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We can save you money Write us for Circular Builders Steel & Iron Co. 476 West 6th So. lor r Salt Lake City, Ut. APEX HAIR OIL AN INTERMOUNTAIX PRODUCT L.D.S. Business College UTAH'S BEST Enter Any Monday WANTED i Names of Aeenls to sell Christmas Cards in 1931 through your local printer. Plans for 1931 being made now. Send in your name for details which will make your selling easier wilhout the troubles, mistakes and delays yon bad in Write eastern fartorles. representing W. N. U. P. O. Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Absurd Prison Sentence One of the longest prison sentences ever imposed was given to a mayor of a small Spanish town in 18iJ3, when he was convicted on 217 counts of forging public .Cf ients. lie was sentenced to 8,083 years in prison. "Get out of here!" he said. "I'll make it worth your while to talk to her." Babe asked rather tensely bow be me some other time, If you get out now before my uncle finds you knew. "It was Forster," he told her. here." For an Instant she stared op at "who brought you two down to him blankly, the realization break- work this morning in his limousine. ing over her that he didn't know Where did he pick you up. Just as shed already seen bis uncle; that you were leaving the building he thought she was voluntarily here?" She answered with a nod. "1 waiting for him. "All right," she said, "I'll go. But you'll have to guess It's my fault, if anything's show me the way out." happened," she said, pretty humbly He didn't altogether release her, for Babe. "I know how he found but his grip on her arm relaxed her. all right. You see, I anas he started leading her toward swered his ad mysell. He telethe door she had come In by. HA. phoned one In, the morning after Max had brought me home. way to It they were halted by Max He had come In by had asked me that night If her real voice. one of the smaller doors, I name wasn't Rhoda MiFarland. Conley came up to them briskly. took the ad over the phone and got "Let the girl alone," he continued. Forster's name and address. I'd "She's no affair of yours. Mr. tried to get Red to answer It the Forster wants her to wait here." It night before, hut she wouldn't Now Max did let go her arm, hut said "something to her advantage.' obedience to in it wasn't Conley's and I thought If prohahly was. So order. "Lay off it," he said. "You I called him up at lunch time at In on this. The young lady's the Worcester and told him if he'd aren't a friend of mine and now she's write her a letter, care of me, I'd talked to me she doesn't want to forward it to her. I didn't see how see C. J." that gave her away, but it must Conley agreed with a grin, "1 have, somehow. I suppose you'd guess she doesn't But she don't like to heat me up for butting In leave this room until the boss like that." comes back." He patted her shoulder instead. Glancing up at Max, Rhoda could "It's no use about that see that that word, "back" troubled now." he said. worrying "I'm glad you told him, though he hadn't yet made me. It's bptween him and the Cleveout the Implication in it land woman, then. They are fightRhoda started for the door, and each other, that's one good she kept on going, though Conley ing But one of them has got hpr barked at her. "Come back here, thing Romehow. If that had hpen a plain was !" Max aware She thai you broken connection she'd have called check Conley's rush Interposed to " for her. The last thing she heard Rgiiln. bell The telephone before she closed the door after him. Babe was nearest Interrupted and caught her was the thud of a heavy blow, Instrument before he could and she Inferred from the fact thnt up the get to It. she wasn't immediately pursued "Red!" she cried, "is thnt you?" and dragged back, that the recipiBut it wasn't Rhoda. Bahe was ent of It must have been Conley. rather puzzled. "No." Mar She walked it seemed safer looking "She hasn't comp tin her somehow than breaking Into a run hackheard We'resay. expecting her. . . yet. down the broad corridor and is her friend. Babe Jennings. around the corner, retracing her This who is this?" Say. a it was In, way although stairway Martin started over to take the find to rather than she hoped the away from her, hnt she elevator. However, by almost un- telephone believable good luck, she found the clung to It, pressing the mouthpiece her chest elevator there waiting for her, with tight against "Martin !" she cried excitedly, "I both Hm own door and the outer think it's the woman at the station guard gate standing wide open. the Cleveland woman ! Listen, There was no attendant there. see If she sonnda like she did It was one of those mysterious lit- and tle elevators you were supposed to when you telephoned to her this run yourself. She swiftly scruti- afternoon." He'd been motioning to her frannized the little row of push buttons, and pressed the one marked tically to take the transmitter away. "Down." There was a faint, pro- "She can hear every word you say hold It like that Talk when testing buzz, but nothing hap- to her!youAsk her where she is. Give In less haste she pened. desperate so I can hear what me receiver the reflected autoan that have might matic elevator which eould descend she says." But all he was In time to hear its shaft while Its guard gate stood was the click of disconnection. a be