Show the mardi by H BEDFORD JONES U by a pa pug p C CHAP AFTER TEft IX continued uld va 11 boot book be d it i snorted the chief ind and leaned forward earnestly lonh lack kine here fell I 1 on t you alla in your heert that halliard killed hla his father fell fall WAR elicit fee a mcinni AA ot under that intent scrutiny from the evidence I 1 A bin far forced fed conart my will to bell believe it he bald kt t last of co cotrit coume urit hell be able to prove that he be was not tile the All squer on oil juse one arese A an his alibis take vice hire of t that hot up to the point of the arder his bis gory 1 ig all right and iby y friend there them Is a chan cliance a wry very ell him tenuous clintice chace thai his an entire re amy la is true in that caw cam a an oilier person arion crion must hae appeared as a the blanquer Bla ju squer appler nelch h ch re beema A or of else se pu put in ben ch chacherie Cha cherre her ettre reat real original orl einal showed bowed uil i awa there th r was a an instant silence ju ja thin life P fell I 1 regarded reg ardeil ills his beach henchman w falth it plead y gray eray eyes ben Cha charra met inet the I 1 oak look with a trace from of 1 call uce T the carld a chief frowned darkly yes eaid the chief tanta the are of it fell you re keepin cents quiet bout about the name of the real mat Maa Ma quer squar ghys whys b because said fell calmly 11 11 chap pan pea an to know knew thai mat he yas as in ith the godl borlum at t the time of the order murder axel silence d ca be ben charlie Chac lierre stated stared kt at tell with eat and ad 11 chair lion in A to in his aze when obbon the master later liea im he hes 1 I be in mur or aured n red in fre french h i wok well and ad it the a A chief gestured de 1 I guess buess that lets out the real mol manner maller ell eh L a gadient assented d fell ivo so use g rigi into or Brat bratta t tB his name into it ft ill live keep at t walk on as this chief and if nn thin thing turns up to clear young maillard I 1 it II he be very glad all right grunted granted the ile chief and caf rose A at 1 he be on an my al w way ily a lie he dip sied neither fell ach nor cha cherre moved or spoke for far a space are when at length the clang of the ele cle vator done re sounded thru through the de s ort ad corridors ben Chac lierre slipped if rom his hia chat chair and w went out to tile the out outer door he glanced out at into ince the hell hall closed the door dior unit and with a no nod it re A turned to his chair we r jachin roll fell regarded him with intent feet sattre hIng eye have A A you any light to throw UP on the file boca n idona cac herm usual air of cool coal pop fieser dence sax noa never neer in evidence when jim he to talked ked with M mr r pell fell no he said paid habig lila his head bond nd worked on oil the car until bout about nine then film beat it to bed I 1 guess I 1 quit the job at ten and nd his hf light had been out act 80 some a time well ma bainter inter this Is a queer T there it ere B cm doubt that ban I 1 gramont amica pulled it ahr ell Y roil think thick tor bar asked led pell fell chile b ears made a gesture of 1 assent mat wh when an the a tree nils fulls the kid kd co can cumb climb it any foot fool MU can see am that gra gramont on wall w the man dont Y you an think bill BO Yo yourself unell mail master at J hin pell nodded added ym yea but weve no alder evidence ey set th A am ilex agu against young M malllard it early ra fly in the morning granum gi boea to breall to exa examine that lead land ot of miss 31 AS 11 Is N a lask place here fell do da Y you bd believe your heart th that M d killed HH 1 fathers Fat Fa herf Lede nour alone I 1 a the bayou he be 11 II probably mf zy of this chit murder ito t ud and the chauffeur may zd baat at find out about of it until a day or it two wo uey they tet CA few ow newspapers newa papera do down tile biere drive d dowid I 1 we to pariah in the 1 morna 1 lire 9 bell 1 ett into touch tonch with ill hum haiti bond ad rod nd discover am ad what time bits gre ara out got b tonight write me j fast you rou find and out then take islas charge of it iliin are or at the lumberta pip place make fore ure it thai I 1 every eld car Is ia handled A be beada arten man cian from mobile will be him here tomorrow to trace the non hall 1 that gramont Orani ont now abdal m Chari lerm whittled whistled under his h breath whir wh ts rell pell addled slightly and added YM YAR it 11 Groa cult remains at t caradia Ia rudla I 1 ciny lay send end him ado on anva close 1 al pat not or ure w yet yel I 1 into intend ad to ft for too amt I 1 thine on the thai me nian hade mut yuu you CUD mat I 1 lead land him that nay w ky lam oki tie its bought flit the A car and on iiii sold nid tile hie car 01 to the ca a gra cras S mystery rage ingle people they bought it inno rondy A peculiar audi eincle twisted fell a lips awry in 1 fact they ini bought clit it 11 tiam you a man named bam usan it A as A t the he evidence it will all aldow or viry say clearly any tien bell Chac berre started since late he hart bad said that car alien a 1 alow I grin gra em caine into A his B iliin features feature B glin gin that widened ino selens ough laugh A Mait lastel cr 11 you are magnificent e at to I 1 he be said mid and ad rose K well ell I 1 it there