Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1923, Page 10

eee PAGE TEN. “THE SECRET TOLL” By Paul and Mabel Thorne, Authors of “The Sheridan Road Mystery” =NT NO. SIX INSTALL AD THIS, THEN BEGIN THE, “No men ever come near that tree—| STORY. just ghosts, It’s haunted!’ | Tho Friends of th an| Forrester stared for a moment. It! organization of tb who was curious how all these peop'e have preyed on w residents of ag: Chicago. Und t of death, th have ordered their vic to pla pertain sums demanded in a hole in ‘great oak tre in Jasper Lane, a little street in Northern suburbs, of Sheridan Re In spite of police ed in that one point. | n said her name was sim-| She spoke excelient Bng-| That do you keep those snakes Forrester asked sudden nds of the poor away with “Don't you go to chur! inquired > who have r rrester. give up the money have Sot the chureh these Niggers a SEF Kiiled—curiously enough, by d here go to,” she snee fation, although thelr bodies ip in my own wa: been found in the open air. “Well,” he went on, “perhaps you Robert Forrester, an engineer and|can tell me something about what the member of a vealthy family, is the|ghosts do.” latest one to receive a demand for! “I have never seen anything,” ex- money—being told to place $10,000 in|plained Lucy, “but sometimes | when the trea by Saturday midnight under|I come home tate at night I hear pain of death. This was Tuesday.) things.” Forrester decides to resist, despite| ‘Such as?” suggested Forrester. the advice of his friend | groans and sighs—rattling Frederick Prentice nd sometimes the sound of a| tim, a year ago, of As they di comes of the & capitalist, Charles > have | demand, new: George Nevins, was positive confirmation of story. Forrester pond-| Jered before asking his next question. | ‘orrester that; He remembered Joshua's assertion| vins tel's his father was also asphyxiated.|/that he had plainly heard words, so} Charles is engaged to [he asked Josephine Forrester, Robert's sis-| “Do you ever hear voices saying ter. Forrester first tells the police of | anything the demand on him “Nothing distinctly. guard. He engages |groans and sounds like that, Benjamin F. Green, a private de-|somebody were in trouble.” tective, to whom he promises $10,000] ‘You think, then,” said Forrester, 1 the blackmailers are caught. Green| ‘that {t {s just some uneasy and soul is not a promising character, but he|that haunts that tree?” claims to have a “theory” “Yes, she replied. Humphrey, a reporter for the| “But, protested Forester, “what Times, suggests that Forrester as an|could a ghost want with good United engineer should apply the method of | States money?” triangulation to solving the problem.| “I don't know,” replied Lucy. “In He points out that the City police are}my worship I sometimes commune searching W ide drives for the|with the spirits, but they have nev told me how they could use mone ave you ever tried to commune lwith this ghost?” asked Forrester. “No,” replied Lucy, “I don’t think longs to my people.” ner were to offer you a| -|good sum of money to try to com- Just sighs and as if and refuses a t blackmailers, while it, in his oponion, is Mkely that they make their head-| quarters. quarters in more luxuriou Forrester goes to Jasper La he examines the tree is surp: Joshua, a gigantic negro, gar¢ for a family nearby who aro in C: Suppose I “Guess you hare found out all I can tell you!” ving “T don't need money replied. ¢ the. my yo Don't you have to work for a liv-| the tre to manifest Mle tells of a gro woman 1 fioeuenn had disappeare ; Hoty do you manage to live then?” |rendered valuesl fev Joshua to have been killed “I don't need money to live, I can by the woman. get on.” Detec visits the tree at ‘orrester glanced around the room |ing the weird Negress, the gi the horse and her co‘ored servant |were knocked flat he formed theorias ho been. 1 up around them. y completely shattered. growing Che Casper Daily Cribuns ON SASSY SUSIE THE ree OH .MR. 