would deathveritable open had hung up on them. trap, but on the verge of panic as Claire "Well." Martin remarked as he she was she couldn't think at all. Then she heard a door open himself hung up, "thanks to that somewhere and stepped back into chest trick of yours she knows how the corridor, poised for flight but we framed her and Max this aftnot knowing which way to flee. A ernoon. But she hasn't got Rhoda big, booming voice swept over her or she wouldn't have called up here to ask for her. That makes the and, even before she consciously recognized It or took any meaning Worcester our best bet I'm gofrom what It said, all but paralyzed ing there now and try to find her. You stick tight, you understand-- to her with childish terror. thnt telephone so that yon can ". . . Very well. But I warn you, you are making a serious mis- answer the spcond she calls, if she take. I shall find her In spite of does call again." With that he snatched his hat you, and If necessary. In spite of herself. She is a minor and I am and fled. Fifteen minutes later. In a teleher guardian In effect, at any rate. Her interests are In my phone booth in the lnhby of the Worcester hotel, he looked np Forshands and I shall protect them." It was six years since she had ter's number and telephoned from heard those heavy menacing tones. there. When a man's voice answered It was her uncle, William Itoyce with a "Hello? Who Is this?" he said the ogre IV-.She fled cow, as a child would, that he was a reporter from the running blindly down one corridor, News and he wanted a personal Inup another, turning comers at ran- terview with Mr. C. J. Forster. The answer J came dom. There must be a stairway rather surprising somewhere. hack, "This is Mr. Forster speakWhat was it you wanted to She was Just getting over this ing. panic and beginning to try to feel speak to me about?" ashamed of It when it was reApart from the fact that you newed by the sound of heavy and, wouldn't have expected Forster to to her ears, ogreish footsteps com- answer his own phone, there were ing briskly along the transverse two queer things about this. The corner which she was approaching. rhythm of his talk wasn't right. She was passing, at the Instant, a The man wasn't speaking for himdoor which stood ajar. Instinc- self. He was being prompted. tively she pushed it open and That meant of course, that he stepped into the room it gave wasn't Forster, bnt wag Imperson upon. ating him under orders from some The room was dark, but she per- one else. The other strange thine once at ceived it wasn't empty, was that his voice was one that since a woman's silhouette was Martin half recognized; felt, at visible against one of the windows. least, that he ought to be able to The woman hadn't heard her come recognize. in since she neither spoke nor "I don't much want to talk abont moved. it over the telephone," Martin said, But the footsteps which had and then added casually "and I frightened Rhoda were now just dnn't believe you do. either." outside the door and pausing there. Evidently they whoever they The man was coining in too. She end had to go wasn't cornered yet, however, for were at the other another door communicating with Into Itconference over thisa remark, silence. produced quite the adjoining room stood open, too, for who said he was and she retreated through It Just Finally the man "Who are you? Forster asked, before man switched on Con-ley'- Hewletts' Jams , VrSV Service badly, and I dont know why. He's been advertising for her. and somehow or other has managed to find Continued 11 ft T s would be to walk up to the desk But Instincand ask the clerk. tively be shied at that Forster was no ordinary transient guest here. A man as rich as he was. and permanently domiciled here, would have special defenses. Vou wouldn't be able to mention his name without starting something. The better way would be to drift into casual talk with somebody, a bellhop or the girl who sold theater tickets, lead up to bis question and ask it idly. But it wasn't so easy as It looked, to frame that question so it would sound casual. And if he failed, if his question roused suspicion, he'd be worse off than if he'd gone straight to the clerk In the first place. His gaze was questing about the lobby, noting everything that everynody did, studying faces in the hope of finding one dull and friendly and unsuspicious enough to suit his purpose. The man who had just come down in one of the elevators and now stood talking to the captain hadn't a face like thnt; very much the contrary, in fact bleak and rocky as a chunk of the grent American desert and he talked as If he were biting off the heads of finishing nails. Martin stared at him, regardless of the risk of catching his eye, In his own mind's eye, he had put a derby hat on his head and a brown overcoat on his back and a little leather notehook in his hand, and recognized him. He was the "Conley's expecting a reporter around here In a few minutes, a reporter from the Dally News who's trying to find out about the disappearance of a girl He had you laid of because he thought you knew something about her." "I don't know anything about any girl that's disappeared," protested the boy. "Say, who are you?" "I'm the reporter Couley's expecting in about fifteen minutes. Didn't you see a girl a Didn't you answer some girl? questions of hers