The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-10

POI ihtCuuchl. IL ills tufelOpt di'
my instructions to Bellew ant
Freeman, there. A soon as eithe
of them awakes, you follow M
out to where Boyden was found.
After receiving his direction,
from the corporal, the inspector
left the room. AS he approached
the street, he saw directly oppo
site a lunch room and he realiz
ed that he had eaten neither
breakfast nor lunch. While he was
impatient to begin the investiga,
ton from the scene of the muir
der, he decided to obtain food
for he did not know when he
would return to the settlement.
1t was a mere shell of a build
ing, and the interior was in keep
ing with the general atmosphere
of dilapidation. Famished though
he was, the officer doubted his
ability to force down the food
that might be placed before him.
However, his reaction to the I'M
sightliness of the place was only
momentary. He pulled one of the
half-dozen or so stools to an oil
cloth covered table and sat down.
Engrossed as he was in the
task before him, the inspector
failed to notice the delayed ap-
pearance of someone to attend
to his needs. Facing the rear of
the building, his head in his
hands, the officers gaze was cent
cred in deep study upon a knot
hole in the partition. Suddenly
he became ware that on the 9th
er side of that hole, an eye was
peering at him. Was his approach
to exhaustion playing tricks with
his faculties, or did he really dis
Germ in that single glance rays
of hatred, of venom. AS if to
assure himself that he was not
dreaming, he looked again, but
the eye was gone.
A few seconds later there ap-
peared in the doorway the figure
of a creature so %slovenly and dis
heveled as to awaken in the Gus
toner further distaste for the
place. Hidden behind a mass Of
tangled hair were two evil eye
The %protruding hair accentuated
an abnormally large head, set a
top shoulders that were broad
and muscular. But the striking
eccentricity of the mans physique
was his dwarfishness. He was no
taller than a boy of twelve. Ma
ture had been generous in the
development of the head and
shoulders, but as to the rest of
the body, she had d%efrauded the
man Of all proportion. The in
spector reasoned that here was a
soul filled with bitterness and
hatred toward all things normal,
4 disposition that could be traced,
no doubt, to the unkindness with
which nature had treated him.
The man shuffIed up to the
table, gave the oilcloth a swipe
a dirty rag, and stood in an
attitude of expectancy. The prox-
unity of the proprietor enabled
the inspector to look him over
more closely, an examination that
brought out the utter detection of
he dwarf's appearance. AS he
toward the rear of the
building to fill the officers mod /
EST order, Kerr noticed the mans {
rousers had been ripped near the
OPP of his knee-high boots. 1t was I
apparently a fresh tear, such as
would be made by brushing past s
sharp object. I
Diminishing the restauranteur and {
lis peculiar conduct as having |
10 bearing on the matter at hand,
inspector set out for the scene {
If Boyden's assassination. He 5
'ound the country surrounding and |
he immediate terrain about as l
-efferies had described them. The $
pot where Boyden stood when he q
vas fired upon from behind was e
asily distinguishable by the foot I
in the soft earth, contigu- I
us as they were to the reddish l
tain that bore mute evidence to I
he ebbing away of Boyden's life i
Hood The officer tired to repro |
luce the setting in his minds I
we, and he spent an hour or more b
.xaming the ground within a ra- n
.ius of a hundred yards of where d
he constable had fallen. Ere
he noised himself as S