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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1939

Serial Story— 6

5 Would Kill

By TOM HORNER

CAST OF CHARACTERS

ARNOLD BENTHORNE—Five wished him dead

HELEN BENTHORNE-—His young wife

WILLIAM ALSTON — Renthorne's fa. | ther-in-law and business associate

JOEY DI TORIO—Night club owner | and gangster

ARA JOHNSON—The mystery girl

JOHN DOUGLAS—A voung mining en. | gineer, in Tove with Ara.

CAPT. DAWSON — A detective whe likes to listen

YESTERDAY Dawson is almost eer. | tain that Douglas killed Benthorne and Joey. Ara comes to plead for Douglas, She was in the passageway when Ben. | thorne was killed, saw di Torio come | out. She insists di Torio was the Killer Dawson agrees to spread the rumor that | Ara alse saw the Killer, in an effort to make the murderer strike again. CHAPTER NINETEEN | A FEELING OF SINCERE ad-| miration for this courageous girl swept over Dawson as he watched her leave. She knew that she might soon share Tony's fate, but he was { sure she would meet it chin up and smiling. For the first time in her] life she had found love—and now | nothing else mattered 1 It would not be difficult to drop a few hints that Ara knew as much

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and possibly more than di Torio. A couple of questions, even a knowing nod, would tell all he wanted the others to know. Flynn and Krone were old hands at creating just this type of situation. Dawson stepped to the study door and called Fiyvnn The officer came into the room almost immediately “Flynn, I want the others—Mrs Benthorne, Alston and Douglas—to get the idea that Miss Johnson knows the identity of the person who killed Arnold Benthorne, and also that she saw Tony's murderer You and Krone can manage that—" 8 5 ”

ARA. SHE HAD A MOTIVE--hate. She had admitted she came to the house determined to kill Benthorne, and only the untimely arrival of Mrs. Benthorne had prevented her She might even have had that intention as she left the taxicab and returned to the passagewav, Was it she whom di Torio had seen as he peered around the doorway? There was one argument in her favor time Dawson recalled Krone's report that he had started running toward the front of the house with the sound of Flynn's whistle, and not vet reached the front house when he heard the shot It was unlikely that Ara could have turned the corner in the cab, run to the passageway door, and made it to Ben-

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thorne’s study—all in the same space of time that it took Krone to run around the house She was definitely in the when Flynn blew his whistle had to move quickly to make inside the passageway, as she had said No, time was conclusive witness for Ara’'s innocence As to Mrs. Benthorne had been the first to locked study door down the front

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She reach the Had she come stairs, shot her husband, then hurried back upstairs again giving Joey his chance to escape? If she did not love Benthorne as much as she wanted Dawson to believe—and he was certain that she did not—was the discovery of Benthorne's daughter and the fear of the damage a scandal might do to her social position, and to her pride, sufficient motive for murder? Then there was the second shooting. If Helen Benthorne had suspected Joev knew too much, could she have gone up the back stairs, crossed the hall to the head of the front stairwav and from there? She had been panting, as if she had been running. Dawson recalied. when thev collided on the back steps Panting now, than few But

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IT ALL CAME back to Douglas Douglas with a motive, however old—the slaving of his uncle, “Big Red,” and the theft of the mine Douglas at the window: Douglas climbing in the window, threatening Benthorne, finally killing him. What was it Joey had said he heard? Douglas hiding in the hall after coming through the passageway. But he had said he didn't know about that entrance Douglas listening the Joev recounted what he Douglas shooting di dashing down the passageway to get rid of the gun and return to the study. Douglas—with mud on his shoes What about the blocked door? Had Douglas been inside the study while Flynn and Krone tried to break down the door? Dawson stepped to the door again, shouted: Fivnn, bring Douglas in here!” | “I'm giving vou one last chance to give your side of the story, Douglas,” Dawson announced when the voung man faced him “What about queried, guardedly. “She's in this as much as you are!” Dawson shot back. “She knows plenty. . . 4 And don't try any herocis—like lying to save the girl. You may oniy get her more involved Douglas studied the detective intently. Perhaps Dawson was right. If he told all he knew now, Ara might be protected. He looked straight into Dawson's cold, penetrating eves, smiled, and asked: “What do you want to know?” “Were vou in this room before or after Benthorne was killed?” “After—I climbed in the window a haif minute after Benthorne's murderer closed the door!”

(To Be Continued)

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