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Newspaper Page TextMonday, April 13, 1931 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Page Seven J fPLASSIFIED AD WANTED WANTED Experienced girl. Apply in person to Mrs. Harley Smith, La Grande Hotel Cigar Stand. ,4-13-1 t. WANTED Farm hand for few days, farmer 4X. C. W. Bond. 4-13-1 t. WANTED Experienced girl for gen eral housework. Call Main 79. 4-13-2 t. , I WANTED TO BORROW 8400 to $800 on clos3-in city property. Write i X- Y., c-o Observer. . 4-13-3 tp. : WANTED Some one driving to Un ion around 3:30-4:00 p. m. daily. Inq. Observer. 4-3-3 tp. j , WANTED Permanent roomers. Large I light steam heated rooms. In nice . home. Close In. 2 blks. west Mont- ; comery Ward, 1002 Second St., cor. ; Washington. 3-30tf WANTED Set ol boons to keep part time. Wrlto "Accountant," P. O. Box 905. 3-14-1 m. FOR SALE 3-RM. HOUSE and lot $500. Terms. Coll 1707 Jeff. 4-13-3 tp. WILL SACRIFICE practically new 4 room modern house, garage, in good location, A real bargain. Will take car. Inq. Observer. 4-3-4 tp. fj'OR SALE: 5-rm. mod. house, newly finished, garage, garden spot. Call 838-W. ' 4-11-5 t. FOR SALE Surge milker, E. M. Kerns, Lower Cove. 4-11-2 tp. FOR SALE toed potatoes, Earliest of All. Farmers 5X. 4-11-2 tp. 1 FOR SALE K. R. eggs for hatching, $2 hundred. 2706 N Fir. 4-11-3 tp FOR SALE 0 ice cream parlor chairs, 2 tables, cash register, 4 showcases, 2107-3rd St. 4-11-3 tp. FOR SALE Garden tools, screens andscreen doors at reosonagle prices. Dalles Furniture Store. 3-23-1 m. FOR SALE Fruit, shade and orna mental trees, shrubbery, perennial plants, roses, hedging asparagus, rhubarb, horse radish, pansy plants. Everything to beautify and Increase the value of your home. Milne Nursery, 11th and J. Ave. 3-3-1 m. 1 FOR SALE Dahlia and gladioli bulbs, shrubs, hedging, fruit and shade trees for spring planting. Triangle i Bulb gardens, East Adams. Phone 898-W. 3-17-1 mp. HIGH QUALITY Hollywood strain baby chicks. White Leghorns, high producing, large type free range hens. Pedigreed males direct from Hollywood. Satisfaction and safe arrival guaranteed. Prepaid prices. April to 20th, 101jC, later 10c. Pa cific Hatchery, Tangent, Ore. 3-25-1 mp. mi mm"' The honor of serving you at a time when expert and effi cient service is so badly needed obligates us to do everything as nearly perfect as possible. You can rely upon us. We Understand 8NOIM1KA89 ZIM.MKHMAN FRECKLES AND HIS FEGCUJLES MAO Twe PERMISSION OP UIS PABEWTS, "Tb (So DETECTlvS STEELS. To CUM DCWJ THE r, TWIEP. US MISSED STEELE BY ROUE. W.1W0TES.... STEELE; IS OKI PIS WAY TO , ELKHART-... MOM'N POP When glmys vjemt TO LOOK W IkM &PftTMENT, A HIGH' pressure sm-esmmj stampeded hereto TMUNG iT ,BuT TWMT'S ONL HALF THE GWEF for , AEH vnhile,chick Recewieo a phome ckll TO TuE EFFECT TWW WE COULO HAVE TWA.T 1P-CV. PLACE OK GROOtA STREET, thkt they went 50 Cuckoo omeb-mo , he took it so - hebe they ape:, WTU TWO MCTMEHTS ON THEIO WANDS -JkV&nvi The Market Place of Union and Wallowa Observer Want Ad Hates (Count five average words to the line.) Per lino, 1st Insertion 10c Per line, each added consec utive insertion .... 7c Minimum charge on one order i 25c RATES BY MONTH 2 lines, per month .........$2.50 3 lines, per month $3.25 4 lines, per month $4.00 5 lines, per month $4.75 Each additional line over five charged at 60c per line per month. CASH IN ADVANCE is required on all Classified orders to earn these rates. Higher rates charged on all credit insertions. Copy for all Classified orders must be in this office by 10 A. M. DAY OF INSERTION. Stop orders on ad Inserted until further ' no tice must be received by the same hour or extra Insertion. . will be charged. Telephone orders solicited. Cash rates may be earned on phone or ders by payment on or before date of last Insertion. PHONE MAIN 600 "An Observer Want Ad Will Do It." 0 FOR SALE New breakfast table ond chairs. Phone Main 764. 