The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1929, Page 6

POLLY AND I DELICIA'S DELIGHTED WITH THE LOVELY BRACELET You GAVE GiOLID e sy Ch SYNOPSI Furie traps Pee- bles in the Lundy aloon and prepares to kill him. Furie be- lieves Peebles intends to con- viet him of Ogden’s murder. Dillon follows Peebles and is waiting outside the room. Throwing Furie off guard by a ruse, Peebles lands a knockout blow on Furie's chin. Pretend- ing to plead for mercy, Peebles fires at the ceiling, groans and slumps to the floor. Dillon crashes into the room, wheels In surprise at Pecbles’ voice, tries to shoot him, but Peebles’ gun is the quicker. Dillon drops dead—Dillon, who is Luther MacNair. Chapter 47 “A SIMPLE ACT OF JUSTICE” Jerry gave me something to drink and I felt better. “Quite a family party,” I re- marked acidly. “Can’t a man keep an appointment without half a dogzen people chasing after him? “He might have killed you, Uncle John!” Lucy wailed, pressing me IBIUILIL arles G.Booth THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SA TURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929. 1IER PALS WAL, IT AINT NONE TOO GOOD FER | HER. SHE'S A SWELL p £ ok EME 5 >3 ( | telephoning me, then run for his life. But, while most people hold the receiver of a telephone to the left ear, Andrew was deaf in the left ear and he always held it to his right ear with his right hand. vet, I found him helding it in his left “I contend, therefore, that it was not Andrew who telephoned me, but the man who killed him; that | his murderer was not Jerry, because Jerry would have known which hand to place upon the receiver; and that the murderer telephoned me to come over so that I would | see him escaping in Jerry's clothes | and conclude that Jerry had Killed Andrew.” “Item two—after F left the Ogden houe and before he called Jerry into the library, Andrew wrote |a card to MacNair. MacNair re- turned to his house shortly after |the card was left there, and not everal hours later, as he pretend- ed; he left for the Ogden house at 8 ; saw a light in the Ogden li- !brary and a sense of danger sent him there instead of to the front Peebles' note-book held the amazing to her again. “Hmn,” T said grimly. “TI suppose it was you who got Deacon to come.” “How did you know it was Mac- Nair, John?” Henry asked humbly. “you'd have known it was Mac- Nair, too, if you hadn't had your eyes elsewhere.” Henry flushed. I felt s for him, and I turned my attention to Nathan Hyde, who had been eye- ing me with an ironic grin. “8till looking for that mine trans- fer, Hyde?” I demanded. That 1uffled his smoothness a bit, but he replied suavely enough “No, we were looking for you, Pee- bles,” and he chuckled. “See here, Uncle John!™ Jerry eyt in unceremoniously. “You were supposed to be Watson and you turn out to be Holmes. And the supposed Holmes is the villain.” “Thanks for the comparison, Jer- ry,” I said modestly. “Holmes took upon himself the role of Wat- fon as a matter of expediency.” “you knew all along that Mac- Nair killed Andrew!" Henry ex- claimed. “Well, since the day after it hap- pened,” I admitted. “But my evi- dence was incomplete. I didn't believe it would stand up under the attacks of the battery of crim inal lawyers MacNair—Dillon— would summon to his defense. I waited for him to force the issue And he did—tonight. Tl give yoti the evidence item for item.” I ruffled the pages of my little red notebook. “Item One,” I began. “Today is Tuesday. Jerry left his father at 15 minutes past nine Fri- day evening. At exactly half past pine I was called on the telephone, presumably by Andrew Ogden. The | solution of Andrew Ogden’s murder. | “(lnm-: he overheard Andrew telling | Jerry the story of his Torridity | days, without, however, disclosing to him Dillon’s present identity.| | MacNair realized if he would pre-| serve his own life and liberty he| must make away with Andrew as; | soon as Jerry had gone. There was! no moon and he easily stood on the | little railed-in balcony without be- ing seen. “My evidence of this is flimsy. MacNair was having a stucco sun- room built on his bungalow. I found traces of plasterer’'s cement lon his shoes and a deposit of it on 3 1:1\0 balcony. “Item three—my den was enter- lm! before dawn the next morning. I am not sure why MacNair wanted the pistol T had bought from Hyde and which he had overheard Jerry land Andrew talking about. Perhaps {the idea of a message suggested litself. As it happened, I went in and caught MacNair. We strug-| gled. Lucy and Mrs. Moffit came jas T was about done for. MacNair took himself off, pretending to col- lide with some one outside, fired 'a couple of shots through his hat, and returned. | made another mistake. He said he | was in the Ogden grounds and that |he heard me call out. ' | “I did not call out. MacNair and 'T fought in silence. tem four—Polyandria followed me into the den. Somehow, she |got tangled up between us. I heard | her yowl and I was sure she lash- ed out with a paw. After the | struggle I found a tiny drop of |blood congealing on one of her |claws. She hadn't scratched me, {so she must have drawn blood of |my opponent. ‘ “There was a scratch on Mac- Nair's right wrist. He at once/ led 6825 miles And then MacNair || Phone 478 speaker asked me to come over at pulled up his sleeve and showed it once. His voice was strained and |to me—obviously to disarm susplc-t unpatural, but I had no reason|ion. | then to believe that it wasn't An-| “Item five—MacNair examined @rew. On the way over I saw a the cartridges before I did. A few man in Jerry'’s white flannels fly- | minutes later, when I called his at- ing down the drive. T found An- tention to the nicks on the one hand closed around the tele- |tended he had not seen them. That BUT (T AINT, UNCLE SAML., ITS GREEN GOLD! “Item six—some of my conclus- ions are written here. 'When Mac- Nair and I were in my den Satur- day night, I put the notebook down on my desk and left the room for a minute or two. When I re- turned I found the book had been turbed—as I expected. I wanted MacNair to know I believed him guilty. “Item seven—Sunday morning MacNair stopped his car at my house and told me he was going to Los Angeles. I purposely glanc- ed at his spedometer. It register- Last night, after the car was supposed to have cov- ecred a distance of 250 m it registered 7,010 miles—an increase tof only 185 miles. MacNair went to Torridity to plant Jerry's flannels. “Items eight and nine—last night I telephoned an old colleague of mine in Los Angeles and asked him to get information I wanted. He called me back this morning. He told me, first: “That MacNair was involved in the Phalean oil swindle and that he had to return $100,000 before the end oi inis week or face a crim- inal court action. He demanded $100,000 of Andrew. “Second: That MacNair was dis- charged by the Flinkerton Detec- tive Agency 30 years ago for ac- cepting a bribe of $10,000.” (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) The story of Peebles clinched the case t Mac- Nair is in Monday’s chapter. - - Try a TOASTET: SANDWICH &t the Juneau Ice Cream Pariors. adv how aga SATISFIED CUSTOMERS We invite you to see letters we have received from ladies whom we have made fur garments for during the past few months. We can satisfy you, too. 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