Show Y 1 o I i Synthetic Gentleman By Y CHANNING POLLOCK a Copyright ht r Pollock Service CHAPTER VIII VIII-Continued VIII Continued 15 IS Wasting my time Barry told Harwood liar liar- V wood the next nest morning In the city editors editor's busy office at The Globe My I time and nearly a hundred dollars of the papers paper's money Winslow v had It ItI I straight The Fane girl was strutting her stuff from one o'clock until lon long after the murder Well Vell Its It's good to be he sure sure Yes Tes and Im I'm ml mighty sure now Ev E Every Every Ev- Ev ery step Ive I've taken since our last meetIng meeting meet meet- Mrs Kell ing lug leads right up to Kelly Harwood ar looked at him quizzically 1 Step No 1 he asked edMy ed My Diy advertisement offering a n revard reward reward re- re ward vard for the number of the cab that killed that artists artist's wife wICe You Ton dont don't mean menn that you got It Triumphantly Barr Barry opened his note book There It Is he said 0 The figures under It are the number of the driver who gave me the Information P Ernie copied both numbers Swell work he commented AnythIng Anything Anything Any thing else Lots This fellow had a passenger who ho got out at Twenty-third Twenty street around midnight When the woman was killed two killed two hours later the later the driva driver driver a er bumped Into him again In Sixteenth street treet very much rattled and look- look lug lIng as though hed committed a mur mur- der I Any description 1 i I I Rather a vague one That doesn't i matter Im I'm sure In my own mind that this passenger was the caller Kelly Belly expected and that he lie wasn't the murderer Im I'm equally sure that he knew murder had been committed Lets Lete call It a mere supposition In that case Kelly was killed around two At two o'clock Mrs Kelly wasn't In 10 Harlem How do you know that Barr Barrys Barry's s answer was a full report of his bis adventures of Saturday Without Without With I out Step No 1 Step No 2 means noth noth- ing In other words If It been I killed at midnight whIch midnight which Is the thew theory the the- w ory er e everyone's ones worked on on- on on Mrs rs Kela Kells's Kel- Kel a Iv's lys alibi would have been Harwood Joined his tips finger-tips In an on almost pra prayerful erful gesture I 1 wish we 4 could find th the o guy who o looked as ns though hed he'd committed a murder r Barry made no reply always the trouble the city 23 L editor went on What kind of a aC C 4 skate Is this Luis Luls Morano Tough I IOn On the contrary Cries over n a mammy song Theres a heap of em ern do do Harwood Harwood Har Bar wood philosophized Hes a Southerner with a a. a soft voice and a n funny Impediment In his hisk J k speech 1 That so Harwood Inquired Where Is this Cocoanut Bar Barry told him and promptly ref returned re re- f turned to Mrs Kelly How the deuce are we going to prove what she did after she got home up to you Ernie said Im of off olt on a new tack now His Ills eyes t twinkled One that would go o a lon lonay long longvay longway way vay ay toward establishing your theory of coincidence Gosh Id I'd give gI my two uppers to break this stor story within the next week or two Thursday evening e Barry spent In his room mostly thinking He had telex telephoned telephoned tele tele- x phoned Pat twice since their luncheon together and found her enthusiastic over o her guests Theres nothing wrong with the bo boy she declared nothing that a few weeks out here wont won't cure Hes He's on the beach now with his mother Judge had taken to the little fellow at once Almost like havIng having hav hay haying ing a grandchild It kept his mind of off r his worries And no one could see Peggy legg beIn being brave e but alwa always s starIng starIng star- star Ing lug at nothing always thinking of r what might happen without pity that 1 warmed Into affection really r an awfully good sort Pat said from s Southampton I iiI like her a lot When are you coming conning out Tomorrow I hope f Well WeH well we'll expect you for dinner That breach was healed all right tight Pat had called him the scum of the earth In the same hour he remembered remembered re re- again he had told her he ice loved her As to that she still maintained maintained main main- tanned silence the kindest thing she could do Barry thought A Judges Judge's dau daughter and I I- I Barry had bad learned not to think of the future Nor heed the rumble of ofa a distant drum as his own father had put It ft Just for Cor now It was pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant to be somebody who knew Pol Poland Pat Pat- and he wanted to take that awful look 1001 lookout lookout out of the other girls girl's e eyes cs That oughtn't to be hard now Barry Burry thought If I could get that Filipino to talk He lle knows when Mrs Ir Kelly came carne home horne and aud hes lies probably got ot a u darned good Idea what sh she did after after- S ward ar If we could get set to that Oriental Ori Or- Lit c s. s At which point Evans E came clime and lie r had hatI been drinking f fat Sorry sir he IH uI gal HIM Tithing UK n d. d the it- it