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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HHSMM e SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS IJoLc SrocL for hlolhcrSbaagliL Simple SwoSome for Spring sfifl flsrss fta fit u SI -- THE STORY THUS FAR: Adam Bruce, FBI operator, Inspector Tope and Mrs. Tope met In the Maine woods. Tope found a man murdered at auto camp. The body was first Identified as Mr. bead of New England utilities. A ear believed to have been nsed in the murder was raised from the quarries, with a womans murdered body Inside. Proof bad been found that both the murdered man and the woman bad been administered dope prior to their murder. The case, with the suicide of Kell, seemed to have blown up in Topes face and Joe Dane, assistant D.A., took over the ease. Tope, however, still had plans and asked Brnce to help without saying what be bad In mind. Led-forg- CHAPTER XIII retorted with a laugh. They hear the district attorney had no answer the rowlocks as soon as we leave to propose. Joe rang the bell and asked to the dock. Time you got over besee Miss Ledforge. She came to ing afraid of a canoe, old man. Oh, all right them in the small reception room, Eberly grinned. My life is in your hands, he said, and Joe said giimly: and took the front seat. He held to of the dock while Ledforge got in, then took his paddle, and they moved away, out of the little cove, around the wooded point, across the pond. Once Eberly turned half around in his seat to look back. The boathouse was completely hidden by the wooded point between. The wind was behind them, toward the mouth of the gorge where the dam held back these waters. Ledforge, when they were a hundred yards offshore, the edge Stay and stay, as if you didnt said: know when to go. Stay till I come. "Stop paddling, Carl, and lets try He turned to Mr. Eberly. "I expect here. Well drift with the them tackle old and clothes fishing youve fish shoals here first, and the wind, up at the lodge? he suggested. water afterward. Clothes, yes. Fishing things are the deep Good enough, Eberly agreed. at home. Why? He laid down his paddle and began I'll lend you mine, said Tope. so Wait here. He turned to Mrs. to cast, turning a little sidewise would not intercast back his that You come along, ma'am Tope. he suggested mildly, case I cant fere with Ledforge. Thus he was find things. $5 feo they departed toward Cascade together; and Adam wondered what Instructions Tope was giving Mrs. Tope. Then the old man returned alone, rod in hand, pockets bulging. Ive got all youll need, Mr. Now I want to Eberly, he said. to Whitlock make a phone-ca- ll we may need him. Then Ill be with you. four, Mr. Upon the dot of half-paEberly, alone, wearing shoe-pacriding breeches, a loose flannel shirt and a bulky hunting coat buttoned to his throat, came in his own car up the drive to the Ledforge place in the hills above Ridgcomb. Mr. Eberly was rather pale, but steady. The driveway forked, a little below the house; one way led to the house itself, the other toward the garages and the service wing. Mr. Eberly turned in that direction, and as he came to the court upon which the garages faced, he pressed his horn. There were living quarters above the stalls for the cars. At one of the windows there a man appeared, called: Right, Carl. IU be down. Mr. Eberly stayed in the car, kept his engine running. A pulse was thumping faintly in his throat. Ledforge, his fishing gear in his hands, a moment later appeared. He came briskly toward the car, a grayhaired little man with a long nose, deep lines framing his mouth, someNow, Miss Ledforge, Im sorry, thing suggestive of the Oriental in but you mustnt try to deceive us. the cant of his eyes. He glanced behind him toward the house, able to see the other man out of the climbed into the car, grasped Eber- corner of his eye; and this somehow was consoling. The back of his neck ly by the hand. How are you Carl? no longer crawled; his spine was no First rate, Eberly assured him. longer cold. Yet he cast badly, his line a tangle He added: I phoned to make sure you had arrived. You so often have on the water. But Ledforge, he saw, did no better. The other's line to change your plans. Ledforge splashed and slatted against the did, you "Lucky My sister has callers. side of the canoe. Ledforge may agreed. d have felt Eberlys sidelong glance, Your Miss Dewain, and an woman I dont know. Alice for he said: This lines sticky. Need a new fusses about my wearing woods And then he said: clothes in the house. Thats why I one, I guess. told you to come here instead of the Hullo, youre perspiring, Carl! BetThe ter unbutton that coat. And he said: front door. I am a little trout should rise. Winds westerEberly hesitated. hot, he agreed, and his back toly. Eberly made no comment. He was ward the other man he loosed the guiding the car up the winding road upper buttons. He said: "Youve toward the trout pond, and a thick forgotten how to cast, Rufus." There was a momentary pause. growth of hemlock and pine had already hidden from their view the They had drifted, Eberly perceived, out into the deep water where the house below them. ran. old brook-channin a Im remarked: Ledforge And then Ledforge said: New of Sick Carl. fishing mood, Ill try it standing up. Always York. Id like to stay up here a so. month and do nothing but fish with could do better He got uncertainly to his feet, and you. seemed to totter. And suddenly they How are things in New York? were both in the water. The canoe, Ledforge said, moving his shoulin falling clung to it, as Ledforge bura off shake to ders as though and thus overone gunwale dipped den: Well, Ive had an unpleasant other the coming gunwale turned, few days. Holdom has gone wrong, across Eberlys hips as, hard down business. me forget Carl But let belatedly, he scrambled clear. Been doing any fishing? The point that hid the boathouse Got a new rod, Eberly replied. well over a hundred yards was snelled to And Ive gone back the dam and the near shoulaway; flies. of the gorge perhaps fifty yards. der differthe know wont The trout without a word, began to Well, Ledforge, ence, Ledforge chuckled. swim toward the rocky shore bewe