The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-12

| HENRY RAND, So. business
! man, il found murdered in q
cheap hotel In GRAFTON. Police
| find a wOInan's handkerchief and
| ayellOw ticket stub from q thea.
| ter In Mansfield.
JIMMY RAND, Henry's son,
goes to Mansfield. The ticket
stub il traced to i THOMAS FOG.
! ARTY. who says he gave it to
OLGA MAYNARD, a cabaret sing.
or. A search Is stated for her.
Jimmy meets and falls IA love
with MARY LOWELL. Later he
encounters Olga Maynard, and
she faints when he tells her she
is suspected of murder. Mary,
out with SAMUEL CHURCH, .
wealthy lawyer, sees Jimmy with
| Olga In his arms and breaks with
him.
Police arrest Olga, who admits
she used the ticket stub and
Identifies the handkerchief a.
hers, but tells police man who
was out with her two nights be.
fore the murder might have got
hold Of them.
Police ask her who the man
was and she doesn't know. She
says he picked her up" Jimmy
| believes her story and decides to
help her. That night he finds
note in his room warming him to
leave Mansfield. Atelephone call
follows, telling him the same
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIV
| The anonymous note, followed by
the mysterious telephone call, left
Jimmy Rand bcwiadercd He got lit.
| tie sleep on the train ride to Grafton.
He was not sure whether it was
a practical jokcraor whether the note
was from someone who really had an
object in getting him out of town.
He tossed about, recalling in Sc
quence the swiftly moving events that
had TRANSFERRED since he came to Mans.
field, and trying vainly to unravel the
plot that seemed to be weaving about
him.
Perhaps his fathers actual murder.
er, or someone who was involved in
the crime, had learned he was in
Mansfield and feared detection if he
remained.
That sort Of melodrama would
never run him off, he told himself.
His mind refused to work as he
wanted it to. Invariably his thoughts
would come back to Mary Lowell.
1t hurt him that she should cut
him coldly without giving him an
opportunity to explain the position
she had found him in with Olga May.
nard. Why should pcoplc--especially
Mary Lowellbc so ready TO believe
the worst Of him? His jaw set grim
| ~. Well.
Back in Grafton. nc went straight
home to his mothers house. Hcl
cid sharp air and scolding manner
were gone. In their place was an at.
titudc of resigned detection. He
knew without being told that She
broodcd necessarily over Henr.
Brands death.
Are you back home to stay
James?'' she asked while his, arms
were still about her.
I; ono, mother. just for day. Pvt
got to see Barry" Briefly he tolt
her why. and she wept silently.
"Where's Janct?" he asked.
She had gone to do the marketing
Martha Rand told him. Just then hi
.saw Janet coming along the old ia
I miliar boardwalk, her arms full Of
bundles. 3@
She greeted him with long kis.
and chung to him, but she seemed
cheerful and composed.
"Fine, Sis. I've come home to ar
range with the district attorney fol
the release Of a woman who may LEAD
US to the murderer. Sounds mystcr
ious, doesn't it? And it is. too. It..
got me all up in the air." He TOLD
her of the progress they had mad.
in Mansfield.
+ It seemed she had a. job playing
the piano in moving picture theatcr
Martha Rand sighed aud;bly as Jane
told him.
| mother doesn't approve" Jane
smiled at him. "She doesn't like t.
lhavc me out in the evenings"
81 don't either, Sis. Why did 20,
do it? You don't have to work
There's enough money to keep thing
going for quite a while without me
Besides. I'll be back home before YER.
long. What does Barry think Of it
or don't you see Barry any more p
Yes, she saw Barry frequently. H
Z didn't like her working, one bit. Toll,
her she was fool.
"That,s the second time he's calle,
me fool" she said. "The other
you know"
Eyes, know" he put in hurriedly
Gle was right both times. Sis. there
no need for you to keep this job
Quit it,
She would not, she told him. HI
didn't get her viewpoint. "Witl
father dead, Pm sharing the respon
sibility equally with you. Do 70,
think intend to sit back and sc,
you take it all?"
you've enough to get along with,
The said stubbornly. There's no nee,
for you to work"
Enough to get along on, yes. Jim
my. But I'm not satisfied that way
I'm looking ahead. I've been coddle'
lin this family all my life. Fathe
never said SO, but my music lesson
represented quite q sacrifice. Nov
they're going to pay dividends"
She smiled. "I'm a producer from
. now on, Jimmy"
The doorbeM rang. 1t was Barr
Colvin. -