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Show Murray Eagle, Murray, Utah The Men ot ihe Dead Mans Chest Clifford Raymond f"fiK PRECEDING EVENTS During a "holdup" at tht Dutch Mill, Chicago night club, a patron, Dunn Clayton, Is killed. Lieutenant of Folic Stanton questloni a voluntary witness, "Buck" In Clayton's Trembly, pocket Stanton found a note signed "M aisle," making an appointment with the dead man at the Dutch Mill. Stanton Is Inclined to suspect Trembly of the murder. At a Wisconsin winter camp a boisterous crowd Is gathered, Including Preston Brown. An apparent stranger arrives. Later, two men, driving, appear to be deeply, though secretly, Interested In the party. The stranger leaves In bis car, and the two men bear that Preston Brown has been accidentally killed. They follow the stranger's car, passing It. A viaduct, undergoing repairs, Is out, and one of the two men removes the red lanterns, danger signals. The stranger, In his car, goes over the He Is dead when embankment In Brown's papers Clayfound. ton's name Is found and Stanton connects the two deaths. He Is assigned to the case, goes to Wisconsin, and finds the dead man Is Trembly. Trembly had caused Brown's death, apparently an accident A Vermont lawyer, John Whlttlesex, reading of the case, recalls the names In connection with an odd will by a man np.med Turner. Turner had bequeathed the Interest on to six men, Blair, Ashley, Roberts, Brown, Trembly, and The InClayton, "old friends." come at the death of each beneficiary, Is to be divided among the rest Turner's son Is left a small Income, though at the deaths of the six beneficiaries he Is to Inherit all. Turner dies shortly after making the will. Whlttlesex suspects foul play In the three deaths, and writes to the Chicago police. CHAPTER IV Continued In the newspapers," said the clerk. "What do you think of It, Lieutenant, now that you've looked over the will? That man Turner had something In mind. Do you think he was kidding anybody with that loyalty and fidelity?" "Mister," said Stanton, "don't you know that the police never think? Don't you read your newspapers?" "Well, of course, we all more or less agree on that." said the clerk. grinning, "but maybe the rest of us don't think either." "Don't be heretical, mister." said Stanton. "You hang to the sound Idea that the police are all feet" "Good luck. Just the Bame. Lien- tenant" said the clerk, offering hla hand. "Thank you for that mister." Stanton said, shaking hands. "Ill need It, You've been ohllelne." A no- Why shouldn't we be? Uceman from Chicago to us is like some one who has been Dentins- - Jesse James." "Brother," Bald Stanton, "with na James would have been caught and taken Into the Juvenile court for minor delinquencies. What is that trustee, Asa Darling, like? Do you know him?" "Well, Lieutenant" said the clerk, "there you'd g.'t a wide range of opinion. lie's not usual. I've heard hlra called a nut." What do you think him, mister?" "1 think he's a splendid sort of fellow. He's rich. lie's always saying something you can't understand and then smiling at you. He's generous. He does crazy things, but I never saw any harm they did, and he's square." "Good by, mister," said the Jesse thought too much of their grief-ance- s against congress and neglected civil authority as they waited for a ship to bring word from it was to be peace or more war and considered setting up a military government if It were peace and withdrawing to the west beyond the' mountains to form a new country of their own if It was to be more war. Dried leaves rustled under the lieutenant's feet on the long brick walk from the gate to the door. At his three drops of the knocker the door was opened by an old colored man whose blue coat was a noble survival of the later Andrew Jackson period. "May I see Mr. Darling, If he Is at home?" Stanton asked. "He Is at home," said the colored man with grave courtesy, "but It Is unusual for him to see anyone un expectedly at this hour." "I am Lieutenant Stanton of the I will come an Chicago police. other time If he prefers it but will you ask him if he will see me now?" Lieutenant Stanton. "Certainly, Will you come In? Please be seat ed. I will sneak to Mr. Darllne " btanton was In a broad hallwav. to sit If he cared to. on a mahosr- any settee or to stand for a better view of the oil portrait of a handsome Darling ancestor In Revolutionary uniform, a young captain of light Infantry. The lieutenant was standing when the colored man returned. "Mr. Darling says that If you will excuse the fact that he is at supper, he will be glad to see you." Stanton entered by a door to the right Into a large room glowing In rich colors and soft lights shining on