THE KAILUNA LIBERARA
SECOND INSTALMENT OF A NEW CHINA MAIL FEATURE: MYSTERY THRILLER SERIAL BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
THE CASE OF
HOWLING
ELLA STREET had
Perry
DE
Mason'a be all right for him to leave the tiny. You telephoned and said
property to
the party named, you thought he was crazy and
the wanted me to have morning mail open describing her
being ed when he pushed woman who at present resided here to look him over." "No," Mason raid open the door of the outer with Clinton Foley, at 4890 M-
"don't
get me wrong "Well," asked Della Street, Dorcas. know the office with a cheery "Good Pes Drive." morning. What's new, "did he do it?"
in a very bad state Delin 7
I wanted to Bad out that was all there that's all."
"A lot of the usual stuff." she said, "and one that isn't usual."
He grinned at her. "What's the unusual thing, Della?"
"That's plenty unusual, Chief," she said. "It's a letter from this man who was in here yesterday."
"What man?”
"The man who wanted to see you about the howling dog."
"Oh," anid Mason, grinning, Wonder if he "Cartright, ch? dept
last
This letter, »”
about
the
she reported, #came
by special delivery. must have been mailed same time during the night."
"Something more he asked. "He enclosed a will," she said, lowering her voice and looking furtively about the outer office as though afraid that
ien
someone night overhear her, "and one-thousand-dollar bills.
"1" said Perry Mason, "will
be damned."
☆
the She got up from behind desk, walked over to the safe, opened the safe, unlocked an inner compartment, and took out the envelope and handed It to him.
ten one-thousand-dollar bills, Icoked them
"He did not," said Ferry Mason. "He left his property to Mrs Clinton Foley, the lawfully wedded wife of Clinton Foley, said Clinton Foley at present re- siding at 4809 Milpas Drive In this elty."
a doctor
alowly, on that, man was of nerves. whether to it,
on
was
Foley's voice interposed the discussion.
"Pardon me, gentlemen," Faid,
hynay
I say a word?"
THE DOG
"Didn't rowi a couple of open, and a raw-boned man, of
forty-five years of age, grinned ht he wallocd good-naturedly
office.
• "B" said Dorens, "shako.
nights ago?"
"No." "All right," Mason turned to into Dorcas, "your mind's made up. So's mine. You're going commit him, are you?"
that his "I propose to 900 sanity is inquired into," said Doreas, with dignity.
to hands with Mr Foley. Mr Foley
is one of the parties to the con troversy."
"Go ahead," Mason told him, "The same thing that you told I'm telling you me yesterday, he today. If you're going to have a man's sanity inquired Into,
one on Dorcas said, "go someone has get to sign a com
TikThis "Do you suppose he misunder-
This man,
Cartright," paid "is undoubtedly mentally Foley, stood you?" asked Della Street.
"I don't know,
w" frowned the deranged. He has rented the I feel quite lawyer. "He didn't seem to mis adjoining house." understand me on anything else, certain that the owners of the and he's been clear enough in house do not know the sort of
tenant np
with
whom they are everything he's done. Look
In Cartrigh
the telephone
dealing. Cartright has one per- book. He lives at 4893 Milpos vant, a dear house-keeper. He telephone. has no friends apparently; no Drive. He have n Get him, on the telephone,at acquaintances. He stays around
his once. Tell him it's important."
house virtually all the She nodded and reached
for time.
"He lives virtually the life of the telephone, but an incoming call tripped the buzzer on the a hermit, yet he continually switchboard before her angers spies on me out of the windows of his house, He has a pair of closed about the receiver.
"It's. Pete Dorcas," she said, binoculars, and he watches the deputy district attorney. He
move I make." says he wants to talk to you Go on a Perry Mason, right away about that Cartright "I'm listening."
He scooped up
the receiver, said, "Hello," and heard the voice of Pete Dorcas, edged with impatience, querulous and rasp ing
vase."
"My Chinese cook," sald Foley. "was the one who first called it to my attention. He
The deputy sheriff and Folcy shook hands, and then Pember- ton extended his hand to Ma- son.
