PSTJE TWELVE
MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1933.
Tfe. HIDDEN DOOR
BY FRANK L. PACKARD
Chapter 49
THI WHOLE TRUTH
COLIN Jerked hla hand toward tuu
dssk. "The answer-a In that let
ter over there the one I waa to de
Urar to Joe Lazarra. I opened It
when I lot back here tonight. It a
rather longlah, aa yon see, bat It
lleana up pretty well everything, and
It you want to read It (or yourself go
ahead. Otherwise I'll give you the
flat of it In a tew words."
"I don't want to read It now," Ser
geant Mulvey answered, "I'm too
tired. And I've got a (ew things to
aay myself. So spiel I All I want to
know la what made Reddy think It
waa the Mask who bumped French
Fete and Annie off In the first place
and why Reddy supposed that La-
sarre had been down on the lower
St. Lawrence for a year and what
made him think Lazarre waa work
ing for the Mask down there."
"It's the code, of course." Colin
said. "No help asked or wanted
from the police. A rift In a mob la
another story. Annie was Roddy's
alster, and French Fete waa La-
larre'a brother. Roddy's Idea, In the
event of anything happening to him
waa to pus on the torch. He be
lieved that Lazarre would turn
against the Mask to avenge his
brother's murder and the murder of
his brother's wife."
"Chock!" said Sergeant Mulvey.
Colln's brows puckered.
"It's a little difficult to Iron It all
out In Its proper sequence," he said,
"though Reddy explains everything
at length In hla letter as though he
believed that Lazarre was In Igno
rance even of the murders them'
selves.
"That you can readily understand,
because It appears from Reddy't let
ter that Lazarre, as an alibi tor him
sell we can safely say now, dropped
out of sight a month or so before
French Pete waa murdered."
"In other words," observed Ser
geant Mulvey, "Reddy went on the
assumption that Lazarra knew noth
ing at all about anything that had
happened?"
"Yes," said Colin, "even to the ex
tent of Lazarre being unaware that
Reddy knew him to be Louis Mlreau,
French Pete's brother. French Pete
obviously knew It, and hs used to
take Louis, or Lazarre we'll call
him Lazarre hereafter to avoid con
tusion with him frequently to An
nie's flat
"That's how and where, of
course, Lazorre'a Infatuation for An
nie began; but with Annie, we may
be certain, having none of him, and
with French Pete standing always
In the road. Well, French Fete natu
rally enough told Annie, the girl he
was going to marry, whe Lazarre
really was, and In turn Annie con
fided In Reddy, her brother all this,
apparently, without Lazarre being
aware of It."
SERGEANT MULVEY'S eyes were
narrow with Interest.
"Well, go on!" he prompted Impa
tiently. "What did he dot"
"While he was still In stir," Colin
went on, "he got tipped off to the
men who were In the murder car the
night French Pete was put on the
spot. And as soon as be got out he
went to work with that as a starter.
Then overheard conversations
brought this mysterious overlord,
the Mask, Into the picture and defi
nitely linked up the Mask with
French Pete's murder and Annie's
abduction.
"Also one night he overheard one
of these men say that Lazarre was
on the Cap a l'Orage Job, and from
that he concluded that Lazarre like
wise was allied with the Mask and
assumed that Lazarre had been at
Cap a l'Orage all the time sluce he
had left New York.
"That'a about all. He ends by
(lying Lazarra a list of the men he
lias spotted and putting 1 up to La
arra to carry on. I don't know how
tar he got, but he was a lot farther
from the truth than he seemed to
think he was, or, it Is needless to say,
ha would not have written to La-
Barre.
"Somewhere a false step or III
luck exposed him. There's Just one
lining, though, that I must confess I
cannot quite understand."
"What's that?" Inqnlrod Sergeant
Mulvey.
"Why Louis Mlreau assumed the
name of Joe Lasarre."
Sergeant Mulrey smiled grimly,
"I can explain that," he said. "I
Inld you we'd had a pretty busy nlgbt
bf IL That scar oa his shoulder start
ed the ball rolling and Identifies)
him down at headquarters. He bad
a police record that's why he didn't
have his calling cards engraved with
Louis Mlreau on them. See?"
Oh!" Colin nodded. So thafa H,
la nr
Yes," said Sergeant Mulvey. "And
now listen to what wa dug up out
of the tiles. I told you I'd have a word
or two to say when my turn came.
The Mlreau family originally came
from somewhere down on the Gulf
of St Lawrence which probably.
later on, gave Lazarra the Idea of
locating that counterfeit plant there
where Its Isolation made It look sure
fire as far as oafety went, aid the
natural resources made It practical.
He'a about forty years old. When be
was twenty, and that's twenty yeara
ago, he was on the vaudeville stage
and, say, what do you think hla
turn' was? He waa one of those
lightning-change artists an Impersonator."
"The devil he was!" ejaculated
Colin tensely; and then, with a tight
smile: "Well, that explains a lot!"
