Illinois Valley News, Thursday, January 17, 1946
OVERNIGHT
GUEST
BEN AMES WILLIAMS
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THE STORY THUS FAR: Adam Bruce,
FBI operator, and Inspector and Mrs.
Tope met while on vacation In North
eastern wilds. Tope discovered the body
ol a murdered man at the auto camp of
Bee Dewaln, a friend of Bruce's. He
called Bruce, who brought State Trooper
Quill. L'pon the arrival of the D. A.,
Nat Cumberland and Dr. Medford, they
decided to beep the murder a secret as
long as possible. The body was moved
to the home of Amasa Dewaln for further
InvestlgaUon. Mrs. Tope told her bus
band that she recognized the body as that
of Mr. Ledforgo, head of New England
utilities. Bee stated that a musky smell
on murdered man's hair reminded her
v, suiueouc.
CHAPTER V
"Mrs. Priddy was busy Saturday,
so I made the beds, changed the
linen. I smelled this same musky
smell on one of the pillowslips in
Little Bear. Oh, I'm sure of it.”
"Who were they?" Cumberland
asked.
"I don't know," Bee confessed.
"Earl Priddy took them to the cab
in. They came late Friday night
and left very early, I didn't see
them at all. But I’m positive about
the smell.”
There seemed no more to say.
They moved out of doors again, and
Cumberland asked heavily: "What
did they do to him. Doc? How'd
they kill him?"
Doctor Medford said unsteadily:
"I can stand most things all right;
but this get« me."
And he continued, without prompt
ing: "It wai more or less luck that
I hit it so soon. I didn't find any
wounds, knife, bullet, nothing like
that; so I went into the abdomen
thinking of poison. I found t'ne an
»wer there."
He hesitated and Cumberland
urged: "Go ahead, Doc. »•
"All
The Doctor said grimly:
right, It's hard to believe; but this
man died of peritonitis, from a rup
tured appendix.
Rupture resulted
from a gangrenous condition pro
duced by a crease in the omentus
that bent a fold in an artery, the
way you do a hose, and shut off the
blood supply. That's how he died!"
For a moment no one spoke, till
Cumberland muttered:
"Then it's not murder, Tope!"
Tne Inspector said impatiently:
"They tied him up, gagged him. left
him half-smothered with a blanket
around his head when he was run
ning a temperature and pretty sick
and needing a doctor quick. If that
wasn't murder, it was t'ne next thing
to It!”
"Manslaughter, maybe," Cumber
land admitted.
"Well," Tope suggested, "suppose
it was you that had fetched this man
to Faraway and left him there to
die. Wouldn't you be worried for
fear some one had spotted you?”
"U was dark,” Cumberland re
flected.
"I'd have kept my hat
pulled down, my collar turned up."
"How about the car? Wouldn’t you
be afraid Priddy might remember
car?" Then, putting himself in
other man's place. Tope went
"Of course, maybe I'd steal a
to do the job. Mat. have you
any reports of a car being sto
len around here?”
"I wouldn't know about that,"
Cumberland confessed. “Ned Quill
would, though. The Stale police get
all those bulletins.”
"Where is he?"
"Asleep inside
He was up all
night.”
“Well, send him out." Tope di
rected The District Attorney went
into the house, and after a moment
Ned Quill appeared, elaborately
rubbing his eyes.
Tope spoke to him. “Get any rest,
did you?"
“Sure!" the trooper told him
cheerfully. “A good three hours!”
Tope nodded.
“Quill, have the
State police had any reports of a
car being stolen around here. the
last few days?"
"Sure, cars are stolen al) the
time."
"You go find out whether any cars
have been reported stolen within fif
ty miles of here since Friday." Tope
directed
"Or since Thursday, for
that matter.”
Quill assented
He started away;
but Tope detained him.
"Wait a
minute." he said. “Something else.
You know the country around
here?”
“Lived here ull my life up to now.
Yes, I guess I do."
“Well then," Tope asked, “sup
pose you had a car on your hands
that you had to get rid of, some-
where around here, where would you
put it?”
The trooper considered. "I'd run
it into the woods." he decided
"There are a lot of old roads that
nobody uses except to park In. on
moonlight nights; and nobody would
notice one more car among so
many."
