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Newspaper Page TextSERIAL STORY MURDER IN FERRY COMMAND BY A. W. O'BRIEN TRAGIC NEWS CHAPTER XIII TKl tlire days Circle JTlske'f neap to St. John's wr hs longest Clyda Dawson had ever known. A blizzard was rolling In over northeastern New foundland and it was already "celling zero" at the airport where lit must land. Shortly after 3:30 in the morn ing ot the fourth day, the tele phone awakened Dawson. An Eastern Air Command officer in formed him crisply that the weather was clearing and a plane was ready to take off. By noon Dawson was Interview ing the veteran captain in com mand of the St. John's port. The officer's face was grim. "The Tort Glengarry was tor pedoed off Cape Race, Newfound land, two nights ego!" Dawson grasped the arms of his chair, his knuckles showing white. "Are there any survivors re ported?" His voice sounded strange to his own ears. "Yes, but not many. There was only one woman, in fact a ma jor's wife en route to join her husband here." ' A numbing sensation of tragedy enveloped Dawson as he rose, with a mumbled word ot thanks, and left the office. If only he had revealed his Identity sooner, Carole Fiske would not have continued to Newfoundland on her pathetic search for Darwin Lemoy and her brother. It was useless for Daw son to argue that Carole's actions una left him Uo other choice than to regard her as an enemy agent. Somehow he should have gleaned some inkling of the facts before Paul Dexel, in his confession, had : disclosed that Bernard Skrol really Bernard Fiske was Car ole's brother and the Dexels were her half-brothers. rFHE mother was German and had married twice. Her first husband, father of the Dexels, had died shortly after coming to ins vmiea oiaies xrum vjtri limn v. Her second husband, Fiske, was of German-American stock. The two Dexel boys and Ber nard Fiske had become enthusias tice Bund members in Chicago. With the outbreak of the war broad, the girl repeatedly pro tested to them about their con tinuing Bund activities. When her brother Bernard enlisted and went to Newfoundland her letters to him were returned, and she sus pected he had enlisted under a feUe name-That -was whv- she had not been notified of his death. i The Dexels were certain she would not betray them to the iauthorlties for two reasons. One was that she would incriminate 'her brother. But a still better reason was Darwin Lemoy. She had met Darwin while he was still a college student in Chi- cago. There were Advanced Thinker groups formed in college circles as a part of Nazi strategy and Darwin had been enticed into attending the one organized by the Dexels. " Darwin and Carole Fiske grew friendly. In those careless days ot peace his Bund-inspired, pro Nazi views didn't affect their re lationship. When Darwin went abroad to play hockey for the Czechoslovakia!! team in 1935, let ters to influential persons had re sulted in an invitation for him to enjoy a carefully directed tour of Germany at the expense of the Helen. He returned to the United States an admirer ot Hitler. However, the invasion of Po land and the temporary liaison of Germany and Russia had a shattering effect on Darwin's be liefs. This became more notice able as America drifted steadily toward the brink of war. His change of heart became known to the Dexels and many stormy scenes developed when Darwin asserted their first duty was to America. As the lend-lease nrocrram sot bombers flowing in increasing numoer to Britain, a secret Nazi- controlled system was devised to secure all possible data on planes and weather through a chain oi reporting posts. Darwin was in on the preliminary planning, bul later teoeued. Carole Fiske had appealed to uarwin to save her brother from being drawn deeper into the spy ring, ina ucxels knew this, Paul 1 revealed, and shadowed her to an airport where she was seen pidding farewell to Darwin. They then lost track of him until a coded cable from Pvt. Bernard riske, alias Skrol, told Darwin was in St, John's and had already been talking to him along lines definitely opposed to men: "work." Paul Dexel had rushed to St. John's and arrived the day after the murders. Darwin had found Fiske was cultivating the friend ship of a Ferry Command official in an important post. When ap proached by Darwin, Fiske boldly admitted no was alter some tech nical data that the official had. Fiske told all this to Paul Dexel upon the Iatter's arrival. That night Dexel trailed the Ferry Command official and Fiske to the speakeasy and was amazed to see Darwin Lemoy slip in after the pair. Obviously Lemoy was shadowing them without seeing Dexel on the same mission. In his confession Dexel stated that Darwin could not have been mora than halfway up the stairs when a shot sounded from a sec ond floor room. A moment later he saw two figures whom he identified as Darwin and Fiske struggling against the drawn shade. Another shot was heard and Fiske dropped. THE rest Dawson knew aireaay. ' Darwin had run from the speakeasy Into the arms of a constable. On him was found the COPYftiaHT. 1941. NIA tlltvici, INC gun that had killed Uie two, and the official's wallet. In face ot other disclosures it was evident to Dawson that Darwin had in tended returning the plans to the Ferry Command, and that he pocketed the gun which Dexel had given Fiske to clear Carole's brother of a murder-suicide stigma. In view of all tills there was only one courso for Darwin Le moy to follow on being captured absolute silence. Otherwise the whole story would come out, In cluding his own association with the ring. Back in Chicago, consternation had followed the discovery that the highly secret filing cabinet had been tampered with. A fin gerprint was found, and it was decided to investigate the spy ring personnel to find its owner. Dexel was ordered to secure a set of Lemoy's prints, but his only opportunity came after the hanging, when the body went. to the vault He had to work fast, and he found it impossible to un bend the fingers and work in the cramped, ghostly quarters. So he hacked off the hand. But, as Daw son had deduced, Dexel had been forced to hurry off when the in vestigator left St. John's suddenly. Back in Chicago, John Dexel hadn't dared tell Carole Fiske about her brother and Darwin Lemoy. It she had known that Bernard was dead and Danvin was in prison awaiting execution, she might have confessed every thing in the hope of getting Dar win off with a jail sentence. So, to explain Darwin's silence, John had faked a story that Darwin had killed Paul Dexel in an argu ment over the spy ring and was hiding from the police. There it was, a superb case, thoroughly ironed out, Dawson had started with a snapshot ot a girl and a piece of beefsteak on a hanged man's heel, and un covered a major spy ring. But there was no satisfaction now. (To Be Concluded) THIS CURIOUS WORLD HUMAN BLOOD TKAMSFUSEO .INTO ANY AKIIAAL. 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