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Synthetic Gentleman CHANNING POLlGCK COPVR<Grtt, CHAMIN6 POLLOCK WNU SERVICE fHlkPTER XII ? Continued El Mm Hamtadge wu "In." "Mummery r' ?Play acting," Rldder anappad. "I observed that you'd feathered your neat I waa wrong. Why didn't yon ?ay ao?" -I did." The eld man waa looking at Barry's check. * "Can yon write?" he asked. "I don't know." "Harwood thlnka yon can. He Jaat left here. He aaya you earned what we paid you. Well, you'd better go on earning It" "Ton mean I'm hired ? " "Hired r Rldder repeated. "Ton were hired two montha ago. Who ever flred you?" There didn't aeem to be any anawer to that "Mr. Rldder wanta yon to work with Jack," lira. Rldder remarked. "Keep an eye on him." "You're going to take Jack ? " "We're taking him home tonight And Peggy. We hope you'll come out sometimes." "I want Jack to carry on," Rldder declared, "when I'm through." He waa back at hla desk now, and fee looked up, almoat smiling. "Too aald I waa a tough bird," be told Barry. T heard you. Don't apolegice. The world needs tough blrda. Ton don't win battles with pigeons. Somebody's got to do a lit tle clear thinking. Somebody's got to know what he'a about We're a soft race. Coddled. Self-indulgent We need hard going and discipline." His voice waa crisp and sure. "What's the matter with thla young generation? It'a fathers had too much money. I was a tough bird because I knew the light Jack bad made, and I didn't help him. rd tried that hadn't I? The other way was my only chance to make a man of my aon." There was no lack of emotion In hla tone now. "And you. How did I know you weren't Just a cheap swindler? By lis tening to a lot of warm-hearted gen eralities? How did I know you weren't ? blackmailer ? until I saw you were going to give yourself up without squealing?" "Then you were play-acting?" "Not on your life. I was watching you like a bawk, but there waa a cop out there, and I thought you had a date with him, until I aaw your face when I asked you why you sent that wlre lesa to Mrs. Rldder." Again, he almost smiled. "There was a cop waiting behind that door, and a girl behind that one. A nice glrL I had to be sure I wasn't messing things up for her." He glanced at hla watch. "Four o'clock. You people hare got to get out of here. I can't spend the day being a sentimental idiot." "You're neither," Mra. Rldder said. "Neither what?" "Neither aentlmental nor an Idiot You're 'a tough bird,' but I like 'em that way." She was holding on to his arm wben Barry closed the big door behind them. Barry thought she was crying. "She Is my mother, after all," Barry thought "She's all the mother I never had." Be told Wlnslow most of It, late that nne afternoon. Peter sat at bis desk, looking rest less and tired, but happier than be had seemed In some time. "Pat said she was going to propose to you," he smiled. "Meant It, too ; we knew that Women are funny. Snooted you while things were going right, didn't she?" Barry laughed. "I was coming back for ber when I got out of jail." "Tour dope on the old man waa all wrong," Wlnslow commented. "Be haa been cold and hungry. Trucked on a dock once. And as to being 'nuts about anybody,' can't you see that's why be wefet Into reverse when the boy dis appointed him?" Be opened the right top drawer of his desk, probing Its inscrutable Jumble for something to plsy with. "loo had a close call, though. Kid der knew what he owed you. People forglTe what you do to them, but rarely what yon do for them." "You're done aa awful lot for me, all right" "Nenaenae I" The top drawer hadn't yielded any thing promising, and Peter picked up his little red magnet -It's all ended welt," he remarked; "eren for Lola Morano. Be cheated the chair, and thafa what be wanted to do." "I thought yon were so sure of his tanocence." "His innocence of this crime, yea," Peter answered. Then he rose and touched the mag net to hla thermometer. "When are you sailing?" "Wednesday," "Good lock," Barry said, extending hi* band across the desk. Peter turned to take It, freeing his own hand by trying to slip the magnet' over the hook from which the ther mometer hung. The magnet promptly fell Into the open deak drawer. "Damn!" Peter cxclalmed, probing again. He retrieved It, at last, from some where near the bottom of that astound ing accumulation of rubber bands, pen wipers, and what not Clinging to the metal, held by Its magnetic attraction, w^s another bit of metal. As Peter dropped the magnet onto hia desk, that other bit of metal de tached Itself, and fell almost at Bar ry's feet Barry picked It up, looked at It looked again, and then looked at Peter. Peter was staring at him. Barry took a notebook ont of his pocket "A 66152," he said. "Yes. that's Kel ly's latch-key." Peter nodded. "I must have thrown It here weeks ago, and forgotten It" Td throw It somewhere else now," Barry advised. "Somewhere Just a lit tle bit safer. Well, good luck, again, and good-by." He had reached the door when Peter said : "Walt a minute." Barry waited. "How long hare you known?" "That you killed Mike KellyT" Barry asked. "Since last Thursday. I was on the train coming In from Southampton, "I Doped That Out, Too." and I'd just read of Morano's death. ?One of my s aspects was guilty,' I thought 'Peter Wtnslow can't laugh that off.' " Be waa back In the room now. "I remembered." he went on, "how yon did laugh when I suggested Mo rano. And how sure you were that I was wrong about every one else. But you never said anything that mlght've started me on the right track. On the contrary, when I asked you If there was a Mrs. Kelly, you answered. 