4-10-3 t. ACREAGE FOR SALE 1 and 2 acre tractB. Ph. 363 -M or inq. at Ella Rynearson farm. 8-19-1 m. Automobiles UKCONDITIONEII USED CARS 1930 Chevrolet spori coupe $500.00 1029 Chev. roadster, 8000 miles 375.00 1927 Chev. coupe, overhauled 225.00 1929 Ford A coupe, overhauled. 375.00 1929 Ford A Tudor, trunk 376.00 These cars have 1931 license and all in 1st class shape. LA GRANDE NASH CO. 806 Adams Ave. Ph. Main 603 WE TRADE. 4-11-3 t. FOR RENT FOR RENT 4-rm. mod. house, partly furnished, garage. Phone Geo. H. Chapman. 4-13-3 t. BOARD AND ROOM 88.00 Week, table board 85.25. 1802 Adams, . 4-11-2 tp FOR RENT 5-rm. mod. furn. house. Phone 210-W. 4-10-t f. FOR RENT Strictly modern houss with 4 bed rooms. Ph. M 586. 4-4-t f. Professional Directory Physicians & Surgeons i.ee n. BOUVY, M. D. 1.KWA WILKES, M. D. Completely equipped Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat hospital and of fices, third floor Foley Bldg. l'lione Main 10 A. L. RICHARDSON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office over Glass Drugs Office Phone. M-15 Res. M-55 DR. F. I.. RAl.STON Eye. Ear Nose and Throat 1-7 SOMMER BLDG. Phone Main 778. JAMES J. I). IlAl'N, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. NEW FOLEY BUILDING. . Office Ph. M. 710 Res. Ph. M. 712 Astrologer MRS. FREDERICK BALMES 301 N. Ave. Readings Dally. - ' Readings by Mall a Specialty. FRIENDS So The. kids wwvr TO THEIO OUOM H0tAE-B6Y'. HERE'S MY CHANCE TGET rr --.-... .. -- a - . Mm M UCNJ P THAT ISSI'T JUST fssaz HO HUM... 1 NHfcHi I AKV LUCK;! SHOCKS!! I iJELL MOSEy OM HOME J m VNE.LL, I SOESS ITS ALL L AJ' FOKSET THE jg OJER FOR ME .... 3EEy )- -ir " If THINS 'J 3 AMD JUST VJHEM 1 ' 1-.," - VMAS ALL SET FOR J 1 ' . iL, SOME THRILLS, f JjW -s: w i 14- f a-y.PA X GWE THAT N , 1 U THEY HOLD (JS ym aUrC V THEM tWy 6ET0CE MOM GOES CHlLOIStA, TRYING TO KEtV V4ITH 3 Conntiei FOR RENT $30.00, 5 room mod. house, in A-l condition. Close In. Near Adams Ave. Immediate pos session. CaU at 1701 Wash, for key. 4-0-6 tp. FOR RENT 3-rm. furn. Apts. apt. Maple 4-11-3 tp. FOR RENT -Mod. 4-rm. house, 2V& acres. CaU at 2104-lst St. 4-11-t t. FOR RENT 5-rm. mod. house, near Normal. Inq. 1405 N. Ave. Ph. 434-j. 4-7-t f. CLEAN, STEAM HEATED rooms. Rates reasonable, uber Brick, 1408 Wash. 4-3-1 mp. APT., NEWLY finished, gas range, water and lights furnished 2013 First St. 4-2-t f. FOR RENT Nice up-to-date furn. apts., witn garage. Landls Court. 3-27-t f. HOUSES for rent and for sale. Loans on Improved city homes. C. D. Pot ter, Res. Ph. 610-J. Bus. Ph. M-753 3-28-t if. FOR RENT Furn. bouses and apts., with bathB, clean, quiet, low ratea. Adults, 1810 Greenwood. 8-10-1 m. MISCELLANEOUS LAWN MOWERS SHARPENED Spe cial price 81.00 this week only. We do a general repair, business. An dersons Repair Shop, 303 Fir St. Phone 842-J. 4-13-5 tp. PEOPLES PRODUCE MARKET 305 Fir St. VIGORO & FERTILIZER Royal Poultry and Dairy Feeds. . Seed Potatoes. , HARLEY SMITH, 'Prop. 4-3-1 t. EASTERN ORBGOn School of MuslO. violin, piano, voice. Credits. I. O. O. F. temple, 447-J. 9-0-1 m. AUTO AND WINDOW GLASS Cut and fitted on short notice. La Grande Construction & Supply Co. 12-19-1 m. LA GRANDE MATTRESS & Up holstering & Rug Cleaning Works Phone 424-W. Chas. Edwards, prop 12-1-lm, MONEY TO LOAN We are represent tatlves for the Prudential Inaur ance Co., and can make farm 01 city loans at attractive rates of In teres t. Cbaa. H. Reynolds. Insurance, loans and bonds. 