The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-22
SYNOPSIS


 JEAN DUNN, secretary tO DOM
 AID MONTAGUE, lawyer, delays
 her anSwer when BOBBY WAL
 LACE, young automobile sales
 man asks Jean to marry him.
 e At the Golden Feather Night
 club Jean meets SANDY HAR-
 Knnfs, whose business connection
 is vague. She also meets LARRY
 GLENN, federal agent. Larry is
 trying to locate WINGY LEWIS.
 Bobby arranges to sell some bonds for Lewis. He sells them
 e Jeans employer.
 A few days later Sandy learns police are looking for him in cOn-
 nectlOn with . robbery. He con-
 fldes this to Jean and she goes
 with him to police. headquarters
 e establish an alibi for him at
 the time of the holdup.
 Sandy asks Jean to marry him.
 She tells him she is going to her
 home town for . vacation and will
 give him an answer when she re-
 turns.
 CHAPTER XIV
 was just one week after this that MT. Knuckles Welsh dropped dead.
 Knuckles Welsh was technically unknown to fame, but his &C., puaintance was wide and varied. He lacked visible means of sup port, but he drove Q 16-cylinder car and ate and drank--frequently --of the best. He drifted silently up and down the back ways of Dover, and although nobody had ever proved anything on him. which was his proudest boast, 1t was nevertheless common gossip that whenever an exceptionally raw deal was pulled off anywhere in the city Knuckles Welsh would be found to have drawn cards in 1t somewhere, If you could only trace things far enough.
 z Rumor, busy on many things, may have wronged him here and there, although 1t is not very likely; but at any rate, among the things rumor said about him was that he was Dover's unofficial chief of police. He had never in his life held any elective or ap- pointiye ofiice nor, for that mat ter, had he ever done any honest labor-but he held . wide and influence among peo- pie who did, and he found it lucrative.
 If, for instance, you planned to open 8 gambling establishment somewhere in Dover, so that you could run @ quiet little game for the benefit of those who were fond of taking chances, the man for you to see was Welsh. If, back in prohibition days you had wanted to open 6 speakesy, or start in business with Q line of illegal beer, you talked to Welsh first. If, in other words, you aimed to make money in ways which the law did not counte- nance, you were not apt to get very far unless you saw Welsh; and to "see" him meant not only to gaze upon his face and speak soft words in his ear, but also to cross his palms enthusiastically.
 The money that reached him in these ways went to various des- but 6 good share of 1t remained in his possession, so that when he was at last. and unexpectedly, gathered to his fathers. he left quite an estate. Furthermore, his domestic affairs having got rather tangled during two decades of gay living, this estate was left in 8 badly jumbled condition. So jumbled was it, in Tact, that the court had to appoint officers to see just what was what and who was to get it.
 It was for this reason that cer- tain safety deposit box which he had rented came to be opened under quite different from he would have desired. He had put this and that into his safety deposit box, at one time and another, with the notion that no one but himself would ever see 1t; now. because a little blood vessel in his brain had burst be- fore he had time to make the ar- he had planned to make, the box was opened by men to whom the wishes of Knuckles WelSh Werp as nnthinn