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PAGE SIXTEEN
MORE PRECIOUS THAN AUBIES
X ;,» By Nina Wilcox Putnam
““i;' Copyright 1951 by MEA Service, Inc.
. g XXV
Alma Conroy suspended the mak
ing of crepes suzette to watch the
eool, somehow infinitely older and
more poised Tommy retell his story
She had been given some uneasy
moments in the police station at
Longtown, Pa., when she had been
questioned. But actually she
wasn't expected to know a great
deal—only that Tommy had been
suspicious of Mrs, Denton and
that he and Brighton Muncie had
gone in pursuit of her after the
disappearance of some jewels at
the House.
Joe Denton hadn’t known about
his stepmother being in deep water
until her sudden disappearance.
NWow Tommy began his story.
“I didn’t have to invent much,” he
said. simply. “I caught up with the
three of them—Bright, Mrs. Den
ton and Apollo Brown—riding in
Bright's car near the Hampton
Cirele. It's a new road with no
buildings on that stretch.
“Brown was driving. Just ahead
of me the car skidded in the snow
and erashed into a telephone pole.
Your—well—she was pinned un
der the car, probobly killed in
stantly, Brown was hurt badly and
]I thought he was dead too, but
Pright was thrown clear. I
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the 3&'. ww ux'd is
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stopped my-—or rather, your car,
got out and ran toward Bright.
He was stunned but uninjured
otherwise and after a few seconds
began to come to. I helped him
to his feet and started to lead him
towards your machine. Then I
heard a shot and Bright folded.
“Brown had raised himself on
one elbow for the shot—just as I
told the police. Then I saw in a
flash just how the whole thing
could be handled. Brown had
rolled over on his back and 1 saw
he was gone, too. Nobody would
talk now. I put Bright in your
car, found the jewels and the rest
you know.”
“Humph!” said Joe, drawing a
long sigh. “This winds things up
very nicely, especially as the au
thorities here in New York seem
satisfied that Apollo Brown did the
Mammoth {ob—on his own. They
found his fingerprints there, I see.
Some papers were missing from
the files, and I'm still betting they
were the proof that Mammonth's
offer on the sweepings had been
sunpressed.” .
“Yes,” Alma agreed, “but”, she
wondered aloud, “what about Hig
gins & Company.? Won't they
talk?”
“Only to back up my story,”
Tommy grinned. “It's a perfect out
for them. They helped trap the old
| lady, period.”
~ Joe stood up and buttoned his
coat.
“Thanks for the meal, folks,” he
‘said. “And the wusual apologies
‘about running afterwards. But
I'm dead on my feet, and you both
‘must be too. We’'d all better get
‘some rest.” bl
~ For a while after Joe had gone
Alma moved about the apart
ment quietly, putting things to
rights, her mind fixed on one last
problem, It was all very well for
Joe to say that the whole dreadful
episode was wound up, but there
was one thing Joe did not know
about. He had never been told of
the gold and moonstone cufflink
which she had picked up in Mr,
Wheeler's office immediately after
the murder. Since the day she
had shown it to Temmy neither of
them had mentioned it to anyone,
not even at the palice .station,
wl.en an Inventory of Bright's be
longings had shown that the
matching link was in one of his
shirt-sleeves at the time he was
her. It was still in her handbag
and had been all through the in
vestigation. Was that inquiry
really ended? She paused in her
work, standing in front of Tommy
who looked up from hig reading.
“Tommy, she began, “do you
realize that we are the only two
people in the world who could
prove that Bright was at the very
least, an accessory to Mr. Wheel
er’'s murder?”
“You mean that cuff-link?”
“So you've been thinking of it
}o;)! What if the police look for
t.”
“They won't It's presumed to
have dropped out on the road after
the .car wreck,” This answer did
not reassure her, bty
“But it didn’t drop out!” she
persisted. “And, being found
where it was found, is positive
proof that Bright was at the Mam
moth offices earlier in the day.
Suppose the police realize....”
“Forget it. They won't But
someone else might.”
“Who?” she asked in sudden
fright.
* - »*
“Bright's father”, Tommy said
solemnly. “I'm not satisfied that
The Head won't want to wind up
even the most minute detail about
his son. That's the sort of person
Mr. Muncie is. What worries me
is that he may question me pri
vately.”
“And if he does?”
“QOught I to tell him the truth?”
“After all you've done to pro
tect him from it? Good heavens,
Tommy!"”
“Hold on a minute, Jewels! Mr,
‘Munice isn't an ordinary person,
‘satisfied with ordinary explana-
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INDO-CHINA consists of three “associated states”—Viet Nam,
Cambodia and Laos. Viet Nam is by far the largest and most
important, with 25 million people, compared to five million in the
other two kingdoms., Viet Nam is the most troubled, too. For over
five years violent, hit-and-run warfare has raged between French
and Indo-Chinese on one side and Communist-led Viet Minh forces
on the other. Viet Nam was born a Japanese puppet state in World
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serious threat to Indo-China looms from north, where Chinese
Reds are feared planning to stage “another Korea.” This threat
may become reality if fighting ends in Korea.
‘tions. He's hard to fool and he’s
the soul of honesty. He must have
known what Brighton was like—
that he was weak, in spite of all
his father’s efforts to make him
otherwise. Of course Mr. Muncie’s
glad to have his son’s name kept
clean, but he’s the type who pro
bably feels that the truth is more
than being hurt himself.”
