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...dark boat. Before he reached it, before they could go to his aid, the head and arms disappeared and the Sound was quiet again. They boarded the dark boat, called for the captain. A small voice finally answered: "I'm not the captain. I'm Barbara." There was no one on the boat but a 5-year-old girl, who told them: "My father went in swimming with his clothes on. My mother went in swimming too, My father has lost...
...Cove Neck. The woman in it was young, dark, comely. She said she was Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, 28, wife of Benjamin P. Collings, an inventor of small appliances who four years before, at 34, had stopped work to live on a modest income. With his wife and daughter Barbara he spent the summers aboard the cruiser Penguin-the boat the fishermen had found adrift the night before. Excited, half hysterical, Mrs. Collings told conflicting stories, finally gave to police the following account...
...husband had been sitting in the dark on the Penguin's deck. Barbara was in bed. Two men approached in a canoe, asked to be taken with a wounded companion to South Norwalk, Conn. Mr. Collings demurred. The men boarded the Penguin, started it, ordered Mrs. Collings down into the cabin. Later Mr. Collings went to the cabin, kissed his sleeping daughter, went out without taking his pistol or knife which lay there. After some time the Penguin stopped. Mrs. Collings thought they were now off the Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle...
...story, but later announced they believed it. A stolen canoe was found. The Sound was searched for the missing man's body, without success. Motive for a crime remained obscure. The two men had stolen nothing, though fearing robbery Mrs. Collings had hidden her rings in small Barbara's shoes. The Collingses led a secluded life, had no enemies, were happy. Mr. Collings' income had dwindled to about $1,000 a year. He had no insurance. The Collingses were avid readers of detective stories. Long Island detectives remained baffled by their case; Inventor Collings remained missing...
...their own food. The War stopped shipments of bulbs, so he grew fine Dutch bulbs in the U. S. Carefully and in person he oversees the operation of the Burpee farms, Fordhook Farms (named for the ancestral Burpee estate in England) at Doylestown, Pa., and Floradale Farm in Santa Barbara County, Calif. In person, too, he follows many of the 20,000 experiments made yearly by the Burpee organization. He advocates Federal patents for the protection of flower experimenters. He lives at Fordhook Farms while his younger brother, Washington Atlee Burpee Jr.. treasurer of the company, lives on fashionable...