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PAGE SIX ftrEDFO'RD MAIL TRIBUNE, "NrEPFOftP, PEEPON. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1937. the dark ships THE FAMILY ALBUM HELPING HAND By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof tddron fb urtfcor, tnelothif a stamped cnrelope for reply. Rec TJ. 8. Ptt Off. Y HULBERT FOOTMCR zrn SYNOPSIS: When fiathy Prl eott Fanning abducts Janet from Baltimore on hie yacht, ehe gett word to Weill, a young federal spent who loves her. Dashing to Absalom's Harbor, he boards the tacht and Inds, in a locked cabin, ' fanning shot dead and Janet in a aint, a gun beside her. Msill hides her nearby in a disused liner, then joins forces with Mark Bon niger, keen local Investigator, to keep tab on developments. Neill takes food and clothes to Janet and loses faith in her story of in nocence when she produces 500 of Tanning's money. 5he runs on deck to give herself up. Chapter 31 Attack In The Dark FEARING that Janet would cry out, Neill clapped a hand over her mouth, and started dragging ner aione me aecK, resisting every foot of the way. With great diffi culty he got her through the door of the booby hatch, and closed the door behind them. He sat down on the iron stairs to recover his Dream, Holding her dose. Janet suddenly broke into tears and clung to him, and by that he knew the crisis had passed. He had never loved her so well as at that moment He wanted to laugh. "Oh, Honey, what a fright you rave me!" "How could you say such things "Bv God. I'm sorrv nowl" "If you don't believe in me, I don't care what happens!" "I do! I dol I will never doubt you again!" . "How can I be sure that you mean lu "I love you better than my life!" he murmured. "We can't quarrel. We're in this thing together. What happens to one happens to the other. We're like two parts of the same body. If we separated it would llnisn us bothl Gradually she nuleltd down. They returned through the ship hand in hand. Neill was sore , and at the same time Immensely tender. He did not believe her storv. In the ears of the trained de tective it had a fatally fictitious sound: out he loved her far too well to Question it further. It doesn't matter, he told himself; she is my girl ina I'm bound to mcK to ner anynow. When they entered the suite, the eandle was still burning as they had left it. Janet, who had been considerably pulled about during ine struggle on aecK, ran into tne bedroom to comb her hair. Neill lit a cigarette. As he waited for Janet it gradually came to him that the room had been visited during their absence. The cushions Df the couch had been disarranged; one of the drawers In the desk was pulled out a little. Suddenly chilled with fear, he ran out on the veranda. The window where the ladder hung was open again. He broke into a cold sweat. His position appeared truly terrible to him. It seemed impossible to leave Janet alone if her refuge had been discovered. And equally impos sible to stay with her. They had only a day s food and almost no drinking water. Almost worse than the danger was the mystery that surrounded the unknown spy. If he was aware of everything thev did, why didn't he show himself? Why didn't he denounce them? What teas he after? Meadow Lark's Call JANET called to Neill from the J parlor and he went in, forcing hirn.ielf to smile. "Much as I hate to do It, I must lend you away," she said. "You had no sleep last night. . . . Unless you could sleep here?" she added wistfully. "I suppose I must go," he said flatly. '. . . Listen, Janet When I leave you, you must take the gun." "What good would that do me?" 'If vou were attacked, you could use it couldn't you? It is the right of every human creature." 1 suppose I could. . . . What has marie you suddenly anxious?" "Nothing. But I mustn't neglect any precautions." He started pull ing In the length of twine that huns overboard. "What are you doing that for?" "There are too many people hanging around these parti." he muttered. "The ships are objects of curiosity. Somebody might come around In a boat and see the string hanging down." "How will vou let me know when vou come?" "I will whistle. Do vou know the , call of the meadow lark?" She shook her head. He taught It to her. "When vou hear that tomorrow night let the itring down with a small object tied tn it so that It will fall true. Hold on to the string and I will twltrh it four times, wait a sec ond and twitch It four times more. Then vou will know It's me and you enn let down the ladder." "Whv all these precautions?" Neill grinned until his face hurt. "It's lust because you mean so much to me. I worry every mn. ment I am away from voti" He looked at all the doors Into the corridor to make sure that the bolts were fastened "You're nrettv safe here. Certainly nohodv can get In from the river. It anybody should try to smash these doors you can throw down the ladder and escape by swimming." "Why Imagine anything so ter rible?' "We must be prepared. Promise me you'll do what I tell you." "All right" He went down the ladder feel ing as if he had left the best part of himself behind. He half ex pected to find his skiff gone. But it was there just as he had left it Whoever had come and gone that way had had a skiff of his own Neill reflected that the spy must have been actually hidden in the suite at the moment when he had come back and shut the windows Whoever it was. he was gone now. Neill rowed all around the ships and searched up and down the shore. No skiff. He Anally tied his skiff in the place where It be longed, and started back across the fields the way he had come, looking over his shoulder at every other step and pausing often to listen. It was a dark night and he could see only a yard or two. Coming to the state road, he lay down in the weeds behind the wire fence, peering through and listen ing. His intention was to wait un til the motorcycle Doliceman had oassed on his oatrol. All Neill'f attention was directed on the road and for a moment or two he neg lected to look behind him. He had no warnins of daneer. Sud denly a powerful figure dropped on his back, knocking the wind out of him and pinning him down Captive NEILL struggled with all hi! power. It was useless. He was bsrne down under an incredible weight of bone and muscle. Th man planted a knee on the baft of his skull crushing his face intr the earth so that he could not crw rtnt H hit him rpnpntprllv on the side of the hod until Neill be came groggy, and was unable tr fight back when his arms wer( dragged behind him and tied to gether. Then his ankles. The man turned him over and pasted his eves and his lips shui with strips of surgeon's tape thai he had ready for the nurnose. Ir the brief second that Neill coulr' see him he was lust a shaneles.' bulk of humanity looming be tween him and the skv. He nunc himself down beside Neill. pant ing hoarsely after his efforts. Neill heard the motorcvele com ing down the road, and exerted himself to shout. Only feeble trroans Issued from his sealed tins The policeman, deafened by 4he sound of his own exhaust, swept on, and the man lying beside Neill chuckled. After a minute or two the motorcycle roared past again The sound died away up the road The man rose and. nicking up the heloless Neill as if he had been a child, dropped him over the fence. Once more the breath wef nrettv well knocked out of him The man scrambled after and picking Neill up, carried him across the road and threw him over the fence on the other side Neill wondered shakilv how much of this the human frame could stand. He was picked up again and shouldered like a sack of meal The man set off across another nlouehed field. The eoing was bad through soft earth and he stumbled and panted. Neill was not disposed to make his lob any easier. As soon as he got sufficient breath he started twistine and rolllntt on hi? carrier's shoulder. Whereupon thr man flung him down and kicked him In the ribs. Neill took the hint No use exhausting himself In f vain struggle. After a time Neill recognize by a new smell on the nir that the were nearing water Prohably Or head of the inlet. Thev follower it for awhile alone the ertee of th' bank Neill could hear the llttl' waves below. His cantor finally slid down the bank in a cascade of loose earth crossed a strin of crunching shir pie and tossed Neill from his shoul der to a sort of wooden shelf. Nei" Indeed from the weathered fee' that It was the deck of an old ves sel. It was canted at an ancle but a rail kept him from rolling off. He heard the man climb nc aboard. He was nicked nn aeain and dropped through what ap peared to be an onen hatrh Into the hold This was the hardest fall he had had and he lav nartlv stunned There was water In thr hold and he wondered if he wonl! drown, without ereatlv caring But t did not cover him. It was bilce water In the hottnm of the nlc hulk. The smell was horrible. The man dronned nto the holr and for a few minutes was mvr teriouslv busv beside Neill. breath ng hoarselv. Neill heard the slai of a rone. As his full senses re turned and with them a renewer! desire to live, the suspense wa aeonlrlng What was the brut' nrepnrlnB, Will groaned and rolled In his bonds and was re warded with another kick. Neill eenils his raptor on a wild tooic rhase, tomorrow. Yellowstone Park Closure Postponed WASHINOOON. Bpt, 38. (AP) See ret try Ickes sitld today thut at Prr kltnt Room p It 'ft rqurst tn order closing Yellowstone tintloiml ptrk to travel on September 36 hud been re