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Page 8 THE GOLD HILL NEWS, TH l HSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1932 tlons— the amateur theatrical move menta, for Instance. Pre chased her about a little—not nearly so much as I wanted to— but you've simply Ignorad OF THE U .< s a « u s M s a d r f s 4 lr » 4 s 4 r t a s iM H i - her, Owen; you know you have," By Francis Lynd« •A im n m I w ff « s a lti « i l 4 * f e » le »«set • » «fit The laggard In love spoke up •••» Ir a e k U a J ia » » « » — M U I Markham nodded slowly. "Don't you By Isis quickly. lllustMtions by know, Owen, it all listens a gtxx! bit “ You are not saying It all. Wally— O . Irwin Myen like a pipe dream." not speaking for yourself, I mean. But "So It does to me. But what la (W N U h n l n ) No, (L worse, I can't get away from the feel you don't need to, l'va known ever (C op yrigh t by U u t is in G .( v 4 Chi PO C A H O N TA S A N D M IL L Y tinea last year how It la with you. T h e D istribu tio n al Count ing that I'm In the fix of the man who You are In love with Betty yourself. Invented the Frankenstein thing." Her real name waa Mataoka, and 'T 'O START with an orderly proevas That Is one reason why I ’ve buried CHAPTER I “Meaning— ?" A of constructive thinking couceru- ■he was the daughter of Wahunaona- myself In my Job here— to give you “Meaning the frightful usee to which Ing tbs worth of the actual cards eock. chief of the and her a chance to find out where this contrivance of mine could he put 1‘uwhataii confeder- which you hold when waking the The Black Box you both stand. No, don't make any In the committing of crime. You might acy. blie was a frol- most usual bid at coulract, a suit hid It was between the acts of the play. mistake; It Isn't any silly knightly say there Is no end to them. Noise It Iraotua child, and her of one, let us rvullse how mauy tricks The orchestra of a theater In Carthage, chivalry on my part—Just common the burglar's chief menace; with this you aro undertaking to win slid as pluyfulneee e a rn e d a college town of the Middle West, was decency. I f J should marry, Fiu not box of mine coupled to a lighting certain what will be the probable tier a nickname from In full swing, when there sounded a even sure I could feed and clothe a socket he could wreck the lower story ths father; Pokahau- source of these tricks. When bidding faint click from what appeared to be wife. And when poverty comes In at of a house or blow the strongest bank on« you contract for seveu tricks. Of tea (she Is playful), an overgrown portable camera on the vault In perfect security, to far as the door—“ Ths adveutures of course you are uut expected to take lap of one of two young men seated “Oh, shush I You needn't quote the noise was concerned. So, also, CapL John S m ith - all seveu tricks yourself. Your hsnd In the right hand proscenium box of with the use of firearms. You see what proverbs at me. Don't you suppose 1 Ills perils among the Is supposed to furnish at least four the theater, and Instantly the bowing know that I don't stand a Chinaman's hostile Indiana, his ; of the contract, and you are permitted of the violins, the 'cellos and the bass, chance with Betty? What I'm beefing Fsag Ik « Frost A w a y capture, the aeutence to count on finding about three assist the fingering of the brass and wood about Is the way you scamp your ing tricks In your partner's haud. Fred Rusteburg tins 100 acres o| to death, and his res wind. the tapping of the padded sticks chancea with her. There's another To see how your owu four tricks bean« on hla farm sear Ban Benito, cue by the maiden on the k»rrie-<lrums became merely so Richmond In the field. Old you know can be counted, let us lake this clear- Texas Th« earlleet bean« marketed scarcely In her teens, are told In song many soundless gestures In a panto that?” and ttory. But that le only the be cut typo of a minimum one heart naturally bring premium prices, and mime. All was dead silence. Ijtndls' face fell. bid: as the lender young plants fall aa The two young men In the box who “No! You don't mean that, W ally!” ginning of the narrative of Pocahon II- A Q 9 3 D -A N 04 O-TO easy prey to late frosts, there la (he seemed to have precipitated this ex “I do. Indeed; this new fellow, Can tas. John Smith returned to England 8 -8 0 4 (When vulnerable, thia hand would constant danger of having them traordinary state of affairs were both by. who la cutting such a wide swath In 1000. The promises of the Engllal To