The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1930, Page 10

[ ) ¥ E (F YOU'D MIND TAKING / THE AFTERNQOA OFF 2 i Ive GoT_ A LaoN eriend A COMING To SEE QUR- i HORSE _AND TD RATHER BE SAY.BARNEV. T WONDER | J»! I | il NoL_HAJENT GOT A LADY FRIEND/ BOLONEY! LlighTide:"" Caroline Brent |kindled. A silence . . . ‘then crack, | is freed from her abductors, Bec |the shell in the grate explodes. It | and le Balafre, following a |bangs upon the ear of M. Johns fierce gun battle. Those two and he fires his weapon with an ex-convicts are killed by “Pro- | accuracy. | fessor Johns,” who is reves “Messieurs et mesdames; it is, as Jules Lacote, their betrayer |done.” | in crime 25 years ago. A shot Flique had given us a pretty vivid | by Allan Hunt kills Lacote, |picture. Celia was weeping and; alias Johns. Anatole Flique, the Caroline’s arms were around her. ‘ adroit French detective, begins “And I clinched his alibi by his explanation of the mystery |phoning to find out if he were inl that brought death to Dan the tower,” Samuels muttered in Parados and his hired man, |deep disgust. “What was the wea- Grainger. Flique contends that | pon, f Johns shot both men from the | “It was a ., M. le Deputy.” island fort at high tide—when | “Nonsense!” Samuels exploded. the Gut's fury deadened the i”Thos‘v bullets had the rifling of sound of his shots. Samuels, the a Colt forty-five automatic pistol. deputy attorney, retorts they |What's the answer?” actually heard the shot that | Flique twirled his mustache. killed Grainger. Flique replies, | “The weapon, Mmonsieur was a “you just thought so.” | rifle—a rifle of the Springfield army pattern, and it had—"" Chapter 37 | “It couldn’t have been!” Samuels SHOTS FROM THE TOWER |shouted All of us were breathless as| “—and it had,” Flique continued Flione continued. imperturbably, “the rifling of a “Pirst we shall consider the mur- Colt forty-five automatic pistol.” der of monsieur. It is perhaps 200 | Samuels drew a handkerchief yards from this room to the tower. (across his forehead f The north windows of the tower| “That'’s a pretty big chunk to and the patio window of the room swallow,” he said. “It take an ex- are on a—um—that word, M. I'An- pert to do a job like that.” tiquaire?” | Flique beamed. “Did T not inform “Diagonal line, do you mean?” I 'you that it was thought the infa- inquired. | mous Jules Lacote once served in “Mais oui. From the tower at an arsenal in France? Clearly, he| night one may observe this writing would have the knowledge. Did table and the fireplace. It is not poor Grainger have a lathe in clear that M. Johns up in that in his workshop? Has not M. An-| top room, saw M. Hunt leave M. nersley informed us that Grainger Parados. He then took up his tele- | sometimes took the little vacation? phone and summoned Mr. Parados,| “On these occasions there re- | who answered, as Mlle. Ferris, and mained on the island no one but| M. Johns himself have testified. M. Johns. Now, M. le Deputy, would “Perhaps they talked of the fury it be difficult, I ask you, for that of The Gut, as that Johns said. I rascal to procure the tool with| do not know. Is it not sufficient which to bore out that old rifling | that monsieur stepped to the win- and increase the caliber from—| dow and opened it, and that Johns .308, is it?