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By Jouezmlua Cllberfoon

T!!! WORST OI‘ A BAD BARGAIN Beyond doubt. the declare:- in to- day's deal ran up against a. very bod break of trumps. but he made the worst instead of the best o! the situation.

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h on be likened t0. was forced to with- o+e+4¢,.,,,,”| I y]: 73 dulw somewhat ninzeti- The meln- that the was aim‘, might com, m m I "-—~——~——--____ Qnqn p110!‘ is aeplerably mixed but ii. light," e lfiiinze Enid She was doing ‘A1042 will serve. 1-" Ill“? chicked himself "You are quite i-ighh she h“ aafim-Bglg r$nlled "He said she ‘AK 73 Q gs‘ abruptly. was s cnt or a aecond- I'm afraid every ‘ - ew orkn. z N QA? Then: "If w“ hm the non {nv publicity."Iiunaeyufilsifiiutifeifi: ,.,._§s’jjj,s°'f§-"'= “P! twisted. ~m o8 w E f“, giunddaughter left for you. nneht sured him. He cleared his tit-ant u! seemed best to ml .9 s . Q I we mi, as ll he lound it tumcult to g°~°n 1 have told various people here in ‘K. Q 87 4 Bing handed it over. Juacsuys Bu; he did m “Ellen M‘ here m; the village that my granddaughter 5 3 o ‘:93 UGHNPLHISLEPTTUQ m. oer some BREAKFASY m0 GETDN WHERE ARE THEY.-.WHERE ARE xreultifflliicr Yf-‘flll li- iiiFWSiI “lid the l'lth of March last I did not is nrNew York. and that she is an QQ J 1 93 touemrsuar Musr m2 move new FA5Y...iT'5 aeeuroo aw HORSES... usr HAVE iur a moment made no comment. know that she had “n; um“ cum interior decorator there. As a mnt- UQJ-‘WQ "AVE BEE" "l" '-°"°-~~5“5 ""55 5"‘R‘”"G~~- gtikggshi 1mg“ "I think ii Prvbflble that aw are ne: was ready. I then direovereq ter o! actual met - you will, o! ‘K3’ ' married." he said then. He glnnc- a note from her she hadplaeed ‘t c°um"- "m reliant lhis- I have ‘ , rd at Bing and added. "And you my pllllt‘. It was written in the no knowledge o! when ‘he l‘ "1' Th‘! blddllili iiUYB not the sli-gittest idea us to classical manner-she read a- good “mat She i“ dmng" I“I have had ‘North East Sollfll W689 why my granddaughter left you dcal of fiction, I suspect The note no ‘vol-d fmm her’ directly °" 3"‘ 1. Pa" 4‘ mum’ s» nbfiiliiiy?" d u ‘ informed me that when. I read it furecuy’ {mm ‘he mmnem ‘he 3mm" In“ Pa” P's‘ “I've wondere she was aired 5h, would bk n h t _, eft this house until you stepped Th . t of publicity for any reason," Bin: York, that eheohadexbeyrryofferfidev: m“) It m‘ m°mmwl iuuip"§ii“?§."§u'§°°{£. tfgursasglde‘: confesfed, "1 mGeLaP-II" heanbogrfzd Placle there a; an interior decora- dlfymid don't nttearl: the’: she Just although that car-tract Pmbabl)’ ihrit‘ °i B "W" - "W. 5° i ‘ W. °PP° °iii 0 $8M! Proililed uould have been reached anyway ihing that was not her auit. but That was what we ma“ dawn m BinE. fiizhast. 1r. due course. 0n South's actual ';_ __c .. He dld not add, "And that . Jump. North could not be blamed made no effort to trace her?" but fill‘ Yfiivubiinll- D A] l. Y C R O S S W O R D g that was in his mind. inevitably, West alleged the 01:1: kigitz- The ACROSS 4.'i‘horon 22.Invaiid'a ""1 i“ “h” "i" ha“ Kliew-"i ii- “e “’°“' °°‘“°~' “m M " Fw whit (chem) food 1.1,, rose and crossed to an ancient heart, and thespade eight was led. DOTTY DRIPPLE I , o. l 5 Em “me 23 CM f u secretary unlocked n drawer. drew west W0“ whu’ EM‘ signalled with fnifieili _ G-Flogl ’ r H; m°iiih ll] H Du‘ “I'd plaeed it on the “wary a high heart. West. however. had _l1. igourd-hhc {Pertaining aheirgcr C‘! table “Perhaps I can help yo‘; m discovered tho: Sontht could be