The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1931, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKAHVIPIRE FRIDAY, APRIL. 17, 1931 TIME, TRYIN’ T'SEE PARTNER, PAW. ‘HE KEEPS THE FELLER |UNDER LOCK ASHUR'S VAUDEVILLE BY CRACKIE, HE'S LEFT THE DOOR OFEN! lDon't Forget MOTHER’S DAY May 10 Full line of Cards and Candy at Juneau Drug Juneau Drug Company Free Delivery Phone 88 Post Office Substatiom No. 1 183 | TAXI | STAND AT PIONEER POOL ROOM Day and Night Service LAS SENORITAS | Specialty Orchestra | ALL GIRLS’ BAND ! Music for all occasions | TELEPHONE 402 \ B e e ‘Hll||l|l||||||Illll|IIllll||||||llllll||||||ll|‘ 0 £ RADIO “y,,«’fiu'c"mlc' J EQUIPMENT CAPITAL ELE CTRI(‘ COMPANY Second at Seward (AT Juneau Public Library * Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Reading Room Open From 8 a m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m.—T7:00 to 8:30 ¢! p. m. Current Magazines, Newspapers, Reference, Books, Ete. FREE TO ALL }; mm-“ sEsssscssssses| BUSY WHY Not Only Cheaper but Better ] | i RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” Second at Seward | would have them | Rosemary back, /1 should never see my child again; k! statement that it T wanted to_re: ‘cover, and to_ keep my child—I il to whom I R SYNOPSIS: The John ‘vl)fl‘ whese precenee in Dr. Charters pur.ing home was attended by a train of mysterious and trag- ic developments was not always known by that name. So he reveals in beginning the story of his life. Before that—in a tphere far removed from that of the mcdical crooks—he had been the wealthy John Dacre Wayc Vanderleur St. Clair. Heir to oil holdings and to the famed diamond, The Unsetting Sun, he cherished yet another jewel, for with him had lived his daughter, Rosemary, adored child of his estranged wife, Alicia, But the happy com- panionship is broken when his home is entered and Rosemary stelen. To her recovery and to the punishment of her kidnap- crs John Waye St. Clair dedi- cates all of his vast wealth and power. Chapter 29 THE UNSETTING SUN My days and my sleepless nights were a compound of misery and of wrath. Alternately 1 was para- lyzed with horror and galvanized by rage against those who had dared to tear the child from home and keep her a prisoner. The police, a score of detectives, and other private individuals were constantly at work. Those in a position to know best, assured me that I should very soon receive some communication from the kidnapers, making pro- posals for the safe return of the child as soon as certain conditions had been complied with, Again and again I was assured that it was perfectly certain that, the child had only been kidnaped| for ransom; and that, as scon as the criminals had laid their plans} for the safe receipt of the ransom money, the child would be returned "unhurt and I was advised instant- ly and fully to comply with the demands of the kidnapers. There would be time enough; when my child was returned to me, to consider the question of punishment. The advice was unnecessary. Should they demand the payment j. cf everything I possessed in the world, they should have it; and if they demanded twice as much, they chould have that, for I would bor- row it. But I promised myself that, un- less I died before my mission was fulfifled I would have them. Yes, they should have it; and yes, I Sure enough, some three weeks after Rosemary's disappearance, and just when I was about at the end of my tether, I received, a business like letter in good style and obviously written by a person of cducation and experience. This document set forth the terms on which I should receive safe and sound. There were no vulgar threats or anything of that nature, but mere- ly .a plain and straightforward business offer. I was assured that, on my com- pleting my side of the bargain, my daughter would be returned to me, ! and that I should never be mo- lested again. If. on the other hand, I fafled to fulfill my part of the contract, and if she were recovered by the police and returned to me, There was, lmu:'. fulfill their demands. | 1 guite | Ny ‘muty and therefore far more dif- | ficult to circumvent. i ‘our family diamond, known as The in the Qc- ond place, I was directed to pur- each # lof the value of not less than $10,- | Unsetting Sun; and, chase 100 other diamonds, 000. Evidently the scoundrels had no intention of being traced by means of paper money, bills or bonds. ‘They pointed out that the im- mediate receipt by them of The ] By meal Christopher Wfin. Mmf MYSTE_&LUS WAVE s el By CLIFF STERRETT ————— AN’ THANK HEAVENS, SAM PERKINS AIN'T TOO PROUD T’PEEK!