>—to .45?” shot him from the top window of | “Easy enough,” Samuels admit- his tower, and that monsieur drop- ted. “But that doesn't re-rifle the ped at the feet of madame, who barrel with a Colt pistol rifling— approached the window at that unless he sent it to a factory.” moment?” | “The rifling is the big job, as “You can’t tell me that any man you say. But to one who has served with a pistol—" > {in an arsenal of France, who has “If M. le Deputy will contain the shrewdness, the terrified heart, ‘himself—" {much time, and a trifle of money, “Sorry,” Samuels grunted. |it is nothing. Monsieur, that Johns “The alibi of Hendricks,” Flique had all of those. And if certain continued impertubably, “supported |trifles had to be made at a fac- M. Johns' statement that he had tory, what of that? Poor Grainger not left his tower. But what of the takes his little holiday that M. killing of that poor Grainger? M. Johns employs his lathe to prepare Johns, I have said, aspired to per- the rifle that is to kill him.” fection. | “I guess you are right,” Samuels “Very well. This Johns dcsir;d said somberly. “He must have done a shot to be discharged in the it.” library at the moment he shoots| “Precisement. You sh‘all see.” Gniger from his tower. 1;heremwas Flique took himself into the bil- a problem for any man, but those liard room, reappeared with the three, le Balafre and Ciceron Bec:game bag, the long steel rod he and Jules Lacote—were they not had found in Grainger's workshop, dev(u}s;f clevc;x;ne;s)?] Lt jand a rifle—not the one I had re- “Grainger, M. Johns remembered, lieved him of, but a 1906 Spring- had kinduni din n;; {;}rx;‘te each"fleld army rifle. Most of the morning. nd so M. Johns pre- stock had been cut away from the pares a blank cartridge and before barrel, around which had been the time of the high tide he sweated wide straps of steel to conceals it among that Kkindling. strengthen it. The butt, also had ‘When the flame heats the blank theen cut down—to lessen the depth will explode. No one but Grainger of the rifle, I suppose. Flique pre- will light the kindling. ;;hat :(liever:sented the rod for Samuels’ in- one, Johns, departs unobserved, as, spection. he came, by the patio window, “This rod, M. le Deputy—you which he leaves open, monsieur!” have seen it before, yes?” It is the Dnmned clever!” Samuels e]M;‘cutter rod. This—" touching the ulated. “But what about The Gut? metal piece into which the rod fit- He woruldn“f. be able to hear” the !.ed—"js tpe cutter. As the grooves shell in his tower room for the in the rifle are to be deepened row in The Qu!?" | this cutter may be raised by—um— “Has monsieur forgotten the uzle: | inserting a trifle of paper under it, ::one |;pset :(x; b);; (;wm:\gl t:slzzen‘Monsieur understands the process, ique inguired. “Did nof oui?” .l’um “1;:51"“ livingx:iissze? N;] Samuels shook his head impa'— johns it so, my lend, and| tiently. hurried to his tower. I suspect that| “The rod and the cutter—are they clever one Lelepho_ned to Gl‘amgfl'lnot pulled back through the barrel, and commanded him to light a fire turning, as they come, according in the library.” 2 to the—twist, is it?—that is de- “That is just ‘Yh“ happened,” | sired? Thus a shaving of steel is Celia interrupted. “1 was in Fath-'pared off, the rod returns, the cut- er's room at the time. His tele- ter is raised, and the arlisan—does[ phone rang. It must have been he not repeat that process until| Johns, although Father didn't say. the rifling is finished?” ! ‘Whoever it was, }‘lfl'vllbed a fire in Flique took up his rifle. “Mon-i the library, he said.” . Sieur has observed these bands of | “You have thi?t picture, Ves?" steel. Widening the bore of the Flique resumed. “M. Jobns 100ks rifle from the calibre 308 to the | jut of his dark tower window . . . caliber 45 weakened the barrel 1is m and his weapon are gnq M. Johns—the word, M. I'Anti- ready. Grainger enters the patio. quairer | 186 ascal, Johns, has his tele-| “Compensated for the lessenad ne ped to his ear . . . Ne resistance of the barrel—is that what you mean?” I ventured. H “I thank you, monsieur,” Flique -|bowed. “That infamous Johns com- | pensated for the lessened resistance « - B of the barrel by strengthening it 18 with these bands of steel” i ! SWEETEST THING YoL f EVER SAW 2 QH. I JUST - I LOVE HIM -~ LOOK NOU.MISS EMMA, AT THOSE BiG AND YOU'LL FEEL A | gence, Gri . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1930. OH, ISNT HE THE. Y NES MEBAM AN E'S Gora o Wil [ BEAUTIELL EVYES - 3 MoRE o= AND HE'S REALLY PERSQONAL HALF YOURS ! HOW. ¥ (NTEREST I PROUD YOU MUST BE, & MR HALL 3 EES i AR . RV s n v o RN the cartridge case, and force the chapter—tomorrow. 45 caliber pistol bullet into the —o— | rifle cartridge he had cut down? GAMES SUNDAY “Clearly M. Johns disposed of his tools when he had finished with them, and almost certainly he cast them into the sea. Perhaps he did \Oflkland 6, 2; Seattle 2, 3. not cast that rod far enough and|Sacramento 4, 4; Portland 3, 10. Pacific Coast League poor Grainger found it one day Los Angeles 7, 8; Hollywod 1, 7. when he looked to his lobster traps National League at low tide. Also, M. Johns would Brooklyn 6; Chicago 0. Johr gather up his shavings of steel, but (New York 4; St. Louis 1. | Boston 10; Pittsburgh 6. perhaps the fragments M. Grainger and I found had been trod into the dirt beneath the lathe and he miss-| ;me;ilcanh League ed them. It does not matter. Philadelphia 6; Chicago 3. “Where was the rifle, you ask? Cleveland 3; Washington 2. Certainly, M. Johns would not hide | it in his tower. No, he would put it where no one would expect to find it—no one but Anatole Flique, per- haps,” and the little man twirled | his mustache darkness. | St. Louis 5; New York 4. { GAMES SATURDAY Pacific Coast League And \-.h.x(‘r\\k}.w‘ that b?n in the | yonowood 9; Los Angeles 1. fat ~,lnrlxmcl\ u.- ngat old cannon in | Mission 5; San Francisco 10. fionb o dan |Oakland 5; Seattle 8. Flique's face sobered. ~ “POJT|gyorgmento 3, 5; Portland 0, 1. Grainger! Clearly, he was—how you | National League say it?—reconstructing the murder gt 1ouis 7; New York 9. of monsieur from the rod and ’“anicago 9: Brooklyn 12. shaving of steel. A man of intelli- | pjttshburgh 4; Boston 6. nger!” Cincinnati at Philadelphia—Rain. Samuels winced at that and so | American League did I. It seemed now that we|Washington at Cleveland—Rain. should have deduced something of | New York 12; St. Louis 5. the truth from the facts Flique had | Boston 0; Detroit 6. flaunted in our faces so pcrslsteml.\'.!phnadelphm ; Chicago 6. Then Samuels asked the question RS that must have been in the minds STANDING OF CLUBS of every one of us Pacific Coast League San Francisco 6, 3; Mission 5, 10. | Cincinnati 5, 2; Philadelphia 4, 9 ‘(” Detroit 1; Boston 0. Game called | end of sixth on account of| THE HAMBURGER STAKES, Too TLL PUT A LITILE B=T ot HiM FOR OHl AT S]] WONDERFUL ! { Flique put the rifle down. “The | (Copyright, 1930, William Morrow[onklund 34 Y /“‘\ | cartridge was nothing for one of and Company) Mission 33 S HE Urde r at / 74 | his skill. Would he not remove the Hollywood 27 \':,,% (HAR[E;G\ | bullet from the .30 caliber rifle That final question! Flique |(Seattle R "\: cartridge, cut off the thin end cf| answers it in the concluding {Portland 24 National Leag | Won Lost Pct . 3 | \ E 2£2 — w v msvrave: 2 Pgeific Coast Coal Co. 1;3’.‘,“‘?@-1; g Eg L Valenting: Buiiding .w.iE G. H. WALMSLEY, Manager St. Loul % % e R AR i di E] PHONE 412 Fittsburgh 387 98 = Boston .. 2 24 SIS S . VAR A Philadelphia . 17 2 LT B e L The New Ideal Shoppe | | rm—rrmerrmmmmrr e ~ ~—— - | ‘ "‘“”‘“"‘)Vo:“"i‘:)st Opposite Winter & Pond ] - et ALASKA MEAT CO. 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