The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1933, Page 7

Tl-E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, JULY 10, 1933, By BILLE DE BECK ‘tgrbo;rd as mana o( the waus u .possible. this summex, especially BARI\EY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG T'LL FIND THAT i _VIPER AND | TEAR HIM LIMB FROM LiMB Chapter 46 WHO 1S “FRANCIS"? 'HAT do you— Go on.” “Don’ interrupt me, please,” said Lorn crankily. “It's very sim- ple. You see, when Tally came to consult me he'd just slipped on a Wwet' street in traffic and got in- » ‘volved somehow with a taxicab and flying glass. It wasn’t serious. he told me, but his face was heavily ‘bandaged. That was, of course, fully six months ago. ‘And "'ve not seen him since.” “Where was that meeting?” “In New York.” “Was he the same general build as this man?" “Of course,” said Lorn fmpatient- 1y. “Do you think I haven't tried every test? ['m willing o admit ihat he may have deliberately got TBimselt up to give me no definite ‘way of Identifying him again. But ‘whatever was the purpose, the fact remains that | can’t tell whether this man s Francis Tally or not.” “But this man recognized you. Spoke first. Called you by name.” The scorn in Lorn's gaze made Itself felt though he was still in the shadow. “Have you failed to consider a possible connection between the Lovschiems "and this man? Of their informing him caretally of everything they have managed to|, discover?. In case—ol course—he Is actually not Francis Tally?” “No—" 1 said slowly. “No— I've not failed to do that.” Several things returned to me, Grethe's sudden activity after that period of curfously patient, cat-like waiting; the way she’d looked at the new- comer when he floundered; the way his eyes had sought hers there in the lounge—had it been for guid- unce? Briefly | told Lorn of the time- table Loyschiem had tried to con- ceal; he too, he agreed, had noted the curious effect the man called Francis Tally gave of looking to Grethe for_belp “The thing to do,” said Lorn, “as 1 see it, 1s simply to ‘sit tight until the Paris detectives come. They'll make an end to things in a hurry.” “But, Miss Tally—" | said. “We'll advise her to hang on to her token, take wo chances, and wait for the detectives. In the mean- time—" Haq paused, and then con- tinued: “1 may as well tell .you, Sundean, that I think | know what the motive power is.” ““You “‘mean,” { “cried excitedly, forcing him for once to a definite statement, “the murderer?” “Don’t ask me any more now, Sun- dean. And | must go. Tell Miss Tally what I've told you, wili you?” We walked together to the stair- way. He went down, met Mrs, Byng ‘and Sue on the landing. crossed the lounge and entered the lobby. At the desk Lorn paused and spoke to Lovschiem. Yet—of course, that did not mean that Lovechiem was, after all, the murderer. l TURNED to meet Sue and Mrs. Byng. “l suppose,” Mrs. Byng was shouting, “that we must eat din: ner in thiz den of perdition. But| don’t worry. darling.” She moved: =head of ug In the nafrow corridor, | walking vzug,; strange st{ffness and lack of fréedom brou;ht on nrnn' bly by her nwn;(lns Wmonlg Sue dropppd back littlg 'mh me, and under the cpntinued boom| of Mrs. Byng’s voice | asked to see Francis's Jetter agaiy. ,“Envelope and all,” 1 said. “As soon as pos- sible.” She qodded‘ “I'i get \t. Mrs. Byng, still (llkin:. in her own room, closed t and | heard her lock It, | went into Sue’s room-with her and she banded me the square white en ulau. 1 took it apd moved nnder the light to look at the address more closely. “That, ight_is very dim,” said Sue. “I'll turn on this one over the table.” She maved to the door; I heard it elose and waited for the little click of the light switch. It did not ¢ome. I heard her light footsteps be- hind me, and the bottom dropped out of the world. “Put up your hands,” she sald coldly and erisply. 