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DOUBLE ORDERS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address tba author, Inclosing a stamped envelops for reply. Beg. U. S. Pat 04.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
rho Story So Far: Atey Mayo. Cape
Cod detective, it Investigating the
murder of Marina Lome, whose hut
band't poll office mural has aroused
Quanamet. She Wat killed by a left
handed blow from her tister't knife.
Suspected Pam Frye disappears be
cause tomeone who tmoket Turkish
tobacco is trailing her to ditcover the
whereabouts of S50.0Q0 worth of am
bergrit she found. Agreeable Tim
Carr. boarder at the Frye't Octagon
House, is left handed, tmoket Turkish
tobacco, and hated Marina. And
Roddy Strutt, whose alibutng plane
crash looks deliberate, is offering a
reward for the murderer, Asey de
cides to locate Pam't ambergrlt and
make sure it Is safe.
Chapter 19
Asey Putties The Windows
ASEY backed his truck into a
' driveway, and finally man
aged to maneuver along to a lane
leading to the network of back
roads. After plowing interminably
through sandy ruts, he at last
turned off on a road which even
tually wound past Octagon House
and the Lome cottage.
An amazingly small group, a
mere handful, waited outside the
barbed wire barrier. For the most
part, they looked like local people.
Asey leaned out and inquired
what had become of the tourists.
The man shrugged. "I don't
know. I guess they're up town.
Ihey don t seem to care much
"For gosh sakes." the trooper
said wearily, "go putty your
damned windows ana shut your
face! Hey hey. Ding!" He yelled
to still another trooper who was
lust entering the house. "Thii
guy's going to putty the windows.
He s all right. He s harmless.
nun, -vacjr bhiui -w
sound badly ruffled, "it sure takes
you fellers a long time to make
vour minds up!
Swinging the putty pail and
gripping the putty knife, he made
a slow and searching circuit of the
house. The cellar windows were
large four-paned things, and they
needed putty just about as badly
as he thought they would. He
could Duttv Dracticallv till dooms'
day, or until someone got suspi
cious and sent him away.
From what he could gather by
peering through the windows, the
cellar floor plan was a strange and
wonderful thing. The hall appar
ently ran diagonally through the
place, slicing me octagon ana leav
ing visible two triangular small
rooms, two rectangles slightly
bashed and two hybrid rooms
that seemed to have at least six
walls apiece. He rather hated to
contemplate what happened in
the middle of the place, beyond
his line of vision. He strongly sus
pected that there was a circular
staircase to the first floor, at the
very least.
'A Lovely Idea'
'pHE trooper stopped him as hi
I started a second trip about the
outside.
The policeman barred Asey's way.
about the murder, or the mural
either. They're just out for a good
time."
"TJien 1 guess," Asey said, "I
can get this loom dumped. I been
tryin all day to dump it here, an'
they wouldn't let me.
The policeman at the barrier,
overhearing Asey's remark, an
nounced that he couldn't dump it
now, either.
"I'd like to know why," Asey
said crossly. "Pam Frye ordered
this loom, an I've brought it, an'
I can't waste any more time cart
in' it around, an I need my truck.
I can't see how I'm goin' to hurt
anyone, just dumpin' a little loom,
an doin some work I been paid
to do."
He spoke loudly enough for
everyone to hear, and the group
promptly took his side. What
harm was a little loam, if a man
needed his truck? They discussed
the situation with gusto until the
officer bowed to public opinion
and let Asey through.
Asey shoveled half the loam
Into a neat pile by the back porch,
while another trooper watched
him suspiciously.
"Now, Asey put down his
shovel, "now, mister, I want to see
Aaron Frye. Ask him "
"You can't"
"Well, then, you go ask him
what windows he wants me to be-
?in puttin' putty on first, mister,
got work to do."
You can't see Frye, and you
can't do any work around here,"
the trooper said. "Beat it."
'lie's Harmless'
ASEY took a can of putty and a
knife from the front seat of
the truck. "Pam Frye hired me
last week to fix these windows,"
he said, "an' I'm a-goin' to fix
windows. An' who do you bunch
of Cossacks think you arc? Go get
your boss an tell him to arrest a
man that's goin' about his busi
ness, doin' his work he's paid to
Jo. Go on well, whyn't you go?"
"Listen," the trooper said, "do
you have to make trouble?"
"Who's mnkin' trouble?" Asey
said. "I ain't makin' trouble. I'm
just goin' to putty up some win
dows, like Pam Frye hired me to
do last week. Want you to putty
the windows, says she. All right,
says I. I'll putty em Sat'-day aft
noon, when I bring you the loom
for the back flower bed. If a fel
ler's promised to putty windows,
an' he's got just so much time to
putty windows in, then he's got to
putty the windows when
"If you're going to putty," bro
ther," he said, "you putty. Hear
me? Puttvl"
Asey sighed plaintively. "Looky
here," he said, ' some of these win
dows needs putty more'n others
does. How can I tell which needs
it most, if you keep stnppin' an'
interruptin an dotnenn me sor
"Get going!"
"All right." Asev said. "All
right. I'll get going. No respect for
a man's work, that's what's the
matter with this world."
He made his way to the tri
angular furnace room window
and removed all the putty from
one pane with such deft celerity
as (o remove also whatever sus
picions the trooper might have
been entertaining. Then he pro
ceeded to putty, with infinite care.
