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paaic TEST rET)FOT?D frfATL TRTBTTKE, rFTDFO'RT), OTfEGONT. KTTXDXyY OCTOBEH 24, 1937 the dark shi r GOOD CLOTHES By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tat further proof address the anther, tncloafcf a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. v. S. Pat Oft BY HULBCRT FOOTHCR Chapter 43 The Loot la Found AT vening Kettering heard Fan nlng come .n and lock the floor. The sounds that followed told him that the girl had fainted To a man mad with hatred, the opportunity was too good to be passed up. He stole out of the lloset, picked up the gun that lay on the stand (he had seen it there previously) and shot Fanning as be was putting the unconscious gin in tne easy cnair. He placed the gun in such manner that it would appear to nave lauen from Janet s hand, am put the money that he found in Tanning's wallet in the pocket of the girl's wrap. She was the daughter of a man he knew, but Kettering was not one to be de terred by that. He said in 1. own excuse that he was certain no jury wouia convict ner or. murder un der the circumstances. The coming of Neill forced him back into Lis closet. Aftei Ne'l had taken the girl, Kettering searched the yacht at his leisure Behind a secret panel in Fanning's cabin he found the little package which held the takings of the swindle, ana swam asnore with it. Having wrung the atcr out of bis clothes as well as he could, he hung around the store in the dark. When the movies let out, t!.e store lor a few minutes was crowded with customers buying soft drinjts ana ice-cream cones, and Kettev Ing took advantage of it to get into the telephone booth without at tracting attention. He called up his son and told him to bring down the car with a fishing and camp- I ...mt y r L .. i , Y Kig uuuib. apeiu uie niKni in is damp clothes shivering in the woods, in the morning he drove up with his son to the store as Weill had seen him. An hour later he shot the little package addressed to hi: wife through the slit in the post office door. He telephoned his wife to carry the package unopened to his sale deposit vault This unfortu nate woman was not in any way implicated in the crime. Once they had established themselves at Ab salom s, Kettering sent his son back to Baltimore with instruc tions to disguise himself. Ketter ing knew that the investigation would fluctuate between Absa' lom's and Baltimore and he wanted an observer in town. He kept in touch with his son by tele- none. Horace, junior, was now ring in a Baltimore hospital with a bullet hole through his thigh, - Buckless Talks Freely ON the next day when it all came out. Buckless was re leased from the yacht. His story was true, and the authorities had nothing against him exceDt a dos- ible charge of wilful damaee to the yacht. Having more important things on their hands, they were not uneiy to pusn tnat. Since he had nothing to fear, Buckless talked freely. He said he had arrived in Absalom's on Tues day night just as Ncill was coming snore lor water. He sent nis com panion back and walked along the shore, following the skiff part way up the river. From the farm house above the ships he borrowed the asms skiff that Ncill used later, and cruised around until he had aatlsfied himself that Neill had hidden the girl on the Lincoln. Returning to Absalom's, lie picked up another skiff and rowel out to the yacht. He discovered that Fanning had been killed and from that moment his whole ob ject was to recover the loot. His first search for it on the yacht vas Interrupted by the waking of the crew, and he had to make a quick getaway. On the following night he liftco a skiff in the village and rowed up river to the ships. By sheer luck ha found the rope ladder hanging down and went up. The suite war empty and he took the opportunity to search it. He made his getaway before Neill and Janet returned Landing nearby, he waited for Neill to come ashore, and attacked him as has been described. On th '. next night he visited the yacht a second lime to search for the loot. As for Eyster, nothing new about him came out except that he had bribed McGec, the engine r, to keep him informed of the yacht's movements. There was ill 'eeling between McGee and Buckless anil when the engineer went to Bal timore