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THE GOLD HILL NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2«. 1932 Pa«e6 Th' Black Box oC Silence t By Francis Lynda SYNOPSIS O w » n b a n d la, y o u n f In v o n to r . In th e l i t t l e to w n o f C a rth a g o , has d e veloped a n e x t r a o r d in a r y •‘s ile n c e r, w h ic h ia s to le n fr o m a s a fe In hie la b o ra to r y . L a n d is te lls W a ll y M a rk h a m , his c h u m , th e o n ly p e r son. beside h im s e lf, k n o w in g th e c o m b in a tio n o f th e safe, la B e tty la w n o n , d a u g h te r o f a c o lle g e p ro fe ss o r, w it h w h o m th e In v e n to r le In love. CHAPTER II—Continued —«— ••Naturally," Markham agreed, rather toe readily, adding, “As you say, Hetty probably forgot the figures as fast as you called them off to her. So far as that goes, there Is now and then an expert who can open a simple loch like this by putting an ear against the door and listening for the sound of the tumblers as they Cfline around Into place. The question is, who did It In this par’ Intlnr Instance." “There Is one thing certain, Wally. Whoever opened the safe knew what was In It. I'm convinced of that. Which means that the thing I feared most has come to pass. The thief knows what the black box will do, and It will be used to swell the sum total of crime in this crime-ridden day!" Markham straightened up. and as he did so he found himself facing the window directly over the laboratory bench. “Don’t you shut that window at night?” he asked. “I t Is left shut all the time, except ing on hot days, and It Is always fast ened at night, as you see It now." "Yes, I see the fastening; but look here"—pointing—“see this crack be tween the two sashes? That Is where your spy has been listening In. Sup pose we go outside and see If he left a clew of any sort." The clew—or a clew—was there—a de-p footprint In the soft soil under the window. Most unmistakably It had b—n made by a woman's shoe. *T say, Owen, this thickens things no a bit. doesn't It?*' said Markham. “I saw a magnifying glass on your bench Just now; go get It. will you?” I^ndis was back In a few seconds with the glass, and Markham studied the footprint When he looked up It was to say. “You’ve got pretty nearly everything In this Junk shop of yours, Owen; does the list Include a handfud or so of plaster of parts?” “ Why, yes; I use It sometimes for making small casting molds." "Right Wet up a pound o f so and bring it here." Landis obeyed, and when the plaster came, Markham poured it Into the footprint and left It to set "So much for a small preliminary,” he said, as he got upon his feet "When that plaster sets, we’ll have a cast of the lady’s foot—or shoe.” “ I can’t see what you hope to do with that plaster cast," Landis de murred, after they had returned to the laboratory. “A woman’s shoe— any shoe, for that matter—would have thousands of duplicates.” "The footprint Is a clew, a slender one, I'll admit, but still a clew. The plaster cast will preserve It, for what ever It may be worth— which may be Just nothing at all. Let's dig out a frw more details. If we can. Was the door locked when you came here this morning?” " It was; but that proves nothing. It Mb» only an ordinary lock which any body could pick with a bit of bent wire.” “Sure. Getting Into a building—any building— Is the easiest part of a bur glar's Job." ••You think the woman who made the footprint was the burglar, as well as the spy?” “As to th a t It’s all guesswork, of course," Markham asserted, "but one of my guesses Is that the woman whose footprint we are embalming wasn't the spy, what ever else she may have been.” “ What makes you think that?” “The position of the print, for one thing. It was made by the left foot, and It Is parallel with the house wall and not at right angles to it, as It would have been If the owner of the foot had been facing the window. Apart from this. It was made by a person walking—not standing still; or I'm guessing It was. It Is deeper at tlie heel than at the ball of the foot.” "What have you been doing, Wally, reeding Sherlock Holmes?” ‘ Not quite that,” Markham denied wlfh a grin. "Just one of my