The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-10

was reading 1t TO the operator at Rat.
tail. He had just hung up the tele-
phone receiver when the doorbell
rang.
For a minute 1 did not recognize
the man standing there on the porch.
In the next minute | did recognize
him. My heart stood stock still. lie
was Daniel CannezianO.
He pushed right past me, into the
room, without waiting for an invita-
ton. He always was polished. per-
fumed little fellow, but that evening,
what with his gray spats and cane,
be was right-down dandified.
"Got chap TO drive me up frem
Rattail," he said.
~ lefi my trunk down there" he
went on, taking off his light gray
overcoat and brushing it, and folding
II across his valise that he Lad set
on chair. ''The chap couldn't bring
it. | thought you could send truck
down for it, tomorrow, Sam"
Counting on paying US quite
visit, eh, Canneziano?" Sam found his
voice at last. Trunk and everything
"As matter of fact" Canneziano
answered sitting down and making
himself comfortable on the small law
export, call that mess you stirred up
about me, on the night of the murder,
makes travelling not altogether agree
able for the present Yes, think,
a fhinn, fhaf hnv in
for guest, after having SET all the
police in the country on my trail,
keeping me safely here, as it were,
is about the least you can do, isn't
it?'
Il reckon could do little less,
in, pinch" Sam drawled. but, all
things considered, as you say-though
II might be you and / aren't consid-
ering the same things-rm glad to
see you here Make yourself right at
home, for you may be going to stay
even longer than you planned"
"Righto! However. If you have
some neat little scheme of trying to
pin the murder on me. I'd advise you
to abandon it. If | hadn't had water
tight alibis. all along The line"
keep your water-tight aIibis in
dry place till you need Them" Sam
advised. Maybe you will need them.
We've got crime analyst, specialist
in murder cases. coming up here Fri
day. You can give your alibis to
him."
THAT crime analyst sounds like
Lynn Macdonald. That's what she
calls herself"
"Shei" Sam said.
eff you've got Lynn Macdonald,
you've got woman"
Ill" Sam exploded.
lust the same," Canneziano said,
shes the best die on the coast. Some
say that she is the best in this coun-
killed Gaby, this Macdonald wom-
an cam
1--WE don't want woman. Better
wire her not to come, dad" John
urged.
This time it was Canneziano who
looked quickly and sharply at John.
You're dead right you had" he said,
eff you don't want the murderer dis
covered"
"Sam." Hubert Hand suggested,
you'd better wire and verify her ref
erences, anyway"
There's generally more than one
way TO skin cat" Sam said. "besides
the way you are told to do it,
Leaving us to think that over, he
went to the telephone and called the
office of the Morning Record. at Telko,
and asked for Mr.. Clarence Petite.
Petite was reporter on San Fran
cisco newspaper, who had been at the
ranch at the time of the inquest on
Gaby.
When Sam got him, he asked him
whether he knew Lynn Macdonald.
Evidently he said that be knew who
she was. for SAN told him to take
number Twenty-one at Telko, Friday
afternoon, and TO meet him here and
he would pay him fifty dollars for his
trouble
| remembered my manners. mir.
Canneziano," ! said, this is John
Stanley. Sans adopted son. He and
Danny are engaged to be married.
This other gentleman is Mr.. Hubert
Hand, and the lady is Mrs. Kicker
Things felt real polite, for min
ute, as they always do just after
folks have been introduced.
"Bad times you have been having
around here, lately" CanneZiano said,
pleasantly, as If he were talking about
the weather.
Mrs. Kicker excused herself and
went upsairs.
Sam spoke directly to Canneziano.
Ibid you ever know man named
BauermOnt-Lewis BauermontY
STRANGER Bauermont? Very well
indeed. Has he anything to do with
it?"
whats that you called him?" Sam
asked, sharply.
STRANGER Bauermont, you meanT'
l remembered that Danny had told
me his nickname was "Mexico."
Sam said, "That's what l mean.
How did he come by a name like
thatY
''He is by way of being wrestler,
| believe; and won the name for some
particularly clever hold that brought
his man down every time. have
never gone In for that sort OF thing
can't give you the scientific details.
He was ju-jitsu expert, also. Oh,
no, no." as he noticed our quickening
interests. "He is a continent and an
ocean away, at present. Moreover,
murder is quite outside his IHe-