The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 6

LA HAVE uxc—:»Azb’j 0 s GOILD, BULILETS arles {the wire with a dramatic sudden- D Iness, a eolossal impudence, that had | desk, several chairs, SYNOPSIS: anam"c will (ry a ~urm§-"d one. Meanwhile, T!{5rn unqualified. acceptance of his|broken leg, an old-fashioned net wait for murder solutions! Lucy, waging a fight to prove Jerry did not murder his fath- er, dashed to the desert mine o warn him. She cxplains to her dumbfounded uncle that Jerry needed her aid, that without informing him of hi; father’s death or the police ¢harge, drove with him to meighboring town, where were married. Only then ¢ advised Jorry of the serious c against him. Their daring wins —Deacon is convinced Jerry is imnocent, that Dillon the murderer, The telephone L interrupts th e m—Peebles an- swers, A\ Chapter A CHALLENGE FROM DILLON When I hung up the receiver two minutes later Deacon, Lucy Jerry were looking at me wit | THANKS AWFUL ASH. 1 NEVER USE ‘EM! | che demanded -breathles | an evasive reply. \mwc He had flung it at me over t out my little red notebook. { erms from me before I knew what 7 fingered the pages.|1 was saying. Life or death: which less fashion I now iwas to be my portion, and which ght-band bottor of my desk, took out my| It was nearly sunset when I got flln and slipped it in my|¢s the top of the Skeletons. The coat pocket. From where they iast third descent was covered in were none of the three could have|darkness and 1 drove drenched in seen the pisf isweat and with death perched on did you take your pistol?? as 1t | pense. The hot wind on my che toned? Does | fanned these strange emotions. Ten- | )O"L Dillon?” | yous fingers encircled my throat. | and I Was |1 rode in a splendid tomb, but a| = gave hery tomb, Was it to be mine? | Mr. MacNair he kno It wasr tempted to t I made out a huddle of buildings in the ebony gloom ahead. I stop- 1 had kept! but it would hardly have been possible for them fat to have sensed something of the emotion released in my breast. | {i#¥ou'll have to excuse me, Dea-| eon,” I said carelessly. “A man has ealled me up about a matter T must i attend to at once, I'm sorry. Your ear is at the door, isn't it, Jerry? | Do you mind if I use it?” ! {“Help yourself, Uncle John. Shall | 1 drive you?” ¢ “No, you'd better stay with Lucy.” | He didn't repeat the offer and I smiled understandingly. Lucy | gave me a quizzical look and Hen- ! 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Pistol in hand I slid around the back of the car and dived into the shadow of the first building at the end of the street. And then into the shadow of the next and the next until I had come into the shapeless shadow of Lundy's Place. Noiselessly entering the place I stood with my back to the wall, expecting another shot. It did not come. A tomb couldn't have been quioter. I quietly took off my shoes and padded over to the stair. Still no sign of human presence and |but I was not deceived. My senses knew. I started softly up the Halfway to the top a sprung board creaked benecath my stocking- ed feet. It was the board that had betrayed me to Dillon on Sunday night. Reaching the top, I stood with my hand on the newel post. The roadster slid forward leaped into the avenue. A glance over. my shoulder owed me Lucy |s still standing at the curb, distract= ingly preti in the warm glow of the late afternoon sun. No won- der Jerry had let her persuade him into that fantastic eloper How long wou her I saw a light! A thin line of yel- allow her to remain inactive, I won- |low light, it lay along the floor of dered the gallery at the boitom of the It was just ‘four now. Night | west end of the north wall and I would catch me half-w; down (knew it came from under the door : Pitchfork. At the fi oil station |of Lundy's room—the room I had I tanked up with gas and water. 1|fallen into. Pistol leveled, I en- also filled the canteens and got a[tered the room. The door swung supply of food. The open country m behind me. <_4L‘.s.." — e COME IN AND HEAR Portable JEWELER LR T er Ice Cream GOAT’S MILK OR COW’S MILK LT O corn starch, gelatine or any kind of ice the door of E a round table wiih a c2ck of cards | jand s? | The |Dust and which had escaped constant human contact. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929. :*\ns before me and I sent the rond-' The room w just as I had ex-| ister on at a terrific rate. {pected. No one W there. -; My mind was on Dillon’s chal-| A d coal oif lamp hung crookedly from the ceiling and shed a feeble glow upon a flfll-topprr,\: a cot with a| safe whi h was open, ar stacks of poker chips on north window was brol sand furred everything “Whom are you g shoulder; but T reached the|peat and dirt had blurred their Uncle John?” Lucy w - Ibottom without a mishap. A draught | complance to the famous wa A man,” 1 said irritably. |of water refreshed me and I swung|ipey count but at fi s Deacon and I went outonto the Torridity trail. :rh")("u thas hiw r 1 felt that she wasn't sat- the car throbbed over the b isfied. ~ Henry > off. {dered trail that subterranean life| ~—— © T | “Uncle ohn!” Lucy had come|pgt on had sensed sesm: to running after me. | pulse beneath my hands. 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