The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1931, Page 5

W T W S ¥ STAR OF THE NEW V WOMEN'S SWIMMING ASSOCIATION SYNOPSIS— Roscmary, be- daughter of John Waye dics shortly after father ransoms he abduct- ors with his family diamond, The Uncetting Sun, and a for- tune in othe The child’s death-bed cry, “Jimmy!” is the only clue to the kid- napers. Planning vengeance, St. Clair, after he shams a suicide and is reported dead, continues his search of the un- derworld under the mame of John Waye. Sent to prison for life for a murder he did not commit, he obtains the help of an influential crook known as “Uncle,’ and, aided by a corrupt guard, escapes from prisen. After locking up the Warden and guards, he and a fellow convict, Kid Mailes, hasten to the prison garage. CHAPTER 35 IN GANGLAND AGAIN “The Warden's garage!” ejacu- lated the boy, as I locked the door of his cell behind us. “yes” I said, “We're going for a joy-ride in his car.” And in speechless amazementhe followed me as I ran towards the prison gate. Save for the sound of our foot-| all was as silent as th and, within about a coupl of Guard Murphy's er steps, grave of hour THE WRIGHT SHOPFE ANNUAL SALE Fer 10 days ONLY, from April 27th to May Tth inclusive. A REAL HONEST HALF PRICE "SALE. EVERYTHING REDUCED 50%. This sale includes all glassware, chinaware, novelties, lamps, etc. All thece things to be sold at JUST HALF the marked price for TEN DAYS ONLY. BRINGING UP NOW - LISTEN' GIT AWAY FROM ME -I'M | NEVER GOIN' QLT WITH You Agin- You MAKE ME SIEK! E LITTLE SWIMMING adv. FATHER EM YOR= Bl B Porvival Chritopher Wren_ duorof | GESTR MYSTERIQUS WAYE. o ek |rance to my cell at ten o'clock, I | was driving the prison car, at 5i | miles an hour, in the direction of | the little quiet farmhouse that a | ;worthy crook—who must remain | | nameless—had been keeping for | | me, commissioned by Uncle. | Here were clothes, food, drink, ;as well as money and a high- my effort in despair, I realized | powered car. In this last Mailes|that a man whom I recognized, and I again drove off, leaving the one William H. Williams, ~ was | prison car with our incriminating | garments in it, locked in the gar- age. | A well-arranged fire next day, {burnt this garage (and its con- tents) to the ground. So well! arranged indeed was the fire that| | there was strong evidence that at | least one convict has perished| iwlth it, charred portions of a | warden’s uniform and a convict's | dress being saved from the al- most unrecognizable remains of a motor-car and what appeared to ‘be human bodies. | Our first drive had taken us nearly 300 miles from the prison, and our second one ended at Chi- | cago, where we went to earth, and, ‘nex‘l day, I started young Mailes |off to Canada, with my blessing, | earnest advice, and money to | keep him until he could find work. | With Uncle's invaluable help, I |1ay low until my escape was for- gotten in a new sensation; and tried to come to some decision as to what I should do next. I had had enough of suffering, brutality and ugliness, and I yearned for a gracious and beauti- ful way of life—almost as much’ as 1 yearned for vengeance upon Rosemary’s slayers. T would escape from the country | —take a long rest, and recover a measure of health and vigor. | T would live luxuriously abroad, and meanwhile my money should work for me— hiring the best | brains in America for my work of vengeance But the millionaire St. Clair was dead and must re- | main so—dead as the escaped con- | viet, No. 46783. | Thus I plannc 1 ¢ Fogs and four' e o e | borne in T come near t9 the mouth, suicide. My new desceni into the under- |world was in gre =g dte |to a rather rema. .C PR i f | 1 dreamt that I was fishing in a great river; fishing from its crumbling bank, with @ rod cf i I'LL FOLLOKW /! ’Q\o’fl———i_w,. 5 FOR A FEW nY gold, and it was a great And, as so dreams, I felt foolish, and convinced of unsuccess. while my ver gold coin. An less and that no fish would 100l at my bait. I groaned aloud, and then pray ed fervently for help. When, after ages of this hope less labor, I was about to abandon | standing at my elbow. “What do’you know about seals? |he” remarked cryptically, pointing ! to the seal-ring which I wore up- on the little finger of my right hand. And, nodding encouragingly, h folded EXPERT REPAIRING You do not take your watch to a blacksmith for repairs. Then do not turn over your car and its fine engine tothe inexperienced. Our automo- bile mechanicians are expert engine men—and we guaran- tee their work. Service charge is no higher—and you get only first-class workmanship. NORS MOTOR COMPANY CHEVROLET DEALERS scemed that my bait happens to me in ineffectual, 'y life seemed to de- pend upon my catching not mere- ly fish, but certain particular fish, o 1 knew that my task was hope- up his Cheshire-cat-like :mile and stole silently away. Williams H. William, one of the cleverest private detectives who ever lived, and whom I had em- ployed before I put an end to my : as John Dacre Waye Vander- leur St. Clair, the millionaire, had said something, as usual. What did I know about seals? Winding in my line, I dived headlong into to the water, in- stantly became a seal and, a moment later, was pursuing fish in their own element. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931 H. Williams. He was some one and unique in fact—Willlams H ‘William, to wit. This remarkable man had siari- ed life as a traveling salesman, in which capacity his marvelous gift of tongue (or the gab), his in- gratiating manner, his resource and indefatiguable tenacity, mus: have stood him in excellent stead Later he had—and I do not won- der at it—become an actor, and through training on the stage, his remarkable natural gifts were au- In the very act of opening wide- 1y my jaws, that they might meet | deep in the quivering flesh of a| ister fish that fled before me, | { I awoke. | Idly pondering the dream next | day, I saw its meaning, rcturned‘ to America, and, as I have said, plunged again into the foul river of crime, once more to be with, but not of, its denizens, and to pursue certain of them in their natural clement. The full story of my life in the | guise of a criminal inhabitant of the underworld of crooks would be as wearisome to read as it was to| live. Like war, it was, after the| first few weeks, a monotony of| rarely broken by brief| | periods of swift violent danger. Let me say at once that, clever| | | i boredom, | as I thought myself, and develish refentless, implacable and deter- mined as I was, I should have had | In> cuccess but for the help of | | thre= much cleverer people than| 1 same Williams lliam and his wife, and that { amazing character known to most {of the crooks of America, and to | all those of Chicago, as “Uncle.” | Wiliams H. Wiliiam . and| | never, never, if you should chance | to meet him or write to him, make the—by him—unforgivable mis-| take of addressing him as William H. Williams. [ As he would indignantly and truculently point out to you, any dod-gasted fool could: be William al k | | 5! el Open Tonight mented by the acquired ones of impersonation, mimicry, and dis- guise. By the time he gave up acting to follow his real bent as a d tective, he was well equipped in- deed. As a detective, his favorite and most useful role was that of a hopeless, helpless, yet cheerful in- ebriate, too hopelessly drunk, be- sotted and bemused to understand a word he heard, or to remember 'it if he heard it. In the use of this particular dis- guise of his alert, clever and cour- ageous self, he was assisted by 2 pimply face, congested cheeks of and ugly and unwholesome color and appearance, and a real drunk- ard’'s nose. In point of fact he was, by pref- erence and conviction, a teetotal- ler, and he only drank when it was necessary to the part which he was playing. No actor on the stage evergave a finer performance than did Wil- H.|liams H. William in the part of a| drunken British Officer, the dip- | somaniac Colonel Campball, self-| a certain shall interned for cure, in Nursing-Home of which I tell later. A scarcely less interesting and remarkable person than this Wil-| liams H. William and his wife. 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I employed them for years, paid them highly, and, in the end, eR- deavored to give them a reward commensurate with my gratitude. For, without them, my efforts would have been in vain; and to their cleverness, fidelity and cour- age I owe such measure of success as I have achieved. They worked together, andthelr' combined value as a pair was cer-, tainly three times as great as| |would have been the value of |either of them working alone. Each was the complement of the other, each was as flint to the| |other’s steel; and no finer pair of | | naturally and artistically gifted detectives ever worked together. | Greatly as I admired Willlams | H. Willlam’s art, in the part of | Colonel Campball at the English| Nursing-Home, I am not sure| | that T did not admire even more, | the acting of his wife, in the part |of Miss Skinner, a neurotic, un- balanced youngish old-maid, an | inveterate mischief maker and a | scandal-monger, afflicted with a | persecution-mania and all its un-| | pleasant sequelae. Beer and bullet—flirting with . T LT T T T L LT death! Waye uses strange means Monday to fathom gangland's secrets. i ATTENTION MOOSE Annual installation of officers of | Moose Lodge No. 700, Monday April |27th. A special invitation is ex-| tended to the Ladies of Mooseheart | Legion No. 439 and to the Legion | of the Moose No. 25 to be in at tendance. —adv. T L L L L] YOUR CAR —Always in Condition Dependable automobile repair is the kind that guarantees to keep your car always in condition. 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