Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1924, Page 8

s 'Di 0., SATURDAY, JANUARY .12, 1924." (Copyright, 1923, by E. C. Fisher. Mark Reg. U, 8. Pat. Oft.) ' S 2 ! e e b b THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MUTT AND JEFF—A Discussion Over an Object in “No Man’s Land”’ in Mexico. "ABOVE SUSPICION Trade SENOR MUTT; WE 6OTTA HAND T TO THE MEXICANS S Look AT THAT DUMMY ' MULE 1N ‘NO MAN'S LAND-" ANYBODY WITH EYES CAN MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT TELL THAT THAT MULE IS By Robert Orr (]Jipperfie.id. Author of “The Second “The Trigger of Bullet,” “Unseen Hands,” Conacience,” Ete. Copyright, 1923, by Robert M. McBride & Co. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) ‘Sometimes folks jumps to conclu- sions and thinks things have gone to smash when they ain't, they only need little mite o' clearin' up le that's how 1 found Geoft ced up his trowel. preten: to mix up in V'S business, Mr. Middleton, but I've got eyes in my head and if ‘twas me I wouldn't be gitlin' my ticket just ye P Adrian laughed a ¢lapped him on the shoulder. You're a good scout, Geoff, but I ¥now when I've been making a fool of myself, and It's time to pull up iy stakes. I'll se¢ you again, though, before 1 gé." He wandered into the house, and Geoft took off his cap and ran his fingers violently through his of sandy hair. ly that he was through Yhole thing and could g disturbed to his tvade, b destined to interfe sake of old t with the t onee mo nes and bring peace, to a tor- - the ey.” Miss voice inter- turned to the over- morn oft rupted I find her mus a suriant maple | he old brick She ap fragile- despite smiled ery busy. Geoff “drew got somethin’ on t get set to my ork proper. 1 done somethin' that figured was right but it's turnin’ out all wrong and comin’ to nothin’, That's what 3 Your own bus Miss Sherwood s the wail as Adrian minutes bofore. The t outlined the sweeping lines of her ivid green. and » like copper where 8 s rested on it. nt to tell me Perhaps 1 ean help v reckon, ma'am. vou was only to see things my way, but I'd have to speak about some- thin, I ain't told r livin® soul and ain't ever a-goin' to. It's what 1 found out the mornin' o' the mur- at only one other person herself _on d done a few white gown she asked *You could, 1 h. vorkin' there since the old honse was tore down and the foundations o’ the new £ een the blue prints and w construction from start havin' a hand in a hull fixin's, inside though i runnin and the llect the gal foot tapp | all herwood flicked intily \ looked up 1 recall rafling and thi posts.” “I only you wa aquare Weh here.” he tr erumblin fascinate lowed. it where Mr. side them gallery run ri ‘sif foot foot like this his trowel on th wanted to muke sur that e countin’ the dome: With the point o h'ist and lower t the top o' the don i his trowel rested, and again Miss § rwood g ed up iuto his exes. *You : somethin, tng after e trying to describe to me you found out the morn- the murder?” Her voice was not quile steady. “What it that you know? “f “reckon I know pretty much . but this is th in’ to speak ' shoex | ilo had hoped fervent- { way o' it nor the time, and that the person happened to come out on the gallery late that night and see Benkard settin’ down there, right in w line With loop o the if it had a pounds on it. fore that th: so they tied it up in the in’ cap and fastened it to the lanyard with another cord to hold on it down and crashed the Lead in—the blow would ox from that height with start!—then hauled it back up agin and fixed ev'rythin’ as they thought, paused as though unable to £o on. “Seems to me 'twas because all the folks werkin' on the case went at it with their noses to the ground, but it was from above death come to Benkard; a death that he deserved if ever a man did, and the person who dealt it to him was above sus- fon all the time” Geoff replied slim hand res’ Miss Sher- side sudden’ “What had he done Her tones were very low “I ouly found that out first from sc men who i ; 3 bly injured most in_his life young feller named Lawrence Did you say anythin' ma'a Mis wood shook her head. She was staring straight before her onc more, and her lips quivered slightl “Seems this voung feller was sup- posed to've killed himself ten years ago after Bepkard refused to fitm malke good for some money he'd stole, but he didn't; ‘twas Benkard Sot him down because he was goin’ to expose him ‘bout that embezzle- nt which he'd planned and was inly responsible for. Inever found that out till after ev'rythin' else but I suspicioned right along." Geoff spoke hurriedl as If anxlous to have this part of his explanation rover with. “I tr to git some more facts ‘hout voung Shirley, hut he idn’t seem to have no folks and no- buddy knowed where he come from il Wil n told me. Him and the boy n good friends, from him 1 went further till I & the hull trut “And_you Miss Sherwood . when Rupert Ashe w arrested “] knowed if he wax ever held for trial