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CHAPTER X—Continued.
—13—
“It looks like you were guilty from
reading the morning papers,” he an
swered with a grin. “But I don’t be
lieve all I read. They’ve made out a
strong case against you, though.”
"I didn’t do It!” I cried passion
ately.
“If you didn’t, who did?”
“It must have been Mr. Wick.”
“There you go. Jumping at conclus
ions. Why not Claire Bradford?"
“Why do you mention her? Do you
suspect her?”
“If she didn’t do It. why did she
come down here to see you?”
“How did you know she was here?”
“I was watching you all the time
you were talking to her.”
“But how did you know who she
ur»a?“
“1 saw the et^r one this m**rulnd
The* kH* alike.”
“But how did y«*u know which aleiee
N was?”
“T«u dkdu't seoui tu get stood uetl
eMuu<h is )our talk foe m Mi ho thse*
hur% ho a^ewoewd trtfh suufhor grMs
si hud dug iowu esy HMcwtwu iu mo
•uu * eeedk ha him * *Wa#w Brudfwe# •
aauuud •mm au ass ameHUusaa. awe I
«uo Mow hawflMB M fMWfld ho «d ww hs
eehMuuu as g*>w*«o eg ha « % %•*+• i eot
iWMawweawws fiwoi ou*% e Ma^woW •o*
w' whwwa auw* owo mm u wm dhe eat
SMOM UOWW rn^mmwrntmm a# OOWOW ow
adgeduud dhad kud awduodow eaeuu I
hud twow knu mm oBMaowMow kud^w
I «Mkt •# 40# M tm « . * .m «u* «n»<l
plan them. This whole thing is a
big affair, carefully planned out. It
takes more brains than Wick ever
dreamed of having to plant anony
mous notes and terrify people nearly
out of their senses *wlth mysterious
whispers and then to steal tfte Brad
ford papers and the Gaston pearls and
then when things get hot to have you
already framed as the gout to blame
things on.”
“Then you think my discharge from
the office was part of the plot?”
“Sure It was. You butt4fd In on
their blackmail plans, and they want
ed to get square with you. and a young
fellow out of work and discharged In
disgrace is always an easy murk for
suspicion.**
“And was It part of the plot U>
blame klisa Luton's murder on me?*’
“I don't'think so. The Lutaa mur
der was »o arrtdeut. K*en the big-
geut erwuka erlduai ifettheratrly plan
murder. TW} re nil n fra id tb**
rkuftr PK# mane Mi nnd •wrvd»e*t
mwne um# uf IB# fund In * Me l • pun
nwnt. He Mud in ifeuuf Man in uuike
ken dr«ewwf It nnu 1 thuntud
m w iw« <41 • |wn nflee tftn mum^e
I Mi pAnne tkn* dam m fune em isu* Th*«
[ aunt ad seMeweAwd Bukeu kenmn end
IB % Mean 1 d**® * Mews *
'SBhe nine H ihmr*
n 0 *0 dad kn kind * wBkd 4wnnueA
*UwnUAWd wmwis •mm uwiM wwwnwenM
i 'ake Md *unnd akwe ka an**k ad mm mm
I •■■■ edn enanaaneHMM ”
“Vhe •mmmmm—'* I w^annm
iImp *mww mm m Ida nnn nut
•klMnt nMwwt • tnupn * I eeked
ndu t the * wnn nsnldh yww me T" i
*t#% Met he leak N ft* dV****d thdl ‘
f naa dniHy, an I dot fid wf him.
"Well, there aln‘t ntu«4i a lawyer i
could do yet. 1*11 dig up one when |
we need him. fyall la not priaalhle In ;
n murder case, so there is nothing for
you to do hut to sit tight and take It
as easy as you can. By the way, have
you heard anything front old Gaston
since you were arrested?" r*
“Not a word.” 1 answered. “I have
not the least idea where he Is or how
to reach him.”
“Humph, that’s funny.” said Gor
man abstractedly. “Good-by, I’ll see
you again tomorrow.”
He pounded on the cell door, and a
guard released him, leaving me alone
to ponder over my plight, and espe
cially over his last question. What
had he meant by it?
Where was old Rufus Gaston?
Once more suspicion of my aged
relative shot through my brain. Was
It possible that his was the master
mind behind all this plotting? Gor
man had Insisted that the arch crim
inal behind Wick and the others must
he some man of lntell«1. My great-
unci# Rufus had brains Out of a
| clear sky he had summoned me to live
| In th# Grandderk and then had mys
teriously disappeared. Certainly he
had had «*pf*»cinnltlew for knowing
1 W|rh and th# tetephaa# girt. Bar
bar# had recmtlud aac# hating hewf*l
her father •gumk mt him Mi dtemarng
t£tg f MUmI If tNMPf} ft* • rh4B •
i pM^tiag again* the tf #«u and
I hnd kmonBhi am ma* the ran* an a
sraaummM ”
a a# aBd L 4tew iksaSea thu ma** n*
in at
TW truwMM was nm*
lately WltUnai Wltnewaan i Ng M>»ro* I
(is«*•#*'• wherei»h»wits rttll netaaiued |
S n»t«|efV , If we ‘iflnr-mef a Me I
IP Mine, we ttoi’d si l»M*l etplein *al
l*f.M torilt ih% pi-*•*#•♦»*# In <tie (ini*el f
«hM*k • it nil estnl*U*li Mist I **• 1
. I
iiui the fn»iin*i« , >s. |ietiiit|eMs iiigrsnt
they would try to prove me. Th«* S
longer old Rufus remained in hiding,
•the stronger became my sustdeton
that hf might t>e ir %otiu t\a; ltiv.«lved
’iltjltejijlot. His action In keeping his
address a secret from me s«MMiied to
have f been with deliberate Intent.
