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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH WIT By Emilie Loring SYNOPSIS Bracks Reyburn visits the office of Jed Stewart, a lawyer, to discus the terms of mm esute she has Inherited from Mrs. Mary Armarxla Oiu. Unwittingly sbc overbears of Mrs. Jos talking to Mark Treat, nephew who has been disinherited. Mrs. Dane Iiuelived at Lookout House, a huge strucsad ture by the sea. built by her father and eBrided into two. for her and Mark's father. Brooke had been a fashion expert, and Mrs. hearing her on the Dane, a "shut-in.radio, had invited her to call and developed sleep affection for her. Mark discloses that Mrs. Dane had threatened to disinherit taira If he married Lola, from whom he is oar divorced. He says he does not trust Henri and Clotilde Jacques. Mis Dane s ervants. He says he is not interested in an offer of Brookes to share the estate with him. Leaving her department store Job. Brooke refuses an ofler to ' go stepping" With Jerry Field, a carefite young man At a family Who wants to marry her she learns she muvt live at Lookout Bouse alor.e. since Lucet'.e. her younger later who is taking her Job. her broli.er, am, a young playwright, and her muther Mark are plan to stay in the city. Jed andMrs. Cieg-cry- , astounded when they hear from a family friend, that she had a hitherto unknown will with Henri ad Clotilde two weeks before Mis Ouna died. Brooke had arrived just as she was leaving. Jed suggests that Mark open h.s part of Lookout House, get friendly with Brooke and try to find out about the w il! Jed agrees to stay with him. Mark accepts Brooke's invitation for a family dinner at Lookout. Mrs. Keburn Announces on Thanksgiving eve that she Sam and feat been Invited to England. Lucette decide to move in with Brooke and Sam plans to produce a new play locally. After the Thanksgiving dinner Brooke tells Mark that little of Mrs. Dane's silver collection is left. Jerry Field and his sis'.cr Daphne drop in and announce they w ill be neighbors for the winter. Sam adds them to the cast of his play. Later Inspector Harrison of the local police visits Mark and is Informed about the missing will and silver. She As Harrison leaves. Lola arrives that she and her new husband, Bert Glint, have started a neighborhood filling tation. Mark almost makes a break about the missing will and Brooke is suspicious. Returning home, she sees Lola talking covMicawber." Mrs. ertly to Henri. "Mr. Dane's pet parrot, la missing. Henri is Ugly and warns Brooke she had better like Aim and Clotilde. " e f TnanKs-Crtrin- CHAPTER Continued VI 11 , She reached the question and a ioor at the same time. As Mark Trent opened it, a slightly musty smell, a blend of camphor and old books and ancient furniture, stole Out. He motioned with the flash in his hand. Brooke's eyes followed the light. She set her teeth hard in ' her lips to keep back an exclamation of astonishment. On a large .table, illumined by the spotlight, surrounded by boxes and trunks and storeroom litter, was a massive and perhaps a dozen dishes of silver, tarnished to and pitchers ' light copper color. A scrap of paper drifted to the floor. isn't it? "It's a great hide-ouShe nodded in answer to the low, Sinused question. "When did you discover it?" "Thought I heard strange sounds upstairs when Jed and I were waitthe ing for you in the living-rooother afternoon. The Japs' rooms are in the L on the first floor, and when I had this house opened I told the caretaker not to touch the third. After you and Mrs. Gregory left, I investigated and found this silver. I've been on the watch ever since to discover who put it here. This afternoon someone slipped a sog, and left both keys; must have been frightened off, or else they were left purposely so that a second party might have access to the loot." "Who put the loot, as you call it, in that room?" "That's what you and I will find tea-servi- - t, m out." That "you and I" was fuse to dynamite. Brooke leaned back against the balustrade. "You will, you mean, you and your sleuth Jed Stewart. You and he are spies, aren't you? Amateur detectives. 'Mark, to you,' you say to Sam, and all the time you are spying on his sister and accusing her of 'undue influence,' of hypnotizing an old woman into leaving her a fortune. I ought to have known what you thought of me when you said that. I do now. Find out who stole the silver. You've put Inspector Harrison on the case, haven't you? I wish you luck." She jerked her wrist free and ran down the stairs. She stopped at the loot of them. A tirade like that she had just delivered took one's breath for a minute. Why, why had she let Hark the Magnificent know that she ' suspected his reason for occupying the house? She, who had prided herin business? self on her Why couldn't she be diplomatic? Her outrageous temper was the an swer. Thank Heaven she had had sense enough not to tell him of Hen ri's threat that he could put her out or Lookout House. A sound! Someone had touched the knob on the other side of the door! Had the person remembered that both keys had been left? Now now Mark and she would find out who had taken the silver. Stealthily she touched the button and plunged the top floor into darkness. She raced up the stairs. Car mod into Mark Trent coming out of the storeroom. She clutched his sleeve; whispered: i "Shut the door! Quick! Someone