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Show HELPER, UTAH THE HELPER JOURNAL, and took part in a bank robbery he was desperate. The robber probably made a deal with him that all he bad to do was drive a car, figuring no one would ever suspect a college student's car in a college town, even If it was hitting sixty on the road. We're sure Vernon was mixed up In that because we know he didn't have a thin dime before the thing happened, yet the very next day be buys a new car and pays the difference of twelve hundred dollars In cash. And I also know that be has lied like the devil about everything since I put him under arrest" Jim whistled softly. "It sort of makes Mister Vernon out to be a pretty tough hombre, John." "He isn't that I Just think he went nuts." "Maybe so. . . . But he sure stayed crazy a long time." Reagan was a trifle annoyed. It did not please him to have his damning summary greeted with even the slightest semblance of e mm 7ig MAY DAY V M I v 11 MYSTERY Octavas f Ll- - lf Oc Roq f 1 QopijtUtkt Cohere brut ft?v Ck CHAPTER VIII Continued ... 11 But at that "Funny hunch. guess It's more sensible than collecting stamps or art tilings." He .blinked. "You've looked all through the room, John?" "Everywhere. I'm sure 1 didn't miss a thing." "You never can tell. . . . Just to make sure, though, we'll make one more search." Reagan started with the dresser. He rummaged through the drawers and Into every corner. He Inspected every ornament and spot of dust od the mantel. He looked behind pennants and pictures which were tacked on the wall. lie opened the door of the hanging closet where he commenced a systematic search into every pocket of every suit of clothes. It was a tedious Job and Reagan into the glancing occasionally room was quite sure that suggestion for a new search had not been entirely wjthout ulterior motives. The prodigious body was settled snugly Into the big chair; the pudgy hands were folded contentedly across the massive mezzanine and Jim Hanvey was or far as the naked eye could discern sleeping superbly. Sleeping! Or was he? The long er Reagan was with Hanvey the less he understood the big man. At times he appeared to be obtuse, at times brilliant and at times Just Reagan returned to plain dtimb. his task. If Hanvey wanted a search he'd darn well get one. Rea gan had been over every Inch of but he the ground before was determined to do this Job as thoroughly as he had the first And then the silence of the room was shattered by a sharp cry from the closet. Hanvey's eyes uncurtained slowly, ou" he exhibited no other when Reagan leaped into the room holding something gingerly between his thumb and forefinger. "Good G d, Chief look here." Jim everl the tronhv nirlniislv. "Dog-gon- e . . . It's a knife. And there's blood on it, too. 'Where' d you find it, John?" - "In the corner of the closet. On the floor, l I don't understand, Jim because I looked there day be-- ; fore yesterday. . . ." He was more ftvc!torl thnn ha nro(l tfl fihmv "But we've got something here, Xhief no matter if 1 did overlook -'It before. With this, it ought to be 1 Han-vey- 's ... he does the right thing Just one time. The crook can't afford to slip "How come, John?" "Because," snapped Reagan "that is the knife that killed Thayer, and Chief I've got another Idea. "Good for you, John. What Is It?" Reagan stepped swiftly to the mantel. He designated a spot on 'the wall where the papering was a lighter color. -- "" "Unless I'm all wrong, Hanvey," be said "this knife belongs right "in that spot And if it does there ain't much question but that Max Vernon is the man who used it" S CHAPTER IX deigned to become He and Reagan re- ri!.. (il tlto It a'flR A rnow. .' - -, and beautidelicate thing erfully ful as a poisonous snake. Tho handle was of polished metal, whether nickel or silver, neither knew. The guard was exquisitely carved, iid the blade, which was unusually long and perilously keen, was of the finest tempered steel. At the moment it was not a prelty sight, however, for the steel was covered with blood which had Hanclotted almost to blackness. vey moved away. "Where'd you find It?" "On the floor of the hanging closet In the corner." "Didn't you look there day before yesterday?" HANVEY .. ' - "Sure I did." "Yourself?" x "Yes." "I thought you said there wasn't anything there." "I did, Jim; but 1 suppose I overlooked Though I'm darned if 1 see how I did." "Those things Hanvey shrugged. It's queer, can happen, all right. though. . . it "What?" ... "Nothing. ing." Jim seemed I was Just think- disinclined to com t further, and Reagan did not force hltn. As a matter of fact, the chief of the Marland plain clothes force was elated. "It's like you told Fluke. .Tim a dick can umke a dozen mistakes, provided mi-ti- 1L JhA once." You sure I rue enough, John. don't get any argument out of me. But it Is funny you didn't see that skepticism. knife when you first looked in the "What's wrong with my case Jim?" Hanvey rummaged around in a Hanvey