Pem-
"What's this bout?" berien inquired of Dorcas.
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"Foley will sell you the story on the way out," Dorcas said. side of "Foley_represents one the controversy, and Perry re- prosents the folks on the other
It started
side,
out with a
Professor Litmus was. speaking on atomie power and everyday life."
London Express Service.
Who is checking on whom?
From NEWELL ROGERS
NEW YORK. ETECTIVES investigat- national spider-
Ding A
"Warning me of what?" complaint over a howling dog, web of gambling operations
Talk with
on
Now who's going to plaint. sign the complaint? Are you?" might," Dorcas said. "Better take it easy," Mason raid; "I'm just warning you,
All," thal's
Warning
you that if you and now it's gone into a ques- of espionage, bomicidal sign a complaint alleging that tion my client is insane, you'd better mania, and what-not. Go
And out what it's all a much more complete out and make
witnesses investigation than you've made about
date. Otherwise there's and then make a report to me. to
I'll, talce action, depending on going to be some trouble,"
what's
disclosed by your r port
"Okay, Pote," Bill Pemberton "This isn't getting you any boomed good-naturedly, "we're where, Perry," Dorcas
on our way, right now, said. "Foley's absolutely
within his on, fellows." rights. You know that you brought Cartright here because you wanted to forestall any.ac tion for malicious prosecution, If Cartright made
complote disclosure of the facts in
Come
As the Sheriff's ear swung Into the kerb, Bill Pemberton e paid: "Is that the house?"
"That's it," Foley answered,
don't park "but full and in the driveway.
on here. Go
I'm putting on to my garage, to an addition
got things
littered up here. They're Anishing up this afternoon, and I won't be troubled with the
with
to us, and was authorised
I'm afraid, Muson," he said, noticed the lenses of the bin sights acted within his and the contractors have
that
Perry Mason fished out the sant's he done now?" asked and doesn't know what he is insanity
over
carefully. Mason.
doing.
Then
them. It's been nuisance." Whom do we talk
he distorted or mis- that I've got to issue a com- culars. Understand me, please, stated the facts, he did not." milment for your client, Arthur M
Mason. I consider only
"All right," Mason said, "all Cartright, on the ground of in- your client is mentally deranged of your ideas about the man's are founded on the Also, please understand statement Foley has made, that whistled under his breath, fold-Apparently this howling dog that I have ample witnesses to the dog didn't howl, isn't that
1 ed them, and put them in his business is all purl of his substantiate everything
am right?
Dorcas going to say."
reached for his deal pocket. Then lie read the letter imagination,"
"All right," sald Mason, phone, took down the receiver, what arc
and said: "Sheriff's office" you going to say?" I am going," Foley said, After
a moment, he said. "Let complain me talk with Bul Pemberton... going to see with
dignity, about the constant espionage.
...Bl?...this hello..
19 Pete
aloud.
"Dear Mr Mason:
I saw you during that that murder trial, I'm convinced you're honest, and I'm con- vinced you're a fighter. I want you to fight on this case, I'm enclosing ten thousand dollars, and I'm enclosing a will. The ten thousand dollars is a rc- tainer. You get your fee under the will. I want you love present the beneficiary named in that will and fight for her interests all the way through. I know now why the dog howled.
rc-
sald. Dorcas "Clinton Foley has told me enough to make me believe that the man is not only dangerously insane, but that he has a homi- cidal complex which may cause him to take the law in his own hands and become violent."
all
"When did Foley tell you this?" Mason asked, looking at
the wrist-watch.
"Just a few minutes ago." "He was there at the office?" asked Mason,
"He's here right now."
"All right," Mason said, "held I'm drawing up this will, the him there. I've got a right to be way you told me a will like heard on this. I'm Cartright's
out
on
dis-
first?" asked Pemberton.
"You can sult yourself," Foley said with dignity, but I think that after you have talked with my wife you won't need to bother with any more wit-
nesses.
"No," Pemberton said, "we're them all. How about the Chinese cook? home?"
