THE SUNDAY OREGONTA, POKTI,AlS1, FEBEUAET 5, 1922
t'TO 1 (O) (O) " (f TT t 3 Pk-t cteval Gibbon
7Ac Story of a
Thrilling Night in
-Paris and Its Bizarre
Aftermath.
AT THII BACK ef the room, be
yond the marble-topped counter
of ths American bar America
Is to the bars of Perls what England
la to her tallora b little tables
were spaced widely; the clientele of
the placa r of that kind which
frequently need privacy Without,
tha moderate trafflo of tha Rue Dia
li on. tha leakage from tha apata of
tha boulevard, oezad paat 11 door;
within, twa or threa ornate lad It i aat
ach a I cm at a table with her on
touchy glass of liqueur before her,
motionless, wordless, sunk In a seem
lns of gentle melancholy, and In the
farthest corner Mr. James Smith-held
forth across his table for the enllght
nmnt and profit of hie two young
friends.
"Neumann"" ha was saying in ac
cents f surprise. "Pony Neumann!
Mean to tell ma you don't know Pony
Neumann? Well, yon certainly cught
to know Pony. It'a an education for.
any man!"
He hlmaelf waa a man of about 30
years of age. bullet-headed and thick
la tha neck. Ills clothes and linen
bad a showy eumptuoslty; tha whole
of hia aeooetminit waa choice and
costly, and with It want that manner
f sophistication, that are of gesture
and attitude, which la only acquired
to perfection by those to whom bars
and race) courses and gaming houses
are tha familiar landmarks of life.
His blunt-featured face bad a sort of
callous cheertness, but neither the
grace of his manner nor the floss
of his equipment avaUed to bide the
feral and dangerous quality that In
habited tha sue as a flame Inhabits
av lantern. Of his two young com
panions, en looked like a Jockey
and the other Ilk a curate; neverthe
less, neither waa a horseman nor an
ecclesiastic
"Wall, what about "lm?" queried
tha counterpart curate, restlTely.
"What la 'e, any "r
"What la bar echoed James Smith.
"Tie's everything that you'r not, me
lad. and everything you'll never be.
When you're talking about Pony you
want to be careful; he's got mora
friends than a pretty millionairess,
and I don't know the man that can
say he ever got tha better of him.
Fellers like yon "
"But what Is 'at" Interrupted the
other. "What's e dot Us three
well. Tim an roe. oy game la smash
ing ttumera; you're a Jeweler; but
what's this "era PonyT That's what 1
was eskln."
- "O!" Mr. James Smith was mollified.
"Well. I don't know Just what you'd
call him. He's In a class by himself.
January till March, you'll find him at
Monte Carlo or Blarlts; then a month
or two in Paris; then over to London
for the season and back to Trouvllle
r Oatand about August. Then he'll
trot off to Carlsbad, maybe, and in the
winter you'r likely to hear of him at
Cairo or thereabouts. Wherever the
wells are tha real swells and the
real money there you'll find old
Pony holding his own with the beat
of 'em and not losing by it, you bet!
Why. If that feller waa to write a
book, there'd be scores of em scores,
I tell you, from lords an' bishops an'
birds o paradise o' that kind down to
members o' parliament an' stock brok
ers that 'ud never be able to show
their faces again.
Tsee, he's got the style for it
Man of about 45, I should say. and
plumplsh, with a kind of short
spoken heartiness about him and a
friendly look; you'd take blm to be a
colonel In the army or a lively kind
cf country square. And he's got that
trick o draslng you know! The
minute you aee It you know It's the
right thing. I've seen him on the
Promenade dee Anglais at Nice. Two
or threa of "em coming along together.
General This an Sir John That an"
eld Pony all together Pony doln' the
talk In', too an I give you my word
that out o the bunch of them Pony
was tha ona I could hav been afraid
t an called alr when I was speakin'
to blm,
The youth who looked like a Jockey
soughed consumptively, wiped his lips
and glanced at his handkerchief ere
he returned It to bis pocket. "Ye-es."
be drawled. "Blackmail's his game,
thenr
Mr. Smith hesitated. "1 dunno." he
aid thoughtfully. -You can hardly
caU it bleckmeilin when Pony does
It. And It Isn't his only game, any
how; Pony never misses a chance.
