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Show BEAVER PRESS BLACKS $,?tlj 0MBRER05 CLIFFORD KNIGHT disinherited by Ber of wbo died of an overdose Madi-5rHunt RScrs and Ba"y Mexico to solve what they murder. On be Aunt Kitty's find that Elsa's party has his father's death- -a suicide-can be laid at the dead woman's door. A little leniency shown in a time would have saved his critical for him. Did Reed Barton property kill her? they James "James Chesebro arrived and deirfftem by plane. Elsa's father, Sam, parted that night; we do not know of a marlin death from the sword why. the reason for his visit never Into him V ... k.ir breaks. toppUns ntes Rumble Is murdered having been explained before his ra sea. Did he have some toe docki death motive to Berta, Sam's wife, and kill the woman? Next came Dwight Nichols." the ouirt with which Elsa Rogers nodded in ,...hm discovers by twist- Dwight's direction. The latter merethe knife ly sat and smoked conceals it .hat W 109 i"1"" calmly, without offering to interrupt.listening i, mied Chesebro. WOW t UIIUUMV. "Dwight Nichols profited bv some two hundred thousand dollars at the CHAPTER XVIII dath of Katherine Chatfield. of some jointly owned properof Senor Lorn-srd- o ty. Dwight has stated that he In the presence was summoned, for some reason unand realizing the implication known to him, to advise with Miss killed Chesebro?" It that you of second a Chatfield. Margaret Nichols was fraction a only rf id she hesitate, then she answered Jealous of Katherine Chatfield, because she feared her husband's love .... clor 00110 Ijomoaruo, jcic uci was being stolen from her. She, u- also, made a visit that night. HowIslida, came up me fnllmirAl ever, Mrs. Nichols l .I.... Kut sr,A La; the next ujj uu. says she got only E. Dr. Miguel Cruz. On the heels as far as the entrance hall when someone dashed out of the house in the doctor came the barefooted, panic, someone who, she says, did ed mariacnis, cuyc not see her concealed behind some . ... . . .. That person admittedly 1 have puzzled mucn, gentie-Pn.- " drapery. remarked Lombardo in Eng- Lsh after cigarettes had been lightly "about the confession of Senorita bitfield that she killed Senor Chese- I do not understand it, and i la no action. I had come that tnat it was oet--s, ening persuaded despite your promise, that I ap Senor Barton in jail for the ader of Senor Rumble. But when taorita Chatfield speak I am con- tied, senor, and do not know what ..iirt is P be-''0- 1 ar-'f!- T Cbese-ordere- -- - P rLh EU UK U' unua s e. Ne Sib. Lai! LY : o, dure, if be earn dated pre -- thus Ths able, jenu. Hiblc. to do." b best new i faint smile twitched at Rogers' tnd he looked away across the it to the shore where the coco Vim seemed to shoot like bursting tea rockets into the sky. There are many confusing things t Us affair, senor," he remarked. Tajr have puzzled me too, but I slm that I can explain them all RcM, Iralth ps City. 9 glad if be very 1 would Mi" you have died, Senor Katherine Chatfield in fornia; James Chesebro, Sam ;atfield and George Rumble, in I he explanation must tn ;.aico. Jt all four. It must be logical Li there must be proof." "Yes, of course," said Rogers. "Sam Chatfield and his wife, Ber b, arrived in California for their hual visit a year ago last winter. pey stopped at a hotel in Pasa a, and, uninvited, went to spend Tour persons I Lmbardo licks. J. aunt. :ARM with his sister, Kather Aunt Kitty. That night ftvi,wine Chatfield was murdered. i method used was an overdose fc morphine, to which drug she was l( night i: addict, taking it hypodermically, faint odor of chloroform de- the next morning by only one "estigator furnishes the single clue mat happened. A few drops of " on a handkerchief, I be. ''t, suddenly held to the unsus- victim's nose, and kept in rery STFD inniri. Lei Third. s Ian '''t during the brief and violent !4vt which probably followed, ci the victim was unconscious, se was necessary only to load u hypodermic with an overdose morphine and shoot it into the wscious victim, wipe away all jerprints from the syringe and :! supply bottle, and press the J'4 of the victim on these things. c -- Fie?" "j is most simple, Senor Rog- n Lombardo, a serious upon his round, brown face. Either a man or a woman could ;?e d("ie that, senor," Rogers be- 'gain. 