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Show f DAYJANUARY THE DESERT mow CLEAVER. sikahan i (OPYRIfitT -OOOBLEOAYOORAMCQ CHAPTER XIII Continued. CSflfeUe- CannezTand,i rmpresslons preriously noted : sustained. .: nulrhi-- tag, lovable cnaracter. innocent. '? Ssmnel Sta nley.fv Honest; - LI kabl e Esdly. There Is a slight chance that be might be Involved, unwittingly. He not stupid ; but, decidedly, he Is, not dew. .'- ' , Hary Magin. Intelligent Imagine Ova Honest. Innocent " " : John Stanley; Too handsome, but unccncelted. Bashful. Likable. Judg- sent suspended. Hubert Hand. Egotistic. Clever. Judgment suspended. OlUe Sl-ker. Life has treated her badly. She has put on armor against t Stupid. "Perhaps sly. " Judgment suspended. V : Daniel Cannezlano. Criminal type. Alibi proves him not guilty of the Border, but he Is probably Involved Why did he come here? July. 11. .Evenings Heard case history today from Mr. I and Mrs. M. "'" " : : Tempted to destroy all first tmpres- lions as recorded- Kememher, how- fter. -the value of mistaken Impres slow Is usually Important ... - - - Multiplicity of clews most amaz- in my -"entire experience. Would m false dtws. - J -$ Most -Important clews : "" ' .'.'mm". 1- John's unnecessary errand. Length of time gone. " , ; Victim's evident fear as she talked through room. . Unusual cos- Uine for short Walk on the place. 77" 8. Miss C.'s calling after her sister. Caufield s suicide and confess Won a I note. (Probably most impor- Sot of all clews.) , IU Victim's note Jo Danielle. Can- eztano. I'roof of her fear. 6. Death of Martlia Stanley. Miss-ng Miss-ng box containing sleeping powders, t Cannezlano's presence on the much. . , . Clews of . less" Importance : 1.-Contents of bealed bag: Empty purse, missing bill-fold, crumpled tandkerehief, broken cigarette holder, note from Hubert Hand, cigarette case ita- two cigarettes -missing, - empty sal oli box.- 2. Code letter 2 r i 3. Pipe ashes on bag and carpet. Not necessarily Mr.N StanieyV Frob- Bij fixed false aew. 4. Tatting" shuttle. (Doubtful.) Clews of most Importance:" " L' , Entire story r concerning - the money .from rohbery elng hidden on Desert Moon ranch. , 2. Victim's peculiar actions after receiving Hrode letter. Quarrel - with MiCSttDleyT"'.'..,. ::.'-r 1 Mrs. Bicker's story. . Her rea- Lno. for telling It Did she believe It? 1 Mrs. Magln's desire to remove pe-she - . - v , Miss C.V reluctance to tell jf pm. - Her final complete confession her suspicions concerning Mr. Stan- 1 Hubert Hand's unnecessary con cession concerning his past life. Clews of least importance! - t" C. Caofleld's nowers of ventrtlo- slsmProbably: greatly overrated by pembers of household. . . t Playing of radlq between stwo 4 tour o'clock that afternoon. . I Martha's reference to a surprlt j ,S which she and Tttadwick Caofleld !r Involved. Possibly untrue. i. Mrs. Magln's evident antagonism trd the victim. i Mr. Stanley's prompt action In lng the attic door and his refusal hive the body touched ontil the fcturiYal "of coroner. . ' -' Reason for victim's having giv- i bracelet to Martha Stanley at that e? . - - Negatives; 1 No clews of am sort discover- In victim's room. - I No clews tf anj sort discover lS In attic '' : I Lsik of motives for crime by-t by-t present Instinctively sus- ed.-v . . , . 1 No dogs on a ranch of this size. Xu. ai i read over, these notes, ' lod opinion of myself rises un- t runs over the uan, . I declare to -xhesa, tle its! of clews made out 1 Lynn MacDonald, crime analyst, ' ttuch better than the list made . J Mary Magin, cook and bouse-Jyt- She has done bers in better and ho has InMnAaA m fas r that I left ont But. most of j aHuded things were unkown to ! , -lt-HBw--BWM my list Many i 0th .u, i h .h;. kjj on the ranch because i ' te northeastern Nevada have Iv-i fMn,n 001 "1 assodat-1 assodat-1 nm OTOte' contracting -tUttiaS borne and biting wh 25, 1930 SSSEffi INC UMUSERVICf Instance luif never mind. As I said before, poor girl, no wonder she w.s discouraged. As Jnjllcafed by her" notes for July eleventh, -n that afternoon Miss Mac Donald had cleaned the attic, thof- oughly, and had fimnd nothing to. gay her Tor her trouble. . Keeping, me hi the dark, as she had, I supposed, when she said early next morning that she wanted to clean the living' rouni: that she had got at least a bat full of clews from the attic.