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The American Legion Weekly [Volume 6, No. 7 (February 15, 1924)] HAVE YOU PAID YOUR POST DUES? 10c. a Copy FEBRUARY 15, 1924 Vol. 6, No. 7 Published weekly at New York. N. Y . Entered as second class matter Vernal Falls, March 24. 1920. at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under act of Yosemite National Park, March 3. 1879. Price 12 the year. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section California 1103. Act of October .1. 1917. author- .tied March 31. 1921. 0** s 9esh from the factory resi WHEREVER YOU GET IT NOW and— the very best tobacco you ever put in your pipe! /) Guaranteed by R A.TCO I N C O B P O 20 °/o PRICE REDUCTION Official publication of Owned exclusively by The American Legion The American Legion. and The American Legion Auxiliary. C#fe AMERICAN Correspondence and Published by the Le- man ii scripts pertaining gion Publishing Corp.: to Legion activities President, John R. should be addressed to Quinn ; Vice-President, the National Head- James A. Drain ; Treas- LEGI Weekly quarters Bureau. All urer, Robert II. Tyn- other communications dall; Secretary .Lemuel BUSINESS OFFICE EDITORIAL OFFICES should be addressed to Dolles. (Advertising and Circulation) G27 W. i-Sd St., New York City, and the New York Office. >~7 West i3d Street, New York City Natl. Hqtrs. Bureau, Indianapolis, Ind. FEBRUARY 15. 1924 Copyright, 1924, by the Legion Publishing Corporation. PAGE 3 The MISSING PAYMASTER A Mystery-Adventure Story of the A. E By C. E. Russell Illustrated by L. F. Wilford mystery of the THEmissing paymaster was as much a mys- tery as ever. A quiet, easily identified army officer had dropped out of sight. It shouldn't have taken us long to find him —or, if he had met with foul play, to find his body. But since Captain Barry, finance officer of the Bassens stevedore camp, had suddenly vanished, carrying with him a pay-roll of a million francs, weeks had elapsed, and we had nothing to show for our efforts. I had never handled a more puzzling case. Was Barry in- nocent, after all? The non- committal, evasive replies of his fellow officers to my questions the — Even in the bright sunlight the conspiracy of silence that I found place looked sinister and forebod- wherever I turned—was evidence that ing as we attacked it his friends believed in him. Appar- ently he was not the kind of man who would easily succumb to temptation. set Levy to work in the underworld. It's The certainty of Jeanette, Barry's there the crooks will be spending their fiancee, and her wealthy French father money—if they are still here. You two was another strong point in the miss- girls can help me; and together we'll see ing man's favor. And the amazing this thing through." about-face of Celeste, my cleverest Celeste's judgment had always proved woman operative, who won her way dependable. Some may scoff at my ready acceptance of her into Jeanette's home and then informed suggestions, yet I had learned long ago to place a great deai me that she believed Barry innocen of dependence on a woman's intuition. Thus I agreed at certainly this did not injure Barry's once to concentrate all my efforts on rescuing Barry, hop- case. All of these things, plus the ing it would not be too late. obvious fact that Barry had little to gain and everything to lose by defaulting with army funds indicated that it would be useless to trail Barry longer in DETERMINED now to make up for lost time, I arose the ordinary way. to take my leave. But Jeanette, who had been silent For several minutes, sitting comfortably in Jeanette's while Celeste was speaking, suddenly interrupted my de- home with Jeanette and Celeste waiting expectantly near parture. me, I reviewed all the evidence thus far gathered. Then "Wait just a moment, major," she pleaded. "I've been I turned to Celeste. thinking over something that Captain Barry told me a few "I'll do exactly as you have suggested," I said. "I'll days before he disappeared. It occurs to me that he said — PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY he had once or twice city," he reported, "before I finally seen a man hanging found him at the Hotel Bordeaux. around a cafe on the When I had delivered your message he Bassens road—a fellow told me to tell you he would meet you who looked like an at midnight." American. The cap- Blakely reappeared next. "I have tain, I remember, said carried out your orders. The men will he had made up his be extra vigilant to prevent any sus- mind that the next time picious character from getting by their he. saw this fellow he posts." was going to question Soon all had reported except those him." detailed to investigate the cafes "Did he ever mention along the Bassens road. I knew which cafe it was?" I that the men on this assignment inquired eagerly. had a long and tedious job. "Not that I can re- Leaving word with the man who call," replied Jeanette ' was on night guard at my quar- slowly, shaking her ters that the others were to await head in disappointment. my return, I slipped away to keep my rendezvous with Levy. Prompt- ly on the stroke of mid- thoroughly I WAS night he appeared. convinced by this "Of course I'll cover time that we had been my district for you, wrong in our analysis. major," he readily I was not sorry, either, promised. "Just give that we had to start off me a few days. I'll on a tangent. I had soon find out whether liked Barry and, al- any of the men there though I had put forth were involved. If they every endeavor to cap- were I'll get them." ture him when I thought him a criminal, it would be much more SOME, I suppose, will agreeable for me to be inclined to con- rescue a fellow officer, demn me for having if alive, or to avenge any dealings whatever his death, if robbers "with a man of Levy's had killed him. type. However, he had Promising to keep the never failed me in an family fully informed emergency. In addi- of the progress made, I tion to his willingness left this home so loyal to Barry to help, he had in many and returned to my office. ways been of untold Here was a time for prompt value to me in keeping action, not empty words. At me informed of what once issuing instructions for took place far below those who were working on the the surface in the cos- case with me to meet in my mopolitan city of Bor- office in half an hour, I hurried deaux. I knew that up the stairs to give the gen- Levy could accomplish eral the latest news about more for me in that Barry. district in one week "And those are the reasons, than my own men general, why I say that we could in three. I used have all wronged Barry," I de- him as often as I clared as I finished my story. deemed it necessary "Major, I'm very glad that to my mind the end you believe as you do about the justified the means. boy," said the general, with Satisfied that if a clew were to be much feeling. "This has been Black as night, the back room of developed from the underworld he a severe blow to me, but what the resort yawned at me through would secure it for me, I returned to you tell me has taken a great the open door my hotel to await the return of the load off my shoulders. I have last patrol. It was nearly daylight before been dreading the day when I should to be on the watch for an American they came in ; the tale they had have to write Mrs. Barry and tell her deserter. to tell, however, was more than suffi- her son was a criminal. I want you "Curlin and Rich," I continued, fac- cient to reward me fqr the time spent to take personal charge of the case for ing those two sergeants, "put on your in waiting. me. Spare neither time nor expense." civvies and go into Spanish Town. "We have covered every cafe on the Promising to do my utmost, I re- Visit the cafes. See if you can pick Bassens road," began the lieutenant in turned down the stairs to meet those up the trail of this American. See if charge of the detail, "and have inter- of my staff who had been working on any one is spending his money too viewed every cafe owner with one ex- the case with me. I told them of my freely. Bring in any such to me. ception, the Cafe Boulevard. This cafe interviews, why I had changed my "You," I said, turning to my assist- has been closed ever since the day of opinions, and how I intended to work ant, "have orders prepared placing this Barry's disappearance. The place does from then on. city off limits for the next forty-eight not bear a very savory reputation. The "Lieutenant," I said, "take two men hours." people next door informed us that the and interview every cafe owner or man- woman who ran it has not been seen ager between the end of the bridge and since Barry dropped out of sight.
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