The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 6

~_POLLY AND HER PAI@ lswArJ Y'WOULDNT THEYRE DOWN KNOW DELICIA, SINCE PAwW'S ((THE HAD HER HAIR AN' SKIRTS "BOBBED! Z- SYNOPSIS: Le:n'lnx the Og- den mine after Hammond had departed without seeing them, Pecbles and Deacon return to | San Felipe. Peebles is seriously alarmed when he learns that Lucy and Jerry have not re- tiirned. He decides to wait until the next day before organizing & searching party. Emptying the mkets of his trousers, he finds, 10 his utter amazement, a play- Ing card—the ace of spades— 4 card from the table at which sat the two silent figures in the foom of Lundy’s saloon. Hiz fiightmare of horror had noi Been a dream. MARKED UAKDS ,The possibility that my experi- behind the bolted door might gmreallly of a grim and terrible kind hadn't occurred to me since § few minutes after my return to eonsciousness this morning and I} had put completely out of my mind the thought that it was anything | else but a nightmare. And yet here I was with proof of its realty in my hand! Every detail of the experience| stood out in my memory as sharp| 88 a beacon on a dark night. The, fearful quietness after the storm; . the shapes at the table . . . e striking of the faulty match . ... the two men playing poker in Qhe anrk. . ... the card I had rbomaucnlly stuffed into my pock- | and forgotten about. And then p- my hand going over that cold I‘ce. “But they couldn't have been 1" 1 groaned. “And they ldn't have been alive! It must jve been a nightmare!” And then 1 looked at the ace of spades again @nd knew that it wasn't. " 1 tried another tack. Why had Pirle lied to me? Were he and Dillon in the thing together? For he certainly hadn't found me in that room in which I had come to my senses. As I had supposed at first, the room into which I had fallen was in the north wall of the building. Furie, then, had gone to the trouble of climbing through the window of the north room, unbolting the door, and carrying me into the room of the west side of the gallery. If he weren't Dil- Jon’s accomplice he must have guessed something of the conditions tthder which I had fallen into the porth room; and in either event he had smashed in the door of the West room ‘to create in my mind the impression that it was this foom into which I had fallen. Evidently there was something in the north room he wanted to con- ceal. What? The poker players? y. And who, or what, were poker players? | There was another thing too, The recurrence of this “poker” motif. had detested the game, Andrew yét we had found the implements of it in his safe; the phrase the that cracked the poker for a human life a part of the Peterson legend then I had come upon that a game in the north room.. let the matter rest the 2 my experience. had disposed of sizable of Mrs, Moffit's beefsteak 53 ¥ TOWN, GWING SHOPS A WHIRL To-DAY ! Marked tlrds—FllfltS lens—“poker game that cracked the town! ‘when I would | chance to express an | MILLINERY Y!'SHORE LOOK SWELL IN THAT NEW SKIMMER, DELICIA! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929. OH! BUT UNCLE SAM'L. IT COST TOO MUICH! BLESS pie and caramel pudding I went into my den, took out my little red notebook, and began to pencil in it. [ was still writing when Mrs. Mof- fit ushered in Luther MacNair. “Hello, there,” I greeted him. “When did you get b “This morning,” he as we shook hands. When did I see you last?” I went on. “Only yesterday morning, was lit? Seems like a month. I've been |through a great deal, MacNair." | Whereupon I told every detail of |my experiences. ~ When I had done, I laid my exhibits before him |the Torridity Firebrand, Furie's eye- (piece, the ace of spades. “What do you tlink of my poker players?” I demanded. MacNair laughed grimly. “Your poker players? I should say they were part of the pattern. Everything you have told me about is a part of the pattern. But most of the parts are missing, and we {see nothing but confusion. When the pattern is complete we shall nrobably have as intricate a bit of | mosiac work as you or I ever saw.” “But what about my two men?” I persisted. “Were they dead or what? You might hazard a gues ) “I might hazard a dozen guesses. ‘What do you think yourself?” “They couldn't have been alive,’ said briefly. -|T said. | “Hardly,” MacNair grunted. “The | point is: were they dead?” “We don't know that, ‘HL‘HO, what’s thi: either. | picce. Chancing to look through it, |the ton of magnified. “Look through this,” {ing the lens to MacNair. LEARNTO FLY! Come to Seattle and enroll with the Northwest Air Service, own- ing and operating its own field, Renton Airport. Complete in- struction in every branch of land and sea craft operation by ex- perienced, licensed pilots, accord- ing to U. S. Department of Commerce regulations. Only the newest type, most reliable air- craft used. We qualify you for |] examination by the Department of Commerce for Pilot's license in shortest possible time. Write today for litera- ture and complete infor- mation — be among the leaders in this new and great industry. NORTHWEST AIR SERVICE, Inc. John R. Blum, President. Elden Pollock, Exec. Eng'r. Address: Route 11, Box 130 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON I was fiddling with Furie's eye-| = = N I saw, to my surprise, the grain of | g = my desk enormously T said, hand- l “Excellent for close-up work,” he “‘Jr\n\to(l “But T don’t see how Furie | i | managed the distance.” “I doubt if he got much out of t at all,” I said. “It's effect upon | emed to be largely psycholog- It seemed to give him con- ical. }!nlr'nce in himself.” “I've got an idea he isn't as blind as he pretends “What makes you think that?” | Whipping five playing cards out |of his pocket, MacNair tossed them , faces down. By their ized them as part of k Deacon had found in Og- cafe. | den’s | “Look at their backs through the |lens.” se cards are marked,” I shouted. MacNair nodded. | have lens. | marked.” ] I studied the cards through Lhe lens again. The two marks on the diagonally opposite corners of cach card were the same, but no jtwo cards were marked alike. On ne card two curved lines were rickened; on another, two straight {lines; on another two half circles; {and so on. In no instance was the thickening longer than half an linch and it had been done so deli- cately that it was almost impercep- tible to the naked eye. “The chances of the crooked jplayer would be increased enor- “You wouldn’t seen the marks without the Just the high cards are then but in crooked gambling a cer- tain percentage of losses is desir- able.” “But he couldn’t see the marks,” I exploded, “unless he had the eyes of a hawk!” MacNair took the lens out of my hand and stuck it in his right eye, leaning forward a little. “I see the marks quite clearly as you hold the cards.” I stared “You think—Good Heavens! you connect that lens with these mark- ed cards! Nonsense! No one in his senses would play a man with a magnifying glass in his eye!” “Not if the glass were set in a pair of old-fashioned spectacles’ MacNair drawled. 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