Show THE GARLAND TIMES lb WEDDING MARCH MURDER — — by MONTE BARRETT Ocpjrrtfht 11)1 hr th WNO Oe Svnricn CHAPTER XIII — Continued — 25 — “That" declared Peter with alow “Is the most significant emphasis Fletcher claims franklin point of all never kept a gun at the apartment The man la telling the exact truth or else he la protecting the murderer And yet we can find no motive that would cause Fletcher to pursue such a course I think the fellow might protect the Identity of a woman who had I been Indiscreet he don't think would protect the murderer We have Had he been In proof of It In fact league with Franklin's slayer It would not have been necessary to search the Fletcher apartment as was done could hare accomplished such a search without any difficulty and without our knowledge "That means that Franklin kept the At the Where! weapon elsewhere he kept for Choo Choo apartment In another possible apartment Train? At his kept for the woman In blue? office? "Sergeant" Cardigan spoke with evident conviction “this evidence led me ultimately to two clues to which I did not at first attach sufficient ImAnd those two clues I beportance lieve will prove not only the Identity but the guilt of the murderer They we are the revolver and the found In the murdered mun’a pocket” - “I gather that you have come to the conclusion that Jealousy was the motive for the crime?" “Yes Either Jealousy or revenge In hla relationship with this woman' Franklin betrayed a trusted friend and that friend committed the murder if And It must my theory works out Mr out work Dunbar" continued “It’a the only Peter with conviction theory that fits all the facta" took a Dunbar Tm Interested" "I’d like to hear chair beside the bed the whole story Can't you take me Remember Into confidence? your Franklin was my partner" “When Klldny comes back" promised "He won’t be long" the novelist “May I see those keys?" The attorney extended his palm "I’m curious to know what they had to do with It Why did you ask me to bring the key to Franklin's compartment of the safe? What does young Carmody have to do with that key?” “The keys?" Cardigan stared about him blankly ‘They were here a moment ago I must have dropped them" Dunbar “Yes" declared evenly have “You must dropped them — Into hand You’re lying to me Kllday'a Why did you gle those Cardigan keys to Kllday? Why did you write CHAPTER XIV Introducing the Murderer “We have Identified six of these even keys" Peter continued Indicating the ring which Klldny was holding In his hand “One opens the street door of Franklin's apartment building a second opens his apartment another fits Choo Choo Train's door the fourth opens the door of his general offices and the fifth la to his private office That's an end of the large keys Of the smaller ones the first opened his desk and the last one still remains unidentified Call Milo Dunbar will yon? I believe he can help us trace this key We should have done It before And unless I'm clear off the track we’ll know who the murderer Is when we succeed In doing that” Franklin’s partner was located at bis office and promised to come at once "Ask him to bring the key to Frankof the safe" lin’s private compartment "We'll refer Interrupted to suggest want that too" "I think" he continued after had replaced the receiver “that and you description in every detalL" on one side head Dunbar pe had the manner of pursed Judiciously "All very a Judge weighing evidence bla bead nodded “Hut he plausible" still only theory” "Here Is some more of It" retorted "The night before the the novelist wedding your suspicions of your wife and Franklin aroused you broke Into of the safe There his compartment which supported you found evidence And the revolver those snspidons admitted still Ts he too That" only But HI know whether or a guess not It’s a true one In a few minutes" of annoyance flitted An expression the attorney's countenance across “Guesses! You're “Guesses!” he said always talking of guesses! What made you make such a guess?" “In the first place yon were thp only person who fitted every possibilla the second there ity of the crime I couldn't were Franklin’s keys why aU his keys were Inhis tact upon ring except the key to of the safe his compartment It seemed strange that he should that of all keys lying carelessly In his desk where you found It for us Then the solution occurred to me and I compared that key we found there with the one wo had been unable to Identify upon the key ring remembering how similar they were In size and I had tried Remember appearance to use that unidentified key to open was able to Inthat compartment In It wouldn't It the lock