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T"A"GT3 FOURTEEN MEPFORP MAIL TR173TJXE, MT5DFORT), ORFOON". FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1936 SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addresa tbe author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Fat OS. S v In dv oo t ti 8 Ml CO U Wl! tm tYS'OPnil: At att Bobby Jont) ami f'ranfcie Oericenl Aave Ienrni. with (A Aelp o ttr friend Badger, that Roger Baetington ffranch i the villain of the mytteri out murder of Alan Carttatre. And they have htm securely bound on the floor o hit cottage in Chipping Bomerton. But they do not knoto J 'here Moira S'icholson ie, and they n not have proof that will convict . Roger before a fury. Roger U quiet' ly laughing at them from hi& -1omlortablo poftUfon on the floor. , Chapter 40 MOIRA NOBODY bad as ysr, avolved any plana. Bobby rather doubtfully murmured aomethlnc about police. "Much the beat thing to do," aald Roger cheerfully. "Ring them up andj Hand me orer to mem. ma cnane will be abduction, I auppose. I can't yery well deny that." He looked at Frankte. "I ahall plead guilty pas ' alon." ..:. Frankle reddened. "What about murder?" she asked. "My dear, you haven't any evl deuce. Positively none. Think It orer and you'll see you haven't." "Badger." said Bobby, "you'd bet ter stay here and keep an eye on him. I'll go down and ring up tbe police." "You'd better be careful," aald Frankle. "We don't know how many of them there may be In the house." "No one but me," said Roger. "I . was carrying this through single handed." Bobby bent over and tested-the knots. - "He's all right," he said. "Safe as houses. We'd better all go down to gether. We can lock the door." "Terribly distrustful, aren't you. my dear chap J" said Roger. "There's a pistol In my pocket If you'd like It. It may make you feel happier, and It's certainly no good to me In my present position." Bobby bent down and extracted the weapon. "Kind of you to mention It," he aald. "If you want to know, It doea make me feel happier." Bobby took the candle and they died out of the attlo, leaving Roger lying on the floor. Bobby locked the door and put the key In his pocket He held the pistol in his hand. ' "I'll go first," be said. "We've got to be quite sure and not make a mess of things now." A rather rickety flight of ateps led down to the main landing. Every thing was quiet. Bobby looked over the banisters. Tbe telephone was In the hall below. "We'd better look Into these rooms first," be said. "We don't want to be taken In the rear." Badger flung open each door In turn. Of the four bedrooms, three were empty. In the fourth a slender figure was lying on the bed. "It's Moira" cried Frankle. The others crowded In. Motra waa lying like one dead except that her breast moved up and down ever so lightly. "She's drugged, I think," said .Frankle. She looked round. A hypodermic ' syringe lay on a little enamel tray on a table near tbe window. "She'll be all right, 1 think,", she said. "But we ought to get a doctor." "Let's go down and telephone," laid Bobby. They adjourned to the ball below. They got through to the police sta tion quite easily, but found a good deal of difficulty In explaining mat ters. The local police were highly disposed to regard tbe summons as a practical Joke. However, they were convinced at last, and Bobby replaced the receiver with a sigh. He had explained that they alao wanted a doctor, and the police constable promised to bring one along. 'T'EN minutes later a car arrived with an Inspector, a constable, and an elderly man who had his pro fession stamped all orer him. Bobby led the way to the attic then stood dumbfounded in tbe door way. In the middle of the floor wss a heap of severed ropes. Underneath the broken skylight a chair bad been placed on the lied which bad been drugged out till It was under the sky light. Of Roger Batalngton.ffrench thera was no sign. "He must hare had a knife In hla pocket." aald Frankle. "Even then, how could he get at It? Both hands were bound together behind his back." The Inspector coughed. All his for mer doubts had returned. He was more strongly disposed then ever to regard the whole thing ss a hoax. The doctor was their salvation. Me declared at once that Moira tad been drugged with morphia or some preparation of op'nn:. He did not consider her condition serious and though she would awake naturally In four or five hou.