arched his eyebrows in dresser drawer until he found a co- surprise. "Golly. John! I didn't llar box. He emptied this and then say anything w'as, did I?" waddled Into the bathroom, from "But" accused Reagan, "you which he returned with a roll of don't really think it was Max Ver absorbent cotton. He lined the co- non !" llar box with cotton and then gin"Who says I don't?" "Do you?" gerly placed the knife in the box. But he did not immediately look "Pretty near." up. His eyes were fixed steadily ""What do you mean: Pretty on the weapon. near?" "Funny," he said at length. "Well " Hanvey drew a long, "What?" audible breath. "I sort of Just hap"The handle of that knife. John pened to remember Larry Welch." It's polished metal, and yet there "Teh? "What about him." isn't a fingerprint on It" "Vernon had left the fraternity "Well, I'll be . . . durned if you house before Welch got there, yet ain't right, Jim." Welch says that he had a long Now it sort of "What you reckon ?" talk with Thayer. "Cinch. Max Vernon had enough seems to me, John, that If Thayer sense to polish the prints off the was already dead, Larry would handle." have noticed it, wouldn't he?" "You sure think fast, John." "Humph!" Reagan was crestfallReagan looked up sharply, but en. "I think Larry lied." the face of the fat man told him "Why?" "To shield Miss Peyton. He's nothing. "D'you think I'm wrong?" goofy about her." "Seems like you must be right. "You're right. . . . But then If he's It Just looks kind of funny, though, sticking his own neck Into a noose that you didn't find that knife day to shield her, don't it strike you before yesterday." that he's got some mighty good Reagan was disturbed. He was reason a reason we don't know certain that he had looked In that for thinking that she killed identical spot the afternoon of the Thayer?" "I know, Jim but we've got Vermurder, and he had found no knife. His brain was racing, and suddenly non dead to rights. He's bound to have done It " he whirled on his companion. "I've got It, Chief." "Provided neither Larry Welch nor Miss Peyton did." "Got what?" "The answer to that knife. First, Reagan frowned, then broke into there's the off chance it was there a disappointed laugh. "You win. Jim. I kept running all the time and I just didn't find it I hate to admit that but It's Into snags like that all the time. closet." Beads Made "Coin of the Realm" by Massachusetts Order in Year 1637 American Heroines s THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING Antoinette Payton, senior at the University of Marland, resents Pater-so- n coed, and there Thayer's attentions to Ivy Welch, seventeen-year-olIs a stormy scene. Max Vernon, another student, reproaches Ivy for "breakLarry ing a date" with him. Thayer and Vernon threaten each other. Prof. friendWelch, Ivy's brother, is appealed to by Tony to end his sister's In him tells love. are Welch and with Tony Tony Peyton Thayer. ship she is married to Thayer, 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. Vernon, visibly excited, leaves the house almost Immediately after her departure. Welch goes to see Thayer, and after he leaves, Carmlcino, frat house Janitor, finds Thayer dead, stabbed In the throat. 1 he Marland bank is robbed, the bandit escaping with $100,000 after being badly wounded. Jim Hanvey. famous detective, comes to Investigate the robbery. Randolph Fiske, the bank president, tells him he believes Vernon was driving the car in which the robber got away. Reagan, Marland police chief, Induces Hanvey to take Vernon In both the murcharge of the murder case, evidence implicating der and robbery. Tony Peyton, Larry Welch, and Max Vernon are under Welch Insists murder as arrest Thayer was alive when suspects. Thayer he left htm. Hanvey questions Carmicino. He admits furnishing Thayer with whisky for forbidden revels in the frat house, he and Thayer dividing the profits. d That's why 1 wanted to pass the buck to you." lie eyed the big man keenly. "What's your idea about the thing?" "I haven't had an idea in a month. They don't come to me swift, like they do to you." "But you surely think something?" John!" "Yeh true enough. And the first "You think I'm right?" I think, John is that I ain't thing reasonable. "It sounds mighty talked to anybody about this Question Is, are you sure it is Ver- hardly affair. Until I see some of the othnon's knife?" "We'll ask him that's one way ers, I won't know where I stand " "And after you do see them, of finding out. And in the second I place, look at that spot on the wall. you'll be absolutely bughouse. It's like this, see" Reagan know . . . believe me, I do.'" "I'll try, anyway." stepped to the mantel and removed "Who first? Vernon?" a scimitar which hung there. "No"No-o- . I think I'll have a chat tice how you can see on the wall paper Just where this hung, Jim? with Ivy Welch." Yonder Is the place the dagger was Reagan conducted Hanvey to the hanging it fits that spot exactly. office of the dean in the main buildDoctor Boyd was