he did not communicate with the strong-arm man. Kyster was a potential murderer of Fan ning, but ho lacked the courage to carry it out. As a result ot his prowling, he knew Buckless unci was terrified of him, but Buckless was completely unaware of Eys ter. When everything was known md the excitement began to die down, Eyster came to Neill ..ml offered him his hand. The crazy grin was unchanged, but a certain ease had come into the tragic -yes "Well, goodby," he said. Neill took his hand with a good will. "Where are yoj going?" he iv keel. Eyster merely grinned and shrugged his shoulder. Neill was wrenched with pitv for the poor wretch. "Don't go," he said. "This ugly business will soon be over and we can all jet a fresh start." "You can," said Eyster. "I wh you luck." "Well, anyhow, stick around for awhile, and we'll talk things over." "All right," said Eyster. However, within an hour he had disappeared. Neill never saw him again. Since the jail at King's Green was not suitable for the confine ment of so important a prisoner, Kettering was carried up to Bal timore to await trial. After he was taken away, the village of Absa lom's snapped back into its former calm, broken only by the arrival of the weekend fishing parties. Virgil Longcope, however, had no notion of wasting the world-wide publicity of the case. Virgil and Neill made it up between them that Neill was to suppress his share in solving the case, so that the whole credit might go to Mark Bonniger. "There is a Democratic caucus next week," said VirgiL "I'll pre sent Mark's name as our candidate for state senator, and it will be carried with a hurrah. Not only with the Democrats, but with every voter in the county. At one and the same time we will make the Republicans look sick and get us a Bonniger for our leader just as it used to be in the old days. After he's elected, I'm figuring that he'll see the need of getting married and carrying the family on." "You are looking a long way ahead," said Neill grinning. "It's my motto," raid Virgil. When Kettering's safe deposit box was opened, and they untied the little package they found in it, a flood of shining diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sap; ' ires poured out Fanning had put all his ill-gotten gains into unset jew els, as a currency easy to c-rry around, and good the world over. All this reverted to the estate of Miss Rayner. By will she had left everything to found a home for indigent gentlewomen. So the lrt ladies got it The yacht was sold and the proceeds added to the fund. Ira Buckless left Baltimore breathing threats against Neill for having fooled him. However Neill's business had won him many an enemy ot Buckless' kid ney, and he knew how to take care of himself. On Bonnigcr's Porch AT Absalom's, Neill and Janet were followed by a cheering mob wherever they went. To give them a little peace, Bonniger car ried them off to his old square house on a hill above the Poco mico. He locked the gate of his place and, as the gate was a mile from the house, they were not troubled by unwanted visitors. On the evening of the day after the general showdown had taken place, the three of them sat on the porch of the old mansion sinning mint juleps in frosted glasios, and looking at the glorious panorama of the river and its hills. Stiangc- ly enough, they did not And much to say. It was sufficient just to bu sitting there together. After a silence, Bonniger said. "Well, anyhow, one good thing has come out of this sorry business." What's that?" asked Neill. 'A friendship that will last at long as we do." "bet s drink to it. They raised their glasses. Bonniger said, with his dry smile: Virgil wants me to run for state senator." "Well, you will, won't you?" "Oh. I reckon so. I've got a taste for excitement now." 'This old house needs a mis tress." murmured Janet. 'Fitd me one," said Bonniger. "Ybu haven't got a twin, I suppose?" l'relty soon Bonniger rose with a transparently busy expression saying that he must go look at is pigs. Everything had goAe to rack and ruin during the past four days na said, fie disappeared into tne house. Neill moved closer to Janet and drew her arm under his. Is your yen for inderjondence satisfied?" he asked. 