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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL. HELPER, UTAH OUR- - -- The CHILDREN ' By AXGELO PATRI "PICKING UP' I CHAPTER X Continued 'v "SjeIId not Indulge in dramatics. She merely sat very still and ber body seemed to get cold as ice. She stared at the huge figure opposite. Hanvey met look for look. And she, searching the moonlike face for a vestige of reassurance, saw but grim honesty. "Then," she gasped, "you think Larry killed him?" "I can't say that. Miss Peyton," he amended gently. "I do believe that he lied when he said Thayer was alive when he left And now I know why." , "Why, then?" "To shield you. ne had Just learned your secret. He knew probably that you had been to see Thayer. And if he didn't kill Thayer, then he found the body when he got there and thought you had done It It's a situation as old as romance. But at any rate, it was a pretty fine thing for him to do, because by his own admission Thayer was alive while he was there, which makes it certain that he must have done the killing." "He couldn't do a thing like that even in a fight "It wasn't you." "Is that is that a question, Mr. . Hanvey or a statement?" The big man smiled slightly., "I don't know. Do you?" "I didn't kill him." Hanvey rose and shook his head. "This ain't any cinch, Miss Peyton. Jf I'm to believe what I hear: you didn't kill him and neither did Larry 'Welch. It almost looks like if I carry the Investigation far enough I'll find out he ain't dead." he started forward: Suddenly "I'm sorry. Miss Peyton. I didn't mean to crack any bam jokes. Honest, I didn't. I'm just a d d blun- 14, J f noth-"Hn- t- - - g dering jackass." Out in the courtyard of the Jail, John Reagan turned admiringly to his companion. "I'll' hand it to you, Jim : you're a marvel. SoJtr 'Oh I But how in h I John. dunno, 1 do you Shooting square with 'em, maybe. And may- be it'.s because they look me over and decide I'm so dam' stupid I wouldn't understand a lie if I heard one." "Hmm. . . . And now?" "What do you think, John : Welch or Miss Peyton?" , "Neither," snapped Reagan. "It was Max Vernon, Just like I said at first It happened this way, and "I'll bet a nickel on it: Tony ton went there Just like she said. Then Vernon went to Thayer's room and killed him not meaning to kill him when he went in, maybe, but doing It in a fight Larry Welch gets there a little later and finds the Thinks Tony did it Pulls body. the hero stuff. What do yon think ' - Vernon's eyes closed. He pulled himself together with a visible effort. "No." "Then I think you better talk to me plain and honest Of course, if you did kill him, the best thing you can do is keep your mouth shut. Now what say you?" "Nothing. I'm not going to talk." "A' right I ain't gonna argue with you." He reached inevitably for the golden toothpick. "Swell new car you got, Son." Vernon was stonily silent. "Swell car," repeated Hanvey. "Sure wish I could own one like that But I wouldn't go buy one Just after I'd had a row with another man." "I didn't row with anybody." "No? Not even Pat Thayer?" Max was trembling. Boyishly, he was struggling to keep actual tears from his eyes. "You're trying to trap me ! I know And I'm not going to say anything. Not anything 1 at all!" CHAPTER XI "Uh-huh- I guess I I lost them." "You sure are an unfortunate young man," murmured Jim. "Losing a good suit of clothes that way Well, anyway, after losing that suit, you drove on up to Steel City, didn't room." "I see. I guess he sent It to you by special messenger or someNever mind that though thing. But there Is one thing I want to know : How did it happen that there wasn't any floor rug in the car you traded when you got to Steel City?" Again that hunted, haunted light in Max's eyes. "I don't know anything about any floor rug." "Wasn't there one in your old car?" "I don't know." "Gee! You sure are a forgetful Now what about that knife guy. Mr. Reagan showed you an hour or so ago? That Is yours, isn't It?" "Yes." "Where did you get it?" "In Sicily. I've traveled a lot and I've always collected queer weap- er's I Are! You're TryUp In Pat Thay- Murder." Ing to mix me up In Pat Thayer's at gray walls murder." HANVEY gazed andthe nodded "I'm trying to get the truth. as jail though having reached a startling Does that mix you up?" "No, but" conclusion. "I believe our next move, John, "Just before you went to the frawith Mister ternity house, you and Thayer had is to have a talky-tala big row on the campus, didn't Maxwell Vernon." "Good Lord! Has it taken you you?" "Who says so?" all this time to think of that?" . "Several people. And also there My brain was never ain't much question that you were strong on speed." Reagan was earnest. "Quit kid- - pretty sore at him. Now I ask yon din', Jim. Whydid you leave this this: Why?" "I had reason enough. . 