Show I IThe The Men on 11 the theby Dead Mans Man's Chest V w v by CLIFFORD RAYMOND RArMOND Service Copyright Th n. Bobbs Dobbs Co PRECEDING EVENTS During a 0 holdup at the Dutch Mill Chicago nI night ht club a 0 patron Dunn Clayton ClaYlon Is 13 killed Lieutenant of Police Stanton questions a club visitor Buck Trembly In Clayton's Claytons Claytons Clayton's Claytons Clayton's Clay Clay- tons ton's pocket Stanton found a 0 note signed Maisie making an appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment with the dead man at ot the Dutch Mill Stanton Is Inclined to suspect Trembly of the murder At Ata n a Wisconsin winter camp a n boisterous bolster bolster- ous crowd Includes Preston Brown Browa An apparent stranger arrives Later two men driving come on the scene The stranger leaves In his car and tho the two men follow passing him A viaduct Is out and arid one ono of the Ute two men removes remo the danger signals The stranger In his car goes over the embankment Ho He Is dead when found Brown is dead In his papers Claytons Clayton's name Is found and Stanton connects the deaths He goes to Wisconsin and finds tho the dead man Is Trembly Trombly Trembly had caused Browns Brown's death apparently an accident A Vermont lawyer John reading of tho case recalls tho the names In connection connection connection con con- with an od odd will made by a aman aman aman man named Turner Turner had bequeathed bequeathed bequeathed be be- the Interest on to six men Blair Ashley Roberts Brown Trembly and Clayton old friends The Th Th Income at the death of each ench beneficiary Is to bo be divided among tho the rest Turners Turner's son Is left lert lefta lerta a small Income though at nt the deaths of the six beneficiaries of the will ho he Is to Inherit all alt Turner dies shortly after making tho will Whit- Whit suspects foul play In the three deaths and u writes rites to tho the Chicago police St Stanton Interviews Asa DanIng Darling Darl Dan ing Ins one of the executors of the wilL CHAPTER V Continued V-Continued 6 6 Turner asked if ever had been an accessory to murder I before the fact and told him be he was going to be No uNo doubt On occasion Tom would bellow out that he Intended to Id kill six rascals In a 0 most enjoyable enjoyable enjoy enjoy- able way He must have bare had some Idea that he would be ballooning around somewhere above to see It IL Tom was an Incorrigible sentimentalist sentiment sentiment- alist romanticist and Idealist He Lie should have corrected himself Nothing happened for nearly two years Stanton suggested What do you Imagine broke the peace pence Tom Turner was shrewd where men were concerned said Mr Darling Dar Dar- ling ing lie He was more than shrewd d. He Ue was Intelligent That's That s a tall thing to say of anyone but he be was lIe He knew these men and they knew one another They would see from the first why the bequest had been made Tom laid It on thick with terms lerms they couldn't misunderstand is itS to loyalty and fidelity Their Instinct you see Lieutenant would be to smile and resolve resol to lefeat him They had each an Income Income In In- come lome of say thirty thousand a year ind ond what could be more reasonable than to shake hands with one another another an an- other on It and laugh at Tom Turner Tur Tur- ner ncr They would do this Turner they would but he also knew new rhem them deeper than that He tie new knew they couldn't trust one another They hey were justified In not trusting one ne another They were of ot varying degrees of courage but none was afraid of direct action Distrust Is Isa Isa Isa a bad thing to have hare In your mind It ft t puts an nn enemy behind you In Inthe Inthe Inthe the dark It was bound to become I Intolerable for these men to be wondering won won- dering which one would break the truce The temptation was always alway there They had feared Turner himself himself him him- self for a long time He knew they did and that gave him so much satisfaction that he he was content to wait walt for this Gradually they convinced themselves themselves themselves them them- selves that they were out of danger from him They knew they were when he died until they learned of the will You will see how completely completely com com- he had them It did none of them any good to try to withdraw withdraw with with- draw from participation One might have done so se He lie might have renounced renounced renounced re re- re- re his rights anti and have denounced denounced denounced de de- de- de his patron but nevertheless less If it he died of ot pneumonia or a abad abad bad appendix or from having g a car run him down the shares of his associates associates as as- Increased If men men did not notha ha have ve confidence In one another these conditions would be ant You will have bare read In the will that Turner said money was what the man who had bad It was Our gentlemen men evidently have tried l believing they could trust one another They also strengthened their confidence by keeping as as far apart from one another as they could My records show them widely widely wide wide- ly iy scattered about th the world All An except except ex ex- Blair and Ashley who seem to to have haye chummed It All that satisfied me as to motive motive mo mo- mo- mo tive tire said the lieutenant Its fan fan- I as ns you