1951-01-09 — Page 7

THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG

T

Was

By ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

it beneath

young woman's nostrils.

"Any objection this?" he asked,

10

using

the wis to be deported at once, without being held for further examination or, trial, and gave him enough money to set him-

in "I'll say not, I could use all of self up

pome sort of business in Canton." that you wanted to give me."

"All right, put on lots of it." Where?" "On

E seventh oor of woman who was going under fume, wafted, the Breedmont Hotel the name of Mrs Foley at 4800 Milpas Drive, but he told me was a wide vista of

10 protect the lawfully wedded polished doors. The wife of the man who was going corridor

and under the name of wide

Clinton spacious, well it with a soft Foley. ni mt place.

came from in- light that direct lighting fixtures. The carpet in the corridor deep and springy.

WRS

J

"What was the room number asited Perry Mason

704," Drake told him. "Here's

your door."

Perry Mason knocked on it. For several seconds there was no sound from the interior of the room. Then there was the rustle of motion, the sound of

.

bolt clicking, and a high- plicher feminine voles, speaking with nervous rapidity. saki, "Who is it?" The door opened n hare crack.

"An attorney who wants to a matter of im- ee you on portance," Perry Mason sala in a low voice.

"I don't want to nee my one." said the high-pitched voice, and the door started to close.

Perry Mason's foot blocked the door, Just before the latch elleked into position.

"Come on, Pauf," he saki, and put his shoulder to the door.

A woman Have bigh, hy sterical cream, struggled for

a moment, and then the door abruptly yielded

The two men walked into the hotel bedroom as a partially clact woman daggered off balance, stared at them in white-faced panic, and abruptly snatched a

slik kimono from the back of a chair,

"How dare you!" she blazed. The women gathered the robe around her, walked determined- ly to the telephone.

"Now Arthur Cartilght malled me a substantial retainer, with instruction to protect you and sce that your legal rights were saterunrded. I've got the fee, and I propose to earn it. If you don't want my services, All you've got to do is to cay s

50, and I walk out, right now."

"No, no," she said, in a shrill, high-pitched voice. "I want your services.

want....

on."

clothes-

any-

good

your where."

"I hate to waste that perfume."

"That's all right, go ahead and put it

Della Street smiled at the young women, and said, "Per- haps I can help."

She applied perfume liberally to the girl's clothes.

sald Perry Mason, "you're going to go to a certain

"Why would Foley do that?" taxicab and tell the driver that Mason naked. you left a handkerchief in the

"Search me," said the deter taxicab. When you had him tive, "Probably there's nothing take you out to 4888 Milpas to it. I'm simply telling Drive. Do you suppose you what the clerk told me.' can remember that?

"Now," I need them.

"All right," Perry Mason said, "Now, then, enn you do what

tell you to?"

"Very well," she said, "What

¡1.?"

"If anybody," he told her. "questions you about where you were at any time Lonight, or what you were doing, tell them that you can't answer

any

questions unless your attorney is present, and that I'm your Inwyer. Now, can you remember

that?"

She nodded

Porry Mason abruptly walked to the Areplace.

"What's burning here?" he nsker.

"Nothing." she said Perry Mason leaned over the fireplace and stirred the ashed

in the grate,

"Smells like some kind of cloth," he said.

The woman said nothing, but stared at him in white-faced silence.

Perry Mission pierrelay

It was small piece of cloth. silk, green, and printed with a brown triangle.

"Looks like part of a scarf." he said.

"

She took a swift step toward him.

" didn't know.. "Shut up!" he said, whirling on her.

"That's all, just take

"Sure. What else do i do- anything?"

the handkerchief and give the cab driver a sweet smile,"

Then

en what?" "He'll

give

you the handker chief and ask you for your ad- dress. Because he'll tell you've got to let him know where you live so he can report to the Lost and Found Depart-

ment."

you,

"Very well, then what do I do?"

"Then you give him a phony name and address, and

fade from the picture."

"That's all there is to 117" "That's all there is to it." "What name and address do 1 give him?"

Hotel,

"Give him the name of Agnes Brownlle, and tell him that you live at the Breedmont on Ninth and. Masenle Streets." "What do I do with the hand- kerchief?"

"After you've got the hand- kerchief, you bring it to me."

"This is on the up and up?" she asked.

"It's within the law," he told her, "if that's what you want to

know.

