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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO' MTDFOTCD fATL TRTBTjyE, rETOFOTtD, OTtEGOy. FRIDAY. "STAY 21 1937. on THC DD.UPF . Kursia: ir a tnut, stormy jn at Farrincton Bluff, horn Uichael'i aunu. vhn attrae riot Judt BUiuhop is shot to death an the bluff. MUce diilo eatee a thoulder hunting for the missing Skipper, hie tall and tweedy younger aunt who turne up with an alibi Cay Palmer, U Uce'e red - headed sweetheart, tearriee about him. Next day, etout and prudish Aunt Martha propotti that I lead our group investigation of the murder, for toe are marooned on thie emaU island. An unknown asiallant baehee Cook's head unth a lower pot and binde up Annie the maid. Chapter 14 The Handkerchief Clue r TRIED another tick. I "Where were you when I rent Biggins?" Did I imagine It, or did he look frightened "In the library, air. I waj looking through one of the upper shelves for a volume of Goethe which Miss Par tington has been unable to find, air.1 Very pat A Utile too pat Hlgglns had been asked to keep an eye on the other servants. "You hadn't been In the servants' Quarters since I had spoken to you?1 "Oh, yea, sir. I went directly there after leaving you. I delivered my message, and then It occurred to me that this volume I threw caution to the winds, "Just why did you tell me that they were all waiting In this room?" 1 told them ail to wait, sir." Re spoke without an Instant's hesitation. 1 assumed that they had. It wasn't the sort of remark one would expect of Hlgglns. For a mo ment It rather stumped me. I turned to Cook again. "When did William go upstairs?" "Just a little while after Mr. H!g gins left us right away practically.' In a way It all pieced together. Someone might have come Into the kitchen through the back door, banged Annie over the head, and put her In the entry, only to discover Cook in the next room. It was quite possible that uie commotion had aroused Cook from her nap. She had played directly Into the hand of the Intruder by going mio uie Kncnen. remaps he bad In tended to handle her as he had han dled Annie, but ahe had whirled around and aurprlsed him. If Annie had been struck by a flower pot. It was probable that her assailant would tart on his second exploit with the lame missile In his hand. Unexpect edly confronted by his victim, he would have hurled It involuntarily, find then My eye fell once more on the swinging door. Cook mignt have been the person who had set it in motion. But the back door was locked from the Inside. Our quarry must have turned the key himself and gotten out of the room before we came rushing lnu It. It ' was only a step to the game-room from which, after our mad rush en masse into the kitchen, he could pro ceed wherever he chose. The in truder must be In the house! 1 Saw The Eyes' I ADVANCED upon Cook. "Who did you see In that doorway?" I shouted, pointing theatrically. The effect was tremendous. Oay screamed. The Skipper half rose from her chair. Hlgglns backed to ward the wall. But Cook glared back at me, fascinated. "So help me," she whispered. "I saw the eyesl" Either she was a magnificent ae trese or the dim tight had actually protected the person she had seen In the doorway. There was no way of telling which. But the prowler in the upper halll "Do you sleep lightly?" "Sleep?" Hot mighty voice rose again. "Ill never aleep again, and God's my witness! Till this day I could lay me down and aleep with the best of them" Simultaneously with the Skipper's short laugh. William opened the door. His face was still anxious. "She's all right now, sir." "Good," I said crisply. "Come In here, William, and keep an eye on everybody In this room. I want to talk to Annie." Of all the people on the Bluff right then, the chauffeur was the one I most trusted and relied on. He advanced Into the room reluctantly. "Very good, sir." I watched him settle onto the table before I closed the door. Annie still lay on the couch In the servants' hall. She looked limp and pathetic. In a vacuous way, her tear streaked face was pretty. I spoke as gently as I could. "All right now, Annie?" "Yea, sir." "You'll have no more trouble. Well see to that You went out to get Cook's glasses, didn't you?" "Yes." Her eyes were terrified. "Just what happened?" The girl shivered. "1 don't know. Mr. Wells. I started to open the table drawer and something hit me. I'm Cm scared! Why should anyone want to hit me? I I" "Well take care of everything." 