| Show byn y m e t 10 N lawa gent eman by CHAN NG rm L L 0 C K pollock WN U service CHAPTER XI continued lt 19 le ie want to walk all lay day and edid want to see what the other pas had bad to say of last nights events the cocoanut Coco anut bar at fifth avenue lie turned into the public li II ry the reports were much alike club proprietor killed resisting est and the indictment against r rogers now bield for the kelly cider ader probably will be dismissed to 4 sr barry s sat it almost alone in the room turning the case fsr r in his mind then he asked for files of one of the tabloids ete e was nearly an hour finding flandin an aunt of the winslow wedding wittily t any definite knowledge of the date was a bit like looking for the pro filial bial needle in a haystack barrys flositz was rewarded at list last when stumbled upon a pictorial front ige ge headed lawyer weds convicts didow the ceremony had taken I 1 tee ice at st SteD stephens hens there were pieces es of the church and of the convict pr george selby inset and love nest chere chere ile he took his bride the little inset might have been portrait of nicholas murray butler jack dempsey and the house might je J ie e been any house anywhere there is an obviously faked photograph of holdup and an obviously genuine one mr and mrs winslow leaving st dephene ep hene gort barry reflected 0 bouder mr afro winslow had a nerv ts ig breakdown t the sury on the second page was the best tabloid tradition five ars ago it began peter winslow young attorney secured the quit tal of george selby charged ith participating T in tile the robbery of a indy store in the bronx yesterday iter winslow rich and famous crim al lawyer and george selbys wi widow dow ere the principal f figures agures in what was P i have been a secret ceremony at st the present mrs winslow had run vay with george selby while he was cadet in a military school they had onse me to new york rented the love st and been blissfully happy un I 1 selby ran out of money and was spelled to take his wife to a board g house ile he had been arrested there r the candy store robbery in april 21 peter winslow had got him off it the following june he was caught another robbery in philadelphia and to a long ion term in the state with two other convicts LZ efty miller and mugs scanlan s had escaped in october 1023 ren pen less the men staged a holdup hold up that me night in fairmount park the chim called for help and selby killed in scanlan was shot dead by a poe officer ticer of and selby attempting to t away jumped into the river and as drowned his body was found ro 0 weeks later entangled in an an kor ier chain winslow had given mrs selby work his office and three years after abys death love culminated in the demony remony at st stephens that explained a good deal barry ought remembering the soft round little woman with worried eyes explained peters protective attitude might explain his quick interest in e rogers case in which barry had id winslow peggy had been huttl putting such a game fight to make a in man an her bUS husband band av that sort of thing always gets me iter had observed A woman tied up some man chos not worthy of her id in love with him v peters tulie julie had been in love lov e with sr r first husband then and he be with T r evidently to judge by what the molds said of their happiness must lve ive been something good in that lap ial barry reasoned probably real ed what his wife was trying to do r him were a curious mixture ile he was still brooding over curious mixtures Ix tures and other things when a k struck som somewhere where and reminded that by now there might be a sage as 89 to young ridders release citing him at his hotel there gaii all thursday afternoon barry sat aphis his room and at five he filed led peters secretary nothing def te yet she informed him the brict attorneys making the motion aright but be tomorrow now vore re anything comes of it against his better judgment then ry phoned harwood dont worry B city editor said have you seen nights ts globe whole first page one fid id yell for this kids release IBO 0 glad to get him off on their hands in 11 spite of hla his friendliness carry barry ced that ernle ernie say come com on down weve something else for you nor even of course well ex es hect you to cover rogers getting out of jail why should ile he the big beat was harwoods hal woods beat not barrys and anyway the old man would be at his desk tile lay day after tomorrow harwood arwood II did say that at last better see him ill phone you when probably not before 11 monday londay hell be pretty busy for a day or two of course be around for your salary on saturday might alight look me up then he was still on tile the pay roll at least that was important what with overdrafts and hotel bills and such things sober reflection backed by experience had persuaded carry barry that he get much on his wardrobe the studs and cufflinks cuff links were rather cheap stuff lie ile had sold an overcoat once in this very town for three dollars saturdays money would just square the batik bank account As for the hotel bill well ill give them my clothes barry dei decided ded and ill have something left in my jeans when I 1 move out of 0 here he phoned peggy again and then dined frugally arid and went back to his room step by step he went over its details every everything tiling in the new light cast by the events of the past few hours at midnight for the fifth or sixth time lie he reread re read the story in the I 1 maybe I 1 was ridder admitted globe well that he sald said aloud tossing the paper into the wastebasket and winding his silver wristwatch Alo 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 he told himself again dwelling on rats pats phrase not without pat it ashes a grand girt girl out of my class though A week from now shell be playing tennis and going over to dinner at the ridders wonder if be there wonder going to happen to those two young people in friday mornings paper under personal intel intelligence I 1 ig mence he found a mention of the winslows WIn slows mr and mrs peter winslow