New Britain herald., 1929-09-17
DEATH TREASURE
 By R. A. J. MAILING

"Could we be just can lid 2" said Marlirg. Tt might be b b.tter. I've come under a strong sense of cdmpulsion, I'll say have I purely friendly motive"
 l mady some sort of acknowlcdg- m"nt Of MarliuEs friendly motive and put on q double guard of cau- ton,
 ] signed to him 10 20 on.
 T was wrong in s1pposjn2 that poll would eylla the meeting at Ncwplaco,' h. said. "B.tt,r for linn if he hal stayed away. But what l told you about Pel was right, Now Mr. Crcnotcn. fer some reason you have got your, self mixed up ~it1 a complicated and vory dreadful business, which qocs not stop at thc murder Of pclI. And what came to tell you. Mir Gr"nofcn, is that you yourself are in dongcr.'
 Tn danger Of whato And fror, "homo" I fired at him. Marling hosj'af,l. I watched Jim closely, this man who he'd probably escaped G.ath onIy be cause pcI stopp'l tho bullet in , tended for him, who seemed to be at the base of the whole mystery Of Roger Poll. He was greatly dis turlrrd. in deadly earnest. His cyea burned in his pale face. ] "You stumbled into this," said ! ho. "You have no real rosponSibili- ty. came to warn you" "Of what, CT Of whom, padre ?" ! I repeated.
 "of an arrost-at any minute. Of whom' or several people, but o' LaXton in particular"
 "Why should any one want to arrest me? And Laxton. of all . people," said.
 NIarling made a gesture Of wcari- ross.
 "Wo needn't beat about tho bush. Nocd w"?" he asked. 'You must ! rav" realized what LaNton is anl what he wants"
 ''What does he want""
 ''rO discover who Killed Pru"
 ''I'ut my dear padre. you forget that L1Nton was inter, stcd ir New. l place before anybody thought of . killing rnll He promised mo 10 come 10 Blackwator days bctorp."
 Marlins shrugged
 T told you, 1Ir. Grcnofcn. that you stumbled into this. cant t'il you the origins Of it-hut Lax. ton--well, he won't arrest you him self; but ho'Il have you arrested. simply because he doesn't believe }on stumbled into it. He thinks you were in it from the first"
 I looked steadily into Marliug' $ eyes as he spoke, Nondcring wny ] hc had come 10 me with this warn inc.
 "Yor1l admit padre" said | that on the face of it I'm justified in being a!optiral Why ahoul1 I,aNton or anybody else attack m, about tn" death of p,u rather thar any ether man who had anythin- 10 do with prll?"
 T don't know that it's d goot reason; but know th~ reason yucr as it is, Mr. Grcnofen. You con ccal"d q man for two or three Cqys ' in conditions which suggest Il at II vas the man who killed PcIl. Yo, htlrcd him 10 cqclnn'
 ''l;ho man We had hero was In ,htroluccd 10 I.ayton on Saturday evening - mothers cousin, Johl M"rrywoathcr."
 "Y"s, I know, I'm telling you tn, thcory,' said Marlinr. "And simply want 10 warn you that the, are locking for d certain piece o' evidence before th,y act. Let Il. suppose for a minute, foY the saE, of argument, that you had a mar concealed under any prctcxt an ac left behind him any piece 0 evidence which would enable then 10 "stabish his idcntity.-Wcu,
 needn't go on with the argument In that hypothetical case, if the cvi dcncc was not here they could no get hold of it. If you were no