After a moment he straigh- tened, walked to the dressing table, picked

bottle of up #

"And I get three dollars for doing it?"

hundred

THE STORY SO FAR:

WEALTHY Arthur Cartright accusen bix neighbour,

Foley, of teaching his dor to how to annoy him, but this Faley denies and he tells the police Cartright is Insane. Perry Macon, the lawyer acting for Cartright, accompanies the police to Feler's house to inquire into the matter, and there is told by Mrs Thelma Benton, the housekeeper, that she has been bitten by the dog. Foley also Bnds his wife has run away with the man next door. Private detectivo l'aul Drake, hired by Mason, discovers that the womsu

willo has been living with Foley as his wife is in reality Mrs Cartright and Foley is really Clinton Forbes. Ther ran away together somo years previously, but Cart. right fus managed to traco them, Mason roes to see Foley by appointment one night, but finds ho has been thot to death In his house. The dog has also been shot. The police have their theory about the case, and suspect Mason of shielding his client. Ferry. Maron dcolden to make some investigations of his own.

NOW READ ON

WAS

"Find out

elsa anything about him?" asked Perry Mason.

found out that there's "Not a bit," she said, "I just woman WOS there for about something funny about the tip- told him what you told me to fifteen or twenty minutes. The off that caused the Federal say, and he took me for granted. woman left a handkerchief in authorities to go out there and He looked me over rather close the taxlenb. Now that hand- ques- kerchief undoubtedly 16 evi- round him up. One of the clerks ly, and asked me a few

the Immigration odico tions. Then he took the hand- den

dence. That handkerchief handled that anonymous tip, kerchief from his pocket and now in my possession. I'm not and also talked with Foley over gave it to me. He slick at liberty to explain to you how the telephone. She's got a goofy enough to smell the handker- it came into my possession, but idea that it was Foley who gave chief and then ameli my per- It's here, and I'm going to send fume, to make sure they match it over to police headquarters... the tip-off."

all right, you can send over for ed."

it if you want. I won't be here, but my secretary,

Della Street, will be here, and she'll Rive it to you...yes, the taxlenb driver can undoubtedly identify it.... I can tell you this much: the woman who rode in the taxicab dropped a handkerchief, "What else have I got to do?" or left it in the cab. The driver found it. Later on, the hand- "Perhaps nothing. Perhaps kerchief came into my posses you'll have to go to court and

cion. I can't tell you how testify."

got it... No, damn it, I can't No, I won't you that.... "Go to court and testify?" tell

tell you that I don't give she aald. "Over what?"

"Over exactly what happen- damn what you think. I know ed."

my rights." "Not tell any cs?" "Certainly not."

you

Perry Mason said: "I want you to get handwriting speci- imens from Paula Cartright; from Cartright's housekeeper; and from this woman, Thelma Bon- ton. I'm going to get a sample from Bessie Forbes."

ten or fifteen minutes, and Della The telephone rang after some Street answered it, then looked up to Perry Mason, holding the receiver in her hand.

"It's Miss Sibley," she said, "and she wants me to tell you that she did exactly as you in struclei, and that everything is all right."

"Has she got the handker→ chtef?" asked Perry Mason.

Della Street nodded. Perry Mason showed exclte- ⚫ment.

"Tell her to get a cab and come over to the office right nway," he said; "to bring that handkerchief with her, and pay the driver to make time."

Perry Mason chuckled. "Going to let me in on joke, Perry?" asked Drake.

the

"I was simply thinking," Perry Mason said, "how delightfully surprised Detective Sergeant Holcomb is going to be."

The knob on the outer door perfume. smelled it, walked "Three hundred dollars when rattled, and there was a gentle

knock on the panels. swiftly to the wash stand, pull the job is finished."

"I," she said, "am about to telephone to the pollee."

"Never

mind about that." Perry Mason told her, police will be here soon enough.

"What are you talking about?" "You know what I'm talking about," Perry Moson sald. "You're about at the end of your rope-Mra Bessie Forbes." At the name, the woman stood stiff and erect, staring at them with eyes that were dark with costs..." panic

"Good God!" she said.

She dropped into a chair, and

her excitement was such that

el the cork, and dumped the He ushered her to the door, perfume down the wash stand." turned to Della Street, and said, The woman gasped, moved "Get Paul Drake on the line, toward him, and put a restrain- and tell him to come up ing hand on his arm.

right away."

"Stop!" she said, "That stuff

"AIL right," Ferry Mason said, "you get one hundred and fly dollars now, and one hundred and fifty dollars a little inter. You understand that you're not to say a about this,"

Word

"How soon will you know?" she asked.

He slammed the receiver back tossed the kand- o on the hook, in kerchief over to Della Street.

"Probably in a couple weeks. You've got to keep touch with ከነሮ. That's all. You'd better get out of here now, because I don't want you to be seen around the office."

He turned to Della Street, as the door of the outer office closed on Mac Sibley.

"Get police headquarters," he said, "and get Detective-Ser- geant Holcomb on the line."

Della

Street got the connec- tion through, then looked up at her employer.

to

"When the officers come," he said, "give them this, and don't give them anything else except

sweet

smile. Keep any in- formation you have to yourself."

a

"What happened?" she asked. Perry Mason stared at, ber steadily.

was

on knowing," "If you insist he said, "Clinton Foley murdered between seven-thirty and eight o'clock tonight."

