The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929. For The Love Of A Lady By JEFFE ‘S¥NOPSIS: Sir Richard, ac- used: as murderer of his cou- at the inguest, and facing hopeless mass of evidence ven by perjuring enemies, de- to quit his hiding-place the inn. The next day Helen PAgcy sces a vaguely familiar 0 y youth working on the itwns about her home. In nswer to her surprised ques- n, the rustic youth says his e is Dick—Dick Fullalove, new “odd man.” Viscount klehurst comes to press his less suit. Walking across e lawns with Helen, they dis- tover a ragged slip of paper— -mote —which Brocklehurst asps eagerly and starts to ad its contents when Helen mands it. Chapter 25 A SINISTER CLUE Felucumtly. the Viscount passed the note to Helen's hand, and la- jously she deciphered the awk- ward scrawl: P «ar, . write this to inform you hat it is now certainly known zhlt upon the murderer's pis- fol-hand was a cat's eye ring. feh ring is yet in possession of murderer. Find this and the . . guilty man stands con- essed. Diligently search the uyftord ‘Arms . . . chambers 8nd effects of the divers gen- flemen . . . your labours will !ibt be . . . vain.” ‘Strange!” murmured Helen. ow ‘came this here, T wonder?” ,'. . . cat's-eye ring!” muttered Viscount. " “It was my ring!” she said very Pwughtlully, $'%But you gave it to Guyfford, eh, madam?” pNever!” . “Why, then . he found it!” ‘4 “Nay, ’twas the murderer found .« 'tis very evident » ?"‘And is he not the murderer pro- elaimed?” < “True” nodded my lady, “pro- elaimed but not. proved.” % Now at this moment was a tune- Jes whistling, and down one of the hs came a man trundling a pelbarrow, a tall, gypsy-seeming fellow, to whom my lady beekoned #nd, crumpling up the paper, tossed #t into the harrow. i s It was evening, as Master Tytus Olderaft clattered into the yard the Guyfford Arms and espying 4 tall, gypsy-seeming fellow, who ehanced to be gaping at all and supdry, Master Titus gruffly called to him to take his horse. When fhe country fellow moved not and only meore, Titus cursed him but at this moment Vis- pount Brocklehurst rode into the , and. Titus, having the very t respect for “the quality,” tly checked his furious M- and, taking off dusty hat, with utmost deference. ¢ Viscount nodded sulkily, and on across the wide yard, but 3 dismounted he stood a mo- t. eyeing the dusty Olderaft mwy- ‘furtive yet keen. ¥ *You're the constabule fellow, you?” inquired the Viscount. London—after Mr. Guyf{- pd's murderer, a'nt you?” "“4Ay, my lord, I am. All day and m, too, my lord, if necessary.” ' ell, well—how's your luck?” d, my lord; bad, I must con- ” sighed Oldcraft, shaking his ‘head. “I've no luck so far, I'm ‘on his track, my lord—" are aiding him, my lord.” , d'ye think so?” aiding and abetting him, g, F 3 Loy o | betook himself to the stables, from llwhence he issued presently on | horseback, and trotted away, while from the shadow of shapeless hat 'the countryman watched him out of sight with eyes remarkably keen and wideawake. (Copyright, 1928, Jeffery Farnol) rY FArRNOL sure the murderer is Sir Richard Guyfford?” “Who else, my lord?” “Ay, that’s the question—who?— the dead man had other enemies aplenty, 'tis said! And then, what's all this I'm hearing of a cat's-eye ring, eh?” | “My lord, I've heard no mention | o' such.” “Not . . . not heard on't? 'Tis said the murderer wore a ring set with a cat's-eye stone. 'Tis whls-_ pered everywhere—are y' deaf? Are y' blind?” Thrusting sudden hand into the pocket of his flower-embroidered | waistcoat, the Viscount fumbled there impatiently, and presently drew thence a crumpled paper, and thrust into Master Oldcraft's ready hand the note my lady Helen had tossed into the gardener's barrow. “Well?” demanded the Viscount, as ' Oldcraft stared at this tern paper. “Well?” “Very well, may lord, ay, unless it be a hum, my lord, a hoax!” “Tush!” exclaimed the Viscount. “My lord, whence had ye this?” “I picked it up in the garden at the Moat House.” “And how,” said Olderaft, frown- ing at the letter, “how should it come to be there, my lord?” “How should: T know? There 'twas found and there it is, hoax or no.” Who is this gaping country fel- low who se belies his sleepy mien? Continwe the story to- morrow? DOUGLAS NEWS LAST SESSION EQUALIZATION BOARD 'MEETS TONIGHT The Douglas City Council, sitting as a Board of Equalization, for the adjustment of city taxes, will hold its final meeting tonight from 7:30 to 9 o'clock to hear any com- plaints there may be regarding as- sessed valuations, ete. The Board has already been in session two evenings, with everyone apparently satisfied concerning taxation. ——————— LEAGUE GIVES FAREWELL TEA Mrs. Dave Legget and