Show ij i diw iff y 0 SYNTHETIC chana g CT wry pollock lip copyright Chan ciannini nini pollock anu ser vico ha all otto IX cont continued inked CHAPTER 16 44 right in the b beginning eg inning r were roa M there wils was only one thing ld 4 I 1 rat pat a I 1 bather saw kelly alive kiive after arll peg to do a band left him and we should 42 bare y said so stand seeing peggy pat 4 inet was that talat what 30 YOU llad had co continue ewhen sent her ber here any I 1 mind when YO von 11 ro IV hoo its too terrible she comes down ivey breakfast rea ast locking king 1 well you know at to 10 about trouble like that all n knew ll 11 st galone alone and I 1 I 1 do 11 14 g and od weve got ot to come clean V VA 01 mt think it matters barry re 14 P ailed i 1 I still think we lne can free jack i n ki thoe that tat aloir soon by wt wednesday 4 put pat nodded all right krisht she sa said id well wait until wednesday barry had n never ever seen her more aa Is they walked down the beach tn in rejoin the others lie he asked are ya ever going to confess howl how you fouad out about me pat laughed that was too easy the ni night ait of Blar marians lans visit you told roe me taken A the name barry gilbert and it had it i a curIO curiously familiar sound after a ia moment I 1 remembered that id once 4 teen seen an actor called barry gilbert in a war picture and then 2 then you shut your hand in the door the expression of mingled surprise and pain in your face that was 4 what had kept the picture and the actor 5 in my mind you were the man A come out of the drinking place II 11 laughlan laug laugh hias lag and talking and been shot I 1 was sure of that jut just ju t as sure as I 1 was bas that crushed your fingers deliberately to keep us from knowing that unlike the jack ridder you were supposed to be you play a violin any more than you could play hamlet im glad you sou found out larry barry said tm im glad I 1 been deceiving you at all events they had reached the railroad builders pat jack jach called pat I 1 weve finished 1 jacky you call miss aliss ilam elam bidge tat pat 11 k everybody else does 1 I like it patricia came to the rescue were rat pat and peg to each other now why I 1 be pat to Jac jackall kyll it was almost a nit miracle barry decided was this the same girl of whom only a couple of months ago her father had said pat for short though it takes courage to call her that the change all his doin doing or pegs es something else had contributed to softening pat and makin making her sweeter and lovelier it was ir onic ironic tarry barry felt and bitter that she should be TO the loveliest when he was losing 1 mr her what of his plan to come back bac k lor for her hersome some gome day when ive made SOW gold A girl lik like that might marry an ex vagabond she certainly ry an ex es convict barry drove back to town sunday without having put house husein in order ile he ha had 1 lined dined with the hambidge and gone over there in the 1 fade thorning ing into to see jacky start for his iye well 1 our trials set for two weeks I 1 from om today said eald winslow when carry barry wa id at his office monday moral morning trial IM stin still hoping there wont be any y t iiii eiith meaning kelly that you think youve got lils iva was the question barry had dr eadeh rea ded Win winslows slows frank amusement at Ms his sleuthing Sl euthin 9 nettled him naif ant t made lade at ile he him feel fo especially now I 1 wag compelled to admit no la air afraid aid you were right about mrs ight y cle slept at her sisters that well the P eter tle the latest candidate 1 cr asked chos ID 0 carols YOU ren remember lember reading me your lamination all tiOn 0 of tile the filipino A new fly nates f tor or it yes lou OU found a lot of holes in the oy 8 I 1 sto story yes eg lilt t deter well acter nv was as still amused sed ive g ot a few laid lam 1 64 more barry and a motive ile ill III all hat flat dow down 11 and peter opposite barr told M 17 Y repeated pealed what E evans van had bad wot of the dinner with nolan that al peter remarked ked at the end gettles ily oil u think the case against rogers if so atory tory obviously WO if lolaa sticks to his bash 18 be cs a that lay bay nolans bolans testimony es the decanter was down stairs all the time rogers was up stairs dut but weve got to make the jury believe it or the district attorney winslow shook ills his head the district attorney move for dismissal of an indictment on that evidence but youre toure perfectly sure that the fill pino killed kelly winslow went on 1 I im in riot not and the lie district attorney be the filipino was angry and the decanter was downstairs nil all there really Is to that story and kelly was alive an hour after no rogers ers left chats what weve pot got to prove to the jury my aly own guess Is that the decanter had been carried into tile the dining room when the murderer entered the house after nolan went home yes and after the filipino went to bed and that man 2 youre sure it was a man very sure and that man was someone who had better reason than weve found yet for hating bating or dreading mike alike kelly barry rose peter had picked a glove olt off his desk and was turning it right side out have you ever thought g of luis morano harry barry asked winslow let the glove fall why lie ile seems to have had bad some reason for hating bating kelly you mean that row in the cocoa nut bar peter said oddly elou enough il ik jf T I 1 4 ia 1 i 1 4 I 1 t II ill im glad you found out barry said why I 1 thought of morano H he e was telephoning me from the cocoanut Coco anut bar about the row at the time of the murder luls luis always came to me when he was in trouble and ile he called me at home just after one that morning to say that one of his girls was in jail jai 1 and would I 1 take the case I 1 could hear that jazz of his barry stooped for the glove well that he remarked kelly was thre threatening morano you know and but peter was smiling again you can make a case against almost anyone he said but a case stand up a nother another thing barry grinned sheepishly winslow pressed a button stop