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Show - l IW I B B k A I F JiK3 . " J r O VSk ft &J I 1 fey 1 m OCTAVIK ROY fOHFKl t Copyright by (Vtayuw Rny Cohen. ii CHAPTER VI Continued But If i things are to be ban died my way" "taking that for granted, we can "Oh, boy Reagan was enthusiasunderstand that even a chap like tic. "Take my word for it. HanVernon could go crazy. The worm vey you're the boss. I wont do Jiving Its Inevitable turn. We do nothing but hang around and lisknow positively tnat shortly after ten." their campus quarrel Vernon went "Wrong," grinned Jim. "You're to the fraternity house where he gonna talk and youU start right and Thayer both lived and made now." no secret of the fact that he was "Well, that beln' the case. I'll say bitterly angry with Thayer. A little that '. wouldn't like to be in this 'later Vernon left the place In his kid's shoes. I guess you want to car and still later Thayer's body know all the dope I've got on VerHe had was discovered. been non, don't you?" stabbed In the throat" "Sure." "And even without knowing what Randolph Fiske started to Interyou know about the money situa- rupt "I told Hanvey" tion, they spotted Vernon as the A big fleshy paw was raised In do. and go straight from that crime to the robbery of a bank, and then calmly return to college the next day with the idea of resuming bis regular life?" "He does not," answered Reagan "But Jim Hanvey will promptly. tell you what I'm saying is true, Mr. Fiske : You can't tell from a feller's looks Just what hell do If he getB plenty desperate. Ain't that so. Jim?" "Yeh, John it sure Is. "You see 1" said Reagan triumphantly. He produced a little notebook from his pocket and consulted its pages. "Here's as near as I can get to the happenings of day before yesterday May first admonition. "Shortly before noon Pat Thayer "I'd rather hear this direct from and Max Vernon meet on the campus. Reagan, if you don't mind." Thayer is walking with Ver The banker nodded and Reagan non's glrL They have a row lots of the students see It About the proceeded. "First the robber was using Mas same time two fellers come in from classes and start wasting time on Vernon's car and it's a bet that Vernon was driving it Sec the porch of the PsI Taw Theta ond, after the robbery occurred Ver fraternity house. That's a sort of non drove right through Birming- college secret society like the Ma ham and on to Steel City. I've Just sons or Elks, or something like that These are a lot of crazy college come back from there." kids, but pretty nice at that. There's "How far is Steel City?" "Eighty miles from Birmingham. a long tall bird with a sad face and a big mouth and lots of sense. His A hundred miles from here. He carried his car to a dealer and dick name Is Farnura. The other guy Is his buddy: skinny little runt ered for a new one on a trade-I- n r man, eh?" "Yes. If they heard about this . . . I'm worried about the lad, Hanvey. Maybe he killed Thayer, and maybe he didn't If he did I'm sure it V'Was the result of a quarrel and a We fight. The boy needs help. have the loss of what must have appeared to him as an inexhaust ible fortune; his desperation over finances; the five thousand dollar note covering a debt of honor . , . and we have a staggeringly strong reason why he must have become mixed up In the robbery of this I'm 'afraid Vernon dirt nn bank. or the other, and frankly, Hanvey, I'd rather see him tied up with the robbery than the murder." The detective lighted , another cigar There was a silence for a few minutes and then the door opened. Miss Seward placed a card on Randolph Fiske's desk. Fiske glanced at it and passed it across to Hanvey. "Who Is John Reagan?" asked Jim. "Chief of the Marland detective force. If you'd rather not have him come in " He's the one man I'd like "Golly V to talk to." Two minutes later Reagan snapped Into the room; trim and efficient. He paid no attention to the banker, but advanced on the vast bulk of Jim Hanvey. "I want to shake hands with you. he said "All my finvey," wanted toheartily. meet a real de- , 1 tective." Hanvey grinned like a kid. What-ch- a doing, Reagan taking me for a buggy ride?" "1 mean It." The local chief turned on Fiske "Do you know who this feller Is, Mr. Fiske? He's the cops' He never makes a- - midelight stake" I "Say, wait a minute, Reagan. guess I've missed more easy ones tlin any man In the country. Hon est i have. But my people don't advertise the failures so awful prom- inent." "Hooey 1" said Reagan vi