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paot: tight rFTVFOT?D MATT, TKrRlTNrE. MEDFCmn. OT?EGOy. VTEPyESDAT. OCTOBER 12. 1938. i he Character Archie Lumiden. myself, vis itor to ih French Riviera. Ottilia Willi, beautiful Ameri can heiress- Bent Gelu, Head o) t murder conspiracy. Interday: Breaking into C tilt's house to look or the murder pun I find OltiHe already there. Ceiu is at home Chapter 37 Strange Visitors "mHAT, In the name of all that's ' holy, induced you to come here?" f demanded. "Haven't vou learned enough by this time to Keep out ot troujie? Even in the half-light 1 could see the dash of anger in her dark eyes. "You make me tired," Ottilie re tolled in a furious whisper. "Cuth bert told me all about how the servants had gone and Geiss was staying with Rakovsk. over in Italy, and he said how the one Im portant thine was to find that gun and I thought to myself, if none of you naa ine gumption to come ana look for it, it was about time I got busy myself. I groaned. "Well," : said, "the one question now is how we can get you safely out of here " But at that instant came a faint but unmistakable sound, the sound of a leisurely tread mounting the mar ble stairs. I look round wildly. The room. as much as I could see of it, was a bedroom and, from the glided, ro coco SDlendor of the furnishing. I guessed it to be Geiss's own. It would be madness to conceal the girl there. Then suddenly my eye lighted on the giant cuplds that acted as supports to .he outer wall of the loggia. Behind their wings on either side was . most merciful Eaten of shadow. I caught Ottilie y the shoulders, thrust her into the angle of the wall. I had lust time to flatten myself against the opposite wall, holding my breath when suddenly the lights Inside the room flashed on, and Geiss himself stood at the threshold. A moment he paused, hesitating. and 1 saw that he carried a suit- case in either hand. He opened them, set them up against the foot or the gilded bed. Then, as if a sua den idea had struck him, he crossed to the window and stood looking out For an awful Instant I thought mat tie nad seen us. out after i pause he turned to the side of the window, raised his hand, and a metal sun-shutter rattled down, shutting off the room. I counted ten slowly, then moved, with Infinite caution, to the shutter and peered through the lats, and as I did so, with a taint rustle of silk, the gir: was beside me. The room inside was clearly visible, and in the middle of it stood its owner, a fantastic figure in vellow shirt and crimson trous ers, engaged in the prosaic task of pacKing. I soon realized that this was no haphazard preparation for a week end, for no sooner were the two bags filled than their owner carried them out, returning next minute with another couple. Then he halted suddenly, staring, open mouthed, for the door was slowly opening. I felt Ottilie's grasp tighten con vulsively on my arm, but when the door opened, all that showed in the aperture was the stark, uncom promising figure of Miss Henrietta Adams. There was something cold, something menacing In the glint of her green eyes through the glasses, and I saw the cartoonist take an involuntary step back wards. "So," she said harshly, "you're quitting?" He looked at her, slowly raid ing his eyebrows. "I thought it was foolish to give you that key." he said softly, "and now I know it. What business is it of yours what I do?" 'You're Mad' SHE sat down quietly on the edge of the bed and looked at him oddly. "You're quitting," she said again, "and I don't blame you. The police have been questioning your servants and they've run away. The jupe d'itutruction has let it be known that he no longer suspects Lumsdcn, and that means that he knows you were lying, and it means, too. that he suspects you and Stahl and Rakovsky." She beat her hands together furiously. "Why did you ever mention their names?" she demanded. "Were you mad? And now Noah More has tried to kill Lumsdcn and failed, because an Arab carpet seller saved him" "An Arab carpet-seller?" he echoed, surprised. "Are you sure of that. Henrietta?" She silenced him with an impa tient jerk of the head. " and now the man from Marseille guesses that Ludovlc killed Venner and he is searching the coast for him. That means that tomorrow's plans are spoiled." He looked at her. smiling, and slowly shook his head. 'That means nothing of the sort," he an swered gently. "They have not found him yet. have they? And If Ihey catch him afterwards, there is nothing to connect him with the affair at Prague." "Pah!" said she contemptuously "Will any man alivt not tell the truth to save his own skin? I would, I tell vou, but 1 hope that I shall not have to. That is why I have come to see you tonight You ill three of vou. have vour way of escape, but what is to become of the rest of us? L for one. am not going to wait to be caught line rat in a trap. I want money, and when I have got it I am going, to night, at once. You can give Ludo vic your own orders and pay the price if he fails!" "Just a minute," he broke in smoothly. "In that case you had better tell me where Ludovic if now." She stared1 at him blankly. "At I'Amourie. of course. Fatma gave the message to the chauffeur.' He gave a short, cackling laugh. "Quite, but the chauffeur unfor tunately lost it before it reached us. He suspects, in fact, that it was stolen from him by an Arab carpet-seller." "Sol" she said, with a sort of strangled scream. 'The man who saved Lumsden, and yet you doubt that the game is lost! You re mad. I tell you but then you were al ways mad." He looked at her consideringly. his head on one side. "I am mad. am I?" he echoed, and there was some thing so indescribably menacing in his tone that I felt the girl be side me shudder. "That is not a very safe thing to say. But let It pass. How much money do vou want? Ten thousand francs?" The woman sneered In his face. "A hundred thousand would be more like it." she retorted. "You can give me what money you have in the house, and a check on your account in Brussels for the bal ance." She gave a short, harsh laugh. "And I don't'think. some-. now, she added, that you will trv to ston the check, because, if you did, I might feel inclined to talk. There are a number of in surance companies who would be very glad to listen to me. Between Two Fires GEISS sighed, as one whose faith in human nature has been rudely tried. "How true it is that one should never expect gratitude rrom ones interiors! out come