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Show ,1?DAY; JANUARY 24, 1931 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN fi A TTTWn A V TAttttiv ni inn ' k 'i f. i 9M V 7 HENRY EALED TRUNK KITCHELL WEBSTER COPYRItHT V Th JOoOVMERJUUCQ, W.N.U. SERVICE. Iff .mate' Mf. in on that aa ldal Mttinr ;j,trr story would b on of tht bungalows atop of a giant hotel ho-tel or apartment hou; a hablUtlon up In th sky, at tachtd at th foundation foun-dation to th parent tructur, but oth-rwli oth-rwli separate and apart from It There ar Bumtrou dwelling dwell-ing placee of auch oharactef parched . V . - - M . X. jr I taller building of iK i large cltUs, where V." I th Inhabitant ar mora acludd and xclualT than they would b In a reel-doo reel-doo on th ground. Thlr only oontact Mtiasors la In th elevator any them to their lofty aerlea. m a rich man wtabad to fit up ItrUe for art purpoaaa, with rtttlfn back of th proceed-it proceed-it Mala have sound-proof walla suits Ilk tbo of a bank. H ttorkx alone , or could houa a '4 tritd eoafederaUe. H a ip a prison and Inveigle Into nit whom ho eared to detain, jlif an zlitnc ontirly In-lit In-lit of th remainder, of th t at many actually do la auch A a would b aim oat aa -;m sarvlllane - and lnUrfer-m lnUrfer-m ha would b war h located mmbL It would bo a cholc ivklch to prpetrat a murder in It dark indefinitely. I (tartar no.murdara In Henry i Webster's atory, although It itfedace a mysterious bungalow iirtot af a great hotel, a bunga-rtlch bunga-rtlch the reader la a wltneaa strange happentnga and ex- t number of awlXt and i 'Will. There la plenty of exit ex-it bat nothing morbid or grue-.itoat grue-.itoat th tale. It la moatly a Irtery. exhibiting a delightful a eomedr, with th apirlt of I ttl lore young dream xm-la xm-la the character of a iwut Man energetic, capable, aro-aet- m ef young man. CHAPTER I Red Hair irrt movement was complicated. emg the first, Is probably worth piling. Afterward, when there It himself. N come to the Alhambra to rt the suggestion of Babe Jen- Sfie waa going to be there, she ad If she gave him the high P was to take It aa permission m en ner partner and dance Martin took a nartlv nrofea- Interest in Babe. She had a N Job on his paper as an ad- pm.sne had an avocation which flven to understand was even Iutb. on was, more or Pthe staff Of th Alhnmhra Rh. m might be called, a profes- uce girl. pursuit of vice dldnt rnm Attambra. It wasn't that sort pt But Iota of men did come fated clrl to dance with and p to supper; a girl whose de- uougn not prim, would still tdlt upon her companion; a u she liked yon. wouldn't m koldlnc her band In a taxi t her home, nor your klsa- IW4 night f hen you got her Xtiii Babe- wag one of the k lUDDlled thta demand, . I1 Ictlon writer, which Martin negated raw material. his present Job she was turning, he thought His ai feature stories. Snme- l4 eltv editor gent "him out on but mostly they let him I pick things up for himself. ft l nr. LL . V. . r "uuwu wneiner or not oaoe ping special in mind In sug- "Wt he droo around at the f tonight, but he didn't much S3 hd a hnncK rhr n mmm 'Pick up some sort of story " and bedtime. 'Boment, however, be wasn't bout his story. He was :tV Vaguely whether ha hadn't H new law of physics. Was pwon to the man you saw a ItW danrlna- with Hlrtl. nm. f to your attraction to th 1 nothing glaringly wrong hlrd. He might be some- than forty, H had a meaty-ce, meaty-ce, with a complacent smile L - waa Dt( xoppian. Well, tint rn nnM , U rlvln Vi IIMt. -I.I . r there wag ne Jaw about It """'1 have hated him any-1 any-1 the mnale atormari th that ha eonlit mm K. -i'a beer pleased surprise, i; her; Involuntarily. Bat P head-oti collision, for her L ' hlutely true. There """I return a am!1 K.nt it - -"- 1 l')it there waa a sort af (desperation that had refer-r"n refer-r"n waa sure, to the man Jiuiclng with. f bereacuadr Martin .kH safely enough, since she stood twenty pacea off and he didn't of course, speak the words aloud. But. exactly as If she'd heard him. she perceptibly nodded her head and then looked up at her partner, who had spoken to her. "Leap the Instant you've looked." was one of Martin's mottoes, and he set himself In motion across the floor to where she stood wlthont pausing to wonder whether he hadn't Imagined that nod. or what the consequences would be If be had. Had he ever aeen her before? Was that why he had smiled at hert Well, he was In for it now. He touched her companion on the arm a very solid arm and