little sideshows. That footprint was made by somebody coming from the alley through the passage between this shuck and the fence; walking, and not stepping undpr the window. Is there a gate In the nlley fence?” "There Is; yes.” -lo t's go and have a look at It.” Together they went around to the alley gate. It was prfiperly hooked. Still, as Markham pointed out, this meant nothing, since the hook could be ren -bed from the outside for Its replacement. Upon opening the gate and stepping Into the alley they came upon m ire footprints. In which a man's were Interwoven with those of the woman, and the track of an automo bile. "How about these?” Markham asked. “Who uses the alley for a driveway?” “Nobody, that I know of. All the houses In both streets have driveways from the front, both for their own autos anil for coal deliveries and the like.” ‘All right; then we may venture an other guean. Your tnlef—or rather, tl 'eves, for we know now there were «1 least two of them, a man and a tlfaMtrwttoas by O. I r w l a Myer« (W T N U S e r v ic e ) (C O p y r lz h t k y W U ll a m G e r a r d C h o p m o s ) woman—came here In a car, got out, passed through the gate, and went through the passuge on their way to the shop door. Any objections?" "None at all, that 1 can see. But why were there two of them, Wally? Why would a crook double his risk by fetching a woman along?” "That Is the mystery, or at least one of them. Or, w n it; maybe the woman went lu alone. Let's see about th a t” A careful examination proved that the man and the woman had gone In together, and that the man had walked on the woman's right and In the weeds, which accounted for the fact that his tracks were Indistinct. By this time the plaster cast had hardened sufficiently to permit Its re moval and handling, and they took It into the laboratory and dried It slowly In the glow of the electric stove. When the cast was quite dry aud hard M ark ham made a close examination of the sole of the plaster-copied shoe. “What are you looking for?" Lan dis wanted to know. “See that faint line across the ball of the foot?” “Yes; I can see It without the glass.” "Good. Now all we have t<r do Is to find a woman whose left shoe Is "You're a Dear, W ally; Always a Dear!" marked In the same way, and we have at least one of your two housebreak ers.” Troubled as be was, Landis had to smile. "O f course,” he said; “Just as ensy as th a t! There are only some twenty or twenty-five thousand people In Carthaze, and only a due proportion of that number of women. Do we swear out search wnrrants and mnke every woman In town produce her shoes?” "Well," Markham returned good-tem- peredly. "We shall see what we shall see. Meanwhile, we'll preserve this bit of circumstantial evidence"—put ting the plaster cast into his pocket. "You haven’t notified the police of your loss, have you?" “No; the only thing I've done was to call you up.” "That's sensible; let It continue to be the only thing for the present I f you should pull the police In, you'd have to tell them what was stolen; de scribe the black box and give It a name. I f you should do that, you'd be set down as a lunatic or a liar. The thing to do Is to sit tight In the boat and wait. Something may turn up If we don't roll the wnter too hastily. Don't yon agree with me?" “I guess so." said Landis, with the air of one who is still finding It diffi cult to bring calm Judgment to bear. “I'll do as you advise, but the waiting Is going to be desperately hard. You'll keep In touch, won’t you?” "Surest thing you know!" Markham returned heartily; and with that, he started his motor and drove away. CHAPTER III Betty Lawson Upon leaving the Landis place M ark ham drovp to a florist's shop and got the box of congratulatory roses for which he had telephoned thnt morning. With the box on the seat beside him he headed his car for the grounds of one of the oldest Institutions for higher learning In the Middle West. He hadn't been entirely frank with Landis —couldn't be. In the circumstances— and the reason for the ttnfrankness dated hack to a game of golf at the Country club; a round played with Betty Lawson on a drizzly day when they had both finished with damp clothes and wet