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Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH f WITH B ANNE CHAPTER XII Continued 19 Tht laughing tenderness of his roice twisted Brooke's heart unbearably. She tore her thoughts from him and watched her brother. She could see his lips move in unison with the lines spoken on the stage. The curtain fell slowly on the minor climax of the first act. The setting and theme had been established and the characters presented. The audience applauded enthusiastically. From a hole in the cur tain Brooke saw the New York pro-ducer go up the aisle. Would he return? "Don't you dare go away, don't you dare!" she flung at his straight back. "How did it go?" Sam's voice was hoarse. "It's wonderful, Sam. Nut an unnecessary word; every line wa3 'Forward march!' for jour story. The acting is the best I've ever seen In an amateur performani e." "So what? Does it prove anything? They're all good except Daphne; she isn't getting her lines over. I hold my breath every time ehe opens her mouth. Isn't Trent of the great? He's the spark-plucast. Wait till you see him in the crucial moment in the next act, when he thinks the girl he loves has him." Jerry Field appeared beside her dressed in leather jacket and knickers, with a gun in his hand. "How's it going, Brooke?" "I can't see the stage, but from the response of those out front I'd nay it was a hit. You're grand in that sports costume. You've made every point, Jerry." "Thanks. That's because when I say a word of love to Lucette I'm saying it to you." He caught her hand and pressed his lips to it fer- By Emilie Loring WNU Srvic. ducer and the manager! They had come back for the third. That must mean something. Were they leaving before speaking to Sam? He was on the stage now in the midst of the cast who had taken their bows; the arms of the women were heaped with flowers. He had put on coat and collar and tie but the white He looked bow had gone rakish. very young as he stood grinning boyishly and waiting for a chance to speak. His voice shook as he said : slowly. Brooke's eyes were blinded by tears as she started for the dressing-room- . She must get back to Lookout House to change for the party. The girls of the cast were going to Mark Trent's in the evening frocks they had worn in the last act. Leaving the wings, she collided with the marcelled blond. The New York producer! He was unaware of her murmured apology as lie gesticulated and talked to his companion. She listened unashamedly and heard him say: "It's got everything. Humor, suspense, moving simplicity, fidelity to ideals, and unfaltering movement." "But has it got "I'll gamble my last dollar on it. It's the old recipe for carried to perfection: "'Make 'em laugh; make 'em weep; make 'em wait.' Where'd you say that boy got his start?" vently. Brooke dodged acquaintances and "Please don't, Jerry." strangers in evening clothes who "You've said that too many times, were crowding on to the stage to Bweet thing. After the play we'll have a reckoning get me?" "After the play." Brooke repeated the words to herself. So much was t. happen that would change lives, lifter the play. "Hey! Field! Field, come on!" Sam's whisper. Sam's beckoning hand. Brooke followed Jerry as far as the wings from which she could see him drop to a log on the stage, left center. "Why don't you turn thumbs up and end the poor boy's torment?" asked a low voice behind her. She turned quickly. Something in Mark Trent's voice made her furiously angry. "That's, quite a suggestion that I end 'the poor boy's torment.' I will. Tonight." " Ullf i..f! "Don't do it until I change after VT JT" S v. the show. I want to drive you home, St Brooke. There is something I must St.. say to you." t Brooke felt the blood rush to her -f face and recede. Had Henri fit her and told him about the will? Did Mark Trent think she intended to hide it? She wouldn't give him a chance to accuse her before ehe produced that paper locked in her desk. She said as steadily as she could with his eyes boring into "Get Going! Get Going!" her soul: dressing-rooIn the "Sorry. The minute the curtain greet she actors. into the fur coat her slipped I shall to dash Lookout House falls, to town car ran and downstairs her to change into something snappy for the grand celebration. You wouldn't parked near the rear entrance. The snow was falling have me come to your grand party as if it had not quite decided in this green knit, would you? Sam wants the wings if it were worth while to come down Quick! at all. She drove swiftly toward cleared." She backed out, conscious of home. Mark Trent had asked her Mark Trent's disturbing presence to plan his party, had told her to go