Show S I lk AT I ne ivie n nJ J Dead Chest 4 d PRECEDING EVENTS During a n holdup at nt the Dutch Mill Chicago go night club a patron Dunn Clayton Is 13 killed Lieutenant Lieuten Lieuten- ant of ot Police Pollee Stanton questions a voluntary witness Buck Duck Trembly In Claytons Clayton's pocket Stanton found a n. note not signed Malsic Malsie making nn an appointment with the dead man at the tho Dutch Mill Stant Stanton n is inclined to suspect suspect sus sue Trembly of or the murder At Ata a n Wisconsin winter camp a boisterous boisterous bois bol crowd is gathered Including ing Ins Preston Drown Brown An apparent stranger arrives es Later two men driving appear to bo ho deeply though secretly Interested in the party The Tho stranger leaves in hi his hiscar hiscar car and tho the two men hear that Preston Brown has hns been accidentally accidentally accident accident- all ally killed The They follow the strangers stranger's strangers stranger's strangers stran stran- gers ger's car passing it A viaduct undergoing repairs is out and andone andone andone one of or tho two men removes the red lanterns danger signals The stranger in his car goes over tho embankment He is dead when found round In Browns Brown's papers Clayton's Claytons Claytons Clayton's Claytons Clayton's Clay Clay- tons ton's name namo is found round and Stanton connects the two deaths Ho He is assigned to the case goes to Wisconsin and finds the dead deadman deadman deadman man is Trembly Trembly had caused Drowns Drown's death apparently apparent apparent- ly Iy an accident A Vermont lawyer John reading of tho case recalls the names In connection connection con con- with an odd will by a aman aman aman man named Turner Turner had bequeathed the Interest on 6 to six men Blair Ashley Roberts Drown Brown Trembly and Clayton old friends The In Income Income income In- In come come at tho the death of DC each beneficiary bene- bene Is to be he divided among the tho rest Turners Turner's son is left a small income though at nt tho the deaths of or the six beneficiaries he is to all Turner dies shortly after aCter making the tho will suspects foul toul play In the three deaths and writes to the Chicago police pollee CHAPTER IV IV Continued Continued 5 5 S Stanton anton went to White Plains A clerk in the tIle probate was Interested Interested In In- end and accommodating The lieutenant found the will wUl conformed to the purpose had A trust fund had bad been created created cre cre- In affectionate remembrance of friendship and lo loyalties to yield an annuity of at least thirty thousand thousand thou sand dollars in each case for my companions In peril and adversity who would remember me without this tol token tolen en of fidelity but whose lives 1 I take t tills this is way of or sharing after my death The beneficiaries were as John had hod named them Dunn Clayton ton Arthur Trembly Trembly Trem Trem- bly Preston Brown Howard Ashley Ashey Ronald Roberts and Acton Blair The provisions pro of the trust trust required required required re re- re- re semi annual pa payments ments of the Income When the number of the beneficiaries should be redu reduced ed by death the distribution In tn result was by fewer shares and larger ratio The Ille gift was only for life but to the survivor the longest lived of the six sis was released release 1 the entire income Upon the death of this last person the entire estate reverted to the son of the testator to his Issue If it he were dead or In Inthe Inthe inthe the failure of Issue to the trustees for tor use i in their discretion and In their gen general ral knowledge of the testators testator's testators testator's testators testator's tes tes- ideas and preferences I have always regarded money as the greatest goo good 1 Turner had hod written In his will but I think Its real nobility must be recognized by bythe bythe the person possessing it or tr trying to get It Money is Js freedom It releases release's releases releases re re- re- re leases lease's man and and- everything c there Is 15 in him It Is his surest friend It may be beauty kindness helpful helpful- ness It will be an anything the man could possibly be bc I have never known another good above it it I prefer prefer prefer pre pre- fer earned money If Jf a man does not care enough for money to risk er e everything thing to Jo get It he probably should not have it to My sou son is not in my Judgment a person who would be helped by much money unless be he should come to want wan I It III enough to risk everything for It It I Ido Ido I do not mean that I think him dis dis- I solute He Be may lack the force to tobe I be that and his character Is Is ami ami- able The provision I have made for him Is ample With it and with what he be may earn he will lead an nn Innocent and I think a satisfactory life In the end he tie or his bis heirs probably will acquire the bulk hulk of ot my estate My son is not my type of a man Nor was I I. I to my regret t. t his mothers I am persuaded that money Is mans man's best friend I wish my money to continue to bo be my best friend even e when I am dead The lieutenant took the names of ot the trustees and executors Daniel Schuyler Philip Monroe and Asa Darling Where do these men lI live e be he asked the clerk Mr Schuyler ler lI lives es In Albany I think Mr Ir