-s' time. VALLEE IF IB BE NBW YORK, March JO. I API Th "nnsty" nn that eroontr Rtidy Val rr t.illMl producer CVorw Whlt snd thr mxk on the nw sit Broidw.y ,ir? lif got in return, mjiy -lc lh currvnt eimon of the "iwandtl," pro duced by Wnite and crooned by Vl lee. White decided yesterday that If Ac tor Equity will let him tear up Vl lee's run-of-the-pl.y rontrsct. the shoa- wia go on. otherwlM It will cJom blui(U)'. oliw Ha suggested taking her off then and there to a good nursing home In the neighborhood. To this Bobby and Frankle agreed, not seeing what else could be done. Having given tbelr own names and addresses to the Inspector, who ap peared to disbelieve utterly In Frankle's, they themselves were al lowed to leave Tudor Cottage, and with the assistance of the Inspector succeeded in gaining admission to the "Seven Stars" in the village. Here, still feeling that they were regarded aa criminals, they were only too thankful to go to their rooms, a double one for Bobby and Badger, and a very minute single one for Frankle. A few minutes after they had all retired, a knock cam on Bobby'a door. It was Frankle. 'I've thought of something," she said. "If that fool of a police inspec tor persists in thinking that we made all this up, at any rate I've got evi dence that I waa chloroformed." Have yon?, Where?" . In tbe coal-bucket," said Frankle with decision. EXHAUSTED by all her adven tures, Frankle slept late the next morning. It waa half-peat ten when she came down to tbe small coffee-room to And Bobby waiting for her. "Hullo, Frankle, here yon axe at last." Don't be so horribly vigorous, my dear" Frankle subsided onto a chair. It must be the sandbagging," aald Bobby. "It's probably broken up ad hesions in tbe brain. I feel absolutely full of pep and vim aud bright ideas and a longing to dash out and do things." "Well, why not daahf aald Frankle languidly. . ' "I have dashed. I've been with In spector Hammond for the laat half hour. We'll have. to let It go aa a practical Joke, Frankle, for tbe mo ment." . " "Oh. but, Bobby" '"I aald for tbe moment We've got to get to the bottom of this, Frankle. We're Cn the right spot and all we've got to do la to get down to It We don't want Roger Basslngton-ffrencn for abduction. We want him for murder." . "And we'll get him," aald Frankle with a revival of spirit " "That's more like It," aald Bobby approvingly. "Drink some more tea." "How'a Molrar "Pretty bad. She came round in the most awful state of nerves. Scared' atlff apparently. She'a gone up to London to a nursing home place In Queen's Oate. She saya she'll feel sate there." "She never did have much nerve," said Frankle. "Well, anyone might be scared stiff with a queer cold-blooded mur derer like Roger Baaslngtontfrencb loose In the neighborhood." "He doesn't want to murder her. We're the onea he's after." , "He's probably too busy taking care of himself to worry about us for the moment." said Bobby, "Now. Frankle, the start of tbe whole thing must be John Savage'a death and will. Either that will was forged or Savage waa murdered or something." "It's quite likely the will was forged If Basslngton-ffrench was concerned," said Frankle thought fully. , . "It may have been forgery and murder. We've got to And out" Frankle nodded. "I've got the notea 1 made after looking at the will. The witnesses were Rose Chudlelgh. cook, and Albert Mere, gardener: They ought to be quite easy to And. Then there are the lawyera who drew It up Elford A Leigh a very respec table Arm, as Mr. Spragge said." "Right, we'll start from there. I think you'd better take the lawyera. You'll get more out of thera than 1 would. I'll hunt up Rose Chudlelgh and Albert Mere." "What about Badger?" "Badger never geta up till lunch time you needn't worry about him." "We must get his affairs straight ened out for him soma time." said Frankle, "After alt, he did ears my life." . i "They'll soon get tangled again," said Bobby. "On, by the way. what do you think of this?" He held out a dirty piece of card board for ber Inspection. It waa a photograph. "Mr. Cayman." aald Frankle Im mediately. "Where did you get it?" "Last night It had slipped down behlud the telephone." "Then It seems pretty clear who Mr. and Mrs. Templeton were. Walt a minute." fOii lttt-lS H. ImU CMMe) The btnavoltnt conspirators hive a busy day, tomorrow. RtMly a bej-red from yeeterdsy afternoon's performe.nce, and, eald apokeaman for White: 'The am. Jumped e-V0 over the I matinee s urea ngci." Vallee obtained a formal claim eheet from Dqiilty to file claim to hu I full salary whether he works or not. By cloaln; the show Sntuntay. While could wall all week and then I reopen without Vallee In the caat. The physical flhtlnii started at aa early morning caat meeting Wednes- oay wnen White told the company I that he ntd to ehut dw mwi ! why to get rid of Rudy. Rudy, aald olwrvera, called White a "naMr" name and then the Mows fell. My perauna) attention (Itn to all wah repairs racvry style workman ahip reaaonaoiy priced and ehorouch ly cuaran'oed J no w Johnaon rsctory atyla wurkmatuhlp thu ouhly guaranteed Youi watch n Jeaolry repai.nv4 rrcthea my peraou al lljmvu. Jug. W. Joaceuo. in ihe feci fi WfcS CMTUREP 8Y TrlE U.4. 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