the that ¢ t would @-e e forward and (n\l; Geoft =aid temtly, the nasal drawl for once gone i jury in the world « verdict for noth- justifiable homicide agin ant to speak?” “Not . even * more'n Miss Sherwood turned her head for a moment and glanced out over the reemed to find it t o utterance to her “don't you think the truth Leen told when that ion of poor thousht, it to have auee her William Dun thorities the_crime c ““No, ma eoff interrupted ear- T was the one started that “rpllin’, and I fought it ull out with myself first. Dunn didn’t leave & soul to care whether he'd done it or not, and he's gone where the name it can’t hurt him. Youns Shirley had n his friend and I figured if he'd Enowed the truth—which he'd xus- prcted 5o long—bout how the boy me to his death, he'd a-killed Ben- kard himself, takin' into consi tion his own wrongs. Mebbe I took a hull lot on myself but I figured he'd puld know his suicide cat big thing, in pro- one who did.” h rwood rose and s ls . looking levelly into h o ho did kil Mr. n ball vd very and the cords eck above wallowed hard. in his lean n remarked slow voung Shirley had a little allie, who got killed in | wreck out in Californy go. I figure she'd a-b now if she was allve | "*Siss Sherwood drew in her breath once more, but she did not nd Geoff went on: Mebby she is alive. Mistakes is made right often in accident reports, | Tve tell, and e chi Miss ee, Lo git reveng. her brother even i 1 his name. That' 1 thought ti thing for ev'r, 3 forgit the hull affair but it seems ’'sif I ain't; seems some fe is dead set on mal themselve unhappy when they a no need o' it. my mind on @y work.” A ow moved far off on a sun- in the garden, and Adrian »n's solitary .figure appeared. Sherwood gazed at im with in which, a)l at once, a to glow. that Mr. Middleton down Geoff sked innocently he wants vou." Vera Sherwood turned and held out both rnilroad 1 years en growed up offrey to him suddenly nd the i That's why I can't fix| somet hin hea down and then haul it up agin ““What 3 The thin folds Sherwood’s her spa can sou be sure “I" went up tested them h T4 set in putty and, “sure nough, of Joose—the onc cn the tds fastened - before but now the snarled and tangled Gp in rands o strong cord ‘emafore lany r'd where them up and tied. self only the da was whichaw some ent, an extraordina white bosom rose and fell with modic breathing. t how on the railin® one all Leen fastened Swung hauled quick was could be gled ‘em lays me open self, 1 reckon, goin’ to know. solld once ketched more, had to naively the only T got me some putty and fixed that knob back good a though me comin' down the irs with my trowel in my hand, and a 1 .7 Geoff added 0o, that forced and Letty down, up and tied over o 'em was, ‘em to so's in. rem law my from i in with it, idea!” Vera ana | conerete Dosts, was post right over drawed my- they T untan- over right, and then T done somethin’ that to thme own her hands “T had a kind o' idee T heard him callin’ you, ma’am.” A smile lighted Geoff’s homely countenance. “I ain't figurin wn what he's walitin’ to say to you, though; 'tain’t my business!” THE END. IT STOPS _§ THAT é COUGH _ JUNIPER TAR COMPOUND GIVES QUICK RELIEF FOR up nobuddy's mever music-room winder, the the stairs COUGHS, COLDS, SORE THROAT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS USED 50 YEARS WITH WONDERFUY, SUCCESS INEXPENSIVE=2 DOSES 1¢ oy come after me just's I was a-doin’ it but she never suspicioned nothin'.” “But why, Geoffrey—why did you do these thing: One hand had grept to her throat. ] “‘Cause 1 figured the person yho'd done it-had some good reason, “from what 1 knowed 'bout Mr. Ben- "kard, and_ I had my own grudge in him: folks that beats innercent, Slpless critters 'most to death is 3:"" dead themselves, I reckon!” here was a grim note in his tones. “Mebbe I hadn't no business to mix 4n it but I figured I'd do what T liould to protect the—the person that had took the law into their own Hands, anyways till I found out why. There was somethin' else had me iguessin’ more lively right then." % “Something—else?” Miss Sherwood repeated. | "'Yes, ma’am; why there ‘wasn't no no blood on that concrete knob omethin’ must a-been ~wrapped ound it, o' course, but it couldn't -been no ordinary handkerchief nor loth ‘cause the stains would a-come 1 found out 'bout that, ough, within e ffoor o' the fiin 1 picked up & little plece o forn, “black rubberized silk that couldn’t a-come from nothin' but a bath’ cap, and the next day I dug up the rest o' it where somebuddy had hid it In the sand on the shore. T took it home and buried it in my own garden, and it ain't never goin’' to_be found.” Miss Sherwood moistened her lips. “And vou have reconstructed the— the murder from these—a torn bath- ing cap, & loose knob of concrete end_some cord knotted in the lan- yards of the flagpole?” “'Cause there-wasn't no other wa; ¥t conld a-ben done, ma'am.” Geof patidndy. 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