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PART THREE OF A NEW THRILLER SERIAL

EMBERTON started

up a flight of stairs, which hugged the concrete side of the building, then paused 38 there was the sound of a door banging and a woman's voice said: "Oh, Mr Foley, I must see you At once. We've had trouble....'

seven

on her

THE CASE OF THE

HOWLING DOG

him

ΣΤΑ

The young woman drew her- self up and stared at haughty insolence.

she 1

A young woman, attired in a housedress and apron, with her right hand and arm bandaged, walked rapidly toward Foley.

She was, perhaps, twenty- "I don't know who you are." I do know that Her twenty-eight.

sald, "but back hair was slicked

don't hive to answer your head. Her face was without absurd questions or your dirty make-up, and she gave the Im- Insinuations," pression of homely efficiency, and flounced into the house. yet it would have needed but a few deft touches of make-up, a change of clothes, and a finger- wave, to have made her quite beautiful.

"My housekeeper," Foley ex- plained

sald Pemberton signi- Foley whirled, started to ray something, When paused and walled until the woman came to him.

"What happened?" he asked. "Prince bit me," she said. "He was sick."

"How did it happen?"

and she turned

The back door opened, and Mrs Benton came out again.

Tm Borry,"

she said, "Mr Foley wants you to come, in, shouldn't have got mad and walked away. Will you excuse

The young woman led them through the back door into a A small, slender kilohen. Chinex, attired in a cook apron. with glittering, regarded them beady eyes.

"Whassa malla?" he asked. "We're trying to

And out

"I don't know, but I think he'd been poisoned. Ho

remembered began, but was interrupted by acting queerly. what you'd said about putting Pemberton. salt on the back of his tongue

"Just

moment, 4

By-

Erle Stanley Gardner

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

Perry Mason, the lawyer is consulted by wealthy Ar- thur Cartright about drawing up a will. At the same time, he complains that his neighbour, Cimton Foley. taught his dog to howl just to annoy him. They see the district attorney's deputy about flling a complaint. Wha the deputy sots Inquiries soluz. Foley, in tum, denies that his dog has ever bowled and alleges that Cartright is insane. Perry and the sheriff accompany Foley back home to ascertain for themselves,

attorney's

if he ever Ľave any sign of please." he said, "let me handle and I don't blame you, boduse Paul Drake to drop any-

"He's in the kitchen." • "All right, go ahead and get him Tell him we want to him."

121

"But who are you?” "We'ro

"I want Mr Cartright," said Perry Mason in a loud voice. naked, in the even monotono of one who is fent.

"He isn't here." "Where is he?"

"I don't know; he isn't here,”^ Perry Mason took a step to- ward her, placed his mouth close to her car.

"Look here," he said, "I'm, Mr Cartright's lawyer. I've got to see him at once."

"I heard him speak of you," sho

said. I now he had a lawyer. He wrote you a letter last night, then he went away. did you get it all right?" Ho gave me the letter to mail,

Mason nodded.

The

Mason," he shouted.

"What's your name?" officers-immigration officers. We're checking up on asked. Chinese. We're got a hot p he's on legal entry. Go and Bet him"

"That's

right," she said. That's the name that was on the envelope." her once more, placed his lips Perry Mason moved toward

closo to her ear, and yelled; "When did

fto Mr Cartright out?"

I'll tell him," she said, turn Ing on her heel, almost ran past Perry, Masen.

three men, heedless of Mason's presence, waliced close- ly behind.

After a moment, Perry Mason Last night about half-past turned and followed than ten."

"Did he through the living room, dining room, and into the kitchen, that?" paused in the serving pantry, and heard the voices of officers.

come

back

after

the

"No." “Did he take a suitcase with himy

"No."

"Had he been packing any of his things?"

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ment-something that has worn Foley away from the house. itself out.

When Foley went up to the. "You are just a big magnetic district attorney's office this animal. You can't overlook a morning, Cartright skipped out "All right, Ah Wong," said was about the dog...."Perry Mason woman, any more than a moth Wi Foley's wife. Naturally, one of the man, "where's your

can overlook a flame. i know the district

You catchum chuck office certificate? of the things that have hap won't like that. Here's something lee?" Mason, pened right here in the house,

"No navvy," said the Chinese. I want you

to do. Ring Drake's Delective Bureau and "Oh, yes, you savvy, said the this. I understand handling

I don't think you are

man. Where your to blame. get

papera? these Chinese pretty well."

office. Have him waiting there heap catchum plenty fast." thing he's got and come to my Where your chuck jee? You when I return. I think it's go

"Heap no Davvy," said the ing to be important as the very Chinese, with a wall of despair devil. so be

Drake in his voice. sure that delegates

There anything he's working

WEB good-natured

of a scuffic on now, and that he's there in laugh, the sound

then the man's voice said: "A person,"

He walked from the Hittle right, Ah Weng, you come along closet where the telephone was with us. You show us where placed, and encountered the you sleep. You show us your hostile eyes of the housekeeper. things. You savvy? We help

"Mr Foley said that I was to you look for chuck show you out," she remarked.

sudden illness, so I took a hand- ful of salt and put it on the back of his tongue. He closed his teeth and bit me."