Tope shook his head “That's not
good enough! Some one might spot
it the first day
Is there any place
where a car could be sunk in deep
water?’
“Well, there are some old lime
stone quarries, above Ridgcomb 1
haven't been up there since I was a
kid; but there's always water in the
quarries, and it's gray with lime,
go you can’t see down into it."
“Any other place that would do
the trick?"
“Nary a one that I know of. ’
Tope nodded.
"All right," he
agreed
* Now
go find •ut
whether there'« been a car stolen,
and let me know.”
When Quill was gone. Tope turned
you know where
to Adam. ’ "Son,
"
these quarries are?"
“I can find them.”
‘‘Get Miss Dewain to drive you
up there,” Tope directed.
"That
way, you can enjoy yourself and
help me too.
Take a flshingline
and a sinker and make some sound
ings—see if you can locate anything
in the quarries that might be a car.
Look for tire tracks on the road."
"I came up to get some fresh
vegetables for dinner.” Bee remem
bered. "Adam, come help me. Then
we can go.”
So she and Adam departed toward
the garden, and the Inspector and
Mrs. Tope got under way; at once
he proposed: "Now ma’am, we'll
drive down to Ledforge’s summer
place and see what they say there!”
She assented; but first he bade
her stop at the Mill; and he went
to talk with Priddy for a while.
"They put him under the bed in
Faraway.”
When he returned to the car, there
was a deep excitement in his eyes;
but he only said: “All right, let's
go along." Not till they were on
the road did he explain. Then he
told her: "Some one else is on this
trail we're running."
•Who?"
"Those two men last night. Whit
lock and Beal! Whitlock told Prid
dy he was an insurance agent, said
he was trying to trace a stolen car—
a Chevalier coupe, pale gray with
blue trim. Earl told him a car like
that was here Friday night.”
"Is that the one with the English
man?"
"Yes!”
"Did Earl get the number of the
car?"
"No, but he says it was a coupe,
light gray. He didn't see the man's
face, or the woman's They drove in
late, and Priddy had to get out of
bed. He took them to Little Bear,
The man gave him the money for
the cabin without getting out of the
car, and Priddy went back to bed;
but he says the man was small, and
that he talked like an Englishman—
whatever that means! And Priddy
says the car had blown out an ex
haust gasket He heard it puffing ”
He added: "I had to go at Priddy
easy, so he wouldn't realize I was
asking questions. That's what took
me so long
For a while, then,
he said no more.
For several hours the Topes were
busy . . .
The District Attorney's office was
in North Madderson. a dozen miles
from Ridgcomb Quill had preced
ed the Topes to announce their com
ing, Mat Cumberland and another
man w^je here to greet them—a
brisk young man. sure beyond his
years
"This is Joe Dane. Inspector."
Cumberland said.
"Heard Mat speak of you." Tope
said courteously, his hand extend
ed. "Says he couldn't get along
without you”
And he went on: "Late last Friday
night, a little man who talked like
an Englishman, and who had a wom
an w ith him. drove up to Dewaln s
Mill in a gray Chevalier coupe with
blue trim. They had this man that's
dead now under the rumble seat.
Priddy put them in the cottage
called L’ttle Bear During the night
they carried this man down to Far
away and put him under the bed
there."
"How can you know
at?
D in*
demanded
"Well, I’m guaranteeing it. Tope
assured him mildiv; and he went
on:
"They put him under ihe bed in
Faraway , and sometime before
daylight they pulled out. I figure
that they'd want to get rid of the
I've a notion it's in an old
car
quarry Ned Quill here told me
Adam Bruce has gone to
about.
see ”
lfie District Attorney looked at
Joe Dane. “You and me wouldn't
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EDITOK’S NOTE: Thu newspaper
But Dane retorted:
“We don't
know the car's there! That's just a through special arrangement with th»
W ashingion Bureau of Ueslern News
stab in the dark."
paper Union ut 1616 Eye Street, N. W.,
"Why. that's right," Tope agreed
Uashington, D.
is able to bring
readily enough. "But I tried anoth readers this weekly column on prob
er stab,” he continued. "Quill helped lems of the veteran and serviceman
me on this too.
