The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-30
Chapter IA 7 A VISITOR COMES

| A NI0t Oh SSUI0 ND wanted first of all law. "A yer; I felt rather cold as I sud denly recalled that in France there is no writ of. habeas corpus. It Is true that 1 was an American citi' zen. fact clearly set forth in my passport. but this had not appeared to relieve the situation in the least.
 It didn't seem at all legal that they should simply throw me into jail and keep me there, but every thing I had ever heard about the remarkable freedom of the French police in such matters returned to my memory, and began to feel a degree of anxiety which. l was to discover, was quite justifiable.
 Night comes early in the winter at Armene, and the room was quite dark, and no one had appeared to light 1t, and I was smoking my last cigarette and wishing I had the pompous old commissaire by the beard when I heard footsteps and voices and key turning in the lock. The cold, dark little room was flooded with light, and a visitor, a man, was ushered in to see me.
 got to my feet and was blinking in the unexpected light as he insin- uated something that rattled gently into the hand of the man who had opened the door. Then my visitor turned, and I saw the man who had arrived at the hotel during the afternoon.
 He said briskly:
 "I'm sorry to see you here, MT. Sundean. My name is Lorn-David Lorn." He paused and then added: Miss Tally asked me to see you"
 His words were neither promis- ing nor exactly explanatory; still, things looked suddenly better. was not. after all, entirely without a friend.
 "Sit down?"
 He drew up the small straight chair. and l sat down on the cot. He put his hat on the floor, opened his coat, and drew out a folded paper. While his chin was no larger than 1t had been in the afternoon, I'm bound to admit that the sight of his countenance was very welcome. He handed me the paper, and 1t was a note from Sue Tally. It was brief but nice.
 She had written;
 Your being thrust Into jail Is
 absurd and intolerable. This is Mir.
 Lorn. He knows the whole affair
 and thinks he can do something
 about 1t"
 She had written hurriedly and. l thought, agitatedly, and her sigma lure was a spirited s. Tally.
 Miss Tally is very good" I said. put the note in my pocket.
 He cleared his throat and looked at the floor by my feet.
 "She thinks you didn't do this"
 "She's right" I said with some heat.
 TIN fact" he went on rather eau ! tiously, "after hearing her story of the whole affair. am inclined to agree with her. At least" he con- tinued before I could speak, there appear to be a number of rather in teresting points of which she has told me which may-mind. I only say may-prove to be evidence"
 "Evidence?"
 Evidence in your favor. I mean to say. However, you-er-" Il thought he looked directly at me and he said unexpectedly: "It's just as well to start with a clean slate, however. take it you really didn't murder the man."
 You're damned right, didn't murder him. I never even saw him before"
 Never mind, never mind. didn't think so. Sit down. MT. Sundean. sit down." He looked at me doubt fully. "There. now. that's better, MT. Sundean. Let's be calm about this. First. however. do you feel like-er-accepting my help"
 "Am I in position to refuse help"
 He smiled faintly.
 "No," he said as if I had expected reply. Mice that you can keep your spirits up. You aren't in a very nice position. you know"
 I said more graciously:
 "It's very good of you to offer to