The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-23
The House
Of Whispers
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WILLIAM
JOHNSTON
cepysishs By Elssls. Brown o Co.
CHAPTER xiv--contInued.
mfmserafians by
ERwTN MYERS


him steadily In the eye, but speaking
with slight tremor In her tones. /
wondered to what 1t might be due.
Was 1t because she feared the eonse-
quences of the revelation as to her
identity, or was 1t that she feared she
might be trapped by his questionsl
Now tell me, Mrs. Moore" he shot
at her explosively, "who really MUIR
dered Daisy LutanT
Henry Kent" she answered quick
BY, before the district attorney had
time to stop her.
What's thisl' exclaimed the Judge
What did you say?"
@ObJectl obJectl' vociferated the
district attorney, striving In vain to
catch the attention OF the Judge pre-
siding. McGregor apparently well
satisfied with the results Of his ques-
tion, stood there, smiling assurance
at me.
Young woman" directed the Judge,
will you kindly repeat your last
Observation-Disclosures. Who did you say
Alueu DalSy LGtanF
The girl turned to face the Judge.
Her HIPS were set as II she had deter
mined to carry out some fixed plan,
cost what 1t might.
Daisy Lutan," she repeated, "was
murdered by Henry Kent, who owns
the Granddeck. He's really orville
1ianders, the bank president who got
away with eight hundred thousand
dollars and was sent up for seventeen
years."
There was a comm0tion In the rear
OF the courtroom, A dapper little old
gentleman with neatly trimmed white
uhiskess rose hastily and made a
dash for the door. German, who had
been sitting behind him, sprang after
him and pinioned him by the arms:
Nothing doing, Granders. rye got
you
Wick, sitting up near the counsel
table, at the same time showed evil
dence that he, too, was contemplating
hasty fight, but husky chap whom
! suspected OF being one Of Germans
aides, seized him, too.
Your honor" cried my counsel, 81
demand the issuance of warrants at
once for orville Granders, alias Henry
Kent, and his confederate, James VIII
son, alias James Wick and 'Stuffy
Jim, on the charge OF having muir
dered Daisy Lutan and Rufus CASTOR.
1 further urge the immediate release
OF my client, Mr.. Spaldlng Nelson, in
my custody. Testimony that we al
ready have obtained VIII establish
that he was an innocent victim of the
dastardly plots Of these two ex.con-
victs.n
The reaction that came from this
sudden clearing OF my name left me
In a puzzled daze from which | hard
~ recovered until late that evening.
when, once more free, I found myself
Ia the CASTOR apartment. Granders,
his tool Wick, and practically every
employee OF the Granddeck were un-
der arrest, and warrants were out for
other members of the band whose
identity had been revealed by the for
mer telephone girl.
And there in the apartment with me
were my mother, German, McGregor--
and to my surprise and delight, Bar.
bara Bradford. After her sisters
wedding, 1t appeared, Barbara's moth.
er had gone away for a brief rest,
leaving her alone in the apartment
with the servants. She had welcomed
the opportunity to work undisturbed
Oh the mystery that had landed me he
hind the bars. Thinking that at Rufus
Gaston's funeral she might pick up
some clue that would be OF service in
unrayellng the tangled skein that held
her and me together, she had gone
thither, and seeing my mother there
and suspecting at oRce who she might
be, had introduced herself. Quickly
they had become good friends and she
was who had informed my mother
of my plight.
Present also with us, despite the
Iateness Of the hour, was the district
attorney and two of his aides, and
Nellie Kelly, or as she much preferred
to be called, Mrs. Moore. The girl was
technically prisoner, but her services
In bringing the real criminals to book
had been so exceptional that she had
been released on her own recogniz-
anee. Hither she had been brought
that the district attorney might check
up with her the marvellous tale of
criminal conspiracy that she had I'M
folded TO my, counsel In the brief re-
cess of the court thai day.
orville Granders, Il appeared. had
been the master-mfnd that had direct
ed all the plotting. A score of years
before be had been president of one
Of the metropolis biggest banks. He
had been discovered to have embez-
sled nearly a million dollars. He had
been tried and sentenced to seventeen
years Imprisonment, but no one ever
had been able TO find what he had
done with the money, so safely had he
hidden II away.
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