ward off these 1st« about of an age. both Carthage born with his wonderful development scheme were not fulfilled, and the Indium be too weak (or au opening bid. Vul nipped. and reared, and both graduates of the for Carthage. Going to make It an were kept unhappily busy by the exac nerable, a four-card suit bid uiuat frosts, Rusteburg has mounted thri-e bold at least a queeu better than the s Irplntie impellers with tholr motors, local college. Rut with these basic other Chicago overnight and all that. tions of the whits people. There was Intrigue among the In minimum.) Obviously as ouly 2 St of tnken from World war a ir bombers. particulars the similarities paused He Is rushing Betty to a finish, and dians also. Lured by the false atorles your tricks uppeur In honors, some Whenever the temperature sinks to abruptly. Owen Landis, the one with she seems to like It." the queer black box on his knees, was A grldlronlng of fine lines appeared of a treacherous chief, Pocahontns thing additional must be produced the danger point, Rusteburg starts went aboard the ship of Captain A r from the length or distribution of his motors and the currents of alt slenderly built, with a thin, eager face between I-nndls' eyes. and dark hair and eyes—the eyes of Ont of thvee expected eel In motion keep the frost from " I don't like Canby, Wally—what gali, In the Potninac river. She was your suits. held on board while the boat Bailed ploylug tricks is a small heart; be forming. Just as happens on a windy a dreamer and enthusiast. His com little I've seen of him.” panion. Walter Markham, was the “Just the same, he Is exactly the away from land, and for some time cause lu bidding a suit, you are al night, even I f temperatures are young-man-about-town of a small c ity : kind of brute to take a girl's fancy; she was kept a prisoner and ransom ways permitted to count one playing quite low. ----------------------- ----------------------- --------- , well-dressed, well-fed. yet not without good-looking, dashing, man-of-the-btg was asked for her. "Powhatan," as trick for every trump over three, that a glimmer of penetrative shrewdness her father wns known, had become la, one end trick In a four-card trump gar-world; that sort. Betty la plenty In his eyes to prove his right to claim sensible, bnt at the same time she Is openly hostile when his favorite suit, two end tricks In a five-card kinship with his hard-headed banker human. There; I've said my say. anil daughter was thus kidnaped. He trump tun. mid three eud tricks lu a father. now I'll toddle along. What do you agreed to a kind of peace, however, six-card truuip suit. This brings your For an Interval measurable in sec do with this priceless casket of yours to effect her return, but wae ready hand to a total of 3 St playing trick» onds the soondless pantomime con for trouble—a dangerous neighbor for Where Is the other Si to he found? overnight—take It to bed with you?” “ In the Poeseeeion of a Crim inal tinued ; then, suddenly, and as If there “Not quite th a t; I keep It here." the whites. In another “long-card," the fourth There le Simply No L im it to the had been no gap of silence, the various I-andl* knelj before a small safe under But Pocahontas had not spent all diamond, which has about a fifty- Harm tho Thing Might Oo." Instruments burst Into full voice. A the laboratory work bench, opened It. her time In English hands bewailing fifty chance of setting up as an event wave of half bewilderment swept over put the black box Inside and twirled her fate. One of (he Englishmen had ual wlnuer. In side suits, you may I mean. In (be possession of a crim the house, followed quickly by en the combination. found favor In her eyes, and she saw glv« (he value of S» playing trick to thusiastic anplanse, the audience evi Inal there Is simply no limit to the “I see; safe hind, safe find." said that her affection was returned. She every card over three—just half th« No energy, .circles under her ryes. lithe _ dently taking the pantomimic Inter barm the thing might do.” Markham, with a laugh for a weak accepted Christianity, partly, (terhapA value of “long-cards'' In th« trump would only try Lydit B. Pinkhsm'a "How many people know about your ruption for a skillful bit of stage busi pun. "Let me know when—or If— because of this personable gentleman, ■ult. Thus you get th« valua of the Vegetable Compound In tablet-form, Invention, Owen?” ness on the part of the orchestra. you wnnt me to have a talk with dad and was baptised as the ‘‘Lady Rebec