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Show riSTLE DALE. UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS The WEDDING MARCH MURDER CHAPTER XII by Continued 22 "Fninklin had a revolver Id his lnii!:ct and attempted to draw It, dur-lnt- r t! p struggle. Ypu wiped It clean of fiver-prints- , too, and then thought nf living Franklin's own thumb-maren ti.i weapon. Yon pressed It Into the ili'iid Mian's hand, then flung It Into the lih!nw of the garden, In the rear. AUit that you left the way you had m.iih'. hut you couldn't go Into the hnr. h hern use you had not had time tn ilrcss for the weddinjj. You were k So you crossed the Filll !n tweeds. Fireet and waited In your car until a Tier I he crime was discovered. "Von have already told us what you did then. After taking Callis Shipley )n inc. you returned to the church. You knew Franklin had been murdered. To protect yourself, you first said that the ir'rl had told you. We knew she s could i't know Franklin wag dead she was Implicated In the affair. When you saw you were trapped, you tried to wriggle out of It, and the girl tried to help you. I don't know. It might have worked If It bad not been un-ev- for last night." "!.:! t night?" Rylle Carmody stared fixedly at the detective. "You keep mining hack to that. What about last night?" "You want me to tell you, eh?" gaze never wavered from the youth's face. "You were suddenly mighty anxious to escape the man who r. as following you, last night, weren't you? Hecause you had something to do that wouldn't bear watching, "You were afraid there was something In Franklin's apartment that might Identify you with the crime. Yon hadn't an opportunity to do It before, because we were watching you. You realized you were under suspicion. Thsit heightened your anxiety, and made you all the more eager to destroy that evidence, If It were In the apa rtment, "So last night you made up your mind not to wait any longer. You decided to shake the detective and take And your chances with Fletcher. that's what you did. You had a lucky break when Fletcher went out for a couple of hours. But you couldn't find what you went after there and decided Franklin had kept it at his office. "I don't know what you were after yet. But I'll find out Probably some evidence that connected this Shipley girl with the case. Or perhaps it connected you, or even young Spears with the crime. At any rate, that's where Cardigan outguessed us both. It's too bad I didn't have more confidence In him. If I had, I'd have been with him last night and he would be here, right now. Next time, I'll play his hunch, If there ever is a next time." The detective scowled. "I don't understand how you caught him so completely off balance, lie was armed. But somehow or other, you did. And In the struggle which followed, you knocked him out of the window. But not," he paused to glance significantly at Rylle's bandages, "not before he had put up an awful struggle. He left his mark on you. "The fight was waged in the dark. Cardigan has been, able to tell me that much. You thought that even If Cardigan lived, he would be unable to Identify you. But circumstantial evidence accuses you, my boy, just as surely as Peter Cardigan ever could. "You gave our detective the slip. Why? Because you couldn't afford to be observed when you went to Franklin's apartment and office. You knocked Cardigan through the window, but not before he bad left his mark on you. This accident story won't get you anywhere, Carmody." "Suppose," replied the boy soberly, "that I can prove there really was an accident?" "Po you have witnesses?" but I can pro"Not duce the wrecked car. That should be pretty strong circumstantial evidence, as you call It" Kilday puffed thoughtfully. "The wrecked car, eh? What time was this wreck?" , or perhaps a "About quarter to nine, on a gravel road about ten miles from Westport" "Where did you go? What did you do? How did you get back to town? What time was It then?" The sergeant Ihot his questions with staccato rapidity. "I was stunned. I guess it was this blow on the head that did it." Rylie fingered the discolored eye gently. "I don't know how long I was 'out' It was quite dark, I remember. The car had overturned and I had been thrown clear. I didn't realize, at first, that I had been unconscious. Then I It was nine-thirtlooked at my watch. That worried me, because I was supposed to meet some one at nine. And the last thing I remembered before the accident, I had had plenty of time. "There was a farmhouse up the road about half a mile. I could see the lights. So I limped up there and asked for help. I telephoned West-pofrom there and got a car. Then I returned home." "What time was it when you reached the farmhouse?" "1 don't know, exactly. It must