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T H E STOKY TH V S F A B : A«*a Brace.
F B I operator, Iaspeeter Top* sad M r*.
Top* met la tbe Maine waoda. Top*
found a man murdered at auto ram p
operated by Bee Dewaln. At Brat be « a t
believed to be M r. L e d fo n *. bead of New
Encland atlllUes. Holdom. a friend of
Ledforfe. bad b it rb a n le n r. Kell, bit
him over the bead and leave blm along­
side of the road. A ear believed to have
been used In the murder « as raised from
the quarries where It was found.
A
woman's body was discovered Inside.
Having received proof that dope was
found in the stomach of the murdered
man. Tope asked doctor to examine the
woman In the car. He also asked New
York to cheek on the pilot of Ledforge.
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Tope was a man not easily shak­
en; but he was shaken now. He sat
down as though w earily; and Joe
Dane said derisively:
“ Your evi­
dence isn’t coming through, Tope.
Quite a bit of static.”
Adam cried loyally: “ But there's
still Holdom and K e ll!”
'Why, sure,'* Mat Cumberland
agreed, relieved.
"W e ll send for
them. Joe, you go telephone.”
Joe Dane went out; but Tope said
slowly: “ You know, Mat, I've got
an idea that this whole thing has
busted on me. We ll have to figure
something else— some other way.”
And he added, almost apologetical­
ly: " It's Just a hunch; but I ’m w ill­
ing to make a small bet that nei­
ther one of them—”
He had no tim e to state the
wager. For Joe Dane returned.
"Y ou've spilled it now. Tope!”
Dane cried furiously. “ You wouldn't
let me question Holdom! And you
told Kell his wife was dead! You've
had your way so far, made a mess
of the whole thing. Now I'll take
charge.”
Tope looked at him thoughtfully.
vestigatlong to the point of comple­
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tion, only to see it collapse like a
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house of cards. M rs. Tope and Bee
Man Fraiirlsru. Calif.
Dewain and Mr. E berly waited nt
Encluse 2S cents In coins for each
the M ill.
Presently Ned Quill a r­
pattern desired.
rived. seeking Tope; but Tope was
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“ He ought to be, by now,” the
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trooper protested. "H e left five-ten
minutes before I did."
“ Left where?” Mrs. Tope asked.
S i x ’ •eer I (ip u iai'
"Was he coming here?”
“ I thought he was." Ned declared;
P rio r to the 20th c e n tu ry , soccer
and—their questions prompting him
| w as v ir tu a lly confined to E ngland
—he told the story of that scene in
w here it o rig in a te d and has been
W ill Banion's chapel, when Tope's J
played fo r m ore than 900 years,
case crumbled and Joe Dane took ■
says C o llie r’s. But In the past fo ur
charge.
decades, the g im e has spread to
“ I ’d like to slap Joe's face!" said
55 co u n trie s and become, in several
Bee hotly.
o f them , a lm o s t as p o p u la r as it
But Mrs. Tope only asked: “ Where
is in E n gla nd .
is Inspector Tope?”
F o r e xa m p le , soccer is today the
"Why, m a'am , he left us there in
n atio na l sp ort of Russia where
Banion's. I stopped in here to tell
some 200.1X11) team s are in league
him not to take it too hard. I ’ll jog 1
c o m p e titio n .
up to the quarry now—see how
they’re doing with the car. Tell the
old man I'm for him, w ill you?”
He started his engine with a kick, i
and wheeled out into the highroad ,
and so away.
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Ten minutes later. Tope and
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Adam reached the M ill. These two
had been some tim e in finding, in * ing glance in this smooth ju n io r
North Madderson, the things Tope tw o-piecer w ith scalloped closing
sought; and when they had secured and p ert flared peplum . T h e gored
these objects and stowed them s k irt is sim ple and fla tte rs e v e ry
somehow, well concealed. In the figure. An id e a l twosom e fo r gay
back of the little car. Adam looked holiday fes tiv itie s .
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He was glad when at last Doctor
Medford arrived, and Tope roused
to hear what the medical exam iner
had to say.
“She was strangled. Tope." the
Doctor reported. “ An ignition wire
knotted tight around her throat. I
haven't had a chance to check on
the drug end yet; came ahead so
as to get things ready here.”
