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Bu ELenOre Meherin

ing like a flute not down the
aisle: mo! Watch, just
moment-Please-"
Figures-two swift, trembling
figures coming to the rail
the audience craning forward
jumping to it's feet-scraping OF
chairs-the bailiff hammering Tor
order =
But above all this: mo! Wait
a moment-Oh, won't you,
pleasew
And then hoarse sob-a
violent sob-Douglas rushed to
the rail He reached out
his arms, face blanched-the color
and texture of granite
He swayed with his arms out
stretched: SANDY Oh,
for Gods sake! Don't-Oh, for
Gods sake! Judith-Jude
But Sandy smiled. She stood
there with her head tilted back.
her hands on Judith's arm. The
red hair shining like an aureole
about face whittier than death
white and radiant like an angel
she stood there-white and smil-
ing =
She said: "No-not he'll am
the one who knoWs-I am the one
to blame"
And he tried to cover her with
his arms tried to stop
her
Norman Wood reached his side:
"May it please the court to hear
this woman"
Sandy allowed to enter-Sandy
touching the hand OF Douglas
whispering swiftly: "Oh, Douglas
Douglas"
Silence as though the heavens
had opened-as though a pale
apparition entered-an unearthly
visitant coming so shiningly with
that high fluty note down the
aisle
The judge: "I'll take charge OF
the witness"
Sandy, giving her name, her
age, clasping her hands and look
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He lowered his head-tried to
take her little hard hands, But
his were like pieces of iron. His
jaws were stiff.
''To refresh your memory, we
will GO over the main points
brought out in the testimony"
All that about his fingerprints
found in Ramon's office dozens
of times-his handkerchief, blood
soaked, found on the stairs; his
glimsy alihi utterly punctured by
the facts even his
mother stating emphatically that
he was away from home all of
Monday night-the night of the
murder
Lawyers Challenge
Norman Wood sprang to his
feet, challenging this. But the
jury had heard And Emma sank
pitifuIly she seemed
physically to grow thin and
peaked under the scourging words.
Five people positively identify
this defendant as the man who
entered Ramon Worth's office on
the night he died. Two of these
identifications admit of no doubt
ing, even by the most skeptical.
The witness, Avery Middleton,
knew the defendant extremely
well during a period Of seven
years. He and his wife both saw
this defendant lift a woman in
his arms the woman who
crept along the floor of the de-
ceased's office-the woman who
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the man positively known to have
been at the scene of this appalling
crime sits before you refusing TO
give one word of explanation.
For all any one in this room
knows to the contrary, the woman
who was wounded may since
have died. And two murders
should be laid at the door Of this
defendant.
1.-THE evidence shows that sui
eide was not committed. If the
deceased shot himself, how ac-
count for the bullet found in the
wall behind him?
And the testimony shows that
this defendant in state OF fever
iSh excitement waited one hour
and twenty minutes at the corner
of Third and Market
Was he waiting for the woman?
He then rushed in an alarmed
way to the office directory. He
asked nervously if the deceased
had offices in the building. Wit
nesses have shown this.
ut was exactly a quarter of
eleven when this defendant was
seen by the janitress to shake
the door of Worth's office-exact-
ly a quarter of eleven when he
entered the room, exclaiming
wildly: My God"
The Interruption
And a few moments later this
defendant was seen to kneel over
an object PROSTATE on the floor
"a few moments later he was
seen to lift a wounded woman in
his arms-a woman wounded in q
scuffle-a woman who would be a
material witness, but who has
been spirited away or who has
died of her wounds
This defendant to cover
ruthless killing has sat obstinate
ly silent; this defendant to cover
wanton murder has hidden or
allowed to die a material wit
ness"
NO"
Clear and bright and high fly
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further into DIR. Cressy's shoulder.
OF a sudden the velvet hang
ings, through which DIR. Cressy
had entered the room. were
pulled apart. Lecay~ and Drake
turned quickly and nervously-
and in that instant DIR. Cressy,
with a vigorous upward twist.
broke Lecay's hold. With almost
the same movement, he leaped
to the curtained entrance. past
the startled Chinaman who stood
there, and into the next room, a
large. old-fashioned drawing room.
AS he supposed, its windows
opened on the outside world. He
rushed upon the large. middle
one. It was locked. Its rusty
lock stuck. He tore a heavy silk
cover off center table, and hold
ing it before him like a shield to
protect his face and hands, leaped
through the glass, just as the
three within reached the window.
