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The Character
Archl Lnmsden, mvielf. tHj
ttor to tht French Riviera.
- - OUUIe Willi, beoutlul Amert- '
' can heirut.
Mmt Oelss, head of a murder
eonrpiracy.
VMterdayt Ottllle and 1 are
cauoht In GeUf'e house between
Cein and Henrietta Ida mi on
' the one hand, and crazy Noah '
More on the other.
Chapter 38
Night Of Horror
THERE wu one chance only
and that a thin one. I gripped
Ottllie'i wrist and drew her after
me round the angle of the stairs to
the studio door. As I did so, finding
it mercifully ajar, I heard Geiss's
step on the marble flags.
I thrust her inside, slipped after
her myself. The footsteps passed
our door and proceeded down the
B usage to the secret room; I heard
le sound of a key turninc and
next minute the click of a closing
IOCK.
' Escape by the front door was
Impossible, and I looked round
desperately for some corner where
we could hide ourselves until the
inmate of the house had gone
. their dark and devious ways. Even
as I hesitated. I heard a shuffling
tread in the hall. There was a
second door on my left, which must
lead to the secret room, and now I
realized that it- also, stood alar.
for a murmur of voices came faint
ly through the crack. I drew her
towards it, and as I did so, turned
my head and saw the door we had
entered slowly move inward.
There was onlv one thins for It.
( caught her by the shoulders and
gently thrust her into the second
room, so that she stood flat against
the wall behind the heavy curtain,
and as I followed her and softly
closed the door behind us, ft
seemed to me that the situation
had reached its pinnacle of fan
tastic horror.
I moved stealthily a fraction to
ana side, where the division of the
curtains showed a thin line of
light, and found that, by putting
my eye to the crack, I could get a
very fair view of the upper end of
the room. The housekeeper stood,
watchful and defiant looking up
to me aais, wnere, Denina tne
monstrous statue of the goat Geiss
was doing something that I could
not see.
"Come then, Henrietta!" he
' called mockingly. "Do you not
wish to see where I have my secret
hiding-place, now that it is too lat?
10 oe or use to your
The women walked slowlv for.
ward, rounding the long, black
table that stood before the dais,
and stood between It and the
statue, and it seemed to me that
now her watchfulness was re
doubled, for her angular figure was
poised and tense.
"I'm not coming any .nearer,"
he said. "And I think I'd better
tell you, Rene Geiss, that there's
a revolver under this coat of mine.
If you try anything. I know how
to use It11
"A gunl" he exclaimed. "You
are a resourceful -voman, Hen
rietta, but I promise you that you
win nave no occasion 10 use 11 -I,
Rene Geiss, promise you that!"
And as he spoke, he stooped swift
ly, disappearing behind the statue.
There was a moment's silence and
then, to my horror. I saw the white,
monstrous shape suddenly tilt
forward Tho woman beneath
creamed, once, horribly, and tried
to spring backward; but the long,
black-draped, stone table was
elose behind her, shutting her In.
She swung round, trying madly to
cramDie over u, ana as sne aid so,
the thing toppled forward and fell
traight down on her, with a thun
derous crash that almost drowned
the second dreadful scream that
rang out
Locked In
I CLAPPED my hand over Ot
tllle't mouth, and slid mv other
arm round her waist, feeling her
snaxing as ir with a palsy.
"You see. Henrietta." said Geiss's
voice gently, "vou did not nee ' the
gun." The moans ceased and I
Knew that the woman was dead. He
stood there for a moment, while 1
held my breath, and then moved
swiftly his pebble-eyes turning,
animal-like, to right and left, over
to the curtain that shrouded the
farther wall. A moment he Tum
bled behind it, then turned back,
thrustino what appeared to bo a
wad of notes into his pocket, and
crossed to the table.
He picked up something that
looked like a pack of cards, flicked
them over with practiced fingers,
and dropped five cards, one by
one, on the velvet cushion, then
stood staring at them, with a face
suddenly drawn and contorted by
fear. Suddenly he clapped his
hands over his eyes. "I do not be
lieve ltl" he shrieked, in a voice
so hoarse that I hardly knew it,
and 'urning on his heel, dashed
from the room. The next minute I
heard a confused uproar in the
studio at my bock.
"You!" came Geiss's voice in a
frenzied scream. "You would dare
to spy on me, you drug-sodden
half-wit! If I did not need vou to
morrow I would kill you now!
As it is. go go at once, before I
change my mind!"
