Illinois Valley News, Thursday, January 24, 1946
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THE STORY THIS FAR: Adam Bruce,
FBI operator, and Inspector and Mrs.
Tope met while on vacaUon In the North
eastern wilds. Tope discovered the body
of a murdered man at the auto camp
of Bee Dewaln, a friend of Bruce's.
Bruce, State Trooper Quill, Nat Cumber
land, D. A., and Dr. Medford were called.
They decided to keep the murder secret
durinc investlcation. Mrs. Tope told her
husband that she recognized the body as
that of Mr. Ledforge. head of New Eng-
land utilities. However, New York report
ed that Ledforge was at his office. Doc
tor reports showed that man died of rup
tured appendls, while tied up. A ear
believed used by murderer was found.
CHAPTER VI
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to hold out on me?"
Adam protested: "Holdout?" But
his face was red.
"Why, yes -Just that Why. for in
blood LACKS
■tance, does Balser Vade dislike
You ’iris and women who Buffer to from
alniple anemia that you're pale, weak
I you?"
dra ;ed out" this may be due to lack
' He s Just a harmless crank,"
of blood- iron So try Lydia E Pinkham's
I A BI F is one of th»’ beat home wav*
Adam insisted
to build up red blood in such cases
The Inspector relaxed in his chair.
Pinkham's tablets are one of the great
• t bl l iron tonic* you can buy! At
"All right, »on," he said. "You do
all dm. stores Worth trying!
as you tike about telling me.”
Adain hesitated in some distress
04- 46 "Any idea yet who the dead man
may be’" he asked at last.
Tope answered mildly: "Yes. in a
way.
Mrs Tope thinks he's Led
forge. the Utilities—Why. what's the
matter. Adam’"
For at that name, young Adam
For You To Frei Well
Bruce had come to his feet in quick
14 hour, »ary day, T dsya every
astonishment, stood now leaning
week, never «topping, the k dney« Altar
over Tope, and cried out:
»“*• mattar from tfc* blood
It mora paopi« wrn aware of how the
"Ledforge?"
aidnev« must constantly remove «ur-
plu« Auld e>ceee acid« and other waste
"Mrs. Tope says so." the old man
•’•I >n "<• bl«-J
Insisted. "She saw Ledforge once
•llboat laiary to Uewltk. tb.ee ,..uid
”• better an.l.ratan.1 n( „(
,h,
at a stockholders' meeting.”
atd. •>.<.» ta
kldn
(al|
Ada tn relaxed; he chuckled "You
to function proparly.
Burning . nennly or too traqu.nl u-lnn-
startled me for a minute." he con-
u-.
4aam.th.nR
fessed.
nrfw. hee.laehen. diuinnt. rhrun.au,
"Yes. I noticed that!" said Tope
!"* “>>,*’ "•«•»a. a>.llin|
Why dot try Pean'« f,u,’
* ,,u
dryly. "Matter of fact. I meant to!"
ba ueing a medicine recommended the
"But Mrs Tope is wrong. Inspec
country over, Dean'« stimulate the fune-
of th« k dneya and help them to
tor.” Adam declared He hesitated
ttuah out poisonoua waste from the
"I telephoned our people in New
blood. They conta n eothine harmful
* today. Vaa with <*>nbden«^
York tliis morning, from Ridgcomb,
At all drug «torva.
»narnoo.
to ask about Ledforge He's in New
York! I checked on that!"
"Yes, *o did we.” Tope assented
"Ledforge Is in New York, all right
But Adam, how did you happen to
STRINGTH
If your
IRON!
I
,
I
I
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neighbors listening in. Want to run
A'
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7232
me to town?”
"Take our car,” Tope suggested.
"No need to bother Miss Dewain. I
"
always rely on this great rub for
want to tell her what's been happen-
ing."
He added with a chuckle:
"You’ll get back quicker if I keep
her here!”
So Adam drove away alone; and
Tope told Bee what there was to
tell. The girl listened silently till
he finished. Then she said.
; ft
“No, the dead man isn't Mr. Led
trj
forge. I had a letter from him this
« .‘A
i-. j
morning.
