| Show the fh e M MARDI GRAS I 1 MYSTERY in by r jones aig irwin majers copyright P q t by doubleday Double day doy pug fogt ord ld C farej YOUNG syll SYNOPSIS at ba B durlie om a ill the be be height of 1 ow ha naw orleana illo m carnival khauv jai acason icam fell 11 II 1 wealthy I ID h mint wa what al lul CID A and a or dr analee lira am discussing dibin ft erlea or of robberies luebe by an individual known ih the alual in who A in variably d an vir aviator vi r DR giai bul long athe the ron police J joaan ab I 1 lard wealthy abke banker I 1 giving alla 9 I 1 bait iliac 1 I clr mas T guer ha to appear ana rob ed ill lie yan fell sed and real on thur way 1 to he affair aall meet a air farl A oa be columbano all mg ly known to foil li Ato but math wc ed who ali a them to th ball ati its RBI d lucia Le danol an recently clr nard of 1 tier do uncle eill joawph I 1 malllard Mal llara 1 the columbine bedd at 1 the be ball if bob malllard D D ron of ort the banker gan again lle rd ris propose p p to her h r and he otters to buy omo me 0 of her property A lacan monk Inter alt cut as her bar ha turna out to A prior prince gramont in his I 1 library mr an a 1 1 and it ill group up of 1 hl 1 friend od are held up 1 and it robbed bid by clr midnight masi R Lodan olM t the jala of i im an old cam family 11 1 1 in traiten I lead cd in clr j oil lard be han of 1 her bar fund ableen has been u anfor I 1 to dunate fell 1 ll 11 an old 14 friend of her PIs P Is bud and d deeply li interested n I 1 kioa the girt henry or really the A prince do da G n Is 1 enamored RR d of I 1 aci lie aa with h yell fell about be hr bolm and it tho the idak masked j chis e gramont chau chauffeur fleur hammons d elbart el oaRt la in tho the A E r live v with 1 him 1 H wa the isau original I 1 midnight masque a r and ad out had ad ad do role rola V vill her r hammond had bad bera been a roll a 1 her it for it financial 11 aln 1 iraln of 1 cobrae as D ij not net he to return th the loot to ar theao ase A nhom do he be haa robbed be CHAPTER V continued 7 well I 1 was followed today nt at gaw in least I 1 I 1 think id I 1 I 1 was and let me tell tall you something about that all t same me quiet little tin man an I 1 his name Is jacyln fell he belnia live calm caine commented automated alaia ile mood me nd ned and orl w rankled kled up his brow jacyln sell io huh he h seems like I 1 ive ve heard tile the a name here before ra out ethe 0 the bible am aln t it comet meg about bud and slaw boa I 1 I 1 imagine BO a gramont gamont foiled as he be replied thin chap rell fell is sharp confoundedly sharp help I 1 I 1 he went on go while the chauffeur listened w with ath fr frowning a ria inner Intent intentness nesa I 1 think that he be to is on oa to we me and is trying to get the goods good on me oil oh said aid hammond and oma bac was trail you 7 think he lies A put the bulls bell of wise grommet shrugged his shoulders 1 I dont don t know ile he almost caught me lost last night wel well I 1 im bae e to get rill rid a of that A aviators at 6 suit t at once ce and of the loot out also RIB I 1 suppose you ve reconciled yourself to returning the stuff hammond nd stirred Imm uneasily lily and laid down his pipe look here cap n 1 b he said earnest ly y 1 I 1 11 1 t a bell holdup u peame game a bacou because I 1 liked ik ell it and ad I 1 at do ing it for the fun fell of the thing flung like ou on are I 1 was dead broke I 1 hadr I 1 any hope left and I 1 did dian didn t cart a d n whether I 1 lived or died that a 8 on the lead right there you come coma along nd ad picked we me up lou give we me a job what a more sieve treated me white cap 1 11 I you tou ve oven alven me something decent to live five or OC to make good because you got get felt faith b I 1 jn me why W h Y when A tell you yos went out on that that first job of clue dyne know knew it ft like to broke me am gill it did only when we got get home that agh night jou rod and you said aid ive it t aa all 11 a joke nd ad you it send it back the fill loot load later on then an I 1 began to feel better about it 0 gramont nodded in coni or of t the he others other feeling it its not been altogether a joke sergeant s he said gravely y to tell rill the trall truth I 1 did inal sanit agram it t ai a jule joke but a soon noe ft dward lr I 1 learned something that led me to keep it up I 1 kept it up until I 1 could hit thus abe 11 malllard a ward I 1 house it was wall tny my Intent lii to turn up at the comus came b ball bit on n to dav night and there Q make public restitution of the stuff but that thai A 3 D impossible P abla now ow I 1 dare not net risk it I 1 TID that 1 man fell 1 1 1 is to too adm smart or louic not a gom to pull the rim trick gain again then quelled hammond hammonde Hammon dj ea As garly no ho I 1 in through ive ire got get hot 1 I wanted still I 1 dont wish to return t the anuff before u y ash ah NN the end of at tim the calrel carnival vall season eason suppose y you get out tile loot ind and red me some as bocce and be sure rare ill they lm lime no aon ago name them or in an store leaped up 1 and ad ibid 11 in the ili room adjoining Pres prescilli seal be re a D timed aia hailing g beveral cardboard card bourd aft ard fb exo which he di