The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-04

.H| ..N|'t" W. ~
u" ...f and protests "he had nolhihg
Win what's In dcrc.
L. t.g floor of room lles man IN
! ..r. ..Hfucs IN" front OF whose thlI'
..I u.,n blood and within touch oi ms
S>f...a huge army rcvolvV' The table Is
t.r fUl with champagne on ice, stili
t.l W., house is empty ot human
,.... Str Alexander, partner IN business
:. .. dead man. aud uncle 10 hs wue,
.. ..tiuL he has been summoned hv
~ Nfs CrcvclinE app"ats also.
.... f..y nor the servants, who later
"... can throw light On the affair
a.. ..t,Inr insists on engaging tho bost
d', .'...'n.re tho case TO Terhunc rri-
3D.. .....t.to. tho police Inspectors aH-
,., ..Iu-rsscs the finding ~ blood
s... having card and ~ hts search
-, t.. f.Yms upstairs II would be tir"
o. .-r.fi mat Information 10 the private
,.r when ho had first laid the facts
'a... ..a hsrn a quarrel between Dous
d.. ,..... and Tho dead man WaverlN
t,H .,t the house IN "a rage petcctiV"
,....,. a.,I. out Dennis Biprdon. who
,. ....I Interest IN his visitor ee ho
.,.s l.B .utIr on the sidewalk with a cIat-
{ And here it continues:
\ .yyr.t'" hc exclaimed with avid
i,,. uI. there something big on down
a.; b,Iiuunrtcrs that tho Inspector
has l.pu after asking you to lend a
t,,8 .rH There's been nothing in
,re ualurs barring holdups that
would make DICK T1rpin blush Ike
an au1IruraH---,'
"lf f.,rc was you'd never know
d. of,r you've satisfied yourself
tra, the championship is stul safe
f,r democracy and the Giants are not
dOve.upug sleeping sickness, the
news OF the day H. finished far you.
Nl.C9rfv observed with fine scorn.
"a, fH~ my resignation fropI the
,,rec Iu have you know that it's
he,n temporarily handed back TO me
and That fellow out at Homcvaic
can toot away TIL he's black in the
face for all I care! I'm back on
,lc jub again"
What is it, Mac" Dennis tonc
was scpulchral from suppressed cN-
yitmout.
"Why lidut you let me know?
vas ar last night"
OF didn't know il myself til |
rahhod ia Young sccond-story worker
c1mtrs ONT of the window of one of
Aoso grand houses across the park
Ju,k,g than ever he went in and
learned what hc'd found there,
'Twas the body Of the owner. him
they used 90 call 'M!liion-a- month
Crrvc'iug along Broadway, with a
bullet 800 his heart and Il A beside
him.
M-Cl-ty detailed his nocturnal oN-
peuou.y and Dennis listened with
l4trd breath 10 the point where.
Wh.,g %. search Of tht upper rooms
ly his crony and Inspector Druct
was progressing. the shadow had APP
reared behind thcm on the stair
case. Then he could contain him
self uo longer.
"HnN mothcr," he calculated.
"Wts .t % ghost or the murderer
himself. do you think, Mac?"
Whoever 1t was, twas no ghost,
DENNY as you'N SEQ later McCarty
a,ar,1 THE drawers Of the desk
r tns h0usckcoper's room We're
locked aud when | lifted the end
and shook IL ! could hear something
h,agl like books, sliding around
inside, ! noticed, too, that the locks
themselves were rusty Mind that.
Thor. We're no keys in thv room
though wo looked everywhere, so
IA. INSPECTOR ana | beat 1t down
o. tHr study once more where clan
DN WAS waiting with the dicks from
bu.Y.sh headquarters. They all
SAID they hadn't been back upstairs
a-alu and the Inspector bIddcd me
about hearing things, but / couldn't
s't o.. Thought of that shadow out
20, uE mind, dyd as soon rs | could
] slipped awaS and up TO CrcvcI-
iIr.s room once more; the sound
Thought ! heard when we were ON
the upper floor seemed TO come
from there.
Everything looked Just the same
10 90 al 1.nf /.
went over 10 have a second look at
the Little drawer with the spring
lock lu the desk thcro wcrc new
marks on it uycrlaying those our
hnE'rs had made; whoever h.. ! fol-
loved us Wore gloves, as YOU could
gee plain from the oil the desk had
been rubbed up with. Ghosts don't
wear gloves. Denny"
Then who---?"
went over the same ground
IRON room to room that Ia been
tHT"'lA with the inspector only a
d le" minutes bstorc, but | didn't find
: anything else til l came to the
q h"As'h''p'rs room again" McCar-
y continued, unhcediug the inter-
tuIuon, The locks on the desk
1sn'I' Wei" shiny and dripping with
I'Sh OIL and when | lifted il it was
hEhier and nothing slid around in
s.' ssl' somebody had slipped up be-
Hluu MS and opened the drawers OF
.~.h - 'N" desks, taking out whatever
inside; somebody who knew
NOV Z" work that spring lock.
uHn I tTd hide nor hair Of
hA., though, and ia upset and
CC.oH' Il bottle of perfumcry in Mrs.
N,,rFe"asS room, bad luck to i'll
~ men ] got back down to tho study
s'" Smitod 1t on me and | doubt
'3, Ne LOST the smell Of IL yett''
%, ne went on, telling Of the arrival
~ george Alexander, the valet. nm.
'''s ~" u discovery of the bloodstalued
"a uruHt under the tapestry on
SS.' 'ihIH and the return of Mrs,
butler. '"c cooh ana
And all you've got to 90 on"
J,"".7 summed u tor him, lis the
', Yuher mOuthpiece the other
sr5 L"d smoked with the lone card
,b DN ,H' marks Of gloHcd fingers on
''' H'sH upstairs"
H.. N.' quite. I'm asking myself n
v' Questions Denny. for tborc's
v.., " look sometimes or a chance
IN man in all the fingerprinrs
H. .'' world, For instance. whats
Cr. tween that valet and Mrs
Tt ,'ht uncle. George Alexander
- 'iI'd their best to slim away
t,,, Hl'le ooufab together, but
ny eye on hem: there's some.
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