ith hearty admiration. "And the minute I heard you were In town I followed you here. I want you to do me a favor a big one?" ..." "Yeh. "Take charge of two cases here: the robbery of this bank and the murder over at the college." "Man I I never fool around with - "Manl- I Killings. Messy," Never Fool Around They're Too With Dog-Gone- killings. They're too messy." "You're handling this bank thing, ain't you?" "Maybe." "Then you'll have to take on the dog-gone- d , I Jar other." "Why?" "Because," announced Reagan crisply, "they'n tied up tight together. I don't kiiow how they were done, but I've got the baby who did 'cm both or knows who did. This teller killed Thayer and then aimc over here and copped the mill pay roll," "What's his name?'' "Vornon. Maxwell Vernon." Randolph riske looked plendlng ly at Hiuivey, and the Gargantuan detect iv j slowly extended his hand to Reagan. "Done with you," sfild Jim. "If you really want me, I'll take charge. e basis. Next morning they closed the deal and Vernon turned In his old car on a new one, and paid the difference twelve hundred smackers In cash. Now the funny part. Hanvey, is that from all I can gather Vernon has been broke for about a month." "Whnt makes you think that?" "He tried to borrow money sev- - I got to named Philip Oleason. them when things were still hot, and they gave me a fistful of real dope, "About half-patwelve Pat Thayer strolls down the hill from the college and enters this house. The guess Is that he went right to his room, because nobody saw him A anywhere else in the building. THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING Antoinette Peyton, senior at the University of Marland, resents Pater-so- n coed, and there Thayer's attentions to Ivy Welch, seventeen-year-ol- d Is a stormy scene, the tension being Increased by Max Vernon, another student, reproaching Ivy for "breaking a date' with him. Thayer and Vernon threaten each other. Larry Welch. Ivy's brother, professor at the university, is appealed to by Tony to end his sister's friendship with Thayer. Welch and Tony Peyton are in love. Tony tells hlra she is married to Thayei, but is his wife only in name. Larry determines to end Thayer's association with Ivy. Tony persuades him to wait until she has appealed to her husband. She does so, visiting him at a fraternity house. Tony ends her visit to Thayer and departs. Vernon leaves the house almost immediately afterwards. Welch's appeal to Ivy to end her affair with Thayer is fruitless. He determines to see Thayer. He does so, and after he leaves, Carmicino, frat house janitor, finds Thayer dead, stabbed In the throat. The Marland bank is robbed of tlOO.000. the robber escaping wltb the money after being shot and apparently badly wounded. Jim Hanvey. famous detective, comes to Investigate the robbery. Randolph Fiske, the bank president, tells him ha believes Max Vernon was driving the car in which the robber got away. Thayer, Fiske says, has been systematically robbing Vernon of large sums, in cards games, and Vernon has finally realized it. eral places and didn't get It Now I ask you this: If a man is dead broke one week, how does It hap pen that the next week he buys a new expensive car and pays twelve hundred in cash on the deal?" WNtt ffrvW must have thought be was a popular guy. Who was this new fellerj" "A professor And a whale of a fine feller, too. He only graduated last June and before that he was the best athlete this college ever had. His name 18 Welch Larry Welch and, while I hate to land it on him, he's got a pretty rotten tie-n- p with Thayer." 1 bust loose Inside. Yelling and screaming and all, and they beat a feller coming down the steps so fast that he's almost falling. Out on the porch comes the Janitor a He's darn wop named Carmicino. near cuckoo, but they finally get out of him that he saw Thayer's door partly open and could see Thayer" legs. Thought Thayer was most drnnk or maybe sick probably Went in to straighten him out and discovered that he was dead." "And you think that Max Vernon killed him?" "1 almost think he did." "But a minute ago you "That's the rotten part of this case, Hanvey. I've got too much dope against too many folks. I could convict Vernon in a minute If it wasn't for two other people." "Who are they?" "Miss Peyton and Larry Welch b vi i, star as said" on 1 X Jam ftr JK w Headaches "Splitlinq" the learned she was vky always miserable and found out about N R Tablets (Nature's Remedy). Now alse gets along fine with everybody. This sate, laxative brought quick n lief and ouiet nerve because it cleared her system " of poisonous wastes made bow l action easy and regular. Thousands take It's such a sure, pleasant corrective. Miid, At vour elfects. Ul UggKH Ouick reiief for acid mdiees- "fl 1YV f" I UIII J tKjn. heartburn. 