have been about ten o'clock. Not much later, I'm sure." The sergeant smiled a slow unpleasant sort of smile in which there was no trace of mirth. "I'retty clever, Jarmody. but it won't work. It was tomewhcre around four o'clock when About you started for the country. four for:y five you lost the man who Kil-tlny- 's eight-thirty- rt MONTE BARRETT Copyright. by the WNU Service. IW. Bobbs-Merri- Co. was following you. The accident occurred nearly four hours later, within thirty miles of the spot where you It didn't take four were last seen. hours to travel thirty miles not at the rate you were going. Where were you all that time? What were you doing?" Rylie hesitated. "I was Just going for a ride. I wasn't going anywhere in particular." "You said you had an appointment at nine. With whom?" "That doesn't have anything to do with the case," the young man replied slowly. "I merely mentioned It to fix the time of the accident" "You'll have to let me be the Judge of what's Important now," declared the sergeant gruffly. "Who were you going to meet, and where?" The young man remained silent "All right," declared Kilday. Til tell you. Your engagement was to go to Franklin's apartment That's why you can't tell me about It. That's why it was necessary for you to give my man the shake first He last saw you late in the afternoon. There is no record of your movements between then and the time you claim this accident occurred, near Westport. The fact Is, after you had searched Franklin's apartment you went to his office, where you had the struggle with Peter Cardigan. Then you became frightened. You needed some means of accounting for your movements at that time. Besides," the sergeant leaned back and studied his man thoughtfully, "you were badly battered in that fight. You were going to have to explain those bruises. What better explanation could you find than an automobile accident? "The apartment was searched some and time between Your struggle with Cardigan because that's about the time he went through that window. There are a number of witnesses who saw his fall. Fast driving would have taken you to the scene of the accident by about the time you appeared at the farmhouse. It was no trick for an experienced driver to roll his car off the road in loose gravel. I'll admit, you couldn't have made It by the time you say the accident occurred. Rut you didn't have to make it quite that fast. You claim you laid unconscious In the ditch for about half an hour. Yet no one saw you there.. No passers-bdiscovered the accident. It hardly seems likely that no one passed the spot In thirty minutes. The roads In that section are fairly well traveled. "Nevertheless, you were not discovered until you regained consciousness of your own accord, you tell me. Then you limped to the farmhouse. That gives you the added time necessary to complete your alibi. Carmody, there was an accident, all right. But it was a deliberate one, planned by you, to throw us off the track. You were never unconscious. That part of your story has been added to make the time fit Into the events at Franklin's office so that It would appear to be Impossible that you were there." Kilday glanced slowly about the room. "Where are the clothes you were wearing?" he next asked. "I want to have a look at them." "In the dressing room, I suppose." Rylie Indicated a door across the room. "It was a brown tweed. You'll recognize it, because it was torn a bit." As the detectivp rose, he drew his revolver. "Stay right where you are." he commanded. "Y'ou aren't going to pull any tricks on me like you did on I'll be watching you." Cardigan. He backed carefully to the dressing room and, leaving the door open in order to keep the young man in sight, found the suit. "This settles it," he said. "Come on. Get some clothes on. Y'ou're going down to headquarters with me." "You have lost your mind," declared Rylie Carmody hoarsely. "Suppose I told you who 1 Intended to meet at Westport at nine o'clock last night? Would you believe me then?" Kilday smiled. "Sure,"' he agreed. "Maybe you did have an appointment to meet some one at Westport. If you were clever you did. It would strength your alibi. "But I'll tell you something else." He leaned forward, all trace of the smile vanished into the stern lines of his face. "I'll bet you a hundred dollars that you never kept that appointfour-thirt- eight-fiftee- y n y ment. "You couldn't. Not and be at Franklin's office when you were." CHAPTER XIII In An Search of a Key awning, stretched above the side- walk below, saved Peter Cardigan's life when he plunged through the window of Jim Franklin's office. In reality It was only the space of a second, but to the falling man it seemed an interminable period. Then he crashed into the steel support