19 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide KALISPELL, Mont.. April 13 7P) Forced by ill health to discontinue her studies at University of Wash ington. Clover Rath, 19, killed her self here Saturday night. The girl, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Rath, went home from the drug store operated -by hor fa ther. When her mother reached heme, half an hour later, she found her daughter dead, in her room,, with a bullet wound In her head and ;a pistol on the floor beside her. She was born in Knllspell, grad uated from Anno Wright seminary in Tacoma, and attended University of Washington until the holidays. WINS CONTEST HONOLULU, April 13 Oregson Bautzer of the University of Southern California won first prize Saturday in the international oratorical contest of studonts. Tho subject. "Crucibles of Crime." was expounded In the English lan guage. Students from Japanese and Hawaiian universities also partici pated. Magneto Repairing Bosch, Elscmnn, Splltdorf EXCLUSIVE FACTOKY HEPKESENTATIVE .lattery & Electrical Service COX AUTO ELECTRIC 1425 Adams Phone M 753 WHAT GOOD OLD POP! TO THST.TOO-OOlt: KVf... QNY A HH A HEADACHE Jlf k: ",i H OUT OUR WAY -ftCS.Ur-S.PATsOFF, Officers Capture Lottery Tickets NEW YORK, April 13 (P) The cus toms department Saturday revealed It had seized a million lottery tickets for the next frish Free State Bweep stakes on the derby at Epsom Downs June 3. The tickets sell for ten shillings, or about $2.50 each. It was the biggest seizure of the kind ever made, t The seizure was made under the tariff act of 1930 which bars "im moral" articles. Solicitor of Customs Walter R. Eaton said It was not cus tomary to prosecute. Finnish Women Ask Repeal of Dry Law HELSINOFORS, Finland. April 13 ().Tho petition signed by 100.000 women pf Finland, asking repeal of the Finnish dry law, was presented to the president of th erepubllc Sat urday by ten prominent leaders of the antl-prohibltlon movement. Tho women signers,- among whom are several of the most prominent womon In Finland's public life, and temperanco leaders, declared in the petition that the prohibition law was ir5lock to temperance work. -'; "! Pilot's Death Due To a Faulty Motor HI NO HAM, Mass., April 13 (In vestigation has revealed that the wreck of an airplane In whloh James Nelson Burnes, 20, of EvanBton. Ill Harvard freshmon, met death Friday was caused by a faulty motor. Burnes was rated an excellent pilot of the Harvard flying club which owned the plane and held a private pilot's license. Tho uccldent was the first of any kind the club has had in its five year history. The 76-yard low hurdle record at the Illinois relays has stood since 120. Johnson of Mlchigon set It eight seconds. Wondcrlick Hospital Established Mar. 1020 Never a Surgical Death Phone Main 678 NEXT? ( CC-C) I'D JUST LIU'S TO KNOW VJHo SToLE THAT RUBY FROM OLD MAM HecTor.... BOT How X S'POSE I'LL. ME.NT10M SOMETWMG ABOUT AP.AETS ? aue. j I YOU TVJO ABOVJT FEWHERVM& A NEST OF. VSJV-W MOVERS G.E.T GcWH. Sets Fires to See "Red Engines Go" . CHICAGO, April 13 m Firemen were In good humor Saturday night when they got a call to put out a rubbish fire near 47th street and Lake Park avenue. But after they were called to the same vicinity seven more times in rapid succession to put out the same kind of fire they became peeved and began to wonder if someone wasn't taking advantage of them. Than they settled down for the night ond tho telephone rang ogaln. This time It was a fire .in a shed In the snmo neighborhood. When they arrived they found the police al ready on the scene, with Theodore Evans In custody, "Just Uko to see those red engines go, by," he said. Confessed Killer Pleads Not Guilty WILKESBARRE, Pa., April 13 (VP) Mrs. Frances Thomson, former high school teacher, charged with the kill ing of Mlnnio E. DUloy, aged recluse, pleaded not guilty when arraigned Saturday beforo Judge William 8. MpLeahv " ' ; r. Miss Dllloy was found dead In her Mrs. Thomson, 29, wife of a lumber I salesman, and mother of throe chll- I dren, was arrested in Pittsburgh and confessed to tho killing. She said she killed Miss DIUcy In self defense. Sight Restored to Arizona Pioneers PHOENIX, Ariz., April 13 (P) Three grizzled Arizona pioneers, veils ofe darkness lifted from their eyes, were groping for words to express ap preciation Saturday for a miracle of modern surgery. Lnst week tho aged men wore brought from tho Arizona Pioneers' home at Prcscott to submit to opera tions to relieve total blindness. Sat urday, when bandages were removed from their eyes, they saw. Abraham Hamilton Porter. 