The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-03-12
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| "He lied to you. them" Jimmy de-
clared. "Divis was with Jensen the
/ night Jensen and I had that little
mixup. He was the fellow l told you
about that came running up after
ward with a gun"
"Good Eord!" ODay spit savasely
into the cnspidor. "And we let him
COY"
"You remember, Lieutenant, I de-
scribed the man as a fellow with y
/ turc in the Bcrtillon room.''
"Sure. But we didn't have it.
The Kids never had anything proved
on him. But how could we know,
Rand? Believe me, we got lot Of
guys with broken noses when we
started pulling in the boys we
thought could steer US onto Ike
| Jensen"
Barry Colvin laughed. II imagine
so. Nice boys--all Of them
Jimmy said: well. I'd bet my
last nickel that Kid Divis was the
man who was with him that night.
/ wish we had him now
! SWELL look for him, Rand. I'll
start right away" ODay pressed q
button.
1t was early the following after
1 noon that Mary Lowell, not back
long from luncheon, looked up to
| find beside her desk q stockily
carefully parted black hair and an
! engaging smile.
"Miss Lowell?'
EYES,"
Ter" he stammersd and looked
down at his hat, (which he was
! crushing in his hands lin his embar-
F.! rassment.
! His fat checks turned q rosy red.
"My name is Barry Colvin. / wanted
to talk to you about something i'm
portant. First" and he lifted his
| eyes to meet hers, II hope you won't
throw me out before I finish" His
mouth widened in grin as he spoke
"Sit down. Nj. Colvin." Mary in
dicated a chair, and smiled. for there
was something about Barry Colvin's
| manner that was hard to i.resist, a
contagion in his smile, a.down right
friendlincss, even, that in any other
person might be considered impu-
/, dence.
First of ALL" he begain placing
! his hat on her desk, ''let me repeat
that want to finish before you
throw me out" He grinned again.
mo. I'm not an insurance agent.
and I'm not going to try to sell you
lot or an automobile. And I'm not
big silk stocking man from the
| east"
Good heavens!" she cried in mock
horror. "Then YOU must be n book
agent"
Wrong again." he laughed. "I'm
salesman, but not the ordinary
kind. I'm what you'd call q spe-
cialist."
"No." she said. you're a lawyer.
saw you when you were TX here
yesterday"
His eyes were suddenly serious as
they sought hers. ppm also q friend
of Jimmy Rand" he remarked.
Then, at the quick, inquiring look
and the troubled frown that his
words produced. he threw up hi
hands, Stimulating cspair
There. you are. I knew it. You're
getting ready to throw me out now
Tor butting in on somebody else's
business. Let me talk. viii you,
please? didn't come from Jim.
I'm no ambassador. II he knew I
was here he'd probably give me a
good licking-and he could do it,
too"
Barry claspcd his hands around
his knee, lifting his foot several
inches from the floor and gazinf at it
as he went on. 'It's none Of my
business. Miss Lowell. hut Jim Rand
is the best friend have in the
world-and about the most stubborn
individual in the world. too"
II wish" she interrupted. you'd
say what you have to say. don't
want to appear rude, but it's diff
cult for me to-"
II know" he put in. "I'm sorry.
l. III get right down to the point,
Miss Lowell. I'm going to tell you
why Jim Rand came to Mansfield.
You don't know. do you =
.W W.: Jim Rand came here be-
cause his father was murdered sew
eral weeks ago and clew led him
to Mansfield"
"Murdered!" she grasped. ,a;oh!"
Eyes, the most mysterious thing
Il ever heard Of. I won't 60 into it
| all, because it's long story. We
don't knew who did it and we can't
| imagine why it was done. But poor
| Jim hasn't hecn himself, naturally,
since the thing happened.
suspicion first pointed to q GER
| tain man in this city, but he proved
an alibi. Then it pointed to girl
girl named Olga Maynard. Jim
found her--he found her in q restau-
rant one night while. xeu, and he
| were together"
She was staring at lin him in wide
! eyed amazement. "Then that was
the" she broke Oft. "Go ahead, Mr..
'Colvin."
HE met her the next night-in
| the same place. At first he tried to
| trap her int an admission. Then,
when he told her-the police we're
looking for her on Z murder charge,
she tainted dead away. Jim told me
! that you saw that, and that you
quite naturally failed to understand
{ "Now he's convinced that the girl
was absolutely innocent Of any con-
nection with the murder. In fact,
she's been helping him in his search
for the suspect.
That's ell. Miss Lowell. I won't
bother you any longer" Barry
+! picked up his hat. Il just had to
tell you, because thought you'd
; like to know and that, as far IS
Jim was concerned, you ought to
know. He wouldn't tell you himself.
He said it was too late.''
Her hand fluttered to her throat.
She blinked to hold back the tears.
1T isn't" she whispered. "You
were kind to tell me, Mr.. Colvin."
When Barry saw Jimmy Rand that
evening. he said: Jim. want you
to remember this day. If you've got
notebook. mark the date in it.
Some day you're going to appreciate
me for what / ANA prcat henc.