Sequoyah County Democrat (Sallisaw, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1922 Page: 3 of 6
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER U
SEQUOYAH COUNTY DEMOCRAT
CopyrigM
“Hell cban cl mmo when hi
knows why we’re hero" Whltford
pushed In and Beatrlco followed him
From the adjoining room came the
sonnd of volceo
1 thought yon told as Mr Bromfleld
had gone to' sleep and the doctor said
he wasn’t to be awakened" Bald Bea-
trice with a broad boyish smile al the
man’s discomfiture
"The person inside wouldn’t take no
mils for an answer v
"He was like ns wasn't bet Did he
fire his namel" asked the young
Woman
"No miss Jut said he was from
the Omninm dab"
Whltford and his daughter ex-
changed glances "Same business we’re
-on Announce us and we'll go right
in"
They were on his heels when he gave
their names
Bromfleld started up too late to pre-
rent their entrance He stood silent
for a moment uncertain what to do
disregarding bis fiancee’s glance of hos-
tile Inquiry lifted toward the other
guest
The mining man forced his hand
"Won't you Introduce as Clarendon t"
he asked bluntly
Reluctantly their host went through
the formula He was extremely un-
easy There was material for an ex-
plosion present In this room that would
blow him sky-high if a match should
be applied to It Let Durand get to tell-
ing what he knew about Clarendon and
the Whltfords would never speak to
him again They might even spread a
true story that would bar every house
and club In New York to him
"We've beard of Mr Durand" said
Beatrice '
Her tone challenged the attention of
the gang leader The brave eyes flashed
defiance straight at him A pulse of
anger was throbbing In the soft round
throat
Inscrutably he watched her It was
bis habit to Jook hard at attractive
women "Most people have” he admit-
ted "Mr Lindsay Is one friend" she said
"We’ve Just come from seeing him”
' "The man to whom' she was engaged
had been put through so many flutters
Of fear during the last twelve hours
that a new one more or less did not
matter But he was still not shock-
proof His fingers clutched tighter the 1
- arm of tip chair
' “W-whlt did he tell you?"
Beatrice looked Into his eyes and
-read In them once more stark fear
Again she bad a feeling that there was
something about the whole affair she
had not yet fathomed — some secret
that Clay and Clarendon and perhaps
this captain of thugs knew
’ She tried to read what he was hiding
- groped In her mind for the key to his
terror What could It be that he was
afraid Clay bad told her? What was
It they all knew except Lindsay’s
friends? And why since Clarendon
was trembling lest It be discovered
should the Arizonan too join the con-
spiracy of silence? At any rate she
Would not uncover her hand
“He told us several things” she sa'ld
significantly “You’ve got to make open
confession Clary”
The ex-pugilist chewed his cigar and
looked at her
“What would he confess? That the
man with him murdered Collins?”
"Thnt’s not true" said the girl
quickly
"So Lindsay's your friend eh? Dif-
ferent here miss” Jerry pieced to-
gether what the clubman had told him
and what he had since learned about
her He knew that this must be the
girl to whom his host was engaged
"How about you Bromfleld?” he
sneered
Tbe clubman stiffened "I've nothing
against Mr Lindsay”
"Thought you had”
"Of course he hasn’t Why should
he?" asked Beatrice backing up Clar-
endon ’
Durand looked at her with a bold In-
solence thnt was an Insult Ills eyes
moved up and down the long slim
curve? of her figure "I expect he could
find n handsome reason If he looked
around for it miss"
' The girl’s father clenched his fist A
Hush of anger swept his ruddy cheeks
Be held himself however to the sub
ect -
“You- forget Mr Durand that Lind-
say was his guest lust night”
Jerry's laugh was a contemptuous
Jeer "That’s right I’d forgot that He
was your guest wasn’t he Bromfleld?”
“What’s the- good of discussing It
here?” asked the tortured host
"Not a bit" admitted Whltford “Ac-
tions talk not words Have you seen
the police yet Bromfleld?”
