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THE FLYING WITNESS
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business to make a fuss about search warrants. She admitted Sheriff Ahearn to Wiers's room without protest.
Alearn, still working on his hunch, went directly' to the clothes closet. There he bundled up all the shoes he could find, four pairs, and wrapped! them in newspaper. Then he returned te his office.
"Mr. Wiers," he said slowly, "where
agot say you were five evenings.
I was working late at the store," replied Wiers promptly.
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Wiers gazed at the newspaper- wrapped bundle Ahearns had under his arm. He was perfectly certain the sheriff had gone through his room at Mrs. Blum's when he went out on his unexplained errand. But that was all right.
There was nothing for Ahearn to find there.
"What suit were you wearing that 17” asked Ahearn. "I mean, what colour?
night
"I was wearing a brown suit," said Wiers, truthfully."
"I suppose you worn brown shoes to match 2
"Yes, I did."
The sheriff opened his bundle, pointed to the newest pair of brown shoes there. "Were you wearing there
Wiers paused, then nodded his head, He was shrewd enough to know that his wisest course was to tell the truth when the truth wouldn't hurt him. I couldn't hurt hir here.
Ahearn put the shoes on his desk, and sat down in the swivel chair behind it. Then he got out a lens and examined them-particularly the crack where the heel was nailed on.
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Ahearn glanced intently at Wiers. You're willing to swear, on oath, that Swatow, Amoy and Foochow tio are the shoes you ware that might h
am." said Wiers promptly.
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"You heard that, Burke, Ahearne Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New snapped. Then, to the storekeeper, "Wiers, I've got you! I arrest you for the murder of Abel Milia.”
Wiers turned pale. But he was still calm. This was all third degree stuff,
of course.
Central and South America and *Europe via Victoria B.C., and Europe via Siberia
He had left no clues in the house. Shanghai, Japan' Canada, U.S.A.. The hammer was back in the efore, where five days of use would have scraped it clean even if he hadn't cleansed it so
in Mille's methodically kitchen. He'd worn gloves, so there were no finger-prints anywhere. AR for these shoes he had scuffed about in them for three days to be sure the were rubbed free of any possible! soles spots.
The
Saigon
"You're making a mistake, Sheriff," Manila
said coldly. "I've already told you
I haven't been near Mills's house for "Straits and *Europe vin Marseilles over a week."
"Shut up!" snapped Burke, "What¦
Juve you
"I'll showered, Chief 7
said Ahearn.
you in just a minute,"
He spread
a sheet of letter paper on the desk. Over this, after scrutin- ising it again, he held the right shoe while he dug delicately at the crack along the heel with his pen-knife.
A
His eyes were gleaming now. harah, deep line bracketed the corners of his mouth. He certainly seemed to have found something, thought Lite storekeeper, whose lips had gone dry and feverish.
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The sheriff swere suddenly and fumbled awkwardly with the penknife. Shanghai
I slipped from his too eager fingera
10 a.m.
SATURDAY,
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to pick it up, emerging again above the Sandakan desk top with his face slightly red- Letters idened and his eyes watering from the Leffort.
At once he returned to his careful
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India, "ning with comprehension.
golly" he breathed, his eyes Saigon, Straits, Ceylon,
Mauritius, E. and S. Africa and have got him!"
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Wiers's certainty that everything was ail right and that this was a bluff Ind- ed into gawing apprehension. H craned his neck desperately, but he
could not see anything on the paper
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"What have you found that makes
you think I'm guilty?" he said abrupt. IRELAND'S ELECTION FIGHTERS
ly, his lips thinned to
10
line in his effort retain his self-control.
"Shall we tell him?" said Burke. Abearn shrugged, and nodded.
The deputy tilted the paper, care.
(Continued from Page 8.)
STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The RMS. Empress of Canada Whatever the fate of Mr. Mac-left Vancouver for Hong Kong, vis
fully, that whatever precious sub. Dermot's 20 candidates, represent- Honolulu, Japan. ports and Shang-
stance was on it would not silde off.jing & merger Wiers leaned forward to look.
He
of the Farmers'
ha, on February 25 (Sat.), and is Party and the Ratepayers' League, SAW what appeared to be three the world is likely to bear much of due at Hong Kong on March 17 short pencilled lines on the paper.
(Fri.) morning. She leaves for "What is that?" he rumbled, hihim in the next few years. Already voice cracking. But he knew what it he is spoken of as a coming ruler of Manila on the same evening.
was.
He knew!
Hin mind raced back to the events of that evening in Mills's unkempt Hv. ing-room. And now, suddenly, he saw:
Ireland.
Norton's Kildare Wit.
There was an air of mystery,
The m.v. Hilda sailed from Yoko- hama on February 27, and is ex- pected here on March 5, and will all for Europe via ports on March 6 morning.
the fatal, the horrible mistake he had when the dissolution was announc ed, about the allegiance of the Irish made.
"Squirrel fur," he groaned, "Squir. Labour Party. Its leader, Mr. Wil- ird für And I was so sure
That d-d little postillam Norton, has now decided that,
The s.s. Conte Verde sailed from sure
Ahearn nodded, "Yes," he said, despite the Government's designa “when you stamped on Mills's pet you against the pay of Civil Servants, Singapore on February 28 at 6 stamped yourself spang into the elec-bis bread is buttered on the dem, and is due here at daylight She will barth at tric chair. Do you want to make a Valera side. Mr. Norton is 82, and on Saturday.
confession? don't want to."
"PI confess," said Wiers 'dully.
You don't have to if you at that probably the youngest Kowloon and will sail for Shang-
Labour leader in the world, Bishal at noon on March 4. Kobe & Yokoham
Later, none too gently, Burke led the Kildare wit is one of his most valu- Kobe & Yokohama.
The m.v. Terresten sailed from quivering man to a cell He came back able assets. He has, in his short, to the sheriff's office to find Ahearn thick-set body, unlimited energy, Colombe on February 28, and is
Bad his smile is as disarming as Mr. expected here on March 147 doing a curious thing,
He was crumpling up the paper an which was the evidence that bad shat Lloyd George's, tored 'Wiera's cold nerve. Even as As for the personality of the Burke stared, appalled, he threw it in-Irish elector, it has undergone a| to the waste basket,
change. Huge crowds go to hear “Chief!" he protested, when he could the speeches of the leaders so huge find words. Are you crazy? Throw-that, outside Dublin felf, a hall ing away our prize exhibit.
Ahearn grinned. "It wouldn't do enlarge enough to hold them much good in court, Burke, Any ar- rarely be found, and the meetings examined that under a lana have to take place in the open air would find it the funniest squirrel for in a temperature which, just now, he ever heard tell of"
la'at least an overcoat colder than "But-why? Why?" "Because it ain't from a squirrel," that in, London..
Irish election meetings used, to be |said Ahearn. "It's three hairs I
yanked out of my moustache when 1 as, nolay as any in the world, and bent down to pick up the knife I drop nolater than most." Now, the most pad. Stang ke fury, too. How somo) women have the patience to pluck all striking thing about the multitudes their eyebrows out, like they do, is that throng around the torch lit more than. I can understand."
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