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tfEDFOTtD WATL TRIBUNE, rEDFOHD. QKECiOy, MONDAY. SEPTEJkfBER 13, 1937. -
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS'
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor further proof addreu the author, meloemg stamped ear elope for reply. Reg. XT. 8. Pat OS.
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SYNOPSIS: JVettl, a young led
eral isent, comn to Baltimore to
spend a week ui lh Janet. She
won't break a dinner date tuff
Preicott Fanning. So thev quarrel
and part. Weill, dUtruetfnff fan
ning, decide! to check on him.
He oete acquainted with him at
the hotel bar. Fanning gives him
knock-out drope, searches hie pa-
- pers and keeps a enapthot ot
Janet. Next day Neil! awakens to
find Janet, Fanning and Tanning's
yacht gone. A mutterioue phone
call tells him Janet is aboard the
yacht In Absalom's Harbor and in
trouble. Weill hurriee to Ab
salom's by bus.
Chapter Eight
. Murder On The Nadjl
RETURNING to the porch of the
sprawling store, Neill sat
down at the end of the line of men
taking their ease and enjoying
tneir aner-supper pipes. dun
burned fishermen mostly, in gum
boots and faded drill shirts. Neill
learned that fishing was good and
that pound nets were being set out
In the bay. The trout had come
earner than was customary.
None of this was to his purpose,
ana ne studied tne yacnt. very
smart and modern with her high
sides and stubby funnel. Some
thing under a hundred feet over
all. She carried two boats on
davits amidships, and he noted
. that one of them was gone. As
darkness gathered it seemed odd
to him that no lights showed in the
cabins. I he riding lights were up.
The man next to Neill was a
tall fisherman with white hair and
a complexion the color of beet
juice. "That's a tidy little yacht
yonaer, nom remarked to him.
"So you might say. She's the lat
est caper all right. But ugly as hell.
11 you re asxing me. -
"Is she owned hereabouts?"
"Nahl We got no toys like that
down here. We're working people.
New York man." He told Neill of
the accident to the yacht's engine.
"Is the owner aboard?"
"Sure, he's aboard."
"I see their dinahy is ashore."
"The crew just come in to go to
tne movies.
Neill grinned In hard satisfac
tion. Owner aboard: crew ashore.
The situation was working out to
nis advantage.
Another man hearing them talk
ing about the yacht, took up the
tale. 'The owner was in the store
telephoning awhile ago. Fine
looking, big slicker; fresh-complected.
But surly. Didn't have a
word to throw to a dog."
Neill took heart from this. If
things were going badly with Fan
ning, so much the better.
"You're right he's a surly brute,"
said another. This was a lanky fel
low with an innocent blue eye.
Neill noticed that the others were
inclined to make a butt of him.
"I rowed out there with a mess of
trout, thinking they'd be glad to
buy some fresh fish," he said.
"But when I come alongside the
owner, he ordered me off. 'Get the
hell away from here,' he says. 'I
don't want any damned fish!'"
'That was manners," said an
other. "What did you say, Jake?"
"I says, 'Go to hell yourself you
long-legged so-and-sol I'm as good
a man as you, if you do own a
racht And if you'll come ashore,
11 prove itl' '
There was a general laugh.
"All right," the speaker went
on. "I told you before and I tell
you again there is some funny
business aboard that yacht, and
we ought to investigate itl"
More laughter.
'As If She Wanted Help'
"VUHAT do you mean, funny
' ' business?" asked Neill.
"I'll tell you, stranger. When I
come alongside .the yacht I was
standing up in my skill and I could
look right into one of the port
holes. All closed they was, warm
as it is. And on the other side of
the glass I seen a beautiful young
girl with bare arms and neck. Only
seen her a second, but she nodded
her head, and beckoned pitiful as
if she wanted help real bad."
Nnll's breast was suddenly
lightened. Janet wot aboard the
yacht, then; he had come to the
right place. And she was not a
willing passenger, either. That re
relieved his worst fear. He felt a
gush of friendliness towards the
speaker.