Why. talkin of Nice, there used to be
a feller down there, the Honorable
Samuel Barlelgh. Youns feller he
was; son of a lord, but his family had
kicked him out. and he spent his time
busily and solemnly going to the
devil. He was regularly tottering
from side to side between delirium
tremens and suicide; I never aaw
such a beastly alght as that chap
when ha really got going. Well. Pony
had a look at him an put out feelers
for information about him an' his
people, and when he'd learned all he
wanted to know he took charge of
blm.
The Honorable Sam had been in
drink cure homes before till most of
cm were sick of him: there didn't
seem to be a blue ribbon doctor in
the world that could handle him: but
Pony was a new experience for the
gay lad. Pony took him to some
filthy bole on the top of a snowy old
Alp where you needed wings for go
In' up an where you were apt to get
a harp and a halo, too. when you
started to come down, and there he
put him through It. He made him
do winter sporta till be was black an'
blue all over; he cut off his liquor,
bis smokes, an' bis dope, and he ex
ercised a friendly Influence over him
till the Honorable Sam couldn't call
his soul his own.
"And In the spring he took him
home an presented him to his fam
ily. They'd never seen him before
when he wasn't so aodden with boose
tbat he squelched when he moved,
and Pony handed 'em over a lean,
leathery young athlete, with nothing
wrong with him but an awful way of
urslng whenever Pony was men
tioned. Wer they grateful" They
were grateful tha whan Pony
wanted to get rid ' soma copper
stock he'd managed to dig up they
took it off his bands before he'd fin
ished suggesting it.
-Still,- Mr. Smith continued, -talking
of blackmail. Td like to tell yen
about a queer thing, I waa In with
Pony. Y'see
Tet's have soma drinks, than."
stipulated the young man whs looked
like a curate.
Mr. Smith accepted tha condition
and the drinks were duly served.
When the waiter had departed ha re
sumed. "The game began ona day when I
was havln' my lunch In the Roches
ter dowa the street here. I was alone
an' I was Just about done and ready
to pay my bill an' go when In strolls
Pony an' another man that X only
know by sight. Pony was like ha al
ways is. cheery, masterful, and cer
tain of himself: but the feller with
him. a tall, drooping sort of chap,
was lookln" sort of 111 and worried. I
won't tell you his name, 'cos he's still
on Pony's list; 'an' by the looks of
him I thought for tha moment that
Pony must have been mllkln him too
hard. Pony nods to me and half
slops. Don't go away for a minute,
Jim.' he says; T might want you."
"The other one gave me a sort of"
thoughtful, gloomy look and Pony led
him on. whispering to blm as they
, went. They took a table at tha other
end of tha room, and after talkin'
together for a few minute they cava
their order to the waiter and Pony
looked up and beckoned me ever.
" 'Sit down, Jim.' ha said to me.
This la Jim Smith." he told the other
feller. 'Jim, I want you to listen to a
story that Lord So-and-ao has been
ttllln' me and see what yon think of
lt Soma of It doesn't sound right to
me.'
" I'm listening," I said.
The lord heaved a dreamy kind of
sigh. He'd got a great thin beak of
a nose and no mora chin than a bird.
He looked about aa atrong as piece
of paper end as wise ae a sheep. And
yet somehow he looked like a lord,
as If he'd got more right than another
man and air waa only made because
be liked to breath It.
-n.ro you a crooir ne said to me.
"Yes,' I answered him. "What's
the crooked thing you want done that
you can't do yourself r
"He lifted up his eyebrows and
stared at me aa If I was a curiosity.
Pony, sitting beside blm. laughed.
"Vim's all right.' ha said. Ho
knows all about rough work. Go
ahead and tell him.'
"So presently his lordship began to
tell his symptoms to tha doctor. The
first partj of 'em seemed natural
enough for a sheep-faced village Idiot
like him. About three weeks before,
beln' out for tha evening lookin' for
new worlds to conquer, he'd run Into
four nice fellows he'd never seen be
fore. Cheery, pleasant, sporting sort
of chaps, three of 'em English and
one an American. They'd had a cer
tain amount o' drinks at the usual
kind o' places, and at last they'd gone
off to the American's flat to rest
around a card table after the fatigues
of the evening.