Tope frowned. “ Is she big or lit­
tle?” he asked.
“ Large for a woman.”
“Then she was drugged first,"
Tope said crisply.
“ He couldn't
have overpowered her. He's a small
m an .”
Steps outside: and Cumberland
and Joe Dane were here. “ Banion’s
right behind us with the ambu
lance,”
Cumberland
reported.
at the old man inquiringly.
"Tope, Joe says he can’t stand this
“ What's all that for?” he asked.
waiting any longer.
Says if you
Tope chuckled. “ Why, A dam ," he
don't do something, he's going to.”
said cheerfully. " I thought I'd take
Adam saw Joe Dane grin slightly.
you out to shoot a fish!”
"Why, Joe's right,” Tope agreed
Adam looked at him ; and after a
" I guess it’s tim e to clear it up
moment he said gravely: “Inspec­
W e'll want to get ready to m ake the
tor, I've gone along blindly so far.
arrest. ”
But—if you're suggesting that I
A paste m ade of baking soda
“ Well, I'm glad to hear it, old
shoot anything but fish. I'll have to and w a te r w ill rem ove coffee
m an ,” Cumberland said with a
know where we stand.”
stains fro m
en am eled
kitchen
heavy relief. “ Who is it?”
Tope looked at him.
"Why, w are.
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Tope hesitated.
" I f I told you
—• —
A dam ,” he suggested, " if you saw
myself, you wouldn’t believe me,
Watch Fleiachmann’s active fresh Yeast go right to
one man trying to kill another man,
T r y tr im m in g an old w hiskbroom
he confessed. " I want you to hear
and no way to stop him but to shoot into a sharp V -point fo r cleaning
work—help give your bread more delectable flavor,
two or three things first from oth
him. you wouldn’t wait for explana­ h a rd -to -g e t-a t corners and c re v ­
finer,
smoother texture every time.
ers. Then you’ll see I ’m rig h t
tions. would you?”
ices in fu rn itu re and floors.
"Who?" Cumberland asked. “ Who
“ You expect some one else to be
are your—witnesses?"
IF YOU BAKE AT HOME, he sure to get Eleischmann’a
killed?”
The am o u nt of lig h t and g lare
"W ell,” said Tope, calm ly yet
“ I expect there'll be a try to kill in a room should d e te rm in e the
fresh
Yeast with the familiar yellow label. Dependable
with a deep trium ph in his tones,
two people, before night,” Tope as tone of p ap er used on the w a lls : a
—America’s favorite yeast for more
“first one is Holdom. I know enough
sented simply.
light tin t w hich reflects w e ll fo r a
about what happened so I can make
than
70 years.
“ Who?” Adam demanded. “ What I d a rk room and a rgstful shade for
him talk now. He won’t want to,
two
people?”
a b rillia n t room .
because he’s in it; but he doesn't
— • —
“ M r. E berly," said Tope. “ And
know there’s m urder in the busi­
Miss Ledforge.”
F in g e rn a ils a re a m enace to
ness. When he does, he's bound to
Adam ejaculated: “ Why? Who—” ru b ber gloves. To p reven t th e ir
tell the truth. He wasn't in on the
Tope hesitated. “Well, A dam ,” he cutting through the ru b b e r, in sert
killing—just the kidnap end. H e 'll
said, "you ought to be able to see wads of cotton in the finger tips
talk, to clear him self of a m urder
it by now.” And while Adam drove of the gloves.
charge.”
’Get oat! Yoa’re through!
more slowly, listening, he explained:
He had their still attention now.
“This business builds up like a
'Kell
kill
“And the next is K e ll,” Tope con­
himself?
he asked in
brick house, one brick at a time.
tinued. "H e knows just as much as mild tones.