or take her somewhere?" "Sure!" said the boy. "Forster was expecting her. 1 took her up to the top floor, to the private elevator. Conley ran ber up from there." "How do you know Forster expected her?" Martin asked. "Because we ran her right up the minute she gave her name. Miss White, It was. She didn't know Forster owned the hotel and she seemed sort of scared when she found site was going up to that bungs low of his on the root Conley came down In the private elevator to take her up." "What time was this?" "I don't know," snld the boy. "This afternoon sometime. Say, do you think they're keeping ber up there?" He hadn't nodded. Martin thought so until a moment ago. But a bungalow on the roof offered opportunities, "I'm going up to see if she's there, anyhow." "How you going to get In?" the boy wanted to know." "The private elevator's locked np except when The only they run It themselves. stair except the service stair-co-mes down Into Forster's office on the top floor. That's all locked np When You . A headache is often the sign of fatigue. When temples throb it's time to rest. If you can't stop work, you can stop the pain. Bayer Aspirin will do it, every time. Take two or three tablets, a swallow of ia comfort. water, and carry-o- n Don't work with nerves on edge or try all day to forget a nagging pain that aspirin could end in a jiffy I Genuine aspirin can't harm you; just be sure it's Bayer. Ia every package of Bayer Aspirin are proven directions for headaches, colds, sore throat, neuralgia, neuritis, etc. Carry these tablets with you, and be prepared. To block a sudden cold on the street-ca- r; quiet a grumbling tooth at the ofiice; relieve a headache in the theatre; spare you a sleepless night when nerves are "jumping." And no modern girl needs "time out" for the time of month I Bayer Aspirin is an absolute antidote for periodic pain. His Gaze Was Questing About the Lobby. man who had come to the studio last night, getting names for the new city directory. And this Identification led on so quickly to another that It was like firing the second barrel of a shotgun. This was the man whose voice he had just now been trying to remember, the man on the telephone who had been pretending he was Forster, It seemed a reasonable guess that the Instructions Blue Serge was giving the captain were that any reporter or other inquisitive person asking questions about C J. Forster or trying to get through to bim was to be dealt with In a special manner. Satisfied that the captain understood these instructions, whatever they were, Blue Serge left him and crossed the lobby to the desk. Here his business was not with the clerk but with the manager, who promptly came out of his little private office to talk with him. The manager was taking orders, too, with an alertness which showed he recognized their importance. Leaving the desk and a completely Instructed manager behind it, the man in the blue serge suit now started across the lobby In a new direction; one that would bring him, unless he veered off, uncomfortably close to Martin's chair. But before this embarrassment became acute he was diverted by one of the bellboys who crossed his path. The boy seemed perfectly unaware of him, but Blue Serge, after a sharp look, turned on his heel and went back to the desk, the manager again, summoned brought him out into the lobby a little way, and nodded after the boy. Then he went off and disappeared into an elevator. The manager, returning to his office, paused for a word to the The bell captain bell captain. spoke to the boy Blue Serge had pointed out. The boy, with a look of surprise, went Into the manager's ofiice to come out again a minute or two later flushed, indignant and, withal, profoundly puzzled. Something had happened to him that he seemed utterly at a loss to account for; discipline, evidently, that he felt to be undeHe was coming along served slowly In Martin's direction. That was luck. But it wasn't until the boy was In the act of passing his chair that the significance of the little play the the What's your name?" On Martin's clicked into a pattern In the relight. The next moment she heard Max telling him he said; "If you've porter's mind. That boy had seen He possessed, prohahly Lewis demanding angrily, "What really got anything to say you can something. interview. But you'll without sdspecting It, some piece the devil are you doing here?" He have your of damaging Information, and hadn't seen her, though; he was have to tell me what it's about." "It's about' said Martin, "the they'd taken measures to prevent speaking to the woman. his giving that Information away. disappearance of Miss Rhodn Do I get my Interview?" Martin rose from his chair just CHAPTER XI There was a long silence at that. when his doing so Intercepted the Evidently they were having an ar- boy's progress toward the door. To the Rescue. "I guess you're looking for me," gument about It. Martin stood staring and "Nothing doing," the voice said he said. BABE each other across a dead The boy stopped In surprise and at last "I don't know that she's telephone. I don't know that answered, "I'm not looking for any"What do you suppose made her disappeared. there's any such person." body, thnt I know of. What made voice sound "o funny?" Babe asked. "You don't want to say, then, you think I was looking for you?" "Sure it was hers, are