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HENRY itANll. Ill. a boalnua
man. is found murdered l... a
cheap hotel in Grafton. Police
and s nmss's handkerchief and
e s u a yellow
ticket. a..." ‘
JANET RAND. his daughter.
breaks her engagement with
nanny COLVIN because of the
“diluted" JIMMY RAND. his
son. goes to Cleveland. where
the theater is. The stub is
traced to OLGA MAYNARD.a
cabaret singer.
Jimmy meets and lens ln love
with MARY LOWELL. Later
he encounters Olga. She lalnte
at hearing police want her for
murder. Mary. out with 8AM-
UEL CHURCH. at wealthy law.
yer. sees Jimmy lift 013: into a
taxi and mlsunderstande.
Olga tells police the stub might
have come into possession of «a
man who “picked her up" two
nights before the murder. Jimmy
receives mysterious warnings to
leave Cleveland and later is
attacked by two men but escapee.
With Jimmy and Mary es-
tranged. Church gets Mary's
promise to marry hint. Jimmy ,
accuses her of marrying for
Jimmy and Olga. out one night.
see a man they both recognise-
she as the man who got the
stub. he as one of his assailants.
The man escapes. but they ideno
thy him by his police pictyre as
IKE JENSEN. '
Church. motoring with Mary.
runs over a dog. His heartless-
nesa causes her to break their
engagement.
Olga tellsldlmmy that Church.
because she had refused to have
anything to do with hlm, had
caused her to lose several lobe.
Jimmy r--:-.'lzcs Olga is In love .
with lll‘ll «ml is deeply troubled.
8hr 01'." ~-r lips and he kisses
her.
Mary writes Jimmy a letter.
explaining that she had broken
sticks the. letter in his pocket
and forgets it. That evening ‘
Barry tells Jimmy‘ he met a
smart lawyer that day. “Ills
name." said Barry. “was
Church."
NOW 00 ON WITH THE 8T0!!!
CHAPTER XXXVI"
‘6 , 00D Lord!" Jimmy exclaimed
L at the mention of Church's
name. "Everywhere 7 go I
hear nothing but Church—Barn
Church."
Berry resarded him in bewilder'
taunt. “Why. what's
your" ,
“Oh. go ahead. Barry. Don't afield
no. You said you had met him to
day? How come? Explain."
“Well. l'ln rep nting a client
with a big damage claim against the
wrong with
case. too. This fellow Church is the
attorney for the railroad. It scene
he defends all. or nearly all. of their
damage suite.
“1 met him today. and he had a
proposition for settling out of court.
me and i told him so. i'd rather
take a chance on lighting him. but
as! say he's a smart baby and he
told me today how he could throw a '
lot of obstacles in my way and even
keep delaying the case until we get
ready to throw up the pangs."
“Wald! him." beu toned Jimmy
"I've heard e was a jury tixer."
“What? A
Why. he's know
“i'li tell you e. to
Sam Church. Barry.
e e e
things aiiout
Listen."
girl' In the world is your sister.”
cnougll io persecute a girl the way
.‘Ie did 013:). Maynard?" Jimmy lin-
shed.
“Well, why doesn’t somebody ..get
viter hint? Why docsn‘ t she tell that
.tory to. the police?" ‘
"You make me laugh. Barry.
Who'd believe her? And how could
he p re anything? My boy. Sam
:hurc makes his money do a lot of
toud talking for him."
“How do you know that Miss May-
nard was telling you the truth?"
“Don't be such a. skeptic. Barry."
aid Jimmy wearily. “Do i look like
1 tool?"
“I think you’re a fool to be staying
‘Iere. with people taking pot shots at
on out of the dark. And I think if
he lady is charming enough. and
tccordlng to you she is all of that.
why, you might be willing to give
her something better than an evon
break."
“Oh. you' re an utter fool. Won't
you ever get any sense?”
“Sure you havep’t fallen for her.
lira?" Barry was grinning broadly.
“You let slob. " Jimmy was laugh-
ng in spite of himself. No one could
eslst Barry Colvin' a grin. Jimmy
aised hie list threateningly. "If it
can anybody but you. I'd take you
‘ty your fat neck and choke you."
