The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1922, Page 24

Se ee ne ae — ne eget RT RC ge TETRA a etree nee pte eyen ta JHE HOUSE OF PERIL The Master MysteryStory Illustrated by of New ork ife L OUI S TRACY Frederic Dorr Steers ? Mysterious Ring Found by Hobo “It’s hard to believe that such little morning,” said Winte things could kill a man, but they — Passing the newspar as ______— THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929. persuade a youngster to drink,'’ said invited to reside forthwith in the Dix- 1 can't tell you, of coufse, You puzzled by his failure to keep the ap- New York. IT am Capt. Stuart, @ rastand at 60th Stuart, “yet I do honestly think you ons’ flat was the most unlooked-for sec, it's this way—Mary isn't spe- pointment. end of her brother’s."’ ‘ One of a Type of Poison Car- outed Fianagan, or I'm a Wop," he Street and Sixth Avenue on their need a high-ball, Good resolutions and staggering development that could cially stuck on anybody. Four or ite filled Wis pipe and glonced In that instant Stuart was aware ' 5 fj muttered. way to Crossley’s police station, they are fine, but steady improvement Is Possibly have come at the Close of a five fellows were after her, a8 she's through the morning papers, intent on he had erred in saying too much. He ¥' ‘> rlers Made in Venice Two “You're no Wop, Jim,” said Fur- al) saw a searehead, “Strange death the thing to aim for rather than a day which had long since transcended an uncommonly nice girl, which you finding how much, if anything, New could assign no cause for the belief, eS Centuries Ago neaux, “and, unless I'm greatly mis- of a New York detective,” across the Salvation Army conversion." any twenty-four hours within his pre- saw for yourself, Frank Baker swore York knew of the Van Cortland trag- but he felt that it was so. ss taken, this ring has killed two men front page of an evening journal “Do you mean that? vious experiences. He seemed to see He'd get her—all fair and square, you eqy, Almost to his dismay he learned ‘The voice wast taken aback, too. 4 within the day. It strikes me as an ‘‘Hello! The press has got it" ‘Sure I do." Furneaux grinning at him over Dix- know—but Pop found himself tled that the city knew a good deal, The ‘You meestake,” it sald. “Mees ae | CONTENTS TO BE TESTED, ll" Poison ring, though T have growled Winter. “Well, here goes! ‘The first to- on's shoulder. He could almost hear up in a rubber deal, and Tony came police.court proceedings against'Jack- Dixon cannod ‘ave gone away.” fea * never seen one before. Why not ‘That hobo was before the Magis- day—since I woke up, that Is." Winter's big voice guffawing at the to the rescue, so, there you are! son, followed by Flanagan's mysteri- ‘Tell me who you are,'* t ee” show it to a real Wop? What do you trate, and the place where the ring To put the boy at his ease, and, Plight of a puppet who had vowed not Frank Baker said all kinds of nasty ous death, had sent reporters hot- Stuart, “and I may be able to 3} Capt. Stuart G to Viet 2 chet” was found was mentioned,” said incidentally, to rid himself of false to dance to the bureau's piping. He things, and wrote ‘em too. You foot to the van Cortland mansion—at you further detalls.’” z pt. ual joes tO “Meaning Pucci?” Crossley. pretense Stuart explained that he was so utterly flabbergasted that could have knocked me déwn with ® frst to inquire into the truth of the “Rut 1 musd speak mit her.’ Young Dixon While His Father axel &: Kno wiohEwatls: Sir eae ees = aie aad ine abe ought Chou: he ecuen't hiobo’s account Of his possession of Hithexeniction ‘or anger hed thicite i i ¥ py! , ” very i 4 le ring, DI ate iD fe 4 ened the acce pre than ever, 4 and Sister Are in the TH send for him 5 Please be a sport," he pleaded. very well refuse, that being the ine vastly more intriguing story of “"<{ ‘naar, you you eannot-now, was halted on the stairs “You'll haye better meals, anythow. lastest last meeting of the boys. Anthony van Cortland's death Bhs ie aot hee, Cee Adirondacks, with a message, and soon the oleag- inous Puce! was in the room. I knew a fellow who lived here, unl Now, Mary and I are sure he didn't old Mother Riordan gave him such a kill Van, He isn’t that sort of fel- wag almost common property go of indigestion that it took a low. Plenty of bounce and bluster, members were discussed full month's pummelling at Hot Springs but he really wouldn't hurt a fly. frankly, Happily, the only allus to get his tummy right. Still, it's awkward. There's 89 . i history of thé Ace Club, of course, message, and I will promise it shall be sent to her.’ A broken Damn!" reached hi as the transmitter was hung w| to Mary Dixon was a sympathetic ac- Somehow, Sttiart realized that tf “THE STORY TO DAT o i ROWN, the butler of the Fifth But 1 have never been quite so much on record, and it's bound to count of her projected marriage, now éall might be of vital importance to : { A ff Anth Soar asatrer Laka ee le table yester- a wofully thrown into the limbo of the police. He called the Plaza Ex- 7 a . venue mansion of nthony never,’ gasped Stuart. day evening he saif he'd rather wring events which might have been. ohana, nd tried to ‘ Van Cortland, finds his em- “What is there to {t?’ urged the Van's neck than drink his health. So 2 Sete Bor persuade the ther. ‘Just packing a grip while I come along, if only to obli lady.” He was reading certain details Operator fo trace back the call to its Shane for the, ats, Whaeh by the And that is howe HELE RETOHE tateé) about Holgate, Kerningham, Baker, originating number. He failed, of way, is at your disposal all day and Capt. Alec Stuart found himself in- Monty Straus, and the rest—Wilhe ourse, as that sort of request te most nights. Your man can close up stalled.in the bedroom of Mr. Dixon D!xon, of course, had a whole para- taade too often for trivial reasons, here to-morrow." sr., while Benson had orders to trans- &T@ph to himself—when the telephone So he got on to the Bureau and ployer dead and twelve guests unconscious around a table where the } thirteen had gathered for a convivial % celebration of the Ace Club the night bef A goldfigh bowl in th “Do you mean sertously that you fer himself and his master’s baggage '#"s 1n the hall. Ca on Bal sons j petore:” A’ golds in a bowl in the want me to go with you now?’ to the Park Avenue flat next morning. He went to answer it and a man's t = oom is floating, dead. A strange odor “Sure thing! I can't stick to that He and Dixon did not indulge in any voice satd: ‘'Miss Dixon, please." Se Se 1) ache COE e rae | apervades the room. empty flat by myself to-night. I'd— more confidences ti, night. Toth — “Who speaking?” inquired ye ixone’ Pie: nt Capt. Stuart, an army officer, calls I'd see things. There’s a room for were too tired. The boy was physi- Stuart. . iy 8’ flat sald rt. “I'm staying here, in fat, but don't ask me why now. There n it had acquired jy something much more urgent. A a sudden buskiness, plus a quasi- call came here three minutes ago for at home we get our m Dias felthe in Catherine asa snow forelsn accent which had certainly not Miss Dixon, I answered, It was @ ‘ been there In the opening words. man's disguised voice. Will you ask ‘There are twenty good reasons and Dixon hurried off to his new oc- ““«is.4 Gat Plaza, No, ——2" It im« {he Plaza Excha: to find out who why I cannot act on the jump in that cupation. Benson went to attend to (ij) noe ; AGAR Bi ah! « the packing in 67th Street, and Cath. Tred. ewhat your man, and Mary left the house- cally