is fumbling at the hall key. Per haps he come for this one." He held her by one arm as he noiselessly closed the door. In the dark he drew her into another room. Side by side they waited. Brooke's heart shook her body. How could the man so near her help hearing If tnump in the tomblike silence? A spot of light. Creeping un! -Creeping up! Her breath caught in a gasp. An arm slipped round her self-contr- ol : 5 11 Household Pooches in the Picture Parade the house, by the muted thunder of the sea, by the sharp crackle of a S Emilia Loring. burning log; was haunted by the WNU Servic. weird wail of the distant siren, but no human sound intruded. "Coast's clear. Let's go. Hold ' shoulders and held her so close that the scent of the crushed gardenias on!" Mark Trent frowned at her bare arms and throat, ivory tinted was sickish. "Ssch! Mustn't let him know we above the lace of her frock. "You are here!" Mark Trent whispered. need a wrap." "To go from one door to another! The spot of light illumined the Don't be foolish. If we don't hurry, key in the door, illumined the hand which gently turned it Henri may get there before us." In the living-rooat and as gently drew it out. Lookout House, Mark Trent threw Mark Trent felt the hard beating a log on the smoldering fire and of the girl's heart as his arm tightpoked it into flame. "Come here and get warm, ened about her shoulders, the softness of her skin against his hand. Brooke. You are still shivering." "If I am, it is from excitement, He didn't daie re'ease her for fear she might make a sound and reveal not cold." She toasted her fingers their presence to the unknown per- at the blaze. What do we do next?" "Watchful waiting seems our son in the hall. What a good little sport she was. She had followed best bet." "You would say that." him into his house with no embar"I don't like the implication, but rassment, but with a moder.i girl's let that ride for the present. we'll igof her propriety, interpretation noring of outworn conventions. Ju.st What move would you suggest?" "I don't know, but let's do somethe same, he wished fenently that she was back in her own living-roothing. I hate sitting on the sidein that chair before the fire, for lines I hate waiting. First we must there was no dodfjint; the fact that find out who took the key from the finuers had withdrawn storeroom door. If you hadn't held the key from the lock. To whom me, I would have dashed at him had they belonged? The words on and found out." "I had a hunch you would; that's the scrap of paror he had picked up from the floor of the storeroom why I grabbed you. Afraid I crushed and replaced on the table teased his your gardenia." Brooke put her hand to her shoulmind. der. "They're gone! Where could I "Make X on cover when " That was all. What cover? Much have lost them?" "Don't make a tragedy of it. I'll as he wanted to know, he couldn't let Brooke Reyburn get mixed up get you another." Mark Trent had never seen brown in the mess. When he had discovered the silver, his first thought eyes so flamingly gold, cheeks so had been of her and the thrill she red as Brooke's. "I'm not making a tragedy of it, would get from seeing it. If he hadn't brought her, he would be on and I don't want another gardenia. For an amateur detective amateur the man's neck by this time. It seemed hours that he stood rig- is the word with a capital A you Mark Trent. Suppose the id, listening, with the only sound the are dense, in the attic went back for underground roar of a great city, person the faint wail of the distant siren, something and picked them up? and the girl's unsteady breathing. Wouldn't he know at once that he He strained his ears. Was a door was being watched?" of that so I brought "I being closed cautiously, or was his this thought He held a flower in the along." He imagination playing tricks? must find out. He couldn't stay palm of his hand. The once waxen here forever. He put his mouth petals were brown at the edges, but close to Brooke's ear. He felt the they had the feel of velvet in his softness of her hair against his face. fingers. "You don't want it now, He slipped it back into do "Don't move. Don't speak. I'll his you?" "I'll pocket. keep it as a souvecome back." nir of our late dive into the underWhenever in after life he smelled world." the fragrance of a gardenia, he "I do want it and the other too." would remember this night, he told "Because Field gave them to you? himself. I don't know where the other is; He took a cautious step into the didn't realize that there were two. hall. Listened. The house was so You dropped this as you came into quiet that he could hear the tick of this house. Better let me keep it. the old clock on the stairs. He tip Would you want him to know that toed to the door of the room in it had been crushed out of shape which he had found the silver and my shoulder?" ran his fingers lightly over the knob. against "Just why should Jerry assume The key was gone. shoulder against that it was He felt his way down; he didn't which the your was crushed? gardenia dare use the flash. The lamp in the You are not the only man in my lower hall provided a faint light. life, you know," Brooke reminded Gently he turned the knob of the disdainfully. connecting door. It was locked. "I intend to keep the flower." Someone had followed him down the Mark Trent felt the color surge to stairs! He felt a