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tv . August 3. S ILLUSTRATKD KEATURK SECTION THE CREEPING THING A S tory of G ru e so m e an d H a u n tin g M ystery ivN iiniM By Cora Jt-un Molen T he W' ell-Knturn Serial W riter ^ A i f 'l M «I m »u 4«# « In lk * n » » U f l • m a ,U | o u tl U * t f »••»•*» M »»« I ( * a * r h «v # k * r d I » ( * t r d r 4 b» M u n i i •• ut ib m m m u M d ix M r * a « p ln g r a p ili« . T b * M w i i i é r i * h « f * I « « f a ti li» « * • » pile b f Ih# r a la s ln c b a 4 l« a a l Ih * « I c lin t* l i f t H r l v f n » n 4 Irla l l a l l i « « • ci « litf « » m a « l»a*« Unn4 é * i * 4 . a » 4 « k * « I k r l» M U i A ta A b aal 1« ba i r mi « * * 4 by III« a * 4 r r t a h r r 4te«f • I « u n 4 !• ba M ia * !« « Ili« « « f e t t a « « I t a t l l a « M p h * « . 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W b r a P r a b a t i r á a U a m p U l a « « a m in a lb « b a 4 y a f lb » n a r d n H A l# »» M a r 4 - m a r a . b a »• fel«*aà«4 a n r r r r y l a t a ky < .« r U « 4 A » l» y n . « b a r ia l m a I b a l b# b aa • « b a r* l a p r a v a n l « r r r y « a a , n a l « t l « b * l a i p r a b « r t« b fra g a «n «b a n « « a m l n a - Uan. — now « io on wrm tm rro « » — INSTALMENT VII ITHOUT »topping tc reason »bout the mat ter, I war out and af ter AI Jarton before he had taken two steps across the space that divided us from the swinging door of the al ley entrance to the morgue. My eyes travelled with the straight aim and the swift speed of an arrow to the one spot in that gloomy interior toward which the undertaker was striding two ste|M ahead of me— the cooling board on which not an hour before I had stood over the mutilated corpse of that strange black woman detective. Alene Hard- more. The white covering gleam ed eerily through the dusky so short a space of time be-ffy them or that some provi-4in a far dim corner and obvi-t "it looks like they had a lookout light. It was drawn the fore. It was the nude body si on may be made for their ously its substitution for the somewhere up the alley, ai ~ .. . , ., . , : I s*1*!- "H e must have been slow length of the long narrow of a man. disposal to some agency, med other body was the work of:grttin* to them or maybe It was a space, its uneven line weird Both of us knew that ca ical or other. someone who wished to gainlm»tter of their delaying too long ly suggestive of what lay be .. , . . . i , t > trade cadavers, otherwise they Sometimes, after a long daver. It was one that had time and knew that in all,\ouid have had things all set tie- neath it. I heard the sigh of relieved anxiety as it hissed been in the morgue now for time, these cadavers a r e probability the change would i,re.7°t! *°t tn and a casual look a T h ^ u lu ° But from AI Jarton s lips when his over a month— one of the claimed, at other times they go undiscovered for some 't T t o o ^ it e eyes rested on that undisturb many unknowns that bob up'ure buried and the annals of time— which it w’ould have ' *;ve got that anyhow. L e ts follow ^ ed covering. I was at his from time to time at every some family bear forever in done had it not been for the 11 . wlM.re_ Wh<v_ Howr ^ shoulder as he lifted it. We undertaking establishment as their records the name of a accidental coming of the pro- quesUons tumbled over each other atj lle thought I both looked down and— gasp the result of some accident. missing member who was prietor and myself \>n the Garland Suspected ed. The body upon which They are kept for varying in never heard of after a cer scene. across at A l; he was look “ Why, it la very evident that our we gazed was not that of the tervals in the hope that some tain time. This was just such ing I looked at me. a dazed expression of 4 C m M a u d s o » a f a a case. The body had been wondering surprise in his eyes. woman whom 1 had left there relative or friend may identi- W v T H E 1L IF E Ol F B E R I P WIT T IA MS N o ft L IS Majesty. Kng Edward V U . became a great admirer of Bert, both personally and on iwi - ronnt of hi* talent. and frequently sought him as guest at the Royal Palace. TT I l i l v l i l i t I C l Bert Introduced his famous “rake walk“ Into l,oiid»n In IM3, at the behest of the Mother Queen, who having heard so mnch about this new step from America, was anxious to see the * teat actor perform It. JLN1J« (3 • • • W h en the Queen saw the cake walk for the flrst time, she laughed and applauded very hrarUly, having Intense Interest In the clever manner in which Bert had per fected this original and inter nationally known step. Text by BEN DAV,S’JR D ra w n by A . W . R E N N E G A R B E Bert was anxious to become a Mason, hence daring this successful tour abroad accepted three degrees tn Scotland Joining W aver ley Lodge 597 In Edinburgh. This took place in the Scottish Masonic Tem ple.