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; —— POLLY AND HER l"_AA;LS T GOTTA HAND IT TO ASHUR 1 FER HAVING HYPNOTIZED COUSIN CARRIE TO SLEEP! SHE SHORE wWAS A TOUGH SUBJECT! A G SHigh. Tide ™% SYNOPSIS: Police reach a “No,” Miss Jahnies answcrcd,l crisis in their search for the |“but I found him in this room go- murderer of Dan Parados. A [ing through the safe. He had 2 |come day after Parados' death the istol.” | odd job man, Grainger, is killed. Police (hink the same person was responsible for both deaths. “Yes. It was about a quarter o Both men were shot in the li- [seven when I found him. I had | patio window, Kirk behind him. He brary of Parados island home. |come through the patio window." came slowly into the room, his All circumstances point to a “Your alibis are entirely false,| o on the antomaiie on the | murderer who had intimate |then?” A8 knowledge of the house. Claude v, whom s had indled, is considered the cliest suspect, but he stead- until half-past.” ily his guilt. Samuels, “Instead of from half-past six|anq st eyt 9 v Si%1and she met his eyes wi T d| depu charge of the case, |until seven?” ’”p e R ler hea o il Bt o L L “That gun is mine” Annersley torney for failing to get re- “Wait a minute,” Samuels dashed said quietly, “and I suppose that sults. The attorney calls it an to the patio window. “Kirk!" he | petal - dropped off the rose I was | b.” Thereupon Sam- |shouted. “Find Anner: alwearing, but I didn't k‘i]} Para- c the murderer must (move on! All right, Mi Jahries, | gos- Grainger duhl & be a member of the houschold. |let's have the rest of it.” Gamusls shrugged “Nons of <A “T was going to my room about lies has done you ahy ;wui (half-past six,” Miss Jahries began. |, ‘ |“I went by way of the sun room MISS JAHRIE |door. T happened to glance at that S’ SECRET When M, Ann has x| window.” Miss Jahries nodded ‘to- 1 bis lltile mypstery,” PUANE|wu0g the sust window! S sk Wik said, “we APPIOACH| one 1ying on the floor in front of the end. v s 50 T shalllyne patio window. It looked like ask him a question. It will be of Parados. I went around to the great nificance. I implor; tio window. It was shut but the ch hadn't caught and I pushed he window open. Mr. Parados wa ence.” 1e Samucls said I 1k | t 1 . i v opinhion.” ying just as M. Flique found him, person, in my opi a7 Fliquo| 204 Mr. Annersley was knceling in 4 ol e ¢ tront of the sufe. He jumped to I s feet, a pistol in one hand and . Oy 'oph e on i{a bundle of papers in the other.| I Jeen -y ‘ ‘Don’t move or scream!’ he said. both 1 g e |'Then he sed the window, keep- My heart stood still as Samuels 4 : : |ing me covered wi " put the question. : o b “Wait a minute!” Samu nter- | “Ah, the little mademoiselle, But? "% @ = rupted. “Would you know that pis what are you going to do to the|, N 5 o Hriene of B DRl tol if you saw it again? PRSI - GBI OPT I T “I think so. It was a auto- quaire? . matic and it had a pipe- con- B fake amother mhatk &t AN-bo oo oo o of the muz nersley and Jahries,” Samuels rc-(, vV} L e d heir alibis hold T'll take|®®: , plied e : Samuels opened a drawer of the Caroline Brent to headquar writing talls With & ostitant gleas “You mean you'll arrest her?” I A ‘ Lslp B ted in his eyes. . & ! “Was this it?” he demanded “Somet. g of the sort,” Samuels ¢ 3 Something To my astonishmeht he held up| grunted. “Sorry. Fortunately Flique shoved him- self between us, Slipped over the muzzle was the thNG)'\ non! This will not do. Let| PiPe-like contrivance” of which | g e Miss Jahries had spoken. Evident- us retire. Dawn will bring a cool- ly it was a recent discovery and certainly it must be the final fact e i against Annersley. ize that by I should or for Caroline, upstairs Toward dawn I got an hour or so of sleep. I felt better when I awoke and e ned Carolil position in a collected frame of mind. Samuels’ view that some one with a fairly intimate knowledge of the things Worse| «Mr Anmersley asked me what I so I dragged myselflintended to do. I told him I should have to report what I had seen. He denied killing Mr. Parados—he would, of course. He said he had enl(;red the library with a crazy notion of frightening Mr. Parados into leaving Miss Ferris and him alone. As if | y one could have house had killed Parados andlfrightened Mr. Parados! An- was reasonable, I thought. nercley said he had found him ose on the island, my fifstlgead. He hadn't touched him. e was Annersley. Johns hadirne gafe was open and he had two sound alibis, Mrs. Parados and|heiped himself to