worrying he advised barry were going to free rogers if we have to get the guilty man to do it well get him but let lets I 1 s give the court a chance first 1 I guess well have to barry conceded peters secretary opened the door nolans bolans first name peter asked carry barry and wheres ills his garage got it miss dark clark now get nolan in here this afternoon lie ile looked up at barry dont mind my joking he be said bald something tells me you did a grand job when you turned up mr nolan peters wonderfully kind barry told harwood that evening but he be makes me feel as small as an authors name la in a motion picture advertisement 1 I dont think winslow means to make anyone feel s small mail ernie answered lies iles too big for that its the small men dhove got to make other people leople smaller in seir dereese defense the trouble with winslow Is that lies hes generally right and trying comat ter liow flow kind anyone may inay be about it winslows WIn slows a great lawyer lie he went on and a swell guy lies iles had his own troubles too ever meet ills his wife once lies iles nearly wrecked ills his career for her you know she ran away from home with some youngster in a military school the kid t turned crook and the cops killed him then she married W winslow anslow the tabloids played the story up all over the pl place ace and mrs winslow crashed and had to be taken to europe she went to pieces again two or fur three years ago and winslow closed the office and went to live in the south of france the money gave out I 1 guess anyway they stay ions iong of course that telephone message doean doesn 1 t prove anything you mean message to winslow yes tes luls luis might have sent that at one and stil lve been in time for the murder Is there any chance that luis send it why do you ask that it occurs to me that peter might be shielding someone whom morano marano narwood harwood shook liis his head winslow that kind of a I 1 law lawyer ver As 1 a I matter of fact I 1 know ow morano phoned him who told you violet fane then youve been to the cocoanut Coco anut gar bar yes I 1 went saturday and met all your cronies hiss aliss rane fane says luis followed peggy rogers around to the police station on and then came back to the lar and called up his lawyer and drove to morristown at one yes how about faking an alibi you reminded me it could be done carry barry went on ernie turned suddenly ever strike you is as queer he asked that nobody ever connected NOW kellys S murder with the jefferson street grab barry trust himself to ply they were pulled off about the same time As I 1 remember it judge ilam badges decision was handed down the day after the killing barry remained silent kelly stood to make a million or two on that deal harwood arwood II continued those jefferson street houses were pretty decent once then they went slummy shimmy through agents kelly bought lern cm in one by one for little or nothing and turned em over to a phoney corporation to sell to the city at a huge profit some of the original owners may have been a little bit sore dont you think the conversation was drifting into safer channels and relieved barry let it flow on As a matter of fact harwood re fumed someone was very sore he called me up the day of the murder and offered to squeal he give ive me his name but he said hed Z be here at ten thirty that night to deliver the goods on kelly and then then he show up somebody got to him film probably and then somebody killed kelly harry barry asked Is that the clue you had in mind when you said tell winslow I 1 may have a tip for him some jay day harwood nodded yes but as I 1 remarked later that guy inho ho phoned might have been anybody I 1 have a darn thing to go on except that he be had a soft vole voice and a funny impediment in his speech and then then you told me about morano and I 1 went to the Coco cocoanut anut par bar the guy that phoned me was morano all right but what does that mean not it a thing maybe if morano did hop in his car at one that night ni ht h ile he paused ive got a dozen men on this trail now im going to send somebody to morristown not you they know you your jolt job is to lay low morano the faintest idea who I 1 am I 1 told him I 1 came from grand rapids but the city editor was pacing the floor my lly god how hod this picture begins fitting together ile he cried morano threatens to spill tile the beans someone tells kelly kelly goes to the cocoa nut bar with two strong arm men why to silence a squealer that was around eight and at ten thirty the squealer squeal why because kelly had something on him barry was on his feet too now something in writing he sat said sure the paper he accused peggy rogers of trying to steal yes barry went on and get this somebody did try violet fane probably peggy rogers says violet viole t had just left the table then hen the row sl started t a rt and that luis iuis was ta talking ik in to VI outside the dressing rooms just before that 11 what did he be s say ay lie he said ill send this dame to jail and you to the hot spot and you cant send a man to the electric chair for bicki picking ng pockets 11 IN no 0 11 but you might if you knew of something thin else hed lone done and had the proof of it there was a paper and it had disappeared when the body was found who got it Mor morano arlo and not in the cocoanut Coco anut bar because it was still in gelcys pocket at madni midnight ht harwood laid down ills his pipe how do you know that somebody told me jack rogers no harwoods lwoods Ha eyes narrowed was it judge hambidge barry answer it if winslow winslows Win slows s shielding anyone its judge hambidge 0 harwood said judge hambidge or someone C close los e t to 0 him ive been thinking that ever sin since e you put the idea in my head the judge has always been a straight shooter why did he write that decision was that paper a threat to him toof too barry said 1 I dont know 1 I dont either but im going to find out before saturday can I 1 help ernie looked at him no lie he replied curtly for the present I 1 want you to keep out of this TO BE CONTINUED CONTINUE D |