The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-02

| " la. She put her fur round he
 shoulders again as though she fel
 cold, rallied, and turned her usua
 mockery upon Mrs. Lodely. ''
 rather believe you and I are go ing to sink or swim together, Judy
 she confided. Probably sink"
 "Anythin' I've done was becaus
 it seemed right at the time" af
 firmed Mrs. Lodely, twisting a,
 already crumpled handkerchief be tween her fingers. And anyway
 what Barbara's affairs have got tt
 do with you, Farrell, I don't knov at all"
 Right" admitted Farrell. Bar
 bara knows nothing about it, al yet" s,i
 "Anythin' I did"
 Quite sol" said Armitage. "Tht point is that something you saic to me not so very long ago ane something Leila told me at South. the-Water made me curious as tt the reason why, after the firm ol Quentin, Lodely and Cane wen under the personal fortune of Sil James Cane should have increased I've looked into the matter" There's no point in our ex- blaming how we came by these facts" Armitage tapped a slip oi paper and wished Leila had not sat down between Mrs. Lodely's chair and Marks couch. She made him feel more of a snowman than lever. Once one knows the kind of thing to look for it's generally easy to find. There are very few ways, really, in which profess sional man can suddenly augment his capital"
 Very few ways in which he'd need anyone like Judy to helr him. added Mark with infinite malice
 T never helped himl" exploded Mrs. Lodely. What I did is noth- ing to what he didl If Leila don't mind my sayin' so, her fathers a."
 Armitage began to speak quick ly, his main desire to get most of it said before Mrs. Lodely gave tongue once more.
 Both MT Quentin and MT. Lodely appear to have thrown ev- cry penny they could muster into the resources of the firm. Mrs. Quentin even tried to sell par eel of shares which she had her self bought for very little and, enc imagines, as an act of char ity. These shares represented a nominal holding of fifty thousand pounds in company which is now, by chance, one of my own. Nominal" he repeated as Mrs. Lodely opened her mouth.
 Actually, in the time of the firms need Mrs. Quentin could not get even fifty pounds for them. And yet after the dissolution of the firm and only week before her husbands death she did find a buyer for them. They changed hands for five hundred pounds and became the property of Sir James then MT Cane. I should say here that they were shares in gold-mining venture"
 Poole lit cigarette. The scrape of the match drew Marks head round upon his pillow.
 Smoke gives me a headache, Poole"
 Poole did not put out his cig- arette. He appeared not to hear Mark.
 "A month later it became known that a gold seam had been open ed up in the mine and the shares jumped to par. Sir James profit after he had sold the shares again, and incidentally re-capitalized his other interests, was a not incon- siderable one. The question oc- cured to us, had he been given inside information?"
 Mrs. Lodely thumped the table and the vase which she had al- ready knocked over now rolled to the floor.
 Forty five thousand and five hundred pounds" she declared hoarsely. Common fraud, it was if Leila don't mind me sayin' SO And some of it would have come to Mark"
 "Why?" asked Mark coldly.
 Because Mrs. Quentin would have let us have some of it! With all her odd ways she'd never have left me and Mark to nearly starve if she'd got fifty thousand pounds in the bank! That's what I've said from the first it's just a mat ter of common justice. I said. Mark and Babs marvin because what's hersll be his.
 And as soon as ever those two