A slight noise in the first floor
window above temporarily dis
concerted him, He looked up to
find the greenest parrot he had
ever seeji staring down at him fix
edly from a perch in a cage. On
the window sill lay Emma Gold
man, surveying him with a skep
tical eye.
tmma, he heard Mrs. uarr s
voice as she entered the room.
"Emma, must you park under that
bird? Can't vou lust be a good cat.
and sit, and relax, and breathe the
nice air? You cannot get that par
rot, and don't you try. She'll snap
at you. Toots, you're the worst
fiarrot I ever saw if you don't
ike Emma, why don't you let her
know it?"
They enioy this refined skir
mishing." Tim said, and closed the
door. "Well, on the whole, what
do you think of things, Gran?"
I thinK, on the whole, she saia.
that we have been sufficientlv
open and garrulous to allay suspi
cions. It was a lovely idea of yours,
Timmy, and I give you full credit
You re masterly wun details, i al
ways thought so. The only real
point is. where did she put it?
Where, in God's name did the girl
put it?"
Asey felt as tnougn someone naa
hit him sharoly between the eyes
"Where did she put it?" Sirs
Carr asked again.
"Where?" Timothy sighed. "1
don't know, Gran. All I'm sure of
is that she hid it somewhere. No
one's brought it to light yet so it
still must be here. Its got to be
And by heaven, I'm going to find
it!"
Cefiiiht. 19!t. fW Tsrlnl
What are the Carrs up to? Contin
ued tomorrow.
Tea Party Tax Was Six Cents;
Now British Are Paying Sixteen
By I'KESTON GKOVER
WASHINGTON Time flies, incl it n ow develop that enemy Airplane on
ahake more taxei out of tea-ctrtnkera than the old-time (ear of British
redcoau.
England recently raiwd Its tax on
t from '2 cent a pound to IS ceir-s
and while the English don't chw tt
especially, they are paying it with
out threat of staging Ua-partiea such
as added hlatortcaj re.U to our pre
Rsjivolutlonary dnya.
The money, of course, I going to
build up defenses for the Brl'Ui
lstes. which right now are roncernd
over the prospect of having f'eeta of
bombers come over from th eoMl
nent. Just (or the cake of couiparib.in
tt could be mentioned that the tax
whtch precipitated the Boston Tea
Party wa about six cent pound
barely less than t third of the tax
the British now are levying upon
themelve.
The fear of British redcoats wai
not enough to convince the nkee
colonist they should pay the tr.x
although to be rure the circumstance
then were far different from thrwe
affecting the present British ten fx
The complaint of the colours was
that the money was intended to help
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Pilot B. a. Fullerton, R. 0. A. P.,
found himself in an embarrassing
position when. In .March. 1020, he
was stranded 1.000 mile from civili
zation with a broken propeller, at
Port Simpaon. N. W. T.
The Ice had not yet gone out of the
Mackenzie river; communication with
Edmonton. Alta., would be Impossible
for months. There was nothing to
do, Fullerton decided, but sit and
wait for spring to come.
Then Walter Johnson, a Port Simp
son ex-cabinet maker, proposed a
daring plan. He thought he could
whittle a propeller If he had the
right kind of wood.
A search of the settlement disclosed
supply of sleigh boards, well sea
soned, in a warehouse. A number of
these could be cut to shape and
glued together if glue were avail
able. Somebody suggested boiling down
an old pile of moose hides. The trick
worked: after days of working with
crude trools, Johnson completed the
propeller. Dramatically Pilot Puller
ton fitted It to hla ship.
A short test flight proved It was
satisfactory: at 1,500 revolutions per
minute It pulled the two-ton. metal,
Junkers monoplane smoothly through
the air.
Strange aa It seems. Fullerton lift
ed hla plane from the Ice -covered
Mackenzie -river on April 21 only a
few hours before the ice broke up
end soared away 400 miles to Bear
lake, near the frontier town of Peace
River, Alberta, covering the distance
in four hours with the odd moose
glued propeller!
Razor Blade Artist
One year ago Howard Daniels, artist
of Redondo Beach, California, had
"never carved so much as a tooth
pick." Today, strange as It seem, he
has created a new field of art with
almost unlimited possibilities.
Daniels carve pictures from pieces
of driftwood, using as hi only tool
common safety razor blades-r-thereby
solving the problem of what to do
with them after shaving. He has
created one hundred piece so far.
including portraits and caricatures of
famous stage, screen and radio stars
and scene of western and mission
life.
England finance the very redcoats
which were kept over here to keep
the Yankees In "subjection." When
the shoe was on the other foot the
colonists paid tea taxes. The United
States popped a tariff on tea in 1781).
ranging from six cents to 46 cents,
nd this was doubled when the gov
ernment needed money to fight the
British in 1812.
Tea hasn't been taxed or tariffed In
this country since 1903 when a 10
percent Spanish war levy wa repeal
ed. But somebody has got to pay for
these battleships.
Oxford Union society, of Oxford.
England, decided by a majority of
14 votes not to admit women under
graduates as debating members.
Cartridges Betray Hunter.
STANDISH. Mich. (UP) Four
empty cartridges left beside an il
legally killed fawn enabled conser
vation officers to run down the
hunting violator two months after
the season closed. Aided by ballistics
experts, they traced the shells to
Lewis Schemesky, Flint factory work
er, who pleaded guilty.
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