Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-04-11


hand?
"Since both the modern magi, an
the learned doctor beside us agree as
to the cause Of death, should we not
accept it, and consider rather the only
detail remaining to be settled in this
unfortunate affair? Myself 1 should
like it to be cleared up quickly, as
plan to leave here so soon as 1t is. l
think 1t is Mr.. Heffy's duty to act with
despatch. At the presen' the innocent
are suffering with the the guilty from
suspicion and q curtailment of their
liberty"
"You talkin' about that emerald an
the idol?" Heffy demanded.
Precisely. Since we know the
cause of death, why consider it fur
ther? Your order against leaving
places us all in the attitude Of sus-
pected thieves"
The room had been filling up by de-
grees.
For some time had felt more than
one set of eyes turned on our table.
known to many of the guests, and they
easily connected the others of our
party with the events Of the night.
At Laredo's words which he had not
taken the trouble TO modulate at all,
our table BECAME the focus Of all with
in hearing. I saw several nod in ap-
proval of his words.
II think it's an outrage" came q
woman's sibilant speech from beyond
me. "It was that stupid house de.
tective who gave the order, of course.
Give a man like that little authority
and he'll abuse it."
"Well, well, my DEAR" her COM
panion rumbled. "You haven't the
wonderful stone, so don't fuss your
self"
"Just the same the dark gentleman
is right in his view in the matter. The
management has no right to tag us all
as suspects"
Heffy's face was growing into
dusky red. / caught his eyes and
knew he, too, had heard. "I'm goin'
to get action as soon as can," he de-
| clared to Laredo. "What'd'ye want
me to do? I'll listen to any dope you
got to hand out, saynor."
Laredo shook his head.
II do not wish to interfere.
merely thought we came together to
| discuss the situation. You will, Of
| course, look over the scene of the uR-
fortunate AFFAIR.""
"Sure," returned Heffy. "Im 60
In up there after breakfast, an want
Glace to go along"
"An' then what?" Laredos smile ap-
peared irritating to me.
| "Then if / don't find no trace of
them things up there, I'll come back
here and search this dump. TIL folks
can like it or not. I'm within my
rights, an l know it. / amt sayin'
who took it, but it didn't walk off by
itself An if it didn't maybe it's up
there.
at was dark last night, an the
folks was huntin' for men, not images
or sparklers. Maybe if there was a
sort of fight with snake up there,
the thing fell outen the professor 8
clothes an is lyin' around loose.
That's another reason why l sent Bill
up there to stand guard. He's a square
guy, that boy"
by Joye, / never thought of that,
muttered Dayton. Maybe there
hasn't been any robbery at all"
While they talked / had been think
ing There's more to it than that"
gave my opinion. IF your idea
were the right one, Heffy, what about
those two ten-dollar bills? Charley
got them somewhere and he didn't get
them for nothing. We ought to try to
find out where he did get them,
think"
"They were new ones,' Hefy said
Exactly, and an Indian wouldn't
carry them around in his pocket very
long and have them retain their fresh
ness, would he?"
Heffy shook his head. Nope
Charley wouldn't have carried them
long anyway"
Then probably he got them recent
ly from some one who either had just
received them or else carried them IN
bill fold" went on.
There's something funny about
| luc WHOlC ooiu AAShJ' -
know l think if we could find thai
green stone we'd have the key to the
whole works"
'"The key is contained in the image
of Quetzal," said Semi Dual.
We all looked up. He had ad
yanced down the room toward us, bu
so wrapped in our own conversation
had we become that l at least had moi
heard his approach. Now he stooo
slightly smiling beside the one vacant
seat at the table, his hand on its back
Good morning, gentlemen" he wen
on, drawing out the chair.
Heffy was watching him, all eyes
as he sank into his seat. Since Os
borne had met him in the hall the
detective was the only one who die
not know him by name. Dual" be
gan, this is Heffy, the hotel detect
i've"
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