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8YSOPFIS: Alison Red hat
gone alone to a lonely Sussex
house in response to a telegram
from her father. Hut AJr. Rede does
not show wp; instead, Alison is al
most murdered by a horrible ghost'
like man, is rescued by a young
and handsome one. and now it
driving back to London with the
latter. Hie name it Guy Westurn.
he says. But there it some Question
in Alison's mind as to hit having
been so conveniently near' when
ehe w.nt running from her o
tailant. Chapter 11
THE MOVERS
"DIG!" said Alison. "I shan't speak
to you again till you take that
back."
"Which?"
"Every bit of it"
"I take It back. You are at least
thirty-two, a ruthless, bard-bitten
female. You remind me of a nurse I
knew once, who lost all her patients,
because the mere sight of her made
them expire. By the way, are you
married?"
Alison met his twinkling eyes,
that had two dancing blue Imps In
them and Bald haughtily, "Of course
I am. To my fourth husband."
"Any family?"
"Ten."
'Not bad!"
They both laughed together.
"Are you married?" she asked.
"Me? A burglar's Ufa Is too unset
lied." "And an architect's?"
"Too badly paid!"
"Then you've only you and Gaffe?"
"That's all. And you?"
"Only father and myself. Until
now," Alison added, with a little
twinge of sadness.
"Oh. yes. You told me. Your fa
ther's getting remarried. Do you like
her?"
i "I haven't met her yet."
He said nothing, yet she could
feel that be understood. When be
spoke again It was to ask. "You said
your father'd retired. What Is he?
In business?"
j "No. He Is a major u the Roans."
' "Roans?" He repoated it with a
slightly puzzled air.
I "Yes. He didn't want to go on In
lit after my mother died. I suppose be
(wanted to break with everything,
Janyway, he retired. And as he'd
I enough money, he Just traveled
.about with me. In the holidays, and
lalone when 1 was at school."
"I see." He turned to her sudden
ly. "You know. It Is funny about bis
sending you that wire and then not
! turning up. It must have been the
iwrong house."
"T'M sure it must. You'd think It far
1 more weird If you knew him."
said Alison. "Father's a darling, an
absolute pot. but he's awfully fussy
over me. This is the first time he's
ever let me come home alone. Aa a
rule, he's come to fetch me. And
when he couldn't, because be was
111, he got someone to meet me at
Dover. He's got the most obsolete
Idoas on chaporones and things.
"You don't think," Guy began.
"No!" Alison answered the un
spoken words. "1 don't see what else
we could do. do you? I mean. If we'd
gone into Warley lt'd have made It
much worse, really turning up In
the middle of the night together.
wouldn't it?"
"I thought so, anyway."
"This way. no one need know."
"Except your father."
"Min-m. Yes, of course. 1 suppose
I ought to toll him."
"I must," he corrected quickly.
"Why? If one's going to, it's me.'
"I'd rather do it myself, if you
don't mind."
"Why?" Puzzled, she asked point
blank.
"Because If he objects, he can
start kicking me."
She said wonderlngly, "Was that
why you wanted to drive me back?'
"One of the roasona."
Alison did not ask for the others
she could guess at least one. She
said Instead, "Do yniMhtnk wo need
tell him?"
"I do!"
"I know. Hut well, he's frightful
ly funny and old-fashioned over
some things. He won't even let me
go about alone when we're abroad."
"You think he'd be angry?"
"No. it's not that," said Alison
quickly, "it's the other way. I'm
afrnid he'd worry and be upset about
me, quite unnecessarily. He wouldn't
realize that 1 wasn't nervous and
felt perfectly snfo and happy with "
she stnppAd hnrt:
"With?"
"With you."
"Thank you." He said that rather
gravely and as though he meant It.
And they were both silent, each very
occupied with their own thoughts.
"Oh. look!" Alison pointed. A
shiny yellow uniform had appeared
PAROLED KLAMATHiLOCAL EXTORTION
KILLER, PAL HELD
BURNS, Ore.. May 35. ( API Two
men, one of them a paroled killer
from Klnmath county, were held in
Jail today to face a ttrsnd Jury
on charges of BMu!t with intent
to rob.
The pair, Pte Sullivan, paroleo
In 1031 from the atate prison, and
Royal Ward, were captured while
they slept after Sheriff C. W. Fraa
ler, state policeman Walter Foster
and a rancher. Bert Meeks. had
trailer! them lfl miles by moonlight
throuch Mge brush uplands.