Or rather Mr. Eberly
F
did!" And she explained: "You see.
Mr. Eberly and Mr. Ledforge are
old friends. The bank had some
Utilities bonds, and that was one rea
son it had to close; but Mr. Eberly
never blamed Mr. Ledforge.
Mr.
Eberly left Saturday morning to go
fishing in New Brunswick, and—I
••••
used to be his secretary—he ar
ranged to have his mail delivered
to me so I could take care of it.
■'c:
He’s not married, so he often does
|7 .'/.-Xÿ; r . ÿ-,
that when he goes away.”
Tope listened without questions,
Sore Gums?........................... □
and she went on:
•• * **«
"This letter came this morning
f fe
¿¡
Chewing Discomfort?................ □
from Mr. Ledforge. He wants Mr.
S.
Food Particles Under Plates? . □
••••”• J
Eberly to come over and fish with
Troublesome Lowers?........... □
’
••J
’
him in the trout-pond above his sum
Don't let these annoying loose-plate trouble*
mer place, tomorrow afternoon. Mr.
make your life miserable another day! Instead,
be guided by the experience of grateful thou
Ledforge wrote the letter himself.”
sands who’vo found complete dental-plate
security
and comfort with Staze—the remark
"You sure?”
able dentist's discovery that does what no
“Yes, of course. I’ve never seen L'LITTING from party to pantry ’’powder" even claims!
1. Holds plates comfortably secure—not for
him. but I know his handwriting. * is fun when you wear this dainty Just a few hours, but all day—or it costs
you nothing. 2. Quickly relieves and
I'll show you the letter."
bib-top apron in easy filet crochet! helps prevent sore gums due to loose
plates that slip and chafe. 3. Beals
Tope said mildly: “Why, I’d like Make it without the bib, too.
around plate edges to keep out irri
* « «
tating food particles. 4. Ideal for
to see it." And he asked: “Any
troublesome lowers, uppers too!
Get yourself an easy-to-use
Everyone admires a hostess who looks
way you can get in touch with Mr.
tube of Btaze at your druggist
fresh, so crochet this apron for yourself;
today. You’ll be completely sat
Eberly, Miss Dewain?”
or for gifts! Pattern 7232 has directions; isfied. or get your money back I
"Telephone," she said. "Or tele chart.
graph.”
Due to an unusually large demand and
“I wish you’d call him up, tell him current conditions, slightly more time is
required
in filling orders for a few of the
about this invitation.” And he add
most popular pattern numbers.
ed disarmingly: "If he doesn’t want
Send your order to:
to come back to fish with Mr. Led
Eat ptanty yet lose
forge, ask him to fix it so I can go
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
weight with delicious
Box 3217
San Francisco 6, Calif.
in his place. I like to fish."
candy reducing plan
“All right,” she assented, amused;
Have a more slender, graceful fig-
Enclose 16 cents for Pattern
uie No exercising No laxatives.
and Tope asked:
Nodrugs
With the simple AYDS
No______________
“Mr. Eberly seen Ledforge late
Vitamin Candy Reducing Plan
you
don
’t
cut out any meals,
Name.
ly, has he?”
Btarches, potatoes, meats or but
ter, you simply cut them down.
She shook her head. "No. Mr.
Address.
It seasier when ycueniovdelicious
Ledforge called him up about ten
(vitamin fortified) AYDS candy
before me ds Absolutely harmless,_____________
days ago—Saturday, I think it was.
In clinical tent* conducted by medical doctor«
Wanted to see him; but Mr. Eberly
more than 130 persons tost 14 to IS lbs. averog«
in a few week* with AYDS Vitamin Candy Re
was in Boston over that week-end.
ducing Plan
The operator knows I handle some
3'ldr
o( A\ 1 onlv «2 25 If not a-licl, ted
with result«, MONEY BACK on brat box 1'lioua
things for Mr. Eberly go she shifted
the call to me.”
leading Drug Counters Everywhere
Shakespeare divided the ages of
"Where did Ledforge call from?” man into seven, but Moritz Rosen
Tear Cut this Ad as a Reminder
Tope wondered.
