Show ling Pille Synthetic at J Gentleman x I By Nd CHANNING NG POLLOCK I l Copyright Pollock 11 Service Ef T f 1 CHAPTER XI XI Continued 19 le didn't want to walk nil day clay and andJe Je iTe did want to see what the other pa- pa ip lIS lI'S er lUlU lu w U au suy ui in J mat 1 ui e CI Iii Ii the Cocoanut Bar lIar At Fifth avenue he turned Into the pu public lle II II- The reports were much alike alike- Night club proprietor 1 killed resl resisting nest and The In Indictment fI against i ny ay Rogers now held for mr the Kell Kelly c probably will lie he dismissed e to- to tray Bay flY Barry sat almost alone In tin ho newspaPer room turning tin ei CU ease e foyer In his iris mind Then h bo he asked ul ed for ld files flies of one of the tire Q He was m nearly arl nn an hour finding an nn Account of the WInslow wedding With With- B ut any definite knowledge e of the tt was a n bit lIl like e looking for ClI the pro pro- a needle In a hn haj stack BUIr Harry's Harrys curiosity was rewarded ell at nt last List when lien fiKe stumbled stumble upon n 8 pictorial front Weds headed Lawyer Convicts Convict's J l mi n. n n u n. at St St. Stephens There were plc- plc ou n t tures of the church und of the thc convict George eal N Selb selby Inset and ami 0 Love Nest Iest est adhere Ii here He Be Took Ills Bride The little In Inset et might have ha been f ria fa a portrait of or Nicholas r Murray Butler n br r Jack Dempsey and the house might piave e bave been any house anywhere There was an nn obviously faked ed photograph of It holdup and an obviously ob genuine one fa pt pf Mr Ir and Mrs Irs WInslow Leaving St. St Stephens Stephen's Gosh Barry reflected no wonder Mrs Irs WInslow Winslow had a n nervous nerv- nerv s Ous breakdown II I 1 j I The story on tile the lie second page was fIn In Ln the best tabloid tradition Five ears ago It be began an Ieter Peter Winslow V obscure young attorney secure secured the of George Selb Selby charged ed participating in the robbery of a n candy store In the Bronx Yesterday eter WInslow rich and famous inal lawyer and George e Selbys Selby's widow r were ere the principal fi figures ures In what wasIS was IS To have been a n secret ceremony at nt St. St stephens IK I The TIle present Mrs Irs WInslow had hadaway run runway way away with Geor George e Selb Selby while he was cadet In a n military school They had r rEome to New rew York rente rented the love loveI pest nest and been heen blissfully happy unI unIl un- un I I- I il Il Selby ran out of money and was compelled to tal take c his wife to a board board- J rig house lie He had hal been arrested there thele for or the candy store robbery In April 1021 Peter Winslow had got ot him off ut the following June he lie was caught ih a 1 another robbery In Philadelphia and to a long term in the thc State With two other convicts Lefty Miller and Mugs Iu s Scanlan I he had escaped In October 1923 1023 Pen- Pen Iless the men staged ed a holdup hold that Bame ame nl night ht In Fairmount Park The called for help and Selby Seiby killed lm Tm Scanlan was shot dead by a n po- po Ice officer and Selby attempting to et et away jumped Into the river and andas as vas drowned Ills Ins body was found two vo o weeks later entangled entangle In an nn an- an chain FI 1 WInslow had given Iven Mrs Irs Selby work In his office and three years after s death love lo culminated In the ceremony at St. St Stephens Stephen's I That explained a n good gool deal Barry thought remembering the soft roun round pink Ink little woman with worried eyes t explained Peters Peter's protective e attitude t might explain his quick Interest In InaThe ithe aThe Rogers case case In which Barry had hadd d Winslow Peggy Pegy had been putting IOp P such n a game fight to make a n man Df f her husband Thiat sort of thin thing always gets me meter lector eter had observed A woman tle tied up p some man who's not worthy of 01 her jand and In love with him Peters Peter's Julie had been heen in love lo with I tier ier first husband then And he lie with wither I er evidently to Judge by what the tabloids said of their happiness Must I n e been something good In that phap i ap Barry Darry reasoned Probably real real- what his wife was trying to do door or him Were We're a n. curious mixture iT Re He was still brooding over curious mixtures and other things when a n struck somewhere some and reminded Mm Im that by there now might be he n a message as ns to youn young RIdders RIdder's release him at nt his lila a There wasn't I All AIl Thursday afternoon Barry sat n his room and at nt five o'clock he lIed Peters Peter's secretary Nothing def def- ef- ef yet she Informed him The District Attorneys Attorney's making the motion l 11 right but It'll be tomorrow now Before anything comes of It It ti 11 Against his better Judgment then phoned Harwoo Dont worry hie lie city e editor said Have e you seen I nights night's nl ht's Globe Whole first page Iaze one joud Ud yell for this kids kid's release They'll pe e so glad to get zet him off oIT their hands U Mm In spite of or his Iris friendliness Barry Durry that Ernie didn't say Come 0 n down weve we've something else for tor ou Nor even cven or Of course well we'll ex- ex you to cover Rogers