worn out, and Stuart felt t parlor maid, who is a bully’ good his brain was crammed: to capacity. cook, for breakfasts... When we dine Next morning they met at breakfast, at home we get our meals from the a meal which fully justified Mary for Van Cortland to go for a ride in tral Park and discovers the state of Maar After talking with Morrison, | the chauffeur; Roberts, the valet; Ma- / \sie, the maid, and Brown, Capt. Stuart | calls Police Headquarters and in a few ; minutes a queer-looking little man ap- pears at the mansion and introduces There was a marked pause. When What's the rush?” “But Mary's one reason is worth erine asked if Capt. Stuart would be A (Bedhine T have 1a ‘ont ot them all, and more. She has a no- at home during the next hour, as she leestare Dixon's apart-e-ment "Yes." fdea that I have just been d i tion that the wrong man will be had shopping to do. This arrangement Yes. : himself as Mr. Furneaux of the detec- blamed for doing in poor old Van, suited him well. He wanted to tel “Who {s speakin’, plees?* Se we ee p-live force. After looking over the and you and I may be able to stop phone the Bureau early, since Fur- ‘That's what I'm asking you?” ortland it.” neaux would give him a call at noon ‘*Bud, I vant Mees Dixon Gee!"" sald Furneaux. “How?” at the old address, and would be ‘‘She Is not here. She has left (Continued to-morrow.) ground he orders that Dr. George Bright of East 83d Street be called. | Capt. Stuart, chosen by Furneaux to ‘ notify Miss Mary Dixon, Van Cort- lagd’s fiancee, of his death, performs disagreeable task, but is impressed We | by the fact that she shows no deep a t ime Meantime Willie Dixon, Mary's ~ /yauing brother, one of the unconscious p, awakes after Furneaux has emp- fied the pockets of all the Ace Club {members and taken their fingerprints. Capt. Stuart accompanies Willie jixon to Ris home, meets Mary again, ut learns nothing of her feelings re- ding the death of the man she was hs mari He ~joins Furneaux and 3 Chief of Detectives Winter at break- » fast fon eines they discuss.the case. ee eee ee aS eT AND 10EA ORIGINATED AND PROTECTED BY THE SLOAN FICTION SERVICE NEW YORK GETTIN’ SQUARE STUART: “DO YOU MEAN SERIOUSLY THAT YOU WANT ME TO GO WITH YOU NOW?" Discovery is made of a threateninj WILLIE DIXON: “SURE THING! By Frank Kellerman YP oreaseg fypewritten note in which Van Cortland | CAN’T STICK TO THAT EMPTY / mm F . was tottthe-coutd-never. marry Mary FLAT BY MYSELF TO-NIGHT. : us 5 sy Dixon. The writer has attempted an 'D—I'D SEE THINGS.” “~“Ttalian dialect. Furnegux’s theory is that the mur- that in mind when you're talkin’ i + atiministering a knockout START TO-DAY. Jerry was glaring at him out of a working. “'You—— His wife s Ti bah white face. That's what I mear Said wh outside. Y’understand?”’ ; - i (Copyrighted. “You le!’ he articulated when said he completed finally ‘Sure, Jerry!’ Dugan's eyes wei ¥ jught to the party and pouring the would not join in the festivities be- 3] r The thing was mS : hse é de i Bi y e balance into the gold fish bowl, admin- _ ‘What's that, Professor?” inquired ‘ot Van Cortiand's house!’ cause he had been dining with the PERE melee words came. The hand which had hoarse whisper. wide with wonder as he went out the| |i aN a deadly dose to Van Cortland Winter, pointing to the ring, now re- . but the exact spot in the park. two detectives engaged in the van about to happen that he had failed’ of Dugan's shoulder now door. | . grip ck of his chair. erry sat down in his chair, His Jerry si ypode: Posin, ino he tablecloth. I suppose when the Flanagan incl- case. forecast. Lonergan was making gripped the back of his chair. , Jerry sat down in h hair ‘ ee ne hee aon't handle it. aralae ay al Le seca i red * |whined face went into his