Show L 7“77 THE GARLAND -- THE WEDDING MARCH MURDER by Monte Barrett 0 Copyright fcy 1SSS tha Co WNU Servlca SYNOPSIS Waltlnp In th minister' study Jim franklin about to bs married to Doris Is stabbed to death Peter Carmody Cardigan with Sergeant Kllday begins the while Investigation Franklin had visitors among them his waiting his "Choo Choo" mistress Train tended wife's brother Rylle Daniel Bullla politician and a woman In a blue frock Rylle Carmody admits try- after being ing to stop the wedding Informed Webster by Spears that Franklin was still friendly with Choo Choo despite his approaching marriage Kllday secures the dead man's keys From Call! Shipley one of the bridesmaids Rylle’s friend the Invelearn nothing An Interview stigators with Bullls Is fruitless Webster Spears admits Informing Rylle Carmody of Franklin’s relations with Choo Choo An Interview with Milo Dunbar Frank tin's law partner and eearoh of the dead man’s office reveals nothing of Choo Choo admits her Importance lations with Franklin were to continue after his marriage Six of the seven keys Franklin carried are tra'ced Kllday decides to arrest Webster Spears and have Rylle Carmody shadowed Callls Shipley vainly tries to convince of Rylle Cardigan of the Innocence and Spears Carmody She and Rylle plan to leave the city evading Rylle's shadower Rylle goes to do his part and Callls reaches an appointed s but Rylle doea not come FrankIs ransacked lin’s apartment Neither Spears nor Rylle Carmody could have done It and Cardigan ssnses the hand of th murderer CHAPTER X— Continued —20 — “No wait” Peter cautioned “We can’t afford to overlook a single bet Perhaps we know what the murderer was looking for here? Didn’t we come here ourselves In search of some clue that would Identify the mysterious woman in blue for us? Didn't you attempt to identify those keys In the hope that sooner or later one of them might help In the Identification of that woman? Bullls told us she was In love with Franklin He overheard her conversation with Franklin Just before the murder the murderer “What’s to prevent from having the same hunch that we had? If It was that woman say and ghe knew Franklin possessed letters or pictures which might Identify her wouldn't it be reasonable to expect her to make some attempt to get them? Of course It would If that evidence exists Its destruction removes our last hope of solving the mystery of Frank- lin's death" yeah?” Kllday’s smile was derisive “I thought you were convinced that a woman couldn’t have delivered that blow?” “I’m coming to that” Peter hurried on Impatiently "Suppose as we believe that crime was committed by a man That still doesn’t eliminate this In blue as a possible motive woman for the crime She might have been the daughter sister or wife of the slayer Wouldn’t he still be Interested In removing this evidence of her lden tity which might possibly Identify him with the crime? “We have a peculiar case Sergeant The knife with which the crime was committed the curtain upon which It was wiped the revolver bearing “Oh ± and posthe slain man’s thumb-prifound In Franklin's sibly that we have pocket are the only real clues found There has been an abundance of evidence provided by the activities of whom most of eight or nine persons had motives which might have actuthe Theoretically ated the murder theory upon which we are holding Webster Spears Is sound But since his arrest this apartment has been rifled and we cannot afford to overlook the significance of this” Peter paused In hia restless pacing of the room to face his friend "Supmurdered pose you were the roan who Jim Franklin and you had committed the crime because of this woman In blue What would you be doing now? What would you be thinking? Put yourself In the criminal’s place” “I'd be trying to keep from getting succinct caught” was the sergeant's reply "But “Of course" Peter agreed at the con I’’— he glanced how? Now fusion about him which marked the “lf apartment had been ransacked-had been the murderer I would be try evidence Ing to remove any possible would connect me or the woman As for myself in blue With the crime But I’d probably feel safe enough me that woman would worry he had let Probably loved Franklin which ters somewhere or a picture her Identity reveal ultimately might found her to the police And If they me because the It would be easy to find the murderer one In whom girl is someInterested — his sweetheart la vitally how would g'ster or wife That’s that the an be figuring Why Isn’t has been made wer to the search that This murderer apartment? that of this In making his calculations the same way “But we were here before “Of imveilst pointed out- - very much him course the we aa didn’t take things apart quit but we looked In every thoroughly place It was re&sonabla to believe Franklin might have kept papers or pictures which could have Identified this woman We are moderately safe In assuming that he found nothing here That being true