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killing. This was just some deep-laid scheme
of Pic’s enemies to frame him and get him
out of the way.

TIME FOR A CLEAN UP

But to the English-speaking element, long
disgusted with the gangster rule, the growing
arrogance of the Picarello crowd, and their
boast that the officer didn’t exist who could
get their chief, there was a feeling that the
Pass would be well rid of Pic and his dark-
eyed, soft-spoken gangsters. That the time
had come to make a clean-up.

Meanwhile investigations of Scott and
Day regarding the woman in the red tam
had brought to light the fact that the glam-

_orous “Queen of the Pass”, Mrs. Charles
*)

Lassandrea, twenty-two year old daughter
of Emperor Pic and wife of his mechanic,
had driven west through the Crows’ Nest

Florence Lassandrea.

in a car chauffered by McAlpine shortly be-
fore the murder.

“I’ve a hunch that Lassandrea girl’s over
at the Dubois house,” Scott told Moriarty
after a second grilling of McAlpine.

“While I'm drawing her out keep your
eyes skinned for a red tam, and a green

coat that matches the button we found in
Pic’s McLaughlin.”

Entering the Dubois house they were
greeted with a smile from the long-lashed,
flashing eyes of a slim, bobbed-haired girl
reclining among the cushions of the sofa.
Taking a cigarette nonchalantly from her
rouged lips she blew a whisp of smoke to-
wards the ceiling and invited the officers to
be seated.

“I suppose,” suggested Scott, “you know

-what brought us here?”

“T haven’t the least idea.” The girl’s fea-
tures broke into an impudent smile.

“Tt’s about the killing of Constable Law-
son,” Scott told here. “But you need‘not be
afraid.”

“He’s dead and I'm alive,” she laughed
lightly, “I've nothing to be afraid of.”

“Then slip on your coat and hat and
come along.”

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