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Johnson, ' Secretary, at his office, -' American ' Fork, Utah. ; Any, ' stock . on . which vui aaavponicDV remaiua . nnpaio, do . Mawfi C. will K Jattnntim mnA i . , Ml ki win skjiii m oavurudij juarca nl aV. .tJ a -.A-' ai 1973. at f o'clocit p. m. at th ofHc of th Secretary, at Amartcaa Forlt. ' 4tk t fiat a4a1lnHnBTn aataAaiaiv44 r t'J eeav vvmmuuvu BtnnvaniuvMV MS- gather with ; the cost of advertising - and expense' of sale. ;r;' T t ; . H. C JOHNSON, Secretary. .: First Publication Feb. , 192S -Last Publication March t 1923. WE PRHT WrmW WR4PPFRM !F .oil CcfvgKr Ittt 4 : . synopsis ;v .CHAPTER L-Joha Bart), eeUd erUav teal Investigator, rwctndy returned treat Service wort during the war. la afced by tee govaraor ef New Terk U veeiigate a myaiartoua attempted ree-bery ree-bery of the Robert fctyke aome at Clrcla Lake aear Saratoga. Peculiar elreune-tMcee elreune-tMcee of the eaae Were fcartlejr. aad -.CHAMtll tt-Wita fcla Mead Pelt. Bania (om ta Circle Lake. Ike pair becoming the gueete et Bob Currle, aa eld friend TKa ikm. mi.ii ik. ftWk. kene. Clykt apaarenUy reseats BartleiTe eewtag. earing be la aatiiCMl the te CHAPTXIt IIL-Mlee Petter, the dead anaa'a awtMMa-law. the village police chlaC Roche, and be (amlljr phjrelclaa, Doctor King, aU agree Slyke lulled baw relf. but Bartlay maiata he waa Murdered, nveetigatlng, Bartley aade evideaoe that Slyke. after a card party be had gWea. waa ahet en the tewer of the beuee. aw dreaaed. aad placed at bed. Durwg bid abeence from the room eomeeaa faawea the nrelver from Slyke'e bead. , CHAPTIR IV-A boy werhlag i the garage aaMru be beard a ehet durtag the eight, apparently "la the euV. ef eeerae really ea the tewer. CHAPTER V-PeK etaurte eat be later-new later-new the BMmbere of the card party. He far wealthy broker, had eRered te eell bla frtende whteky. He ftnde evidence that the men In iaU for attempted robbery ef aiyke were Hraaae.,r"-T!; -?'- ; r, CHAPTER VL-fUtumlng (rem a vlatt te earatoga. Bartley, Pelt and Currle coma upon a large motor track, without llghta and off the road. They are die-eevared die-eevared endeavoring - te aacertaia the licenae Dumbr, and Bred oa. The track gate away. The three come upon a long-dtauaed long-dtauaed burial vault. Apparently the leek le aew, and Bartley picka It They find the vault etored with whlaky, and alee the revolver which had been found ta Slyke'a band. A man, eeemlnsly well acquainted with the place, arrtvea, aad they aetata him.- It fa) Slyke'a miming chauffeur. A detective.' working for the revenue aeparnnaat, arrival aad charge ef toe vault. CHAPTER V . . In Which I Hear More About the Bur Carrie was sitting on the ptassa when " I reached the housei ' He got up hurriedly and advanced to me. - "Where In the devU ta Johnl" he asked. .. . ,s T ne apparently knew that we had called ever te Slyke'a, but he did not know the reason. I answered, "He Is over at Sljke's; Slyke was murdered last night" . HIa large red face grew purple. "MurderedT he gasped. llf O v who did Itr v- , ; v . I told him all I knew. He listened with Intense Interest ana growing horror. hor-ror. . When I ended by saying that Bartley would be back te dinner, he shruirged his shoulders. 1 - ' ;.. : There goes my visit with John. I have been after him for a long time to come up here; and when he does, he finds a murder right on my doorstep door-step He paused, then added, "I wonder who killed Slyke. I never liked him very much, but I know of no reason for his betagL murdered.'