The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 6

P HAS PA MET ROR'S COUSIN ELMER VET? GOLD, BUL by Charles G.Booth SYNOPSIS: The body of his brother entombed in the mine, Alex Peterson ends his pictur- esque career to become Andrew Ogden. His irrigation projects make him immensely wealthy. Anxious to shield, first his wife and later his son, from threat- ehed scandal, he yields to Dil- Jon's blackmail and pays 900 a year for 26 years to buy Dillon’s silence on the Killing of Joe Lundy. Dillon becomes bold, demands $100,060 and Og- @len refuses. By a queer chance HE'S IN THE PARLOR OVER, NOwW! prang to the telephone but Hyde ad already sold the 45 to you. “Purie was whimpering and snarl- 1g on the floor where dad 1 ropped him. But he was scared nd he must have got it into his|dy hired Dillon, the ex-Flinkerton | ead that dad was raving because f the value of the pistol. Any- ow, he pulled out the contents of ne of his trousers pockets and lanked them down on the desk Chat's the price o' the six gun. \mong the trash mixed up with the woney w a bit of metal. Furie ounced on it. ‘An’ that's the bul- Lucy's eyes sparkled defiance—F “He meets Mrs. Lundy and learns that her husband is still living. Furie, the desert rat, discovers $he new gold vein and comes to see Ogden but does not recog- nize him as the former Peter- son. Chapter 43 THE LEAD BULLET Jerry's vivid description had brought a realistic picture of the meeting between Furie and An- drew. Our eyes were fixed on the boy as he continued the story. “Furie brought a2 specimen from the new vein and he said he fig ured he was entitled to a 50-50 $hare of the profits. He had some claim, of courses but when dad realized Furie had Uncle Jerry's tomb, he went crazy. ‘What else had Furie done or found in the mine? Well, Furie had found a gold-mounted 45 and a ‘passel 0’ bones” One of the back rib bones had a ‘bullet stickin’ in it Dad must have gone mad for the moment. Where was the gun? Furie had sold it that morning. Dad seiz- ed him by the throat. To whom had he sold it? To that suave old stick, Nathan Hyde, it scemed. Dad ~ SUPPLIES GEO. M. SIMPKINS COMPANY CHILDREN’S Bathing Suits ALL WOOL 1 year to 6 years GARBAGE HAULED Pecbles gasped at her revelation. et that wuz stuck to his rib!" he| |shouted. ~ Dad got the shock of | |his life, then. It had never oc- jeurred to him in all these years, | {that Jerry hadn't committed sui- 5D THE FELLER SAYS ITHAT WASKNT NO LADY THAT E GVING HM A\ | | e wy HOT ON % THE "ONCE WIFE MR. PERKINS! | assumptions of a | soon got it straight. Do you see it, | jof Je {let hole in Jerry's body, | knocked cide. Now, if Jerry had killed violated | NG I { | T | A i * N x himself, the bullet would be gold. | KGR, K Spend the Fourth of July Big Dance e T i THATS A “It was lead!” I sat bolt upright in my chair and Deacon all but leaped out of his. “Dad was Furie out. stunned. He put It meant upsetting the lifetime, but he Uncle John?” “See it?” I shouted I see it! And so does Deaco: “Of cours Lun- . Dillon got him nd double-crossed Lundy by per- suading or cing Jerry to go in with him on something bigger. Jer- ry agreed and he was caught. Lundy man to trap J fo | naturally set Dillon on guard out- | side the mine. As soon as the crowd had gone, Dillon spoke to Jerry, told him to push out the key your father had thrust under the door. Jerry, thinking he was to )2 freed, obeyed. Dillon opened he door and shot him | “Why? Because he reasoned ihat when Jefry felt a rope around his neck he'd try to e his own life by exposing his accomplice. Dillon saw no danger in shooting Jerry. He would ref he had heard a n the mine. The miners your father ould find the lock the key under it, and dead with his brother's p tol at his side, one chamber ex- ploded. Being 'a stranger, he probably knew nothing of Peterson’s gold bullets and he reasoned his alibi was perfect “But before Dillon could get hold s gold-mounted pistol and discharge it to account for the bul- Jerry, who wounded, managed to put a bullet in him. The impact Dillon down. Jerry dying, but he penciled those few words we found, stowed them away in the cartridge case, and reload- ed the gun. I expect he reasoned like this: If he concealed it in an unexploded cartridge Peterson was bound to see that the cartridge had been tempered with, as soon as he broke the gun to replace the empty shell. It never occurred to him that Peterson would leave ‘the sol- dier his weapon.’ Jerry died a minute or so later. “Dillon now came to himself. Sceing that Jerry was dead, he shot and door Terry was mortally ¥ o Sports of All Kinds Band Concert HEH |HEH!HEH! |I come. was | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY. JUNE 18, 1929. rawled out of the mine, locked the door, thrust the key under it, and| took himself off. Are these the | conclusions your father came to Jerry?” | “Just about, Uncle John.” | | “And you, Henry?” | “I'd like to hear about the young | man’s departure from his home the | night Andrew was killed,” Deacon | | responded. “I wa | went on. Dillon to justice. First, he’d have |to take me into his confidence, | | though, and he called me in and | told me everything. | “Uncle Jerry must have proper burial. The mine was open. Oth- {er people would be getting into it If Furie talked, as he prob- ably would, we'd have a rush on| our hands. | “Meanwhile, the mine wa: | Uncle Jerry’s tomb and intru | must be kept out of it. Some one must go down there. I was the logical one and Dad said I'd bet- ter leave in the morning. But morn- ing wasn't quick enough for me. I was going that night—at once. Dad finally agreed and I asked him what he was going do about Dillon “‘Hang him, if it takes every dol- lar T've got! he said grimly. You'c better be off, if you are going to night, son,’ he went on. ‘I'll follow you in a day or so. Stay there unti Those were about hi last words to me.” Jerry paused, that brooding look in his eyes again, and we respect- ed his silence. “It was around nine, now,” he re- sumed. “Driving into town, I stock- ed up with water, food, and gaso- |line, and set off. It was nearly dawn when I got to Torridity. I drove out to the mine at once. “Uncle Jerry was there, just as Furie had said. I put in most of the day looking over the new vein and the old workings. “In the afternoon I drove back to the village and went into Lun- dy’s Place. I went up to the “sec- ret’ room. And there were” the dummies, pretty nearly as dad had | left them 30 years ago! And Furie | was with 'em—he was talking m} coming to that,” Jerry| to {them and pretending to pi Games, Races, Marine Events, HAW, HAW. By CLIFF STERRETT Car e WAL, T JA GET A GOOD LOOK. with 'em. He often does, it turned out There were chips on the table. It was a showdown. Sitting Bull had three aces! I thought Furie was going to shoot me when I walked in on him, but I calmed nim down and he talked a little. | The room was a sort of ‘holy place’ to him, too. “The next day a car drove into the village, but it didn't come up to the mine. And a couple Dad was wild to bring|hours later—Lucy came. We didn't ee you, Uncle John.” There was more to follow, I sus- pected, for with the finish of his ory Jerry’s voice had dropped odd- ly and that queer defiant expres- sion had come into Lucy's eyes. of Deacon looked at me grimly and' afterwards I wondered if he had guessed. “What then?” I asked encourag-! ingly. . Lucy slowly drew out of ~her breast a slender pink ribbon which hung around her neck. “We were married in San Miguel yesterday afternoon, Uncle John,” she said. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Lucy and Jerry Married. The lead bullet! Thirty-year-old sec- rets revealed! Continue the story tomorrow. - e CUORS We are now ready to ailer or make up your furs. Goldstein's Emporiur. adv. Phone 79 for Expert Typewriter Repairs Ask for our specials for this week J. B. 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