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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.)
SEATING ARRANGEMENTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
PRWt: SfAWS, EOERVBOW lERv' COMrWABlf
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WHO NOW CANf SEE ANY1'HIN6I AND GRANDMA'S.
WHO NOW 6E1S POST IN HER EVES
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WEARINS 6RANDMA Ollf AND frlOT HETJ BEfiER.
COME IM FRONT IN HER LAP. 'STOPS CAR.
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COUKSt. Or WHICH HE BUNKS HIS HERD ON TOP Or OW DI5HRRBN6tD, "00 COOL, JUNIOR SOBBING, AND
AND KICKS TATHER OM THE CHlK EuTRV8oDV VERy UNCOMFORTABLE"
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BOUND TO WIN The Town Meeting
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