The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-03

1 You flatter me, Simon"
 T hope not. hope don't mis- judge you.'
 Well, sorry as I am to seem unworthy of your good opinion Simon; sad as I am to disappoint you-I am not going.
 Not going to give yourself up9 |. You'd let an innocent man swing for you?"
 He's not swinging yet, anyway Simon"
 NO, but he will-unless the poor devil has got fool-proof ali bi. The dicks must have pinched the first crook that answered the description in the letter you left on Spider Schlitz's body" T low-down, dirty trick" growled MT. James indignantly.
 "Sickenin' swine" murmure Nurse Jones, while the fingers of the Matron's right hand curled in the manner of the claws of a cat about to scratch.
 "Oh, I don't know" observed Dr MacAdoo tolerantly. Quite legi- ! timate, I think, so long as he owns up-as of course he will do now that some one else is arrested Quite good trick for putting the police off the scent :" Tastes differ" sneered the Doc tor. Not the sort of trick that ap- peals to me. Filthy low :. unspeakably foul :"
 T suppose you don't deny you wrote it?" he added, turning to John Wave.
 Certainly, I wrote it. wrote it, all right. And, what's more, Simon, I gave an actual name-the real name of real man, here ir Eng land. Apparently the police have suppressed it."
 With an oath MT. James sprang to his feet-his restraint vanquish- ed at the bare thought of such ineffable villainy, such incredible ,, violation of all fair and decent dealing between honorable crooks.
 The Doctor himself seized MT. James's wrist as, with flash of blue steel, it appeared from be- meath his coat.
 "Sit down, you simp!" he hissed, and violently thrust MT. James back in his chair. Will you leave this to me? Who asked you to but in? Dyou want us all to ?"
 Have it your own way" growled MT. James Bump him off, and done with it, I say" John Wave smiled at the Doc tor, and nodded in complacent confirmation.
 "Yes, the description, name, and probable address, of an actual man." he said shamelessly. His hearers stared ill silence, genuinely shocked to the depths of their souls.
 llC llldll Woo q AAiOiiSbA4. N1OAA$ thing beyond their ken and com prehension-a superhuman or sun- human villain.
 And you actually propose to let him hang, while you look on 1t 1 in safety?" asked the Doctor in- credulously. "A perfectly innocent man!"
 | John Wave blew a long slow cloud of cigarette smoke and watched it mount up toward the carved-oak ceiling.
 T don't think perfectly innocent men often get hanged in this coun- try he observed conversationally. i Well, and what sort of time do you think he's having, lying there while they weave the moose around him?"
 Most uncomfortable, I should ] think"
 ! Well, then, don't you think it's up to you? ;. Aren't you going ], to do something?" Not a thing -. What would you do in my place, Doctor?" i The Doctor picked up his heavy ebony ruler in both hands, and { that it neither bent or broke
 seemed incredible.
 ' Look here" he said in a low
 and menacing tone, as he pointed ], it straight at the face of John
 Wave. "I'll tell you what I'd do
 and I'll tell you what you're going to do, unless you're lower than a
 snakes belly What you are
 going to do, in any case. For some reason of your own you bumped off Spider Schlitz; and when you'd done it, you wrote note for the police, to put them on the track of another man; alid the police, saying the usual thing that they'd got clew and hoped to make an arrest at an early framed the man whom yor described and named. Sort of thing they would do. Now, then, why