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Show LEADER BEAR RIVER VALLEY se Six Potter had thoughtfully placed it to save the fioor. I didn't pick it up until I'd made sure about the money. It was still where I'd left it! Certain peculiarities in the letter came to my mind, and it occurred to me at least Bessie had given me some to compare, only I g hadn't examined it closely. I'd go down and try to take a look. But A'spaper, wnere Albion MURDER AT PIRATE'S HEAD "God bless my soul! Not you, cross?" Thaddeus Quincy wheeled back a pace and took a firmer grip on his cane, even yanking off the red cloth. "Knew it was you all the time, Norcross last night when you wouldn't answer Judy and me." "Yes, it was I. On my way to kill Lane." "Good heavens, Norcross, do you know what you're saying? You don't have to admit anything," Victor said. "Less you say the better for you." "I want to talk. I want to confess. I wish to God the police would come say, what's Potter running hand-writin- first I picked up the picture to put it into my room. By Isabel A wet painting isn't easy to handle, but when it's wet on both sides it is really difficult. Potter had painted the entire back of the canvas an apple green, which was even wetter than parts of the picture itself. I, too, got it on my hands, and just when I placed the thing under one of the windows to dry, it fell over. I made a grab, fearing it would be spoiled and smooched, and caught it, doing more damage probably than as if I'd let it go. Waitt Released by WNU SYNOPSIS Is CHAPTER I Judy Jason, who spending her vacation at Pirate's Head, receives an anonymous letter enclosing $800 and asking her to bid for an abaiv doned church to be auctioned the next day. She suspects, in turn, each of the guests at the Inn where she is also staying. They are the Reverend Jonas De Witt. Lily Kendall. Thaddeus Quincy. Albion Potter, Hugh Norcross and his sister. Bessie. Other possible suspects are Uncle Wylie and Aunt Nella Gerry, who operate the Inn. But the sender ot the letter is still unknown when Judy bids for the church and gets it. That night she finds a hand protruding from an old sea chest In the basement of the church. By a ring she recognizes it as Koddy Lane's. Roddy Is, or was. the son of an unscrupulous banker who once owned the bleak promontory called Pirate's Head. CHAPTER II When Judy returns to the inn she finds a new guest, Victor Quade. who has parked his trailer nearby and who will take his meals at the inn. The telephone wires are cut. Chapter III The party at the inn Is further isolated when the bridge from the "Head" to the mainland Is blown up. Now Aunt Nella's piercing scream has just been heard from the direction of the sea. CHAPTER IV A delegation sent to the church to investigate finds the chest empty, Vstf Ik I- - 1 J ' v r '! "so so" CHAPTER VI A fish shed burns, apparently killing an old man named Brown who is supposed to have lived there, although no one has ever seen him. Uncle Wylie's pipe Is found near the ruins of the shed. "You sick, Mr. Norcross?" Now my hands and a bit of floor be- yond the newspaper were a horrid sight. I seized the paper and tried to wipe off the placewhere my hand had been, messing up the back misCHAPTER IX The anonymous letter, erably. Then I stood the picture up carefully hidden by Judy, disappears. again and raced downstairs to wash my hands. Never heard of painting Chapter X While they are explora canvas on both sides before. Pering the "Pirate's Mouth" Lily Kendall sees something that frightens her. The the artists did it that way now, haps whole party goes to the church to or maybe Potter had painted on the the auction. back of another picture. It didn't The thing was not to miss matter. Victor XI and Quade Chapter Judy to look for Judy's bag. anything outside. go to the church I could see Mr. Quincy still wavThey are startled by a sudden noise. his red banner at the dots in ing CHAPTER XII In the handbag she The men were hammerthe harbor. left at the church the day of the auction of the Eleanor. bottom the at ing diamond. finds Lane's Roddy Judy The boat, they called to me, was CHAPTER XIII Lily Kendall ts virtually water tight they hoped. found dead, with Hugh Norcross' blue The thing was to get it to the shore. scarf wrapped around her neck. TerriWould I go get Wylie Gerry to tell fied, the remaining guests try to reach them how? It was too heavy to carthe mainland, but find that someone has ry, and they were afraid they'd cut holes In all the boats. scrape the patch off if they just CHAPTER XIV Albion Potter gives dragged it along. Weren't there any Judy a picture of the church he has rollers? just finished painting. "Uncle Wylie'U show you. He's at the bridge." If De Witt or Potter CHAPTER XV Bessie Norcross writes a confession which Victor Insists only thought I was their Western Union I proves her Innocence. boy they were much mistaken. ""You didn 0.ve her a- -, aore of skedaddled over to where Victor was that sleeping medicine?" standing beside Hugh, who had "I'll say I didn't. She takes far just finished reading his sister's lettoo much of the stuff. Why, an over- - ter. Now he held it out to Quade. dose " "For God's sake, what shall I "Exactly. Don't let her have it. do?" You'll understand when you" I "You could destroy it." nearly said when he'd read the let"You