! "N-not yet"
"What’s he gonna see the- police
about?" Jerry wanted to know his chin
Jutting out
- "To tell them thnt he saw Collins
draw a gun and heard shots fired” re-
torted thy mining man Instantly c
"Not what he's been tollin' me He’ll
not pull any such story— not unless he
wants to put himself In a cell for life"
"Talk sense ‘You can’t frighten
Bromfleld He knows that’s foolish-nass"--
--"Doe a bat” The crook tuned de-
risive eyee on the victim he was tor-
turing -Certainly the society man did not
Wok a picture of confidence The
Shadow of a heavy fear hong over him
The telephone rang Bromfleld’s
trembling fingers picked up the trans-
mitter ' He listened n moment then
turned It over to Beatrice
"For you"
Her part of the conversation was
limited It consisted of the word
"Yes” repeated at Intervals and n con-
cluding "Oh Fm so glad Thank you”
Her eyes were sparkling when she
hung up -
“Good news dad" she said “Til tell
you later”
Jcorn that Intolerant youth haa for
moral turpitude rang In her clear voice
"I thought maybe we could both get
out of it that way" be explained
weakly
“Oh you thought! As soon as you
saw this mornlfig’s paper you ought to
have hurried to the police station and
given yourself up"
"I was 111 I keep telling you"
"Your man could telephone couldn’t
he? He wasn’t 111 too was lie?"
Whltford Interfered “Hold on
honey Don’t rub It In Clarendon was
a bit rattled That’s natural The
question Is what's he going to do now?"
i Their host groaned "Durand'll see
I go to the chair— and I only struck the
man to save my own life I wasn't try-
ing te kill the fellow He was shooting
I nt me and I had to do It”
I "Of course” agreed Whltford
“We've got proof of that Lindsay la
I one Witness He must have seen It all
' Fve got In my pocket one of the bulletn
‘ Collins shot That’s more evidences
t Then—"
Beatrice broke In excitedly “Dad
Mr Muldoon just told me over the
phone that they've got tbe express
wagon The plank with the bullet
holes was la It And the driver has
confessed that he and a carpenter
whoae name be had given changed the
partition for Durand"
Whltford gave a subdued whoop
: "Wo win That lets yon out Claren-
don The question now Isn’t whether
: you or Clay will go to tbe penitentiary
j but whether Durand will We can show
I he’a been trying to stand in the way of
' justice that he's been'cooklng up falsa
evidence"
"Let’s hurry 1 Let’s get to the police
right away!” the girl cried her eye
shining with excitement "We ought
not to lose a minute We can get Olay
out In time to go home to dinner with
ue’
Bromfleld smiled waily He cam to
Durand laughed brutally as be rose time as gallantly as he could "All
“Good news eh? Get all yon can
You’ll need It Take that from me It’s
straight Your friend’s In trouble up to
the neck” He swaggered to the door
and turned "Don’t forget Bromfleld
Keep outa this or you’ll be sorry” His
voice was like the crack of a trainer's
whip to animals In a circus'
For once Bromfleld did not Jump
through the hoop "Ob go to the devil"
he said la irritation flushing angrily
"Better not get gay with me” ad-
vised Durand sourly
right Tm elected to take his placet I
aee”
’-’Only tor a day or two Clarendon”
said the older man “As soon as we
can get together a coroner’s Jury we’ll
straighten everything out"
v “Yes” agreed the clubman lifelessly
It was running through his mind al-
ready that If he should be freed of the
murder - charge he would only have
escaped gcylla to go to wreck on Cha-
rybdis For It was a twenty-to-one bet
that Jerry would go to Whltford with
After the door had closed on him - the story of his attempt to hire the
there was a momentary pause The
younger man spoke awkwardly "You
can tell me now what It was Mr Lind-
say told you"
“We’d Ilka to know for sure whether
you’re with us or with Durand” said
Whltford mildly “Of course we know
the answer to that You’re with us
But we want to hear you say It flat-
foot" "Of course Fm with you That Is I
I’d like to be But I don’t want to get
into trouble Mr Whltford’ Can you
blame me for that?” -
"You wouldn’t get into trouble” ar-
gued the mine owner impatiently "I
keep telling you that"
Beatrice watching the younger man
closely saw aa In a flash tbe solution
of this mystery— the explanation of the
tangle to which various scattered
threads had been leading her
"Are you sure of that dad?”
