Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-11-04
The House
Of Whispers
By
WILLIAM
JOHNSTON
Illustrations by
IRWIN MYERS
Copyright By Little, Brown & Co.
CHAPTER xIV-Continued.

II have" she answered, looking at
him steadily in the eye, but speaking
with a slight tremOr in her tones. l
wondered to what it might be due.
Was it because she feared the conse-
! quences of the revelation as to her
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 muir
aered Daisy Lutan"
Henry Kent" she answered quick
", before the district attorney had
time TO stop her.
whats this?" exclaimed the judge.
What did you say?"
"Object! object" 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-
ton, stood there, smiling assurance
at me.
Young woman" directed the judge,
will you kindly repeat your last
Observation-Disclosures. 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 it might.
DAISY Lutan," she repeated, twas
murdered by Henry Kent, who owns
the Granddeck. He's really Orville
Granders, the bank president who got
away with eight hundred thousand
dollars and was sent up for seventeen
years."
There was a commotion in the rear
Of the courtroom. A dapper little old
gentleman with neatly trimmed white
whiskers rose hastily and made
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 evil
dence that he, too, was contemplating
hasty flight, but husky chap whom
suspected of being one Of Germans
aides, seized him, too.
"Your honor" cried my counsel, ~
demand the issuance of warrants at
once for Orville Granders, alias Henry
Kent, and his confederate, James Will
son, alias James Wick and 'Stuffy
Jim,' on the charge of having MUIR
dered Daisy Lutan and Rufus CASTOR.
l further urge the immediate release
Of my client, Mr.. 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 a puzzled daze from which / hard
when, once more free, found myself
In the CASTOR apartment. Granders,
his tool Wick, and practically every
employee CT the Granddeck were I'M
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 it appeared, Barbara's moth
err had gone away for a brief rest,
leaving her alone In the apartment
with the servants. She had welcomed
the opportunity to work undisturbed
on the mystery that had landed me be-
hind the bars. Thinking that at Rufus
Gaston's funeral she might pick up
some clue that would be of service in |
the tangled skein that held |
her and me together, she had gone |
and seeing my mother there, |
and suspecting at once who she might |
be, had introduced herself. Quickly |
they had become good friends and she |
It was who had informed my mother
Of my plight.
Present also with us, despite the
attorney and two of his aides, and
Nellie Kelly, or as she much preferred
10 be called Mrs. Moore. The girl was
prisoner, but her services
n bringing the real criminals to book
had been so exceptional that she had
been released on her own recogniz-
ance. Hitler she had been brought
that the district attorney might check
10 with her the marvellous tale of
conspiracy that she had I'M
folded to my counsel In the brief re-
less of the court that day.
Orville Granders, It appeared. had
,een the master-mind that had direct
ID all the plotting. A score of years
before he had been president of one
If the metropolis biggest banks. He
lad been discovered to have embez-
lied nearly a million dollars. He had
,een tried and sentenced to seventeen
ears Imprisonment, but no one ever
lad been able to find what he had
lone with the money, so safely had he
hidden II away.
In his long years in prison, associ-
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