Show synthetic gentleman Gentl ellean son 14 by CHANNING POLLOCK copyright cloning pollock service 8 CHAPTER XI continued 19 lie want to walk nil all day and le jile did want to see what the other papers had to say of last nights events in tile the cocoanut Coco anut bar at fifth avenue therefore lie turned into the public 1 library I the reports were much alike night club proprietor killed rp resisting arrest and the indictment against jay rogers now held for the lie kelly kally murder probably will be dismissed today carry barry sat almost atone alone in the newspaper room turning the ca cise e over ever in his mind then he asked for old files of one of the tabloids lie was nearly an hour finding an account of the winslow wedding without any definite know knowledge knowledg led e of the date it was a bit like looking for the proverbial ver bial needle in a haystack barrys curiosity was rewarded at last when lie be stumbled upon a pictorial front page headed lawyer weds convicts widow the ceremony had taken place at st Step stephens bens there were pictures of the church and of tile the convict george selby inset and love nest where he be tool took ills his bride the rhe smudgy little I inset fiset might inight have been a portrait of nicholas murray hurray butler or jack dempsy dempsey and the house might lave been any house anywhere there was an obviously faked photograph of a holdup and an obviously ob genuine one of I 1 mr and airs winslow leaving st stephens gosh barry reflected no DO wonder mrs airs winslow had a nervous breakdown the story on the lie second page was in the best tabloid tradition rive five years ago it began peter winslow obscure young attorney secured the acquittal of george selby charged with participating in the robbery of a candy store in the bronx yesterday reter winslow rich and famous criminal lawyer and george selbys widow were the principal figures in what was wag to have been a secret ceremony nt at st stephens the present mrs winslow had bad run away avray with george selby while lie he was it a cadet in a military school they had come to new york rented the love nest inest andreen and been blissfully it happy appy until selby ran out of money and was compelled to take ills his wife to a boarding house ile he had been arrested there for the candy store robbery in april 1921 peter winslow had got him off but the following june lie he was caught in another robbery in philadelphia and sentenced to a ton long term in the state r penitentiary with two other convicts lefty miller filler 1 and mugs scanlan lie he had escaped in october 1923 ren pen ril gilless less tile the men staged a holdup hold up that same night in fairmount park tip called for help and selby killed lim him scanlan was shot dead by a police of officer fleer and selby attempting to get away jumped into the aler and was drowned ills his body was found two weeks later entangled in an anchor chain winslow had given mrs selby work in ills his office end and three years after selbys death love culminated in the ceremony at st stephens that explained a good deal barry thought remembering the soft round pink little woman with worried eyes it explained peters protective attitude it mig might lit explain ids quick interest in the 11 rogers case in which barry had t told winslow peggy tied had been putting up such a game fight to make a man v of her her bus husband band 11 that sort of thing thin always gets roe me reter peter had bad observed A woman tied up to some man chos not worthy of her and in love with him i peters julie had been in love with her first husband then and lie with her evidently to judge by what the tabloids said of their happiness must nave lave been something good in that chap barry reasoned probably realized what his wife was trying to do for him were a curious hixt mixture ure lie be was still brooding over curious mixtures and other things when nhen a clock struck somewhere and reminded allm um that by now there might be a ge as to young ridders bidders awaiting him at his hotel there all thursday afternoon barry sit sat in liis its room and at five fire he called peters secretary nothing definite yet she informed him the district attorneys making the motion all right but be tomorrow now cow before anything comes of it against his better judgment then earry barry phoned II arwood dont worry the city editor said nave bare you soei seen to nights globe whole first page one loud bell ell for this kids release L be so glad to get him off their hands in spite of ills his friendliness barry barn i noticed that ernie say come lon down weve something rise else toi for g you nor even of course well ex hect P pet aou ou to cover rogers getting out ou L of jail why should lie he the bli big beav beat was Ila harwoods boat beat not bar TYS and anyway the old man would be nt at his desk the day after tomorrow harwood barwood did say that at last you you better see mm him ill phone you when probably not before monday hell bell be pretty busy for it a day or two of course be around for your salary on n saturday might look me up then ile he was still on the pay roll at least that was important what with overdrafts and hotel bills and such things sober reflection backed by experience had persuaded harry barry that lie set get much on ills wardrobe the studa and cufflinks cuff links were rather client stuff ile he had sold tin an overcoat once in this very town for three dollars saturdays money would just square the lie bank account As for the hotel bill well ill gioe them my clothes harry decided and ill have something thin left in my jeans when I 1 move out of here ile he phoned peggy again and then dined frugally and went back to ills his room step by step lie went over its det details alls seeing everything in shenew the new light cast by the lie events of the past few hours at midnight for the fifth or sixth time lime he reread re read the story in the globe well that he sal said aloud tossing the paper into the wastebasket and winding ills silver wrist watch Alora roWs dead young Ridder ll be free tomorrow old Ridder ll be home saturday and that wonder where ill be a week from now it matter much nothing matters much lie he told himself again dwelling on pats phrase not without pat ilat it ashes a grand girl out of my class though A week from now shell be playing tennis and going over 0 to o dinner at tile lie wonder it if be there wonder going to happen to those two young people in friday mornings paper under personal intelligence lie found a mention of the Win winslows slows mr and mrs peter winslow aie sailing on the aquitania