The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-08

| lOVely trust ana IdlT-pldy COine III, ! then?'
 Jimmy, you make me tired Once again, who's running this outfit, you or I? If Manoels fool 1 enough to but-in on my game )ur game-aren't free to put him | off how I like? Whats biting you? You don't want to start some hing when I'm at my wits end | )ver this internal Wave. That man1l succeed in breaking this firm up, if we aren't careful-es- pecially with you helping him by playing his game of sowing suspi- cion among"
 Playing his game!" exclaimed MT. James indignantly. What about you playing his game by letting him come here, threaten us, fool us, rob us, and get away with it =.
 But you don't pull wool over my eyes like that Say, now, sup pose all that bunk-about meaning to pool that 1O,OO0-4s the goods, why must you cut it right out ] because Wave put Manoel wise?'
 Cant you see that that's the most disturbing and frightening thing in the whole world for us?"
 The Doctor, with outstretched finger, pointed at the face of his young colleague.
 Get this, James And then try | to realize what it means Wave never in his life set eyes on Maud. Not living human being except her and me had the glimmering of an idea of this Lauderdell scheme. It only existed in her brain and mine. And what follows: MT. Mys- terious Wave drops in on Man. oel, and not only sells him the plot, but mentions the exact sum that I'm to get!'
 The Doctor threw himself back in his chair.
 God bless my sinful soul he concluded explosively, T begin to think the mans from Scotland Yard-or else the Archangel Ga briel"
 Bump him off, I say growled Mir James.
 Ut would do us a lot of good wouldn't it, if detective from Scotland Yard disappeared here Better for us if it was the Arch angel. Less likely to be missed.
 Put me wise on the whole story anyway" continued MT James Whats the Maud female get, that she can slip for s5O,oo0?"
 "Well-Maud roped a steer calico Lauderdell. Not much to him ex- . cept that he's going to be Sh 1 Something Lauderdell when tht old guy dies Maud's sick of thl racket and wants to retire in tht , odor of sanetity among the Lon dcn Four Hundred. But there's not more money
 than will keep up the old Tudol : place. Then what does Maut find?
 "Lauderdell's brother has diet , and left Lauderdell this girl Mar jcrie for keeps, and 10000 , pounds. Marjorie can't touch thi 7 until she comes of age. If she die before she's 2l, Brother Lauder dell scoops it."
 And if she marries?" r Nix till she's of age" replies the Doctor.
 r What a wicked will" observe, MT. James indignantly "Didn f the guy want the poor girl to liv : to be PIP"
 Dr. Charters smiled. d Well, you see, he trusted Broth n CT Lauderdell and rightly I There isn't enough money in tn
 world to make him hurt hair c 5 the girls head.
 f 50 Maud comes to see m t She's worried about her husband l niece, who lives with them. Sue
 lovely girl So rich, if sh . lives to be 2l Quite sad to se
 her health failing like this. An
 mind you, Maud might have sai
 it to Sir Bernard Matthieson lik
 she said it to me. Well, as Mau
 describes the symptoms, the ill ] ness sounds like recurring attack of arsenic. And so they are.
 Maud and Lauderdell bring he and I put her in Manoel's care fc . special treatment. She's to be th
 one case we lose, after devote s care. That's all Manoel knows 2 that she's to get quite complet , and final cure for all her ach'
 and pains"
 ! Second or third time Mat : and Lauderdell come Maudie II !, minds me how dreadful it wou T be if the poor child died within . few weeks of her birthday wh; :. she would come into a 1000
 pounds-and I tell you, Jimmie,