Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-06-08

does not beat / am quite sure he Il
dead" "
"Good Lord. -. How did you ind
him?"
II see the door of Meester ThayeFs
o Is not entirely shut. / look In
and ! see n foot and one leg on the
floor. | theenk that is very funny that
Meester Thayer should lie ON the floor
and not move. Perhaps he IL drunk.
So ! think | will put him on the bed
and shut the door SO nobody Will know
he is drunk. l go In the room and
then | see the blood-and-and,"
4And what7"
II stand there for a minute. Two
minutes. / do not understand that
Meester Thayer what Is SO kind to me
have come to a sad ending. Then ]
see he is dead and something grab me
right here" He touched his throat
With a dramatic gesture. 81 cannot
breathe. / cannot move. / am scared
Gleason looked up. WED better
phone the police, RUDE. II we don't
call the cops We'll get ourselves mixed
up In this. And | guess we'd better
phone the dean, too.
Gleason walked unsteadily into the
fraternity house and called the Mar
land police station. Then he telo-
phoned to the dean and returned to
the porch.
1t was q CHASTITY thing-made even
more grisly by the perfect day; the
%sensuous. fiower-scented breezes Of
first summer; the carefree, strolling
groups OF students; laughter and j0I-
lily and careless youth. And upstairs
the body OF a young man lying dead
Murdered 1t wasn't believable. Tho
W young men were appalled, by their
own knowledge Of surrounding cir
cumstances.
A small car jerked to a halt In front
OF the fraternity house and two men
alighted. One of them was tall and
broad and wore the uniform Of the
Marland police force. The other, wear
ing civilian clothes, was short and
| squat.
Students strolling on the Row or
Iounging on the verandas of fraternity
houses, stared with sudden interest at
Psi Tau Theta. There was a general
movement In the direction OF the
house. A young man from Lambda
Beta Pi addressed the uniformed
policeman who stood on the lawn Of
Psi Tau Theta
whats wrong, oficer?'
The cop answered tersely.
Murder |"
Good Cd ... You dent
mean .
i don't mean nothin', young fellee.
Somebody's been murdered In yonder
and nobody's to 60 In or gilt out.
That's ALL
The startled young man told hia
companion. The news sped from Lip
TO lip. Who was 1T No. not Rube
Farnum: he had been seen on tho
porch. Then somebody mentioned Pat
Thayer. Many persons mentioned Pat
Thayer. No one knew where the ru-
NOR started, but Thayer's name was ON
every lip. The policeman on the lawn
allowed nobody to approach within
hearing distance OF the group on the
veranda: the militant, positive figure
Of John Reagan, chief Of the Marland
~plainclothes force; Mike Carmicino, the
janitor, petriied with fear and trem-
bling violently; RUDE FArnum, tall and
limp and frightened; Phil Gleason,
reduced from his customary a~lertness
to a shriveled miniature of his usual
positive self.
Reagan was questioning Farnum.
RUDE was struggling to be fair and
honest to remember things and yet to
avoid injustice to anyone. He was alb
solutely and abysmally miserable.
Then there emerged from the Main
building a tall and dignified man be-
fore whom a path opened In the throng
of students. Whitman Boyd, dean OF
Marland, turned In before the tragic
fraternity house and was promptly
stopped by the policeman on duty.
mo further for you" snapped tho
officer.
Dean Boyd spoke quietly.
Are you In charge, Oficer7"
mo. ThatF1 be John Reagan yon-
der" And he gestured toward the
veranda.
Will you ask him II / may speak
to him7 Tn dean OF the college and
I'd like to find out what has hap
pened."
The policeman called out to Reagan
This guy is the big boss, Chief. Can
he come upY'
Reagan's keen eyes surveyed the
dean. He jerked his head afirma-
lively.
LET him through
The dean mounted the veranda
steps. his arrival sending a glow OF
thanksgiving through the breasts OF
RUDE Farnum and Phil Gleason. He
spoke directly to Reagan
MY name Is Whitman Boyd he
said quietly. x understand that some
one has been killed"
Murdered Young felf<r named
Thayer."
1Good G-di Then it's true-I
heard the students gossiping."