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T H E S TO R Y T H l ’S F A R : Adam Bruce
F B I operator. Im p a c to r Tope and M rs
Tope m et In Ute M a in e w o od.. Tope found
a m an m urdered at auto r a m p operated
*jr Bee D e w a la . He waa believed to be
M r. I.edfo rg e. head o l New E ngland uttll
4a». I.e d lu r g e i friend waa found In hot
d ia l w ith head In ju ries. His chauffeur,
t e ll, was located, ad m itte d th at he hit
Moldom on head, upon llo ld o m 'i orders.
Kell cla im e d he was hunting lo r his w ile.
Tope snd Bruce went out Io lodge where
tb e r ljr, another Irlen d ol l.e d lo rg e 's. was
H aying.
They knew by now th at the
vturdered m an was not I.edfo rg e. 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
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The windows of the coupe were deep in thought.
His eyes were
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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
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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
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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
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