thal recognizes only three. Speak
“Up here, I think,” Bee replied. ing from the shady side of 75, the
"He said something about 'dropping great pianist observed:
in.' Something casual. Not as if
“A man is young if a lady can
he were in New York.”
make him happy or unhappy. He
Tope nodded, and then they heard comes to middle age when she can
Invest in Your Country—
a car turn in and stop by the Mill, make him happy, but can no long
Buy
U. S. Savings Bonds!
and Bee looked out and said: “It's er make him unhappy. He is old
Mr. Cumberland, and Joe Dane.”
when a lady can make him neither
"Call them up here," Tope direct tappy nor unhappy.’’
I
ed sharply. "Before the whole world
knows they're here!”
He came to the door as Bee made
haste down the drive; but she was
It's wonderful how a l.ttle
too late to avert the danger Tope
Va-tro-nol relieves transient
foresaw. Joe Dane was inflated by
congestion that stuffs up the
nose and spoils sleep. Quickly
the prospect of handling what prom
your nose opens up-breath
ised to become a celebrated case. So
to relieve stuffiness, invite
ing is easier I If you need re
when they turned in off the road and
lief tonight, try it! Follow di
stopped beiide the Mill, where Earl
rections in the package.
Priddy was working. Joe called in
Jjst a few drops
important tones:
"Hi, Earl!
Where's Inspector
if nose gets "stopped up" up each nostril
Tope?”
Priddy
straightened
up
and
scratched his head and stared. “In-
spector?” he echoed, his eyes wide.
"Inspector of what? What's he In-
spector of. Joe?"
Bee. arriving just then on the spot,
hushed him sharply. "Never mind,
Earl! It's none of your business,
Go on with your work." She sum-
moned Joe away; the car moved
on to Cascade, where Tope waited,
and the two men alighted there.
Tope looked at Dane in mild dis
approval. "Young man.” he said,
"you advertise too much!"
"It's all right,” Bee said reassur
ingly. "I told Earl it was none of
his business!”
Tope chuckled. "Why, that's fine,
miss," he assented.
"After that,
Earl Priddy won't give it another
thought. I know! You certainly fixed
that.” And he added gently: "You
go along now and telephone Mr.
Eberly. And let me see that letter.”
1
And as the girl turned away, he said:
"Come in. Mat. Come in. Dane
I
guess Earl doesn't matter.
We
couldn't keep this thing dark much
longer."
And he added slowly: "They've
located Holdom. He's in a private
hospital down near Hartford with a
broken head, a concussion, maybe
a fractured skull.”
Cumberland nodded, and he ex-
Ml SCI.E PAINS can do it to you
fast
plained:
—make you feel old—Zook drawn
"New York says Ledforge and
and haggard, soretone l iniment
Holdom started up here last Friday,
contains methyl salicylate, a most
in Holdom's limousine, with Kell
effective pain-relieving agent. And
driving They left New York early,
Soretone's cold heat action brings
you fast, so-o-o-thing relief.
*
about nine o'clock.
Holdom went
around to pick Ledforge up at his
I (fuirklr Soretone act» to eu-
apartment; and the officer on the
in casai of
hanee local circulation.
beat saw Ledforge come out and
Î. Check mutcular rrampi.
MUSCULAR LUMBAGO
get in.
3. Help reduce local ncelling.
"They don't know when Ledforge
OR BACKACHE
came back, but he was in his office
4. Dilate tar face capillar* blood
«M t* fill««« u >iMwr,
Monday morning, and he was at the
rertelt.
MUSCULAR PAINS
bank and in his office this morn
For f»*te«t artion, let dry, rub in
Iu« t« ««Id*
ing."
again. There'« only one Soretone—
Tope nodded, and Cumberland
SORE MUSCLES
in,i-t on it for Soretone re«ult>.
went on:
it*« t« «wrw«rk
SOe. Rig bottle, onlv $1.
■Well, today, when they had made
think it might be Ledforge?” He
looked at the young man shrewdly.
"I’m wondering,*' he said, "if Bal
ser Vade—you said he was a letter
writing kind of a man—ever wrote
a letter to Ledforge."
