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Show I I BEAVER PRESS Then 111 "5, vicils the office of ' . fclUn, ,f an estate anc Inheritor! ......... K no talking to Mark Dane who has isinherited. Mrs. Dane naa uvea a huge structure on J A father F"".: built oy nci ",m had been a fashion expert, and ; hoorlney her nn L.na SI Ul'lll, L had invited her to callner.and de- main Jeep allecuon ior L tthat Mrs. Dane had threatened married Lola. he if t,hrit him fhom he is now divorced. He says not trust tienn ana wiomue L m. Dane's servants. Leaving EJartment store Job, Brooke re- wltn f.n nlTer to "go stepping Irield, a carefree young man who con-I- t to marry her. At a family e she learns she must live at alone, since Lucette, her r sister who is taking her Job, r mother plan to stay in the city, fed Mark are astounded when they from Mrs. Gregory, a family friend. had witnessed a hitherto re with Henri and Clotilde two before Mrs. Dane died. Brooke jfrived just as she was leaving. Jed ajts that Mark open his part of iut House, get friendly with Brooke y to find out apout me win. jea to stay with him. Mark accepts s Invitation for a family Thanks- Lookout. Mrs. Reyburn dinner at ces on Thanksgiving eve that she to en invited England. Sam and je decide to move in with Brooke cm plans to produce a new play Alter the Thanksgiving dinner tells Mark that little of Mrs. silver collection is left. Jerry and his sisUr Daphne drop in and fcce they will be neighbors for the Later Inspector Harrison of the lice visits Mark and is informed the missing will and silver. As Lola arrives. She ton leaves, new that she and her husband, jiunt, have started a neighborhood station. Mark almost makes a about the missing will and Brooke pcious. Returning home, she sees talking covertly to Henri. Henri is sand warns Brooke she had better lira and Clotilde. That night while last of Sam's play is rehearsing Be Jacques are away, Mark shows e the missing silver which he had cached in an unused upper floor room in his house. He reveals lie door connecting their houses has A black unlocked. gloved hand :th key from the storeroom door. he overhears Jed of Mrs. L neohew ut'i Q Look-Jous- Fourte CHAPTER f 'i Continued VI -- 9 Fhat do you mean by coming fi when I told you not to move? do It you mean? I might have 'ATE ik you!" "iM you didn't, Mark. I felt like glitter hiding in the dark while came down alone, so I TUH crept LNCH2 EBIE you. What did you see?" $othing here but the door is led." . an 'rom the storeroom door, didn't dream it, did I?" f you did, i to in the same Wonder when thnv remove the stud" think someone it away?" ou didn't I was Brooke. ro. is planning . clinulJ "'um ii ue .1merer it was moved from Lookout l-to this one. which has been Jcupied for years, before I came j here to live. After Aunt Mary rnda went, I was the only per-h- o would know about the sil-- l and I w,,s far away in Snulh hV Plcfl -- 4 : n I poly F'ca. Thai's why Henri's (ace f"i chalky whm he saw me en- .our living nim on Thunksgiv- f day." .nen you noticed it ;ht it mi ht be my .f. ca't cci ble W3 we , back In 1 imagina . ,ni num. ume t.n,,l,, u... ii,,s H,,rr downsinirs and out that 11 V Lucky , n too? 1 your key." .'J"yl Hurry! Suppose it was ilf, ,h0,e keys ln the ouppojr Ui- - remembered that left thorn ' B th, r.,....;.. 1 ;'ho time-clock- or-.- h r; t nim that 101(1 ,.nd would be with supper ;if;t.r rehearsal. He -r me now to see if " telling the trulh th n i. lUWf'P rl,y Scented J n hill ...L.:i- - was tu '"V MIlOKy V.v nd flr,s, Mark )aic . . hand n "J't! Listen!" sullneiic ,,r u. C d - L lut W9, ... d d oy me low iK bvt'd 01 lh COrner 0f ,mu,Cd thunder of b, ",u"l"J V cii Mark Let"8 fi0' t'""' high-pitche- Daphnes murmur, looked at the dejected ligure in " brought Brooke the gardenias? meat-axme chair, at the long legs outstretched. had he look hke a Didn-you uumca oy . t How was I HoId "What's wrong. Sam? Aren't home early?" re What's wrong with you, you ' white as a "I'm okay, it's these artistic lights that play the dickens with ones rest color. Didn't Stewart and the of the cast come with you?" for "Jed stopped at your house the n minute, he'll be here pronto; -- have gone rther actors-so-ca- lled After home. I'll say I'm here early. the firbt act, through walked they'd it was a choice between dismissing I had the cast or shooting them. not to decided and a sane interval shoot. I'm giving them tomorrow night oil." slu-et- ? "tr Vp.' irocK. You so from t r,... J u"'r 10 another! U- f,,'uusn If U n ,,H4 I he I 1 r 7 "i it ro Sreor, before US. .nicn nvinrj-rooat Mark Trent threw Menng fire and i.;e lr,'o j iM;e. It nA i K" warm. Yn, . ,. c., . ail c . am. ,i ;. . lr'"T) Pteitement, (i!d." c, c ,0'ls'-'- e t v,C,8ml 'hroat. ivory tinted S mM by" hand did pull the black-glove- Supper just opened In town. Give them a let-u- p from the play. hat say, maestro?" "Okay with me. It's darned good or you Perhaps I have overworked them, but there is so little time before the performance." Sam sat up his flngers throuSh hair. "urlan with that so near, wouldn't you thmn those dumb-bell- s would know their parts? I ask you! Besides that, the leading man has walked out on us." "It's tough. Can I help, Sam?" "Can you