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Illinois Valley News, Thursday. February 21, 1945 OVERNIGHT GUEST'S b HBEN AMES WILLIAMS « SEII ING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT Star Medallion Lovely for (doth Vw N U F t ATUr¿í$£5Si THE STORY THIS FAR Adam Bruce, FBI operator, Inspector Tope and Mrs. Tope met in the Maine woods. Tope found a man murdered at auto camp operated by Bee Dewain. He was be lieved to be Mr. Ledforge, head of New England utilities. Ledforge*« friend was found in hospital with head injuries His chauffeur, Kell, was found, admitted that he hit Holdom on head, u|Mtn Holdom*« orders. Said he did not know where Mrs. Kell was. Joe Dane, assistant D A., returned with Holdom and learned from handyman Priddy that a woman and man had been there at time of murder and the man was called Rupe, which might have been Ledforge, as his name was Rufus. Mr. Eberly came out to meet them, and remembered Adam, and said gravely: “I heard your car. Sorry the gate was locked ” He smiled in faint mirthless fashion. “More trouble, Bruce?” “Not for you. sir,” Adam told him; and he introduced Inspector Tope, leaving it to Tope to explain their presence here. Tope handed Eberly that letter from Ledforge. 'Miss Dewain thought you’d want it.” he said. “As long as it's this afternoon Mr. Led forge wants you to meet him.” Eberly read the letter swiftly; he looked at Tope. "Miss Dewain showed this to you?” “Yes sir," Tope confessed; and he said briefly: "Mr. Eberly, I don’t want to try to tell you all that’s happened. If I told you the story, you'd think more about the ques tions you want to ask than about the questions I’m asking you. Mind if I don't start explaining at all?” Eberly was white and still. “What is it you want to know?” “Why, that's fine.” said Tope con tentedly. “You know Mr. Ledforge pretty well, don’t you?” “I’m probably his most intimate Adam saw Whitlock move though to speak, knew what the er was about to say. It was early Friday morning, before she could have known that her brother had not come home as he planned, that Miss Ledforge had set these men upon the trail. But Tope touched I Whitlock’s arm, restraining him; spoke himself instead. .’¿F.« •f..... Well, ma'am, that’s all right." And he added: "I want to leave Mr, Whitlock here He's expecting a phone call from Mr. Myers. Can he » sj* stay?" “Of course." she assured him; and then Tope was saying good-by Outside, the old man said crisply: CHAPTER X "Whitlock, you and Beal stay here He admitted: “Matter of fact. I till you hear from me.” And he thought there was two women in added: "Your job is to see that noth ing happens to that old lady.” there. I thought she said 'Ruth,' till Earl here told me it was a man "Happens to her? What—” "I don't look for anything,” Tope and a woman.” admitted "Your being here will Joe took both men in his car back to his home in North Madderson. prevent. But—you stay.” Here were vital witnesses; he meant And he turned and with Adam by ■ * ■ to keep their information to himself his side strode toward the car. Whit lock, gaping with bewilderment, for a while. "And you stay here." he directed swung away to where Beal waited "Don’t talk to anybody till I come in the other machine. for you, or send for you. See?” ' At the Mill. Bee and Mrs. Tope He went back to the courthouse, were here to greet them. After the where Pringle still held his vigil first moment. Bee caught Adam’s over Holdom. "He’s been asleep arm, drew him aside. most of the time," the detective re "What’s happened?" she demand I’HE STAR medallion is crochet, ported. “Seems kind of dopey. Don't ed softly. "Where have you been?” 1 starred for its handsome de say a word." "Lost in an impenetrable forest," sign, its lovely effect when joined Joe nodded. "Fve got a hot trail,” he assured her, chuckling. "When for cloths, spreads, small acces he reported. “Have you heard any it comes to giving a man directions, sories. thing from Mat?" you’re a total loss. What were you "Why, yes," Pringle told him. Quickly memorized, this medallion will trying to do. get rid of us for good "They got that car out of the quar and all? We didn’t find the lodge be your favorite crochet! Join for small ry. Telephoned for Will Banion’s till daylight." ambulance here a minute ago. Mrs. “You “Idiot!" she protested, Kell was in it. Dead.” didn’t listen! But it’s hours since Joe nodded again, loftily. "Natu-’ daylight. Where have you been rally,” he agreed. "Well, I’ll run since? And why did he bring Mr. out there, take charge.” Eberly here? And what did you He made speed toward the quar find out?” ry Beyond Dewain’s Mill, in the “Well,” he said, “we called on front seat of a car stopped at a fill Miss