Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-24

4 LOUISE
PROVOST

m gong to keep at MN. L ought
to take you with me and see if you
can hypnotic the old pachyderm.'
Anne said 'Oh!" in a rather small
voice. "Then it's this Mr.. Gage
that you're trying to interest in the
Junipero?"
That's the idea"
"But Barry she was desperately
in earnest-"Why do you have to
deal with him at all? There must
be plenty of other men. Why, the
only reason that he owns the Duane
Mills is because the first plan fail
ed; He'd be prejudiced from the
start" e
"You can bet he's prejudiced,"
said Barry grimly, "and that is just
the reason I've got to win him over.
Gage is more than just money in
this scheme. He's the man who
owns the other side of the spur that
must tunnel through. It's part of
what he took over in payment of
my uncle's debts. l don't know
why"
He was silent for a moment.
"He has held out now for four
years. Says it's damn nonsense. So
you see pretty soon, I'd better give
up my large scheme
She laughed shakily. "Oh, well,
there's time yet. Hurry into your
fannels, and we'll be off"
Fright! I'll be ready in ten
minutes
Anne huddled down in a chair,
her hands clinched into tight little
fists. John Gage again. Everywhere
she turned. She must either face
him or run away.
"He's building here!!" she
thought.
"That's why Jim is here! l must
see him again-somehow.'
She jumped up from her chair,
listened to the sounds from the next
room, and went lightly over to her
desk. ...F1er pen raced. When
Barry came back, a few moments
later, the envelope addressed to Jim
Kennedy was safely hidden in her
bag.
II suppose this is very silly"
Cleo raised appealing eyes toward
the large impressive man. 81
wouldn't want anything to come of
it to hurt the mans reputation, but
he came to us without any refer
ences. 1 just wanted to be sure that
he didn't have a criminal record. l
was sure you could find that out
for me without any publicity" 'If
he has one, we'll find it. What name
does he give?"
James Kennedy. And l have a
snapshot Of him. I took it when he
wasn't looking
The man at the desk looked at
the small picture with interest.
eyes, that's Jim Kennedy" he
said briefly.
ooh! You do know him?"
i've seen him. He may be giong
straight enough, but he's no chauf-
feur. He's a gambler. He had a
gambling house and speakeasy up
in the Forties at one time, and it
was raided once too often. Drop
ped out of sight for a while, but he
was mixed up in some shooting
business last spring and had a close
call.
mo he isn't a gunman. Not his
type. Oh, Willard!" This to- the
young man who had entered. Find
out, when the Kennedy shooting
happened. And anything else we
may have"
In less than five minutes the
young man called Willard was
back.
"All right, Willard. MN. Ken
needy was shot on the night of May
second, last. He was found lying
beside a road in the outskirts of
Ventura, California. Police inclined
to credit it to a bootleggers' war.
He pulled through but refused to
name his assailant. Discharged
from hospital in three weeks.
That's all.
"There's no actual police record,
outside of the raid on the Forty
Ninth Street house. lid advise you
to let me send an operative down
to watch him."
II don't think l want to go as
far as that
A brief movement of his head
said hat it was her business. He
o and opened the door for her.
please send the bill direct to me,
in a plain. envelope. I shouldn't