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)
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ANPl THCT MAN.
MR. BLAB6LE -t!S
WAS THE ONt
WHO GOT ME
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HE MAKES A POINT OF BEING
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CHARITIES - THE PROFESSIONALLY
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THEY GUESS HE'S BEEN
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8-B-eUT-THE
LAW! WHY
DOESN'T 60ME
ONE TELL THE
POLICE? WHY
ISN'T SOMETHING
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WE KNOW
RUTH BUT
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PROOF LEGAL PROOF . THAT T
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you see standing
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the door. Remember
won't." Cilly promised.
thoroughly. And I'll bring
to ZnA Td S,u0Ut Policewoman
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wSVhim0""1 be 8fraid" CiUy
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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. .
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