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over the brow of the next hill, an AA
man on a bicycle. Guy braked and
slid up beside the man.
"1 say, Where's the nearest tele
phone box?"
The man stared at them in sur
prise.
Why, you must ve just passea
one, sir!"
"Far back?"
"Oh, no sir. About half a mile.
And if that's not working, there'a
another two mites back at the cross
roads.
"Thanks."
They swung the car and turned
back. Guy did not look at Alison and
they said nothing. Half a mile back
along the way that they bad come.
placed prominently by the side of
the road and very visible, was a
bright blue telephone box. He drew
un by It. Alison looked at him; be
looked at Alison. They botb began
to laugh.
ABOUT an hour later a long grey
furniture remover's van pulled
up at the gate of the bouse on the
downs which they bad left.
Thls'll be the place. Bob," said
the driver, a long thin man with a
mournful blue eye.
A fat man with an apron and a
yellow walrus moustache climbed
off the back of the van and cast a
professional glance at the dusty
windows.
'Looks like It," he agreed cau
tiously.
His assistant, a one-eyed ex-sol
dler, bad followed the foreman and
asked, "Shall we start getting the
stuff out?"
"Lady ain't here. Can't do noth
ing till she comes," said the foreman
resignedly.
He walked with the Blow, stately
gait of a fat man past the pantry
window where Alison had entered.
through the back gate and tried the
locked back door. He sauntered pon
derously through another red gate
that led past an outhouse Into the
garden and stood on tiptoe to peer
Into the dining room, Judging the
size of the oak table and sideboard.
He glanced through the French
windows Into the drawing room, not
ing the size and shape of the desk
with a sniff and came full circle to
the front door where he gave a long,
shrill peal on the bell to announce
bis arrival. A second convinced him
that the house was empty.
He let an uninterested gaze roam
over the four fine old trees, opened
the high red front gate thnt had a
tiny Judas In it and remarked. "Ain't
no one 'ere yet" at the same time
taking a half-smoked Gold Flake
from behind his right ear. Fortified
by this, he sat on the open end of
the van. swinging two largo flat feet.
"Past eleven," announced the
driver sourly.
"Wlmmen aren't never punctual,"
aald the foreman. "My wife, now
I've known 'er say she'd be a minute
In a shop and gone three quarters
of an hour. An' then she'll come out
wi'out having bought a thing!"
The driver grunted sympathetical
ly. The ex-soldier kept cruising rest
lessly down the road and back It
was be who shouted, "There you
are!" and pointed to a dark speck
far off along the road.
The speck developed lu a matter
of five minutes into a red runabout
car driven by a dark lady In blue.
The three men got down respect
fully and waited, while she parked
alongside them.
"There you are!" she said. "You
got my wire all right?"
"Seems to have been some muddle
over It, madam," said the foreman
with an Injured air. "I can't be re
sponsible for what they do In the
shop. Anyway, wo're here now."
"You'd better co:e In," said thi
lady briskly. She wore a faint smile
as she went through the gate and
unlocked the front door.
"You'd better stnrt In here," sh
said, pointing to the small and shab
by sitting room off the hall.
"If you don't mind, madam. I'd
rather 'ave a look round and get the
eavy stuff out first." the foreman
replied firmly.
The lady shrued her shoulders.
"Oh. all right. You've got to clear
out everything," she agreed. And
leaving the foreman and his assist
ant to discuss the '"eavy stuff." she
sauntered into the drawing room.
She looked round it for a moment
complacently, then her eye caught
the desk. Her thin, rather bitter
mouth twitched faintly as she bent
over to examine the broken lock?
but she called out sharply. "Forr
man!"
"Yes'm?" he appeared at the door
panting and wiping a naturally crim
son face. The lady pointed to th
desk.
(Copyright, I JUS. Evelyn Jtf. Winch )
Th lady, tomorrow, dot tort
work In th eallar.
TRIAL DATE SET
PORTLAND. May 95 (API Jack
O. King and V E. Ftnnensn. ar
rested in Medford for allegedly
sending an extortion letter to a
woman In California, pleaded not
gulltv before Federal Judae Fee to
day. Trl.il was set for June 3.
Nine men were sentenced to from
right month., to a year In road
camps for selling liquor to Indians
and t'x-o others were sentenced to
McNeil Island for transporting wo
men from one state to another.