are sailing on the aquitania next nest wednesday the item read for an extended tour of the continent that was that too barrys drama was ending with all its principal characters disposed of as well made drama should end winslows Win slows secretary called him just before noon mr winslow wants me to tell you that rogers will be free in an hour or two hows mrs airs winslow much better mr air winslows Win Allin slows still with her though and the no they went back to southampton last night once more that was that barry thought getting his hat and making tracks for tile the subway ile he reached the tombs well in advance of official orders tor for the release of jay rogers it was nearly five indeed when jay rogers appeared looking very white and haggard and the last train had left for southampton you can talk to peggy on the phone barry told him and then better have dinner with in me and a good nights rest at my hotel the bremen gets in very early and want to be on the dock jack looked at him quizzically will 1 I 11 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 yos yes at dinner jack declared ill take that job on the piper paper now if my fatherly fat herll give it to me why not you tou started me thinking I 1 can see tile the old mans viewpoint lies iles got to be decent to peggy thou h its both of us or neither going to happen to you search me look here jack blurted im ridder now who needs to know that I 1 was ever jay rog rogers gers ive been at southampton all the time writing letters to my mother and everything youve been barry gilbert working on the globe and likely to go on working there the matter with that willetts Is tile matter with it harry barry answered willetts and evans and winslow and all the camera click ers on the newspapers therece The reve been several pictures of you already I 1 cant understand why you identified long iong ago maybe I 1 was ridder admitted your tour old college chums dont exactly run after you while youre in jall jail they dont get to be college chums until youre in chos who anyway Any nay barry continued your schemes out I 1 want to come clean dont ask me why I 1 was going to run away a week ago and I 1 cou lant make it gentlemen dont do that I 1 s said ald ive got a new picture of myself as a gentleman what does the trick I 1 guess jack speculated most alost of us spend our lives trying to live up tip to the portraits of ourselves that liang hang over our mental mantel mantei pieces yours was of a reckless devil may care young va vagabond a then you moved into a bouse house and company where that picture d ant fit you bull hung up tip a new one and youve e got to live up to that now it was 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 did your new picture of yourself I 1 mean im going to try to be like that the rest of 0 my 1 life they were lingering over cigars and coffee now what is a gentleman barry asked jack smiled the fellow who gets the right portrait 1 I suppose so barry said family and clothes make you one not when you were getting drunk and forging checks I 1 one when I 1 took another adother mans name and money and made up to a girl who thought I 1 was somebody else pictures over man tel pieces another word 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 harwood phoned the old man wants to see you here at his office id come quick if I 1 were you so jack had told him or evans id be glad if tell willetts arid and the rest dairy bairy had said to the chauffeur save me introducing the subject it would too lie had dreaded his first few moments with ridder beginning his story with a pair of cold calm eyes boring into him they would be cold eyes he felt sure of cf c f that and they were the big chief sit sat at his big desk in a big richly furnished office with a big door and a little one the bi big doubled door opened into the reception room barry entered through that a and nd found himself facing ridder and the smaller single door behind him ridder bidder was reading a radiogram and lie he went on reading A tall thin man with new england written all over him A youn youngish gish man for his age which might have been fifty he wore gold rimmed spectacles his ion long m g thin absolutely straight mouth was higher at the right end and his right eye was longer and narrower than his left he ha had a sharp chin and a thin nose and a broad forehead with thin graying hair the kind of man who could say good morning as thou though gl that ended the discussion all right barry repeated to him self ill take my medicine soon be over anyway ile he going ing ta give a damn what I 1 did for lois his son son it if I 1 can say anything to make it easie for those two youngsters and jacky wonder back of that littly attl 1 6 door ile he was still wondering when the bi big chief looked up youre gilbert yes sir alias ridder eha eh yes sir they were cold eyes very cold mostly to end the silence barry said 1 I suppose your son told you nobody told me ive known all about you for two months youve known 1 I heard my cifes talk with my son the day before we sailed through the alie door to my bedroom I 1 heard her invite him to southampton next morning I 1 arranged with willetts to give me a full report of his doings there and barry was thinking in monosyllables and in his first letter he mentioned your red hair barry grinned he also mentioned your t taking akin a hundred dollar bill out of an envelope addressed to mrs ridder ridden the grin faded you made a move that I 1 known about he waited why you lave ave me arrested because I 1 knew that my son was in prison accused of this murder I 1 read about that less than an hour after id satisfied myself that you my son jay rogers id had a man fol following lowin him all about florida the mans report agreed perfectly with the newspaper account of jay ro rogers ers 9 still what was I 1 to do sail the doctor said that was out of the question I 1 wired harwood rogers kill 1111 kelly find out who did twenty four hours later I 1 knew you were on tile globe and why and that sue succeeded in Inte interesting Win winslow stow TO BE CONTINUED |
