Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-23
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Rich old MRS. JUPITER n
robbed and murdered during mn
engagement party nhe On giving
for her secretary. MARY HARk-
NESS. Mary's s~capegrace brother.
EDDIE, is supposed 10 INV been
In the house nj the murder hour
DIRK RUYTHER. blue-bIooded
young lawyer. Mnry'a hance. i'd
vtses her TO keep silent about
having arranged 20 meet Eddie
secretIy, until ne can locate the
boy. Eddie has disappeared.
Mary prevents u maid. BESSIE.
from telling BOWEN, police re-
porter for h Star. about Eddie's
supposed visit. Dirk telephones
that ne has found Eddie and will
take her to see him that after
noon. DIRK oversIeeps and Bowen
orises wary 20 the rendezvous,
Eddie In run down by n cnr M NE
crosses the street 10 meet Mary.
Delirious I'm the hospital. he mum-
bles about n ny.
NOW Go ON WITH THE sToRY
CHAPTER TX
EDDIE did not recover conscious.
ness sufficiently to tell his YER
sion OF the story before he died
There were hours OF suspense. for
he was young and dying did not
come easy to him. even with a frac.
.ured skull.
Bowen drew Dirk aside out OF
Mary's hearing and let his wrath
explode.
Il tell you l saw It! It was muir
der-pure murder! Two feet fur.
Their over. and they'd have got me,
too. BY God. to get that guy I'd
turn this town upside down."
sect away!"
"Clean. / tell you Il was all care.
fully calculated TO the minute. Who
ever It was took a big chance,
swinging around under those L
pillars. Just as he turned the cor-
ner he flooded the carburetor and
the number-plate was hidden BY
smoke"
"But why should anyone want &c
kill the boy?"
Bowen shrugged. I've got an
idea he knows something about this
Jupiter hlIllnB.
Ruyther looked at him sharply.
"Ah. the kid didn't do Il. I don't
mean that" the reporter answered
I'll bet my hat this was a profes.
sional job. Somebody did the Jupi
ter job and hung II on Eddie. And
when he went TO tell. they got him
That's how | figure IT,"
Dirk turned away. savage with
regret. II he'd been punctual, Ed
die might have been living yet. He
was convinced the thing was ar
accident Newspapermen lived with
sensation until they saw II where
IL did not exist. III he had been
disposed to think that someone had
wished Eddie's death. the antagon,
ism he felt for the other man made
him veer to the opposite view.
lie could not have explained the
stiffness that came into his
manner when talking to the news
paperman but Ii was strongly root
ed and came from two causes. Ar
aversion to publicity was bred In
the conservative bones OF the Ruy
Their clan. And there was some
thing more. something about the
way the absurd fellows gaze fol
lowed Mary that stirred all that
was proprietary in Dirk's love
Bowen pursued his questioning
too absorbed In speculation TO no
tice the others stiffness. Already
a plan was forming In his mind
and IL he found enough confrma
ton OF his suspicious, well-he
might be on the trail OF a bigger
story than he had thought.
"How did you get in touch with
Hardness. by the way-do you
mind telling me?" he asked thought
fully. Il confess he had me think,
Ing him guilty-until ! saw this
Too plain to miss"
why" said Dirk, hesitatlng
he called me up this morning. He
really said very little. Said he had
tried to reach Mary but the line
was busy and he couldn't wait. So
he called me instead. / said, Where