New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 15

mcarosly heard what MaoNair Deacon’s discovery had aston- }6d me lesa than it had shocked my moral sense, for all day the trend ‘of - the ' evidence .had besn ‘tewards the conclusion implied by the finding of the pistel in Ogden’s “You have given us another fact to bulida theery on, Deacon.” he Was asaying. “A fact hard and square, fast and real” 7 “The theory?" Henry demanded, MacNair began. 'Consider the facts, This man Furle calls on Hyde aftornoon. Hubbard overhesrs Og- den shout the two words ‘gold bul- Furie leaves, Ogden tele- phones Peebles and ia stabbed as Be aits at the instrument. Inci- dentally, Ogden has a-card left at my house asking me to call. *During - the . afternooh - Péebles nted piatol from Early this_ morning Peosbisn’ hoiise 14 entered by & man ter the pistpl. One of the gold bullet-leadad cartpidges of ¢! The messmge was written in 1396 and it gocuses-one James Dillon of murder. ‘Later on, we find evidence that - leads us to believe Ogden has been paying Dillon blackmail for 26 years, 1t also turss out that Ogden deaperately wanted this gold- meunted pistol himself. Hyde, it appears, bought it from this man Furie who called on Ogden. We aise find in Ogden's safe 26 poker chips and a deck of cards. Ogden wag known to be prejudiced against card-playing. “Why should Ogden have been paying . Dillon blackmail for 26 years? Why should Ogden want this gold-meunted . pistol? Our feelin gthal ‘was not the man the community -supposed him to be, be- comes certginty. And now we have your discovery, Deacon, of this other - gold-mounted pistol in Og- den’s room.”" He paused. “I vénture to say,” he went on. “that Alex Peterson, swashbuckler and gambler, and Andrew Ogden. our lte exemplary citizen, and buflder of San Felipe were onw and the same man.” d Again he paused, “I suggest, furthermore,” Nair continued ruthlessly, “that Dillon blackmailed Ogden because ‘of something that happened when Ogden was Alex Peterson; that the man “Jerry' was & close relation—a brother, perhaps—or close friend of Peterson's (sv close, in fact, that Ogden called his own son after him); and that the poker chips and the - deck of cards symbolize the indiscretion for which Ogden was blackmalled. “Sounds Deacon growled. ‘MacNsir bowed fronically. “By the " he resumed, "I womder it_either of you have forgotten the so-called legend of the ‘poker game that cracked. the town'? E L jumped at this, “You mean that fool yarn about reon playing poker for a.human life?"” I stormed. “My dear Watson! I was merely dropping & .seed into the ground made . fertile by our recent discov- eriga. It that poker game should prove to .be a fact it might have had something to do with Ogden's death.” “It isn't a fact” I said doggedly. But 1. wasn't an. sure, for he had carried me along with the sweep of his“iégic. “What about those pieces of quarts? I anded. ‘There shomld be ‘motive énough fer you.” v1 was coming to them. One specimen was in Ogden's desk; the other was in Hyde's. I believe Furie could tell us something about them. At __any” rate, they bring Hyde into the affair—this lawyer, Roy Ham- mond, too, perhaps. For all I knew Hyde.may be Dillon, but it dessn't follow .because Dijlion blackmalled Ogden. that he aiso killed him. But reasonable,” wanted te . open the mine and that Ogéon. refused to let him touch fit. Interesting situation, don't you think ?"” “Yeou are trying to baild thelr difference of opinion into a mo- tive!” 1 charged. MacNair, grioned. belter reason for keeping it closed. He doasa't . seem to have given the “It looks that found 1t. Naturally, he te exploit his discovery. Hid father refusss to let #ived him no adequate feason for AoiAg %e. They hecome ammry. Anger turns to rage and. well— thers you are.” “Feu!” 1 exploded. “Nowhere at all. 18 ° the first place, If thene twe_ apecimens came from a mew vein. 8 the Two Brothers’ Hyde. apo. kmews ot that vein; Qefls Ploce, you R e the third place, you haven't of Dillon yet. I den't wes greed motive ‘shouldn't be 7 \ Alex Petersoa—Andrew Ogiden—one and the same llu as strongly operative th one man as in another.” “Neither do 1" he said, “but un- fortunately for your argument, which cxpresses my point of view #0 far as it goes, the other evi- dence Implicates young Ogden and not Hyde or Furie. As for Dillon, I'll show you him dead or alive before I'm done. There's Mrs. Lundy, too. Ogden didn't give her ber $1,000 for nothing." His arguments were sound, but before I could reply Deacon