Nogales international., 1932-03-02
Ninth Instalment

Lynda Sandal The girl is torn by her
desire to see life in the raw and to become
part of her mothers society. Her father
studies her surroundings.
Lynda visits her father in his dingy
quarters. She finds four men playing cards
when she arrives. One of them. Jock Ayle-
ward, her father tells her, is like son to
him, but warns the girl he is trifler.
Lynda pays a second visit to her father
and Jock takes her home, on the way stop
ping with her at an underworld cabaret
Jock gets into fight with gangster who
insists on dancing with Lynda. He ther
takes. Lynda home. Later she mention:
j Felix's name to Jock and Ayleward's face
displays his demoniac hatred of the million
aire.
Jock tells Lynda that Felix caused him t
be sent to Jail unjust1y by fixing UP his re
port on a mine. Lynda says she doesn't
believe his story. She pays another visit te
her father and goes to cabaret with MN
and dances with Jock, who suddenly stop:
and tells her he is going to take her righ1
home. He had seen Felix dancing witt
another woman.
Nick discovers Jock making love to Lynda
when he returns home Immediately after the
others get there and reviles him for being Z
convict. Returning home Jocelyn finds hel
mother handling some immensely valuable
jewels, hidden behind her prize dieu.
Felix. tells Jocelyn that Jock is WORTHLESS:
scamp. Later Lynda tells Jock she does moi
believe in his innocence but will try and find
through Felix, some letters Jock claims will
clear his name.
| Marcella finds her jewels stolen and hire:
q private detective, who uncovers the mys
terious prowlings of Lynda, without know.
ing who she is. Lynda suspects her father
Jocelyn decides to marry Felix quickly
and preparations are made for the wedding
She asks him to tell her the combination oi
his safe, as mark of his confidence in her
Armed with the combination and accom-
panied by Jock, Linda enters Felix Office a
night, abstracts the wanted papers from tht
safe and throws them down to Jock. who i.
waiting below. Then she Is captured by ths
| janitor and turned over to the police. Feli1
learns the next morning, in Washington, thai
"boy" had broken into his safe.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
eyes, sir. know how you must
feel. When / heard it, it went right
through me like bullet. About one
o'clock, or little earlier, Rory
thought he heard movement OF
our floor and let himself into the
outer office. There he saw lighl
moving close to the inner threshold
He caught a young boy in the act OF
elimbing in at the window, -.
: "Rory struck him over the he'd
rr;th his stick. He thinks he got him
4 good time. Nothing seems to be
disturbed. The safe is quite as usual.
All the papers on your desk and
inside it are intact. | do believe, Mr..
Kent, that no harms been done. But
| I'm lust kind of scared. wish YOU
we're here to goy over your papers
in that safe. And, though Rory is
almost sure he was climbing in of
course he might have been climb
ing out. No, sir. They didn't find
anything on him. They're holding
him at the station. You'll be back
before noon?" t' fif
I'D have to make it by airplane
10 do that, Miss Becky"
well, perhaps it isn't that i'm
portaht but I do feel kind cf scared"
Kent, without troubling himself to
reassure her fears, hung up and
pondered the exasperatiag news.
| The thief had taken something
from that safe ! thousand hid
eous betrayals darted through his
iancy, whitening his lips, pulling
down lines beside the grim mouth
corners. He saw wolf faces, hyena
aces
He stood TIP. He'd take to the
,ir. No use putting himself to the
strain of these imaginary disasters.
At precisely noon, Charles having
been warned by wire to meet him
+ the landing field. Felix presented
himself in his office.
Miss Becky was glad to see him.
She repeated to him the disorgan-
.zed details of her information. One
hat she added caught Kent's
breath.
"But Michael does say that for
an instant he kind of thought may
BE the boy threw something down
10 the court before he knocked him
out."
Kent was now at the safe and his
lace was pinched as he began to
pull out the contents of the metal
drawers.
Miss Deal said timidly, "By the
by, Mr.. Kent, Mrs. Harlowe's been
- -1HSlLIS diit[ / lilSlllS " doh AOh SeA'
Mrs. Harlowe?" snapped Kent.
III she rings again put her off until
I'm through with this. Just tell her
I'm on my way from Washington
and that you'll put me in touch with
her as soon as I get in. It's some
idiotic woman business about the
we'd"
He stopped in the middle of that
word.
Miss Deal turned her pince nez
upon him and all the blood in her
body rushed up into her square face;
"Oh, great heaven, what's gone?"
Kent had stood up. He was chalk
white, a pallor that showed blue
about his lips.
"Get me the police station quick
ly!"
A minute later Felix, seated al
his desk, was stabbing space with
his questions. Between his brows
deep straight line looked like a
scar. He identified himself to the