then. Henrietta. I will give vou what money I have, and for the rest, as you so cleverly suggest there will be a check on mv Brus sels account a check that I shall not dare to stop. The woman s eves had never left his face, but save for a tight ening of the thin lips, she gave no sign of the effect his diatribe had on her. Now she stood up and mo tioned him to precede her rrom the room. "I m in a nurry. she said. "The express leaves at midnight, and 1 don't fancy you want to linger." The cartoonist shrugged, smil ing gently at her. "Still suspi cious?" he said ch'dingly. "Never fear. Henrietta. I will keep mv word." He passed auletlv from the room. the woman following close at hi! heels, and with a sharp click the light went out 'Thank Heaven they've cleared out," I said. "Now I can got vou away." You wouldn t be so silly!" Ot tilie retorted sharnlv. "We're here. and we know they'll both be gone in nve minutes, and then we ve all the night to look for that gun." i nave, l corrected her gently. 'But first, voung woman. I'm bo- ing to see you clear awny." And as I spoke, I peered cautiously over the edge of the balconv. But as 1 did so, I experienced a sidden sinking of the heart, for across the graveled forecourt below me I saw a dim shape move, a sinister. slinking shape that I recognized only too weli. we re too late." 1 said dismal ly. 'There's a bloke standing sen try down below there." I heard her catch her breath. Who is it?" A fellow called Noah More." 1 whispered back, "one of Geiss's creatures. He tried to do me in last night." But even as I sooke. I heard a faint, scuffling noise against the wall that told me. incredibly as it seemed, that the repulsive obiect below was starting to scale the house, even as we had done. For an instant I hesitated, nar- lysed by the sheer horror of the situation. It seemed obvious that yet another of the rats had come to salve what he could before leav ing the sinking ship, but well 1 knew that once we were discov ered, all three of them, Geiss. the woman, and the creature even now climbing up towards us, would combine together against us. held by a cornmon fear and a common regard for their own safety. "Quiet!" I breathed, and bend ing, caught the bottom of the sun shutter and gently levered it up ward. I gripped the girl's arm and drew her into the dark bedroom. I dragged her out to the land ing, shut the door behind me. and struck a match, looking for a key In the lock, but there was nothing only a bolt on the inside, which was no sort of use to us. "Take off your shoes!" 1 whis pered, and obediently she slipped off her beach sandals, while I did the same: then we crept silently on our bare feet down the stairs. But even as we gained the foot of the stairs, my heart sank, for the door to .he right, which I knew led to the dining-room, opened sud denly, letting a yellow beam of light out across the blackness of the hall, and I heard Geiss's voice "So now vou have your check. Hcnrlelta. and if vou will come with me, I will give vou what money 1 can snare for vour lour ney." In another moment the precious pair would be out in the hall: be hind me. on the landing, the soft swish of a closing door told that Noah More was on his way down, and there I was. caught between two fires with a helpless girl to look after. fCttpvrleht ISIS. Mam Sattmarthl Tomorrow! A nlcht of horror. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX tor further proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped enrelope tor reply. Htf. U. 8. Pat OS. LETTER SEN1 001 BY GUFFEY, EARLE, CALLED ILLEGAL WASHTNOTON, Oct. 13. (AP) An attorney gtnrnirs ruling In 1903 pro vided s haul! today for the contention by the ttiute campAtgn xpendjturtt commute two letters sent out by th Pennsylvania Democrat In com mitt violated civil rvlc Inwt, The letter. ollcltln campaign funds, were written on letterhead which bore the immn of Senator Ouffey D Pa ) and Oov. George Earle, Democratic senatorial candi date. The first letter our led the purported ain nature of dufrey and the other that of oonr Decker., atate finance committee chairman. The senate committee said yester day It had found no evidence to dispute the assertion by Ouffey and Earl thy knew nothing of the Issu ance of th letters. However, the committee added. u of their names la the captions made the appeals I a ..WI-..,.riW VI i m m as,) . rr. , i atoMl Johnson, Astoria Ore., farmer, 3i PCCKIN6 ATHS MNPOW. 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It is known to have been nothing more than a band of corsairs bent on a piratical adventure. This was Columbus' first voyage. Oddly enough, on the same expe dition was a Oreek captain, also named Columbus. How the young explorer-to-be fared on this venture Is conjecturable, but It did lay the groundwork for a life at sea which was later to make Columbus Immortal. Cactus Crop Strange as It seems, one of the world's wettest plants, the cactus, finds Its favorite home in the dryest of places the desert. Cattlemen of the West have found a definite use for the succulent prickly1 pear cactus as a fodder and thirst quencher for cattle, and culti vation of this hardy plant has been carried on extensively. At Browns ville, Texas, a spineless version of the plant was found to produce the amazing yield of 10A tons to the acre. Tomorrow; What Inspired Greeley to say: "Go west, young man, go west"? Illegal, Inasmucn as federal employes were among the recipients. Chairman Sheppard (D., Tex.) said the committee found a parallel case In a letter sent out In 1903 by the Pennsylvania Republican committee over the signature of Senator M. S. Quay. P. C. Knox, then attorney -general, ruled the circular Illegal because It bore the name of a federal official and was sent to federal employes. Builds Miniature Band PHILADELPHIA (UP) Fred Ros si, unemployed wood carver, has built an orchestra In miniature which he synchronized with music from a phonograph, so that the small musicians appear to be play ing. Rossi used old tin cans, radio parls, dentists' Instruments and cop per tubing In making the model. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads is 1:30 p. m. Snoring Disturbs Prisoners BOSTON (UP) State prison of ficials are seeking a way to pro vide unbroken slumber for restless Inmates who complain that their sleep Is disturbed by their colleagues' snoring. After an . Inspection tour, the warden said the complaints are justified. 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