He grabbed Barry's arm and tried
0"talk sense" to him. “Now listen.
n the first place. I'd believe any-
hing about Sam Church—O' Day told
no an eartui and I know by my own
lmited experience with him that he a
regular snake in the gross.
“And in the second place-oh. Well
.hat' s the use of talking about it?"
“And in the second place, " grinned
lorry. "there's no sense to what
on 're saying in the first place. You
ound like the fellow who was ar-
called because his dog had bitten a
‘.on He told the Judge his dog
couldn‘t. bite in the first place. didn' t
lave any teeth in the second place.
and in the third place he didn' t hays
. any dog in the tlrst place."
"You' re hopeless. you good for
iothing shyster." Jimmy laughed
utright. and then. more seriously.
he asked, "By the. way. it you were
“Can you imagine a skunk low
up at the z. and R. emcee today did
you see a girl by the name of
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to any
"No. Did I miss anything by not
seeing Miss Lowell? Who is she.
anyway?"
"Mm-y Lowell is the most wonder-
ful girl in the world Barry." The
words came unchecked from his lips
before he could think.
"You' re a liar." grinned Barry.
jabbing him in the ribs with his el-
how, "the most wonderful girl in the
world is your sister."
But he looked at Jlmrdy with a
keen. appraising eye and detected
the expression of pain on Jimmy's
countenance. "Why. what‘t the
matter. Jim? Is it as had as that?
What did she do to you?"
“I'll feel better if I unload my
.troublea on you. Barry. In your
ignorant way you asked me if i had
fallen for Olga Maynard. No. Per-
haps I‘d be better of! if I had. lfoll
for Mary Lowell. and I fell hard.
And now she's going to marry Sam
Church."
And then he told Barry the whole
story. beginning with his first meet-
ing with Mary. . . . ~
"And so you sell. Barry. Olga in a
way is the innocent cause of the
whole mlxup.‘
“Well why don't you so to Mary
and explain the whole thing?"
"Not now. Barry. It's too late.”
“Why. you darn feel are you go-
ing to sit- back and see her marry
this mucker Church. and not do a
thing about it?"
“Barry. you fool. you don‘ t under-
stand. I can‘t go to her. crawling.
and tell her where she's’maklag a
mistake. What kind of a. position
does that put me in 7" -
"Well. it you dont speak up for
the things you want in this world.
you don't get theml You‘ re mooning
about the fact it's the‘I thing that's
out or reach that we want nicet. Go
on and grab it. It you, don't. I'll go
to'hcr myself and spill the whole
story. Suppose I had curled up and
quit when Janet broke off with me.
It's your darn stubbornness. . . .
You're even more stubborn than-—
than Janet.
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"And. by is. wayyfoinlght as will
tell you new that Only
thins that?! “will: both. use
and Janet right now "
"Why. what do you mean. Harry?
l'dont understand." .
"Just this. she compromised with
Bite s so worried about you and
wants you toI come borne so badly
that she agreed to marry me. it i
could persuade you to come back
with me. Of course. I wouldn't do
it-—I wouldn't take vantage of her.
under the ardent noes. I'll wait
unthehe‘s ready. But I ill think
you lght listen to reason nnd pull
out More someone bumps you yd.
“Janet still ineists in working in
that orchestra, and .I've insisted 0n
taking hart-home every night.‘ eave-
eiaiiy since the night some: fresh
cnke-eater tried to pick her up."
"Good night. Barry! You— ,
"I know: it doesn't sound very
nice. does it? But it's true. One of
the men in the orchestra is acting as
escort while I'm away“ and she
doesn't like lt—thlnk shes putting
herself under obligations. ‘ ‘
"And another thing. I didn't mean
to worry you with this; but I'm
going to tell you while l'm about it.
Janet got one of those letters. too
It was meant for her. Told her she
needn't think she. wasn't being
watched-9 ‘ ‘
“Barry. you're lying." ‘
"i' to telling you the truth. You} re
not only risking your own nook bi
staying on here. but you're bringing
all this on Janet and your mother."
"Barry. the whole thing'e'so un-
believable. It sounds like some
medieval poison plot. That eortlof
thing: doesn't happen in the twen-
ilelll anul’)‘. It's-lt'e ghastly, For
the lore of heaven. tell me why enr-
one should he so anxious for me to
luau: Cleveland as to go to the
extent of exterminatlng mo and my
family. "
"They wanted your father out of
the way. and they killed him. " '
"Yes. and Dad wa‘n ln‘Grafton: he
wasn’t here. If they want me b‘adly
erough. they won't stop when! go
home."
