Show TIMES THE GARLAND SYNTHETIC GENTLEMAN CHAPTER VI — Continued — 13— Tat—" he begun still standing ‘‘I’ve stumbled on something’’ "So I gathered" she observed “And 1 assume that do with It has your pet murder" “It has to do with your father" She smiled “I suppose you've discovered that he killed Kelly” “I’ve discovered that he called on Kelly that night” "Wonderful!” "Who Pat mocked told you that?” “The who drove him down town” with the llurry reluted Ills adventure medico Put listened almost indifferently "It was sheer chunce" Hurry con eluded “I hadn’t any Idea of ImplHut now he Is im icating your father You must see that” plicated "I don’t — unless you Insist on drugging him Into It” “I Insist on nothing Pat — except clearing un Innocent man" "At the expense of one equally In nocent?" “What does your father stand to lose by telling the truth? We know now that Kelly was alive when Ungers left the house I’m just ns sure that he was alive when the Judge left Hut he must have been killed soon afterward We’ve got to find out who killed him" "Why?” “Because now We've two men to errant By Channing Pollock "If my father saw Kelly after the boy left—” "That clears Rogers” "And puts It up to my fa her" “Your father kill didn’t Kelly” "I know that und know Harry said why he went to that house” "Really?" "He went to protest against filing that Jefferson street decision” "And then filed It" "lie had to The pressure was too He’d been Strong for him strugIn poligling against It for weeks tics even honest men have to listen to leuson sometimes Your father had WNXJ Servic to" "How Interesting!” "In spite of the hullabaloo he wrote decision And that day came bitterest The onslaught of all Globe made a direct accusation Your father was frantic Just before midnight lie telephoned Kelly from the tobacconist’s shop and went straight to Sixteenth street “He told Kelly this verdict would ruin him For Might ruin everybody more than un hour he plead and No use Kelly was 'adamant Your father guve up ut two o'clock left Kelly— alive — and filed his decision next morning before anyone knew that Kelly was no longer alive That's the truth isn’t It?" "So plausible that telling it publicly would probably end my father’s the the avenue-- VII Inert little They were a curiously group for a minute or two after the revelation It was like a play! Harry thought curtain down on a climax and the tors relaxing until It should rise again for the next scene a After time Harry crossed the room to the pair Pat turned on him “Well now you know” she Raid "Y’ou know about us but remember we know about you too” She was herself again hard and de fiant Ignoring her for the moment Harry asked the Judge "Do you want to tell me what happened?" "I wrote my opinion in the Jefferson street proceedings and then again as you say I couldn't go through with I'd never done a crooked thing It I don’t know bow I ever in my life career" "Ami so?” “And so I think we’d better forget It" "You mean that fathers career to continue your let this boy go you'd to the gallows?” "Of course I don't" She turned to him the hardness gone out of her voice no chance "There's of that and you know It" “There's always a chance" “We'll face that when we tome to It” 'We've got to face it now Pat" And then pas“Why?" she plead "What right have you tp sionately: demand that we do anything? You don't even know this boy” "I do” "Since last —” "And you know him lie's the real John Clarke Kidder" That gave her pause "Whoever he is lie's got a wife and I can't risk his life to save a baby you or myself” "If he’s convicted—” Pat began T won't have him go through that If the Judge doesn't tell the truth now I will” Put’s mouth became a straight ban! line "And who'll believe you?” she asked ’T can prove — ’’ "Who’ll take the word of a bribed taxi driver and a branded udveu turer?” “Msten Pat — ” "You listen I've warned you to stop prying into our uffairs Y’ou went right And now you— the scum of the on eai th— ” She was losing her head "Now you come Into my bouse with a story vilifying my father and threaten to tell it if we don't My reply to that Is: Go ahead! And an hour alter you do you'll be arrested for the mails!" robbing 'they stood facing each other “That letter you opened before Wit letts— the letter with the bundled dolin