1 thought pnlooka for thelast?" "Because I wanted to hear what he was niy friend. I've been budeverybody else had to say. From dies with him for two years. He's what you tell me, Vernon is lying been winning all my money at cards high, wide and handsome, and I I guess I would have been a dumbwanted to form some Idea about bell nil my life if I hadn't got sore what was truth and what wasn't" at him over something else." "Sensible enough. Let's go." "Stealing your girl, for instance?" Max looked up sharply, and beVernon was seated on his cot. "I I'd He had doffed coat and tie, and his came boyishly dignified. shirt was open at the throat Ills really rather not talk about that black Imir was somewhat angle of It Mr. Hanvey," he said long tousled and his chubby face wore gently. His "As you say, Vernon. But when on expression of belligerence. whole manner even before a word this other thing happened you get was spoken wns combative. ting sore what then?" "1 started thinking for the first Jim seated himself and smiled lazily at the prisoner, lie felt rath-e- r time. And I began to Buppect that it wasn't all Just accident that Thny sorry for the boy. fat, good easy going . . . and now sud- er had been nice to me so long as denly enmeshed In a tragedy which I had nioi.ey; but the minute I he couldn't quite understand. Jim's went broke he lost Interest In me and started going with , , . that Is. voice came soothingly. "Things been happening pretty doing thing? to mnke me sore. And It struck me thnt It was queer he fast, ain't they. Son?" Oh I I Vernon looked up sharply. "What had always won nt cards. was stupid enough, but I waked up things?" all at once." "Oh, plenty." "And you got about as mad as "I don't know what you menu." 'Sliuh I Sure you do." you ever had been In your life. k ." "Where are they?" "I I don't know. 1 H ons." "Did you have it in your hand at all day before yesterday?" "No." "Do you know it Is the very knife with which Thayer was killed?" "I know that's what Mr. Reagan said." "You knew It wasn't on your wall where you always kept It, didn't you?" "No! How -- was I to notice that And one of the things was gone? I didn't kill Pat Thayer, Mr. Hanvey. I swear I didn't" Hanvey spoke softly. "Admitting Why did you get that, Vernon: mixed up In the robbery of the Mar-lanNational bank?" Max stood rigid for a moment, He then sank down on the cot. burled his face In his hands. "I didn't have anything to do with that, either, Mr. Hanvey: honest I d didn't" , The two detectives faced each other solemnly In the warden's office. "Will you tell me why," Reagan asked "when you had Vernon on tri run, you didn't chase him? You knew he was lying, didn't you?" "Sure, John sure. And the more questions I asked the more lies he was gonna tell." "Well, I'll say this for you, Jim Hanvey: You seem to rock along with all the delicacy of an elephant but d d If you haven't learned a heap about this case" "What, foi Instance?" Inquired Hanvey Interestedly. "In the first place. It's a clnrh that Max Vernon killed Pat Thnyer." "You think so?' "Sure. Don't yon?" "Diirued If I know. John. I Boys and Girls: There Is matter very easy for you to set right that is giving a great many people a lot of trouble.' Will you please pick up after your- DEAR selves? In the house you throw your hat on a chair, your rubbers, one under the table, one beside the chair, your books are scattered from one end of the house to the other. When ment then nodded. you get out of your night clothes you Yeh I do." leave them In a heap on the floor. "And that," exulted Reagan, "Is You drop your bathrobe In another the first definite admission I've got- corner. As you hurry along the street ten out of you yet" Jim smiled. "I am dumb, ain't I, to school you toss the chewing gum John? Suppose you tell me just wrapper on the walk and the wraphow you think this murder hap- pings from the bar of chocolate folpened. Just sketch things over, low after. will you, so they'll take their propWhen you get to school you throw er places In my mind." anything you don't happen to need "Good enough." Reagan whipped anywhere you happen to be. The out his notebook and consulted it. yards, so well swept before you en: Tony Peytered them, are soon littered from "May first ; eleven-thirtton niDs across her husband mak- end to end. ing love to the kid sister of the Somebody hns to pick up everyman she's crazy about Big row. thing you throw down. That is not Thayer sore and Tony desperate. fair. In this game everybody has Fifteen minutes later, after she's to pick up his own things so as not gone. Ivy Welch and Pat Thayer to overburden anyone else. Of course meet Max Vernon. Thayer has been If you learned not to throw them trimming Vernon for two years and down, but to put them where they the kid has just got good and wise belonged the first time, nobody will because Thayer went too far when be overworked and everybody would he copped Max's girl. Another quar-re- be helped. There Is another side to It. We While that Is happening, Tony Peyton Is warning Larry Welch would not bother so much about the thet his sister Is in trouble, and extra work you