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Show CEIH FREE PRESS. LEW. ycoooocooox Synthetic Gentleman By CHANNING POLLOCK Oopyright. churning W.VU Pvllk 8rrlo. 1XXXXXXXXX) SYNOPSIS The !uke, Barry Gilbert, likable youth tweiily-tbrejobless and broke, enters an unoccupied summer home in Southampton, seeking shelter from a torm. He makes himself at home. Dozing at the fireplace, he Is startled by the arrival of a butler, Willetta; and chauffeur, Evans. He learns that the on of the owner of the house. Jack Kidder, whom the servants had never seen. Is expected. He decides to bluff It out. His supposed parents have left lor Germany. Next morning he is given ft letter for his "mother." He opens It and finds a message from the real Jack, aaylngr he could not come, and returning ft hundred-dolla- r bill. The boy's father had pensioned him Into obscurity. Bar. rjr pockets the money, intending to return It later. He orders Evans to take Jlm to Montauk, Intending to disappear there. On the way he meets Jude Hambldge and his daughter, Patricia. Believing he Is Jack Bidder, she Invites him to dinner the following Thursday. Barry returns to Southampton, deriding to stay a bit longer. Mr. Kidder, Sr., through his newspaper, the Globe, accuses Judge Hambldge of taking orders from Tammany Hall in a condemnation proceeding. Barry meets Peter Wlnslow, prominent attorney. Wlnslow tells Barry that Judge Hambldge had seen an accident in which a woman was killed by a taxloab. At home Barry finds the wife of the real Jack Bidder .waiting him. Her husband Is In Jail In New York, charged with the murder of Mike Kelly, Tammany boss. The girl, Pegey, tells Barry how she had met Jack In Florida and married him. as Jay Rogers. Jack lost his Job, and they went to New York, where she got work at the Cocoanut Bar. There she was accused of trying to pick the pocket of Mike Kelly, and was arrested. Her husband went to Kelly's to Induce him to drop the charge. Later Kelly was found dead, his skull crushed by a decanter. Barry suggests he can help as Jack Kidder, and Mrs. Rogers agrees. Judge Hambldge delivers a decision In the condemnation suit In which Kelly had been Interested. f e, CHAPTER III Continued Remarkable: Barry thought. Bow stand could staring at anything people connected with a tragedy.4" There was another little group at the corner, where workmen were putting In a new traffic light standard. Broken off short. Its predecessor lay on the pavriuent. Having nothing better to do, Barry asked, "What the excitement?" "Tail smash." -When?" Just before two o'clock yesterday mornln?. Killed a woman. Crush! her right up against that post. Broke it off short. Don't seem possible." No wonder the Judge was "upset" Curious, Harry thought, these two violent deaths within a few yards and a few hours of each other. Curious, too, that the Judge's stroll should have brought hlui so near the house In which Kelly lay murdered, but no more remarkable than the series of events that had Involved Harry In the whole affair. "Life's full of coincidences," Barry mused. "It's only In fiction that people pay much attention to 'em. Wlnslow said the Judge went for a walk, and that's the simplest explanation of the whole matter. He was at the attorney's office before ten o'clock on Monday morning. He was ushered Into the pleasantly furnished corner room that was Peter's. The lawyer rose, as Harry entered, and came forward, one hand outstretched, and the other holding a newspaper. "The early bird, eh?" "I'm uot exactly looking for worms," Harry replied. "I want that position we were talking about. If I can get It, but, just now, I'm a lot more Interested iu this Kelly murder. You've read about that, I suppose." Peter nodded. "I saw the headlines after you left the llambiilges on Friday," he said. "I didn't bother about It much then. But, this morning, I found Saturday's Herald Tribune ou my desk. And, of course, I'm always Interested in murders." "I know the boy who's accused of tills crime," Harry said. "You do? That's exciting. Tell me about it." Harry did, omlttiiig only the detail of Kidder's Identity. "I met them In Florida," he related. "Kogers worked In a hotel there. I liked the girl even then. She'd been putting up such a game fight to make a man of her husband, and was succeeding so wonderfully. I 'suppose I'm the only friend they've got around here, and that's why she came to me." Wlnslow listened sympathetically. "That sort of thing always gets me," lie observed. "A woman tied up to some man who's not worthy of her, and In love with him." "This boy's not so bad," Barry arcinch that gued. "And it's a lead-piphe didn't kill Kelly." "Think so." "Dead sure." "All right. Make me sure." Harry tried. "There was someone else coming when Jack left," he concluded. "If he came, he either found Kelly dead, In which case