-, i " Land knows, .the way I had been neglecting things, the living room was badly In need of a good cleaning. I wanted her to allow rue to help her. but she would not. It was luck that I happened to come in with the floor wax just as she was looking at something some-thing that she had dug out of the" ashes In the fireplace. ' "What's, that?" 1 questioned. I believe," she answered, "that It Is the missing key to the. attic door," She got up, shook out her skirts, and went straight -upstairs. I trailed along. I stood by and watched ber while ".she fitted the ' blackened J key Into the lock. 'It -turned botfrvaysasjf Rtnnothlv as vou nlease. WTtiboat totherlng'to say anything;! to ine, she went up and down the hall, trying the key In the locks of the other floors.. If fitted none of them. She - went downstairs . .agahv:vltb . me trailing after her,, and tried tne key Jn all the locks downstairs. It fitted none of them, either. - . "Do jpu know," she asked, showing show-ing at last that she was conscious of my presence, which I was beginning to doubt "when ' yon Jast had a fire In that fireplace?" . J" thought a mlnnte, and then told her on the night of the fourth of July, during ithe storm. ' ' "Do' you remember who kindled the flrer v-:- ; "It had been fixed there, ready for the " match, for .weeks. Things have gone to rack and ruin here lately; but I always used to see to It that the fire was set In the fireplace ready to light when needed." ' - .y z "Do you happen to know who applied ap-plied the matin to the fire that night r V , "Sara did." 7 -. " "':"r : " "But Burely, even- thoughnhe ralrr had come up, a fire on the. fourth of July could hot have been necessary?" "We don't have fires here when they are necessary," I told her. "We have them when they are possible without absolute suffocation. Half a pint of rain Is plenty of excuse for Sam to light a fire at any-time, even If he has to open all the doors and windows win-dows to cool off." - What I was saying was the honest truth;" but I had A mean feeling that she didn't helleve me."" Bight here," with apologies to Miss MacDonald and others --at her profession, profes-sion, I want to say that If they would just remember that nine times out of ten a person who pretends to be telling tell-ing the troth Is. telling it It would save them a lot of mistakes, and a lot of worry. The man who spends bis time biting bis money to see whether or riot It Is genuine doesn't, usually; have mncb of tt to bite; to say nothing of the" wear and tear on bis wn teeth.- which would be cotal slderable. --' - : J was Btandlng by the living room windows, ' trying to keep my temper down, with some such consoling thoughts as these, when I saw a car drive op and the coroner and the un dertaker getting out of It I told Miss MacDonald ther news, and asked ber what in the world she supposed they were coming here for. at this time In the morning. - "I needed to see them again," she answered. "Mr. Stanley telephoned to them last evening." . . -. "Well." I said, "that means that Tve got about half an hour .to 'disguise a family meal as a company dinner" "Don't bother," she Interrupted. They won't be here for luncheon dinner, I need to see them only about ten minutes." - I dldnt bother answering. If she didnt know ny more about the ways of people in this country than that, I didn't see