The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 7

| | e ——————————————————— ARE MARING — THS ONE 1S tfiilUDILI[]b B Charles SYNOPSIS: an _V's fiance, | Jerry Ogden, is charged with murdering his father. Vowing her confidence in his inno- | cence, Lucy engages Luther ¥ MacNair, noted detective, to in- vestigate the case. A burglar attempts unsuccessfully to steal the famous Alex Peierson re- ‘ volver loaded with gold bullets which have been mysteriously linked with Andrew Ogden's murder. .A note, written 30 years before by a dying man, is found in one of the cart- ridges and mentions the name of “Dillon.” Police are puzzled when they find in Ogden’s li- brary a deck of cards, a stack of poker chips, a flattened lead bullet, a specimen c¢f rich gold- bearing quartz and a sinister black notebook. | Chapter 12 BLACKMAIL—“DILLON" I took up the mysterious note- book, prepared for anything but | what I was to find. The book look { ed old. Only the { two pages ha been written on. It the top of Ogden blackmailed by Wy LLSY . My DEAR. T WANT o /CH CART Nouses T T NOU To NOTE THE SPLENDID FROGREES MY EARLY BlooMs QUITE REMARKABLE! |Ogden all these years; but it doesn’t | ! was killed.” “You accused me of R - without facts,” I “but you mc doing a good bit of it R R 41 -G BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARL PLUG s : NOL'RE HeY Goa To TELL ME THAT \Ou CAN DARN, Too TN b 11 "DARNING T HANENT TME o LOOK AT YOUR TLD FLOWER PQTS:-- NOUR. STITRHE ARE MUCH Too LaRGE, MOCH S MRS, kI3R! p\hen Mr. Ogden opened one of the rmelupes sir .The chip fell out.” “Did Mr. Ogden make any com-‘ mcnt’ . | “No, sir. He wasn’t the comment- mrv kind, but his face became bit- and hard and hurt as if he |UILILIE'II' G.B has been blackmailing Ogden for 26 years. But—is ‘James Dillon’ t man’s right name? Blackma remembering some dreadful usually submerge their own . o h sonalitis | The man withdrew and MatNair “You mean that ‘James Dillon''grimaced. “Our blackmailer receiv- ,may be the ‘op: i name’ of ed his yearly blackmail and ack- known to us?” I 4 |nowledged it with a poker chib.” 50'\1(‘ one “Exactly. the in{ “But why a poker chip?” Deacon man Notices for must be received by The Empire not later than 10 o'clock Saturday morning to guarantee change sermon topics, ete. B BILLE DE BECK i —— e R Iawe\ (OBODY HAS EVUER CARMED MY |oeke © SUIT ME THiS IS WOoOD LARGE LOAD, $4.25 Either MILL or KINDLING WOOD RV (AE 1 WENER Wouu UANE &szuwiu SERVICE TRANSFER CO. Office—Almquist Tailor Shop PHONE 528 C— IS HELD TONIGHT ngh school ums and some ['nr!k Tonight in Elks Hall, the Elks were excused at 2:15 p.m. Friday to help clean up the playground | *i-.vm stage the first baseball dance 7 T ot e of the season. Dancing will start A gentleman is received according to his appearance near the “nat.” |at 9:30 o'clock and the public WEAR TAILOR MADE CLOTHES - el iLiE BOAT LAUNCHED Ole N. Olson, boat builder, who|invited. The players of the Elks has been owner and resident of the | Baseball team in the Gastinecau And have them made at home. It is cheaper to have them made at home than to send outside for them. Lawson Creek property for the Channel Amateur League, will be past two years, on Friday morning | in attendance and introduced at F. WOLLAND, Merchant Tailor this cnurcn column launched his boat with which he |this affair. Of { intends to troll this summer. A neat | s > black, Hubk Stimson, Nathan | cxploded. S craft, the new boat has the lines| ul the Emplre. e. Perhaps Deacon here. Even| MacNair gave his disconcerting | lof a finely appointed yacht and| Pe g R mable self.” |1augh. “It's all speculation.” " Douglas Presbyterian Native “; would be a credit to any boot | gRedS - not Luther MacNair?” I, “What about this lead bullet, the| | on { { builder. 