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Show TIIE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Greetings and Salutations CHAPTER XYIII Continued. . Cochrane Intelligent people But you missed somegrinned. thing this morning. The Sphere had a picture of lone Ferriter. I suspect that our competitor, Mr. Duke, bribed some cop to steal it from the flat across the hall. Anyway he tied a knot in my tail, or thought he did. Now Im ready to tie two in his. He paused to enjoy the drama of suspense. The doorbell thwarted him Shannon strode into the room. His companion lingered in the hall, satchel in hand. The Captain glared at Cochrane, who beamed in reply, and whatever question he was about to ask concerning the reporters presence was blown away by Miss Agathas voice. I sent for you, Captain," she said precisely, because we have found the knife that stabbed Mr. Ferriters 1 visitor." At my side I heard Jerry grunt. He uttered no other sound while Shannon rapped out questions and Miss Agatha replied as calmly as though she were giving census information. The Captain strode to the table and gingerly undid the handkerchief. Yes," he grunted, almost as though he regretted it, it looks like it. He held it by forefingers pressed to point and butt and turned it this way and that. he proclaimed, and I Blood, never knew before how ugly that As for fingerword could be. prints He wheeled and glared at me. . You didnt wipe it, or mess it up, did you? he barked. Miss Agathas voice cut: Mr. Mallory and I found it together as I told you. If we had wished to suppress evidence, we should have suppressed it entirely. The bullying note left Shannons voice as she looked at him. Right you are. Miss Paget," he granted and turned to his assistant. Well be going over it, Al. Miss Paget, is there a bathroom handy? Well make a bit of a mess here." Miss Agatha rang for Annie. They followed the maid down the hall. Cochrane looked reproachfully at me and more sympathetically at aunt and niece, who sat still and stiff in their anxiety. The silence grew unbearable. Jerry said at last: And I thought I had hold of something! Allegra did not seem to hear him. Rigid and intent she watched the doorway. Miss Agatha asked: And it has no importance now? Cochrane had forgotten his pretense of indifference. He frowned and shrugged. It may, or it may not, he grumbled, according to what Shannon finds on that knife. Dave has told you of the mysterious siren who called on him? said Miss Agatha wryly, No, Ive always understood gentlemen dont talk of such things. Cochrane grinned at her in admi- ration. I muttered: It didnt seem important." That was one of the things, Jer- ry went on, that made me think it might be The night our bright V young friend was jumped in the basement, the night that knife was lost, Dave had a call from a dark young woman who wouldnt leave her name with the landlady, good Mrs. Shaw, ho has a stem sense of virtue and, what is better, an eagle eye and an elephantine memory. Because, said Cochrane, resuming his sleepy air, she has recognized the picture of lone Ferriter in the Sphere as Daves would-b- e visitor. There seems to be no question about the identification. Mrs. Shaw is positive. Why should Lyon Ferriters beloved sister want to see you, Dave? Allegra looked at me and turned away. I did not answer at once. Her glance and the derisive emphasis laid by Cochrane on beloved had thrust an idea into my mind. It was so fantastic that I tried to evict it but it stayed while I said: You can search me. Thats been done already, Cochran crooned, by the late Mr. Ferriter who was looking for that very knife. Dave, could it have been a woman in the basement that night? His question chimed in so neatly with the idea I had branded as idiocy that I gaped at him a moment. I dont know, I answered at last. No? I just Cochrane asked. wondered, Dave. Dont let it agitate you, laddie. , But the question had rocked me. The wonder it had started did not subside and I heard, with odd indifference, the clump of feet as Shannon and his aid came along the hall. Miss Agathas head went up. I could see by Allegras stiff face how tightly she held herself and even Cochrane forgot to look tired. The thrust of Shannons jaw, the little narrowed eyes that darted at each of us were ominous. He carried the knife no longer gingerly, even a little scornfully. No one dared to pry into his silence, until Cochrane drawled: All right. Ill ask it. What did you find, Captain? said