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They Iso knew that a w om an and m an were resent about the tim e the m u rd er was im m itte d . lence at the car; and Adam came York. Tell them Io And out wheth to see. And then he felt the inside er Bob Flint, tbut young pilot, had Mewing C ircle N e e d le rra lt lle p l. of himself suddenly slip away like been given ehloral, or some other B in 3217 tian F ra n rla c o », C alif. wheat out of a bin from which the knockout drops.” Enclose Id o n ia for Pallara bottom is removed. Adam went to obey, and Tope sat No_______________ The windows of the coupe were deep in thought. His eyes were N a m e __ M n r i to il closed, and they were somewhat closed, so that he did not see young » hen flow .tornarli arid pamfni it clouded by a gray deposit of silt Joe Dane at the wheel of a ear that Aililre»» bw n » »««ir Muraaek and kaanburn, d u r ia n uaualla , r e » .'n b e 1h « fu ta n t arttn« meJlrinea known fur accumulated during the days the presently went racing by. j7mpl.ur.1t1r rabal me.li.mea h l . I boar I n Hall i m T ib iM i Na l a i a l l i t Hell.an i b rin a, rum fo ri In a car had lain here submerged. These Adani returned from the tele zjs x ’ h *' k 00 •' windows were, incredibly, not bro phone. “ They'll get It,” he suid Box Car on Highway ken; the cur must, turning in the briefly. He put the car in motion, Biggest conveyance ever to ride air as it fell, have landed on its then asked: “ Why do you want that, an American liighwuy was a truck wheels. The window toward them Tope?” and trailer with un over-all length waa that on the car's left side, next Tope said abstractedly: ” 1 figure of 85 feet which operated between to the wheel. * Evansville, Ind., and Bridgeport, And against the glass of this win he had Flint fly him up here, and back to New York in the morning. Conn., hauling airplane parts. dow. from within, a hund was CHAPTER X I COLD PREPARATIONS He could give Flint a drink of doped The trailer ilself is 73 feet long, pressed! whisky, say. Flint would take olf LIQUID. TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS with the box, 10 feet wide in Four slender lingers touched the "Sure—even if I have to put on in the plane, pass out after he got I side, requiring a 15-foot clearance. USE ONLY AS DIRK H D a song and dance to keep them window, from knuckle to first Joint; into the air, and crash. Then he ! the backs of four Angers. There I amused." couldn't testify—” He hurried away, and the old man was upon one of them a ring, a gold Adam uttered an ejaculation: j band, a wedding ring The hand with turned to watch the proceedings “ Thai's aw ful!” here. Adam and Cumberland came the Angers pressed against the glass “ I know it.” Tope agreed. had moved a little, in a short arc beside him. “ But whp. Tope?” Adam insisted. The wrecking-crew must have that left a smeared quarter-circle “ Who is 'he'?” helps build in the silt on the glass There was in worked late last night to accomplish Tope said impatiently: “ Oh, let this mark a terrible suggestion that so much. Two pines of good girth BATH ROOM'S ns sm art ns me alone, son!” And he said no had been cut and trimmed to serve the hand had moved in signal. In a further word till they came into the its accessories. Make yours as shears; their butts anchored on last pitiful appeal! lovely by just knitting rugs, stool They could see the rest of this borders of North Maddcrson. Then and seat cover in rug cotton, or of E n jo y th e fe e lin g o f e n r rife tio the rim of the ledge, against iron i at last he spoke. w r ll-h e ln g I 'fa k e bars set in holes drilled in the solid old stockings. Scott'« Em ulaIon rig h t aw a y , if “ Go to the jail, Adam,” he direct you feel tire d , rund ow n , unable granite; their tips crossed and ed. “ We’11 get something out of Kell to th ro w off w orrisom e cold*— lashed with chains from w hidi a beeause your d ie t lack* n a tu ra l K n it on 2 needles, section by lec tio n . now enough so we'll know how to go A ltO V ita m in s and energy-build T h e rug and covers a re a beg in n er’s steel pulley and cable were suspend at Holdom.” ing, n a tu ra l oi!