Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 8, IMS
Twin«! They’re the High
Point in a G.I.’s Career
CAMP LEE. VA. — When Mr».
Thomas P Conroy presented her
husband, Sergeant Conroy of Natro
na. Pa., with twins, she gave him
a ticket back to civilian life. Con
roy. who has a record of 28 months
overseas, had a total of 71 points
If his wife had had just one baby,
he would have been two points
short of the 85 required for a dis
charge. The twin boys added 21
points to his total.
OVERNIGHT » B .
GUEST
. 8 m BEN
A M E S
W IL L IA M S
V
f îâ t u iu s H
............
SORRY
H e cant make enough Smith Bros. Cough
Drops to satisfy everybody. O ur output is
the brook. . . Did you think to fetch —peeped in the window.” And she
still restricted. Buy only what you need.
that letter?"
said with a rueful gesture: " I don’t
Smith Bros, have soothed coughs due to colds
It was in her hand. "Here it is,” know how he knows, but he told
since 1847, Black or M en tho l—still only It.
she said.
Mrs. Priddy the dead man was
Tope unfolded the single sheet, he found in F a r a w a y !”
looked at the letterhead, then read
She added, looking at Adam, her
BLACK OR M I N T H O l - 5 <
the scrawled words.
eyes twinkling faintly: "E a rl claims
Dear Carl—
he has some important information
T h e A d v e r t i s e m e n t s M e a n a S a v in g t o Y o u
How about some Ashing this
that he's going to give Joe Dune!
week? Trout ought to take hold.
So if you and Inspector Tope don't
K e e p P o s te d o n V a lu e s b y R e a d in g th e A d s
Shall we try the pond? I ’ll be
hurry, Joe w ill be the one to—rcud
home sometime Wednesday aft
the riddle, after a ll!”
ernoon. Come about half-past
Adam grinned. "Joe couldn't read
four. That w ill let us catch the
the alphabet in large type," he told
evening rise. You’d better plan
her confidently. "And Earl wouldn't
to stay the night in case we
know information if he saw it."
keep at it till dark. No need of
"I'm afraid you've always under
answering this. because if
CHAPTER VII
rated Joe." she retorted. "But then
you’re not there by four-thirty.
you don't know much about real
I 'll go ahead alone.
Tope exclaimed in a mild exas
criminals. You’ve spent your time
Here’s
luck!
peration: "D idn't the doctor know
annoying innocent m en!"
Leddy
Cotton Firehose
who he was? Holdom must have
The
old
man
asked:
"Carl
is
Mr
Mrs. Tope watched them, amused;
A new water-holding cotton Ire-
had letters, labels in his clothes,
and Adam protested: "Bee, I never
hose has been developed. The new 1 something. A doctor that w ill keep Eberly's name?”
claimed Eberly had committed any
fabric may prove very useful as tent
"Yes.”
an unconscious man for three days
“ Ike Crains An final Fseds" —
cloth, tarpaulin, and outer rain re
"Ledforge wrote this, eh? That crime, done anything wrong. But
without
trying
to
And
out
who
he
is
sisting clethirr
the
bank
had
to
be
closed
to
protect
the
way
he
signs
himself?"
Kellogg*« Corn Flakes bring you nearly
, and let his people know, needs look
"Yes.” She watched him almost all the depositors. Those U tilities
the protective food element« o f the whole
ing into, M at!*’
I grain declared essential to human nutrition
bonds—”
He checked himself,
fearfully.
"Holdom told his office he'd had
And he returned the letter to her, looked at Tope in a Startled way.
I a smash-up,” Cumberland volun touched her hand. "Now, don’t you "Inspector, I forgot about that. It
teered.
Bafteved tai 5 mtawtM or double noaey back
was Ledforge stuff that ruined
W lw u « i r e « «tom arh acid cause« p a in fu l, « uffo c a l
"Smash-up! Smash-up!” Tope re
gaa. sour stomach and heartburn, d o ator* usually
Eberly's
bank.
Do you suppose
prrsenbe the fastes t-ac tin g medicines know n for
peated exasperatedly. "That's a lie,
Eberly—”
n m p to m a tic r e l i e f - medieines like those in H e ll-an »
✓
Table«».
lax a tive . Bell-ans briny» com fo rt In a
¡Mat! He and Ledforge started up
Bee uttered an indignant exclama
i f f y o r double your atoney back oa re tu rn o f bottle
• pccial o o u itt-o v n
to us. 25c a t a ll drugrist.«
here together, with Kell driving.
tion: "Adam Bruce, if you try to
Ledforge came back to his office
pretend that Mr. Eberly—"
Monday morning with no word of
Adam shook his head; he grinned
a smash-up! Kell came home with
K e e p P o s te d o n V a lu e s
at her. "No. Bee," he said. "You're
no word of a smash-up! The car
a stubborn young hussy, and no one
So Seep Va-tro-nol h an d y—
When a head cold strikes, put a little
B y R e a d in g th e A d s
showed no signs of a smash-up! It
Va-tro-nol In each nostril. It’a a spe and use It the Instant it Is need
can beat any sense into you; but—
doesn't make sense, Mat.”
ed.