'Til say it does!" Sergeant Mulvey
laughed harshly. "Just about that
time, however, he got caught at a
pretty dirty bit of blackmailing and
forgery and got two years for K.
When bis term was up ha disap
peared. "TT must have been around then
when he turned himself Into
Keppelateln and started In on hla
own private theatricals at the Wlna
Press, and began to build up hla
mobs, creating a new big ahot out
of himself for each one as It came
along. He was never heard of again
until tonight.
'And It wasn't until about eight
years ago, aa tar aa we're been able
to check up yet, that even Joe La
zarre appeared on the acene by
which time he figured, I guess, that
no one would connect him with
Louis Mlreau unless he himself went
around asking for 1L And nobody
did, eltherl So, aa 1 aald, when he
wasn't playing around aa 'Helmle
Schwann and Buck O'Mara and
suchlike, he waa Joa Lazarre in
stead of Louis Mlreau when his
make-up was oft. That Keppelateln
stunt was a winner.
"He could come and go In any
character the next scene called for,
and make those bops down the Gulf,
obviously Inspection trips from
'headquarters,' whenever he liked
though It'a open and shut that he
alwaya had to go down there as La
zarra on account of It keeping him
so long away from his make-up base.
But I guess you aald It all when you .
made that crack about him getting
to work to ahow Satan how It was
done!" .
Colin waa staring moodily at the
floor. He waa silent for a moment;
then abruptly:
. "Annie was bound to And out the
truth, of course, and there's no
doubt that's why In the end she was
found In the river but I wonder
wbere he took her? He certainly
never lived In a place like the Wine
Press. He must have had quarters
somewhere."
Sergeant Mulvey shrugged hla
shoulders.
"More than one, probably," ha
said. "Helmle Schwann, tor In
stance, no doubt had a swell layout
somewhere. Anyway,' we'll dig that
all out In time, We found some ad
dressee and papers tucked away In
a drawer of that .--volvlng bar,
which latter, by the way, according
to the suddenly awakened memory
of one of the old-timers down at
headquarters, turns out to be noth
ing but another come-on olrcua stunt
that was pulled by the Wine Press
to amuse the clientele at the time
prohibition was In tbe air and every
bady was talking about It only
there wasn't any wardrobe on the
other aide of It then!
"But no matter about that! Be
sides the addresses, we found a list
of the members of the different
mobs. And" Sergeant Mulvey grin
ned suddenly "the laat name on
Buck O'Mara'a list waa Clarkla
Lunn with an '0. K.' after it We've
got a dragnet out now and there
ought to he quite a haul by the time
we're through.
"Kind of makes the take stuff
you') been getting away with In
your books look sick, eh?"
"Yos," said Colin. "And that's an
other thing Reddy waa right about.
Aa a matter of fact, I'm working on
a lova story at the present moment,
and Incidentally" Colin flung a
quizzical glance at Sergenat Mulvey
"I am leaving tomorrow to write
the last chaptera at Cap a l'Orage."
THE END.
fOepytlvlil, !, Jt-mk Is Jsrard
WASHINGTON. Sept. 3t. (AP)
The public works administration to
day allotted $14,800,000 to the court
gusrd for a general atrengthenlng of
the service.
Of this sum ll.8tS.000 wlU be used
for the construction ot 81 seaplanes.
"Coast guard officials," the public
works administrator stated, "said
there will be no decrease in smug
gling activities."
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A drooping elm at Indlanapolla shed
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then grew a second crop of foliage.
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BAN PRANCISCO, Sept. 22 (AP)
The cling peacH control committee
anouaced today c inner are speeding
their pyament to the committee's
fund since the federal government
took decisive action two daya ago to
enforce the lnduatry'i agreement,
payments have climbed from 85 per
cent of the amount due to nearly 00
per cent since action against the
Callstan packers, Inc., was started in
federal court.
A committee statement said the
government's "firm position
Is going a long way toward assuring
prompt payment at the agreement
price to growers for the surplus No.
1 fruit." The agreement prloe la 15
a ton.
The home of former Secretary of
the Treasury Hugh McCulloch, who
served under Lincoln, still stands In
Port Wayne, Ind. '
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HELENA. Mont., Sept. 23 (AP)
While telegrams ana telephone calls
poured Into the Montana executive
offices today with messages of com
mendation on Governor Frank H.
Cooney's gasoline price reduction ulti
matum, the fuel distributors of the
state had not as yet reacted to hla
decree that unless gasoline prices
come down he will take official ac.
tlon to force them lower.
Unless gasoline prices are "very ma
terially reduced," the governor stated.
Montana will go Into the refining and
retail business with $100,000 set aside
for that purpose by the last legisla
ture. '
SALEM. Ore., Sept. 22. (AP) An
enrollment ilcrease of 43 as compar
ed with last year, is shown at Wll.
lament university, the registrars of
fice announced today. Studente en
rolled numbered 466.
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