Gertain papers Lum We had one each. Yes, it must be Anngrsley. Jahries was involved necassary to his financial security. Of course I didn't believe Rim and I told him so. When he saw my mind was made up he showed me a paper he had found in the safe. It had my name and Parados’ on it. He said if I gave evidence against him he would turn it over to the And in 1t I descended the stair the stere fig of Miss Jahries ar- ted my attention. She stood in{ of the library door, her hand b. She opened it and police.” room. o Miss Jahries' eyes searched Sam- M. Flique— uels’ face. Jahries’ voice, husky With|' «r gupnose T must tell you about em broke as I entered the that paper?” “If you don't, Annersley will.” Samuels’ tone was considerate but firm. “I've nursed it so.long that every- [thing is distorted,” Miss Jahries went on. “Ten years ago I was i cashier in a roadhouse Parados e something to tell You")owneq near Los Angeles. T had to she said } y. “IU’s costing me &lphave money—$3,000. The liberty of good deal, but I can't let that girl{the man I loved was at stake— suffer. T should have told you 1ast|never mind what he had done, I room. The haggard expression of! her face shocked me. “Mademoiselle wishes to tell us le mystery, yes?” Flique in- yes were hot with ex- night, but I was afraid.” Miss Juhr-.rmwd Parkdos’ name to o GhelE jes struck her breast U‘m“mc\',und got the money. He caught me. I think my heart is an empty |1 supposed he would prosecute me, shell. Grainger was one of the {eW|jy; ne offered me an alternative. unselfish men I have known, but!nps parados needed a housekeeper. I shouldn't have come o you if it'y¢ 1 would accept the position he hadn’t been for Miss Brent. 1 over-|wouq forget about the check.” heard you say you were going 10 wriss yahries laughed bitterly. “I take her to Los Angeles. I am here giqny know Dan Parados then and to tell the truth. Miss Brent did|y thought he was being generous not kill Parados. Mr to give me a second chance. Gen- killed him. I don't blame him fore.o51 Don't think 1 haven't paid that, but I wouldnt have thought yiy a0k g thousand times! Tve him capable of killing Grainger and spont ton years watching him live letting the blame Test on & Wom- 'y, 45 i wicked boasts that he got an.” asure by making people fear “Annersley!” Samuels s!\outed_ex- and hate him, ultantly. “You saw him do it? | Ten years of that!” Miss Jah- Miss Jahries, it was clear, was| flung up her hands. “I wonder telling us what she believed 0 b€ jr 1 apy oti)) sane, 1f T had broken the truth. My relief on Caroline’s from nim he would have prosecuted gccount was immense. me and that would have meant HEY MAW! You DONT KNOW THE ) : HALF OF 17! Between half-past six and seven | Friday night?” Samuels demanded “Practically. Mr. Annersley occu- Uv:ml the chair outside my window from about five minutes of seven THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESD -/ = (ruin for the man I had sa |terward, when the man died ‘m_v heart died with him I hadn ’xnr‘ courage to try to win back m, ‘sm—:-r an Parados poiso touched!” covered her usted “I'm sorry for you, Miss Jahries e Samuels said quietly. “I wish forw | saved Grainger.” Annersle mured. | Annersley Flique mur was standing in dirty mess you are in | Anners Samuels said. | better come clean.” “I am telling you the truth now.” Annersley had himself in hand. “I | knew you wouldn't believe me. Th I had M at was why s Jahries giv jme an alibi. I did not kill Ps |dos. He was lyinz on the floor dead when I came through that window.” (Copyright, 1930, Willlam Morrow and Company) Is Annersley trapped fi | this time? Tomorrow he | ishes his story. S LA DOUGLAS NEWS —_— D. I. W. €. WILL HOLD MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM Under the auspices of the Doug- las Island Women’s Club a program an ‘automatic pistol, a forty-five, |Of €Xercises in commemoration of Memorial Day will be held Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Douglas Coliseum theatre An address by Rev. P. E. Bauer will be the feature of the program. Other numbers will include a read- ing by Betty Sey and songs by the Glee Club girls Following the exer: ence will march out to the ceme- tery to decorate the graves. SR R CATHOLIC LADIES TO MEET s the audi- ‘There will be a meeting of the Catholic ladies Wednesday eve- ning at the home of Mrs. August Olson. The hour of eting is to be eight o'clock. Semag g s RETURNS TO SKAGWAY Stewart Larson who has been working in Seattle for the past few months passed