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MEDFORD MATL TRTBUXE. MEDFORD, OREGON-, MONDAY. MAY 13, 1935.
liIMYIKlSS
SYNOPSIS: Alison Rede has re
turned from school in Switterland
to meet her father at a house he t
supposed to have taken outside
London. But the house is dark and
deserted; while washing up after
her tourney Alison is horrified to
see a hairless lacs peering at her.
Bh slams the door.and the intruder
slithers aieav. But her eleetrio
torrh is going dead- 8hs derides to
tnT4 a break tor ths outside door.
Chapter Two
NEW DANGER
COMIN'Q In. exploring this empty
house tor any sign at her father.
Alison had passed two pairs of
stairs. One leading off the long pas
sage which ran straight from the
front ball, was evidently the front
stairs to the bedrooms: the other,
cut off by a baize door, came down
outside the pantry door and ran di
rectly outside the bathroom.
An upper baize door with a spring
to It cut this part of the house off
from the front part, too. Those last
three faint creaks had seemed to
come from the front passage. Could
she creep down these backstairs un
seen and gain the window and the
roadT Safer, perhaps, to slip down
the Ivy unleBS, guessing her inten
tion, he had gone to wait down
thore In the dark road!
Snatching at her courage, Alison
released the door. Cautiously, trem
bling, she opening It a little way and
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She became contcloui of
poo rod out. The fnlnt glow of the
torch showed her an empty passage,
& white bedroom door, a tiny square
of window with the rain pouring
down It and the far baize door, shut.
The wny was clcarl
For no more than a second she lis
tened, broatliloBs, but now It seemed
is If the whole bouse held Its breath
too. There was no sound at all, even
the mice were still. And there was
the Btalrway, close at hand, dark but
mpty.
Alison ran.
She had roach od the turn of the
italrs when the torch wont out.
The black dark seemed to hit her,
knocking out her breath; It was llko
going blind. But hor hand tightened
on the stnlr-rall and she wont on.
running, two steps at a time.
She suffered, In ttiose few seconds,
the most primitive of all emotions
a fear fine-drawn to the point of bat
tle. In which ovory nerve and mus
cle Is strained to the utmost, ready
to fight. Her foot found the lower
passage level with a Jerk that hurt.
pRKAK! Pit-a-pat
A ihln spear of light cut the
darkness ahead, showing her the
half-glass pantry door on hor right,
the lower balto door ahead a beam
of light split by the bnnlsters above.
It was coming running along the
bathroom passage chasing her down
the stairs!
Alison made a dart. The pantry
door was not quite shut, tt gave; a
loose hoard creaked as she sprang
through and the beam of light over
head went off abruptly.
She slammed the door violently;
throwing herself against It, sho foil
for a key and found none; she
stretched up hor right arm towards
the wall to brace herself to take the
strain.
Sho renrhod up her hand with nil
four fliiKers and the thumb spread
and found them pressing flat against
a man's face!
Her nerve broke.
In the recoil she screamed a hide
ous, shrill, bubbling shriek which
rose and echoed wildly through the
POP PRODI! ON
24 HOURS' NOTICE
AnOAPO 8 A NT A ELENA EN
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liner etlll Ia s lady, but she tin do
vp loped sn Amonninn complex ;nv
Kipling wrote Midden under the lux
urious swimniititf p.o snd thin cvtict
new firnre Line ships aim devs u
the firiiii. gaunt platform tor
inch rlle
Other w.ir fittinc in this ship, anj
her sl?rrs of the American oieroha"!
muiiir, tmke them fr more rapwble
of defending themselvra than were
the ha-Mily-converted merchantman
of lf17
Within 24 bours. accord in, to Cup
tain W U Prengel. commanding the
fntH Elena could be comer led Into
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house as she fumbled for the dooi
handle In a crazy effort to escape. A
scream cut sharply at Its hlghesl
point as a man's band closed expert
ly upon her face, the thumb and fore
finger pinching her nostrils shul
while the palm blocked her mouth.
Alison gave a gurgle and tainted.
"That's better. . . ."
She became conscious of a ven
firm arm holding her tight, of rough
tweed scraping her cheek and th
rapid beating of her own heart
"Oh!"
She tried to sit up. The flickering
blue bead of light came from a lan
tern that was standing on the floor;
by It she could see In faint outline
an enamelled table under the win
dow, a bunch of dirty brooms, all tied
together, leaning drunkcnly against
a sink.
MEMOtlT came back and she gave
a gasp. Shrinking, she writhed
from the arms wblch held ber and
slid free on hands and knees. Whirl
ing round found herself looking np
Into a pair of bright and quizzical
blue eyes.
"All right?"
A pair of broad, tweed covered
shoulders,' large friendly features,
pleasantly red-tunned, dark hair thai
grew crisply off a wide forehead,
keen eyes light as a bucket of sea
water this was no grisly ghost but
a firm arm, holding her.
a mero man, reassuringly human and
alive! Alison drew a deep sigh of re
lief and grew exceedingly Indignant
"What exactly do you think you're
doing?"
It Is net easy to show dignity on al
fours but she did ber best.
Ho coutitercd with an Innocent
"What Is going on hero?"
"Considering you tried to klU
me"
"I didn't!"