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By Billey De Beck —Novu Don'r KNow “THe * WAS, SHE SAW WH (—\ HEARO HER TELL Some PEorte THE REASoN SHE GoT SCARED SO WAS A MILD FISH STARIHG AT.HER — SHE WAS ABout READY TO DIE WHEN IT ASKED HER WHAT WAS The MATTER— IT WAS You! at SHETHOUGHT ~IS THar 50” -15 THAT So— PITT “Howdy,” said one of the mer. “‘n name's Cahill, and this !s my partner, Detective Sergeant O'Connor. We come from the Detective Bureau to see you about this ‘Friends of the Poor’ matter." aking any progres inquired Forrester, fully convinced in his own mind, however, that thy w “We'l, we are, and we ar swered Cahill. “You see. O'Conne and me were inthe polics auto the other nlght—the night you. tipped ss off. We're both some shots, and we felt pretty sure we hed hit tha: car we were chasing. Sv w be scouting arounl the West Side ages looking for a car With builet ho. ‘oday we located just such a car| with half a dozen bullet holes in the back in a garage out on Grand Ave-| nue. Grand Avenue, you know, is full of Dagoes a'l the way from the river. The garage man said it was left there late Tuesday night by three young Italians. Now, do you get the; idea :”’ Forrester did, and he was astounded at the news. | “You mean,” he queried, “that you ascribe this whole affa‘r to some West car proves your theory? | “Sure thing! assented Cahill.! “O'Connor and me have been we ing on this case for months, Some times we thought we had a clue, and! then again we didn't. We have sus- pected Black Handers from the first but we couldn't exactly get a them. That up you night started things right. know where we're at, There's three detectives in overalls in that garage right now. and {f those guys come| back for their car the whole thing'li| be cleared up in a iff; | was overwhelmed. ad enterta!ned reg: sus) pride he had fe't in his own det talents ‘was crushed, eries In which he tive} and the d’scoy- had exulted were pod detectives the hard-hearted unimaginative city their business best. After al’, ding, knew night. st noises—a | ‘© more. The cookstove appeared; There was really no mystery or ro-| sigh, repeated over ever; the|to be without a fire and there were/mance to crime; no clever men pitting clanking of a chain and finally the|no signs of food. He wondered. their brains against those of astute tolling of a bell that seems to be| Turning again to Lucy, Forrester] detectives. Bat oes By aid of an lee: | “Strange about the ghost that The criminal c'ass was nothing shi sees a woman ap at tree, Lucy. Did you ever;more than the police claimed it to proaching, when suddenly his ligt yone being murdered) be—just a stunted, unnatural. evil de Acnashieds § Burjed into th smelling plant, with its roots buried road by rms. As he picks * she rep'ied, Then added, af-|deep in the sordid, filthy dives and himself up. 8 diffused about \ter a slight pause, as she rose and/forelgn settlements of the West Side.| the tree ming hand ‘mot ons | walked towtrd the door, “Guess you| Forrester was disappointed; deeply| Paton! Pan ken, have found out all I can tell you,| disappointed. He. heaved a sigh. #reen flees \Mister. You'd better go now—before| “Relieved, eh?” chuckled Cahill.| Forrester persuades Green to agree)my dog comes back.” “Thought the police were no good,| to put up at his country place, though | eee rots jand that you had to kiss 10,000 bucks! een 1s frightened by the ap-| At dinner that night, Forrester| goodby | parition. Forrester, again oxamining| gave his mother the note Mary Stur- ‘0, explained Forrester, “I hadn't] the tree, meets |tevant had handed him, exactly ‘ost faith in the po'lce. But! Mary Sturtevant, the attractive) Mrs. Forrester glanced through the|I will say this: I haye recently made| oung nan living at the Bradbury note. “It is a letter of Introduction,”|some peculiar and interesting discov-) Joshua is gardener. She|She explained. “How odd: Ho'en|eries on my own account, and now ction Lewis of New York, asks me to do|you have practically knocked the > soon what T can ‘to make Miss Mary Stur-|foundation from under them with ry place,|tevant's y in one,’ Chicago a pleasant’ Forrester trange that she did not write your very matter of fact solution of the mystery.” Side Black Hand band, and that th’s - * SHE'S JUST OFF ME, THAT'S ALL! OH, WELL, (T'S ALL MY FAULT 1 SUPPOSE. 1 GUESS | HAVENT ANY KICK COMING a IM SORRY TO INTERRUPT BUY MAJOR ‘TOM DEE {15 HERE TO See you! SOMETHIN’ TO A PARTNER AND You AIN'T RUNNING THIS BUSINESS AND — IM A PARTNER HERE AN’ 1 GOT | NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND A WOMAN, ANYWAY. | MIGHT CALL HER UP. JUST To BE SURE IF 1 COULD THINK OF ANYTHING TO TALK ABOUT. Tats SUVERS, & FRESHMAN - HE DONT KNOW { @NY BETTE! WHO 15 TH’ New CADET PINKEY ? WELL THERE GOES THE MAdOR! TL SUPPOSE NOW THE ARGUMENTS Witt START AGAIN !f 115 BEEN NICE AND QUIET SINCE MADOR DEE WENT IN THAT OFFICE! 