the limit in preparations to make it close beside her. "The music has stopped! There a success. "Go as far as you like with everygo the foots!" She caught his sleeve, looked up and begged in an unthing, only be sure that there is enough to eat and sufficient help. steady whisper: "Do your best, Mark. This act To have plenty is an obsession of mine." will kill or make the play." There would be plenty and then His lips were on hers so quickly that she had no chance to protest. some. Just before she left Lookout He kissed her passionately, thor- House for the Club theater, the caterer had arrived with his van oughly; said in a husky whisper: "Credit that to the silent police- and a horde of waiters. They had man. Now, I'll play that part to the sounded like an army making camp. hilt." Trent's Japanese cook came forBrooke tried to ignore her racing to open the door of the car ward She mocked: pulses. "I seem to be in the path of an when she arrived. Snow powdered emotional cyclose; first, Jerry Field; his shoulders and cap. His eyes now you. I suppose Jed will be the glittered in his swarthy face. His teeth gleamed as he ducked his next. Your cue! Quick! Quick!" In an instant he was on the stage. head in a funny little bow. Brooke Brooke shut her eyes tight in an let clown the window. effort to steady a whirling world. "I won't get out here. Taku. I'll Mark Trent's lips on hers had been run into our garage. All the space like an electric current through her outside will be needed for the cars body. Every pulse, every nerve re- of the guests." "You right. Mees. Thank you. sponded. She listened. It was very still in Much big patty, Kowa say." Would there be room for Sam's front, a sort of hypnotized stillness. She could hear the voices on the coupe? Brooke wondered, as she fctagc, but she couldn't keep her drove into the garage. One corner mind on what they were saying. had been filled with ice cream tubs. Even as she supplied properties, He could leave it outside, she She shut off her engine and even as the actors made their entrances and exits she was thinking partially closed the door as she of Mark Trent's eyes os he had went out. looked down into hers, was wonderAs she reached the dark ing what he wanted to tell her on lock behind the Other she the way home? lingered for an instant in its deep How Rey burnish! The incurable shadow. How still the world was. dramatic streak in the Heyburn Snow fell as softly as if someone temperament had been in the sad- had slit open a pillow and shaken dle when she had planned that. down its feathers. There was no near sound of surf tonight. CHAPTER XIII She shrank deeper into the purple gloom under the tree as two men As the curtain fell with dramatic came down the back steps from the slowness for the last time, the audikitchen waiters, she knew by their ence stood clapping and calling. As clothing. Not more than five feet it rose again, Brooke saw the blond from her one of them stopped to marcelle, second row center, make light a cigarette. He growled: its way up the aisle followed by a "The boss can wait for them ice man with sleek black hair. The pro- - cream tubs till I get a smoke." happy g double-crosse- d sleek-haire- d box-oflice- g play-writin- ifi r Hi 'Jvi.L! t-- double-crosse- d 4v - .: H3T m y hem-Hous- same voice said: "It'a the picture of the dame who fella.' said : 'He was a Guess I'll have to date her up!" The other man closed his hand over the match. "You an' your dames! Forget 'em for tonight, or you'll crack up on this job. Come on!" As Brooke dressed in her room, the words and suggestive laugh of the man who had produced the picture Ttept boiling up through her jubilation over Sam's success, through the inescapable memory of Mark Trent's eyes and voice as he had caught her in his arms. She was adjusting a rhinestone and synthetic emerald clip to the shoulder of her white satin frock when a thought forked through her mind like lightning. The amber and brown eyes of the looking-glas- s girl frowning back at her widened with amazement; her red lips swell-dresse- "Thanks lots! Glad you liked it. Couldn't have put it across without their help." He indicated the men and girls around him on the stage, and the audience broke into thunderous applause. The curtain fell e, v 5 "Sure he can. Light up again and take a look at this." A hand held a scrap of paper within the light of a match. The Lorii-J- . C EmW If 1 d moved. "He said he said 'I'll have to date her up! " In an instant she was on the floor beside her desk with a big manila envelope in her lap. She pulled out a bunch of clippings. She had it! the picture of a girl, Maggie and under it the caption: "She said that the man she saw d