Thle American was a middle-sized
man. It seemed, actln' an' talkin' In
the usual way; but what made blm
noticeable and queer looking was his
having rather longlsh black hair, cut
French fashion, a black mustache end
a pointed black beard. And in his
flat was slathers of drink and the
materials for poker.
"It was over the poker, it seemed,
that things began to go wrong. His
long, lean lordship got the Idea et last
that he wasn't getting a square deal,
just as If It would ha' needed any
funny business to milk a poor fool
like him. At any rate, be began to
watch things pretty close, as far as
the liquors he'd taken would let him.
""And I'll swear.' ha waa telling
me, 'that the dealing was crooked.
That American had the cards, and I
distinctly saw him flick a card from
PARIS BUILDS MUNICIPAL APARTMENTS
TO HELP SOLVE BIG HOUSING PROBLEM
Relief in Sight for Poor Flat Dweller and in Story of Project Representing Outlay of $14,000,000 Is Seen
Lesson for American Cities to Leara.
BY HERBERT M. AND T.TTJ.TANB R.
DAVIDSON.
PARIS, Feb. 4. "High rents! Too
few houses!" Build a tower high
as Jack's beanstalk In the mid
dle of the Atlantic, climb to the top.
and shout those words through a
magically amplified megaphone.
Everyhouseholder on two continents
will respond with a groan of under
standing. And turn, hopefully but In
vain, toward another rental agency!
In Paris, the groans would be aug
mented, not only by Gallio fervor, but
by genuine despair. A French family,
house hunting, differs from an Amer
ican family, ditto, enly by the addi
tional degree to which money has de
preciated, ths number of steps to
climb through scarcity of elevators,
and the universal absence of the by-us-unappreclated,
family flivver.
But. for the poorer flat dweller of
Paris' relief is in sight, and In ,the
story of that relief lies a lesson for
American municipalities.
"If there are not enough decent eco
nomical dwellings for the people of
Paris and if a large majority of
those existing are in the hands of
profiteers," argues logcially enough
that municipality, "we'll Just build
some, that's alL"
Which Is exactly what Paris Is do
ing. Reviving a pre-war project, the
city has pushed it forward with re
markable speed anl efficiency, and by
the first of July will have completed
and ready for occupancy 14 munici
pally owned and operated apartment
houses containing: nearly 2000 flats.
Already the Parisian housewife of
the laboring and clerical classes has
descended in flocks upon the munic
ipal rental agency In the Rue Talt
bout. Parking her baby buggy on the
sidewalk, she has come to Investigate
and remained to rent, and practically
all of the 2000 apartments already
are assigned. As for the baby bug
gies, the more of them the cheaper the
rent, but of that more later, and
American apartment house owners are
invited to read.
The municipal apartment house
project In Paris was Inaugurated In
1913. when a bond Issue of 200.000,000
francs aw about tl4.0(NU0O)
the bottom of the pack. I picked tip
my cards and threw them Into the
middle of the table.
"-We'll have that deal again," I
aid.
"They all stared at me as If they
were astonished and startled. It waa
well done, but' he nodded at me like
a sleepy horse 'I'm a close observer,
don't you know, and I saw through It.
"Why, what's the matter?" asked the
American. "Are you drunk 7"
""No, I said, "Not nearly drunk,
enough to stand that kind of deal."
""He laid the cards down before
him and started to get up. I Jumped
up. too, and so did the others.
"'"If you're trying- to say Im not
dealing straight." be shouted, and I
pointed a finger at him.
" ' "You dealt yourself a card from
the bottom of the pack, you sharper,"
I answered.
""Why, you swine," he shouted.
They were all around me and I
stepped back against the buffet where
the bottles were. And all at once I
ut the bearded man with, a pistol In
his band. ' I had my hand on a cham
pagne bottle, and I stepped forward
and swung it at him. I got him on
the side of the head a clinking fine
bang and the bottle flew to pieces
In my hand and down he went."
Mr. James Smith laughed. "It was
funny to see him while he told about
It," he said. "Like a little girl tellln'
how she killed a nasty big wasp
proud and horrifir.d, you know. But
the rest of the atf.ry was queer.
