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PT0T3 STS" UTTDFORD TRIBUNE, SrEOTOTlTVORE'GON, 5I0ND3Y, JULY 311933 3k. HIDDEN DOOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD BrxOPSlBl Reddy Turne. trook, akt Colin Hevittt, my$U writer and boyhood friend ae tvtl to deliver a mveteriout letter Jo him thovlti Reddy he put on th' epot, Reddy telle Colin he it th only man he can truttt aleo thai the letter it hidden in hie room, in tide a curtain pole. Colin aeke that Reddy explain why he ie fearful of . hit life, and in front o a ooal fire in Colin'e comfortable qwirtert in an old tlable, iutt off Waehinaton Bquare, 2feto York, Reddy benlnt hie tad tale. Chapter Three UNDERLYING TRAGEDY p EDDY'S voice was suddenly flat "She was still onljr kid of course v.hen you left the old town, because she was nearly six years younger than I am, but I guess you remember my sister Annie, don't you?" Colin nodded uneasily. He did sot like the note that bad crept Into . Reddy's voice. "Annie!" he said. "Rather! I've toted her around a hundred times on the handles of my bicycle, and til the while she'd sln( like a little lark. She was a great youngster. I suppose Bhe was about eleven or twelve when I finally left the town. She was a good little pal of mine Mlreau, the wife of French j, who had been put on the spot." 'I remember reading about that," jald Colin hoarsely. "It was front page stufl, but the name, of course, meant nothing to me." "No," Heddy said; "of course it wouldn't." "And then?" Colin prompted through tight lips. "Vou said something about Annie being pretty when she was a child." Reddy's Hps were working now. "Some of them don't grow up that way. Annie did. When she married Pete there wasn't anything In town that could touch ber. And she was straight! There was only one way that swine could get her. "I got out two montbs ago, and Annie's been dead nearly five now. I don't know whether that's the way he got rid of her when be got tired o. her, or perhaps found out that she'd got to know too much, or whether she managed to escape and, crazy with It all, did It herself; but It was murder either way." Reddy laughed again It was a Jangling, discordant sound. "That's why I can't leave New York. That's the 'job' I was talking about I'll get tbe man who did It or he'll get me. That's why I've got my Angers crossed on what may happen at any time to me, because I know what I'm up against" Jtt .taaisR.-a,,,,, Xftmmti&tf&fr "I know who drove the oar whtn Pete was bumped off." after you went away, Reddy. We botb missed you a lot What has made you mention her tonight?" "She's part of the story I'm going lo tell you," Reddy answered with l crooked smile. Her body was fished out of the river here six months after French Fete, that we were talking about was put on tbe spot That's why French Fete was bumped oft Annie bad been mar ried to him about a week before." "I don't think I Quite understand," Colin said heavily. "Somebody else wanted her." Reddy laughed unpleasantly. "French Pete was In the way, that's all." Colln's band dropped to his sldo and clenched. "My God!" he exclaimed hoarsely. "Go on!" "French Pete was a pal of mine." Reddy's voice was fiat again. "That's how Annie came to know him. He was a French Canadian, and his name was Mlreau Plorro Mlreau. He was In the beer racket, and he wasn't any church-goer, but he was Btralght as a string with Annie. You lee, after tbe mother and father died I kept Annie going In a little flat here, and, between itretches, I used to live with her. "She wasn't for Pete's rackot and a whole lot less tor mine, but she tuck tc me through the years like a brick, and what any good woman could dv to shove us both back on the straight and narrow, she did. She loved Pete and Pete loved her, understand that r EDDY paused abruptly, strode over to the docanter, hesitated an Instant and then came back. "&.'," he aatd, "I'll wait till I'm through. I was In stir when Annio got married. But even the walls where I was don't keep out the nowa. You know that The night that Peto was bumped off, Annie disappeared. 