nearest chair Eva Evans Hlis is had iittI nu mme i l ll Or ot compunctions Sorry sir but Ive I've been having dinner with Kellys Kelly's Kellys Kel Eel lys ly's cha chauffeur Liquid nourishment Yes sir Evans admitted sheep sheep- But that was the only chance I had with that Irishman Well Well I drove e Miss e and Mrs Rogers and the boy to Southampton Southampton South South- ampton like you said And I started back toda today It was nearly eight when I I made the garage and antI I was good and hungry Theres a n decent cafe a few yards away awny Nolan that's Kellys Kelly's chauffeur chaut- chaut was was sitting at a table with a load he lie ought tove to gone twice for Evans smiled Ed had a n grouch on women In gen gen- eral And he was plenty I hadn't been heen with him Ion long when he opened up on Mr Mrs Kelly Theres There's something queer between her and this Filipino he says Charlie That Isn't his name but let It go So at nt that And when Ed said queer he didn't mean anything wron wrong Just some kind of ot an understanding Mrs Kellys Kelly's been giving the Chink coin and jewelry regular Charlie showed him some sonic of or It Ed sn says s Well the night of the murder Noland No- No land Jand drives es Kelly to the Cocoanut Bar And home home nt at nine When he gets out at his house Kelly says Put the car cur In the garage Mrs Irs Kellys Kelly's gone up to Harlem and I wont won't need you ou til tomorrow morning Ed obeys orders lIe He goes back to Kellys Kelly's and sits In the kitchen This I Chink Is In the butlers butler's pantry getting getting get get- ettIng et- et ting a tray ready And while the two of em are down there the damnedest damned damned- est row starts upstairs Ro Rogers ers n and nd K Kelly eny No This was around nine Mrs Kelly She was laying Mike out so you could have heard It a n block T f l a 7 h k Ernie Ernle Copied Both Numbers Well this goes on for ten or fifteen minutes and then the bell from the parlor rings Charlie starts upstairs with the tray He lie gets up two steps when Kelly appears at the head hend of the flight Come up here you ou lousy spy Come up here while I tell you where you get et off Charlie sets down the tray and goes Nolan follows Into the pantry and has bas a stiff drink Then he sits down again and listens to Kelly laying out the Chink Could he hear anything Words I 1 mean 1 No Just Kellys Kelly's voice oce Mrs Irs Kelly was out of It Shed She'd gone to her room Nolan thinks But Kelly made noise enough for two And after another ten minutes or so Charlie comes back Im fired Charlie says In the Chink lingo JIngo I got to get out That blank told me to go quick or hed he'd kill me Are you going Nolan asks II Sure the Chink sa says s I got to get my money first He lie chased me out of the room when I asked for It but Im I'm going back the Chink says Nolan then took the cook to a movie and und when they get back ever everything's everything's every every- things thing's quiet Its It's after midnight because because be be- cause these two walked home Kellys Kelly's upstairs talking to somebody and the Chinks Chink's In his room packing and muttering muttering mut mut- to himself something frightful So Nolan SIl says S 'S good night to the cook who goes Into her room and then Nolan slips Into th the pantry and takes another shot of that hootch What hootch The r rye e whiskey e I J was telling you about Barry sprang from his chair The rye whiskey 1 Sure And It was In a glass cut-glass decanter Are you ou certain 1 Nolan Is And Anti hes he's just as certain that It was still In the pantry when the guy upstairs left Why Because he heard the front door close ten seconds before he went out the back n way Gosh 1 I Barry c exclaimed That puts It up to Mrs Kell Kelly all right Evans shook his head drunkenly Mrs rs Kelly wasn't home he said I Sue Shu went to her sisters sister's after the Jinks high s In Harlem and Nolan got gother gother gother I her there the next morning before they called the police There were only three people In that house utter after the guy went who was visiting Kelly- Kelly Kelly himself cook cool and und a mighty might mud mad Chinaman Filipino Whatever cr he be was he was mud mad and the decanter that killed Kelly was us downstairs with him until Just about bout the time Kelly was teas killed f t Barr Harry Barry nodded I 1 think n t rut gut something v r I 4 Oh Ob I for forgot ot to give yon you this It came came to to Southampton Just Southampton Just a as I was leaving said Evans This was a n cable cablegram ram Alone i ithe la I. lathe the smoke filled room Barry opened It Nine words I Father ather and I sailing for tor home Sunday Love Mother For an Instant he stood frozen the wire In his hand Directly before him an evening newspaper lay open on the table Out going passenger and ond mall mail ships he read Sailing tomorrow- tomorrow Steamship Oranje Nassau For Port- Port Prince au-Prince La Guayra Maracaibo Mara- Mara calbo and Pampatar Im I'm Imon Imon Imon on my m. way to one of em tomorrow CHAPTER IX Barrys Barry's panic was short Between him and the salting sailing list