Paul Drake pursed his ps into a silent whistle.

from

Perry Mason jerked the door the open,

"Where are you going as

here.

Perry?" asked tective.

Mason's

Perry Mason strode telephone. He was smiling he picked up the receiver.

"Listen, Sergeant," he said; "I've got some information for untroubled. you. I can't give it all to you,

the de-

smile was serenely

be-

"That," he said, "is something but I can give you some of it... it might be better for you not It happens that I've just found to know."

The door slammed shut out that a Checker cab, number 86-C, took a woman to Clinton hind him. asked Foley's house at about twenty- five minutes past seven,

Della Street opened the door and let Mae Sibley into the room.

hero

"Have any trouble?" Perry Mason.

She nodded, and her Angers worked the dial of the tele- phone,

"He'll be right up," she said. SAM

"What is it, chief, can you tell

He whirled on her with eyes me?" that were blazing.

"It's likely to cost a hell of a

Perry Mason shook his head." "Not yet, I can't, Dello, I'm

the dressing gown fell open and remained unnoticed, disclosing lot," he said. "Now listen to not certain myself, just what the gleam of a bare shoulder, this and get it straight: Check it in."

the lustre of stocking,

a

and

sheer silk out of this hotel. Go to the "But what's happened?"

Broadway on

"Plenty," he told her, " Forky-second Street. Register under the the trouble is it doesn't fit to Perry Mason snapped words me of Bessie Forbes, Be gether."

careful what you take with you, and be careful what you leave behind.

yourself

at the woman, as though they had been missiles.

Buy some good cheap perfume, and when I say cheap. I mean cheap. Souse it all over everything you've got. Do you get me?

"What's bothering you?" she asked,

"I am wondering," he sald, "why that dog howled, and why he quit howling. Sometimes think I know why the dog

I

The

(MORE TOMORROW)

JACKETT, back from Warsaw, tells the

TRUTH FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

In his first article, pab. lished yesterday, Bam Jackett told how-in War-

Con. saw for the "Peace" gress ho WYLS closely

by D woman agent, Maria, wherever ho went in Poland.

"I know all about you," he said. "There's no need to make any denial or go for any heroics or hysteries. You were the wife

shadowed "Then," he said, "sit tight and howled, and then I can't gure of Clinton Forbes. He left you don't answer any questions. No why he quit howling. Some- in Santa Barbara and ran away matter who asks you a question times

I gure that it's with Paula Cartright. You tried or what it's about, say that you goofy." to follow them. I don't know won't do anything until what your object was. I'm not lawyer is present." asking you that, yet. Cartright located Clinton Forbes before He turned on the hot-water outer door.

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did.

your

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minor watcli-dogs.

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To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, Forbes was living on tap, washed out the perfume "Paul Drake, I guess," he an American diplomat, join-

"Kettles" non-members are requested to purchase their sweep tickets at under the rume bottle, kept the hot water run- said,

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the Club's Branch Offices at:-- He strode to the door, opened ed me over a glass of beer and every other building where nation; is detained until the have been known to last a clothes on," he it, and nodded to the tall de- in the Press buffet of the people congregate.

second World Peace Con- This story of the method of week or more, with as many as

recruiting came from an unim- 20 people imprisoned "Come in, Paul," he said. "Igress at Warsaw.

peachable source. A university house or fat. Just how "discreet" was her

160 miles student Benton man who exit we realised when later another coupe, minutes

hurried to our table and de-

Minas Doley

of Clinton

rot ning. Cartright got the house adjoining them, but "Get some

tective.

didn't make his identity known. said. "My telephone number is. He was pretty well broken up. Broadway 39261. Make a note He was watching all the time, of it. Call me if anything hap want you to get the dope trying to find out whether pens. Have

that the man that Thelma Forbes was making his wife

straight?" happy.

went out with; the She nodded.

drove the Chevrolet 6M9245."

"I don't know just when you found out about it, or just how you found out about it, but it wasn't very long ago that you got wise to the whole situation.

some more.

You're Perry Mason?"

He nodded.

you

got

as though you've gone over."

in Cracow,

in the

At the end any number, of the a few from Warsaw, was called in by suspects are arrested and seil- agent the security police and told ho terced-perhaps to

some

was to become a secret agent months' imprisonment in one of Paul Drake's smile was slow manded our passes. He was Ho refused. Two days later bo the slave labour camps,

typical: between 20 and 30, of

were

the univer-

Disappeared

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That's all, Drake. Come on!