Ledforge. It was she who put The envelope type of purse can ing-station there, he saw Tope sit Whitlock and Beal on this thing, be be made of felt. This is a sugges ting alone, his head bowed, appar cause her brother wrote her that he tion especially for children’s ently asleep. But Joe did not stop was sick.” purses. They, too, may be dec He had no desire to share with this "But that doesn’t make sense—” orated with yarn or with small interloper his discoveries now. . She had no time to shape another figures or designs cut from felt of Inspector Tope did not see Joe question. Tope was coming toward contrasting colors. Dane pass by; but the old man, •— them, and he called to Adam: though his eyes were closed, was Let’s go!” •'All right, son! Susie's hair bows will keep their not asleep, Yet he might have been He climbed into the car. "Where color better if you add a table excused for being. He had slept not ?” Adam asked, and Tope said in spoon of vinegar to the first rinse at all for many hours. mild impatience: water when they are washed. When Bee. the night before, took "The quarry, man!” — e—• Mrs Tope away to see her safe So Adam drove down the road abed, Tope led Adam up to the cab Even an old funnel can be glam toward Ridgcomb. till he came to in where Whitlock and Beal were orous. Paint it to match your that byway which led up into the kitchen color scheme and hang it housed, and knocked on the door hills where the quarries were; then Whitlock and Beal were still awake on the wall as a holder for a ball turned aside and began the steep of twine. "I talked with your boss, boys,* climb. • — Tope told them directly. "Take my Adam asked: “You feel sure this word for that? Or do you want to To remove old glue from furni “lie will be here some time today.” is the Holdom car?" get him on the phone?" ture easily and quickly, wash it off But Tope reported in an impa Whitlock consulted Beal with a friend.” Eberly glanced at Adam. with hot vinegar. Let wood dry glance, and Tope added: "I know “Mr Bruce has of course told you tient tone: "It’s bound to be! Go thoroughly before applying fresh along. ” who put you on this. Charley told of the bank's collapse. Ledforge se glue. When they reached the ledge • me. He said you don’t know." curities were in large part respon above the quarry. Mat Cumberland "No,” Whitlock admitted. sible But Mr. Ledforge had ad No squeaks if you make oiling "Charley gave me your reports up vised me against carrying so much came to meet them; beyond. Adam your sewing machine a habit. To to yesterday morning, the last time of his stuff. He believed in it him saw half a dozen men engaged in oil a sewing machine properly, put you called him up. I'll run through self, but preferred that I should not the task here under way. Cumber the oil on every place where one them if you want, show you I know commit the bank so heavily. It was land said in slow bewildered tones: part rubs against or turns within "Tope. Kell told the truth. Our what I’m talking about." my own decision, my own responsi another. dead man can’t be Ledforge! There's Whitlock surrendered "We’ll take bility.” a story in the New York papers to your word for it," he said. Tope nodded. "Know his family, Septic tanks require some atten day that Ledforge has made a com Tope nodded. "All right But the do you?" plaint to the governing committee tion every three or four years, but party that put you on the job in the "Miss Ledforge. yes. There is no of the Stock Exchange about Hol- the work is lessened if you are lo first place says you can quit now one else " cated on sloping ground. This dom." But I need you. and Myers says “You and he used to go Ashing "No. Ledforge isn’t dead." Tope will permit a sludge drain that can you’re to work with me. O.K.?’* together and so on?” be agitated through the use of absently assented. Whitlock grinned, “I’ve heard a “Yes, and still do. Fish and hunt. an ordinary garden hose. lot about you. old man. Glad to Adam pressed closer, as intent as I Or sometimes just come up here watch you operate VVliat is this and rest for days on end ” the District Attorney to hear what business, anyway?" Tope looked around reflectively. the old man’s answer would be; but Tope for a moment did not an- And he asked: “Mr Eberly, come Tope gave them no enlightenment. swer. Then he said heavily, half down to Ledforge's place with us. "I'll know a lot more two hours to himself: "If it's what I think it will you? I want to see Miss Led from now,” he said. "But till I’m is it's about as bad a thing as I forge. and I’d like to see that fish sure in my own mind. I'd rather not ever ran into.” And he added grim pond of his. I’m a fisherman my do any guessing." And he added