Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-28
THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE
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NJ. Jonquelle, greatest of French
detectives, tells this story OF the
great criminal at bay-broughi
within grasp of the law by an i'll.
ness which paralyZed the lower par'
of his body and finally seized by
Nj. Jonouelle when a mysterious
telephone message from a woman
disclosed the criminals hiding place
in a luxurious English country
house.
But sthe criminal laughed cynical
ly when Jonquelle arrived. The
woman had telephoned at his direc-
ton. He knew he was about to die
and he wanted to tell his story. He
had met this girl in America, at Bar
Harbor, and saw that the d~issipated
Englishman, Westridge, was trying
to marry her for the money. The
criminals sense OF decency was out
ragged.
Go on with the Story
CHAPTER II
The invalid criminal lifted him
self on his great hands and turned
the whole of his body toward me.
sT tell you,' he shook the arms
of the chair in his great hands, the
thing begun to get my goat. Her
father. a lawyer in the South, was
dead. She had only the old Boston
grandmother Il heard the talk
among the women) and the coin
was getting scarce Your little Eng
ishman played in form, every point
correct, and he was goin' to get her.
81 seen it,
His voice became cold, level, ever
IKE a metallic click.
Now, my little gentleman I
said to myself, well just see If you
do! Right here is where "Alibi Az
sets in with a stack of blues
"I got up, folded my newspaper.
and took a turn up. and down the
veranda, as though I was trying out
INV game leg, an then I limped
down to the fashionable church just
across from the library.
81, stepped up inside the door"
He paused, and his voice changed
to it's FORMER note.
"You see I had 20 have a little
help on this job. It had a big, loose
end.
II went in and sat down in a pew.
II was dim and quiet and / got right
down to business. I didn't run in
any of the prayer-book curtain
raisers. I put the thing right up to
the boss.
".Now, look here. Governor I
said, has a helpless little girl got a
pull with you, or Is 1t bunk? Be
cause I'm agoin' to call you, and II
the line your bankers are putting
out is on the level, you've got to
come across with the goods. If
there's nothing to It, the govern
ment ought to shut 'em up on a
fraud order-Tm agoin' to carry
one end of this thing; get busy at
the other end!
Then I went out
eThat night I went over to see
little Westridge.
"He was surprised to see me
didn't understand 1t; he'd never met
in the social line.
"He was mighty formal, as you'd
say, but he didn't throw any slut
tering into Alibi Al. 1 set down,
Just as if the place belonged to me,
and I Waved a hand at him. I said
10 mysalf, You're a little piker; line
I'D and take what's coming to you
"But what I said out loud was
ike this:
"sCarrots has got a little bunch
IF stuff that's goin' to be wiped out
+ it amt covered
"That was her nickname among
The youngsters, because her blue
black hair in the sun had a heaven
" copper CLINT"
He looked mixed up. "'What,
precisely, do you mean?' he says.
81 didn't pay any attention to
him. I went on just as if he hadn't
said a word.
"sWomen's got no sense about
ousiness-she's agoin' to lose it.
close what?' he says.
"'Rotten the way they bring girls
up I says, the same as If he hadn't
Here's this steel bunch
beating the stuff down; her broker
wires for somethin' to cover it, an
she sticks the telegram up against
the lookin'-glass so she'll remember
to write to him next week-can you
beat it?'
81 saw everything that was goin'
through him, same as if you'd rolled
It out on the picture-reel.
1.-THE old friend, no manners,
darn the difference stuff, had hook
ed him. And there were two other
hooks: this girl had some property
that he didn't know Of, and the
friends OF the family. like me, was