« I H cott’a helps Joy. P a tte rn 7314 has direction» fo r rug. ed. The shears were guyed with bsi/d energy, «(am in o. reetafance. Adam nodded. "Something hap c h a ir and s e a l covers. Huy a t your druggist*« today I wire cables carried back and an pened on their trip up here Friday, chored to trees in the fringe of the ail right," he agreed. “ But I don’t wood behind. Men were busy tight Let’s Finish It— see what it was!” ening the cables, tending the winch, V £ A R R O U N D T O N IC Tope said briefly; “ It was a plant Buy Victory Bonds! shouting questions and commands a game, a play somebody tried to At the edge of the precipice the stage." foreman, on his hands and knees “ How do you figure that?" watched a man who swam nude In “ Because Holdom told Kell to hit the quarry pool below The fall from him over the head." Instantly relief from head cold the pulley descended beside this distress starts to come when Adam nodded. "That’s right.” He man. He floated on his back, pad you put a little Va-tro-nol asked eagerly: "That was to make dling with his hands, and called up: til each nostril. What’s more FROM SNIFFIY, STUFFY DISTRISS OF Holdom look like a victim too? Then "More slack. Mike! I must get a — it actually help» prevent you think he—" many colds from developing if hitch around the axle!” Tope said grim ly: " I think some used in time I Try it I Follow "O .K ." said Mike, and waved his one made a sucker out of Holdom. directions in package. hand in signal. The winch creaked; Used him. Holdom’ s a crook, Adam. the ropes whirred; the steel fall SNAPPY FACTS Always has been, in little ways. You descended six Inches, a foot, two heard Mat, at the quarry; heard feet deeper into the water. what he said about Ledforge filing " I ’ll try It now.” the swimmer charges against Holdom, with the decided. "Don't take any strain on RUBBER Stock Exchange authorities.” It while Pm down.” “ You figure Holdom was double He made a neat surface dive; his crossing Ledforge, and knew he heels gleamed In the sun. He seemed would be found out, and killed the to be out of sight for a long time; Special spots*e ru b b e r ta b le old man." but at length Adam saw a pale blur s w ee ter, cloths, d ev e lo p e d b y S. F. Tope said quizzically: "Ledforge in the gray water, and then the Goodrich, atta c h e d ta tab las filed those charges himself yester man’s head appeared. He rolled on ta s tie r b re a d with in fa c to ry assem bly linos a t t day, Adam. How could he do that his back, lay breathing deeply for a b la assem blers ta pick up if Holdom killed him Friday?” moment, shouted; sm all m e ta l p arts w ith o u t They reached the Jail behind the “ Take up on It now! I think I ’ ve fu m b lin g . courthouse; and when barriers had got it! Don't lift—just draw it O fficials predict R ial tire produc been removed they came to Kell. tig h t!" tion m ay jump to nearly 4 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 FRESH They found the big man sitting on The fall drew taut and stopped; passenger ca r tires a month during «he last q u a rte r o f 1945. and the swimmer once more de " Y ob promised to tell me If Mr». the cot in his cell, his head between his hands. He did not look up at scended. Kell was found.” Spare tire s should n e v e r re the sound of their steps, nor when m ain M ia u n til o th e r tire s a re When this time he broke the sur w o rn out. R ubber needs to ba face again, he swam a little away hand dimly, the forearm faintly; they paused before his cell door. "e x e rc is e d " to k e e p it in bast from the chain. “ Now take it up!” but nothing else at all save one The guard who had led them thus condition. YEAST he called. “ T ill the front end is out thing: about the wrist, something far knew Adam of old. and at the The new B. F. Goodrich all-synihetic of water, so I can see if the