1t was a drop of some six feet
to the ground. He made It, Jared
but whole.
Making Time
A couple of flower beds be-
tween him and the main drive.
Over these he raced, making
track time as he flew down the
driveway. The touring car was
still Just inside the huge, barred
gate. The idea of opening the
gate and leaping into the auto
came to hinnbu he saw in the
dim light the solid paddock that
held that gate. He could hear
the padspad OF racing feet, but
it seemed two persons now in
stead of three.
A eucalyptus tree grew near
the high board fence, and as he
glad he had an athletic record.
With 4 jump that would have
done credit to track star he
swung up into its lower brances.
AS he did so, sonnet thing whfstled
past his cheek and inlbedded itself
with a vicious, fIattened-oslt 'pang
in the board fence. He now
knew why the third person had
stayed bacl6-to procure rifle.
He swung up farther into the
tree. then leaned over until he
could catch the top Of the fence.
The barbs of the wire cut his
hands before he could get a grip
between them. The marksman
below had got his range by this
time and the ''pangs'' were spat-
tering the fence like leaden rain
drops. "A Maxim silencer was
attached to the rifle, and there
was something doubly horrible in
this cold, silent leaden shower.
He was aware, as he poised a
moment on the fencetop, that
his pursuers had reached the gate
below. Lecay's angry voice
rang out:
Chan, you damn fool, you've
forgotten to bring the paddock
kew. Run for your life to the
house and get 1t.
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was wounded and carried away
and hidden by this defendant.
'This defendant twice leaned
over the PROSTATE form of Ramon
Worth. The testimony irrefutably
establishes this. He leaned over
him and then he switched out the
lights.
when Ramon Worth was next
seen he was dead! He lay on
the floor in the very area where
this defendant had knelt-he lay
there with a bullet wound in his
heart-a bullet sent at close
range.
"This bullet was sent while the
defendant was in the room. 1t
was positively not fired after IL
o'clock. And it was not sent be-
fore 10. 1t was fired between 10
and II. This is the hour when
the defendant entered Worth's Of
flee.
"At II o'clock a man lay dead.
At IL o'clock the defendant had
switched out the light-he had
spirited a wounded woman from
the room
"And he has sat through this
trial offering no witnesses-mak-
ing no denial. Why? To BATTLE
you-to leave you with the rem
nant of doubt that must vanish
should he open his lips.
why has he remained silent?
He has no defense! A deliberate
murder has been committed; a
man is shot to death; a woman Is
wounded and hidden away. And
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WE were spending the after
w nooa at Elizabeth's house
you know Elizabeth is the little
girl who is a great friend of
Bobby's-and the first thing that
Bobby asked when we had taken
off our hats and coats was:
How is Fritz?"
Hes fine" replied Elizabeth,
"but he's lost his tail and he
never really has taken enough
baths to get a bright yellow.
Fritz was a canary. Elizabeth
called him Fritz. because he came
from the Hartz Mountains, in
Germany, and Elizabeth thought
he should have German name.
Foxy Grandpa" said Elizabeth
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DR.. Cressy dropped over intef
the road. his coat sleeve ria0
ping open from shoulder To wrist
on q barb as he went. His soleS
atung as IL touched with nettles
from the sharp contact with tlle 4
sandy earth.
He sprinted with all his sDeed
for the oak grove in which he
had secreted his coupe. He would
AROUSE the countryside and lead
raid on this notorious house
and its Inurderous inmates. lie
must make all the haste in the
world lest something more hnT.
rible still happen to KathIeen!
No sooner had he reached tl1e
shadow of the trees than
stream Of white light illunliFated
the road. Drake had evidently
had q searchlight mounted IN
the grounds to play upon the
walls and road In case they
were put to IL to defend them
selves against besiegers.
Fate at this illncture seemed
to wayer in regard to DIR. Cressy
to be both with and against
him. His self lf-starter, for some
mysterious reason inherent In the
parts OF automobiles, would not
catch. On the other hand. the
hunt for him seemed to have
been given mp. From his leafv
covert Of oak trees he saw thu
huge gates open; saw Lecay
Drake carrying rifle and the
Chinaman run out into the middle
of the road, look UP and down
then 90 IN again, apparently
abandoning the search. But t1fef
minutes later, when he had found
out his crank and was sweattn
in an endeavor to turn over the
engine, he realized why.
