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pees ete ae 4...-in-public life of the coming generation. PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper awe {Court refuses to entertain the suggestion that Chap I ;man’s prison sentence takes precedent over the es death sentence. This decision should strengthen re- THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ‘spect for law and order over the nation, as Chap- (Established 1873) { A ‘i i —— man hax been before the public eye since October, Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, ' 1922. The case has aroused considerable interes! | Bacarek, DG ay ine oan Ps Fol postoffice at | throughout the country, and Chapman has been the George D. Mann..........President and Publisher; "¢cipient of much attention on the part of maudlin oe rympathizers. | 0! His appeal to the United States Supreme Court | 7°20 Was without merit, and ressorted to as “the last , Straw” by Chapman's attorneys. + 5.00 pS ene oe eee moom eee | oe No Place For a Genius Dr, Winifred Sackville Stoner has just returned from Florida and declared that it is no place in! which to bring up a genius. “I went to Florida,” she said, “to find a place where geniuses might develop—a sunshiny place— | But I found too much commercialism there. The | genius cannot hitch himself to the wheels of the | Foreign Representatives commercial juggernaut. He must be cared for even | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY as we care for flowers. But Florida was too com- Monee ine Rea ROnT | mercial. Why, when I was walking down Flager | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITi | Street in Miami a parrot flew off a chair and perched NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. | on my shoulder. It said, ‘Buy! Buy’!” (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Mother Stoner is interesting, but there is no are - thumb rule, in application of which a genius may Go Getters and Life be developed. Geniuses seem to have a way cf/ Dr. Mattoon Monroe Curtis, for thirty-five years their own and blossom out without any fixed plan. | head of Western Reserve University's department! xo method of ascertaining whether a child has the | of philosophy, teld a group of undergraduates the capacity for being a genius has been discovered. De- | other day that he was so tired of “go-get-em” philos.| spite the many tests for intelligence applied to the | ophy that he was resigning from his chair at the | vouth, genius remains as elusive as ever and is dem- | university, ' H 7 a : onstrated often where least expected. The struggle to teach esthetics in a world satur- | ated with talk only of dollars, progress, 100-per- | centism and that, is too great a battle in this swift age, the doctor thought. Subscription Rates Payable in Advanei Daily by carrier, per year. WS Giniet Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck)... Daily by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck)... Daily by mail, outside of North Dako Riss Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press Hl The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ! use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published here- in. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. According to latest figures available the popula- { tion of the United States has now reached 117,135, | (817. United States is about three times the | angen iter all that tines Dr. Curtis mote than | population of France, it is greater than the British thing else is sham. There's quite a bit of it! Tand and double that of Germany. these days. The national pastime has become “put- | ting up a front.” There is a great deal of silly su- ! perficiality. The modern highpowered salesman, for the greater part with only technical equipment, and without the | background of liberal arts, is a parrot. Ask this Ensore’s comet failed to keep its date the cther evening. Its next chance comes in 2026. The comet may have gotten too near Old Sol and had its head shrunk. | highpower fellow a few simple test questions and ie 5 | the chances are great that his front of stern wisdom , = wilt collapse. He thinks in a highpower groove. Get | Editorial Comment | him out of his groove and he is as dumb as a pune-| ' tured drum. A Farmer-Owned Land Bank | The only remedy is a little time devoted to sincere | (St. Paul Dispatch) \ study of a few of life’s finer things that do not im- The Federal Farm Loan beard, in a statement mediately mean dollars and cents, but which widen | jssued at Washington Wednesday, calls attention to | a man inestimably and open up for him an enlarged | the fact that the farmers themselves practicall: | vista of life. jown the 12 Federal farm:loan banks through their There is considerable cynicism. It might almost be! jocal farm loan associations, having furnished #52,- called the day’s trend of thodght. But do not be fooled ! 