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October 21, 1937. THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON Pag Eleven ftUT CT..4BION WHITE CH u. murderer. Cilly I This. h d not seen him &V h7 Kuess his identity. the murderer. . . . his . .ternal second, the for one e," .,,). -he Lm spun n. . . C!lbS hands"Slow. "wlessly, choked oil her jtlentless y, her. rtfh.d been T f or Amy, just a "nlgntbThis was death, kll'she' returned to a irousness. At first she llffcpen her eyes, for fear tr . .wither worm iu wm-. LMaken She had died, even rC hTdied, and this was a -voiwhicH "7 me to fear in these lew !'i but which would forever Kfin her ears as the sweetest "Safj right, young lady," ' Ser Jrt Dolan said kindly, "open fefopened them, looked 1 5 Why, she was back in Vwd- rnom. stretched K on the divan! Perhaps she had Pm ... . h fire escape ad- KeTperhapsitwasallawild ftSrther 10 conds and you'd Mot of the NIGHT Copyright, 1937, NEA Strvict, lne. told you up smiled, a little a thou- in her LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Is Justice Blind? her. "wnarevci IthereT" I n v sai uu, forlornly. There were P,.nd her throat stm felt as hi it were encaseu m L she was glad to be alive. ( She hem ner win - to Sergeant Dolan , "Thanks ior shvuib y ...... tot said simpiy. ,U2no, damn it, we haven't! My 0,4 to think we wer only 10 seconds Denina nun. . ....... i U.nAnnl'1' Well, I hadn't gotten out of th front door aner reavuis juu when Martin drove up. Seems he nt a report from Connecticut. They checked on every old lady within a dozen miles of the town this Eliott woman was supposed to be visiting. There's no such person. There's nobody with a mother living on oi. uu In Brooklyn. Mrs. Eliott is a phony. So I came DacK ana goi Johnson here to let me into 2-A with his passkey. Just as soon u we opened the door, we heard lomething like glass crunching, ai by the time we got into the bedroom, the bird had flown. Down the fire escape, of course. There wasn't a trace of him, ex cept the footprints where he landed when he jumped, and a few tracks to the sidewalk. But we did get there in time to pre vent his finishing .you oft . . . thank heaven!" "Thank heaven, indeed," Cilly repeated, with forced cheerfulness. She stroked her throat tenderly. "Now tell me," Dolan insisted, "what took you up there?" "Curiosity, I guess. I had a feel ing that we'd find something in one of the vacant apartments, either the one above me or Gar rotters'. Only," she slumped back, despairingly. "I didn't see. He turned off the light before I could let a glimpse of him. Lord! To think how close we were. . . ." "What did you find up there?" Cilly told him about the empty chest of drawers, the man's coat in the closet; she emphasized the barren atmosphere of the room, a if it were not really a woman's Permanent home. Tm sure the secret to the whole affair is in that apartment upstairs," she finished. Dolan nodded. "You're right Jbout that . . . we're going back r more thorough search. I anted to be sure you were all nght first." Tm fine now, thanks. . '. . I "rl'i 1 don 1 cnoke so easily." Dolan stood up and began to J himself into his enormous Wneoat. "Within 10 minutes," he teured her, "there'll be a man J3 -quarters to spend the m in Mrs. Eliott's apartment, Sv TaAe our friend does cme . in the meantime, you're not T Vour aoor t0 anyone, totandthat? Not to a soul! Know Of U-hnm out u juu eec Bianaing the seconds. She wondered which echoed loudest through the room the sharp, staccato ticking of the clock, or the dull, thundering beat of her own heart. Ten minutes, Sergeant Dolan had said. Fifteen minutes at the latest, until there would be a policeman on guard upstairs and a policewoman down for company. She would breathe easier when they arrived. But nothing could happen to her now. Over and over, she as sured herself of that The mur derer would never risk a visit to her apartment, where all the lights were on, where he could not enter without her seeing him immediately. That would be walk ing into his own death sentence. He wouldn't dare. . .' , Nervously, she rubbed a moist palm down her throat; it still pained from the pressure of the man s iron lingers . . i. she re. membered his hand as it slowly, cautiously