'Ah. don't make fun of met I was such a foi!" Oh, that's all right." sa d Neill. "If you weren't a fool I'd be at too great a disadvantage." idiotr You haven't answered mv ones- tion yet." "What have you m mind kir me?" "Marriage." Janet looked away, but he could still see the edge of a smhV in her cheek. Not a half bad Idea.' she said airily. 'Janet!" he cried. "You will! 1 thought it only meant another r gument." "I m not going to argue an'. more." "Oh, don't say that. I'd miss II "Well . , , Just as you like." THE END; WAflHfNOTON. Oct. as. (API Jamea Rooaevelt'e dcntenatlon n a coordinator for Independent federal axenrlca was viewed by aomf ohaerv era today at a preliminary atrp In the prrtldenfa aiwraeated government re onznniratlon program. The chief executive aaked romtreaa. among other propoaed raviaione. to Increase hla White Ifouaa staff to alt administrative Qaettanta and contact men. The house voted lt approval laat summer.-and -the senate pinhably will onnMder the recommendation at the apaclal waalon. Jamea Roosevelt, one of three Whlta llou.ie secretaries, emphasised that It waa purely the executive work of nil the boHrda. commlMlona and huretuu Involved that hla lather wished co ordinated. The son. whose lon leiin etretch tvneath a desk In a room acroea the White Houae lobby trom h! father's office, referred to himself as a "clear ing house." lie emphnatied the pro dram waa voluntary and aald tta purpose was greater efficiency. "The president thoiwht It was a !food Idea." young Knoaevelt aald, "to el up aome alnd of a aytem whereby the agency head would have acoeaa once a week to aomeone In the White Houae to tell what they had on their mlnda." Well-kept nalla, neat ayehrow and smoothly arranged hair are three marks of a well-artvHnad woman. 4fa&V& WERE USED IK WhH0hm falMtf MOTIONS f, $ & Plf FtfeNT &v & 7 'rt l i u-r nr k nnn wt7 trn unit a m - 'T IH CKTCRIN6 MARX,.. pfS g L? bCCORVm TO &N btf Of E-RltteH PARU&rAENTu., ILinits n Unit J ponding for their safety on the theory that shnrks move slowly a long ss their Intended prey moves slowly, natives of New Zealand trnll their hands in the water as bait In luring sharks alongside their canoes. As the shark swims near, a rope with a noose Is gently dropped between the hand and the fish. If everything work out all right, the shark fails to notice the rope and swims through the noose. When the rope passes back of the first fin It Is cautiously pulled tight. The "bait hand" is then slowly withdrawn from the water so the shark won't snap at It and the InsKoed fluh Is allowed to swim about a bit. Then It la hauled within reach of a long-handled mal let which is awung down on the shark's head, knocking the fish un conscious. tiu&ftlan Broadcasting It takes a real linguist to tune In on Russian radio stations and Under stand every word broadcast, strange as it seems, the Soviet's 70 stations use a total erf 69 languages and dialects. Most, If not all. Soviet radio broad casting stations use more than one language. The Russian language is, ol course, used throughout the U. S. S. R. by all stations and In addition ench stations linen the languages nnd IkNinfct SrrxfWaU. Inc. dialects of lt local dialers. Powerful Moscow radio .it at Ions regularly broadcast In nine foreign languages: English, French, Oerman. Czechoslovakia!,. Spanish, Polish, Hungarlon, Latvian and Lithuanian. Ancient Straus Uncovered In recent excavations of Syrian ruins were a number of per forated copper tubes containing a reed tube Inside. Used for drinking beverages in much the same mnnnor as straws are ised today, the device also served to keep impurities out of the straws. Moiuluy: Which English Queen was .Murrled Three Times !n One Year? MINI PASS PLEA DOOMED BY EXPENSE PORTLAND. Oct. 33. AP) The Eugene Obsidian placed an eloquent but apparently unavnlllng plea be fore the highway commission today for a anow-cloarcd, winter route Into the recreational area of the central Oregon Cascades. The Lano county delegation, repre sented by Paul Lafferty. Robert Lemon and Oeorge H. MoMoran. asked main tenance, of tho MrKenzlc Pass hlnh- woy to the vicinity of Prog camp. The commission promised "earnest consideration" but pointed out costs must be ke.pt at a minimum rise the state-wide construction program would bo endangered. 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