990,000 of the $52,769,000 in their capital account. hy the cynicism a fool affects to hide his weakness.| ‘This verifies the claims of the proponents of the That also is one of the twentieth century’s popular Federal farm loan measure when it was first offered indoor sports, the scoffer seorning what. is fine be-' and enacted. They asserted that if carried out ac- | cause he cannot understand i cording to the provisions of the law, the banks set | There are too many rules of success. Too many} yp for the relief of agriculture through adequate young perscns are going into life obsessed with the ' credits would by the very operation of the law even. | idea that unless they specialize th Asa eerie 44 ee ey ou ea tee in | associations—or the farmers themselves. wat ans any market. And the buyer is the all around man|has come much sooner than the most hopeful then who hasn’t pinned himself down to the study of any! anticipated may be accounted for by the fact that one thing but who studies all things. There is no! owing to the depression in agriculture, more need rule for success that will apply to all men, iwas felt for the aid the law offered and more loans oe were made and memberships gained. The very fact Why Blue Laws Fail that more than $2,000,000,000 has been loaned on Oppoxiticn by President Coolidge has sounded! farm lands since the law went into effect, is indica- doom for a blue law bill that Congress was getting tive of the extent of the service performed ané the a y . ly Ne sota alone has abou such and Nor us, thinks that Moses did very well at Mount Sinai.! more than 200. and that attempts to improve upon the third andi fourth commandments are painting the lily. { Ten thousand laws might be passed, but the Sun- | day would remain just as red, green cr blue as the! individual chose to make it. That is because ob- servance of the Sabbath is really a matter of how ay man’s mind works. America is a paradise for reformers but not the enly country where they flourish. A young swain Heathiest Men (Springfield Daily News) According tq Dr. Charles Mayo, mail carriers, as a class are the healthiest people in the United States. The statement is based on his own observa- tion, but doubtless would be borne out by vital sta- tistics if the figures were available, unless it might be found that a higher health rate existed in the . of Turin, Italy, was arrested for kissing his girl as army. In both these classes none are accepted who he was leaving her at her doorstep. The police | are unable to pass perfect physical examinations so magistrate dismissed the charge of “offense against jthat there is n> point in the comparison of rates. public decency,” but the supreme court of Italy re-} What Dr. Mayo seeks to impress is that the em- raed the decision and upheld the law. If you feel| ployment of mail carriers, despite the fact they are like;kissing your girl in Italy, better take her down | forced to face all kinds of weather, and perhaps be- ‘into the cellar. {cause of it, makes for health preservation, and this And, on top of it all, a local option drive has been | presents the argument that regular habits and plain started in Germany. That sounds like a dream. living, with proper exercise, will ward off disease. But it is expected to obtain 8,000,000 signatures tort may also argue that walking is the best and petitions addressed to the Reichstag. It would be 2) cheapest form of exercise. The mail man is forced fine, broad-minded thing if they would include Lim- to keep regular hours and get the proper amount of burger cheese in the petition. The next number on | yest. He must live plain because his income will not the program might be a drive against garlic in Italy. ‘ permit him to live otherwise. And he must take And