Ia be
It makes it difficult for me to Dorcas, Listen, we've got a keep my servants. It is annoy- pute down here In the office, ing to me and to my quesis, involving a couple of million- The man
and aires snoops around
Mlipas Drive. how-
"Certainly," Foley answered. stares at me through binoculars. There's a question of He never has the lights on the ling dog. One of them says the "Keep right on the driveway if we'll have upper floor of his house
buse turned dog
dog howls; the other one says he you want to, and on.
him constantly
to his
room. Не
doesn't. One parades
of them says the
want to through
dark
SCC rooms at other man's crazy. Perry Ma- You'll probably
It's binoculars night, with his
over the in son is retained to represent one where he sleeps. his hand, snooping and spying of them and demands on inves. garage."
I do. He tigation. Can you go out there
"You're building an addition on everything that is a
and settle the thing?"
on that?" a dangerous neighbour." "Well," Mason said, "it's no
The
this could be made. Perhaps lawyer, and I'm going to see crime for a man to look through you won't have any occasion that my client gets
Д square binoculars, is it?"
to probate the will or fight for deal. You hold him there. I'm the benellaiary. If you don't, you've got the ten thousand coming right over." dollars, plus the retainer I
gave you yesterday.
Thanks
the for
interest you've taken in my case. Sincerely yours.
"That isn't the point," Doreas said, "and you know it, Mason,
He didn't wait to give Dorcas The man is insane."
a chance to make any excuses, "What makes you think he's
but slammed the receiver back Insane?" Mason demanded. on the telephone, said to Delia ARTHUR CARTRIGHT". Della,
*
turned and
Get
Street: All right, break that connection. Cartright on the line. Tell
"Because," sald
come
out
on the
"On the garage, not room," Foley said. "It's only has the one storey. The cook There WB3 D moment of his apartments on top of the silence, then Dorcas said: "All garage." right, come down to the office
"Well, then," Pemberton said, right away."
"Let's talk with him. That He hung up the telephone sult you, Mason?"
"Anything cuts me," an id Mason. "Only I want to have you talk with my client before you go."
and turmed to look at Perry Mason with cold eyes.
"I want to go with him," Ma- son stated.
"Can
you
Mr Foley?" 50,
The car slid along the drive- Darcus nakest.
way and came to a stop in front "When?" naked Mr Folty.
of the building, where men "Right away," said Mason. Were labouring with a sudden "The sooner the better."
zeal which indicated a desire to "Yes," said Foley slowly, I impress the owner of the pro-
perty. can go."
"Just go up here,” Foley said, A figure silhouetted against to say he
the frosted glass of the outer "and I'll got Ah Wong.” door, then the door pushed (MORE TOMORROW)
Dorcas, "he that I want to see him at as reported a howling dog, and him
him to get out of his the dog didn't howl." once. Tell
"You've Perry Mason sighed and drop- house and go to some hotel; re-
got a dog, haven't ped the money on to her desk.
gister under his own name, but you?" Mason asked Foley. "Crazy," he said. "The man's don't let anyone
know where
"Certainly," said Foley, still crazy nsa laon.
he's
conciliatory man- the keeping his you going: telephone He unfolded the sheet of name of the hotel where's he's ner. paper, which was marked on the t
you can telephone mo. outside: Cartright."
mand
nere
"And you "Last Will of Arthur Tell him to keep away from don't huwi?"
"Never." my office and keep away from
His eye ran along the writing, his residence until I see him. and he slowly nodded.
Tell him it's Important. I'm a1- torney's office and SCC what's
"Well," he said, "he's made a good holographic will. It's all going over to the district
In his handwriting-signature, happening. This Clinton Foley
date, and everything.
is making trouble."
"He
leaves
aves his property to the He flagged a cab In front of beneficiary, and then he leaves his office and snapped at
the me a one-tenth interest in his driver: "District attorney's office, estate, to be paid to me when Make it snappy and I pay the the estate is finally distributed, Anes."
upon condition that I
have
faithfully represented the wo-
man who is the principal bene- When the cab swung into the flclary, in every form of legal matter which may arise, lacident curb Perry Mason tossed him a to the will, growing out of his five-dollar bill and said: "That's
death, or in anywise connected
her
Suddenly Perry Mason broke off and stared at the document with eyes that slowly widened in surprise.
