Show THE THE" WEDDING MARCH MURDER Monte Barrett by Coprr!jtHt ttao WNU list Co Servlet bs over now Hs was only vaguely conscious of the blows which battered at his face The fellow must give In soon He tried to force new energy Into his flagging muscles drained of much of their strength by (he punishment he had absorbed the during struggle Somehow his hold had been broken first time a feeling of hopelessness engulfed Peter He was very tired How long they had struggled he did not know He did know that It could not last much longer He was almost at the end of bis strength Ills opponent must be tired too With the energy of despair he flung himself Into a renewed attack Ills arms seemed light like cushions that he was efpushing forward with tremendous fort Of what use were blows like that? lie must hit harder! Harder! For the Harder! CHAPTER XI — Continued —21— Silently as before he moved around the table amlous once more to reach the partial eecurlty of the wall He rounded the table his left hand extended before him his right at his side clutching the revolver He was warned He did not know how It might have been the faintest whisper of breath— a slight rustle of movement Or that even more vague Instinct of danger which he had often felt before he Whatever It was sensed his peril and whirled swiftly to face the room The blow caught Teter on the back of the Jaw near the ear just as he wag turning It as a terrific smash that would have ended the struggle right then had he not turned when he did As It was It glanced off but Its force knocked him off balance and sent him sprawling to the floor on all fours The novelist’s quarry had used the wme strategy that Peter had adopted He had been standing back to the W’all waiting to catch his enemy between himself and the vague light of the windows the As Peter rounded table he came Into the position for Which the man had been waiting At the Impact of the blow Peter’s revolver clattered to the floor Tartly dazed the novelist lost a precious moment In groping for the weapon In the darkness In that Instant his enemy was upon him The accuracy of a second blow was spoiled by the darkness It caught Peter on the shoulder but It served to acquaint his with his whereabouts The man was on his back raining blows down upon him terrific blows that bruised and stunned but still could find no vital spot Unless he could reverse the tables and quickly Teter realized that he was through He drew his right leg up under him and then kicked out with all his Ills lashing foot caught the strength other man on the ankle and sent him Peter spinning against the table kicked again but the second effort missed However he was free of those crushing blows Once more he groped for his weapon but could not find It enHe could hear the scrape emy’s heels as he struggled to his feet seche wasted a precious had Again ond In vain search for the revolver Too late now to the Peter rolled to avoid the other’s right quickly rush Only one blow caught him and he was to his feet before they came to grips Once more the blows rained on him fierce hammers of rage any one of which might end the struggle If It landed In a vital spot Peter was thankful for the darkness whhh prevented accuracy Nor was he helpless now With all Ills strength he hurled his fists at his Invisible foe and found an uncertain exultation at the hard pact of his knuckles which told him they had found a target A random shot caught him on the check and sent him reeling backward Into a chair It was too frail to supacross it port him and he careened The and Peter chair splintered Rut his fall caromed Into the wall he strughad been broken Panting Now for the first gled to his feet him time his Opponent was between Peter could see him and the light over the chair gropthere crouched to blackness the Into ing frenzledly find him Choking back his sobbing breath Teter advanced cautiously Now was his chance! The man straightened up Just as the air Peter hurled himself through In a fiying tackle He struck his antagonist Just above the knees the ImPeter Rut shoulder his pact numbing The man was down did not care Teter was confident of his ability to fight on more than even terms once he came to grips with the fellow Peter Cardigan was more than six feet tall with a lean flanked hardness that did not belie the power of h!s muscularity Releasing his grip on the fellow's legs Peter aimed Intent a vicious blow to the abdomen on ending the struggle as promptly as The blow missed its mark possible ribs too the off high against glancing lie drew back his arm for another Ills anblow but there was no time tagonist gripped him about the body There was no crushing him down room for a blow now Locked In each panting other’s arms they rolled across the floor Each was seeking for an opening that the other was too cauto tious grant They crashed Into the table There Once was a tinkle of broken glass Peter got the palm of his hand under He gritted his chin his antagonist’s Into the teeth and put all his strength effort as he forced the other's head painback His breath was whistling There was fully through his nostrils agony In his chest as an Indescribable weight were though some tremendous Still he out bis breath crushing It would soon forced bark that bead Still his blows seemed only to float From somewhere through space far off something was beating at him Was It the throb In his head? steadily Or were they blows? They no