New Britain herald., 1926-02-18

lost him and came in 10 tell ua about il. We've been looking for him ever since. Now l think you're on q wild goose chase, sticking around in Bridgeport. This fellow probably has d pretty good reason for hanging around Grafton. and that's where we'll find him If we do,
 "You're letting this Maynard woman kid you. She's in on this' somehow, and that story of being picked m by somebody who got her ticket stub and handkerchief sounds pretty thin. I'll bet she knows who this Jones guy is and shes covering up for him, She never thought the thing would he traced 10 her and she had time 10 think up q yarn when lIN police got her. My own pri- yurc idea of this thing is that this guy Jones is operating some sort Of blackmail gag and he uses q woman now and then to help him out. He answers the description Of man who's been doing that Sorr of thing in cities around this nock Of the woods for some time.
 "In inc case Of your father he ran ID against the wrong man and he got scared and killed him. You gee it I'm not right. You might think this is some kind of wild dream I've got. but think I know what Tn talking ahont. Al any rate, Mir. H. A. Jones isn't in Bridgeport and l think yon'rc wasting your tiln" Why don't you let them bring th' . Maynard woman back here and come back yourSflf"'
 "Bost regards.
 "MOONEY."
 "Nooncy you're dead Wronc," Jimmy said softly as ho folded th@ letter. If the man I'm looking for is in Grafton. how do you explain these , warnings I'm getting 10 leave town? 1 And how do Nou explain that affair last night" No, Mooney. if II. 4. 1 Jones' or 'vhatt yer his nano i&. in i'll {, Grafton, thc0 II. A. Jones isn't tn" ! man wo want. He's right her" in Brdgcport, and I need Olga May. !. nard to help me find him"
 He finished his hraakfast hurried ; lv and then sat down and wro'" [ Mooncv an answer. telling of th" warrin~q and the attack Of tilo night before.
 "of coureo," he wrorc "yo" nn%tu't think I'm i~noriNG the pcs ability that II. A. Jones may he 'n . Grafton. Keep on looking for him. But there's q lot going on here ma ', I want 10 find the reason for The days That followed were me . vnntrul. TO Jimmy they were wholly : unsatisfactory. D"spit" the efforts | 'of Lieutenant Onay and the best de- -octivce q, his command. the solution . 10 the idartiy Of Jjnmys assaiiAnts ! on tEat oventfll night was still as : far away. apparently as ovHr.
 And as for tl'o man whom Olga . f Maynard mentioned as having gel . hold of the ticket stub and the hand trrchinf. if he did actually exist and v"as not q creation of 0lga's masin' . atinn. he seemingly had succeeded in dropping completely out of sight,
 With Olga. Jimmy frequon'cd the . rabarcts and ro@m"d at night tho <. brightly lighted downtown streets of Bridgeport. horin~ to catch qljmpGn of him. |
 "T don't know if that's the way 10 look for him or not" Olga toll him. "But saw him downtown onoe and no seemed 10 know 2 lot about th" restaurants and thoatcrs and other night life. I don't know how else to go about it,"
 'It's the only way" Jimmy agreed, "urlcss run into those mon who followed me home that nigit." H. had told h"r of inc episode and she had been greatly alarmed 10 learn that he vas in d1ngcr.
 "You should go hack to Grafton" she told him. "You'll be hurt maybe killed if you stay here"
 How do you know" hc followed up quickly. You talk as If you knew something about f."
 She appeared hurt ot the suspicion in his voice.
 "T don't know why you ask me ithat~-in that way" she answered. What do the police think of it-- don't they think you're in dangero Why shouldn't I think the same thing without being accused of knowing something about it?"
 "I beg your pardon" ne said con. tritcly. T shouldn't have spoken that way. The fact is though, I'm getting 10 be suspicious Of every thing and everybody" He didn't tell her that Mooney had written, telling him that inc man known as H. A. Jones had been seen in Grafton.
 TT don't blame you for being suspicious of me" She turned her eyes away from him as she spoke . But l thought somehow that you believed me. No one else does. ap- parently, Whether you do or you don't, you should go back 10 Graf ton. l don't want to see you hurt" '
 He studied her a long time. Don't you realize" he asked her finally, that if l 20 back 10 Grafton s'h IT lAufp Np Sp |hFI's lOU. I Hp district attorney consented to letting you go free temporarily so you could help mo find this man you told about, They'll he wanting to make an arrest soon. They think they have 10 10 save their faces. Someone will have 10 stand trial pretty soon for this murder If l go back now. 1t will be you"
 Olga appeared 10 be thinking this over. She bit her lip nervously, and tears came to her eyes.
 "G don't care" she said softly. turning 10 face him. "I don't care what they do 10 me. You go back. You've been kind 10 me the only one who has, the only one who helped me. I don't want anything