you?" he why you've tbeen advertising for Martin took the plunge, "if lliey shot at her. Just laid you off," he said, "I think her?" "Oh," cried Babe disgustedly The only answer he got to that I can toll you why they did. Who's "don't I know Red's voice? Iook question was a click which meant the hatchet-faceman In the blue tiere, have you really got anything that the other receiver had been serge suit who works for Forster? on your mind, or are you just genslammed down on the hook. So He pointed you out to the manager erally cuckoo about her. I mean?" .Martin hung up, too, and left the Just now." "Do you mean Conley? I haven't "I've got that Cleveland woman booth. on my mind," he answered, "and a The first thing to find out was done anything to him. Say, who man named C. J. Forster, who the number of Forster's apartment, are you? How do you know they wunts to get hold of her pretty and of course, the obvious way laid me off?" looking for It When he saw it going boldly up from the second room he entered evidently the stenographers' room, since there were four typewriter desks In It his first thought was that this was too easy to be It wasn't as easy as it true. looked, however, for he found at the head of it a solid mahogany door locked. It would take a competent burglar with a full set of tools to get in through that door, be thought despairingly. He gained one advantage, though, from its solidity. There would be no harm in making a light and having a look ut it He got out his cigarette lighter and struck a light. There were two small pieces of electrical apparatus screwed to the wall above the door. One of them he recognized as an electric buzzer, and this, as he thought seemed rather queer. Why it wasn't it the other way around the push button on this Bide nnd the buzzer in Forster's apartment? Why should anyone nJrendy in the apartment have to ring a door bell to get into tids public office? The door was locked against the office and Into the apartment. Well then, It wasn't a door bell. Of course It wasn't It was a signal, and once It sounded in the stenographers' room It seemed a reasonable Inference thnt It was Forster's way of summoning a stenographer. But what good was It to tnv.r, for tier if she couldn't get through the door? Was the door left unlocked during otllcf hours? No, Forster would want tc feel better guarded against intru- sion than that (TO BB CONTINUED.) d . The Guarded Tongue Remember how nnture hath ram plred up (as It were) the tongue, witt teeth, lips, yea nnd hair without ttu lips, all betokening reins or br!d!e for the loose use of that member. Sir Henry Sidney, I 4 . Vl JFS XL.; frill m i 3 ? n Take Bayer Aspirin for any ache or pain, and take enough to end it. It can't depress the heart. That is medical opinion. That is why it is only sensible to insist on the genuine tablets that bear the Bayer cross. The pocket tin is a convenient size. The bottle of 100 tablets ia most economical to buy, now." "How about the fire escape?" Martin asked. The boy's face lighted at this suggestion, but chiefly. Martin was disappointed to discover In admiration of the reporter's nerve in contemplating it. "There's a fire escape landing outside the window right at the end of the corridor on the top floor. And there's a steel ladder goes up from there that curves over a sort of stone railing at the edge of the main roof. Thnt ladder must be pretty scary, climbing right up over the edge of nothing." It may be confessed that It struck Martin that way. But all he said was that it looked like the best bet. ne shook hands with the boy and walked away, with the best air of unconcern he could assume, to the elevators. "As far as you go," he said in response to an inquiring glance from the elevator boy. He hoped the phrase would conceal his ignorance of the actnnl number of the top floor, and It did. He perceived, though, that even the briefest hesitation on his part when he stepped out of the elevator at the top wouJd be fatal to his plan. The boy would ask him whose room he was looking for. He must choose In advance which way to turn. Very well, he'd turn to the right It seemed at first that he had made a disastrously bad guess, for he found himself walking straight toward a transverse partition of glass and oak with a door in the middle of it marked "C. J. Forster." The door was ajar and there was a light Inside. The eleThe vator hadn't started down. boy was certainly watching him. The only thing he could possibly do was to push open the door and walk In and see what happened after that. A sense that Nothing happened. he had no time to waste all but betrayed him into a mistake. The project that was on the rails of his mind was the one he'd come up In the elevator with, namely, to get out the window at the end of the corridor onto the fire escape, and he had his hand on the knob when the thought of something else halted him. The helpful bellboy who had remembered Rhoda had spoken of a stairway leading from the office up Into Forster's apartment. He turned hack at once nnd started through the suite of offices h QUIT, red-haire- un-ii- s CAN'T Japanese Shrine Honors Dog That Ended Flood i A small shine atop one of the peaks of the Japanese Alps, seldom Visited by foreigners, is the central object in an Interesting legend of old Japan. 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