Illinois Valley News, Thursday. February 21, 1945
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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.
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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
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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 ."
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