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{ - nl ny Dowling with a heavy heart. Once he tele: honed the police station to see if Jo were sleeping and he received tive. answer, When day: he decided 'he had better Ret 8k Hours ot before he starte: tin st of the 'money, As he Behe un hiv white 'coat n the. cloakroom he glanced at the mailbox. There was a fetter with his name on jt. He opened it and 'y Cheek lor 50 fell out, With nt was a slip of paper, the 1, distress, May Sir Gala. had have better luck next time." ae, note was sivply signed-*Dre- ae. "The old fox! Dowling chuckled over the note, "He intended to give it to me all the time, Too afraid the superintendent would say he was soft-hearted." Then he rushed to the telephone to call Grace, 4 "I've got the money," he told her "Now I can sleep. 1 hope that man is on the lookout!" "The battle's all but won", .Grage cried, "But there is one more thing ou've got to do, I'mi going to be ih for the next few nights and it will he up to 'you to go and sec Jean" "If we can 'only get her out for Christmas," Dowling answered, an affin light cal "Say, don't be sentimental," Grace| gr retorted, - "If we can only get her out at all! "n put At 4 That's what I'm work ng for, : When Grace finlshed talking to Dowling she put on, her coat and hat ready to'go to the office, "Our place will be wild today" she thought with a wry smile, "Not much work will be done I'll bet." When she walked into the, long office where Jean had worked. for simost seven months men and girls stood in groups discussing Jean's are rest. The whole episode of Jean was nder NGI i Ey A the night It yead: *For| M a nine days' wonder. "Well I'm not Jusprired about it," said one girl, "I ulways suspected her, She worked too hard, It aint natural" 1 Others were just ss violently in Jean's favor, One of these was Sam, the elévator boy who had seen the hold-up, 'Can't tell me that girl knew she was goin' to be held up," Sum told Mr, Remington, "1 know Sam, | hate to think of it, 'but the police seem, pretty cer» duh, At any rate, we can't do any t ng." However, Remington 4ried to do all he could, He j@ined in the search for the list of bends that had been prepared the day beivre, in the hope that if the list were found some ex- lanation might be forthcoming, But ie had to give it wp. The exact numbers and lssties of the bonds had disappeared, : Johnson hurried in about , 10 gcloek. He looked tired, but theer- ful, "Too much whoopee over the week end," Grace judged as she watched him carefully, He looks as tholigh he were quite sutinfied with himself, Just wait untithe sees that man fol. low him to lunch!' The office manager frowned at the|' ile, groups about the office, He sharply ordered them to works "What about that list of bonds; have you tound ungthing#" he asked his assiglant, who shook his head, "But I insist that the st was with the bonds in my drawer," Johnsen sald heatedly, Then he left for a conference with Mg, Remington Bhd fy cker, "Loretta looks tired," Alice said to Grace. "She's acted all morning as though she'd lost her last friend," Yes, she did look tired, Grace de- cided, but she wore a handsome new frock, When lunch Grace devk, "I was over to "your apartment yesterday, but you weren't home," she said. "Did you find your dress?" "Yes, thanks," Loretta sald plea- santly. "The 'maid was gone when I got back, but I thought probably you who had brought it. Too bad about Jean," she added with some embarrassment, "Yes, it seems terrible to think of her Th prison," Grace replied quickly, She thought Loretta's pale cheeks flushed, but she was not sure, Johnson came in some time later, e went directly to Loretta's desk, He talked to her rapidly in low tones, She. seemed disturbed, and Johnson, himself, was obvieusly ner. vous and exgited. As Loretta turns ed back to her typewriter Grace could see her hands trembled on the keys, When Murphy telephoned just be+ fore quitting time, he told Grace he must see her immediately, © When she game out, of the building he Svan) Waitin from her Loretta came buck walked over to They were going, he explained to in his. car and he drove awiypd immediately when Grace stepped indo THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930 A Thrilling Romance of Adventure inthe Clouds keep an eye on Lotetta's apartment, "And this fay go on for days," he bald, "I've been out there and we're in luck, There's a vacant lot on the side of the building where her Shatment is and it gives us & good view of both the front and the back of fhe building, 1f your hunch is correct anything may happen. Any wal we'll see what we see" fiey drove by a roundabout vay to Loretta's apartment building, and then Murphy parked on the side street he had ventioned, Then he doye 'dewn Into the rear of the car and came up smiling, with a