why I should take It on myself to teach her. . " But she was right She talked to them a few minutes; and, though I insisted that they stay for dinner, tff they went It was an Insult to the Desert Moon ranch. Every one on the place, bot Miss MacDonald, knew it Two weeks before, if couple: of friends had left the ranch,' at eleven-thirty eleven-thirty In the. morning, with no rea laonable excuse for so doing, Sam would have blown np and burst with rage. Thar noon ht& was isot-ew feecently indignantly Interested. He bad plenty of Interest, thongh concerning the finding of the attl' key. fie had had it all sett!eL fnl was satisfied that since It h e fniTT : PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW pnTven Tia! Uul liuflTeen TTTle3"on the stairway, It had also been proven that no lember of the household could have been Implicated. Now this second key coming to light the key thai muff have been put over back of the wood before the fire was lighted that olght. and that must have been blackened In that one fire, because there had been no fire In that fireplace since, dragged.' to quote Sam, not wishing to use such words on my. own hook, "Every d n one of us back Into the dn mess again." "Sam," I said, and 1 guess my only excuse Is that I was still angry at having my honest' word donbted, "do you know what I think? I think that Miss MacDonald though " land knows she Is a nice girl, and a living wonder won-der as help In the kitchen and around the house Is going to be a flat fizzle from start to finish when It comes to discovering the murderer." . '- '"That's kind of the way 1 got It sized up, too." Sam said. "But If she's good help to you, she's worth a lot more than her expenses." "It Isn't the cost of her," I said Tm afraid she Is going to do a lot of i harm around here." ' ' "Goodnight, Mary 1" he said. "If anyone can do any more harm Around here than has been done already why, leave 'em do It"' V ' " "Not much with your 'leave 'em do Its,'"-1 sali'My Idea is that we've had about nough trouble. What Tm getting at Is this, Sam: I think that fool girl, at present, is suspecting you more than any other one of us." ' "That's the way I bad that sized op, too," he said. "But let her go ahead. If she can prove I'm guilty, Tm wlll; Ing to hang for If : : ; "Don't be "a fool,: Sam," I snapped. "Did you ever happen to bear of circumstantial cir-cumstantial evidence?". ' "Ton bet But they can't hang more than one innocent person on circum stantial evidence, and there's enough of that stuff around here now to hang aboutjHve or six of us. I'll take my chances with" the rest of you, Mary." "Lands, Sara,", I was taken- abackj; do you think she suspects me?". Something pretty close to the old twinkle came Into Sam's eyes; "Well, Mary, Gaby was one extra to do for and she 'came tate to meals and pestered pes-tered yba quite a lot Furthermore, thongh It hasn't been made a point of, you were all alone in the kitchen for the hour between five and six o'clock. You' might have slipped up And have done the deed between the time you put the meat on and took the biscuits out" : .; '"' :, I knew that he thought he was being be-ing funny ; -but I didn't like it "See here, Sam," I began, "Danny was go ing back and forth M the time" " 'Now then, " . Sam interrupted, mocking Miss MacDonald. "Did Miss Cannezlano have any particular reason rea-son for watching you?. No. I see. Then, I am afraid, she can not be positive that you were not out of t&a kitchen. Twenty minutes often "seems like two hours and sixteen minutes "I'll tell you what Mary,"" Sam got suddenly serious. "I'm going to'walt a few more-days, and then If this lady Isn't progressing a deal faster .than she Is at present, Tm going to pay her off, full amount of course, and wire to 'Frisco for a plain, ordinary, he-man detective to come up here and take hold of thlnga By the way," he went on, "does It seem to you that Danny and Cannezlano are getting along all right?" . . . "I Judge it isn't a case of their getting get-ting along, much,-! f said. "So far as "Does It Seem to You That Danny and Cannezlano Are Getting Along All v" Bight?" - -'- - - -".'