i" ' ' ‘ i Edi lua ' a urally o - mNosiJii, to area 27. Plead In understanding of my position misled ‘rifle, ti-iitagitihniendihl Iclgw 11 gum", 8. gainegrg" 2B. Dated cutco- u gndlasz; myself aogxetmentlall again card i _ ggsilopgqgoao-Tfiri/sgg medium i‘ '1 In" g Y e 8 W“ i" = ° PP K- Declarer mulled and then ttppar- AND ‘ 135p“; 9.Manufac~ 29.Kinds of he remarked. “my ignoring the f“; that, west 50M: ‘*5/95 A 14. Kings "Y" “P! XX"! had been ShONTA to hold uve trumps. MWUTQ iabbr.) li-Pinnis fli-Ensiish The clipping shook as Mr. Corliss persisted with the impcssible plan l5. Ponder 1339RPM! musician Sllnrtlnfl Miner handed it to Bing. The heading o; drawing ‘ti/cat's trulnps. The 17.Epoch l" 3z-Di1iiciii-‘d read: spade queen knocked out. West's _ , m storage publication 33.D0meell- 39. Appendage GIRL 501351"- pq last, high trump, 01 course, but on ' .- qmkflnllluiu’ W‘ I “ place 15- 0v"- cates ldBoysname 1355111 MYSTERY the club return declarer. after ruff- *0» v , 2o13uid°d dcmmmm" 35 Rmhbrmnd ‘tman Police Hint Murder in Connection m9 w“ wduFcd ‘° m” ‘rumps u mnllllillllill iii ' ' imiiililliliiltmh ii 21-F“m°“5 twesmte page beverage with Body Found in Troy N y “him we“ 5511i had three. Those ff ‘ m ‘u "Mm." v Russian l8. Viper tprint.) ltihlusic note Ham _ ’ ' ' two high trumps and the diamond ‘m; . ‘ ‘- m liluilflnflnufliflii] w... .. he M» liiiiiliilliiiiiiiiiliiiiiilliiiiiiii i iiiiililiiiiiiiiililiiiiiiiiilli i iii iiiiliiill i~ i down no "lllluw i i 4 i,....._.‘ _; I i YiDYFPTNiUm w u’! A ‘fume could Wm and he w” llllhlllll lllllilllll Q’ — -i in | (gym) New Ygrk 9gzgqur Bu“? GB“ fetter than louritrlcifa. vulnerable . \-$; """ d ed bl d. o: he sngger ng . ' ‘ 3:?" False Name When He and Girl ggnalfy Y)? g0.) points! 28‘C0|umb|um RPEIHPPI-‘d- 1t is truc that with West hold- sklNGlNG UP FATHER (gym) None of this moam. anything to ing all lite ul_ the missing trumps. 30.Slmplest Bing, he looked up at Jonesey's and the cicfendcrs getting the Jump “overwoa. gitqttdfzltllrel‘, puzzled. by attacking inc club suit. South "t" 3' h t _ id t, h d e very well. no gr": B-ilujg ‘oililrenlt t? rhtt: cfhzulglgiiied figzll-iefnaiiiliiaiiii? (s; P133’ he 55°F" '5UPDOSE ' $1; ‘e “Tmv y q}b/Ial'vh 13m: m.‘ ctl but he would have saved a tidy THE 5AME as ghgni ) dosvrigc], “'5 Jpn“ MOML gum ghd hum by giving; up the futile notion GUV THAT qrvpnrt (“t b -- smartlv dressed is bciu sou ‘it h 0i diWWing wcsi; 12W trumps. ll-Canezgeile the police in connectlogn with thi éétfil gggulfiufigiiauélarjgfi drieagfilrlegs‘ armchair mysterious death in a local hotel “and u necuswy hem-up thus gardezttool zlltgiggtotge nigh‘; oIf-Ialmatg lden- ‘Groin! we“ u p “an” against ' 5'" e BY as - 51°11 mm“ being forced in clubs. 46. Measures thers. a well known New York an- ~ '- ofdlatance tique dealer. in 1n fact I was quitte Prellilied “Fill! "Anstruti ers’ bod we f u d t ue it proved nothing until—” ‘3~Fi’°ll¢d the floor of one oi! {he lfoteol ifoorz: hoe atrlfimed to the drawer 011 "it! D0 this mor - cked out a letter. "Until WN nlng by a maid. She noti table. pi LFlightof fled the management who then this came to me," he said to Bin!- Moharnmed notified the police. At first -t was “Please read it." _ J" from Mecca believed that ticath w s rlu to Bing noted from the heading iii-if ,, .,,,,,,,,, _ llhving natural causes. 1t was Zinc/vireo, the letter was from a znrnue 1n , _ .",-__l_ , ‘*’ " """'. ‘I’ h lsiilPl however. when the medical cxant- Troy, New York. It was adart-ssed HENRY