lar bill — that wasn't add: was it?” Harry Gilbert "No" Pat crossed tlie room i'in sorry” she said "but ei for It" "I did but I cant take year answer can’t because — God help me Pat— I'm In love with you” She gave do sign of hearing ‘Tin an adventurer" lie went on "and you're a lady The realest I ever Diet That's why you can’t do this" No answer "I couldn’t" “anil Harry 'continued I wanted to I’m a fake gentleman lw aul edt d r p henjh(dej wdness i told Willetts that a ter you d warned J "It’a Not a Criminal’s Crime ither” Barry Answered E- that speech at the Astor The Instant It was finished I telephoned ‘You'd better come down and Kelly talk It over’ lie said "Of course it would have been fatal for anyone to learn of that meeting That's vvtiy got out of ttie taxi at As I told you street me himself He was Kelly admitted ‘What’s drunk and In a bad temper the twitter with you?’ lie asked when we’d gone Into the drawing room Here a drink take and forget It’ "There was a bottle on the table Both of ’em had and two glasses them but lie been used I needed It but I a ipl gave me one can't drink Scotch — never could I told Kelly so and he blazed out at me ’You're too good to drink with me — is that It?’ answered: "‘No’ ‘that's not It Hut can't hand down that decision It’s rotten simply can't Mr Kelly and everyone knows It I’ve got the cursed thing In my pocket and—’ “‘And I've got something In my pocket’ he shouted—” "Father!’ Put intervened "For over an hour I plead and And Kelly kept drinking and He was a' big man uglier getting with t bull npek and huge hands At last he said ’Shut your damned mouth und get out of here!’ “I said” ‘I’m not going’ “'No?' he sneered ami got up from He stumbled his chair across the room to a great old fashioned desk ’Now beat It' he and got a revolver yelled ‘and damned quick !’ "‘All right' said ‘but won't file that decision’ "I walked into the hall and Kelly stood leaning against the door with the pistol In his hand so furious that I half expected him to shoot before I could ’You think you get my hat can scare me’ he shouted ‘You and Yon think you got somThe Globe i queuiuui ething on me made Bedspreads Welcome Delicate Lilac Motif I know bow to take care of And If that Godl Beat It ain't filed by noon today Well Put suld ’’Father!" me lust Friday And Willetts said ‘‘1 know" HainbUlge Interrupted That Isn’t done A gentleman's got certain responsibilities' lie has That’s himself Pat’s admonition had come just In a tradition stronger than we are" time Harry thought The Judge had Put turned at hist risen tense and so excited that he You—” “This Is funny" she said "It Is funny” he cut her short "I’d seemed on the verge of collupse was that “And that” Burry calmed like to behave like a loafer and can’t I’m willing to go to Jail to save him "Not quite" Judge Hamhidge conthis boy — and I'm the scum of the “When but In a lower tone You're a lady earth How about tinued I got to the bottom of the steps — the you?” stone steps I mean — I stood think"If It were only me — she broke If I left that way there was no ing "Y'our father's a gentleman How telling what Kelly might do ‘I’ve got about him?" to go through’ I thought 'It’s ruin Before she could reply t tie double either way but If I obey orders ruin doors opened for me I'd better give In’ I Judge Hamhidge was standing there only I couldn’t make up my mind though — erect and soldier like And kept looking hack half decided "Mr Gilbert’s right Pat” he said a queer thing happened The "I release you from your promise to suddenly door swung open” front me I cun't go through with It I'm The Judge mopped his bunds agnln too tired and full of “I’d shut it carefully’’ lie resumed He turned squarely to Harry almost like wide there It was “hut "Y’ou're about right everything an Invitation walked Into the hall About my going to Kelly that night doors to the drawing room The and the reason I went lie let me were glass see the light closed hilt I could In himself We quarreled violently through them When I put my hand So violently that lie took a revolver on I went out t lie knob the out of his desk drawer and kept It In turned the knob lights but and pushed his hand Then walked out of the the door wouldn't open Not latched — house Hut you were wrong ubout It was as If someone was holding