. r: I know, she hasnt spoken a word to Mm since , Bhe greeted, hlniy the evening eve-ning she cawe home." , . - "Well," be hesitated, "well I know a mite further than that HI ten you. some time that Isn't dinner time maybe." He went Into the dining room, and I followed him. " All during that dinner, and the same had been true of every meal since tie first breakfast Tve mentioned, John hardly took his eyes off of Miss Mac Donald. I made a way to spea t0 Mm about tt, alone, right after din ner. . "John " I said, "for mercy's takes. what do you want to sit and stare at Mis-JiIaeDimldJpidnrtni tike she was the place where yon had lost something?" He Wished. "Ooh. Mary t. haven't keen doIrjTJhaUAar- IV i r- "You certain!! have. , Ir d4l:: ' T loos nice, JulinT Why do you SoiT "I didn't know that I did. But. on the square, did yon ever see anything as pretty I mean, as clean and well, kind of comforting looking? She changes so, too; like a diamond, or a desert, or a sunrise, or something. Did you ever see anyone as Interesting Interest-ing to look at, Mary?" "Never mind asking me," I saM. "just you go and ask Danny "some of those questions." . i "Danny." he answered, "Is well, Danny Is Danny, of course. She's different." ..' "Hotter take to watching how different dif-ferent she Is" I advised, and. left him to think It over, and went Into the living liv-ing room . . . . . .: ... -..Cannezlano, was loafing around In there. "Mary," he said. "I'll make a dicker with you." ' t:- , "Not with nfi," I said, and started up the stairs. " , . Curiopjty lil:e'niln"e Is n curse. Pd gone about four steps up when It caught nie. "What's vour old dicker?" I said. . :: "If you'll persuade Sam to give me the ten thousand for producing . the murderer I'll pHt:lt'.wltrt you" . I. am .tired of apologizing for nyself... I will state, merely, that I managed to say the one thing, under those circumstances, cir-cumstances, that I should not have said. "Do you know who the muri derer Is?" Thereby, proving that I was possessed of about as much diplomacy di-plomacy as an alarm clock. .. "Certainly not" he answered. He had not hesitated; be had looked straight into my eyes. But I knew that he believed that I thought be had lied. "-' "See .here," I said. 1 take it that one five-thousand dollars Is as good to you as another. If yon know who committed the murder, and will produce pro-duce hlnv Til gfve you the five thousand thou-sand dollars myself." - "Don't say that- Mary," Danny stepped put from behind the long curtains at the end of the south windows. win-dows. . . , '. . Cannezlano Jumped Uke a spurred bronco. "Spying, ehrmy lady?" - She spoke directly to me. Listen; Maryy don't ever; for any reason, enter en-ter into any sort of an agreement with this man. If he knows, or thinks that he knows, who the murderer is, he can be forced to tell without a brfbeJL he hadknown for one day, one hour, and had withheld the information, in-formation, he is,-In effect, an accomplice accom-plice there is a legal term for it, but I have' forgotten It I am going out, now, to find Uncle Sam, and to-bring him here and tell him that this man says that be knows who committed the-murder. Mary, you telephone to the sheriff in Telko "Just a moment, please,' Cannezlano Cannezl-ano spoke, smoothly and smilingly. "I have said, definitely, that I do not know who killed uaby. Ana i do not know. I am borea, unspeakably unspeak-ably bored. I should like to try my nan at detecting, this er, ; vllllan. But," he shrugged his narrow shoulders, shoul-ders, "with no Impetus" "The fact that she was