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Show Synthetic Gentleman CHANNING POLLOCK- COPVFtlOHT, CHANMN6 POLLOCK CHAPTER XII Continued 21 Miss Hambldjje was 'Id. "Mummery?" "I'laj sctlfig." Kidder sosppM "I observed that you'd feathered your nest. I was wrong. Why didn't you ay so?" "I did." The old man wns looking at Barry's heok. "Can you write?" he asked. "I don't know." "llarwood thinks you can. He Just left here. He says yon earned what we paid you. Well, you'd better go on earning It" "You mean I'm hired " "Hired?" Rldder repeated. "You were hired two months ago. Who ever tired you?" There didn't seem to be any answer to that. "Mr. Rldder wants you to work with Mrs. Rldder remarked. "Keep on him." "You're going to take Jack" "We're taking him home tonight. And Peggy. We hope you'll come out sometimes." "I want Jack to carry on," Rldder declared, "when I'm through." lie was back at his desk now, and he looked up, almost smiling. "You suld I was a tough bird," he told Harry. "I heard you. Don't apologize. The world needs tough birds. You don't win battles with pigeons. Somebody's got to do a little clear thinking. Somebody's got to know what he's about. We're a soft race. Coddled. Self Indulgent. We need hard going and discipline." His olce was crisp and sure. "What's the matter with this young generation? It's fathers had too much money. I was a tough bird because I knew the fight Jack had made, and I didn't help him. I'd tried that, hadn't I? The other way was my only chance to make a man of my son." There was no lack of emotion In his tone now. "And you. How did I know you weren't Just a cheap swindler? By listening to a lot of generalities? How did I know you weren't a blackmailer until I saw you were going to give yourself up without Jack." an eye warm-hearte- WNU SERVICE "Good hick." Barry said, extending his hand across the desk. Peter turned to take It. freeing his own hand by trying to Klip the magnet over the hook from which the ther- mometer hung. The magnet promptly fell into the open desk drawer. "Damn!" Peter exclaimed, probing again. He retrieved It. at last, from somewhere near the bottom of that astounding accumulation of rubber bands, penwipers, and what not. flinging to the metal, held by its magnetic attraction, was another bit of metal. As Peter dropped the magnet onto his desk, that other bit of metal detached Itself, and fell almost at Bar ry's feet. Barry picked It up, looked at It, looked again, and then looked ai Peter. Peter was staring at him. Barry took a notebook out of his locket. "A 001S2," he said "Ves, thut's Kelly's latch key." Peter nodded. "I must have thrown It here weeks ago, and forgotten It." "I'd throw It somewhere else now," Barry advised. "Somewhere Just a little bit safer. Well, good luck, again, and good by." He had reached the door when Peter said: "Walt a minute." Barry waited. "How long have you known?" "That you killed Mike Kelly?" Barry asked "Since last Thursday. I was on the train coming In from Southampton. 1 I' 1 " "3$ y now. "Kelly knew Morano was Selby, nnd so that your wife was technically a bigamist That was the threat he held over Morano, and Judge Hambldge. The threat that persuaded the Jude to write a 'crooked decision.' The paper Kelly had In his pocket was a marriage certificate, or something of the sort, he'd found somewhere." "In an old trunk," Peter said ; "In the house he bought at 24 Jefferson d " was watching you like a hawk, but there was a cop tut there, and I thought you had a date vlth him, until I saw your face when I asked you why you sent that wireless to Mrs. Rldder." Again, he almost smiled. "There was a cop waiting behind fiat door, and a girl behind that one. A nice girl. I had to be sure I wasn't Messing things up for her." lie glanced at his watch. "Four o'clock. You people have got t.i get out of here. I can't spend the d.iy being a sentimental Idiot." "You're neither," Mrs. Rldder said. "Neither what?" "Neither sentimental nor an Idiot. You're 'a tough bird.' but I like 'era that way." She was holding on to his arm when I'.ii ry closed the big door behind them. thought she was crying. "She Is my mother, after all," Barry thought. "She's all the mother I never It as after six o'clock now. The outside ollices were deserted and silent. But the noise of trallic drifted up from the street. For almost a minute, that was the only sound In the room where these