abor« hand us a total of 4 playing she could be strung sad happy again. “Up to this minute, just two of us— “W onderful!" Markham exclaimed, about the financing. So long." ca.” Her savagery thus transmuted, tricks which Include 2S4 honor-tricks. —— '3 under cover of the resumed music. “As you and myself. I haven't talked John Rolfe no longer delayed, and In Now, suppns« that you hav« bid In to a B u n d le I you said, Owen. It has to be seen to be about It to anybody, partly because the So much for the night when Betty April, 1013, the two were married. oue heart on the holding abov« de A young Kaunas Jackrabbit w ill believed. Why didn't yon keep it np whole thing was experimental and I Lawson, daughter of the phvstca pro This alliance pleused Powhatan. Tlie scribed. Your valuation Is sound be have a real story to tell his grand* didn't want to have to answer a lot of a bit longer?” fessor at the college, starred In their old chief (he was sixty when he first cause ubless your partner ha« ade curious questions. But now, as I've children about “Ihe good old days.'* Landis shook his head. “I didn't Little Theater association's produc met the white men) had great arnbl quale trump support It Is Improbable When I*. D. Hlleman and C. W. Ash dare to let It go on. In two seconds said. I'm like the man who Invented the tion. At a comparatively early hour lions tor his beloved daughter. that you will ever play the band at of Wellington were cutting wheat a Frankenstein thing In Mrs. Shelley's more there would have been a panic. the following morning, Wally Mark Three years after the wedding, the hearts. I f he held the balance of hon few days ago ihe youngster Juni|»-d story. When I think of all the harm I figured that for Just about so long ham. getting out his roadster to Knifes and several of the Powhatan or strength but lacked trump support, on the canvas of th« binder. He wug Schomberg's men would go on bowing It might do In the wrong hands, I feel drive to town for a box of congratula Indluns set tall for England. Poca- your purtuer would take you out. I f carried up the elevator and bound In* as If I ought to tie a stone to the box and fingering automatically—as they tory rosea to he taken to the success h mtas' story had preceded her, and lie lacked both houor strength and to a bundle of wheat. Mr. A«h did. But when realization came, and pitch It Into the river.” ful actress, was called to the tele since her futher was a powerful ruler, trump support, the opponents would «topped the hnraea and examined ths There was a thoughtful pause, and there'd be chaos. I meant to antici phone. A strained voice that he bare the daughter was everywhere ac declare tlielr strength, relieving you bundle; ha found the rabbit securely at the end of It. Markham said. “You pate that moment, and I did; couldn't ly recognized as Landis' came to him claimed as a princess. Her visit was of your responsibility. In no case fastened: In th« wheat. Apparently are quite sure nobody else know* let It go over the brink, you know.” over the wire. could you rebld such a hand at hearts, a triumph; her portrait was painted; “Black magic!" Markham comment about It?” “Is that you. Wally? For heaven's people crowded around her In admira even though your partner gave you unhurt, the animal acanqiered awajj when released.— Kansas Farmer. “I hope I am.” ed. “Is this what you've been working sake. come around here to the house tion. and her romantic story was on every encouragement to do so. “Have you any reason to doubt It?" on all these months that yoo’ve been as quick as you can. My safe's been every tongue. When opening an orlglual bid In a “Not wfiat you could call a reason; Brevity holed np In your laboratory den?” opened and t?ie black box Is gone!" Happy over her reception, yet eager suit, the estimate of your playing no. Bnt I have worked here In the lab. “A statesman should understand “You've said It.” tricks la based entirely on bonor-carde to return to her own (ample, Pocahon- a good many nights, sometimes until CHAPTER I I th« arts of oratory." “Well, now you've got It. what's the tas prepared for the trip back to and long cards In trump« and aid« " Ila should,'* answered Senator answer? I mean, how does It do It?” quite late, and there have been mo America. She was aboard the ship, suits. Singletons or void suits can Sorghum. “But aometlmes he's got ments when I ’ve had a queer feeling “As I've told you. It Is simple enough A Blind Lead lying at Gravesend, when an unfor- not be counted