'Yes. She sued for divorce recently and with drew the case.' You'd Just read that In the Herald Tribune, and the same sen tence revealed that, at the time of the murder, Mrs. Kelly was In Har lem. But you didn't mention that WhyT Only one explanation occurred to me, and that was y?ur willingness to keep me on the trail of some one who couldn't possibly be convicted." Barry sat down again, the other side of the desk. "Go on," Peter urged. "I'm very much Interested." He was sitting, too, now. "My Interest" be continued, "I s strangely impersonal. Almost wholly professional, I think It is. That's very carious. I'm lost a criminal lawyer In terested In a crime." His weariness explained that, Barry thought As Hambldge had been, and Morano, and Barry himself when talk ing with Bidder, Peter Wlnslow was "glad It's over." "As a criminal lawyer," Barry said, "and a shrewd one, you'd be surprised to know how much you overlooked. Bits of evidence that fitted like a Jig saw puzzle the moment suspicion start ed anyone putting them together." "As for Instance?" Barry smiled. "You told me Morano phoned you at one o'clock the morning of the mur der to say that one of his girls was In Jail,' and would yon 'take the caae.' But Peggy wasn't In Jail, at one o'clock. She'd been released hours before, and Morano knew It I know that he did phone yon. What abontT Why. about Kelly's visit to the Cocoaaat Bar, ef course, and the threat of aomething in his pocket that was not only a menace to Morano bat Kelly's bold over JDdge Hambldge. A paper every one (Mined to want, and that had disappeared when the body was found. "What had that paper to do with 7 on? "If thli were a detective story, and 70a read It, you'd find twenty answers to that question. Judge Hambidl* said he cooldn't tell the truth because of a woman. Pat s&ld the woman was her dead mother. And, plainly, that had something to do with Moreno." He leaned forward across the desk. "I couldn't see any link between the two. And then I remembered that Pat's mother was your wife's sister. Pat told me her mother was 'brought up In a little town called Warrenton.' That meant your wife came from Warrenton, too. And Morano had told me he came from Fauquier county. I went to my atlas. Warrenton's In Fauquier county. There used to be a military school there. Mrs. Wlnslow ran away with her first husband while he was > cadet In a military school." Peter leaned forward, too. "And Morano ? " be began, tensely. "I don't know whether Morano went to a military school or not. "But George Selby did. "Morano and George Selby were the same man, weren't they?" It was after six o'clock now. The outside offices were deserted and silent But the noise of traffic drifted op from the street For almost a minute, that was the only sound In the room where these two men sat facing each other. Then Peter said, "Yes, they were the same man." "I was sure of It" Barry resumed. '"The papers reported that Selby was drowned in Philadelphia. But the body^ they Identified bad been In the water two weeks. Fresh water. So that Iden tification didn't amount to much. Violet Fane had told me Morano bought the house down town because he was 'mar ried onct' and he and bis wife lived there. The sob-story I dug out of the tabloids said Selby was 'blissfully happy' with his bride In a bouse he'd rented down town. Obviously, the qame house. Sentimental? Tea, but Morano was s sentimental cuss. So sentimental' that be might have died rather than have It discovered that your wife was really his wife." Barry saw Peter wince, but went on. "Of course, be had anether reason for resisting arrest ? that 'hot spot' with which Kelly threatened him. If Morano had been arrested, and finger printed. they'd've learned that he was George Selby, and wanted for murder. Morano made certain of that The 2:12 train he caugbt at the Penn sta tion went to Philadelphia. That's where be was all the next day ? checking up on the finger-prints taken when Selby was sent to the State penitentiary, and, perhaps, trying, through underground channels, to bave them removed from the files. "I bad the motive for the murder now. "Kelly knew Morano was Selby, and so that your wife was technically a bigamist That was the threat be beld over Morano, and Judge Hambldge. The threat tbat persuaded tbe Judge to write a 'crooked decision.' The pa per Kelly had in his pocket was s mar riage certificate, or something of the sort he'd found somewhere." "In an old trunk," Peter said; "in tbe house be bought at 24 Jefferson street." Barry nodded. "I doped that out, too. Both Morano and Hambldge had plenty of reason to kin Kelly. "But neither had as much reason at you had. "If you knew of tbe existence of tbat paper. "And you did, didn't you? That's where Morano's telephone message came In. That's why he called you up from tbe Cocoanut Bar. To tell you he'd seen the paper, and Kelly had It" "Right," Wlnslow said, simply. "My Inquiry was narrowing down to you and Morano. But how did either of you get In to Kelly? And then I remembered tbat, the day I first saw Mrs. Kelly, she came into tbat house and left her key In the door. I did the same thing this week. Anybody might Especially a drunken man. That would