La Grande evening observer., April 10, 1945, Image 4

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TIIE SMELL OF MUEDEtt
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A FTER that dinner thing! began
to happen. Eric discovered
urgent business in Boston and Pat
drove bim to the train in the
tation wagon. Phineas Hudson
rode along with Pat and Eric to
make some telephone calls. Bruce
Temple and Bronda departed al
most Immediately for home.
Charley and I walked dispirit
edly along the sea wall. Charley
said: ...
"Did you sco Eric's face when
Bruce Temple spilled that busi
ness about Estorll?"
, "For a time," I sold, "It was the
only convenient way out of Eu
rope." "Yd.? . Charloy fingered his
chin reflectively. "I'd like to
know when he was there."
"Temple?"
Charley looked at me.
"Who else?"
; "Eric," I said. "Or Booker or
Colavestri."
,, "I don't suppose, it would help
much," Charley said. "Nick, did
.Booker know of your connection
with the Hudsons?"
i "He seemed to," I said. "He
kept talking about the little girl
on Beacon fun.?.: .,. ' 1 . . ,
"I only saw him once," Charley
iwent on, "but I noticed some
, thing"
Ho paused.
"Yes?"
"His feet," Charley said.
"They were big," Charley said.
"In fact, they were enormous."
"Lots of people have enormouB
feet," I sold.
' Charley looked at me shrewdly.
I knew what he was thinking.
The implication in the presence of
those Blakely and Hogdon shoes
In the Hudson cellar were, to say
the least, disturbing.
It .was beginning to look as if
Phineas Hudson was in on this
somohow. Thot only confused
matters. We might have pursued
it further, but we heard e car
wheeling along the gravel drive.
.
TT was Cass Hapes. He ap
proached with a' look half-
worried and half-determined.
"Well, Cass," I said, "you were
right."
"Mind if I have a look in the
cellar?" he asked.
Neither of us minded although
we were not over-sanguine about
the results. We took him to the
cellar. He said: .
"Where's this room?"
We showed him the room. He
glanced swiftly around.
"And the shoes?" he asked.
I looked. The shoes were gono.
Charley said: "They were right
there under the cot."
Hapes included us both in
withering glance of scorn.
"Why didn't somebody knucklo
on to those?
"I thought fingerprints or
something " Charley shrugged
weakly.
1 "Fingerprints! With those shoes
we didn t need fingerprints. Ttwre
probably weren't more than four
pairs that size stocked in all the
stores In the city of Boston."
"Maybe they weren't bought in
Boston," I suggested.
"I'd have liked the opportunity
of finding thot out. Now what
about that fellow who entered
your room last night, Mr. Trent?"
"Did Mr. Hudson tell you about
that, too?"
Mr. Hudson didn't tell me.
Brenda Temple called."
Charley's head came up like a
setter's. And I divined his
thought. Why hadn't Mr. Hud
son told Hapes?
"Well," I said, "he shot a. me
and missed; that's about all. Ho
was tall and tough."
would be. You got
ftls
"Ho
gun?"
I pulled the gun gut of my
pocket and h-mded it over. Hapes
registered disgust.
"You weren't so careful about
fingerprints here.".
"Look, Cass." I begon to froth
a little at the mouth. "I wrestle
for that gun. If I hadfi't, there
would hove been some lovely
prints on the gun but no gun."
Hapes merely stared at me
stolidly. Then surprisingly enough
he passed It back.
"Know anyone who would want
to kill you?"
"No."' .
"I do." Charloy smiled brightly.
Hapes did not smile back.
"Who?"
"A mechanic with eyes like
shoe buttons and a knife-scar on
his face."
'What's his namo?"
'That's your Job." answered
Charley. He told Hapes the story
of the tampering with hjs plane.
Then he concluded: "bill the guy
who fired this gun wasn't after
Nick: that Is, not precisely."
"What do you mean not pre
cisely?"
"The shooting of that gun was
a defensive act just as the slug
ging in the basement. If that
fellow had really wanted Nick out
of the way, you'd have had your
corpse and a nice fat murder to
work on."
"I'll hove the murder yet." said
Hapes bluntly. . ...
"Sorry to have disappointed
you," I remarked. ,
1 "Listen, Mr. Trent." Hapes be
came quite earnest. "When youVe
been a general practitioner for 20
years, you don't need X-rays to
detect the measles. You can smell
em. Well, it's the same in no-
llce work. I can. smelt murder.
and befora long We'll have one.!'
With that comforting thought.
Hapos left us. And it was char
acteristic of his New England
lnconiclsm, that when he passed
Pat and her father coming through
the gate in the station wagon, hia
greeting was imperceptible from
where I stood if, in fact, thoro
had been any greeting at all. Cass
Hapes seemed not to like us.
(To Be Continued)
Kitchen Set
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By MRS. ANNE CABOT
Have fun, save money and at
the same time turn your kitchen
Into a smartly decorated affair
by giving your ehinrs and work
stool a brightly colored plaid or
checked set of new covers. Eas
ily made, they are admired by nil
who see thcml
address and the pattern number
to Anne Cabot, La Grande Eve
ning Observer, 709 Mission St.,
San Francisco, Calif.
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Boots 1 and Her Buddies
By Edgar Martin
"VKOOCbVW ME.
Ccrluinly there should bo no
military value to the enemy in
lotting the American public in on
how many cigarotlcs we arc
sending to different countries, if
the Nazis arc getting some of the
cigarette we ship to Sweden, the
Nazis probably know about it
anyway. And the American pub-1
lie is certainly entitled to know I
sis much as the Nczis.
War Notes
The war department is not
happy about tlra present Italian
trip of Congresswomun Clnrc
Boothc Luce of Connecticut. The
authoress-glamor girl got in the
army's hair last winter when she
toured the battle-fronts as u
member of tho house military af
fairs onnimllluc. So whim she
decided to go back In Italy, the
army turned down her request
for transportation. Mrs. Luce
went to the British for transpor
tation. She was taken in n Brit
ish plane to London. But who :
gave he
London
active
plained
on the Italian front aro reported
fearful they will not ho able to
rotreat to the fatherland. Allied
bombers hove been able U keep
tho Brenner pass to Austria com
pletely blocked . . . Sumc Gci nian
troops in Italy are reported try-
ii. nut tvna viini.-ii 111 11 ii II- 1 1 i m e; . I .
ilanc to London. But who : $ t i .'
her permission to go lrom j fj' I SI ' '
on to Italy, which is still an I t "' .'?. .')'
e theutor, remains 1111 uncx-1 7' " th . -I t .
ed mystery . . . Nazi (roups L' . f . 7 . ' . I. f'
10 obtain complete cutting and ! iiiK to desert and loin un vvilli
finishing instructions for the Italian partisans in the hope of
decorators kitchen set (pattern
No. 5730) send 15 cents in coin,
plus 1 cent postage, your name,
saving their
Hitler finally
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when
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units
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