Follow directions In th e
cialized medication th a t—
Eberly's all right. Tope. He threw
package.
“ Holdom told his office he’d be
✓ Quickly Relieve«
all his own money into the bank,
there tomorrow,” said Cumberland-
made every sacrifice possible to
o f heed colds. Mokes breathing easier.
Tope looked up at him. " I f he was
help save the depositors.” He looked
unconscious in this doctor's hospital,
at the girl in sudden concern.
Do you suffer
he didn’t telephone from New York
"Bee," he asked, "you don’t think
a t the first warning snlBe or
on Saturday,” he said.
it possible that he would—’’
from MONTHLY
"Telephone?” Cumberland echoed
"No, no," she whispered. "He's
"Some one telephoned!” Tope re
too—”
minded him irritably. "Telephoned
extra light breadi
She was interrupted. The door
the police at Ridgcomb, and said he
with its weak, tirad
1
burst open, violently.
Here was
was Holdom and that his coupe had
I f functional periodic disturbances
Earl Priddy, his eyes wide and gog
make you feci nervous, tired, restless—
been stolen!”
gling with excitement, his hands
a t such times—try this great medicine
—Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com
“ Holdom must know something!”
shaking. He leaped into the room,
pound to relieve such symptoms. Taken
Cumberland said.
“ I ’ll send for
and banged the door behind him,
regularly—it helps build up r e s i s t a n c e
him, get him up here, as soon as
against sucb distress. Also a grand
and set his shoulders against it, his
stomachic tonic. Follow label directions.
he is able.”
hands outspread to press hard
Tope nodded. “ Of course. I guess
against the panels.
you'd better send Dane.” he decid
"Sh-h-h!” he whispered. "Sh-h-h!”
ed. ‘‘Dane, as soon as Holdom can
Bee said reproachfully: "E arl,
L e t t h e A d s G u id e
travel, bring him up here. He's a
you're drunk! Don't be a nuisance!
material witness, anyway.
Make
Go out of doors!”
him come.”
"Not me,” said Earl Priddy hot
Y o u W h e n S h o p p in g
Dane protested: “ No need of my
ly. “ I don't go out there again to
going. Any policeman—”
night! No sir, not m e."
But Tope urged: “ Needs a re
Some one pushed at the door from
sponsible man with a head, on his
without, and he fought to hold it
shoulders, son.”
He hesitated.
shut. The door bulged, and Adam
"M at,” he apologized. " I'm speak
leaped that way. There was sud
ing out of turn. After all, this is your
‘S h -h-h!” he w h isp ered , “ Sh -h -h !” denly a weapon in the young man's
show.”
hand. He thrust Priddy aside, and
always rely on th is g rea t rub for
"That's all right,” Cumberland in worry,” he urged again. "M r. Eber Earl stumbled and fe lt and Adam
sisted. “ Joe, you do what Tope ly ’s all rig h t." And he asked: "E a rl jerked wide the door, his gun ready,
says.”
Priddy has disappeared, has he?”
expecting anything.
Child’s Mild
F u ll-s tre n g th y e a s t acts fa s te r b e c a u s e it ’s
Dane insisted stubbornly: " I ought
But he saw only Vade, and Isaac
Bee answered him in some sur
to be here. Keep in touch with prise: "Why, yes. How did you M urrell, and Mrs. M urrell and the
fre s h I Fleischmann s fresh active Yeao«, goes right to
things.”
know? Mrs. Priddy wanted him to twins clustering curiously there,
work-m
akes sweeter, tastier bread . . . helps insure
Tope touched his arm. ‘‘We want come and peel potatoes for supper, pale and alarmed. They recoiled
tender
light
texture. IF YOU BAKE AT HOME —
before
Adam’s
weapon;
and
Ear),
to know more about this doctor down but he's gone! Just simply van
scrambling to his feet, cried;
there, son,” he declared. "Maybe ished into thin a ir !”
use Fleischmann’s active, fresh Yeast
“ Come in! Come in, quick, every
he’s one of the gang. You look him
Tope nodded, chuckling: “ E arl’s
with
the familiar yellow label. Depend
Shut the door!
Lock it!
over, ask him a few questions, size out spreading the news,” he assured body!
able America’s time-tested favorite
him up, see what you think of him .” her. “ I guess the excitement is due There's a man in Faraway!”
Half a dozen people had heard
for over 70 years.
So Dane was flattered into con to start,” he predicted. “ Country
senting.