help! I'll say you can. -- ov is the time for all good men t come to the aid of their party." Take the lead." He caught Trent's arm. "Be a good scout. Help a poor, distracted playwright-producer- , will you? With you and the Crane woman in the leads, we'll r at the blaze. "WTiat do we do next?" make a offering of it. That "Watchful waiting seems our girl's good." Sam's despair had changed to exbest bet." ultation. Mark Trent temporized: "You would say that." "How do you know I'm "I don't like the implication, but good?" "How do those bozos out in Hollywe'll let that ride for the present. wood know an actor will be a wow What move would you suggest?" "I don't know, but let's do some- on the screen sometimes before they him a ? Something here, thing. I hate sitting on the side- give lines. I hate waiting. First we must m'lad, something here," Sam tapped find out who took the key from the his broad brow, "tells me you'll storeroom door. If you hadn't held be stopping the show." "That same something couldn't me, I would have dashed at him tell you where I'm to get the time and found out." "I had a hunch you would; that's for a theatrical career, could it? All all right," Mark conceded why I grabbed you. Afraid I crushed right, in response to Sam's groan, "I'll your gardenia." Brooke put her hand to her shou- take the part. Give me the sides lder. "They're gone! Where could I and I'll try to know the lines at the next rehearsaL" have lost them?" Sam caught Brooke as she entered "Don't make a tragedy of it. I'll the room. He hugged her as he get you another." Mark Trent had never seen brown exulted: "What d'you think, gal? Trent has eyes so fiamingly gold, cheeks so signed up for "Islands Arise'! Will red as Brooke's. "I'm not making a tragedy of it, he pack 'em in as the lead? I ask and I don't want another gardenia. you!" Jerry Field appeared at the door For an amateur detective amateur is the word with a capital A you beating a huge spoon against a tin are dense, Mark Trent. Suppose the pan. "First call for the dining car! person in the attic went back for First call" something and picked them up? Sam held up his hand. Wouldn't he know at once that he "Just a minute! We're all invited was being watched?" to dine and dance tomorrow by the "I thought of that so I brought new male lead in 'Islands Arise,' this along." He held a flower in the palm of his hand. The once waxen petals were brown at the edges, but they had the feel of velvet in his fingers. "You don't wan it now, do you?" He slipped it back into his pocket. "I'll keep it as a souvenir of our late dive into the underworld." "I do want it and the other too." "Because Field gave them to you? I don't know where the other is; didn't realize that there were two. You dropped this as you came into this house. Better let me keep it. Would you want him to know that it had been crushed out of shape against my shoulder?" "Just why should Jerry assume that it was your shoulder against which the gardenia was crushed? You are not the only man in my life, you know," Brooke reminded disdainfully. "I intend to keep the flower." Mark Trent felt the color surge to his hair and recede. He had caught back "to be" in time. "I haven't had a chance, Brooke, to tell you how ridiculous Mrs. Hunt's suggestion was that that I had any thought of trying to keep Aunt Mary Amanda's money in the "Started for the Sole Purpose of family Chiseling Money Off Me, I Sus"Why stumble over it? Why tell me again that you wouldn't marry pect." me? This is the second time. First Sam Reyburn anin Jed Stewart's office and now Mark Trent! here. To save a third attempt to nouncing." "You in the play. Mark?" impress the fact on me. I'll tell you "How exciting!" U at I wouldn't marry you if you "Dinner and dance in the big city! world. in the man were the only a break!" What Divorced men leave me cold. SomeField interrupted the exJerry Jie I'll have privilege time perhaps comments. cited of refusing to marry you." "Where are your gardenias, He knew now the sensation of a Brooke?" his heart. into knife being plunged His tone set Mark Trent's lips He drew the gardenia from his twitching. Under cover of lighting pocket and dropped it into her lap. a cigarette, he caught the girl's "Here it it,. Water may revive furtive glance at the wastebasket. it." She put her tiand to her shoulder. She twirled the stem in her finI must have dropped "Why--wh- y gers. them." "It is past recovery." She flung "Where' ve you been?" it into the wastebr.sket. "I dn't "Hi there, m'lad!" Sam's tone care for rejuvenated gardenias any- and manner were those of a stern more than I care for warmed over guarding his offspring. "That love. Tiiat sounds like a ctr. Can parent a topic for group discussion. isn'i the they have come so soon?" W.. don't make people punch "Better not speak of what we time-clocin this family." a discovered." Mark suggested hastiJerry Field's face turned bright ly, as she started for the hall. and' lively crimson; his voice and She left the room without answereyes were furious. He salvaged the (lower and ing. asking Brooke to punch was i wasn't thrust it into his pocket. He 1 . thought 1 might the not keeping it for sentimental reaher.