feet. After the game he had urged Betty to let him drive her home quickly for a change, hut she had refused to be hurried. There was a cheerful open Are In the club lounge nnd they had sat for a time before this, toasting their feet at the blaze. He remem bered that Betty had rested her feet on the hot fender, nnd he had told her she would hum the soles of her shoes. She had burned one of them, the |pft one; he had seen the mark when she lifted her foot to feel If the shoe were getting too hot. This small circumstance was a suffi cient reason for the drive nut to the college campus. I f Landis had not ad mitted that he had shown Betty how LIFE’S LITTLE JESTS MercolizedWax TALES OF TH E Keeps S k in Y o u n g Editha 1» Watson O e l M e y M e M U f e M t l i r e e l e J F W « » a r t U U e «4 m M M i a t » . l wK u m ' i I s i i 4 ^ — »a evt«A H |4 w » » U « II» » « t»M «I».» l . e . k U - » h » « ie t i . — e. 4J I'M «Wv«»p. lesseW «•!»•«« Vwe Y«ss» IM« l» »»»L« f «ssr« W » M»»~4iy4 to work the combination of the labora W « « h et««j «M* Ik e LU I«« W t M '* «èl W H » wriM fcW « m m «seenw ISsw»l»t«4 I tory safe, the mere fact that the mag Ì1 - ‘ W MM» Wei» e lt e h h e e e l A l 4»v« t nifying glass had shown a faint line "3 running across the ball of the font In N a m e s In M a in e TENSKWATAWA the soft soli Imprint under Landis' Athens, Rome, I'urlhnge, Palmyra window wouldn't have suggested the sud Canton; Purls. Llation. Dresden, As he was lighting his pipe, a young Naples. Palermo and Vienna : Water thought of connecting Itelty with the Shawnee suddenly went lulu a trance. loo and Oxford; and Denmark, dlsappeerance of the black box. But No one e x p e c t e d the telltale mark, added to Idtndls* ad Sweden, Norway, Poland, Mexico such a thing of him. mission, seemed to leave little room ami Peru are all In the átate of He waa dull and giv for doubt, though even with the evi Maine. For confirmation see the at* A L A R M I N G en to drinking to ex dence thus all but conclusive, the thing Ins and the postal guide, not to men cess, and trances were was blankly Incredible. tion the railroad schedules. She aat on the bench at llrlght- ao rare that perhaps As he let the blue roadster amble the Shawnee In that along toward the college suburb. Mark- bourne, watching the Be* swell to and Buy your copy todayl village h a d n e v e r barn tried to convince himself of the fro. Something of Its grandeur abed tieurd of them. So absurdity of the circumstantial evi Its light upon her soul. “Oh, George I" she exclaimed to the they took It for grant dence conclusion. First. It Involved the ed that he waa dead, assumption that, Insteud of going di young man by her aide, "Isn't It splen lamented loudly after rectly home after the play, Betty had did? I feel ae If I could open my the fashion of their delayed her return for at least an mouth and take It all In.” new book is a glorious ro Close by her was a small boy. He Tenakwatawa people, nnd prepured hour, since It was nearly midnight be mance of love and thrills in for a fuueral. fore the black box had been locked turned to her, a startled look on his the Ozarks. Ask any book- Nothing wua further from their up in the laboratory safe. Again, the face. | | J | A s e lle r fo r M r . "I say.” he remarked, "you won't do houghla than that the supposed corpse automobile track and the double set I « B q Wright’s best book. of footprints In the alley proved that It, really, will you? I only catue down would revive, and one may Imngiue heir consternation when the Indian two persons were concerned, and If here yesterday.”—London Tlt-Blta. poke again. However, lie hnd thut to Betty were the woman, Canby must II he cannot supply it, send ell which caused them to forget their have been the man. since he was her $1 00 to Harper th Brothers, MODERN SHACKLES fears; “ I have seen heaven. Call the escort for the evening. 