The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1930, Page 6

FOR THE BET OWE You' SYNOPSIS: The wife of the murdered Dan Parados con- fesses that che attempted to plot his death. She tried to lure iwo French conviets, who she Dbelieved were his enemies, to his home to kill him. The mur- derer is unknown. Mrs, Para- dos denies killing her husband, and Anatole Flique, shrewd de- tective, relieves her by saying he knows she is not guilty. Flique suggests to Allan Hunt that he find Caroline Brent, | with whom Hunt has fallen in love. Inquiries reveal that no one has scen her for some time. | Caroline is not to be found in | the house. Police, sensing sinis- ter possibilities, order a thor- cugh search of the island. | T | Chapter 33 | IN THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT \ My heart had turned cold at the gravity of Flique’s tone. As my eyes met his the substance of his though hed upon me. “¥ou e thinking of le Balafre and' Bec!” I cjaculated. “They are hero—they may have hold of Oaroline—is that what you mean?”| “My friend, I know those ones,” he said gently. “Did I not su that the agony of their i drive them here. Lib- n is a mockery if they burn the iron of their £l hatred the body of Jules La-| cote. T know le Balafre and Ciceron Bec.” “Are they here—on the island?” I,cr “Do you know they are heére “I shall tell you something” he said. “A letter from the French consul at Los Angeles was brought me this afternoon. It told me that| 1é Balafre and Ciceron Bec were| as far north as Ensenada four days ago—" “That would be last Wednesday!” Samuels ejaculated. “Ensenada is not more than 150 miles south of here. They'd do it in six hours in a fast boat.” e “They had a fast boat, monsieur,” Flique continued grimly. “Does not the consul inform me that a launch, a fast one, was stolen in the har-| bor of Ensenada that Wednesday night? Two rascals beat the owner,| carried him off to sea and put him out in an open boat. He should have died, but he did not. Yester- day he is discovered and today he} is able to speak and to describe one of these rascals. Messieurs, it 1Is le Balafre, The Scarred One.” Flique could not resist the temp- | tation to pronounce that smism'! name with a flourish. The room became quiet. Horror began to drill at my heart. “It can’t be that” I groaned.| “Why should they take Caroline?! Lacote is dead. They could have no reason for coming back." He suddenly grabbed me by the ghoulder. “Come, we shall find her around the corner, sound and safe, 1 do not doubt. You ask me what I knew and I have told you. But te time!" not reassured, but the briskness of his tone helped. “Miss Brent must be found” Samuels was saying. “Every man on the island will take part in the search. Johns and Kirk will look after the south side of The Gut.| The rest of us had better spread | out like a fan. Gridley, you and Hendricks go to the head of The Gut, then continue straight up the slope. Annersley and I will veer off to the right of you. Flique, you and Lum We go north along the foot of the slope. Hunt, take the shore. She may have fallen off a Cliff. “We'll all work over to the other side of the island, then back. There 4s an abandoned village over there, gomewhere don't forget. Cover every oot of ground. Use your brains if ypu meet those birds le Balafre and Bec. Better take what guns you m find.” *Uuwe don't intend to stay here doing nothing,” Celia announced. “At least, I don't.” "uNor 1 Mrs. Parados said. "I couldn't sit still after what T've done. This is all my fault, but I don't need to remind you of that.” "«1 shall help,” Miss Jahries add- . “mmnm merely quivered. “My orders are that you remain the house,” Samuels told them. have enough on my hands now. POLLY AND _HER PALS WAL, HONEY, IF-EVER T SEEN A LITTLE GIRL CHANGE AN’ I SUTTENLY D0 | edge of lin |V TER, IT5 You, AcY] urder atgan igh:Tide "2 I you leave on your own Four or five pistols were avail- able. I did not secure one of them. There were enough torches to go around, however. Celia, Mrs Parados, and Miss Jahries declared their intention of combing the ground immediately beyond the the developed estate which the house stood. Manning, afraid to be left alone the house, attached herself to Miss Jahries. As 1 started at a fast elip down to the beach by way of one of the cove trail: my head and ears were pounding. I arrived at the beach in a lather of sweat Not more than a dozen feet of wet sand divided the breakers from the sandstone cliff. The beach curved and I followed its arc at top speed, coming to the mouth of the Gut, where I stood, drenched with spray and deafened with the sound. Hissing water and an un- scalable cliff guarded this side of The Gut. Coming back I threw my light along the jetty, into the boathouse, and over the Parados cruiser and police boat, then along the cement breakwater Parados had built half- way across the mouth of the cove A shoulder of rock jutted into the surf at the northwest corner of the cove. It took me ten minutes to get around it to the west beach. Once I thought I was trapped. The ter was up to my waist, then to | my shoulders. It swept me off my feet and hurled me against the cliff. The water receded and I stag- gered through. My head throbbed and agier I had touched it I found blood on my hand. The wound did not ap- pear to be deep, however, and I started down the beach. Fortu- nately the torch was not broken. ‘Turning, I raced