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By ELINORE COWAN STONE ) CAST OF CHARACTERS CHRISTINE THORENSON-—came to visit her cousin, found a mystery. BILL YARDLEY-—had a reason for watching Christine, GEORGE WILMET-—emyployed Chris. ; tine as a Boardwalk artist. CHANDRA--looked into the future— | and into the past. » » > Yesterday: Chandra traps Wilmet, 4 fdentities him as Mrs. Talbert's missing ™ §

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

R. WILMET had sprung to his | feet, “But thiz 1s preposterous!” he cried. “Why—why, I was the one who brought vou here! If 1—" “Because, Inspector’—Chandra's voice was a8 gentle purr—‘“another trait Earl Talbert shared with his

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wit the world. But now"—the clair-| } vovant stood, suddenly very tall, it seemed to Christine, over the blustering little man—"he is going to i tell the whole story, “You are going to tell us, my friend, how gloating over the trick by which you robbed your sunt 12 years ago, vou persuaded yourself that you were sufficiently the ‘master mind’ for a much more daring | crime. . . , I doubt if you intended ARS) ; / 4 \ } s murder in the beginning. But prob- | ¥ Nw | BN 8 FP : \ 1 BR \ ably, after vou had drugged Mrs. = 7, / % \ ‘on \/ : Talbert and taken what you sup- / \ PN aT RS posed to be valuable bonds, you re- | Wiley Bw A S ah | f: «By Fred Harman

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alized that she had recognized you.” “I didn't!” Mr. Wilmet's round face was white and drenched with sweat. “I—why, I never heard of the woman before last night. . Inspector, he's trying to—for God's | sake, don't let him do this!” He was cowering before the clairvoyvants as he might before an evil genius. : It was mummery—but it was ter-| ribly convincing mummery » n nN ELI them,” he commanded, | “how, before you had drugged vour aunt into helplessness, You | forced her to write those letters. Tell them how, after you had held | her in her own car while you made sure Jaspar had obeyed her orders, —- Qlyee you drove her, by night, to her own | COPR. 1930 BY NEA SERVIGE. Ne. 1-2 etd 4 3 Dy, abandoned home, and hid her there, “Women caused me downfall, madam—women with pocketbooks!” | - _ . Nv NDA SERVICE TRE. 1 88 REC Ua PAY. O 1 ”

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help to point suspicion to someone else. « . . « » "Tell them how you found Miss Thorenson's photograph and her telegram, saying when she would arrive, and thought how cunningly you might turn them to your own advantage. “Tell them how, after you had entered the house with Mrs, Talbert’s own key '— ‘But how could I?" Mr cry was shrill with triumph, ghe didn't have a key.” Jaspar broke a shocked silence ‘He's right, Inspector,” he murmured. “Mrs her key with her.”

Wilmet's “Why,

Christine, watching as if in a fan- | |

tastic nightmare, saw the little man freeze as he understood how much | he had told in those five words, then leap to his feet and dash blindly, straight into the arms of two uniformed men who had appeared in the doorway. “Get his keys,” the inspector ordered. When one of the officers handed the ring to him, he passed it to Jaspar, a silent question in the gesture ‘Yes, pered. “All right. reau. And now, suppose you tell me how you know all this.”

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“YPECAUSE, sir'—Jaspar spoke— | “after I—left your office last night, I thought it best to have a look at the house. I'd kept one key, | because 1 felt that as soon as I could, I must go back. . . . But someone had been there before me. Everything was turned upside down.” “Anything taken, Jaspar?”’ “Mrs. Telbert’s will, sir—I suppose {t was he sent that to the news- |

sir,” Jaspar almost whis-| “The middle one.”

papers; and a pair of Mrs. Talbert's | °

shoes—" “The ones,” the inspector explained, “that her nephew put on to make that false trail to the booth. One of my men found them buried deep in the sand where Yardley told us about having seen Wilmet pottering around the evening be- | fore.” | “And,” Jaspar finished, "Miss | Christine’s signed portrait and her | message saying when she would | arrive.” | “Well"—the inspector looked =l-| most satisfled— ‘Now we only need | those faked bonds.” “I think that if you pried up the | top of that stone bench at the back of the booth,” Christine said, | “you might find something under- | neath.” The inspector went to the tele-| phone and gave an order “You wondered how 1 knew those | bonds were your cousin's, Miss | Thorenson. 1 found something | among them that you missed.”

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E took a folded paper from his | pocket and handed it to Chris- | tine. | It was & short note Emma’s hand. “My dear Christine,” it said. “If anything should happen fo | prevent our visit, Jaspar will hand | you these Take good care of them, for the bonds are non-registered; | so, of course, anyone could use them. They are yours, as most of | what YI possess will be in the end, | “Affectionately, yours, “Emma Talbert.” ‘“T'his morning,” the inspector | said, “I'd have sold my soul to know | who wrote that.” The telephone rang, and he hur-| ried to answer. “He has? Good work!” they heard him say. “T'll be right wup.| _ . . Well,” he hung up, “Miss Thor- | enson was right about that bench. ! Mr. Earl Talbert has shot the works | in his confession. I guess that cleans | up the slate.”

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