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{ | b ‘ morning to be 7 M‘fiwdm you g 8 : SYNOPSIS: The murderer of Dan Parades—who i¢ he? Every one in his houschold of hor- ror had a possible motive. Ana- tole Flique, shrewd French de- tective, searches the gquarters of Lum We, Parados’ Chinese cook. Tt is discovered that Lum We stole a jade phoenix, the lucky goddess of Parados, in revenge. Parados had forbid- den him to burn incense and had broken the cook’s prized ancestral tablet. Lum We, armed with a butcher knife, tries to attack Flique for in- vading his room, but a blow from Allan Hunt fells the cook in the nick of time. Lum We admits stealing the phoenix. Despite his denial of the mur- der, he is handcuffed by Sam- wels, deputy attorney. Chapter 21 CAROLINE'E LOGIC I doubted that Samuels Was 85| .. "o¢ that age being in the an- sure of himself as he pretended 0 be about Lum We's guilt. “Does mosieur forgét those oth-| ers?” Flique inquired. “The little| mademoiselle, M. Annersley and Mlle. Jahries, le Balafre and Cice- ron Bec, Grainger and M. le Pro- fessor? And has not Grainger to bej} considered before proving Lum | gh@-l:i de m | i ‘and I knew I had never seen any- manage to get away from that fun- ny Mr. Flique?” Caroline’s warm voice came from behind a thicket of buckthorn to my left. I found her sitting against a eucalyptus tree with a book on her lap and that bantering look I loved in her eyes. | “He told me to come and find you,” I laughed, dropping beside | her. “That was nice of him. Isn't it | gorgeous up here? I could almost | forget that horrible affair ever happened.” my thought when you d. “You feel as though | you had come up out of something | corrupt.” | Caroline’s eyes sparkled. |are a refreshing young man, Hunt.” “That's interesting. In what way, may I ask?” “How old are you?” “Thirty—almost.” “Heavens! Whoever heard of & “You Mr. tique business? I though they were all 60 at lea: and wore beards like " Victorian scientists and edi- torial writers.” “You think my profession has aged me, then?” 1 was sitting on the grass at her feet, my face on a level with hers, We's guilt?” “We've caught Grainger in two; lies already,” Samuels replied hot-! iy. “I've a notion Lum We and| he are in this business together.! “But consider, my friend,” Flique | are not, continued earnestly. “We are mnot sure this is the big mystery. You g a4enly she was laughing at me, will confine Lum We, that is prop-{ er. But do not officially charge him with the crime until we have _how you say?—investigated fur- ther.” “You're probably right,” Sam- uels grunted. “I guess we can lock him up in that gardge downstairs,” and he removed the handcuffs from Lum We's wrists. “I am honored that Mr. Samuels condescends to belleve me,” Lum ‘We purred, bowing. “I dom’t,” Samuels assured him| emphatically. “This house is crazy,| and I'm giving you your chance| with the rest of the crowd, that's all. Get along!” The north end of the building. walled off from the garage, served | as power house and workshop. Its three windows made it impossible for our purpose. Lum We himsel{ solved our problem. «1f Mr. Samuels will condescend to look at the southmost wall he will reveal a small door,” Lum We informed us with a benignant smile. The south wall was in shadow, and we had not noticed the door. Samuels approached it suspiciously, appreciating the novelty of a pris- oner discovering his own jail. “What's the idea?” Samuels asked. “«Mr. Samuels will consider it an ample security for my miserable carcass,” the Chinaman explained blandly. square room Wwith cement walls, The door opened into a small floor and ceiling. A single window, so small that even Lum We could not have crawled through it, shed dingy light upon- a cobwebby ac- cumulation of old trunks and fur- piture. The door was of two- inch pine. Samuels, still suspici- ous, thumped upon the walls and eyed the window. «A veritable dungeon!” Flique exclaimed. { We backed out, leaving Lum We behind, and Samuels slammed the door. He swung the hasp over and ran one of his handcuffs through