hook like a black cord was knotted; seen young man’s word left them here; Silva-town passenger ear tire ac even thus dimly, it seemed to have and Tope spoke, gently. is set all rig h t!” tually outwears prew ar natural rub been knotted tightly, to have cut “ K ell?" he said. The winch revolved, and the fall ber tires. began to climb laboriously upward. into the soft flesh. Kell roused, and he came slowly And this was, clearly, a woman's to his feet, the bars between them. The man swam away a rod or hand and arm. two and waited. He stared; and then he seemed to Cumberland muttered: "Tope, remember them. So out of that gray concealing water, wheels appeared, and a fen there’s someone in the car.” " I know you, sir,” he muttered. Tope nodded. “ I t ’s Mrs. K ell," “ You promised to tel) me if Mrs. der, a mudguard, the front of a t s bo easy to bake delicious, smooth-textured loaves streaming radiator. Adam’s heart he said briefly. “ You'll have to—” Kell was found." if you use Fleischmann’s active fresh Yeast. This fresh leaped, driven by an intense excite He checked, his thoughts absorbing "Yes, Kell,” Tope assented; and ment. This was, after all, no more him. “ Lower the car again, till it ’s he added harshly: “ She is found!” yeast is full-strength. It goes right to work to help you he directed absently. than a car which some one had awash,” “ Where is she, sir?” get best baking results every time. "Sw’im out or make a raft or some wished to hide; yet its resurrection Tope said pitilessly: "The coupe from that hiding place, where it thing—get her out of there quick's was in the quarry, Kell. We got it IF YOU BAKE AT HOME—insist on might have lain forever, had in it you can. Send for the ambulance. out today. She had been murdered, Fleischm anns active fresh Yeast. The something dramatic, almost oni- Take her to the undertaker’s. I ’ll and tied in it, tied to the wheel, nous. It was like the emergence of meet you there.” cake with the familiar yellow label! De before it was run over the preci a monster, slowly, from its la ir; f lR ST IN RUBBER He turned and strode away, Adam pice into the quarry.” pendable—America’s favorite for over slow, lethargic—and ponderous with beside him; they reached the car “ Dead?” Kell whispered, holding 70 years consequences! and started down the road. They his breath. “ Hold it ! ” called the man below. came to where Ned Quill held two "Yes, dead," said Tope; and the The winch stopped while he swam cars of newspaper men in restraint. breath came out of Kell in a long toward the car. Adam felt some Adarn «urned off the road, crashing sigh, and the big man shivered like one beside him. Here was Tope, on through the underbrush to pass a stricken animal. He backed away, T O - N I G H T hands and knees, peering down; the them; and Tope leaned out and his hands up before his face; he shouted: D istrict Attorney just beyond. TOMORROW ALII6NT slumped down on the cot again. üependaW, “ O .K!” shouted the swimmer t r i “ Let them go on up, Ned! There’s Tope added harshly: " I think you d //-V E G C T A B U umphantly. “ You can have it! Take a murdered woman in the car, up killed her, just as you tried to kill LAXATIVE it away!” there. They’ve got a right to be on Holdom!" He began to swim toward the the spot!” “ I didn’t, s ir!” he protested, “ I farther side of the quarry, where his Then as the newspaper cars start didn’t ! ” clothes lay on a rock in the sun. ed up the hill, he bade Adam stop, “ Mr. Holdom says you d id !” Tope Mike Frame waited till the swim called Quill. declared. “ You tried to kill him! mer was well clear before he gave “ Ned,” he said, " I ’ll be in town, Because he was chasing your wife, |F Jbe-mm i m i c i i T y p i n g the signal. at the undertaker’s. Come up there K e ll!" A t H t»iiif> And at last it was here just be when you’ve seen the Tennant g irl.” “ No sir, I didn’t, s ir!” i n T h ir l/» H mvm low them. It hung six feet beyond “ Right,’’ Quill agreed; and he A lte r the S ixtr kaanon you will