"What is it?" asked Della serious: a Street. "Anything defect in the will?"
No," said Mason slowly, it's not a defect in the will, but it'a something peculiar.”
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There they started checking on the off-the-track bookmakers and the special racing-wire ser- vices which flash results to the
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But they
heard
suspicious clicks when they spoke on the telephone, And when chief in- vestigator Rudolph Halley could not disconnect his phono after a trunk call, the detectives know what was happening.
Someone
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CAN HYPNOTISM CURE?
>E
have heard a good deal lately about the medical
of hypnotism. It has been used with success to
ensure relatively painless childbirth without annes-
talk about
+
one
The man from Harley Street hits back
at the "black magic” critics of doctor- hypnotists. His arguments are examined— by Margaret. Lane
nervous and mental disorders which can be cured or relieved by a few semions of modical hypnosis, whch perhaps two years of almost dally analysis would prove abortive.
This may well be true; but this doctor's ferocious hatred of Freudian theory is so passionate and
unreasonable that the reader is compelled to stop and look at him with surprise.
D
all buddy." He crossed the thetic, and many people. highly suggestible and is there- and It is known that many cases to the ninth have wondered, in reading fore to be avoided, hypnotism of alcohollam, excessive smoking sidewalk, y
Buch cases, whether could be immensely valuable in and other compulsive habits floor. Bald to the girl at the in- of formation desk in the district
For whatever mistakes the attorney's office: "Pete Dorens is hypnotism might not be the hands of responsible medical have been successfully treated
practitioners.
by this method.
Freudian school may have made, more widely used by doc- waiting for me."
The author of this book, Dr Nervous patients can bo
however empirical its know He walked past her, down a tors.
S. J. Van
natural
numerous ledge, however
the long corridor lined with doors,
who has made exten- ability which modern urban wrong trees,
up which it may I am inclined to believe that physician Fell, a Harley Street tought to relaxa paused before one that had gilt it could and chould; but there sive use of hypnotism in his own man is losing fast) and the have barked, nobody (I should
diseases which letters on the frosted glass, read is a fear of hypactism, and a practice, believes that it should many
are the have thought) would deny that He camp-followers of nervous ten- its and prejudice against it which has be for more widely used.
patient researches have enor ing simply: "Mr Dorcas,"
Tho querulous voice of Pein Eiven rise to a general idea that dismisses all quasl-magical ideas sion can be alleviated or avoid mously added to our knowledge j
hypnotism, even when it is not of hypnotism very briskly. The ed
of the human mind, and that Dorcas called: "Come in."
pure charlatantem, belongs at
hypnotic state is nothing sinister It is unlikely that a man who although its conclusions cannon Perry Mason turned the knob least to the underworld of me- or mysterious; it is simply a knows the secret of relaxation be
proved as mathematical Abruptly he strode across the and walked into the room.
which the pollent will suffer from chronic indiges proposition can, its results are dicine.
slate offee to the door which opened Pete Dorcas was sitting behind
reaches an advanced degree of tion, duodenal ulcer or migraine; sufficiently impressive to make Into the outer corridor, and the desk, an expression of an-
Like Svengali relaxation, mental and physical, and if hypaotlem can teach us it unsafe to say the least) to looked it.
noyance on his face. Ол the TS this a fair opinion? I have and becomes highly suggestible. this technique (as I believe it dismiss the whole subject with "We're not going to bother
more than
It can) then
surely provides the Light Tranco
an angry snort, Dr Van Pelt's' with visitors for a while, Della," other side of the desk, a huge own of
chair doctor who used hypnotism with struggled from figuro
doctor with a valuable weapon. short is prolonged. he told her "not until we get and turned to face Perry Mason success on nervous patients, but OR medical purposes, he says, But Dr Vap Felt goes very No Rabbit?· this straightened out."