Holdom knows. He's lied to us so
‘Y es!” Joe Dane retorted. "With F irst thing, a dead man under the
far; but he won't lie now. H e’ll tell hi« own suspenders. Hung himself bed in Faraw ay. Second thing, two
all he knows—because his wife was to his cell door. And Holdom’« got people put him there. Third thing,
murdered, and he loved her. I saw a concussion, unconscious. They’ve they stayed in Little Bear, and one
him awhile ago. H e’ll ta lk .”
taken him to the hospital, and the of them was a woman. Fourth thing,
He looked from one to another; doctor thinks he'll die. So he won’t the man was small, and he knew
wagged his head. “ You’ll think Hoi
talk, either. Blast it, if you hadn't Kell. He knew Kell because he im i­
dom is lyin g,” he warned them. meddled. I ’d have had his story, tated Kell's way of talking, and he
"Y ou ’ll say it couldn’t have hap­ had the whole thing by now! Get wore K e ll’s shoes with the heel­
pened the way he'll tell you it did out!
You’re through! I'm taking plates on them. Fifth thing, they
came in Holdom’s coupe, and the
happen. But I ’ll show you that it charge!”
could. Bob F lint was Holdom’s pi­
Tope got up slowly, like an old woman was Mrs. K ell.”
lot. He flew up here F rid ay night— man.
He added: “Those were facts; and
“ Why, Joe,” he said, “ I ’m
with a passenger: spent most of the sorry. I hoped I could hand this case Bob F lint being dead was another
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night up here. But he had a girl to you on a platter.
But I can fact. And that telephone call from
a
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here, Sally Tennant. H er father’s still—”
New York Saturday to report the
Holdom's gardener. If I know any­
You can get out!” young Joe stolen car was another fact. The
thing about the way a young fellow Dane shouted. “ M a t!” He appealed dead man being Ledforge wasn’t a
acts, F lin t saw Sally while he was to Cumberland. “ I f you let this dod­ fact, but it might get to be. Then
up here. Probably told her who his dering old has-been fiddle around the hair-oil on the dead man’s head
passenger was, warned her not here any more. I'm through. I'll was a fact; and the hair-oil on the
to tell.
resign. Tell him to drag himself pillow in L ittle Bear was a fact.
The two of them together made an­
"But she'll tell now; because that out of town!”
other fact.”
passenger drugged young F lint, aft­
Cumberland hesitated; but Tope
er they got back near New York, spoke.
But Tope said: “ Here we
“ Don’t bother. M a t," he
and after he got out of the p la n e - said. " I ’m going. Joe, I hope you here’s the M ill. Wait till we leave
drugged him so that F lint went to get it all straight, spite of the trouble here, son. We won’t stay long.’
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sleep in the a ir and crashed and I ’ve made.” Adam Bruce, watch­
Bee and Mrs. Tope were quick to
was killed. I ’m having an autopsy ing him, could have wept for this meet them, Bee voluble with sym­
on F lin t's body to prove he was old man. Then Tope caught his eye. pathy for the Inspector. But Mrs.
drugged.”
"Adam , you want to drive me back Tope, watching them, thought him
He concluded: “ So there you are! to Mrs. Tope?” he asked.
in no need of sympathy or reassur­
Sally Tennant w ill tell you who
“ Why,
sure,
Inspector,”
said ances.
F lin t’s passenger was that night, Adam.
“ Why, I take that kindly of you
and K ell will tell you what happened
In a sober silence, while the oth­ Miss Dewain. But he couldn’t be
to Ledforge on the way up here F r i­
ers watched them without speaking, Joe Dane and do different,” the In­
day; and Holdom w ill tell you why
they moved out to the curb and the spector assured Bee. "Don't go ex­
it happened.
pecting people to be different from
waiting car.
"And if you don't believe them.
They got in; and Adam, at the what they a re .” He turned to Mrs.
Doctor Loud, the dentist down in
“ I was thinking ” he said,
comer, turned toward Ridgcomb, Tope.
Ridgcomb, can possibly tell you
“ that before we pull out of here, you
but Tope spoke then.
what kind of teeth Ledforge had.”
"W ait a minute, A dam ,” he said. might want to make a call some­
Doctor Medford protested in some
Z~\NLY one tractor tire has the patented
“ I want to buy some things before where. Like as not Miss Dewain
surprise: “ Doctor Loud? But he’s
“Center Bite” tread design . . . that’s the
would go with you. Mr. Eberly still
we go. D rive downtown.”
Au
dead. Tope."