what would be hla next move? “The evidence he feared might beHe has the tray him la still missing same reason to fear discovery that he had when he searched thl place Will he atop now? I don’t think so We’ve struck a warm trail Sergeant” "You think he’ll attempt to find and destroy this evidence somewhere else?” “That’s what I would do If I were In his shoes” declared the novelist “I feel pretty sure I would conclude that the evidence was In the only other That's place It could be — his office where I'd look next” ‘We've looked there” the detective "We didn't find anything" objected “We didn’t go all through his flies" Peter was emphatic “We looked but there are dozens of places such evidence might have been concealed But that Isn't the point The murderer doesn’t know we’ve looked does he? I maintain that the man who was so anxious to find something here will probably look there next Unless he's It's worth tryalready been there ing Let’s go there and see You have We can set a trap Franklin’s keys for him" Kllday still wedded to his theory that Webster Spears was the murderer was nevertheless Impressed "It would probably be a wild goose chase but I’d do It If I hadn’t sent word to Bullls to be at my office I’m going to confront him with Callls Shipley and see If he can or will Identify her as the woman he saw quarreling with Franklin In that study They’re both probably waiting for me by now” "Then let me have the keys" urged Peter “I’ll go alone It’s worth trying anyway” Sergeant Kllday had not abandoned his previous theory "Spears Is my man but Just the same I’m not overlooking any possibilities' he declared on the way back to his office for Franklin's keys “If you don’t have a revolver you'd better take this one" He thrust a blue automatic Into his friend’s hand as they parted “Not" he added “that I think you’ll need It" “It’s always the unPeter laughed loaded gun that goes off” he retorted “and the hunch that looks like a flivver sometimes brings home the bacon” The offices of Franklin and Dunbar were on the second floor of the Greer Peter was familiar with the building general flpor plan aa a result of his previous visit there with Dunbar and a In the taxi he formulated Kllday keya would admit plan Franklin’s Once Inside he him without difficulty decided he would wait In Franklin’s In order private office In darkness that his presence might not be detected and frighten off the Intruder should be come It was Just eight o’clock but the Only building was nearly deserted and two elevators were In operation neither was waiting as he entered the the walk to decided np so Peter lobby single flight of stairs his footfalls echoing In the deserted- corridors In of his caution ne paused at the It his shoes landing and removed would not do to advertise his presence of one globe With the exception and burning In front of the elevator a red bulb at the end of the corridor marking a fire exit the floor was In Most of the doors were darkness paneled with glass so that a light within would betray their occupancy but this was not true of the suite occuA numpied by Franklin and Dunbar ber of offices had been thrown Into one a large suite for this firm and here facade with a solid walnut paneled door barred the corridor He Peter had not expected that hesitated In front of the door keys In What If the unknown visitor hand he was expecting were already here? Would he not be stepping Into a trap at of his own making? He frowned the panels In search of some telltale gleam of light which would betray the but If presence of some one within there were a light beyond that facade he could not detect It He tried peer but It was a lng through the only on the blind lock with a outer side and defied the trick Well It was a risk he had to take his to left hand He shifted the keys had and drew the revolver Kllday loaned him If his quarry were already here Peter did not Intend to be took the as he Even caught napping the novelist chuckled at precaution “I'm going In for melohimself drama" he told himself "There’s no one here" The first key he cautiously tried did it and selected He withdrew not fit seemed to another whose Irregularity conform with the outline of the slot It fitted time There lock This the In as he thrust was only a slight click the key home but It sounded startlingly loud In the stillness of that corriHow had the key made such a dor sound? Then he smiled at his nervous“Don’t get Jumpy" he ness again cautioned himself as he turned the spite key The door swung open with a alight creak and Peter stepped Into the dark office his eyes straining to pierce the His fingers thickness of the gloom It should groped for the light switch he semen here near the door Were his Then he stopped rigid Or was nerves playing tricks again? there some one else In this room? that slight click that He remembered outside him hadn’t startled It had been nerves then He recognized the sound now It had been the throwing Warned by the