"Well, that’s so,” he folks have tongues like a lot of dom E arl’ s announcement. Tope regret
agreed. “ I ’d better do that. I ’ll inoes. You set one of them wag' ted this; but regret did not impose
on him inaction. He said briefly:
check
up on him, and bring Holdom ging and you wag them all.”
Many doctors recommend good
back. I 'll see what I can get out of
ta s t in g S co tt’s E m u lsion be
“ I ’ll go after him .” Bee prom “ Adam !” And with young Bruce
cause it’s rich in natural A&D
Holdom on the way.”
ised.
“ Find him, make him be beside him, he started up the drive
Vitamin's and energy-building
toward Faraway.
o il ch ild ren need fo r p rop er
But Tope objected to this, and still.” She hurried away.
grow th , stro n g bones, sound
There was never in Tope any par
with some violence. "Don’t you,
teeth, sturdy bodies. Help» build
Tope sat down on the edge of the
up reeietance to cold» too if diet
ticular capacity for fear; if he knew
Dane!”
he
commanded.
“
Don’t
you
bed.
"
I
’m
getting
old,”
he
con
is A 4D deficient. Buy Scott's
ask Holdom anything. Just tell him fessed. "Going to catch a nap be danger lay ahead, he was not above
today! All druggists.
taking precautions, for there was
you’ve got orders to bring him up fore supper-time.”
here. Let him stew in his own
He lay down, and Mrs. Tope cov no arrogance of folly in this man.
juice till we're ready to talk to him. ered him over and made him com But tonight he had—or seemed to
y £ A R R O U N D T O N IC
have—no feeling that it would be
It he’s been unconscious since Sat fortable.
ngerous to surprise the intruder
urday, there's a lot he doesn’t know.
As Tope had guessed, Earl Priddy
Faraway.
He made haste to
By the time you get him back here, was busy. When Joe had asked for
Good B reakfast Dish
maybe we’ll know more than we do Inspector Tope, E arl was startled come to the cabin; and before Adam
A hearty cereal mush or porridge,
now, be able to ask him some ques into a curiosity that would no long could intervene, he had thrown the
which is usually served with, milk,
door open and stepped firm ly In.
tions he can’t answer."
er be denied. An hour later, after
is a good main dish for breakfast.
Night had by this time almost ful
And he added, remembering: “ By various investigations which includ
But everybody needs eggs, and If
ly fallen, and the interior of the
the
way,
Joe.
I
want
you
to
find
out
ed
a
secret
survey
of
Amasa’s
eggs are not included in other meals,
some things for me: Ask Medford farmhouse, he came almost at a run cabin was dark. Yet there was light
have them as the main dish for
about gas from the exhaust, and to the store in Madderson village. enough for them to see the bed—
breakfast several times a week. You
whether it could get into the rumble- He went directly to the telephone that bed under which a body once
might also serve fish once in a while.
seat, and whether this dead man and called the D istrict Attorney’s had been bestowed—all In disorder,
For example, creamed white fish
had breathed any of it, and whether office in North Madderson and with blankets and coverlet and mat
flakes on toast, or codfish balls, or
he was drugged. And see if you asked for Joe Dane. Of Cumber tress in a heap upon the floor; and
a smoked fish. The variety meats
make good breakfast dishes, too—
can find out where Mrs. Kell and land himself. Earl stood in some a man, with a lighted match in his
hand, staring down through the
kidneys, liver or brains.
Ledforge went last week-end.”
awe; but not of Joe Dane.
springs at the empty space below.
Joe was not there!
Joe and Cumberland turned to
The man, at their entrance,
ward the door; but there they met
"Well, you tell him Earl Priddy’s whirled, and the match went out;
Bee Dewain. The g irl’s face was got some news for him ,” Earl said
but Adam snapped on the lights.
white and strained; she would have vehemently.
"Something mighty Then Balser Vade came up on the
==OU»=> « spoken. Tope, with a sudden vio important about this case out here. porch behind them, and Tope turned
i-Bruth" Applicator 1
lence of words, urged Dane and He’ll know what I mean. You tell and saw him, said curtly:
(•«"BLACK LEAF 40*jfl
Cumberland toward the car; and him to see me, quick's he can!”
.G O MUCH FARTHER
“ Vade, go tell Miss Dewain to
only when they were gone did he
And only then did he turn to re call Mat Cumberland. Tell him to
OR S P R E A D O N R O O S T S
turn to Bee.
cite his tale to the audience that come here." He added: "And Vade,
“ Now, Miss Dewain,” he said while he phoned had been quick to don’t you come back!”
gravely, " I judge you’ve got bad gather close behind him.
“ Hello, Kell,” he said.
news?”
The big man twitched as though
While Earl thus brought the news
'Clancy, I think you done that
on purpose I'
She nodded.