the staple, securing the door. “That'll hold him,” Samuels said. “And now monsieur will resume his search for the shoe that trod that blackness into the corpet, eh?” Flique chuckled. “First the little mysteries, then the big mys- tery. That is the way of life, is it not?"” Samuels muttered one of his im- precations and took himself off. “What next?” I inquired of Flique. «To think and to act, mon ami, that is the sum of achievement, |formed me meditatively. “I thought | him alone?” Caroline cried passion- thing quite so satisfactory as the picture she made. “I'm not so sure, now,” she in-| you were old—inside, T mean—but 1 suppose it's that thin, dark, wiry look you have." little crinkles tugging at the cor- ners of her eyes and mouth. “M. I'Antiquarie,” she declared, “You are youriger than you were last night. I don't believe you are more than 16.” “Well,” I grinned. ‘“I've been through a good deal since last nlghL" Her eyes darkened and I regret- ted ‘the reference I had made. “So have 1, she replied soberly. “You must have a good deal to tell me." “I'd sooner tali anoui something else,” I said gently. “So would 1" and she smiled wistfully, “But you mustn't forget that Mr. Samuels still suspects me of killing Parados.” “Samuels,” T said stoutly, “is an ass. But I doubt very much if he does suspect you now.” No restriction had been placed upon me and I described my ven- ture during the night, recounted what Flique had told me, ‘and I} informed her of what had develop-( ed during the morning. “I can’t quite imagine Lum We killing his master,” she said. “He had plenty of motive. China lives for her dead, as Flique said.” “Why couldn't Parados have left ately. “He had everything any man could wish for and Lum We had| nothing ‘but his fathers spir.| What a beast he was! Do you think Lum We aid it?" 1 don’t know.” Her outburst had depressed mié. “Grainger gave him an alibl, ‘but Grainger has lied twice already. 1f Lum We's motive was ‘the’ only one ‘we'd ' turnéd up, T'd say' yes, but it fsn't, by a long shot. ‘There's Annersley’s, Johns’, the French' convicts', ‘Celia's, Mrs. Parados’, Grainger and Miss Jah- ries probably have one—-" “And Caroline Brent's.” “Don't say that,” I begged, for the hardness in her tone had distressed me. “Surely it isn’t necessary for me to tell you that I know you hadn't anything to do with it?” I had drawn nearer, and she dropped her hand onto my arm.’ “It's dear of you to say that—" her eyes were tragic, “—but really you: don't know anything of the sort.” “Nonsense!” I was beginning, when she stopped me. “It isn't nonsense. You are just being ‘emotional and detectives are not supposed to be emotional. HEH ¢+ COUSIN CARRIE INTO A “— HYPNOTIC SLEEP 506 WE KIN SEE HOW GERTRUDE ACTS _____ THEDAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1930. POLLY AND HER PALS e : A 15 Pufiwé] 17 (£ 4, Yp Ej»“.” 587 “TheMan With the Hoe”—at 74 Edwin Markham, one of the most celebrated of living Ameri- ean poets, quietly commemo- rates his 78th birthday with his wife at their Staten Island, N. Y., home. The couple are wn reading a telegram of Hollvw By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, May 21. — Thej screen’s “battle of tongues” chat- ters away with as many battle- fields as there are markets for talkies. And Hollywood continues Lobom-; bard the foreign market effectively | enough to keep for talking pictares the supremacy abroad which silents |§ held. Making of foreign versions either with the American cas ng {oreign lines ,or with foreign actors actually before the camera is ing conspicuously in favor over the carlier popular *dubbing in” foreign di that the words seem to the lips of the Hollywood stars. No Foolin’ ‘Where “dubbing in” is employed, less and less is there any attempt to deceive the foreign audience into believing the Hollywood players Can't we be logical about it?” “But when you try to throw sus- picion on yourself you are not being logical”I burst forth. “You yes? I shall think, and you, M. Y'Antiquarie, shall find the pretty mademoiselle. am not 20 years