Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, November 21, 1942, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextSERIAL STORY ' THE EDGE OF DARKNESS COPVNiaHT, 184. ' ' ; i,, BY WILLIAM WOODS- TUB ITOnVt Mills KJrrlot, whs had argued the paator'a aat, aarprfaea ffca men who plot revolt ralltat the Naafa hT offering to tmllnrtake the tfangerona trip to lead flrerra llnmnier to aafelj lit lirulral Htreden The meeting ondai and llr. aienegard trnlka .wllh Card Biarneaen lo the hotel. Jnit aa ther reach It ther find IhemaalTea face to faeo with . Major Rock. HELP IS COMINQ : CHAPTER XI pOMtNO from behind the trees, and teeing the tall, dark figure of Major Ruck gazing down at them, the doctor caught hold of Gerd's arm - and turned to flee. - They whirled in the darkness, and for a moment could not find the path. They heard the major cry out in a low voice behind them, "Stop. Stop." And then he was across the clearing and had his pistol in the doctor's back, , - Stensgard struck his arm against a tree, but did not feel the pain. He twisted and lashed out in cor ' nered desperation. The major caught him by the shoulder and whispered, "Be quiet, you fool. Do you want them to hear you in the hotel?" Oerd felt the breath catch In her throat She looked up at the giant towering over them, saw him smile and thrust his shock of fair hair back with a free hand. "What do you want?" she whis pered. "Who are you?" The doc tor, pinned by the major's elbow against a branch, was still trem bling beside her. "Where's the guard? Dont they have one here at night?" Gerd nodded quickly and point ed. "At the back," she whispered. "Hell be around in a minute." Suck glanced sharply about and up at the hotel windows. He let the doctor go, and beckoned to both of them with the pistol in his hand. Then he vanished, and they saw him a moment later, skirting the trees along the side of the . hotel. ' Breathless, and stm not quite knowing what had happened, they hurried after him. When Ruck had gone far enough to get out of range of the win dows, he turned to face them again.- "Come, Sister Gerd," he said. "Vow we can get down to busi ness." And the innkeeper, In spite of the fact that she had been watch ing Ruck carefully, could think only one thing: "I am undoubted ly older than he, but he called me sister.' " They called her "moth er" -Gerd down in the village, even the older men. They had not gone more than 10 steps when the doctor caught them and tapped Ruck on the shoulder. "My dear sir," he said j as importantly as he was able. . "You must realize ..." "Got over your fright, my dear Stensgard?" '"Eh?"- The doctor drew him self up. "Eh?" ;. "Wait?- Ruck put a finger to his lips and listened ahead down the-path. -.Then, seeming satis fied, he reached quickly into his pocket and brought out a small book which he pressed into Gerd's hand. "A dictionary," he said. "An Oslo edition, 1937. I give it to you now in case we have no opportunity later. ' Have you ever iieard of the book code?" ' "The dictionary," said Gerd. !"What about the dictionary?" "You are an intelligent woman," Suck said slowly. "Yes, the dic tionary. We chose this edition, - 'English-Norwegian, because it is printed in single column. For every word we will flash two numbers. The first designates page number, the second, the number of the word on that page. So, 212-9 would mean the ninth word on page 212. Is that clear?" Gerd was listening intently. "Beginning tomorrow night . . ." The words came very fast and low. "You will have a man sta tioned every night between mid night and 4 on the plateau half a imile up from the hotel. He must 'have a good pair of glasses and keep a watch out to sea lo a point due west of the center- of the vil lage. He will be signaled by a British ship lying about 12 miles off shore. He must answer the signals with a light of at least 20 candlepower brilliance. One flash for yes, two for no. These signals must come at precise 30 second intervals."- Gerd nodded again; "Due west," she whispered. "Twenty candle power. One . ' . . yes. Two . . . no. Thirty seconds between an swers. Page and word number in the dictipnary." "My good man," said the doctor, "when may we expect . . ." 'Til be damned if I know," Ruck answered laughingly. "I only carry the news." He pressed both their hands, then turned, and was gone into the darkness. The doc tor pulled out his handkerchief land began mopping his face once more. I "My God," he said. "My God." j Suddenly they heard Ruck's ; voice behind them again. "Don't : go near the storehouse," it whis pered. "He's got a guard there ' waiting for you." A UTUMN had come in one leap down from the hills. Back in the valleys the trees had been touched for days with a Septem ber red. Farmers had finished the apple-picking, and in the cider mills, with men walking slowly behind the long wheel spokes of the presses, had been oozing the sweet juice into barrels. - Hogs had fed rich on crushed apple meats. The cows, with the sum mer gone, were almost dry. About 10 o'clock there was a little flurry on the square. One of the boys ran out, and came back in to report that the captain had come down with two armed .. NBA BKRVIC. INC. soldiers, and was going on an in spection tour of the village. When Konlg was in the canning factory, with the foreman talking to him obsequiously, the two ot them walking between rows ot men at the clattering machines, n very unusual accident occurred. The catch slipped on a huge bucket ot mackerel being lifted on a chain, and three bundl ed pounds of cooked fish cliutcd down over the machines, and onto a floor cov ered with a greasy sawdust No one was hurt, but the llsh were irretrievably spoiled. The captain thundered out that such careless nes was inexcusable, and made notes in a little red book he car ried in his pocket Once outside, he dispatched the two soldiers who had accom panied him to the house ot Sixtus Andresen, the schoolmaster, to give the old man official notifica tion that his cottage, which was the last in the village on the road southward, was required for mili tary purposes, and that he would be permitted 48 hours to leave the premises with all his personal effects. For weeks a great and secret plan had taken all his thought By day it was manifest in long drills and marches for the men, exercises in aiming and quick fir ing, guns placed in awkward po sitions where by all the rules ot strategy they had no right to be. By night he spent long, lonely hours at his desk, working over this at first seemingly impossible scheme. Now, slowly, the secret that had seemed always just out of reach had broken wide open in front of him. 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