read it?" ter, which would have been an adVictor nodded. "You all invited mission that I'd done so myself. me to sort of take charge. I'll help "You're sweet, Judy. My sister's any way I can, Norcross." nerves are an awful care. Go up "But you don't think? and see if you can get her to quiet Bessie? surely She wouldn't kill an ant! down, will you? I wish she was out She's afraid, that's all. And she'll of this mess. And you, too. When stick to her story. You see, it it's over there's something I want wouldn't do any good to destroy this. to say to you. Just now all I dare She'd confess all over again. only say or think of is be careful." He She knows I'm guilty. You've got was squeezing my hand till it hurt. to believe me, man! I murdered "Where's the letter?" Lane." Roddy "Mr. Quade has it. He's with the "Hugh Norcross! I I don't beothers at the barn. He told me to lieve you," I gasped, tears smartfind you. It's important, Hugh." He my eyes. He didn't have the ing took a few steps forward. the courage, I was thinking. "You tell Bessie I'll be back soon, Victor said: "And Miss Kendall? will you?" You killed her, too, of course. "Sure," I said, glad to escape the Why?" devouring gaze of his haggard eyes. "Because she knew too much. BeI knocked on Bessie's door. She cause she saw me coming out of was crying. Potter's room with that confounded ; "Hughie? I can't sleepl I can't cleansing fluid of his, and because 'sleep!" when she was on the church "It's Judy. Want me to get you a Roddy and I had the rowsteps and I hit cup of tea?" him. So I strangled her with my "No, thank you. Did you give my scarf. Bessie? Absurd!" brother the letter?" He looked like a handsome dark "He has it now." shadow, haunted by remorse. He I heard a scrambling off the bed. crumbled his sister's letter in his "Did he give you the my medi- hand. cine?" "I shall tell the authorities every"No. Said you couldn't have any thing. Will you agree to leave her out of this? Here, Judy," he reached more till night. Do let me in, BessieMiss Norcross. I'll rub your in his pocket and drew out his walhead if it aches so badly." let, removing a few lean bills. "Give But evidently she'd flung herself her this. I'll be taken to jail as on the bed again, for mufiled sobs soon as they come. I'd rather not .were her only reply. I gave it up see her. You tell her, Quade, to keep her mouth shut." 's finally, tiptoeing past poor Lily "Don't take it, Judy. I'm telling room and on up into my own. to keep your own mouth shut, you The old now hateful of the j picture I but suppose it's too late." church stood in a corner of the hall all this? What's all this?" "What's had Victor where ,near my door, moved it when he'd gone to see if None of us had noticed the minister " - ""iOu was still there. It stood on and Quincy, who'd come up behind us and were listening for dear life. The Reverend Jonas De Witt admits that he once served a priosn term. We could all see the artist climbing into his car and driving like mad down the narrow Neck. "To get Gerry to help us launch the boat." For a moment our eyes watched the car, but our ears were tuned to Hugh. He was ranting, almost the way his sister did. "I came down here to kill Lane for what he did to my sister. I saw him coming down the Castle driveway. We went over to the church and fought it out, man to man. Hit him too hard, I guess. Anyway, he died and I put him in the chest, just as Judy said. I ought to have locked it, but I heard someone coming." Following the pattern following the pattern just like the letter. "Hugh, let me see that a minute. I'll give it right back," I said to him. He didn't seem to care what he did. He automatically handed me the crumpled ball of a letter. I turned my back and took a good look at the writing. Neat, tiny, very individualistic. Nothing at all like mine, with the money, I gave it back to him. I tied the scarf around her neck-anchoked her," he was almost shouting. "But she wouldn't fall through the Pirate's Mouth, - blood-staine- Chapter VTII for?" ' CHAPTER V Later Victor tolls Judy golf club that he found a near the chest. CHAPTER VII Victor calls a conference at which each guest tells his story. The following facts are disclosed. Bessie Norcross was once in love with Roddy Lane; someone has stolen Hugh Norcross' blue scarf; someone has used Albion Potter's turpentine to remove a stain from Bessie Norcross' coat. Nor- "God help us all!" ejaculated De Witt. I could see Potter's car coming back with my uncle. "How much money was it you sent me, Hughie?" I had never called him that pet name before, but he was so distrait, and I couldn't think him capable of all those crimes. "What ails him?" Albion Potter asked. "He's confessed," shrilled Mr. Quincy. Anyone would have thought he was enjoying himself. "Norcross? Well,. I vum!" Uncle Wylie marched straight up to Hugh. "Keep your trap shut, young feller, me lad. Iffen you did kill Lane I guess we'll all back you up. It was warn't it?" self-defens- e, "And Old Man Brown?" "And Miss Kendall?" The men gathered around the boat, shaking their heads and murmuring to themselves. They might be good witnesses as far as Lane was concerned, but the others Uncle Wylie screamed in a high falsetto, the way he did whenever he wanted anything: "Nella!" Auntie came running. "Where'd you hide the Eleanor's rollers?" "Hide 