The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 6

EITHER OF You GALS § SEEN NEEWAH, LATELY? THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1929. WHEN JA SEE HM LAST WE THOUGHT HE WAS 2 WITH YOU! ax 2 NOT Two SECCUNTS AGO, UNK TAPPIN' WA[B IN THE LIBRARY! T [THEYS IT! @Ff\fi'ererzfifi 8 AFOOT, DAWGONE 1 BEGIN Y Bv CLIFF STERRETT DIRTY WORK pomiedutuily 738 -1 A wu_mc__..—- SYNOPSIS: A dangerous sit- uation faced Tom Grenofen— Professor Laxton was talking terminably inside the Greno- fen home as Veronica's mysteri ous fugitive drove up in a taxi. Pom meets the man who is to pe known as Cousin John Merriweather during his visit, a strange figure in disheveled clothes, hair clipped close to his head, many days' growth of beard on his face. Cousin John is alarmed at sight of Laxton through the uncurtained win- dow and hides in the shubbery until the professor leaves. Only then does he enter the house and almost immediately asks Tom to place a dilapidated bag, which he is carrying, into a safe, explaining to his astound- ed host that its contents are tre-mendously valuable. THE BLAUK BAG After his first hesitation, Cousin John made the startling request mj a matter-of-fact style, as if he| were asking us to take care of m\‘ umbrella It is not casy to describe the ef- fect of the announcement, by af man with a head cropped was, that he had a sccret of parently momentous value in old black bag. Even my mother was taken back for a moment. But she recovered her aplomb. “Oh?" said she “Tom will see! to that, and he'll look you out some things, Cousin John.” “Thank you, Mr. Grenofen. ask no questions. trust. You are splendid tude—" an You If grati- Cousin John pointed at his black b: as his| ap-| You take me on| (cropped head. Even the hunted ju\'pxcn.\\(m of his eyes had declined a little He apologized for his ap- At the end of his meal, caten a platefull of rasp- es, he said I wonder if I might? It's so long since I tasted—" | He broke off short as my mother !refilled his plate. He treated her |with a kind of queer, grave cour- tesy, half humble, half equal. As | for me, he me up, speculating whether I could be trusted, whereas he had im- | plicit faitn in my mother from the | first moment. A settled conver- sation was difficult. He was clear- ly afraid of it He would begin a \I aling sentence and drop it un- cowpleted. The one thing he talked out was | Laxton. He had an overpowering Hllwu!‘ to know about the professor. |When he learned that I made the channel through which Laxton had |come, he gnawed on the fact as a terrier does a bone, and licked it, {and pawed it about I said nothing of my visit with |Laxton to the Newplace cloisters. But he returned again and again to Laxton's val at Woodcot, the time, the circumstances. The last episode of that agitated day was almost as bizarre as any. Cousin John had He turned to look round the dining room, and I saw him stiffen as his glance fell on the he had sat at table with the table. | window: |his back to it. The summer eve- Ining was warm; we always kept our windows wide open. Cousin John's fingers were clenched he frowned heavily and ag—packed with its ominous secrets. “Oh, don't!” cried my mother. “Go along with Tom.” “Bring the bag this way,” said 1, and he followed me into the studio. 1 do not know what use the pre- vious owner had made of this room, but he had built a steel safe into the wall. My guest watched the black bag deposited and locked up, and uttered a little sobbing noise. “At last,” he said. But the words were addressed to himself. I took him to the bathroom. There he caught sight of himself in the big glass. I thought he would gall as he staggered back against me. Then he burst into uncon- trollable oaths. 1 stole away, saying: “You'll find some razors on the shelf if you want them. Come down to the dining room when you are ready.” " “Mother!” I exclaimed when I found her. “What have we taken [ “Job of good Samaritan, I sup- “/egut think! . . . Look at him! Yol can easily guess where he's been lately. And a bag of sec- “Well? Did Veronica ask you to be good to him?” . “She did, and I would, of course.’ Aud then our common aversion from loquacity came into play. “Qousin John came down in 2 of an hour, with his beard shaved and th¢ refreshment of hot upon him. It had made & difference in spite of the at me “Have we been sitting with the window like that all the time?” he asked. T nodded. “What madn he muttered, and drew the curtains across. “No harm done,” I said. “That’s the kitchen garden side. And no- body ever comes to Woodcot at night.” He relaxed and said a word of apology to my mother. He slept in the room Laxton had occupied the night before. When [ went to see him in the morning he said he thought the best thing he could do was to report sick and stay in his room till he had news. Then nobody who might hear of Cousin John would be surprised if he was never visible. Not a word passed between us about Veronica or Mrs. Seabroke, nor did I say anything of the events at New- place of the previous day. I did mention in the course of the talk the name of Pell. His face darkened. “I should prefer,” said he, to discuss Pell” Veronica’s blue eyes had put me into a very curious position. That fact had been evident the night be- fore. It simply shrieked at me at breakfast time. My mother was down first. When I entered the room she poured my coffee, then handed me the news- paper and said: “I'll leave you now. I shall be in the garden.” This was unusual “not seemed to be weighing | accepted a| cigarette from me and risen from | I divined some intention. As soon as I open- ed the paper 1 saw it She wanted me to reflect before exclaiming. | The paper contained a short and extremely sketchy account of the affair at Newplace Abbey—the| shooting of Pell through the key- hole by some unknown marauder who had half murdered Professor | Laxton before wholly murdering| Pell 1 gathered that this would be the trend of the evidence at the in- quest, that the assistance of Scot- land Yard had been called in, and the most efficient “sleuths” who| inhabited the Yard would devote themselves to the chase of the mys- terious murderer. All of which seemed pretty tame {beside the actuality. And it was not the report of the Newplace affair that had startled my mother and now made me sweat until I went cold. The place of honor among the | sensational news that morning be- longed to a long message “From Our Special Correspondent” des- patched from Tavistock in Devon and printed under the heading: “Daring Escape of a Convict.” (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Does this explain the enig- ma of Cousin John? Continue the story tomorrow. DOUGLAS | ' NEWS GRAY SUCCEEDS TO CITY CLERKSHIP; BLISS IS NEW MARSHAL, DOUGLAS | Following the resignation of L.} D. Hammock as city clerk of Doug- |las, Felix Gray was chosen to fill out the unexpired term at the regular meeting of the council Jast | night. Interference of the clerk- ship duties with his other work and | plans, caused Mr. Hammock to re- sign and the seclection of Mr. Gray, who has served six previous succes- sive councils in the position, was| unanimous with the present coun- | cil, and is a tribute to his faithful and liberal service. Arne Shudshift was elected a| member of the aldermanic board upen the resignation of Harold Mc- Connell, who expects to be absent | from town most of the winter. Another change in the person- nel of city employees was effected in the election of O. H. Bliss, suc- ceeding W. J. Grant as city mar- shal. The latter has served in the office for a number of years and has other plans. The new marshal, who has resided in the community for a little over a year, has good qualifications for the po- sition. Some property transfers were or- dered at the meeting, in the sale to |E. B. Dudden of Lot 25 in Block |23, on Front street, and to Mrs. Rose Davis Lots 3 and 4 in Block 43, on St. Ann’s Avenue, where she intends to build a home next year. Property repairs to be undertaken lat once are the tearing down of the Lockhart house and improving the sidewalk there, and repair of the Liberty theatre. Road work to the extent of 350 feet filled on Front street was reported by Mayor Kil- burn. 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