4» East M id St . New York. nation together that 1 may tell them Reaching this point, Markham told what has appeared to me!" L ic e M u ltip ly S w if t ly himself that the thing was blankly He announced thnt he had been giv unbelievable. Betty might play a Believe It or not, hut the “bugol- en a wonderful new revelation from oglsts" say that a pair of lice or trick on Owen; but that she would the Master of Life, lie had visited ndtes under fnvoruble conditions, make a man her accomplice was the spirit world and seen behind the become grcnt-grent-griimlpnrenta In ridiculously incredible. Also, there veil of past and future. He hnd found four weeks during Ihe hot summer was the matter of the fire marked that evil Is punished and good reward weather. No lien can lay the maxi shoe. Would Betty have worn a pair ed there, and he also learned that the mum amount of eggs with hundreds of golf shoes to the theater? M ark Indluna were not living a good life. ham weighted the probabilities for of little biting, tucking em it arcs Here he denounced witchcraft and running over her day and night— and against, and the "againsts” had It strong drink, and stated that those Pacific Rural I ’reae, by an overwhelming majority. who continued to drink would have He parked his car in front of the a fiery punishment hereafter; the pain Lawson house and ran up the steps of burning would he theirs, and tlnmes with the box under his arm. When would ahoot from their mouths. l?ie maid came to answer his ring he Sorcery and "medicine" were also was told that Miss Betty had gone Belle—1 told him he was a slave wrong, the prophet slated, hut other across the campua on an errand for of the old Indian customs were the her father and would be bark In a to me. Estelle— And what did he say? right ones and should he reinstated. few minutes. Would he come In and Belle—That we were all In the The old should bo respected and the wait? Infirm taken care of. Property should He would and did; and after the bond age of wealth. he owned In common, as had been the maid had shown him Into the parlor S tr a w b e r r y B e th s in P a rle rase In ancient times. White men In c o m p re h e n s ib ilitie s and had gone back to her work, a Beauty-culture experts In Parte masterful temptation assailed him. "You have studied politics all your should not be allowed to marry Into are advising their clients to take the tribe, and In fart, civilization baths In strawberry Juice for beau With Betty, who was her father's life,” said the frank acquaintances housekeeper, out of the way. nnd the “I have,” answered Senator Sor- - should be rejected entirely. The Shuw ty. Many who cannot afford such neee should return to the old ways of expensive treatments are rubbing professor busy with his classes In the ;hum. near-by college buildings, he knew he "Do you fully understand the suh life, as they were before the white their faces with large ripe strawlier- men came. And thus, said the revets rlen. One berry • day Is sufficient was alone In the house, save for the teet?" maid. He knew which one of the "No. I sometimes wish I had takeo tlon, happiness would come once again for thia method. upper rooms was Betty's. At the ip the Einstein theory Instead. You to the red man’s heart. prompting of an Impulse quite as law •an admit at the start that you don't , Ills Indian hearers received these less as the one— Betty's or another's— jnderstand that, and don't have to go commands with considerable excite ment. The belief In a Messiah was that had led to the burglarizing of id bluffing." strong In every one of the vanquished Landis' safe, he ran rapidly up the race, and this seemed to he a message stairs to the floor above. T h e C om edy of hope. The strong personality of He hoped he might find the door The manuger o f a small touring the prophet Impressed them, and al of Betty's chamber standing open, and .