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i SrTCTVFOTlT) fATL TT7rnTTNT:, 'M'ETVPO'R'O, (TRF-flOy. TTESDAT. SEPTEfBEH 20, 1933. . ,n I By MAX SALTM ARSH The Characlert Ruro Stern, handiomt author, liuinfl on tht French Riviera. Archie Lamiden, myself. Hu go't friend. Otlllle Willi, American heireif, whose tUter was murdered. Tetterdiy: We brinj Oltilie to the villa and find Dunning there. She rune into hie arm, sobbing. Chapter 18 Tbo Big Swindle HE held her as he would a child. n patting her shoulder with a Clumsy tenderness, mere, inerm he soothed her. "That's the girll Cry it out, honey I Sure I've heard about it all, but only yesterday." He stared across her bowed head at Hueo. with somber indignation "Mr. Stern," he said, "was this necessary? Couldn't you have left the telling to someone nearer nerr It's cruel to get news like that from a stranger. Hugo shrugged, his face a dusky red: but colore ne coiua answer, Ada provided a diversion. She had1 been standing stannx irom one to anotne o: us. ner eyes round ana Ltartled: but now she caught her brothers arm. "Hugo," she said, In an all too audible wnisper, wno is tnis giru Brie s line Hugo laid one brown, muscular hand across her mouth. "Ada, my dear." he said, "this young lady is Miss Ottilie Wills. She hac come here to have tea with us, but she has lust received some rather dis turbing news, and I think she would like to be alone for a 'ev minutes. If you'll have tea ready for us on the terrace in half an hour, 1 think everything will be tpflinhlonn hu than" Ada went reluctantly. "See here now, Ottilie," Dun ning was saying. "Look things in the face, like a good girl, and show your grit. You're not helping Me- lanie any by crying yoursen sick The chestnut head shook vio lently; a mumed sob was the only answer. Hugo poured out a stiff tot of brandy, laid his hand on one limp, dark-blue shoulder, and hook it. "Here. to, thatl" he said harshly. "Drink this up at oncel" She lifted her head, drowned dark eyes stared at him resent fully. "I can't," she said, in a voice between a sob and a choke. "Go away leave me alone, can't you?" "If you haven't drunk it in one minute," said Hugo, "I'll force it down your throat." A sudden flash of anger sparkled through the tears, but she drained It at a gulp. Hugo sighed and dropped Into the nearest chair, like a man sud denly tired. "If you feel able," he luggested, "we might begin our discussion." The girl disengaged herself and crossed to an old, gilt-framed mir ror., exclaiming at sight of her tear-stained face. Whether as a re mit of the brandy or her sudden flare of anger, she vr.i. completely restored to self -ontrol. and she aven achieved a wry sideways smile at r ;s she parsed. ADblving a nowder juff with vigor, she whispered to ne, "May Heaven help the woman he mar ries!" She perched herself on the arm of Dunning's chair ano laid a hand on his knee, which he covered in stantly with one big paw. "Just how much have you told them. Ottilie?" he queried gently. "Nothing that matters," she laid. "Only how Sis ran away from home and Pat came over to And her. Oh, Cuthbert. have you heard about Pat too?" "Sure, sure." he soothed her. "But how much do you wish we ihould tell them?" 1 suddenly realized with dis.nay that the weapon we had proposed to use for bargaining was at that moment lying, presumably, in the big man's pocket; and that, as he had unquestionably read It, Its market value was now precsely nil. From the look on Hugo's face. I fancied the sime thought had occurred to him. tion. Ottilie, that letter was loaned to me by Mr. Lumsden this morn ing. I came here for the purpose ot giving it back to him, but I must tell him, and you too, that its con tents are ineradicably engraved on my memory. You don't have to give away a thing unless you want to." In her turn she looked from one to the other of us, with dark eyes that were wide and questioning and considering. Then very quiet ly she folded her hands In-her lap and sat upright. "You know, Cuthbert," she said, "1 think we'd be wise to trust them. I believe they could help us a lot." "Well," he drawled, "it's a strange thing, but I have the same impression; only this time, gentle men, it must be agreed that all the cards are on the table. Is it a jar gain?" "It's a bargain, said Hugo dryly- Mr. Dunning crossed to the empty hearth, stood p with hi: back to it, and looked down on ut with a large benevolence. "Well," he said, "1 guess it's ur to me to start the ball rolling, but to do that I've got to go 'way lark to a certain night in Prague, three and a half years ago, when Dr. Raditch. Vice-President of the Czechoslovak Republic, was