She considered the matter for
several seconds. How would she
feel in Mr. Munice’s place? How
had she felt when she had been
suspicious of Tommy and then
found out he was inocent? Would
she have preferred to face the fact?
“I see,” Alma said softly. “You
mean that perhaps Mr. Muncie’
has a right to know.”
»- * ‘
XXVII
Suddenly all their years to
gether were there with them in
the familiar room: all the lovely
things they had done together, all
the shared precious thoughts, the
small quarrels which now seemed
so unimportant.
Mysteriously Tommy had be
come in reality the man she had
mistaken him for when they first
met.
The offices of Trumbull & Co.
were closed on the day of Bright’s
funeral, which was held very
quietly and in private. And on
the day following Tommy received
the long-expected summong to an
interview with Mr. Muncie in his
private office. Alma was re
quested to go with Tommy, but
by the time they arrived at The
House they had still not decided
upon what course to take.
Alma carried the incriminating
piece of jewelry over which she
had once labored with so much
love in the inner compartment of
her purse, in case it should, for
any reason, be needed. She could
feel the tense expectancy in her
husband as they went up in the
elevator, and realized that she
herself was trembling slightly.
After all, she thought, they,
neither of them had any idea of
what lay ahead. None of the many
rumors which permeated the shap
grapevine ever sprang from the
inner sanctum, and consequently
there had been no gossip about
what The Head intended to do
where the Conroys were con
cerned. She began to wish the in
terview was done a:xd over with.
*® ¥*
At the third floor they were
joined by Old Victor Blanchard
who announced his intention of
accompanying them.
“You are going up to him—but
yes?” he spoke with a slightly
palsied shake of his head. “I too
%o along, for this is my concern.
t was I who advised Bright's
placement, and so it was also I
who, indirectly, sent the boy to his
death. If there’s is anything bad—
I will face it with you!”
The private office was beautiful,
seve{e, and carefully unpreten
tioud: and from behind the big
desk the almost legendary Mr,
Muncie arose for a second as they
came in and then, indicating chairs
for them, resumed him own. To
Alma The Head’s face had the
same detached familiarity as the
faces in a history book-—Washing
ton, Lincoln or General Lee: it
was something she knew well but
only as an axiom for good be
havior. He was, she thought, prob
ably the only man in New York
who still wore a cutaway coat and
striped trousers to business every
day. He looked from one to the
other of them in wholly imper
sonal, cool graciousness.
“My friend! said Old Victor. “I
can say nothing. What has hap
pened is the will of God. But
there is left to one a splendid
memory...."
He bowed his head, unable to
finish, Mr. Muncie's Adam’s ap
ple moved visibly in the cleft of
his wing collar and the hidden
muscles in his large, heavy face
‘tightened.
“Are xou sure, Victor, that it is
a splendid memory?” His voice,
though a stupendous effort, was
lov:\.vyand c«::ntml]eid.it
es, mon ami, it appears -
tain,” 'ngdt‘fld man, f? a}:‘fi&gfi,
detually eved this. Alma was
surprised and relieved. The umn
pleasantness her grandfather had
anticipated ocould not have con
~cerned Bright's Kaslble guilt in
‘any connection, The Head turned
to Tommy.
“And are you fosltivo that I
tuva been given all details?”
For a moment Alma felt panic-
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
stricken. Now it had come, the
moment of decision. But how‘
could anyone tell these two suf
fering old men the truth? After
all, Bright was dead. That was all
that really mattered.
“T have nothing further to tell
you, “Tommy said. “But I would
like to say that Bright died gal
lantly. If he failed to come back
to prove his worthiness of the trust
which was put in him, it was only
because he gave his life when he
might have bargained for it.”
Tommy had been speaking to
the immovable man behind the
desk but he was also watching
Papa Victor, who listened with fire
in his eyes—the fire of faith re
newed—as Tommy comforted his
life-long friend and hero, his im
peccable superior, The Head of
'The House of Trumbull.
® % %
There was a moment of com
plete silence. Then Mr. Muncie
cleared his throat and he assumed
a business-like manner.
“Mr. Conroy,” he said briskly,
“vour recent maginficent perform=
ance in the recovery, with my
son’s aid, of those stolen jewels,
puts a new light on your char
acter. We want men of your cali
ber, and we'd like to keep you
with us. I understand that you are
a good commerical photographer.
We have an opening for you ia‘é
head of that department. Wou
that be agreeable to you?”
“Would it?” sald Tommy, star
tled out of his fomal manners.
“WOULD IT—OH BOY!”
“Now at last it arrives!” said
oOld Victor delightedly. “Now we
carry on, and maybe the next born
of Blanchard blood shall carry on
some day, as for the 100 years
past—a good workman for a good
master!”
Qutside the snows were melting
at last under a warmer sun. At
the ‘corner of the street an angry
torrent rushed along, carrying bits
of refuse and the grime of many
winter months down the gutter
grating. As she passed it, Alma
openel a surreptitious hand and
something golden flashed as it fell
into the hurrying waters and was
rapidly sucked down out of sight.
“Did you drop something, dear?”
Tommy asked absently.
“Yes,” said Alma, our last un
pleasant link with the past!™
THE END
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