explain why the key wasn't on Kelly's body. It would explain bow our third caller entered while Kelly was talking to Judge Hsmbldge." "Right," Wlnslow repeated. (TO BE CONTINUED) S>U Mine Clau Totally unlike a coal mine, a salt mine la a perfect example of cleanll neaa and orderllnesa. observes a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Al though the mine la la full operation, neither workmen nor macblnea are to be aeen, for aalt mining consists of nothing more than a series of water pipes wblcb continually spray the aides of tbe mine wltb water nnder high pressure. Tills water, bringing wltb It tbe aalt from the walla of tke mine, falla to the bottom of the shaft. It la accumulated In reservoirs and tben pressed overhead where the aalt crystals are retained In large pana. About 120.000,000 pounds of aalt are extracted every year from the Sala burg mine In Austria, one of the moat famous In the world. CuUr Like Claapegae Just aa wine la the drink of France, so elder la tbe drink ef Normandy. This northern pert of France does not have aammera warm enough fer grapea, bat tbe gnarled apple trees which dot Its fertile countryside give U a nectar Just as sweet, and one that, prepared care fully, will sparkle and bubble like champagne. N'ormandy's greatest attraction Is Uont-Saint-Hlchel, which rlaea like a 1 great pyramid Just off the coaat Orig inally built as a fortification. It waa later made an abbey of tba Benedie- I tine fathers. I improved' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL CUNDAY L school Lesson Br REV. HAROLD L LUNDQUI8T. 6mi of tho Moody Blblo lutltulo of Chicago. ? WMUrn Niw*ptp?r Union. Lesson for October 11 BECOMING A CHRISTIAN LESSON TEXT? Act! llit-lt, Philip plans 3:7-19. GOLDEN TEXT ? Believe on the Lord Jeaus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.? Acts 16:31. PRIMARY TOPIC? Two Happy Pri soners. JUNIOR TOPIC? Heroes In Prison. INTERMEDIATE AND 8ENIOR TOP IC ? How May I Become a Christian. YOUNO PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC ? How to Become a Christian. The conversion of Lydia and her gracious growth into usefulness as a Christian is in striking contrast with the experience that Paul had with the demon-possessed damsel (Acts 16:16-18). A Satanic power of divination had made her profit able to unscrupulous men. Such men have not perished from the earth, and there are still those who make merchandise of silly and sin ful women. Paul commands the demon to come out of her and at once the issue is drawn. I. Christianity versos Crooked Business (Acts 16:22-24). As long as the missionaries were at the place of prayer and in the home of Lydia they were not dis turbed. But as soon as they touched the illegitimate gain of these "business" men who were making money from the misfortune of the poor damsel, bitter opposition arose. Cunningly combining the plea of false patriotism and anti-Semitism with the ever-potent argument that business was being hindered, they raised a hue and cry which re sulted in the beating and imprison ment of Paul and Silas (Acts 16:14 21). We live in another century, but men are the same. Let the church and its members only go through the motions of formal service and present a powerless religious phi losophy, and the world will applaud and possibly support its activities. But let the pungent power of the gospel go out through its life and ministry, and deliver devil - pos sessed men and women, let its God-given grace expose the hypoc risy and wickedness of men and there will soon be opposition. II. Down, bnt not defeated (w. 25, 26). The preachers landed in jail, beaten, bloody, and chained to the stocks. What a disgrace it would have been if they had come there because of their misdeeds. How ashamed we are when professed Christian leaders sin and fall into the hands of the law. But "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake" (Matt. 5:10). Little wonder that they forgot their bruises and their chains and began to sing and pray, even at midnight. Note that "the prisoners were listening to them." The words we speak, the songs we sing, our every action, speak either for God or against Him. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." As they pray God speaks, chains fall away, prison doors open. Men can lock doors; God shaikes them open. The jailer, cruel and bold when he put them into prison, but now in fear, is about to kill himself. But God has better thoughts con cerning him. Paul cries out, "Do thyself no harm" and he experi ences in. Salvation Instead of Saiclde (w. 27-34). Thank God for the earthquakes in our lives which bring us to him. The jailer, being rightly exer cised by God's dealings with him, asks the greatest and most im portant question that can ever ? come out of the heart of unregene- : rate man? "What must I do to be I saved?" Reader, have you asked this question? Then you, too, are ready for the answer, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." The closing verses of our lesson I present the personal testimony of Paul that he had surrendered IV. All for Christ (Phil. 3:7-14). All was but loss to him compared with what he gained in Christ. We speak of surrendering all for Christ, but as a matter of fact ; we lose only what is of no real | value and make infinite gain. Paul, as are all great followers i of Jesus Christ, was a "one thing" man. 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