shot down and killed as he left the opera-house. The shooting caused a flutter in the chancelleries of Europe, and an almighty slump in international securities. He beamed at us with the com placency of a conjurer who has produced a particularly fine rab bit "An interesting situation?" he commented. "The most interesting bit of it was the amount of in surance against just such a fatal ity that was collected by a number of innocuous people in various fiarts of the world. Gentlemen, hat was the iieginning o' what, from now on, we will call the Big Swindle. And here's the continua tion of it, right up to date " Then he protverr to spin the queerest yarn that I had ever heard. Cnrds ()n The Table - "nEFORE we go any farther," - Hugo broke In sharplv. "I Ihould like to know Mr. Dunning's exact status. I understood he was a Journalist." The girl gave a little breathless chuckle. "Oh, Cuthbertl" she said. "You've never been pulling that gag again? Gentlemen, I assure you that Mr. Dunning is no jour nalist. He's a detective In fact, he was Uncli Virgoe's bodyguard, 'way back before 1 was born. Then, when he got tired of work ing for hire, he quit and founded the Dunning Detective Agency in New York " "With branches In St. Louis, Chicago, and San Francisco." out In her subject dryly. "Don't vou So leaving out mv background Ittilie" "And it's like this, Cuthbert." the sir) went on. "this gentleman. Mr. Lumsden. has a letter from Sis, written just before just be fore her death, that he's promised to ,how me if 1 tell him- -things " Mr. Dunning looked from Hugo to me with a grim little mile "I'm sorry, gentlemen." he said, "but all's fair in love and detec- ' Foretelling The Future THE assassination of Raditch, he said, was the first of a series of strange fatalities, involving men of every conceivable nation ality and calling, but. in each case, men of such outstanding impor tance in commerce, finance, or pol itics, that their sudden demise caused a considerable slump or panic in their particular sphere of activity: and in each case. It was subsequently discovered, Ihe pos sibility of their deaths had been neavny covered with a number or insurance policies, taken out by a variety of seemingly unconnected people In all quarters of the globe. There had been longish inter vals between the first three or four deaths, but latterly they had fol lowed each other thick and fast But nobody ever dreamed of trac ing any connection between the various deaths. The men involved were of such widely different races and pro fessions, their deaths were so easily and naturally explained in the case of accidents, the acci dents were such as might have haonened to anvbodv: where mur der or assassination were Involved, the killer either escaped or. when caught was found to nave a legiti mate political or personal griev ance against his victim that no one. Dunning said, smelled a rat. The people taking out the pol icies were so completely uncon nected and so widely scattered that the most fantastic flight of fancy could not have imagined a connection between any two of them; but and here was the one weak link in the chain although the insurance companies involved were seemingly as unconnected as the policy-holders, they were ac tually bound together by the vast, . impalpable spidpr's web that holds together world finance, for over a certain sum the bulk of their lia bilities was carried either by Lloyd's, the Bureau Veritas of France, or the American Bureau. One day, by fortuitous t. inci dence a gentleman, Edward Poc kett by name and a Lloyd's under writer by profession, took his sum mer holiday in the south of France and there n.ade casua' acquain tance with an elderly Frenchman. They had been discussing Ihe news of the day. the main items of which hannenpd to be the sudden deaths of two prominent men. One of these, a middle-Europe railway magnate, had come to his end by a fall from an aeroplane, ihe other, the President of a South American republic, had met with an even more natural and under standable death, for he had been shot down in the course of a revo lution. But said the elderly French man, the point which interested him was this: In the current num ber of a certain small almanac, the Grtmoire astrolopiqtie. published somewhere on the Cote d'Aiut and purporting in Its crude, un lettered way. to foretell the future both these fatalities had been TP dieted, not only with unrannv ac curacy of detail, but actually in the very months in which they had subsequently occurred. 'CoevHoM JIJI. Unw Stiltmnrtk) Monday: Marked for murder. KEY 10 WAREHOUSE PEACE SAN KHANCIHCO. Sept. 30.