had come a vision of Peggy with beaded lashes Inshes screening e eyes es forever ore er staring at nothing I cant can't do It he be said to himself I 1 cant can't run away awny and leave len that girl girlIn In the lurch Nor Pat either Ive I've tackled this Job Joh and Ive I've got to J go through with ItAn it It An Anyway way It begins to look as thou though h the end were In sight If It Bidder Ridder snits sails Sunday Sunday- Sunday He lIe went back to the shipping news It If RIdder sails Sunday that's the Bremen firemen and she's due here the followIng following following follow follow- ing Saturday That gives us eight days s Id I'd better see WInslow He called Peter Ieter next morning but I Ithe I the attorney was In the country Left last night his secretary reported and wont won't be back until Monday Barry had a dinner engagement at ot I Southampton Well start things s I humming on Monday Barry Barr told him him- self Ive got my house to put In order order or or- der too Bidders RIdder's house that Is Evans telephoned around ten and before noon they were on their way to Southampton My Iy last week-end week with Pat Pat he was thinking I be next Sat Saturday Out of luck and out of ot a Job In Jail maybe and ond In Inthe Inthe inthe the newspapers That's my finish with everybody e There was a n new atmosphere at nt the Pat had been rl right ht In telling Jacky that hed he'd cheer my fa father to rn ther up a lot lot building n a railway on the beach she laughed when the boy sunburned boy sunburned and act active active- ve Joined them before dinner You Yon must go to bed now PDt Pat bade him If were we're to take our ride In the morning We have a canter every day before breakfast she added to Barry ringing for a maid to take charge of the youngster I discovered the dearest dearest dearest dear dear- est little pony In the village and the theman theman man mn brings s It over at ot nine o'clock with another horse borse for me Jacky's getting to be a n regular Buffalo Bill The strained expression of n a n week ago ligo was beginning to disappear from the face of Judge But the greatest difference was In the boys boy's mother Naturally Imitative as ns Barry had remarked she had been quick to observe and emulate Pats Pat's moderation with make Her lier speech too had lost all but an on occasional inadvertent reference to guys and dames She had stopped staring Into space the news about Jack she asked quite calmly Free next week Barry Darry declared At the dinner table In spite of herself herself herself her her- self Peg caught some of the contagion of ot Barrys Barry's new confidence Nolans Nolan's story sounded like the solution of everything everything ev ev- ev the they agreed Weve got to get et Jack out before Saturday Barry said ills His be home then Both women looked up at him I happen to you Peggy I asked I The main question Larry Barry urged i Is what's going to happen to Peg And Jack And Jacky Well meet that when It comes Peggy returned steadily But now Im I'm worried about you ou She excused herself early with the plain purpose of leaving lea Barry with Pat But the Judge sta stayed ed on ills His le legally ally trained mind had been heen busy with the Nolan disclosures If Mrs Irs Kelly slept at her sisters sister's wh why didn't she say so to you It would've been her best alibi Yes but It would have Involved In admitting admitting ad ad- that shed she'd had a n run run-In with Kelly true admitted But Nolan was drunk last night you say And some parts of his story simply sim sim- simply pl ply dont don't hold water I dont don't believe belle there was anything queer between Mrs Kelly and the Filipino Kelly Kellye finding that out wouldn't account for his calling the man a lousy RP pr would It 1 No Barry retorted But listen listeD ty fx the Chink was n a lousy spy he I get paid for It didn't he Wouldn't that explain Mrs Irs Kellys Kelly's giving him coin colt and Jewelry And everything c else elso The Chinks Chink's reporting Betty Barclay message and all the rest of it I Itell Itell tell you this stor storys story's s 's as us straight as a string Bett Betty Barclay went on the road with her show about the time Mrs Irs Kelly sued for divorce I found that out some time ago She got ot back the day clay of the murder and anti phoned Kell Kelly Mrs Irs Kelly learned of that from the Chink and lit Into Mike Then Mike lIke lit Into the Chink and the Chink killed him I think we can cnn prove pro that that The Jud Judge e shook his head lead Anyway It certainly establishes reasonable doubt douht of Jacks Jack's guilt They cant can't convict Jack the Judge e Insisted Peter says so and Ive I've neer never never nev nev- er known Peter to be he wrong when he made an assertion like that But nut acquittal ac ne- ne means menns waiting for the trial nn 1 waiting for the trial means meang that Jack Jock will still be In Jail when his rath father r returns returns' Pat remained silent but the next morning on the beach she drew Barry narry away from rom the little group roup en engaged aged In railroad construction TO 10 BE DE CONTINUED I |