as extra tricks be to driiend on plain monosyllables that I wasn't alone; that somebody In principle. By radio we transmit Landis was waiting at the driveway seen calamity occurred. Smallpox, an es live the trumps In your baud have when Its hla turn to say ‘ye«' or was spying on me. Pore auto-sugges sound and make It do our bidding. My gate when Markham's roadster came enemy which rarely spared Indian vie already been estimated as playing 'no.'" problem was to find a circuit which. tion. I guess.” to a stand, and his thin face seemed tints, attacked her. Everything pos tricks. To add a value for singletons Markham nodded. “We'll let that Instead of amplifying the received sible was done In the hope of saving or void suits would simply amount to have grown haggard overnight. sounds would Itself operate to neutral part of It rest and pass on to the ma Coescieatioes Ceasors "It wasn't my Imagination, after all the young "princess,” but nothing to counting the same tricks twice. A ize them. Once my basic circuit was terlal things. You want to make some He (ns hla wife Is packing)—| particular warning must be given availed. She was only twenty-two — that feeling I told you shout last money out of this Invention of yours, developed, all It asked for was a don’t think you ought to wear that night, the feeling that some one was when she succumbed to the scourge, against this error, often msde by don't yon? Or are you too much of an pretty long seties of experiment.” bathing stilt, Helen. A short spying npon me as I worked,” he said. leaving her husbund and their son to (airly experienced player«. “Now you've found the answer to Inventor to look that far ahead?” Nite— But, dear, I have to— yog suit or void Is as we shall see, an your problem, what are you golDg to Landis smiled. “I'm not quite so And as they entered the small build mourn her. extremely valuable asset In the assist know how strict they are at ths ing, “Thia Is Jnst as I found It a few do with i t r much of a dreamer as that. Wally. I f I beaches.— Boston Transcript. mlnntes before I 'phoned you.” While Pocahontas Is perhaps the ing haud to a trump bid. But In th« “Come around to my shop with me could only be sure the thing wouldn't declarer's hand It has only a slight Markham stooped to look Into the most romantically famous Indian girl be put to evil uses— ” after the play and I'll talk It ont with S es an d S tu d y safe, the door of which was standing In history, there huve been other res promotional value, too Indefinite to You'd like to see some hard cash you,” Landis said, adding “Most In Women, according to Gentian unk count. open. rues by other Indian maidens. Tlinl ventors and discoverers are short on results,” Markham finished for him. 'It was opened on the combination?" of McKrlinmon by the Seminole Mllly The Count of Long Suit Tricks varsity statistician«, are good stu T h a t Is right and proper—and hu practical sense—common sense—and dents of economica. Industrial hl» be said. Is also well-known, and hns a happier man.” I'm no exception. Maybe you can in Declarer’s Hand tory, and chemistry, but they ars ‘Of course— It had to be. The thief ending. I suppose so; while I was at work supply what I'm lacking In that re In Declarer's In a beaten by men at mathematics. knew what was Inside and knew that on It I did think that If It should prove aped." In December of 1817, McKrlmmon, trump suit side suit ---- ------------------------------ ------3 he couldn't dynamite the safe without an American, was captured by the In Two boars later the two young men a success It might help me find a place 4 card length taking a long chance of destroying the were seated In Landis' workshop lab as a research man with one of the big ■linns and taken to Mlkasukl, Hillis Is worth I trick Vi trick thing he was Rfter. I found It Just as Hadjo’s town. Tills famous chief had oratory. On the walk from the theater electric companies." ftcard length It stands now; the bolts shot, and the Too modest, as you usually are," Landis had fried to explain, as un- been on the British side In the War Is worth 2 tricks 1 trick dial standing on the final figure of the grunted Markham. “There's a frilly technlcally as be conld. the successive of 1812, and was still a foe to the 0-card length combination." sooner or later you w ill try every fortune In that box If It's properly ex steps taken In the development of bU Americans. He ordained that the cap Is worth 3 tricks ,1% tricks 'Urn; that brings on more talk, right thing in so