3 and blackmailed | unknown ‘Jerry’ Who is Dillen? Why did An- drew Ogden pay him $5,000 a year for 26 years? An import- ant clue is in Monday's chapter. also follow that he killed Ogden, though he may know why Ogden | w)ux elr.” DOUGLAS public is invited with a special inq|& vitation to the parents and friends f the graduates, - e in all other parts of the |country specially prepared exer-! wiil be held. The Liberty here is the local place, in the eve- ning tomorrow. iy | Prepared by Douglas Aerie 117, 1}/ F. O. E, and the Ladies’ Auxiliary, i} the entire population is invited to‘ “Dillon” for 26 years! the first page a name was penned | in the dashing handwriting of An- drew Ogden. “Dillon,” on the name. “James Dillon.” Beneath the name was a list of | like | entries. The upper entries, the name were slightly faded; the lower ones were black, “There are 26 entries,” I said un- steadily. Each one is for $5,000.” ‘“And each one is dated the first day of January of year,” Henry added tonelessly. last entry is dated the first of the present year.” “Ogden has paid Dillon $5,000 a year for 26 years,” MacNair drawl- ed. 1 disregarded MacNair's ugly im-, plication. “The assumption is that Ogden paid Dillon $5000 a year for 26 years. | Dillon killed the ‘Jerry’ who wrote that note, and since Dillon has been r&ceiving payment up to the first of the present year, he didn't die as the result of the bullet ‘Jerry’ put into him. I again offer the theory that Dillon killed Andrew Ogden.” {“Why?” MacNair asked. {“For the same reason that he killed ‘Jerry,’ perhaps. Or possibly Ogden refusgd to pay more black- f ‘Possibly’ and ‘perhaps’.” Mac- Nair echoed raspingly. “If Ogden refused to pay more blackmail Dil- Jon would expose him, not kill him.” ‘This was logical. “you are forgetting young Jer- ry,” Deacon reminded me. “You and Stimson saw him tearing along | the walk last night. That fact has to be overcome before we can assume Dillon or anyone else kill-| ed Ogden.” 1 retorted bitterly. “It wasn't Jer- ry we saw. It was someone else. Someone in his flannels.” MacNair gestured impatiently., “Jerry is the likeliest candidate so far. But leave Peebles to his senti- | mentalities for the moment, Dea- con, and consider Dillon. The lat- may or may not have killed , but I venture to say he could throw a good deal of light I whispered, my eyes| its respec ve | “The | ~ join in due observance. It was an| T'm spec- Eagle who crystalized the beauti-| |ulating. When I theorize I base ful sentiment that is felt in men's, my theory on a fact, You don’t. hearts and Lrought about this na- In face of evidence to the contrary tional tribute. you say Jerry Ogden couldn’t have; The program which starts at killed his father. You call your 8 o'clock includes the following assertion theory when it is nothing numbers: :but speculation, for you have no|Doxology basis of fact. Again, you say Invocation Rev. C. E. Rice. | {yon believe Dillon killed Ogden and ; “Mother Machree” (Vocal Solo) you call your belief a theory. But Miss Dorothy Crim. |your only basis of fact is your “A Song of Mother” (Vocan Se- faith in the boy, which isn't a fact| Ilection) Girls' Sextette. at all. Is the difference clear?” | Address Mr. L. D. Hammock. | During this discussion I had been “Pal O' Mine,” (Vocal Selection) arranging the poker chips into Men's Quartet. | stacks of five. I had five stacks “Those Songs My Mother Used and one over. | to Sing” (Vocal Duet), Miss “Hello,” I cried. “There are ex Abrahamson and Mrs. Chapman. y “No. I'm not theorizing: Congregation. actly 26 poker chips here. Ogden |“America,” Congregation. |made 26 payments to Dillon. Queer, 1Bandicuon Rev. C. E. Rice. |lsnL it?” e MacNair grinned. “I wonder if; END