he'd've given the alarm, or he found Kelly alive, In which case, of course, Jack didn't kill him." "Very Ingenious," Peter remarked. "But what makes you think someone else was coming?" "That's why Kelly fired Jack out." "Who says so?" "Jack and Peggy." "Not very conclusive," Peter objected. "Who do you think did It?" "I'm not concerned as to who did It," Peter declared. ' Only as to who didn't." "Jack didn't. You'd know that If Cut there was nothing dtcf at Jamison Window's. "I'm sorry," he said, brst.w're laying off men efery day nosf. Why aren't you on .your father's newspaper?" "My father and I haven't been ery friendly." But I've got an "So I've heard. Idea. That's what I wanted to talk to yoo about." It was quite a simple Idea. "We place thousands of dollars worth of advertising with The Globe. And I kuow the city editor pretty welL His name's Harwood. If I gave yon a letter to Ernie, and he gave you a Job. and you made good while the boss Is In Europe, wouldn't that square things when he got back?" Harry grinned. ' It might," he said, "and then again It might not." "What I heard," Jamison Wlnslow went on, "was that your father wanted you In his business. If thafa true, he'd certainly he pleased at your going In." "I'd like to succeed on my own." We don't have "Well, why not? to tell Harwood who you are. Not In the beginning, anyway." "That Is an Idea," Barry agreed. "Since the row, I've been calling myself Harry Gilbert." "Not a bad pen name," Jamison Wlnslow declared. "All right; we'll stick to It. I've a hunch that you'd make a good newspaper man." "That's what your brother said." Ten minutes later, Barry Gilbert himself again, so to speak was on his way to The Globe. The Globe occupied a new and Imstreet. posing building in Thirty-nintAsking for Mr. Harwood, Barry found himself in the city room. Men In their shirt sleeves sat at desks, smoking and pounding on typewriters, and most of the people who had rushed In and out of the elevators rushed lh and out of the double doors. Harwood's office proved to be a small and comparatively quiet cubby-holjust off the concourse. He had always been a newspaper man. Square cut, not very tall, but with big hands and broad shoulders his hair was as red as Barry's. He had been John Clarke Rldder'a cltr editor when John Clarke was a cnu and he remained John reporter, Clarke's city editor still. John Clarke's friend, too, with more real power, and ability, than any other man on The e o 1 , Comfortable Culotte available for sizes 12, and 20. Size 14 rened culotte for bicycling, quires 4'j yards of 39 inch mariding, beach, housework; for terial. Send 15 cents in coins. 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"The fellow that killed Mike Kelly "The fellow they say killed him." "Yeah?" Ernie squinted Into the bowl of his pipe. "How long have yon known Jimmy Wlnslow?" he Inquired. "About half an hour. His brother asked him to get me a Job." "Peter Winslow?" "Yes." "Peter Wlnslow going to defend Rogers?" he snapped. "Yes." Ernie reached for a telephone. "Peter WInslow's defending the Rogers boy," he barked Into the Instrument. "If It's straight, play It up In the next edition." To Barry he said, "How did you get Winslow to take the case?" For the second time, Barry related you looked at him." his story of meeting the Rogers In ' "I feel sorry for the girt. I'll go Florida. From there, he Jumped to down to see Rogers. Somebody ought the visit of Mrs. Rogers, repeating to've gontj long ago to tile an apwhat she had told him, and dilating pearance. There shouldn't have been upon their Interview with the boy In without the Tombs. hearings any preliminary proper representation." "What did he say?" Harward asked. CHAPTER IV "You'll take the case, then?" "I don't feel at liberty to repeat "I suppose so. Now, how about that that until I've spoken to Peter WinsIt was long after one o'clock when Job I thought we might land at my low," Barry answered, "but It's given they walked out of the Tombs. me two clues that I'd like to follow brother's?" She was all In now. P.arry splurged "I certainly need It." up." on a taxi to take her "home" to the "All right," Krnie said. "Follow "em. "Let's see If he's In." dingy boarding house where the disYour salary's fifty dollars a week. Re "Get Jamison Wlnslow," he Instructowned Rldders lived, In the upper ed the operator. port straight to me." In spite of her protests. Forties. In a few minutes the phone rang. "Yes, sir." Harry kept his word as to giving her "Wait a minute. I'll put you neit "That you, Jimmy?" Peter said Into most of that hundred and fifty. "It it. "You've heard of John Clarke to somebody who'll Introduce you at Isn't mine," he declared. We've got that Itidder, haven't you? Well, his son's police headquarters. "We'll eat together Monday, after In here, and wants work. Ilow about angle