After some discussion Gorman and
I had agreed not to mention either of
the Bradford girls.
“If one word about either of them
slips out In court,” said Gorman,
“they’ll be in for-lL The papers will
jump to It and print their pictures
and all that. We’d better leave them
out of It”
With this I heartily concurred. I
was determined that Barbara Brad
ford must be In no way Involve,
come what may. 1 knew that she her
self would he apt to he restrained
from attempting to communicate with
me by the fact that her sister’s mar
riage was set for the day after to
morrow. Her loyalty to her family
I was such that she would not risk scan
dal by trying to aid me. at least not
1 until her sister was married and the
future for Claire and her mother aa-
I aured.
Turn small rays of aun«hlne light
ened th# gloom of my cell—th# fact
that the newspaper mention of the
uni MG Dim
ALL HEALED
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ADMINISTRATION FORCKt ARI
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Anti-Wilson Contests Were Swept
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liminaries and prepared to get dowx
to business.
With administration forces eon
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cepting Senator Joseph T. Roblason
oi Arkansas, as Its permanent ehalr
man; permitted states to npset thi
unit rule; provided for taking wo
men on the democratic national com
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ha%r you l.-urii*-*! ut*«*uf hi
(•oriimn «'niiii«-*l at my <
tlgnlng.
“I 4jon*t know much shout him yi-r,
hut I'm sure he’s an t\\-con. While
you wore iu court this rimming,” ho
oxiilainod. ‘*1 W4*nt up to tho Grnmi-
<lo< k to tako a look nt things for my-
solf. Wick showed mo through the
Lutnn apartment, thinking 1 was from
the coroner’s office. 1 spotted him at
once. A crook that has dope time
is always sure to give himself away.”
“How?” I asked.
“Well,” said Gormsiri judicially,
“men's businesses leave their marks
on them. A clergyman don't have to
l>e wearing a high vest for you to spot
him, and nobody ever took a dancing
teacher for a pugilist. A man that has
looked nt ns many cnniks us I have
knows them by Instinct, and then
there 1 * little ways you can tell. As
I was going up to the apartment with
Wick he Just naturally fell Into step
With me. tliowing he had been Used t#
i—rrhlag with other prtwamer*
taihM Mma wfibwai aMMiag Me
Thai • a mmmm mm* TWp Iwarw
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If he tUd inti make (lie ■tateui«#)l di
re**t. shrew4| questioning on the pnrt
of the 4ltatrl4*t atit*rney ctoihl futily
make It M|»|tenr that l.lmd Ju-t left
the Lilian apartment. Ho%\ could we
po—.ihly controvert his testimony?
Then, in addition, there U4*re the
damaging statements that would lie
offered }hy Nellie Kelly. She would
swear that the evening before 1 had
m-ken her out to dinner and had been
questioning her about the other ten
ants in the house. Kven though we-
knew that She was a tool of Wick and
was the wife of Lefty Moore, the bur
glar. unless Gorman was able to dis
cover that she herself had a criminal
record, it seemed utterly hopeless to
attempt to confute her statements.
It would also militate against me
that nt Htc timi*-of v the ttitmler-d wna-
out of a Job and almost without funds.
They were likely, too. to bring out the
fact that I had been discnslltubly
diecharged from the only position I
load held in New York. The only map
who knew anything atarnt th** mutter.
Mr. Wo*n| the heed of the firm, had
been *udd**ul/ railed to Fran*'# In
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In the U-a-t OtMln-bed by iM*»ndal Ik
trying to tleft-ml me. She alocie c«hiI4
prove un alibi for me. but no one
must ever ktrnw it. *
What would m scHodal-lovIng world
say if the fact Itecanie public thet
she liad h*s*n alone with me In my
apartment near midnight? If only by
' the sacrifice of her good name could
I go free, then let me stay in my cell.
Let me even go to the electric eh air.
I would dot have my life at the loae
of my beloved’s reputation.
One other thing I had kept from my
lawyer—my discovery of tlve passage
way between the walls in my gre^j-
uncle’s apartment. If I could not get
Gorman to believe In this secret pass
age. which I was convinced had some
connection with the mysteries and the
\vhisj>erings at the Grunddeck. there
was little likelihood that McGregor
would believe my tale either. Given
one single hour In my quarters at the
Grunddeck and I would have discov
ered whither It led and who used IL
hut 4)tM*# a man is charged with mtir*
der. hie hands are tied It was fu-
HI# for me ta OMratloa It again. #v«a
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Tv ts*» arc »m**snim#nt of applaae# hs
1am a *d th# sorate under repahll
ran leadership for prnr mat I nation 1b
dealing with the treaty and for Its
* rules that a senator can talk to aucb
an extent on any subject that “no
body hut God can atop him ”
The chairman had gotten the ©on
ventlon up to a good pitch by tha*
singe and with perspiration rolling
down his face, from the effort tc
drive his words to the farthest cor
ners of the big building, he leaned
down over the the roped speaker's
Btnnd. *
“It Is to the shame of the senate,'
he shouted. “ that It took a greatei
| time to defeat the treaty than th(
army and navy took to win tke war.’
"And they left the treaty rlgh*
where it was when the Presldehl
brought it hack from Paris.”
Failure of the President to takr
with him to the peace conference
members of the senate had rankled ir
aome senatorial hearts. Senator Rob
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If the President hsd doae so snd th«
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