Monroe is now In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city but Im I'm sure Mr Ir Darling still lives up the river at New- New burgh lies Ues the one Ill I'll try try to to see then said the lieutenant Been a good deal about this case In the newspapers said sad the clerk What do you think of It ant antt now that youve you've looked over o the will That man Turner had something something some some- thing In mind Do you think he was kidding an anybody ody with that Io loyalty and fidelity Mister lIster said Stanton Stantonl dont you know that the police never think Dont Don't you yu ou read your newspapers Well uVell of course we all more or orless orless orless less agree on that said the clerk cleric grinning but maybe the tile rest of us dont don't think either cither Dont Don It be heretical mister said Stanton You hang hong to the sound Idea that the police are ure nil all feet Good luck just the same some Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant said the clerk offering his hand Thank you for that mister Stanton said shaking hands Ill need It Youve You've been obliging Why shouldn't we wc be A policeman policeman po po- from Chicago to us Is like some one who has bas been fighting Jesse James Brother said Stanton with us Jesse James would l have no noe e been cau caught ht and taken into the Juvenile court for minor delinquencies What Is that trustee Asa Darling like Do you know him Well Lieutenant said the clerk cleric there you'd oud got gt a n wide range of opinion nets lies not usual Io Ive I've e heard him called a n nut What do you think k him mister I 1 think hes he's a splendid sort of fellow lies He's rich lies He's ah a always s 's sayIng say say- Ing lag something yon you cant can't understand and then smiling at ut you ou net He's gen erous He does craz crazy things but I 1 never ne saw any harm they did and lies he's square Good by b mister said the lieuten lieu lieu- ten tenant nt Ill be watching the newspapers when you SOu ou begin shooting said tile the clerk The rhe lieutenant went from White Plains to fo Newburgh by automobile crossing cro the Hudson at nt the Tarry Tarry- town town-Nyack ferry over the Tapp Tappan Tappin n zee and then by the time Storm King EIng hl highway h vay past Stony Point and West Vest Point In crossing Westchester er county he tie directed the driver to go goby goby o oby by the Turner estate which had hen been closed shortly after Its owners owner's death lie He made inquiries In the nel neighborhood to pick u up up character fragments from train people leoPle who had known the man Turner was a n reckless cross coun try rider The TIme morning of his ac ae ac- ac October 20 had 1101 been one with gray skies and a light fall of snow v He lie had mounted about ten His ills horse came bad back about noon The Time household searching for him found him two hours later Ina in ina ina a ditch ten tea miles from the le house He tie was as conscious hut had become exhausted vainly trying to pull him himself himself himself self out of the tile trap It was as three feet deep with steep sides His Ills bro broken eD legs were in six Inches of water and there was nothing he could reach with his hands He was a powerful hardy man of fortitude and great courage and endurance endurance en durance but he could not get out out of the ditch The horse a young oung and uncertain hunter which he lie was training and of which he had expectations ex cx- had refused the tile Jump It had stopped and swerved throwing throw uw ing Its rider who had find been leen conf confident lent that he was putting his mount across The Tue fall fail had stunned him him When he hc regained consciousness he was helpless with the snow lightly falling foiling on tim him and his broken broten le legs s I In the water wlter He lle called frequently for help but In taking across the time fields and stone fences he tied hall fal falhen fallen len hen where It was vas Improbable that he would be heard Thus he was found The Time snowfall snowfall snowfall snow snow- fall light as us It had been had covered covered cov coy ered him but his courage was still l smiling when he was lifted out We all nil get it unexpectedly he hc said suld but I f haven't ha t any too good a break this time He He died October 20 CHAPTER V Mr Darling and the Turner Heir iv- iv M JjR n. n DARLINGS DARLING'S house of brick 1 was deep set In an old od yard and Stanton calling at nt eight elgut o'clock the evening of his his' arrival In Newburgh Newburgh New burgh could see In the thc gate lI lights hrs the ed edges es of perennial gardens in late bloom waiting for the frost He Be had hind been easily directed at atthe atthe the time of the lintel Hotel Palatine to follow the time tree-lined tree street parallelIng parallel parallel- I Ing lug the time crest of the time river blurt by hy bythe bythe the Hasbrouck house which he would know b by the cannon annon on Its green and on on then to the time house with the time grilled Iron gates and the time tall brick gate gate posts The IThe Hasbrouck house on the tIme bluff of the time Hudson was Washington's luns lun's headquarters In the tile lII Highlands hl Yorktown It was In this rills ent meat ment that the Continental officers thought too much of ot their grIevances grievances grievances ances against