say, let's purge the Bermudas of those dread: | exercise because that is his means of livelihood. Per. | ful onions! ‘haps the impressive point is that health is not gained |by making a fad of it, and that it just comes to people who think the least about it. The Call of Pageantry i (Philadelphia Bulletin) | A brave show that, in far away Kashmir, ‘in the Everett Sortright, assistant professor cf educa-| mysterious land of India, where the princes live in tion, New York University, is completing a survey | the typical luxury of Oriental potentates and the of opinicns of senior college students. Among other |people are ground to earth in poverty. The acces- questions, he sounded out their attitude toward the | .ion of the new Maharajah of Kashmir is being eighteenth amendment. He found that 77.4 per cent | made a spectacle out of the Arabian Nights, and of the students are in favor of rigid enforcement! the people will pay the bill, Probably the moving of the eighteenth amendment, and 64 per cent | picture cameras are recording the pageantry of the | are against the repeal of that amendment. A | occasion, and the West will see how bravely an East- | very heavy female student dry vete brought UP ‘ern monarch ruffles it when he puts, on his crown, the dry averages. The survey was conducted in! Republicans of the stern brand may frown and the. New York University, Mount Holyoke, Am-/pish-tush over the theatricalism cf monarchy, but * erst, Connecticut Woman's College, University | the men who stage-manage royalty’s official appear- | gf Minnesota, University of Michigan, Leland Stan-/ ances know what they are about. The people who | “ord. University, University of Texas, and the Uni- | dg not love pageantry are well down in the scale of versity of South Carolina. ? ____ leivilization. Here, in the United States,) we make It is interesting to get a slant on the prohibition |a8 good a show as we can without the trappings of | issue from the youth of the land, especially from |royalty when we inaugurate a president, and seize | those who are being trained to take a leading part eagerly on any excuse for a state ot civic display. i ,., | But more especially we reveal our inherent delight | The result of the poll, however, has a vital social in spectacles in our private or semi-private exhibi- _Amport and indicates the trend of thought in the | tions of gold iace, badges, uniforms and what not, A Significant Poll In view of the fact that so many polls are being taken by various newspapers on the prohibition is- | sue, it is interesting to note a referendum which | has not been given a great amount of publicity. crowd. | Our innumerable societies, with their bright cos- rs Chapman Case ;tumes and imposing titles for their officers, are the Following many. legal complications the courts | outward and visible evidence of the inward yearn- ave decided finally that Gerald Chapman is to be | ing human nature has for the spectacle. _ Chapman will be lead to the gallows just | pal! is joyously welcomed by the participants for the ight on the morning of April 6, unless the | opportunity it gives them to “dress up,” to mas-'| in and saves his neck again, Efforts | querade for a few hours in some character from his- of Chapman's counsel to utilize his sen-|tory or romance. To make believe seems to be in- ive me robbery 4 : in and women, from childhood up, and if ¢ kings or queens in our own propery per- the next best thing—we pretend to be. tonal institutions are concerned. se | The European Bu s. {and her one ambition used to be to will be lost.! tually come into the hands and control of the local} i {himself off to his wife. ;And indeed she did look as glossy ‘atudent body of the nation in so far as these eduea- oo it is gay and sets us apart for a time from the | t ‘A costume |Cracknuts. “But I can’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE jeer es A MAN'S PROTECTION “Voice cultivated!” I said stupidly to Jerry Hathaway. “I didn't know that Mamie Rile: ould sing!” es. She has an exquisite voice “1 couldn't work with . In less than a week ld_ know that I loved you | then the office would become bed of gossip. I would alw: teving to make yoursway Judy. “Oh, I thought of giving you a job immeaiately on leaving the restau- rant, but when sober second thought came I knew it would be