of an electric switch rattle of hi key in the lock whoever TIMES ahared thla room with him had turned off the lights Teter gripped his revolver tighter H was convinced that ha wae within a few feet of Jim Franklin’s murderer CHAPTER XI In the Dark The room waa In darknesa — a Stygian blackness that waa Impenetrable Peter concluded that the blinds had been drawn against observing eyes because almost no light filtered through He closed hla eyes to the windows accustom them to the lack of light When he opened them again he could decry two rectangles lighter than the The windows gloom about him outThey were to his left Swiftly ho He must reach lined a plan of battle the wall to the right to prevent surThen hugging prise from the rear the wall he could move slowly forward against until his foe was silhouetted the faint glow of the windows With hla thumb he released the revolver The slight mesafety on hla tallic noise of It sounded loud against of the room the hushed background The faint tang of tobacco waa In the air Where waa that wall? Peter wished fervently that he had not adHe did vanced ao far Into the room Any colnot dare raise his feet lision with unseen furniture— any — would how noise no matter slight to his his exact whereabouts GARLAND UTAH Burial in Royal Tomb Not for “Old Hickory” — the last dead to when we I hope ihall udgment rise together clothed with the heavenly body promised to all who believe in our glorious Redeemer who died for us that we might live and by whose atonement I hope for a of us there to remain until trumpet sounds to call the Washington possesses the tomb of Homan emperor atone The strange on the lawn of the Arts and Industries building of the National museum which visitors usually pass without noticing was the occasion 90 year ago of a dramatic Incident when it wae first brought to Washington The tomb was secured by Commocommander of dore Jesse H Elliott the frigate Constitution which waa the flagship of the United States Id tthe Mediterranean In squadron 1839 from a hillside behind the city of Beirut Syria Although the evidence was not such as would satisfy an archeologist Elliott believed it was the tomb of the Homan emHe Severus Alexander peror brought It back to Washington with him A few years later Andrew was reported dying at the HerElliott had near Nashville mitage the happy or unhappy Inspiration to offer the tomb to Old niekery aa a a last blessed Immortality" Just Perhaps Alexander Severus aa well satisfied that the school children of a democratic land troop past hla empty tomb without noticing It Emperor of Home from 222 to 235 resting place one of the Jackson' reply Is classics of American literature: “Although laboring under great from a severe debility and affliction attack from which I may not recover" the dying man wrote the navy raise officer “I my pen and endeavor The steadiness of my to reply nerves may perhaps lead you to conclude my strength Is not as great as It may here expressed Strange appear ray nerves are as steady as they were 40 years gone by whilst I am from debility and affliction gasping for breath "I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid In a depository prepared for an emperor or a king My republican feelngs and prlncl pies forbid 11 The simplicity of onr of government forbids It system Every monumeht erected to perpet-ntthe memory of our heroes and statesmen ought to bear evidence of the economy and simplicity of our and the Institutions republican plainness of our republican citizens who arc the sovereigns of our glorioutIs Except for the barely discernible to perous union and whose virtue lines of the windows there waa nothpetuate It True virtue cannot exist ing by which he could get hla bear- where pomp and parade are the govlie searched his mind for some erning passions It can only dwell ings memory of the room some characterwith the people the great laboring istic which might be of value to him and producing classes the form the now He could think of nothing Still bone and sinew of our confederacy he could not be far from the wall op“I cannot permit my remains to It waa not an be the first In these United States posite the windows hla Once there room unusually large to be deposited In a sarcophagu withman chance of finding the other made for an emperor or king I have was much out himself being found prepared a humble depository for better He resumed hla cautious ad- my mortal body beside that wherein Hii struck something foot vance nis lies my beloved wife where withgrip on the revolver tightened out any pomp or parade I have reIt quested when God calls me to sleep He explored with hla free hand was only a chair He moved around It with my fathers to be laid for both silently and advanced again slowly With a And then he found the walL for feeling of relief he backed against It Playtime facing the room If he were surprised the Well-Drenow It would not be from the rear Then still taking every precaution In the