Mrs, Wil- liam Robertson, who will soon be leaving for their homes, and Mrs. Ada Hewitt, who is preparing to re- move to Seattle to make her future home there, will be the guests of honor at the silver tea to be given “Why, it may be no hoax, mylpriday afternoon by the Ladies lord. WV your lordship’s kind per- League. mission, I'll keep it—" “Why, then, keep it, man, Act on it or do what ye will.” “Act on it?" repeated Oldcraft. FROM SEATTLE Mrs. Herbert Snethen arrived nn{ “Doth your lordship mean search the apartments ¢’ you gentlemen?” “Do as y'will, fellow, all's one to the Alaska for a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed Martinson. She expects to remain a month or Q: ye so, are ye, now?"” i , my lord—though it is gy evident the country folk here- lord, I'm convinced of it. me."” “Pray my lord, how many gen- tlemen lodge here at present?” +“You should know this,” retorted the Viscount. “Why, my lord, so I do. There! was my lord Carberry, but he's gone back to London. There's Mr. Trumr back to London. And there's Mr. Trumpington, but he’s away—which leaves Captain Despard and—" “Myself!” nodded the Viscount. “Very true, my lord. As to this cat’s-eye ring now—hath your lord- Sh}% any :“;!X"CI‘,"“S- ANy able, so| . Miss Gladys Fleming, who taught 2 e ha 1m ":) con:: ] ht here year before last, is in a hos- =iy chabaing catch sightn,) 4y Missoula, Montana, where of the country fellow goggling at. she was to be operated upon for him over the half-door, Viscount appendicitis a week ago, rding :lr;cs:::'::‘ :',:‘ppp-!d to point. at to word received here. Miss Flem~ “Ha, will y' stare at your bet- :nyg ::::‘ the past Yesr fn' Ras- ters, rascal, will ye peep, will ye i) 4 more. - - REACHES DESTINATION Just one week after leaving Doug- las, Mrs. L. D. Hammock, who was called south by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Eliza Hall, reached Austin, Texas, yesterday, according to message received by Mr. Hammock. Mrs. Hall was re- ported a little better, but still in a serious condition. e IN HOSPITAL EEEE S pry?” : “Ar,” quoth the fellow and knuck- [Farm Relief Act ling an eyebrow, he chuckled. £ Boost Farmers’ “What . . . who—who is he?” “A half-wit, I judge, sir,” answer- ed Master Oldcraft, also scowling at the fellow in question. “Now my, lord, concerning this—cat’s-eye ring, — my lord” persisted: Master TItus,| shiigations at that figure and were “to search this inn I must have a obl:i:d to withdraw.. warrant.” | 'Now the cooperative can borrow Borrowing Power (Continued trom rage One) above, of Los Angeles, could not exp! in the cosy cottage of Mrs. Callie Gi Town Shocked When Councilman Makes Front Page in Scandal HE GOOD people of Los Angeles, Cal., were amazed one fine day while perusing their papers over their morning cups of coffee to read that Citizen Carl L Jacob- son, the dignified and encrgetic foe of immorality, had been hauled to book in the same vice net that he had spent so much of his time perfecting. He had been apprehended in the under circumstances that were, to say the least, compromising. Captain. Bert Wallis of the Los Angeles police department received in anonymous telephone call one -0t Summer night in 1927. The speaker at the other end of the wire asserted that a wild party was in The virtuous Councilman Carl I. Jacobson, eenter, .which he was unceremoniously yanked by raiding home of a comely young divorcee | Modern Circe Confesses She Framed Vice Crusader “Caught” in Her Home _ By CLIFF STERRETT s lain h rimi presence ft, from ) the matter would be placed directly before the chief. A rald was forthwith organized and it was no ordinary rald. ~Cap- tain Wallis, of course, led the party and he took with him another cap- tain, Frank “Rusty” Williams, to- gether with Detective Lieutenants Richard and Harry Raymond. In addition there was the star re- porter of a big Los Angeles daily, “who happened to drop in” just as the big expedition was getting un- der way., In police cars all of them rushed to 4372 Beagle Street, Mrs. Grimes’ modest bungalow. Wallis, Lucas and Raymond reconnoitered the premises, pecking in windows and ing the house the All they saw was a weman idly pedalling ano. No wild party was and no little girl about to fall into evil ways. The oflicers were about to leave, they rccount, when Councilman Jacobson's ancient automobfle came sporting up the hill and paused in front of the Grimes home. He got out, the ralders allege, and was ad- progress at'the home of Mrs. Callie Grimes; that a young girl was in the house and in danger of being made delinquent, and that if some- thine wara not done about it at onne mitted. What they saw there, they de- clare, convinced them that