impossible. easier, sing in opera. I met her some years! ago when that ambition seemed in a fair way to be realized. But all at once something seemed to go wrong and the next time I saw her she was at the Beaux Arts checking hats. I/1 knew it would be only a question tried to get some explanation out of| of a few days until your place there | er but ‘she will say nothing about) would be made as uncomfortable as at the restaurant. You understand, don't you, Judy? Why, dear, if it] were just you and I in the office I ! would be only too happy to have you there.” “Yes unswered, relieved at his explanation. But, all the same, [ wish he had given me the chance to I didn’t know that Mamie could sing,” I repeated. “I never heard her sing a note.” Even as I made that remark I re- membered that one morning I had heard Mamie begin to sing. Then all at once Mrs. Riley had said in her querulous, rasping way: refuse. I wish he'd given me the| jy. neve? a bi “For heaven's sake, Mamie, don't} chance to say that we were too good| Walking stick without wanting begin that caterwauling again. Re-| friends to work together, As it was|*k ug y fish. member what it almost got you into, 2 he left me no alternative except to and you a decent, respectable girl.” | say that I thoroughly understood, | Mamie shut up immediately but} that his decision not to give me a she did not give any explanation of} place in his office came from his de- “what might have happened to her,"| sire to protect me. and in my own somewhat hectic} There it was! I had again run up ‘eer I'd really forgotten it until! against that age-old desire of man ¢ now, to protect some woman. And I knew After Jerry Hathaway had gone, that until I could stand upon my own I looked across the table at Jimmy. | feet and nét welcome the protection ‘What do you mean,” I asked, “by} of anyone, ¥ would never be the jn- saying that you wouldn't like me in| dependent woman I wanted to be. your office?” (Copyright, 192 BA Service, Inc.) dimmy became perfectly miscrable immediately. “You must know, Man's Kiss or His TOMORROW: 4 Love? dear girl,” he up to his chin. re went up to the hand on Scamper's bed with the co The March hed and put his forehead. ° “He's got a fever, nuts,” he said. “Ah OLIVE ROBERSS BARTON | “Dear me, Doctor!” nuts. Now everybody knows that Mister| “S! Cracknuts is the neatest person in the world. The March Hare didn’t have to pull him out by the tail to get him to go to Serub-Up Land to be spring- cleaned. No sir! He walked right off | like a gentleman and hunted up the path by the secret bush that led to ick out your tongue, young fel- said the March Hare. amper stuck out a red tongue. d, very bad! think he has append monia fever and mumps. six spoonfuls of: castor-o him in bed two months. Give him | | 1 | (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) modern initial cost, it’s the upkeep. ya “I'm not “Then come along and get your "hurry. | shouted. | neck and ears washed, my boy,” @ e : the March Hare. °Y a Girl of Today It took four people here, but he went. sick. a all!” to get him (To Be Continued) Bobbed hair is like conveniences. A real friend ‘ou without look are so ignoran:. We never see a man carrying a to | ' Prohibition may not prohibit, but some other It isn't one who wi as if he esi | ‘ it certainly is a lot of fun. One good No two persons look exactly alike or do the Charleston alike. silver Clouds have bubbles don’t . The tree of knowledge has branch- es and if you go out on them toofar they break off. ( if o- The king that faithfully judgeth lt he estab- He who hesitates before a railroad ‘ sn’t lost. Copyright, 1926, lished , are alwa: Scamper bounced out of bed in a, themsely the little Fairyland country where Mister Rubadub lived. and got him- self all fixed up‘us slick as a new shoe. He had a Turkish bath and a sham- poo and a hair-cut and a shave a manicure and everything they give | ou in Serub-Up Land. And he had is clothes brushed and. oh-—-just everything! Then he went home and showed Daddy,” said that all ‘ready, too.’ ‘ou look fin lady - proudly. and bright as the other“new shoe. Ladies know how to fix themselves up, someway, my dears, without hav- ing to traipse off to barher-shops. “But Scamper is a sight!” she de- clared. “And I can’t get him up. Here. you and I are all ready for our trip to the Land-Where-Spring-Is Coming and we can’t go a step with him looking as he does.” Just then there was.a knock at the door, and Mrs. Cracknuts opened it. There stood the March Hare with his big book. Beside him stood the Twins, always ready to help if they were needed. “Let me see,” said the March Hare. his de where O. D. Cracknuts lives, n't it?” i “Yes. sir!” said the squirrel lady promptly. “And ‘his wife?” Hare. “Yes, sir! that's me!” “And are there any six and under March Hare. “Yes, sir, one over at hi: and one over nuts started to say, when the March Hare interrupted her. “ he one here,” he said. and get spring-cleaned at Mister ubadub's house in Serub-Up Land before he can go to the Land-Where- ring-Is-Coming. It's the Fairy wer orders: “Don’t 1 know it,” TET To ist CONE WITH ME! said the March hildren over ixteen ?” went on the There’s one here, and 8 aunt's for the winter, cree Mrs. et him up. hat am I going to tor 4 The March Hare thought for a minute. “I have a plan,” he said. see your little boy, Mrs. |\ will you? But be sure and ‘Doctor’ when I'm in the vy 1. ertainly.” said Mrs. Crack Se they ali went into the Squirrel’ house and up to Seamper’s room. Tere lay the little squirrel boy’ in. linings, _ lly Scores Again | ai he | BEGIN HERE TODAY was a crafty ring to Jensen's voice. | HENRY RAND, 55, a business |“Well, I’m not tellin’. Sure, id dered in @ | bumped him off, sure. . . . Called Grafton, Police | him up at his office. im 1 had handkerchief and | news of his fi i low theater ticket. | -—-oh, Tha . Jim: his daughter, Jensen laughed again. . . breaks §=her agement with |my thought the sound of it would | BARRY COLVIN, because of the | drive him crazy. “No harm tellin’ | “dixgeace.” JIMMY RAND, his j you about it. You're gonna get | som, goes to Mansfield, where the | your anyway. Well, he comes right i { theater is. The stub is traced to a political boss, THOMAS FOG- ARTY, who saya he gave it to A MAYNARD, a cabaret sing- jdown to the room, see? The room I have in the hotel. jlike.a fish yeh t | his Falls for it just . Pretty smart of me, mmy's hands twitched. lip savagely to down the hot anger that was leaping up to destroy his forced calm. And Jensen's voice hearing police want her for mur- | went on, maddeningly, tauntingly: der. lary, out with SAMUEL | “Yeah, pretty smart of me, I'll CHURCH, a wealthy lawyer, seen | say. Comes right upstairs an’ knocks Jimmy lift Olga into a taxi and {on the door. . . . An’ I says, ‘Come di with MARY LOWELL. j encounters Olga. She faints at | immy meeta and falls in love Later he of aman who “pic! her ‘up’ jo he comes in, an’ I says, ‘What | two nights before the murder. do you want?’ and’ he says, ‘Are you | With Jimmy and Mary es- | the man,’ he says, ‘that called me tranged, Church “Kets Mary's jand said he had’ news of ‘Thaddeus | promise to marry him. Jimmy |; Ran ‘ ba ’ I says, ‘You must’a made a \ and Gira, out one Cl uly a | | man they recogni as | mist You got the wron; the man who got the stuh, he as | guess.’ Pretty slick, eh, one of his assailants, The man !{'m not so dumb.” escapes, but they berate him by | He paused, and the short silence his police photo as IKE JEN- | was again broken with a laugh. | Ji y said, his voice like chilled “And then what?” “An’ then he turns to j your, pardon,’ he says. room, [ and? Oh, Church, motoring with Mary, | steel runs over « dog. She breaks her engagemen. H go. ‘Beg Real polite, Jimmy gets a phone from (Rand, I'll say that him. He's Olga, saying she has found Jen- {turned around, with his hat in one | sen, He rushes to her apartment | hand an’ his other hand on the door- ‘ | to find her gone, .Her disappea ; Knob. An’ then [ lets ‘him have it- | ance becomes a newspaper x | Bingo.” 16 sation. | He made a loud smacking sound, He is walking with his friend, | of fist on palm. “With the old black- BARRY COLVIN, when he spies | jack, Rand, understand. . . . Good KID DIVIS, a known intimate of blackjack. Made it myself. . $ Ike Jensen, hoard a street car. | Best blackjack in th’ world. . ‘ Jimmy trails him through lonely | Damn you, you got it away from me streeta and dismal fog to a (that night, didn’t you? . . . Never house. He hears a woman's voice | mind, you're gonna get yours in a ery out. It is Olga’s, and he ‘coupla minutes. . . . Plenty of enters. 