said, "May I cut In r From the way they both flashed around upon him you'd have said he'd surprised them equally. But In her face, which was the only one he looked at, there dawned a delighted recognition recogni-tion that would have convinced anybody. any-body. "I thought I saw you Just s minute go," she said Then, to the man she was abandoning, "You'll excuse us, won't you? It's literally forever since we've had a dance together." Forbes felt himself wearing an Indecently In-decently broad grin as he danced away with her over that "literally forever" of hers. She had told the blighter the exact truth I 1 dldnt know anything like this could happen," he said, after they'd danced In silence about half-way around the floor, "and I don't know yet how It did happen. It's more like a perfectly gorgeous dream than anything any-thing else." "Don't wake up, then," she said. It was an easy Injunction to obey. Whether she was a perfect dancer for all the world or had been specially created for him, he didn't know. He might consider it later, but It wasn't worth speculating about now. They merely danced. When, disengaged, they stood looking look-ing at each other be said, almost reverently, rev-erently, "GoshP and her faintly audible audi-ble sigh expressed the same thing. "Do you have to go back?" he protested. pro-tested. " To him, I mean." "To Mr. Lewis? No; I don't have to go back to anybody." She smiled faintly as she said that He was thrown out of his stride for a second by a pleasant perception that she knew how to pronounce the name "Lewis." "Well then, why . . .1" he began, when he got on the rails again. "Just because you were kind enough to ask me if I didn't want to be rescued," res-cued," ahe explained, "it doesn't follow fol-low that you've taken me on Indefinitely. In-definitely. Havent you anybody to go back tor He laughed. "Not a soul," he told her. "Let'e go up to one of those boxes) In the balcony and get a soda or something." Her wants In the way of refresh- PP "Because I Dldnt Say It to You at Alll" ment were modest A glass of root beer was the only thing ahe'd have. "It was a funny coincidence," be remarked, "your Baying, as you did Just now, that I had asked yon if you didn't want to be rescued, because that waa exactly what I did ask. I mean, those very worda." "WalL" the Innocently questioned, -why aotr "Because I dldnt say It to yoe at alL I waa standing sixty feet away frem yott. I said It to myself. How did yet know exketly what I said r "Telepathy," ahe told him; but ahe said It with a grin. She'd leaned forward a little to watch the crowd on the floor, but Just as his gase followed ben, she sud denly drew back into the shadowa of the box. The reason was plain enough. The man he'd rescued her from Lewla, if that waa his namewas coming com-ing across the floor. Martin drew back, too. "Do people's names ever strike yo s misfits?" ha aaked. Ula doer. My Idea of a man named Lewis doeant look like that" "It may not be bis real name ahe remarked. "Or he may have, changed It from something else. People do sometimes. All I know la that thafg the way one of those men. in white trousers Introduced him to me. ,He asked me to call him Max, but I dont know whether that's abort lor Maxwell, Max-well, or Maxfleld. or Maximilian, or whether it's his whole name." He couldn't be sure in the dim light of the box, but be thought ahe'd ec4-ored ec4-ored over this admission that ahe waa Indebted to one of the floor managers for a dancing partner. He'd resolved not to try to think her out until afterward, after-ward, but It waa a resolution be couldn't keep. Who waa ahe? Wnat was she? He smiled at the echo of her fine speech In his mind's ear: "MaxwelL or Maxfleld, or Maximilian." "There comes the orchestra," he said. "Let's go down and dance again." Just then they'd moved to leave the box, but even the girl waan't yet out In the corridor he saw Babe Jennings Jen-nings coming along with a client in tow, and he got a fleeting notion that some sportlva Olympian was having fun with him. For the one thing he'd decided he waa certain about concerning concern-ing his own companion waa instantly demolished. Babe said to her, with sisterly familiarity, "Hello, Red t Ton througn with that box?" His glrl-"Red," lndd I answered In a perfectly matter-of-fact way, 'Tea, come In. We're going to dance." It wasn't until, then that Babe recognized recog-nized him. "Hello, Marty I" ahe said. In lively surprise. Tve been looking around for you. But I dldnt know you