of the awning, the blow catching him midway between the knee and thigh on the right leg. Its force spun him around, so that he fell on his left side. lie did not recover consciousness until some time later, at the hospital, after the attending physician had had time to determine the extent of his injuries. His right foreleg was badly fractured. His left arm was broken and. in addition, three ribs were cracked. "And a black eye," the doctor added. "If there's anything else wrong with you, we haven't been able to find It" Peter never replied. He was think who Ing with chagrin of the quarry had escaped him In that bitter struggle In the darkened room. Kilday kept him Informed of the progress he was making. It was the novelist's third day In the hospital. serHw are you feeling?" the ordigeant inquired with more than nary solicitude. "How are the aches and pains?" "They'll take care of themselves." Peter studied his friend's anxious ex"What's on your mind?" pression. "A habeas corpus hearing to release reyoung Carmody on hail," was the I ply. "It's set for this afternoon. wish you were feeling better. I think the district attorney would like to have you In rotirt as a witness." Peter smiled. "I'm afraid I wouldn't be much help," he said. "I can't believe Rylie Carmody is the fellow I befought In that office. And I can't murdered merely to lieve Franklin w;is It doesn't sound stop the wedding. reasonable." "And yet," argued the detective, "the one thing you could remember about your assailant was that he wore a tweed suit. Carmody was wearing a tweed suit" Peter raised his unbandaged arm In protest, wincing from the pain of the "That seemed very immovement. portant to me when I was falling through the window." he said. "Somehow, It doesn't seem so important now. Almost anyone could wear a tweed suit. That isn't enough to convict young Carmody." "But coupled with everything else, it is," the detective stubbornly persisted. "The minute I heard what had happened to you, I started my search. I knew from what yon told me that you had put up quite a battle. Your opponent certainly would be battered up. Young Carmody has a black eye and is considerably bruised up, otherwise. He was wearing a suit that answers your description. He claims he was In an automobile accident, but it looks as though that were just a cleverly arranged scheme to account for his appearance, as well as his whereabouts, at the time you were having your fight. He claims he had an appointment at Westport at nine o'clock, but admits he never kept It, and won't tell us who he was supposed to meet. He gave our detective the slip that afternoon, so that he had his first opportunity to visit that apartment. And he had a motive for the crime. That's enough to hold anyone on, Peter, and I'm going to hold him." The novelist studied his friend "All logical," he admitted. gravely. "I'm not sure about one point In my fight, I don't know whether I battered up my antagonist or not. Oh," he smiled, "I know I was considerably battered. But the other fellow was landing his blows to the head, I was hitting to the body. He was aiming for a knockout, and I was trying to wear my man down; working in close as much as possible. I felt sure that If I could make a affair of it. I could beat him. I think I would have, too. If I had not dived through the window, attempting to tackle him. All of which means nothing," he admitted, "except that I don't know that I blackened one of his eyes. I cant remember it, although I'm reasonably sure I left some black and blue marks on his body. The difficulty is. they aren't the sort of marks that show." "In a fight of that sort," Kilday objected, "you might have landed a dozen blows you can't remember now." "Admitted," Peter agreed. "But Rylie Carmody's black eye isn't conclusive evidence. How about Dan IUillis? Does he show any signs of having been In a fight?" "None that I could see." Peter reached for a cigarette, lighted It. and thoughtfully watched the smoke clouds roll ceilingward before he spoke again. "Of course this let's the woman out," he began. "Neither Choo Choo Train nor our mysterious woman in blue was capable of putting up the scrap that I ran Into. And of course, If the motive of the crime was to halt the wedding, the crime was committed by a woman, with the single exception of Rylie Carmody." "Of course there was Webster Spears." put In the detective. "But he was already under arrest. You didn't run into him In that office." "hlch means," continued the novelist, "that either Rylie Is our man, or else the wedding itself wasn't the motive. I've already explained why I can't think It was Rylie. A man contemplating murder doesn't advertise the motive, the way he did. It's beginning to look as though I may be wrong, but