aw I 1 la con miili lug log bunh further er on an head hand I 1 shelf shall ke go on 10 bell X A AD excellent program rold mid jachel beell anil and took tes it ills his hut but from tile the deah dask 1 1 must get gei BOUIC ons al bleed bleep nil aalf self they left it the office aud tile the build lag ing together 1 I 1 airee hours afterward the ills flown had bel act lo la a A mid cold ray cray and dismal dawn that rose mae upon a city littered with ill the aftermath fm afi if lc lean wednesday y 1 I it was W la in sober her tact fact thus far tile the city in general was waa tk ig i nn ant of the lite tr edy had taken p place m at I 1 the ile verv a to con as of it ft all carni carnival sed aask beason within B to few imura business bua linss and od social rel would be so pt ld by the fact of joseph maillard MAil lurd s murder hui but at BAR early PO otini lal of f tile the day the city slept the A coining I 1 A j lag papers which today carried a acs so flarv that thai to tc shock allock end and stan the entire ell casna milty nut nol vet distributed distri med B rising islas be before Hatim am hour gra anai 1 I 1 slid mild b A and lint were off hy by six inthe in the car iliev tile were well outside town and sweeping sweep lne on an their way to Te Terreh oinie parish and ad the town of before they re alid thai hat the dav sea wua ni at along to brighten appreciably instead it reau remained nned ven or load A and gin ploomy y with a hill chill threat of rain min ad in tie the air weather mattered little imle to gaimont when fla the ent high by wid left behind wd led ther fil raad on in th the lat last I 1 ip in of their seventy mile ile ride do t her found tile the roads exer ee cralle A ills and the going law thus noun noon was at hard hand wh when at cenath pulled 1 in to portals the th town closest to lo lucle lucie le finah brion tend land the ibe min was abill 1 holdier 01 on I 1 too cold to rain observed e re d gia moat at 1 I et I 1 A ill hil for far the hotel foa of and I 1 get gel to eat III hae P to face loccie a the land which Is somewhere benr to tow n the they d discovered 11 alie hotel to be an ancient structure slid and boosting boasting prices of f 1 and ad his las rears As in many m beall di towns of toul Louii imi b 1 however boser the food proved peeved fit to for a line king after a light laid I anon lof of qu quail A it crayfish cash and ad pro ali 1191 v venison au gramont sighed t that h he e mat could da eat A no 0 more alore and set at about In inquiring inuring Iring where the ladu Lp danois ta farm lay lav there was wa wry very little indeed to t aradis which lay on the balvoa but well away train from the railroad it sea was a desolate spot unpainted and unkempt tile ali parish pariah seat of houma houm be had romiee bled ftp ordythe it of all lite life and g growth on the one hand on the other the new oil and gas district had not yet touched it southward lay the fully forty fairly miles of it merging fix by degrees decrees into tile gulf roy forty miles of cypress marsh and winding mg babou u u act barted u unexplored ill it gave by occasional 0 ad hunters or mat occasional sheriffs no man knew who or what might be in those and no one me cared to know the man who w ho brought in fish or in his skiff kiff might be a bayou bayon fisherman a n a and it lie might be a mur ana it derer wanted us in ten led states curiosity waag apt pt to prove oc extremely unhealthy like the atchafalaya Atchafala ya v where here chance trible travelers lecis flad find themselves film abrupt or dered elsewhere the Ter terrebonne rabo swamps swamp how have fit their it own secrets and know enow bow law to keep them he gramont Grain ont had no difficulty in local in ing 9 tile the led lelanoia anoia 1 land ad bad and he f found d that it was waa by no means in tile the swamp A part of it bing closer to houma ind 4 hot been a sold it and ad was now included in A th the e new 0 oil 1 district it as this por tie tion which josaph MIll dillrd Ma illan rd bad sold mid off am the remainder and the largest por p tion lav north of pamels and ran long along tile the w west eat hank back of I 1 the he badoa a for far half a fail 0 A tong long bandaged abandoned farm wa va phil gral ground d with tile the timber well cleared off slid and excellently located but tenants wom were hard to get anil ad shiftless when obtained se go that the place had not been formed tor far the last live five years or more after getting facts in cut gramont consulted with al ate d better buy borne alone grub grab here hem in town and or arrange age to say a couple of nf A agh a on atile tie farm I 1 if newt comar sury he said old I 1 chere ile are A wine a buildings there them BO As se B had shelter better along the bay bayou are am auto summer 7 r ret cottages I 1 believe wine rome of them alic milar pretentious places una ad we a otielie to 10 mid the road mad pretty dreel deat it A only ly three or tour four miles out of town low with wild some boon plind piled 1 to the car it aliey I 1 I 1 art forth the road mad wound ad ida along X the he bayou side de past pan ancient cajun flores amr and it um the soum most laux bomi ot at fishermen here hem and ana then them had fleets been placed comps campa and summer canalize cott ageg neail loR 9 amid nd d groups