There was scuffle, holl
strangled groan close to the other
side of the door, and then silence,
broken only by a small sound inat
seemed to drain the blood from
my veins, leaving me cold and
shivering, for it was the sound ol
a key turning in a lock.
The door behind us was locked,
and it was odds that the other door,
through which Geiss had fled, was
also fastened. Only too well did I
know how impossible it was to
break down either of those two
doors, and yet the alternative, the
long hours that must be spent in
that dreadful room, shut in with
that gruesome, broken body, wait
ing until Hugo or Dunning or the
police should come to free us, was
a prospect almost too awful to con
template. I stood there listening for an
other Ave minutes, for 11 the
madman who roamed the house
learned of our presence, 1 dared
not imagine wnat would happen.
At last I moved. "I think we can
shift ourselves now," I whispered.
"Our host wouldn't wait longer
than he could help.-after that last
effort."
"But, Archie," Ottllle said, very
low, "what happened? What wai
that awful cry, and the crash?"
"That." I answered slowly, "waj
when Geiss killed Henrietta
Adams. She's out there now. Ot
tilie but there's worse than that
to fece."
"I can guess," she said. 1 felt
her tremble against my arm, but
her voice was amnzinglv steady.
"We're locked in."
"You've said it," 1 agreed with
a groan. "Stay here for a minute,
like a good girl, and don't look
until I tell you."
Swiftly, I dragged down the
hea'-y wall curtain and covered
the body. "You can come out now,
Ottilie. But you've got to face the
fact that we re stuck in this room
until Dunning or Hugo or the
fiolice, even think to come and
ook for us here."
The Idol
THEN I caught sight of the playing-cards
Geiss had used. They
were like no cards I had ever seen
before. Queer little pictures they
were, crudely drawn, vet start
lingly vivid.
The girl was standing at my el
bow. "The tarocl" she said. "Don't
tell me he took time to consult
them before he left! I wonder what
they told him?"
"Whatever it was, he didn't like
it." I answered, with a vivid re
collection of that frenzied cry; "I
do not believe it!" But Ottilie was
bending over the cards, fingering
them Intently.
"I don't wonder he didn't like
it!" she said under her breath.
"Her's the reading of his fortune.
Failure, madness, death, and eter
nal damnation, all caused by a dark
woman.
"Strange," said 1. "He was al
ways scared of dark women. He
said one would cause his death in
the long run.
She stared at me. "Melanle was
dark." she said slowly. "Her name
means 'the dork girl,' and if we
ever get the better of Geiss, it'll
be through what she managed to
discover.
It was true enough, and a aueer
thought at that, but as she snoke
her sister's name. I saw her lio
quiver, and I swung round search
ing for something to divert her
thoughts. An idol gloomed at us
from a niche on the wall, and as
my eye lighted on It. something
suddenly clicked in my brain.
"Ottilie." I said, "there's a con
nection here. Geiss was busy be
hind that curtain before he cleared
out, and he come away with money
in his hand."
Archie, there's somethine fun
ny about that stotue."
You bet there is! sold I. and in
a couple of strides I was across the
room.
The Image stood there starins
sardonically at us with its twin
faces. It was carved, as far as one
could judge, from a solid block of
smooth black stone, and when 1
struck a match to examine it more
closely, there seemed no crack or
joint that could conceal an open-
lit Ottilie reached over mv
shoulder and gripped something
that looked like a simplified Tudor
rose, turning it with all her
strength ana as 1 looked, 1 saw
the Image slowly swing to one side,
disclosing a deepish hollow In the
center of the plinth.
mere was something lying at
the bottom, something lonn and
gray-black and sinister, and as I
recognised It for what it was, 1
drew a long breath of relief, for It
seemed to me that we had rounded
the lost bend of the rood.
My! sold she. with a sort of
triumphant gasp. "What wouldn't
1 give to have Mr. Huge Stern here
this minute!" And as she snoke
she reached her hand down Into
the opening, but I grinned her by
the wrist.
"Don't touch It." 1 told her. "It's
a gun all right, and I'll take a bet
it s the one we re lookinp for. but
i so me nngerpnnts on It re
precious to us; we're not Boinu to
disturb them. And furthermore."
I added, as she jerked her head
impatiently, "we're lea.'ing it ex
actly where It is for the police to
discover."
fCopvrtoht tfitl, Una UnUmarnht
Tomorrow: Ottllle dlupAsrs acaln.