two men sat facing each other. Then ivter said, "Yes, they were the same man." "I was sure of it," P.arry resumed. "The papers reported that Selby was drowned in Philadelphia. But the body they identified had been In the water two weeks. Fresli water. So that Identification didn't amount to much Violet Fane had told me Morano bought the house down town because he was 'married onct,' and he and his wife lived there. The soli story I dug out of t he tabloids said Selby was 'blissfully happy' with his bride In a house he'd rented down town. Obviously, the same house. Sentimental? Yes. but Morano was a sentimental cuss. So sentimental that he might have died rather than have If discovered that your wife was really his wife." Barry saw Peter wince, but went on. "Of course, he had another reason for resisting arrest that 'hot spot" with which Kelly threatened him. If Morano had been arrested, and fingerprinted, they'd've learned that lie was George Selby, and wanted for murder. Morano made certain of that. The 2:12 train he caught at the Penn station went to Philadelphia. That's where he was all the next day checking up on the finger-printtaken when Selby was sent to the State penitentiary, and, perhaps, trying, through underground channels, to have them removed from the files. "1 bad the motive for the murder s ' ?" squealing "Then you were "Not on your life. Han.bldge. A aer every tme em to want. Jttjd that had dia red was found. when the y "What bud that to do i'h you? "If this were a defective story, and you read it. you'd t:nd twenty answers to tbHt question. Judge Hambidge suiJ be couldn't tell the truth because of a woman. Pat suld the woman was t.er dead mother. And. plainly, that had somethins te do with Morano." He leaned forward across the desk. ! couldn't see any link between the two. And then I remembered that Pat's mother was your wife's sister. Pat told me her mother was 'brought up lu k little town called Warrenton.' That meant your wife came from Warrenton too. And Morano bad told me be came from Fauquier county. I went to my atlas. Warrenton' In Fauquier county There ued to be a military school there. Mrs. Winslow ran away with her first husband while he was t cadet In a military school." Peter leaned forward, too. "And Morano " he began, tensely. "I don't know whether Morauo went to a military school or not "But George Selby did. "Morano and George Selby were the same man, weren't they?" fel I ': Pfk; "! MM Ml street." Doped That Out, Too." Barry nodded. "I doped that out, too. Both Mornno and Hambldge had plenty of reason to kill Kelly. "But neither had as much reason as you had. "If you knew of the existence of that paper. "And you did, didn't you? That's where Morano's telephone message came in. That's why he called you up from the Cocoannt Bar. To tell you he'd seen the paper, and Kelly had it." "Right," Winslow said, simply. "My Inquiry was narrowing down to you and Morano. But how did either of you get in to Kelly? And then I remembered that, the day I first saw Mrs Kelly, she came Into that house and left her key in the door. I did the same lliing lids week. Anybody might. Especially a drunken man. That would explain why the key wasn't on Kelly's body. It would explain how our third caller entered while Kelly-watalking to Judge Hambldge." "Riuht," Winslow repeated. and I'd just read of Morano's death. 'One of my suspects was guilty,' I thought. 'Peter Winslow can't laugh that off.' " He was back In the room now. "I remembered." he went on, "how you did laugh when I suggested Morano. And how sure you were that was wrong about every one else. But you never said anything that miglit've started me on the right track. On the contrary, when I asked you if there was a Mrs. Kelly, you answered. 