but turn sert the holt Do you know why? “They were Roth keys to that safe When I compared them a few minutes ago I discovered they both bore the serial number same manufacturer’s One of thoSe keys belonged to you Mr Dunbar The other was Frankl- trail was plain from the first are the only one who fits the in’s’’ note? What did you have to you didn't want me to hear?" smiled Into the angry man’s alhis hand sliding stealthily eyes most Imperceptibly toward the bell cord on the table beside his bed “I abandon the Idea we can definitely believe I mentioned Itylle Carmody" that Franklin maintained a separate he was sparring for time for this woman In' blue If apartment “Only to throw me off the track" be bad done so why doesn’t the key retorted Dunbar “Kllday didn’t know All his other appear on this ring? what you were talking about when yott keys are here There have been times I mentioned him" to abandon this have been tempted Then for the first time noticing woman as a clue for this very reason Cardigan’s cautious reach for the belt and yet she was the motive for the It he forestalled with a deft Jerk crime I’m sure No other solution fits of his elbow that sent the small table And since I have arrived at the facta Tareenlng and knocked the bell cord that aolutlon I can see a very good reato the floor son why Franklin had no key to her "Then was right" he said shortly apartment" “You win— again” declared the nov“Was It the Shipley girl?" Klldny deelist his alert glance Intently studymands 1 “My ing the attorney's expression "I’m aure It wasn’t she" replied luck was Just as bad the other night — Feter "In their effort to protect at your office" others whom they feared were guilty Before replying Dunbar locked the a vimber of people have deceived us door That has added to our complications “I suspected you had guessed when and that’s why you have suspected this you wrote that note to Klldny" the girl" "How did lawyer admitted calmly At this point the attorney arrived you do It?” His eyew slightly bloodPeter Cardigan was still contemplating returned the novelist’s stendy shot enthe slain man’s key ring when he gaze tered “You left a very plain trail" de"Did you bring the key?" clared the latter "Once It was dis“Here” Dunbar handed It to the covered we couldn't miss The only novelist who compared It carefully difficulty was that there were so many with the small unidentified key on the trails partly due to your efforts that he Ills examination completed ring yours was obscured We knew Frankreached for the nurse's pad on the lin was killed by some one he knew table beside him and scrawled a few he would have otherwise Intimately hurried notes upon It warned Itoyce who was only a few “How does this key fit Into the feet away the murderer carried Frankrevolver no own esse?" Kllday could the murderer called longer restrain lin’s Choo Choo Train ami Imitated Fletchhis curiosity a er’s voice In telling her to go to the "I’m not sure" Peter directed the murderer could not have church at his friend significant glance "Here" he handed him the notes he been In the church proper at the but he “With that much to time the crime was committed had Just written fco on perhaps you can muke Itylle had to be on the ground “The woman In blue must have been Carmody talk" " because — motive the the I said gulllv person “But thought you took such active steps to remove all “Never mind what I said before" clues to her Identity and In conclu“I may have Peter replied earnestly Franklln’a was sion apartment Look over theso changed my mind searched not once but twice and I notes and follow Instructions" was attacked In your office Only one and left the room Kllday shrugged person answers all these descriptions “Then you think It was Rvlie CarThat Is you Mr Dunhnr mody after all?" suggested Milo Dun“Itoyce looked for you at the church bar “I must confess I don't underbut couldn’t find you out In front for to stand how that key had anything the very simple reason that you weren't do with him” there Franklin kept thnt revolver at know" Peter replied soon “We’ll his o(ficeAfter searching elsewhere hortly there was no other conclusion we could The attorney walked to the window You were the only person who reach his back to Peter and hummed a few You were tn had access to It there bars of a tune "I suppose the theory great haste to search your partner's Is that young Carmody committed the apartment Immediately after his death murder to prevent Franklin's marriage were looking-foFletcher told You you to his sister?" a will Rut you and I know you “No That’s no longer the theory were there to destroy any evidence we