pictures, books and rugs. In front of a log Are an old gentleman with white hair and white mustache sat In a comfort- - g CHAPTER Mr. Darling and V the Turner Heir. DARLING'S house of brick 1,1 was deep set In an old ysrd, and Stanton, calling at eight o'clock the evening of his arrival In New. burgh, could see lo the gate lights the edges of perennM gardens In late bloom walling for the frost He had been easily directed at the om.ee of the Hotel Palatine to follow the tree-lineatreet parallel. Ing the crest of the river bluff, by the llashrouck liousw, which he would know by the cannon on Its green and on, then, to the Imumj with the grilled Iron fates and the tall brick gateposts, The Hasbrouck house on the bluff of the Hudson was Washington's "He's the one I'll try to see, headquarters In the Highlands after Ihen," aatd the lieutenant Yorktown. It was In tills enrnmp. IJeeo a food deal abeit this can fficnt that the Continental officers New-burgh- book. d Ifax August 10. Blair and Ashley were in Lngland and would be in London to receive mall by August 15. Ronald Roberts seems to have been traveling. His letter was Genoa and gave his call for mall at Paris, also about the middle of August" "The three who were on this side of the water are dead," said Stanton. "The other three are alive, for what that may be worth for speculation. Those are unbalanced dates for twlce-a-yea- r payments. Mr. Darling." "Aren't they, Lieutenant I You will notice they are so fixed lo the wllL I forebore to question my rnena, Turner, on this point He seemed to relish It My conscience suggested that It might be easier If It had nothing more definite than my own Imagination." "I think I follow you, Trofessor,' said Stanton. "I was sure you would," said Mr, Darling. "lou mustnt kid a policeman. I'm probably wrong, but I'd guess the gentlemen were easy spenders. From December 1 to August would seem a long time unless the was careful with his spender It's time, madam 1 w - "You Ars From Our Glowing, d Medieval Gothic Chicago." Anl-mate- able stuffed chair. At his side was a table with a tray of smoked and cured fish delicacies from Germany and the Baltic. There was also a hot chicken wing and leg and a tea samovar. The little old gentleman was In a yellow dressing gown. His slippered feet were on an ottoman. "You'll pardon me If I don't try to rise, won't you, Lieutenant? Please sit down." The colored man had pushed another great chair toward the table. "Would you Join me?" Mr. Darling asked, sweeping the table with one gesture and pointing to the budget" samovar with another. "It might make hlra restless," Mr, "No, I couldn't" said Stanton. Darling suggested. "As I said, my "Thank you, but I've Just bad din- friend. Turner, seemed to relish this ner." point I refrulned from questioning P.etwccn us. Lieutenant I "Pompey," salj Mr. Darling, "you him. know what Lieutenant Stanton think It occurred to him that thirty might like. Ill mnke an exception thousand a year might tend toward and take some myself. You may contentment His real conviction, remove the tray and samovar, I am sure, was otherwise, but be took this precaution." Potnpey." "Now, please, don't bother about The lieutenant looked at Mr. Dar me," said Stanton. ling. "There Isn't any doubt In your "I assure you. Lieutenant, It's not mind, then," he said. a bother. May I sny It will be "If I'm certain of w hat you mean Napoleon brandy? It Is strictly and there Isn't I'd prefer to concede The cellars of that to you In any Informal, say Indubitably legat this house have been stocked for confidential, manner, as It were. over one hundred years. I am now My friend, Turner, Is dead. Mr, a light user. You have heard of Clayton, Mr. Brown and Mr. Trem the Frenchman who said that we bly have passed on to their reward flatter ourselves we quit our vices, There seems to be no evidence se but the truth Is our vices quit us. riously and directly Involving any The French alwaya say the civil-Ue- one living In what might be called thing." a aeries of Crimea. My associates "Do they?" the lieutenant said. "I In this trust may say truthfully hadn't noticed It In France. Put that their duties and connections then I probably didn't know enough with It have been perfunctory, but of the language." what would you say of mo as an "You were In France?" accessory to murder. Lieutenant?" "Lots were. It was nothing on "I hadu't thought of It, Mr. j. usual." You might make a case out "Well, Lieutenant" as Pompey came with the tray, "here's our against yourself. I don't think It treat At least It's mine. You're would stand In court" "1 might Indeed, and I can see young. I'm old. I try to like be a prosecuting attorney looking ing old, but It Isn't natural to