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THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GR&Ntti WMKiQft
Wednesday, April 11, 1945
IKE WARNING
XIX
B7HEN Mr. Hudson got out of
the cor and como towards the
house, he looked very old and
very tired. He had two more
newspaper And a copy of the
J tiantic Monthly under his arm
Pat, In slacks and sneakers, con
trived somehow to look tho epit
ome of what every girl aspired to
appear.
Mr. Hudson passed us without a
word. Pat stopped and gazed after
her father for a moment. Her
lovely eyes were truubled. Then
he said:
'. "Nick, I hate the sight of this
place. Let's take a walk along
the bluffs."
"Sure," I said and turned to
Charley. He shook his head.
"Where's Europe, Nick?" asked
Pat when the ocean stretched
Wldo below us.
"Out there," I pointed.
' "And Spain," she said, "Just be
yond that spar buoy."
"Beyond the horizon; about an
hour's ride."
"I remember Spain and all of
Europe. I saw it with the oyes
of a little girl who thought the
world wns her oyster and who
nevor knew a moment's trouble.
Until she grew up.
"Nick," she looked at me stead
ily, "we haven't a penny to our
names."
''What?" I said and I lookod at
her. She smiled wanly and
touched my check gently with her
hand.
"The Hudsons aro poor. Fother
told me tills afternoon. Poor dear,
he feels it dreadfully."
"What happened?"
"LIIIm of the field and bad
management," she said.
"Are you sorry?"
"About tho money? No." She
shook her head and I knew she
meant it. "Nick, there's some
thing much more important than
mr losing our money."
"What's that?" I UBked.
"This is not quite so easy to
tell. Father " she stopped. "Fa
ther is mixed up in something
well dishonorable."
pAT " I began but she
stopped me.
"There's no sense in keeping it
from you, Nick. You'll know
eventually, and I want you to
hear it first from me. As a mat
ter of fact, I know very little ex
cept what he told me. On the
way back from Minot, he talked
nostalgically of better days. Then
he said: 'Pat, I must tell you this
for the small shred of honor I
can preserve in confessing such
a shabby thing. Your father is
mixed up in a very dangerous and
dirty game. But it won't be for
long. I'm pulling out.' "
My pulse begun to beat in my
temples.
"Pat, did he say what this game
was?";
"No," she shook her head, "lie
just said not to worry and he
would take caro of everything."
"I think I had belter talk with
your father, Pat."
"You can't do that, Nick," she
said quietly. "You know father's
stubbornness. Besides this is quite
confidential. I don't think ho can
have done anything so terrible."
"Of course not, but "
"You don't think it's something
to do with that business in the
cellar this morning?"
"Why, no, Pat."
"You do, Nick." She faced me
resolutely. "And so do I. There
nre too many loose ends here.
For example, why didn't father
notify Cass Hapes about tho at
tack on you this morning? Why
was father so Insistent that Bruce
Temple, whose very name Is
wormwood to him, stay all night
at The Ledges? Why did father
consent to coming down to The
Ledges in tho first place, when It
has been Impossible hitherto to
budge him more than threo feet
Gloves, Bag
cent postage, your name, address
mid the pattern number to Anne
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server, 7011 Mission St., San Fran
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Merry'Go-Round
Continued From Page 2
show one statement by Hoffman
that, although most judges slay
out of politics, "if Justice Frank
furter wants to descend into the
political arena that is n mutter
between him and his God." This
statement is nut shown, because
before Hoffman could say an
other word! llopicsontative Wil
bur Mills of Arkansas, presiding
over the House at the time, or
dered it expunged from the Record.
Official Records
Water turned off, April 10:
Lee Moser, 704 L uvc.; August
Most, 1703 Washington.
Water turned on:
Lee MoScr, 170!) Washington;
August Moser, 704 L; Frank 1M
lett, 1007 Lake; R. J, Bovercamp,
G07 Adams.
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Capture of Laohokow
Claimed liy Japs
CHUNGKING, April 11 (UP)
Japan today claimed tho capture
o strategic Laohokow, former U,
S. air base site in northwestern
Hupeh province, but Chinese
front dispatches reported con
tinued fighting there.
llattlu reports said Chinese
troops captured Nanchang, 30
miles south of Laohokow. Lao
hokow and Nanchang both are
situated on the Han river. Lao
hokow formerly was an import- t
ant Chinese operational center.
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Governor
HORIZONTAL
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11 Worries
12 Oleum (ab.)
13 Disrobed
15 Competent
16 Drag
18 Dread
19 Pastry
20 Swamp
22 Theatrical
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23 Whirlwind
24 Father
25 Upward
27 Epistle (ab.)
28 Czars
30 Erects
32 Seine
33 Obtained
34 Pursuit
38 Foe
39 Sun gc4
40 Senior (ab.)
41 Bone
42 Id est (nb.)
43 Employ
45 Abrupt
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4 Electrical term
5 Trip
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7 Pound (ab.) 26 Spanish-
8 Dolt American
8 Native metals laborers
10 More precious 29 Collection of
11 Winning of all sayings
tricks at cards 31 Consumed
14 Lets fall 34 Squeeze
18 Italian river 33 Hurrv
17 Lett side (ab.) 37 Optical
20 Conquers phenomenon
21 He is also a 38 12 months
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47 Weight
48 Moist
49 Type measure
50 Endure
52 Tier
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to accent a doll-like watline.
Soft ruffling outlines the flatter
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HOW IT STARTED ' '
Men raise their lints in greeting
from the custom of their ances
tors, who wore armor, of remov
ing their helmets on approach
ing castles as a sign that they
were friends.
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olf Beacon Hill from September
till June?"
"I've wondered about that my
self," I said. .
"
pAT had gone to her room for j
a nap, and 7 started for my
own room. I was uneasy about
Mr. Hudson. When a man of the
fiber of Phfneas Hudson faces
dishonor, he becomes capable of
desperate measures. But the mo
ment I stepped into my room, all
thoughts of Phincas Hudson van
ished. If there had been another door
in that room, I could have sworn
that someone had stepped through
it the moment I entered. It wag
as if the quiet air had stirred
faintly. The constant presence of
danger sharpens one's senses. I
was certain that someone had
been In the room.
I stood for a moment in the
doorway and looked around. Ev
erything was just as I had left it.
Tho mystery novel was still on the
table by my bed. Yet it seemed
that tho book had been moved
a little so that I got a clearer
view of the design on the jacket:
the shadowed outline of a hang
ing corpse. I turned to the bu
reau. There In a corner of the
mirror tucked In between the
glass and the frame was a white
slip of paper like a parking ticket
on a windshield. I unfolded it
and read the message pasted on
tho paper with tho cut-out let
ters t newspaper hcadlirt) It
was quite lucid. , .'
CET OUT OK BE KILLED, '
The paper was a brand of cheap
white sulphite such as can. ibe
bought at any stationer's. The
letters were cut from The Time.
I slipped tho message Into my
pocket. I had only one impos
ingly clear thought: murderers do
not warn their victims.
Then I had what I thought was
an inspiration. It is a practice in
jlujltsu to resist your opponent
at first, then suddenly to add his
force to your own by going the
way he pushes.
I would take the advice. I
would leave Tho Ledges ond by
combining the note writer's
strength with my own, I might
learn something.
(To Be Continued)
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