presence. Fool, not his hair and recede. He had caught to have suspected that an accomback "to be" in time. plice might be hidden in the dark. "I haven't had a chance, Brooke, He shouldn't have left Brooke. He to tell you how ridiculous Mrs. must get back to her no matter Hunt's suggestion was that that who was between them. I had any thought of trying to keep He wheeled with pantherlike agil- Aunt Mary Amanda's money in the ity. Raised his flashlight to bring it family crashing down on a head. "Why stumble over it? Why tell "Mark! Mark!" me again that you wouldn't marry It was Brooke Reyburn's voice, me? This is the second time. First her hand on his arm. The stiffen- in Jed Stewart's office and now ing went out of his knees. Relief here. To save a third attempt to was submerged in a mighty rush impress the fact on me, I'll tell you of anger as he gripped her shoulthat I wouldn't marry you if you ders. were the only man in the world. "What do you mean by coming Divorced men leave me cold. Somedown when I told you not to move? time perhaps I'll have the privilege What do you mean? I might have of refusing to marry you." struck you!" He knew now the sensation of a "But you didn't, Mark. I felt like knife being plunged inio his heart. a quitter hiding in the dark while He drew the gardenia from his you came down alone, so I crept pocket and dropped it into her lap. after you. What did you see?" "Here it is. Water may revive "Nothing here but the door is it." locked." She twirled the stem in her fin"A hand did pull the gers. key from the storeroom door, didn't "It is past recovery." She flung it? I didn't dream it, did I?" it into the wastebasket. "I don't "If you did, I was in the same care for rejuvenated gardenias any dream, Brooke. Wonder when they more than I care for warmed-ove- r intend to remove the stuff." love. That sounds like a car. Can "You think someone is planning they have come so soon?" to take it away?" "Better not speak of what we "Why else should it be there? It discovered," Mark suggested hastiprobably was moved from Lookout ly, as she started for the hall. House to this one, which has been She left the room without answerunoccupied for years, before I came ing. He salvaged the flower and back here to live. After Aunt Mary thrust it into his pocket. He was Amanda went, I was the only per- not keeping it for sentimental reason who would know about the sil- sons, he assured himself, but as a ver, and I was far away in South reminder of how near he had come America. That's why Henri's face to forgetting that all he had to turned chalky when he saw me en- oiler a girl was "warmed-overon Thanksgivter your living-roolove. Sam Reyburn entered the living-rooing day." "Then you noticed it too? I and flung his blue covered thought it might be my imaginascript to the table. He dropped into tion." the wing chair with a groan. Voices "He was white, all right. Come in the hall thinned in the distance. on, we can't get back to Lookout Mark Trent could distinguish Jerry House through this door. We'd bet- Field's laugh, Lucetle's rather ter beat it downstairs and out that tone, Brooke's questioning way. Lucky I pocketed your key." murmur, and Daphne's drawl. He "Hurry! Hurry! Suppose it was looked at the dejected figure in the Henri who left those keys in the chair, at the long legs outstretched doors? Suppose he remembered that "What's wrong, Sam? Aren't yov. he had left them and stole back home early?" from the movies? I told him that "What's wrong with you, you're you and Jed Stewart would be with white as a sheet?" us for supper after rehearsal. He "I'm okay, it's these artistic light may be looking for me now to see if that play the dickens with one't I was telling the truth." color. Didn't Stewart and the rest In the lower hall, which was of the cast come with you?" (TO BE CONTINUED) slightly scented by the smoky aroma of open fires, Mark laid a deMistakes Everybody taining hand on her shoulder. "Wait! Listen!" "When any one tells me he nevei The stillness of the makes mistakes," said Uncle Eben, rooms was accentuated by the low "he's makin' one right there in moan of the wind at the Corner of thinkin' I's gineter believe him." ' black-glove- d green-walle- d QuesIojv bloods" in the just as there are the human world, and blue bloods some of ths blue bloods among the as pups are Just as some of the blue bloods that walk erect on two legs. This parade of champions from many scattered i offerer1 in proof. But no matter how he looks, it is true that the dog is man's best friend, and anyone who has ever owned a dog, whether it be cur or champion, will agree. Some of us may not agree that others choose the type of friends that we would choose, but aren't we the same way when it comes to choos ing companions? "blue THERE are world, 'i Far the Seamstress. Before stitching heavy materials, lika khaki, duck or canvas, rub hard soap over the hems and seams, Tha needle will then penetrate the material more easily. e e . funny-lookin- g dog-sho- four-foote- two-logge- j si a n To Soften Sugar. When brows' sugar becomes hard or lumpy, place it in a shallow pan in ths oven for a few minutes. m v At v. e r Sliding Drawers. Laundry soap rubbed on dresser drawers thai stick will make them work easy. Ml d j ES. d j ft Salad Hard boil the -i quired number of eggs, then move the shells. 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