!. I went to the garage and backed oat his little runabout, and started for-town. In front of the post office I stopped ye car and got out I knew that If the postmaster would give me the addresses of tht. men who had been at the card party. It would save me a lot of time. Upon explaining my. errand, er-rand, he gave me the desired information, infor-mation, one of the first names oa the list was that of the editor of the local newspaper, and It suggested an Idea, to me. ,i;-.V; , Arriving at the newspaper office, I iound- the man I sought )ust golnt out to . luncheon. When he learned that I had' come to ask him some questions about gtyke, he invited me to lunch with him. ' f ' We went to his dub, and In the small dining room found a table te ourselves. When I mentioned the list of names, he told me an that he knew. A few men, mostly old friends, met every week or so to play poker. .They went to Slyke's usually because, as he put It "Slyke bad more boose than ine rest or us." Tne games were friendly affairs and the stakes low. When I sked him If Mr. Lawrence stayed after the others hsd gone home, he replied that ha had and that he thought Slyke himself had asked Mm . to remain, though' he did not know for what reason. Suddenly It occurred to him that what he had said might place Lawrence in aa awkward awk-ward position. . , -ljlm Lawrence," - be - said, - "could have had nothing to do with Slyke's death. Lawrence is so darned nervous nerv-ous himself that be would never have dared to fire a gun. It's toe bad he stsyed behind last night" . ' As I wanted to Interview Lawrence next the editor accompanied me In bis car to point out the building where Lawrence had bla office. Ilere he left tne, saying that If I would call at his office In about an hour, he would have the back flies of the newspaper I wanted ready for me." - . . .,' , Lawrence's office waa 'ta the second It will pay you well te real the ads ia prune tor toe attenpud robbers fere guuur. Bertler at aet Neat mori tag Slyke le feuad deed la bed. appareat-if appareat-if bavlag abet buneeU. 3 If CliarkrJ JDattcn niurtrcttctubtj Dse-Uleade-dCe lr " floor of a brick building, and his door bore the slim - "Law Offlce. At a desk, rvsrtlng s newspaper, waa a man or about forty-five, witn a very tn'n. . nervous face. He threw down the' paper and eyed me questlonlngty. When.I told hlro that Slyke was dead and that I bad Come to learn about his Interview with him! he moved tut- - . . , , , t . a. e I easily In his chair; birt M I added that we be.leyed that Slyke had been muruereov ana tnai ea jar as we anew he waa the last person to see him alive, be Was absolutely unnerved.," I could see that until I mentioned the word murder., he had thought that Slyke had committed suicide.-For a second I wondered If, after alL be had not' had something to do with the Crime. . -f'-r-s " ,' ' Taking a chair by his side, I said. "You were. the last person, 'so far aa we can discover, . to see Mr,, Slyke alive. We know that yon' stsyed for a few moments only, and thst he himself him-self asked thst yon remain. As yu were the last one to see him alive, we are much interested In what you, can tell us of how he acted. Did he seem nervous or npsetrv : ".';-' :J , My question did not make the man by my side any easier. ' He answered quickly." In a high-pitched voice that broke aeveral times. "I did stay; but the other men will tell you. that I was going borne with them until Slyke asked me to wait a moment .1 had no. Idea beforehand what be wr.nted. I wish to God I bad gone, with the rest Some d d fool will say I killed him." ;' .v: ; It was just what some people would sen when It became public that the butler had not heard Slyke'a .voice again after Lawrence's departure, But for myself, I could not connect guilt with the thin, nervous figure beside me. . , . . .i "What did he want to see you about r I asked. - I Lawrence flushed, then half grinned, as he answered, "He. asked me If I wanted to buy some Scotch whisky" "Buy some whisky V repeated In gstonlsliment "Tea, It seems foolish, decent Itf But that's what he wanted te see me about He said he had lots more than he needed, and that be could let me have. five. cases." . ,. - I said nothing, trying te digest this sstonlshlng Information. I had been wondering what It was that Slyke wanted to see Lawrence about, and bad even made -several guesses ; but never-In my wildest Imagination had I supposed thst It was about whlaky. I could ' understand why Lawrence should want to hnv It. for rrwvt whla. ky Is hard te get ; but why Slyke, pre- j -sumed to be a rich man. should want I. to sell five cases was beyond my com t