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SIT IN YOUR CHAIR AT HOME . . . AND SHOPS THE things you want to buy at the time you want to buy them ... at the price you ... You can want to pay. find these right in the paper. Your newspaper advertisements make it possible to do your "looking around" right at home . . . and then go downtown to do your buying . . . saving you time and energy. d I V 3 --cr- J "1 see. . . ." Hanvey was absorbed In his toothpick. "Where are I - 1 Thayer's other visitors." they, John?" Reagan looked up brightly. "They're under arrest too," he announced. The huge detective nodded ap "I'll hand you one thing. proval. John you sure have made a complete Job of it" Reagan mopped his forehead with a lavender-borderehandkerchief "I had to, Jim. I've got those three and 1 know I'm right on one of 'em." "Which oner "That's what puzzles me. One time I think It was Vernon ; then come to believe It was Miss Pey ton. And just when I'm sure of that I get a hunch that it must have been Welch. Of the three, I'd rath er it be Vernon." "Why?" Inquired Fiske sharply "Would you pick Max Vernon as I- . 1 1 ! w-uii- "How?" "In the first place, this Miss Peyton who had Just been to Thayer's room is supposed to be Welch's girt at the college says Everybody they're nuts about each other. In the second place, Welch Is the brother of the girl that Pat Thayer and Max Vernon are supposed to have quarreled about "Larry Welch remained upstairs only a few minutes," continued Rea gan. "The boys say he looked kind of worked up and queer when he came out and be bustled back up the hill to the coilega Five or ten minutes after Larry Welch left the two boys on the porch heard all minutes later Max Vernon drives down the street in his car, climbs out and goes busting In looking sore as a couple of goata Farnum and Gleason, trying to be pleasant and chatty, call out to him "Sounds queer, that his buddy, Pat Thayer, is up Hanvey nodded. stairs in his room. And then they Reagan. And then whatT' "Plenty." Reagan's face was get the shock of their lives because beaming with pardonable pride. "1 Vernon swings around on them and discovered that when Vernon traded says he don't give two hoots in a minderer?" . h where Thayer Is. Then Ver In his car, there was something "Out of this bunch yes. That is. non "goes upstairs, leaving my two maybe. I'm darned If I know." missing, the floor rug!" "Floor rug, eh? What does that kids goggle-eyewas slumping in his Hanvey "Then, before they get over this chair, mean?" ahsornedly regarding his He spoke without "It means this: I'm sure Mr. shock, something else happens. huge hands. There's a girl in school Antoinette bothering to look up. Fiske, here, has told you all about call her Tony "What does Miss Peyton say. the robbery and how Mr. Burke Peyton, and they who, from all I can find out is one Reagan?" and the stick-u- p guy This Peyton kid each other. "Nothing. She admits visiting Pat The feller must have regular feller. been hit pretty hard because there comes walking down the street Thayer, but that Is all." "Of course she denies killing him. was blood on the floor of the bank looking not much happier than Ver and a trail of blood between the non did. And she turns In at the doesn't she?" "Sure. She says they had a talk front door and the curb. Now, then, same fraternity house. That gives it's natural to suppose, ain't it, that the two kids a Jolt because they and she came away, leaving him this paluka was bleeding pretty explained to me that it's agninst perfectly happy and healthy. Rut free and easy when he piled Into all rules for a girl to go anywhere that ain't the point. Jim: There's near a fraternity house without a something queer between her and the back of Vernon's car." chaperon. Thayer. I asked her about It and "If It was the boy's car." "But that ain't all, either, Jim; she got right white but she "We'll take that for granted. AnyI accused her wouldn't say boo. way, he was bleeding. That blood because It seems that this Miss Peywould have gone over all the floor ton rambles up on the porch and of holding something back, and she They allowed she didn't care to discuss rug, because we got to remember asks where Pat Thayer Is. that