80, had not looked upon things of life for 25 years, Goorce D. Harper, almost as old, J hnd been blind for twenty years, and ; Steve A. Tyler, 79, had been serving i tho black sentence five years. Catn ' rncts were removed from tho eyes of nil three at attito expense. ) CMEB. THEB6 IM THE ) ' vJEDS ? LOOKS ,V '1 QUAT DOES FRECKLES SEE THAT STARTLES HIM SO ??? W8.il A ri,T.WV.' fcCE.POP.BUT (N6'E 60T IMTO m KF0L KES-i AKOVJT KK By J. R. Williams H-O 1031 0Y HEA CErUlCE, INC J Police Nip Giant Liquor Syndicate NEW ORLEANS. April 13 P A radio station wns eelzed and eight poisons wore arrested here Saturday in what prohibition officers described as tho beginning of a campaign for the nrrest of more than 100 persons in Now Orleans, Mississippi, New York, Chicago and Canada in con nection with the operation of a gi gantic liquor syndicate Some ntnto officials were involved federal agents said, and their orrcsts ordered. Tho agents first struck by seizing a radio station In Gent illy, a suburb, whoro thov claim movements of rum Would they We to pass the h&t for your family if you, were Accident" isi $uraaace is more dignified By Blosser s 70m 1DJI BY f.fA ST.fW.! By Cowan DON T OV KIDS CEE,PoR. V40PRY. NO IMT1ER YO'J'BE Tup VNIItvt WWO a- I. I JA YOU'OE IM. YOUR UU P Goods! YOV) OUT C U VJHAT'S THAT ) WM!$mM i i ? boats were directed to avoid coast guard patrol craft. The officers found Charles Andres Jr., radio operator. In charge of the station, and he was arrested. Seven others were arrested on charges of aiding the syndicate by furnishing information of movements of const guard vessels. They were Bert Morrison, Roy squires, Nathan Goldberg, L. Hart man, Charles Mc Dougal and Louis Cheramle, and Harry Doe. All of tho men were charged with conspiracy to violate the prohibition law and each was placed under bond of $25,000. ' District Attorney Edmund E. Tal bot said the ring was transporting liquor from Canada by boat through the gulf const ond up -the Pearl river where they had purchased a large tract of swamp land as a supply basa. Here tho liquor wns unloaded from boatB, transported by motor to freight cars where It was shipped out over the United States with a large part going to Chicago, ofricers said. Morrison, the district nttorney said, rpprpnented the Vancouver Consoll- By Perciucd Ckruiopker Wren-Alitor of msteriouswayehs SV.Vor.s'.S: ciinfc norson a tluiricr is aumed tit a confession f. e it Iff 0 -1(0 inmilcrtil "Stutter' Selililc. John Wnue who ulu.ed if ticte. trlt.1 tho crooks ot ur. rifirlm..' Mltr..hi(; Aiiiiib thot Its , will rinmilil irllll thrtn until Dor con Iiiiiiis. Vlotrters irio linil oiiro cheottii Dmson anil i-chlilt ol their shores ot I.MI u-mihl he arrrillv vleoseit lionlrt Dorson also ho removed, ileunwhue ho run t ucl ill ol H'iiui). The .r inulirn ill Chorters lr(fe w ol Or MovAtluo null Mr. Jomes 111 m.iKiif? a in'linlf ilenl to niiMnu J.i.j.ivie (.iiiirttrdtll so tinl her mull in I II III Willi ' muse the vlot to he rlnililitrf. ' Jnmes hnterror. tlerMcs to act tho olrls tortune throvtlh rani-i-ionf. n iiillmi her room where his iii'oiio.vi la rcierteil. Nurse Jones (mllililiiiillw (iHnrftii)ts Ilia lulril- , sin, Slin IV lila irlln their relif llun conceolcil lioin Ifto ntlciila. Chapter 24 A SUSPICIOUS WIFE lipOMB to my room." NurBe Jones hnd said quietly, na Mr James closed Morfcrlo'a door. "iMmv." aiilii ahe when they had entered tlmt sonotimry. "whol'a the i-mni-v I'd tear yonr throat out If I found you double-crossing me with unothor woman. You know what ivn when vou llrat tempted nie, .'