Adam obeyed him. “ What is it here and all right, is he?”
Firestone Ground Grip. This “Center Bite”
The Inspector whirled on him,
E verly said from the doorway:
you want. Inspector?” he asked. “ I
will give your tractor up to 16% more pull at
stared at him. “ Dead?" he echoed.
“ Quite all right, Inspector.”
“ Why, yes. He dropped dead two can get them for you.”
the
drawbar. That’s because the triple-braced
And
Mrs.
Tope
asked,
surprised:
But Tope, instead of answering,
or three weeks ago.”
inquired: “ You a good rifle-shot, “ Call? On whom?”
bars
cross at the very heart of the traction zone
Tope
seemed
to
tremble.
'Tope said: “ Why, on Miss Led­
Adam ?"
where the center of your load falls. And it
"Dropped dead?” he repeated. He
Adam whirled toward him, star­ forge. She’s a real nice woman.
shook his head. “ We needed h im ,”
docsn t catch trash and clog up like open-
tled, incredulous; and he saw Tope Why don't you get Miss Dewain to
he confessed.
center
treads.
LONGER
Ned Quill came in; and Tope was not downcast and humiliated, drive you down there?” He looked
at
his
watch.
"
I
t
’s
going
on
three
not the crushed old man he had
TREAD
LIFE
spoke quickly.
But the extra pull of a “Center Bite” Ground
"You see the Tennant girl, Quill?” seemed a moment ago, but alert, o’clock. Tim e you get prettied up
Grip tire is not its only advantage. It has a 40%
“Sure, had a long talk with h er.” his eyes intent, his color high, al­ and get there, it will be just about
tim e for her to give you a cup of
longer tread life and the cord body is 14%
the trooper replied, and he added: most beaming.
“ Why, yes,”
Adam admitted. tea.”
"She’d been to New York to young
stronger. That is why more farmers use Firestone
She hesitated.
“ 1 think I know
F lin t’s funeral.
Or whatever you "P retty good.”
Ground Grips than any other make.
what’s
in
your
m
ind,”
she
adm
it­
call it. They had him crem ated.”
"Then we’U buy you a rifle,” Tope
Tope suddenly was pale.
“ C re­ said. “ You pick out one that you’re ted. “ Ned Quill told us you sent for
You will find that you can save time, money
m ated?” he protested in a deep dis­ sure of at anything up to say two M r. Ledforge's dentist. But—is that
possible?"
and
do a better job of farming with Firestone
m ay. He whirled to Doctor M ed­ hundred yards. And after that, we
" I t ’s bound to be," he assured her
ford. “Then they can’t do an autop­ want to get an outboard motor that
Ground Grips . . . the only tires with the
soberly.
And he added: “ 111 be
will start every tim e.”
sy”
“Center Bite.”
Doctor Medford shook his head;
He saw A dam ’s incredulous be­ with M r. Eberly, and you’ll be with
Miss Ledforge.”
Helooked at Bee,
•A rea in white th o w t the “C enter n ite ” traction ton e,
and Joe Dane said, almost exultant­ wilderment, and chuckled.
not found in other tire* hccaune of Hrentone’n exclusive
ly: “Not on ashes. Tope, old m a n !”
“ And the only other thing,” he here beside them. "You ladies, like
/latent rights.
Tope hesitated, then turned to concluded, “ is one of these vests as not you’ll meet Mr. Ledforge.
Q uill again.
"D id Miss Tennant padded with some patent stuff that H e’s due home this afternoon.”
see him last F rid ay night?” he makes them float like life-preserv­
And Bee, watching him, cried soft­
Ui/eti In the Voice «/ Fireilone" every Monday evening over NBC
asked.
ers. Now go along, Adam. L et’s ly: “ You haven't given up? You’re
Cowrlfht, 1*4«, Th» rirsttone Tire • llubtar (Xu
Quill shook his head in some sur­ see if we can find one in this little still working on it? I ’ll take Mrs.
prise. "W hy, no H adn't seen him town.”
Tope down!” Her eyes were shin-
for two-three weeks,” he answered.
During these forenoon hours while ing. “ What do you want us to do?”
"She says he hasn’t been up h e re l” Tope brought the structure of his in-
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