now believe that the murderer which might Identify the woman In killed Franklin because be discovered before the police blue as yourwlfe with the woman the latter’s arrived You didn't find It then hnd In blue" were anxious for another opportunity In blue?” Dunbar woman “The to conduct the search when Fletcher curiwheeled and eyed the novelist wasn’t present At the first oppor“That’s the mysterious visitor ously Franklin had In the sacristy Just be- tunity that’s exactly what you did and that’s when I picked up your Have you been able fore the crime trail although even then I didn't realto Identify her?" You used af "That all depends on Kllday" de- ize who my “If his er- key you found In your wife’s possesclared Cardigan frankly Rememsion to enter thnt apartment rand Is auccessful we’ll he able to must have Identify ier without any further ber too that tny assailant office Thu had a kei to enter your trouhie that that Peter him say Peter stared at the attorney expres"With that much to go on sionlessly I felt confident that I knew how we We were puzzled behad been duped cause we couldn't find any clue to the woman In blue among Franklin’s personal effects This was now explained those clues when You had removed compartment you searched Franklin's the evening before to verify your sushim and your wife picions regarding Afterward It occurred to you thnt this broken drawer might Incriminate you So yon transIt If we discovered ferred the remainder of his effects to your own drawer leaving your key In Franklin's The broken drawer desk for your own use you appropriated And that” declared Peter with finality “Is what I wrote Kllday a few minutes ago He Is on his way to your office to check up on those two drawers In your safe Unless I am mistaken he will discover that the key on Franklin’s ring fits the broken compartment which yon are now using "Simple when you think about It Isn’t It?” “You make It sound simple” the attorney replied “The only thing thnt puzled me Is why you returned to your office thnt “You had night” Peter continued the evidence In already destroyed Franklin's compartment" “I was afraid there might be some that I had overlevidence elsewhere ooked and I wasn't expecting yon to hunt the murderer there" The attorney was making no effort to maintain “I couldn’t a pretense of Innocence very well go through the place In the without exciting comment daytime I felt perfectly from the employees snfe In mnking the search at night however until" he shrugged “you None of my scene on the appeared employees had an excuse to be there at that hour and I knew that the Janitor’s force did not come on duty until ten o’clock so naturally I was heard your key In the alarmed when I didn't realize or have time lock to consider that you might he coining there to trap some one else I lost my I At any rate I deterhead guess mined not to be trapped there so I turned out the lights and waited for you In the dark You know what hap" pened at the locked door Peter glanced "You “What's the Idea?’’ he asked By this time ran't hope to escape the manner veilfiod In Kllday has which you switched boxes with Frank- lin" There’s always one meth“Oh jes But don’t be alarmed od of escape That was only a precaution against Interruption” From his pocket he took a small nl Remoxlug the cork he smelled r of the contents Then he smiled I've been he explained "Poison" carrying It about with me for several I killed before Franklin days I made up my mind that I would never he taken alive" Dunbar raised the bottle gravely "Before I go" he said "I want to say I'm sorry you went through the winI I had dow nothing against you only wanted to get out of there undet- ected" The momentary delay gave Peter for which he waited the opportunity With all his strength he hurled his pillow at the bottle poised In Dunbar’s hand hoping to knock tt from his grasp His aim was true but the bottle did not fall The fingers which clutched too sure of their grip There was reproach In the attorn“After making this tbe ey’s glance only escape possible" he asked “would you rob me of It?” the bottle slowly "I He raised don't blame you for anything but that “You’re pillow" he declared gravely I should Card'gnn quite a detective - — tw an authority on The sublM" took his only mean- Milo Dunhnr of escape fTIlF PM' GARLAND UTAH PRINT IS BRISBANE THIS WEEK Five Little Girls from Bills f barge denomination to $1000 and $10000 are used rarely la ordinary affairs When bank began closing and people became frightened It was observed that bank customers were asking for these big bilks In exchange 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