startled by And you can tell it's a foreign ing. Hanvey's appearance and appeared thing." "Ain't any question about that somewhat skeptical of the man's It sure don't look awful healthy for ability, but he was courteous and Mister Vernon." readily acceded to Hanvey's request "It don't and I'm sorry. I be- that Ivy Welch be summoned. The door opened and a figure of lieve the kid has gotten a . lousy deal all round. This Thayer evi- vivid youth entered the room. She dently wasn't a thing but a plain, wore a white, sleeveless dress and hustler. It's a cinch that a short, revealing skirt The dean he must have been trimming Vernon introduced her and then excused at cards, and we know that he was himself, promising Hanvey that gypping his fraternity brothers on they would not be interrupted. While he bowed himself out, Ivy the liquor game." Of course, Carmlcino thinks Thayer was a fine stood eyeing the two detectives. gentleman, but he would think that She showed the effects of the terAs a matter of fact, Thayer was a rific shock to which she had been dud and we both know it" subjected. and grim Tragedy stark had Invaded her life early, "We sure do." "But that don't make Vernon's and left her peculiarly matured. position any happier. He quarrels There were dark circles under her with Thayer about a girl. We know eyes, to tell the story of tearful, that Thayer had trimmed him good sleepless nights and she twisted When the and plenty. We know that Vernon her hands nervously. was desperate for want of money dean find gone she addressed Han We know that he went to Thayer's voy with courageous directness. "Are you In chnrge of this case room and that shortly afterward Thayer's dead body was found. now ?" "Yes. Miss Welch I guess so." Now we locate the knife with which he was killed. We find It In Ver "Well, I'm glad. This man here' she jerked her nobbed head tonon's room and Identify It positivelyor will pretty soon as being ward Ilengiin "Is absolutely dumb." "Is he. really?" part of Vernon's collection of weiip "I'll say he Is. Else why would ons. We have every reason to be lleve that the kid went plumb loco he keep my brother In Jail? Any possible. The second theory is that Max Vernon had it with him and when he came back yesterday evening from Steel City he dumped It In there before 1 stuck him under arrest He was in this room when I grabbed him." Hanvey's big head nodded slow "Now you're talking, approval. By LOUISE M. COMSTOCK Deborah Sampson days IN THEand before the beach the shorts, the woman who donned masculine attire let herself in for serious consequences. Deborah Sampson, whose adventurous soul rebelled against the narrow a background to which she was born, dressed herself up as a man and found herself fighting the American Revolution! In 1778, when the Revolution was well under way and the army was sorely in need of recruits, Deborah was a vigorous girl of eighteen. She spun and wove a length of suiting, took It to a tailor and ordered him to make up a suit for a fictitious brother. Then, in her new clothes, Deborah set out on the highway of adventure. On May 13, when a new detachment of fifty American soldiers arrived at West Point there was among them a slender young infantryman named Robert Shurtleff, who carried his gun awkwardly and bad fainted with weariness on the Bard two weeks' march to the post "This Man Here" She Jerked Her Presently our heroine found herself in Captain Webb's company of Bobbed Head Toward Regan with a light infantry, equipped "Is Absolutely Dumb." French fusee, knapsack, cartridge in guarded tones. "Just had a box and thirty cartridges, handsome hunch I could do more with her In a new uniform, blue coat alone, John. Suppose you take this lined with white, white waistcoat, knife down to the Jail and ask Ver- breeches and stockings, and a Jaunty non if he's ever seen it before." red plumed hat Side by side with "And then?" her comrades at arms she fought at "Come back and come in. I got Tarrytown, White Plains and at a hunch she and I will be pretty Yorktown. Her greatest difficulties were the attention of Infatuated good buddies by then." Reagan marched off and Hanvey women, and the danger of exposing the dean's office, closing her sex. She was once uncerethe door behind him. He liked the moniously knocked down by a Jealtrim little figure although she ous sergeant who accused her of She claimed to somewhat frightened him. She was stealing bis girL sitting now in a straight chair, and have had smallpox and risked conher legs were crossed disclosing a tracting the disease rather than exfrank expanse of pink flesh between pose herself to vaccination, and the knee and the hem of the dress. she endured In silence the agony of Hanvey felt himself blushing, but a wound on her thigh, and bore Its Ivy seemed totally unconscious of results the rest of her life, rather than submit to medical attention. her display. in the At length In Philadelphia during the He settled comfortably dean's swivel chair, mopped his summer