But he, It seemed, enjoyed no
reputation for veracity among his
mates. They laughed him down.
"You're seeing things, Jake. You're
wasted fishing. You ought to be
one of these here, now, atorywrit
ers in the papers.
"All rightl All rlghtl" said Jake.
"Some lay you men will learn
that I'm not as big a fool as you
like to make outl"
When it became really dark and
the vessels in the harbor were no
longer sharply silhouetted against
the water, Neill got up and strolled
away. Each house along the har
bor front had its little pier stick
ing out from the shore with one
or more small boats moored to it,
and he had it in mind to borrow
one of these without asking.
He turned to the right because in
that direction the shore road rose
somewhat Here the little piers
were under tiie bank, and screened
from observation. Climbing down
the bank, he walked out on a pic:
and found a skill with oars in her.
He got in and, untying the rope,
rowed quietly toward the yacht
The water was as smooth as a
mirror, and voices came from the
shore with startling distinctness.
On the Dorch of LonecoDe's thev
were still talking about fish. Every
star in heaven was shining. No
moon. This moon was near its end,
Weill remembered. Wouldn t rise
until near dawn.
When he drew alongside the
yacht, he hailed her, not loud.
There was no answer. Tying his
skiff to the ladder, he climbed
on deck and spoke again. No
answer. There was something
about the stillness of the little
craft that chilled his blood. Where
was Janet? He walked forward
along the deck and aft again,
sticking his head in the different
doors and speaking. There was no
movement, no sound in reply.
Everything aboard was neat and
shipshape. The silence was not ab-
DU.ULC, 1UJ SUJIlCWIICiO UClUff 11c
could hear the hum of a generator.
There were two deckhouses on
the yacht The forward house
contained a luxurious little dining
saloon, while the after house was
merely the entrance to a compan
ionway leading to the quarters be
low. Having satisfied himself that
there was nobody forward. Neill
switched on lights in the after
house and went down the stain
with his heart rising in his throat.
His instinct told him there was
something very wrong aboard.
He lound nimsell in a miniature
saloon with doors forward and aft
The forward door admitted him
to a comfortable sleeping cabin,
empty. A man's belongings were
scattered about. Fanning's? The
after door was locked. It was a
light door and, putting his shoul
der against it, he burst it in.
A Dark Wet Stain
SWITCHING on lights, he saw
Prescott Fanning lying on the
floor at his feet, dead. There was
a bullet hole in his forehead and
a dark wet stain was slowly
spreading through the rug undei
his head. Janet in her pretty eve
ning dress was lying limply in an
easy chair nearby. There was
crude smear of blood across het
cheek. A gun lay on the floor be
neath her hand, and a stale smelJ
of gunpowder hung on the air.
Neill s heart stood still. He ran
to the girl and flung his arms
....... UAn L7n.
she breathed; there was no wound
on her. Upon wiping her face, he
saw that the blood was not hers.
He crushed her to his breast, trem
bling in the reaction from his tlrsl
terrible fear. '
Leaviniz her for a moment, he
dropped to his knees beside the
body on the floor. Fanning was
dead all right but to Neill's aston
ishment there was still warmth in
his body. If only he had come a
few minutes soonerl He saw that
the hole in his forehead was a
wound of egress. He had been shot
in the back of his head and the
gun had been held so close that
his hair was singed.
Mem glanced towards the door
that he had burst in. Its key was
on the inside. All the portholes
were closed and fastened. To his
mind there was onlv one possible
explanation. Fanning had attacked
Janet and she had shot him. Neill
had no thought of blame for her;
he approved her courage. Lucky
that she had the gun. where had
she got it?
He carried her out into the sa
loon and laid her on a couch.
There was a vacuum jug on
smna. no spnnKiea waier in ner
face and bathed her temples.