1 felt the cold pressurg gf & pietel agalnst my neck. *l mean it,” she repeated in a hard voice I'd never heard before, “Put up your hands.” It was impossible to obey. In fact, and in spite of that ominous cold touch on mj neck, I believe I was too numb with shock to piide my hands. . ..Then slowly I turned, The girl - backed away so that ehe stiil held mé in range of that small pistol. ’h gm wu not Sue Tally—or i} IF I HEAR OF JLUST ONE MORE THING HE'S. DONE T . ther she was not the gir! I knew as Sue Tally. For when 1 said slowly: are you?" she replied: “l am Sue Tally. I've told you twice to put up your hands. This gun is loaded, and I'm a good shot.” 1 stood there looking at ber. She was of the same general hsgght and build as Sue but lacked Sue's fine- ness of wrist and ankle and deli- cacy of proportion. She was fair, too, and wore her hair like Sue’s. She was even dressed in a black velvet coat, like Sue's. But she did not resemble Sue, in. the least. A general, written . description ol height, weight. and coloring might have applied to them both, but they were not at all alike. Then a borrified question crashed upon me. Where was Sue? - What had happened? Where had sbe gone? *“You don’t want to shoot me,” | sald. “It won't do you any good. There are too many gendarmea in the place for you to escape,” “They are drinkin. in the kitch- en. Paul likes having them there.” She spoke a little contemptupusly, hut her hard eyes did not waver from mjpe. “l am Sue Tally,” ghe reiterated, “and | want the paper you took from the priest's room a short time ago. Don't deny it, for 1 saw you. That paper belongstome.” O you are Sue Tally,” I said thoughtfully. *1 had suspected your presence for séme time. Can’t we sit down and talk this over more amicably?” She did not relax her hold or the pistol and eyed me suspiciously. 1 went on: “Where have they been keeping you all this time?, Hasn't it grown “Who a little tiresome, dodging the po- | lice, hiding here and there?” She bit her lip. I thought sudden- ly that there was something at the same time shrewd and stupid about her face. She said: “It.was easy epough. | All but those nights in the store- room. Come, give me the paper.” So it was she in the storeroom; 1 had not expected that, even though I had guessed that gshe was about somewhere, waiting to carry out her role in the conspiracy. *“In the_stareroom,” | repgated sympathetically. “You ppor girl. It must have been most uncemforta- ble, The smoke fram your cigar ettes drifted up to me one night.” “Oh, it wasn't difficult to stay out of people’s way. Anyway, at 3 dis- tance | lcok rather like—this other girl) 1 had ‘this coat made like hers on purpose. Of course, I've not been in the hotel all the time. I've been staying at Paul's — the cook’s house.” “Oh, so you've been staying at Pagl's” 1 thought the girl had been hored and dull; she was prpb- ably not averse to talking to some- one. Her hand did not waver with the pistol, but she was looking rather approvingly at me. “The Lovschiem’s haven’t be¢n treating you very well, have they?” Y 1t was a lucky thing to say. “No,” she flashed. *“They forget how {important I am to them—" She checked herself quickly, but it was too late. “I've seen you'befgre, you know.” “When?" she sald incredujously. “Looking from the third-story window — | suppose you were lodged there then—the night of the first murder.” Sbe bit her lip again, and to my uwnlshment and intense discom- @[& ears came welling up into her Mar:e eyes. | should have pre § her to remain hard and A!;dd Mrs. Byng saw you too— ggn you turned out the hotel lights. 1 suppose that was after Ma- dame Lovschiem bag said you must hide from the police whp were com- ing.