"How could he be hurt Bee?”
The girl let Bromfleld have It straight
from tbe shoulder "Because Clay
Ths Girl Let ' Bromfleld Havt
- Straight From tho Shouldor
didn’t kill that man Collins Clarendon
did It" -
"My G — you know!” he
ashen-faced “He told you”
"No he didn’t tell us For some rea-
son he’s protecting you But I know
It Just the same -You did It"
"It was In self-defense” be pleaded
- ‘"Then why didn’t yog sny so? Why
did you let Clay be accused Instead of
coming forward at once?”
"I was waiting to see If ho couldn’t
show he was Innocent without — "
"Without getting you Into it You
Wanted to lie shielded at ub XU
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gang leader to smirch Lindsay’s repu-
tation It must be admitted that when Brom-
fleld made np his mind to clear Lindsay
he did It thoroughly His confession
to the police was quiet and business-
like He admitted responsibility for
the presence of the westerner at the
Omnium clubHe explained that his
guest had neither gambled nor taken
any liquors that he had come only as
a spectator out of curiosity Tbe story
of the killing was told by him simply
and clearly After he had struck down
the gunman he had done a bolt down-
stairs and got away by a back alley
His Instinct had been to’ escape from
the raid and from the consequences of
what he had done but of course he
could not let anybody else suffer in his
place So he had come to give him-
self up
The late afternoon papers carried
the story that Clarendon Bromfleld
Well-known man about town had con-
fessed to having killed “Slim” Collins
and bad completely exonerated Lind-
say It was expected that the latter
would be reused (mmedlqjely
He was That evening he dined at
the borne of the Whltfords The mine
owner bad -wanted to go on tbe bond
of Bromfleld but his offer bad been
rejected
"We’ll hear what the coroner’s Jury
has to say’’ the man behind the desk
at headquarters had decided “It’ll
not hurt him to rest a day or two In
the cooler”
After dinner the committee of de-
fense met In the Red room and dis-
cussed ways and means Johnnie and
bis bride were present - ljftause It
would have been cruel to exclude them
but for the most part they were silent
members Tim Muldoon arrived with
Annie Millikan both of them some-
what awed by the atmosphere of the
j big house adjoining the Drive Each
of them brought a piece of Informa-
tion valuable to the cause
The man In charge of the blotter at
the station had told Tim that from a
dip called Fog Coney one of those ar-
rested in the gambling-house raid an
automatic gun with two chambers dis-
charged bad been taken and turned In
by those who searched him It had re-
quired some maneuvering for Tim to
get permission to see Fog alone but
he had used hts Influence on the force
nnd managed this ' -
Fox was a sly dog He wanted to
make sure on which side his bread was
buttered before he became communi-
cative At first he had been willing
to tell exactly nothing He had al-
ready been ' seen by Durand and he
had a very pronounced respect for that
personage It was not until he bad
become convinced that Jerry’s star was
on the wane that he had “come
through" with whnt Muldoon wanted
Then he admitted that he lmd picked
the automatic up from the floor where
Collins had dropped It when he fell
His story further corroborated that of
the defense He had seen “Slim” fire
twice before he was struck by the
chair
Clay summed up In a sentence the
all the evidence they had
trks too late '
"They can’t touch me” he bragged
“They daren’t"
But It came to him with a sickening
realization -that the district attorney
meant business He was going after
him fust aa though he were an ordinary
crook
Jerry began to use his "pull” There
reached him presently that same link-
ing at the pit of tha' stomach he had
known when Clay had thrashed him
He learned that when a lawbreaker
la going strong friends at court who
are under obligations to him are t
bulwark of strength but when one’s
power ts shaken politicians prefer to
take no risks No nows apreads moc
rapidly than that of tho Impondliif
fall of a chieftain Tha word was
passing among tha wist that Jerry
Durand was to be thrown overboard
Durand tried to make an appoint-
ment with Whltford That gentleman
declined to sea him Jerry persisted
He offered to meet him at one of bis
clubs He telephoned to tho house
but could not get sny result more sat-
isfactory than tha cold voles of a serv-
ant saying "Mr Whltford does cot
wish to talk with you air" At last
he telegraphed
The message read!