"The minute .he bearded fellow
went down two of the English chaps
got hold of his lordship and dragged
him back, and the third knelt down
above the fallen man. His lordship
was still kicking and plunging In the
hands of the fellows who were hold
ing him when this third man got up
and holds out his bands, dripping
with blood. "You've killed him!' he
says. "Let him go now," he tells the
other two. "We've got to think whet
to do and think quick!
"It staggered his lordship. They
let him go and stood, all three, conr
suiting together In murmurs, while
he, stepping slow and on tiptoe, edged
forward to look. The body was lying
beside the card table on Its back.
He'd probably never seen a dead man
before, or anyhow not one Just after
he was killed, and one look was
enough to turn him sick and faint.
It lay with Its head on one side and
all the face and hair and beard an
the while shirt front was covered
with blood and the carpet all around
was a pool of it.
"He reeled against the card table.
and the next thing he knew he was
sitting in a chair and somebody was
feeding him with brandy. ,
voted to construct houses in Paris
which would combine the three quali
ties of sanitation, beauty and econ
omy. A fair waa held to Investigate ma
terials and methods of construction
which would be at the same time
cheap, durable, healthy and comfort
able A contest waa held in which
architectural plans for ths houses
were selected. Five prizes were
awarded and it Is according to the
model which won first prize that the
first group of 14 houses is being built.
Next, large strips of land were set
aside from the city's parks and
promenades, chosen in such a way as
not to interfere with the beauty or
adequate size of any publio place. Of
these a strip on Avenue Emlle Zola
was chosen as the site for the first
group.
All this in 1913. The war. of course,
interfered with the entire project, but
the housing crisis which followed the
war called for Its Immediate revival.
Work was started in spite of the
greatly changed financial conditions.
Paris had to abandon her housing
project, or swallow the loss. She
chose the 'latter course. In spite of
a slight additional sum raised and the
scheduling of rents a trifle higher
than was planned originally, Paris
will havs to foot a large MIL Under
present conditions It will take the
houses from 100 to 125 years to pay
for themselves. And they are only
being constructed to last 100 years!
In the group to be completed In
July, 11 out of the 14 apartments are
rented. They will house In 1476 flats,
7S00 persons, the entire population of
an average size French village. Each
house cost 6,000,000 francs.
How are these apartments rented?
First, preference Is given In renting
to workmen and the small salaried
clerical classes. Although It is be
lieved that, in general, economic laws
will operate in sending the small ln
comed renter to these cheap houses.
Inquiry Is made as to the status of
the proposed tenant, and apartments
rented only to those who could not
otherwise afford such pleasant and
hygienic lodgings.
Secondly, these apartment houses
Well, you've done ft." they told hint, when he was able to listen
"You've killed Casey.
"Well, you've done it," they told
him. when he was aDle to listen,
"You've killed Casey."
""He drew a pistol on me," he bab-
bled.
"But they wouldn't have It. "You're
drunk," they said. "Casey didnt draw
any pistol. If you ain't careful youll
finish under the guillotine'
"And the long and short of It Is
that at last they got him scared to the
point where they wanted him. I
reckon he got hysterics, as far as I
can Judge, because, though he didn't
remember making them the offer, he
found them presently accepting .his
promise of a thousand pounds apiece
to put the body out of sight. They'd
find an Apache taxi driver and Lord
knows they wouldn't have to look far
for one in Paris and ride it down to
the river and dump It In. And after
that they'd! say nothing an' the lnci-
dent 'ud be closed. An' he, poor fool,
between the liquor and the scare, be-
lleved that it would.
"Two days later they'd sent him a
messenger to draw the three thousand
and he paid it over. And here's what
struck me as the queerest thing yet:
the messenger didn't come with a
note to get the money in a sealed
packet without knowing what it was
all about. No, ho was a bald-headed
bloke In spectacles who knew every-
thing and had therefore got the right
to snare in the loot. Though there
was only three of them In It, and
they sworn to keep their mouths shut,
they'd taken In a fourth at the be
ginning. And sines then he'd come
again, as anybody might ha' known
he would, and tho next day to this
he was to ante-up another 3000.