good old summertime young against any sound which might betray plates become his whereabouts he sidled along the fashion wall hla eyes exploring the room with had And for the fastidious two to slightly more success now that be himself who wishes to devote all between silhouetted the room nis straining eyes attention to boating bathing and and the windows rather than to seams and basking could Identify a table In vague relief Near by buttons here are the newest against the window squares whose blurred atlons In playtime fashion a wide leather chair Not following but leading outline he was slow In classifying the youngster Peter moved on slowly vogue of the elders His back struck a picture on the these days who would be really In bathwalL It Bcraped against the plaster the swim must have a his breath He but did not fall caught If the felaDd moved more quickly low were tempted to shoot at the sound it would be Just as well not to quarry From beyond the door the gates of the elevator clashed open and shut Even from this distance the again Beloud noise seemed unbelievably low In the street a car changed gears how outside noises drifted fnto Queer hear even He could this stillness here his own Peter stopped breathing then holding hla breath Perhaps he was close enough to hear the telltale breathfellow’s whisper of the other ing There was no sound Jiere— only the muffled distant noises from outside Once more he moved cautiously forward Again he stopped Thla time It was the ticking of hla own watch which disturbed him If he could hear It perhapa the other fellow could too the wristHe crouched unbuckling band and slid the offending timepiece feet behind along the floor several his grip him never once relinquishing on the revolver Once more he peered about him his eyes straining to pierce the blackness Fashions Tot be (TO It was a pleasing Illusion and flattering to masculine vanity that the women choose their clothes to please the men But In hii heart every man haa known It Isn’t so So the New Tork authority who says women dress to please themselves and other women Is uttering merely an obvious truth In the firet place the average man pays little attention to his wife’s costume— the brute — and In the second place hla Ideal of color schemes now many households la primitive have been torn by the failure of an unobservant husband to notice that his wife had a new dress? And hw many have been promptly put la th£tr places when they have Ignorantly remarked that a more Bomber Bo color would be more becoming? it Is with due diffidence that we sugif the men had their gest anyway say their wives would not be wearing these little saucepan hats pulled down over one ear And having ventured thus far we bare our breast to the New Tork stylist for a barbed reply— Kansas City Star Ferry’a Seeds are sold only in fresh dated packages When you buy Ferry’s Seeds you are sure of the finest Adv quality available The Wrong Tim He (on the dance floor) — I wish 1 were In your shoes but I wish She— Terhaps yon would refrain from attempting to get Into them now gions was making headway Christianity In Rome The emperor was not a convert but he neglected no chances ne to Improve his fate hereafter kept a private chapel with statues Apollo and of Orpheus Abraham to and all Jesus paid equal homage of them— Washington Star miNEj WltS SOME NEW FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF GOLD MONEY Few Drops Every Night and Morning A Is quite a comedown for gold to be used for money or the basis for currency It would require a combination of banker historian philosopher and mystic to write the history of the precious metal Dr Frederick G Ilowe consumers' counsel of the administraAdjustment Agricultural tion told the Cosmos club the other It Will Promote a Clean Healthy Condition t At All Drug Stores Writ Maria Co JpW Chiea4ofor F ran Book OLD JUDOS AGE PENSION INFORMATION Bond stamp Humboldt Ku LEHMAN night Among the ancient Hindus it was Tta Can Maks Wonderful Prodarts (no revered as sacerdotal “He who tam nU00 worlUPlsn JL toy flciwrrK JI4 BUt KEYS SEHVKK pers with It" ald the law “dies on a dunghill and rots In hell to the end of time" Only princes could eo Flysr Matrimonial "8o Maud la entering the matrimuch as touch It monial market —and with a young Gold was first demoted to the profane status of “money" Doctor Howe aviator?" who put the "Yes she’s taking a flyer so to said by the Lydians king's stamp upon It and used It as a apeak" Interest Immemedium of exchange diately arose to 36 per cent farmers WHEN SHE Hi lost their land and sold themselves UPSET guffeA and their families Into slavery In order to live This 30 per cent Doctor Ilowe said was the first money Interest and arose naturally out of the former Lydian system of doing business Trade had been primarily In cattle When cows were sold on credit It was assumed they would have calves So the seller demanded the price of Now ah achy new pep and vitality a lovable