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PAGE EIGHT 7Jul HIDDEN DOOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD cm. BtXurBM. Ootin HeuAlt, toho 4vt ham tat in on the murdw of Captain Dollalre end nit rutn-nin-ttlno crew, U no erook. but a ! fry writer dltgulted at Olarkte Irtinw. aangeter. The murdere were in. revenge tor Dollaire'e Booking tho Maek'e Canadian counterfeiting plant. Tho Uaak ruin Aram York't underworld, and Colin nope to track him down. Colin hat returned to headquarter with Buck O'Mora. one of the Uatk't gang command ore. in order to take money to fpinelli, another of the Maek'e tool. Chapter 41 ON THE STAIRWAY THE car bad been ordered to wait bait a block away, wbere Colin was to rejoin It and then continue pn to SplnelHs. He followed Buck O'Mara now along the alleyway that flanked the tobacco itore, and turned Into the lane behind. It waa Intensely dark. but as they began to aklrt the rear of the building he could distinguish the outline of a door. Tbey passed this and halted before another one a few yards farther on. Be remembered what Benny Ms lone had said. The first door was the pne common to the mob; thla one. of course, was the private entrance to the quarters above that were cred to tbe big shots. He would very much like to see those quarters. But woald Buck O'Mara Invite blm In side, or would he be told to wait out here for the money be was to take to Spinelll? Buck O'Mara bad been fumbling In the darkness with his key. He opened tbe door and stepped Inside. "Shut tbe door after you, and fol low me," be said; "It'll save me coming downstairs again." Colin obeyed and then, unher alded, as he moved across tbe threshold Into an unllgbted Interior, a sudden Inspiration flashed Into bis mind. His brain waa virile, work ing at lightning speed now. Suppose that Instead of merely visiting these quarters aa be was sow obviously going .0 do, be could ipend a night berel He wonld give a great ileal to spend a night In the Wine Press I Much might come of It, or nothing might come of it, bnt It held untold possibilities. There waa Buck O'Mara himself, for Instance. After what bad hap pened in tbe last tew hours, O'Mara was almost certain to communicate with the Mask tonight Would It be from here? HowT Tbe night might answer those questions and others If only be could stay here! And there was at least a possible way whereby he might succeed In doing so. He meant to try It now anyway. It waa too big a chance to lose. It tbe ruse worked, It worked; It tt failed, he lost nothing, tor cer tainly now, with (he event of the early part of the night to endorse him, Clarkle Lunn would hardly be suspected of guile! His arm bad been bleeding a little again on the ride In. Ha had felt the blood soaking through the ban dage, but It had not run down on his hand. Buck O'Mara had not noticed It and he, Colin, bad said nothing about It It would take very little to start the blood flowing aa profusely aa ever; It would look Infinitely worse than It really was. And ' A light went on. Buck O'Mara waa mounting a flight- of stairs whose rather shabby carpet, Colin noted, waa strictly In keeping with the Bar neys' floor coverings downstairs. "Come on," O'Mara called over his shoulder, "Sure!" said Colin and, gripping his coat sleeve, wrenched at the ban dage underneath. He telt the ban dage give and, by the tlrae he had mounted, three or four more steps, trickle of blood upon hla' band. B kept his band behind his back. It would sot lock serious enough yet, , KEEPING close behind the other, he reached . the topmost stair and st'pped out Into what proved to lie a narrow hallway carpeted like thsi stairs and here Buck O'Mara tpoke again: "Walt here, Clarkle," ha directed. "It'll take me two or three minutes to get the kale, and then you can go back the way you came." "Sural" said Colin for the second time. And then, aa Buck O'Mara moved away along the ball, Colin squeeied at his wounded arm and bit hla lips. It waa paining now but the blood was flowing freely. His band waa red with It, As for the rest WASHINGTON, Bept. 14 (AP) Vatrenage, that trouble tone of poll' lea, produced In the capital today rumbles of Democratic unrest that sseounded even above the Intensity ot tnai ,-emalned to be seenl The stage waa set, anyway. His eyes searched swiftly arouno him. Buck O'Mara had disappeared through the doorway of the farther one of the only two rooms that lad off from tbe hall end had even let the door open behind him. A gesture on O'Mara'a part that cost nothing, since from O'Mara'a casual refer ence to the emergency safe It was certainly no secret from the rank and die that there waa one here! Tbe two rooms, of course, were the two bedrooms of which Benny Malona bad spoken, and which ob viously looked out on the alleyway, since tbey were on his left On Ms rlaht was a sort of hetero geneous wall, some of It ornate In both plaster and wood, relics no doubt of the old Wine Press In Its heyday and some of It ot newer hat cheap construction, undoubted ly the parsimonious handiwork of old Keppelsteln when he had made the building Into two. At the far end of the ball waa an other stairway the one, of course, that led to the Barneys' quarters be low, and that be bad seen when he bad come In through the tobacco store. Nothing elsel It waa a lit bizarre, of course, with Its two stairways and its crazy qullt wall; but, since these were readily explainable to anyone as be ing but an Inheritance from the old Wine Press, there was nothing else about the place to excite comment, let alone suggest that It was the lair of gangster and mob leaders.' Hla inspection at an end, Colin moved over and leaned against the wall. A minute, two, another passed. Hla eyes were on the doorway ot Buck O'Mara'a room now and be waa nursing his arm and hand, and sagging heavily against the wall aa Buck O'Mara, carrying a large, bulky envelope In bis hand, stepped out Into the ball, - Buck O'Mara came to an abrupt halt. Mechanically be took tbe cigar ette he waa smoking from hlf mouth, "What the hell!" he ejaculated. Colin awayed a little. "I'm sorry, Buck," he protested. "I didn't mean to let you down. I 1 feel kind ot weak." w1; ITH a perplexed scowl Buck O'Mara crossed tbe hall and fronted Colin. He stared at Colln'i hand. "Why didn't you tell me about thla before?" he demanded. 