"I stared et him. To think of all
that money with nobody to protect It
but a chinless half-wit like him. It
was it was tantalizing."
"Well, what d'you think of It,
Jim? asked Pony.
" "Simple enough," I said. 'This
feller Casey's no more dead than I
am. And if he was, who's to prove
It without any corpse?
" 'Bnt there Is a corpse." said Pony.
'It was fished out and taken to the
morgue and identified there. Those
fellows sent my friend the official
are designed boldly and unashamedly
to favor families with children, and
the more the merrier. Two-thirds of
each house is reserved for families
with four children .under 16 years old.
And for every child under IS belong
ing to a renter of one of the munici
pal apartments the fortunate father
Is allowed a rebate on his rent! Fam
ilies without children must be content
to pay a higher rent for smaller, less
desirable apartments.
Finally, the rents charged run at
least one-third less than those de
manded in privately owned houses of
somewhat poorer grade The range
probably will be from 300 to 800
francs (now equal to from $25 to 360)
a year. The maximum charge per
mitted under the law is IMS francs a
year (about 375 at recent rates).
The prize-winning plan from which
the houses are being built Is an ad
mirable piece of WTok. Every apart
ment opens on a street, giving not
only ventilation but a view to every
tenant all of which is only another
way of putting our familiar "all out
side rooms." There are only two main
entrances, making necessary only two
concierges, which Is French for Jani
tors. Halls, which customarily take
up great quantities of room In France,
are reduced to a minimum.
Windows Two Sides.
Every flat has windows on two
sides, so that a current of air can be
sent through the apartment. Anyone
familiar with the odors of. French
cooking will appreciate what a boon
this Is to the househcld of the work
man class, where kitchen and dining
Joom often are one.
One of the hardest tasks that fall to
the lot of the French mother la doing
the family wash. Everything Is being
done in these new apartment houses
to lighten that task. A large laun
dry room, well lighted and well ven
tilated, is provided on the ground
floor.
There are five types of apartments,
varying from the largest, containing
three bedrooms for children, one of
them double; one parents bedroom,
one kitchen and one dining room, to
certificate of identification and a
copy or tn police permit ior puriai.
""O!" I said. "But who was this
Casey, anyhowT I've known two or
three Caseys, but If you was to try
hlttin' any one of them with a bottle
after he'd drawn a gun you'd need
Identifying and burying1 not him!"
Old Pony nodded, -res, there's
that, he said thoughtfully,
" "And then," I went on. 'it doesn't
sound real to me that three poker
sharps would need' to foozle a deal so
badUy as all that In order to' squeeze
the Juice out of his lordship here,
And which of the three Englishmen
was a doctor to make sure the man
was. dead so quick? And why have
they taken In this messenger chap?
And why are they so blamed modest
and cheap to deal with? "
"His lordship stared, but old Pony
understood. 'I ought to ha' seen that
for myself, he said to him. Tf my
little er bit of Information Is worth
a couple of hundred to you now an'
again Just to save unpleasantness,
this affair, with the guillotine or
New Caledonia behind it. Is worth
more than a paltry three thousand
now and then. It's worth all you've
got. What would you do about this
business, Jim?" ".
" 0, me!" I said. "I'm a rough, rude
man. I"d get that messenger into
room an' prevail on him to tails yes.
even if I hadi to sit him on a stove
till he did! Td want him to tell me
which of those three fellows' slipped
a knife into Casey when he pulled his
gun. 'cos I've hit a man with a bottle
myself In my time and he didn't
bleed so lavish.'
"Pony eat thinking for a while.
"First thing Is to get a look at this
bald headed messenger," he said.
"One of us might know him by sight
Where have you got to meet him and
hand- over the money?"
"It was to be in a certain big cafe
on the boulevard at three in the
afternoon.
" "We'll be there,' said Pony. "And
you pretend not to know us. Prob'ly
we'll be able to fix things up for you.
'Cos Tm blowed if Vm goin' to have a
lot of crooks like come trespassin' on
ground that I discovered for myself.
the smallest, contalnnlg only one
room with kitchenette.
"And how about bathrooms?"