.a decent a girl ns nny In EnRland or A.uerka. and you Itnovy what you made me." "Aw! Cut that out." snarled Mr James. "There's too much comes out of yqur faco." "Yes, and I'll cut your heart out, If you Blve mo cause. When you look inu out of nursing, and out of 1 a decent life, you look me tor keeps, I and don't you forget It. . know i ommsh nuout you, James tlryde. to sonil you to the chair. Now ther what's your gnme with this Louder ; dell pleeeV" "Well. I'll toll you. Tho Boss has weakened on a proposition I that mount. n helluva line wad, This i l.auili'i'Hell skirl was brought hero 1 hy an old time alde-klrkor ot his i Tho girl comes Into 100.0UU sterling I when she's 21. And If sue ooosn I llvo to win It. the liosa's old pal Hots It. hoeiiuse hor husband's tho girl's undo nnd heir. Louie ihe Lady nlnched her lower llo and eyed her husband narrowly "And If her clock stops before It strlkoa 2. tho Uoss gels a rake off?" she observed. "Ho gets ten po:- cent, and the fool's throwing In his hand be cnusn ' Wayo knows all about It. Tho floss has thrown his old pal down ami us, too. Not that the old devil was going to share that ten thousand." - "Double-cross ns?" asked Louie the Lady. "You said it . . . Well, we'll doublo-cross him. We'll do tho Job and I'll go nnd collect from Mnud tho Uoss' pal double Iho ruke off." "You speaking tho truthlor onco?" "Course I'm speaking the truth. Go nnd ask the Old Man. If you don't bellevo mo. He'll wonder It tho gardener nnd the butler are going to Inniilro next." "T'laps I will. Moantline. s'pose you Just mention wl.nt ydu were doing In that girl's room. If she comes Into cush when she's 21, wore you thinking of Inheriting the the lot as her rnke husband?" ".My. what a mind you've got!" ejaculated Mr. James. "Yes, Jimmy-how long have I lud the benefit of your teaching? What were you doing In that room ?" "Did you ever hear ot a wise cook casting an eye on the llo of tho land?" "Or on the girl?" sneered Louie the Lody. "Sister, did f say you mnke me tired? Listen Did you ever hear of a gunman learning the habits of the man he was going to bump off? Iild vou ever hear ot a yegg man going to have a look nt the premises where they keop the safe he's going to blow? I went Into that girl's room to see for myself where she keeps her drinks, and medicines uiid so on. D'you think t waul to gu snooping round in tho night nnd bnve tier wake up when I knock something over?" "Yoo wero talking to her." "Course I was, when I found hor there. Hadn't I got to m.'ika It look natural?" "Well, what's the gome?" "Oh, I'll weaken on It now. like the (loss. And you'll lose your half of SoO.OOO or more, for your clever ncss . . Real vallyble partner you arc!" "When have I fulled yon? Haven't I done the vilest . . Were you going to ask me to help you. Jimmy?" "Course I was. Put now 1 . . ." "What Is It you want me to do dater distilleries! and Goldberg and' jitwuiiuu mm an unmentiiiea man. : listed as Harry Doe, were oharged with the Job of delivering the liquor from the boats to the railroad cars.' Pays Dime Stolen Fifty Years Ago ROCHESTER, Ind., April 13 JP) -i-. ... Everybody concerned was happier to- day about the ten cent pair of garters a woman stole from Lou Shoemaker, a merchant, fifty years ago. Shoemaker got a letter from a womon In a western state, whose name ho did not reveal, announcing that she had stolen the gartoro from the store he used to run In Kewannn, Iowa, and wanted to make amende. She Inclosed a dime in payment- ; "I've been converted," the woman wrote. Shoemaker couldn't remember 1 anything about it, but pocketed the dime. They are renting the Empire State building at 91,000,000 a floor, it U said. These stories sell, and how! Get hold ot Manoel's coffin-drops, thnt stuff he reckons he's tho only white man who has got tne .low- down on. Dyou Know wnero ub keeps It?" " . No. but I can get anything i wnnt out ot Manoel," boasted Nurse