New Britain herald., 1929-05-28

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 CHAPTER IS
 SHADOWS OF OGDEN'S PAST
 \ anarusiy heard what Macaiair aAlA. Deacon's discovery had aston ipAed me lsss than 1t had shocked u,y moral sense, for all day the trend of the evidence had besn towards the conclusion implied by the finding of the pistol in ogdsn's room.
 "You have given m another fact to buiida theory on. Deacon" he vas saying. "A fact hard and square, fast and real"
 ''The theory 2" Henry demanded, blently.
 ..very we'll" MacNair began. "Censidar the facts. rhts man Furis calls on Hyde yesterday aftssaoon. Hubbard overheaFs Or den sheut the two words gold bull letA' Furie leaves. Ogden tcle- phones Peeblea and is stabbed as he sits at the instrument. Incl dsntally, Ogden has a-oard left at
 my house askiAs mo to cell.
 Daring the. aftsrnoon Psehles buys . gold. mounted pietoi from Nathan Hyde. Early this morning Pesbles' house n entered by . man who is after the pistpl. One of the goiA bullet+leAdsd cartpldges of the pigtel sis found to contain . mes- aa1s from man named Jerry. The meeaasa was written In lsSS aud tt accuses one James, Dillon of murder. Later on. we find evidence that leads U to believe Ogden has been paying Dillon blackmail Sor 20 years. It also tur1s out that Ogden desperately wanted this gold mounted pistol himself. Hyde. 1t appears, bought it from this man Furis who called on Ogden. We also find in Ogdcn's safe 26 poker chips and . deck of cards. Ogden waS known to be prejudiced against card playing.
 '.Why should Ogden have been psying Dillon blackmail for 2S years? Why. should Ogden want thia seld pistol? Our feelin gthat hs was not the man the community supposed him to be. be- comes certainty. And now we have your discovery. Deacon, of this other geld amounted pistol in Og- den's room."
 He paused.
 T venture to say" he went on. that Alex Peterson. swashbuckler and gambler, and Andrew ogden. our late exemplary citizen. and builder of. san Felipe were ons and the ame man."
 Again he paused. ! T susgsst. furthermore" Mac Nair continued ruthlessly. that Dillon blackmaiIed Ogden because of something that happened when Ogden was Alex Peterson: that the man Jerry was close relation-a brothsr, perhaps-or close friend of Peterson's (s0 ciose. in fact. that Osden called his own son after him); and that the poker chips and the deck Of cards symbolixe the tndiscretion for which Ogden was blackmailed.
 Sounds reasonable" Deacon growled.
 NacNGir bowed ironically. By tho way" he resumed. II wonder if either of you have forgotten the so-callsd legend of the poker game that cracked. the town'?"
 | jumped at this, You mean that feol yarn about Peterson playing poker for .. human lite?" I stornied.
 My dear Watson! ! was merely dropping . seed into the ground made fertile by our recent discov- eries. If that poker game snould prove 10 be . fact 1t might have haA something to do with Ogden's death."
 Tt isn't . fact" said dogsediy. But l wasn't n. sure. for he had carried me along with the sweep Of hii l1Sic. What about those pieces of quaytS?" demanded. There should he motive enough fer you"
 T vas coming to them. One specimen WAS in Osden's desk: the other was in HyAs'A believe Furie could tell us something about them. At. any rate. they bring Hyde into the affatr-this lawyer, Roy Ham, mond. toe. perhapA For all knew Hyde may be Dillon. but it dsssn't follow because Dillon blackmailed Ogden, that he also killed him. But to return to the quarts. You told ne semsthing about thts Two Brethers' mine of Osden's. I won- der Nhy Ogden called 1t the Two BeetAsrf You said young Jerry wantsl to open the mine and that Og4en. refused to let him touch 1t. 1 IatsrePting situation. don't you tht1k?"
 ''Yes are trying to build tkeir | difference of opinion into . mo- tive!..' I charged.
 NAcNair, grinned. Don't fume 70. PUebles. The cost of mining l soiA has goae dswn. but for this reason Ogden should have let hts soD open the mine unless he had ! ] hettsr reason for keeping t closed. He Aoesa't seem ts have given the | boy ths real reason"
 ttenry nodded. Tt looks that |, way to ne..'
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