?, W EVENING I'TJBUC LEDGBE PHltADELPHIA, FKIDAY, MAY 6, 3921 t H!l HOW MANY CARDS? By ISABEL OSTRANDER Author of "The Island of Intrigue," "Suspense," "Ashes to Athee," eU. CepvrfpM, I'tt, Robtrt U. ilcttriit - Co. -.. , - It 1..L ..!. Ill V Ford' harsh, dry laughter ran ,nd then was as quickly suppressed. "I don't know whether ft will help .vou a not, tor haven't uie sugmesi mca so killed Crevellng, but I'll give jou nil U Information you want about tho -hole rotten bunco 01 menu i unpi It mouth shut jcitcrday because I had "J . - fA.lni.ii liniin thnf IfinvM 1i Ml enough to tide me ovor even after ..1lnir 1 mscir nau weicneti, our hen Caller thtcw me rfowu cold I mf un my mind that I'd show them dl up and I will! ."riev got the money my own, not or customers', but If I'd had It yet I nld have weathered the storm. I kYonldn't kick if tho game nao. Been JoVrfnced It was crooked nnd I've been i,da the sucker. God ! Kvcn n tin horn ...j .hum will stake you to cigarette lonev after he's stripped you of jour our , ..., "(1D1P; icjriy ri-jnuiru, a ih rinnlng to glimmer inrougu ms ton Itcloutness. "Of course, i wnn o ') ...... - --- - ,t -,... htlnt a rlcu man oven in mew! aity- V11' " . U..1 lia ..11 1t,r nvfll rocketing uay, uui ii-" " " ttat mn table of Cjitterl. damn i7n" Vnr.l Ktonoed abruntlv and tho rUe In his face gave way to n look of lr derision. "Vou fellows at head nuarters are mighty smart, but you .:An. nm nulled off and havo been for J,..,, in that resDcotable-looking bouso if his down on the avenue. Ho Ib nothing mora uur i ." .... ..t .nmliinr. onlv he docs things on scale that's never been known before (,, in the Big Town." ,, . A jrntnDieri iuc oiuukuiui - i- Then the memory of a chnwe icmnrk of Dennis' on the previous evening re turned to makn his chagrin complete. .., v, fnlrl his friend what he had learned from Miss Frost about tho Kip miin nnrl how she hud been broke one day and husii ie nci. ""!. marked "I-Iko n gambler I" Lvcu then he had not tumbled to ttio truiti i it oil kcemed ho obvious now in the lliht of this rovelntlon! Those two diwlpated rounderti, Wavcrly nnd Creeling, seeking to stimulate their riti rentes with the excitement of the time; mii i""c.i-"'" .,.- -t. ill of life had been u gamble; John Civannugh O'Uourke. with the hot, reckless, sport-loving blood of his lore Wrs in his veins, nnd Cutter silting cold nnd Inscrutable In tue miust oi them' Hut what of the women? Where did they figure In this scheme of things t 'I'm not yellow!" Ford went on. 'wouldn't cr 'crooked !' just be- UM 1 a Dten raiu, uui ".""" now I can sec now i piojtu, i.u trout in a stream, and ibey'ro doing the same thing to O'Hourke. They 11 clean him and Ills wile, wo, ociurc they're through Cutter and W overly, and Crevellng was helping it along when he got Ills! He stood n, and I was jiut beginning to sec It : that s why I went to him first when 1 Baw what km coming l wasn t a ueggui. x umj wntel a loan of some of my own back ..J f'r,,7ii1lnv linri rnt most of It. He iinomtnort. fie knew I was on to the time and h told me lie d eo me though : mado an appointment wim ise for Thursday ana tnen M wit ij i-,.ia mnb Yinrtt hiH word, wclcbed I He thought he could bluff me, but Id hsro gona back jebterday and gotten it from him FOinehow. onlj Homebody else ... .- Li.. ... ..111. n JJI" 101 in I1IIU uioi, niku .. .... t MrPiriv was sesreely listening. 'They'll clonn him nnd his wife, too!" were the lait words which had pounded tLamoili.pu Into IiIh brain. "Do j on menu that Iady Mar tbot MrB O'llonrkc mays, too? inat Airs. PnM nnil Mrs. Orovelluif and Mm Watcrly have been going up against a pme like thaf" , , Vr,rA lanirhiil niniti. mirthlesulv. "They're ivorw than we ore! Not that my wire 1m nn inveiernio Komuier-, is a matter of fact the poor kid Iman t ny card seme at all and doesn t even core lor it. one ouiy ioui """ii -ciiue I I compelled nor to " "You' Sbord nortUrd , ' Oh, I admit I c been a fool in . .. .L... AH. V... I'm nmlnn mure lHJS UIUU uar, uui ,m v-....tt cVan tr vnii nniv for 1 wnnt ion tu HDderaiAml the nitnulioa nnd fir Cutter md his outfit!' he declared frauKly. "I was making money nnd we were hippy enough u few years ago with our own iallv little crowd, bnt when I bouiht mv Mat on the exchange Mrs. mora got ambitious socially, sine met. Mr, Crerelinz at i-ome chavlty affair and tot in nith her. and Creveliuir in troduced me to Cutter. 