The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1930, Page 6

POLLY AND HER PALS o ACh CCCEEDED o 50 ASH SUCCEEDED Ly 2 TPNOTIZING =X YES SIR! SHE COUSIN CARRIE WONT WAKE UP 0 SLEEP EH? 3—( FER A WEEK! i | CHARIES G.) | gh. Tides™% SYNOPSIS: Just a day after “Is there anything else, Mr. Sam- Dan Parados is murdered an- uels?” “You remained in Mr. P.lrad:)f'i other chot rings out in the Par- ados home on San Lucas Island. |employ because he threatened to break Mr. Annersley if you left—; was that it?” Samuels asked. | “Yes,” said Annersley, quick-| Grainger, the odd job man, drops dead, ostensibly because knows too much. His death he reveals that Celia Ferris, Para- ly. “He didn't actually threaten to dos Secretary, was Grainger's |break me until a month ago. doughter. Her fiance, Claude |[should have taken Celia away and | Anner: whom Parados has |started over again. This wouldn't have happened, then.” “Did Grainger know of this situ- ation?” “Not until a week ago,” Anners- 1. “We had to tell him then terday afternoon his feelings got | the better of him and he followed Parados into this room-—just be- fore Hunt arrived. There was a pretty violent scene, I imagine. I, think he struck Parados. Parados then lashed him across the cheek cwindled, is suspected of the irst murder, but police can’t ¢ him talk. Anatole Flique, the suave French detective, hints that he has important clues. His theories conflict with these of Samuels, deputy attor- Chapter 25 V¥ OF GRAINGER i 1 have to k you and # 5 o Mi some .quiestions, Mr.[With his quirt.” S Anner muels’ tone was con Grainger told you this?” iderate but firm “He told Celia this morning. “Miss Ferris isn't fit to be ques- M. Flique and I are of the l‘vl;r Anner sley flung angrily opinion that Grainger was shot (‘( r hi i\’\.nl(k'r down because he knew too much,”} “iet me tell im, Gisude,” Celtn {Bamuels said. | E in a numbed voice. “I can’t He was!” Celia declared pas- ) T . . | sionately. “He told me this eve- B y heart any longer ona i-‘{“ ey iy 4 ning that he had found something 1,‘[ J’.(y‘“ ;,;(,,\‘ Grainger was | L had gone to his room over the your father?” Samuels asked quiet- garage. I was there while he was‘ murdered—here.” ) “Was this what he had found?” ind Samuels held up the scrap of steel chaving ; other member of the household?” Samuels looked at : { [‘\ ‘1 dos. “Did you?” “He didnt say 1t was,” Celia con-| The womsn lughed inued, “but T saw him looking at| 1 wae only Dan's wite she| bit of twisted steel like that oy o Where did you fin «All right, Miss Ferris.” In one of his pock b:)m\xel.sl answered, and he turned to An- nersley. “You may take Miss Fer- ris up to her room, but come back here.” Samuels dismissed Caroline, Miss Jahries, Mrs. Parados, Professor Johns and Manning, -cautioning them to remain in the house; he “To see him like that—after all he's done for me!” Celia exclaimed t's my fault. I shouldn’t have let him go on with it. Who could have done it? Claude, why did we stay in this wicked house?” . it seemed, had lost his mother, shortly after rw was born. Deeply emotion- then instructed Kirk to tell Grm-l al, he had faced the emptiness ley to report to headqua ahead with bitterness of spirit Samuels moodily considered the steel shaving. “This must have come from some object Grainger machined on his lathe,” he muttered. Flique shrugged. ‘“We shall see. Here is M. Annersley.” { Annersley’'s eyes were defiant. “Well?” he said tersely. Samuels lighted a cigar with de- liberation. “Did Grainger say anything about that yellow rose he dropped into the waste paper basket?” “Yes,” he admitted, after a pause. “What did he say?” “That he dropped it in the bas- ket because he knew one of you would find it.” “Because he knew it would off- t the significance of the petal we d found in the safe?” “Yes.” Annersley dragged the ‘Ceiia pulled him through. He had ‘avished the fullness of his nature upon her. “Nothing was too good for me/’ Cclia said tensely, “and of course 1 didn't appreciate him. And now it's too late!” A pretty old story, 1 suppose, but Celia managed to give it a sort of dignity. “I don't know how he did it. I just took everything. He sent me o a good school in the east. I had plenty of clothes and a wonderful time, although he had to sell his business to put me through. That made it necessary for him to take You see, it was my a position. fau Grainger entered Parados’ employ about the time Celia was graduated He sent for her. They were to talk over the future. The house | word out. was shut up the week Celia came— “In fact,” Samuels continued om- and Grainger was alone on the is- | inously, “yo uare aboue ready to Parados turned up by him- admit that Grainger thought you fishing. | killed Parados?” “All right,” he shouted violently. ‘But