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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEH1. UTAH xxxxxxxxxxxv: IHetU eomftttactkxM. 'Sorry, atr, bat I've been bavin: dinner with Kel ly' chauffeur." DouriaLmeat "Liquid -yes, sir." Evan admitted, steep. as the ouly el a nee ishly. "But that I bad with that Irishman." f "Welir GentI "Weil. I drove Miss Hambidge. and Mrs. Rogers, and the boy to South ampton, like you said. And I started back today. It was nearly eight when I made the garage, a ad 1 was good and By hungry. "There a decent cafe a few yards that's Kelly's chauf away. Nolan feur was sitting at a table, with load he ought to've gone twice for.' Evans smiled. 0pjnririM. Chaining Pollock "Ed bad a grouch on women In gen erai. And lie was chowed plenty. WM) Service. badn t been with him long when he opened up on Mrs. Kelly. There' something queer between her and thl i CHAPTER VIII Continued Filipino, he says." "Charlie?" "That isn't his name but let It go at "Wasting my time," Barrj told liar wood, the next morning, in the city that. And, when Ed said "queer.' he editor's busy office at The (Jlolte. "Mj didn't mean anything wrong. Just Mrs. time, and nearly a hundred dollars of some kind of an understanding. the paper's money. Winslow had Kelly's been giving the Chink coin The Fane girl was struttin; and jewelry, regular. Charlie showed aUralght. Ler stuff from one o'clock until Ion; him some of It. Ed says. after the murder." "Well, tlie night of the murder No "Well, It's pood to he sure." land drives Kelly to the Cocoanut Bar, "Yes, and I'm mighty sure now. Ev And home at nine o'clock. When he ry step I've taken since our last meet gets out at Ids house. Kelly says. 'Put tng leads right up to Mrs. Kelly." the car in the garage. Mrs. Kelly's Harwood looked at him quizzically gone up to Harlem, and I won't need "Step No. 1?" he asked. you 'til tomorrow morning.' a Aly advertisement offering 'Ed obeys orders. He goes back to ward for the number of the cah that Kelly's, and sits In the kitchen. This killed that artist's wife." Chink Is In the butler's pantry, get "You don't mean that you got It?" a And. while the two Triumphantly, Harry opened his note ting'em tray ready. of are down there, the damned book. row starts upstairs " "There It is," he said. "O20O17. The est "Rogers and Kelly." llgures under It are the number of the "No. This was around nine o'clock me who the Information. driver gave Mrs. Kelly. She was laying Mike out Ernie copied both numbers. so you could have heard it a block "Swell work," he commented. ''Any thing else?" "Lots. This fellow had a passenger who got out at Twenty-thir- d street around midnight. When the woman was killed two hours later the drlv r bumped Into him again In Sixteenth atreet, very much rattled, and look-ilnas though 'he'd committed a mur- CHANNING POLLOCK 7DOOCOOOOCXXX 1 der." "Any description?" "Rather a vague one. That doesn't matter. I'm sure, In my own mind, that this passenger was the caller Kelly expected, and that he wasn't the I'm equally sure that he murderer. knew murder had been committed. "Let's call It a mere supposition. In that case, Kelly was killed around two o'clock. At two o'clock, Mrs. Kelly wasn't In Harlem." "How do yon know that?' Barry's answer was a full report of bis adventures of Saturday. "With out Step No. 1, Step No. 2 means noth ing. In other words, If Kelly'd been killed at midnight which Is the the ory everyone's worked on Mrs. Kel ly's alibi would have been holeproof. Harwood joined his finger-tip- s in an almost prayerful gesture. "I wish we could find the guy who looked 'as though he'd committed a murder.' Harry made no reply. "That's always the trouble," the city editor went on. "What kind of skate Is this Luis Morano? Tough?" "On the contrary. Cries over a mammy song." "There's a heap of 'em do." philosophized. Hes a Southerner, with a soft Toice, and a funny Impediment In his speech ?" "That so?" Harwood inquired. "Where is this Coconnut Bar?" Barry told him, and promptly re turned to Mrs. Kelly. "How the deuce are we going to prove what she did after she got home?" "That's up to you," Ernie said. "I'm off on a new tack now." His eyes twinkled. "One that would go a long way toward establishing your theory of coincidence. Oosli, I'd give my two tippers to break this story within the next week or two." Thursday evening, Barry spent In his roum, mostly thinking He had tele phoned Pat twice since their luncheon together, and found her enthusiastic over her guests. "There's nothing wrong with the boy," she .declared; "nothing (hat a few weeks out here won't cure. He's on the beach now, with his mother." Judge llamhidge hail taken to the little fellow at once. Almost like havIt kept his mind off