Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1939 — Page 27

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= Benthorne myself. robbed my uncle.” -* + “Bui Miss Johnson had no further ~ use for those letters and pictures, +, unless she really intended to ry to Fults Henthorn :

~ Wihet him. dead. :

3 = father-in-law and business sssociate.

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. Ara related her first meeting with:

even told you, John dear,” she said.

: the word “fatal”’—as the young man

“real John Douglas was ‘Big Red,’ my ‘uncle, a prospector in the Yukon,

‘rush. For years he grubbed along looking for that one great mine.

+% The family believed him dead. An

,“ The old editor of one of the Juneau -- with ‘Big Red’ was a gambler, a

_ seemed to like him. After Red went

_ City,” in the company files.. That »--was the last communication the ~. company had with Douglas.

* ter. ~ set about learning all they could/ “about Benthorne.

“had no more love for me than for

left the ‘house earlier in the evening, did you come back with this silly marriage

“had told her my name. I couldn't

CAST OF CHARAETERS ARNOLD BENTHORNE—Five persons

BENTHORNE— His shaming = ous CO WILLIAM ALSTON — Benthorne's

JOEY = 3: TORIO-. Night club owner

< AEA TORNSON—The mystery girl. JOHN DOUGLAS—A young mining enin love with Ara. : : DAWSON—A detective who jikes

Eis married “Ber. mother, ‘deserted’ te Ars was born. The mother Ara letters and photographs: amen help her find her father. Ara’ Brought up in an orphanage, has to’ fo ive. She hates her father. sie. meeis a likable young man, : his name is John Douglas. A

CHAPTER FOURTEEN DAWSON WAS NOT surprised as,

: ‘young John Douglas, but the young. man’s connection with Arnold Ben‘thorne was still mystifying. ] “Let me go on from here, darling,” Douglas put in, but she refused. “There are some things I've never

“I've never let you know how much

“him. “And perhaps you wondered “what JI fell so much in love with ‘you, almost immediately. I really ididn’t. * I detested you, because I . ‘thought you were related to my father. That's why I ran away that night. » =John laughed at the memory. “You see, Capt. Dawson,” he ex- * plained, “after Ara had promised to help me search for this man, she left me standing there after I

figure it out. I went back to the coffee shop the next day, though,

for my uncle, John Douglas.” - “And I thought your uncle was my father. I saw a chance to locate him, at last, through .you, possibly to hurt him, by hurting you. But I never could have, honey.” Her smile

out of her hate, Ara and John could find no trace of any John Douglas in Salt Lake

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By Clyde Lewis .

_. City. Then one day, when they had almost given up hope, John found a picture of Arnold Benthorne in al New York newspaper. Benthorne and his wife had been guests at a costume ball, and the financier had gone dressed as a miner. “Benthorne made only a few misDouglas said, “but that was one—a fatal one. . . .” Dawson gave no indication that he had noticed

‘continued: “I had one picture of the mar I was trailing, an old, faded print. But it showed the man with - Ara had one of the pictures of her "father copied and we sketched a beard on his face. The result was so perfect we were convinced that Benthorne was our man.”

JOHN WENT ON to say: “The

who went to Alaska in the first gold

Then he disappeared into the unmapped interior. “For years no one heard of him,

opinion that would have remaimed unchanged if I had-not got a job with the Great Northern Mining

“In going oyer some data for a survey, ‘I found that a John Douglas had sold a rich claim to “ “the company in Seattle in 1916, long after my uncle had disappeared. My father sent me to Alaska to _ check on the sale. “I had one piece of real luck.

papers had a photograph of my uncle, taken just after he had filed on the claim which the Great Northern later bought. Pictured

bearded fellow named Benson. “‘Red and I were good friends, 4 - the editor told me, and I told him ~ that Benson was a crook. But Red

back to his claim, this Benson fellow disappeared.’ “I reported the whole thing to my father and we agreed that Benson probably either won or stole uncle’s claim. If uncle had sold his claim in Seattle, in 1916; as the records showed, he never would have gone back to Alaska without seeing his family.” From there the trail grew faint. A single clue was a brief letter, addressed to “John Douglas, Salt Lake

On that vague lead, young John

found Ara. After checking their ‘records they concluded that Ara’s father, the gambler Bensan, and Arnold Benthorne were one and «the same. But proving it was another matThey came to New York and

The financier had refused to see Rouglas, but agreed to see Ara after had mentioned her mother’s

F o » 2 . IT WAS THE SMUDGED fingerprint on the letter that broke Benthorne’s denials, Ara told Dawson. _ “Then he made all sorts of promses, if .I would only go away. He

my mother. His only fear was that “his social position might be endangered, that a scandal might hurt his business.” “Youre lucky Benthorne didn't live longer,” Dawson said. “He : might have ‘removed’ you perma- . nently. . . .. But why, after you had

na stuff?” “That was my idea, Captain” replied. “I figured if I could get in- the house for a few I might recover Ara’s proofs; and I wanted a chance at I. know he

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“J. B. made a couple of dumb moves in the aATher, but you have to admire him for his aggressiveness.”

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