'Now. consider these rJ; Resent in the house, besides rvants. who do not figure in it was bam Chatfield. He knew US Jister was thp mnth- - f a He knew fhat eho r.r.t t Fifefused to the fact. acknowledge u: I Had- mrm!tAj r,i-- . incu ma- uaugnier, j tbe cruelly slandered, and not a Gone i nothing to quiet the !!:P. but said 11 most likelv had In. bi-P- mental in cirni!-.fi- n ! I hi the house that night was no openly and frAnklv of nil L r"' mat sne nated ner these two there was U Chatfled. who ever married Sam had resent-- ' ."1 B"id : treatmon P "rtw-in-la- : v i and who as - knew hnw u. Kn,v, 'j, felt ' Miherme Chatfield. '"ere. Ren. t .. . continued, "I have thr-a named to kiU and ob- m. !? mnt've e 8,,"'"1 opportunity to do there were others that Jtbl? Kame and wcnt- - Geor8e had don me Pub-tl- r :tj i I ? r Katerin Chatfield, hls pa7, whlch was m hjce've " '"ere was an argu- Words' "nd Rumble But h lorhood ,, 'C!n.amed in the neigh- iain wnetner or not f shniiu - o. P rehim her?" kiU 2j thj '4Kb firokusL ,?ltls ? J!a' oeveloping very logi- - ??rdo followed kit words ,llOT Cruz sat smoking m"6"61 "72: Nii hp P mj ni Hi endlessly, his m,er' ,UU tot W? .1 aIso'" Pogeri went . WN.U, SEHV ICE escape the conviction that he was enjoying himself hugely at the expense of Lombardo. His face, was more solemn than that of a judge. Lombardo started slightly at Rogers' question. o no se, senor,' he admitted, reverting 0 Spanish in his confu- sion. "I think. Senor Lombardo," said Rogers, dropping with a smile into Spanish, "you will let Pedro out of jail when I finish telling you who is the guilty person." Lombardo's only response was an involuntary lifting of the eyebrows. bow-eve- "However," Rogers took up again in English in a more serious vein, "the name of the guilty one must wait a few minutes longer. I will come to it at the proper time. But now let us look for a moment at the death of Sam Chatfield. His is the most puzzling in the entire series. So much seems accident, so little may have been the handiwork of a murderer. A nut had come unscrewed from the swivel mechanism of the chair in which Sam sat in the launch. If the chair had not collapsed, there is little likelihood that he would have fallen overboard, probably none at all. Did somebody remove the nut? There was opportunity to do so for everybody who went on the fishing excursion, and even for George Rumble, who did not go. All of us, except the women members of the party, knew beforehand that Sam Chatfield would sit in that chair when we went after "And, yet, I know of no motive upon the part of anyone for the death of Sam Chatfield. Of course, one never knows what's between a husband and a wife. Did Senora Chatfield have some motive unknown to us, and did she learn in some manner which seat her husband would occupy on that fatal excursion in the launch? But let's drop Sam Chatfield's death for the moment, and go on to George Rumble's. I think that in it we will find something of interest perhaps the key we are seeking." Lombardo shifted in his chair and looked away for a moment to the tall towers of the church. Doctor Cruz crushed out the spark in his cigarette under his heel, and for a moment his hands were idle. The mariachis were growing restless, understanding nothing that had been said in English. Reed Barton sat easily with legs crossed, and Dwight continued calmly to smoke. "There are motives recognizable t ''"y Chebro. Jleed I.. i. uan to admit that t, THE new "Transatlantic Due to an unusually large demand ani current war conditions, .slightly mor time is required in flllinR orders for s few of the most popular pattern numbers 731 show scheduled to start April 15 promises to be amusing; whether it will carry out its purpose, "to find out, through the participants, what Americans know about Britain and what the British know about America," remains to Circle Needlecraft Dept. San Francisco, Calif. 