1 tald with more conviction than I felt. Don't worry. How long were you In e entry as nearly as you csn flgure?" I waa afraid that she would go off Sato hysterics again at any moment. sne waa shaking from head to fool and her eyea glistened dangerously. But her face screwed la thought and at last ahe said earnestly, "About four hours." I stared at her dumbfounded. Then and there I began to appreciate the difficulty of extracting the truth from the most well meaning people. "I suppose it must have seemed that long. Who was In the kitchen when you went Into it?" "Nobody. Honest! I didn't see no body from the time I left Cook till Miss Barbara opened the door. Gosh! It was awful! I couldn't get up and I couldn't say nothin' and I was scared. Suppose nobody had heard me and the guy who put me there had" "How do you know a man put you there?" I snapped. "I don't I didn't say no man" "AH right" I felt a bit foolish. "I waa Just wondering. Look here, can you stand up? I think It would be good idea for this party to stick to gether." She could stand up, and she did She could also talk, but her conversa tion waa not particularly Illuminating. It Intimately concerned her sensations upon wakening to and a gag In her mouth and her opinion of some per son or persons unknown. I steered her Into the kitchen quickly. Two things demanded Immediate attention. There was an unknown person at large In the house, and a second night was practically upon us before I, as In vestigator had had a chance to ques tion the suspects about the events of the first It seemed to me that our prowler deserved first consideration. Houseful Of Quad-Lunatic "I WISH you'd all go into the 11- brary," I said. "I mean everyone but William and myself. I'm going to sesrch thu hmi.M mnA I n,-n, sure that vnu'r ! rnail one of you is responsible for seeing umt do one leaves tne room until we get back. Skipper, will you ring when everybody Is there Including Mi chael and Aunt Martha?" Alone with William, a sense of nor mal belnff pnm ttnnn rr, T household of qussi-Iunatlca, he cemea as sreaay ana sane as a rock "Better wine off vm- fa,. r gested. William grinned from beneath the caked lather on his face. At the dish towel rack, he followed my sugges tion. Then from a drawer beside the sink he produced a flashlight "All set sir. Shall u? Imt . ....... .i a bit here?" My eVM IWmt th rnnn. Qui. potterv all about, hut nthBni,i 171 sj. Ona ririww In tk .i ' - HI, KlUIC 91111 stood open, and Cook's glasses were m plum signt u our visitor had come from the muddy drive outside, be mUSt have flown irrn,, th floor. There was no sign of footprints. ... cU, unuugo me two pantries thorouffhlv. w ,T,mi,.j .n .i.. closets and table drawers. As a part- ... iui, . iicppea uj me Dack door and opened It In the lisht nr unman... w entry, scene of Annie's Incarceration. icvcaiea iwo siaruing tacts. Just out side the door stood a double suck of pou, ana ali over the floor were smears of red clay the clay of the tennis courts. Annie's bonds and Slf all 11 . H.l. nrix, . : - y . "o milium naa dropped them. Mechanically I stooped r.veU Mituu up. vn ordinary piece of clothesline, one end of It freshly cut and hnnrii,i.i fine white linen, embroidered and hand-made. The sort of thing a man's maiden aim mlak, Ml... Li thought with a chuckle. But the MUKu iruie on my nps. Daintily stitched In one corner of that handkorrhlMf u.a. ,u "Michael Farrlngton." As I stared In - uio uung. me bell in the kitchen sounded the Skipper's signal William's voice called me from my trance. "Nothing out here, sir." I'm afraid my "No" was rather weak. I wm tt-vin t iki.i ..... ...... .a .u uuiia.