your own daughter" I began, hotly. ., "Don't Mary," Danny Interrupted, with n sigh. "There is no use. You and . be do not speak the same lan guage. ...... ': ... . - - How is thlsrCannezIano said, and went on speaking, - very rapidly, to some foreign language. Ill ;t ' Danny stood and stared at htm with out a mite of expression on her face. He paused for breath. She said, "I have forgotten my Italian, I do not understand you, and I am lad I da not - Come, - Mary, - shall we ". fa Bp stairsr - ' ; -JiLihe BPDetiialLBhe saldjthat she wanted me to go with her to Miss MacDonald, because ' she wanted to tell Miss MacDonald what had Just liappened. -- . y- We knocked on her ; door. She greeted us pleasantly enough," but there was a pucker between her eyebrows. eye-brows. . ..fr. , rfcou have asked a," Danny began at mce,"vy tell yoffnothlng abmn the case. Does that mean that yon do no: wish to have us tell yon of dayb.v day developments, which seem to have a direct bearing on the ease?" "As, for instance?" Miss MacDonald q nestloned. "-"- , Danny told her about what had happened, hap-pened, from the time fche had stepped behind the curtains, until she and I had come upstairs together. .Miss MacDonald's first question was, "Why were yon watching him V "Because," Danny answered, straight "I think be came here with some evil purpose. shoal d like to find out what that purpose la," "Why were you so eager to. prevent Mnk. Magln's making a pact with hlmr ' . - - " ; - 1 bave Jealt with thle man, 1 know that be Is bad and crafty. For five thousand" dollars ae would perjure himself over and over again.' He would produce witnesses who would perjure themselves." . "Has tills man approached you with offers similar to this one, Miss Cannezlano?" Can-nezlano?" - "He has had no 'opportunity. -t "Yon are sure of that?" . Danny's chin went up a trifle. "I dont understand." !3 think that yon do." (TO Be Ceetlroed) Cmv Her? dere li certain type-ef woman to whom tt la always quit safe to keep on saying. "Dear, dear,' tent that terrible!" regardless of whether you hear anything she says. Detroit - News! " - - ALFALFA FOR SALE See S. D. Chlpman. . V . 1-25-tf Top Prices Paid For Potatoes Call w. j. strong, Tel. 0278-J4, American x j-ork.- ".' '" : n-a-tf HAY FOR SALE Inquire Charles Jeppson, 388 South. First East Ameri can Fork. 1-18-tf Painting and Paper Hanging. Hela Johnson, Am. Fork. Tel. 42-J. 7T T To 3-10-S0 FOR SALE Third crop alfalfa hay. See Ruben Davis, 1st East and 4th South; Lehi. :l S I-25-lp FOUND Ladies Black Hand Bag. Identify at Citizen office. 125-tf Three Tons of Third Crop Hay For Sale. Telephone 42-J, American Fork. 1-25-lt FOR SALE 40 pullets. S. M. Beck, 35 West Third North, American Fork. 1-18-tf For Service Jersey Bull and. Hog. W. W. Hunter, American Fork. Phone 49-W. - . . M8-2p LOST Ladies hand bag, contain ing money, check book, -etc. Finder may keep money.'. Return to Citizen office. " - - , 1-25-lt J, W. WING for Beneficial Life Insurance TELEPHONE 102 . LEHI FOR SALE- 4 80L HOT BROODERS Largest Size See LESLIE SMITH Utah Poultry Association. l-184t OPPORTUNITY To buy nice going Lunch and Cafe Business very reasonable. .. Light overhead. '; ; Just the place for two ladles. IF INTERESTED come look it oyer, will consider trade In poultry, TOURIST LUNCH and BAKERY Opposite Hospital. Lehl, Utah T NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, in and tor Utah County, State of Utah. ' In the matter of the estate of John Crookston, Deceased. Notice To Creditors. ' ? TjCreditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at the office of Robinson & Robinson in the Farmers & Merchants Bank Building, Provo CntyFUtah Cp'untyTf Stote nl Utah, on or hefore the 25th day of Marchj - A,- D1S3(L- NELLIE CROOKS, Administratrix ei the Estate of John Crookston, deceased. ROBINSON & ROBINSON. " " Attorneys for Administrator. First Publication January 25, 1930. Last Publication February 22, 1930. 