effort to stop that tor astonishing Invention. ploited. But to make money out of live he burned to death like any other at the beginning of things. Somebody As a mutter of fact. In the first ment. Perhaps you'll find the one enemy. "What you've been saying Is mostly an Invention you have'to spend money. remedy that actually works. IFfiy know your combination?” declaration of a suit bid, It Is not Suppose you let me talk to dad— in Greek to me." Markham offered. “Just The American, his head shaved, wai ^eZsy ? Try RO COL today and ban The question seemed to plunge the necessary to count playing tricks. All the same, I can surround the fa d ac strict confidence, of course.” ish Piles. Inventor Into a deep pit of embarrass hound to a stake, and wood was pile) sound opening suit bids of one show “You’d do that for me?" complished. all right— having had the R OCOL Is a N A T U R A L r . « d r . . . eo< around him, ready for the “burnt-offer ment. about 4 playing tricks for th« reaaon s esieat B tdicisg. I l was pr,pared by “Sure I would. Why not?" pradlcal demonstration. But now the ng. ' Then began a hideous dunce. Mother Nsw rs through (he a g o . Dutch, I can’t say positively, Wally. But— that there must be no le«s than 3% There was a moment of silent em question arises, what have yon got? healing, soothing, sets. N o dsagaeoag but the one person who may know the Tt.e Semlnoles circled round and round honor-tricks In th« hand and at least drug>. no burning, no im sning. la p ro rn - Can It be pnt to any useful usef" barrassment, and then Landis said, B eni Ir o n lhavgry irs l sppllcslion Satis- combination la as far above suspicion rlielr captive, uttering cries of con one long suit trick In trumps; an ad “Possibilities?” Landis queried. half apologetically, “Give me a day or faction guaranteed or roue mooer back. tempt, and of Joy at his capture. as the stars are shove the earth.” ditional S 4 trick can almost Invari Send thia ad and 11.00 for a trial treai- so to think about It, Wally. I want to “They are almost unlimited. The We are not told how the American “Come clean.” said Markham, with B to t today. M iD IC O L B U M C O R PO R - ably It« eked out somewhere. Ilut In see If I can't fight down that feeling trouble Is that they are bad as well A1 IO N .L td ., E td a ti.s INtrrihuiocs. 11 1 ) stood the ordeal. However, our nn his good-natured grin. “I f I'm going to considering reblda, after your part Venice Boulevard, Log Anselea. as good." about the criminal possibilities. It's help, I ’ve got to know the Insides—all tlonal pride In our countrymen, as well ner has raised, or sometimes after he fearfully good of you to offer to step “Shoot," said the son of small-city of It, haven't I? Who Is this person as M llly’s Intercession, spenk well for has denied your «ult, It 1« absolutely wealth, ‘T m listening.” In and I —” him, for If he had begged for mercy, who may know?" essential that you count your playing Markham cut the protests short. “The circuit, or whatever you choose TCI tell you. and you’ll see that no doubt the Seminole maiden would tricks and ascertain how much, If “Take as much time as you want, of to call It, will operate at a distance— have steeled her heart agnlnst him. there's nothing to It—that there can't any, additional value you have for a course. And never mind the acknowl I don't know Just yet how far—and It Just as the fatal spark approached rebld. be. One day. a few weeks ago. I Remember that the bidder's edgments. We've been pretty chummy will pass either through or around brought Betty out here to show her ihe wood, the young and lovely ditugh sum of playing tricks Is his total of obstructions. Turn a switch, and you for a good many years, you and I. an electrical toy I'd been tinkering on. ter of Hillis lladjo rushed to her fa long card tricks and honor-tricks. In can sleep In silence as profound as Owen, and It would be a pity If either I wns keeping the thing In the safe, as ther. At hla feet, she begged for the other words, playing tricks and hon that of a mountain top, so far as of us wouldn’t give the other a hand I do nnytltlng that I don't want to life of the captive, but the chief was or-tricks are not separate values but noises are concerned." when the chance offered." Then, with leave lying around In sight, and whpn stern and denied her request. Finally a sum total. a a a Have you any “H n h ! sounds a good bit like Alice a glance at his watch. “I f It wasn't I began to spin the dial she knelt she treatened to die