Any American would ask the ques
tion, be he of the athletlo shower-every-mornlng
kind or only of the
Saturday night tub variety.
But the workman of France is will
ing to climb seven flights of stairs
'and have his bath In a washbowl,
foregoing both elevator and bathroom
to make expenses meet for the roof
over his head. It will be hard' enough,
architects say, to get him used to
what modern plumbing there is In the
new houses, and educating him to a
bathtub must be the work of ths next
generation.
In addition to the group of apart
ments to be completed In July, con
struction will soon begin on a new
group of five apartment houses con
taining 400 flats each. These will
cost from 17,000,000 to 25,000,000
francs each to build,
60,000 That's Needed.
It is estimated that 50,000 flats will
be needed In all to provide for the
present shortage of houses in Paris,
without taking Into account future
growth in population. All of these
the city cannot hope to provide, and
for this reason the putting up of mu
nicipal tenements In Paris In no way
discourages private building enter
prise. With this future building In mind,
the city of Paris held In the zoological
buildings in the Bois de Boulogne an
other exhibition of methods and ma
terials of construction, with a view to
finding some means of erecting
houses more economically still, and
especially of finding some more eco
nomical building material than brick
and stone.
Among the exhibitors at this "con
cours," which waa concluded April ljO,
was an American architect. Milton
Dana Morrill, who urged the use in
future municipal buildings of . an
American system of concrete con
struction, through which a 40 per cent
saving may be effected In building
costs
Meanwhile, most places at home,
city councils and state legislatures,
appoint rent committees, realty boards
ponder and some of them evade, rents
continue to climb, or remain station
ary; and the tenant continues to
groan, and, apparently, will continue
to do so long after the Parisian has
resumed contented silence in the liv
ing room of his economical municipal
apartment.
"His lordship looked e hit startled
at that, but presently he gathered
himself together and ambled off,
leaving Pony an' me alone together.
Pony sat chewing his cigar and look
ing at the smoke of it-
"Presently Pony nudged me with
his elbow; he'd seen our man flinch
where he sat; and In from behind us
and dose past our table walks the
blessed messenger. I glanced up sort
of absent minded and got a good look
at him. He certainly was a miscel
laneous sort of creature. Young,
you'd say; not more than 30, by the
gait of him; but on his face was a
pair of big, round spectacles and from
his collar up there wasn't a hair on
him. He took off his hat as he sat
down opposite his lordship, and he
showed a dome like a billiard ball
or an egg. An ordinary bald man
has got fringes or wisps somewhere,
but this freak wasn't so much bald
as naked; it waa downright indecent
to sit there, beaming softly through
his blinkers with his skull shining
through his Bcalp like that.
""This is a nightmare." murmured
Pony to me. There aren't really such
people as that. If there are, there
must be a reason for it. Think, Jim
thing, manl Where does this hair
less wonder come in?
"But I'd get no answer and Pony
went on.
" This game's too queer not to mean
something. Is this specimen the real,
murderer turning an honest penny?
But that wouldn't explain anything.
There's been good, sound sense be
hind every move in this business;
they maneuvered his lordship Just
where they wanted him; and there's
some reason, some special reason, for
this fellow's peeled head to appear
in it Can't you make up a quick
movie plot that'll fit the facts?"
"Over at the other table the bald
man was still smiling kindly as his
lordship passed over a big envelope.
" "He's got tha loot an' he'll be
gone in a moment,' moaned Pony.
Then suddenly he clapped his hand
to his forehead and gave a sort of
whispering shout.
"'It's him,' he said. It must be
it must be! Gosh, what a genius!
Come on, Jim; we'll go over to them
now.'
"He got up, took his cane and
gloves, and strolled across, me with
him. I didn't understand at all. but
I cleared for action In case a punob
should be wanted and held my tongue
Pony was fine smiling and lofty and
more like a colonel than ever. The
pair of "em looked up as we came
alongside their table.
" "Hullo r said Pony, affable and off
handed. 'I didn't know you two knew
each other.' He nodded to his lord-
ship and then turned to the other.
"You're lookin' very well, Casey!"
"There was a moment or two of
sllonce, broken only by the fall of
his lordship's Jaw. The bald man
stared up at Pony as If he -was the
devil. Popy went on smiling.
