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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEH1. UTAH MXXXXXXXXXXXg Synthetic Gentleman By CHANNING POLLOCK OopTrtgbc, Chajmlng Pollock TPNU Service. XXXXXXXXXXX CHAPTER VIII Continued 15 , Wasting my tiiue." Barry told the t morning, In the city di tor's busy office at The Globe. "My time, and nearly a hundred dollars of the paper's money. Winslow had It Straight The Fane girl was strutting tier stuff from one o'clock until long after the murder." "Well, it's good to be sure." "Yes, and I'm mighty sure now. Every gtep I've taken since our last meeting leads right up to Mrs. Kelly." Harwood looked at him quizzically. "Step No. I?" he asked. "My advertisement offering a reward for the number of the cab that killed that artist s wife." "Ton don't mean that you got It?" Triumphantly, Rarry opened his note book. -There It is." he said. "O2G017. The figures under It are the number of the driver who gave me the Information." Ernie copied both numbers. "Swell work," he commented. "Anyliar-wood- nt-x- thing WlHetts' compunctions "'Sorry, sir. but I've beeD having dinner with Kelly's chauffeur." "Liquid nourishment?" "Yea, sir." Evans admitted, sheepishly. ""But that was the only chance I bad with that Irishman." "Well?" "Well, I drove Miss Hambidge, and Mrs. Itogers, and the boy to Southampton, like you said. And I started back today. It was nearly eight when I made the garage, and 1 was good and hungry. "There s a decent cafe a few yards that's Kelly's chauaway. Nolan ffeurwas sitting at a table, with a load he ought to've gone twice for." Evans smiled. "Ed had a grouch on women in general. And he was chowed plenty. I hadn't been with him long when he opened up on Mrs. Kelly. There's something queer between her and this Filipino, he says." "Charlie?" "That isn't bis name, but let It go at that. And, when Ed said "queer." he didn't mean anything wrong. Just some kind of an understanding. Mrs. Kelly's been giving the Chink coin and Jewelry, regular. Charlie showed him some of It, Ed says. "Well, the night of the murder drives Kelly to the Cocoanut Bar. And home at nine o'clock. When he gels out at his house. Kelly says, 'Put the car in the garage. Mrs. Kelly's gone up to Harlem, and I won't need you 'til tomorrow morning.' ''Ed obeys orders. He goes back to Kelly's, and sits In the kitchen. This Chink Is In the butler's pantry, getting a tray ready. And, while the two of 'em are down there, the damnedest row starts upstairs " "Rogers and Kelly." , "No. This was around nine o'clock. Mrs. Kelly. She was laying Mike out so you could have heard It n block. No-lan- d Ti elsef "Lots. This fellow had a passenger who got out at Twenty-thirstreet round midnight. When the woman was killed two hours later the driver bumped into him again lit Sixteenth treet, very much rattled, and looking at though 'he'd committed a murd der." "Any description?" "Rather a vague one. That doesn't matter. I'm sure. In my own mind, that this passenger was the caller Kelly expected, and that he wasn't the murderer. I'm equally sure that he knew murder had been committed." "Let's call It a mere supposition. In that case, Kelly was killed around two o'clock. At two o'clock, Mrs. Kelly wasn't la Harlem." "How do you know that?" Barry's answer was a full report of his adventures of Saturday. "Without Step No. 1, Step No. 2 means nothing. In other words, If Kelly'd been killed at midnight which Is the theory everyone's worked on Mrs. Kelly's alibi would have been holeproof." In an Harwood joined his flnger-tlp- s almost prayerful gesture. "I wish we could find the guy who looked 'as though he'd committed a murder.'" Barry made no reply. "That's always the trouble," the city , editor went on. "What kind of a akate Is this Luis Morano? Tough?" "On the contrary. Cries over a mammy song." "There's a heap of 'em do," Harwood philosophized. "He's a Southerner, with a soft Tolce, and a funny Impediment In his speech?" "That so?" Harwood Inquired. "Where Is this Coconnut Bar?" Barry told him, and promptly returned to Mrs. Kelly. "How the deuce are we going to prove what she did after she got home?" "That's up to you," Ernie said. "I'm off on a new tack now." His eyes twinkled. "One that would go a lon way toward establishing your theory of coincidence. Gosh, I'd give my two uppers to break this story within the next week or two." Thursday evening. Barry spent In his lie had tele room, mostly thinking phoned Pat twice since their luncheon together, and found her enthusiastic over her guests. "There's nothing wrong with the boy.'' she declared "nothing that a few weeks out here won't cure. lie's on the bench now, with his mother." Judge Hambldge hud taken to the little fellow at once. Almost like having a grandchild. It kept his mind off And no one could see his worries. Peggy, being brave, but always staring at nothing, always thinking of what might happen, without pity that warmed Into affection. "She's really an awiully good sort," Pat said, from Southampton. "1 like her a lot. When are you coming out?" "Tomorrow, 1 hope." "Well, we'll expect yeu for dinner." That breach was healed, all right. Pat had called hlui "the scum of the earth." In the same hour, he remembered again, he had told her he loved her. As to that, she still main"That's the kindest tained silence. thing she could do," Barry thought. "A Judge's daughter, and Barry had learned not to think of the future. "Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum," as his owu father liad put it. Just for now, It was pleasant to be somebody who knew Pat and he wanted to take that awful look out of the other girl's eyes. "That oughtn't to be hard now," Barry thought. "If 1 could get that Filipino to talk. He knows when Mrs. Kelly came home, and lie's probably got a darned good Idea what she did after ward. If we could g't to that Or- sot Ernie Copied Both Numbers. Well, this goes on for ten or fifteen minutes, and then the bell from the parlor rings. Churlie starts upstairs with the tray. He gets up two steps, when Kelly appears at the head of the flight. "Come up here, you lousy spy. Come up here while I tell you where you get off!' "Charlie sets down the tray, and Nolan follows Into the pantry, goes. and has a stiff drink. Then he sits down again, and listens to Kelly laying out the Chink." "Could he hear anything? Words, I mean?" "No. Just Kelly's voice. Mrs. Kelly was out of it. She'd gone to her room, Nolan thinks. But Kelly made noise enough for two. And, after another ten minutes or so, Charlie comes back. In the "Tm fired." Charlie says Chink lingo. 