two knew each other." His companion smiled. "We dont, she admitted. "We picked each other up In the middle of the last dance." "I wish." Martin put in, "that you'd b good enough to Introduce us." It amused him to aee that Babe was shocked. "Miss White," she said with cold formality,, "let me Introduce Mr. Forbes." She added, aa ahe turned away to summon her companion who had been hanging in the background, that she liked some people's nerval Babe's disapproval of their manners advanced their acquaintance another step. He said to her as they danced, "I don't like that name: Babe Jennings' Jen-nings' nickname for you." She smiled good-naturedly. "Bed? Why not? It fits." "That's Just what it doesn't" he insisted. in-sisted. "I want a better name than that to think of you by. I wish you'd tell me your real one." She looked rather searchlngly into his face for a moment before ahe answered, an-swered, but the decision she'd hesitated hesi-tated over was in his favor. "You may not like my real name either," she said. "It's Rhoda. Ton don't like It, do you? Or If you do," she went on, overriding the protest he made, "what made you look so funny when I told your He didn't try to deny that he might have looked funny. 'Tve got some association with the name that I cant spot Tm sure I don't know anybody named Rhoda. But the name's been In my mind within the last three daya." "Well, don't try to find It now," ahe admonished him. "You dont dance aa well when you think." So for the next few minutes they dispensed with thinking altogether. They allowed themselves. Indeed, to become a little too oblivious to their surroundings. In the next pause, aa they stood waiting for the orchestra to go on, Martin saw a flicker of a frown cross the girl's eyebrows and the next Instant a voice said at his elbow, "May I have the reat of thla dancer a rather scared voice; tt 'wotildnt .he. uppose, yon got her to tell yon the whole story of her lr ,' h i , 4 1 snsde pretty - fair start with her, he Mid complacently. ' "She'a a ' cagey little brat though, and I dldnt want to press too hard. Til get more next time. But I found out her first name, and It flta." 5 ' Kept her own first name, did shr the woman eald." -She'i the one, then. 1 waa practically aure when I w her. J " f, ; i "I guess It's all right," the man said. "It 'won't do any harm, though. If I frj lo, find out some more about her," ' The woman uttered another abort unpleasant laugh. "Yon listen here. Max." she said. "You've got. Just one Job tonight Find out where ahe Uvea. If I can get her address, well have C" J. where we want him. Until we know tiiat we're nowhere. We havent any time to waste fooling around. She may see that ad tomorrow and gnawer It Find out where the Uvea. As aoon- as you know, come around and tell me. HI do the reat HI go now. No, ait still. I dont want to take a chance on her aeelng us to-, gether. So long!" She came around Martin's aide of the sofa, snd without stirring be watched her all the way to the stairs, with a mind quits blank however, aa far as she waa concerned. He had something else to think about He bad spotted his association with the name Rhoda. For the past week some one had been advertising every day in the personal column of the News for the address of Rhoda Mc-Farland. Mc-Farland. It waa part of Martln'a daily routine to read the personal column col-umn pretty carefully. Every now and then h found the beginning of a story In It He had especially noted these advertisements for Rhoda McFariand because of a minor oddity about them. Usually the advertisers for the addresses ad-dresses of missing persons were firms of attorneys who offered their own names and addressee In full. But these had all been blind ads. The an-gwerer an-gwerer was Invited to communicate hia facta to "X-203 or something of the sort care of the Dally News. Todsy the form of the ad had changed. Rhoda McFariand, it bad said, would learn something to her advantage ad-vantage by communicating with "X-203": Rboda McFariand, though; not Rboda White. What had made the memory of that aeries of advertiaementa pop Into his head so suddenly? Max waa to find out where the girl lived tonight because be-cause they hadnt any time for fooling around. She might aee that ad In the paper tomorrow and answer It Martin sat suddenly erect and then slumped back again Into the corner of his sofa. Had It been his Rboda they were talking about? He hadn't yet seen the man who waa still sitting on the sofa behind him, but the woman