■ompany, who played a farre In the though ho was blind In one eye, the It was. Feeling more like a sneak- d f room of a village Inn, mentioned other seemed to hold a magnetic thief than anything else, he went In. •o the landlord Ihe quietness of the power. There was a pair of shoes standing trowd, which didn't even amlle. The nnme he now assumed waa beside the dressing chair. Were they “Aye," chuckled the landlord. ”1 told Tenakwatawa. “The Open Door.” end the shoes she had worn to and from em I'd chuck out the first man that he became known to the whites simply Another dan broken . . . CoulJn't »tie the theater—changing, of course, nade • sound. I didn't want good ae the "Prophet.” It Is doubtful on her feet a minute longer I I.ydiz E. when she costumed for her part on ictora like yon laughed at.” Pink hem's Vegetable Gun pound si wavs from his Intrigues If he hnd any real the stage? He was afraid they were, relieves cramps. Try it nest month. belief In hls “trances." He would hnve and he wished she had put them D ra w in g th e Line appeared more genuine If he had aw ay; hidden them so that he couldn’t Burglar Bill— What's In de safe? S u n W a te r H e a t e r avoided politics. However, he adroit find them. Burglas Jim— Some mining stock. A water heater that uses the ly directed suspicion of witchcraft Since she hadn't—he picked up the Burglar Bill— Leave It. We may be against those who spoke In hls dis sun's rays only as a » urce of heat left ahne and examined the sole. It burglars, but we're too honest to ever favor, and sometimes went too far In has been built and used successfully not only bore the telltale crease across |»ell dat stuff.— Brooklyn Eagle. hls seal, thus harming hls cause. In the agricultural engineering de the hall of the fo ot; to the concaved Greenville, Ohio wns the site chosen partment at the University of Flor front of the low heel adhered a vis by the Prophet for hls headquarters. I ida. The solar heater has wanned WOULD LEARN LATER ible trace of the black soil of the Here the cnmpulgn assumed a business I water sufficiently hot fur household Landis hack yard. Not to leave the like air. Indians from oth"r tribes ; purposes on practically every day In smallest chance of uncertainty, he took flocked to hear the vigorous speaker. 1 the yee the plaster cast from his pocket nnd and hls representatives were sent from compared It with the shoe sole. The the Blackfoot country to Florida, . marks were Identical. While he spreading the re|>ort of hls marvelous was wishing heartily that he supernatural messages. could discredit the evidence of his An eclipse of the sun occurred In I own eyes, he happened to glance out 1800, Tenakwatawa had predicted I of the window, and saw the owner thia event, nnd the fulfillment of hls I of the accusing shoe tripping across words served to stamp him as a true ' C x id t 'U r « S o ztp used constantly the campus toward the house. In prophet. The other tribes accepted frantic haste he replaced the shoe and i 'n t l r s a r M O i n t m e n t occa him without further question and he beside Its mate, pocketed the cast and sionally w ill prom ote and m aintain a gnn to work along the lines he had dashed down the stairs nnd Into the clear skin, free from pim ples, black planned. parlor a breathless moment before he There were two outstanding points ( heads, redness, roughness aud other heard Betty fitting her key Into the unsightly eruptions. "Miss Stronginind Is going to murry about Tensk watuwa’a propaganda: latch of the hall door. within four years, he said, some aw Soap 25c. Ointment 25 end 50c. “I f I need an excuse for this early Percy.** "Why, I saw him today and he ful catastrophe would linpper, and Praprietors: P o tte r D ra g A C h e m ica l morning brash, here It Is," he said, giv didn't mention It.” only those who believed In the pr<-phet C orp*. M a ld e n . M ass. ing her the congratulatory box. “I “Oh, Percy doesn't know It yet I” would be safe. TI.!s added to the wanted to be first In the field.” M ig h ty la W e a lth numbers gathered around him. Then, “Oh, how perfectly gorgeous!" she Ovattine— Money talks. F re e h B u t te r D a ily the northern tribes advanced the Idea cried, when the box was opened. Aspertn— In thia country It not’ "I've decided to make our own but that a confederacy could be formed "You're a dear, W ally; always a dear! Why doesn't some nice girl And It ont ter, dear. The grocery butter la so un which would drive the white men hack, only talks; It voten. and this Idea was eagerly adopted. satisfactory,” said Mrs, Younghrlde. and make away with you?" At the battle of Tippecanoe, In D e lv in g In to U n k n o w n “That ao?” echoed huhby, "Ilow 're "Exactly what I ’ve asked myself which more than a thousand converts “ What la a psychic bid?” dozens of times,” he laughed. "But you going to make It?" “Oh. I bought a churn and have to the Prophet's creed were engaged, “Ordering hash In a strange while there's life, there's hope. Iiow Harrison won a decisive victory over hoarding house,” arp you feeling after last night's strug ordered some buttermilk to be left regulurly. Won't It be nice to have the Indiana, musing them a consider gle?" As Tenakwatawa had "Oh—was It a struggle? Did It look really fresh butter?”