Fuley Pemberton,

nodded.

turned

od,

What's your name?" he ask-

"Ah Wong."

"You cook here?" "I cook."

ink

I don't think you can help is but

I do know that I don't love

I don't you

any more. I ever did.

was I think It simply that fascination, that "You savvy him one piccie peculiar hypnotic charm which over women. 'At you exercise any rate, I am going away with

•hins,

Clinton.

to dog?"

"Mrs Benton," two said, "his is Mr Pemberton, a deputy sheriff, and this is Mr Perry Mason, a lawyer. These gentle men are investigating a charge that has been made by neigh-

bours."

"A charge of neighbours?” asked Mrs Benton, stepping back and letting her oyes grow wide with surprise.

wide

"About the dor" Faley said, "There's claim made that.....

"Just a moment," said Pem- berton

"Let me do the talk- ing, please."

The young woman looked at Pomberton, then at Foley, Foley sald:

me and Perberton

dog is a police dog whose

name is Prince?"

"Yes, sir.' "And he lives here in the house?"

sir; of course. He's Me Foley's dog."

"How long has he been here?" "We've been here for about the dog has been with you all that Ume?"

"Yes, sir," "NOW.

has the dog been how ling?"

"Howling? No, sir. He bark ed once yesterday when a ped- dier came to the door, but there hasn't been any howling."

"How about nights? Has he done any howling at night?"

"No, sir."

"You're certain about that?" "Of course, I'm certain,"

some

he was just having some

of spasm, but...

the dog shown

any

ter of poisoning?"

"No, Sr." "Where do you sleep, in the bouse?"

"Heap savvy." "You hear dog makum noise? Hearum make howl at night?"

The Chinese shook his head slowly.

Its

"No, he burned como letters." "Acted as though he was get-

go away nome- ting ready to where?"

letters "He

and burned papers, that's all I know.

"Did he say where he was go- ing when he went out?"

"No."

Did

"Did

he have a car?"

"No, he hasn't a car.”

he order a tax-cab?”

"No, he walked."

"You didn't see where he went?"

"No, it was dark."

"Do you mind if I como in?"

"I am doing it in such a way that you will be spared any publicity. I am not even tell- "Dog no howl?" asked Fem- ing Thelma Benton where I am

Perry Masonr ned around.

"It won't do you any good to berton.

going. She only knows that I

tiptoed back the way he had come in. Mr Cartright Isn't "No howl," said the Chinese. am taking a suitcase and going

come.

and let himself out the here." Pemberton shrugged his away.

You can tell her that I

front door. He walked down "Do you raind if I come in shoulders.

have gone to visit some of my

There was the sound of a bell the stairs from the porch to the and wait until he comes back?" "Shucks," he said, "that's all relatives,

jangling

summons. if you wish. If you Benton frowned, then looked at the sidewalk until he came to don't know that he's going to

Mrs uldewalk, walked briskly

along

"He's been out all night. I we need, You can

for don't give the affair any publi- yourself, Mason, how it is. Your city you can rest assured that I Perry Mason, and, for a moment, the house on the north, where come back."

the man just went off his nut, that's will not.

mask of her manner dropped Arthur Cartright lived. He "Did he tell you he wasn't all."

turned in at the way, you have been from her.

coming cement walk "Well," Perry Mason told

She escorted him to the front which ran good to me. You have grail-

across a well-kept him, "I'd have asked the ques- fed my every

material wish through the hall, the bell rang tub against the button of the nesa:

door,

B and,

they walked lawn, arch, and pressed

ran up the stops, to the thons of this Chinese boy in a The only thing that

you can't twice more.

hir little different way."

humb give

me is the love of a true

The young woman

doorbell. He could hear the nor can you satisfy that man,

exclamation of annoyance, and hunger in my soul which only hurried toward the door. As she bell Jangling from the faterior

can Batisfy. T

going with him, and know that I will thele way into the hallway.

opened it, three men pushed be happy.

