The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
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cheap hotel in Grafton. Police
fiNd woman's handkerchief and
the yellow stub Of . theatcr
ticket.
JIMMY RAND, his son, goes TO
Mansfield, where the theater II.
The stub Is traced to THOMAS
FOCARTY, politician, who says
he gave IL to OLGA MAYNARD,
a cabaret singer.
Jimmy meets and falls in love
with MARY LOWELL. Later he
encounters Olga. She faints in
his arms when she learns police
wAnt her for murder. Mary, out
with SAMUEL CHURCH, a veal.
thy lawyer, sees them and mis-
understands.
Olga tells police the stub and
handkerchief might have come
into possession of a man who
picked her up" two nights be-
fore the murder. Jimmy receives
several mysterious warnings to
leave Mansfield, but ignores
them. Later be IL attacked at
night by two men. He escapes,
after seizing blackjack from
one of them.
With Jimmy and Mary es-
tranged, Church presses his ad.
vantage and gets Mary's promise
to marry him. Mary tells Jimmy
this when they meet. Jimmy, try
ing to hurt her, accuses her Of
marrying for money.
lie goes out that evening with
Olga, "trying to forget" They
are walking along the street
when she sees the man she had
been looking for, sitting in an
automobile. Jimmy recognizes
him as one Of the men who had
attacked him.
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CHAPTER XIV
The two Of them stood transfixed
for a moment, staring at the face in
the automobile window. The man was
sitting on the right of the driver. He
was looking straight ahead.
And then. just as the, car began to
his scattered wits together prcpara-
ming board, the man turned and saw
them.
He jumped. and turned to his COM
panion and whispered something in
bis ear. The automobile shot ahead
with grinding of gears. Jimmy
could see the mamie was wearing
a cap pulled down tightly on his head
snap back in his scat as the car
lcapcd forward.
"A taxi!" Jimmy yelled. grabbing
Olga by the hand and fairly pulling
her with him toward the cab stand
few steps ahead.
He pushed her roughly into the
first one at hand. "Follow that car,
he saaid to the astonished driver.
"That green sedan. Step on it-hc's
trying to give me the Slip"
He shouted in the drivers car, after
closing the door behind him, "Tcn
dollars if you don't let him get away!"
Olga moved up close to him, white
of face and nervous.
X "rm afraid. Jim She clutchcd his
arm. 'I'm afraid"
"This is what we've been waiting
for" he answered, patting her hand.
Don't go to pieces now. There's
nothing to be afraid Of. Pm going
to hail the first policeman l see and
take him along. I'm only afraid
they'll get away from US in this traf-
fic." a3 =. ~ 9aaa
He thanked his lucky stars for the
driver they had CHANGED upon. The
cab was weaving. in and out OF the
lane Of automobiles almost like a
football runner in the open field.
Never once did they lose sight OF the
car ahead .of them, and to Jimmy IT
seemed that the distance between
them was being perceptibly cut down.
They carecned around q corner. the
sudden turn knocking him out Of his
seat and slamming Olga up into the
corner.
He laughed as Olga helped him
scramble back to his scat. do you
know who that man was, we saw in
that carr" he asked her.
"No-only that it's the man / went
out with that night. The same man
I told you and Lieutenant O'Day
about"
"Wcll. it's the same man | had the
fight with that night-one Of the men
who followed me home. didn't get
q good look at the other fellow in
the car-the man at the wheel-bpt
I wouldn't be surprised It it was the
man who was with him that night"
"Oh, Jim, I'm nervous-I'm afraid
afraid of what? Good Lord, girl,
don't talk like that when the answer
to this whole mystery is almost in
our hands," He clenched his fists.
IF / get my hands on that man I'll
get the truth out Of him If have
to choke it out"
SIN afraid of what they'll do to
you, Jim, if we do catch up with
them. They'll shoot you; they'll do
anything to get away"
They had left the brightly lighted
downtown district behind and were
racing through dark streets in shah
by residential neighborhood
"Not q cop in sight" muttercd jim.
my, "and we haven't time to stop and
look for one"
The driver shouted at him through
the open window at his back. Say
brother, what do you de-. when you
catch these dudes :" :.
"Hold them until we can get cop
Jimmy shouted back. 49,.
"Count me out. Pm not holding
ANYBODY that don't want to be held
They may be tough boys. .don,'
want to get plugged"
"There, you heard what he said,
Olga cautioned Jimmy. "Ihey'A
shoot if you try to stop thcy: :,
"We're gaining on them" he said
having no attention to her warning
"They're less than half blocl
| ahead. Step on i, driver he callct
through the window. -,
She's all the way down now, bud
d.. Amt we gaining fast cnougf
! to suit you? Who's there!" ~
slammed on the brakes. "Look y
'em now"
The green sedan had to
sudden stop alongside the cup. Twt
men jumped out and ran straight To-
the house in front Of which they
| had stopped. Jimmy saw them cu'
across the lawn and disappesr int
the darkness Of the front porch,
The taxi jolted to . stop, and jim.
my hoped out.