in the garage was a fella." The waiter who had shown the other man the clipping was the Bath Crystal Bandit, the man she had recognized at the Supper club! He was the man who had tied up Hunt in the garage! Was he also the murderer of Lola Hunt? Why was the man in Mark Trent's house tonight? His pal had said: "Forget 'em, or you'll crack up on this job." What job? Something big must have tempted him to come so , near the scene of his last or had that newspaper headline stating that he was being followed to Canada made him feel secure? What was he after? More jewels? "Get a peek at Mrs. Gregory out front, third row, center. She's blazing with jools." Jed Stewart's words answered Brooke's question as clearly as if whispered in her ear. The man had come for Mrs. Gregory's diamonds. She must notify the police! She snatched her hand from the telephone in its cradle on the desk. Not that. Wires had ears. She would go herself. Across the causeway. To Inspector Harrison at headquarters. She could go and be back before she was missed. Suppose she were stopped on the way! Where was Henri? Was he in on this? She must locate him before she left the house. She caught up a green velvet wrap, stuffed some bills into her emerald satin bag. Pelted down the toward stairs, into the living-roothe bell. Stopped. Where was the parrot? He was not in his cage! Had he made another break for freedom? She looked between the gilded bars. What seemed to be merely a bunch of green feathers lay stiffly on the bottom. "Well, if this isn't just one of those days!" she said aloud. "Oh, Brooke!" Jerry Field called Cas-sid- y, swell-dresse- hold-up- from the hall. As she appeared in the doorway, he exclaimed: "Of all the gorgeous creatures! ou look like a million!" "Jerry, drive me across the causeway, will you? Quick!" "What's the matter?" "I must go. Is your ster here?" "Left it by your garage." "By the garage!" road- Brooke's blood congealed. Suppose as they stepped into the car the two crook waiters should appear for a tub of ice cream? Would the men suspect her errand? Into her mind flashed her reply to Mark Trent: "That's quite a suggestion that I end the poor boy's torment. I will. Tonight." What a thought for this crisis! WhaUa thought! "Wait a minute, Jerry! While I'm upstairs, set the parrot's cage in the back hall, please. I I can't bear to have it here. You'll see why." She raced up the stairs, charged into her bedroom, pulled a suitcase from the shelf. On the way down, she took the two lowest stairs in a jump. She thrust the case into Field's hand. "What's the big idea?" "Don't ask questions! Let's lOPICS J) IV - vv If ' u ly-- RuthWyeth Spears o INSULATION WILL SAVE WINTER FUEL Plan Worthwhile in a Farm or City Residency. By A W Foler Architecture. Afo- - Unntrrvtv Stnift WNU ' of lu.w "ur Good insulation in a fai rn or city home will pay for itself in three winter years m savir.g fuel. 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As the name would indicate, it originated in Japan, but is said to have been raised in China during the very early days of poulgo!" try history. The breed is used prin"You can't walk in the snow in cipally for exhibition purposes those white satin sandals, you'll though the hens are finding a place ruin the green heels." on game farms. They are exceedShe pushed him toward the door. ingly good for incubating quail and "Get going! Get going!" pheasant eggs and are outstanding I'll be darned! Come cn." in their ability to care for "Well, these Brooke felt the dampness between chicks. the straps of her sandals. It seemed miles to the garage. There was Lamb Travels in Style Jerry's roadster! A waiter was coming down the back steps. It might Euenos Aires, Argentina, recently be the Bath Crystal Bandit! She greeted the most favored called in a guarded voice to the traveler to reach its shores inanimal many , years. Japanese who was directing He is Foxhill Royal 116 a but loud enough for the man on Southdown shearling ram lamb the steps to hear: which had been bought in "Taku! Put this suitcase in the by an Argentine rancher. England lie cost rumble. And. Taku, if you see my $150, but the new owner paid more brother, tell him tell him," she for his passage. A home raised her voice, "that Mr. Field was built for him on special the deck and I have run awav to be mar- of the ship and a groom wastopin conried." stant attendance. Foxhill Royal 116 (TO RK COTlUD. was insured for $800. i ftrOth Chickens Sent to Japan One of the most valuable shipments of breeding stock ever exported from the United States was a flock of 65 pedigreed chickens which were sent to Japan the past sum- f First .ay de.r Mr,. Dol,., or Just de.r t;,,j m.damf |