—Capper’s Weekly. able loss. claimed that he could avprt death In that way to you? What made you and battle, this blow was a severe one, S a fe ty F irs t Owen take a stage box? Did you Lady (In hooking office,—Can you and he Inst hls prestige on this ac think you might he able to rattle me recommend a safe ship? I am so very count. M a a ty pa, cant a t l b . i t . « .a t pray upea and make me forget m.v lines?” Hls work, however, hnd acquired too mankind are Iracaabia te ana common cauto, “Sheer devotion," he explained In nervous. » m in a ta Ula cauta and you roqoin a normal. Clerk— Well, madam, the Bremen great an Impetus to stop. The War mock tenderness. "We wanted to be hoaWiy body . , Ira a from tuffar,nq and of 1812 brought tills ferment to Its as near yon as possible. Your work tins never sunk yet. dltoaM . Start naw an tbo rood to kaaltii „.Hi Lady—Oh, I am so relieved. Please height. The British were quick to see was splendid. Not feeling any after book me a berth on that.— Das Bunte ihe ndvantnge of such an Indian effects nt all?” league on their side, nnd made good She dropped Into a chair and passed BlatL use of the opportunity. The Creek her hand over her fo re h e a d . Tboutandi o< pa r,o n , h . . . c . r l . f . d 1« d , . war of 1813 was another result of H a r d ly "Sit down for a few minutes, won’t •»»•c»»*«n«gg o l tftig wond«r<ul. n«»ur«| Ionic. you? After-effects, you say? I'll ad Blinks— They say he drinks like a the Prophet’s teachings. C«BIro combat« <£«o«i« bi a n«fur«i way wittw After the War of 1812, Tenakwatawa out d o p . O. d r u ,, H you ,u U .„ o , mit It was a hit of a struggle, Inst fish. any blood or nocuo olimont. anomia. a rttuit;,, night. I had stage fright horribly, at Jinks— Yes, but not whnt a fish was given a pension hy the British, rheumatism; or tkin ditordor, , . . moil tho lie lived for some years In Canada, first”— and she went on telling him drinks.—Cincinnati Enquirer. coupon at onco tor Information o i real ualue finally returning to the United States, Just how the fright complex hud at and died In Kansas In November, 1837. tacked her. H it L it t le H e lp e r« Ills burial place Is unknown. Sitting opposite. Markham listened, Joe— 1 hear your father is a sue- <e. 1132, Wowtern U nion.) anil as she talked the testimony of the eessful poultryman? circumstantial evidence became still Jim—Yes. V e r tic a l O w n e rs h ip more unbelievable. Surely If she had Joe— Does he hatch his own chicks? By the decision of a Massachuaetti taken the tending part In a burglary Jim— No. He uses an Incubator court, the ownership of property was an hour after the play, she eottldnl for that. CoM. limited to a point 500 feet in the ulr. sit there chatting with him apparently Now a New York state ruling puts a « o o a o w n d F S E f intormaffon. M y troubU h |c k m d | without a single trace of self con O A n w n lo O A rth m , □ W m s n *H « » □ « * , Surprise limitation to title In the other direc sciousness. Yet there was the accue- “I put a trouser button In that tion, A sewer waa laid across a piece TroubUt O _ _ ______________________ Ing footprint under Landis' workshop cigarette machine nnd do you know of land nt a depth of ISO feet and Noma ■•I window Hnd the confirmatory shoe In what came out?” the court held thnt this was not an the room overhead. “ No.” encroachment. The title to the subsoil "Weren't you pretty tired when lira “The tobacconist.”—A llt for Alla extends only as far as the owner can W. N. u., Portland. No. 40-193L thing wns over?" he asked. (Stockholm/. reasonably mnke use of It. ( T O f) B C O N T I N U B D . » CHIEFS HAROLD BELL WRIGHT'S C in d e r e lla Too “ Worn-Out” to go ''W/iH n o i Juwe, A C lear S kin ? NAfuUF?8HlC