pack- Age, . "Those were good sandwiches you fed me the other day" h Ae "Hete's where 1 serve" Ie optned a vacuum bottle that contained hot coffee and they sat quietly chatting and munching, "Here she comes!" Grace said suddenly, - An gutomobile had stop- ed and Doretts climbed quickly rom the front seat, waved her hand and hurried 'inte the building, In a moment the Jights in her apartment shone out In the dark winter night. The curtain was not drawn, An hour passed and there seemed to be considerable activity in the rtment, Loretta's «slim figure sed and repasted her window, "What do you suppose she's do. ng" demanded Murphy, ' A ot ; 00 hin bartainly 8 busyy Just what might she Be doing IT ella of the Skies Vers Brown Mugphy. considered for a moment "She might be packing," he remark- od quietly, ; Grace Jumped dn delight, 1 hag ust what she i» doing, I'll bet anything: But how can we find out?" . | ' "Simple," sald Murphy, "Walk down here twoblocks to the drug atore and telephone the caretaker or the building Jidm # booth there, Ask about vacancieh on the first floor, Say you are an elderly woman and want to live on the ground floor." Grace scrambled down onto the mowy walk, glad 6f an opportunity for u brisk walk after being cramped in the ear for so long a time, When is moving thpt that proves anything, It makes md sure, but just tty an tell it to the Judge, Maybe Jolns son's wite is getting wise, whe it Is her way of giving Johnson the alr, © You can't tell, But may have vital bearing!" The two waited for another "two hours, Cars on the street were get- ting fewer and fewer, Finally the lights in Loretta's apartment were turned out, "Let's go sald Grace, and there were tears of @ bitte disappointment in ber voice, "Let's not, for a while) Murphy sald, "If she was *up to anything she got to the drug store she quickly | she might do just that to make any. Bout "My theory is that they play to victimize Jean because she iy a blonde and Loretta could impor. sonnate her easily." found the number and called, "Are you going" to Have any va. eancles by the first of the year?" Grace asked, "IT think so," was the quick reply "There's a young lady leaving for South America the first of the year, and shg wants to break her lease." Grace ran all the way back to Murphy and the car, "Just keep your feet on the ground!" Murphy admonished as Grace threw herself into the seat be- side him and gasped out her news "Say, don't think just because she body watching think she'd gone to bed." " They waited in vain, however, and just after midnight drove away, I they could have known how much consternation * their presence had caused they would have been cha- grined indeed . "I wonder {I that ear Is parked] ¢ there for a reason} somebody's watching me," Lorét thought as she looked out her kitchenette wins dow at the car in which Grace and the detective sat. if ta "I'm getting as bad as Johnson, He really believes somebody is fol. lowing him," and Loretta packed awa, some of her summer clothes in a trunk, | | | | The next time Loretta looked the car wap #till 'there, Vunny, ons night like tlds" she thought, and' she = wondered 1] she dare call Johnson, Sometime later he called her, "Oh! I'ns so glad you telephoned)" she said with a sob fn her voice, "Where are you?" ff 'min a drug store at Broadwa d oo VA drect" he said, y "1 came out of the house for & walk Jon 10 prove there was soniebody following me. There Isn't a doubt, Loretta, It is true, Now listen = you've got to help me tomorrow, {Vent talk It over in the office," "There's a car parked out at the side of the house" she told him, 'I'm. sure somebody Is watching the apartment and U'm scared to death!" "I'l tell you how we can find out, Turn off your light. If the car leaves. immediately, then somebody is watching and have decided you've gone to bed, Try it right away. I'll call you buck in an hour if 1 can," Loretta was crying audibily now, "Stop thet, darling!" he told ler In a lowered volee, There was n note of tenderness and caress in it, "Stop it! Everything fs going to be all, right, Remember! It is Rio Janiero or bust!" Loretta turned from the phone and did as he suggested, Quickly she snapped off the fights in the apart- ment: Then she sat and . waited, Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, "He's right! It's just a parked car, nobedy in it!" And she put her head on the window sill and wept with relief, Shortly afterward, had she been watching, she would have had leks assurance, Nobody entered the car, "but it was driven quickly away from the street where jt had | stood so long, "Jean's clothes are owiul, aren't they?" asked Murphy upropos of nothing as he and Grace speed along the boulevard, "Yes, she has never owned a nice dress in her life, poor kid," and Grace Sighed. "I want you to help for a while more tomght, Come