epoke. ““There's sense in what he says, John. You might as well admit it. I'm sorry, but I can't get it out of my head that the boy did it. He may have come to blows with An- drew about the mine.” ‘He . wouldn't have stabbed his father in the hack while he sat at the telephone I retorted iudig- nantly. “Get your hands on James Dillon and you'll have Ogden’s mur- derer, Henry. And don't forget that Polyandria marked your man." CHAPTER 16 ON JERRY'S TRAIL There was nothing elre to he done, and so we followed Deacon began to pencil In the little red notebook. his ironic look tempered by amuse- ment. “Clews?”" he inquirpd when he had done. / “In a way,"” I admitted. *I thought T might be able to supple- ment your conclusions with ene or two of my own.” “Good idea! Two heads are bet. ter than one. Well, I must be off.” *No, indeed!” I exclaimed, ftand- ing up. "“You must have dinner with us.” He laughed. “You tempt me. I have an inditferent cook.” “Mine is the hest in Ban Felip2, You will stay?"” *Thanks. T will.” The meal wasn't especially live- 1y, although both Mrs, Moffit and Lucy did their best, and T must ad- mit MacNair was interesting in hiy cold-blooded way. ‘But his twisted outiook and his ironical philosophy of life took from our intercourse that spontaneity which always graces my tahle. 1 suppose the trapping of one's fellow bheings dis- courages the social instinct. He MacNair watched me,| well as 1 did. Probably my pride in the audacious thing Lucy was to do, rekindled the fires of my vanished youth, for I have the tim- id man's admiration of daring. How intemsely vivik a woman's love for a man may become! The miracle of it leaves me a little " breathless even now. here's mo word?' Lucy whis- « The horn of MacNair's car sound- ed in front of the house and I hur- ried out in my slippers. “I am going to Los Angeles,” he announced curtly. “Jerry Ogden was seem racing toward Skull Valley.” “None,” T said, huskily, and she pressed her head hard against my knee. When she looked up I tried to avoid her eyes, but there must have been some magnetic quality in the look she turned on me for I felt my eyes drawn down to hers. Her expression tore my heart and T had to blow my nose violently be- fore 1 felt equal tp recounting what had transpired dvring the day. “You still believe in him, Uncle John?" “My dear child! Of course I be- lieve in him!" “And—you don't think—anything -=dreadful could have happened to him?" T sensed the terror leaping in her breast, but I kept my voice steady. “Certainly not! He'll turn up in a day or two." 8he nestled softly against me then. In her tender moments Lucy salbly dear to me. mit I am getting on for of thing that began al breakfast the next morning. Noth- ing like it had come my way in 10 years or more and it surprises “Have you got word of some- thing?" I asked eagerly. His face was inscrutable, “I don’'t know, i It may not amount to anything. “Well, silence is the prerogative of the Holmes tribe. You have a fine car, MacNair. Just ten miles over the 5,000-mark,” I observed with a glance at the speedometer. He nodded. “It's fairly speedy. I expect to be back tomorrow." The engine gave a throsty pur: and the roadster slid from under my hand. At breakfast, half an hour later, Lucy had little to say. 8hadows encircled her eyca and my heart ached for her. We had got to the toast and coffee stage when the telephone rang. It was 8undey, Mrs. Moffit's day off, and Lucy answered the call. Mrs. Mof- fit had got our breakfast rcady and |} gone to her Cosmic Indulgence cir- cle, which meets every Sunday morning at eight. We didn't ex- pect_her back until evening. “Somebody wanta to speak t Captain Deacon,” Lucy announced from the door of my den. “He's not here. Why didn't you—"" I stopped. Her eyes were fixed on me piteously. “What's the matter, child “I don't know—oh, nothing, she whispered. didn’t—tell hi I thought it might be—I thought something might have happened— he seems excited—' “Nonsense!" I cried, but my old heart thumped a bit. “Deacon must be dropping in here. Wait, I'H speak to him."” A sense of disaster weighed upon me as I took up the instrument. “Hello." “That you, chief?” some one de- manded crisply. I have been told that my voice over the wire re- sembles Deacon's. Before I could make my identity known the veice ran on: *“Som='dy just phoned in they seen Jerry Ogden driving along the Peskella road to Skull Valley night before last!" I almost dropped the instrument. “This is Peebles. 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