I asked him to and his family. Questions may be ad
find out whether any car had been dressed to the above Bureau and they
stolen around here. Well, there was trill be ansu ered in a subsequent col
one. belonged to a man named Hol umn. No replies can be made direct by
dom. has a summer place down near mad, but only in the column uhirh will
Ridgcomb.
It was taken Friday appear in this newspaper regularly.
night, out of the garage.
Nettie
On the Job Training
Pineyard — she’s Holdom's bouse-
keeper—says Mrs. Kell, the chauf-
Veterans' administration officials
I feur’s wife, drove it away."
say there is a decided trend among
He hesitated; but no one spoke, veterans who are taking advantage
. and he went on:
of the provisions of the educational
"Saturday morning, Holdom tele ' features of the G.I. bill to get away
phoned from New York to the po- from college and university study
I lice in Ridgcomb that the car had in favor of on-the-job training tor
been stolen.” He turned to Quill. various trades. This trend was alsu
"Ned you go call up your friend, the noticeable following World War I.
► insurance man—see if he had insur
As of December 1 there were
ance on that car and whether Hol 103.526 veterans taking on-the-job
dom reported the theft to him too.” training or enrolled in colleges and
Quill disappeared and Tope spoke universities and officials point out
more softly: “Didn't want Quill to that if the heavy enrollment con
hear what I'm telling you now,” he tinues,
many
schools
will
be
said. "But Mrs. Tope here saw Led- ! swamped with applications by ths
forge, the Utilities man that lives ; time the fall terms open in 1946.
down below Ridgcomb. at a meeting i Disabled veterans are also taking
once, and she saw the dead man advantage of Public Law No. 16 and
this morning. She thoueht he was as of December 1 there were 35,353
Ledforge!"
in training — 24.126 in schools and
Cumberlar-d leaned forward, and 11,227 on-the-job trainees.
The veterans' administration has
Dane leaped to his feet. "Ledforge!"
he whispered hoarsely,
‘By God- also announced that there are more
frey! Say, if that's so—” His eyes than 87.000 veterans, an all-time
shone.
peak, receiving hospital treatment
But Tope said mildly:
"Wait a and domiciliary care and with a
minute, Mr. Dane. I only said that tremendous increase hospital facili
Mrs. Tope thought the dead man ties are taxed to capacity.
• *
was Ledforge. But Ledforge is in
Questions and Answers
New York. He was at a bank di
Q.—My husband, who has been in
rectors' meeting there this morn-
the
army for 28 months, who spent
ing.”
Dane made an exasperated ges- 19 months in France and Is now in
ture. "Well, for heaven's sake, if Japan, should be eligible for a dis
it’s not him. why set off a skyrocket charge. Will he get one soon? H<
is a corporal and in the 549th Port.
here?"
But then Quill returned. "Charley Co.—Wife, Scottsboro, Ala.
A.—Your husband is stationed In
Fay had the insurance on the
coupe,” he said. "But he hasn't any Kure, Japan, as of December 26,
and the war department has no
report about its being stolen.”
Tope nodded, and gently he dis- word on when his company will be
missed the trooper, "You've been moved home.
Q.—How many points will dis
a lot of help, Ned," he said. "I
wish you'd drop in at Dewain’s Mill charge a navy enlisted man and how
and see if Adam's there. Tell him are points counted for dependents?
—Navy wife, Thayer, Mo.
I’ll be there soon.”
A.—The navy allows 10 points for
So Quill departed; and Tope looked
dependency, regardless of the num
at Cumberland.
"Now, I want to do a little tele ber of children. On January 1. 1946,
phoning, Mat," he said. "Mind if I the navy point score dropped to 36
use your name?" Cumberland as points for enlisted men and 43 for
sented silently; and Tope put in a officers. The navy announced fur
call for Police Headquarters in New ther one point cuts to go into effect
January 15 and February 2.
York.