re assuringly: "But Mat. if I’m on the ly: "Unless I’m clear off the track, self.” right track, we'll have all the dirty there are three people dead already "Certainly.” Eberly agreed, “I’ll linen washed and hung out on the —and if we don’t wa^ch ourselves, get some clothes on." He had come line by tonight." He took the big more to come You boys come in slippers and dressing gown to man's arm. "Now come on. Let’s along ” greet them. see what they’re doing here." They set out in two cars, Whit At Tope’s suggestion, they left lock and his comrade trailing, and They turned along the ledge; and Eberly’s car here and walked back Tope said to Adam: to the locked gate, roused Whitlock Cumberland said: "The newspapers "Go to that lodge, son. I want to have got the story, Tope G^t re and Beal, sleeping wearily in their see Mr Eberly." porters on it. I looked for some of car. and so got under way Eberly Adam assented "Hurry?” he them to be up here before now." told them they need not go through asked. Tope stopped in his tracks. ” Ridgcomb. Tope shook his head. "It’s late don’t want that! Quill here?" "There's a back road," he ex- already." he pointed out. "He’ll be "Over yonder," Cumberland as- asleep, anyway. We’ll have to wake plained, "tha: comes down past the rented; and Tope saw the trooper, fish pond A locked gate, but I have him up; and we're staying with him kneeling on the lip of the ledge to a key.” till daylight, so take your time " look down into the quarry pit below, JWhen their ring was answered. ’Right." Adam assented "See if and called to him. Quill came to you can go to sleep I’ll try not to Tope asked for Mr Ledforge. ward them; and Tope said quickly: “He's expected this afternoon. give you a bumpy ride." "Son. go down the road and keep Yet with the best of intentions on sir," the servant replied the reporters from coming up here “ Then Miss Ledforge?" Adam’s part, that drive through the —if they find out where w» • re." Miss Ledforge received them at night was still an ordeal of narrow "Oke." Quill assented I ran into and Adam bad woods roads, missed turns and the breakfast-table: them once already today And he thought there was some shadow in consequent doublings and difficul reported: "I found the Holdom lim ties It was past four o’clock in the her eyes; yet she smiled in a friend ousine. Inspector Number plates morning, and Adam was grimly Iv fashion, and spoke to Inspector gone, but it's the one. all right, Hid cursing Bee Dewain's idea of dis Tope, remembering his call two in the woods There's blood on the tances and of direction before they days before floor rug in the rear seat." He "My brother hasn't come yet.” came at last to a gate she had de chuckled “1 sent the reporters up “He will be here scribed and found it locked. At she explained there, They couldn’t make anything Tope’s direction. Whitlock and Beal sometime today " out of that.” stayed here with the cars while Tope Tope said slowly: “Why. that’s Tope nodded "You looked •nd Adam went on. trudging along what 1 hear. Miss Ledforge ' And the winding way Insensibly a gray he said: "We're from the Myers over first?" "Nothing in it." light came stealing through the Agency, you see .” "Look at he tools?" wood Her cheek colored faintly "Oh. “No. Why?” "Daylight." said Tope “Well. that absurd proceeding!" she ex- Tope said "There was j we've time enough!" And he asked claimed “1 should apologize for blood and hair on one "Adam, got your gun?" troubling you." And she explained "Yes Why’’* wrenches Unless Holdom Kept hia "It was my ridiculous solicitude "Kell may have brought some one You see. my brother wrote last week hat on. But no matter. Did you up here that he didn't tel! us about." that he was ill. was coming home see—the girl I sent you to see'" "Not yet. Tried twice, but there said Tope, and said no more Then Friday ” She hesitated He never they came to the lodge—low. sprawl took proper care of himself; and wasn't anyone at home " ing. built of logs, with an outlook to when he didn't come as he expect "Well, after we're through here, the west across the tumbled crests ed. 1 was concerned." She laughed find her, see what sne says, come of distant wooded hills like tossing softly “He was so amused, when and tell me." the old man direct "Think you can hold the re billows. A car was parked by the I told him what 1 had done Told ed door, and door, and some wwdows, me to—call off my dogs! So I tele porters off our neck?*« ware open phoned Mr Myers ." • TO BE CONTINUED) or large accessories, pattern 7404 has directions. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders fir a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 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