had called him Max. The obvious thing' to do was to walk around the sofa and take a look at him; find out if he was the same Max that Rboda had wanted to be rescued from. But to do that openly would probably give away to th blighter the fact that his conversation con-versation with the woman had been overheard by some one who took an inteaest in It Better sit still a minute first and check up. This pair wanted to find a girl before be-fore somebody else did, somebody who was advertising for her. The woman had thought she recognised her but hadnt teen sure. Apparently she'd aent for Max to come and scrape an acquaintance with the girl and find out whether ahe was the one they wanted. "She's the girl, all 'right Max had said. She was a "cagey little brat," but he'd found out her first name. And this, added to the woman's half-recognition, he regarded aa conclusive. Ho wouldnt have said that wouldnt have gone through the process at an, Martin reflected, had the name under which the girl was Introduced In-troduced to him been that of .the girl he was looking for. The first name lifted In, and the second one dldnt : Rhoda White, Instead of Rhoda Mc-rarland.-.v:. ; : T-n-.-r o-and, he ---- cut In on him. Annoying as the Intrusion waa, Martin Mar-tin couldn't help liking the girl better for her kindliness In putting the shy boy at hla ease. She Introduced him to Martin Hlgglns. hla name was snd dsnced sway with him. It pleeaed Martin,, though, to observe that he danced badly. He left the floor and made for a vacant sofa, a low, high-backed, overstuffed over-stuffed thing, one of a pair that stood back to back thwartwlse in the aide corridor. Its fellow had, he noted, for Its solitary tenant a girl whoae aggressive ag-gressive blondnesa made a really focused fo-cused glance necessary to satisfy him that she wasn't Babe Jennings. Reassured Reas-sured on that point he dropped Into the vacant seat behind ber. But he'd hardly begun thinking about Rhoda when hla attention waa sharply diverted. divert-ed. He felt a Jar aa somebody heavy aat down beside the woman on the other sofa, and heard him say to her, "Well, you were right She's the girL" "Where Is she nowr "Out on the floor. 8he cant see us here. Well. I guess Tve beaten the old man to It thla time," "You?" the woman questioned ironically. iron-ically. "Oh, that waa a good hunch yon had." be admitted. The woman's comment was a contemptuous con-temptuous laugh. Martin. Interested without knowing why. found that by turning his head aldewlse so that hla ear pressed against the back of the aofa he could hear better. The woman was speaking now In a more conciliatory manner. Tell me how yon made sure. I professional Instinct started him off planning how he could run It down. Talk to Babe Jennings tonight and find, out how much ahe know about the girL She probably knew where ahe lived, anyhow. Get at the advertising adver-tising file tomorrow morning and find out wbo X-203 waa For a guess, he'd turn out to be the 0. J. whom Max and hla lady friend were-trying to take advantage of. And then go through all the McFarlands In the "morgue" to aee If he could discover any reason why a Rboda of that nsme should bsve changed It for the colorless name White, and disappeared. Hla reporter'a mind went aa far as that point as easily as a well-lubricated ear rolls down hill But at that point It stopped with a Jolt that both ahocked and astonished him. He saw ber face smiling at him in friendly confidence aa she'd smiled when she'd danced away with Biggins, ne didn't want a story about her. He hated the Idea that there waa a atory. If there waa one that for any reason she wanted buried, burled it should remain for all of him. With The U tah State Legislature SALT, LAKE. The 10th Session of Ae Utah Legislature Is proceeding according ac-cording to accepted routine of 'auch law-making bodies passing the measure meas-ure to care for the session expenses with great fpeed and pwlalon--but struggling strenously with all other letalla. Attempts made to have preliminary organisation details of house and senate out of the way before the session ses-sion started failed to their purpose,' but even seemed to retard, rather than t. hasten, progress. In the bouse the Republlcana were unable to agree among themselves and had to secure Democratic help to elect the speaker. The result is that the 14 Democrats la a house' of 65 are represented on the iit mmmtttee chairman, whereas a group of Republlcana are given little I more consideration