New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 20

Bynopais: Leaving the Ogden mine ‘after Hammond had departed with- ‘eut sceing them, Peebles and Dea- .gon retura to San’ Felipe. Peebles s seriously alarmed when he learns that Lucy and Jerry have not re- “turned. He decides to wait until the mext day hefore organizing a ~pearching party. Emptying the pockets of his trousers, he finds, to Bis utter amazement, a playing card —the ace of spades—a card from the table at which sat the two si- lent figures in the room of Lundy's suloon. His nightmare of horror had not been a dream. CHAPTER 29 MARKED CARDS The possibility that my experience Behind the bolted door might be Teality of a grim and terrible Kind Badn't occurred to me since a few the conditions under which i had fallen into the north room: and in either event he had smashed in the door of the west room to create in my mind the im- pression tnat it was this room into which 1 had fallen. Hvidently there was something in the north room he wanted to con- ceal. What? The, Probably. And who, or what, were the poker players? There was another thing, too. The recurrence of this “poker” motif. Andrew had detested the game, yet we nhad found the imple- ments of it in his safe; the phrase the “poker game that cracked the town.” and some nonsense about playing poker for a human life were a part of \he Peterson lcgend and then 1 nad come upon that ghastly game in the north room something of . Marked cards—Furic's lens—“po ker game that cracked the town Minutes after my return to con- ciousness this morning and I had Pput completely out of my mind the thought that it was anything elsc but & nightmare. And yet here 1 was with proof of its reality in my hand! Every detail of the experfence #tood out in my memory as sharp | #s a beacon on a dark night. The fearful quietness after the storm | » . . the shapes at the table . . .| Ahe two men playing poker in the | @ark . . . the card I had auto-| matically stuffed into my pocket } “Alex Peterson” and forgotten about. And then . sy hand going over that cold face. “But they couldn’t have been dead!” 1 groaned. “And they couldn't have been alive! It must | fave been a nightmare!” And then| ¥ looked at the ace of spades again and knew that it wasn't. 1 tried another tack. Why hal| Furie lied to me? Were he and | Dillon in the thing together? For | he certainly hadn't found me in that room in which I had come to my senses. As 1 had supposed at first, the room into which I had | fallen was in the north wall of the building. Furie, then, had gone to the trouble of climbing through the window of the north room, un- Dolting the door, and carrying me fnto the room off the west side of the gallery. If he weren't Dillon's @ccomplice he must have guessed | the Mrs. Lundy screamed— What did these recurrences mean? 1 decided to let the matter rest until aiter supper when I would see Henry or Mac and give one or the sther a chance to ex- press an opinian_about my experi- ence, 5 When T had disposed of sizable helpings of Mrs. Moflit’s, beefsteak and caramel pudding I went into my den, took out my little red notehook, and hegan to pencil in it. 1 was still writing when Mrs. Moffit ushered in Luth “Hello, there 10t my hushand?® hac . he said briefly, “When did you get “This morning,"™ as we shook hands “When did 1 see went on. “Only vy rday morn- ing, it? ems like a month, T've been through a good deal, Mac- Nair. Whereupon of mny done, hir you last?” 1 wiis 1 told every detail experiences. When 1T had I laid my exhibits before the Torridity Firebrand. eyepiece, the ace of spades. “What do you think of my poker ers?" 1 demanded. ir laughed grimly “Your poker players? I should say they were part of the pattern. Everything you have told me about i a pust of the pattern. But most of the p: ing and we see nothing bhut confusion. When the pattern i3 complete we shall POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “l thrashed Junior for strikin’ that little Green boy, an’ now Ma says she hope: ‘I'm satisfied since I whipped our child to please Mrs. AUNT HET BY ROPERT QUILLEN “Bella is just a little too broad-minded to suit me. 1 like folds that are narrow- minded enough to think that Green.” fCepyright 1329. Publishers Syndicate) some things are wrong. (Copyright 1323, Publishers Syndicate) P poker players? | [1ens probably have as intricate a bit of mosaic work as you or 1 ever| w. “But what about my {wo men?" 1 persisted. “Were they dead or— what? You might bazard a guess.” “I might hazard a dozen guesses. What do vou think yourself?” They couldn’t have been alive,” ardly,” MacNaif grunted. “The point is: were they dead?” “We don't know that, Hello, what's this?" 1 was fiddling with Furie's eye- picce. Chancing to look through it, 1 saw. to my surprise, the grain of tke top of