back along the beach, playing the light beam upon the face of the cliff with a view to discovering & trail that would take me to the top. ‘The trail proved steeper than 1 had expected and halfway up I had to stop, or I would have fallen from exhaustion. I was losing more blood than I had supposed I was on the point cf starting up again when a beam of light, evi- dently from an electric torch, shot out over the top of the cliff in a horizontal direction a little to the right of me. It vanished, reappeared, vanished again; again it reappeared and vanished. Each time the light flashed with the regularity of a signal. So far as I knew everybody had left the house. The women might have returned, but if they had I could conceive of no reason why they should signal out to sea. In- land, or to me on the beach—that would have been understandable. “It looks queer,” I muttered. As T pulled myself over the edge of the cliff the light flashed again —once. A hundred yards south of where I stood was the house. The light had seemed to come from the parapeted roof. This time I caught an answering gleam somewhere south of the house and mot far off shore. My first impulse was to approach the roof by way of the outside stair, but I quickly suppressed it. 1 wanted to see the signaler before he saw me. Skirting the cypress trees, I made my way to the northwest corner of the house and to the rear door, where I had left my shoes. ‘The door was ajar. I entered, glided across the kitchen to the hall and arrived noiselessly at the foot of the stair. Here I paused and listened. The hall and most of the lower rooms were lighted. I saw no one and heard nothing. Nevertheless I knew that I was not alone in the house. My certainty sent me up the stair like a shadow. | At the top I paused once more. Caroline’s room was lighted and |the door was ajar. I slipped across the corridor and looked into the room. It was empty. | My own room was the next and iI had stopped in front of it when jmy eyes were drawn to the door {at the end of the corridor. It fas- cinated me—because the bodies of Parados and Grainger were behind 1it, perhaps. At any rate I found myself moving toward it. 4 in| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1930. ' oty Gun, v @ole Rusgm e was dry. T felt as if|light hit, include Edmund Breeze, |, Treasury’s Cask Is I through a tomb|Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto 52 living. The door|Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard and Less Than on It gave slowly,{Maude Turner before my pressure. The | Ruth directed B, C. OFFICALS " ONVISIT HERE ened for a moment; nd. Then my face ed in light. My 1 in my left hand, rgotten it and my eleased the switch without nsent of my will, | the first beam and| 2 | 9 [ eut circle out of the dark- [nspector ~ Spiller Heads'® # Pars {ness. Ir ne second circle leaped | Party Here and Goes | |a face that was neither the living| nce on {nor th | by Plane to Taku [ one year ago. | A scream rang through the room. “Allan!" Enroute to Tulsequah and a visit | headquarters in Prince Rupert, The officers left at 11 am. for (Taku River by plane, and were ex- Mrs. E. H. Roberts and two chil-|pected to return to Juneau some- ived here on the Yukon|time this afterncon. Before leay-. yesterday from Portland, Oregon, to|ing they called on Gov. George A. NEW FAMILY HERL ngle Tour ol Mrs. | {Jr. join her husband who preceeded her |Parks and conferred with E. M. | tor north a short time ago. Roberts|Goddard, Acting Executive Offfeer' ;... mcrean. is employed at the Alaska Juneau.|of the Alaska Game Commission,! This The face had leaped at me.'to she new Taku River mining Something fell on my head and I'camp, police and game officers of ® dropped | British Columbla arrived here early ® 52501 (Copyright 1930, Willlam MOrrow today on the Government boat P.|° and Company) M. L. No. 8 In the party were: ® Was S Inspector William Spiller, Provincial | ® Tommorow Hunt begins a |Ppolice; Game Warden E. Martin,| ® (0 $54205.45, wild race to bring Caroline back | Constable M. J. Olson, and Engi-|® Dbalance of $1 to gafety. {ncer William Robertson, all with|® PR LB o | Gordon. R 4 i DQILIIUINI One Year Ago The Territory started this month with a net cash bal- ce in its treasury amount- to $1,006,587.55, accord- to the monthly statement f finances issued by W. G. Smith, Treasurer, and made public today by Gov. Ceorge is approxi- mately $90,000 under the net the same date The cash on hand as of May 31, was reported to be $1,080,112.56, and outstanding warrants amounted to $73,- On the same date year, the cash on hand $1,149,305.43, with out- standing warrants amounting net leaving a 095,099.98. e esessco oo D n the Queen Brice Howard, Brice Howard Betty Jean Howard, Mrs. Hec- McLean, Herbert McLean and By CLIFF STERRETT BUT THE APOLOGY'LL HAFTA WAIT TiLL AFTER IVE INTERVIEWED MY OCULIST! ( WANTED Live Wire. A Sense of Personal Welcome —is experienced by our Al- it is quite as pleasing to new friends. Modern, Fireprcef, 326 Rooms Garage Adjoining HOTEL FRYE P mong those who are making lhe [ arc | The New Ideal Shoppe Opposite Winter & Pond Imported Copper Wear Novelties MARY HAMMER They are located in one of the|relative of game and fur conditions Riesser cottages. and regulations. 8] - Enroute north, the party visited LEAVES FOR HOME Keichikan, Petersburg and Wran= gell. 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