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urd SYNOPSIS: Dan Parados was killed a few hours after Allan Hant came to appraise his art collecticn. This the young an- tique dealer was thrown head- long into the grim hunt for murder clews. He prevents an- other tragedy by knocking down Lum We as the Chinese cook starts to attack the de- tective with a knife. Hunt has been smitten by Caroline Brent who among several others is suspected of some part of the murder. She and Hunt hie themselves to one corner of the island to be alone together. Hunt has been defending Caro- fine, but she teases him by con- tending they have reason to suspect her despite her inno- cence. Chapter 22 GRAINGER'S EYES SMOULDER I admired Caroline’s refusal to sentimentalize her connection with Parados’ death, and here eyes were unsmiling as she looked at me. It had won my respect, this oth- er side of her, but it was the Caroline of the teasing mouth and eyes that I wanted jnst then. “All right,” X ¢ ed, grinning. “¥You win on points. But can't we talk of something else?” | Caroline was instantly her ador- | able self again. “That was nice of you,” she said, | twinkling at me. “But—I'm afraid | we can't. You see, it's quite vital to me.” “Well, all right. Let's review the' affair. If you had done it, you wouldn't have used a gun equipped | with a silencer. you get a silencer, know?” “That’s true,” Caroline admitted, “but it hasn't been proved that a silencer was used.” “A silencer must have been used,” I said. “If Celia heard that tele- phone ring some of us would have heard the shot, if it had not been| silenced. That's settled. But there| s so much else that does not touch | you at all to be considered. That, advertisement in the Marseilles newspapers, for instance. We, know that Lum We stole and broke and returned the phoenix, but we don't know who advertised to the, world in general, and to le Balafre and Ciceron Bec in particular, that} the phoenix was on San Lucen, un- less it was you,” I added gravely. ' Caroline assured me Where would! I'd like to “The assumption is,” I continued, { «fhat Parados. was. Jules Lacote, who sent his accomplices to Devil's Island for a million francs.” “Of course!” and Caroline gave me one of those teasing smiles. “But Parados may have been La- cote and he may not. If he wasn't, your lovely theory goes bang.” “I admit that too. A belief that Parados was Lacote is as far as I am prepared to go. Lum We stole the phoenix. Mrs. Parados hated her husband, Annersley must have dropped the yellow petal inside the safe and smashed open the drawer to get those Fleetwood documents, Grainger was slashed across the cheek by Parados, Johns hated Parados because he threatened to destroy the fort, Celia detested him because of his treatment of An- nersley—but none of these motives proves that any one of these per- sons killed Parados. I haven't said anything about the alibis.” “Don’t forget to include my name,” Caroline reminded me, “Qelia and I are the only two who haven't an alibl.” “It's a gorgeous paradox from be- ginning to end,” I continued. “And then there's the biggest paradox of them all.” Caroline nodded slowly. “Yes, that price ticket in his hand. Do you suppose a woman—-?" She stopped, shivering. 1 had thought of that, too. “It does look more like a woman's touch than a man's. But 35 cents! It doesn't make sense.” “Sense!” Caroline echoed. “None of it makes sense.” She put her hands to her head. “It's pretty awful,” I said gently, “but wont’ you try to forget it for a little while?” “1 can't!” Her vbice throbbed with horror. ‘The look in her eyes fouched me. “You mustn't let it get hold cf you that way,” I begged. “I'm afraid!” she whispered. “There's more coming. I can feel it hanging. You—you dont think 1 killed him, do you?” “Great guns, no!” I exploded, pizing both of her hands. “Caro- ne, you mustn't talk like that! You've nothing to be afraid of. You hear me?” e began to weep then, and I fiew her against my shoulder and held her hard. Something inside of : was going around at a terrific %flmflm drew away from me, and shook the tears out of her eyes. “Forgive me for making such an of myself,” she begged. “I'm a figmnow.wma:emmose &m do you suppose?” She pouce and the reporters, two boats rounding the “The robably,” 1 sald. “Samuels 1§ ex- them. There’ll be more mwestioning. Do you feel you can others were examined. was required to give an impression of fingerprints. until Grainger, who had been lef until last, was brought in. made no impression on the man's austere gravity until' he suddenly sald: the wastepaper basket?” ly as he stubbornly repeated his denial. x your master slash you across the cheek?” murderer on this island,” he cried er st gh:Tide stand it?” I asked anxiously. “Of course I can.” She looked at me steadily and earnestly. “Let's drop in and see Professor Johns,” I suggested suddenly. “That old fort should be full of interest.’ “Professor Johns—" She stopped and frowned. “Don’t you think he’s eccentric?” “Well, he ought to be,” I laughed. “He's lived alone long enough.” “Yes, that must be it. I am not sure I like queer people.” “What about antique dealers?” I inquired in an injured tone. That tender derisiveness was in her eyes as she looked up. heart jumped. “They can't help, themselves, 1 suppose, and—they can be im- proved. Oh, come on!” Professor Johns hailed up from the tower of the fort. To our sur- prise he came out with a seagull in his arms and blood on his lean ‘white hands. “Good morning, my friends,” he greeted us. “This is another of my friends. He hurt one of his wings and I have been doctoring him.” “Is his wing broken?” I infuired. “No. The bruise is rather deep, though. But I washed it and he'll be all right in a day or two.” “The poor thing!” Caroline ex- claimed. “You have an interesting place here, professor,” I said. His response was Instantaneous. “And I love every crumbling brick of it,” he declared with his illuminating smile. “caxga, you | must see it.” “The tower has been restored,” { Caroline exclaimed animatedly. “It is a dream of a place. Isn't that ivy beautiful?” “Mr. Parados had to make the place habitable for me,” Professor Johns explained. “But he wouldn't touch the walls. Every year the warm rains crumble away a little more of the original adobe.” ; He led us into the compound of the fort, which was about 150 feet square. The walls, some two feet thick, had been ten feet high at one time. Great gaps were*broken in them. In the center of the POLLY AND HER PALS = /I smMPLY HAD T0 GIT = GERTRUDE OUT ) OF THE HOUSE 50 ASHUR CouLD HYPNOTIZE DO TYou THAT W you sHouLD WISH A JOB Union one hundred pairs of musi-| cal clowns, 150 solo- trick clowns| and fifty “rug” tumbling clowns,| many of them having been trained | by the Moscow school. | Before their acceptance as stu- | dents, applicants must pass a rigid | medical and psychical examination. | Then they are given a two months’ trial before final enrollment as reg- ular students. During these two The regular meeting of the Doug- [ months the student. must prove| las Fire Department, postponed |aptitude to “play the fool” so that | from last Thursday, will be held!the government can determine 'xr' tonight. A good turnout of mem- |it is worth while to spend the $5,000 bers is requested. necessary to make him a first-elass - e clown. ? | DOUGLAS HAS PET BEAR After a three-year course of. in- | struction in acrobatics, music, danc- ing, singing, juggling, mimicry, week, resulted in a fine black hide pantomime and the art of facial being brought in on Monday, by makeup and bizarre dress, students Jake Manning and a live cub wnslarc awarded diplomas as ‘“certified caught yesterday by Francis Sny-|clowns.” Students are also giv- der who will raise it for a pet. en instruction in pelitical economy, - e — social and labor movements, revo- DOUGLAS CANS WILL lutionary subjects and the history FINISH IVORY DISPLAY |of the Communist Party. | The director of this unique school Another display of ivory carving|is Oskar Gustav Lindner, a thick, work of the Douglas Cans is now -set athletic man of German DOUGLAS NEWS FIRE DEPARTMENT MEETING 1 Local hunters, out for bear this| on view in Guy's Drug Store win-|origin, who was formerly a circus dow. Quite a varied assortment|acrobat and clown himself. of articles make up the display. | “The aim of our school,” sald ————————— : Lindner, “is to turn out clowns who L e will not only convulse people with Fr an('(" I)rm"f | laughter, but who, by subtle joke Farm W orkers |and appropriate mimicry, will con- 'vey to the public some of the soeial From P"”uflnl‘und political aspects of proletarian life and the revolutionary reforms compound was a goldfish pond, around it & vegetable garden still occupied by odds and ends of the fall planting. “Lettuce for the rabbits,” Profes- sor Johns chuckled. As we poked around the com- poundyturning up an old mill-stone, a primitive wagon wheel, a broken olla, Johns dwelt on the history of the fort. & “Think of it my friends! A man building himself a fort against the coming of a nation! Shall we have a look at the tower?” As we came dround to