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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Foreign Words and Phrases Copyright, Chanalng Pollock SYNOPSIS The Duke, Barry Gilbert, likable youth of twenty-threenjobless and ters an unoccupied summerbroke, home In Southampton, seeking shelter from a storm. He makes himself at home. Dozing at the fireplace, he is startled by the arrival of a Willetts; and a chauffeur, Evans.butler, He learns that the son of the owner of the house. Jack Bidder, whom the servants had never seen, is expected. He decides to bluff it out. His supposed parents have left for Germany. Next morning he is given a letter for his mother. He opens it and finds a message from the real Jack, saying he could not come, and returning a hundred-dolla- r bill. The boys father had pensioned him into obscurity. Barry pockets the money, intending to return it later. He orders Evans to take him to Montauk, Intending to disappear there. On the way he meets Judge Hambidge and his daughter, Patricia. Believing he is Jack Ridder, she invites him to dinner the following Thursday. Barry returns to Southampton, deciding to stay a bit longer. Mr. Ridder, Sr., through his newspaper, the Globe, accuses Judge Hambidge of taking orders from Tammany Hall in a condemnation proceeding. Barry meets Peter Winslow, prominent attorney. Winslow tells Barry that Judge Hambidge had seen an accident in which a woman was killed by a taxicab. At home Barry finds the wife of the real Jack Ridder awaiting him. Her husband is in jail in New York, charged with the murder of Mike Kelly, Tammany boss. The girl, Peggy, tells Barry how she had met Jack in Florida and married him, as Jay Rogers. Jack lost his job, and they went to New York, where she got work at the Cocoanut Bar. There she was accused of trying to pick the pocket of Mike Kelly, and was arrested. Her husband went to Kelly's to induce him to drop the charge. Later Kelly was found dead, his skull crushed by a decanter. Barry suggests he can help as Jack Ridder, and Mrs. Rogers agrees. Judge Hambidge delivers a decision in the condemnation suit in which Kelly had been interested. Barry cables Mrs. Rid der for $2,000. Winslow takes Rogers case. Barry gets a job on the Globe under his true name. The editor, Ernie Harwood, assigns him to cover the Kelly murder. e, , CHAPTER IV Continued ' -- "9 He had turned into a cheap restaurant, near The Globe, where the slim young man had promised to meet him. Lunching, he mapped out his immediate future. Work-dayBarry Gilbert would live In the little rooms hed of course, taken Saturday. Week-endhed have to spend at Southampton, as John Clarke Ridder, Jr. That was essential to his contact with Bad Nauheim. And to another, even more essential contact. He was to dine at the Hambidges again next Friday, he re called with the lady from Boston to whom Pat must have written flattering things about him. A grand girl. Pat, and suddenly, as we have seen ' not altogether unattainable. If I make good, Barry thought, I can tell her the truth about myself, and ask her to marry me. Why not? All this John Clarke Ridder, Jr., busi , nessll just seem funny then. The slim young man arrived in due time, and duly presented his charge at the homicide bureau. First, there was Tim Laugherty, as Irish as Barry, and with almost as ready a grin. They took to each other immediately. Well, "Barry Gilbert, Tim repeated. the names all right, anyway, Tim regarded the Kelly murder as a closed case. So did MacDevltt, and everyone else Barry met at headquarThe Rogers kid done it, thats ters. This Filipino sure, Tim declared. says he didnt let nobody else in that night. Maybe somebody else let himself in. .. Tim smiled scornfully." "How? There was a new lock on that door. Show him the keys, Mac. s, s, , Mac obliged. Here you are,, he said. gloves." Barry ventured again. Why werent the Filipinos finger prints on the bottle if he served it? My . Guess he wore gloves, too. butler always doesl" Well, if he wore em If I get you, Tim interrupted. the guy that done this wore gloves, and the Filipino wore gloves, why then maybe the Filipino's the guy that done this. 