"Yes. they would. They simply
think that with you here they're in
danger of being found." \ 2
"Well.~1‘m sticking. Barry. '-I'm
sorry " He raised his hands and let
them fall again to his side. "Until i
see it through."
"Well. maybe I can see your side
of it .Jim." Barry laid his hand on
the other's shoulder. "But." he de-
clarea through compressed lips. "if
anyone tried to harm Janet .I‘d ltiil
him."
"I know you would his: your (id
heart. I said once before. and 1
repeat it now If it's the last thing
I do on this earth. I' In going to kill
the man who murdered my father."
. ~ ‘. .O' I
The fog that hung low over Cleve-
land streets when they went in
the theater had lifted by the time
walked out into a clear and starlit
nisbt.
In the midst of a discussion that
centered about two loveoslck young
tools they heard sharp cries some
distance up the street. Promenadera
turned their heads inquiringly and
then hastened toward the swiftly
gathering crowd
“Come on Jim " Barry grabbed
his arm. "Maybe it's a fight. Maybe
someone? getting pinched."
It was a fight. standing on tip-toe
on the“ outer fringe of the crowd they
could see two struggling figures
locked in a desperate clinch as they
scuttled near the curb.
Then suddenly there was a parting
of the two forms and a sudden dart-
lng.in of one of them. a swift icint
an! then the sickening sound of the
impact-of flat on law. One of the
figures dropped—dropped like a let.
his head striking the curb with a re-
sounding smack Heelay still
"Did you see that?!
"000d Lord. what a sock!"
"He's killed him!"
The mutterings of an idle. curious
crowd. . . . Then there was a quick
and bodies tene'ely straining.
Someohe in the crowd set up the
cry' “Stop him! Stop him! There he
soon!"
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‘lfltNIiY liANll. M. I business
own. is found murdered in a
cheap hotel in Grafton. Police
‘ tlnde welna 'e handkerchief
. and”. the stub e a yellow theater
JANET BAND. his daughter.
breaks her engagement with
BAltiiV t‘OhVIN because oi the
“disgrace." JIMMY ltANll his
son. goes to t'leveiane where the
theater h. The stub le traced to
("HA MAYNARD. a cabaret
singer.. .
' Jl'lnnly meets and tails In love
with MARI limit”. later
he encounters Olga Bile lslnle
at liming police want her for
murder. Mary. out with BAM-
UBL Clll‘lti'il. a wealthy law
yer. mJlmvny llll lllse into a
tasi and mieundrrstsnde.
Olga tells police the stub
might have come into mansion
of a man who “picked her on”
two nights before the murder.
Jl mmy receives mysterious
warnings to leave Cleveland and
later la attacked by two men. but
escapee.
With Jimmy and Mary es
tranrrd. Church gets Mary's
promise to marry him Jimmy
accuses her of marrying for
money.
Jimmy lend Olga. out one
night. see a man they holh
recognise-she as the man who
got the stub. he as one at his
assailants. The man escapee.
but they identify him by hits no
lire photo as lliit' JENlilltN
Church. motoring with Mary.
runs over a-dog. ills heartless.
noes pauses her to break their
enticement.
Olga tells Jimmy that Church.
because she had refused to have
anything to do with him. had
caused her to lose several lobe.
Mary writes Jimmy a letter.
explaining that she has broken
with Church. The office boy
etlclta the letter in his pocket
and targets it.
Berry and Jimmy. coming
from a theater. run It‘l'ilII a
sheet dght. line or the partch
pants. after knocking the Inner
down. starts to run as the crowd
yells to stop him.
NOW (ill ON WITH THE STORE
CHAPTER XXXIX
and plunged through.
There were once» of “Somebody
grab him!" but no one attempted it
perhaps because of that peculiar In
'ott‘en. perhaps hereuee of fear. for
tight. ‘
As he broke through the cute:
Edge of the throng and passed Jimmi
and Barry. 99me some ten yam.
away from them. Jlmmy sot e
hairnnls battered nose and his collar
- and” necktie aakew.