-- I" for lind the gardenias sons, he assured himself, but as a as Jed Stewart apHe Mopped He was reminder of how near he had come on the threshold. to forgetting that all he had to peared a gardenia against his hps. tanning the o.ier a girl was "warmed over" Run to earth. Mark. Who's love. a flower outleaves who charmer Sam Reyburn entered the living-rooside your door?" covered blue his flung into CHAPTER VII script tc the table. He dropped the win chair with a groan. Voices in the hall thinned in the distance An hour later Jed Stewart Mark Trent could distinguish Jerry duioped deeper into a crimson-cushioneliField's laugh, Lueette's rather chair in Mark Trent s tone. Brooke's questioning demanded: brary and aruwi. and to know that Field try-out- fa r this cle Ht party for th3 seen her eyes when she saw two-sta- SYNOPSIS tamps throw lnd Fields at ttat new her fingers when I barged into Lookout lousr waving that flower and giving telling the whole show away by it up? I'm the . I am." He lighted or.gi-Xmai- c cut-up- "'EU-- all my fault. I didn't that you and she Mark, k.,( w ' d,d I. round this cruising been had t h'"Su' didn't. I hadn't told you had discovered Aunt then that silver parked , a Mary AmanHVs til oreroom. Decided to wait but I someone, on i 'the goods id to resist the temptation Soli to Brooke. You should have 1 it pilec on that table." He poked the fire till orange and scarlet flames, shot with pale green, roared up the chimney and sent a tangy puff of wood smoke into the room. The sharp ring of the phone broke Fine Feathers for Three the silence. "Trent speaking. Lola! What do you want? Not interested. If you like sellinj gas, sell it, only remember that the allowance stops. Is she? Mrs. Gregory's word goes, here. You should have made sure of that before you set up shop. What? What sort of paper?" Mark Trent looked at Jed Stewart who had come close and was moving his lips without making a sound. He nodded understanding. "I haven't rung oil Yes, I heard what you said. I can't imagine how any paper you may have will interest me, but bring it here tomorrow at five. Sure, I'll be alone. Yes. Good-by.- " Mark Trent cradled the telephone. He looked up at his friend. "Lola has a 'paper' to sell me. She suggested that I have my checkbook in hand tomorrow. What do you make of it?" "If it is the 'paper' Mrs. Gregory witnessed, how could she get hold, of it?" "Henri?" "She said he had written to her, didn't she? She's bringing it tomorrow afternoon! There's a catch in it somewhere. It sounds too easy. You don't think she'll back out at the last minute, do you, Mark?" "Not ii there is money in it She said also that Mrs. Gregory was out of busiputting the ness. It was started without a license. Started for the sole purpose of chiseling money off me, I suspect." "Right as usual. What say we call this an evening? I'm due in court in the morning in my best Gentlemen of the Jury style; furthermore, we'll need our brains running wide open when Lola comes at five. She has a 'paper' to sell! Won't we feel cheap about our suspicions of Brooke if it proves to be the 'paper' we're after?" "I stopped suspecting her some time ago. Shall we go up? We are getting provincial. If we were in town we'd be just beginning to go places. Toddle along. I'll put out the lights." Mark bankeu the Are before he ran up the stairs. Jed Stewart yawned as he stood at his door. "In spite of the late excitement, Mark. I'm sleepy. Nightie-nighI'll drop our problem into what the psychologists call the deep mind. Perhaps it will float to the top in the morning all nicely solved." He was whistling softly as he closed his bedroom door. Mark crossed his dark room to the window. What a night! The sky was powdered with stars. The sparks of gold were like the lights in Brooke Reybum's eyes when she was happy or thrilled, and she had been thrilled when she had heard of his plan to dine and dance in quires 4'.i yards of N button-all-the-wa- to of 35 inch SEW-YOUR-OW- n sleeves terial. "Mark! Mark!" Jed's voice? He laid the flower on the dresser before he opened the door. With the electric torch still in his hand he crossed the hall and knocked at Jed Stewart's door. He knocked again. Why didn't he answer? He flung open the door. A coat had been hung over the back of A shoe lay on the floor. a chair. Cold air was stirring the chintz hangings. Where did it come from? ! Mark sprinted to The the door and stopped in amazement. The window was wide open, but the air was strongly scented with perfume. The shower was dripping. Shaving materials wer. flung about as if hastily dropped. He thrust his head out of the window. There were two ways to escape from the little balcony under it. Drop to the terrace, or through Lookout House. Had Jed and an intruder crashed in there? Brooke He'd follow would be frightened. them. He swung his leg over the bath-room- sill. "Stop!" He went rigid in obedience to the hoarse warning, but only for an instant Why was he perching like a dummy with the light from the room behind making him a perfect target for the person who had grunted? He moved his leg. No response to that from the balcony. Quickly he flashed his powerful light in the direction from which the sound had come. 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