longer seemed to hurt He seemed to be Blnklng sinking — now he could Just Into forgetdrift away comfortably fulness He tried to remember dazedly why he should keep on strugThere was some renson for It gling but it kept eluding him Then a blow In the abdomen hurt Once more he remembered ne was fighting — fighting for his life with Jim Franklin’s murderer They were on feet He could not rememtheir again ber getting up Rut here they were The Blow Caught Peter Back of the Jaw on the That blurred weaving shadow was the man he had come here to get He knew he must end It soon or he would lack the strength to end It ever Once more Peter dove at his opponent putting all his ebbing power Into the tackle Together they tottered backward but the wall broke their fall Dimly Peter heard the crash of breaking glass It seemed far A rush of cooler air cleared the away mists from his mind His enemy's shoulder had shattered the window pone One last effort now Peter lunged almost missed Ills fingers again clutched at the fellow's coat Rut he was falling He tried to enteh himself but his fingers lacked strength to grip the rough wool of his antagonist’s The air clothing Falling — falling! was crisp and cool Then he remembered the broken window In his last desperate effort to tackle the murderer he had missed and lunged through the window If only he could have clung to the fellow's coat he might have saved him- self Rough wool Tweed Curious how of the garment should have Itself on his mind In that the texture Impressed last Instant people are dying they were to think of their past lives always used that All the misdeeds of a lifetime were supposed to flit through the final seconds of a dyYet he was ing man’s consciousness dying and all he could think of was Curious rough tweed Then he was struck one last terrific blow Even then right at the end be was of tweed thinking When supposed Writers CHAPTER XII Another Arrest Sergeant Kllday discovered that both Callls Shipley and Rylie Carmody were at about the time Peter was missing struggling in Franklin's darkened office with his unknown assailant Rylle's disappearance was reported by the whom he had given angry detective the slip In the country The disappearance of the girl was when Kllday sent for her discovered In the hope that Daniel Bullls might Identify her as the woman In blue he had seen In the rector's study with Franklin Aside from the fact that she had a bag and left word not to expect her back for several days nothing was known of her whereabout “Has she gone with young Carmody or Is she afraid that Bullls might her?" pondered the detecIdentify tive' He quickly abandoned the latter as he realized she had not theory known he Intended confronting her with the politician He was more than ever anxious to find the missing couple when he learned what had happens! to Teter Cardigan The novelist hal been found unconscious on the In front of the Creer building Nevertheless It was the lollwving GARLAND TIMESGARLAND w morning befors Ryllt Oarmody located at bis boms to which h had returned during the night Kllday waa under man resolved to place the young arrest convinced that hla flight had had some connection with Cardigan’ jury thia meant that Spear Of course How else account for waa Innocent what obviously had occurred at Who but the murderer office? would have hurled Cardigan through the window? Certainly that waa not Webster Spears who had been under Callla Shipley arrest at the time lacked the strength for such a feat But Rylie Carmody— He had not been entirely wrong In hli surmises then If Rylie Carmody bad not given his shadow the slip things would have worked out differently surely The sergeant waa a determined mun when he presented himself at the Carresidence after being Informed mody that his quarry bad returned ‘‘I’m sorry” the butler declared “Mr Carmody Is I1L He can seen no one” me” declared Kllday “He’ll see In his extended palm he dourly “Take me to his hibited his badge room” Rylie was sitting up In bed several pillows propped behind his back Ills left eye was discolored and swollen One arm was bandaged above the wrist and the knuckles of the other hand were taped What “Good morning Sergeant brings you here so early In the morn- UTAH Finds Sloral in Life of Disraeli Good Wife She Who Makes Husband Happy Says Woman Writer ' to contemporary “According opinion the wife of Disraeli prime minister f England waa Ignorant frivolous tasteless To her brilliant distinguished discriminating husband she was everything a wife should be the object of his undying devotion “When they married he was she Ills personalhers nothing ity ‘had everything’ To society their marriage was ridiculous To Disraeli It was ‘a paradise of adoration a refuge of lasting tenderness “Where then la the catch —or the connection? “It appears Mrs Disraeli that though Ignorant had good sense which the prime minister found more comforting than the wit of the brilliant women he knejv ’Mary 'Anne’ used FOR BETTER her good sense to understand her husband and understanding him she devoted herself to hla happiness which waa her single purpose in life Her outrageous taste In dress might expose them both to ridicule In the aristocratic circles In which they moved Her other shortcomings might embarrass the prime minister But all that was unimportant In the face of an understanding and devotion which a man with Disraeli’s qualities of heart and mind could not fall