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BEGIN HERE TODAY Going up in the levator he was jous of a man staring at him. He Henry Rand, 556 a busi man, is found mysteriously murdered in a cheap hotel. The only clews are a woman's handkerchief and a yellow ticket stub from the Paragon Theatre in Buffalo. Jimmy, the murdered man's son, decides to go to Buffalo until the mys- tery is wie He and Detective Mooney trace the ticket to a Thomas Fogarty, who proves an alibi and says he gave it to a woman named Olga Maynard. Police search for her for days. Janet Rand, Jimmy's sister, breaks her engagement with Barry Colvin, and Jimmy meets and falls in love with Mary Lowell. While with Mary at a cafe he accidentally runs into Olga Maynard and makes an en- gagement with her for the next night. She breaks down 'under his questions and faints. He is lifting her into a taxi when Mary, who is with another man, sees him, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIL Jimmy fumbled helplessly {trying to revive the woman who slumped beside him in the taxicab seat. He.slapped her wrists, called to her, looked be- seechingly at the driver, but that wor- thy .was gazing imperturbably ahead and minding his own business. The @ugh jolting of the cab finally did what he was unable to do. She opened her eyes, looked at Lim and then began to cry. He was sorry he had been so brutal vith her, and angry that he had been unable to get any satisfactory ex- planation from her. Tears had streaked her rouge. Her hair--bleached, Jimmy concluded,-- was in disarray. "What are you going to do?" she asked. Her handkerchief was pressed closely to her mouth. Jimmy barely heard her. "1 don't know. Perhaps it would be better for you to give yourself up to the police They'll find you anyway in time." "How can I explain to them? I can't tell them any more than I've told you. If you don't believe me, they wont." She was erying again. "Do some thinking. Try to remem- ber what could have happ:ned to the theatre stub after you used it." He was trying to be kind to hes. He felt uncomfortable, self-reproachful, ir the face of her tears. "If 1 thought you wouldn* try to run away," he continued, "I'd leave you here"--the eab had stopped in front of her apartment building--"and count on seeing you hers again tomor- row night. Believe me, I don't like to see you in this trouble." "Where would I go? I go?" she asked. morrow night. Where could "I'll be here to- I promise you." "I believe you," he said, and helped 3 ler out of the cab. * » » Ld His first thought when he reached the office the following morning was to find Mary and try to explain. When he did encounter her, however, along toward noon, the speech froze on his lips. He was about to speak, but she gave him a cuct nod and turned on her heel. . . . He thought of writing her a note and sending it through the office boy. - "She'd probably tear it up," he re- flected. He brought his worries along with him when he went out to lunch. +... He toyed with his food and pushed it back uneaten. FLavoR "made of pure chicle and other ingredients of the highest quality was a man of perhaps 40, with black hair, gray around the temples, and a sharp, pointed nose. He was broad- shouldered and bulky of chest but un- commonly slender from his waist down. There was something familiar looking about him. Jimmy kpew he had seen him before, A half smile played about his lips as he contemplated Jimmy. He seem- ed amused. It irritated Jimmy. He felt like asking to be let 'mn on the i joke. He resented being stared at like a monkey in a zoo. He was even an- noyed by the other's fine grooming and obviously expensive attire. They went in the office together, and Jimmy realized where he had seen him. It was the man who had been with Mary last night when he was helping Olga Maynard into the taxi. The man opened the door of the chief clerk's office and walked in, leav- ing it ¢pen. Jimmy could see Mary smile at his greeting. They talked and Mary laughed heartily at something he was saying. Jimmy wondered whe- ther they were laughing at the recol- lection of the spectacle he and Olga Maynard must have made in front of the hotel. "Who is that, Mac?" he asked the young fellow at the next desk. "Who? Oh, that's Church--Sam Church. He's one of the attorneys for the Q. and R. Handles a lot of death and accident claims. Comes in here quite a lot and makes it a point to give a little dictation once in a while to the boss' stenographer. I think he's pretty sweet on her mysell." "I see--thanks." "As ~ matter of fact," Mas contin- ued, "I have a sneaking suspicion that Miss Lowell doesn't exactly hate Sam Church. Good looking dog. Built like a bull in the upper storey--chest and shoulders--and like a greyhound be- low. Got a lot of money, too, I hear. That's all you need to get along in this world, Rand--money. It'll buy anything." "You think, Mac," Jimmy asked, "that money can buy love?" Mac was slow insanswering. "Rand," he said, "it'll buy anything. There's nothing in this sentimental love in a cottage stuff. I know. I was engaged once. Then war came along and I went