cupped hands. He en man, fared stupidly, like pe) teks ie about the office, balcony outside the window threw “No; don't handle it. Look." dent was given out some sharp re- Dixon literally beamed at the news, ready to default. Jerry haddis- “So help me, Jerry “ - a “ ote y ” “ ” Dugan, He had edged away as far ned thus for a very long time, ed aimlessly to various cals picked Eee See EN UND! ras rails of ae nae te ace, {Which twolemat’ S|.” be gaits PONe gucsed tuo Hsuracu Counted. that. upon putting up the MEBoUREL ihm tickets to: Ie eeemoll 'tg Dugan who grew ner- them Up ‘end set then. down) egdlat trates all save three of the Ace Club excited, and murmured something ‘The throwing of the ring from a had roped you in, even if you didn't bond. He discounted tt now to his aq vous and shifty and finally arose. | He settled himself at his desk for ; room in the tland mansion know it yourself.* omplete satisfaction and the smile “Tickets?” almost yelled Jerry, and “\Where you goin’?" Jerry glanced moment and then arose, knockin members, Durrane, Kerningham and Very Wicked in Italian, know it you comp! > snag : “It is bad, bad!" he gurgled. “Un’ and Flanag Then by way of explaining his visit qoepened. then a low moan broke from him, up as Ke spoke, Dugan started, over the telephone as he did so, Hl stooped and picked it up. Jee The feel of something or othe! seemed to rivet his attention, te give abe Koown aid it his faculties life. A hard, rasp laugh suddenly split out of him, anello di morta Vot you call a Flanagan's body showed the same Willie Dixon confided: ‘ie Mahar ois OF Bet ‘death’ ring, It was made in Venezia, characteristics as Van Cortland's ex- ‘You're curious, I always was a beg- id versation in which the dead two, three hundred years ago. Von cept that the contortion of paralysis gar far shoving the cart before the yand a se i Logan edt + ; vt leetle scratch, ahd, p-sst, you die, was more marked. ‘The skin was horse, but, as you will see, we've she think no ‘ or ee ive reatening Note. wiadre qi Dio! 1 did not tink dare quite yellow, which seemed to bear cleared the’ ground pretty well al-/ or her sake-tnot for that crook of wart overhears a conversation IN was anozzare one in all New York! “T did it when everybody else fell down on her,"’ he murmured. **What'll out Furneaux’s comment that the ready, Anyhow, here goes! This |, ‘So I'm to be the Sandy Cla | (Which Montagu Toyn says that Mary “another? Where is the first poison, whatever it might be, must afternoon Pop came back from 120 “ Boats ch?" he ered flercely. ‘She's age to marry Van Cortland gy. exercise an extraordinary effect on Broadway and I was hauled out of He paused and.his brow Senne rea to make a dub out o° me for her crook’ use he saved ther father from fail- “winter's question came like a pistol the blood corpuscles. Singularly bed to attend a council of war, First "And I did it without comin’ between of a husband? Never!" he snarled. , Ure in a deal in rubber stocks. shot and Pucci straightened himself enough, the police surgeon’s report thing Pop, who is under the wedther, nim and her either," he added. He called a downtown number. In! Capt. Crossley, precinct commander, unti his face lay in the shadow cast gave as the apparent cause of death asked me what I meant to do during wpnat's the beauty of it. She'll sea a few minutes he had arranged ‘ res the arrest of a tramp who by a screen above the cluster of elec- “virulent blood@-poisoning." the remainder of my days, and I took Surrender Lonergan. He He trembled as he hung up the receiver. He started to pac: ‘he of- § fice floor, his hands locke! Yehind! him, For a whole hour he walked. he claims to have found in tric lights which hung over the centre Furneaux accom fl _ now that I was alway companied