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CHAPTER XXXVIII

committed. Heard nothing. saw nothing. Blanks all along

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At half-past eight that Wednes- line." day morning an exhausted young What does Dr. Priec say?" defective was hauled back to con-

"That Cora was strangled sciousness by an urgent but kind- tween one and two o'clock. ly hand upon his shoulder. He sat got busy immediately up, dazed to and himself not in hla autopsy.

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bed but in a creaking swivel chair, and that his pillow had been his own what else has Turner been able arms crossed upon an untidy desk. to dig up? Any residents on the ended to a Letter of Credit froes bas

"Wake up, boy!" Lieutenant block who saw or heard any Strawn greeted him with brusque sympathy. "Better, go grab a bite,

"Absolutely nothing, so far, to af breakfast and get into bed. You'll need some rest before the Prove Sevier or any other prowler was on the scene of the crime," double inquest this afternoon."

"You're back?" Bonnie Dundee Dundee replied heavily.

a shaking hand through his that's where they nabbed him, "Hmmm. Eighth and main- disordered black hair and blinked isn't it?-is near enough for any dazed blue eyes at his chief.

1:40

"Sure! Just got in. Got a morn.jury. Just four blocks from the ing paper at the station. "I'm Rhodes House," Strawn exulted. sorry about Cara Barker. Have "Well, get along with you, Bonnie. you got a confession out of that The case is solved, whether Sevier swing, Seyler, yet? The paper saya confesses or not. Get some sleep he's been on the grill since he was now. You're earned it." mabbed at 2 o'clock this morning.“

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"Why worry about Griffin now. kid?" Strawn chuckled indulgent- Dundee told him briefly, wearily. "It was a swell theory, but ly. what Sevier had admitted: Emil Sevier's thrown the monkey that he had gone to the Rhode: wrench into it. The detective House on Saturday night at half from New York arrived in Belton past 13, intending to make one just before I left, and I turned more effort to enlist Cora Barker: over all the information I'd been

collect, aid in robbing Mrs. Hogarth; that able to he had waited in the greenhous, much." unt Cora had entered the board ing house at 10 minutes after 12 and that he had then climbed up the ruse trellis to the upstairs porch; that he had seen" Cora in Mrs. Hogarth's room, had realiz

"All right, boy, It's your sleep ed the old lady was dead, mur dered; and that he had renible you're losing" Strawn conceded, C back down the rose trellis in mad leaning back in the straight chair Chanchas

Baired (Delay) Hewchwang fright of being caught, on the end booking his thumbs. In his Pres

suspendera. "Remember the Bel- scene of a crime he had not com-ton chief told us over the phone mitted.

"Rot!" Strawn spał contemptu-

disarming

"I believe I'll sleep better if my curiosity is satisfied," Dundee persisted, with bis grin, as he again slumped his Weary body into Strawn's swivel chair.

that their police headquarters had been destroyed by fire two years ngo? Well, Griffin's fingerprints ously into the big brass cuspider went up in smoke, as well as beside his desk. "He's guilty as the description of him they had on hell." Smart, too. Frankly, ad-gle. So I had to paddle around mitted everything, he

was sure

·

'you already had against him, what and pick up what I could at the bank and from neighbours who you told him you had on him. And had known the Harknesses and he killed Cora Barker, because he Griffin." was sure she'd told the police the "And what was he like?" whole truth against him, or to Dundee urged, his fatigue almost keep her from doing so, He knew forgotten. he couldn't stay under cover for ever-probably his girl forced

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"I wish you would," Dundee homely. Just an ordinary-looking admitted. "I don't feel up to young man of about thirty when pleading with anyone to stay in he robbed the bank and beat it

very successfully," that house any longer."

"Any doctor or dentist whe "Murder Mansion," the paper calls it," Strawn grinned. "See?" might help to identify him?" Dun-

"Thanks-I'd rather not." Dundee poralsted.

"

"Handwriting?"

"It's a small town; and I can- dee repudiated the newspaper with a gesture of distaste. gyvassed every doctor and dentist the way, we're holding Sevier as who lived there when Gritin did. material witness, not on a By the absence of evidence, he charge of murder. yet. The must, have been a healthy guy district attorney, advised it, so we with teeth that didn't need tinker- could get Savier's testimony ating on," the inquest this afternoon

"Sure!" Strawn was mildly tri- Well, I believe I'll go now"

"Good Idea," Strawn agreed. umphant as he pulled out his "Just one other thing. Who had wallet. "Got some old deposit charge of the investigation this slips from the bank, bearing bla morning at the Rhodes House?" algnature, or, rather his initials, "Sergeant Turner, I suppose and some notations he made on copy paper. They had other he's snatching a nap now, but I can tell you anything you want samples of his handwriting, but to know, He came back to head- had turned them over to the police, quarters about six Said his along with the card he'd filled out when he went to work for the questioning of the boarders, Mrs. bank. They were burned, too, of Rhodes, Dusty and the maid, ccurac, but you've got his John Tilda

Brown, brought out Henry there all right. Keep 'em absolutely nothing. According to ús a souvenir of the bad penny their stories, they were all asleep that didn't turn up?" when the murder must have been

(To be Continued.).

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