younger. along, my little one.” Run You soon lose touch with thejself, either. But hy e antique|net killed him if I had. Don't you ff feeling |see? T had motives, hadn't I?” ardencies of youth in th pusiness, and I hurried of ridiculously juvenile. Caroline had said she would be up on the slope and I followed the path that ran along the edge of The Gut. It was apparent at a glance that The Gut could not be crossed, except perhaps at very low tide, as Professor Johns and Hendricks had ‘said. Even now it was impassable. Tawny waters hissed violently into secret caverns No one crossed it during the hour in which Parados was killed. Of that I was certain. *7Phe Gut was curved like a scimi- point extending southward. of brisk walking hxc; prought me almost to the apex o The o\it Chaparral clad the trail of ‘eithier side of the slope, but as 1 drew near to the biuff it thinned ‘down to solitary clumps of lilac or .|are not going to tell me that you killed Dan Parados, much as he 1t is well that I deserved it, are you?” “Of coutse not. And I'm not trying to throw suspicion on' my- I would say T had “Two good ones,” I admitted re- luctantly. “And Parados deserved what he got?” - “This i8n't getting us anywhere.” “ft is1” she declared emphatical- ly. “It's bringing you to the point of admitting that Mr. Samuels has just as much reason to suspect mie as he has any of the others.” (Copyright, 1930, Willlam Morrow * and Company) Romance entwined with trag- edy! PBut tomorrow comes the police order: “You're all want- | oliRARS ! ————— have actually spoken their guage—perhaps because such ai- tempts in the past have been fu- tile. It is probable that the in- novation in “La Gran Parada” will Pa followed in other productions. ‘This, a Spanish version of ““The Grand Parade,” has two Spanish stage actors speaking the parts layed originally by Helen Twelve- s and Fred Scott. The voice doubles appear in a prologue and introduce the Am- erican stars who, in carefully mem- orized Spanish words, make brief speeches of appreciation. A somewhat similar appeasing of national pride is to be used In the German version of the revue, “Par- amount on Parade.” Linguistically it will be English as in the Am- erican version, except that Marlene Dietrich, newly arrived from Ber- lin, will replace Jack Oakie as mas- ter of ceremgnies, and tell the audience, in German, what it'’s all about. Speaks English, Too Miss Dietrich, tall, teutonic beauty, comes from the German TRINITY GUILD GOODIE SALE — A Goodle Bale will be held by the Ladies of the Trinity Church Guild on Saturday, May 24, in the corner room of Goldstein's Em- porium, —adv. stage, but she will soon be seen and heard on Broadway in an Eng- lish version of a German-made talkie, “The Blue Angel,” star- ring Emil Jannings. Josef von lan- Sternberg, when he went to Ber- lin to direct this picture for Ufa, l good wishes Hoover. The mous poem, “The Man: Wit the Hoe,” raised him from the ranks of a lowly newspaperman to the | first circles of contemporary American poets, - 4 Throu; 0il Company mer women’s national golf pion (above), has been enriched ! to the extent of $2,500,000. It is said that through the persevering efforts of Miss Hollins the erty developed enormous value, made her lea her back to Hollywood. 3 Her English, acquired enf she says, from school study in!Ger- many, is nearly perfect. i Each of the 3,000 Kansas service men confined in hospitals this month will receive a k‘i’?pcon- sors and buttons, the gift of the American taining needles, thread, sc Legion Auxiliary. ———aee The Texas State highwa, ighway depart- ment has started a campaign for the preservation of trees along the right-of-way of state roads, ' from President |caused Earl M. Catheart, superin- poet’s world-fa- |tendent of the Douglas schools, to|John Cromwell, another Broadway | {0il Enriches ‘ Ex-Golf Champion h the sale of the Kettleman for approximately $10,000,000, Marion Hollins,, for- into its present q “International Newsreel) lady and brought | terday, on the Alaska. 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