The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-29

1T WAS almost noon of the day
IL following his encounter with
Riley Morgan that Frank Sheridan
arrived at his Office. He immedi-
ately called in his efficient secretary
CHATS me, Maize Brown and saw
at once that he was fairly bursting
to talk things out with somebody
"a whole lot has happened since
I left this Office yesterday after
noon," he began with a quiZzical
frown. do you know, Maize, I no
more than get one end of this con-
founded WILDER tangle Strengthened
out than something turns up that
ties it all in a knot again
Then he told about finding Nor
gan and forcing him to confess, not
only to the WILDER safe robbery, but
to his plot with Mention to steal
| Wilber's invention.
He described how he had per-
suaded Riley to agree to burglarize
Mentions Office and recover the
stolen diary.
..And then, Maizie," he exclaimed.
when 1 get back to my rooms l
receive a telephone call from Will
Der announcing he has the diary!
What an anti-climaX!
Here l am gleefully congratulate
ing myself on my clever work
toward recovery of the diary and
1 wake up to find somebody has
beaten me to it."
I laughed just had to, he was
SO comically crestfallen. I really
believe he was sorry the diary had
been found; he would rather have
had the fun of carrying out his
deal with the burglar.
well, that lets Riley Morgan
out" he said with a sigh. "Ill have
to pay him the reward I promised
and call him off. Take this letter."
He dictated a carefully worded
note to Morgan, ordering him not to
carry out the plan and telling him
70 call at the Office for his pay. He
had agreed to communicate with
Riley by letter to Pete the Greeks
/ md the letter was sent to that adj
J dress.
Morgan called the next day, and
/ got the money and was advised to
/ get out of town. And so he passed
out of the picture, for the time, at
least.
Il went out to see WILDER this
morning" Mr.. Sheridan said as 1
closed my notebook. II was fab
bergasted when I heard he had the
/ diary.
ut seems Sheila had gone to see
| Andy Masters who is laid UP by the
/ injuries he received in the auto
smashup that did for Mention. She
brought the diary back with her
| from Masters fiat. She didn't know
what it was as it was wrapped ready
/ for mailing and Andy told her it
was some papers belonging to Will
bur. Quite right, that explanation,
| eh?
WILDER fortunately did not open
the package in Sheila'S presence, but
/ the old boy was struck all in a heap.
He had been out to see Andy the
day before, and there had been fond
words and forgiveness and all that
sort of thing, with WILDER thinking
his precious nephew had turned
over a new leaf and was going to
! go straight, now and forever. etc.
Then he is confronted with the
fact that the diary had been in
Andy's pos-cssion, and he's ali up
IN the al again. He called up
Andy'S fiat, but got no Satisfac-
ton. 1t now behooveS me to get
in touch with foxy Andy and find
out what's what"
1t may be stated here parenthet-
ically that he saw Andy Masters
a few days later and learned what
the reader no doubt already sus-
poets. Mercy had gone to Menton's
Office in furtherance of her agree
ment with Andy and carried off the
dairy.
Mercy and Andy had intended to
mail it anonymously to WILDER, but
Sheila had innocently spoiled that
little pot. Incidentally, neither
Andy nor Mercy had attempted to
read the dairy-they were only too
glad to get rid OF it as soon as pos
sihle and wash their hands of the
whole affair.
However, that's minor matter"
Mr.. Sheridan continued. THE big
thing is that the diary has been re-
covered and the fear of sensational
publicity and the menace of black
mail has been lifted from WILDER.
Mention is dead. and thus his
mouth is closed. Andy still is to be
reckoned with, but his voluntary re-
turn of the dairy indicates he has
had some sort of change of heart.
He certainly did enough damage
when he spilled the beans to