I want to be sure. We still have the Bullis angle. The murder might have been political, as you first suggested. Or. as I have previously suggested, the woman In blue may be the key to the case." "But you've already admitted It couldn't have been a woman," Kilday protested. "Certainly. I still think so. But she is the only factor of the case that remains unexplained. I still believe it is logical to assume that Franklin was killed In a fit of Jealous rage, over a woman, not by a woman. Why couldn't it have been that woman's brother or husband? Sergeant, either you are right, and Rylie Is our man, or we still have to locate a blond woman with whom Franklin had an affair. (TO BB CONTINUED.) Roanoke Island, Sally It r.,i Vi.rrr: u ;?." .vr.. r'rFT .. Modern Transportation on Roanoke Island. weather and lack of supplies, forced - a . fCntlnr.nl CJpoeraphtc Society. n Service. the party to sail away before the clue Washington. D. engineers have thrust could be investigated. trail down the What had been the colonists' fate? MuDKRN offHare North Carolina the The blazed sign was all that was coast and built the Wright ever found of the Iost Colonies exMemorial bridge across Currituck cept hasty marks of departure, burned sound, bringing the Islands Into touch chests, rusty iron implements, housewith the modern world, yet the visitor hold effects, and books. Even in that still finds in Roanoke Island the wilderness colonists of Shakespeare's the speech and customs common in folday could not exist without books. Whatever the fate of the colonists, days of Sir Walter Raleigh whose lowers established there the first Engeither they or their early successors lish settlement in America. left their Elizabethan English dialect, From the skipper of the small mail manners, customs, and features In boat that plies between the islands this American byway. one may supplement his limited As the little mail boat bobs along knowledge of this region supplied by toward Roanoke Island, the traveler's obsolete descriptions and by copies of thoughts turn from the story of Virthe original letters and maps left by ginia Dare and the first colonists to Sir Waiter Raleigh's adventurers. He another historic drama of the Banks. learns that Roanoke island perfectly In 1812, Just across the channel from exemplifies the adage that byways of Roanoke island, on the ocean sand isolation pocket the choicest realities spits of Nags Head, the pilot boat Paof life. Here is a genuine. Inbred triot, carrying Theodosia Burr Alston, dignity, expressive of a daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of hospitable folk. The islanders are Governor Alston of South Carolina, proud of their physique, speech, manended its last voyage. After the tragic ners, and customs historic survivals collapse of her father's career and the of old English Devon. loss of her little son. the only hope The ubiquitous automobile did not of the Burr family, Mrs. Alston was reach Roanoke Island until less than in the depths of despair. She set sail a decade ago. For land transportafrom Georgetown, S. C, to Join her tion there were up to that time only lonely father, and disappeared forcarts and sand ponies and ever ! occasional oxcarts. Even the little Life on the Island. sand ponies' tradition went back to A bit of life on Roanoke is revealed to the Portuguese castaway vessels, and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyagers. by a recent visitor, a woman doctor. An old midwife and nurse, the widOn Raleigh's attempts at colonizaow of a life service man, was to care tion hinged momentous results in the New world. The "Lost Colonies," for her temporarily In her ancient cottage by the sound, where she lived though they began and ended Sir Walter's ventures upon the North Carolina alone. Her name was "Mis'" Bashl the "Mis' " an island designation for Sea Islands, were the first English-speakinmistress, and "Bashi," she said, "a settlements in America. Bible name after Bathsheba, the wife Discovered In 1584. of Uriah ; but they call me Bashl." In 1584 the adventurer obtained a Surnames on the island do not de patent from Queen Elizabeth, whose note the individual, for the families favors his genius readily commanded, in a hamlet are usually all members and dispatched to the New world the of one or two clans. The little first of his expeditions. "I'll wipe the dusties off you, your band, under Amadas and Barlowe, cornhread is waitin', and your cake sailed through an Inlet on July 4, 1S4, all dressed up In coconut" to discover Roanoke island a spot so jus' Hash) stirred about the spa favored in climate and setting and so cious old brick fireplace, with Its rich in fruits, game, and bird life crane and flredogs, and brought from that It seemed to them a