than they would have had a right to expect if they had been the opposition, and the coalition of Democrats and Republlcana had been a regularly organised party. The senate was facing the aame situation, but evaded it "d all its chairmen are Republicans, though the proportion of Democrats in the senate 8 to 20 la much larger than that la the bouse. One senate committee, Judiciary, baa a majority of Democrats on it because all the lawyers in the senate, except the senate president are to be Democrats. The message' of Qovernoe Dern baa ben received but no formal disposition disposi-tion of the problems therein baa been made, though the formal message has been entered on the Journals of both houses. One senate measure, a Joint resolution, resolu-tion, has been sent to the bouse. It authorizes au-thorizes a governor's messenger. The senate baa received four bills, one concurrent memorial, and the Joint resolution res-olution sent to the house. . The -memorial appeals to congress and the president in behalf of ailver. Bills Introduced. B. B. 1 Fowlea Correcting a legal description of some real eatate granted grant-ed to Ogden City In 1928. 8. B. 2, 8hields To clarify the law routing to dependent neglected children. child-ren. S. B. 8, Jefferson and Ryan To use Interest on the miners' hospital land grant fund aa provided In the enabling act S. B. 4, Keyser To require that the flag be displayed at polling places. In the House, VL B. 2, Mrs. Lowe, to enable the governor to choose a proper date for Arbor Day. H. C. M. 1, Holbrook Aaks favorable favor-able consideration by congress of the 'Jones bill, continuing the Bhepberd-, Bhepberd-, Towner funds for Infants and expect-and expect-and mothers. Tax revision mattera have been brot up in the senate by a letter from the chwi" of the atate tax commission i but no action baa been recorded. Anticipated Legislation. Utahna are looking forward to legislative leg-islative action on the following mat ten, although to use a collage term, the lawmakers were supposed to. "major" In taxation work at the present pres-ent session: Unemployment; questions brought forward by the six constitutional amendments ; state revenues;' state training school expenditures and revenues rev-enues for same; building program for the state; state road construction campaign; prevention work la regard to various sections of the state visited periodically by floods; war veterans welfare; laws controlling Juvenile courts; air traffic and other aeronautic aeronau-tic questions. The state bar association bat a legia-latlve legia-latlve program that no doubt will be flven serious consideration. - , The several state departments will likely offer suggestions calllur for eon-siiriilo eon-siiriilo wssk feg 43kg1riatem An Interesting feature of the present legislature is the fact that the House of Representatives baa a small number num-ber of professional men for members. Industries and agriculture bai gup-' piled most of the membership of the lower house. The senate is largely made up of persons active in the professions. The state tax commission has announced an-nounced completion of its draft of a personal income tax act which immediately im-mediately becomes available to the legislature. The commission la to pres-rs pres-rs of the commission itself. The com mission was created by vote of the ent an act for the defining of the pow-people pow-people at the laat election. 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' ' 1 ..Great Mas Slavs Owners " Both George Washington and Thorn-as Thorn-as Jefferson owned slaves and both In f-their f-their wills left .provision for their t freedom and for their cart and main-' tenance where they were unable to -r take advantage of their freedom, also, T provision for such aa wer too old t ' be turned at large. ; . - ' Clavson fi Elsmorc LAWYERS " GENERAL PRACTICE . EClAilZINQ WILLS ewe! PROBATE Ray Elamore at Amerloan fork every Monday and Thursday. DR. Giistavison ATTORNEY, ana) COUNSELOR ' AT LAW Amerloan Fork Bank Building Telephonss-OfRce 7V Rsa. C4.W American ForkrjOtah "r " 1 No Cbarfe lVw Consultation. Office Hours I to I dally, or by .. ... fcppointmanta.' (To be Continued). kalativity minister called at the Jones The home Willie home," he announced. "He went over to the golf club." The minister's brow darkened, and Willi hastened to explain: ex-plain: "Oh, he ain't gonna play any golf. Not on Sunday. He Just went over for a game of poker." 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