The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-03-17
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Marie Real" she asked, docs any
| one know what became Of hcr?"
mo. I'm going to take this ring
| to Detective Mooney. Jimmy has q
| lot Of faiti, in Mooney. Thinks he's
clever and a pcrsevercr and all sorts
Of things
And nc want to Mooney.
The little detective heard him in
, silence and then asked for the ring.
Il WISH" he said, wed had this
long time ago. Ill see the chief.
think / ought ito go to New York
right away.
marked as Barry left, lis what be.
came Of Thaddcus Rand"
| The days that followed for Jimmy
were like nightmare. He wandered
| dimly through them. his mind in
! haze, and his brain conjured up a
! myriad cruel fates for Olga.
/ The newspapers were running her
/ picture on the first page, under such
/ captions as:
MODEL DISAPPEARS.
THOUGHT KIDNAPPED
4 HAVE YOU
I SEEN HER?
4 o'nay also had thought it wise TO
/ surn the full glare of newspaper
publicity en- his search for Ike Jcn.
sen.
4 Accordingly. he had told reporters
+ about Olga's telephone call to Jimmy,
l without. however. mentioning the fact
.-as Jensen was wanted on q charge
Of murder.
4 To mis- utter embarrassment, jim
NY was bes;egcd by steady stream
! o; reporters. who sensed, in the
/. fac. that O'Day and Jimmy were some
rhae ret!cent about Jensen, that a
good story ITO be had for the
iigSins up.
They want him for assault" JIM
my told. them in answer to their
eager questions. "Hc waylaid me one
night as | was going home. That's
ali I know about it,
Then how. they wanted to know,
was Olga Maynard involved?
Il don't know he persisted.
So they insisted on photographing
Jimmy. and running his picture in
connection with the city's latest
thrill.
And Jcnscn's. too.
SEARCH FOR HIN
AS klDNAPER
I the headlines read.
! And then some cntcrprising city
/ editor. with the knowledge that Jim
my Rand had come from Grafton and
was doing nothing, apparently, in
!! Mansfield, sent rcpori.r to
Grafton and dug up the story that
Jimmy had come to town for the eX-
press purpose of running down his
(, fathers murderer.
! There was new sensation then.
| The papers scnscd that Jensen was
somehow involved. and illusions
were made to that fact in their col
umns, although they were somewhat
! guarded illusions. due to the fact
that the most the police would do
! was hint.
O'Day made public the telephone
call for Jimmy which he had taken
IN Olgas apartment, and told about
I; the several mysterious warnings Jim
my had received.
! As he explained to Jimmy when
| the latter wrathfully demanded why.
I 1T will protect you, my boy
"How do you figure thst?"'
/: why, it stands to reason that
| with all this publicity they're giving
| to those threats the man behind them
isn't going to take any chances by
!! trying to carry them out"
! But can't you see we're spelling
our chances Of ever catching Jensen?
! He'll sneak out Of town now, sure"
Maybe. Still we didn't get any.
where by keeping our mouths shut.
Besides. the first job We have is to
J find Olga Maynard"
O'Day limited vaguely that he was
thinking Of Letting something else
out to the papers," but when Jimmy
asked what it was he refused to be
drawn out.
The telephone at police hcadquar-
ters and in the newspaper offices
were kept busy answering calls from
anxious persons who insisted they
had seen Olga Maynard or Ike Jen-
/; sen.
These were run down and. as is
usual in such cases, they led no.
| where.
Jimmy encountered Sam Church
on the street one day and fancicd
that he looked prcoccupied and not
II little worried.
He thought: III you've any con-
science at all, the things you've done
to Olga Maynard must make you
worry. This could never have hap
pencd II il hadn't been for you.'
He clenchcd his fists, thought
wildly. for moment, Of assaulting
| Church on the spot, but sauntcrcd
T; When he got home he was sorry
he hadn't punched Church's head for
him. Then he thought: an sense
I'm to blame myself for whatever
may have happened to her. If Ia
followed O'Day's advice, she would
at least be safe"
The more he thought about her the
more aghast he was ut her proba-
bic fate. His ignorance was AS a
drawn curtain in front Of his eyes
-. q. black curtain. heavy. with
a CHASTITY hand holding it together.
! my Cod" he cried. over and over.
'Have they killed her toe? ?"
Ito Be COntinucd)