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PUNT, Mich.. Oct IS (Vn Two
division of OrnuiHl Motors corrorn
tlon today announced the recall to
Jobs within the nt 13 oy of
4.300 workmen.
The chevrolft division, which u
already employing fi.000 mm, hiw
ordered :f.ooo nutntnobilr workm to
report at the rate of 300 a dy.
The Bulc dlvlilon summoned
1.300 men birn to work at the rate of
100 a day. Bulrk'a payroll on No
vember 1 will lut 13.000 men.
Ml U the time to trt that wur
aielnst rats, when the first frosts
drive them out of fields Into homes
and eellars.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor further proof addroaa the author, Inclosing a stamped envelops tor reply. Res. XT. 8. Pat 68.
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TOLD WAR HEARS
MOSCOW, Oct. 13 (API PlonM-r
Mo.ww, the 5oviel Rummat, children'
npwsjmprr. warned Its mdcra tdiiy
"ft bloody and cruel world wur la
nrjir nrnrer than Chamberlain Brit
ish pilm mlnlMer) thinks."
Tlif newapnrvr Mid Germany would
not he untlsfled with the CrechoMo.
vak urtTlement and probably would
want tnate of French meat nett.
The article went on to y the
Soviet Union alone la a Iron agalnftt
the 'fM:at n.-nace' and it lo to
the Soviet Union that amill countries
look with hore
'Developments In Spain and China
show that only the Soviet Union can
give a helping hand in the dlfticult i
fight againit uaurpert and faaclnt.H 1
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Ofeelej'i Deception
A man of high Ideal, personal
courage, and Intellectual force was
Horace Oreeley, editor and founder
of the New York Tribune.
When In 1869 stories of huge gold
finds In Colorado drifted east,
Oreeley confronted the situation with
the aame defiance that he challenged
political and social problems tit home.
The St. Loula Chamber of Com
merce demanded of the federal gov
ernment a branch mint to handle
the "flood of gold" coming from tho
KanaaJi territory. Greeley packed his
bags and went west to see for him
self what there was to It.
At Denver Greeley was treated roy
ally; he was to be shown "the big
gest gold strike in Colorado" at Greg
ory gulch. Gold was there, but the
wise miners knew there was not
enough to Impress the easterner. So
before the gentleman of the press
arrived, quantities of rich dirt were
"salted" In the Gregory gulch mine.
Oreeley was cold to the demonstra
tive oration given by the mine's head
engineer; he wanted to test the dirt
himself. He was given a shovel and
a pan and was shown to the salted
hole.
Oreeley was amazed as the glitter
ing nuggets appeared before his eyes.
He tried another shovelful. He was
"sold" on Gregory gulch. Back in
New York he proclaimed to the world
that Colorado was rich. His enthus
iastic advice was: "Go west, young
man, go west!"
Strange as It seems, the Influence
of his editorials started the great
"Pike's peak or bust" rust which sent
thousands of gold-seekers Into Colo
rado to find a salted mlnel
Tomorrow: what was the longest
fight In the history of boxing?
Claim Shot at -Ml Med
TRUCKEE, Calif., Oct. 13. (AP)
C. U (Ited) Adams, president of
tho Boca Tunnel and Construction
Workers' CIO union at Boca, Calif.,
who figured prominently In a dis
pute with Nevada officials over at
tempted CIO picketing of a highway
project, said today he had been
fired at from ambush while driving
his car near Boca last night.
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Strike ( loses Plant
EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Oct. 13. (AP)
The Plymouth automobile assembly
and the Indiana Brlggs Corporation
plants here were closed today because
of a strike called late yesterday at the
Plymouth plant. About 2,300 are
employed In both plants, '
Columhla Hlgliwny Open
PORTLAND. Oct. 13. ( AP ) Motor
traffic moved without delay today
despite a landslide on the Columbia
River highway three miles west of
Bonneville dam near McCord creek
Rnln caused the slide yesterday and
for a time restricted the section to
one-way traffic.
Sight Plane Wreckage.
BERNE, Switzerland. Oct. 13. (P)
Wreckage of a uurman airliner miss
ing since October 1 with ten passen
gers and a crew of three, was sighted
today high on a glacier near the
Italian-Swiss border.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 13.
Max Bear sailed lor Hawaii aboard
the liner Lurllne today to ftght Hank
Hanklnson of San Diego at Hono
lulu. With Baer were his wife, brot'.i
Buddy and Manager Ancll Hoffman.
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