The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-09-30
Chapter 43 PEACE AGAIN

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 Laxton and I had watched, was explained Redslade and Pell, al though we thought it was a lone man. had just discovered the abbey treasures when Laxton's voice had frightened them. They stuffed the jewels into bag and fled.
 ,Redslade continued:
 ssYou see, Fotherbury was trying all the time to cross Pell, but Pell crossed him. Pell's attack here Tn the library was the last straw. Pell and were going to confront him with the whole story, make him eat humble pie. We were compara- lively rich. We meant to clear him out and recover Newplace at our own terms. We had him between the pincers, and we didn't reckon with violence"
 ,ssYet." said I, it seemed to me, Pell wasn't easy in his mind. Don't you think he had some inkling of the risk of violence!
 ..Ah. yes-certainly. He knew his Fotherbury and he knew his Marling. That was why Pell in- sisted on keeping Newplace right in the limelight. But now it was all over and he through he had Foth- erbury trussed, we didn't think vio- lence was possible in the presence of all those people. Who would have thought it possible?"
 ,.'And even now" said 1, it beats me. Can't see how it was done
 .That's because you aren't oo- servant" said Laxton. "FotherburJ shot Pell and ran the risk of hay ing to shoot himself rather thar face what was coming. You didn' see him because you weren't look inR. You were all staring at Pell. asBut he was examined like tht rest: no gun"
 .."He was standing by the fire place. wasn't he? And you were all in front of him except Marllng That's why you saw nothing. Bu' I'm convinced that Marling saw it.n
 itAnd then I recalled the awful look in Markings corpse-like face during that ordeal
 daIts very simple Laxton wen on. After Fotherbury had cried ou' his horror of the deed, and Eastle! had examined the body, he dit what I'll do now"
 Laxton got up and walked to thu telephone by the fireplace.
 ls"He called Wayne. Then h' just slipped back the catch of tn little desk here and raised it. We strained our eyes to Watcl Laxton. He closed the cover o the telephone desk and held up little revolver.
 l.I found it the day before yes tcrday. Why he didn't remove secretly I can't say; partly fear an partly feeling that it was the sales hiding place" i1,That old man!-so venerable with his grand air
 V.My dear MT. Grenofen,' sal Iaxton. there's nothing in tn world can be so deceptive as a ven erable appearancel He didn't tax me in for long. I deceived hif much longer. Fotherbury believe until this very night that l was nsofessor of archaeology! don't Dc reye MT. Redslade himself eve now fully realizes how this dirt ua,rper did him in! What was tn mortgage debt that Smithins cleare for you?" :,
 eJust over fl00Oo," said Redslad'
 And they let you have the sam sum. Fotherbury, being Smithin' oaid exactly f20,0o0 for the whol thine-and suppose it's worth fiv times that at least. When tha was evident, I knew who'd kilie pell or had him killed. But how Itraced every movement of ever man. The man who dictated ever movement was Fotherbury. walk ed about between the door and tn chiraney corner trying for som dodge to rid myself of an imaginar ufstol And then I lifted the tele ,nhone receiver just as MT. Fothel h,ry had done. My own pac would have hidden me from every hody in the room except the ma hv my side. But still there wa no hiding place in view-till m rieht had naturally fell on the Ill tle desk cover and it moved
 4By jove!" said I. "Marling struck my nerves horribly at ths moment. Marling dropped his spec tacle-case with a chatter on tn stones while Fotherbury stood g the telephone. He must hay seen"
 sMarling had nerves, too," sal Laxton. "Old Fotherbury had none.
 we all looked at Redslade, hi dark eyes gazing through us.
 .sThis ought to be the happies dey of my life," said he. "Bu