'I got to get out. That blankety-blantold me to go quick, or he'd kill me." " 'Are you going?' Nolan asks. "'Sure,' the Chink says. "I got to get my money first. lie chased me out of the room when I asked for It. but I'm going back,' the Chink says. "Nolan then took the cook to a movie, and when they get back, everything's quiet. It's after midnight, these two walked home. Kelly's upstairs, talking to somebody, and the Chink's In his room, packing and muttering to himself something frightful. So Nolan says good night to the cook, who goes Into her room, and then Nolan slips Into the pantry, and takes another shot of that hootch." "What hootch?" "The rye whiskey I was telling you about." Barry sprang from his chair. "The rye whiskey?" "Sure. And It was In a cut glass decanter." "Are you certain?" "Nolan is. And he's Just as certain that It was still in the pantry when the guy upstairs left." "Why?" "Because he heard the front door close ten seconds before he went out the back way." "Gosh !" Barry exclaimed. "That puts it up to Mrs. Kelly, all right." Evans shook his head, drunkenly. "Mrs. Kelly wusn't home," he said. "She went to her sister's after the hlgh jlnks in Harlem, and Nolan got her there the next morning, before There were they called the police. only three people in that house after the guy went who was visiting Kelly-K- elly himself, cook, and a mighty mad Chinaman." 'Filipino." "Whatever he was. he was mad. and the decanter thill killed Kelly was iental" At which point. Kv.'ins came, and lie downstairs with him until Just about the time Kelly whs killed." bad been drinking. t "Thanks." Barry nodded. "1 think "Sorry, sir," be iiu!r. got something." the nearest cluilr. Iuti i,.,.; uom- o k I" I i ; - ee "Oh. I forgot to give yon this It eauie to Southampton just a I was leaving." gjid Evans. "This" was a cablegram. Alone, It the smoke filled room. Barry opened it. Nine words. "Father and I sailing for home Sunday. Love. Mather." For an insiaut, he stood, frozen, the wire In his hand. Directly before him, an evening newspaper lay open on the table. 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Wouldn't thrf. explain Mrs. Kelly's giving him 'coin and Jewelry?' And everything else? The Chink's reporting Betty Barclay fl message, and all the rest of It? t tell you, this story's as straight as a string. Betty Barclay went on the road with her show about the time, Mrs. Kelly sued for divorce. I found that out some time ago. She got back the day of the murder, and phoned Kelly. Mrs. Kelly learned of that from the Chink, and lit Into Mike. Then Mike lit Into the Chink, and the Chink killed him. I think we can prove that." The Judge shook his bead. It certalniy "Anyway, establishes reasonable doubt of Jack's guilt." "They can't convict Jack." the Judge Insisted. "Peter says so, and I've never known Peter to be wrong when h made an assertion like that. But acquittal means waiting for the trial. an1 waiting for the trial means that Jack will still be In Jail when his father returns." Pat remained silent, but. the next morning, on the bench, she drew Barry away from the little gronp encaged In railroad construction. (TO BE COM LWLD) 35-in- hs one-thir- g Barry's panic was short-lived- . Between him and the sailing list had come a vision of Peggy, with beaded lashes screening eyes forever staring at nothing. "I can't do It." he said to himself. "I can't run away and leave that girl In the lurch. Nor Put either. I've tackled this Job. and I've got to g. through with It. "Anyway, it begins to look as though the end were In sight, if Bidder sails Sunday " He went back to the shipping news. "If Bidder sails Sunday, that's the Bremen and she's due here the followThat gives us eight ing Saturday. days. I'd better see Winslow." He called Peter next morning, but the attorney was in the country. "Left last night," his secretary reported, "and won't be back until Monday." Barry had a dinner engagement at "We'll start things Southampton. humming on Monday," Barry told himself. "'I've got my house to put In order, too. Kidder's house, that Is." Evans telephoned around ten. and before noon they were on their way to Southampton. "My last week-enwith Pat." he was thinking. "Where'll I be next Saturday? Out of luck, and out of a Job In Jail, maybe, and In the newspapers. That's my finish with everybody." There was a new atmosphere at the Pat had been right In Hambldge's. telling Jacky that he'd "cheer my father up a lot." "They're building a railway on the beach," she laughed, when the boy sunburned, and active Joined them before dinner. "Yon must go to bed now," Pat bade him, "if we're to take our ride In the morning. We have a canter every day before breakfast." she added to Barry, ringing for a maid to take charge of the youngster. "I discovered the dearest little pony In the village, and the man brings it over at nine o'clock, with another horse for me. Jaeky's getting to be a regular Buffalo Bill." 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