'Exactly. Listen, 1 . CHANNING POLLOCK Say, you got a bean on you," the detective conceded, almost admiringly. "Of course, I still think we got the right party, but hes a cagey guy, that Oriental, and he didnt say nothing about gloves to me. Why dont we go over and see if he wears em? He didnt At least, not when he opened the front door. Say, Charlie, Tim began; let us in. We want to ask you sumpin. Do you wear gloves when youre serving Just one thing. Where were you the night of the murder?" Mrs. Kelly laughed. You dont read the papers much, do you? Why? Because all about that was in The Herald Tribune the morning after the body was found." All about what? All about my being up in Harlem at a dance. And what time did you get home? Around daylight.. stuff? Did you let yourself In? , Sometimes. Sure. Did you wear em that night? And you didnt wonder where Mike I remember. don't Maybe. He was a thin, sallow youth, with was? I thought he was asleep. We didnt the usual glossy black hair brushed back from his forehead. Nothing re- room together. The lights was all markable about him not even his out." No light in the front room?" shiftiness. The three men stood in No. the broad hall of the Kelly house, Sure? and Charlie repeated the tale of admitDead sure. Anything else? ting Rogers, and hearing a quarrel, and returning to his room until the No, thanks. I didnt mean to keep visitor left. you so long. But one thing led to anYou were In your room when the other. Thats all right, Mrs. Kelly asrow started, then? Barry asked. I got nothing to hide. sured him. Yes, sir." around time you feel like any Drop And you could hear the voices It." pretty plainly? No holes In that alibi, Tim said, Yes, sir. as the sidewalk, they reached You came upstairs, and then went is. Ran a sashe shooter, Straight to back your ro.om, and stayed there loon when Mike married her. Yon until just as Rogers was leaving? certainly got wound up. What was Yes, sir. all that about the latch key? Kelly must have been dead then, Bright and shiny, wasnt it? if Rogers killed him? Brand new. She told you that. So Yes, sir. did I, when we were looking at Kel But you didnt hear the sound of t. a blow in your room, nor the thud of lys Yes, But there Barry admitted. a body falling? wasnt any new key in that wallet. No answer. Tim Laugherty stopped short in Fifth If you could hear voices downstairs, avenue. dont you think youdve heard that, if Youre right," he said. WNU Service wood said, when Barry repeated as much of this conversation as it seemed wise to repeat. And a wizard at Ive seen him discredit one witness after another with mere monosyllables. Tell Winslow I may have a tip for him some day. Its nothing now. Just a phone call. But, if I ever find who it was Barry devoted that evening to drafting a letter for the real Jack Ridder to copy and send to his mother. Something told him that whatever the boy wrote himself would be cold and resentful. That would make the old lady unhappy, and Barry didnt want her to be. Ive got a Job on father's paper, he wrote, with genuine pride. Ive respected fathers wish as to using his name except at Southampton, of course. They had to know there. At The Globe, Im on my own, and getting ahead. Ill be a credit to you yet, darling. From tnat, he went into some detail as to his Interest in the friend locked up for murder he didnt commit, and the need of funds for his defense. Even to Jack Ridder, It was obvious that the letter had to be sent, so sent g it was in Jack Bidders from the railway station post box at Southampton the following Friday. Barry arrived on an early afternoon train. He had wired Evans to meet him, and found Willetts waiting in the front hall. There was no doubt now that the butler suspected something, and Barry, sure of what he suspected, faced him with a broad grin. Whats the matter with you, Willetts? Matter, sir? "Youve been acting queer ever since the night Mrs. Rogers spent here. I dont know what you heard that Ive got the number, Barry went night? Do you mean eavesdropping, sir? A 66152. on, producing his envelope. A plain, round There was a pained surprise in the Write that down. head. Two of em. Wheres the other? mans voice. It never was in that wallet, because Not me, sir. Ive got my position to remember. every hooks filled. Ive been a butler with Maybe he carried it loose in his some of the best families. pocket. All right, Barry soothed him. You "Wherever he carried the key, where think Im back at the kind of beis it? havior that alienated me from my faI dont know, Tim answered. It ther. Well, Im not. That glittery wasnt on the body thats sure. lady is the wife of a man I met in By now, it was time for his dinner Florida. . . . appointment with Peggy. And, for. the third time that week, Still in high spirits, he walked Barry related his story. around to her boarding house. Barry Shes a brave little kid, he conremembered Southampton with shame and shes in trouble up to cluded, when he saw the Bidders two shabby neck. Im going to stand by her. her rooms. The boy lay in one of them; Ive got a job on my fathers newsa bright youngster, five years old. under an assumed name, beThe doctor doesnt seem to know paper cause I want to win out on my own. what the matter is, Peggy declared. Ive cabled my mother for money, and I know, Barry said. Id be sick everything I can get goes to that