away, with her crying and every- body promising wonderful things for the boys when we came back." He cursed. "And then what happen- ed? My girl marries one of these fat profiteers that stayed safe at home and made a pile of money while they were digging machine gun bullets out of me in France. "Rats!" he said. "Give rie a mil- lion and I'll have everything I want and do everything I want. And if 1] overstep the law I can buy myself off. John Law doesn't bother the guy with dough. But he makes us poor fish | step." "Mac," said iJmmy, "I think you're wrong. I hope you're wrong." He bent Mary's office, talking in low tones to the chief clerk, Hilton. The same amused smile was playing over his features as he passed Jimmy and walked out of the main office door. * Ld . Ld "Mary--" he stood in front of the water eooler, making 'a pretense of drinking, and blocking" her path-- "Mary, I know it looked rotten. Just' give me a chance to explain." "Mr. Rand--please!" She was lock- ing through him rather than at him, her dark eyes cold as ice. "Let me explain, Mary--after five o'clock. Give me a chance," he plead- ed "It is not necessary, Mr. Rand. I am able to understand what I see without the aid of an interpreter." She stepped past him and was gone He breathed again that subtle frag- rance of her hair, as he had done the night he danced with her... . He stood staring after her retreating fig- ure with hunger in his eyes. . . . * » *. * Shortly before five o'clock Hilton called him into his private office and told him he was discharged. "We're giving you a week's salary tead of the t y two weeks that we allow our discharged em- ployes. Consldéring the short length of your stay here, I think that is fairly generous." Jimmy took it calmly, without so much as raising an eyebrow. "Any- thing wrong with my work?" he asked. "I at least did my best while I was here." "No, Rand, not a thing. In fact, I thought you were doing very well, It's just a case of cutting expenses, 'and, as you're the last man to be taken on, you're naturally the first to go. Sorry." Jimmy felt like saying: "You're lying, Mr. Hilton. As soon as I go you'll hire someone in my place. 1 know why I'm fired. Mary Lowell did it. She had me hired and she had me fired." Instead, he turned silently and walk- ed out of Hilton's office back to his desk. "Macy" he said, "I'm fired." Mac said nothing, but gazed ob- stractedly toward Hilton's office and clicked his pen against his teeth. "Mac," said Jimmy a little later, "blast them all. Do you hear?" He was clearing his desk when Mac's hand fell on his shoulder. He could feel the grip gradually tighten until the flesh ached under the pres- sure of Mac's fingers. Mac stood like that for some time. Then he turned silently and hobbled away. . . His bullet-shattered leg was stiff as a ramrod from ankle Yo hip. Inside the chief clerk's office, Mr. Hilton was dictating to his secretary. "A memorandum to the cashier, Miss Lowell, to the effect that Mr. Rand has been taken off the payroll." Her flying pencil stopped and slip- ped from hor fingers. The shorthand characters in her notebook became sud- denly a meaningless array of hiero- glyphies. "Another memorandum, Miss Tow- ell, to the auditor." She recovered her pencil. It began again to move swiftly over the page, in rhythm to his voice. . . . . When he had finished dictating she ran to the outer office and looked to- ward Jimmy's desk. He had left. The office was empty. . . She gazed for a over his desk as Church came out of | po- "THRILLING" . hen the unsophisticated "buggy-ride" was providing trans- portation thrills a quarter of a century ago, men were getting their first real smoke thrill from Wilsons Bachelor--100%, Havana § ges Bugsy vides ate tow 4 thing of the past but, today, foil wrapped to preserve freshness, Wilson's Bachelor is stoked more extensively and better liked than any other ten cent cigar. © = - WiLson's B Still mo 2 SIAL ES st for t JES ETT SY IVR FR BEA Y vei | €e mone i / Gb hunias Va . long time at the door through which Me had gone. > . -. Ld Jimmy walked to his room through Streets crowded with home-going workers. He walked without seeing, unmindful of the way he was jostled in the crowds. He said aloud: "Why was I fired? She condemned me without hearing me, She judged me without a trial." He said again and again: "Why was 1 fired? Why was I fired?" He climbed the stairs to his room and found a telegram on the dresser. Absently he opened the yellow envel- ope and noticed that it was from De- tective Mooney. He heard the shrill: voice of Mrs, King, the landlady, calling up the stairs, "Teleph.ne, Mr. Rand." He picked up the receiver. "HeHo," he said. A man's voice answered. Rand?" "Yes, this is Rand." "Rand, this is Lieutenant 0'Day at headquarters. Come down here right away." "Hello-- (To be continued.) ------ en "Intuition alone, not reflectign, can foresée the future."--Count Herman Keyserling, -- Inhale Minard's Liniment for Asthma. Homesickness--And a Cure! NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT MAKES 99.8 P.C. 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