'Yes. for divorce recently and withlie told Winslow most of It, late that She sued case." You'd Just read that In drew the sirne afternoon. and t ho same sen Herald the Tribune, restPeter sat at his desk, looking nt t he time of revealed tence that, less and tired, but happier than he the murder, Mrs. Kelly was in Harlitid teemed In some time. (TO HE C0T1MED) "Pat said she was going to propose lem. But you didn't mention that. Why? t you," he smiled. "Meant It, too; we Only one explanation occurred toto nie, keep Salt Mine Clean knew that. Women are funny. Snooted and that was your willingness on the trail of some one who unlike a coal mine, 9 salt you while things were going right, me Totally couldn't possibly be convicted." mine Is a perfect example of cleanlidUln't she?" Barry sat down again, the other side ness and orderliness, observes a writer Harry laughed. In tlie Cleveland Plain Healer. A"I was coming back for her when of the desk. "Oo on," Peter urged. "I'm very much lthough the mine Is In full I got out of Jail." operation, neither workmen nor machines are to "Your dope on the old man was all interested." He was sitting, too, now. he seen, for salt mining consists of wrong," Winslow commented. "He has 'Is nothing more ban a series of water he continued, "My Interest," been cold and hungry. Trucked on a dock once. And as to being 'nuts about strangely Impersonal. Almost wholly pipes which continually spray the It Is. That's very sides of the mine with water under anybody.' can't you see that's why he professional. I think went Into reverse when the boy dis- curious. I'm Just n criminal lawyer In- high pressure. This water, bringing with it the salt Troni the walls of the terested In a crime." appointed him?" His weariness explained that, Barry mine, falls to the bottom of the shaft He opened the right top drawer of Ills desk, problug Its Inscrutable Jumble thought. As Hambldge hnd been, and It Is accumulated In reservoirs and then pressed overhead where the salt Morano, and Barry. himself when talkfor something to play with. ing with Rldder, Peter Winslow was crystals are retained In large pans. "You bad a close call, though. RldAbout 120.0OO,00 pounds of salt are der knew what he owed you. People "glad It's over." a criminal lawyer," Barry said, extracted every year from the Sals-bur"As do but to tbem, what rarely you forgive mine In Austria, one of the most "and a shrewd one, you'd be surprised what you do for them." In the world. famous overlooked. much how know you to for me, "You've done an awful lot Bits of evidence that fitted like a JigII right" Cider Like Champagne saw puw.le the moment suspicion start"NoBsenser Just as wine Is the drink of France, The top drawer hadn't yielded any- ed anyone putting them together." so cider Is the drink of Normandy. This "As for Instance?" thing promising, and Peter picked up northern part of France does not hav Barry smiled. his little red magnet "You told me Morano phoned yon summers warm enough for grapes, but "It's all ended well." he remarked: the gnarled apple trees which dot Its "even for Luis Morano. He cheated at one o'clock the morning of the murfertile countryside give It a nectar Just the chair, and that's what he wanted der 'to say that one of his girls was In as sweet, and one that, prepared careJail,' and would yon 'take the case.' to do." will sparkle and bubble lika In o'clock. one nt his wasn't of fully, Jail, sure so But were Peggy "I thought you She'd been released hours before, and champagne. Innocence." Normandy's greatest attraction Is "Ills Innoce'nee of this crime, yes," Morano knew It. I know that he did Whnt about? Why. about Mont Saint Michel, which rises like a Pelr answered. and touched the mag- phone you. Kelly's visit to the Cocoannt Bar. of great pyramid Just off the coast. OrigThen he rose and the threat of something In inally built as a fortification. It was course, thermometer. his to net his pocket that was not only a menace later made an abbey of the Benedic"When Hre you sailing?"' to Morano but Kelly's hold over Judge tine fathers. "Wednesday." lrry bl" 1 s I g A Trio of Trim Togs DiHW fpf, CANNING FOUND FINE PLAN i R50 f- Fat, Unprofitable Hen as Good as Young Bird. IW:r Sij" CCnif-itstrut Seasonal culling of the farm poultry (lock gives homemakers chance to provide some delicious future meals for the family by canning as many as possible of the fat hens which are no longer piofitable as layers but which make the men folks smile when they are served in one oi" the many ways that canned chicken can be used. Nutrition specialists say that the mature hens are as good or better after canning than younger birds. Chicken may be canned either in glass or tin cans, but a high temperature is required to sterilize the meat so a pressure cooker should be Supplied the lii' Upirtniciit.1 v S used. Some authorities claim that the meat darkens if it has been prepared in sheet iron or copper utensils so it is just as well not to use such containers while canning. 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