Hog getting out 1 Jail nII Why should he The big peat eat at was WIlS Harwood's Harwoods bent beat beat not Bar Bar- ys y's and an anyway w y the old man would e at his desk the tIre day after tomorrow Harwood did say ay that at last i better see him Ill I'll phone you ou when Probably not before beCore Monday Hell He'll he be pretty busy for Cor n a day or two Of ot course ourse you'll JonII be he aroun around for your salary salary sal sal- ary on Satur Saturday ay Might If ht look me up then lie He was still on the pay roll at least That was WIlS important what with overdrafts overdrafts over over- drafts and hotel bills and find such things Sober reflection backed bucked by experience had hud persuaded Barry that he hc couldn't get much on his war wardrobe robe The fhe studs StUlS and links cuff-links were rather cheap stuff lIe He had sold an nn overcoat once In once In this ver very town town for for three dollars Satur Saturdays Saturday's money would just square the l bank account As for the hotel bill Well Weli Well Ill I'll give he them my ray clothes Barry decided mIl arid Ill I'll have something something some some- thing left loft In my jeans when I 1 move mO out of here lie He phoned Jc Peggy y n again aln and then lien dined frugal frugally 13 and went buck back to his room Step by hy step he went over o Its detail seeing everything e In the newlight new newlight lI light ht cast by lIy the tIre events of the past few hours At midnight ht for the fifth firth or sixth time line he lie rend re-rend the story In the Globe Well Velh that's that he lie said aloud tossing the rime paper into the rue wastebasket wastebasket waste- waste basket ket and winding his silver Ilver wristwatch wristwatch wristwatch wrist- wrist watch rican dead young be lie free tomorrow old be he home Saturday ln rind and that's S 'S that Wonder where herp Ill I'll he be a 1 week from rain now It didn't inn matter t I er much Nothing othi Ing matters mat runt- tr much h he tie told himself elt n again nin dwelling lIIn on Pats Pat's phrase e Not without i ml t It She's Iw's a mu grand girl Out of tit m mv fly cluiss s A eel cek from now site shell she'll h be lie playing ln tennis and going over O to fn dinner at nit tire the Wonder onder If II II I be In there e. Wonder hats what's gal going rig to happen to tu those two t young people In I ii Fri lIa mornings morning's rigs rig's PU paper lIeI under Iel Personal Intelligence he found a mention of the Winslows s Mr 11 and Mrs Irs Peter ieter WInslow arc are sailing salling on the time next Wednesday the lie Item n IL 1 nn 4 n S I U rt v 1 TUI I Vi III That was that too Barrys Barry's drama was ending with all nU Its principal pal hal characters characters' disposed of as ns well well- made drama should end Winslows Winslow's secretary called calle him him Just before noon Mr Ir WInslow wants meto me meto meto to tell you that Ro Rogers ers will be free In nn an hour or two Hows Mrs frs WInslow Much uch better Mr Winslows Winslow's still with her though And the tIme No Io they went back Jack to Southampton last night Once more that was that Barry Darry thought getting his hat lint nn and making tracks for the subway He lie reached the Tombs well in advance ad of official orders orders orders or- or or or- ders for the time release of Jay Rogers I 1 Maybe I Was Ridder Admitted It was nearl nearly five o'clock Indeed when L Jay Rogers appeared looking very ery white and haggard and the last lust train I ha had l left for Southampton You can erie L talk tall to Peggy on the tine phone Barry told I him and then you'd you better have dInner dinner dinner din dIn- ner with me and a good oo nights night's rest at nt m my hotel Time The Bremen gets in very P early earl and you'll want to be on the thc dock S Jack looked looke at him quizzically Will vIll I. I Wont Vont you I suppose so Id I'd like to see myn my n mother ot her Id like to see her myself Barry said been swell to you Jou all nIl allright I right Yes At dinner Jack declared Ill ulU take e that Job on the paper now if my give It to me rue Wh Wiry Why not You started me thinking I can see set seethe seethe the old mans man's viewpoint Hes He's got to tc tobe tobe be decent to Pe Peggy g though Its It's both bothof I of at us or neither What's hats going to tc I happen to you ou Search me mel I Look here Jack blurted Im In I Hl Ridder der now Who needs to know that thai t tI I 1 was vas ever Jay Rogers Ive I've been at t Southampton nIl all the all the time writing Jetters letters letters let Jet to my mother and everything e Youve You've been becu Darr Barry Gilbert working on the Globe and likely ely to go on un working there What's the tue matter with that 1 Is the matter with It It it Barry answered answered and Evans and lInd WInslow and all nIl the camera click ers on the newspapers been several pictures of you OU already I cant can't understand wh why you OU weren't l Identified long ago agu Maybe la be I was Ridder er admitted Your old college chums dont don't exactly run after you OU while hile youre you're In Jail jull They dont don't get to b by be oege ege chums churns until youre you're In Who's Who u An Anyway Barry continued your schemes scheme's out I