my desk enormously magnified. “Look through this” I handing the lens to MacNair “Excellent for cldsc-up worl grunted. “Rut T don't see how Furie managed the distance. “1 doubt if he got much out of it at all,” 1 said. “Its ecffect upon him seemed to be largely psycholog- ical. It seemed to give him confi- dence in himself " “I've got an idea he isn't as blind as he pretends.” “What makes you think that?" Whipping five playing cards out of his pocket, MacNair tossed them in front of me. fac either. said, Deacon had found in Og- “Look at thair hacks through the lens.” “These cards shouted MacNair nodded. “You wouldn't have seen the marks without the ns. Just the high cards are mark- ed.” 1 are marked!" I studied the cards through the again. The two ma on cach diagonally opnosite corners of each card were ghe same, but no two were marked alike. On one iwo cucved lines were | thickened; on andther, two straight lines; on another, two half circles: and so on. In no instance was the thickening longer than half an inch and it had been done so deli- cately that it was almost impercep- tible fo the naked eye. “The chances of the crooked player would be increased enor- mously,” MacNair wagssaying. “The method isn't perfect, of course—a wrd would pe ' him now and then but in crooked gambling a ain percentage of losses is de- sirable.” “But he couldn’t &ce the marks, T exploded. “unless he had the e awk!” ir took 'the lens out of my hand and struck it in his right eye, leaning forward a httle. “I sce the marks quite clearly as you hold the cards.” 1 stared at him, dumbfounded You think—Good Heavens! You connect that lens with these mark- ed cards! Noasense! No one in his senses would play a man with a magnifying glass in his eye!” “Not if the glass were set In a pair_of old-fashioned spectacles?” MacNair drawled. 1 half rose in my seat. “You mean—Good God!” T almost shout- ed. “The ‘poker game that cracked the town’! “Precisely. The cracked the town, oed. “The town.of years ago. How don’t know.” “And what—who was the stake?” I breathed. MacNair gave his cold-blooded laugh. “Ah! the stake. That will be another part in our pattern.” nd the players?” *“Ogden would be one of them," MacNair drawled with maddening deliberation. “And Dillon shouted. He seemed don’t know Who is Dillon? “You know perfectly well Ditlon is!” 1 stormed. Again the cold-blooded laugh. He ker game that MacNair ech- Torridity 30 it tracked it we was the other!” T to 50 ponder this. “T much about that. who JUST KIDS \F YOU WAS IN A SHACK UP NORTH a ABIG WOLF WAS ALL AROUND \T FIERCE L\KE WHAT WouLD YUH DO down. By their | backs 1 recogaized them as part of | ATHIM car. After he left, T went slowly back to my den. After some thought 1 took up the telephone and was pres- ently talking with an old - colleague whe lives in l.os Angeles. . o . | After breaktast the next morn- ing, 1 telephonad Deacon. To my sorrow, he had no word of the chil- dren and 1 strengthened my regolve to start for Skull Valley if they were not back by noon. 1 went out into the garden. As I approached | the patio door, voices came to me. [ One of them was Mra. Moffit's dis- mal treble. The other. a woman's voice also, 1 did not recognize. They came into view. Dumbfound- ed, 1 slipped behind a hydrangea bush. Mrs. Moffit was showing my lilies to The Wonfin in Black! 1 did not doubt that she was Mrs. Lundy. “Tall,’ “angular,” and “all sinew and bone and tight-shut mouth,” Huhbard had described her. Her long|black coat and dress were unrelieved by the slightest { touch of color and I wondered how |Deacon’s men had missed her. “The lily is the vessel of purity.” Her voice reminded me of a priest of one of the mystic religions. “These are beautiful.” ' “Mr. Pechirs looks after them | as if they were babies,” Mrs. Moffit | sighed. “I'm sure he won't mind it you want to pick & few. { T thought it time to reveal my- self and I stepped from behind the hydrangea. “Have your friend help herself, Mrs. Moffit,” T said lavishly. My housekeeper started. “Oh! T didn't know you were there, Mr Pechles. Why, why—this is Mra. Lundy, the demopstrator ‘of our circle. I bowed. were—forgive | derstand " s “Demonstrator of the Forty-ninth | Circle in the Fifth Realm, Cosmic Indulgence,” she informed me se- renely. ; Light broke upon me, “Ah! Cos- | mic Indulgence!” * | “You have heard of our beautiful | faith, Mr. Pecbles?” | “Hmn!” I said. “Yes. From Mrs. | Moffit.” The latter cast a doubtful eye at me. “Do you mind coming {into my study for a few minutes | before you go?" i She not secm surprised. “Of course not. We are always glad to answer questions about our faith.” I took her through the patio door, leaving Mrs. Moffit goggling |at our backs. | “Mrs. Lundy.” T said briskly, “my | questions have mnothing whatever | to do with Cosmic Indulgence. Her mouth tightened. “I don’t wish to be impertinent,” I said earnestly. “Tell me: have you lLeen questioned by the po- | Tice " 8he lice! man?” Where have you been ever since day night?" “I was in my room at the Cen- tral Hotel. I was meditating. Four days of continuous meditation are required of the priestesses of our faith every month.” “Indeed!” I began to understand. “You called on Mr. Andrew Og- den last week, didn’t you?” “T did. “He gave you a check for $1,0002" “What has that got to do With | i “Mrs. Moffit said you me if I did not un- a opened her eyes. “The po- Goodness, no! What about, | F | you Evidently,” 1 said watching her closely, “you do not know that An. drew Ogden was murdered in his library last Friday night.” 