of 1783, she fell victim to a forehead and the back of his neck, fever, was thought dead, and her and then grinned dlsarmingly at the sex was discovered when the doctor felt for her heartbeat The docgirL "Answer me one question, Miss tor kept his knowledge a secret Deborah was discharged from the Welch: Ain't I the terriblest lookthe following fall, married a army ever saw?" detective you ing farmer named Benjamin young wide blue The girl's eyes opened and bore blm three children, and a truant dimple appeared. who lived to share In the pension "Well, I wouldn't say you were a awarded her In 1831, sheik." "I ain't this bad in cold weather. Mother Bickerdyke Heat Just knocks me for a row of tin cans. Now Reagan yonder. . . ." challenged to explain the He lowered his voice. "You mustn't WHEN under which she cut get sore at regular dicks, Miss through Imposing lines of red tape, Welch," he advised confidentially. ignored orders and scouted difficu"If they slough everybody, they're lties in her astounding service to bound to have the right one. Me the wounded Onion soldiers during 1 don't hardly ever make an ar- the Civil war, Mary A. Bickerdyke rest and my Job now Is to turn answered simply, "I have received loose at least two of the three Rea my authority from the Lord God Algan has got In stir." Jim was using mighty ; have you anything that police vernacular In a deliberate ranks higher than that?" effort to impress the girl, and he Mother Bickerdyke was only a knew that he was succeeding. She volunteer nurse at the time, come was sitting forward tensely; com- down to Cairo with other willing pletely awed by his authoritative workers from Galesburg, 111., to remanner. "One thing. Miss Welch; lieve the distress that Incompetence 1 want you to know I'm on the and inexperience bad brought upon level. I wouldn't try to put nothing the regimental hospital there. Beover on you cross my heart and fore the end of the war, however, If you she had been made agent of the Chihope to die If I would. don't believe that why, there ain't cago Sanitary commission, won the hardly no use for us to talk." friendship of Grant and Sherman "I think you're all right," said and been empowered by them to use Ivy firmly. any means she wished to gain her "Thanks. It's real nice of you to merciful ends. And now that we've woman of Indefatigable energy say that started off so good, lemme tell you and resourcefulness, endowed with one thing more: I ain't a regular an indomitable will and courage, bull. I ain't got the slightest de- Bhe wrought order out of chaos at sire to make a record, and I'd rath Cairo, performed immeasurable server never slough anybody than do ices after the battles of Fort Donel-soany harm to the wrong feller. and Corinth in Tennessee and You're sure your brother didn't do northern Mississippi, organized hosthis thing. I sort of agree with pitals at Memphis, nursed the fallen you. But there's a whole lot of of Vicksburg, performed miracles lying going on . . . and while I during the freezing winter at Chatdon't want to make you sore. Miss tanooga, and following Sherman's Welch it ain't any secret that your troops In the Atlantic campaign, ren brother is doing more than his share dered him an extraordinary aid. She which ain't helping him a bit I often antagonized her superiors by want to locate somebody who knows her brusque manners and With the local prices methods. something and Is willing to talk straight Will you or won't you?" for butter, milk and eggs exorbitant "I will I" Ivy didn't hesitate. she called upon friends and soon "Good girl. Now want you to had one hundred cows and great tell me about Mr. Thayer and flocks of hens on their way to her yourself . . . Just whatever you needy hospital. When the fuel was feel I should know." exhausted during a night of awful The girl bit her Hp. "1 feel funny cold at Chattanooga, she risked seabout that Mr. Hanvey. I've tried vere condemnation by ordering ber to tell one or two people even my men to burn a nearby breastworks brother and they all laugh or to keep her patients warm. A carsneer when I say I was In love toon of her, famous In Its day, with him." shows her standing In the Shaker "1 wouldn't laugh, Miss Welch. bonnet she always wore beside a I'm a sentimental old bird . . . and wagon of vegetables destined for I believe In young love. Oh, gosh I troops In Texas, how I do." waving a government steamer back "I'm seventeen," she said. "I to shore to get them. Needless to guess I'm not so awful dumb. I say, the government steamer obeyed ! At the end of the war, discontentknow about as much ns the next girl. And 1 was In love with Pat ed with the dull little Job of houseThayer. He was wonderful to me keeping for 1,K) patients at the ChiNot always wisecracking and show cago Home for the Friendless, MothHe er Bickerdyke went West, opened Ing off smart like most boys. was awful different, and I guess a the large hotel In Sallna, Kan., that her name, and from this girl knows whether she's In