Adam surrendered. "All right,"
he yielded; and he grinned. “1 give
in. Here it is. But I think Vade's
harmless. Tope.
Only, Ledforge
ruined him, ten years ago, in a wa
ter-power project. Since then Vade
has been a little cracked on the
subject of brooks and streams, I
told you about that. He blames Led-
forge for spoiling the rivers, Led-
forge's office sent over to our peo-
pie half a dozen letters, pretty wild
and extravagant, from this society
for the protection of rivers, signed
by Vade as secretary, and threat
ening Ledforge with—fire and brim
stone! One of them said something
about snatching him up in a fiery
chariot, like Elijah or whoever it
was; and that suggested kidnaping,
so I came up here to see Vade."
He added: "Vade admitted writ
ing the letters, and he dared me to
He looked at Joe Dane jn mild tri
umph. "So that was pretty good for
Creomulslon relieves promptly be a stab in the dark, Mr. Dane!”
cause it goes right to the seat of the
“What's that about heel-plates?”
trouble to help loosen and expel
Serm laden phlegm, and aid nature young Dane demanded.
3 soothe and heal raw, tender. In
"Well,” said Tope, "somebody
flamed bronchial mucous mem with heel-plates has walked through
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un the woods near Faraway; and a man
derstanding you must like the way it with heel-plates left some tracks up
quickly allays the cough or you are at the quarry; and Kell, Holdom's
to have your money back.
chauffeur, had a pair of shoes with
heel-plates on them. They're in his
closet down at Holdom's right now.”
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
"Then we want Kell!” Dane ex
claimed. "And—Mrs. Kell? Was
she running around with Ledforge?
We've got to find her too!”
Tope nodded. "It would help a
lot,” he assented, "if we could talk
to her." He took Mrs. Tope's arm.
“Let me know when you’re ready to
PAZO IN TUIISI
salvage the car. Mat. I want to be
Million* of people suffering from
there. I’U be at the Mill If New
•Imple Pile*, have found prompt
York calls.”
relief with PAZO ointment Here'*
why Flret, PAZO ointment soothe*
And despite Dane's efforts to de
Inflamed area*—relieve* pain and
Itching Second, PAZO ointment
tain them, he and Mrs. Tope went
lubricate* hardened, dried parta—
down the stairs, and got into the
help* prevent cracking and »ore«
nwo I hlrd. PAZO ointment tend*
little roadster, at the curb. When
to reduce swelling and check minor
they were under way. she said
bleeding Fourth, It'* easy to use.
PAZO ointment'* perforated Pile
thoughtfully:
Pipe make* application «Imple,
thorough Your doctor can tell
"I don't like that young man. but
you about PAZO ointment.
he's right about one thing: You've
SUPPOSITORIIS TOO I
got to find Mrs. Kell, make her tell
Some persona, and many doctors,
you—"
prefer to u*e suppositorie*, so PAZO
come* In handy suppositorie* also
"I guess we’ll find her," he re
The same s<H»thing reiief that
plied grimly. "But I don’t expect
PAZO always gives
her to tell us anything!”
Cr^.FkfO T»<Q! At Brsgitsrss!j
She looked at him. “You know
where she is?"
"Well,” he confessed, "there were
two or three little things I didn't tell
them! That gray suit in Kell’s clos
et, 1 looked at the name on the
tailor's label. The name was Led
forge.”
She uttered a low ejaculation.
"But Mr. Ledforge might have giv
en it to Kell—when Kell worked for
him.”
"It wouldn't fit Kell,' Tope told
“No, the
her. "Kell's a big man. His uni- forge."
This suit was
forms were big
arrest him. He seemed to want to
«mall."
She frowned in bewilderment, be persecuted, seemed to want pub-
"But even so." she insisted, “what : licity, and a chance to tell the world
has that to do with Mrs. Kell? what sort of man Ledforge is. I
think he'd like to play the martyr,
Where do you think she is?”
He said heavily: “I think she’s in but Ledforge didn't want to prose
cute.” He added: "I suppose Led
the coupe in the quarry.”
