The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-15

fool yarn about Peterson playing poker for a human life?" stormed.
 My dear Watson! I was merely dropping a seed into the ground made fertile by our recent dis coveries. If that poker game should prove to be a fact it might have had something to do with Ogden's death"
 Tt isn't fact" I said dogged- y. But I wasn't so sure, for he had carried me along with the sweep of his logic. What abou. those pieces of quartz?" I demand ed. There should be motive enough for you"
 T was coming to them. One specimen was in Ogdens desk; the other was in Hyde's. I believe Furie could tell us something about them. At any rate they bring Hyde into fthe affair-this lawyer, Roy Ham mo ond too, perhaps. For all I know Hyde may be Dillon, but it doesn't follow because Dillon black mailed Ogden that he also killed him. But to return to the quartz. You told me something about this Two Brothers mine of Ogden's. I wonder why Ogden called it the Two Brothers. You said young Jer- ry wanted to open the mine and that Ogden refused to let him touch it. Interesting situation, don't you think?"
 You are trying to build their difference of opinion into a mo- tivel" I charged
 MacNair grinned Don't fume so, Peebles. The cost of mining gold has gone down, but for this reason Ogden should have let his son open the mine unless he had a better reason for keeping it closed He doesn't seem to have given the boy the real reason"
 Henry nodded. Tt looks that way to me"
 Now, take these specimens of gold ore," MacNair went on. Suppose they came from the Two Brothers from new vein Ogden didn't know of"
 That won't do" I objected. "The mine is closed. Half the mountain side slid down in front of it years ago"
 There may be an exposed vein somewhere. Let us assume Jerry found it. Naturally, he would want to exploit his discovery. His father refuses to let him touch it and gives no adequate reason for doing go. They become angry. Anger turns to rage, and, well-there you are"
 "Yesl I exploded Nowhere at all. In the first place, if these two specimens came from new vein in the Two Brothers, Hyde also, knows of that vein; in the second place, you yourself expressed the opinion that Furie was an old pros pector and that he knew something about specimens, too; in the third place, you haven't got rid of Dil- lon yet I don't see why the greed motive shouldn't be as strongly operative in one man as in anoth- er."
 Neither do l." he said, "but un- fortunately for your argument, which expresses my point of view so far as it goes, the other evidence duplicates young Ogden and not Hyde or Furie. AS for Dillon, I'll show you him dead or alive, before I am through. There's Mrs. Lundy, too Ogden didn't give her $1 900 for nothing"
 His arguments were sound, but before I could reply Deacon spoke
 There's sense in what he says, John. You might as well admit it. I'm sorry, but I can't get it out of my head that the boy did it. He may have come to blows with An- drew about the mine"
 He wouldn't have stabbed his father in the back while he sat at the telephonep I retorted indig- ! nantly. Get your hands on James Dillon and you'll have Ogdens mur- derer, Henry. And don't forget that Polyandria marked your man" ]" l Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Col
 Where is Jerry? Can Lucy
 and her uncle prove his inno- cence? Startling developments
 in tomorrow's chapter. I