Titan he .was gone. and when he
haddlsappearrd .i‘rcm sight Jlmmv
was ss-lled-wllb the uneasy feellna
. that‘lhe should have tried to star
-hlln.-'Botneihlng familiar about that
fleeing- iigure raised the question
whether it hadn't dashed before his
eyes before. .. .. .
The! were picking the other man
up from the gutter. He was con
eoldue. but there was a deep out In
the back of his head where It had
‘atduck".the curb. A policeman er
rived. finial-edthe. crowd back and
renters petrol .wagon.
The victim-unsteady on his feet
lettered and had to be helped in by
the policeman.
“Com. on. Barry." said Jimmy
“it'd all over. Just a street light
between a couple of laughs."
Then he saw Thomas Fogarty
surveying the scene through amused
and. A cigar stuck at a ralllsh angle
from his mouth lie removed it to
spit on the sidewalk. and then he
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laughed. a quiet. contemptuous
laugh.
Jimmy touched his elbow. "liello.
Mr. Fogariy."
"Why. hello. Mr. Rand. Haven't
seen you MI I: long time. Uld you
see it?" tie ierllod a casual thuml:
in the direction of the petrol.
“Yes, l saw it. all right." lie in
troduced Barry Colvln.
"Glad to know you. Mr. Colvln."
“Nice boys. weren‘t they?" Barry
sold with his ever ready grin. "And
how that lllllo guy—the one who
got away-could nor-kl"
"Yeah." sold Fol-luriy.
'em belore.
\ "l've seen
One of ‘em wee Kid
Divis. lie used to be a pug. Used
to be a purity good preliminary boy.
but he wouldnl train."
“Good Lord!" Jimmy gronned
“Now i know where ive seen that
face before. When he ran past me I
knew there was something familial
looking about him. but for the lift-
or me i couldn‘t place it.
"it was his nose. of course. You
said he was a nahler. i can place
him now. it was that broken nose
or his."
He turned to Barry. "That man
was one of the pair that folluwell
me ihnI night. He was the one who
came running Vlllll the gun What a
dumbbell lam: in my hands and OLIi
again—lust like that!
"if he'd had a cap on. id have
known him ln a minute, but he
didni. and his hair was all mussed
and his collar torn. ifi‘d only hart
more time to think."
“What the devil are you tnlkln
about!" asked li'oghl‘iy through lips
that were tightly clenched on he
cigar. And Jimmy told him the story
of the encounleI he had had.
"1)”?! this Kid Ulvls. as you call
him. travel around with a man by
the name of lite Jensen?" he asked
Fognriy.
"Sure. lieguhlr buddies. ’l‘hut is
they used to be. i haven‘t seen
Jensen to: some time. r.’-y the way
do you know lite?"
"Slightly." said Jimmy. and he
was about to add why he was so
ansloIs loilnd him, but he thought
better of it.
instead. he turned to Barry Col
vin. “Come on. Hurry. we're gnlns
down to police headquarters to see
O'Day."
I O 0
“Kid Divis? Sure, i know him."
Lieutenant U‘lJuy rem-bed In the
drawer where he had etched his
"chewing" "\th?’ he asked.
"We Just saw him in n siren
fight." Jimmy explained.
"This man lllvle." said O'Day
“was one of the first we brought in
here when we first began to search
for lite Jensen, Someone tipped me
all that llivls was an old associate
of Jensen‘s. out he swore up and
down, when we got him In here
that he hadn‘t seen llte for :weeks
Said he must have left town."
"He lied to you. then." Jimmy do
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"One of them." said Fogaril,
night Jensen and i had that little
mlsup. lie was the fellow i told you
about that came running up after
ward with a gun."
"Good Lord!" O'Day spit savagely
into the cuspidor. "And we let him
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“You remember. Lieutenant. i de
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"Sure. But we didn't have it
the Kid's never had anything proved
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started pulllng in the boys we
thought could steer us onto the
Jensen." _
Barry Colvln laughed. “I imagine
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Jimmy said: "Well. l'd bet my
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man“ who was with him that night
i wish we had him now."
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0 O 0
it was early the following after
noon that Mary Lowell, not lint-ll
lung from luncheon. looked up in
find beside her desk B Oint‘llh
huilt young man with a pug nose
carefully mricd black hair and an
englllring smile.