1 HOPE HE STAYS A LONG WHILE !! OFTEN WONDERED WHY ey Tenet HELLO, PHYLLIS, ERTTon THIS 1S WALT. COULD YOU HAVE DINNER fm DREADFULLY |! WITH Me Tomorrow ] SORRY, wauT, | NIGHT ANO THEN BUT MADE, GO TO THE AN ENGAGEMENT THEATER ? FOR TOMORROW NIGHT WITH WwW, HAROLD, 1VE f Sheow, HA LL Hat] ABouT IT, OU DIDNT JOIN THE OTC. Miss AK TH : bdagee A ING 1S WONDERFUL, IT WAS SO QUIET 2 HERE 1 THOUGHT — a ~ER- I HOPE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED 7? Cae CRN = SEE THERE | WHAT OID 1 TELL You - HERMAN, HERMAN, HERMAN ! | DON'T USUALLY TAKE A DISLIKE TO ANY- BODY BUT! CAN'T BEAR THAT GLY! MR. PEARSON - ID UkKET SON. TH’ Roatc. ee WE WERE HAVING ) A PEACH OF AN | ARGUMENT { FINE! FINE! ' Hap Jusr ABOUT GIVEN You. OP, HAROLD MEMBER WHAT T WAS WE WERE RGUING ABOUT !f me direct! | “We ain't solved it yet, remember West Indian’ Nig Does she say who Miss Sturtevant/objected Cahill. ‘We may still have ottage he sees a * queried Forrester. to ask you to help us, That’s what gravel bottom) “The daughter of some very dear we dropped in for this evening.” | akes are coi'ing nds of Helen's, The Sturtevants “What do you want me to do?” and uncofling, He remembers that/#re an re New York family, she says. asked Forrester. ; serpents are said to b n Voo uite Bure that I have heard of} “Well, you see it's this way,” ex- ts ob es) N “orrester?" too : | plained Cahill. “Ie those Dagoes come| “I know," admitted Cahill, grinning,| ther side to me. ‘We'll hold these) Forrester, we got them this time. No| “And now. wo'll be Mr, Forrester?" asleed Cahill, May I be permitted to. inquire,"|back to the garage between now and “but O'Connor and me have worked] itring®, one in each hand. Now, that) sneaking up between detectives tuext| nounced Ca rising for ; 7 been} #2! phine rogu'shly, “how Mr.' Saturday, we'll have them. But if a plan. We figure that in the] completely surrounds the tree. so Mio bop om 2 ght. , Ae as gar, A fin moke “as I've] on, People, unknown to a ter came to be the.bear- they get wise that we found the car|past these guys have been able to slip] iny one approaching will kick mto a) “The Idea Bounds Vary \go0d, |. Cae} had. tn 9. long. tl : Ita ed on the de- i note, and wherefrom springs they may chuck it and steal another! /n between the detectives on watch.| iting. We'll know from the handjhitl" agreed Forrester. “Perhaps it) “Bang up,” murmured O'Connor Cahi amitea mainte J js one. In that case we'll sure get them sec, it’s pretty dark in. those} ile strng’s In juatewhat direction to] will work. If I don’t hear from you| “Take another along," suggested) put dont 1 af 1, then frowned se- at the oak tree up there on the North} woods at night. Our plan is going] ols for them In the dark, O'Connor s/ in the meantime, what hour do you Forrester, accepting the hint me'c oats “ : ~ phe. wo upon his s'ster. Shore Saturday n'ght. What we stop to that. It’s like ths: | strings will be A and B, and mine will) wish me to appronch the tree on Sat-| The two detectives each carefully | jay io Fated We can ; t the young lady through an want you to do is to put that money| going to put a pe; be C and D. Get the idea? urday night? oop g selected another cigar, and then For-| «y ie pent ever hosted.” this” morning: When sho in the tree at the time we tell you to, ground on each s'desof thet “re O'Connor fee's ell!” “We've fixed on ten-thir rester went with them tothe ‘4 I tor : i t wishes le 1 who [.wal she asked me ‘to £0° that’ waltwill ibe! Fead: front, “O'Cunnos avi be on Ghetema peas ats male ted ee one | i convenient for you, Mr, } "What will ye t'the ghosts sup K this letter to yo “But nobody has e auceeeded in and me on the other, “There’s}of my atrings I'l holle 1D. Getlanswered Cah | 1 to h t tree should ap. sured Af locating these peopie at the tree,” p m ¢ seg running to Then we'll both a rush at hat suits me | nui ¢ police he room tested Forrester « 1 1 the same thing on the! just the right spot. Believe mo, Mr." ter. Tons SPR @ ‘that ft, d to rights this night w. end ier