a man who has Just robbed a say he's up In his room and offer the case any further." "And this chap. Welch?" bank wouldn't be fool enough to to call him. She says not to both"It don't look a bit healthy for sit on the back seat of any car. er, she'll go right up. That knocks Chances were he was curled up on 'era for a goal, and they sit back him. First of all, Thayer was run the floor. Now, then, I Just natu- gasping like a couple fish while nlng around with Ivy Welch kid sister; pretty rally believe it would have been she calmly starts a big scandal by that's Larry's common sense for Vernon and the walking upstairs to see Thayer. little trick just seventeen years old. Whether there was anything beother guy to have lost that blood You gittln' it all straight, Jim?" You sure tween them there shouldn't be, I "Believe so, Reagan. stained rug, because It would have can't say and Welch won't. But looked pretty queer If they hadn't" have found out a heap." ' IJanvey blinked. "You ain't no"Yeh and there's a heap more. even If there wasn't and he thought About a quarter past one Miss Pey there was I reckon Welch would body's damfool, John Reagan." he a pretty bad hombre." "Thanks. Now, there's one more ton comes downstairs and walks "What else yon got against him?" She nods to the two kids, tie-uI looked at the car Vernon away. was the last "Welch person but don't for converse stop any was Jim there traded In, and known to have been In Thayer's a At tlon. about before quarter blood right by the sills, Just where room before Mike Carmicino, the it would have been left if it had two o'clock Max Vernon comes He lanitor, discovered the body. and downstairs stamps busting floor before the over the run rug seemed sore when be went to see across the so without much porch rug was thrown away. Get what and he left In a hurry that means? It proves that there as a hello. He has on a different Thayer, Tien the b'id.v was found Rut even clothes Is and a suit of there bundle a there door was originally." rug enough, there's under bis arm. lie bents It out to If all that wasn't "Sure docs, John." something elwe '' "Then," Interrogated Randolph his car, which Is parked In the "You mean about Miss Peyton beFiske hopefully, "you're positive, yard, heaves this bundle In the ing Welch's girl?" back and down hill at the goes Max was Vernon Mr. Reagan, that "Exactly. And she had been to mixed up in the robbery of this about forty, turning In the general Thnver's room before that. Welch direction of this bank. Later I'll bank?" Is cuckoo about Miss Peyton. Some "The case against him looks tell you some more about that bun body tells Larry she has Just paid lie die had. Don't it." forget about two hundred proof, Mr. n visit to Pat Thayer In his room "1 won't." promised Hanvey. Fiske." so what does Welch do but hotfoot "Fifteen minutes later Fitrnnm it down to find out what "I'm glad," said the banker the h find Gleason and out they're still Ain't il reasonable Hint he'd be boil simply. "Been use If Vernon helped rob this hank, then lie couldn't have not immune to shocks when an Ing over tinder those clrcnm killed I'uterson Thayer. Good G d other guy comes down the hill stances?" t Inlie to It You've reasonable. house and Isn't fraternity Reagan "L'li huh. I've seen lots of fellers seen this hoy; does lie look like a quires for Pat Thayer." got fight In,' mad at less." "Gosh!" murmured Jim, "they person who could murder a man (TCI RR few mlng, but the rise of such a super Mildred Dldrikson. of Dallas, Texas, promises to make up for losi time. MSS Dldrikson, who prefers t be called "Babe," qualified to comNo doubt about It, the feminine In three track and field events pete Held side of the Olympic track and the Javelin and competition added a touch to this discus throws. hurdles, great international spectacle that was And yet there is a physical side lacking until the bars were let down at Amsterdam four years ago. Sev- to the women's track and field com enteen countries sent women athletes petition at L03 Angeles which to compete in track and field, swim- arouses serious doubt as to the wis dona of their participation. Olympic ming, fencing and gymnastics at Los rules are strict, and no alternates Angeles, and thousands wondered before the games were finished why are allowed. Tuns the three girls these modern Amazons have been chosen in the various events could not be expected to step aside, even classified as the weaker sex. 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