Bill Barnes Air Adventurer, July 1935 — page 62: what you’re looking at

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60 BILL BARNES He might have been one of the Ger- mans who landed beside Wyndam and me behind the German lines the day Wyndam was killed. Heilner may have found other papers on Wyndam, papers he forgot to give me!” Shorty waved his arms excitedly, “T don’t know how he got here or what he found on Wyndam. Or how those three Germans got possession of Wyndam’s property. But I know now why they wanted to search my things. They were looking for Wyndam’s deed and the survey of his property. They must have stolen it in some way and bribed some one to alter the records. That’s why young Dick Wyndam dis- appeared so mysteriously. They didn’t want him nosing around: So they got rid of him. Do you get it?” i get at, Bill said slowly.“ 1t sounds fantastic but stranger things have happened. MHeilner may have found papers on Wyndam telling about the location and value of his land. He got Boettner and Zimmerman to inves- tigate with him. When they found out it was valuable and no taxes had been paid in years they bribed some one to alter the records. That’s clear enough. But how did they know you had those papers?” 3 “How the heck do I know?” Shorty said irritably. “Maybe Wyndam had written a letter home that he hadn't mailed or carried a diary in which he said I was going out to Madagascar with him after the War.” “That property must be valuable— very valuable, to cause them to go to so much expense and trouble,” Bill said. ““The thing for us to do now is to go ae ois encanta i to the American consul and tell him the whole story. We've got to be careful. This isn’t our own country and we don’t want to get mixed up in something we can’t handle.” COMIC oo CO