11iat was the Mginulng of it. nnd I don't mind toll ing you that I encouraged Mrs. Ford to travel with that bunch; I tbonght id get in myself through tbcm witli biimonnjed interests nntl I didn't reu loe I was practically uning my own wife as n capper, tho win Cutter is Ming .Mrs UaiUIe Kip Hhe's Just a kind of grown-up little girl, my wife, is; "DS lo03 to snantl mnnev ami hi- taVen ip by the swell people and she never can rial uv that there might be another motive U'hlnd the flattery of other men, ftterrt like Cutter. He innde u sort of plaj for hor a ear or so ugo and 'be came to me like n big kid nnd told me. I let lnm know where he got off and afier that she wasn't bothered, but iliey had it in for mo You see the "ne now, don't you. McCarty?" McCaru nodded alowlv In his turn W bis uprntjslon was very grim, but ii,r " w'nui spenKing Mrs Crevelinir nnil Mn W,U vf?,i1dlff"fnt , t,lcy llong by right of tH rOi ,uu,r '"i witnereu lamuy T,hey don't have to struggle to "."hcio and in another wny they Tif... aMrt aH their husbands. m.i.Te Mhd every allowable J?"" .f "musing theiDBefvea nnd they jwned to the game for what ex. He J?." ulrt get out of it, and It C'l."0 lhr '"acinatlon. i menu. ii v ecen them, of courtoV res, p r ll i.' 1," oeauiics, .Mrs l.'rovi- Vr. Vr c0',a' a,oor Bort of way and !. Wavrl U o .!. n:i. .;... rdJL.?.0,.b wig"l,' "MraPtive and each Wferenl type, get me'" both .Tn ,hat C,Ul8r ia UhiK """ ", steerers too?" MeCartv'H hon- - lonrg were flle( Ult. hnrk.l tttlilnn"1 'J'nd', '! them, wllti mail t&nx hlghMt B0C1,,V "nd "loro noaH 'ban they Lnn Hpend'" But no Mcandal han ever nttached to Cutter, Iilfl system was too perfect for that; Hie poor dcWN who did themselves In were spirited home and the papers made n big fuss later over their deaths from accident or appendicitis opera tions, or some Riich llv. Of course their ffltuilleft weie as eager io conceal the truth bb Cutter J that's wheie he played pnfe. The worst part of it is that he Is a real aristocrat, If there is audi a thing in this country; his family is one of the oldest and he has nlwava kept his social position Impregnable, though I understand he inherited noth ing but the house and some lotten an cestor's gambling Instinct! Peoplo don't dare squeal on liiui, for ho has clients and victims among the connec tions of every prominent family in the country. He thought I wouldn't dare. either, but I've got nothing to lose now. "I wonder he didn't take that into consideration." MeCnrtv renin rlinil. "l'oii soy he refused to let you havo n ion to ttuo you over wnen lie Knew it meant ruin to you." Ford colored painfully. "There was a nerannil matter In. .-.. f,.lv"lvc" nnd It warped his judgment, I ""'. l" enrm." hw mnmhliul "Kfw tilf. . 'Ob without their knowledge. of ?Kb"!'&-n'-iS eoBitanti. i r. , '""u"'1 uiey were little f, LJ"$.ll0URl'' at ,be m.i allwl iuitaVK0 imn" nn,1 "''"noon whlth rLut woa l'Ploted to give, but "were JlVi and. .",l,ht- Thtt of "ti here !n, ' lo.frouim tUut P01'4 l.-t. Hint IN tils i.inat ".. WtMrtS 1,H 1i'v You Just ,h? nvl h ,n"on out "owds ZLnL Uo,.l0,,1 ,,p k,,P W" viiiv ar(ir(.,l til m.nnU K.. I.I wyti? '"a nni. n, j i." ."" iwuu .iore dr SnuTh;,," h,!" Iust '" "n't lk,t looks it?.' 4llrnsUf in """ mum k of ISiti. . u i ro"srvatoi.v at the '? more m,r,H Uo1' Bl"l I'll wagtr rt'lnnn, T' 'ns .,nBl hands t Mu" ,v jyun lv.iltUof time thnu 1 "' for the same period! guess, he mumbled. "My Wife, you kuow. "I see." McCarty strove to make his voice sympathetic, but he was filled with loathing for tho unprincipled weak ling before him. He'd borrow money, if he could, from a man who had in sulted his wife and if he couldn't, hell him outl The ex-roundsman's foot tingled to administer n kick to the cow ardly sneak, but he must learn more. "If Mrs. Wnvcrly and Mr. Crevellng pluycd Just berauhq they were bored unu Mrs. Ford because jou wanted her to, why did Mm. Kip nnd and Mrs. O'Hourkp sit in the game?" "Oh. Connie Kip is a born adven turess; a proicssionai gamoicr in a way, lik Cutter," replied Ford care lessly. "She's too shrewd to jeopardize the social position sho has wormed her self Into by any indiscreet flirtation, but the cur (Ik nic her means of a livelihood, and I could swear I've caught her cheat ing more than once ; though If Cutter knows it he doesn't mind her counting herself in on his gruft, for she's populnr nnd useful to him ns a steeier. It Ih through her thnt he gets his clutches on tho young nsseo in society with more money than brains." "Was she at Cutter's on Thursday evening?" asked McCarty suddenly. "No, only the O'llourkes. Wn ex pected Cretellng, but be phoned that he couldn't make It, so we had a Ave handed game; tame enough, too, with neither Groveling nor Wnvcrly there. They