to appreciate and to respond to Mary Anne’ knew what waa good for her ‘Dizzy’ She relaxed him and she fortified him for his great task She was good for him And she him — young made distinguished— love her commonplace and middle-ageaa she was so that after her death no one could take her place and for the rest of his life his was edged la black” Reflecting on the foregoing a woman writer whose view on life are respected makes the foluniversally lowing comment: “I thought of ‘Mary Anne’ when a woman I knew complained of the In her opin girl her non married GARDENS Many regions Pae St uDn'ind In CulicuraOinlmenl Soothes andTfeats akin irritations quickly and easily Let it be your first thought in treateczeburning affection ma pimples and other disfiguring blotches No household should ho without it ing itching cl Tries 25c snd 50e free Addicts: “ Cutlcnrs" Dept 15S Maiden Ms Sample FERRY’S SEEDS Cc your store local sJ NOW THE Salt Labe City’s fewest Hotel HJEWB30HJSE naoTEiL A Distinctive Residence t HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Room 200 Tile Baths Radio connection ha every room RATES FROM 130 Joe ryynnn Uarmmm Tthtnuek ERNEST C ROSSITER Up Mrs J H Waters An Abode renowned President Throughout the West Salt Lake9s Most Hospitable HOTEL Invites You 1 RATES SINGLE to $200 DOUBLE $250 to $40 400 Rooms 400 Baths THE NewEiouse Hotel E W SUTTON General Manager CIIAUNCEY W WEST AUt Gen Manager 4729 MILES ON A TOTAL OF FIVE QUARTS OF OIL! 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Automirthlessly mobile I suppose?” “Yes I skidded on some loose gravel and- -” “This was while you were trying to give my man the slip yesterday afternoon?” The young man pretended not to derstand The sergeant settled himself In s comfortable chair beside the bed and lighted a cigar “So you gave ua the He puffed a time or slip did you?” two “Well I won’t dpny you kept half a dozen men busy last night tryCaused us a lot of ing to find you You've trouble But I won’t complain helped ns a lot In the solution of the murder" “Helped you?” Rylie raised himself “Do you mean to say on one elbow you've caught the murderer?” “I can lay my hands on him any time I please" Kllday asserted “I know who he Is where he Is and what he did last night It Isn’t a mystery any more” Young Carmody relaxed against the pillows “I suppose It’s time to cheer" he said “But what has last night got to do with It?" “You ought to know” Kllday’s eyes never left the young man's face "Me?" "You killed Jim Franklin" At first Hylle smiled "You hnve a queer Idea of humor” he said Thpn he sat up straight “Sny are you serious? Do you think I — why man you're out of your head !” "You think so?” The sergeant was elaborately casual "Crazy Idea eh? "Listen It Isn’t half as crazy as that Btory you Just told me about an auto accident I know where you got that black eye I know where those bruises came from And you weren't even In an automobile young fellow “I can tell you why you were so anxious to give my detective the slip I can tell you a yesterday nfternoon great many things that you don’t think I know And the things I know are going to send you to the chair’’ Kllday's cigar was forgotten and cold now lie edged forward the hard lines of his face no harder than the bleak stare of his eyes “I was on to you from the first If Cardigan had listened to me then he'd be here with me today Instead of where he Is Rut you’re not going to pull the wool over our eyes any more “You killed Jim Franklin Whether you did It to prevent him from marrying your sister after everything else had failed or for another reason We’ll discuss that later We know you quarreled with him In the study of the church within a half hour of the time he was murdered We know that Webster Spears told you about Choo Choo Train that very afternoon at lunch Spears Is under arrest He admits he told you In the hope that you would He even admitted stop the wedding this morning that he was the author of that anonymous message your father received- - He admits everything and the except the murder Itself Perphone call to Choo Clioo Train haps that was your work Oh Spear has tried to protect you but he won’t any longer Spears has talked and he'll keep on talking” “Webster Spears?" Rylle’s tone was Incredulous “Did he say that?” "It doesn’t really matter what Spears says" Kllday brushed aside the terruption with an Impatient wave of the hand “We’ve got the goods on After your quarrel with you anyway Franklin you returned to the study entering by the rear door so that you wouldn’t be observed He wns standing In the sacristy door with his tack toward you Ton seized the knife that was hanging on the wall and stabbed him twice Then you locked that door wiped the blade off on the curtain and replaced the knife In Its sheath first being careful to obliterate your on the handle fingerprints COXTINTI i PE (TO the girl’s upbringing and training were the laBt In the world to make her a good wife And her attitude on life Is all wrong In these times of stress It seems she la easygoing frivolous even extravagant And the Joke of la saya her that her husband regards her aa perfect She gets appreciation that la given to few good wives "Arbitrarily I’m afraid I turned upon this woman and said Tour son has a good wife If she makes him happy she's good!” 0 BU Syndic!— WNU Barrie ion UNDER processed RECENT U S BASE? 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