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Show BEAVER PRESS Hidden Waw; 3ml By FREDERIC CHAPTER XV Continued on t 16 To ... the mam bother. t.:i "Don't . . I said, xo snow 'to ring U now I ask you-- not dis-- b to less t later when you've whether you to think seriously . e ever violated your confidence. ainciew about Grove and his key. 10 k.aved him once from the Jam he "PP'lin now. I knew of his liaison 113 8ih lone. See how much of that lsl b can find in the Press, or any lU tier newspaper up to now." Ulegra gave a little laugh of dison Duke's tossed She squeal iet ih desk between us and went from l room. I bowed Jerkily to Miss ven,atha and headed for the door, aiserr voice checked me. Up to now," she repeated. "Do mderstand that is a threat?" f had stood plenty. Her stern linens could not beat mine down. rintj'And do I understand." I an-:oered, "that your question Is a dude to bribery?" 'Are you," she inquired, "doing nd best to be insulting?" nJ. am," I told her, "and I didn't kean find it rs a lountjin it." ihe chuckled. The hearty sound It ter seemed more bizarre. Glutecked melodrama and spoiled my J caJe. I stared. Miss Agatha grinned. , fej"Put down your hat and coat," J bade me. "I want to talk to .A. , Don't stand there gawping. ' , as I say. Allegra is troubled h Ideals. She'll outgrow them to 5Unllie. Suppose you tell me, as as you can manage, just how uses i happen to be on the Press." e su'ihe smoked one of my cigarettes . ile I confessed my arrangement Ji Cochrane, and the difficulties :a being pulled two ways by loyalties. Once or twice, lle I spoke, she nodded and when in mat preposterous irs, ad ended, gave n of hers. make me feel better," she ,ja "You .J me. "I didn't want to believe ' 8 ! twice been mistaken in my est!-te- a of character in so short a j ly found myself defending Grove. learn when this thing is ft scrambled that he's been just a wg idiot, nothing more. No one aS3 r n make me believe that" tfo one can make me, either," broke in, quietly. "He's a good He's lacking in common sense, 's all Well, it's a family fail- ssywss M9 iYou'll tn" Miss Agatha," I blurted, smit-""s- v by the calm she preserved above SINE' anguish that must be tearing at . "you're a game guy!" 'roller face relaxed a trifle. rAG sDavid," she said, "when worn-Sa- lt i reach my age, they cry easily, not! at all. I have no gift for AIN rs. Grove is in trouble and I 7 'e to help him. I always used 'vij?ull; him out of scrapes. That's oi iw.' job again." 'he looked at me and the wrinkles t her eyes deepened. ,ry Uak elf you had a spark of chivalry," mocked, "you'd offer to help fi. - Am" ld ; And if," I answered, "you had Intuition whatever, you would that anything I've got is ch af, ,,..l do know it," she admitted with ther chuckle, and then grew J-- - i sud-"l- y rave. you help me," she asked, sWill " save my nephew from the trou-MEinto which a scoundrel and a js;2.()id police force have plunged lrh" s i and out of which a pompous of yer apparently can't get him? I an old woman, David, and a ition ipie. I can't put a murder and ICAliicide where they belong, by my- - N -- All you have to do," I prom- rRV'? "is point out murderer." ; Do you think so?" she asked v'iy. "I've aph?'' looked rinliv11 found him already." hard at her. Lyon Ferriter-- " 8aid Agatha .""'iet "I've known that all along." CHAPTER XVI ij"l,,riss Agatha's quiet words were t re shocking than screams. They n so simply and readily the roR c,ke v that I had blundered toward, recoiled from and reached at ln that I could only stare at her. M blurted: How do you know?" le was like a damaged and an-plamp in which the flame still clearly. She told me: . jf.'v'Iaed ' From his hands. I was sure the .' when Captain Shannon first ' ; stioned him. Don't you remem- be-li-- X , "".iery 4 well," I answered, "but" JjJUis hands," she went on, "hung sides. Usually, he uses them He was watching himself. riiOjwas acting the part of an en-ty innocent person In whose flat lan had been found murdered. as overacting it. He had some-- t j to hide and he was hiding it, carefully. Too carefully to fool via rt " I ,int rken fm , , why-- ?" ofI- - I began, but she tOavid," she said. "I've been nev-certain of my own virtues that o Kiww'lred to hunt down the iniquity i Ihers. Mr. Ferriter may have nil very good reasons for killing visitor, A q w bit on nothing with a little but" of her head and I thought of ."'hesls, the withered Fate who the cord. She rummaged in handbag for something and, di , F. VAN DE WATE-- R vining her need, I offered a cigarette and lit it for her. Smoke and something more dire had narrowed her eyes as she went on: "Lyon Ferriter was clever in his alibi. Since the part that anyone can check was