Ftnneitn and Kitv lived here
the transient relief station
Tor Hose that Wear buy
NOLDE A: HOHST
Etiielwva B. lioiluiana.
fill WVIIIII 1 II Tn Facmc uo-optrative wool r i 11 ni i 1,1 , I i.
LOSE PRETTY SUM
BY EARLY SALES
PORTLAND, May 26. I AP) Early
sales of wool this spring at prices
ranging from 13 to 18 cents are
estimated to have cost Oregon
growers a considerable sum of mon
ey, In view of the heavy specula
tion which now appears to be at
tending the wool .market through
out the country.
Indications that this is the case
were revealed today by the Pacltic
Co-operative Wool Growers' associa
tion, representing 3,000 members.
For the past two years, the farm
credit administration has limited
selling to commission merchants but
with the bars let down this spring
it Is estimated that between 12.
000,000 and 15,000,000 pounds of
Oregon's probable 20,000.000 pound
clip have been sold. Mortgaged wool
previously had to be consigned.
The price range for Oregon wool,
except in the Lakevlew and Klam
ath regions, up to May 1 was 12
to 15 cents. Prom May 1 to May
15, prices ranged from 14 to 18
cents, and the present basis Is
from 18 to 17 cents, with cross
bred at 18 to 19 cents.
In the Lakevlew area, it is esti
mated that 600,000 pounds have
been sold at 20 cent, mont of It
unsheared. Offers In the Klamath
Palls area have ranged from 10 to
20 cents but no major sales have
been reported. Around Burns, early
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THE BUNGLE FAMILY What, Going? By Harry J. Tntnill ;
lM Jc-1 iu.t KJ a lorvitaik V Ju his abt 8000 I I He met someone real j j ', : , j',We lej I I Whit! Thit out ritil Hsrtford Oakdile I I pHW-,- H Nothing hapoened when
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ofhis 0 tu,2 Ftr 'Lwprob where he had to j-! f lm : "T.SQ ! i l Pane' t Tf5 'Sn 1 fT i stay-in a
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wool sold at 13 cents, and the
present price Is 20 cents.
The Pacific Co-operative Wool
Growers' association estimated that
growers could have received on the
average of five cents more had they
not dumped the early clip on the
market.
It Is estimated that around 2,500,
000 pounds remain unsold in the
south-central Oregon country, with
at least that much more still held
In the rest of the state.
PORTLAND. Ore.. May 35. (AP)
After observing an automobile be
ing driven in what he considered
an erratic manner early today on a
downtown street. Patrolman Emery
waved the driver to the curb.
In the car he found 15 sticks or
dynamite and a half-filled quart of
whisky. He arrested the driver who
said he was Howard E. Harglll of
Molalla, on a drunk driving charge.
When Jailers searched Harglll they
found a box of dynamite caps In
bis pocket. Harglll said he Is in the
wood pulp business.
Aulcist Killed In
Crossing Railroad
ALBANY, Ore.. May 25. (AP) A
car-train crash near Harrisburg last
night was fatal to John Walker, 67-year-old
farmer, who trainmen de
clare drove his auto directly in front
of a northbound Southern Pacific
train. The demolished car wu car
ried more than 20o yards. Walker
was killed Instantly by the impact.
METHODIST MEET
CORVALLIS. Ore.. May 25. (AP)
The CorvalUa First Methodist
church will extend an invitation to
the Oregon annual conference to
meet here in June. 1036, according
to action taken at the fourth quar
terly conference held here this week
by Dr. Louis Magin of Balem, dis
trict superintendent.
Excellent reports from practically
every department of the church.
Including satisfactory financial con
ditions, were turned in. despite the
handicaps resulting from the disas
trous fire which partly destroyed
the church, building early in April.
Reconstruction work Is already
well under way, tt was reported,
and will be completed in time for
the opening of college this fall.
Miss Mildred Bartholomew, for
many years director of atudent act
ivities in the Wesley foundation,
was highly commended for the work
of the past year and was re-engaged
for the coming year. The Wesley
Foundation work la now dependent
entirely upon the Oregon confer
ence, with no out-of-state financial
support, It wu show.
- Wife Slayer Hanged
SACRAMENTO. May 25. (AP)
Tullie McQuate, 33-year-old San
Diego murderer, was hanged at Fol
som state prison today. McQuate. who
killed Ella Straw, his common-law
wife, In October last year an(( threw
her dismembered body into the wat
ers of San Diego bayi betrayed no
emotion as he walked from his death
cell to the gallows.
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FOR HALE AN HOUR
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