reached in and switch' ed out the lights. Suddenly she wanted to scream. She imagined she could see that hand now, reaching to the switch on her wall; once more she felt those strangling fingers on her throat. . . . Why, that man would dare anything! He was a fiend. diabolical and cunning, and he did not rear a dozen Sergeant Dolans. If he suspected that she knew something, he would not hesitate now, ... . Then he eyes, glued on the fire escape window in the bedroom, noticed something she had quite forgotten. The window that win dow alone of all those in the apartment was not latched. She remembered leaving it open that way about an inch so that she could open it if she came down tne lire escape. She must close that window, and lock it. But her feet would not carry her into that other room. She was shaking like a leaf; she could imagine a thousand demons at her back if she but stepped beyond the living room. Then, in the next instant, the room spun around to the insistent, intense ringing of the front door bell. In sheer relief, Cilly ran to press the lock-release buzzer in the foyer. Anything was better than the terrifying uncertainty of the empty apartment. . . . Halfway across the room, she stopped. Sergeant Dolan's words rang in her ears: "No matter who rings your bell, you're not to open the door!" She stood there, afraid to open the door, and equally afraid not to open it. The bell rang again, loud and demanding. Still she hesitat ed. For the third time it sounds but this time it was not one long, imperjuus ring, rnree snort rings sounded this time, three short, friendly rings. Instantly, Cilly ran to the foyer and pressed the buzzer. She pressed it eagerly, joyously, a new i courage in her eyes transcending every vesuge 01 ine previous mo ment's fear. . . , Three short rings she had heard distinctly, and the one person in all the world who rang a bell with three short rings was Jim Kerrigan. (To Be Continued) The Best of the Nation's "Human-est" and Funniest Comics On This Page Daily ANPl THCT MAN. MR. BLAB6LE -t!S WAS THE ONt WHO GOT ME ADOPTED BY MR. AND MRS. BRITTUWrr- IT WAS ALL HI5 DOIN'. IN TH PLACE " AND ALL THeNs) WAY THROUGH, ANNIE- YOU SEE HE POSES AS A REPUTABLE. HIGH-MINDED riut-Hrt ur 42 SOCIETY- mi 1 1 1 FIRST PLACE - J I HE MAKES A POINT OF BEING QUITE A PUBLIC DONOR TO CHARITIES - THE PROFESSIONALLY 500D PEOPLE THINK HE'S OUST WONDERFUL HUMPH -LITTLE THEY GUESS HE'S BEEN A rKOPEbSIOriAu KILLER FOR FKOHT FOR TEARS- n 8-B-eUT-THE LAW! WHY DOESN'T 60ME ONE TELL THE POLICE? WHY ISN'T SOMETHING DONE ABOUT IT f V. AH. YES-THE LAW THE TRi UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS NOT QUITE ENOUGH- WE KNOW RUTH BUT By HAROLD GRAY PROOF LEGAL PROOF . THAT T WHAT W6 REEB-ANt IT MOST BE AIR TIGHT" SOMETHING A SMART LAWYER CANT BEAT YES, ANNIE - SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, A5 YOU 5AY- WELL, IT BEING DONE- J 113 TJ4IMBLC fHEATRft 6tarrln8 PQPEYE Now Showing: EVERYTHING IS JAKE" Tomorrow: "Making Hay Hay While the Sun Shines" By E. C. SEGAR kavi r itki-T t X I V . 11 1 vi- . icnc jrt " I r . lurrr v.ir--vr- vm v 1 KniPi vrsi I tliom. t fXBSOLOTELi OOVNQ ON THE NMbKT J . ON& ft.M- fs VJOMfH INTO ) bVTl V iVir -a T I IMPOSSIBLE!! OF OULt FOUH? (NU6UST SlXTrtUk. 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If IhltZ iTossed at win. teuH herself- he would dl loud enough to wake the No clock o" usttned to it Uck away New Group Forms In Fall Creek Area FALL CREEK, Oct 20. (Spe cial) The ladies of Fall Creek have organized a new club to be known as the Welfare club of Fall Creek. The first meeting was held at the Fall Creek echoolhouse last week. In the business meeting election, of officers was held. The ones elected include Mrs. Frank Graham, president; Mrs. J. W. Richardson, vice-president; Mrs. Frank Kintzley, secretary, and Mrs. Soderstedt as treasurer. Projects planned to be under taken by this club will be provid ing not lunches for the school, manual training and sewing. it was also decided to charge a small sum of 50c per year for dues, and that meetings of the club be held on the first Friday of each month. . In 1930, 33,596 scientists were employed in 1420 laboratories in the United States. 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