Meanwhile he had to make the
greatest decision of his life. The
trained sleuth in him said: She
shot this man and we'll have to
face it out together. She 11 be ac
quitted of course. But the man in
him thought of how she would be
dragged through the mud Janet
whom he had always laughed at
and loved for her delicate wavsl
And how after acquittal, fingers
would lorover point her out as a
murderess. I don't care what the
evidence Is, the man in him said,
she couldn't have done it. And I'm
going to keep her under cover
until 1 can prove Itl
She oDened her eves and looked
around so wildly and senselessly
mat neiu teared tor her reason.
'Janet! ' he murmured. "This la
Neill. Don't you know me, dear?"
Recognition came into her eves.
and like a frightened child she
flung her arms around his neck.
"It s mo, all right."
"You've come!" she murmured
in a passion of relief. "1 knew
you'd cornel"
He soothed her silently.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Let's not talk about It now.
dear. I have you safe!"
"Oh, take me away from this
horrible place!" she moaned.
Take me away! Take me awayl"
Velll and Janet row away Into the
darknesa, tomorrow.
BOCK ISLAND, til (API She !
a railroad cat and knowa her ache
dulrs. Bhe save birth to four kittens on
top of a box car axle houatng where
no one could reach them.
Then the heard trainmen any they
would have to more the car In two
day. When the field wan clear. ne
oeRan moving her youngsters, one oy
one. down the aide of the car and
Into a aecluded corner ot the re
pair ahop.
Cat. kitten and ear moved on
schedule.
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INDIANS LIKE PLANES
FROM THE GROUND
VALENTINE, Nrb l API Chiet
Ktlta-a-Mone unci other Sioux brave
on the Ptne nirte rrwrvatton r
having their hoinra "alr-mappcd ' oy
the soil conservation bureau of the
department of agriculture.
The Indians are Interested In the
equipment which a I low t the pilot
to take pictures from altitude ot
34,oofl feet, hut none of them ha
exprewd a denire to go aloit.
"See plenty from ground," one
chief commented.
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On cold, clear day the intensity
of tha heat radiation received from
the sun by the earth Is far greater
than on hot days. The reason behind
this seemingly paradoxical phenome
non Is the fact that on warm or
hot days the air Is filled with water
vapor and dust. Vapor traps much
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Perhaps one of the most evident
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"Sweetest Story Ever Told.'
In writing his famous song, "The
Sweetest Btory Ever Told," Robert
Morrison Stults received his inspira
tion from a chance remark made by
his wife. Having Just completed
reading a book one day In the 1880'a
Mrs. Stults expressed her opinion ol
It to her husband with the words,
"Well, that's the sweetest story everl
Mr. Stults snapped up the remark
aa a theme for a song. He started
writing It Immediately and finished
the entire song In less than two
hours.
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Land of o Knots.
Of the many taboos observed
among the peoples of Africa, the
ban against knots In the Bakongo
country of the Lower Congo, Africa,
la perhaps the oddest. Nothing tied
wlfh a knot la allowed In a village.
All bundles must be untied before
being carried in. The taboo even
goes so far as to ban the wearing
of knotted belts or girdles In a
village. The natives' explanation In
support of their prohibition of knots
contends that any form of knot will
prevent certain magical powers from
functioning.
Tomorrow: What Snake Con Strike
Fu fully Before It Is Hatched?
ScottKboro Boy Appeal
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. f-AP
Haywood Patterson, one of the nine
Negroes Involved In the celebrated
Scottsboro case, appealed to the
supreme court today in an effort to
escape a 76-year prison sentence im
posed by Alabama courts for an al
leged attack on a white woman.
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Federal Board Hurries
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. (API
The national labor relations board,
moving swiftly to avert a threatened
maritime strike at Atlantic and
gulf ports, refused today to delay
until October collective bargaining
elections among employes of ott
steamship lines.
An ensign g a flay flown on ships.
Light Blister Rust
THE DALLES. Sept. 13. (AP) D.
W. Hagensteln. in charge of control
of pine rust in the Ochoco national
forest east of Prineville, said today
only 18 trees to the section were In
fested this year. Last year a check
up showed a high as. 1000 trees to
the section diseased.
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