voked. The park will remain open to tour UU another fortnight, he Mid. unlet anow blocks highway. Mr. Roosevelt visited the park over the week-end and at that lime heard nrotrfita Against the unusually early ctoAlnR which hud been ordered as an economy measure, Tn J l tidy Japan : BERK KIsEY. CM. U'P In an af tort to create a better understanding I with the Par BM. the UnlverMtv of California has rMa'ih-hed new fflurae In the history and government j ot Japan. I Grant Permit For Malheur Oil Drill 8AI.EM, Pept. ?jy (API Permuutlon to drill for oil a mile south of Vale In Malheur county was granted by the Mate land board today to UwU Lilly, notw oil operator. Lilly was granted a lea. on .130 acres, where he believed the oil dome la located. He told the land board he would not sell stock and that he con aide tret the venture one of the 'wild est of wildcat scheme." Me must start operation In six month, but after that time he imy py fio cent an acre for six months to hold his lenw, which will run for five years Hew the Coop HATHF-MUmo, MIm. U'P) Jullrr Fdmund O Mrtnr of the Port-eat r mrt'v hi !r irned t!-al 'lull .MroV e.ui , lis, -xn yet .ni..;lea Oeteued Uuoub au open window. i w f i r n i I i r v-s uo -- - I -k i it i l - 1 -y v Mil V00P5PVB1H& rUNCI" couiM9tfre am of The ocm AT u outturn. li i ' r W6 ARRESTED lufoJML ftT WARREtflbN, THeBiRTriew OFPR&SIPENTS tW Iff I lWMr' UHK Of THE UNTEfl TJTeS WSRE 0ORU wrrrtm $AMS ToWN sse dot KetiV- . Zdrtte Cteni u,, I Blrthapot of Presidents Strange aa It seems, a circle with a 60-mlle radius drawn around the town of Hndensvllle, Va., will encom- paaa the birthplace of eight presi dent of the- Unltd States. Wash ington. Monroe, Madison. Taylor, Jef ferson. Tyler, W. H. Harrison and Wilson were the preside tits born within this area. Backward Punt Back In punt formation on Univer sity of California's 39-yard lino in JIM5, Santa Clara Quarter bock Joe Kelly attempted a "coffin corner" kick. The results of the punt brought him more fame then tf be had kicked the pfgskln out on the half-Inch line. Coming to earth on the line of scrimmage the ball took a bad bounce, headed back Into Santa, Clara territory and come to a atop on the Broncos 36-yard line a 25-yard punt backward! Song Exchange John Bull, 17th-century English musician, wrote a tune which beoame the national anthem of four nations and a patriotic song of two other when he composed the music of his country's "Clod Save the King.' In 'lleNttfttt SyiKlkAU, Ik. the United States it Is the tune of "My Country Tls of Thee," In Ger many "Hell dlr im Slegeskranz," in Switzerland "Ruff du Meln Vater land,' In Denmark "Hell dir. dem Llebended" and in Norway "Gud Sign Vor Konge God." The United States has reciprocated to some extent for borrowing Eng land's "God Save the King" tune by providing England with the music for 'Britannia, Pride of the Ocuen,' which la taken from "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." Tomorrow: What Animal Fats His Own Tall? Salesman Injured In Klamath Crash KLAMATH PALSL. Sept. 38. (AP) Tom Tubbs, Belllngham. Wash., salesman. Is tn serious condition at a hospital hero as a result of in juries suffered near Dairy on the Lake view highway lato Sunday, when brakes locked on the car In which ho was driving. The machine ran up a bank on ono side of the road, then somersaulted backward. Tubbs has a fractured skull and shoulder, broken ribs and a broken right thigh. J. G. Stone,. Spokane, who was driving with Tubbs. sus tained a minor shoulder injury. Minor Crime Wave Rolls Over Eugene EUOEN7, Sept. 28. (AP) Foux residences and a lumber office were burglarised In a minor "crime wave" here Inst night, city police reported this morning. Method of gaining entry in each case convinced police the same man or men did all the Jobs. Only small amounts of cash were obtained In four of the thefts, but at one home the thieves got four men's suits, an overcoat, a silver flute valued at more than $200 and a piccolo. Grants tomb on the Hudson was built by popular subscription at a cost Of $600,000. S1R0US 0lrf0 KrfCHEH fo ASK WIFE IS-frlERE ANYTHING HEOW 50 "fo HELP 6E"fflW6 Sl)PPR PlA-fET0B1rlE-bA5l s-ffions iH-fo PAIRS' SPlWREP 8V CRIES Of ORRIR IT BACK TO rWt- flEASE 8E GlOICK WAfl- 1W HURMURIMS HE DER INTO KrfCHEtf Wlfrt fHOUSHf If WAS TOO A TLAfE AMD A6K5 l SMAU, WMSEif fUlSWHKf SHE MEANS AFTER SCRUlWV tfrt 6DES ON L00MrI6 AS CALLS MEDOESN'f SEEM AS WE 5ATM5 IN AMD SHELVES CAUS JOSf WHrrf WlTE 6WES MINUTE VI' "lb SEE K , BUf WH ERE DIP 6E-CS PlATE,-fUS HER PLATE POES SHE MEAN? StRlMiON OFTrlEPlATE THISTUNNV-LOOKINS If SHE NEEDS HIM TOR TriEy ALWAVS USE! T6R PITCHER COME FROM ANVTHIN6 HEIl BE TOAJrf AND WHAT'S rf fOR. ? 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