3 time... Jensen, Divis and Olga are ins | “That's all. 1 turned on the gas a room. Jensen goes upstairs to and left him. Pretty smart, wasn't | answer the phone and Jimmy | creeps in and hits Divis with a broken andiron. Then he goes upstairs to overhear Jensen, Jensen sees him and draws a |12 It don’t make no difference about [the ticket stub, Rand, because I'm \goin’ away from here where they |won’t find me... . First of all, though, T'm gonna break you in revolver, which Jimmy wrests | hulf from him and kicks down the | “Jensen, who put you up to it? | stairs, ; Who paid you? The same man that {NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ? CHAPTER XLIX “What do you know about any- sonien Ll pai iad vale pee te me a pit beter tid 4 ck, but now he crowded slowly|you heard me on the phone. Sure. {forward toward: Rand, his giant paws; “Like to know, wouldn't you? But joutstretched, biding his time, wait-/I’m not goin’ back on him. Pretty ine, to get this mere stripling in lh Seed ees te oe eee wise. clutches. . v an’ let He ripped out an oath. “You-~,|me get my hands on you. Then I'll rl break you in half. . . break | tell Ra ets I'm breakin’ you ‘ou in ha japart. Huh-hu |" And Jimpiy, cornered, unable to| “Jensen,” said Jimmy, in a voice ‘escape and rush down the stairs tolt at he did not recognize as ‘his own, | Olga and the pistol he ‘had given her, |i don’t know whether you can jread murder in the other’s tone and day? 1 understand—yo\ probably can’t—but cursed himself for a fool for not hav-:1 just want you to know that whether ing kept the weapon himself; cursed{ you kill me or not I don’t give a the himself again and again for having damn. taken this man so lightly whom, he: en minutes ago I might have thad chanced to thrash when they;cared—but not now.” And then elP had _met ‘Jimmy himself laughed, a hard, Jensen | Strange laugh. sneered. i ‘Jensen, I feel sorry for you, be- turn deserves another and one bad turn usually brings on anothe:.* FA Service, Inc.) The most generous and merciful in and keep| judgment upon the faults of others the most free of faults I'M GOING TO TAKE: A WALK, THAT'S WHERE! THE DocTor sAip fi pa Mm al ec THE GAcK HALL IN THIS BUNGALOW IS THIRTY FEET LONG, AND THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM AT EACH To REDUCE L MUST TAKE A THREE-MILE WALK EVERY EVENING IN but ¥) a light I'l shoot.” A THOUGHT ,|Jimmy realized that he had to deal room up here for your fancy steps. He reached out a long arm. And Jimmy, retreating, was sud- denly surprised to find there w : wall behind him, but the doorway to! ithe room sen had just left. ;felt space behind him, and he stepped! back into the pitch blackness of the} room. Jensen, framed in the doorway, was a shadowy bulk. He kept on. Suddenly the was inside the room and the door slammed shut behind him. ;cause--well, just because you can’: derstand and never would if you in a morgue in Grafton, that iil the man who murdered my father. I've thought about that many times. I didn’t know that when that chance came I was going to find my- self in a closed room wi can't even see as I’m talking. | “Jensen, you're drunk—but you're not so drunk that you're not afra d And I tell you, that as tru! “Now, cocky, let's see you try andj fully as I stand here, I'm not. Not get out.” He laughed that throaty|now. You don’t understand that, do rumble of his. ne of us is goin’ With that--that heavy thin, but it ain’t gonna be you. ur conscience that yen just told retreating ta the end of|me about, you can’t realize that it’s beside the window that{ possible for a man to look death in opened on foggy ‘blackness, said} the eye and laugh. sharply: “Look ‘here, Jensen, if you| “Here's why I’m not afra take another step, fill you full of | sen—because my longing to you lead.” jzzte get my hands on youg throat—ts “You're a liar. You ain't :got no, stronger even than the desire to live. gun. I'm gonna strike a light.” Not melodrama, you understand; just “Jensen, so help me, if you strike | this---that somehow it'll be all right al I go down trying to get even for an Jen- what you did to my father. “That's all,” He took a step in man gone Bersek with|the dark. “Jensen, I’m waiting for “Go on, shoot,” he taunted, | you.” 1s “You are, eh? Well, thet was a But. the other laughed, crazily, with liquor. and Jimmy could hear his fumbling through his pockets. pretty little speech you just made, ‘He thought of making one madjbut it don’t mean anything. You rush, of knocking Jensen to the floor) think you're not afrai you will and then grabbing for the door. But | be—when I get my hands on you an’ what if he should miss the door? breakin’ you up. “Hel! id Jensen, and Jimmy ‘Why don’t you open the door so knew ‘he must have discovered he in see you?” Jimmy said. oa out of matches. . . . He dared j ' let you get away? Nothin’ | the again. i “No-use, son, you're | MH right, Tl open it. I'd kinda like to see Plenty of time. I'm right here against the door.