"Why?” she whispered, in a still forge was as anxious to avoid pub
licity as Vade was to get it."
terror. •Why?”
Tope nodded understandingly. "But
“Adam and Bee found a man's
tracks leaving there," said Tope. after that, naturally you thought of
"Shoe» with heel-plates
But there Ledforge—”
"And I checked up,” Adam
were no woman's tracks! And that
gray suit in Kell’s closet, there was agreed. “And Ledforge is in New
blood on the sleeve of it, and the York."
dead man hadn’t any cut or wound
Tope beamed, "So this can't be
that would have bled at all!”
he,” he assented. "And Mrs. Tope's
When Mrs. Tope and the Inspec mistaken.” And he went on to re
tor reached Dewain's Mill. Tope cite to Adam the discoveries of the
himself went indoors, but she stayed day. He told the tale of the stolen
outside
The camp seemed desert car. and of Whitlock's inquiries, and
ed. till Adam Bruce and Bee De of the visit to the Holdom place,
Buy U. S. Savings Bonds!
wain, hearing the car arrive, came and of Miss Nettie Pineyard.
together from the direction of Far-
"And Mrs Kell and Kell have dis
■ way.
appeared.” he explained. "Holdom
USE
"Well, you located the car. That's was expected home Friday, but he
good."
didn't come. Kell came, in the lim
Adam said: "Yes
And 1 don't ousine. and drove away in it after
I know when I've ever had to do any ward; and Mrs. Kell drove the coupe
i thing that scared me more than div away."
Adam ran to quick conjecture.
ing down into that gray water; but
LIQUID. TABLETS. 5AIVE, NOSE DROPS
I felt the axle, and a wheel " He "And Kell joined her later, came
CAUTION —USE ONIY AS DIRECTED
added: "And while 1 was doing that, with her here? Then they dumped
. Bee found the man's tracks. What the coupe in the quarry and headed
for Canada?"
do they mean?"
"Well, maybe,” Tope admitted.
"You're as bad as Joe Dane, al
"What was it? Jealousy’ Is Mrs
ways asking questions
Son,” he
I countered, "how long are you going Kell—the flighty kind’”
D oans P ills
HEARTBURN
Dainty Apron Tn
Easv Filet Crochet Retwcd m 5 muw » or doubts mon«» Mt»
The Inspector said reluctantly:
"Well, it looks as if she spent last
week end—ten days ago—with Led
forge somewhere. And if she'd go
away with him. maybe she'd go with
others Maybe this dead man—long
as he's not Ledforge—was one of
them." He slapped his knee in sud
den recollection. "We ought to have
sent a tracer out after the limousine
that Kell drove away in. Adam, do
that, will you?”
Adam nodded. "Yes What else?"
“Why, it Just might be that Led
forge is really missing, and they re
covering it up in New York.”
"I'll find out," Adam promised.
"And one other thing. Adam: May
not have any connection, but I'd like
to know
Holdom had a plane—pi
lot named Bob Flint—and it crashed
in Long Island Sound on Saturday
morning. Flint, he was killed. I'd
like to know what made that plane
Maybe you can find out
crash,
through the Department of Com
merce."
Adam said: "Sure "
Then they heard voices outside:
and Mrs Tope and Bee Dewain ap
peared in the open doorway
had sandwiches wrapped in a
kin. and a glass of milk
Tope chuckled, and looked at Mrs
Tope
“1 declare," he exclaimed.
"I forgot all about food!" He took
toe sandwiches and began to eat
them comfortably
Adam said: "Bee I've got to do
some telephoning, don't want the
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WHY BE FAT
Noted Pianist Holds There
Are Three Ages of Man
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WsSKS
VAIkOKGL
IM TOO YOUNG
TO FEEL
SO OLD
soothes
with
COLO HEAT
ACTION
sure about Ledforge. they sent a
man to Holdom's office, and the
staff there was all excited, because
they had just had a telephone mes-
sage from Holdom He's in this pri-
just
vat* hospital in a little town
- —
••
thia side of the Connecticut line.
(TO BE CONT1NVED1
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