The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-03-18
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HENRY RAND. IS. a business
man. is found murdered in a
cheap hotel in Grafton. Police
find n w0n,am's handkerchief and
the stub III yellow theater
ticket.
JANET RAND. his daughter.
breaks her engagement with
BARRY COLVlN, because Of the
disgrace" JIMMY RAND. hia
son, goes to MANSFIELD, where
the thpater Is. The stub IL traced
TO THOMAS FOGAKTi. n pOliti.
cal boss. who says he gave Il ia
OLGA MAYNARD. u cabaret
singer.
Jimmy meets aud falls in love
with MARY LOWELL. Later he
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 a>taxi and
misunde vstands.
Olga tells police the stub
might have come into possession
Of man who picked her up
two nights before the murder.
Jimmy receives mysterious warn.
ings 10 leave Mansfield and later
is attacked nj night by two men,
hut escapes.
With Jimmy and Mary e..
tranged. Church gets Mary's
promise to marry him. Mary
tells Jimmy this when they meet
and he. trying to hurt her, nc.
cuses her Of marrying for money.
That evening Jimmy and Olga
see. in an autOe man they both
recOgnize-she as the man who
got the stub, he as one Of his at
tackers. The man and his CONF
paniOn escape. Later they rec
Ognize his police picture as that
Of IKE JENSEN.
Church. motoring witt, Mary.
runs over u dog. His heartless.
ness causes her to break their
engagement. Mary writes a let
ter. explaining, hut the office hoy
fOrgets to mail it.
Jimmy gets phone call from
Olga, saying she has found Ike
Jensen. Her voice ends in
gasping cry and he rushes to her
apartment to find she is gone.
lie thinks she has been kid
mapped or murdercd-which he
doesn't know. While he and pO-
lice are in the apartment u mys.
teriOus phone call comes for
him, threatening his life.
naSnn 0r1v ha aSkS uMv
God. have they killed herr"
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CHAPTER XLIV
The newspapers were still in flu
ue and cry over the mysteriou
disappearance of Olga Maynard
mike most "stAies" that are q
owed to die out after few days Q
cnsational play, there was an cle
nent of the sinister, touch Of tn
Mysterious. in this one that kept tn
ity keyed up to a pitch of high es
itement.
1t struck at a time when loo:
ews was dead, and for that reaso
he city editors welcomed it,
And sensation followed sensation
)'Day had limited vaguely to Jimm
f having something else up hi
leeve to give to the papers, An
immy was not kept long in ip
lOrance
When it did break, it swept him OF
lis feet, and sent him down to Sc
)Day with blood in his eye. ragin
md full Of fight.
O'Day had told the reporters abou
he yellow stub and the handkcl
hief that had been found in III
DOM with Henry Rand's body. Flu,
hermorc. he had told them that the
lad been traced to Olga Magyar
md that, although her cXplanatip
lad been satisfactory enough. SIT
he had figured heretofore. as an in
,Ortant cog in the chain Of evidcnc
hat had heightened since Henri
hands murder
lie felt sure, he told them. thu
olga Maynard's strange disappca,
lncc was somehow linked up wit
he murder
And the whole city buzzed an
.ossipcd over the strange myster
If the yellow stub. The murder {
Henry Rand. although it had hal
,cned in distant town, was SUE
lenly brought home to Mansfie.'
Street corner idlers hazarded strang
.uesscs as to the motive that promp
"a Henry Rand's murder. Bus
captains Of industry summoned offie
,oys TO run out and grab the late:
editions. Stenographers discussed
NJ la h
he back fence. 1t supplied trollc
ar conversation for homegoing b0ol
;eepers and mechanics.
"You shouldn't have done it
Jimmy stormed at O'Day. ut WASH
light. 1t wasn't fair to her. II
lot fair to me to drag this o,
again"
O'Day tried 20 be patient.
"You don't understand, my boy.
'ou think this is going to turn tn
own against Olga Maynard, you al
mistaken. They sympathize wit
Ter. Everyone does. They think she
he victim Of some mysterious plot
your ideas about the right thin
% do certainly don't coincide wit
nine" said Jimmy bitterly.
"Bc patient, Rand. I've got SOM
thing in the back of my old noodl
When you're as old as I am you ms
realize that man doesn't lose ar
If his brains when he passes forty.
Il want this thing to fill the pi
Ders. The wires are carrying it a
over. want Marie Real, if she
alive. to step out and supply SON
that | think we can US
"And another thing" His jaw s.
grimly as he walked to his desk ar
opened a drawer. I'm going +,
show you something. Rand. You,
been climbin' all over my fran
every time ! opened my mouth al
said something you didn't like sbol
Olga Maynard. My boy. I'm not
this business for sentiment. T.
looking for facts. Do you see tn
picture?'
He held it in front Of Jimmy