ing a grandchild. his worries. And no one could see IVggy, being brave, but always staring at nothing, always thinking of what might happen, without pity that warmed into affection. "She's really an awfully good sort," I'at said, from Southampton. "I like her a lot. When are you coming out?" "Tomorrow. I hope." "Well, we'll expect yeu for dinner." That breach was healed, all right. But had called him "the scum of the In the same hour, he reearth." membered again, he had told her he loved her. As to that, she still maintained silence. "That's the kindest tiling she could do," Barry thought. "A Judge's daughter, and I " Barry had learned not to think of the future. -- Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum," as his own father had put it. Just for now, It was pleasant to be somebody who knew Batumi he wanted to take that awful look out of the other girl's eyes. "That oughtn't to be hard now," Barry -If I could get that Kilipino thought. to talk, lie knows when Mrs. Kelly came home, ami lies probably got a darned good iil.-i- what she did afterward. If we get to that Ori liar-woo- i ental" At which point. bud been drinking. "Sorry, sir.' be the nearest chair Kv.-in- s j j i:m.s came and he ,., l.;n. "Oh. I forgot to give joe uda It came to Southampton just t I was leaving." said Evans. TUs" was. a cablegram. Alone. I the smoke filled room, r'.srrj opened It. Nine words. "Father and I sailing for home Sunday. Love. MJther." For an lniant. he stood, frozen, the wire in his hand. I'ireclly before him, an evening newspaper lay open on the table. "Out-goinpassenger and mail ships." he read. ''Sailing tomorrow-Steams- hip oranje Nassau. For Port-aPrince. I .a tluayra, Curacoa. Mara-caibI'm Carupano, and Pampatar.' on my way to one of 'em tomorrow!" Shirtwaister for School Girl is available for sizes 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16. Size 12 requires two and three-eighth- s mayards of terial with one-thir-d yard of contrasting material and one yard of ribbon for bow. With long 35-in- sleeves it requires two and yards. Send for the Barbara Bell Fall Pattern Book containing 100 patterns. Exclusive fashions for children young women, and matrons. Send 15 cents for your copy. Send your order to Thu Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 Ave., San Francisco, five-eight- u well-planne- easy-to-ma- CHAPTER IX Barry's panic was short-liveBetween hiin and the sailing list had come a vision of p, -- gy, with beaded lashes sereeniiig e hs forever staring at nothing. "I can't do It." hr said to himself. "I can't run nway and leave that girl In the limit. Nor Pat either. I've tackled this job. ve g(,t to through with It. "Anyway, it begins to look as though the end were in sight. If Bidder sails Sunday " He went back to the shipping news. "If Bidder sails Sunday, that's the Bremen and she's due here the following Saturday. That gives us eight I'd better see Winslow " days. He called Peter next morning, but the attorney was In the country. last night," his secretary reported, "and won't be back until Monday." Barry had a dinner engagement at "We'll start things Southampton humming on Monday," Barry told himself. "I've got my house to put In order, too Kidder's house, that Is." Evans telephoned around ten. and before noon they were on their way to Southampton. "My Inst week-enwith Pat." he was thinking. "Wbere'll I be next Saturday? Out of luck, and out of a job. In jail, maybe, and In the newspapers. That's my finish with everybody." There was a new atmosphere at the Hamhldge's. Pat had been right In telling Jacky that he'd "cheer my father up a lot." "They're building a railway on the beach," she laughed, when the boy sunburned, and active Joined them before dinner. "Yon must go to bed now," Pat bade him, "if we're to take our ride in the morning. We have a canter every day before breakfast." she added to Barry, ringing for a maid to take charge of the youngster. "1 discovered the dearest little pony In the village, and the man brings it over at nine o'clock, with another horse for me. .Tacky's getting to be a regular Buffalo Bill." The strained expression of a week ago was beginning to disappear from the face of Judge Hambidge. But the greatest difference was In the hoy's mother. Naturally imitative, as "Barry had remarked, she had been quick to observe and emulate Pat's moderation Ernie Copied Both Numbers. with make-up- . Her speech, too, had lost all but an occasional Inadvertent Well, this goes on for ten or fifteen reference to "guys" and '(lames." She minutes, and then the bell from the had Into space. "What's stopped staring parlor rings. Charlie starts upstairs the news about Jack?" she asked, with the tray. He gets up two steps, quite calmly. when Kelly appears