the front of the fort a stentorian hail from|the home farms. the other side of the cove attracted our attention. Kirk was waving to us. “You are wanted over here” he roared. “All of you. Get a move on!” “Mare questions,” I said, looking anxiously at Caroline. “I suppose we'd better go.” q “Dear me,” Professor Johns, pro- tested. “I thought I had told them everything: I know. s0 much wanted tg get. back ta .my book. Have the, police 'any idea yet who shot Mr. xm?" “Their ideas embrace about every body on the island,” I said. “Lum ‘We @ Samuels’ latest suspect.” The ordeal turned out to be not | nearly so unpleasant as we had ex- (Continued from Page One) | introduced by the Comnlunist re- | gime.” Despite all these facilitles, the —,———— present price of home-grown grain) A does not pay a penny of profit to‘C")" d C(llhc’rs to the producers. An official of the See Former Hobo, board of agriculture said it w: R cheaper to buy foreign wheat th ‘7\ ow 1005 ,’“""’"tc to grow the grain at home. f G i The bait held out by French em-! LONDCN, May 22.—The King re- ployers consists of high wages, gmd;ccivnd John Masefield, new Poet working conditions, and free tickets| Laureate at Buckingham, Palace home when the engagement ex-|Yesterday afternoon. A crowd gath- pires. 'These form an attraction| the man who far greater than the months of un-|Was once a remunerative toil required to work 13 ered outside to see “hobo.” Georgia exported 656,537 barrels Olga Eide Edwards, from prison, where she was tained on a charge against her by Nathan ter, now sits at the bedside of : mr six-year-old son, Lee, who is beautiful ex-show girl, convicted , of attempted extortion and set By CLIFF S/'l:I\ZRRE’i'T Sunshine Enters Dreary 55 l'lif.e of Olga Edwards Free with Her Child and Cheered by Fund Raise by Sympathizers, Olga Faces a New World. JUDGE 1EE Rosarsky EDUARDS, at liberty on a suspended sen- tence by Judge Otto Rosalskfl. | e NATHAN U AMSTER liberated de- referred ee Ams- aroused keen interest throug] out the country. On the wit- ness stand she stated that Nathan Lee Amster, famous railway financier, was the father of young Lee. She is on probation for a period of five years. (1nternational Newsreel) The sensational ease of the lof resin and 8982926 gallons of !Lurpentme last year. (RELIEF FROM CURSE OF CONSTIPATION A Battle Creck physician says, “Constipation 1s responsible for more misery than any other cause.” But immediately relief has been found. A tablet called Rexall Order- lies has been discovered. This tab- let attracts water from the system into the lazy, dry, evaculating bow- el called the colon. The water loosens the dry food waste and causes a gentle, thorough, natural movement without forming a habit or ever increasing the dose. The authorities have tried to put all sorts of obstacles in the way of the emigration tide, but have been unable to arrest the ebb. Thousands of peasants continue to cross the border into Spain, where no passport formalities are required. Ostensibly they are bound for seasonal work at Huelva, but in reality they are heading for labor boats, bound for French ports. —.———— Russian Clown School Is Unit ; Of Propaganda br (Continuea 1rom Page One) P O IR AhRA pected. Douglas Ross, the district attorney, and Dr. Steen, the cqro- ner, were the principal officers of the new arrivals. Dr. Steen was.a negative sort of person, but Ross was incisive. He did most of the questioning. Johns and I were disposed of first and we managed to remain in the room while the Each of us Nothing of momeht turned up Ross “Why, did you drop that rose into “I didn't.” Grainger’s lips. were tightened. “Don't He. Why did you do 1t?” “I didn't!” Grainger’s eyes smoldered angri- “No?” Ross inquired. “Why did Grainger's hands knotted con- vulsively. “There’s a red-handed harshly, ignoring the question. “I'll say that much. If you don't find out who did it, I'll be doing it for you. And that’s all I'm telling you!” (Copyright, 1930, William Morrow and Company) Does the tight-lipped Grain- ger hold the key fo this puzzle? See tomorrow’s chapter. el TRINITY GUILD GOODIE SALE A Goodie Sale 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. sidering that clowns are good not ll anly for spreading merriment, but = in disseminating through their “white-face art” communist doc- trines and proletarian ideology. There are "mow in the Soviet Stop suffering from constipation. Chew a Rexall Orderlie at night. Next day -bright. Get 24 ror 25¢ today at the nearest Rexall Drug Store. 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