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At the request of Geneva Beast,
. - daughter of Captain Benat in
of a float of obaolate vaaaala
lying at anchor la tha Cbesapcaka,
Donald Colby, an axooldlar,
take* tha job as watchman, despite
tha fact that three predecessors
have mysteriously disappeared. Aa
' Colby, Geneva, and Dntton, another
watchman, approach the
~lfonticello,a* on which the (irl
lives with her father, three shots
and a scream rent the air. The captain
! not aboard. Colby and
Hears, watchman of the "Mount
Vernon." find him in a cabin of that
ahip, dying from a bullet wound.
Asked who shot him. the captain's
eyes turn to the figure of a dead
man sprawled on the staircase fiekrby.
Suddenly, a sound issues from
ths passageway., Mears douses his
flashlight. A figure appears and
Colby tackles It. A jet of flame
spews forth and In its light Colby
la stunned to see the features of
Genera. Why was she oo the
"Mount Vernon" end why had aha
fired " the eutometfc? The girl
claims she thought be was *^he
'there." Colby snaps "Don't lie I
You knew we were going to eearch
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Somewhat unsteadily, the girl
Eushed a strand of bobbed chestnut
air from across her eyes and got
to her feet and stood looking at Donaid
Colby's grim figure, "what has
bapper -d? ., Calmly enough, she
switched on n flashlight of her own.
Colby-stepped aside, watching her
closely. "I suppose since you have
taken soeh pains you may as well
see." *
Once by him she halted and Colby
saw her flashlight beam waver and
drop until it encountered the gray
waste ittip ox Captain Beset?
who, forgotten in the turmoil, itiH
lamped, eilently dying in the. oak
.. panellod passag?.> ??
V "Ok.srity Genera Beset
reaped aa people reap whan a bullet
strike* them In a rifesT spot.
"Connolly I" _ The tweed clad figure
. aped forward and knelt at the aide
of -the strieken man.. "Connolly I
.-.Hare they hurt you eery hadly? Say
that they haeanT."
W Connolly, indeed. Colby's features
ware leaner than1 over whea
ha stepped lightly back into the
shadows and, poised somewhat like
aa old time gun fighter, studied the
y shadow ruled grand staircase be<
r yond. Mean, strangely uoeroo;
lions!, kept his light fixed on the
,*f vw.. . oddly-assorted couple.
-V ^ "Talk, please talkl" The girl
\plmded in fearful earnestness,
v- ^Don't die, for God's sake, don't
diii Who shot you?was it Colby?
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" -At thfit moment Captain Benet,
who apparently had another name
j. I as well, most hare-died, for all at
once his body.went limp and rolled
sidewise, untidy bald bead coming
'\\\ uglily to rest oa"*?ha floor beside
the horrified girl's knee. /It seemed
x-.' impossible that anybody 'could turn
? so pals as Genera Benet aad yat
?/ . . , keeo their senses.i I .
"You did this," she flung at Colby
. In jerky, metallic accents. "I ought
" *?!" to "have known?you'd ba one of
?- vi' them!"
"You're crazy " Colby aaid, then
li' *?> added with acid bmtality."He's
5* "?V - dead, so quit mctingjand-getrup^-'
i .J:. VV ,there's a'lot to be-done." v;.*v ?<?.
s-' r jSt// * The girl raised, a fabe'blank uw
"for hi Iter stating erea.\Ck>lbyynight
& > hare spoken in Chinees for all .the
T< effect.
"Yoo-^-you murdered himl" 8h?
V- J' - shivered as . though ' suddenly
- v. '. stripped bar*.
? - . "You made a neat job of getting
me here," rasped the gaunt figure
v' in the military tunic, "but now that
I are here I'm going to run things.
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V.rj. Geneva Benet stared emptily at
. "him, then her ayaa wandered
0, ,vaguely to Meara just befon she
N'M * ' crumpled sidewiaa.
i-ii V "She's fainted." Meara grunted,
fv " He also said7?*Ohl" because he
found he waa looking down the bar's
V l-- ,V rtl of Colby's AtT^Hey, what's the
t'-~AT' idea7" r . - '>ks& v "
"Drop that gun. Pronto
"Who the devil are you, anyhow?"
Mean, towering over the straightIV.
backed ez-eoldler. anarUd aad gathpi
ssed hhnsalf. ,
jsj ^ "Drop that gen!- Staccato as
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'v-v, i'""; not^ guilty of j? charge of at- tr
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High" Point, who - bad -prevloiialy -*
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by Van Wyck Masor
a machine gun's rsport came Colby's
command.
The watchman's satomatie clattered
to the hardwood floor.
"Okav, wise guy, okay," Mean
snapped. "This aint over yet-"
MYoo gild the lOy of obvionaness,"
Colby remarked as he retrieved th?
other's weapon and then stood dominating
the three prostrate figures.
More Indian-like than ever, he
jerked his head towards the mas
on the stair top.
"Go over and look at him."
The watchman obeyed.
"Know him?"
"No," came the sullen reply.
"Never laid eyes on the guy."
"Are yon sure?" ,
Mears lipa revealed strong and
prominent teeth in an nnpleasant
smile. "Prove that I hare. Wise
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, "Yon did thie," ah* flans at C
"How could he have got on
board?"
"How would I know? Maybe yoa
jot a better idea yourself."
"You're sure yoa haven't aeen
hhn before?"