through on the steamer Sunday, enroute to his home at Skagway. Stk R BEARS ARE VISITING i DOUGLAS OUTSKIRTS Twice lately have bear been seen wandering around in the vi- cinity of Douglas, both at Tread- well and near the cemeteries, ac- cording to reports of those who saw them. Some time ago a bear was seen at Treadwell and yesterday a big bruin was discovered on the hill near the cottage in which the Mc- Donalds lived, by Rene Stragier. The latter promptly evacuated the last Saturday morning Joe Wehren who was driving his truck along the road past the Larson Creek bridge, was confronted by a good sized black bear which after giving the truck the ‘“once over” disap- peared into the woods. 1] AND WHERE % Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Crewson, who left here last week, returned from Petersburg on the motorship TWHO’S WHO Northland included W. B. Tayler, for Ketchikan, Dan Rose and George Waltz for Petersburg. Having completed a short busi- face, | rd sooner. It would have the “You'd d at Miss Jahries territory in favor of the bear. Again | Northland. Mr. Crewson repre-{ sents Shilling products. Traveling men leaving on the COUSIN CARRIE, — 5~ \I‘J—r § | | 2 | | | A bovine belle of unusual dis- tinction is Lady Dodo, showf with her owner, Mrs. Thelma Evans, of Washington, D. C. Lady Dodo gave 18,136 pounds of milk that contzined 749.1 ss visit in Juneau, H. C. District Supervisor of the land Fish Company, left f |burg on the Northland rs are at Ketchikan | Mrs. W. G. Da 0 has been jvisiting here for several weeks, is| returning to the States. She left | on the Nort Leo W. Breuer, Commissioner of Education, returned on the miral Watson after past two weeks in soutk cities. Nunan Ad-| | FOOR OLE ASH HADDA ). CONCENTRATE $0 HARD ON HYPNOTIZING .~ | DO&6, Rggord-fireaiki pounds of butter fat. with Dolores and Geraldine, two other cows owned by Mrs. Evans, 45,000 pounds of d for $1,500, re- | profit of $063. Naviiraals this trio milk, which s turning a n ‘ on Whaley Ar th O. R. E 1t are returr n Skag aft er months ou ne the Admiral Rogers. Phone 374 Empire Printing Co. AY, MAY 27, 1930. B — THAT HE'S WENT AN ng Cow rnational e Admiral Roge W. Whaley with a crew of men, Harold John- of Wrangell. son and Nels Nelsen of the John-| summer agent of son Fisheries, passed through on at Skagway, is the Aleutian. ssengers ude He is a We can print anything from an ordi- nary post card to a large Broadside. Together Mr. By CLIFF STERRETT PUT HIMSELF O SLEEP SIMULTANEOUSLY! I 41’.? | er Company. water company. He | Pacific offices in tourist on the Admiral R« San Franciscans aboard | miral Rogers include H. S. burg, | Zukerma the California city. | trip | Mr. and Mrs. Robert St. | California, - are Seeing |Alaska from the decks of fmiral Rogers. Cordova. | service bureau. She is her Seattle office, Seattle. Clarence Wittanen of jwho has been Outside for | months, returncd to the lon the Aleutian, | Traveling men arriving | Aleutian from wayports | Jones and Albert Brown. { A. J. Nelson, Southeast | representative of the Din | Dollar Building and Loan {tion, returned on the Aleuti: |a short business t: | Clarence Hahn, with the | With | On him is Mrs their Hahn. W. E. Dunkle, pioneer {With him is L. J. Till on the with the and property Alaska pany, is making the round the Aleutian. Mrs. and is inter- with him. Talmadge {csted in the Sitka Wharf and Pow- also owns the J. A. Smith, well-known business (man and fox farmer of Sitka, is |aboard the Admiral Rogers. Anna M. Young, with the Union Portland, ogers. the Ad- . Nuren- traffic manager of Weyl- ; and Miss Mary Brady, and St. Guy T ott and RalphyShields, |spe agency department men with | the Chicago, Milwaukee ‘IP ul Railroad, are John of the Ad- | Gerald L. Church, Deputy Prohi- | | bition Administrator, returned on| the Yukon after an official trip to Miss Julia Donovan, former Ju- neau resident, is aboard the Aleu- tian as the director of a personal| operating | the department in connection with Inbound passengers on the Aleu- | tian included W. A. Deperu, who| ’h:\s a rope and cordage industry in| Douglas, Channel on the were J. W. | Alaska me and Associa- an from ip to Ketchikan. | Copper | JRiver and Northwestern Railroad, |is westward bound on the Aleutian. way to Thumb Bay| mining | G. F. Talmadge, retired, formerly Steamship Com- trip on Quality Printing | Why buy ordinary printing when you ean ' get Quality Printing at the same identical cost. 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