lady in this dump. Why dont you bring until her husband can win on his own. him out to the country? Im going to be in town most of the Peggy shook her head. time now, working my head off. I want to be near Jack, she re(TO BE CONTINUED) peated. Winslow says hes likely to be free Name Gotham, New York, In a week. a in Dining comfortably nearby cafe, Washington Irving Idea he told her everything that had hapThe name Gotham was applied to pened since their parting; all the as New' York in 1807 by Washington Irvtonishing events of that day. And, and his collaborators in Salmawith the recital, Peggys spirits rose, ing a humorous work in which the gundi," too. When Barry mentioned his new authors represented the New Yorkers job, she actually laughed. as given to undue iretensions of wisYoure dom. Of course, says a writer in the Thats funny, she said. doing what the old mans real son Cleveland Plain Dealer, the allusion wouldnt do. was to the inhabitants of Gotham, a Ive two reasons, Barry explained. parish in Nottinghamshire, England, In the first place it puts me in a who were as remarkable for their stusplendid position to help Jack. In pidity as for their conceit. Many stothe second well, the fact is that Im ries are told about the "wise men of nuts about a girl, and I want to make Gotham. good on her account. According to one legend, the Gotham"Whats her name? ites prevented King John from traversPatricia Hambidge. She lives at ing their community on a journey to Southampton, and she and her father Nottingham because they thought the both knew the Bidders. They think ground over which a king passed beIm young Ridder, of course. came forever a public road. The angry The next morning, Barry dropped king ordered dire punishment for them. in again on Pete Winslow. The law But when the avengers arrived, the yer had talked with Peggys husband, Gothamites, forewarned, were all enand was persuaded of his innocence. gaged in nonsensical and idiotic occuTheyve got a prima facie case pations, and the kings men carried The grand back word that Gotham was a village though, he admitted. juryll indict the boy. Im afraid. Well of fools. This story and others were get him tried as quickly as possible, published during the reign of Henry and there isnt the slightest chance of VIII by one Andrew Borde, a sort of his conviction.! , traveling quack, in a Winsted (Conn.) Peter leaned forward, bis fingers collection called Certain Merry Tales intertwined between his knees. of the Mad Men of Gotham. That was a shrewd question you asked that Filipino. Only I wish youd Definition of Life asked it of me. Hes prepared now. No single definition of the term Never mind. When it comes to life has been generally accepted by ' Biologists or philosopher?. According He rose, with the joy of battle in to De Blainville, Life Is the two fold . his eyes. internal movement of composition and But be careful about tipping our decomposition, at once general and hand,, he said. Bring In Mrs. Rog continuous. Lewes defines It as a ers. Id like to check up on her state series of definite and successive ment changes, both of structure and compo Tomorrow?, sition, which takes place within an in Make it next week. dividual without destroying Hes a great lawyer, Ernie Har tlty. hand-writ-in- key-walle- it had happened?" The Filipino looked down from one Inquisitor to the other. Maybe I didnt stay in my room, he said at last, very slowly. I dont remember. Tim was about to press the point when there was the rasp of a latchkey being thrust into the lock of the front door. Then the knob turned, and Mrs. Kelly entered. She stopped short at sight of the Intruders. The door remained opened. she exWell, Mr. Laugherty! 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' 1 It Was a Gruesoms Exhibit That Bottle Which Had Killed a Man. It was again? With, a friend, tool dont you step in the parlor?" chained to Kellys pants button. Show him the decanter. Maybe he can get something out of that Theres Why not? Mac laughed. i about half a pint In it It was a gruesome exhibit that bottle which had killed 'a man. Real cut glass, and nearly a quarter full Wonder why that of reddish liquor. didnt spill out, Barry ventured. Maybe the cork stopped it, Tim replied. They didnt find any finger prints? No. The guy must , have worn v By O Why Tim thanked her, and presented r , Barry. Glad to meet you," Mrs. Kelly deto the Run along, you clared. on Come in, boys! Filipino. Youre forgetting your key, Barry . said. He took it out of the lock. Its a brand new key, isnt it?" he asked, casually. Its Sure, Mrs. Kelly answered. a new lock. Mike had it put on only a few days ago.V How many keys were there? Two. That one, and Mikes." 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