are. here side the dam. Eberly pulled up beside the boatEberly did not call out as he out and and began watched they got house, Ledforge swim so quietly here Were to set up their rods. away. Just at the right time, Ledforge Joe Dane, in the hour of Topes Best fishing is from now decided. humiliation, was quick with a theory till dark. of his own. The whole things plain Eberly nodded, and they turned enough," he declared. Ledforge toward the boathouse. was having an affair with Mrs. Kell, beLedforge was ahead, Eberly brought her to Dewains Mill that hind; and Eberly cleared his throat night; and Kell trailed them there rather loudly, and he asked in a and killed both of them. trained tone: They stood in Will Banions chapRufus, you feel all right? el. Quill was gone, Doctor Medford Ledforge whirled to look at him. busy somewhere in the small rooms "Certainly! Im tired, but Im al- behind. Mat Cumberland scratched ways tired. Why? his head. So Joe remembered Earl Priddy I dont quite know, Eberly admitted. Something about you and Isaac Murrell, and took Cumeems different. Your voice, and berland to hear their stories. Cumthe way you handle that rod; and berland questioned Ike at length, and was half convinced at last that you look a little thinner. Ledforge laughed, not mirthfully. Rufus Ledforge had been on Friday If youd been working as hard as night in Little Bear. Afterward 'they I and I've a slight cold. dropped Earl and Ike at Dewains So have I. Mill, and Mat Cumberland himself Eberly nodded. Thats why I bundled up against this thanked the'm for great services to I the commonwealth, while Mr. MurHe -- dded insistently: wind. dont know what it is. The way you rell and Mrs. Priddy stood by in excited pride. Then Joe and Cumwalk, maybe. You look taller Nonsense, Ledforge curtly in- berland drove on. He slid It was just past five when they sisted. "Come. Get ini water. came the into up the drive to the Ledforge canoe the I feel a lot more secure in the mansion. Joe recognized Bee DeWhats wains car at the steps. rowboat, Eberly suggested. And so do the trout, Ledforge she doing here? he wondered; but st s, iron-jawe- Miss Ledforge, Ive an unpleasant duty. This is District Attorney Cumberland. Im Mr. Dane, his assistant. Weve found a man dead; and some people think it is your Will you brother, Mr. Ledforge. view the body, identify it? The frail old woman turned white as snow. My brother? she whispered. Yes. Rufus Ledforge." But Rufus is herd Miss Ledforge protested, her weak voice somehow desperate. Here? It was Joes turn to be shaken. Then he smiled. Now, Miss Ledforge, Im sorry, but you mustnt try to deceive us. "But he is, she insisted, urgently. "Hes up at the trout pond fishing with Mr. Eberly." Joe Dane looked at Mat, and he demanded angrily: Where is this trout pond? Why, you take the road past the Miss Ledforge told him. garage, You cant miss it. Her voice was tremulous, her white hand pressed to her bosom. Come on, Mat. Dane turned. he said harshly. Well soon seel Look out, Joe! But Mat said: Miss Ledforge, swaying like a reed, had slipped softly to the floor. They were alone in the reception room, but the door into the hall was open. At Mats ejaculation, Bee Dewain appeared there in the doorway, Mrs. Tope behind her. Joe had tried, too late, to catch the fainting woman; he was on his knees now, beside her; he looked up stupidly at Bee, and the girl with a gesture swept him aside. Get out of here, both of you! You heartless idiots! she cried. Well take care of her! Adam carried a rifle; Whitlock, the last to emerge, carried a small outboard motor, awkwardly. All right, Adam, Tope said You and Beal get out on briskly. the point where you can see. Whitlock, put the motor on the rowboat, and dont make any noise. Adam, we wont start till you shoot. Miss him once; but hit him if you have to. Adam nodded, moved quickly away. Behind him, Tope and Whitlock were busy for a while. Then they waited, silent, ready. Adam lay prone in the underbrush on the point, the rifle trained. The canoe was well offshore; he saw the men in It stop paddling and begin to fish. His pulse was shaking him. Later, Ledforge stood up in the canoe; and then he lurched overside and fell. The canoe overturned floated with its bottom Just awash. Adam, his eyes peering through the sights, saw Eberly floating with his head well out of water, saw Ledforge swimming toward the shore. Ten yards of open water lay between the two men. Ledforge turned to look back. And then he began to swim back toward the other man. Eberly threw up one arm! Adam pressed the trigger; he saw the water leap upward where the bullet hit, midway between the two men. Ledforge looked toward the sound of the report; and at the same instant the outboard motor on the rowboat in the cove started with a staccato roar. Adam threw in another shell; but then the boat, racing toward the two men in the water, came between him and Ledforge. He leaped to his feet as the boat came to where the two men were. Whitlock handled the boat; Tope was in the bow. Whitlock cut off the engine, and they coasted to a stop. Ledforge had reached Mr. Eberly, was supporting the other man in the water. Its all right, Carl!" he said reassuringly, in the sudden silence as Take it easy. the engine died. Youre all right now. And then Tope and Whitlock were helping them both into ,the boat Without a word, when this was done, Whitlock started the engine, preventing conversation; and he swung the boat back toward the cove. Whitlock sat in the stern. Tope in the bow, Ledforge and Eberly side by side on the midships thwart Ledforge, facing forward, saw men appear on the wharf, as they approached. Two came leaping from a car; two came running along the shore. One of these two held a rifle in his hands. But the buzzing roar of the engine made it impossible for the moment for Ledforge to ask questions which the sight of these strangers provoked; and when, the engine cut, they slid alongside the wharf, Joe Dane had the first word. What in blazes! he demanded. Tope, what are you doing here? Call it medTope said gently: dling, Joe. Then Ledforge cut in, his face white with anger. 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