want to conic come clean Dont Don't ask me why winy I was going oln to torun torun n. n run away awny a eek weel ago agu an and I couldn't unmake make e It Gentlemen dont don't do rho r that har I f Isaid i said Ive I've got a n new of 01 ofas f i as mrs a fI gentleman i what does th tire the U i Jack specula speculated ted Most lost of us spend our lives trIn trying to live Jive up to the time portraits portraits por llor- traits of ot ourselves that hang over o our mental mantel Yours wa of a reckless devil may devil may care young oun vaga vaga- bond Then you OU moved mo Into a n house and company where that picture dl didn't nt fit You hun hung up a n new one and youve you've got to live up to that now It was the same sanie wa way with me The picture of ot m myself I liked was of an nn irresponsible slightly dissipated young genius The family portraits didn't appeal to me Yours did your did your our new picture of or yourself yourself your your- our self I mean Im I'm going to try to be belike belike belike like that the rest of m my life The They were lingering over cigars and coffee now What Is a n gentleman Barry asked Jack smiled The fellow eHo who gets the rl right ht portrait por por- por- por trait I 1 suppose so Barry said Family and clothes didn't make you OU one one not not when shien you OU were getting drunk and foring forgIng forging forg for ing checks I wasn't one when I took another mans man's name and money and made up UI to a n girl who thought I was somebody else Pictures over o overman- overman man tel pieces Thais Thai's Von Lu tradition I guess The tradition that makes men defend women and goon go godown down o n on sinking sinkin ships and a all that sort of tirIng thing When that stops being our picture of ourselves God help a all of us us I told Pat once Come on lets let's go o to a n movie 1 CHAPTER XII Tire Tile next afternoon around afternoon around three o'clock o'clock o'clock-Harwood phoned The Time old man mun wants to see you Here a at his office Id I'd come quick If It ItI I were vere you ou So Jack Tack had told him Or 01 Evans Id be glad if it you'd tell Willetts and the time rest Barr Barry had lund said to the time ron O S tho iU ALl ALl' U subject It would too He had dreaded dread dread- ed his first few moments with Ridder beginning his story with a pair of cold calm cairn eyes ees boring Into him They would woul be col cold eyes ees he felt sure of that And they were The big chief sat at nt his big desk In Inn Inn ina n a big rIch richly furnished office with a n big door an and a little one The big double door opened Into the reception room Barry entered through that and found himself facing Ridder and the smaller single door behind him Ridder was reading a radiogram and he lie went vent on reading A tall thin man with New England written nil all over him A youngish man for his a age e which might have been fifty He lie wore rimmed gold-rimmed spectacles His Jon long Jong thin absolutely straight mouth was higher at the time right end nn and his right eye was longer and narrower than his left He nna nau a fl sHarp cum cHIn anti ana a thin tarn nose anua anda and anu a broad forehead with thin graying hair The Time l kind of ot man who could sa say Good morning as though that lint ended the discussion All right Barry repeated to him hIm- self Ill take my me medicine It'll soon be over anyway anway He De Isn't going to give ghe a damn what I did for his son If 11 I can say anything to make It easier casler for those two youngsters and Jacky Jack Wonder Vonder what's back of oC that little door He was still wondering when the time big chief looked up Youre Gilbert Yes sir Alias Ridder eh cli Yes sir They were cold e eyes es Very cold Mostly to end the tIme silence Barry said I 1 suppose your our son tol told you Nobody told me Ive I've known all nil about you ou for two months Youve known known- I heard henr my wife's rife's talk with my son the time day before we salle sailed Through thedoor the thedoor door to my bedroom I heard her Invite Invite In In- vite him to Southampton Next mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing I arranged with Willetts to give o me a n full report of his doings there And And Barry was thinking In monosyllables And In his first letter he lie mentioned your re red hair Barry Darry grinned lie also mentioned your our taking a hundred dollar oar bill out of an nn envelope ad addressed to Mrs Ridder The grin faded I You haven't made a n move mo that I J haven't known mown about He lie waited waite Wh Why didn't you ou have me mo arrested 1 Because I knew that my son was waa I In prison accused of this murder I I read about that less than an hour after Id I'd satisfied myself that you weren't my son Jay Rogers I Id I'd had a n man following him all about Florida The Theman's Theman's mans man's report uglee agreed perfectly with the newspaper account of Jay Rogers Still Still What was I to do 10 Sail The doctor doctor doc doe tor said that was out of the time question I wired Harwood Rogers didn't kill 1 Kelly Find out who did Twenty four hours later I knew you were on the time Globe and why and that you'd SIl succeeded sire suc in Interesting WInslow TO BE liE CONTINUED |