with him unless (® . l i l t , hr L etts H u t t s r . l . y ) In Wonderland. Bat what else? If so late I'd stay a bit longer and raw- IW N U S s r v te .) th in g aro u n d the beside me, saying she'd always been lie were liberated. Not until he wns you stop the racket for yourself, you hide you about another mntter. But curious to know how a combination convinced that his daughter meant stop It for everybody else, as well, house you would like I guess the other matter will keep.” C h e ck T h e m W ith an A t la t lock on a safe worked.” what she said, did the chief order the don't you?” “It Isn't late for me. What have I Rome surprising facta have been to trade or «ell? Try And you showed her?” captive unbound. Although McKrlm “At short distances, as tonight In been doing that I ought not to have Of course. I explained how the •non's life was safe, he was not free, complied hy the National Geographic the theater, yes. Take, for ex,imide, a done?” c claMified ad. The tumblers were made and put together however. The Semlnoles held him as society. The city of Reno, Nev.,' Is steam whistle a mile away; In the Im “I was watching you tonight when so that each time the dial stopped at a prisoner until he wns bought h.v 1CN) miles farther west than Lot An cost is o n ly a few mediate neighborhood of the whistle Betty Lawson was on the stage. I the proper figure one of t?ie tumblers some Spaniards for seven anil a halt geles. Jacksonville, Fla., Is farther the sound Is normal, or nearly so; a guess you know good and well what cent» and there are would be left In the 'open' position.” gallons of rum, and these "owners" west than Cleveland, Ohio. One trav listener within a radius of. say, a I saw?” els south from Detroit ta reach the "Was that all you did?” released him. pro b ab ly a lot o f quarter of a mile would scarcely de Landis flushed boyishly and looked “Not quite. To Illustrate what I Shortly after these events, the chief nearest part of Canada. At Panama tect any muting of the blast, though down. folk» looking for just meant I unscrewed the back plate of was captured by Americans and the sun rises In the Pacific and sets In It Is really muted at Its source. Be “You didn't see anything more than the lock and called o ff the series of hanged. Ills wife and daughters, the Atlantic. New York slty lies west whatever it is you no yond this Inner circle the sound dimin you have known for a good while.” figures so she could spin the dial and among whom was Mllly, surren of the Pacific—that part of It which ishes quite rapidly until at about half Markham laughed. “ Nothing more longer have use for. see for herself how the meehnnlsm lered. The Americans paid marked touches Arlca In Chile.— World's Work. a mile It has vanished completely.” than all Carthage has known, for that attention to the brave and beautiful worked. It was only a hit of byplay, “ in your demonstration tonight you matter. But, say, boy—what do you as you might say. and there Isn't a vnung Indian girl, and McKrlinuinit of Place fo r the Booster connected the thing with the theater think a girl Is made of? For a half- shadow of doubt In my mind but that fered to marry her. After a long Boosters furnish much of the sun lighting circuit. Does that mean that year and better you've hurled yourself Betty forgot the figure before she was ourtshlp. In which McKrlmmon finally shine In our drah earthly existence. A you are tied to electric power plants In this work shack of yours, and If nn hour older. But even If slip didn't, persuaded her that he had not made kind word, a smile, Is relished by every for Its use?" you’ve thought anything nt all about she Is out of the question ; she Isn't the the offer from gratitude, but from one. A grouch Is the friend of no one. “Not at all. An automobile storage Betty, you’ve taken It out In thinking. one who opened this safe last night love, they were married. and so, ns So try patting the other fellow on the battery will operate the box for a lim What social pleasure she's enjoyed You know that as well as I do." the fairy-tales say, they lived happily hack. Instead of soaking him on the ited time.” she's had to forage for In other dlrec- (TO BE CONTINUED.) ever after. head.—GH» w . N. U., Portland, No. 39-1832. Thè Black Box of Silence TA LES CHIEFS M o d e rn C o n tra c t M jrcollzed W a x Keeps Skin Young Bridge She Shouldn’t IF YOU SUFFER FROM PILES CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED ADS GET I RESULTS I (©. 1932, W«<t«rn N ew cpup«« Union. >