It I left Just one thing Sir Gilbert Tie won’t let me ’Kelly I thought the house at two o'eloek but when AlIn I’ve got to act quick now’ left it Kelly wasn’t alive” most in a dae I wandered up to the CHAPTER UTAH them by decision I’ll—’ ” Again Copyright Churning Pollock clear” GARLAND ' At nine o'clock! decision to my clerk and told him to A few hours later file It Immediately I learned that Kelly was dead The papers said his body was found stretched across that door to the hall I I knew then it was left there when the bouse and that was why I couldn’t open ttie door” Pat said "Are you satisfied?" "Are you?” Barry asked "Or would you rather that I tried to find who killed Kelly?” “What does It mutter —" Put began hotly “I think Mr Gilbert’s answered that question’’ the Judge Interrupted “We’ve got to clear young Rldder At any cost Pat we’ve got to clear him” "Mr Gilbert’s our friend” her father went on "lie says so and I believe him” “What do you want to know Mr Gilbert?" “IIow long did you stand at the foot of the steps before that door swung open?” a “Five minutes little Mujbe more” “Do you think someone opened It? Someone who then went In to Kelly?” “You meun the murderer?” Barry nodded “No That’s the last thing he would have done The door probably didn’t latch when I closed It" “While you were in the house did you see anyone but Kelly?" “No We were shut In together" “Did you hear anyone?” “Since you mention It once I did think I heard the front door close I may have linugined It but now I remember Kelly asked ‘Who’s that In the hall?’ It was about half an hour after we went Into the drawing room and I looked out but there wasn't anyone" “lie — or she — may have gone Into the dining room” Bajry said "Whoever killed Kelly came out of the dining room I'm certain of that” “Why?” “Because the drink Kelly offered you Was there anywas Scotch whiskey thing else in the room?” “If there had been Fd’ve asked for PATTERS 11S3 Dark and light lilacs tied with flourish Into the loveliest of floral sprays Is far and away the nicest— and easiest — flowery touch one can Even an amateur give a bedroom will find the large spray easy to embroider on a bedspread with four smaller sprays on the bolster or scarf ends The flowers are entirely formed of stitch and French knots the leaves of blanket With stitch— the rest Is In outline cotton or rayon floss (lie designs are seemingly done In no time In shades of lilac orchid or palest yellow Pal torn 1152 comes to you with a transfer pattern of a motif 18 by 2T Inches and two reverse motifs 4 by IllusInches Color suggestions matetrations of all stitches needed rial requirements Send 15 cents in coins or” stamps (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Needleoraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York N Y Write plainly pattern number your name and address Minister Son Invents Invisible Ear Drum The Invisible Ear Drum Invented by A 0 Leonard a son of the late Itev A B Leonard DD for many years secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church for his own relief and head from extreme deafness noises has so greatly Improved his hearing that he can join In any ordinary conversation go to the theatre and hear without difficulty Inexpensive and has proved a blessing to many people Write for booklet to Inc Suite 200 70 - 0 Leonard Fifth avenue New York city Advt Freedom of Who then Is free? who can govern himself wise Tte — man Ilorace Do WeT Eskimo uses his harpoon bnt to retrieve game The to kill It” And the weapon that “Exactly crushed Kelly's skull was a cutglass decanter containing rye whiskey “In the five minutes you were standing on the pavement” Bnrry reasoned "someone came out of that dining room with that decanter and struck Kelly There was no time for a quarrel That man — or that woman — knew vvliat he— or she— was going to do" “Why do you say ’she’?” Pat asked "This wasn’t a woman’s crime" “It's not a criminal’s crime either” “A criminal would Barry answered have brought (he weapon and It wouldn’t've been a decanter A criminal might have worn gloves to s Hut prevent leaving since this wasn't a criminul the fact that there were no finger prints sug- gests that the murderer just happened to be wearing gloves” “And?" 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