"No." Bat an indefinable instinct
warned Colby to doubt the denial.
"Pick op Miss Beset and take
her to her quarters. . Whhn yoa return
yonll set your' sun back, ac
don't bother to hunt np knother.
All I want is to stay alive. Sea?"
Meant relaxed a little. "Okay."
"Incidentally, you can tell Dutton
I'm holding him reaponsible foi
keeping her there," said 'this remarkable
yopns man. "If he let*
her out of hla sight 111 beat thi
eternal trip* out of him." . f
Meara silently gathered Geneve
Benet's alight, long-legged flgurt
inta Me arma' anH rat.V** ?>"
with her bright loosened heir swey
iagever ems jerseyed arm., >
' Had she really fainted or had ht
success! ally thwarted a clever ruse'
Uolby had no time to ponder th<
question, irreplaceable seconds wert
ticking by and a nagging premoni
tion of danger wool a not lea re him
Out of caotion, be darted into thi
barber.ahop which opened onto I
deck and watched Mean carry hi
1 burden acroaa the gangplank to th
MonMoeJla. Than, and only then
did "Colby wheal and, silent aa i
leopard on the prowl, dart back t>
the landing where Genera Benet*
abandoned flashlight atfll attempt*
to Jlipnss As gloom.
"First ha bnrnedly ransacked Cap
tain -BanaVs pockets and in than
found a large dagger knife and I
watch marked D. Coanolly. Ala
on this -intereating old man's pax
on. he disoorered a blackjack an
a handful of .4S caliber buReta. Od4
tinea his death, the murdered ma:
had shrivelled into a creature twic
en convicted, of reckless drlvln
idge Armstrong Imposed a eu
snded sentence of six months, a?Bi
[ %2S antf *costa,and ordered Coo
rpexvof knOther ?ar involved In3
oagXy entered' the defends:
Mjiate Injappeertng was dlscBarg*
Jim | payn5eot. of tbs^ capias , ^oat
Prayer fpriodgtnent wag eontlnin
?*;tho^ September. 14'.term in' tv
tber.. cases, - those of Rolaod .Sai
fla. High Point white man, and B
lford.. High Point Negro. , ; >..
SmhuelJi. charred ' with' hurglet
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[ MYSTERY'
as old a* he had previously aeoMid.
Next he ringerly opened the r'-irt
- front and narrowly inspected the
two wound*, and aa be did *o hi*
i breath entered with a sharp his* of
' surprise. One was raned, much
' larger and different in shape from
i Ita precise little fellow.
Having completed a harried inI
spection. Colby transferred his ati
tention to the eorpee of the unknown
i man. He was middle- aged, tall and
i thin with stiff iron gray hair and
lay clutching a small Lager automatic
pistol. A foot or eo away a
spent cartridge ease winked like a
tiny evil eye The dead man wure
a neat, gray serge salt which bed
recently gotten eery dusty end
marked with occasional streaks of
rust. A bullet, planted squarely
between the stranger's eloee set blue
eyes did net by eny mean# bnp^gve
lolby in jerky metallic accents.
his looks. A email, red-blue bole
in the forehead seldom does.
"And now let's sen what's on
yon, my led," Colby mutteryd and,
after sweeping the snrroundings
with his flashlight, rolled over the
sawing corpse.
, . , So Mean didn't know who this
was," he mused, "or said he didn't."
' - Maintaining a sharp study of the
landing and its surroundings, he
, rummaged hurriedly through the
1 pockets, pocketed the contents and
then gazed down into the dead
1 man's shsrp, strongly modelled fea'
tares. It was neither a stupid nor .
- an ngly face, but somehow vaguely
l sinister just the same. Two old
scars, parallel to each other, and
a nick off the top of the left ear
i afforded ideal items for identiftca>
tion. dj
, - "Urn?must have been a univse
aity man," Colby reflected.
C Boarding an interesting train of
| thought, ba want quietl yback into
[ the dim and tpaeious smoking room
> to briefly cut hia flashlight about.
> Hal Tfae gleam of metal eanght
his eya... Ita origin proved to be a
abort crowbar?better known an a
| jfanmy?and beside H lay a wood :
5 chlseL Had they been brought here
1 to ateal aooa lovely old panel or
1 aome handsomely carved mantel; er
w for what otter pnrpoee? It waa
i thai other purpose that bothered
him.
? Thoagh he played his flashlight
quickly on the ma Rial piece and the
panelling, he found nothing nag.
- and a row of eorpulsnft nymphs
1 grinned down at him ahnoat da-'
? riahraly. What the devil had been
? going on? What, for instance, bad
T Wears bee. doing just prior t* tta
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g, I pleaded guilty to forcible treapa
I while Alford pleaded guilty of re
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Soldiers Report Stickups
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!af ^OPrlTate Iaodore . Becker told
lice fit- Charlotte, that two Ne,
at men held him up at 2 a. m. Snturr
sd and "robbed him.. of- 18. ^ Prir
*T, Brondloun Pletrzykawskl repor
that mlmut 2:30 a m: he Van h
po up In the aame neighborhood by 1
n- Negroes, who robbed him.
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Mr. Matthews Stricken
Robert Matthews, 80, died at bis
home at 706 Macon street here at
2:90 a. m. Saturday following IIIneee
of about six weeks. Fiineral
was held Monday at 4 p. m. at Hargett's
chapel with Iter. G. W. Hargett
la charge. Burial was In
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