-4,4. Harry nriiliica, president of the CIO LotiftAhorrinrn and Warrhouarmfn'a union, left Prattle by plane today to mrrt hrr with warehouse employer In nn effort to nettle the lie-ip of 130 buy area wnrehnuM'a. while neac hopes in the big department torr strike were pinned on a meeting Wed nesday. Urititra was expected to arrive t I :&0 p. m. with the meeting set 01 3 p. m. rl'ST ) The stnityy committee of the A aorlntlon of Han PrancUco Distribu tor n, employer firmip, met to prepare for the parley with Bridges, but a apokrnman taid they would not re cede from thetr demand for a master contract, crucial tasiio of the atru Kle. The peace meeting was at Bridges' Invention. Though unionists have rejects several distributor offers, chimin they all provided the warehousemen sign a contract covering the out ire Industry with single expiration date, Bridge exprwisrd the opm'un the matter could be settled by compromise. Hre lighter Hurt Volney 8 (Vlen of Trail wm brought to Med ford today for treat ment of an Injury he suffered while helping to mop up the 600-acre Trail forest tin. His Injury wa considered not serious. Oden w.is hurt this morning when a limb of a dead tw he was felling flew off and hit him In the right iirm and side. A pound of sap dissolved in a gal lon of hot water and Added to nve gallons of whttemrtMi will give the whitewash a glossy appearance. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, tncloatsf stamped envelop tor reply. Bf- V. S. Pat Oft A9 W GftRtftHO- l; Neufyt City, OVER 108,000 MlcS" WITHOUT 60IN6 ANYMIRE we opeRftfes an eievtifoR HoTU. n vii 'J ' 7 Joy wswitv- North western . Univeteifif co-ed, Wf chosen BBMTQUEEH Of CHICAGO UHlVERTy' or MiZTfiKcf GoTlHE VJRoNS PICTURE ?38 THERE ARE No PolhR 3SAR5 AT THE south pole, T i, h" J-0 t Wt B3N 'of 'Morion, 'XIA "- s, Sottish MfcirtN" GmUoTiNg inTo SCoUbHD- 1 : J Mm THEN 3ECMZ. THE yfr '3 liik FINISHING By GLUYAS WILLIAMS The Scottish Mi. I ilc n Direct ancestor of all sovereigns of England since 1603 was Lord Henry Stuart Darnley. second husband of Mary, Queen of Scat, end father of James I. His mother. Lady Margaret Doug las, had arranged his marriage to Mary In hope that Dnrnley might become king of England on the death of Elisabeth. However, court Intrigue and marital trouble foiled Darnley's plana, and In 1567 he learned of a plot to assassinate him. In Edinburgh, a house at which he had stopped waa blown up; his body was found some distance away with evidence of death by strangu lation. One of the men Implicated In his death was Ja mes Douglas, Fourth Earl of Morton and one-time Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. Douglas, In 1574. had Introduced into Scotland from Halifax, England, an enly form of guillotine known as "The Maiden,", for use against Scot t'.5h nobility. Strange as It seems, this same ma chine was first used in Scotland to behead the Earl of Morton himself on June 3, 1581, when he was con demned for taking part in the Darn ley murder. Elevator Traveler Strange ax It seems. Barney Gar land, elevator operator at the Wal-dorf-AMoria. New York, has traveled over 408.000 miles without leaving the building. Garland has worked 8 hours a day for 312 days of the year since 1902. He averages 40 complete up and down trips daily. 600 feet to a trip, mak ing a total of 2.156.544iO00 feet or 408.436 miles, a distance more than 16 times around the equator. Tomorrow: Who was the first wo man to preside over the U. S. senate? Fish Hauls Perllne ASTORIA, Ore., Sept, 20. (AP Hauls declined on the Columbia river today after excellent catches Satur day, the first day of commercial fishing since the conclusion of a tie- up over prices. Revoke 93 LI rentes SALEM. Sept. 20. ,7P Convictions t traffic charges h Oregon lsst month totaled 842. while 03 drivers had their licenses revoked or surren dered. Secretary of State Earl Snell said today. Decision Today SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 30. (API Underwriters will determine today If (he coastwise freighter Dorothy Whi te rmote. hard aground near Point Arena, can be floated. Freshman Drowns. THE DALLES, Sept. 20. (API Frank Clopton, 60, Umatilla tndUn fisherman, fell from a rock near Cel llo yesterday, becamu entangled In his dJpnet and drowned The body was recovered. On Motorcycle 23 Years EL PASO, Tex. (UP) Millard F. Scherer, county highway patrolman, claims the worlds record for years worked steadily as a motorcvcle of ficer. Forty-eight years old, he has spent 23 years on a motorcycle, pa trollng El Paso county and city. WIUlArrS WHITE BLAHC WTTH P)WK SAUCE APPEfflfc TOR DE5- PERS-fOMCflHCTDOESHE HAVE TO EAT ArW ? 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