-iryinu to forget that I was dealing with Mi- .m iu lamny trying to func tion as if I IWM 1 . u , ...... ij cvjiuiaenng Action for a grlsly-mlnded public. " " ""v oeen possible for Mi chael to have caused that mesa In the kitchen? Anyone In the party. Cook Annie and myself excepted, could have been the prowler in the upper luuX Any one of them could have sneaked rinwm (ha, - - -- ----- i itaurcase and handled Annie. The handkerchief yvuucu to nucnaei. But the (Ta ir with ... liar. If logic had anything to do with s x-wi must nave screameo just be fore the flower pot struck her. And when we heard that scream, every member of the party but William and the victims hsd been in the room with me. One elanpa at William hat h a rallv h aH K... . V. ... of his face glistened like an apple, and the rest was encased In a brief but decided stubble. It flashed across my mina mat tn nctlon William would most certainly be guilty. The most innocent seeming and the most help ful Is any author's villain. But I wrote that sort of thin- I Hiin'f KAii.. i Still, It was possible that the lather might have been applied and par- uuj icinovea wnue iook was slum bering peacefully on her "sofy." riopyneai, hit, it ruler; My quit meets with tllb evasion. Monday. Paris to Destroy Rats; 1 0 Million Infest City PARIS (VP) Although Partt. plagued during th M.ddU Ages by th black dratb th drel bubonic plague spread by rat long aim haa forgotten about tha danger of thow pmtea, tholr ravagea cost Prance 49. 000.000 annually. Rata audenly leaped to the Pari front pagea recently when a girl wa bitten by a rodent in a aubway corri dor. Pariclana Immediately begnn finding out about the little beaata that live around them all the time, aabrlel Petit, member of the Frencb Academy of Medicine and expert on peata, revealed that the rat popula tion of Parla exceeded tta human pop ulation. Conaervatlve eitlmatea, he aald, placed the Parle rat conny at about 10.000,000. In the Middle Agea every European city waa aubject at regular perlcdj to the dread bubonic plurue In 1500 the rata drove Henry VII out of Lcm don, and he went at tar aa CaUtia be fore he ttopped. In France they ere real danger down to the time of the i French revolution. Since then man kind haa found mre effective meim of fighting the rodent and the die- eaaa they are likely to carry. The lftAt epidemic occurred Just nf ter the World war the plague usual ly followa cloeely after nr period)., when phvuil rw!Mnce to low and rata have hud a hard time fomsing ft food. The origin of the epldemie wa traced to a ehip from Im.ia which had docked in t:-e Seine. Rata eecaped and carried the germ to their neighbor of the Parla rat col ony. Soon the toil began to mount among human beings. There ae 9 caw of tne plague treated In 1920 By the tite of maae vaccinations and a huge rat-ktlltng campaign the epidemic wna atemmed at once. There have heen no oajwi eince 1931 m Pari Moreover, in lt36 of iv rata captured and examinrd In the clty'a laboratories there mere n-Mie renrtnti the oubonic serm md only four ne:e considered upe.t Each year Prance pays to rat -ex- STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, lnclostsf atamped envelope tor reply. Bee TJ. S. Pat OS. ML 'SftV iT WiTrt FLOWERS mtf FLOWS?, , ofthPHeue-sentinel, HMfWZlttd, 12,000 OBiMRltt VfcNr? TUT Of f OWNEO SOME, "too MWlCftl. MfitWtofc x - aasr- ' U .afaWr'l.-W II XV U - jaaaw' a ' a I $m a? AlWWWflv.ftl.KS W OHS INMIUG... 7 IN rS R0W Ife ChiCJQO. ftf- r Took f ? PftYs rrwi IL. 41 fff'i7 rai-..iME-,iiww- tHOttbW NEW PflRRfo tUILP if3! m.