Grainger was wrong. Para- dos was murdered by the man or woman who shot Grainger. I have told you everything I know.” “You haven't told us what you Parados had seen her, and Para-ihad under that newspaper when dos had fallen for her father's love- |you interrupted Hunt and Parados }y Celia, as Grainger had known ' last night,” Samuels drawled. };u would. He wanted a confidential | “Hunt must be given to visions,” secretary. Miss Celia looked as if | Annersley said cuttingly. “There she might do, but Parados wouldn't | was nothing under the paper.” want it known that he'd picked the| “There were oil stains on it.” daughter of his gardener for a po-| “Possibly.” Annersley’s tone was gition of trust. a trifle careless. “I had been in the What were they willing to do|gun room looking at Parados’ fire- about it? Parados, it seemed, had a|arms. ‘The newspaper was in my plan. If Miss Celia cared to adopt,(hand and I put it down on the say, her mother’s name, and comr‘tmbls. Some oil had been spilled.” o him recommended by one of his | Annersley must have known we did associates, and hold no communica- inot believe him. “I had motive tion with her father—well, the hu'.-lmuugh, but I did not kill Para- ary and the prestige of being Dan|dos. It is obvious he was killed by Parados’ secretary wasn't 10 be the person who got Grainger. You sneezed at. But not a word to any- don't believe I killed the father of one. the girl I am going to marry, do parados was fairly decent, ) you?” first. Mrs. Parados hated her, but| “If you killed Parados and Grain- Celia returned the feeling. There ger had a case against you—yes,” was a zest t0 working for a man \Samuels replied. with a reputation. Annersley shrugged. “All right.] «And then Claude came.” You have Miss Jahries' statement. As Celia said this she made US That is my alibl.” feel that the advent of Annersley| “A guestion, M. Annersley,” was both a beginning and an end- Fligue murmured blandly. “You «Mrs, Parados thought I wanted ' were familiar with the comings and her husband as well as Claude” goings of poor Grainger?” land self for a couple of days’ Grainger was ignorant of his em- ployer's ugly reputation and he had been hoping Parados would see her and perhaps suggest @ semi- professional opening that Celia might fill. at SUCCESS ASHUR‘ OLE BoY! jecomment from the press. when there was nobody here.” ] “That is all.” | Toward midnight the district at- torney, the coroner and a small army of minor officers and news- papermen arrived. It was decided to hold a double inquest Monday. Samuels was worried. He had been criticised by Douglas Ross, the Di Attorne | Parados was prominent, hated, and Grainger's murder, to- gether with his daughter’s story, had injected that human element | to which public sympathy nlwaysi responds. Ross knew this, and he| wanted an to offset sharp hough arrest The s surronding Grainger's! death, pointed out, tended to| exclude the theory that he and, Parados had been killed by somc‘; outside person or persons. It was| high time Samuels was getting ro-| sults. | “Ros$ 1s about right,” Samuels| said when the district attorney and his retinue had gone. “Grainger| must have been shot by some one: who knew his habits and the plan of the house. That lets Bec and| le Balafre out. The bird we want| is right here in the house!" (Copyright, 1930, William Morrow and Company) Samuels bent on action now! Strong alibis are smashed in tomorrow’s chapter. A SRR s SRR DOUGLAS NEWS BRIDGE PARTY Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cahill enter- tained with an enjoyable bridge party Saturday evening at their home in Treadwell. Four tables were engaged in play. Winners of the high score prizes were Mrs. Charles Sey and Guy Smith, and the con- J. R. Guerin solations, Mrs. and Robert Fraser. The Douglas Camp Fire girls, ac- companied by Mrs. Charles Fox, took a hike to Nevada Creck yes- terday for their first outing of the summer. The, girls reported having a good time in spite of the occasional rains. —— . RETURNS HOME Miss Vivian Lindstrom arrived home on the Admiral Watson from Kodiak, where she taught school during the past winter. ————————— GRADUATE FROM HIGHS Announcements received here tell of the approaching graduation from high schools of two former Doug- Jas children, Georgina Spence, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Spence, from the Miami, Arizona, high school on June 4, and Jack Gurr, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Gurr, now of Wrangell, from Gon- zaga high school in Spokane. ——llpl CARD OF THANKS ‘We so graciously wish to thank all the good kind friends who min- istered to us in our sorrow and death of r infant son and for Respectfully, adv. MR. and MRS. A. ULRICH. 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