“ I telephoned Ed to Madderson village that there was some secret agony tormented him,
Priest’s camps,” she said unhappi a dead man in the small back room but he made no move nor sound.
ly. “ Mr. Eberly’s not there. They at Amasa Dewain's, Inspector Tope
"What are you doing here?” Tope
A t LAST— yon ran buy „// (he
May W&rn of Disordered
don’t expect him.
They haven’t was still asleep, Mrs. Tope on guard asked.
Kidney Action
fresh, dated "Eveready” flash
heard from him.”
The answer came stammeringly.
beside him. He did not stir till the
light batteries you need! Your
Modern life with its hurry and worry,
Tope whistled softly.
"That’s supper-bell roused him; and a little
" I —wanted a place to sleep. I ’m
irregular habits, improper eating and
dealer lias them now, in the size
drinking—its risk of exposure and infec
where
he
planned
to
go?”
hunting
work,
walking—’’
that fits your flashlight.
later he and Mrs. Tope came down
tion—throws heavy atrain on the work
"Yes, that’s where he always to the M ill. Bee met them apolo
Tope looked at the other’s shoes,
of the kidneys. They are apt to become
Naturally, they're still on the
over-taxed and fail to filter excess acid
goes. That’s where he said he was getically.
now wet with dew, though they had
job with the Armed Forces—hut
and other impurities from the life-giving
going.”
been faintly dusty.
Then Adam
blood.
there are plenty for civilian use
“ I don't know whether we'll get touched the Inspector’s arm, whis
You may suffer nagging backache,
as well.
Tope
wagged
his
head.
"Child,”
headache, dizziness, getting up nights,
much
supper,
or
whether
it
w
ill
be
pered in his ear. Tope nodded.
!•< . pains, swelling—feel constantly
he said gently, " I hadn’t ought to
So be sure and ask for fresh,
fit to eat,” she explained. "E a rl
tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signs
dated "Evercady” flashlight hat
have
asked
you
to
telephone
up
"O f course,” he assented impa
of kidney or bladder disorder are some
didn’t
get
back
till
a
little
while
ago,
teries. T he fam ous date-line
times burning, scanty or too frequent
there. It's just a bad habit of mine,
tiently. "This is Kell, all right.” He
urination.
proves that you get a freth, Jull-
working on a business like this^ and Mrs. Priddy had to peel her faced the mustached man again.
Try Doan*» Pill». Doan’» help the
poirer battery every tim e...you r
kidneys to pass off harmful excess body
whenever anyone tells me anything, own potatoes. She may take it out "Go on,” he said then. “ You’re out
very best assurance of depend
on us!”
waste. They have had more than half a
of work, tramping the country, look
to check up and see if it ’ s so. I ’ve
century of public approval. Are recom
able service and long battery
Tope guessed: "Priddy probably ing for a job; you thought you might
mended by grateful users everywhere.
no notion that Mr. Eberly has any
life.
A»k your neighbor!
steal a night’s sleep here. You have
thing to do with this. As far as went to spread the news.”
FLA S H LIG H T B A T T E R IE S
wondering where he is—” He chuc
When Bee returned from the no money. Is that your story?”
The word '
And when the other did not an
kled, touched her arm. “ Don’t ever kitchen, her eyes were troubled.
wonder about a fisherman,” he
"Mrs. Priddy says Earl knows all swer, Tope said: "Adam, turn out
urged. "You can’t rely on them about it,” she confessed. "He saw hi« pockets!”
any more than you can on trout in the dead man up at Uncle Amasa’s
VICTORY BONDS! Now’i the time to buy them
(TO BE CONTINUED)
T H K STOKY T H I S F A B : Adam Bruce,
F B I operator, on a trip to his old home,
ran into his previous boss, Inspector Tope
and Mrs. Tope. U r sent them out to an
auto ra m p operated by Bee Dewatn. L a t
er that night Tope phoned Bruce, asking
him to come at once and bring State
Trooper Quill. The body of a man. who
Mrs. Tope thought was Ledforge, head ol
New England utilities, had been lound.
A ear believed to have been stolen and
used In the murder was found In the
quarries. Tope expressed belief that
Mrs. Kell was dead In the car. while
her husband, form er employee of Hoi-
dom. had walked away. Iloldont was lo
cated in hospital, Ledforge in New York.
SMITH BROS. COUGH DROPS
* Simply Delicious
CORN FLAKES
Acid Indigestion
V W V W W W W ,
VICKS
V A T R O -N Q L
NERVOUS TENSION
DIONNE'QUINTS*
COUGHSn’ COLDS
MUSTfROLE
S C O T T S E M U L S IO N
c/QHren moments
wm ,
freshK
EvereadY Batteries
Black
Leaf40
That Nagging
Backache
D oans P ills