He heard the Whirr OF motor
and, looking into the road, saw
the touring car which had been
inside the gate coming through
onto the road 1t rolled slowly
up to where the smaller roadY3
upon which the SherWin houss
faced, joined the main road. 1Sss
slowed up here for momenf.
Drake was in the drivers seabst &
Lecay sat in the tOnneau.
Then DR.. Cressy, frozen with1
horror. saw that Lecay held the
mummy case OF Amon-Kal
Afraid that the physician had
escaped and would bring help.
they were evidently transporting
Kathleen, still unconscious, to
the .0ther place or some other
place.
DIR. Cressy, in his mad excite
ment, shouted to them to stop.
At the same moment he must
have put terrific pressure on the
crank still in his hand, for Il
suddenly caught and the motor
barked out.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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CHAPTER ia

The taking of a breath was au-
dible in the tense hush of the
court room. Eyes focused bright,
~ like electric lights on Sandy's
face. They focused on her,
tranced. No one stirred; no one
ventured to speak, so complete
was the devouring eagerness with
which glances flashed now to the
witness chair, now to the de-
fendant's table. The glances of
men and women flaming to catch
every pulse of this drama whose
heart lay stripped.
Drama of a girl, pale and beau
tifuI and a boy of 25 with brown
head lowered, face pressed bitter
ly in his two palms. These two,
who were young, had loved:
There was tragedy because or
this-death and tragedy.
And the girl was saying: All
I see-I must tell it all. She
sat there with her hands clasped,
her eyes cavernous and .shadoWed
in the pearly whiteness OF her
face, the red hair an aureole, ana
she spoke with that note of soft,
piercing appeal: 81 see-I must
tell it all" as though she were
given a sword, an unsheathed
sword and knew that she must
plunge it in her own heart
plunge it in quietly and to the
hilt.
"Yes, tell it all. You say the
deceased, Raymon Worth, re-
preached you for going out with
the defendant. He was away an
entire year and on his return be-
came bitterly excited because you
went out with another man? Yet
he had no claim on you?
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What color are they, Foxy
Grandpa?'
"An Irish color" I laughed.
Green canaries" exclaimed
Elizabeth.
Yes" l said. Their feathers
are a deep olive green, marked
with black and yellow"
Then why are our canarles
that we have in cages Yellow"
asked the little girl.
Because" l explained, They
are an artificial breed and the
people who raise them pick out
the light colored ones and keep
breeding them until the yellow
color is natural 70 them. And
you wouldn't recognize their song
either. because it is not as power
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well, we got a dangerous
enough business as it Is. but at
least it pays. and honest, Lecay,
81 don't see what you're going to
&get out of this Blue Scarab bust
ness, even If she does come
through and give it to you, or tell
where it is.
Don't your
'Oh, know you've some game
you always have
but to my way Of thinkin. there's
more money in sticking to honest
hooch any day than tryin to
peddle an old, dried up Egyptian
bug to a millionaire. I"
'sYou stick to what you know
Drake - and I'll stick to
what know
On His Nerves
We'll. what / know at present
is that I wish this 6lane'd wake
up an take an interest in her
surroundings. It's gettin' on my
nerves to have q sIeepin' beauty
slowed in the loft" d
DIR. Cressy heard the snap OF q
watch cover, followed by. Lecay's
voice:
.She ought to come out OF it
In is or 20 minutes now"
Did you get anything out Of
her last time she came to as to
where it was?"
mo , she's too afraid
of the Egyptian"
You're sure he hasn't gotten
it from her?"
.'No she's too afraid
OF me" p
well, I wish you'd taken her
to tho other place"
"The Bush. and Laguna flat"
mo. The apartment. Suppose
she won't tell where the bloomin'
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DR.. Cressy judged that Lecay
shook his head, for the other gave
Z grunt.
But exciting as the conversa-
ton was, the physician began to
grow oblivious of it, for he be-
gan to be in torment. Whatever
the chest was packed with, 1t
reached nearly to the top, leav-
ing Just room enough for his
body to rest under the closed
cover and whatever the
material was he was discovering
that it was intensely hard, like
metal, and full of points and
prongs that woBked through his
clothes and began to press into
his skin. He drew himself to-
gether as much as possible, hold
ing himself away from the tor
turing surface upon which he lay
with extraordinary contractions of
the muscles. He tried to use self
suggestion; to listen and pay no
attention TO his sufferings. The
heavier voice was speaking:
Wish to God you handn't
brought the dame here, Lecay.