observed Mr Darling Dar ling hug but theres there's cause and theres there's continuity In the case of Cla Clayton ton Brown and Trembly By the way do you know ow of a a woman named Masle Malsie I mean In connection with any of or these men Mr Darling shook his head She was use used as as u a decoy c y for Clayton the lieutenant continued She Sho hasn't been found That's a aside aside aside I side Issue Our continuity breaks s sat at the red lanterns at nt the Wiscon i sin bridge Jf It the three other men of ot these six are arc in Europe They can be almost anywhere said Mr Darling They can cnn be In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United States They can have been here all of ot September Until Its It's proved that they haven't been said the lieutenant one of ot them picked up the lanterns lanterns lanterns lan lan- terns In my story and I stick to it My guess Is that at least one of ot them will be found here bere or If It he skips to Europe has been here Now Mr bIr Darling I know rm Im Imposing Imposing Im Im- Im posing on your evening time and probably am nm quite out of ot order By no means menns Far from it I am nm ama ama a man of late Inte habits I hope you will live long enough to know that some people In n old age love the night Old age Is congenial to the dusk and the end of day Externals are fading out We are subjective people May my old age be as yours Mr Darling but It wont won't be Ill I'll probably be a night watchman In a warehouse although I would like Uke to retire with a couple of ot bees to toa toa a clover cloyer country Just a few ques ques- Can you suggest a way of picking up th the whereabouts of Blair Ashley ley or or Roberts Only by beginning where they were when I heard from them last lastor lastor lastor or waiting until they give me their post offices next month What Influenced Mr Turner to tomake tomake tomake make this will Mr Darling was silent a mo mo- mo- mo ment These men had Injured him unforgivably unforgivably un un- un- un forgivably he said as if he be were considering his words It wouldn't Interest anyone very cry much As to the actualities of It he never talked much although he was seldom cent At first I was unable to believe be be- here lieve that he was serious In this arrangement When I was forced to know that he was I represented the case of his son as strongly as ns asI asI I could He Be was persuaded that his son was amply provided for I Iwas Iwas Iwas was inclined to be angry and might have broken our friendship but I have been generally delinquent In Inthe Inthe Inthe the moral grace which should have compelled me to fo Interfere in n other peoples people's lives and purposes In the end I did not take a firm stand Tom Turner had been almost mortally mortally mor mor- tally injured This Idea of Justice pleased him Whatever I should ha have hae e done I didn't and whatever conscience I should have I haven't The lieutenant waited for tor what more Mr Ir Darling might say of ot Turners Turners Turner's Tur Tur- ners ner's will When It was apparent that he would not of his own desire desire desire de de- de- de sire go further the lieutenant fore- fore bore to press the question Mr Turners Turner's son he said after a pause lives here In Newburgh Newburgh Newburgh New- New burgh I believe Yes the boy recently married He will get his education without college I have haye encouraged him I IIiI In IIi that He Is a n. young fellow of the I most engaging seriousness I hope to live Ilvo to see sea what comes In the way of ot learning to a young fellow who cuts loose from our delightful American college life Ufe Then Lien 1 probably could see him tomorrow Oh surely Just go north say saya a mile half from the Palatine and Inquire May I 1 call caU on you again Mr i Darling Therell There'll be more questions questions ques ques- lions If you dont don't mind I shouldn't like Ilk it If I weren't to see you again Lieutenant Pompey came Into the room Hes always just around the corner corner cor cor- ner ncr said Mr Darling Pompey looked critically at nt the brandy bottle fIrm Im glad you ou remind me of hospitality hospitality hos hos- said Mr Ir Darling Lieutenant Lieuten Leuten ant Stanton and I will have a stirrup stirrup stirrup stir stir- rup cup Pompey you are In the presence of a lieutenant of Chicago police This gentleman has been beena a centurion where Dion Tim Murphy Lombardo 13 Bugs Bags gs Moran Moran Moran Mo- Mo ran Al Capone and twenty others lived or still live Dont kid us so much Mr Ur Dar Dar- ling hag We do the b best st we can And good night to you S S S In walking to the Turner boys boy's house the following morning Stanton Stanton Stanton Stan- Stan ton made some mind pictures of Thomas Turners Turner's son and the boy boyhe boyhe he ho thus prepared himself to find proved to be that boy It It was fairly famy y conclusive that If Lt a hard fighter of repressible conscience of an elastic moral code ode and aud of a 0 world easily adjustable to his hla desires desires de tie- sires had alienated so much of t his fortune from his son It t was because se his son was unlike him Th The difference dlf tilt dif ference might be at one side or ox the theother theother theother other of the elders elder's character Such Sucha a boy might be lie much of the worst of ot his father or largely the