/ I L‘!hllll Unsetting Sun would indicate my desire to recover my daughter at | the cost indicated ,and would have | a favorable effect on her health. | For the collection of the hun- | dred diamonds, a fortnight would be allowed, and my daughter would be returned safely to me as soon as the kidnapers had satis- fied themselves that the stones} lated value. I.was then most specially warn- ed that if there were any “hanky- panky” of any kind, such as send- |ing a model of The Unsetting Sun and inferior or imitation diamonds or if any one of the latter were estimated by their expert as being werth less than $10,000, my daugh- ter would not be returned to me. The writer went on to warn me against the childish stupidity of endeavoring trap. The Unsetting Sun was to be posted in a registered parcel to a to set any kind of | were genuine and of the stipu- | box addressed in Chicago. The par- arrested person could only cel would be called for by a mes- senger who would himself be in- structed by an individual who knew neither the name nor the| face of the writer of this letter. The hundred diamonds were to be sent in a registered parcel, a fortnight later, to another box- address in New York, where they would again be collected by an in- nocent person entirely ignorant of the writer's identity. It would, of course, be the sim- | plest matter for the police to ar- rest the messenger directly he or | she called for the paxcel but the lead |them to another as innocent and xgnoram as the actual messenger. And should this second person be arrested, he would be unable to igive any useful information, even; if he wished to do so. Eventually, an astute detective or a bullying third-degree officer might possibly arrive at a person who knew something, but that per- son would not squeal. And by that time where would thc kidnaped child be? After a careful study of ihis let- ter, I decided not to show it to the official police at all, for their | ) PACIF __lC COAS’I‘ COAL C0. Juneaw’s Coal Department Store COAL—ALL KINDS—A COAL FOR EVERY PURSE AND PURPOSE !lt for a fabulous price from a syn- object would naturally be to effect the arrest of a dangerous criminal or criminals, and, incidentally, to recover my lost child; whereas my main desire was to get Rosemary back, and, incidentally and after- wards, to get the scoundrels who had kidnaped her. And here I might tell you about this diamond, The Unsetting Sun. My grandfather, who had a pas- sion for precious stones, bought dicate of Paris diamond-merchants. It is one of the reputed “unlucky” stones. Certainly, this diamond, The Un- setting Sun, had been the property of a number of remarkably unfor- tunate kings and queenms, princes and powers, as well as private in- dividuals; and it is true that my grandfather, known in Wall Street | and among his friends "as “Lucky | St. Clair” up to the time cf his acquiring The Unsetting Sun, came iL'o be known as “Unlucky St. Clair” soon afterwards and thenceforth. His wife was burnt to death in | a disastrous fire ' which, destroyed his - marvelous .home and he died a comparatively poor man—poor though still the proprietor of The Unsetting Sun, which nothing would induce him to sell. He left the diamond to my fath- er, on condition that he never sold it, but bequeathed it to his son on like terms, and he to his son and | s0, in perpetuity. My father was not what could be called an unlucky man, but, shortly after inheriting The Un- setting Sun my mother, whom he adored, was killed in a terrible rail- way accident. And here was I, by no means a | generally unlucky man, losing my wife in turn, and, more tragically, my daughter, soon after coming into possession of the stone. If Rosemary were alive, I would not bequeath The Unsetting Sun to her, and it is possible that it the diamond to the indicated ad- dress. patched to the other address a e than $10,000. was with the faintest sensation of lgrim satisfaction that I mailed Within a fortnight I had dis- parcel of 100 beautiful diamonds, not one of which was worth less ¢ Eleven days later I received a ¢ letter, bearing some village post- mark, informing me that my child would be found waiting for me, three days hence, at a house in Chicago, the address of which was given. The letter went on to say that the sooner I went there after that ¥ date the bctter for the child. Communication with the police would be futile, for the writer | would be out of the country by * the time this letter reached me. I will not dwell on this story, the telling which, even after these years, makes me tremble from head to- foot. The address proved to be that of a dilapidated house, standing alone in an unfrequented part of the out- " skirts of the town, a hideous and sinister_ house, long abandoned and empty—empty save for the . fact that locked in a small, bare, and filthy upstairs room, a child lay on the foul floor beneath :a grimy window situated beyond her reach. (Copyright, 1930, by Frederick A. Stokes Co.) A child’s agonized cry burns decp into St. Clair's soul, and his “suicide” - leads tomorrow to a new life spurred by re- venge. - NOTICE After May 1st all bills or ac- counts against theé Olympic Pool Room will be paid by George Stebac, JOHN COVICH, X MIKE B. DRAGNICH. ————— ANNUAL D. F. D. BALL, DOUG- _ LAS NAT, SATURDAY, APRIL 18. —adv, adv. YOU PROMISED Season upon season ago you prom- ised Mother you would have a “good” picture faKen—especially for her. 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