next wednesday the item road read for nn an extended tour of the continent that was that too ton barrys Birry 8 drama was ending with all its principal characters disposed of as well made drama should end Win winslows slows secretary called him film just before noon mr winslow wants roe me to tell ell you that hat rogeis nill be free in an hour or two lions mrs winslow much better mr air winslows Win slows still with her though and the no they went back to southampton last night once more that was that barry thought getting ills his hat and mal making in tracers for the subway ile he reached the tombs well in advance of official orders for the release of jay rogers 7 77 r k A 4 W IZ I 1 it maybe I 1 was ridder bidder admitted it was nearly five indeed when jay rogers appeared looking very white and be haggard gard and the list train had left for southampton you tou can talk to peggy on the phone barry told him and then better have dinner with me and a good nights rest at my hotel the bremen gets in very early and want to be on tile the dock jack looked at him quizzically will L I 1 wont you 1 I suppose so id like to see my mother id like to see her myself barry said ashes been swell to you all right yes at dinner jack declared ill take that job on the paper now if my fatherly fat herll give it to me why not you started me thinking I 1 can call see the old mans viewpoint iles hes got to be decent to peggy though its both of us or neither going to happen to you search roe me look here jack blurted im ridder now who needs to know that I 1 was ever jay rogers ive been at southampton all the time writing letters to my mother and everything 1 youve been barry gilbert working on the globe and likely to go on there the matter with that willetts IVil letts Is the matter with it larry barry answered willetts and evans and winslow and all the camera c lick dick ers on the lie newspapers therece The reve been seo sacral cral pictures of you already I 1 cant understand why you identified long no ago mas mabbe be I 1 was ridder admitted your old college chums dont exactly run after you while youre in jail they dont get to be college chums until loure in chos who anyway barry continued your schemes scheme s out I 1 want to come clean dont ask me why I 1 was going to run away a week ago and I 1 make it gentlemen dont do that I 1 imald ive got a new picture of myself self as a gentleman I 1 what does tile trick I 1 guz jack speculated speculate most of us Is spend our lives trying to live lit up to the portraits of ourselves that chat hang over our mental mantel pieces yours wall wag of a reckless devil may inny care liing vagabond then you moved into a house anil alid company com piny where that picture fit you bueg up a new one and youve got to live up ip to that now it was A as the same way with me the picture of myself I 1 liked was of an irresponsible slightly dissipated young genius the family portraits appeal to me yours your did your new picture of yourself I 1 mean im going to try to bo be like alk e that the rest of my life they were lingering over cigars and coffee now what Is a gentleman barry asked jack smiled tile the fellow who gets the right portrait t ra I 1 t 1 I suppose so harry said family and clothes make you one not when you were getting drunk and forging checks I 1 one when I 1 took another mans name and money and made up to it girl who thought I 1 was somebody else pictures over mantel lleces word tor for tradition I 1 guess the tradition that makes men defend women and go down on sinking ships and all that sort of thing when that stops being our picture of ourselves god help all of us I 1 told pat once come on lets go to a movie CHAPTER XII the next afternoon around three II larwood arwood phoned tile the old man wants to see you acre nt at his office id come quick if I 1 were you so go jack had told him or ivans evans id ile be glad gad it if tell willetts and the rest barry had said to the chauffeur save roe me introducing the subject it would too ile he had dreaded ills his first few moments with ridder beginning ills his story with a pair of cold calm ees boring into him they would ton he be cold eyes lie he felt sure of cit that and they were tile the big chief sat at its his big desk in abig a big richly furnished office with fill a big door and a little one the big double door opened into the reception room barry entered through that and found himself facing and the smaller single door behind him ridder was reading a I 1 radiogram and lie went on reading gm A tall thin man with new england written all him A youngish man for his age which might have been fifty ile he wore gold rimmed spectacles nis ills long thin absolutely straight mouth month was higher at the right end and his right eie was longer and narrower than his left ile he had a sharp chin and a thin nose and a broad forehead with thin graying heir hair the kind of man inan who could say good morning as though that ended the discussion all right barry repeated to himself ill take my medicine soon be 01 er anyway lie ile going to give a damn what I 1 did for his son if I 1 can soy say anything to make it easier for those two youngsters and J jacky wonder back of that little door ue be was still wondering when nhen tile the big chief looked up youre gilbert yes sir alias ell eh yes sir they were cold ebes very cold mostly to end the silence barry said 1 I suppose your son told you nobody told me ive ire known all al about you for two months youve known wl 1 I heard in rny cifes talk with my son the day before we salted sailed through the door to my bedroom I 1 heard her invite him to southampton next morning I 1 arranged with willetts to give me die a full deport of ills his doings there and harry barry was thinking in monosyllables and in liis ills first llast letter lie mentioned your red hair barry grinned lie ile also mentioned your taking a hundred dollar bill out of an en envelope elope addressed to mrs ridder the grin faded you made a move that I 1 known about ile he waited why you have me arrested because I 1 knew that my son was jn in prison accused of tills this murder I 1 read about that less than an hour bour after id satisfied myself that you my son jay rogers Jl id had a men man following him all about florida the mans report agreed perfectly with tile the newspaper account of jay rogers still what was I 1 to do sall sail the doctor sal said that was out of the question I 1 wired H argood rogers kill kelly find out who did twenty four hours later I 1 knew you were on tile globe and why and that sue succeeded in interesting winslow TO BE CONTINUED |