"Til come to your hsusa at eight
this evening Better see me for mta
He’s sake"
It was signed by Durand '
When Jerry celled he was admitted
Whltford met hltn with chill hos-
tility Ha held the telegram la
For Sale' Cheep: One black Jersey
cow fresh recently Call phone 157 or
write box 897
collected "It’s not any longer a ques-
tion of whether Bromfleld goes to pris-
on but of Durand The fellow has
sure overplayed his hand"
Before twelve hours more bad
passed Durand discovered this him-
self He hnd been too careless too
sure thnt he was outside of und be-
yond tho law At first lie lmd laughed
contemptuously at the advice of his
Ueiiehjjien Jo get to cover before U
"What Dots This Massage Mean?” Ha
Aaksd Bluntly
hand "What does this message
mean?" he asked bluntly
"Your daughter's engaged tp Brom-
fleld ain't she?" demanded the ex-
prize fighter his bulbous eyes full on
his host
"That's our business sir”
"I got a reason for asking She Is
or She ain't Which la It?"
“We'll not discuss my daughter’s af-
fairs" “All right since you're so d— d par-
ticular We’ll discuss Bromfleld's I
warned him to keep his mouth shut
or he’d get into trouble”
“He was released from prison this
fteraoon”
"Did I say anything about prison ?”
Durand asked "There’s other kinds
of grief beside being In stir Fve got
this guy right" '”
“Just what do you mean Mr Dur-
and?” "I mean -that he hired me to get
Lindsay In bad with you and the girl
He was to be caught at the Omnium
club with a woman when the police
raided the place and Jt was to get In-
to the papers”
“I don’t believe It” said Whltford
promptly
“You will I had a dictagraph In'
the room when Bromfleld came to see
me You can hear it all in his own
voice’’
“But there wasn’t any woman with
Lindsay at Haddock’s when the raid
was pulled off”
“Sure there wasn’t I threw Brom-
fleld down” '
"You arranged to have Lindsay
killed Instead”
“Forget that stuff The point Is
that if you don’t call off the district
attorney I’ll tell all I know about
son-in-law Bromfleld He’ll be ruined
for life”
“To hear you tell It"
“All right Ask him”
“J shall”
"Conspiracy Is what the law calls
It Maybe be can keep outa stir But
when his swell friends hear It they’ll
turn their backs on Bromfleld' You
know It”
"I’ll nob know It unless Mr Brom-
fleld tells mo so himself I don’t care
anything for your dictagraph I’m
no eavesdropper"
“You tell him what he’s up against
and he’ll come through all right I’ll
see that every newspaper In New York
carries' the story If you don’t notify
ine toduy that this attack on me Is
off I’ll learn you silk stockings you
can’t make Jerry Durand the goat”
Whltford announced his decision
sharply “If you'll leavs me your tele-
phone uumber I'll let you know later
In Jdie day whut we’ll do”
(Continued next week)
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Tuesday 14000 Wednesday and 7000
Thursday a total of 67000 head not
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However the scant supply of good
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