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Margaret Nichols there was no opSenora Chatfield has adportunity. went to the wharf that she mitted said is there "And finally, Elsa," night to find someone to send for Rogers thoughtfully. her husband's fishing equipment. was her husband. Dwight Nichols Felipe and Pancho went on that ersays that he arrived only to findi rand for her. She returned to the Katherine Chatfield dead. Is he tell- yacht. She asserts, however, that ing the truth? Is his wife telling the she did not see Rumble, who was truth; did either, or both, of them murdered on the wharf that night. kill the woman?" Rogers halted to There was a motive for the murder of Rumble on the part of Dwight sip from his frosty glass. "It is all very strange, Senor Rog- Nichols; he and Rumble quarreled ers," said Lombardo, stirring un- only a short time before Rumble knew that Dwight easily in his chair. "How can you died. Rumble was the man who rushed in panic discover the truth in so compliout of Katherine Chatfield's house cated a case?" he held Rogers smiled faintly, and I the night she was murdered; it were, and Dwight as over merest it the him, was there that thought twinkle in his mild blue eyes. "If," believed it was for the purpose of he began again, "we exclude from blackmail. After the two separatsubed, Dwight, in the presence of Barsuspicion all those persons who ry Madison. Sam Chatfield and me, sequently died by violence CheseRumble made a remark which could be inChatfield. George Sam bro, not themselves of and terpreted as a threat. He said that as victims the probable killer, whom have we he would have towianage some way left?" He glanced from Doctor Cruz to quiet Rumble definitely." to Lombardo, then named them: Dwight was unmoved by this reChatBerta Senora Chatfield, "Elsa cital; he tapped the ash from his Dwight cigarette and continued to gaze field, Margaret Nichols, Nichols, and Reed Barton. Those calmly at Rogers. The latter paused to sip his glass of limeade before five. s he went on. "Now, then," Rogers said, a crisp-nescoming into his voice, "we "Another motive, not so strong, come to the death of James Cheseperhaps, is one that can be assigned bro. Of these five who could possi- to Reed Barton. George Rumble Senora Berta had fallen In love with Elsa. You bly wish him to die? Chatfield? I can think of no reason; knew that didn't you, Reed?" On the I know of no motive, in fact. "Yes." Cheseand Barton Reed other hand, over "Again, Senor Lombardo," said other bro quarreled with each Chese-br- o turning back to the chief, Chatfield. Rogers, Elsa of love the is a possible motive. Hov "love his from Barton had discharged motive." he strong? How shall It be evaluated?" employ. An excellent Nichols He paused only briefly. "However, "But-Dw- ight commented. of there's a very definite motive, and Chesebro had been defrauded by in a mining I think the real one, to account for fifty thousand dollars Rumble knew Men Rumble's murder of money. lot a is deal That boasted that he knew He much. now too for before have been murdered And who the killer was. What, in that much less, Senor Lombardo. the case, will a murderer do? He will Nichols, how about Margaret is strike at the first opportunity, for dollars wife? Again fifty thousand he prizes his safety above all else. woman." a to money-a lot of And that's what happened." mucn ril course, 'V iimicj, Lombardo stirred uneasily in his murmured Lombardo, absorbed in "Who, Senor Rogers," he chair. processes. his own mental ' said Senor Rumble boast "And, finally, there is wsa. is a asked, "heard murderer?" the knew he that thouenuuuy. others the all than "Barry Madison, Sam Chatfield, stronger motive A young worn-an- 's senor. Dwight Nichols, and I." put together, most valuable "So?" good name is her his feet are Mexican, and Reed Barton shifted possession. You word revenge. and cleared his throat lightly. "I the understand can last to Elsa was willing night beforeshe had shouldn't be left out, Hunt Rumble hinted very broadly to me that he nermlt the Inference that Senor, is reoru, knew who killed Chesebro, then Chesebro. 5!e pulque seller, a lying scoundrel closed up like a clam when I asked a woman, or him about it." who seeks to protect he says when truth the teU him sharply, as does he Rogers looked at is the one who Nichols the statewhether Dwight determine that If to killed?" ment was made in a vein of brawished to be Lombardo's face was pu.cu. vado, or because he he was silent moment a was now hopelessly at sea. Arrown For forehead be- helpful to shift his aphad gathered on the appeared then and of Doctor of RumbleV tween the slitted eyes. proach to the problem rouoweo he as Cruz . .u.m na met 101 HI uj 0- - murder. (TO BE CONTINUED) Roeers. I could not nr ftAU.U By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. 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