ones. "So? And you're Jealous If I BQ Into a girls room on Dusineooi. Whnt'll you toll Manoel you, want the poison for?' That -It's tor a cat l want n get rid of." ; : Gee! And .so It IS!" taugueu Mr. Jnmes. When Mr. James, aa be reguiariy did, -moved about the houae In the night or the small ,nours or wv morning hla alienee ano, coiuiium tlve Invisibility were remarkable. Black olothlng, eoeltB. gloves and. black ellk handkerchief anoui hla face, rendered bin. but a more aubstantlal shadow among the Im material shadows and darknessea of tho ancient house. Armed and a ert. he acted aa though a dangerous enemy might attempt entry sucn as ue wnu u tored the bouBe of Mr. Webb ot Wltherby End to slay and rob. There had been, a year or two ago. a story about a maid who, go- inn to bod quite sape, was un covered loler to De quite lnsnna. Tho slllv creature could only oap- bio of a black bogey In the corrldori Ami now Mra. Meeklns. the bousokeoper, was tolling Mr B iard, the butler, that here was turn Sprnsse. that pretty bousemala', winning to leave. , Har info was that aha crept o.ut of the room where she and two others slept, and wont down to the Moor below to ask the nurae to give her something tor n raging tooth ache. . :' ' . ; ''.; Aa she got to" tho bottom 'of the stalrcnsq. she saw. according to her account, "an awful black thing" pasB 4he end or the corridor, and, ns alio stood, trembling la terror, another a bigger onewent past th' same 8pot- The next thing sho know was that ahe wns half lying nt the bottom of the stalre snd ns cold as death. When she hnd "come round a bit more," alio had crept to her room, ber tooth- arhe completely cured. "llnvo her up before the Doctor," opined Mr. Board. "That gel thought she'd llko to mnke a sensa tion nnd got a bit o' Importance." And yet despite Mr. Board and bin opinion of a muld's veracity, the shadow Hint was Mr. James had, upon occnslon. a shadow, though Ik did not cast 1 1. .Mr. John Waye, who slopt little and mostly hy day, was Invariably nwako between the hours ot ten, when nurses went oft duty tor the night, and six In the morning, when nurses and daylight did appear. Somo part ot the night he spent In writing, some In rending, and nt certain hours ho sat In darkness nnd hi thought, his oil il face grim. .It was his unvarying practice to sll fai-liiR tho door ot his room, und to keep that door wide open. The night nurse, passing on her rounds at midnight, would set him nnd he would see her, or any one else who might pnss. When the night-nurse hnd made her rounds, and switched off all lights save at corners, staircases or Intersecting corridors, Mr Waye, armed with a black pin and a reel of black cotton, would dart across the corridor, stick the pin In the top of the wnlnscot, attnch tho end ... tho cotton thereto, and return to bis door. Here ha would break the cotton from the reel, and, passing the end ot this detached piece through the key hole, would tie It to his llttlo linger, and then, seating Ii ! in so 1 r In his armchair, draw It taut. Thus, across the dnrk corridor, run nn Invisible line of communica tion that would be tugged and broken by any passer-by. and Mr. Wuye be instantly aware of the fncL Nor would the prowler sup IW30 thai Ills silent passing was recorded. And, tills night, as was his cus I ni, John Wuye sat on gunrd. Rosemary . . . Marjorle . . . Would they, nt the same age. have i.een Indistinguishable? How his hciirt hnd leapt, and bow nearly !u had cried "Kosomary" before them all when first hla eyes bad fallen upon her. Darling beautiful Mnrjorlcl Suddenly the llttlo finger of John Wayo's sensitive hand felt a slight uut nolle perceptible twitch. 'Cfl'tr4. I9S0. ir fttJltK A. Stein (.; Convulsive twitching and then Ij.'-i;', Or. MacAdoo's poison does a vi ... ? 1 . :! - ,'.t r .? ' i i "i f 't t ! I , -. "! ... Jimmy?" j iti w-vh well and unexpectedly 'ftUnjay. . I.