"All right," he told her. and good-natured. The door banged behind them. "Don't think you're the only medium height, stockily built, was expelled from In the corridor

Paul Drakte one that can put any pep into very tough-looking, and wearing sity, so he went to Warsaw,

a blue arm-band on which was a "Now then, here's the funny looked at Perry Mason.

your work," he said. "I've had

Oficials there sent him back thing. Fm a lawyer. You may "You," he said, "may

think my men working on that, and white dove which did not some-

to Cracow, where he WOB ceived this treatment because have read of me,

answer for how it into the picture at all. I've tried that you're keeping on one side already have the

the he is alleged to have My pass

fold but once again hauled before was all right, a few murder cases, and I ex- of the line, but it looks to me you. The fellow is Carl Traak.

security police and offered a British Consulate employee the pect to try

the diplomat's

was scrutinised I

"He's a young man

of trains that passed who's specialise on criminal trial work

organisation.

through his station each day, on the big cases, My name's told him, "you haven't

"Silck around," Perry Mason drifted around and had a police and rejected. We asked for the large sum of money to join the number

he's agent's authority and he pointed Perry Mason."

aten record. Right at present

cmall- to his arm-band.

Again he refused. Agents took Such stories, do not appear in anything yct. Here's what I engaged in doing some

'him to an underground room, Polish newspapers. Police court "You" she said, in a tone of want you to do. I want you to time gambling",

Under Escort stripped him and attached to proceedings

are not reported breathless interest You? get me an actress, about twenty-

⚫ his foco a masic with a small unless they are fixed so that the eight years old, about the same

He was build as that woman, and have "Can you and out

prisoner pleads guilty, relates anything PROTEST to Polish diplomats bulb of air attached.

in the buffet were no use and then forced to walk about the how sorry be was to have acted "Oh she breathed. "Oh, I'm her at my office just as quick more than that about him?"

the American had to leave the room waving his arms up and in such a so glad."

way against the as you can get her there. She's hundred going to make three

"In time. yes. We're getting hall under escort. One wondered down.

State, and then gets a lighter "Forget all that," he said, dollara for doing something, and stuff. In fact,

getting how the freedom of speech and we're

sentence because he is so sorry. "and remember wo've got on. I'm going to guarantee that it's stuff coming in from all over the the dove of peace they audience, I'm going to tell going to be within the law. I country. We've got a lot more cheering in that congress hall

I am assured, however, that standard of living in you a lot of stuff while I've got don't want you to be there per reports on the situation in Santa outside could be reconciled with AFTER & few minutes he had the

war-dam- a witness here, You're going sonally, und don't want you to Barbara. I've

down this incident; why an/American Auced up all the air in the bulb. Warsaw, so heavily to listen and do nothing else. know anything about it. I want everybody.

the with a diplomatic pars to the He fainted. Then he was re- aged, is better and that culture Do you get me?"

you to get a girl who will do household - even including the congress was ordered out mere leased, spent

more wide two months In and education are

than before the war. She nodded.

anything. You understand? Any- Chinese cool"

ly because he was talking to a hospital and disappeared. Not spread thing,"

"That's right," Perry Mason British Journalist.

even his family now low his The misfortune is that the atudent in restricted as to whereabouts. Interested In that "How much time have 7?" said. "I'm

On the asked Paul Dmka.

day the delegates

the what books to read: and cook. What happened to him?"

arrived in Warsaw an extra

I decided not to make any permitted, volumes are heavily "You've got less than ten minutes, if you can do it in that deal with him, by which he was posted outside every non- trailing me, nor to

"They made some kind of a guard of plain-clothes agents effort to shake off the agenta tinetured with Marxist theory.

carry out will, Wo won't talk about the time."

agreed to be deported. I don't Communist embassy and con- my design to talk to a Pollah

art show, for outstanding alone be instance, Sibley was well built know just what it was. I think mulate and the homes of all family freely and

three minera staff-just in casp a retainer. The letter instructed and attractive. Perry Mason that Clinton Foley got in touch their

cause of the kettle" system work mo to protect the interowls of the stood close to her, looked her with the Federal authorities to delegate had the temerity to, which I mentioned in my first leaving a plt. When Government through on their duties and must remain in their employers

it orders were find out what it was all about;

officials saw found there was no

removed. given for it to bo under

"Give me that bottle of per- that the boy was in this coun All theso

Om- What does "kottle" signify? The miners looked grim. They by try illegally, Bo Foley worked ployed

organisation Any family sumpocted under should have looked happy after fumo, Della," he said.

He took the bottle of per- out a deal by which the man called Security Police. Only the State Secrets Act of 1019, working so well for pesco,

"Cartright," said Perry Mason,

"came to my office. He acted

atrangely. He wanted to make

2.

terms of that will not yet. But

with the will came a letter and MAE

wife of the man who was living over with approval,

the

at 4880 Milpas Drive, name of Clinton Foley. Now got that, and got it straight. He didn't tell me to protect the

checked

who WOS in

call,

question but

ngenis

Aro

010

any

article.

At a recent

one. showed

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