"I think," said Mrs Benton,

"that Mr Foley would like to have you gentlemen wait in the library, if you care to. He'll be with you in just a moment,'

She held open the door of the kitchen, and the two men walk- ed through a serving pantry, a dining room, a living room, turned to the left, and entered a library, the walls of which were lined with books,

In you

"Please try to forget me. Be- lieve me,

"Your sincere well-wisher, "EVELYN,"

Mason spoke in a low voice, "She'doesn't mention Cart-

and Clinton Foley stood on the

A door opened explosively, right's name," he said.

"No," Pemberton said, "but threshold, his face twisting with she mentions him as being the emotion, his eyes glittering. A man next door.

"And

sald Perry Mason, in paper was in his hand.

low "Well," he said, "it's all over. the same

tone, "there's

You don't need to worry about something else about that letter the dog."

The deputy sheriff puffed on his cigar complacently,

"I quit worrying about him as soon as I talked with this girl and the cook," he said. "We're going over and see Cart right

now,"

other man.

Pembarton sald

Foley abruptly whirled from the window. The tragic grief which had seemed to affect him so strongly was gone. There was cold, purposeful rage in his voice and manner.

on every count

you can

gave an

Clinton Foley live here?" asked one of the men,

"Yes," said Mrs Benton. Perry Mason stepped back in- to the shadows of the hallway.

"Got a Chinese cook working here, haven't you?

Fellow named Ah Wong?"

"Yes."

of the house.

After an interval, a lock click ed back, and the door opened.

Perry gaunt

back.?"

WATE none

your wages paid?"

of your busi-

She slammed the door with a force which shook the house

As he reached the sidewalk Perry Mason felt the peculiar tingling senzation of the hairs at the base of his neck which to whirl suddenly caused hira

and stare, Mason was facing 4

He was in time to see heavy

woman

of

Afty-ive,

determined

with faded hair, eyes that drapes slip back into place over seemed to have been bleached a window in the house of Clin- of colour,

ton Foley. He could not see the a thin,

face that had been staring at mouth, a pointed jaw, and long, him from that window. "Alright, get him. We want straight nose. to see him."

"What do

(MORE TOMORROW)

SO THE GOES

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"Well," she said, "he looked

"Look here," he said, "I'm a to me as though he'd been poi- Foley laughed, and his laugh wealthy man. I'm willing to soned, and I tried to give him was harsh and metallic. At

give every god-damned cent salt. That's what Mr the sound of that laugh, Bill I've got to have that hound Foley told me to do under those Pemberton took the cigar from brought to justice. He's crazy, circumstances Perhaps

1 his lips and stared with a per- and my wife is crazy. They're shouldn't have done it. Perhaps plexed frown.

both of them crazy. That man's "Something wrong?" he ask- broken up my home; he's uc- sort ed.

cused me of crime; he's tricked

whole book was carefully re- "That isn't what I mean,"

bound. Only a top scientist in a "My wife," said Clinton Foley, me, trapped me, and betrayed name, but it will serve Milco cultivated George social- limited field would know that said Pemberton. "I mean has drawing himself up with some ine, and, by God, he's going to

--Was a Russian spy ly. Mike's wife was especially the work was a fake and It unusual dignity, "has seen fit to ruh pay for it! I want you to catch operating in the U.S.A. He agreeable... symptoms, aside from this mat- away. She has left with an- lm, and I want him prosecuted was a professional, a train-

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Foley looked at him with cold America, is confirmed by the details.

This man was conceal his emotions, "that the fury

the FBI. object of her affections, the "You can use the telephone," man who has supplanted me in he sold "and then you can get her life, is none other than the out." gentleman who lived next door

"Thanks for the invitation," our esteemed "I beg your pardon," said Me Mr Arthur Cartright, the man use the telephone anyway

calmly, "'ll Esteemed contemporary, said Perry Mason you in front of these gentlemen, the howling dog, in order on the telephone. "Mason tal leolding behind him.

who made all the hullabaloo Perry Masin got Della Street but your wife isn't here."

out Foley stared at her with eyes to get me before the police au- Ing. Della," he said. "I'm that showed incredulous cur throrities, so that he could carry at Clinton Foley's house. He's out his scheme of running away the one who owns the dog that Pn't here?" he said. "Good with my wife."

Cartright Was complaining about. Did you got any word from Cartright?"

in

the

"Yes, on the upper floor."

An

who else la house?"

"There's Ah Wong, the cook, but he sleeps out over the gar-

And then age.

there's Mrs Foley."

"

"I think, officer, id Foley, "that it will, perhaps, be better for you to talk with my wife, and she can tell you...