dumped on the center abble life 1 I in ble bled blamed d glad you ou re it done believe me uttered ferent fervently ly glancing flan cing up at groomer gramont bar b ar im cence coi Kerned med I 1 don I 1 ie care much ili but I 1 d auto ure flat hate to see the ane bull bulls turn I 1 in a guy ule ill ion ou here hell w we are W want I 1 om me to kaep keep each bunch separate ep rate dont donat you your I 1 sure ril rat be writing ome game photes to go inbode went want to a built buhl writing desk in tile earner corner of the room mom and set flat down dean he took out his notebook tore ort off general sheets and train froni till his pocket packet produced a pencil having ar an extremely hard led lead he 11 wrote a number of get chih except top fee ill the addles addresses uce were gets identical 1 in content dear sir 17 1 I herewith certain jewelry and ad articles fill alao 1 currency ur conly recently obtained by we me under your year kind gus a us pro 1 I trust that you will assume the of returning these things to the clou glata who lost them whala ill under your year ra root raf f I 1 regret any discomfort occasioned by my tak fait ing them as a lose loan which inow I 1 now re turn please moral convey to the several al severn owners my profound esteem aa and my asseem a assurance m tile that I 1 hall but not in n f future to appear to trouble anyone the carnival season having come to an laut end A and d nth alth I 1 it t my little just vat THE MIDNIGHT gathering up these rate notes 1 in his hand ad Grall gramont went to the fireplace a he toiled the pencil into the fire fol lowing it ft with t alie is notebook coal can t take chances with that man fell he be explained all ready ser ber great geant let s go d down the list on one by we one I 1 roro cam the trunk truba hammond produced ticketed filleted packages which he placed on an the ill table grommet selected one op opened B red it carefully packed the con tents in one of the boxes placed the proper addressed note on top and handed it to the chauffeur wrap it up and address it give the return address of john smith bay bayou one by one a they went through the packages package of put loot in the same manner e them film OR on the table as new walked glittered little heaps beeps of rings brooches bronchial watches currency je jew els a r all wasted the th whole efforts Ef fortl he mur murmured ud that nashed flashed garishly with fill colored fires historic and famous jekels jen els plucked from the aristocratic heart of th araj the southland heirloom heir looms of a past ge gen side by side bide with platinum crudities rdell of al 11 the present ahl fashion there them had been heart burnings in the loss of thee things thing gramont knew he fie could picture to himself something of at w what be t had follo followed oed his robberies lead family y quarrels quarrel oco new pur par cha chases in tile the gel gem marts bitter reproaches r pro aches fr frh fresh h do mortgages 0 on n old her images vexatious of wealthy don dowagers gers shrugs arg of concern nn by tile 1 riches etches Vell perchance imilce lle offered altered dicerce there aa s a lot of human life behind tb thebe baubles sergeant I 1 he reflected aloud ad a cold smile Is upon pa his hafl ft lips as Imor he worked ked ailleo lien they come as bulk bak to their owners gers id I 1 it like to be hover lne fou around u t in RD an invisible mantle to watch s i C could 1 d a he only L know new I 1 I 1 we were re probably the afes of agrest a great many pepi people for good gold and ill I 1 hase thing tend 11 tor um money and it tier there a nc thing like buum moriei or the ii lack of it to guide gold tile the destinies of pulp people you said bald it and el ammond gal gi d I 1 in liere here to prove proe 1 ll 11 aln 1 1 II 11 I 1 am aint n no 0 more a gunplay now new I 1 got at me am a fit enily d J job b and a all a dy I 1 friend lead old man added or gramont did it occur R to you that at ant maybe I 1 was A ns RID inucci 1 in nold 1 or of i filand as you were ere lie he had bad mine come to the last box now that which most go to J joseph ph stall mall into apfl on 0 top of the money and scarf pins which 1111 11 be placed in 11 it tle box he mid laid a thin packet of he topped tapped the them aliu fill his bit fleige finger ieztta these papers sergeant I 1 to ge cm then ite been base playing ills net ganil game to re fet the theia and ad not at to lt let their owner a that I 1 w WM an tier inet them I 1 I 1 now new going b back chr as t their r m owner ne r Is hel demanded Illa hommond numal it young g Mo lif tillard illard son lem of the banker I 1 he roped me lot into n oft it paa company caught me like a auck sucker or almost the i and week eek I 1 I 1 was hera hem ta capt I 1 put of plan dear a my in whole wait wad into that company of hla his 1 I lou ou mean glenn he stuns lung yearb not ret et arwa gramont t untied tied coldly reality 1 I rc fell I 1 right enough but ill come me out get on top of the heap z th the other frowned 1 I 1 dont get you cap some sam kind 0 W lock fork ill deal ft yea rod and no fumed aind nd bened to choose his words with onre bliss ledanois Leda the lady who was adli his with us this afternoon la Is an ai old friend