group of it page huge oaks it rod and CT prism prees wim eliose fronds of 1 allter rally eray imm hung bung in octal drooping U like pate pale and stingily gli shrouds or am the th road mad el closely 1 gramont comme suddenly found tile the landmarks landmark that tied had been described to him and 0 or dered dared HI hid hammond d to map and ad in turn 1 in it a pip pan in the team fence which had once mee been on nn nare pite got mure e are I 1 those are the bnell ings off to the right tt hew I 1 should way ay 1 it I 1 had bull been ahead ill norbia much N left but bill ruins mine go al ahead leado before it them as a they drove in ID from the road ad hy by a gras graw covered drive showed allowed a asim boue bed 44 and be barn laid amid a cluster of towering trees inder W zeh m abot ircel were M alie I 1 term which had grown up P ID a U tap 11 ling 9 forest tile the balad ings w were aa mp in a a ruinous rallou stat state hanging loosely roots dotted bv be raping gaping holes doors dm and ad windows d ox long iota mine aluce A pone a raving leaving ti cur e ammom followed by the chauffeur went 1 to the front dagway bad ad tl a wreckage md ahat IN list do vim van any hammond think we va ami top be liere or go co buck back to tile the amiel its if nol hot much of a run me to no town 1 hammood pointed to a wide fireplace fillIn facing gt them lie 1 I can ge eel ild aliis back to red out 1 1 in t IAB half an hour ban tills one room anyhow I 1 law ft he hen we gat a clr tire e get coln odi in there them and board up tile the wi taboo im and it dera we might to be comfortable enough but suit yourself capul it a your funeral bramant in he ed all AB riat ali ht go ahead suit and loan up then and if rain bomea A down dawn we ver can camp tie acre on be flure and look lack for son ile A and ad in ze the sour door seems deais round and if ff there 2 h 0 athill we can stop her or go back to the hotel I 1 plenty of mom on an the trees we a can nake make up comfortable to ta ab able beds bed too bad y you u re not a fill fisherman beram a or we might g get id afresh a fresh flail fish out ot of tile bayou 1 I got some borne tackle in fee town bad an 4 command grinned widely good walk I 1 griea I 1 ima mad a Four yourself self at home and go to it ft em e ve most of the afternoon before us gramont left the house and headed down toward t rd the baiyou by shore all he took a letter from 1 his pocket et op opened tal it and ad gl glanced d 0 over r it ft anew new I 1 it ow was an old letter one a written him nearly two years vears previously by lucle lucie led it had been wi va itten it ten merely 1 in ill the end endeavor 1 A so to dial distract the T amo though A of f a wounded dc d sadala soldier to I 1 bring brine ill bis mind to ll 11 L l ilana a away ily from the stricken fields ile its of france fr ce in the it 11 tier tie lucie had described some amne of the more a interesting features flat of barou Tarm terrebonne bonne tin the oyster and ad abrim shrimp p fleets tile the chinese and I 1 vi all lages lag along the me gulf the far aarl spread d cypress swamps the bubbling bub bline foun bains natural curiosities that broke up th through jah the streams and bayous bau of tile the whole wide f fountains alfuns that were caused by gas gal keeping beeping up from the earths earth s interior and breaking borough ali rough gramont grammar linew knew that plans plan were already fact afoot to tap this field of natural gas and ad pipe it to new orleans olt oil had been bar f found ad t too an suit and all 11 tile the state ter was now oil all mad d F fortunes mae were b be lag ing made call daily and other fortunes were being lost dally daily by those who ubo dealt with oil 11 istocka stocka fork instead of with oil ell those gas gae fountains fountain did the work Is I 1 reflected gramont grammar and according to flits letter there berea 8 one of those foun mine liere bere in the babu close cloie to her prop property just a posits opposite the dock dark she bhe bow aava the rhe farst thing 1 la to find the th doth chor it then the fountain Inn nIsh after that flat we well 11 decide if it a true mineral go ga if it Is then than the works work daf da done f for I 1 11 tore take a chance on finding oil all near it to gramont gramand came to the fusion and bein gun Am nean liing his way along the B thick irk and hah fringe of bushes and acidic unit that glided gilded the awatar a edge 1 present ment li 1 ile he came upon the ruined mined evidences a vide aces of what han had once nee been a small boat beat shed not far from tills this he found the dock dick re referred ferrod to in the letter nothing on was left of it except a few kailes protruding 11 aiom II I I the of the water but auf be old oa need deed to look further farther directly before liim him lie he saw that which he we was seeking okill A dozen feet out train from stairs shore tile the wa ter er was a rising and failing is 1 a namu ous me do dome or futi fountain of charged lad bubbles bles that on rose A funt foot above bar the murfa cremona stared at I 1 it at I 1 he wall watched ad it I 1 for or a P tann oil lre lie atar started ad it was wa a talent start art a start to of sheer hear a amabe earn ment and ad incredulity he leaned lanned forward stories ao an longer large at the go gas |