The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-27
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HENRY RAND, IS, a business
man, Is found murdered in. 4
cheap hotel In Grafton. Police
find 4 w0man's handkerchief and
ne stub Of yellow thcater
ticket.
JANET RAND, hi. daughter.
BARRY COLvIN, Sscsuse Of the
disgrace" JIMMY RAND, his
son, goes to Mansfield, where the
theater il. The stub is traced to
THOMAS FOGARTY, q political
boss. who Says he gave &c to
OLGA MAYNARD. a cabaret sing
or.
Jimmy meets and falls in love
with MARY LOWELL. Later ne
encounters Olga. She faints at
hearing police want her for muir.
der. Mary. out with SAMUEL
CHURCH. a wealthy lawyer, sees
Jimmy lift Olga into. taxi and
misunderstahds.
Olga tells police the stub might
have come into possession Of a
man who picked her up" two
nights before the murder. Jimmy
receives mysterious warnings to
leave Mansfield and later Is at
tackled at night BY two men, but
escapes.
With Jimmy and Mary es.
tranged Church gets Mary's
promise to marry him. Mary tells
Jimmy this when they meet and
nc, trying to hurt her. accuses
her of marrying for money.
That evening Jimmy and Olga,
out together. see in an auto 4
man they both recognixe-she as
the man who had got the stub,
he NJ one Of the men who Mad
attacked him. The man and his
companion escape. Later they
recognize his picture ut police
sen.
Church, out driving with Mary,
drives over dog and kills it.
His heartlessness over the affair
kindles hatred in her and she
breaks their engagement.
Jimmy goes home to find a let
tor from his sister Janet.
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CHAPTER XVIII
The letter was living in the same
spot where Mrs. King put all his
mail-on the little table beside tho
telephone.
of Janet's familiar handwriting
Wonder how everything is at home.
And then he frowncd. They're moi
satisfied with trying to bother me-
he. growled. They're worrying the
folks back home" .
For out of Janet's letter had faller
a single sheet of.paper. It was writ
ten in the same scrawl that had char
actcrizcd the two anonymous note.
he had received. ordering him t,
leave town. And it very briefly. blu
in plain language and with no saluta
ton, stated that if Jimmy's famil,
wanted to see him alive again the!
would persuade him to return t.
GraftOn-at once.
That was all.
II haven't the faintest idea," Jane
wrote, "what it's all about. Jimmy
you arc concealing things from
mother and me? The envelope wa
addressed to mother, but she hap
pcned to be lying down when it CAM
and. without giving it much thought
! opened it.
81 haven't shown it to her. becaus
she worries enough about you as-it IL
But Jimmy. Pm afraid. l wanted yov
to go in the first place, but can
bear to think of you there with thi
unnamed danger hanging over you
DO you know what it is? If you dc
please tell me. If anything happene
to you Mother and would never &c
over it and I'd never forgive mysel
for urging you to go to Mansfield.
1--WE told Barry Colvin about /,
He still comes to see us nearly ever,
evening and l think he's an old dear
He's alarmed about it and he say
he's going after you if you don
come back"
There was more. but it dealt wit
family gossip and the state Of Mrs
Rand's health.
The recurrence of the anonymou
warning had Jimmy thoroughly en-
ragged. What had at first amOunte,
to nothing more-than an annOyanc
was now beginning to get on hi
nerves. He picked up his empty pip
and stuck it savagely in his moutl
1t was not that he feared any
thing, he told himself, for, he asked
if anyone really contemplated harm
to him why would there be any warn
ing. But it was the thought of thi
unknown person eternally keepin
watch over him and his affairs. know
ing his every movement.
He lay in bed for long time, cur
ing himself for his inability to banisl
the thing from his mind and go t.
sleep.
"Good morning Mr.. Hilton" an
at the CHEEKY note in Mary Lowell
greeting the chief clerk Of the @. an
r. railroad looked up in some sur
prise.
"Good morning. Miss Lowell.
Err" He stopped, and rubbed hi
chin.
She waited. eyes, Mr.. Hilton ?"
"Oh, nothing" he said, and ben
over his desk.
She had told her mother tina
morning-told her with definitenes
and firmness--that she had broker
with Samuel Church.
It was no use, she had inslSte'
when her mother had protested and
later, had cried. She didn't love hin
and never would. She hated him
She told of the incident of the dol
and the little boy IS if such thin,
against any man were enough t
damn him forever.
"He thinks, Mother, that his none,
can buy anything. He thought n
could buy me with it. just as h
thought he could buy the boy a ne,
dog"
And she had put on her hat an
rushed off to work, feeling strangel
light and free.
Shortly before noon Church cam
in the office, pulling pa"ers out Q
his pocket, and Immediately went INT
q conference with Hilton.
But he was engaged very briefl
and Mary sensed, when he came on
Of Hilton's inner office, that was onl