of mine arble im I 1 re it known to for home a time them that chad we wad fl fleeming fleecing flee cing lier her 1 I suspected ad that it was millard acque the elder 1 do for he has tind ad the h a leball handling it of tier her affairs for tome force ume time past now how however those these papers paper ler hac e given we me the truth he was straight enough with ill her his son aon we the man he worked on a life father made ads his father bell land owned by bins leila noia imis and he be himself reaped the prof its there are am notes calls and stock isaacs Is among those pope pap era that give hi be 5 whole game away to roy my eye ayea by the way bay get that tin box ben out got or of my crork will you I 1 want to take say my stock ngaio certificates w with I 1 th me A in tile the morning and must not forget them hammond Bamm disappeared in into to the ad I 1 joining room grime grimet t eat at gig gazing at the bocea b before far him be shook book his head gloomily and ad his ha by eyes clouded all wa the whole effort he murmured 1 I thought it night might lead to something but all 11 it he has gill ghan me Is the reward of selling saving myself and nd possibly retrieving lucle A As for or the irger larger game tile the bigger quarry it 8 idt all wasted I 1 hat ha t unraveled a single igle I gle thread the near first real clue con came to me tonight purely by accident memphis arzy Ghim gumberts berts I 1 1 that 0 the lend lead to fell follow 1 ill III get gal rid of this midnight I 1 foolishness e lishness and go off after the real end go game froment we was to discover that it 1 IB not net nearly so BO easy to be rid of fully folly as it la is to don the jester A B cap and bell bells a fact which on one had discovered to his borrow arrow three hundred yeses years earlier rul but 1 as gro gre mont was not of versed in the lint line of literature he yet had bad the discovery disco ery head ahead of him hammond Ham moni reentered re entered the room alti the if tin box from which gramont to took it his stock ates issued bv be bob Mail lards oil company he pocketed the shares III go to malllard maillard the banker J Jo seph mR brillard illard first thing in the war morn lug log and offer fr film toy my stock hell bell be mighty glad to get it t at a discount knowing that it 1 Is 1 in ill his tion son a corn cam pany lcou see the t confide in the old man particularly III let the father win a little money on the deal with me a and ad by doing this thia III mannge ae to save sale the greater part of my investment t noly holy ile hammond ne d e ex chided RI in a bar bunt I 1 of balch laughter fee as h he caught th the B idea de say if if this AIR t the richest thing ever a p pulled hall I 1 lehen the crash cornea comes the fancy kid will be stinging hla his dud dad good bud and hard bard ehr arx exactly atly bud bad I 1 think his did dad can afford to be stung much better then I 1 can agreed G dinmont Gin ment mont cheerfully now let lets a take pac packages hages and ad stow them away in the luB grage rom eme apartment part ment nor of tile the car tin I 1 m getting nervous at t the be thought of having them around here and they 11 be tier per betly ante thine o overnight night adfer there the than here 1 in fact tomorrow ro foin morrow alrow you yon can take the car out of toon tonn and A send it the packages package by parcels post past f from some a be mail town I 1 ID that it at way they ought to be de R livered r it here on wednesday you 4 bit better C wear wes one a of my suit suits leaving your year rill eurs outfit here and dont halt the at ar in front of the post ofine ill A where bm you mall it the packages 1 I g get t you assented fell acly sagely but what at abent at them aviators or clothes chubei take them with y yon better fie get jok liedl awill wr the them w wrapped to PP UD I 1 here B re and now you yen can an toes loan them lot into 0 a ditch anywhere flammond obeyed ad ten minutes afterward the two men left the room earr carrying vIng the ipes of to loot I 1 and the bundle containing the aviator later a uniform abe d deai ended to the murti courtyard ard in tile nar of t the a houe here aa a email garden with with af a fountain in W its center behind this thir lla 0 a the at stables i which had bad long been disalle el such d as such and which bere em no now occupied only by tie fie car of it aa was with relief that kunf gramont ut n now 0 haw baw tile the stuff actually off out of ili the h house use within the blost lost few hours boom lie he tied lind become became intensely adv afraid of buchin bell concentrating hu himself if up upon I 1 the man no PC picking it ing no I 1 bi information arall g lie he had that fast daiy diy I 1 assimilated d many anny small items ahn air his I 1 sense of pal from that boole straws no chua awe I 1 but quite lie a 1 straws l I 1 cohel deamont agrant balled clel clelly defily ly that ift it the P police olice else eer searched led ats rhoina hili mool and it found failed fill 11 kimt 1 he would be lost belt there flere auld be DO be excuse that would hold water wall for fer a minute against such evid evidence evida A 1 seen see anything of A an avi tor toe himat helmet round around ha here ra BL bib |