do I usually keep a ao. It reqtilrct a philosophy, If you askance at mo. have It four health. Lieutenant certain reserve In my meditations A lieutenant of the Chicago police I on this will, but I'll speculate with Io you know, that would give any you If you wish. The answer unman a thrill." guesUonably Is that Tom Turner "You run tm rnccr-- on Ihnt here wHtitel these men to have a reason In the Kast Mr. Darling. I'm com- for killing one another. As a trustee of his will I must think thnt pletely out of comebacks. A the suggestion Is grotesque and can do no more." As a friend of Turner I'm sincere. Lieutenant To a slanderous. man who mostly sits here and Amli I might protest thnt It Is fantastic, his world In bocks, and In Pompey. but I must ay that I think It Is a Chicago lleuiennnt Is man from true," "I should tell y,ti." said the the Danube, the German forests or "that we had a Inter from Hadrian's wall, Roninn cen an attorney In Dorset Vt, which tur!n." gave us the Turner will as a key." "1 asnre ymi, Mr. Darling, that i snow of Mr. WblttVsei. Tur Ifa a great J.,ke. Aside from know. ner fpoke of h'm. He Uked him. Ing som hoodlums and knowing ne mouciit be was dollcTiifull? eotu of ftim more get my wild life srlenllotis," oy rending bmj j a OCNTUIVBQtl (TO . Daf-long- liifcia&UP (50 BUT see how much easier it Is with theNetvOxydoi Dissolves faster, rinses away cleaner, makes 50 more suds that's why the New Oxydol makes dishes so sparkling clean -lightens all housework. Kind to hands, sweet smelling, leaves no scum, softens water, never balls up. 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To prove hii point, Mr. Morgan had the Germ Processed Oil drained from gives your motor longer life, with fewer repair bills. til crankcase and, accompanied by the doubter, itarted for Chccotah, 27 milei way. A crowd met the car at Change to Conoco Germ Processed Oil for safer, surer lubrication. f t Checotah, but Mr. Morgan drove on to Eufaula, 14 THI niDPEN QUART "" r"" mM KWCED w t t neither encourage "dry ereskts experiment! nor usrintee lucceet rtttitf sll conditions. Bat aioliclitd from motorists, now to our Sirs, tell sij this snd hundreds of empty ersnkesses but tritkoul dmf ' lCONOCO 7: fl D ET 't V milei farther, 41.6 milei I'ata-gonla- lieu-lenati- porch she said: 'Don't let that dirty cur come on my clean porch.' " The traditional site of the Garden of Eden, says a U. P. dispatch, Is now visited by many American tourists. "This remote region was formerly reached only by caravan, but is now traversed by modern tourist railroad trains. It is a region of great natural beauty with rich vegetation and a profusion of animal life." Just a word to American tourists visiting the garden. Do not permit yourselves to be duped by unprincipled guides. The apple tree they show you there is not the original one. It is probably only one grown from a shoot Detroit News. post-marke- Tarry-town-Nyac- cross-countr- leather-boun- "Here we are," ho said, opening the book. "Clayton was In Chicago, as you no doubt know. Preston Brown was at Little Butte dee Mortes, Lac Vieux Desert Wla. Arthur Trembly was in Nova Sco tia. He would get his mall at Hal "I'll be watching the newspapers when you begin shooting," said the clerk. The lieutenant went from White Plains to Newburgh by automobile, k crossing the Hudson at the ferry over the Tappan tee, and then by the Storm King highway past Stony Point and West In crossing Westchester Point county he directed the driver to go by the Turner estate which had been closed shortly after Its owner's death. He made Inquiries In the neighborhood to pick up character fragments from people who had known the man. Turner was a reckless rider. The morning of his accident, October 20. had been one with gray skies and a light fall of snow. He had mounted about ten o'clock. Ills horse came back about noon. The household, searching for him. found him two hours later In a ditch ten mllea from the house. He was conscious but had become exhausted vainly trying to pull him self out of the trap. It was three feet deep with ateep sides. Ills broken legs were In six Inches of wafer, and there was nothing he could reach with his hands. He was a powerful hardy man of fortitude and great courage and en durance, but he could not get out of the ditch. The horse, a young and uncertain hunter which he was training and of which he had expectations, had refused the Jump. It hnd stopped and swerved, throw-InIts rider who bad been confident that he was nuttlnz his mount across. The fall had stunned him. When he regained consciousness he wns heirless with the snow llchtlr falling on him and his broken legs In the water. He called frequently for heln but In taklns across