Show i ca A Te egra W Mystery Sei Serial Th Seventh Murder t t. t t By Carroll John Daly ra fg ail J a n new ew mystery 1 serial complete i in six c ays weekly In The Telegram CHAPTER SIX I CONCLUSION roan man who held the girl toad Stood His arm that was wasi i J down seemed to colre col- col mIng W 1 co There c The There re was the sound fund of steel rattling against st back man bent slowly Th The a I. I t Si i Om ti the girl-farther girl and d farther down to the stone screamed and knelt beA be- be ne t girl t flashed fished down A light him them The man was about t lve handsome with soft ck S wavy hair His mouth was wasI I His eyes were wide They looking straight up at the and d tt the stars stars- but they t t seeing s anything her to her feet teet n pulled hers i t Were We're the police miss miss' he het Vi t Its It ta the Ripper Ripper Ripper-he he would li ft at killed ed you ou And when she to o flash Ja h words at him eras tres the knife at your feet 11 i dont don't believe it He loves me e fill him I 1 dont don't believe it 15 it either DarU Dar- Dar q 1 didn't believe U s st said aid id soberly believe t t DW tv I saw aw the knife in his after that had excitement iw We in police U came half a dozen of minutes One Ikea in as man many 14 taken the girl back into the e. e Freddy was pointing at atice att ice t of the apartment houses hoUes I Ming off the windows 11 r. r Q T T will be the ninth story nid nid The e eleventh window inn from the left Let me see The Alit lighted three in darkness rather mother lighted That's five Then The darkness Six Seven Bt amore more in t ht it nine and ten in darkness i ne e eleventh will be where he tru JitU His first name Is of ot course I i Stephen The light was apparently a nal al to the girl Dargan Per- Per his pa you can f identify him from t V lie stuff luf he has on him Yes the f ave was money He would live laTe ve killed the girl for her heritY itY t But the girl loved him and was gaff bg to 11 marry marIj him Dargan red hoarsely I w Freddy Fredd aS agreed ed I i dud her too But she was wasing ing all ill her money away The e Y Wu was eur our dead mans man's Pur pur- is is Is not the toe Ripper a o detective said in a loud dot your RIPPer said h dd Freddy Y But the Ripper all the li eta t. t Inspector Dargan figured it No doubt tHe insPector will f it all all to you later the inspector started object Freddy squelched him th ins eCtor suddenly snapped r rt orde the to ra ending with Watch let house n no o one leave he Y thought 11 of ot 4 tuned something l to Freddy This aunt 4 Herbert Randolph She SheI lb t the I 4 the dough I see It now She Sheman fifth dead man were in to it t to- to U let lee ee If Mrs Randolph is wrested N Freddy r rIVE b r 1 walked out of ot i hoUe use then and f said here b the ere a appears pP ear s to be no one else elser t it-t r i house houe inspector specter Officer Villi 2 th it the young lady t wom The an skipped She wont won't add y inspector turned on I dont don't think she i 1 t oy sa 1 ld ly skipped t I 42 shell she'll il come back lest rl ea Fred Freddy h dY 1 Shell heU answered solemn solemn- k aUve iye I come back back- But dead I There dont don't know Was more excitement and Activity by the police poUce I 1 S- S brought on b bv by Sheila Shells She didn't She didn't 5 go entirely to slim kept a was not the type w o Was that the u shot was the man tt o eked going to mare marry and that for the t federal govern govern- li pr Gods Sake aake Dargan kept ring t to o I its it's Its Freddy tell me J Kalden n. n all about He isn't girt and n 1 this That's certain And ile I dead man and and and- 1 closed close d Mor r the door and rc alone It Ilone Dargan Freddy reddy and I Voice With th Sheila Devers deu a o Was Vas very soft a as s hea he a 1 on n the ouch Fouch and took f O SHEILA HEILA he said let et me tell teU you what happened You were in love with this this' man man Stephen He told you he was called away on government business And he told you also that some Friday morning around two o'clock he I would return to you He asked you to be in the garden to wait walt for him And he told you that a light In a certain window would indicate that he would come to you Isn't that so 80 Yes yes she said aid But to try to kill me He loved me He was not like others not interested in my money Why he knew w I Iwas Iwas Iwas was going to give it all n away to the hospital Freddy reddy cut ut in Was he did he-did did your aunt see aunt see him ot often n The ma he girl straightened on the end of ot the couch S She e said very slowly She knew him yes I met him in an art rt gallery and she didn't didn't- she said she didn't like him And suddenly bursting b int into tears But she did like him She used to like him We Ve quarreled ov over r that He was wasso so young and she sheSo sheSo she she- So that that's s it Dargan blurted it out This aunt this aunt this young man If It the girl died the aunt would get the money and would marry the man the man the dead man man man- and and and- No no The girl fairly s screamed c I e a m e d the words He couldn't And then she buried her head in her arms and sobbed Dargan sent for a doctor then WHEN if HEN we were in another room and sitting down Freddy told Dargan the whole story from the E f i 1 t L. L S t l r rai 4 f I II I JI l l l t looking up wildly toward us she cried out Steve Steve te G moment he met Jack Holdens Holden's sister and discovered the ad in the paper Of course the aunt knew Dargan was emphatic He even gave jave her the telephone number in n his ad That was stupid The dead man man said Freddy with assurance certainly was not stupid except in the sense that all murder is stupid A dozen people eople might have seen him enter or r leave a store or loitering around it t waiting for the telephone call that hat would bring Jack Holden to him If we assume he was the aunts aunt's lover then he had access no doubt to the house Visited her when the niece Sheila was away or at the university We may also assume if this is correct correct correct cor cor- that he had a key So he could make use of that phone if Mrs Herbert Randolph were at home lome or out There was of course always the ho danger that someone might trace race that phone number through the he papers as I did It wasn't likely But I believe our murderer took ook that possibility into consider consider- Suppose the police had traced that number and investigated investigated Investigated gated This Stephen the killer kUler would have heard of it And Anc since his murders could hardly involve him or Mrs Randolph at atthe atthe the time he could have called off his whole plan and concentrated on another plan What astounds inthis in inthis inthis me more than anything else this c case cas a s e inspector inspector Freddy Freddy looked Dargan right in the eye eye eye- was that none of these different firms of interior decorators on whom Jack Holden called for a position remembered his his face He paused and stared at Dargan They did then Y YES ES admitted Dargan they did Block d Block for instance The very firm finn Mrs Mra Randolph Is connected with told us about It But they warned their personnel manager not to mention the fact tact outside or inside the establish establish- ment Quite frankly we saw nothing in that angle I see Freddy mused We cant can't be sure unless we question Mrs Randolph And AS ns a P police cc officer came to the door Id It clear the front of tho the house am and have less activity Dargan if it w ware we weare weare are to expect the tho aunt back alive What do you mean alive aUve 1 Dargan took a Po note from th the young officer scanned It and said Found on on the dead man mans man's b body dy eh And address addressed cd to th the police department Printed too 1 See Bee Paso Pale 5 Column 8 3 t |