PAGE SIX
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
By Harold Gray.
- "' '. ". T a r NATALIE SVMNEM 11NCOUI
Chapter 17
A BATTLE OF WITS
For one brief minute Thome eon-
tlnued to stand staring at the spot
where he had left the housemaid's
vnconclous form, then he returned
to the dressing room. A globe
shaped electlc lamp had been tipped
so that the direct rays were thrown
across the room and far out mto
the haU, through the portieres
blown apart by the wind from the
still own window.
Once again Thome made his
round of the first floor.. Then sud
denly he heard the unmistakable
whir of machinery some one was
using the house elevator.
Thorne was waiting at the door
of the elevator shaft when the cage
reached the first floor. Mrs. Wins
low, apparently too aghast for
speech, stood In the brilliantly
lighted elevator.
"Whowho la there?" she qua
vered, and for answer Thorne step
ped forward. "You, Mr. Thornel
"Do you wish something down
stairs?" he inquired solicitously.
"Only a book I left In the music
room; I I couldn't sleep." Mr.
Thome, you have not answered my
question." she reminded him grave-
If. "Lambert said you had left the
house long ago."
"Lambert was mistaken," he re
sponded. "I am waiting to inter
view your housemaid, Lucy; sup
pose you take me to her bedroom
"What do you wish with Lucy at
this hour of the night? she ques
tioned. "Unless it la something
really serious I do not feel that she
should be disturbed."
"Come with me," Thorne suggest
ed persuasively. "I would like to
have you present at our interview.
Which Is her room?
Mrs. Winslow studied him in si
lence ; there was an air of determin
ation about Thor.e that impressed
ner.
"Come this way" she directed.
Her soft rap on Lucy's bedroom
door brought no response. The de
tective gave the doorknob a dex
terous twist and the d(w swung
inward. It wss Mrs. Winslow, how
ever, who located the electric switch
In the room.
As the light flared up the figure
on the bed stirred. Slowly, very
slowly the bedclothes were dragged
down from Lucy's head and her
eyes peeped out at them.
W-w-w-h-h-a-t 1-1-s It?"
"Whom were you looking for
when you went downstairs ten min
utes or so ago?" Thorne asked.
"Was I downstairs?" she asked
wonderingly. "I remember fallfn'
an' woke up here." She cast an
apprehensive glance at Mrs. Win
slow. "I sleep walks, you know,
an' then I dun no where I go, nor
why."
"True," acknbwledged Mrs. Wins
low, and unconclously her voice be
trayed her relief at the trend the
Interview was taking. "Had I
known why you wished to see Lucy.
Mr. Thorne," reproachfully, "I
could have told you this, and saved
scaring Lucy so dreadfully why,
the girl is as white as a ghost f"
"I'll get your book," he said;
"there Is no use of you going down
stairs again," and giving her no
chance for protest, even if she felt j
so inclined, he brushed by her into
the elevator, and slammed both!
doors behind him, only to have her I
open the outer one before he had
a chance to press the electric but-!
ton. i
"I am going with you," she an
nounced with shrill emphasis, and
bounced Into the cage. "There will
be no necessity for detaining you
longer; you look so tired," sweetly
commiserating.
The elevator came to a pause be
fore either of its passengers spoke
again and In silence they walked
to the north entrance of the music
room and Thorne turned into it
"Oh, you needn't bother," pro
tested Mrs. Winslow, but Thorne i
had already switched on some of 1
the lights and was looking eagerly
about for her book. She spied it
first on top of a musle stand and,
picking ft up, hurried determinedly
towards the front door, with the un
doubted intention of ushering him
out
You saw Miss Chase," she- began
as he halted, bat in hand and door
partly open. "Was your interview
satisfactory?"
Entirely so, he answered, a bint
of a smile in his black eyes. "By
the way, Mrs. Winslow, has Lucy
any little love affair on her hands?"
wny, eh," one ap.eared some
what nonplussed by the question.
"One pays so little attention to ser
vants' gossip, but en, I believe
there is a milkman who is quite
smitten with Lucy's charms; she
is pretty."
In opening and closing the book
in her left hand Mrs. Winslow let
it slip and Thorne caught it before
it touched the floor and returned
it to her, not however, before he
had read its title: Aids to Forensic
Medicine and Toxicology. As she
murmured her confused thanks
Thorne slipped through the front
door.
It had seemed to Thorne while he
waited for the elevator to decend
that first time, that it had taken
longer than when be and Mrs. Win-
slow had come down in it from see
ing Lucy on the floor above. Was
it that Mrs. Winslow had been In
the attic and had come from there
in the elevator? But what was
Mrs. Winslow, not overly coura
geous, doing in the attic In the
dead of night? And how had Lucy
gotten to her bedroom without
assistance, in her unconcious con
dition? '
And to think that both the shadow
and Lucy had eluded him! It might
be that Mrs. Winslow had found
Lucy unconscious and had taken
her to her room by means of the
elevator. Two things, however,
were against that theory bow had
she revived the girl in the brief
time he was racing around the
house or gotten her into Uie eleva
tor and upstairs after his return
the elevator would have betrayed it
self by its noisy machinery.
BERRY YIELD GOOD
Hazel Green The blackberry
pickers and growers of Hazel Qreen
report a good crop and no signs of
the disease which other districts
are reporting. Henry and Maurice
Dunnigan and families are harvest
ing the berries in the 60-acre tim
ber patch in Ed Dunnigan, Sr
woods while Ed Dunnigan, Jr., and
Ralph Stevens are picking the crop
in their own woods. Alvln and Tom
Van Cleave have a large acreage of '
the cultivated berries as have the i
Kmil Montandons, which they have I
hired bands harvesting.
BIG CHEKBY CROP
Traverse City, (IP Orand Trav
erse region's cherry, harvest this
year almost doubled the 1939 pro
duction, a survey of local plants
snow. This years harvest was 25,-
000,000 pounds, 10,000,000 pounds
less than in 1928 when a bumper
crop of 35,000,000 pounds was har
vested. Based upon five cents per
pound as the average return to
growers, the 1930 cherry crop was
estimated at 91,500.000.
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pioneers of '40 were recalled here
with the arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
U. R. Calkins and Mrs. Emellne
Calkins of Denver, Col.. In
covered waron drawn by a team of
western horses. The waffon was
equipped with beds, a stove and
other essentials.
EIGHT YEARS LATE
CrawfordsvUle, Ind.. IIP) A ship
ment of 28 boxes sent to James
Cornell, wholesale fruit merchant,
arrived about eight years too late.
He has been dead sinre 1922.
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