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'THE STORY THUS FAR: The Jewel case was most Vance. It had eva THORS hati - steel chise! after unsuccessfully bein, with a poker, and it was foun iy room With ee murdered Mar- Ddell patgmoeode bad gone out a her the evening of the dar When he left her he told Jessup, at the switchboard, to call a cab. They rd a scream from her room, but when they reached the door were told everything was all right. The next morning she had been found strangled, Vance believes another man was in the ment beside the murderer and at he hid in the clothes closet. In- vestigation discloses that Cleaver had seen with her a lot and he is brought in for questioning. CHAPTER XVII "1 can eliminate myself easily enough," Cleaver proclaimed, with easy confidence. "There's a speeding summons from Boonton, New Jersey. Note the date and the time: Septem- ber the 10th--last night--at half past eleven, Was driving. down.to Hopat- cong, and was ticketed by a motor- cycle cop just as I had passed Boon- ton and was heading for Mountain Lakes, Got to appear in court there tomorrow morning. . Damn nuisance, these country constables." He gave Markhem a long, caleulat- ing look. "You couldn't square it for me, could you? It's a rettep ride to Jersey, and I've got a lot to do to- morrow." Markham, who had inspected the summons casually, put it in his pocket. "I'll attend to it for you," he prom- ised, smiling amiably. "Now tell me what you know." Cleaver puffer meditatively on his cigar. Then, leaning back and cross- ing his knees, be spoké with apparent candor, "I doubt if I know much that'll help you. . , . I liked the Canary, as she was called--in fact, was pretty much attached to her at one time. Did a number of foolish things; wrote her a lot of damn-fool letters when I went to Cuba last year. Even had my pic- ture taken with her down at Atlantic City." He made a self-condemnatory grim- ace. "Then she began to get cool and - distant; broke several appointments with me. I raised the devil with her, but the only answer I got was a de- mand for money. . , ." He stopped and looked down at his eigar ash, A venomous hatred gleam- ed from his narrowed eyes, and the muscles of his jowls hardened. "No use lying about it. She had those Jetters and things, and she touched me for a neat little sum before I got 'em back..." "When was iis?" There was a momentary hesitation. "Last June," Cleaver replied. Then he hurred on: "Mr, Markham"--his squeezed, plenty--he told me about it." | any of these other men?" asked Mark Mannix episode " #No, I couldn't." to me." "I suppose the Mannix affair is dead and buried by this time?" things to them that shexdid to me." times dictated by policy and expedi ency. Markham studied him closely. part of some disillusioned admirer?" Cleaver carefully answer, "She was riding for a fall." Markham asked: man she was blue eyes--named Skeel?" Cleaver snorted derisively. "That wasn't the as I know." proached Cleaver, and bowed, where he'd gone." "How woul I know?" his calle." gets back." of murder, Jouve seen her with--tall, describing Spotswood . "That's the man," Mouquin's." | Markham was disappointed. | "Unfortunately, he's checked off the Jist: . . But there must be somebody who was in the girl's confidence. rains to any advantage?" | Cleaver appeared to think. "1% it's merely a question of some y confidence," he said, Lindquist-- first name's Ambroise, I think; and 0 Forties near n't now ns timer e who had her 'might suggest Doctor somewhere in the voice was bitter--"1 don't want to throw mud on a dead person; but that woman was the shrewdest, coldest. blooded blackmailer it's ever been my misfortune to meet, And I'll say this, too: 1 wasn't the only easy mark she She had others on her string. . . . I happen to know she-once dug into old Louey Mannix for a "Could you give me the names of Cleaver spoke re- gretfully. "T've seen the Canary here and there with different men; and there's one in particular I've noticed lately. But they were all strangers "Yes--ancient history, * You won't get any line on the situation from that angle. But there are others--more re- cent than Mannix--who might bear looking into, if you could find them. I'm easy-going myself; take things as they come. But there's a lot of men who'd go red-headed if she did the Cleaver, despite his confession, did, not strike me as easy-going, but rather as a cold, self-contained, nerveless person whose immobility was at all "You think, then, her death may have been due to vengeance on the considered his , "Seems reasonable," he said finally. Thero was a short silence; then "Do you happen to know of a young interested in--good- looking, small, blond mustache, light anary's specialty --she let the young ones alone, as far At this moment =a "page-hoy ap- "Sorry to disturb you, sir, but there's a phone call for your brother. Party sald.it was important and, as your brother isn't in the club now, the operator thought you might know fumed Cleaver. "Don't ever bother me with "Your brother in the city?" asked Markham casually, "I met him years[ ago, He's a San Franciscan, isn't he?" "Yeg--rabid Californian, He's visit- ing New York for a