All. the police in the State are
looking for her"
Lecay answered harshly:
Did I know they were going to
find that pistol and spring the
murder accusation"
Does she know she's accused
YETI"
Don't think so. Thing broke
after we started. / heard it first
at Half Moon"
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; ing with imploring tenderness to
that table where sat one charged
with a murder-where sat one
few moments ago seemingly
marked for death
"You were acquainted with the
deceased, Ramon Worth. You say
you were in his office Son the
night and at the moment of his
death. Tell about this and why
you happened to be there"
"Yes-I'll tell you--I came to
tell you. I didn't know of this
trial-yes-I'll keep to the point
81 knew Ramon Worth. He
had been away for year. For
ten months I hadn't heard from
him.
Suddenly he returned. This
was the Saturday night before
his death. He called to me, but
l was out was out with Doug
las Keith.
again. He was bitterly excited.
He had seen me coming home at
midnight with Douglas-he grew
bitterly excited and reproached
me for this"
"Why-why should he reproach
you? You were not secretly mar
ried to him?"
"Oh, no"
Were you engaged to the de-
ceased?'
"Oh, nor
Then why should he reproach
you? Had you not right to go
out with the defendant? Did
Worth have some claim on you?"
Quiet-heavy as a pall-now
and then a long drawn breath
women leaning forward
Sandy looked up. the dark eyes
immense and cavernous in the
pearly whiteness of her face
did the deceased have the
right to reproach you? Did he
have a claim on you?"
She smiled She looked to
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of money from time to time Ell ~
VI Whatever Lecay's reply might
have. been, Doctor Cressy never
heard it. Rendered desperate BY
his agony, which had grown IN.
! bearable, he essayed to shift his
position a little at all costs. He
tried to do it with the utmost
caution. but his space was far
shallower than the proverbiaI
grave. He heard an exclamation
OF establishment and fear:
Look! For Gods sake, look,
Lecay! The chests risin"
The physician heard a slight
click as the cover fell back into
place again after being raised By
the upheaving of his body. He
was filled with a delicious, mo-
mentary relief from pain, together
with a fear OF what that relief
was going to cost him. There
were quick, faint whispers that
he couldn't catch.
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E 4 :
The pair were evidently adj
vancing silently upon the mys
terious chest, moving with the
utmost caution, not knowing what
1t might contain. Should he wait
supinely until they hauled him
out? The iron spines, or what
ever they were. had again begun
to dip into him; this quickened
his~ decision.
He burst forth from the chest
like a geni out Of its Dottle. But,
he gained the floor, dizzy from
his long and cranlped recumbency,
only to almost fall into the arms
Of the waiting two. But, critical
as the moment was, he could not
forbear a single. backward glance
into his torture chamber. The
chest was filled almost to the
top with Roman helmets with
spiked tops: in the midst of them
was a serrated mstal crown from
which paste jewels flashed dimly
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bug j. is this time what
There are ways to make her"
What do you mean?
You ought to know.
You don't mean He
was silent a moment, then added
in a low tone, you'd try that? q
why not?''
Like you done to young Fred
Hopkins that time two
years ago?''
This name instantly recalled to
DIR. Cressy sensational news
paper story of some two years
before; the mysterious disappear
ance, during visit to California;
of the son of wealthy Eastern
capitalist couldn't remember
the details. What did it matter
anyway, before the imminent
peril OF Kathleen? Besides. he
was now in agony on his bed of
spikes, or whatever they We're.
He lay like some medieval saint
on the torture rack.
Why not?" Lecay's v6ice was
still level and cold.
The heavier voice dropped to-
merely a heavy whisper.
But the kid died.
"Oh, forget that. His heart was
weak. anyway.
But woman! Torturin' =.
wonan's bad business. Besides,
she. might have a weak heart.
IF get out Of her where the
Blue Scarab is ="
DIR. Cressy, even on his bed Of
pain, at this moment managed to
raise his hand enough to SHIFT tho
scarab little. II,
80 the weaker her heart
the better. She knows too much
anyway. Nobody.d ever find her
PLANTED out there under those
trees: they'd think sne disap-
speared to avoid being convicted
Of murder. It'd be better for her
than going to prison for life
and perhaps sending us, too"
The other man said nothing in
reply, but DIR. Cressy in some,
subconscious way felt his deep
dubiousness. He was filled with.