gave us at home and abroad If it helped you any. It does telling him why. "At half-pas- t twelve Pat Thayer not help you to throw things about. gets to the fraternity house and It hurts you. Disorder and dirt and goes to his room. Five minutes confusion are not the conditions in later Max Vernon comes In. He's which you can grow. They check sore as a goat and when the two your growth. You do not feel harkids on the veranda tell him Thay- monious, content, happy In the messy er's In his room, he says he don't place. That is why we try to decogive a d n. Maybe he didn't then. rate it and keep a cheerful, colorJim but don't forget that he had ful place. You need that orderly found out where Thayer was. and beautiful quality In your surroundhe had just quarreled with the man ings for your growth. over a girl. Every time you help disorder you "Vernon goes to his room. He hurt yourself. There Is always a has been broke and worried. Some spiritual reaction to every physical When you are careless and way Lord knows how he's en- action. tered Into a deal with somebody to disorderly In your habits your thinkWhat rob the Marland National bank. ing takes on this quality. He's nervous and desperate. He de- you think, that you are. The way cides to go and have it out with of your doing becames again the Thayer right there. Thayer is a way of your thinking and round and bigger man and stronger, and so round you go on this whirling merry Vernon grabs that stiletto off the go round of dirt, disorder and conIt isn't healthy, it isn't wall to have It handy In case trou- fusion. childlike, It isn't decent ble comes. Lift the weight off your mother's "Meanwhile Tony Peyton has come In to warn Pat he must lay shoulders first Pick up after youroff Ivy Welch. I believe every word self. Never leave a room without of her story of the visit She beats looking back to see what you have out of place and turning back it, and right after she does, Vernon left It where It belongs. Never to set room Into and talks goes Thayer's anything where somebody else cold turkey to Thayer. Thayer drop It up. If you rewill have to probably starts at him and the form In this pick respect the whole comknife cuts his jugular vein. Verwill non's cock-eyescared. He beats It munity will bless you. And you out. back to his room and pitches the feel very much better Inside and knife Into the corner of his clothes FIGHT YOUR BATTLES closet Then he changes his clothes because the suit he had on when he killed Thayer was all covered XT A, HECTOR JONES won't let with blood which Is why he never me alone." went to that tailor at all. "No? How's that?" "Then he bents It to take part In "Every time I go out to play ball that bank robbery. He gets to the he always comes and mixes It up bank corner just about two o'clock. with me." "H'm. What did you do to him?" During the robbery the stick-uman is shot. While Max Is driving "I never do anything to him. He him he bleeds all over the back of begins It. I only hit him when he the car, so Vernon gets rid of his wanted to take my ball from me. bloody suit and the floor rug. Then Then he runs and tells his mother. he takes his share of the hundred "You didn't tell your mother, did thousand berries that they've you?" "Well. Anyhow. Well, he began It." copped from the bank. "You can both settle It If you "He trades In his old car and Is fool enough to think he's got a good can't hold your own with a boy your alibi. But a couple of minutes after age I'm sorry for you." he sets foot In his room at the fraThe telephone rang before mother ternity house, the man on duty had said the last word. It was Mrs. grabs him and calls me. Ain't that Hector Jones. "I don't like to coma good case, Jim?" plain, but really Hector comes In The big man nodded slow ap- daily with a complaint about Robert hitting him or something. I did hope pro vaL "Durn near perfect," he applaud- the children could play together ed. "Only, how comu Thayer was nicely, but if this goes on I shall alive when Larry Welch got there have to forbid Hector playing with Robert at all." at two o'clock?" "That would be too bad, Mrs. "H I !" snapped Reagan. "He wasn't Thayer was dead then. Jones, but I think that they ought But Larry knew Tony had been to be able to settle their own diffthere and he didn't know anything iculties. I Imagine they aren't as bad about Max Vernon. So he thinks friends as they seem to think. Tony Peyton killed Thayer and They'll he going to school together this afternoon as usual." shields her. Cinch, ain't it?" "I suppose so, but It's getting on Hanvey was silent for a moment then looked up brightly. "What'd my nerves." Don't let It get on your nerves. you do with ail the stuff Vernon had In his pockets when he was ar- Once the children have gone to school let them stay off your mind rested?" and rest your nerves against the "Right here. Want to see It?" time when they come back. No good "Yen. . . ." Five minutes later Reagan re- ever comes of settling children's