prehension.,' . ., He saw my surprise and said, "It does "seem strange. I wss surprised myself. I had heaM that he had a lot of boose; but we were not the closest ' of friends, snd nowadays a man lets his liquor go only to bis pais. The . man who will let yon" have five cases ' of whisky la a pretty good friend." ? v I smiled st his answer. He was ' right.' People wlt8 Imported ; liquor -were not giving It away. And what was more, few men of Slyke's position . were selling their private stock. , "He told me," Lawrence continued! " "that he had a great deal more than r . he could use, and that he would sell me some for one hundred dollars a easeVr' That's pretty cheap for 1m-porfed 1m-porfed atuff."--,-'"-'';:f -r-'--; w1- f "And then you left hlmr 1 asked.' "Yes. He told me be was not go-! lug to bed yet ". Said someone was ' wiuiua auuui uau-yaat one. ' ( , nere was a new piece of evidence. Slyke, then, hsd not gone to bed after : Lawrence left, but had waited up for ' some other vlsltoh . It was curious, , ... ... . . . ... moSn, i nL S.. t ft momlnr U not s usual hour for re- "Have yon any Idea whe It wasr "No," he said, shsking his head. "I haven't the least idea. . As I was starting to go he said, 'Stay awhile. I am expecting a man about two, and have te wait up for bins. That's all I know about It" j ..;. It waa not much of a cine, still It waa better than uothlng. It did estsb Ush the fact that there had been someone else with Slyke thst night That Is, If be were telling .the truth. The burning question In my mind was, whe was that second person I Was he the one who bad killed Slyke! The odds seemed te favor, It" Lawrence had little further Information to give me. He said that Slyke had not been especially nervous, nor had he acted like a man afraid of anything. I rose to go, but paused at a sew thOUght V ' ", i . "Oh Mr. Lawrence, did Slyke give you a drink T" , ; . He had accompanied me to the door, and paused, yi l und on the knob, "Yes, he did, i;p In the room over his sleeping r.Mu. . i;l? pct out a bottle "You did not sea tirt-r Klasees, did yeor ("No,"-he answeed, surpriaed at my qoetln. "No, onty two." 1 ; Thanking him. I said gixxlby and left ; ' . ;',. ; r:-; 'When I returned to the newnpener office l found the Olea f the part year swsltlng me Tlie story , that Rogers told US In Oartley's llhrary. and the account ft the erlme In the piiper were snhatantlally the name. There were, honvver. ' one; or two sHjtht rtlfferencea that pfemed to me Important. I had understood Rogers to any that the steManithter. Knfh, hsd positively IdentlHed the men. now In prln: but. nowhere In the new, twper n it etated that thla hnd been the esae, 'What the had actually aald waa "1 Uilnk .-ne or them la the man I saw in the room There had been ne pneitlve Idcntlfl.ntlon o( m by her, or by anyone elae, for that matter. Slyke hiuuelf bad teatlned 4 that he did not ' know whether they were the wen or not' ' C: r . Thive things ha'd convicted them. First, the piece of paper, found In the room where the burglary had taken place, and which fitted Into a torn corner , of a newspater discovered later In the ct of one of the men; r eiwi ua aesv vweat vt wsmj Vv a"W wwhi t af clotn M,0 to naft ? foun(, k I the window of the room entered, snd Which fitted the torn place In a pair ef troaaers belonging to one of the sen -there - was ', some doubt as . to whether the trousers bad been torn at the time the man was arrested end last of sit the footprints under the window. Thus their conviction rested on n piece of torn newspaper and a hold In a man's ' trouaers rather feeble evidence. It seemed to me. Moreover, the police had -not discovered discov-ered sny of It until some days after the crime. The more I thought of. It the more J agreed with Bartley that the' case was remarkably like that old burglary case In England. - -Leaving the newspaper office, .! called on some T)f the other men who hsd been at the card party. They all agreed that It waa Slyke who had suggested sug-gested Lawrence's . staying, and laughed at the Idea that he knew anything any-thing about