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By Ken Reynolds

Br 1- R- Wii-i-IAMS our soARoiNc-House

iner arrived, that the dead nran‘: necktie was tightly knotted around bis throat anti ihr-re were indica-

tions that he hnd strangled to death.

"Investigation disclosed that Anslruthers had arrived of the hotel just before five o'clock in the afternoon, Hr- rcglstered as

Mr. and Firs. A, R Rlchmnnd. of Sprlnzllrlrl, Mass. nnrl informed the clerk ihnt his wife was to

meet him here and asked that he be notified ivhen she arrived. "At Just before six the pseudo Mrs. RPchmnnd appeared and ask- Bfl for Mr Richmond. she was shnwu to the rooms. iwn of which. edjolniriz- hart nlreadv been re. served bv Richmond, Shortly after six the pair left the hotel and did not reappear until midnight. "Subsentiently at about, one n’- ciock. according lo the night tin-k, Mrs. Richmond lr-ff the bntel "An- slrttlhors’ comp-anion, for whom the police are searching, ls describ- ed a; above in n broadcast the police sent out today.

"Anstruihers was married and is stirvlvr-d by a widow and three children."

Jcineseys grandfather nassmi his thlfld across his eyes, then make: "Anstruibrrs vlslloii the l-ntise twice duriniz March, his last visit being nn thc 16th." he said "He cnmr’. I ilmuclti. l0 ask my op- inion about nnilques. I did not knnw that Ellen 41nd any previous ac- quaintance with him. I never ask- ed for an account of her comintzs and uoings. Slu- was left qui-to lrPe

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HP stopped. obviously fr) l""?fl|fl mastery of his \'oiI't‘_ "Ellen li-ft the next day. lhc 17th. iakiniz her car with hcr." inn wcnt on. "I hap- . pencd in notion the i-iir-plm: tho.‘

day after that. r preferred, nniut- ‘he suddenly ivnkvd ail of eighty- one as he suld it.

nlly. to believe ihnttlt was n»! no significance -in Ellen cr me, that

utterly. I had here. move because I could not foresee what other forces I might sci‘. ih motion. Anti so I've simply wait~ ed"

to Jonesey‘! grandfather.

‘The car was registered in my name." the latter explained as if anticipating a question °1i m“ point.

Bing read on:

“Dear Sir: .

"A car hearing license plates is- sued to you has been stored in our rare since March 17th. Our rcwrtis do not show by whom it was lclt. It has occurred to us that this may be a stolen car and that We should report the number to the police. possibly.

“Pcndhti: this we are writing you direc'. Will you kindly let us know what you wish ‘done abou‘ t-he car. The storage bill is, at this

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date, $14 and a dollar a dn? ‘viii be charged so 1on8 as it titayl here. "If it l! your desire to have it remnin here. that is perfectly all right. but, as we sat-d. we felt we should notify you."

Bing said nothing. He just yet.

Not even when Jonesey’: grand- father said. "As I never drove the car mvsell. and inasmuch ax El- lenJs-ft it in there seems to be no nucstlon that she was in Troy on March 17th."

Bing spoke then, "But it doesn't nrove that—" he stopped. unable to no on.

“That shr- was with Anstruthers when hc died?" her grandfather swirl. "Of course not. But she fill- vZ-ausly never went hack lm‘ the car. and I have never heard from her since. She chose to disappear ihc car returned but I dared make no other

couldn't

He said no more thon that. but

(To be continued)

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