at the head of the "Free next week," Barry declared flight. "Come up here, you lousy spy. Come up here while I tell yon where rlngingly. At the dinner table, in spite of heryou get off!' self, Peg caught some of the contagion Charlie sets down the trav, and of Nolan's Barry's new confidence. goes. Nolan follows Into the pantry, story sounded like the solution of eva and has stiff drink. Then he sits erything, they agreed. "We've got to down again, and listens to Kelly laying get Jack out before Saturday," Barry out the Chink." said. "Ills father'll be home then." "Could he hear anything? Both women looked up at him. Words, I mean?" "What'll happen to you?" Peggy "No. Just Kelly's voice. Mrs. Kelly asked. was out of It. She'd gone to her room, "The main question," Barry urged, Nolan thinks. But Kelly made noise "is what's going to happen to Peg And enough for two. And, after another Jack. And Jacky." ten minutes or so, Charlie conies back. "We'll meet that when It comes," "'I'm fired,' Charlie says in the Peggy returned, steadily. "But now Chink lingo. 'I got to get out. That I'm worried about vou." blankety-blanShe excused herself early, with the told me to go quick, or he'd kill me.' plain purpose of leaving Barry with " 'Are you Pat. But the Judge stayed on. His going?' Nolan asks. " Sure,' the Chink says. "I got to legally trained mind had been busy get my money first. He chased me out with the Nolan disclosures. "If Mrs. Kelly slept at her sister's, of the room when I asked for It. but I'm going back.' the Chink says. It why didn't she say so to you? "Nolan then took the cook to a would've been her best alibi." "Yes. but It would have Involved ad movie, and when they get back, everywith thing's quiet. It's after midnight, be mitting that she'd had a nm-lcause these two walked home. Kelly's Kelly.' ''That's true," Hambidge admitted. upstairs, talking to somebody, and the "But Nolan was drunk last night, yon Chink's in his room, packing and mut tering to himself something frightful. say. Ami some parts of his story simSo Nolan says good night to the cook. ply don't hold water. I don't believe who goes into her room, and then there was anything 'queer' between Nolan slips Into the pantry, and takes Mrs. Kelly and the Filipino. Kelly's finding that out wouldn't account tit another shot of that hootch." his calling the man a 'lousy "What hootch?" p,' "The rye whiskey was telling you would It?" 'No," Barry retorted. "But listen. i about." Chink was a 'lousy spy,' he gc the from his chair. Barry sprang for it. didn't he? Wouldn't thp paid "The rye whiskey?" "Sure. And It w as in a cut glass explain Mrs. Kelly's giving him 'colP And everything clsf1 and jewelry?' decanter." The Chink's reporting Betty Barclay 'f "Are you certain?" I "Nolan is. And he's just as certain message, and all the rest of It? tell a as this as you. story's straight that It was still in the pantry when Petty Barclay went on the string. the guy upstairs left." road with her show about the tlrri" "Why?" Mrs. Kelly sued for divorce. fortn ! "Because he heard the front door that out some time ago. She got back close ten seconds before he went out the dav of the murder, and nhoncd the hack way." Kelly. Mrs. Kelly learned of that from 'Gosh!" Barry exclaimed. "Thai the Chink, and lit Into Mike. Then puts it up to Mrs. Kelly, all right." Mike lit Into the Chink, and the Chink Evans shook his head, drunkenly. killed him. I think we can prove that .'' "Mrs. Kelly wasn't home," he said. The Judge shook his head. She went to her sister's after the "Anyway, It certainly establishes s in Harlem, and Nolan got reasonable doubt of Jack's guilt." her there the next morning, before 'They can't convict Jack." the Judge they called the police. There were Insisted. "Peter sny". so, and I've nevnly three people In that house after er known Peter to he when h the guy went who was visiting Kelly made an assertion like that. But ac Kelly himself, cook, and a mighty mad quittal means waiting for the trial, nril Chinaman." waiting for the trial means that Jack Filipino." will still he In Jnll when his father Whatever he was, he was mad, and returns." the decanter that killed Kelly was Pat remained silent, but. the net downstairs with him until Just about morning, on the beach, she drew Barry the time Kelly was killed." away from the little group encaged in 'Thanks," Barry nodded. "1 think railroad construction. got something." (TO BE COST1M W d A- - iv-'- C Bell Syndicate. FEMALE AGENTS Makers oi a well known, highly ethical cosmetic preparation ai seeking female agents, either new or currently engaged in similar work. Highly effective new celling angle makes it a euro fixe teller in 90 oi cases. 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