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SERIAL STORY MURDER IN FERRY COMMAND BY A. W. O'BRIEN ' tii 10 UTonvi oio irnnn. Canadian lntrlllarnr Ilrparl mral, la on Ibe frail af aplra oprrallna niralnat th II. A. K. llombcr lrrr Command In fcw ffiunitlnnd, llnr of th ftnl hna ' barn hanired for murder. I'uran InR a clew, DnnHin narrowly aarnpea murdrr aboard a Iraln. I nm, on a boat to Canada, he 1 ftada a box rontalnlnir one of toa featured man'a handa Ik hla tateroom. A CLEVER TRAP CHAPTER JV TT all seemed like a chapter out of "Dracula" or a cheap hor ror movie. But the awful thing lying in the box was undeniably the right hand chopped off Lemoy Suuler's body. The stump indt- cated a clean hard blow, as witli sharp ax. Using a towel, Dawson picked the hand out of the box and turned It around slowly. There was some thing odd in its shape that sug gested , . . that's it . . . the fingers had been straightened out! When Statlcr was hanged his hands had ' clenched during the terrible drop. Rigor mortis had almost cemented the man's hands in that shape. ' Just what purpose lay behind this ghoulish act? Wh had the hand been hacked off Statler's body in the first place? It must have been done within the last 36 hours because Dawson, after ordering Statler's body kept in re frigeration pending further inves tigation, had finally released it for burial only two mornings ago. . . a fpHE captain inspected his cre dentials and Dawson explained what he wanted, without men ' tioning the hand episode. In two minutes the purser had brought, the long sheets in on which are compiled all data on the passen gers. ; "As I understand it, sir," the ' purser repeated, "you are seeking a man who came from St John's on the same train. There are many, of course, but you want to try weeding them down to the ' most likely prospects. That should: be fairly easy because there are only 123 passengers aboard, and 42 are Canadian or American mili- tary, naval and air force men. i Each section has one officer in ' charge who can tell about his T men ..." ! "Good," exclaimed Dawson. i -"Let's start from there!" v ' One by one the officers were ? ' asked to report and each vouched f for his men personally. That cut f the cumber of prospects to 81, ' Bit by bit, they eliminated many ,. others. ; "That brings us down to 15," calculated Dawson. "Now I have reason to suspect that the party ' I seek would, like Garbo, want to , be alone because ot certain items' of baggage and odd jobs he may want to do aboard. How many of the 15 have separate cabins?" : ' The purser checked over the ::. list carefully. "Only four and here they are, sir." V "That's swell," he said at length. , "Now we'll have to exercise cau tion in the morning because false arrest is still a serious offense in ' Canada. Mr. Purser, you will do the . Intelligence Department a great favor if you ask one trusted !' room steward to inspect all four cabins with utmost care in the . morning as soon as their occupants . leave to pass immigration at North Sydney, and report anything they Bee or find, no matter how slight, to me. For instance, I am par ticularly interested in any pieces iof brown wrapping paper or cord. (Meanwhile, I'll have the immigra ' Ition officials hold up the men un : ider some pretext. And you re alize, of course, the need for ut most secrecy?" . . Both captain and purser nodded. 'It was almost 5 a. m. before jDawson returned to his cabin. But . ihe didn't sleep. Switching off the 'lights and slipping his revolver into a bathrobe pocket, he climbed into an upper bunk. a - QAWSON must have dozed be cause some noise awakened him, followed by the cabin lights being turned on. Automatically his hand closed on his revolver, but he laughed outright as his room steward entered with a cup ot steaming coffee, looking in frank amazement at the unoccu pied lower bunks and the cabin's lone occupant lying dressed in an upper one. "Don't get the wrong idea, steward," he said, climbing down to the floor. "I didn't have one too many last night and I'm not eccentric ... I just'flnd it healthier to sleep in uppers at times." Dawson was in the captain's cabin when the Canadian immi gration men came aboard at the Cape Breton Island port in Nova Scotia. He knew both and gave them the names of the four men he wanted delayed under "any pretext." They agreed. The purser entered with a stew ard who was carrying several towels badly smeared with what looked like black ink. ''Here's the only curious item we have found, Mr. Dawson in Cabin 14 on A Deck the passenger seemed to have had an unusual amount of trouble with his foun tain pen. Either that or he spilled a full bottle of very thick ink. His name is Paul Dcxcl witli ad dress . . ." The investigator hit the table with his fist: "Never mind, I know all that . i . you've solved a riddle for me.'" Tossing a bill on the table he hurried down to his cabin and reopened the parcel containing Lemoy Statler's hand. Turning it palm up he studiously inspected the fingertips under the glare of a small searchlight. "Thai's it!" ho muttered In satis fied manner. "Every fingertip has minute traces of ink. The hand was taken off to secure Statler's Iflngerprints for some identification ipurpose. The man who entered tha cemetery vault found that the (hands were too rigidly clenched to get good prints. So rather than risk detection he simply chopped off on hand and took it With him to straighten out the lingers." A steward entered with a note from one of the immigration men: "Dawson You had better get go ing on whatever you plan. One of the four you asked to be delayed ia raising hull and I can't lie much longer. His name is Paul Dcxel." Dawson found his man in tho lounge loudly berating the immi gration official. , Dcxel was about 5 feet 11 inches, athletic in build and blond. He appeared to bo in his mid-thirties. "Pardon me, Mr. Dcxel," Daw son interrupted, "I'm a Dominion Government Intelligence officer and the delay is my fault. A slight irregularity has been noted in your passport and 1 must bring you up to our local bureau for questioning." Dexel was already wearing his hat and coat. The two walked down the gangplank, through the shed and out to the street. Dawson turned into a narrow ' path through the snow. He could they turned around the back of a building which was obscured from the street by a billboard. Suddenly, Dawson's straining cars noted a change in the rhythm of the steps behind. Wheeling away like a flash, he pivoted on his right foot and grabbed Dexel's right wrist in his own right hand a knife glistened in the sun. Swinging around, weight balanced on right, Dawson took advantage of the attacker's forward lurch and threw him by bringing down hi? own left arm on Dcxcl's right shoulder. Switching quickly he slashed with his right fist, square ly on the other's downturned jaw. Dexel rolled over on one side into the snow as Dawson's hand cuffs clicked. That's elementary Jlu-Jltsu, friend," panted Dawson. "Now, if you don't mind, Mr. Ghoul Dexel, I'll toss you in clink and have you investigated by another agent while 1 buzz off to Chicago. Some how, I've got a hunch you don't want me to go mere!" . (To Be Continued) STERLING CHARACTER KANSAS CITY (P) Gust Portias, a restaurant employe, said the dog bit him. But char acter witnesses said the pet just wasn't that kind of a dog. 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