I horror at the conversation Of the.
n1urderous pair. But his misery
had become so great that he
could scarcely pay attention to
what more they were saying. He
managed some infinitesimm move
ment, wedged in as he was, that
gave him relief for a. few seconds,
only to pierce him anew and more
violently. However, he did dimty
catch the next thing Lecay's con-
federate said:
At All Costs
"If she comes through with
this Scarab you're SO keen on do
you intend to give back all the
letters-even temporarily hold
out some? Whatever happens to
her, the other one-what's her
name -Marie-ought to come
through with a nice little piece
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amateur stage paraphernalia to-
go with the dusty Roman robes
hanging in the cellar.
Lecay gripped u him by the
shoulders and swung him to the
light.
''Cressya
Rather an unexpected visit, I
admit-but you're probably used
to my unexpected visits by this
tin1e. z
The young physician was re-
covering his balance, mental and
physical. He was aware Of an
other person behind Lecay--a
thick-set, dark man, with very
white teeth showing now in a
sort of snarl between very red
lips.
$50 you're meddling again in
what's none of your business?
will teach you this time what
happens to naeddlersy' Lecay's
grip, as his fury deepened, sank
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HERE'S FOXY GRANDPA'S STORY

full or varied as the songs which
birds like Fritz sing"
81 wonder" said the little girl
very solemnly, "I wonder if Fritz
hasn't had enough civilized an
cestors?''
"What do you mean?" 1 asked.
"You said that canaries grew
yellow because they had fathers
and mothers ana grandmotEers
which were selected for their
bright colors. and III bet tfat
Fritz's ancestors were more green
than yellow. and that he isn't
dirty at all, he's just a yellow!sh
green.''
TIN quite sure you're right"
/ said. And with that Fritz burst
forth into Song, the joy of wnich
you never heard.
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"I'll have to explain. Ill have
to go back to the circumstances OF
our first acquaintance two and
half years ago. All began then
all this. Two and a hair years ag'
in Honolulu I met Ramon. was
married at this time. He knew
this. But he also learned / had
gone away from my husband be-
cause of a great unhappiness; be-
cause of the terrible way my little
baby died 80
ST objectr' A table showed J
angrily, the prosecutor stamp
ing to his feet. "The proceeding
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who was sitting by me with Fritz
perched contentedly on her
finger, "do you ever think TritZ
will grow to be a real canary
color?"
well, you know, my dear" 1
explained, III you saw cauaries
on the Canary Islands, from which
they originally come. you would
hardly recognize them"
why, Foxy Grandpa, whatever
do you mean?'
"I'll tell you" l said. "You see,
in their own home wild canary
that is yellow is rarely seen"
Elizabeth's eyes opened wider
than usual, as she gasped:
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Kent Gendennng Kathleen Ctenden found dead
IN taxi in which they have just arrived at Katheen hotel
Though supecg Kathleen police have only been able to establish
that quarrel had preceded the shot DR. Cres hotel
sisters Hazel Echard in involved.
Offers reward for the arrest of Gndennings slayer
Information locates
Suke haboy disappeared shortly after the shoot
ing valuable sacred blue scarab possibly be-
hind the killing Kathleen has already surprised Cressy by giving
him safekeepng declaring she fears violence she
keeps it.
rgainng usual after series
Kelly hotel taxi starter who found Glen
dennng Kathleen and DR. Cressy that
picked up after Kathleen
had He explains he told his Bert and that
$4,000 reward has been missing
Cresy dismayed to learn Kathleen has disappeared he
searches nd lOw frantic haste.
discovers the unconscious form of Kathleen lying
"a fhe mnm
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is irregular. This trial c0ncerla
the death Of Ramon Worth III
has nothing to do with the death
of an unknown child two and a6
half years ago. I ask that the
testimony be stricken out; that
the witness confine herself to tho
incident of the shooting and hern
participation in this"
The Judge put up his hand
He turned gently to Sandys
HAS the death Of your baby any
bearing on this case?"
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow
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your fingers. It works like a
charm. every time.
tiny bottle of 'Freezone" costs
only few cents at any drug store,
suIIlclent to remove every hard
corn sort corn, corn between the
toes and calluses-Try it!
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TUE first heard Of in England IN EzaDesns reign
f15se, and were deemed legal Of William Ill de-
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You'll laugh, really! 1t is so easy
and doesn't hurt one bit!
Drop "F'reezone" on that old.
bothersome corn Instantly it stops
aching; then shortly you lift that
NNYe, touehy corn right Off with