veritable the coals an old skillet in paradise. which she bad baked a delicious corn-breaBack to England they sailed to deLying on the hearth was a scribe it, taking with them two friendmammoth bushy-tailed- , cat. ly Indian chiefs; and also tobacco, one of the numerous beautiful de sassafras, maize, pumpkins, squash, scendants of an Island Maltese and a grapes, and other fruits. Their story Drown, hushy-taileNorwegian cat created excitement, and in the followthat had been the sole survivor of a ing year Raleigh sent out Sir Richard wreck. Grenville with a second colony, numIn a worn rocker In which bering 108 souls, determined to make the oid woman had rocked her six a permanent home on Roanoke island children the doctor rested after dinand establish plantations. ner and listened to her tale of a reThey landed on August 17, l"sr. markable life history. and built a log fortification, to which What she learned entitles Mis' Bashi they gave the name "The New Fort in to a place in the annals of medical Virginia," also spoken of as "Fort to history. The old nurse Raleigh." However, they could not the Island's remnant Herbelonged her blood, live at peace with the Indians, and character, and her beautiful, the entire colony sailed back with Sir sterling broad dialect were heritages of the Francis Drake In 1,"S(1, just two weeks old Devonshire She was castaway. before the arrival of reinforcements. and her comely one of agile, vjsage Finding the fort deserted, the new strength and thought. group also returned to England, but Of only five weeks "schoolin'." she left 15 men on the island. had never learned to read, but had A third expedition, sent out by been taught to work indoors and out Raleigh tn 15S7, found the fort deand to spin. At sixteen "out" (old) molished and no trace of the 15 men she married and at twenty-on"out," except the bones of one slain by the In a far life service station hamlet, savages. The gruesome discovery was she undertook her first obstetrical a shock to the homeseekers, and thev case. followed the advice of their willingly "Doctor, I knew nothln' of It; but 'leader. John White, to forestall future Mehaley read me a doctor hook, and by hostility making friends of the Inthe moon was comln' to full, bo the dians. The plan succeeded admirably. would be thrifty. One born In baby Manteo, one of the friendly chiefs, was the dark of the moon Is not." even baptized and given a title of noMis' Bashl's Nursing. bility as Lord of Roanoke the first On her little plantation, In English peerage In America. pine woods by the sound, though widowed Virginia Dare's Birth. On August IS, loS7, five days after later, she cared for a psychiatric the baptism of the Indian, was born mother, raised her own brood and her mother's and her brother's children, John White's granddaughter, Virginia cared for cows, pigs, and gardens. Dare, the first English native of Then for 45 years she ministered to America. She was baptized on the all the sick of the region, a local docfollowing Sunday. Thus was Elizator coming only at rare Intervals. bethan civilization anchored here by Her sand pony Napoleon carried a baby, a mother, and the American her In a cart through family. woods and sand and water. In Around little Virginia Dare, re gaie or sunshine, to her patients. Often afoot mained more than a hundred men she swung with her Viking stride down women and cliillren. They were left beaches or through the woods. alone for three years. She Then John was White, who had gone back to England she smart, exact, and knowing, though signed by mark, and she was after establishing the colonv, returned known as a "couthy" find that they had -t(capable) womdisappeared The only promising clue White an. Her dignity of bearing and courtesy were exquisite. Thus she fell found was the sign "CRO" blazed on Into the role that nature cast a tree. Since these letters were for her Months later the doctor part of a code agreed upon by the realized colonists how the personality of this islanf three years before, the rescue partv hoped that their friends had gone to woman, linked with a touch o Croatan. home of the friendly Manteo science, prevented morbid results fron: household who had promised conditions. She estab sanctuary in emer' gency; but the captain, pleading bad itllshed her own art of mJicine and worked. tj s outer cop hold together m Bat if thing BSQSj&jES&Si Set We'll be on the "an ui ... "uue together 'by PATRONIZING HOKJ I C.-- THIS WEEK'S PRIZESTO? When yoo spend hknaJ dollar tain trade it acts u a kewaiwJ comes right back to yoo. Bay lnA,Z termountain Producers nd FirtinT J they are able to bay from m. TW3 ( product are going ip; H '"--- J out dollars into aaroe nor Trade. 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