love later bore or not no mutter how much people vantage point rendered inestimable service to the pioneering families laugh. And when he when I lor passing through In covered wagons. eyes filled with tierce hot Later she was given a position In she dashed away. "I'm the United States mint at Snn FranMr. fool, little Hanvey silly cisco and the handsome pension of but I can't help It." (27 a month. (to nis coN'i'i.vuKr ) C 1933. Wcataro Nt wnpivj-e- Union. wA high-clas- s - t The earliest American money was that being a string of shells an Indian wore around his neck when he dressed up. The redskin's necktie was not merely something which the New England colonist used to trick a native out of some choice skins. The beads were actually recognized in the Colonies as the coin of the realm. A Massachusetts order in council of 1G37 made wampum full legal tender up to a shilling, at the rate of six black beads or three white beads to a penny. And a Connecticut settler was authorized by law to pay taxes In wampum up to ten pounds sterwampum, Gan-net- n plain sailing." body could talk to Larry and see that be Isn't the kind who would kill anybody. . That is, anybody but a cop!" Hanvey turned gravely to his companion. "You see what the public thinks about you, John. And seeing that we don't need any solid ivory around here suppose you run along and let me talk to this young lady alone?" "Very well," Reagan rose, without resentment, and started for the door. Hanvey followed. He spoke ling. In an identical way, tobacco was established as the money of Virginia, rice of South Carolina, wool of Rhode Island and rum in many places. The value of each of this miscellany of trinkets and vegetables was always reckoned In terms of pennies, shillings and pounds of the Kngllsh monetnry system. The colonists brought along small amounts of metallic money when they came across. And as this accumulated, it circulated freely among the people. Traffic wilh the Spanish colonies brought in some of their coins, but trade as a whole was handicapped because of the lack of an adequate The demand for money currency. was so persistent that a mint was set up in New England, but opposi tion by the home government soon put a stop to that. Due to the lack of metallic money, the Colonial governments fell Into the practice of printing paper money. As there wasn't any other circulating medium, the paper passed for a time as If It were the real article. However, since the Issuing govern ments could maintain no adequate complained that they were having difficulties making collections tor goods sold and delivered because of the variable currency. The English: then yielded and sent over a quan-- i tity of silver and bronze, and put the colonies on a sound metallic ha-- , sis. So It stood when tne Bostonl-- i ans gave their famous tea party. Wars are financed In three ways:; taxing, borrowing or Inflating.' Taxation was not available to the. American revolutionists because the precipitating cause of the war was' the objection of the colonists to taxation. Borrowing was impossible,' except to a slight extent with France, because the new country had not es-- , tablished Its credit. The only fens-- , lhle means of financing the war, therefore, was by inflation, by Issupaper currency. ing Irredeemable And that Is precisely what was done. by Praise-- for "Coeds" Ellen Fits Pendleton, president of, Wellesley college, has, In her two: decades as a college president, seen little change in the college girl.' "Above all," she said recently In St.! Louis, "the college girl Is still as. feminine as she was 20 years ago."; Doctor Pendleton admitted the col-- : lege girl of today was taking aj greater interest in government and politics, that she was deserting thej "refined" careers of social service worker and teacher for more widelyj diversified occupations, and of leadership and initiative that the qualities were being stimulated to a greater degree. But the murks of gracious femininity were not disappearing. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong. No alcohol. Soldi by druggists in tablets or liquid. Adv. reserves for redeeming the notes as Earnestness Wins (hey fell due, and as the colonies The earnest desire of succeeding found the device so easy that there was a constant temptation to put out Is almost always a prognostic of success. more, the notes fell in value. When depreciation went so far as to appall the authorities, a new set if bills would be put out, with the jfficials swearing that this time it would be different and the issue would be confined to what could be fewest Hotel redeemed. But the promises, even when backed by good Intentions, were never kept. : s k At' length, the English merchants "SI M Salt Lake City's f . WHEN SHES Hg U?SET SUFFERS 4 , Masai ! 1, j HOTEL DroveI Constipation 14: I made her Uw Cr a tii '&m TEMPLE SQUARE feel cross, head-INow she achy, new lovable has disposition, pep and vitality. 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