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SYNOPSIS Henry Rand, 55, a business man, Is 1 murdered in a cheap hotel in Grafton. Police find a woman's handker- chief and the yellow stub of a theatre ticket. They trace the stub to Olga Maynard, a cabaret singer, in Buffalo, Rer by m man who picked her up" and who "plcke: er up" an danced with her. P Jimmy Rand, goes to Buffalo. He meets and falls in love with Mary Low- ell. Later he encounters Olga and she faints when she learns she is wanted for murder. Jimmy lifts her into a taxi ani 13 seen doing so by Mary, who miscon- strues the action. Jimmy receives warn- ings to leave Buffalo and is attacked by two men, While out with Olga one night she points to a car. "There's the man," she says. Jimmy reco~nizes him as one of his assailants, CHAPTER XXIV. The two of them stood transfixed for a moment, staring at the face in the automobile window. The man was sitting on the right of the driver. He was looking straight ahead. And then, just as the car began to move and while Jimmy was gathering his scattered wits together prepara- tory to making a leap for the running board, the man turned and saw them. He jumped and turned to his com- panion and whispered something in his car. The automobile shot ahead with a grinding of gears, Jimmy could see the man--he was wearing a cap pulled down tightly on his head-- sap back'in his seat as the car leap- ed forward. "A taxi!" Jimmy yelled, grabbing Olga by the hand and fairly pulling her with him toward the cab stand a few steps ahead. He pushed her roughly into the first one at hand. "Follow that car," he said to the astonished driver. "That green sedan. Step on it--he's trying to give me the slip." He shouted in the driver's ear, after closing the door behind him, "Ten dollars if you don't let him get away!" Olga moved up close to him, white of face and nervous, "I'm afraid, Jim." arm. "I'm afraid." "This is what we've been waiting for," he answered, patting her hand. "Don't go to pieces now. There's no- thing to be afraid of. I'm going to hail the first policeman I see and take him along. I'm only afraid they'll get away from us-in this traffic." He thanked his lucky stars for the driver they had chanced upon! The ¢eb was weaving in and out of the Jane of automobiles almost like a foot- ball runner in the open field. Never once did they lose sight of the car ahead of them, and to Jimmy it seem- ed that the distance between them was being perceptibly cut down, They careened around a corner, the sudden turn knocking him out of his seat and slamming Olga up into the corner. He laughed as Olga helped him scramble back to his seat. "Do you know who that man was we saw in that car?" he asked her, "No--only that it's the man I went out with that night. The same man 1 told you and Lieutenant O'Day about." "Well, it's the same man I had the fight with that night--one of the men who followed me home. I didn't get a good "rok at the other fellow in the car--the man at the wheel--but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the man who was with him that night." "Oh, Jim, I'm nervous--I'm afraid." "Afraid of what! Good lord, girl, don't talk like that when the answer to this whole mystery is almost in our bands." He clenched his fists, "If I get. my hands on that min I'll get the truth out of him if I have to choke it out." "I'm afraid of what they'll do to you, Jim, if we do cateh up with them. They'll shoot you; they'll do anything to get away." They had left the brightly lighted downtown district behind and were racing through dark streets in a shab- by residential neighborhood. "Not a cop in sight," muttered Jin- my, "and we haven'tttime to stop and look for one." The driver shouted at him through the open window at his back. "Say, brother, what do fou do when you catch these dudes?" "Hold them until we can get a cop," Jimmy shouted back. "Count me out. I'm not holding anybody that don't want to be held. They may be tough boys. I don't want to get plugged." "There, you heard what he said," Olga cautioned Jimmy. "They'll shoot if you try to stop them." "We're gaining on them," he said, paying no attention to her warning. "They're less than half a block ahead. Step on it, driver," he called through the window. "She's all the way down now, bud- dy. Ain't we gaining fast enough for you? Whoa there!" He slammed on the brakes. "Look at 'em now." The green sedan had come to a sudden stop alongside the curb. Two men jumped out and ran straight for the house in front of which they had stopped. Jimmy gaw them cut across the lawn and disappear into the dark- ners of the front porch. Tha taxi jolted to a stop, and Jimmy out. "Whore are grabbing him mn She clutched his ou Joing Olga cried, wi arm. in after them. Are