8he looked at me, gaping. “Mur- dered!” 1 explained the eircumstances of the murder and the check stub. “Do you mean the police want to see me about that check? It was a contribution to our cause.” I stared at her, astonished. “Do you mean to sav Ogden gave you $1.000 for this—your faith?" “Certainly.” I fell silent. Andrew had hated humbug of every description. He couldn't have fallen for any such nonsense as Cosmic Indulgence. “Mrs. Lundy,” T said placatingly. “you must forgive me for going into personal matters, but I am de- termined to get at the bottom of this murder. Are you, 1ID6IT A GUNAN 1'D SHOOT IBET 1M GITTIN', SOMPIN ) £ got up and 1 followed him to hix you, the wife of Joe Lundy, who kept a resort in Torridity 30 years ago?” She seemed to freeze before my eyes. 1 leaned forward. “My niece Lucy is engaged to Ogden’s, son, Jerry. Jerry is sus- pected of Killing his father. 1 be- Heve he is innocent and I want you to-help me prove he is. Won't you do so by answering my questions?" “All right,’ the woman yielded suddenly. “But you are touching on a phase of my life I have tried to forget. Yes, I am Joe Lundy's wife.” “Were you married to him then? “Yes. But I did not live with ! him in Torridity. A week there was enough. The town was aban- doned when the mines were ciosed | down, My hushand was shot about I exclaimed. “Is he| He was shot in the head and he has been feeble-minded ever since. The bul- let creased the scalp. He remem- | bers nothing about the town—or‘ the shooting.” The tragedy of her Kfe clouded my spirit. “Since you were at Torridity for a week or 50 you will know some- thing of the town at that time,” 1 suggested diffidently. “It was a place of evil!” she re-! plied scathingly. | “Did you hear of a man named Peterson while you were down there?” T asked. “Alex Peterson?” “Alex Peterson!” the woman )('rkd in so tense a voice that I was startled. *“Alex Peterson shot my hushand!” (Cpoyright 192 Wm. Morrow Co.) | Alex Peterson—Andrew Ogden — Joe Lundy—Dillon—*gold bullets” | | —What is the answer to this per- | plexing tangle? Continue with the | | next chapter tomorrow. City Items | | William McCue, son of Detective Sergeant and Mrs, Willlam P, Mc Cue of Lincoln street, arrived home | from Georgetown university, Wash- ington. D. C., last evening to spend | the summer vacation. N. B. Greenhouse, cor. Onk and Lasalle. Geraniums 10c and up. | Vinca vines 25c, also small potted | plants.—advt. The second degree will he con- ferred on a class of candidates at the regular weekly meeting of Lex- ington lodge in 0dd Fellows hall, this evening. | Moody Secretarial Summer School | July Sth—August 16th. Phone 207. | —advt, | Sergeant J. C. Stadler reported to | Lieutenant Ma‘ihias Rival at 1:15 this morning that there was a fire | at the Ellis street dumping grounds. Fire headquarters was notified, A $5.00 pearl necklace for $1.00 until Saturday at 11 p. m., Milled & | Hansen’s Drug Store, 30 Church St. —advt. Laurel Court, 0. of A. will mect In Masonic temple, Kriday cvening at 7:45 o'clock. Advancement of | officers will take place. The police were notificd today of | [the suspension of the operator's licenses of Willlam P, Kiniry of 71! Curtis street, Gunnard Ryden of 4 | Smith street and Lawrence Martin of 182 West strect, also the return {of the license of Rudolph M. John- |8on of 77 Osgood Avenue. This evening at 7:30 o'clock, Lead- ing Star lodge. Shepherd of Bethic hem will observe its 25th annive sary at Junior 0. U. A. M. hall. A1 cntertainment will be given and re- freshments served. All members are invited to be present. The South Cong, Church will hald a food sale at A. A. Mills' Hdwe, stor +|on West Main 8t. Friday afternoon. —advt, A regular meeting of Court Col- | umba, Catholic Daughters of Amer- ica, will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the K. of C. club roome. A bridge whist will follow the niceting. Special Notice German A. H. B. society will give a dance at Sheutzen Park, Saturday, | June 8. Dancing from 3 till 12 |o'clock. Petoff’s orchestra. 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