"You tried to choke mo!"
'Only to etop you yelling!"
"You'd absolutely no right te
frighten me like that!"
She struggled to hor foot. She waa
still hot and punting with rnge. Her
round, childish face waB flushed, hoi
dark grey eyes sparkled with anger,
although her soft mouth trembled
and her kneos felt like warm wax.
"What're you doing hero any way r
she demanded; charged him tlercelj
with "You must'vo climbed In
through that window!"
"I did." Ho was standing, too. now
smiling at her. "So did you for that
matter!"
"That's got nothing to do with It,'
said Alison haughtily. Ho had nlci
tooth when he Biniled and two attrao
ttvo dents beside his chin.
"Do you always come In that waj
and then rush round screaming?
Ills voice was deep and tinged wltb
suppressed laughter.
"I didn't rush." she began, thei
changed her mind. No use bandymj
words particularly as he was get
ting the best of the exchange. She
turned purposefully to the door.
"Whore are you going?" Quickly.
"To ring tho police!"
She wrenched the door open. Tin
lantern went out with a snap and ths
black dark closed on her like a
swung curtain.
"Oh!" Involuntarily she gave a
cry, clutching at (ho man.
"All right. I'm here." Ills arm
closed firmly round her. "But listen.
You're not going through that door
till you tell mo what's up."
'Copyright, I99i, Evelyn U- Winch
Alison does little
In American navy ysrds on both
coau's ere the six-Inch (tuns, ready
to Install on the fore and aft. plat
form ftrrrd ashore too. are the
nnn-air.-r;ift gun for the mounts on
the bridge dtsk. That 1 the slate of
neadincM of the lady -liners. Nearly
al! deck offl-.-ei of this ship are naval
rewer v lata.
The speedy metvhantmcnt are un
r::iorei lint ships of thl cla.v. con
structed under the latest rwwy super
vision, are divided Into a series "f
watertight compartments. tv!n; the
hulls hlKh torpedo resistance.
It is diffiSutt to conceive this ra
! clous liner, with her lare ports and
1 mam ventilator which fit h.-r for
j Topical service. twomln; a sea
j onrt-ltne nmn-o'-war overnight But
it Is only her peacetime self that pile
! the Interconstal trade lanes Her pan-
oplle of war are stored In naval de
pots, like a uniform In mothball
The f.i-'t that American shipping
men deplore Is that our merchant
marine, while mvond In size to Brit
ain's, is fifth m s-.x'ed and eighth
In ae smor.n t !iom of ni her mari
time pt'A'evs
de!c;o;u 1X)U'j1o K Nuts for join next
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UNIFIES PLANS
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UP) Unt
flcatlon of promotional work of va
rious state and national organiza
tions in the Disciple of Christ
church will become effective July 1,
C. O. Hawley, director, has an
nounced. Principal national organizations
and groups of 30 states have agreed
to participate. Previously, promo
tional work waa carried on Individ
ually. The unification hss no effect on
the administrative work, Hawley
pointed out, but will prove more ef
ficient and effective In promotional
activities. It will eliminate certain
competition inevitable under a plan
of individual collection.
National organization Joining the
movement are the United Christian
Missionary society, the pension fund,
the board of extension, board of edu
cation, board of temperance and wel
fare, and the Association for Chris
tian Union.
The administrative body of the
unified promotional organization will
be known as the central committee
of the co-operative council.
Members are A. E. Cory, Indian
apolis; Mrs. Ora Leigh Shepherd.
Indianapolis; Roy O. Ross, Indian
apolis; James M. Cook, Cleveland,
and John M. Booth, Indianapolis.
The Rev. L. N. B. Wells. Dallas.
Tex., Is chairman of the co-operative
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THE BUNGLE FAMILY Yesterdays
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council, and Mrs. H. L. McKlnnon.
Enid, Ok la., U vice-chairman.
Under the new plan, all money for
work of the various organizations
will be collected by the unified group
and apportioned to the Individual
organizations.
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OKMULKEE, Okla. (UP) C. E. 8
Cutler, former state pardon and pa
role officer, believes that if more
children would attend Sunday school
there would be much less crime.
Cutler, of Oklahoma City, In n
addren here, recalled the difficulty
of children to attend Sunday school
during the territorial days of Okla
homa. "When I was boy I was forced
many times to stay at home because
of bad weather, or impassable roads.
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great boots which had fresn tallo
on them and heavy brass caps on the
toes.
"No matter how urgent the farm
duties were on Sunday, if we could
get sway from the farm at all. we
went to Sunday school, not because
our parents wanted us to, but be
cause It was a part of our weekly
life.
"The sources of culture were the
home, the church, snd the district
school, and these institutions molded
the ch-acter for the population of
tne early cities," Cutler said.
He pointed out that less than two
per cent of the people of the world
are attending Sunday school.
Youths Itiillt Mot or led
SUPERIOR. Wis. (UP) Philip
Johnson and James Lund, local
youths, attached the motor from a
miniature automobile to their home-
made bobsled to achieve a speed of
25 miles an hour.
MOVED DENTAL OPFTCE
Dr. W. C Thompson Is now located
at Room 313 Liberty Bldg. Tel 70
Reasonable Dentistry.
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