the fields and stone fences he had fal len where It was Improbable that he would be heard. Thus he was found. The light si It had been, had cov ered him, but hla courage was still smiling when he was lifted out "We all get U unexpectedly," he said, "but I haven't any too cood a break this time," He hadn't He died October 2!. - a lieu-tenn- Stanton went to White I'lalns. A clerk in the probate office was Interested and accommodating. The lieutenant found the will conformed to the purpose Whlttlesex had Indicated. A trust fund had been created "In affectionate remembrance of friendship and loyalties" to yield a annuity of at least thirty thousand dollars In each case, for "my companions In peril and adversity who would remember me without this token of fidelity but whose lives 1 take this way of sharing after my death." The beneficiaries were as John Whlttlesex had named them: Dunn Clayton. Arthur Trembly, Preston Brown, Howard Ashley, Ilonald Itoherts and Acton P.lalr. The provisions of the trust required semi annual payments of the Income. When the number of the beneficiaries should be reduced by death the distribution, In result, was by fewer shares and larger ratio. The gift was only for life, but to the survivor, the longest lived of the six. was released the entire Income. Upon the death of this last person the entire estate reverted to the son of the testator, to his Issue If he were dead, or In the failure of Issue to the trustees for use In their discretion and In their general knowledge of the testator's Mens and preferences. "I have always regarded money as the greatest K,,(,d," Turner had written In his will, "but I think Its real nobility must be recognized by the person possessing It or trying to It gel. It Money Is freedom. man and everything there Is In Mm. It Is his surest friend. It may be beauty, kindness, helpfulness. It will be anything the man I have never could possibly be. known another good above It. I preman does fer earned money. If not care enough for money to risk everything to get It be probably should not have It My son Is not, In my Judgment, a person who would bo helped by much money unless be should com to want It enough to risk everything for It I do not mean that I think htm dissolute, lie may lack the force to be that, and his character Is amiable. The provision I have made for him Is ample. With It and with what he may earn be will lend an innocent and, I think, a satisfactory life. In the end he or bis heirs probably will acquire the bulk of my estate. My son Is not my type of a man. Nor was I, to my regret, his mother's. I am persuaded that money Is mnn'i best friend. I wish my money to continue to be my best friend even when I am dead." The lieutenant took the names of the trustees and executors: Panlel Rchuy'rr, Philip Monroe and Asa Darling. "Where do these men liver he asked the clerk. Mr. Rchnylcr lives In Albany. 1 think Mr. Monroe Is now In New lork city, but I'm sure Mr. Darling still lives tip the river at 1 refuse to believ yea," satdj Mr. Darling smiling. 1 hareintuitive confidence in j ou. You are from our glowing, animated, medie val, Gothic Chicago. I approve of It all. Pompey, put that Napoleo bottle down, after you've taken It out and poured another for your self. Well, Lieutenant, you had some other mission than that of treating an old New York gentle man to the sight of an actual Chi cago lieutenant of police, a cen turion In Lonrlnlum, of an Angl long swordsman In Byzantium, of a Viking chief In Sardinia. I pre- ume It's the Turner will." "You're right of course, Mr, Darling." "I've been, In a way, expecting the police, but thought I'd have New York calL- In fact Lieutenant, I've even considered that I might be arrested as an accessory, an experience which would brighten up any reasonable old age. What do you want to know, Lieutenant Stan ton?" "You know that three beuefl claries of Mr. Turner's will are dead. Our chief point of concern seems to point to the surviving three. You may be able to tell me where they are." "In a fashion. I'd have to say yes and no. Twice a year I must know where they are, to send them their checks. I couldn't enable you to lay your bands on them at once, You have a copy of the will?" "I have Just come from the pro bate office In White Plains." "I hear from them prior to Au gust 1 and December L These were the dates of payment I could tell you where they were last Au gust Pompey I Please get ' me the address book. But that was aome eleven or twelve weeks ago. and three of them will not send me addresses any more unless I am to believe Sir Oliver Lodge and Conan Doyle, which I don't" The old colored man brought him j w cwc v m l NtV! DHAIN5 AWA GERM PROCESSED MOTOR OIL |