"Miss lowell?"
“‘I'es."
"i-er--" he stammered and locketl
down at his hat. which he wa!
crushing In his hands in his ember
I‘sssment.
Ills fol cheeks turned a rosy red
"was Kid Diw's. He used (0 be a pug." ‘ CT:
My name is liarry Colvin. i wanted
to talk to you about something im ‘
”all!!!“ First " and he lifted hi
eyes to meet here. “i hope you won't
throw me out before i dnlah" Ht-
mull! widened in a grin as iv
spoke. , 0
"Sit down. Mr. Colvln.“ Maxi
indicated a chair. and smiled. lot
there was something about Borrl‘
t‘olvln’s manner that was hard it-
reslst. a contagion in his smile, a
dltwnrichl friendliness. even. that i'
any other person might be consid
ered Impudence. ‘
"First of all." he began. placin.
his hat on her desk. "let me repeat
that i want to finish before It"
throw me out." iie arinned again
"No. l'm not an insurance agent
and lm not going to try to sell yet.
a lot or an automobile. And l'm not ‘
a big silk stocking man from the
east'
" (lood heavens!" she cried in mock ‘
horror. "Then you must be a bookl
agent."
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.“No.” she said. "You're a lawyer
i saw you when you were in here
yesterday,"
His eyes were suddenly serious as
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‘lrilp her into an admission.
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PAGE rnnnn
and the troubled frown th.t nu1
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hands. simulating despair. I
"There you are. i knew it. You're .
getting ready to throw me out now!
for butting in on somebody elss'l'
business. Let me talk. will you.‘
please? i didn‘t come from Jim.‘
l'm'no sInhaesador. if he knew I
was here he'd probably give me a
good licking—and he could do it.
too"
Barry clasped his hands around
his knee, llfllng his foot .several
lnchee from the floor and gazing at it
as he went on. "It's none of my‘
business, Miss izowell. but Jim Rand
is the best friend i have in the
world—~and about the most stubborn
Individual in the world. too—"
"i wish." she interrupted. “you'd
any who! you have tp say. I don't
want to appear rude. but it's dim.
cult for me to—"
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“i know.” he put in. "l'm sorry.
[’1] get right down to the point.
Miss Lowell. i‘m going to tell you
why Jim Rand came to Cleveland.
You don't know. do you?"
"No. '
"Well. Jim Rand came here be-
cause hls father was murdered sev-
eral weeks ago and a slew led him
to Cleveland."
“Murdered!" she gasped. “Oh!"
"Yes. the most mysterious thing
i ever heard of. l Wulli go Into it
all. because it's a long story. We
don't know who dld it and we can't
Imagine why it was done. But poor
Jim hasn‘t been himself. naturally.
since the thing happened.
"SuspicIon first pointed to a car-
:aln man in title city. but he proved I
an alibi. Then it ponlied to s girl—-
;I girl named Olga Maynard. Jim
found her—he found her in a restau-
ram one nlght while you and he
were together."
She one storing at him in wide-
eyed amazement. “Then that was
'he—" she broke off. “ lo ahead. Mr.
.'o"lvin
"He met her the nest night—in
lie some place. A! firsl he tried to
Then.
when be told her the police wet.
moking for her on a murder charlie.
«he fainted dead sway. Jlm told me
that you sow tl«‘:t. and that you
tulle naturally failed to under-
-'nnd it.
“Now he's convinced that the girl
was absolutely Innocent of any cell-
uectlon With the murder. in fact.,
file! been helping him in his search
“or the suspect
"That s all. bliss Lowell I won't
bother you any longer." Barry
"l lust bad to‘
veil you. because i thought you'd.
like to know and that. as far as
llm was concerned. you ought to
know. He wouldnt tell you himself.
He said it was too late.“
Her hand fluttered to her throat.
She bllnked to hold back the team?
“it isn‘t." she whispered. “You
were kind to tell me, Mr. Calvin."
0 0 0
When Barry saw Jimmy Rand that .
evening. he said: "Jim. 1 want you-
to remember this day. if you ve got
a notebook. mark the date in "‘l
Some day you re going to appreciate
me for what i am—a great bene-
factor to mankind."
(To Be Continued)
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