'I did," said Colin. "In the cabin.' "But yon said It wasn't anything. "I didn't think It was. Then, my arm began to bleed bad." He was jerking out his words heavily, Some ot tbe mob put a bandage on It for me, and It stopped. But com ing back In the car It began a little again and " Well," Buck O'Mara cut In blunt ly, "why didn't you say something about It then?" Colin clutched vaguely at the wall steadied himself. "Aw, say, I dldnt watit to welch on you," he explained earnestly, "It wasn't bad enough lor that only a drop or two. It waa only when I waa coming up the stairs there that It got like this. The bandage must'va slipped or something." Buck O'Mara laughed out shortly. "Well, anyway, you're not as bad off a Benny!" be flung out. "I guess ycu're some kid, all right." It don't amount to anything," as serted Colin weakly, "except that I I'm afraid 1 couldn't get very far right now. It's only that kale for Spi nelll I'm thinking ot. Gee, I'm sorry about this, Buck." "Forget that I" said Buck O'Mara crisply. "Barney can attend to It. But I can't send you to a hospital with a gunshot wound even It It's not serious, so It looks like you'd have to rest up here for a few hours. I'd let you stretch out In that other room only I'm expecting HelmleU blow In, and want It. But there's the sofa downstairs In Barney's parlor that you can have, and Mrs, Bar ney'U fix your arm up for1 yon." Colln's right hand went to hla wounded forearm and tightened over sleeve and bandage. He bad lost all tbe blood he cared to spare! He knew a sense of exultation. Nothing might come ot it; but at least he bad won the first trick he would spend the rest ot the night la the Wine Press. ( Ooyyrtght, JISJ, Frank It. Packard) Monday, Colin osta tome advice from Mrs, Barnsy. President Roosevelt recovery drive. A group of party stalwart in the enata was reported to have spon sored a round-robin to tbe chief ex ecutive, asking jobs tor old-line Democrat. These senators protested the appointment ot Republicans particularly by Secretary Ickes, Wal lace and Perklna. At the other end of the cspltol, Speaker Henry T. Ralney blamed the "old Republican aet-up" In tbe farm credit administration for failure to give the farmers "adequate" mortgage relief. PACT IS AGREED SEATTLE, .Sept. 14. 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Circulati teat agtlxut baring aouthwut Wash ington included, a proposed butter marketing agreement adopted by Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana distributors, waa adopted here today and sent to Sec retary of Agriculture Wallace. The agreement la planned to. sta bilize price and eliminate unfair practices in the Industry. If ap proved by Wallace it will go Into ef What Price Treasure -" s. x mus - i i v - '- i -m i ts tw . i i i Mnfja i s m .av J v: -mrmt . i tftzrsjTM Wr45 XWi'itAVv Snv fifteen milb6 'T mi ' it. BKCBTS-E'ts Yioaxs like uin NSS-iS'C -vjJga WWMiTmT I -53 yiPt " It!' Cuban Be' buckins a have to so off L wMSWrif s I -M -Ha lSiWSr 6T--can't use rszr&)Jf. and ewouaH 1 1 th golo gtxndard Si" 02?2 fect Immediately. The hearing waa conducted by Or. William A. Schoen feld. Corvallls, Ore., consulting ad viser for the department of agricul ture, and W. P. Staley, Portland, as sistant solicitor for the department. Tbe agreement regulates prices of butterfat, trade practices, discount and resale margins, and prohibits sale of butter containing leas than 80 per cent butterfat. By C. M. PAYNE Now? I BY POWER WIRE SACRAMENTO, Bept. 14. (AP) The airplane In which Dana D. IN HIDING STfcKtS OVER-rbEDWE SELLER'S AND HEftftS MtffcttR CALL WM rlrfcO? possieiEID 16K0RE BEMtS WD WHO DHMANPS LOOPW WW DDK NT HE ANSWER HER, B1U. Thompson left here at 6:30 o'clock last night for San Francisco was found today banging on a high power electrlo line with Thompson's car red body In It at Bellealr. Solano county. Thompson was Instructor In tbe Summit Plying School here, which Is a branch ot a San Francisco com pany. , REALIZES Itf5 FOR fo PURPOSES OF PWK) PRAC TICE ANP DUCKS HAS1UV ROUND CORNER. OF ft SBrtf NVMEHf HW5 ASHHU HAD. OF 'Hi, BILL FROM VARP NQcr POOR-THE LTTrlE BEWS WO H5SE5 AVIOlOlf'SmJf UP" AND TftiE$ TO IN DICATE TrtE REASON 8VS16NAL RESI6NS HIMSELF, AS BEMfc KID CAUS WWT DID HESflV, BILL, AND WHISTS HE MAWK6 THOSE FONHV FACES FOR (Copyright, 1833, by The Beg Syndicate, Inc.) Trainmen of tbe Sacramento Northern railway noticed the plan hanging on the wires at 5:30 o'clock thla morning and reported the acci dent. Thompson's plane evidently hit the power line at 7:03 o'clock last night aa trainmen reported that at that time light In tbe vicinity of Millar went out. By CTLuf AS WILLIAMS PBTlPES BSf1iW6 6 JOSf 1fo I6N0RE HER. PEERS T& set WHOrrsd flOfHER Hft& HEARD HR IEARlK& A MORE PER EMPTORY ffiLLTROM MflfriEB. SIVES OP AlVD 60ES IM, REFLECflK6 OftJ THE DUMBNESS Or SMALL 6IRLS By GLENN CBAFFDI and UAL FOSRESZ . kULUMtS ion