-.g .rt'l'rw" r ."I'.e I The Plylnr Wreck Ten years ago today a sliver bullet flashed out of the cloud over Lt BDUrget Field. Parla, circled a couple of times and landed. A young man stepped out of his plane and Intro duced himself as Charles Lindbergh. The first flight from New York to Parla had been completed. A great forward step in aviation had been made. Twenty-five yeara ago, November 5th, another milestone In man's con quest of the air was completed. A stuttering wreck lumbered over a Los Angel ea field, wobbled ita wings and bounced to a landing. Galbralth Rodgera had completed the flr&t transcontinental flight across the United States but what a flight! The plane be landed on the uoruia field had exactly four pieces of the original equipment with which he had taken off from New York 49 days be fore; two wing struts, a vertical rud der and, strange aa It seems, a glaas bottle tied to his wing brace. The distance he had flown was 4231 miles for an average mileage on the trip of a little more than three and a half mtlea per hour. Following Rodgera on his flight was an automobile with material for tem porary repairs for his plane and a freight car that was literally a repair shop on wheels. The aviator made good use of both of them. He crash ed 10 times enroutel By the time he arrived In Los Angeles, enough parts had been replaced on his Wright ship to have built four new planes I Sixty-eight stops were made en route, the longest hop made being 133 miles. Actual flying time on the trip was approximately 83 hours. Rodders waa killed & few months after the transcontinental flight when his .plane crashed at the same spot where he had completed hla flight from New York. Royal Flutist Henry VIII of England went for variety In musical Instruments as1 well as wives. He owned a collection of about 400 music makers but his fa vorite waa a recorder, a form of flute on which he performed dally. He owned 153 other flutes and occasional ly organized a band of as many as 40 flute players to play for him. termination and damage caused by rats more than 4 5,000, 000. This has caused authorities to think seriously of getting rid of the pests for good. The many old quarters of Paris are naturally honeycombed with their roads and they only can be eliminat ed once for all by the erection of new houses. This part of the program Is going ahead rapidly. Today the so-called northern sys tem Is being examined for application In Paris. First used In Denmark and now winning favor In England, this method consists in deliberately in fecting the rata with a killing dis ease which Is harmless to human be ings. It Is bacteriological warfare carried out not against man but against his age-old enemies. There will be no declaration of war, but soon Parts authorities will carry out one of the most merciless wars In French history. PLAYING CATCH By GLUYA.S WILLIAMS ) 60B Olrf TbR A 6HME 5EiZR LLL AU AMI CftBLV ENOUGH Ur.Hl. ETDIC Bt&WS-tbSlin" TrlEM in" WMU'S'foKHOu) WHrC frlE IDrMSlViR0Wlrfii 1HEM 40 HARD, HEWN oOfACAfmER'JMlff'Ort ATfRU)W6ARUMEK WrUKrlER OR HOt EpplC WA&fHROWlKS-tbO HBRp, BURKS 0HE BACK 1b HIM -fHrS PRCtlPrfflfes NEW EDDIE ErTOS AIUMErJl' ARSUMErX WHTtrlER OR BV StEfl OtiE fgrj NOT 1HBT ONE W HARP- FEEf OVERHEAD. WHICH ip. -than awv eddie Threw Srf DOWN ON CURB HURLIH6 RECRJMIrJAfiOtfS AT EAtrl OTHER, UNfiL BOTH REFiWE To CHASE PAMER-BV RELIEVES fEU&iON BV 1rlR0WlW BAU BACK (Copyright, 1MT, by Tta Bell gymBoata, Inc.) 60 OFF ARM IN ARM 1b WORK ON THE MODBl AIRPIAKE THEff ARE B0II&IN6 106ETHER 5-5 MATTER POP By 0. M. PAYNE TICONDEROOA, N. T. (UP) The Rev. John P. Dclan;. Canlslua cot lege seismologist, believes that earth, quakes may be forecast some day. Just aa the weather la predicted now. Father Delaney said that progress along this line of scientific research Is being made. Was 1 iw -He-icTE. To J rfA- X 'IV. 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