disposition a calf as additional payment Thla haa Heed Nature's warning: Sluttish Dowels in variwas calculated at about the ably result m poiarmouawa tear vagi your em— often tha direct cause of headache d value of a cow troubles NATURE'S amen colds complexion When you pay Interest to the bank laxativw— REMEDY— th mild tract— stimulates the snort eluninativ softly are today you paying genetically ttrentthena regulates th bowHs for normal considered the price of the calf of natural function inf Get 25c a bos the cow you borrowed today at your Other notes on gold from Doctor drutgiit' Howe's studies: All the gold on earth la worth about $11000000000 It could be stored In a room of 30 cubic feet The workers of the United States could earn It all by working 00 days at $5 a day They could earn all the gold In their own country In 20 days The total of gold In the United States fewest Hotel haa about the same intrinsic value aa to total of diamonds — Washington Drove Constipation Her Wild Salt Lake City's there Next be encountered a table against His progress hers waa the wall He would have to move blocked around It once more exposing his rear to attack Again he paused to listen He was tempted to believe that hla nerves had deceived him— that there was no one else In this room after all And yet he could not forget that click of the light awltch before he opened Nor the odor of tobacco the door And then there were the drawn blinds be Why should the shades of an office drawn In this way? No there waa some one here Peter thought of the picture he had nearly knocked from the wall It had Ills fingers exalmost betrayed him plored the table top The Incident had If be could new a strategy suggested by some means cause the other man the rest to betray his whereabouts He found a calenshould be simple Still gripping the revolver dar pad he tossed the pad across the room with a hts left hand It struck something chair probably and slid to the floor with a noise that seemed uncanny In Ills eyes ached the unnatural stillness with the effort to penetrate the blacknis enemy ness Nothing happened was too canny to be taken In like that It Irked him and yet he yielded the admiration It exman a grudging plained why the fellow hadn’t attacked him as he came through the door He was taking no chance of the struggle In being' overheard In the corridor that event he might be In one of the There might b other rooms by now Or an exit by way of a one of the other offices might have an entrance opening on the corridor The to familiaritime had ample had fellow ze himself with the entire suite The Peter’s movements hastened thought He must capture the man before ha had opportunity to escape to the degenerate A D successor who had himself offinellognbalua cially created a god he might have Jackson'a emoAndrew appreciated tional outburst He appears to have been somewhat of a skeptic regarding the divinity of emperors and an boy despite hi enof degeneracy vironment His brief reign Is chiefly dlstln gulshed for his feeble effort to better the hard lot of the common people He established government loan offices where they could borrow at low Interest to get them out of the clutches of the “bankers" He did much to Improve the statu of the common soldier of the Roman le- Daring Man Venture Criticism of Fashion Star Fruit Trssa a Good Bot Some years ago so many orchards were planted that there was an overabut this condition promises to be greatly changed In the future Many orchards have been alknitlowed to die out and the time la comlng suit In the newest ted weave gay In white red or navy ing when fruit will be in much better Felt tabs attaching top piece to demand Aa It la too late to start an shorts add the Jauntiest of fashion orchard after the demand has come touches it Is a wise plan to Invest a little In And what more fitting fashion for this form of land Improvement The than a trees cost so litle that this does not the fastidious seersucker as gnyly striped have to prevent anybody from havRed green or ing an orchard or at least a few as a stick of candy blue striped suits — with fitted waist- select trees The United States is because fruit of blessed line and a catch-apocket which Is especially perfectly indispensable for precious some sort can be grown lu every We should stones gathered along the beach will state this appreciate be worn this year wherever two to fact all the more when we remember are gathered for a that In many countries fruit Is such quiet game of leap frog— Carolyn T a luxury that It Is beyond the reach e of avernge people— Pathfinder MagaRadnor Lewis In Child Life zine bundance CENTS A PACKET l& ALL YOU 5 "FERRY'S M AT YOUR STORE NEIGHBORHOOD rzsnfflzii- - I" HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms Radio connection 200 Tile Baths in every room RATES FROM $150 Jut appetite Jfonaea Ttliraatli ERNEST C ROSSITER Mgr WNU— W 18— 84 PAY PUREBRED VEGETABLE SEEDS Every packet dated BE CONTINUED J |