'Show of Shows'lComing The widespread custom of giving vent to operatic spasms in one's bath tub I such a universal pastime that a song has been written about it One of the most .uproarious numbers num-bers In "Show of Shows", Warner Brothers Vitaphone super revurln : technicolor which comes to the Provo I Paramount Theatre Tuesday for three days, presents a huge bathroom in whiclWlnale Llghtnerrmnsieal eom-1 edy sad screen sUr. sings, supported : by Ball Montana and a male chorus of fifty. Ned Washington, Michael Cleary, end Herb Magldson of Wern ' SATURDAY, JANUARY ?3 1910 suira III Ml - USED CARS 11928 Chevorlet Coach.. " 11928 Chevrolet Coupe. -11926 Chevrolet Coach. "T 11926 Chevrolet Touraig. 1 192S Durrant Sodju. 11928 Che vroler Y Ton Truck. 1 1926 Chevrolet Ton Truck. - - 2 1926 Ford Coupta. .. J1924 Ford Tv.dor Ssdan. 1 1926 Ford . Touriiife. and others to choose from. Terms to su.t. ..MARTIN HIELSEN AUTO CO. Telephone 93 ------ AMERICAN FORK, UTAH Clawson i Elsmoro . LAWYER8 GENERAL PRACTICE - SPECIALIZING WILLS and PROBATE Ray Elsmore at American . Fork every Monday and Thursday. JJOTICE TO WATER U8ER8 Stata Engineer's Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 18, 1930. - Notice is hereby given that the Lehi Irrigation Company and the Pleasant" Grove Irrigation Company, whose principal places of business are UCU, Will A l.UUUU. V. . ' V, . vur ' have made application in accordance . with the requirements of the Seaeion Laws of Utah, 1919 to 1929 Inclusive to appropriate 18 c. f. s. of water County, Utah,- Said water is to be diverted at a- point which bears N. i degrees 50 minutes E. 4242 ft. from the BE cor. of Sec. 31, T. 4 S., R. 3 B., 8. L. B. ft M. and conveyed .by means of canals 10 miles and 7 miles long, respectively, where the water will be used from Sept. 20th to December 1st of each year as a supplemental supply for the Irrigation of 2,000 , acres of land embraced in Sees. 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 81, T. 6 -S., R. 2 E., Sees. 34, 85, 36, T. 4 S., R. 1 E., Sees. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9. 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, T. 5 S. R. 1 E,, Sec. 31, T, 4 8.. d 9 w a t. n iV m Am much water . m - - - A a ninn n KBltfiisaTV . will llA 11 OPfl a ? . iuj wo . v. x. w v. . . --- " from December 1st of each year to April 1st of the year following for domestic purposes. This application is designated in the State Engineer's Office as File No. 10780. All protests against the granting of said application, stating the reason therefor, must be by. affidavit in dupli cate, accompanied with a fee or si.uu. and filed in this office wltnin tnirty fSor 'davs after the completion: of -the publication of this notice. . Geo. M. mcon, state engineer. Date of first publication, Jan. 25, 1930. Date of , completion of publication, February 22, ia30..-------- - .-.-.. Mere Neceuary . A French biologist claims to have Invented a successful substitute for blood. Now If soma one will Just come iAiiajiitii'oodsubatli nte for brains, he will confer a real blessing. SprlngPeld Press. : -.. e 1 '"' .- - '. To Freveat Blindn.. The National Socifty-for the Pre v RMiMnu. m.ttra - thai agencies co operate with the society. To Provo Para mount Tuesday, I I i i Jl er Brosr song-wrltlng itaff are the composers of 'Slngln' In the Bathtub with which the comely Bull serenades sere-nades Winnie. , . Others among the scores upon scores of stars of footlights and films who contribute to the mammoth "The Show of Shows" are John Barrymore, Dolores Coetello, JJonte Blue, Beatrice Beat-rice - Lillie. Georrea arpentier Ted Lewis, Frank Fay, Irene BorJonl, Myrna Loy, Grant Withers, Noah Beery and Betty Compson. 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