with me Mrs, Browning, the saleswoman who is supposed to have sold her that 1 to fur cout and that evening dress," "But what more asked, "Be Grace protested, is there 10 say?" she sides, it is so late," "IT warned her today we might be over," Murphy said, laconically, "You can never tell what might turn up Just help me with your woman's in tuition." Soon they stopped im front of large apartment building, and Mur- phy rang the bell of Mrs, Brown ing's apartment, She was still wait ing for them, regardless of the late- ness of the hour, She proved to he a handsbme woman of 35, with beau- tifully marcelled hair and a hand some dress bought out of season at the expensive shop where she work: od, "I'm thrilled to death at gelting mixed up in this real, live robbery," she told thew, with a beaming simile "I never thought I would; my name in the papers and everything, I {eel like an actress in a mystery play." "Mra, . Browning, you saw Jean, and you heard her say she bad never seen, you before, Are you sure she was the girl?" asked the detective, alter they had chatted of indifferent things for a while, - oy Browning smiled with cere ainty, "There len't & dogbt! At the time I wondered at such a dowdy girl buying such stunning clothes, hat dress made her look like a different person," "Did she seem to know much about clothes?" Grace asked, sud~ dents 1 "Well, she left the matter pretty well up to m Judgment, She said she wanted=1o improve her sppesr- ance because she had a new sweet: heart. I took some pains with her, because blondes must be carefy about their clothes, you know, Flashy clothes cheapen them, Dull, stupid clothes kill them, They must be just right, Another thing" her profes. sic' Instinct aroused, "no blonde should ever vear her hair straight ww it is kept in perfect condition, If this girl had had a marcel it might have made a lot of difference." Grace gazed off into space, Sud- denly she seemed to see Loretta's|f face framed by straight blond hair the afternoon before the hold-up, Murphy rose to go in a short time, They thanked Mrs, Brow 'ng, and Murphy headed the car toward Grace's apartment. "We've got to stop and have a bite to eat," he said, as he sighted a res. taurant, "I'm starved, Besides, we need to talk' things over," The restaurant was almost desert ed, and, after they had eaten their sandwiches, Murphy pulled out his pipe and offered Grace a cigarette, Then they settled back comfortably. "All right, where are we?" and he smiled at her." "I'l tell you!" she cried, with sup. pressed excitement, "Ull do the sume ming up in this case tonight!" "Here are the three outstanding facts so far: There is a (heft, Jean is put in Jail, The police think they have an open and shut case. Now, Mr, Deteative, I am presenting my own speci! solution to this baffling mystery," Grace jumped up and howed low to Murphy. Then she slipped into her chaff again. "I know I'm right! Loretta and Johnson are at the bottom of this thing, They have been sweethearts for more than a year, I've known it for ages, without ary proof, but even a blind man could see it, The only way they got by at the office was hy being so open about it. All right! Expensive clothes are purchased hy a girl who poses as Jean and has the clothes sent to her room. My the- ory is that they planned to vietimize Jean because she is a blonde and Loretta could impersonate her easily, Loretta wore a chean dress, took the wave out of her hair -- and went shopping, She was smart cnough to have the coat and dress hung up in Tean's apartment for the police to find, She kept Jean out too late to see her landlady that night about the clothes, The expensive clothes were paid for with a large sum of money," Grace was triumphant, "And another thing. The only time I've ever know Loretta to be with- out a wave in her hair was the day before the hold-up." "That's a perfect little cise of elr- cumstantial evidence, You only lack one thing to convince the chief be- yond a reasonable doubt," Murphy commented, Wats that?" led Orsce Sapte "Tne Bonds he sek copy, o morrow (Copyright Publis ger Co.) WRITER BLAMES STEAM BOATS FOR DIMINISHING SEALS Sees Eventual End to New- foundland's Seal Fishing st, Fi NMG, April 1 we The use of steam vessels in prose the Newloundiand seal Pay A seen by a correspondent in the St, News as an important' Johw's Do ve or in the diminution of youn: herds, Drawing an srialogy borg the seal fishery and the extermination' of the buffalo and caribou with the coming of the railway and conses quent multiplication' of points of ate tack, the writer contends that ever since the introduction of steafs fn the seal hunt in the early sixties, practically 'al] the young seals: have been destroyed every spring, the number of breeding seals thu be- ng etirieted. 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