" "Who who are you callln' Casey?1
'demanded the bald man.
" 'Why, you. o'oourse," said Pony.
"Now, don't you start being silly with
me, -'cos I haven't the' patience. Sit
down, Jim!'
"He pulled himself out a chair and
we sat down, one on each side o' the
bald man, where he'd have to turn
his back on one of us if he wanted
to start anything with the other. His
lordship was still goggling at the
lot of us.
" "Well, said Pony, 'any complaints?
You aren't goln' to call In a police
man, are you, Casey? I wouldn't If
I were you."
" "My name's- not Casey,' snarled
the other. The man named Casey
is dead and buried, an' this man
killed him.
" T know, nodded Pony, "and If you
don't want him brought to life in
about ten seconds to explain where
you got that other corpse you hand
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over that envelope which his lord
ship Just gave you."
"He laid his open hand flat on the
table and waited. Ths other glared
at him, and Pony Just smiled at him.
Me, I'd rather he'd pull a gun on
me than smile at me like that; but
then, you see. I know him. And after
a bit It worked. The bald man let
his breath go in a loud puff and
fetched out the envelope and put It
in Pony's hand.
""How did you know?" he said in
a natural voice.
"His lordship got his thoughts In
order at that. 'Are you Casey?" he
cried. "You you Infernal scoundrel.
rn ni "
"Pony turned on, him. "Now, now!'
he said. "What's all this noise ? After
all the trouble that Jim and I have
taken to break out like this! I'm
ashamed of you!" It was as if he'd
been scolding a ' noisy child, and
Casey It was him, all right grinned
at It
- "You see," Pony explained to him.
"In my humble opinion you overdid
It. You were knocked out with a
bottle while you'd a gun in your
hand, and there was that silly un
necessary deal at poker, and the fact
that your three friends, with a gold
mine all to themselves, took in a
fourth. But the thing that finally
gave you away was pardon me
that head of yours.
""You see. once Td got my brains
to working. It was clear enough that
a long-haired man with a beard
couldn't choose a better disguise than
a head like a bladder of lard, Ths
only thing that still puzzles me Is
your dead body."
"Casey grinned again. "Well. he
said, "maybe there's a better disguise
for a man with the police after him
than a 500 -Crajia funeral, but It's good
enough for me. An that corpse if s
only a question of biding your time
and the Seine Is certain to eon-tribute
an unknown. Frenchman with a black
beard which a few obltgin' friends
can go along and Identify.
, '"But there's one thing that puzzles
me,' I put In. "You ain't got a mark
nor a soar on you. wnere'd all that
blood came from, then'"
" "BOoodr he says. 'O, that!" and. 7oe
laughs. "He provided the blood," he
says, nodding at hia lordship. It was
not a champagne bottle he hit me
with. It was bra-gundy and that was
the blood."
"His lordship gasped. Tve had
enough of this," he snaps tt Pony.
'G've me that money and Pm off-"
Pony stared at htm. 'Give you the
money I' he said. "Why, It isn't yours;
you gave It to Mr. Casey here. What
the deuce should I give you the money
for?" "
" D" you wanit me to call a police
man in?" he cried.
" "Yes!" said Pony and Casey to
gether. That was enough for htm and; he
shambled off, M very back blasphem
ing as he went. Pony and Casey and
me sat and smiled at each other.
"Well," said Casey, 1 suppose we
split it 50-50" "
" "I suppose not!" answered Pony
sharply. There'll be no split In this.
His lordship was my private property
before you ever heard of htm and I'll
have no poaching on my preserves,
the late Mr. Casey. Remember that. If
you please!"
'An' what about me? I chimed In.
'It was you that asked me to help In
this; don't I get anything?"'
"He had stood up while he was
answering Casey and now he nodded
down to me.
" 'Yes, Jim,' he said, kindly. 'You've
been useful; you certainly deserve
something. Lemme seel Yes, Jim; I'll
let you off that 200 francs you owe
mel' "
"He smiled and nods and off he
goes swinging his cane. O It certainly
Is an education for a man to know
eld Pony Neumannl"
tCcpy rigfat, 1922. tyy Chicago Tribune.)