inquiringly.
only a very light trance is much further than this and in "But what is it?" she asked,
The man was over six feet in because of the Fenural are necessary in which the patient the second half of his book I THE result is unfortunate for Perry Mason lowered
bis height, broad of shoulder, deep judice. Immorance of the real is aware of everything that is
found myself growing increas- It produces the same am- of chest, long of arm. His walst nature of hypnotism leads people going on, and can remember it
it ingly unoasy. He "Yesterday," he said, "when had put on a little flesh, but not to melieun" that it is a kind afterwards. Only about one per- opposed to the 15 violently barrassment that a conjurer's]
theory and prac audience feels when a trick the man was in, he asked me enough to detract from
the of black magic, or at least that con in four le capable of the tice of psycho-analysis, which goes wrong. Dr Van Pelt's rap- particularly about leaving the athletle figure. He was, perhaps, it involves some dangerous re- deep hypnotic trance which is he regards as nothing better bit is suddenly observed to property to Mrs Clinton Foley, forty years old, and when be nunciation of will-power and an out believes that for me believes that medical hypnosis in
and Dr than harmful nonsense; and he not in the hat, but wandering and wanted to know what the
personality.
distracted manner about effect of the will would be if it spoke, his voice was resonant.
presume you're Perry Ma- Some stago hypnotists are
dical purposes this is both un- could successfully replace the the stage. The surreallst atmo- should turn out that the woman pon," he said, "Mr Cartrig's largely reponsible for this falso necessary and unsuitable, Lengthy and expensive methods sphere is further increased by who posed as Mrs Foley
Inwyer?"
idea. In their performances, ald- The power of suggestion is of the rvsycho-analyst,
the illustrations, la which the really Mrs Foley."
"Yes" he said, "I'm Cartod y trickery and illusion, they formidable-quite apart from Methods Slow pervons photographed they hypnotism. Advertising and pro- give the impression that
undergoing or inducing hypno- curious now. What about the Night's lawyer "
Clinton Foley, his are able to achieve a Svengali- paganda rely wholly on It, and THERE are, of courte, from the trance have had their faces Will?
ox-like control over almost any- we all control our behaviour the parlent point of view, blotted out with white patches. "Well," mid Mason, "when he neighbour," said the man,
tending
a hand and smiling body, and that this control may believing, for instance, that we paycho-analysis. Its results are many, though not, I am afraid largely by self-suggestion several things to be vald against The result will give pleasure to was in yesterday he brought UP
last indefinitely. Perry Mason took two steps
This is obviously not true; cannot give up smoking, or that uncertain, Its methods are in the way that the author in- and and
I have just been reading we are bound to be nervous minutely and enormously low, fonded, turned to Doters after a per- a book which convinces me when we meat strangers, or a and it to consequently (elice Dr Van Pelt indeed has comp-
that, although stage hypnotism thousand other things
even analysts must llvo) ex- thing to say, but his feelings at all, but-was merely posing as funetory handshake.
"What makes you think he's may have its dangers for" the It seems reasonable, then, tremely expensive.
Tun away with him, and scilly crazy?" asked Mason.
te that curative suggestions, made These considerations put it distort zan. otherwing" YOES "What made yon tünk hoti
wile the patient demi-gut of reach of all but the fair reneonsple argument, WITHIN. Dr 8. 71. Van Pelt,Rake, S
maintains that there are many. could be extremely vahin explained to him that it would ably. "You thought no yester» | Angtonų“ täna
voice.
wasn't
She nodded, "You've got me
this question about leaving the Braciously, property to Mrs Clinton Folty
if it hould turn out that the forward, tools the hand.
woman wasn't Mrs Clinton Foley
Mrs Foley, From the way he
spoke, falt quila cortain that.
he hat reason to believe tha
Van
#
whilo
woman was no]. Mrs Foley, #o I was' Crazy?" enia Dorcas with HYPNOTISM AND THE POWER COrkeeldust arid" bigbly' réceptive; ly well-to-do, and Dr Van Palt Landen Bunnies dervier)..
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