| I’m operatin’ on yot Plenty of time to say your prayers.”| There was a sound made by the .“Jensen, 1’m not: afraid of you.| turning of ‘the knob, amd then Jen- Divis is out of the way now. And I|sen’s shape was limned shadow-like can lick you. I licked you once be- | in the doorway; dim light behind him . fore.” He continued, craftily: “Why | from the refracted beam on the stair- don’t you go down and see what's | case. hay pened to Divis?” The pening, of the door had been “Hell i quickly done, but even as Jensen was turning the knob, Jimmy was start- ing forward, and all his strength was 1g that Jimmy | behind the ded flush on Rand had waited months to hear: “1| Jensen's lips. i our old man . now I'm; The other staggered, caught him- gonna finish the job.’ j self against the door-jamb, and then, Jimmy: felt sudden cold—like ice , sudden! his arms were around inst his heart—and with it came| Rand, locking him in a grip that was dying cal jlike a mighty vise, , said, between taut lips: “I | “You would, would you?” He know you did, Jensen. I’ve been; laughed again, that srasy Jaugh, waiting -to hear you say it before [right in Jimmy's ear, and the latter, killed you. I've known for weeks | his ribs cracking under that terrible that you did it.” He felt that, after | pressure, could only struggle feebly all, it made little difference to him | to resist. — i what happened, so long as he could; He was lifted off his feet. Jensen bury his fingers in the other's throat; swung him around, then set him and choké the dputal, drunken’ life {down again; and ‘all the time the out of him. pressure of those mighty arms was “You did, eh?” and Jensen's voice | growing stronger. ‘was a sneering taunt. -“How'd you! Jimmy has never been able to ex- ° get so sniart? Hell, kill me? Hub!” | plain how it piepenes. but suddenly “You don't believe I've got a gun? | Jensen shifted his grip and his hands I'm waiting, too, J were around Jimmy’s throat. And have you tell me it same fractional part of a know before I’ use it.” {second during which his huge hands What a gigantic, c1 bluff, he Jimmy had thrown his weight thought. what a still ier | for and pushed out against Jen- thing to be doing-xto sit and bandy; sen with his arms, - words with a man’ who had him! Jimmy heard the cracking of wood, trap ed in es dark room, patiently | and the other's hands were loose on waiting for him to make a move, bid- ; his throat, Parr. ing ‘his time to get him in his crush-| And then the stair rail gave way, ing hand: {and Jensen went crashing through. ‘Still, he thought, and was ‘sur-j Be’ Continued) : prised at the. calm with which he ore was able to contemplate it, if the other was going to get him he would rmed with felt ihefore. ! Meanwhile, if Jensen+ would talk— telly he would find out what he could, , . . “What-I want to know,” he said, “is who hired you to kill my father. I've known all slong you did it. -You thougat. you were rewd, Jensen, planti that handkerchief ‘in: the room. jut you didn’t intend tp leave that stub of a theater ticket. Thht so smart. Come on, tell : now, Ph.D gonna get you! Again. that! -laden breath Horn-rimmed spectacica are a com- pci disguise for Sir Austin Cham- erlain, He usually wears a monocle in his right ‘eyo. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT ° ANNOUNCEM yy. announce my candidate for the office of State's Attorney of Burleigh County, at the June, 1926, Pri ff nom feacieted P will el n fly. T° vespect-. {paid you that thousand dollars to- * He bits. minunderstands. jin’ Just like that. ‘Come in,’ I , Olga tells police _the stub | says. Hah-huh-ha.” 2 might have come into possensi | Again that thick, crazy laughter. ‘ lived to be a thousand years. I swore ‘ * Pe myself while *’ ’