covered, of course, but you'd I've talked to Wlnslow. I'll be around it? Clot better be in touch there. What I want anything over there?" about six o'clock." raucous you to do is to follow your own leads. made instrument noises. The ' It was two now a warmish Sat"All right," Peter continued, nt last. Bring in something." urday afternoon. Nearly forty-eigh- t "Roth, come here!" he called. "I "I'll send him around, and you talk hours before he could hope to llnd tho to him. want you to take Mr. Gilbert down to attorney. Any Inexpensive hotel would "Chrysler building," he Informed the homicide bureau." do. He registered at one a few blocks "ami he's waiting for you." Nothing seemed entirely impossible from Peggy's. "Barry Ollbert." he Barry, "I don't know how to thank you." that bright morning, as wrote. "What for?" Barry swung Into Broadway. From his new residence. Harry went Up to now, he owed everything to ".Mainly for helping two people In to the Astor, and cabled Mrs. Kidder a lot of trouble." his Imposture that first stake, the The message read: clothes he wore, Peter WInslow's faPeter smiled once more. 'Making good stop water-wago- n "That Inside-Joand theory sticks to vor, and nil that had followed. They on track of a Job stop friend of mine mind," Harry remarked. "Is there constituted an amazingly fortuitous met in Florida locked up for murder myMrs. Mike Kelly?" chain of circumstances. But the chain didn't commit stop can you arrange a had lifted- him' to solid ground. "It's Peter laughed outright. credit here up to two thousand dollars "You're determined to be Sherlock up to me now," Harry said, feeling stop won't use unless necessary for friend and will return every penny stop Holmes, aren't ybu?'s he asked. "All square with himself, and the world, , wire Peter Wlnslow lawyer for con-- f firmatlon If desired step this Is my big right. There Is a Mrs. Mike Kelly. and strangely gay and "I'm going to start right," he said, i chance to do something worth while I'd Just finished reading about her. writing details all's well don't She sued for divorce recently and "by paying those bills, and giving John." iatop back love., withdrew the case. Do you think that Peggy the rest of that two hundred. "I'll need that two thousand quick," might indicate that she killed her hus- I'm going to figure up my board and room at Southampton, and give her band?" Harry thought. "Winslow'll want a and there'll be a lot of other "Cherchez la femme, you know." that, too. A fellow like me can't afPeter laughed again. Harry wondered what to do ford to be crooked." things." wlfh lils forty-eigh- t hours. "I'll stroll "Search for the woman," he trans(TO BE COXTINVED down to Kelly's place," he decided, lated. "Hut, then, there appear to and give It the onceover." have been a good many women In KelSpeed of Sound From' STxth avenue, he turned Into ly's life. We mustn't Jump at concluThe speed with which sound travels ICtb atreet, stopped before, what sions." through various mnterlals varies greatthe tabloids were calling "the scene "No," Harry admitted. "No, I sup ly, la air. Bound, waves move J,0S of the. murder." It was an feet rer second. They move through pose not. "All the same," he thought, the water 'nearly tive times aH fast as .oned ed brick bouse, .with a bay winother side of the door, "It's pretty evipothrough alrv wul throimh hard dense dow, and a heavy front door. liceman stood guard, and a group of dent that a woman who sties for di- materials auoh as steel and pluss the Hie curious loitered as near aa they vorce Is a little bit anxious to get rid sound waves travel from 13 to Ui times as fast as through air. of her husband.'' dared. 8 "Did you ever see Kelly?" "No." "He was enormous. Must have been la his stockings. I'm In mine. I'd've had to stand on a chair to hit him on top of the head." "Unless he was sitting In one." "The body wasn't anywhere near a chair. It was up against the door to the hall. The paper says so. The Filipino got In through the dlnlnsr room. I got out through the hail door. lie saw me. How did 1 do that. If Kelly was lying against It?" "I don't know." "Two more things: The lights were burning full tilt when I left. I could see Kelly's shadow on the blinds as I passed the house on my way home. Were they still burning when the butler came In the nest morning And. If not, who turned 'era out?" "What's the other Item?' "The other Item's the crux of the whole business," Jack answered. "Mike rushed me out because the phone rang, and the fellow that rang It was coming over to talk to him. Did he come? If not, why not? And, If that fellow did come, isn't It likely that he's the guy that killed Kelly?" A-- IT AH Tte railroad T" V -- reAeKS.'s-, 'PKTZ A fe a&Z&J ) JL time! mWW oi VDU AND VtXJR FRIENDS VOL) BET WE Li. 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