his death. One of them told me that, several weeks before, he hsdN bought three cases. of whisky from" Slyke. I could not understand why i ;nan of Slyke's position ehould wish to sell whisky to his friends. To this man also be bad given the excuse that he had more than he needed for his own ue.. As I passed thecourt house on my way home, I noticed the words "District "Dis-trict Attorney's Office" on a window, and it occurred to me that stored away somewhere In there would be the exhibits in the burglary case. I tntercd -and-asked-torsee - the - torn piece of paper and the bit of dotn. Tbfonly person In the room was a boy of eighteen, who went Into a back roeawad returned .with a.-box-under hts arm. , Opening It he ahook out 'm the desk before me a newspaper, saying, "This Is the paper they found In the man's pocket, Yon can see the torn edge." He pointed to the front sheet of the newspaper, one corner of which had been torn away. Lifting another piece of paper from the box, thla time a mall one, be fitted It Into the ton t Was a Copy ef the Beaten Kvening Times. . .", ,h. h-n V 1J 5lS?i the paper. It was a copy of the uoe- ton Evening Time, snd the date wss ,k" ... ,k. K The piece of cloth waa next shown me. ' After examining It , I thanked the boy, and returned to the car. . ' I felt that I had accomplished very little by. my ' afternoon's work. The only c hew evidence wss Lawrence's Ktstement thst Slyke bad been expecting expect-ing some one after he left I wished that he had accepted Slyke's Invitation Invita-tion to remain until tAW otif person came. With the exception of this and Slyke's baring offered to sell whisky to two different men-,- a fact that could have no bearing on the murder, I had found out nothing. - - ' - I found Bartley talking with Mrs. Currle, who had returned during the afternoon. ' I was introduced and we went In to dlmier at once. ' . -"' When the dessert was oer and we jrere drinking our wine and smoking comfortably, Bartley leaned back In his chair with such a deep'' sigh ef contentment that Currle laughed. ' "Better than murders, eh, John!". hartley Joined in the laugh, "Anything "Any-thing is." '': r: x - "I haye often wondered," Mrs, Currle Cur-rle Jintd ' flioiiifhtfully, . "whnt c'auws ticit)le to commit murder. 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It's the opinion of most people that a person who commits com-mits murder Is discovered In the long run, but that Is not true. I should nay that about 80 per cent of the murders mur-ders are never solved. You ask why people kill. As a rule, It la done In rage or In a sudden passion of eeme kind. Such. crimes are easy to solve. It. Is the, small percentage that are planned that are difficult. You see, we first look for the motive of a crime, Md If wF ranflnd"tha n Hjraol v eI t.'t'.-JT3-,x:" ;:NCurrlewho hud been listening care-,'ully, care-,'ully, broke In with, "I presume yen Uv thl lyke aftshr e.nlcklyr I ' f'-i!t1 wnv iitient' Watching the ' . t f l 'y'inr curl toward the "" '"! '.was expresaloaleas when he replied : "Oh, I cant tea, Bob: I have not found anything of Importance yet" . v j- I glanced at him la surprise. It seemed Impossible that he could have spent a whole day at Slyke'a and not hate discovered, something of value. 1 Mrs. Currle turned to her husband, "Bob, what are yon men going to do thla evening? Ton know this Is the night of my muslcale," . v. Currle gave auch a groan that we aU laughed. ; "There Is a long-haired tenor coming here tonight and a crowd of women who will roll their eyes at him and lie like the devil, murmuring 'How beautiful f It's ne place for ns. We'll go to Saratoga and come back when It la all over." JJefore we started Currle. said he bad te give soma orders to his men, and Bartley and I went to our rooms, I gave him a brief outline of what I had discovered In Saratoga," He did not aak any questions until I mentioned men-tioned that the newspaper from which the corner had been torn was a copy of the Boston' Evening Times, then he asked the date of the Issue. 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