The Pulaskian., 1920-08-12
B WILLIAM JOHNSTON
Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS
Copyright by Little, Brown & Co. CHAPTER xlV-contInued.

with a slight tremor in her tones. wondered to what it might be due. Was it because she feared the conse- ouences of the revelation as to her I identity, or was it that she feared she might be trapped by his questions? "Now tell me, Mrs. Moore" he shot at her explosively, "who really mur- dered Daisy Lutan?"
 "Henry Kent" she answered quick ly, before the district attorney had | time to stop her.
 "Whats this?" exclaimed the judge. 'What did you say?"
 a0bject! objectw vociferated the district attorney, striving in vain to catch the attention of the judge pre- siding. McGregor, apparently we'll satisfied with the results of his ques- ton, stood there. smiling assurance at me.
 "Young woman," directed the judge, Twill you kindly repeat your last tatement-louder. Who did you say killed Daisy Lutan?"
 The girl turned to face the judge. Her lips were set as if she had deter mined to carry out some fixed plan. cost what 1t might.
 Daisy Lutan," she repeated, twas murdered by Henry Kent, who owns the Granddeck. He's really Oryille Granders, the bank president who got away with eight hundred thousand dollars and was sent up for seventeen years"
 There was commotion in the rear of the courtroom. A dapper little old
 gentleman with neatly trimmed white
 whiskers 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. I've got
 you"
 Wick, sitting up near the counsel table, at the same time showed eyi- dence that he, too, was contemplating nasty flight, but a husky chap whom suspected of being one of Germans aides, seized him, too.
 Your honor." cried my counsel, ''I demand the issuance of warrants at
 once for 0rvllle Granders, alias Henry
 Kent and his confederate, James Will
 son, alias James Wick aad 'Stuffy Jlm, on the charge of having mur-
 dered Daisy Lutan and Rufus Gaston.
 further urge the immediate release
 Of my client, Mir. Spalding Nelson, in
 my custody. Testimony that we al-
 ready have obtained will establish
 that he was an innocent victim of the
 dastardly plots of these two ex-con-
 victs."
 The reaction that came from this
 sudden clearing of my name left me In puzzled daze from which I hard iy recovered until late that evening, When, once more free, I found myself Tn the Gaston apartment Granders, Ills 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 ner telephone giii.
 And there in the apartment with me were my mother, German, McGregor- and to my surprise und delight, Bar para Bradford. After her sisters wedding, it appeared, Barbara's moth CT had gone away for brief rest, 'eaVlng her alone in the apartment With the servants. She had welcomed she opportunity to work undisturbed On the mystery that had landed me be- nlnd the bars. Thinking that at Rufus Oaston's funeral she might pick up some clue that would be of service in uhfaYeling the tangled skein that held. nef and me together, she had gone 'nither and seeing my mother there, and suspecting at once who she might ue, had introduced herself. Quickly 'ney had become good friends and she was who had informed my mother Of my plight.
 Present also with us, despite the 'aleness of the hour, was the district attorney and two of his aides and e'eille Kelly, or as she much preferred U ne called, Mrs. Moore. The girl was secnnieally prisoner. but her services .u bringing the real criminals to book aaa been so exceptional that she had "eeh released on her own recogniz- aiiee' Hither sue had been brought 'nat the district attorney might check up With her the marvellous tale of .',aiinal conspiracy that she had un- s0'ueu to my counsel in the brief re Ness or the court that day.
 orville Geanders. 1t appeared, had sseh the master-mind that had direct " w all tue plotting. A score of years ss'ore he had been president of one .he metropolis biggest banks. He au heen discovered to have smhez- 'su nearly million dollars. He had
 se'' Tried and sentenced to seventeen
 s'is Imprisonment, but no one ever saa been able to find what ne had ane With the money. so safely had ae