The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1931, Page 6

THE DAILY AL{\SKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931. STEP THIS WAY U NK, AN’ L MEET UP WITH MY VAUDEVILLE PARTNER! SYNOPSI Not has Jochn Waye St. Clair lost his priceless diamond, The Unset- ting Sun, but also his daugh- tcr, Rosemary, whom kidnapers have returned for this ransom. After she dies from their crucl- ty—muttering in terror the name, “Jimmy!”"—he devotes his life to tracking down and punishing them. Apparently a suicide, St. Clair vanishes, but the John Waye who thercupon appears in the underworld car- ries on the search. Convicted ef a murder he did not com- mit, Waye is sent to San Paolo Prison for life. There, carrying out a plot contrived by a pow- erful leader of crooks known as “Uncle,” Waye overcomes the guards, and, dressed as one of them, advances toward the out- er gate after forcing the prisca bookkeeper to signal the keeper to cpen it. only Chapter 34 THE WARDEN'S CALLER 1 dashed to the door and slam- ming it behind me, marched whist- ling to the prison-gate. “Come on, Bo!" er guard, inner gate. growled the out- standing by the “Thought you was nev- er coming.” I came on merrily, and, as a puzzled rrm\n gflthcrcd on the hce open | By Percival C'/uu her Wren: dubhorof | MYSTERIOUS ) | of the guard, T once more red |up the situation with disp: ( Lamb-like he marched before me |to The Fort, and was quickly | locked into that silent rcom. I rushed back to the office, and found the bookkeeper still uncon- scious, and was greatly relieved | to discover that his heart was still | | beating. It was a most distasteful task to bind his hands behind him with his own suspenders and to gag him with his own coat-sleeves. When I stepped out of that of- ]f)(',(‘ and locked the door behind {me, T was in complete charge of | that State Prison, whereof, a mo- ment later, the gates stood wide open. All I had to do, to be free, was to walk out of the prison, . in the Warden's own car, depart about his lawful occasions in the prison-car, | But even one additional hour before the news was broadcast | might make a difference between successful escape and a burst for freedom, inglorious and ineffective. Thus thinking, | to the “Administration-block,” and set about smashing the telephones | and telegraphic instruments, and cutting every wire that the administrative building. ere l)m Towing his WAYE.W%‘ | proceed to the prison-garage, and,' in peace—obviously a warden going | 1 hurried across | entered | This work I bethought me that, | I might put’ IT'S A LIE, DAG-NAB IT! I DONT BELIEVE 1T/ By CLIFF STERRETT have come straight to the garage|.,n 1 would have shof him and taken the car without this|colq plood, and called the Killing | lhe Warden where he would da|Warden and, as, clad in a long| “No." the least harm for the longest time.|overcoat and pajamas, he stepped ‘Get it then, quick.” If I made off at once, leavingjout into the darkness, he felt the| “There isn't one.” him peacefully slumbering, he|prod of an automatic. | I laughed, even as I would arise and stroll over to the| “Up with them, quick!” I snap- | with some chagrin that I could| prison at about nine o'clock—and|ped. “And step back into the the hunt would be up. house.” If, however, I put him “under| Back went the Warden, his|waste of precious minutes. | restraint,” not only would the dis-|hands above his head and a look| But then again, I reflected, it of consternation on his face. “Do exacily what I tell you— and make it snappy—for I can shoot you here and now, and make | lro\'ery be postponed, but, when it | did arrive, the absence of the War- den would inevitable increase the confusion. ell worth the lost time to the Warden safely under lock and key, and so to postpone the hour of discovery and pursuit in| | Straight from the “Administra-|my getaway.” | the morning. | tion-block” I hurried, passed the “Sure thing,” drawled the War~; The Warden thlew open the gar- wide-open gateways, and walked |den. “Who are . . .?"” age door. I boldly up to the front door of the| “Don’t talk. Who's in this house| “Fill the petrol tank and start lonely house, close by, where, alone |€xcept you?” the engine,” I ordered, standing “An old dame,” replied the War- | den. “She won't do a thing to you.” | “March to her room and lock her | in. with his elderly Irish housekeeper, dwelt Warden O'Shaughnessy. How to get into the house? I had not stopped to think of the bolted doors, nor of fastened win- dows. How was I to place him ‘With my pistol touching his under arrest, if I couldn’t get to back, the Warden proceeded me him? up the stairs, opened a door at the back of the house, took the key !l from the lock, closed and locked the door, and offered me the key.|n “Pocket it, quick,” I ordered, “and then raise your hands. Walk in front of me to where the gar- Another bright thought. Prompt- ly I rang the front-door bell, and then flung a handful of gravel at the bedroom window. I will say the Warden was prompt, and distinctly peevish. |readiness, I march ahead of me into the pri- son. 2 most useful collection prison keys. scheme than locking him with the well away from the Warden and covering him with a pistol. Satisfied that the tank was full, the engine running, and the car in bade the Warden A minute later the Warden was ocked inside one of the strongest cells in the prison, and I was on my way to the prison gates, with of the There was a better | “What in hell . . .” he began, ere |age key is; then to the garage and)rest. The longer it took them to he had well thrown up the win-|unlock it.” find the Warden, the longer it dow. The Warden hung in doubt for would be before the pursuit was “Quick, Warden!” I interrupted. |the fraction of a minute, glancing “You're wanted acrarse at the|at the pistol leveled at his stom- prison . . ach. I raised another and pointed “What's up, then?” roared the it at his face. | Warden. “Jump to it, Warden,” I said. {“You can die if you want to—but I'd like to spare ur life.” ) He promptly turned about, and led the way downstairs and out of the house to the garage. ‘“Have you got the key?” “Don’c roightly know, Sorr,” I re- plied, “but I was towld to run| | loike the divvle.” “Who are you?” ‘ “Guard Mulligan, Sorr . . .” “I'll be there . . . " snapped the! gates it occurred to me that, chose to do so, every single convict in the jail. crganized. As 1 passed through the prison iz I could release the thought from me, realizing that it would be I put nowever, a wicked thing to turn loose hun- dreds of desperate criminals, no money I asked. | t2 with and no clothing other han their convict garb—save what FRIDAY-SATURDAY To tell you of any one style, to describe the new materials, to attempt to go into detail about the many little style whims which go to make up the bright gay spring fashions in women’s, misses” and junior-misses’ coats, suits and dresses would all be beside the point in this presentation of new apparel. 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As soon as the old chap's bewil- dered mind grasped the idea, he “No, son,” he said. “I'm tired. I weuldn't have a hope to keep straight, for the bulls wouldn’t let me. . . No, God bless ye, son, and thank ye from the bottom of me heart, but go while the goin's good . And lock me in again for fear I'm tempted, or they may think I'm in it and beat me up.” The old chap wrung my hand as though he would crush it. Mailes was off his plank bed and into his clothes almost be- fore my first sentence was com- pleted. “I'm with ye, Bo. Give us a gat and we'll shoot our way out.” “I'll do all the shooting that's to be done,” I said, “and that's none. There's a boiler suit, or ov- eralls, or something of the sort, on the wall of the Warden's gar- age, so you'll have that much disguise.” Fishing with gold? 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