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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)
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CUNDAY
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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. All that he had or was or
hoped to be, every ounce of energy
and love, went into his pressing I
toward the goal unto the prize '
of the high calling of God in Christ
' Jesus."
I
Independence of Opinions
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the great man is he who in the >
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feet sweetness the independence of
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