and didn't greatly care, but she would like recover and destroy some letters he wrote her. She was looking crushed and ill, and told her story nervously. Reduced elements, it was as follows: On the night of Arthur Wells's death they were dressing for a ball. She had made a private arrangement with Elham to plead a headache at the moment and let Arthur go alone. He had been so insistent that she been forced to go, after all. She sent the governess, Suzanne Gautout to telephone Ellingham not to see, but he was not at his house, and message was left with his valet. As answered out he had already started. Children Brush Teeth as Play in Health Game The three assistants will continue to handle the work they have been doing. Each of them is well qualified for particular responsibilities and deserves the promotion, which was authorized by the board of directors last week. Mr. Eller, who has been in Sunkist dealer service for nine years, and manager of that important branch of the department for the past two years, will be in charge of all merchandising and trade work. He has worked with the wholesale and retail trade in all principal markets of the United States Canada and Great Britain. Mr. Simmons joined the Sunkist advertising department in 1919 and after four years experience in Eastern markets came to California where he spent one year in the sales department and the past six years, in the advertising department. Mr. Ford joined the Sunkist advertising department in 1920 and for several years has handled the production, media and accounting work of which he will continue to be in charge. "We are going into another strenuous advertising year," said Mr. Gessinger "and our department is organized to put forth our best efforts and to make every Sunkist advertising dollar bring results." Orchard Heating Directions Given Both fuel consumption and smoke can be materially reduced by closer application to the regulation of orchard heaters during the periods of operation, according to Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahiberg. At the orchard heat demonstrations recently held in Orange county under the auspices of the Agricultural Extension Service, practical methods of better adjustments of the heater were emphasized. Floyd Young of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in charge of the frost forecasting work in Southern California, gave the following instructions with regard to lighting heaters for oranges. On cold nights following warm days (highest temperature 60 degrees or over) with steady temperature fall to the danger point: Fire ripe oranges or grapefruit at 26 degrees. (Sheltered thermometer). Fire green or half-ripe oranges and grapefruit at 770 degrees. On cold nights following cool days (highest temperature 59 degree or lower) with very slow temperature fall rapidly the fruit may be as much as 7 degrees warmer than the air. Airplane Dusting Growing in Favor (Correspondence to The Gazette) Sacramento—Spurred by the rapid growth of airplane crop dusting business in the last two years, Dudley Mouton, director of the state department of agriculture, called a conference for yesterday, of filers engaged in dusting work, held in his office here. The session was chiefly to discuss chemicals which could be used most advantageously in casting crops and other technical problems. Action of the director in calling the first state-wide conference of filers engaged in this work is believed to be tantamount to official state recognition of the value of crop dusting as an aid to California farmers in protecting their crops from pest menace, it was paused. Dusting of crops by airplane is said to be a rapidly growing enterprise in California, approximately 140,000 acres of California farm lands having been dusted by planes last year. Control measures which have proven most effective in combatting destructive pests; the seasons when this work can be carried on most effectively and the tolerance of different crops to fungicidal and insecticidal chemicals were discussed by state entomologists at the conference. A discussion of crop dusting methods followed. Crop dusting was first tried in Ohio in 1918, but was never attempted on a widespread scale in California until last year. Crop dusting officials said, has pass- Volver had been hidden from the children, and she screamed. Charlie Ellingham heard her. The orchard had been left unlocked by the weatherness, and he was in the lower hall. He ran up and the two men grappled. The first shot was fired by Arthur. Itucked the ceiling. The second she was unbuffalo about. She thought the receiver was still in Arthur's hand. It was all horrible. He went down like a stone, in the halfway outside the door. They were nearly mad, the two of them. They had dragged the body in, and then faced each other. Ellingham was for calling the police at once and arrredering, but she had kept him away from the telephone. She maintain- and I think it very possible, that our whole thought was for the child, and the effect on their after lives such a scandal. And, after all, nothing could help the man on the floor. It was while they were trying to formulate some concerted plan that they heard footsteps below, and thinking it was Madamoiselle Gautier, she drove Ellingham into the rear of the house, from which later he managed to escape. But it was Clara who was coming up the stairs. (CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK) Sunkist Promotes Three Ad. Men Appointment of three new assistant advertising managers for Sunkist are announced by W. B. Gelssinger, advertising manager of the California fruit Growers Exchange. The men to be promoted are R. Z. Eiler, R. S. Simons and C. W. Ford, all of whom have spent a number of years in the Sunnist advertising department. The former assistant advertising manager, J. O. Cook, Jr., was transferred to the executive department some months ago and is now secretary of the Exchange. "The rapid increase in Sunkist advertising activities during recent years has made this step advisable," stated Mr. Gelssinger. "Our campaign has many ramifications, but falls into three general classifications, under the headings of merchandising, research and educational work, and media and production." Floyd Young is Bureau, in charge of the frost forecasting work in Southern California, gave the following instructions with regard to lighting, heaters for oranges. On cold nights following warm days (highest temperature 60 degrees or over) with steady temperature fall to the danger point: Fire ripe oranges or grapefruit at 26 degrees. (Sheltred thermometer). Fire green or half-ripe oranges and grapefruit at 770 degrees. On cold nights following cool days (highest temperature 59 degree or lower) with very slow temperature fall near danger point: Fire ripe oranges or grapefruit at 270 degrees (Sheltred thermometer). Fire green or half-ripe oranges and grapefruit at 27.5 degrees. These recommendations are based on completing first lighting of heaters within 30 minutes. Keep the shelter thermometer up to 28 degrees or higher on both types of night after firing is begun. Damp nights are more dangerous than dry nights, with similar temperatures. Citrus fruits begin to freeze at a higher temperature when they are covered with ice than when they are dry. The temperature fall is unusually slow and steady on damp nights. On dry nights look out for sudden and rapid drops in temperature. If the air temperature fluctuates rapidly up and down, due to wind, take the average of the high and low points as the effective temperature. During November the navels in most districts are in the half-ripe stage and will freeze at a temperature about 1 degree higher than they will later in the winter. Fruit temperatures inside the orange at which freezing begins: Green oranges, 28.5 degrees to 29.5 degrees. Half-ripe oranges and March grapefruit, 28.0 degrees to 29.0 degrees. Ripe oranges and March grapefruit, 27.0 degrees to 28.0 degrees. The sheltered thermometer indicates air temperature. Fruit temperatures are practically always higher than air temperatures when the temperature is falling, but with a stationary temperature for an hour or more the fruit may be as cold, or even slightly colder than the air. When the air temperature UNLESS you see the name Bayer and the word genuine on the package as pictured above you can never be sure that you are taking the genuine Bayer Aspirin that thousands of physicians prescribe in their daily practice. The name Bayer means genuine Aspirin. 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