Shannon in a Nothing, bleak voice. I heard Allegra let go Through her you can hit him where itll hurt most If youre Nothing? game to carry through a bluff, you Shannon said to her: Thats prob- may break him. Cochrane had caught my intenably blood on the blade. There are no fingerprints at all." tion. I heard him mutter blaspheCochrane hummed beneath his mous approval. I felt Allegras eyes breath. Shannon glared at him, and on me, but I watched the policwent on, with aimless anger: emans smoldering doubt. There's a mark on the hilt that Its your one chance," I told might have been made by the fin- him. Take it or leave it. Miss Agatha started to speak. gers of a damp glove a ladys Then she checked herself and I knew glove. Jerry glanced at me and let his her nod meant that she surrendered eyes slide quickly away. The silence her plan our plan to my keeping. that followed was strangely filled Shannon rumpled his hair and took two uneasy strides away from the with relief and disappointment. Miss Agatha mused aloud: He is desk. I started to speak again. He said: very clever. Wait a minute. Al, close that Who? Shannon snapped. door from the outside and don't let She seemed to hear suspicion of come near it. her nephew in the query. Her face anyone hardened and she spoke slowly and CHAPTER XIX purposefully. The murderer," she told the CapIt took an hour to bend Shannon tain. Or if you want me to name to the mad purpose. Miss Agatha him, Lyon Ferriter. and Cochrane were my allies. They Shannon flinched at the word. followed my lead and, at need, took How do you know? the lead themselves. We hammered How do I know? asked Miss the Captain with reasons, prodded while he How does Mr. Mal- - him with persuasion, Agatha coldly. walked the floor as though he sought All cover from our argument. and of voices the clash purthrough poses, Allegra sat silent beside her aunt but the pent excitement reached her. Severity left her face. Color came to it and her eyes woke up and moved quickly from speaker to speaker. Sight of her helped me stand up to Shannon. From the second when I lifted my voice, I knew the least faltering would emphasize the desperate fantasy I put forward. At first I feigned confidence, linking fact to fact in arbitrary union. Then, as I spoke, I converted myself. It seemed as though speech washed away mystery to bare at least coherent outlines. Cochrane sat beside me. His innocent face was drowsy but his nimble mind kept pace with mine, endorsing my contentions, supplying pointed comment when Shannon balked. Miss Agatha said little, but her rare words cut. We outraged the policemans sense of propriety and stripped that from him. We pried his mind loose from official procedure. He withstood us stubbornly, tramping to and fro, rumhis hair, now and then shakand me pling at looked Allegra his head like a ing turned away. horse. He took that afternoon the lory know? How do you know yoursweating he and his associates had self, Captain Shannon? By somedealt to many. thing thats worthless in court. Lyon Its its illegal, he blurted at Ferriter killed that man. He used last with a cornered air and glared that knife you hold. I dont know at Cochrane who chuckled. why. Perhaps to protect that preSo, Jerry drawled, is a length cious sister of his, for whose sake of rubber hose. hes willing to let an innocent and It was luck more than logic that foolish boy play scapegoat. broke Shannon at last. He raked his At each word Miss Agatha spoke hair and shook his head again. in her bitter, careful voice, my mad it would Maybe, he granted, idea grew more normal in shape and make a good movie. But the girl color. It drove me to speech, but has an alibi. You cant get over Shannons harsh voice rode over my that. Somebody downstairs Hoyt words. it was, saw her come in. Miss Paget, whether youre right I got up. If thats all that gags or wrong, no one can say. That was you, I said, Ill see Hoyt. Hell back our play. His story will be my own thought at first and now He shrugged. that he didnt want to get a lady into Cochrane completed it for him: trouble. And now," he said softly, when I did not wait for Shannons obyou announce youve found the mur- jection but opened the door, almost der weapon, but no clue to how it upsetting Al who guarded it. I found I told got in the basement, or who left it Hoyt at the switchboard. there, youre through whipped, out- him, as quickly as I could, what I witted, scuttled. Mr. Ferriter, who wanted and why. He