'em? How should I know? Up in the barn chamber, ain't they?" She stood, a trim whisp of a woman in a neat checkered bib apron, her gnarled hands on her hips. Then, catching sight of Hugh, "You sick, Mr. Norcross?" Hugh raised haggard eyes and said nothing. "I declare I feel a spell comin on, too. Want some of my elderberry wine?" Her eye fell on the patch on the boat. "Land sakes! I'd ruther put to sea in a barrel, 'tain't safe, is it, Wylie?" Uncle Wylie was examining the patch. He looked at it outside and in, then he scratched his head. "Never git acrost the gap. Cove neither. Course we can roll her down and see. Me, I'd tear that thing off and do it right." "Why don't you do it then?" his Ju ne returned home after spending the past week at the home of Miss Marva FackrelL Misses Elaine Wood and Afton Anhas Miss LNee Kroksh accepted derson returned home recently after work in Salt Lake City, where she 20 months in the the past spending expects to stay for the summer. mission field Mis3 Wood is the Mrs. Ruby Taylor and Mrs. Emily Brown ,of Lehi, visited with their cousin, Mrs. V. Ll Hansen one day last week. The ladies were returning from Idaho Falls, where they had spent the weekend. Mrs. N. R. Hunt and daughter, Nina, of Buhl, Idaho, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Petersen Monday. The ladies axe sisters. Mrs. Willis Adams and son, Jim-miof Pamalee, So. Dakota, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orson Chris tensen. Bishop and Mrs. Hutchins and chil dren, of Buhl, Idaho, called upon Mr. and Mrs. William Petersen Tues dav evening. Miss Ardus Adams, of East Gar land, and Mrs. Earl Young of Los Angeles, visited with Mrs. V. u. Han sen one day last week. Both these ladies are former teachers in Elwood Mrs. Grace Kroksh and son are spending the week with her husband in Provo. where Mr. KroKsn is em ployed on construction work. Sharon is staying with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Junius Thompson while her mother is away. Mr. and Mrs. William Wagstaff and children, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Graves orCsrden, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wag staff of Perry, Mrs. N. P. Hunt and daughter Nina of Buhl, Idaho, were Linseed Oil Base dinner guests at the home of Mr WedPetersen last William Mrs. and Carries Full Guarantee nesday evening. Miss Wilma Kroksh is spending- her vnrvarinn with her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Hansen, in Salt Lake. Miss Lydia Fridal has completed her work at the U. S. A. C. and graduated with honors from the school of education. Her mother, Airs Walter E. Fridal, attended the grad uating exercises at the school. Lydia has signed a contract to teach in the high school at Idaho Falls next school year. Mrs. William Petersen and children were in Ogden on business one day last week. Mrs. .E. T. Heslop and children and Mrs. Frank Heslop and children spent Visit Our Complete Monday in Ogden visiting relatives and attending some business. Next Sunday, June 13th, the Aaron ic priesthood and girls of the same age expect to make a pilgrimage to the monument of Martin Harris at Clarkston. Transportation has been OFFICIAL jfflbJift arranged and the leaders are anxious SOFT BALL I J to have as many of this group as can make the trip. Mrs. Eva B. Hansen returned home It's A Homer Sunday after spending several days with her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Cos eel Burke, in Salt Lake City. Miss Adrus Hansen is at home, after completing a successful term 12" official type. Has Kapok at the U. S. A. .C. conter and tough horsehide Mrs. John Selman is confined to A marvelous value at her bed. Her many friends here are price I very anxious about her and hope she may soon regain her strength. 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She shot a spent Sunday visiting her mother, querulous glance at Hugh and asked Mrs. Marie C. Fonnesbeck. Harold Gunnell spent the weekend me what he'd meant. I tried to tell her in a breath. in Salt Lake. Miss Colleen Lloyd, of Brigham, (TO DE COSTIMED) We Pay CAS O SALE HOWELL Norma Ann Andersen 1,89 D. tires prj can no ion?"Ifl iflMd recapped! Come application make help you rationing certificate. to mm - mm mm THE IXTRA VALUES I'A FIRESTONE MERCHAfiCISE IN EVERT Tiret and Recepping Batteries Sperk Plug Brake Lining Auto Accessories Radios and Music Home Appliances Hardware Housewares Lawn and Garden Supplies Wheel Goods RCf"" Paints Clothina leather 6 Uremic Chevrolet TUEMONTON, Vl' PHONE 20 f H SOFTBALL , 1; Miss Ar daughter of Mr. and MrT Andersen, She f ulfuio.j - , Ken-idall- Mrs e, asked tartly. "Take too long. Let's see if she'll dersen. hold water." Mr. and Mrs. Orion Summers at the what heck!" Hugh sprang "Oh, up to help get a log under the Elea- tended the wedding of hi3 sister, Miss nor. "Let's get going. I want the Zelda Summers, in Salt Lake, Sat police to come. I want to be ar- urday. rested before my sister comes A special priesthood meeting was down." held Tuesday evening at the home Thaddeus Quincy wheeled himself of C. P. Sorensen. Tech. Sgt Preston out of the way. De Witt stood with Andersen was the after speaker, closed eyes, praying again, I which refreshments were served by thought. Potter and Uncle Wylie Mrs. Sorensen. wife daughter of Mr. and 1 1 ' 1 ' - S i' ' |
