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. 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
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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.
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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.
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