couple of weeks go he'll appreciate Frisco when he It seemed to me that this informa- tion was given reluctantly; and I got the impression that Cleaver, for dome reason, was annoyed. But Mark- ham, apparently, was too absorbed in [the problem before him to take notice e other's disgruntled air, for he reverted at once t¢ the subject of the "I happen to know one man who has been interested in the Odell woman yecently; he may be the same one about orty-five and wears a gray close cropped mustache." (He was, I knew, 6. averred Cleaver. "Saw them together only last week at Cleaver rose to go. "Sorry 1 coukin't give you more help," he said. His rubicund face was beam hand "You wrangled that viscid old sport rather cleverly dop't y' know," re- marked Vand, when Cleaver had gone. "But there's something deuced queer about him. The transition from His gambler's glassy stare to hie garrulous confidences was too sudden ham, attempting to dissemble his | suspiciously sudden, in fact. I may eagerness. "I've already heard of the be evil-nminded, but he didn't impress 'me as a luminous pillar of truth. Maybe it's because 1 don't like those cold, boiled eyes of his--somehow they didn't harmonize with his gushing imi- tation of open-hearted frankness." "We can allow him something for his embarrassing position," suggested Markham charitably. "It isn't exact- ly pleasant te admit having been taken in and blackmailed by a charm- er." . "Still, if he got hir letters back in June, why did he continue payy court to the lady? Heath repor he was active in that sector right up to the end." "He may be the complete amorist," smiled Markham. "At any rate, he gave us; in Doctor Lindquist, a pos- sible source of infermation." "Quite wo," agreed Vance. "And that's about the enly peint of his whole passionate unfoldment that I- par- ticularly 'put any stock im, because it was the only point he indicated with any decent reticence. . . . My advice is that you interview this doctor with- out further delay." "I'm dog-tired," objected Markham. "Let it wait till tomorrow." 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PETER HEENAN Minister Pa ccm x 2 Address ACKED BY THE WHOLE DOMINION hh Ad dd dd 2 2 a -- | trom po free hand in a arn her ie of favoring foreign exploitation country, #3 he Queen Proves Difficult ~~ a little difficult. As a gen- Suprese leaves most of the gov. ven i gove eral 'rule she =| erning to him, but when a me | for bettering industrial conditions is to be considered she strives to keep him from breaking too far away from the traditions which the Copts con= sider so essential even in the twen- tieth century. Ras Tafari, a modern in his ideas, considers it better to give conces- sions to foreign companies than have the country remain undeveloped com: mercially. Court circles now accuse the eme press of favoring - Catholic missions, which have done much toward educat- | ing the people, who up to the time of their i were illiterate. Few could even read or write. The Coptie priesthood encouraged this condition, as their power over the masses wai greater. o Victim of Intrigue The Catholic Missions, on the other hand, founded trade schools where the natives are taught to use their hands skilfully. Both Ras Tafari and the empress appreciated this work, and gave evidence of their interest. This is not the first time that the empress has been the victim of court intrigute, = After- the: death of Mene-.. | 1ik, the great emperor, who converted the six - independent kingdoms of J Abyssinia into a powerful state, his widow Taitu, was driven into retire: ment, Lej Yasu, his grandson, was proclaimed king. He misgoverned for nine years when Zauditl was pro- claimed empress, Court intrigue had prevented her succeesing to ber fath- .| er's heritage ,and even after her coro- nation they plotted for her overthrow. This rumor is another effort on their part to drive her from. puhlic Nfe. In Abyssinia the rumor bad been circulated that sbe was going to enter a Catholic convent ,and thus break away from the faith of her fathers. 'This was an effort on the part of her enemies to weaken the little influence which she still holds in her on country. . To Give King Free Hand Her friends say that for the good of the country she is determined to give the king, her cousin, a free hand in leting the modern policy which Le started when Al -entered.the dbeague of Nations. That body in September, 1923, Imposed certain conditions, including the abolition of slavery and prohibition of the trafic in arms, in exchange for a guaranty that Abyssinia would retain fits in- dependence from foreign cu ntrol, leav- the government free to grant sulh concessions as will inprove the economic and. commercial develop. Tent of Abyssinia without hindering: the internal reforms which Ras Ta- far} has planned. ~~ °° For the present Empress Zaudith has no idea of retiring. 8he finds ber greatest amusement in motoring along roads, 'recéntly onstructed, which, it is said, the regent king con- | structed exprossly for the purpose of aw! 1g the 'country. Dh emi a London Woman to Get Jewels ; Hidden by Father in 'Ras Tafari now. and then finds the or - = » = | Tokio--Five hundred thousand yen _