you me?" he said to the 'a chance, brother. re in my little gas buggy. Take a tip from me and don't go in there. You might get crowned." » 2 "Listen to him, Jim." Olga was pleading with him. "He's right. Don't | go in there after them. Let's find a policeman and then go in." "And let them get away?" he cried. "Do you think I've been waiting all this time for a chance like this only to throw it away? I'm going in the house. You two get a policeman." "No, Jim!" She clung to his arm frantically. "Let me go." He tore himself loose and she fell in a heap to the pave- ment. He ran across the grass and up the steps, There he turned and shout- ed back to them, "Go on and get a po- liceman if you want to help." The front door was ajar. He flung it open and the house inside was in utter darkness. He struck a match and found himself in a long hallway. The match flickered and he strained his ears and eyes for sound or sight of the men who had gone in ahead of him. The match went out and the gloom enveloped him again. He started feel- ing his way along the wall, had taken perhap. two or three slow steps when he heard a slight scuffing sound in the rear of the house. It sounded like | Leavy feet scraping along the floor. His only thought was that the pair were making their escape through the back, and he sprang forward in the darkness toward the door that the match had revealed at the end of the hall. The noises were louder now. He heard a knob turn in a dor and saw just ahead of -him, in the kitchen, a | dim, shadowy form--ecrouching. Out of the darkness another and larger figure loomed--close beside him. - He ducked instinctively, but too late. A crashing blow caught him squarely in the tem- ple and he sank limply to the floor. | He heard the door slam and then con- | scioneness left him. | * * * x He awoke to find tke blinding rays of a flashlight turned full on his face. Voices murmured about him. A-slim, | cool hand was on his forehead. It was Olga's. She was kneeling beside him. Tha voice behind the flashlight said: "You were lucky they were in a hurry | to get away or they might have bump- | ed you off, You're a pretty reckless young feller, aren't you?" It was a policeman "Wh=-what happened?" Jimmy ask- ed, dazedly. "Well, if you don't know, nobody else does. This young lady and the taxi driver here found me down the street and said you had run In this house after a couple of roughnecks. You've got a bump on the side of the head where somebody hit you. Some wallop!" "And they got away?" Jimmy askea. "Clean. I've looked all around and I've got a squad to come and search the neighborhood. What's the game? What were you after them for? Who wer they?" He volleyed the questions at Jimmy. "One of them I'm pretty sure is a murdere'. Ask Lieutenant O'Day. He knows about it." "Don't ask him any more questions, officer, please." It was Olga. She had wet her handkerchief at the fau- cet--they were in the kitchen of the house--and was applying cold water | "Did you ever see the men before?" The officer turned to the taxi driver. "IT haven't seen them yet. This man and the lady pile into my cab and tell me to follow the green sedan. I do, and here's where we ended. I didn't get a good look at either of the guys in it. This guy here wanted me to come into the house with him. Hell, I've got a wife and family. I should gat bumped off in somebody else's argu- ment!" "You did just right. 1 don't blame you," the officer answered. "This young bucko here has got too much nerve for his own good." "You don't undérstand how import- ant it wag," said Jimmy from the floor. "You'd have done the same thing if you had been in my shoes. You wouldn't have stopped "to figure on any danger--" He was interrupted by the clatter of feet on the front porch. It was a squad of policemen. » * » » Lieutenant O'Day listened attentive- ly to the story that Jimmy and Olga told him. They were sitting beside his desk in the station. "What did he hit you with?" he asked, looking at Jimmy's face. e "I don't know--it might have been just his fist. He's a great big fellow. I don't remember a thing, Jieutenant-- just that blow and then waking up on the floor." "Come upstairs with me. We'll go up to the Bertillon room. I've got a man now looking up the license num- ber of the sedan. Chances are it's a stolen car. These crooks never use their own. Come on. I want you to look at some pictures." Upstairs in the Bertillon room he produced several books and threw them down on the table. "Here," he said to Jimmy, "You look through "take a look at this one. See if you recognize any of the pictures in there, We've got some more files to look al if you don't see anything there. | They bums. to Jimmy's temple. 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