Stuart to his the wind out of his sails by suggest ‘Central i Park byreate the VanCort- of the table. ith a mighty effort he flat—it lay on tis path, he explained. ing that I might fill a stool in his choked and a mist filmed his eyes. Jand mansion. Officer Flanagan, who recovered himself but Stuart felt the The little man seemed to abandon his office, starting to-morrow. And, by “So Nipper got the tickets, eh? _ made the arrest, is scratched while ex- fat hands clutch the back of his chair cryptic style of speech during that jing, that’s fixed. Me for the east Tickets?"" | ©. amining the ring and dies just as Van with a nervous tension that was elo- short stroll. side subway at 8.30 A.M. sharp to- he word seemed to initiate reflec- Haneda Rabelais sees bt “Cortland.died, + quent. “In fact," said the detective, “1 morrow as ever Is.” tion. Jerry's eyes gradually opened BeBTietingrenctionne elke Sata “I-am wrong, I speak carelessly. I jave a notion that this affair may “Splendid! Out of evil has come ¢ their full width. He gripped his MDB bEOn finns ohIts y a sharr) ‘ CHAPTER VI. mean there Is not one like this in New never cyt muth ice in the courts, 800d, for you, at any rate.” chair arms tightly as his face grew <r ghoulda't Have sonecthent® ha York. Some one is:playing for a high stake, | “Yes—that's all right so far. But pate, cried. ‘Not on the word of sil THE RING—IN FACT, THREE it was noticeable qhat his English ind when he feels he has Jost he'll I'm out on my own. Pop and Mary ‘One ticket!’ he gasped finally, hecler!”" _ 2 RINGS. wag nearly perfect now save us further trouble by blowing Jeft for our camp in the Adirondacks +phat's what Tommy meant.” He He tor Y ao by. Wi : ' 2 took off the receiver and ROSSLEY produced a smal © An urge by Winter, a promise of his brains out.’ about two hours ago’ They'll be stared for moments at nothing. “But the number. He learned that oon package from his waistcoat Secrecy, and Pucci weakened. “Do you think there is money at “Way all the summer. Mind you, I he gald tickets!" he muttered finally. stables had cone in search of Lond pocket. Unfolding a linen . “There tv a girl in the chorus at the issue?” fell in with the notion. New York is «Tommy!" he called suddenly and crpans With a slaty he nee lines Winnber with great oare, Be Metropolitan—Carlotta Grisi—she has “avarice and sexual passion are the 20 placé for Mary when the fuss grose as a knock sounded upon the and again paced the floor, He finald Pought the end of a second covering Mf. causes of 99 in 100 planned crimes," ®bout poor old Tony starts, ., office door, ts caueeds % of tusue paper, held.it up, and allowed Was she ever friendly with young said the philosopher, ‘and avarice . “Rather a sudden decision, wasn't He opened it. A slim, rat-eyed in- +1 won't. balleve 1," tie musman “ @ gold ring to tumble forth onto the YA) Cortland? comes easily first. Sometimes the !t?" : 5 dividual entered quickly and looked ed resolutely. ““She’ wouldn't do,gif tablecloth, It was a solid articla, and have seen them together.” two combine; that simplifies matters “Yes and no. Van and Mary were furtively about him, trick like that—not to me, I wd “Is this her ring, do you think, or for the bureau, I mean. But this S0lng there for their honeymoon, as — «Never mind, Tommy!" one like it? ; “No, It is not quite the same. Her aid Jerry, time the problem is rather more be likes the place. It's a log hut waving negatively to Tommy, who complex, I imagine. We are up near Paul Smit had come in from the bar. ‘‘Here's ed design known in lion couchant," with bore an embos “heraldry as a the head crouched between the two believe {t—not till I hear it from hi own Ips!" Putting on his hat-ans coat je went out, 4 ring has a coiled snake, and—and—I "y “I'm sure your sister will be hap- Dugan now He turned to the slim Jally, i prast paws, 10 theas the.claws were TOS. : ’ ‘against a thinker, Capt. Stuart jRow!"" | oclally, Lonergan had been te, ee Steals Soh anew word sehulated by fellera spe nelson anit ike Stuart's rooms were on the second Pler well away from this city just one. ‘What's on your mind?” he Jerry a pariah. Up to the previo * tiny rubles, which shone viciously 1n «pecause Carlotta tried it floor, He had not rented an expen- BOW,” he sald. queried, eyeing him suspiciously. evening he hadn't been face to fi the electric Nght. four sane acct > {rie i on Me sive place, so there was no elevator’ “I Wish you Wouldn't’ keep on “Yer better surrender him!" said, with Lonergan’s wife in years. Hi . nal eq fOU .» oF hall porter, but call * agreeing with me all along the line,’ Dugan in a dramatic whisper. Don't touch it!” Crossley warned “what sort of polaon is this stuft?” $e Mi foren ine Caley eee cried Willle petulantly. ‘Why don’t ‘Meanin’ Lonergan," sald Jerry. the others in an awed tone. “ThOS* asked Furneaux ou ‘Hell, you don't tell me,’ or “He's goin’ to jump. I know that. claws work somehow. I don't know vy, Pucci was now mopping his SoMtfolled by each tenant when at you say, yi! " gol jump. had then asked himself what wi there In married life to grind flee! to dry up blood, to whiten hair * ‘. P fy sve h He had told B something of the sort? You sec, it's Go on! some women before their time, iia, tok. Poor. Pik n discovered domed forehead with a handkerchief, NOm® igi that hight hence ho this way. Mary has taken quite a ‘He was released this mornin ‘The same question flashed agat Beech wink pulled thet pee tee Was surprised tov find the lights on shihe to you. Says you're a sensible, went on Dugan. “I met him at the hiss ae he tend ip Lancrase's aa “ ; yintor t te ont know. No one knows, It gnq Benson himself in the hall straightforward sort of cuss, worth jail, and we did some business to- an hour later. ‘The woman seated i SM ~ intr clon a Winter rose and bent jy one of the lost arts, ; id Benson himself in the hall. whole truckload of sap-headed mill- gether downtown. When we come fo our tae he oa ee Ce ee nies said Furneaux, ,gWReR, Puce! ad gone, Furneaux yo! "sin yo T thought T hed’ better ionaires and society | roustabouts, home X waited for Jim in his parlor, the room seemed but the wraith of the BE Moe Sco, 1 suppose not, but I'm so (Ault turmed his attention to the stick ie” explained the valet. he Bote. toe iene Ne Fle Ans As Oe we ee ec oe te girl he had known—oh, so well—in hh t Tide ety UBORE Rot, but I'm eo sing. ‘The detective found that by "ens 4s ite" srishe—you know her, eh rand for him. I heard him and his See tage iawn Eater, aan ght vt aN? promang he PAG Of the mane, 10) | nits Dinca alr.” Stuart nodded, Mrs, Langrishe wite talkin’ It over tn the next room. and with an airy colorful face. Lake right now. ti nee ’ . » wir, Red France, "t Know I was in the hou: Nast phe edite a Wurneaux pleked up the rinz, de- smaiter blade at a canoe. Spee a. my Gay ten't finished yet” papel een pape tiigas pe escos ee tn es fe ese te - ; coplte Crowsley's renewed protest lected the few grains of matter on *hought Stuart, as he gave Benson “wey, Polly said you were here on ‘Cut that stuff and go on!" raaped ’ his hat and cane. Ente: self-abasement? He didn’ “Oh, it’s all right.’ said he, ‘The ring the sitting two months' leave, and rather at a Jerry, and Dugan started. Jerry's "frost deadly snake is powerless when a et adiye F egeper ee oa mPa~ room he was met by Willle Dixon, ‘1059 end, ao Mary hopes—hopes most eyes had taken on a strange gleam, “You. ‘That's the part I don't get,” Jerry's face seemed to have grown know. | He was a bachelor, His sou Fou grab him by the scruff of the “1 wonder how those claws got 100K!Bg a much more spruce young sincerely I was to say—that you will ‘She put it to Jim this way,” con- whispered Dugan. ‘Lonergan seemed awfully old looking the while he had WON Uo vN Et oy nesin, Jerry! back into thelr places when Flana- ™&® Bow than at 9 o'clock that morn- come to our flat as my guest for the tinued Dugan. “In different words, to have {t doped out before she told sat there » she sald calmly, . Her hands ‘wee Dp ding the ring by its narrow t, gan opened them,” he murmured, as !"8- balance of your leave. . . Steady, o' course. ‘They had the goods on him, She didn’t know he had the I'm sorry I butted in, Jerry,” § asped back of her he he lookal # be squeezed the lion's mane between though speaking to himself, ‘Hope you don't mind my intra- now, for two ticks! You've got to him and there wasn’t a burgiar’s tickets till he mentioned it. Then apologized Dugan. — Se ins san aw enn, Senhe eae {Whe thumb and forefinger of the other “Vianagan pushed them back, He 00," said his visitor, with a forced have it all. She says there will be an chance wid a jury. He'd be no good she said, ‘That's good, Jim Jerry arose—slowly and with may Ut oh theif ptoeed avan Ashand, aid the centre claw on each told me so," said the police captain, Cheerfulness that revealed shaken gwfyl lot of worry and trouble before in this locality once he was sent UP. wyoy jie!'! muttered Jerry. His *fort He tried to smi Wis Hand! toe araniod. Ive ehaugeoeeeen Toot raised itself instantly, remaining “How long before he felt iI? nerves. “I'm under orders, and just 'pony's death is cleared up, andI shall Her scheme was to have him jump geiaration, however, lacked the posi- WePt Ber Shia’ fim Dugan's nat, 1 know your errand, “Upright when the pressure was re- > than fifteen minutes." had to hang on here till you came.” be sadly in need of some one to guide his bail, go West, and start all over eo uaity of the former one shoulder. " ‘epail’ eae womethiog, see?! ane Taxed. A groove ran down the inner : sible,” said Stuart, who “I am very glad to see you,” sald my juvenile steps, or words to that again where he wasn't known, For “V® j ane _Bixcuse me for bein’ rougl,’ Ne aned on a table, facing her. Fis If “pide, and, with the next movemént of had kept silent throughout all that Stuart, giving a hospitable eye to @ effect.” the kid's sake was her cry. She's ‘So help me, I'm not ki in’, Jor- quid Kindly, "1 didn't mean to hurt hore ta tulven: his tace fo pF PI the detcetive's hands, some specks of tense scene, “that poison hidden in tray with decanter and glasses. “Why ‘To describe Stuart's mental state goin’ to see him through his get- TY)" assured Dugan, ‘I thought to ‘your foolingn, I'm obliged for the een cease ‘abit ‘natier, in color a dull green, dropped that way would retain its potency, didn't you help yourself to a drink?’ during the boy's appeal as one of away''—— Go you # favor in savin’ your money,” {ip, Tut whe"--— His teeth suddenly Hie hands. whlen me a othe cloth after a couple of centuries? ‘ “Not taking any. New } and amazement would be an underesti: Dugan looked up from hie recital ‘That ain't it," murmured Jorry, clicked ‘Mrs, * Lonergan, 1 mean 8% i ( Croisley watched thie demonstra- “Some unhappy guinea-pig will that sort of thing, you know. mate. He was literally stupefied. in time to neatly duck a heavy hand as if to himaelf, "That ain't it, You —she —had--nothin to--do — with FINISH TO-MORROW, disp with evident fear. answer that question to-morrow ‘I'm the last man in the world to That he of all men living should be coming down upon his shoulder. saw’—— He paused, his lips still Lonergan jumpin’ his ball! Bear Hew do you think the story will en@)y ‘ , a } " 4 4 iaaill ,