best of him The house was a New England removed Into the Hudson valley the type which was framed raised and painted white and which g generally gen gen- n. n contained the question whether er the of an all adult could come out the front door or must It be belet belet belet let out of ot a window In the old days of Infant mortality see the diary of Samuel Sewall for tor Instance instance In in- stance godly man of ot serious and prayerful life me a Salem witchcraft Judge In the court of O Oyer er and Terminer Ter Ter- miner He begat In December and burled buried In September the little coffins coffins cof cof- fins tins came easily and often out of ot the front door which had to the right an nn entrance to the living room to the tho left an nn entrance to a stairs down spare bedroom and directly dl di ahead up stairs steep In pitch and narrow v In step access to the tile dormitory The hall hail space for this movement in these three directions might be three feet by four tour or less Meditation upon tho the mortality of ot life UCc would Include wishful looks at nt atthe atthe the door and pensive contemplation of ot the windows speculation governed governed governed gov gov- as ns' the case might be by Calvinism Calvinism Calvinism Cal Cal- or conceptions of ot the universality of efficacious grace Lieutenant Stanton did not know lenow much of old New England houses but he be knew something and after he had clicked the gate he be stopped to observe that In the transplantIng transplant- transplant Ing of the Idea Into the Hudson VA 1 hAyOt h r Ay e My Wife Lieutenant valley vaHey the bastard story second-story dormers dormers dormers dor dor- mers over the purity of the straight pitch of the roof had not been heen carried carried car car- ried ned along with It The roof came down unbroken from the ridge and anda a two-foot two overhang protected the doorstep Here also he noted the supports were Doric Done In spirit and not Corinthian The lieutenant observing these conformities looked about confidently dently for what he then necessarily must find and there It was a clump chump of with borrowed time blossoms serene In the t sun un at atthe atthe th the top of the stalks s. s Flagstones led around the house to what the lieutenant knew y to be the soul of an old New England home borne the kitchen In 1023 1923 the lieutenant had gone to Boston to see Bunker Hill am monument monument mon mon- on Breeds Breed's hill bill From Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton he lie had bad gone to Plymouth to see sec seethe seethe the Rock In Its portion half Greek temple and from Plymouth he had gone to Duxbury to see what Is s offered offered of of- for visitation John Aldens Alden's as house He remembered Its us Now he went around by the flagstones nag lag stones knowing what he hc would find as to the House whatever might beas beas be as ns to Its persons A young man was working In the kitchen garden pulling out and piling up stems of the summer vegetables As the lieutenant came around the corner the young man was standing up with a tomato stem in each hand He saw the lieutenant dropped the stems and came for tor- ward He smiled as If any person coming around to his kitchen porch and garden even to put him to the trouble of giving directions or of saying that he could not take any anymore anymore anymore more magazines had brightened the day a little It was that sort of boy and that quality of smile He said sad good morning A gesture apologized for his stained hands My Iy Iy name Is Stanton said the lieutenant I came around the back way Quite right said the boy I Isee Isee Isee see you ou did I mean It seems to be the thing to do at a New England house it true the boy said with a n chuckling l laugh ugh Youre probably Massachusetts No I shouldn't wonder If youre you're Just over the thc line In maybe Vermont maybe New Hampshire No Mr Turner Im I'm a n lieutenant of ot Chicago rigo police Boom 2 Boom 1 I said the boyNo boyNo boyNo boy No offense Lieutenant And Ana you want to see me about my fathers father's will and about me inc and the benefi benefi- Of course Shall we go Inthe in inthe inthe the house or sit out here hero on the bench Will you let me mo see the house bouse later the lieutenants lieutenant asked If you ou will Ill I'll not take lake you In now now or or put you ou In the goldfish bowl The Tue goldfish bOWl Our third degree You have heard of ot the third degree Have Ua I The extortion of con con- of course But 1 I have nothing nothing noth noth- ing to confess Lets Let's sit down dO on the bench If It you had come a fortnight tort tort- night ago ngo I 1 could have shown shO you some fine dahlias We feared frost trost and cut them alL It was a good garden year Tomatoes Well you'd never believe the tomatoes A Agnes es has the cellar full of them in cans and crocks Tomato butter In the crocks Agnes Is my wife Im I'm rather Impressed by that when I Isay Isay say it You see she's been my wife three months I suppose one gets over being unduly Impressed but It doesn't seem possible now Tell me Mr Turner said Stanton Stanton Stan Stan- ton why you didn't contest your fathers father's will Most sons would have havo done so Courts arent aren't easily persuaded to set wills aside but your fathers father's was so eccentric that It might have |