congress and neglected neglect neglect- ed civil choU authority as they waited for n a ship to bring word from I England Eng ng land whether It was to be pence peace or more war and considered setting up upa a n military government It If It were peace and withdrawing to the time west beyond the mountains to form a anew anew anew new country countr of ot their own If It was to be more war Dried leaves heaves rustled under tInder the lieutenants lieutenant's feet on the long brick walk from the time gate to the door At his three drops of the tile knocker the tile door was opened by an old colored colored colored col col- col- col ored man whose blue c coat at was a anoble anoble anoble noble survival of the later Andrew Jackson period May I see sec Mr Darling If he Is at nt home homeI Stanton asked e 1 TIe lie Is at home said the tile colored man with grave e courtesy courtes but it 11 is unusual for him to see anyone un unexpectedly un- un expectedly at this hour I am Lieutenant Stanton of the time Chicago police I t will come an nn another other oIlier time If It he prefers it but will you ask asic him If he lie will wI wIsee see me now nov Certainly Lieutenant Stanton Will you ou come In iii Please be bc seat seated ed cd I will speak to Mr Darling Stanton was In n n a broad ball hallway way to sit If he lie cared to on a mahogany any settee or to stand for a n better view of the oil portrait of a band hand some sonIc Darling ancestor in Revolutionary uniform a young captain of light Infantry The lieutenant was standing when the colored man mem returned Mr Darling says that If you will excuse the time fact that he Is at supper supper sup sup- per I he lie e will be glad to see you ou Stanton entered by a door to the right Into a n large room glowing glow ing lug in rich colors and soft lights shining on pictures books and rugs In front of a log fire an old gentleman with will white hair and wl white mustache sat In a comfort comfort- ii You Are From Our Glowing AnImated Ani AnI- mated Medieval G Gothic Chicago able stuffed chair At his side sille was wasa a n table tahe with a tray ti-ny of smoked and cured fish delicacies from Germany and the Baltic There was also a 0 ahot ahot hot hN chicken wing and leg and a tea lea samovar The little old nit gentleman was vas In a yellow ellow dressing gown own HI Ills His feet were on OD an otto otto- ottoman man pardon me If 1 I dont don't try to rise wont won't you oU Lieutenant Please sit down n TIme The colored man had pushed another another an an- other great chair toward the table tahle Would you Join me met Mr Ir Darling Dar Oar ling asked sweeping the time tahle table with one gesture and pointing to the time samovar ar with another No I 1 couldn't said Stanton Thank you but hut Ive I've just had din dIn- ncr ner nero uI Pompey said Mr Darling you sou know what Lieutenant Stanton might lII like e. e Ill I'll make an exception except and 1101 tal take e some m myself You mu may remove the time tray and samovar Pompey Now please dont don't bother about I Ime me said Stanton 1 assure you Lieutenant Its It's not nota a bother May I say it will wll be Napoleon on braIH brandy It Is strictly and Indubitably legal leal The Time cellars of this house have been stocked for Jor over o one hundred years I am now nowa a a light user You have hn heard of the time Frenchman who said that we hatter flatter ourselves we quit our vices but the time truth Is our vices quit us fhe The French alwa always s 's say the civilized civil civil- timing thing Do uDo the they the lieutenant said U I hadn't noticed It In In France But then I probably didn't know enough of the language You were In France Lots were It was nothing un UD- un- un usual Well Lieutenant as ns Pompey came with the tray heres our treat At least Its It's mine Youre You're young oung Im I'm old 1 I try to like beIng being being be be- ing old hut but It Isn Isn't I natural to do so It requires a u philosophy If It you ou have It IL oUt our health Lieutenant A lieutenant of off time the Chicago police polle I IDo Do you know that that would give ghe un any man a thrill You m run us tie rug rugged ragged ed on that here her hereID ID In the 1 Emust 11 st st. Mr Darling Im I'm completely completely com corn out of comebacks A I Iata ta- ta can rio do no more Im tm sincere Lieutenant To a n aman aman man mun who mostly sits here and his world In books and In Iii Ill I'll Pompey III II a Chicago n iii Is a mm man noun from the Danube the titi German forests or orI I Hadrian's wall a Unman Roman cen turlon I 1 assure you ou Mr Jr Darling that tutu It Its It's n It great I joke 1 Aside from know knowIng Irl lug Ing some hooch hoodlums maims and of some sonic immure I get gel my uy wild life by reading It I II I refuse to believe you saId Bald I Mr Darling smiling to I 1 have more Intuitive confidence confidence- In you You are ure from our glowing animated medieval medic medie val al Gothic Chicago I approve of ot it all nih Pompey put that Napoleon bottle down after youve you've taken It ito o out t and poured floured another er for Cor your your- self Well Lieutenant you had had sortie some other mission than thaD that of treating an old New York gen gentleman gentle gentle- lemin le- le min man to the sight of an nn actual Chicago Chi cago cage lieutenant |