1 got the low-down on it She was kidnaped. And I couldn't get out. Six months later she was found In tbe river and Idontlfled as Mrs Reddy paused and circled his Upi with tbe tip of bis tongue. "tHE police didn't got anywhere," A be went on. ''Anyway, It Isn't a police job It's mine." "The code, of courue," Colin nod ded In understanding. "Well?" "I know who drove the car the night Pete was bumped off, aud 1 know who the two guys were that made a sieve of him with sawed-off shotguns, but there's no hurry about them. Their turn will come but they're still useful. It's the big aolse they work for that I'm after." "You know who he Is?" Colln's voice was husky. 1 .. "If I knew who he was," Reddy slated evenly, "ho wouldn't be alive tonight No; I'm not sure yet. But I'vo gone a long wny. Listen! Your 'master minds' and 'super crooks' are Jokes compared wltb the one I'm talking about. Ho swings a mob In every racket there Is, from dope and beer and booze to white-slave stuff, with a little murder organiza tion kept on tap to round everything out. Each mob Is separate, and no one In any of them knows who the big shot Is that they get their orders from. They call him the Mask that's all they know about htm." "You mean he always wears a mask?" Reddy smiled with grim tolerance. "Oh, no!" ho said. "He lcavos that sort of thing to you wrltors. And yet be Is always masked from the soles of his shoes to the hat he wears, If you get what I mean. He can assume a dozen different char actersand does. Hence the name. No one yet has ever Identified him In bis roal person." "Do you know any of his lieuten ants?" "Yes." I've been working now for two months, but It was only a few dnys ago that I began to pick up his trail. Tonight I'm lying lotf, waiting tor a little something I'm counting on to brook my way and, It It does, I'll have hlra. That's all." (Copyright. 19X3. Frank h. Packard) Tomorrow, thlnai come to s swift Climax CLIMAX. July 31. (Spl) Mri. Jennie White spent the week-end at her home In Central Point. Walter Charley la working for Lloyd Walsh. Mr. and Mrs, K. H. Compton en tertained at dinner Sunday for Mr. and Mri. L. H. Wertz and family, Jennie White, N. P. Hanson. Hilda Morgan and two children, Mrs. Nel lie Batten and Ted Kinney, Mis Oarrel Charley was ' mar ried last week to Arlen Millard of Wellen. Guests over the. week-end at the Hurst ranch were: Mrs, Tupper, Mr. Heath and daughter Betty Heath, of Medford. Mrs. L. H. Wertz and Mrs. Prank Hurst spent Tuesday In Medford. Mrs, Nellie Batten of Medford was a guest at the Werts horns from Thursday until Sunday. Mr. Banta, the McNes salesman, spent Tuesday here. A. J. Orlssom has been putting up hay at his Central Point ranch. Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Compton made final proof on their homestead July 28. Earl Torton spent Saturday night at the W, P. Charley home. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Terry visited at thetr Climax ranch Sunday. N. P. Hanson and L. H. Wertz were In Medford Friday. Mrs. Una Inch, school supervisor. ! Hopes of the Roosevelt adminlstrj- bpent 'Wednesday at the school ana gave the achievement tests. Several large rattlesnakes have been killed here, one which was 2i inches long. WHEAT AGREEMENT HOPES ARE REVIVED WASHINGTON, July ao. VP) Hon for an International wheat agrtf ment were revived today after a tab led appeal to Socretaary Wallace rrom delegates to the Londaa wheat con terence to withhold his decision on acreage reduction here. It wss said authoritatively Wallace was notified" that a new and Informal effort to reach an agreemtn Is being undertaken. Phantom Nudists Flit Before Cops PORTLAND, Ore., July 81 (AP) Police Investigated today what they described as a phantom nudist col ony. Beveral complaints were re ceived that several men and women were seen, sans clothing, bathing on a sandbar In the Columbia river here. When the officers hurried to the location the swimmers hnd dis appeared. H. C. Oaudln of Stockton, Cat. has a as-foot snake cactus growing In his front pard. S'MATTER POP- By C. M. PAYNE ' .a ? (Copyright, ITO. by The Bell 8)mdlcst, tnc.) 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