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| GREEN TEA you have not tasted the best. - Fresh, fragrant and pure. Tryit -_ = Tangled Trails ~--BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE : (Copyright Thomas Allen). CHAPTER XXXIV. clear over against the back of the " FROM THE FIRE ESCAPE. chair. "What did they do then?" "The woman--what was she like?"| "That's where I drop out. Mrs: "She was tall an' thin an' flat-' Hull stepped straight to the window. chested. I didn't know her at the I crouched down back of the railin' time, but it must a' been Hull's wife." It was dark an' she didn't see me. She "You sald you didn't know what pulled the blind down, I waited there time this was," Kirby said. {awhile an' afterward thére was the "No. My old watch had quit doin' sound of a shot. That would be when business an' I hated to spend the they sent the bullet through the old money to get it fixed. The mainspring man's brain," was busted, a jeweler told me." "What did you do?" "Who spoke first after they came! "I didn't know what to do. I'd into the room?" | talked a lot of wild talk about how "Yore uncle, He laid the cigar down ' Cunningham ought to be shot or on the stand an' asked them what they strung up to a pole. If I went to! wanted. He didn't rise from the chair, the police with my story, like enough but. his voice rasped when he spoke. shey'd light on me as the killer. 1| It was the woman answered. She took milled the whole thing over. After a! the lead all through. 'We've come for While I went into a public booth down- a settlement, she said. 'An' we're town an' phonéd to the police. You in' to have it right now.' He stif- recollect maybe the papers spoke ened up at that, He come back at about the man who called up head- her with, 'You can't no shot-gun quarters with the news of Cunning- settlement outa me' Words just ham's death." poured from that woman's mouth, She! 'Yes, I recollect that all right." roasted him to a turn, told how he' Kirby did not smile. He did not ex- was crooked as a dog's hind leg an' plain that he was the man. But he every deal he touched was dirty. Said resolved to find out whether two men he couldn't even be square to his own had notified the police of his uncle's pardners, that he couldn't get a man, death. If not, Olson was lying in at woman, or child in Colorado to say least one detail. He had a suspicion, he'd ever done a good act. Believe that the man had not given him the me, she laid him out proper, an' every whole truth. He was telling part of word of it was true, 'far as I know. iit but he ig holdin bask something, "Well, sir, that sly and furtive look in his eyes of yours never at oid ante ance helped to build this impression in the down in his chair a little 80's he could Mind of the man who listened to the be comfortable while he listened. He 5%T, rinnéd up at her like she was some ind of specimen had brooke loose from a circus an' he was interested in the way it acted. That didn't calm °™ her down none. She rip-r'ared right along, with a stead Tow of words, mostly adjectives. inally she quit, an' she was plumb white with anger. 'Quite through? yore uncle asked with that ice-cold voice of his. She asked him what he intended to do about a settlement. 'Not a thing,' he told her. "I did aim to give Hull two thousand to get rid of him. But I've changed my mind, ma'am. You can go whistle for it.' " . ~--"Pwo thousand! thousand?" Kirby leaned forward eagerly. 1 "That's what he said. +4 thou- * answered Olson. "Then that explains why he drew #0 much from the bank that day." "I had it figured out so. If the wo- man hadn't come at him with that d longue of bers he'd intended to Hull off cheap. But she free °p. He wouldn't stand for her of talk." "What took place then?" the cattle- man questione - without rising from the chair, ngham ordered them to get out. 8 standin' kinda close to him. d his back to me. Cunningham d out an' opened a drawer of the stand beside him. The fat man ok a forward. I could see his gun flash the light. He swung it ; on yore uncle's head an' the old wp ull killed him, after ga." Kirby said, drawing a long th of relief. his surprise when he . Then; to rp thought about it later, a glitter of malicious- cunning lit the eyes of the . "That's what I'm tellin' you. It was I stood there an' saw just what 'Pve been givin' you." "Was my uncle senseless then?" i His head sagged Did he say two t his Tead "You didn't actually see Hull fire the shot that killed my uncle, then?" Olson hesitated, a fraction of a sec- "You don't know that it was he that fired it." "No, it might a' been the woman. But it ain't likely he handed her the gun to do it with, is it? For that matter I don't know that the crack over the head didn't kill Cunningham. Maybe it did." "That's all you saw?" Again the almost imperceptible hesitation. Then, "That's all," the Dry Valley rancher said sullenly. "What kind of a gun was it?" Kirby asked. "Too far away. Couldn't be sure." "Big as a 4567" "Couldn't 'a' been. The evidence |was that it was done with an auto- matic." "The evidence was that the wound in the head was probably made by a bullet from an automatic. We're talkin' now about the blow on 'the ad, "What are you drivin' at?" the rancher asked, scowling. "He wouldn't {bring two different kinds of gun with him." That a cinch," |" "No; but we haven't proved yet he fired the shot you heard later. The chances are all that he did, but legal- ly we have no evidence that somebody else didn't do it." "I guess a jury would be satisfied he fired it all right." "Probably. It looks bad for Hull. Don't you think you ought to go to the police with your story? Then we can have Hull arrested. They'll give him the third degree. My opinion is he'll break ddwn under i and con- ess.' | Olson consented with obvious relue- tance, but he made a condition preced- ent to his acceptance. "Le's see'Hull first, just you 'n' me. I ain't strong for the police. We'll go to them when we've got an open an' shut case." Kirby considered. This story didn't wholly fit the facts as he knew them. items teeth, sweetens breath and 1's the goody For t , there was no explana- tion in it of how the room where Cua- ningham was found murdered had be- come saturated with the odor of chloroform. Nor was it in character that Hull should risk firing a gun, the sound of which might bring detection on him, while his victim lay helpless before him. Another blow or two on the skull would have served his pur- pose noiselessly. The cattleman knew from his observation of this things. Perhaps it would be better to wait aol the Jithealties vo] been smoot! out before ' g to thenn "That suits me," fo said, "We'll tackle Hull when his wife isn't ¥ him. He goes downtown. 7 3 about ten o'clock. We'll pick him up in a taxi, run him out into the coun- try somewhere, dn' put him over the j . The sooner the quicker. How to-morrow morning?" ite me, too. But will he go with us WE RO Tei "He'll go with us" Kirby ietly. ; A 5 § suse that! --|the authorities had a way o pai that 'had been was a loop. H ya ie Tight. e ly round bis Piond once or ties to fool the eight of it. ne Tope nak orward ani 00! Bpon the stone A, iy oy ced when he had b ~~ exam! the exteriors of the buiwings wiui Cole Sanborn. It tightened when he gave a {or irby climbed over the railing and! swung himself lightly out into space. A moment, and he was swaying beside the fire escape of the Paradox. He caught the iron rail and pulled him- self to the platform. By chance the blind was down. There was no light within, but after his eyes had become used to the dark- ness he tried to take a squint at the room from the sides of the blind. The shade hung an inch or two from the window frame, so that by holding his gfe close he could Bet more than a glimpse of the interior. (To be continued.) 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