* She nodded without, I think, rea- lizing what she was dolng. “They didn't tell me it would be like this,” she said sullenly, the tqu !tfll hanging there fn her hey ought ta bave.told me." Pon Iy 1 ought to feel a decent compunction for my not too diplo- mati¢ behavior.. But | dido’t—either then or thereatler. | was, even, too hurried for finesse. ‘I sald with sym- pathy: “¥op girl., 247 trested you .33’ badly, ’&m they?” And I looked at her with dmjratiof 50 boautitul— ”"‘ Nevepe ing faintly Her. eyes stopp nr-y to the mir- like oysters an ror, 'l'he ucond‘l'ivavew gave ;e" y chapcers tpl‘nl toward (Copyright, 1933, Mignon @. Eberhart) mysterious Stravsky, to. Blicein BUSINESS MEN RETURN FROM LONG AIR TRIP Hebert Use Quicker Meherin, Goldstein and| AGROSS Low singing " ‘voles Measure of land . Health resort 3 8ne opposed Abhmara foot 5. Forays | Bestasy Rest on the surface of a fluid . Made a mistake 8pouse 4. Leave Mode of Traveling After their 4,000 - mile through the Interior in a plane of the Pacific Alaska Airways, piloted by Harry Blunt, Joseph J. Meherin, tive, Charles Goldstein, prominent Juneau fur buyer and L. F. Hebert, of the Schwabacher Hardware Com- | pany, arrived back in Juneau on the steamer Aleutian this morning. will never again make an extensive | trip in Alaska by any other mode of transportation than plane. Fly to Fairbanks 1 Met at Anchorage by the PAA plane, pilotéd by Harry Blunt, the three business men flew to Fair- banks, calling at all of the im- portant places in Interior Alaska and on Seward Peninsula, and cov- ered territory in eleven days that would have required about one year in the days, beforg ayiation became the mode of tranaportauon in Al- aska. Visit, Enroute The towns the three men visited before arriving at Fairbanks were Sleitmute, Napamute, Akiak, Bethel, Mountain Village, Marshall, Russian Mission, Holy Cross, Shagluk, Anvik, St. Michael, Unalakleet, . Golovin, Nome, Teller, Deering, Nulato, Kal- tag, Ruby, Hot Springs, Rampart, cotna, Flat, kon, Circle City and Eagle. has stimulated the fur business and | helped the traders, according, ta" Mr. Meherin. The catch of muysk- rat is about 80 per cent less this year than last, he declared. Busi-| ness on the whole is normal and Name is quite optimistic of the future, because of the propased mining development in that dis-! tefet, he said. Goced Season Flat is concident of a good sea- son, providing there is plenty of rain, Mr. Meherin said. When the party was in Flat the eptire dis- | trict was very dry, but they heasd later that rain had set in. Mr. Meherin will remain in Ju- neau for about a month, when with Mrs. Meherin, he will leave for the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago and spend some time yis- iting with A. A. Humfrey. Mr. Goldstein brought back, a large amount of practically every variety of fur to be found in the districts he visited and is enthus- iastic over the large amount of territory he was able to cover by plane, —————— Elias Funk, new outfielder of the San Francisco Seals, set a Pacific Coast League baseball record for the season for outfield putouts in flight | Hills Brothers' Coffee representa- .8 All three are agreed that they| Anchorage, Medfra, McGrath, Ta- his first game on the home lot! | Inglon char- acter . Indlan mul- Ty a1, Antitery mall area 135 Forda s 5 “OWOI‘I of fan Tier , Hnnm 3 yoelt . Roman date 42, Quiet . Wear away | ¥ Fake for ranted . FI§L can . Venture . Title of Athefia . . Affirmative 50. Formerly . Wild_animat DOWN . Fasten securely addd Saad nn=.%n 1T F onarchs ush . Pael . Impressed with_solemn wonder . ‘Thus Commerce . Representa- 8. 9. tve . City in Texas . Pefsla . Voluntary at the eclose of a church service . Scarcer . Medicinal plant 30. Statutes . Metal fast- eriers 4. Neat . Arablan com- Endete: 2. l.elnl elatms . Visienary 3 l;lmble colloq. 