gasped and hasnt been sure where that knife boggled and at last consented, when has been, wins. Hell sleep easier I reminded him of his earlier offer from now on. of aid. Then he whispered someAll right, Shannon snarled in thing that sent me it up thats like the stair again. angry helplessness; most of the newspaper suggestions. I saw when I the workIts a help, isnt it? What would you room that Shannon wavered. do, wise boy? Personally, Captain Shannon," Cochrane shook his head. Miss Agatha was saying, I place I heard Miss Agatha say: justice above orthodoxy. The murI know what Id do. der was unconventional. Why We looked at her. Her face was shouldnt the arrest tie equally so? hard and her voice, that spoke what I know he did it. You think he did. I had feared to utter, was firm: If he didnt, lone or Everett did If Lyon Ferriter has a weakness, and the two survivors are accessoit' is his love for his sister. I think ries after and, perhaps, before the he can be reached by attacking fact. Are you always so wedded to her. legal formality, Captain? Shannon had not the sort of brain Cochrane leaned forward. that is fired by abstract theory. Listen, he wheedled, what can There was scorn in his grunt. you lose? Say it doesnt click. So Would you then? And how? what? Are you worse off? Its a If the old ladys suggestion had crazy idea. Sure. But so is this roiled his mind, it had clarified whole set-uWere trying to give mine. Her speech had been a key, you the chance to tear this case wide unlocking the door of my mind be- open and solo at that. Do you want hind which that wild, originally fanto be just a captain all your life? tastic idea had waited. I said, beAllegra was watching; me. She fore Miss Agatha could speak again: alone in the room seemed to feel Arrest lone Ferriter. the tidings I bore. Shannon spoke I had uttered her thought. I saw with the muffled roar of the her start and look at me in wonder. Arrest her? Shannon jeered. All right. Suppose I go goofy and For what? throw in with you? How are you gonHis crooked smile was mocking. na work it? Tell me that! Call up Allegras eyes widened. Cochrane Lyon at the Babylon and say, looked at me as though he were Can we bother you to come on down here to we can tell you what dozing. I stood their combined reweve got on your sister, before we gard. For murder. For the murder of make a collar? There's enough to Blackbeard. In the silence he glared about and make it stick for a while. breathed loudly through his nose. I For a while, the policeman ech- said as quietly as I could: oed in derision. If that's all that's worrying you, Miss Agatha said quickly, sitting Lyon is next door now. He came in straight and flushed in her wheel a while ago, Hoyt says. chair: Shannon said at last By God! Captain Shannon, Lyon Ferriter in an unwilling voice. killed that man. I know it. Mr. I went on: Eddie will ask him Mallory knows it. You suspected to stop in here, when he starts to it at first. But you could not reach go. You might send your man downhim. His story, his alibi, had no stairs just to make sure that he apparent weakness. Yet he has a does. weakness. It is his love for his Shannon wavered for the last sister. time. Then he squared his shoulShannon stared as though he won- ders, inhaled like one entering i dered whether she had lost her mind. cold plunge and called: All I prodded him further: (TO BE CONTINUED) hot-footi- . p. hard-presse- d. SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears c 3 her breath. Miss Agatha repeated, almost in satisfaction: 19 H0P NARROW SPACE BETWEEN DOOR AND WINDOW BEFORE ADDING LONG CURTAINS, SHELF AND MIRRORS h 3 SMALL MIRRORS JOINED WITH METAL STRAPS ALONG BACK OF FRAMES 8"BOARD COVERED WITH MONK'S CLOTH- UPHOLSTERY TACKS BRACKETS' FRINGE "N HER way home from the club Mrs. Martindale was thinking, It will be my turn next. What will they think when they come to our house? Then she put her latch key into the lock and stepped into her own front hall. Just what I was afraid of, she said aloud. When you look at this hall as an outsider the worst thing you think is that its owner A New is lacking in imagination. Right then things began to hapBy DAVID CORY pen. The shabby old hall carpet the new year through was washed right on the floor and God grant that then dye4 a deep green with hot May ttrive with heart and soul to do Those things uhich are most good and dye applied with a scrub brush. true. 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