Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 26

o 9. b N A v AP, INSTALLMENT XV, T was, as Peter has guessed it would be, Charley whom Manuel presently | admitted. Detective Sergt. Charles Mitchell came in, scowling, smok- ing his inevitable cigar, and looked around. “Pretty comfortable here, ain't he said. “What's the Jap do, eh “Better not let him hear you call him & Jap,” said Peter, grinning. The queer feeling he had had_earlier of something not unfricndly ebout Char- ley’s eyes was being confirmed. “I don't know ~what—oh, ~ yes—Filipinos use bolos, don't they? That's what you're apt 1o be carved up with if you do. Manuel doesn't like Japs.” | “Well, could he find a fella a drink, | I wonder?” said Chailey. you?" | | “search me. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, “I didn’t notice anything like that!” | Peter sat straight up. | “Why should you? You ain't a dick | —and it's only in story books that rah- rah boys are the ones that spot things in a killin’. If I'd steered the boss so's he'd seen those things for himself- he'd have thought they was important, all Where I ‘went wrong was in him_after he'd missed them. Tm out for myself, every think that —yet. make a . That's where you We got to work fast, kin' on Ross now, mi like. I don't know how socn h-'ll make do you 1 den't kno I'm goin’' to find out, though-— good_blufl can help. e bess is “1 think it might be done. Scotch or rye?” | “Rye. Now you're talkicg” sald| Charley. Peter ‘gave the order, and | Charley settled down, comfortably, w.th | a highball. | “Didn’t like me much. a while back, | did you?” he said. “Thought 1 was a | roughneck for fair—eh? “Well, you are, aren't you?” Peter. That's your line, isn't it? as it's Connolly's to be smooth?” Charley chuckled. “I told the chief you wasn't as durab as you seemed.” he said. “1 pull the rcugh stuffi—yeah. When it suits me. The madam all righi?” “Mrs. Thayer? She’s #t my sister'’s— | as you know, of course.” “Sure. We know. Checked up on that with the taxi driver. Just like I been checking up on your alici, young fella. You came in at i:10 am. That fets you out, all right. How'd the Lttie lady take 1t? Preity weil shot, ch?” “Well—naturally,” said Peter. “She’s aslecp, now. My sister had sent for her doctor, and he gave her something.” | Charley nodded, approvingly. | “Good hunch,” he said. He took a sip from his glass; sat up in his chair then and fixed his eyes on Pet:r. “Now then, fella—you want to come cloan You play ball with me and we'll get slong fine—see. I got eyes in my head —and I'm not d:ad from the neck up, said Just a pinch. Not right away, though, by my guess—s’long as he's waited t long. He'll want to be sure of his cas: —he'll get a confession first, if he can, and_he darcn't pull too much rough | stuff. Not w'th a Social Register crowa like ‘titis mixed up in it. Thayers mother got a big drag. with her jack and the frionds she's got. That's one | thing. ' If the madam had been livin® in & rafiroad flat on the West Side shed be in the house now. geitin'' what Ruth Snyder got before she breka down and snilled the beans.” Damn it—I tell" you that's all rot! ou'dn’t make her confess a mur- der ‘she didn't comm | IS said Charley, ynizally. ain't no third degree | more, ar the Commissioner | byt—oh. holl! Al right, thoush | Im trailin’ along with| 2, you got me right. I don't| think the madem did it—1I ein't even so_sure this Ross was in it.” “He's out if she is, isn't he?” said Charley. the low | ain't said “Listen, fell down—and you so _sure gottin’ yet—see? | t we know, so far, First vas shot about 3 am.— | s e as Doc Johnson can come | to fixin’ the time. He was shot with a .38 automatic—killed practically at cnce. He s around 3 than th~ papers t except Mr, and Mrs. Tha; all night, | and he has to open the door—the ter- till the first cops came around from |ants don't have keys. the house.” That's right, too,” said Peter. “I Peter stared. remember.” ' He frowned. “Then—but “Then how did the murderer get up? | then—at that rate—no one but Mrs. How did Ross get up, for that matter? | Thayer went up after her husband—!" Where's the idea that he did the shoot- ‘Like hell no one did!” said Charley, and took the pistol away with him—if | scornfully. me one got away with Axel's telling the truth the gun.” LCon't forget that. They’s no “Oh, I gues gettin’ around that. Except — hell, said Charley. here's no chance in a million that she Be | did’ and chucked the gun off the “Could any one have walked up the | roof, and some one picked it up and stairs while Axel was running the ele- | carried it away. But we searched the | vator?” whole block within 15 minutes of the | “Not the way he tells it. He says | time she got in. Me, I'm forgettin’| the house door is locked after 11 p.m. that. Besides, if that dame pulled it, e was too scared te FREE Parking Space Opposite 8th Ci. Entrance $2.50 36x72-in. [} FIBRE RUGS fibre. rugs. Splen- did variety of mod- ernistic and floral motifs. Downstairs Store D. C., TUESDAY. MARCH 10, 1931. *|CHURCH MEMBER TRIO FOUND SELLING LIQUOR New York City Pastor Plans Clean- up After He Visits Six Speakensies. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 10.—Rev. Dr. Christian F. Reisner, Methodist, plans to drive the money changers out of the Speakeasies and the speakeasies out of business. He told an audience at the Brcadway and pulled it that way—well, I'm Chinaman. It's not her style.” % “Of course it's not, but I didn't think—" Peter stopped. Charley grinned at him, and finished his drink. “Didn't think a roughneck like me would be sizin’ up a dame and figurin® what she’s likely to do and not to do, eh? Listen, fejla—I ain’t much on the book stuff, but if you're goin’ to get anywhere bein’' a dick you got té know something about this here psychology, take it from me. How’s the cellar?” Peter went to the door and called Manuel, and Charley, . with a fresh drink beside him, went on. (To be continued) g mas. six resorts last week and found that at Porto Riools Christ least three of the owners were church | Christma% was this year more gener- nllembe;..hfie sfiid he would report the | ally observed in Porto Rico than ever places e police. . .. |before, but the more fortunate children “One_of the etor , . e Boe il it 'R_,‘;M‘l";’m{‘?,,"}fe |of that country have, In fact, two d I gave him a good dressing | Christmases. They believe both in All of them said they were |Sants Claus and the Three Kings, or ashamed of their jcbs and were afraid | . their Tamities wouid And out what they | M8k Who come on January 6, at Epiph- were doing. 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But Charley stopp-d him as he was about to speak. “Hold your horses, fella—hold your | horses,” he said. “I know what I seen 1 handed it to you pretty rough a while | back, maybe. I guess. youre on the | Jevel. Tl take it back about you b:in’ | one of them lizards that makes love t) a guy's wife when he ain't around. 1 guess you're on the up and up, all r ght. But a guy can't help fallin’ for a dame it happens to the best of us. Com: clean—ain't I right?” Peter looked at him for a moment. This was Charley in a new guise. A_nd oddly, Peter's instinct was to trust him even, in a way, to like him. He was puzzied; there was something about this visit that was irregular, cut of the | routine. “Yes,” hew said. “Pretty mean—well—yes, as far as cerned. But Mrs. Thayer— “Oh, I got that, too!” said Charley. | “You ain't on the map for her. ~You're | just old dog Tray. Is tough, fella, | fin’ s the way they brea, some- | times, I ajn't seen this Ross, but from 11 T hear, he's a_worm, and still—well, fhere ain‘t mo figurin' on a woman. Ain't it the truth? ¥ere’s what I'm |~ ttin’ at, though. You're strong for | Ez madam. You'd do a lot to help her | out of this jam she's in, wouldn't| you?” | “Yes, T would. I'd do anything"” | said Peter—without any hesitation at all this time. “You think she is in a | Jam. do you?” 2°5¥11 say she is! Take a look around, downstairs, when you go back to sis- fer's. Youll see a dick watchin' every gateway—you can tell 'em by their feet nd thelr square heads. She ain't hed yet, but she might as well be. or all the chance she'd have to get as far as Hoboken if she tried to make a preak, The bess thinks she and Ross ooked it up to croak this Thayer.” “He's wrong,” said Peter. He was gurprised by the steadiness of his own Voice, by the curious calm that pos- sessed him. “Yeah? That's what you say. Maybe you're right—maybe you're Wrong. Folks do queer things, fella, when fhey're that way about one aother and i & ey's some one standin’ in the way.” P G .’"6, “You wouldn't be here, taiking to me amn Goes in a Ju Mke this, if you agreed with Connolly,” | The very moment a drop of SAFE paid Peter. b FREEZONE touclies an aching corn all “Yeah? Maybe you're right, at that. | pain stops—and even tight new shoes Maybe 1 have goi some ideas of mY| don't bother any more. FREEZONE own. Maybe I'd like to slip one OVer. | works that fast every time. Pain stops Maybe it wouldn't hurt me none, down- | i, g flash. Soon after corn gets so very | town. Right now I don't cut much ice. | joose you can lift it right off with your You seen how I got. chased when the | ‘groc Yot Tn Fit T8 TR B0 ! boss and the D A put e on the €ar- | gasily and painicasly. For stop- o es, And X noticed you didu's like | irie i ek e R e +o | luses and warts there is abso- T got hopes of you, Wayne. 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