Kell mumbled: “ Dead? She's their reach, its bottom toward them. said: “ Doctor Medford’s on his way ttuvw. your keyboard by touch. dead?” They all stared at the bottom of down here. I talked to him on the Saad fo r ProieasiouaJ T y p in g “ Of course," Tope insisted. “ You A O W . Puatpaid, 41.00. this car, searching it with eyes ab phone awhile ago.” killed her.” « surdly intent, as though it might 8,1 Ir«* lull Uw«s «n lutti I l l a t Tope nodded. “ Good. We’ll watch "No sir. No!” have some secret to reveal. for him,” he agreed. “ Then did Holdom? Was that why And then suddenly Tope stood up; They went on. When they turned you tried to—” he spoke to Mike, in sharp irritated into the main road, Tope pointed to "No, it wasn't Mr. Holdom,” Kell tones. “ What are you going to do an approaching car, cried sharply: 1 answered. «“ I took him back, left with it? " he demanded. "Hold up! There’s Medford.” him by the road. But when I came “ Eh?" said Mike. “ Do with it? Aie*' rely ou tbs grwt rab fer Doctor Medford alighted to speak Why—drag it out of there! That’s to them; and his tone was respect home, she was gone." And the big man cried suddenly, what you wanted, wasn't it? ” ful. “ You were right, Inspector,” starting to his feet: “ I meant to hit Tope « temper flared The old man he said. • Ben-Gay acts last to relieve was tired, impatient. “ How?” he in- “ Found a drug in him, eh?” Tope him easy, the way he told me to; but when the wrench started down, »istccL “ You can’t reach out and asked. muscular ache and pain—be pick it like an apple, and you’ve got “ Gag in his lungs,” the medical I thought about the way he had— cause it contains two famous no way to swing these shears in examiner replied. “ And doped. bothered her; and I hit harder than pain-relieving ingredients I ’d meant to.” I 48—45 You’ ve wasted all this time—and it ’s Chloral, I think; but morphine too. known to every doctor. Yes, He caught himself. “ Where is as far away now as it ever was! I ’m not an expert on such stuff. We Man, you—*’ Ben-Gay contains up to 2*/i don’t have much of it to do, up here. she, sir?” lu F F F ★ ir ir > ir ir ir “ They’ re bringing her to town,” times more of these tested in Then abruptly he checked himself. But after you'd told me what to Tope told him. “ What did you do to His eyes were fixed on the car, hang look for—" gredients — methyl salicylate Mr. Ledforge, Kell? Or did Hol ing now within ten feet of them, Tope nodded. “ They’ re getting a and menthol— than five other six feet out of reach. He moved to woman—dead—out of the quarries dom—” widely offered rub-ins. No And Kell cried piteously: “ Let me one side, approaching the edge of up here, Doctor.” he said. “ I want alone, sir! Wait. Let me see her wonder it’s so fast,so soothing! die precipice as closely as possible. to know how she was killed. And If fu u à k Ti '■ men on the winch continued to she’d been given chloral, or mor first. I can’t believe it. Let me see Get genuine Ben-Gay. wind; the car rose higher. And Tope phine, I want to know that too. I'll her. Then I'll tell you anything.” He collapsed, sobbing like a child, called ¿ iw iply; be at Will Banion's.’’ s u Slop! Stop i t ! ” And a moment later, as they his head in his hands. Tope hesitat THE O R IG IN A L ANALGESIQUE BAUME Mike lilted his hand in.signal. Mat started on, Tope touched Adam’s ed; but in the end he said: “ Well, Cumberland came to Tope’s side, arm. “ Pull up at that filling station, all right, Kell. I'll wait. I'll come f PA/N R H E U M A T IS M I T H E R E ’ S ALSO asked; “ What is it, Tope?” ’Of < N E U R A L G IA ? M IL D BEN GAY Adam,” he directed. “ There’s bound for you—later.” DUE TO AND C O LDS I FOR C H IL D R E N The old man was staring in si to be a phone there. Call up New F F F F F F «TO B E C O N T IN U E D ) M C M ÍD *fv<» A /ff . mus ro F /ri fof Gas on Stomach c ""6 6 6 mi ■H im ' ¿ ^ atonic RESISTANCE TO COLDS A SCOTTS EMULSION GrwidUfilfef HeadCoUs! 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