disturned to the room. He spread out putes for them." There is only one situation that on the table the contents of Vernon's pockets: a handkerchief, a ever. In my opinion, needs the Interfountain pen, a notebook, several ference of grown people. When a visiting cards, a fraternity pin, a helpless child Is being mnde the butt bunch of keys, less than two dollars of the crowd some grown person has In silver, a packet of cigarettes and to take the matter tip with the youngsters, explain about the helpa box of matches. less child, put him In their care and fumbled collecwith the Hanvey tion. "This nil, John? Didn't he keeping. Once they take him under their wings woe betide the luckless have a wallet?" "Yen." Reagan (lushed. "It's In a one who hurts him, Healthy children can always hold special box In the warden! safi own. Now and then a bully aptheir In It but some money." Nothing pears, but the group usually settle "How much?" "Two hundred and ten dollars, with him promptly enough. Public opinion on the playground Is a powIII get "Never niiiid." Jim was holding erful weapon and the bully soon Mm. Hands the bunch of keys in his hand. finds It turned against Is "Doesn't this look like a new key, off In the children's squabbles the best policy. usually John?" W y ... You ing to Mix Me Where?" dle, Vernon?" Max was nervous; his pudgy hands were twisted together and his eyes roved helplessly around the little room. "A a suit of clothes. The one 1 said I changed. I was taking It to the Marland Tailoring company for alteration and cleaning." Now we're clearing up "Good. parts of the mystery." Jim turned to Reagan. "Suppose you check Just 'phone up on that John. that company and make sure they have the suit, will you?" "Sure." ReagaD started to rise, but Max Vernon stopped him. The boy's eyes were round with fear and beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. "Never mind," be said hoarsely. "The clothes are not there." "You didn't take them?" dog-gon- mm E couldn't say for sure, anyway. There's still a lot of loose ends." Reagan changed his tactics. He pointed an accusing linger at Hanvey. "Anyway, Jim you think he was mixed up In that bank robbery, don't you?" The fat man reflected for a mo- You went to Thayer's room In the fraternity house " "I did not ! I tcld you before I never went near his room." "So you did. I thought maybe you'd remembered that you were mistaken. Anyway, you were In the house at the same time he was. After awhile you left there hurriedly with a bundle under your arm, didn't you? What was In that bun- "That's up to you. Son. But suppose you tell me this: What happened between you and Thayer In the fraternity house day before yesterday somewhere about one o'clock In the afternoon?" you?" "In the fraternity house? NothVernon hesitated. Then he nodded. "Yes." ing happened." "Tou went to his room, didn't "Alone?" Max's cheeks were pasty. "Yes. you?" "No." Aloue." e "And when you got there you "Aw, Son! Tou know good and well you went to Pat traded in your car on a new one, Thayer's room. Now why don't you didn't you? And paid the difference tell us what happened?" of twelve hundred dollars In cash. "I didn't go near his room," cried Where did you get the money?" I got it from Vernon harshly. "I went to my own "I had it. room and changed my clothes and Thayer. He owed it to me." then I left the house. I never saw "I see." Jim beamed approval. Thayer for a moment all the time "That clears up another mystery I was in there." ' You and Thayer were really friends, Jim shook his big head. "I hate after all. He loaned you the twelve to see you fighting me, Son, when hundred dollars just like It was I'm trying to help " nothing, eh?" "Like h you are! You're try- "He gave U to me. He owed it" "When did he give It to you, Vernon? When you went to his room?" "I told you I didn't go to his of that?" "Sounds reasonable," commented Jim guardedly. "Anyhow, I reckon there ain't, any objection to lettin' Welch and Miss Peyton out on bond, is there?" "None, whatever," agreed Reagan. He rubbed the palms of his hands together. "I feel like we're getting somewhere at last" "So do I," grinned Jim Hanvey. "The thing I am puzzled about is "Like this: ' "I haven't anything to say, Mr. Hanvey." "Well, what do you know about that? I haven't asked you anything, have I?" "No. but" "Listen to me, Son: answer me one question." "What is It?" "Did you kill Pat Thayer?" OCTAVUS ROY COHEN fey It" J TO 1)8 CONTINUED.) . Bell Symllciit. NU Servic. Dainty Coverings for Gifts Combine Usefulness and Beauty, and Always Remembrance. unusual bridge prize, and a set of three Is sure to delight a winner. Silk should he used as the outside material If choice cases are awards. For the nomemaker who wishes to have these cases for her own silver, canton flannel cases are perfectly satisfactory. Fur articles to contribute to fairs and other sales, this sort will sell fastest, as it can be priced lowest. 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