it was time for the law to step in. The tew etenved and Councilman Jacob- victed in & bribery pose that shows she can be charmina evan ‘then fo Right, Mrs. G son, courageous exponent of purity, was afded into such of his apparel as was discarded and then bundled into the police car, “It's a frame-up. It's a trap!” shouted the good councilman, to no avail. Tried in municipal court, the couneilman refused to testify and the jury disagreed seven to five for acquittal. The charge against him was dropped. Mrs. Grimes, who was also charged with an extra-le- gal Indiscretion, was not prosecuted either, The affair was about to sink into obscurity when Mrs, Grimes put her own version of what had happened that night in affidavit form and sold it to two morning newspapers. The grand jury be- came interested again. This time both Mrs. Grimes and Jacobsen spoke loud and long. Mrs. Grimes exonerated the councilman and declared that everything was a plot and a frame-up to destroy Ja- cobson. because of his campaign against vice. At the latest trial of the five po- licemen who helped arrest him, Crusader Jacobson broke down and wept while giving testimony about how he was “framed,” Tears coursed down his cheeks when he told how Mrs. Grimes “apologized” to his wife, o ol e als the Federal Farm Board, may draw from the revolving fund a sum equal to 80 per cent of the cost of construction of storage facilities. Heretofore a cooperative has been unable to borrow money on its physical property. Nor does the advantage stop “Well, Sir John Parret is a jus-|gs per cent - of. the odity’s tice—" value, 60 or r cent e “True, my lord, but Six John 15| uders b0 SEDREEE) OB e away at wes, and—" fro “Tush!" exclaimed the Viscount,|Goneron B i and strode away into the house,ipnoarq i 2 of 3 whither, after a momentary hesi- tation, Master Olderaft ventured to follow him. The next morning was hot, slum- berous and still; the country fellow sprawled upon one of the broad, hospitable settles before the Guyf- ford Arms; a stalwart, loose-limb- ed fellow in pateched and stained smock-frock, his gaitered legs and heavy boots dusty with travel. Mo- tionless he lay, long legs outspread, dozing. After some while, Tom Pitt ap- peared, soft treading despite heavy boots, but’ on ‘his way to the inn- yard paused a moment to stare with his narrow furtive eyes at the somnolent countryman asprawl on the weatherworn settle. “You're a stranger hereabouts, eh, friend?” he questioned. The coun- The farmer's borrowing power is further enhanced by the prevision that a cooperative, on authority of GET YOUF Fruit Jars and CANNING ACCESSORIES NOW ' Complete stock just arrived Sanitary Grocery PHONES B83—85 “The Store That Pleases” there. If the board recognizes a : cooperative’s need for' storige fa- cilities and finds the purchase price right on establishments already constructed the cooperative may | borrow 80 per cent of the purchase price in acquiting title. Furthermore, a stabilization cor- ponmqn set up to handle a com- modity for a group of cooperatives may convince the board that in sound economics the crop is worth more than it is selling for on the market. It may borrow 85 per cent of the jvalue of that portion of the com- modity it proposes to handle on the increased quotations and bid for it in the open market. The effect is expected to put confidence in the banker. — e MRBS. WARRACK HERE | Mrs. J. B. Warrack and two children, Jane and J. B. War- rack,” Jr., wife of J. B. Warrack, of the Warrack Construction Com- | pany, of Seattle, builders of the| Neélson Block, arrived in Juneay on the Alaska to join her husband at the Gastineau Hotel. Mrs. Warrack and children will leave here soon for Skagway and MISS ADSIT LEAVES B. Adsit, who has been visiting Mrs. L. B. Adsit and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne for the last week, left Juneau on the Dorethy Alexander for her home in Portland, Ore. Miss Adsit has not been back to Juneau since she left here many years ago and had such an enjoyable time Miss Eleanor Adsit, sister of L.| ( |on her short visit this summer that |she is planning to make a similar trip here next summer. — - TRINITY GUILD MEETING The ladies of Trinity Church Guild will meet tomorrow, Friday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Jarman on Sec- ond Street. WE CARRY A FREE TRIAL—All Sitka, on the Alameda, and, after spending & week at the Goddard Springs at Sitka, will return to Ju- neau where they will remain until m opening of school in the early Juneagu Phone 6 RADIO DYNAMIC and MAGNETIC LOUD ' SPEAKERS BOSCH — KOLSTER — RCA — PEERLESS and JENSEN Alaské Eleétfic Light & Power Co. 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