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INGER STEVENS Continued from page 53 and occasional columned hotel residences. Tebet asked handyman Joseph DiSantis if he’d seen Inger over the weekend. DiSantis told him he hadn’t. “I’m . . . I’m afraid something’s wrong,” Tebet told DiSantis nervously. “Would you mind going over and ringing her bell?” DiSantis said he was in the midst of sitting down to dinner with his wife and two daughters. “Please,” Tebet begged. “I’m terribly worried. And if she doesn’t answer I want you to use your passkey to see if anything’s happened. I can’t figure out why she’s not answering the phone.” DiSantis, a husky fellow, grey-eyed, with curly brown hair and a mole on his cheek, changed from his comfortable house-slippers into his shoes and walked next door to Inger’s apartment building with its white paneled doorway. He rang the downstairs buzzer. No answer. He let himself into the mirrored lobby with the large-lettered Happy New Year’s greeting sprayed all over the looking glass. Upstairs DiSantis saw a cardboard tag from Western Union hanging on the brass doorknob of Inger’s apartment. Under her door the Western Union messenger had slipped a telegram, and a corner of the yellow envelope stuck out from the carpeted floor. DiSantis rang Inger’s bell. No answer. He knocked. No answer. He banged against the hard wood of the door. No answer. Should he or shouldn’t he intrude on Inger’s privacy? Shouting “Miss Stevens . . . Miss Stevens . . . Miss Stevens” at the top of his lungs, he banged against the door. Still no answer. He took his aluminum ring of master keys from his back pocket and entered her apartment. She was home. All the lights were on. He called her name again. There was no i reply. In the foyer there was a clutter of cardboard cartons and wooden crates, all of which had arrived yesterday from Hollywood with Inger’s furniture and knick-knacks. Many of them were unopened. The new apartment, decorated in soft tones of beige with white accents, was littered with Inger’s unpacking. Off the hallway, the bedroom door was slightly ajar. DiSantis heard a slow, heavy breathing, as if someone were suffocating. Calling her name loudly once more, he waited a minute before throwing open her bedroom door. There she was, flung across her double bed with the gleaming brass headboard, her blonde hair mussed and wrinkled, a thin pink nightgown twisted around her. At the side of the bed her slender legs dangled limply. Stunned, DiSantis ran toward her. Her cheeks were black and blue. His first reaction was: She’s been beaten. Looking closely at her gasping face he saw the dark marks were tear-traced streaks of mascara and eyeshadow. Suddenly, in that next instant, DiSantis heard a quick rattling noise. He rushed toward the bedroom doorway to see if someone were hiding in the living room. 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