Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-23
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Rich old MRS. JUPITER is
robbed and murdered during an
engagement party n On giving
for her secretary. NARY HARk-
NESS. Mary's seapegraee brother.
EDDIE. In supposed 60 have been
I'm the house ne the murder h0uF.
DIRK RUYTHER. blue-bIooded
young lawyer. Mary's hance, ad-
SIses her 60 keep silent about
secretly. until he can locate the
boy. Eddie has disappeared.
Mary prevents n maid. BESSIE.
from telling BOWEN, police re-
porter for the Star. about Eddie's
supposed visit. Dirk telephones
take her 20 see him that after
noon. Dirk oversIeeps and Bowen
drives Mary 20 the rendezvous.
Eddie 10 run down by a ear an no
crosses the stree 20 meet Mary.
Deiirious In the hospital. he mum-
bles about a NJ.
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 or
Mary's hearing and let his wrath
explode.
Il tell you l saw I'll II was muir.
der-pure murderl 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."
Get awayl"
"Clean. | tell you II was all care
fully calculated to the minute. Who.
ever 1t vas 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 e
kill the boy?"
Bowen shrugged. "I've got m
Idea he knows something about this
Jupiter killing"
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
sionas Job. Somebody did the Jupi
ter job and hung 1t 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 pu~nctuaI, Ed
die might have been living yet He
was convinced the thing was ar
accident. Newspapermen lived with
sensation until they saw It where
II did not exist. III he had beer
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 hi.
manner when talking to the news
paperman but II was strongly root
ed and came from two causes. All
aversion 70 publicity was bred X
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 thai
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-h,
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 yoI
mind telling met" he asked thought
fully. Il confess he had me think
Ing him guilty-until / saw this
Too plain to miss"
why" said Dirk, hesitating
he called me up this morning. HI
really said very little. Said he hat
tried 70 reach Mary but the lin,
was busy and be couldn't wait. s.
be called me instead. / said, TWher,