Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-18
WHO'S WHO IN TIE STORY
Copyright by Dodd. ,

James Kent, q lllAiA WIN 40 AAA6S
eiuabie temper and an unsuccessful IL
n for Rice's most recent purchase
u. valuable book worth Soe-vuo. 1nls
Uools is missing, as well as one Of me
Wedding presents-a o0A containing
Faith. Rices daughter. admits the
tealousy OF her cousin.
Donald MaXson, who Is reported
drowned a. . beach NEARBY, eut VINO -
-nder the suspicion q 49,,
John BARLEY. CRIME detector ana
best friend Of the murdered man. lie
Is assisted by
Dunn. town detective. and BY
Hall and Wells, two detectives ~lo
we're in the house at the time or the
murder. hired to guard the wedding
Peit. friend Of BARLEY, narrates the
In Search Of maxson
As l drove back to the resort. !
ran over in my mind what he had
told me. on the face Of H. there
seemed nothing OF value. That he
should have known young MaNson
was not SO strange. That they had
cxpcc.ed TO 20 camping the day
Maxson was drowned was little
unusual, but one OF those coin
cidences, however, that crop up
once in a while. The loss of his
beat seemed to mean little. Then all
at once something BARLEY had said
flashed into my mind. ! gave little
whistle and almost ran over dog
that was IN the street.
BARLEY had said it was an even
chance that the young man was not
crowned at all. He had limited that
Maxson had simply gone somewhere
to hide during the wedding. True.
there was another angle to consider.
He might have stolen the money
and he might even nave killed his
uncle. | knew the chief had tho half
idea he was guilty of murder. If SO.
then he would have gone away. The
thought came. suppose lie had stolen
the boat. lie could have walked
across the little neck OF ground that
divided the ocean from the bay.
Then it would have been simple
enough to swim out to the boat and
in the fog he would not he seen.
Something of the kind must have
taken place, for drowning would not
explain what had happened to the
package that he took to the bath
house. If lie had been drowned
while bathing. the package should
have been in the bath house. All at
once, | decided perhaps BARLEY was
nearer right than l had supposed
when he suggested that maybe the
young man was not drowned
But if ne had gone away. then
understood how difficult ii would nc
for him to make people think he did
not know OF his uncle's death. If
he was alive he was in for a dis
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