Benton, "I didn't want to tell

heavens, girl, she couldn't have gone out! She's recovering from Influenza."

"She left you a note, sir." "A note?"

"Yes."

"Where is it?”

"Upstairs in her

room. She

left it on the dresser and asked me to sea that you received it."

*

is,"

om Canhe said. "I rang He thrust the note into Per- berton's hands, and abruptly the place every ten minutes for turned away, walking to the more than an hour, and no one other end of the room.

answered," The note

Was in ink and read:

"Dear Clinton:

"It is with greatest reluctance "All right," he said, "I guess that I take the step I am about no one's going to answer. It to take. I know your pride and how much you dislike publicity, seems that Foley's wife ran off

with our client."

I have tried to do this in such "What?" she exclaimed.

Ivan.

.

Few would have thought Ivan At this stage George was in-- o spy, He is a middle-aged vited to call at a certain office, man, slender, rather stooped. There he met a man who He looks like a suburban bank showed him

an FBI badge clerk. To the FBI, one thing what George learned about gave him away; he was always Mike surprised him. And when what the G-men called 'survell he already had his orders.

He was he met Ivan for the Brst time inner-conscious. That is what first put them on to him,

Fake information

Washington H.Q.

Elod them to an office not far from the White House, which passed as anormal business office. It turned out to be postal beadquarters for the Russlan espionage ayatem in the Ameri- can capital. Couriers called in gularly, bringing cash for Ivan and bearing away the fruits of his labouts.

Though Ivan did not know it, ho could have been arrested at But any moment. for months. the game in "peacetime" is not played that way.

They noticed that Ivan never did anything directly. He would go to a bus stop and let three VA wothing to suggest espion- TVAN not crude: Thera or four buses pass before he

What the FBI did want was to boarded one. If he wanted a age. He was just the U.S. repre- drink he would not enter a bar tentative of a foreign firm who identify as many as possible of until he had walked back and needed certain information for the members of the ring (itself forth several times and looked which they were quite ready to one of many), immobilise them in at the window. If he had an pay. The pay offered surprised by putting worthless information

in their way and wall, appointment he would arrive George,

foot and leave by taxi or by n. He took on the job. And what

Ivan in time finished his job or previously parked near by Ivan got was most impressive, and departed for Russia, doubt- Ho It was in fact some of the loos conildent that he had done never did anything the simple fanciest fake information for well. The FBI were there to

the way round.

a. manner that you will be hurt Fact," he told her. The way.

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Foley stood staring at the woman, his forehead puckered, his eyes suddenly hard.

which Russia over paid out good sou him off, though, of course, "Look here," he said, "you're

roubles. Complete sots of draw- he did not know it. Now they keeping something from me."

ings and blueprints, specifica- tr watching his mucceSMROT, The young housekeeper lower

tions and all Everything signed ed her eyes.

They do not in the least mind and marked SECRET. › Ivan woo "She took

NOTHER tell-tale sign of the delighted and paid out $1,300 in watching lots of people like Ivon

67. Queen's Rd., C. the story being told. They are sulteane with her," she

said.

professional spy: wherever cash, "A suitcase?" Foley exclaim-

At first rant."

possible ho liked his appoint-

and his successor, but there may ed. Was she going to a hos- I was angry, or thought I was What grounds can they get ments to be out of doors.

He also paid George hand- be others they have not found pitalpe

angry. He was paying on me warrant on?" anked Della Street.

Ivan's objective when the FBI original had contained highly. And if one of those others

nomely for a certain book. The FEL. "I don't know. She didn't say you, but our and have told it thought there could only bo

first began to watch him was valuable you, something led me to a civil action for She almaly left the note."

atomic information. Foloy strode into the house, keep it from you. I wanted to Oh, they'll find some crime apparently a man named George. The copy: Ivan got looked like reads the story of Ivan the Flat Perry Mason looked at Mru: Be him, and when you, were that they can pin on him, simple unsuspecting type who the original. But in faqt it had he may not be mire that he him- Benton, atutying her face gone I arranged an interview. sald Perry Mason cheerfully. "It worked in a war factory Ivan been through the works at sulf la not the Ivan the Second closely

use won't be anything that'll hold dki not peproach him direct but the super secret FBI labora- now being watched. The more was there," he asked, "some coping up the presence any water, but it'll be enough to set another man to do the jobs tories.

nervous and worried he becomes. trouble between you and hire longer. I can't stay with you. save their faces. You see, Cart This man, a droughtsman works

the more the FBI will liko Tolay immediately prior to her. I really don't love you; it was right evidently used this excuse ting with George, hurned out There the pages that mattered

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