were the plungers nntl helping along Cutter's fleering of O'Hourke. I suspect. I might have warned him, I suppose, but I hnd my own fish to fry in trying to win my money back from them or get a loan, and then misery loves company, you know! "Rut Mrs O'Rourke?" persisted McCarty. "What possctsed her to play?" "For the same reason that her hus band did: a sheer love of tho gome." lesponded Ford with nn odd note of respectful admiration in his tone. MiCarty rose. He felt suddenly stifled and, as though his breakfast had not agreed with him. This cheap renegade might be useful to him in tho future-, and his mithe caution warned him to go beforp be expressed himself openly. Not for the life of him could he listen to another word concerning the Lady I'eggv, even in praise, from such lips. "Thank you, sir. I guess jou've told me all I need to know to work on now and I won't pester you nnv longer. I won't give you away, but there'll be no more fleecing of Mr. O'Uourke nor any one else, I can promise you that." "I don't give u damn about that, I'm done!" Ford followed him to the door. MtCarty breathed deeply wheu he reached the street once more, ns though to clear hlft lungs from a fetid at mosphere, but be felt that he had ac complished more In the past hour than at any time sine he had undertaken the case. He was on the inside now. looking out, and although he bad learned noth ing which pointed to tho actuul solu tion ofvthe crime there was a chance that the right thread was In his hands at last. During his interview with the bank nipt broker an idea hnd come to him which completely revolutionized his earlier plan of procedure, and he lost no tlmo in llmllng n telephone booth nnd calling up headquarters. Inspector Druet was already nt his desk nnd informed him thnt Yost re ported no trace of the missing Hildreth woman, and Martin, when he wiih re lieved at tho Creveling house, snid that Hill hod betrayed neither protest nor surprise at finding himself under guaid, nor had he made the least move to ebcapo espionage. The report of the thief medical examiner on the autopsy had come in also, nnd he hud ic versed the opinion of his assistant; Creveling could not have killed himself. It bad been murder. Perhaps it' just as well, sir " Mc Carty'a tone was humble "I I've changed my mind, thinking over tho dope you'te got against Hill, and more over I've dug up a few things this morning that look like Uioj might make the mho complete " "I thought so!" tho inspector laughed jubilantly. "Good old Mac! You're not afraid to admit you've made a mistake, are you?" "No, sir, ' McCaity responded slyly "Not being legulnrly connected with the force any longer, promotion don't bother me and there's nothing to hold me buck when I'm in the wrong from saying so, nnd starting over I've ben thinking that as long as you've got the dragnet out after that Hildreth woman and tho stations and ferries and roads watched so that she can't make her getaway from the city, we're bound to land her In tlmo and there's no use In waiting for her to try to get in touch with Hill beforo we run him in again. I think I've got a way to make him talk after n day or two in the Tombs, but lil like to niolce the arrest m)elf "Go to it!" the inspector said heartily. "Your mind was so set on it that he wasn't guilty, I thought I'd give yuu a few days to find out thut you wero barking up the wroug tree, but the Hildreth woman is too clever by half to givo herself away by trying to com municate with him Come down here nnd I'll hato u warrant ready for you.' "Couldn't you send it up to me at the Crevellng house?" McCarty asked "I'm on my way there now, sir, and I don't want to lose any time ".Ml right I'll hne it there in half an hour" luspector Druet added. "Have you sten unj thing of Terhune?" "Yoo, air He broke into my rooms laet night and Denny and me found blra sitting there as calm as you please when wu tame up from headquarters! ' McCarty nlmost choked over the recol lection. "He's invited us both to one of bis seanreA tonight " "I'll see you there, then ' Tho in spector laughed once moiv 'Up has the care all doed out to suit himself, I suppose, but he wouldn't condescend to take me into his confidence It won't matter to us, Mac, for if he's lilt ou the truth we'll liuui the bird safcl) cngvil beforehand Do jou want us tu ketp (hit news of Hill's renrieat out of tho papeis?" CONTINUED TOMOIUIOW THE GUMPS Bring on the Cocaine By Sidney Smtilt VOU.1 -VyoOAV AU WEM HE VKT -ItlKlA I - ( HE l HAt A LARGE ( f f H ?S? i? 1 V--UiM , . 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