Q.—My husband will have been
While they waited. "There are two
or three things we ought to know," In the army three years the 26th
He was recently
Tope explained. "Kell was at Hol of December.
dom's Friday night; but he left, and sent overseas to Japan. He arrived
Mrs. Kell hasn't been back since she there November 18. He is in the
drove the car away. I'd like to know 32nd division. Will he have to stay-
where they are. And there's anoth there after the hill is passed in Feb
er thing: There was a man named ruary that three-year men le ill be
Whitlock at Dewain's Mill last eligible for discharge, even though
night, said he represented the insur he is in the occupational army?—
ance people, trying to trace a sto Mrs. L. R. M., Pocahontas, Iowa.
A —The army says your husband
len car. The way he described it, it
was this car. But if Holdom hasn't is at Fukrata. Japan, and that high
reported it to the insurance peo- point men will be screened out of
the 32nd division to be brought home
pie—"
"Where is Whitlock?” Dane de- as soon as transportatii n is avail
able. They will make no predictions
manded. "He sounds fishy!”
"He got away before I found out on the possible passage of the bill
what he was up to," Tope confessed; to which you refer
Q.—My husband was a veteran of
and Dane made a disgusted gesture.
Then the j5hone rang, and Tope took World War I. serving five months
and three days. At the time he
the instrument.
was to go overseas he became ill
"Hello. Pat?” he said in friendly
and remained in the hospital 111
tones. "Tope speaking Tope! Tope,
da>N with pneumonia and measles
you young whelpl
How are you,
and his right car was affected, lie
Pat'* Haven't seen you in five years
cannot hear from that ear and has
. . . Sure, you heard right! I was
a medical record showing he was
married a year ago. Still on my
sick, but they won't give him a pen
honeymoon."
sion. He is 52 years old and the
He became serious, “But Pat, Its-
doctor says he is unable to work
ten
I'm speaking from Mat Cum
Is there any way you can help get
berland's office
He's the D A up
a pension?—Wife, Jamison. Ala.
here in Highland County. Massa
A.— If your husband has made ap
chusetts. yes. North Madderson is
the town. He wants some informa plication to the veterans' adminis
tion.
OK? All right, take this tration for a disability rating and if
he has been turned down, he has
down."
And he gave careful Instructions: the right to ask for a review of hit
To find out whether Ledforge wsa In case. He also has the right to ap-
New York; to check his recent move peal the decision to a reviewing
ments What kind of hair-oil did he board of the veterans' administra-
use? Was he in New York over the tior. Suggest you write the near-
week-end?
Check up on Holoom. est regional office of the veterans
about
your
hus
where he had been, where he was administration
band's case.
now.
Q.—My husband served a little
"And Holdom's plane crashed
Saturday morning." Tope explained. over three months in World War I.
"Pilot, named Bob Flint, was killed. He has been in the veterans' hos
Down on the Sound somewhere Find pital at Wadsworth. Kans., two dif
ferent limes in the last two years.
out what made tne plane fall."
He finished, hung up the receiver; He is still weak and very nervous,
Joe Dane started to speak, anrj Tope unable Io do hut very little work
looked at tne young man. • -ertain and goes all to pieces. I want to
know if there is any way we can
sympa*hf m his eyes
"Son." he said. "I krsw just about get help. —Mrs. D S.. Gashland,
how you feel—you'itching to get Mo.
A
11 yvui husband is disabled
action
I'm t«-s old to run around
in circles; rot if you want a job. as you say. you have the right to
here « sr<rcthing you can do:
A file for a disability rating with the
administration and if
week a»o, Mrs Kell drove down to veterans'
Middleford and met Ledforge at the given a disability he is entitled to
train there Where did they go? See a pension. Suggest you take the mat
ter up with your nearest regional
if vou can find out, Joe."
And he added; "We ll know a lot veterans' administration, probably
more when we hear from New York. at Kansas City.
You know pretty near as much as
Q.— I have been told that service
I do. right now "
men are entitled Io a raise in
Then the phone r ig. and Joe their salary for overseas dutv which
It's for you, would Increase ihe
the serviceman's
Dane took the call.
Tope." he said, surrendering the in- family allowance. My husband has
strument And they heard To; w .ay: been overseas 10 months. He
. Good. 2nd class sean an. He had this
• Hello . . . Oh, Adam
It's there, is it? mg when he-
went overseas and
I
glad you c lid . .
Fine
Adam, did you allotment ehe< k has remained
whether there were heel- same. Hoi old like to know if I
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since
been overseas.—
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