8 Ssbertnn river . Byes: Scotch Governmenl . sflflhl for ethyl Literary trag- ments . Grow rigid L. Move sidewise » ‘Morning: abbr. , Pasteboard I box ! Long thiet ‘of the sea fl uam/ IIIIHII Tl | 7 llflll Solomon,' Stephen's Village, Beaver, Fort Yu- The advance in fur prices, such’ as beaver, marten, fox and mink,’ e o — fll%gllfil/ l3"5!“(15 soEs TOSTATES N BUSINESS TRIP Much Prospecting Being Done in Interior—Game | Qutlook Is Good Robert Gierke, store owndr at -Bethel, 200 miles from Nome, is a \passenger on the Aleutian on a month’s business trip to the States. Mr. Gierke formerly lived in Fair- Jbanks, but the past 15 years has been in business in Bethel, at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. He reports considerable activity in the new platinum mines 150 miles from Bethel and in the Good News 1 Bay district. Operations have been in progress there the past three years, and in the last two years approximately 1,000 ounces of plat- inum have been taken out. i Prospecting :})fll"l’v..gw'\t 10 fly ballsgin. Mr. Gierke reports that in the terfiel near Qulhn',mk a Orolick district << "Tomorrow s Styles Today” Absolute Close Out ON REMAINING SUMMER FINERY -«=FOR CASH ONLY - - All Remaining®MILLLINERY— 50c and $1.00 ' SILK DRESSES, BLQUSES, SKIRTS—$1.95 TABLE SPECIALS -~ Silk Lingerie, Sweaters, " Gloves—$1.00 Juneaw’s Own Store prospecting is in progress and some gold has been taken out, but de- { welopment there has been retarded owing to the greater lure of the placer platinum mining. Trappers in that district did not fage so well the past year. The muskrat catch was the lowest in the history of Alaska owing to the shortage of snow the past winter. Outleck Good This year’s outlook is better. Beaver are plentiful, and the pros- pects for increased catch of fox and mink are good because of the greater number of rabbits, their natural food. Mr. Gierke made the trip from Bethel to Anchorage in 6% hours actual flying time. It formerly required 17 days, aver- aging 40 miles daily, to cover the me_distance. Mr. Gierke is an airplane enthusiast and feels that it will be an important factor in Alaska’s development. NOTICE After July 10 no telephone rentals for the month of July will be actepted at a discount. Al remittances by mail must bear postmari of not later than Ilast discount date. Please be prompt JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS m:mone CO. OTHER ABLE SPECIALS a1 25¢ and 50¢ * alversen’s STORE OPEN UNTIL 9°P. M. TONICH’ I—JULY 10 | Toleda Scales, MRS. J..C. STAPLETON. HOSTESS AT TEA ON | SATURDAY AFTERNOON In honor of Rher mother, Mrs. D. C. French, and her husband’s mother, Mrs. D. P, Stapleton, who are visiting here, Mrs, J. C. Staple- ton was hostess on Saturday. after- noon from 2:30 o'clock until 5 b) k at a delightful tea in her apartment in . the Pigg building. The large living room and dining room were charmingly decorated with bowls of flowers in pastel shades as was the attractively ar- ranged tea table. Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, Mrs. R. E. Robertson and Mrs. John A. Glasse poured during the afternoon and those who served were, the Misses Carol Robertson, Jean Faulkner, Eva Tripp, Blanche Turner, Al- vina Berg, Dana DeVighne and Ellen Mize and Mrs. Burford Car- || michael. Miss Kristie Sather, Mrs. N. Lester Troast, Mrs. 'W. P. Scott and Mrs: William Byington, assist- ted Mrs: Stapleton during the after- noon. Mrs. Stapleton, with her mother, Mrs. French and Mrs. Stapleton, Senior, recelved the large number of friends who cnlled during the afterhoon. ' - — PARTY MAKES TRIP TO BENJAMIN Harvey Moore was Jahnke family. The trip was plan- ned in honor of Mrs. Gus George and her sister, Mrs. F, J. 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