OF TERM APPROACHES |there’s any connection between the | chips and the payments. You might| QOne more week of school and ring for Hubbard.” lthe 1928-29 term ends. Next week I did so. MacNair took a sheet will be devoted to'semester exami- of letter paper and one of the pokerjnations which occupy two hours Eshcet, he placed both in an enve- H.r.buted Friday, May 17. |lope, which he sealed. Hubbardr On the whole, the present term came in just then. whas been successful in scholastic “You rang, sir?” he inquired. ]ami extra-curricular activities. * A “Yes,” MacNair replied. “How did |large number of students have wén Mr. Ogden get his mail?” a place on the Honor Roll because “The mail carrier leaves it in the jof good grades. The two dramatic box twice a day, sir. I brought it|productions of the year, “Black up to Mr. Ogden.” Gables,” operetta, and “Terrible “Come here, Hubbard.” ’Jane," Junior Play, were perform- The man came to the edge of the |ances of finished excellence in con- desk, ill at ease, and MacNair pre- |sideration of the amateur actors sented him with the envelope in|who took part. “Gastineau Breeze,” {which he had sealed the poker school paper, brought a profit to chip. help publish “The Taku,” High “Did you ever notice in Mr. Og-|School annual, which gives prom- den’s mail letters that felt like ise of being the best ever put out that envelope?” in Douglas. Hubbard ran his fingers over it. - e, “Why, yes, sir. A number of times.” BRIDGE PARTY “Pell us about them.” “Well, sir, I began to notice them Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sey enter- chips. Folding the chip inside the|each. Report cards will be dis- ™ three of four years after I came ( here. I couldn’t help noticing them because of the chip inside. It seems to me they always arrived iduring the first week in January.” | “Splendid, A Hubbard. And how did you know poker chips were in the envelopes?” tained at four tables of bridge Friday evening, May 10. Prizes for high scores went to Mrs. Elton Engstrom and Mr. Alexander Dun- hzm; consolations to Miss Margaret Abrahamson and Mr. J. O. Kirk- hem. The hostess served dainty rcireshments when cards were dis-! on the affair. Who is Dillon? He| “I chanced to be in the voom 'continued, | ""AIl services in the new church. - No mass. 1:00 p. m.—Sunday School. |7:30 p. number of musical selections. The (for | | DOUGLAS TO HONOR ! MOTHER, TOMORROW v, May 12, is Mothers St. Luke's Episcopal Church | NOTICE onically. |cards and the quartz?” I went on. 3 TRz s — -> > o - y, if you wish.” | 44pg chips imply cards, don't ;‘H_\flfl," School. D t you leave out our Jer-|they? As for the quartz and the 5 Peien, [ ',E RR DI bullet, I dont know. They may rz'f’e"l_ ‘j’m,:‘v — Thursday—Midweek £8.% 5 Hmm! you return to the bone Bave nothing ‘to do with the case, |P33E" w:.dei'fl“y kit e 5 Y 1of conten Yes, I ecliminate though the lead bullet looks as i i vy IS suRPRlsF I{O]‘IE GROCERY young 1 a possi «James it has plowed through somebody’s i j Dillon,’ but not as the slayer of his breast bone.” — AL Sl S RN e poet , | Mrs egia Kashevaroff Brewer . . T [father. Dillon may have killed the ight, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Douglas Catholic Church | | 5iq Johm Q. Olson were marricd During Business Under L. & B. Burford *|at the U. S. Commissioner’s Court | just before noon today. Both the FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE OWING US MONEY WE WILL | bride and groom are well known in | Juneau and the marriage came as zz|a complete surprise to their many friends. The ceremony was wit- ening Prayer and Scrmor by sy My dones sndil Valihsand Sdfes fam- BE OPEN MAY 10TH UNTIL By 3 M [ H ~ o t2 A el » ! 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