fact, it has to be presumed the rest was too. No one can prove he was in that flat when the man was stabbed. What?" I had started to speak. Now I said, "Excuse me," and held my words. "And until," Miss Agatha went on, "that is proved and it is found how he got out afterward, Lyon Ferriter thinks he is safe. He is proud of his cleverness. That is dange- rousfor him." "Well?" I asked as she paused. She did not seem to hear me. She pursued, her eyes still narrow, her voice daunting in its calm: "All of which has been none of an old woman's business up to now. Lyon Ferriter called on me this morning. He said he wanted to help Grove. What he wanted was to admire his own cleverness. If he had come to me fairly, David; if he had said, 'Your nephew and my sister have been having an affair. How can we get them out of trouble most easily?' he would have had me as an ally." She rubbed the cigarette out on the ash tray with slow violence. I NO We . . 3Gl J off. van oc wATrit Rooms as low as nd convenience of Ails Hotel at prices as low as you'd pay eliewhere. A renovation program completed November 1st make dies accommodations an nnutual value. Park your car in our new, modem garage at extremely low rates. Enjoy world-fame- "Davld," she said. "I haven't the least idea," and she gave her deep X ' TXT s sr' - iECREENRATGlO chuckle. I sat on the desk's edge and told By VIRGINIA VALE her everything I knew. It was a (Released by Western Newspaper. Union.) relief to talk to someone without March of Time has helding back. We smoked together at first and then, as I passed from to the rescue of all the scuffle in the basement to the of us who have an interest in duel with Lyon and the rifling of my someone affected by the new room, the cigarette burned down unheeded in her fingers. She asked, selective service law. In at last: "Army and the Men U. S. "And why have you had all this A." we are taken inside trainattention?" and shown how the "Miss Agatha," I tcrd her with a ing camps men in the nation's rapgrin, "I haven't the least idea',. , young idly expanding citizen army live, what they learn, what they do for amusement, and how they are being welded into a defensive fighting force. The film shows what has been done to provide comfortable living quarters for the young soldiers; it shows as well how the nation's industry is concentrating on orders for the gigantic defense program. It's a picture specially meant for all draft eligibles, their families and their friends. When Howard Hughes finishes waving his magic wand over Jack Beutel we may have a new star on our movie screens. Beutel gets his chance as one of the leads in the new Hughes film, "The Outlaw." He bails from Dallas, where he had little-theat-er experience, and wasn't getting far in his ambition to succeed in Hollywood when he got the Ilnghes assignment. eomforU th d The HOTEL UTAH Salt Lake Gty THE She chuckled again. "At any rate," shj said, "we start even as allies." "Wait," I bade, and told her of the foreign voice I had heard at Mino's. She looked at me ' hard when I had finished. "Are you sure?" she asked. I shrugged. "Right now, I'm not very sure of anything. Yet I don't think I'm beginning to hear voices. And it may be important, but it Isn't evidence, unless we can persuade Lyon to drop back into it again for the benefit of the police." "No," she said thoughtfully. "You're right It's a signpost, nothing more. There Is a flaw in Lyon, somewhere. Everybody has one. If we could only find it and work on it- -" "You said he was proud," I reminded her. "And clever," she added. "And also lucky, at poor Grove's expense. Think a minute." She gathered her fragile body together and looked hard at the hands clasped In her narrow lap as though they held a seer's crystal ball. "Think," she went on, "of his luck. Everett knew Lyon had killed Blackbeard. And Everett was frightened. Anyone could see that He was not of, the breed of heroes. You were to be killed by accident while Everett rifled your room. The Fer-ritethought you had something that was key to the murder." "And Everett failed," I offered as she paused, "and that, plus fear, destroyed him. 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'""iliwi i UJ Mi-no'- terror." The surprise in her face heartened me. "Yes," Miss Agatha said slowly, "that is quite possible and Grove "Do I understand that Is found the note and since its implicag a threat?" tions seemed to threaten the of his precious beloved, pockgave her another. Her voice had eted it he would and thereby an odd ring as she went on: damned himself." "But he didn't He had no idea There was excitement and odd rewhy Grove was in his fiat! He said lief in thrusting facts into the pigthat he had given the boy a key eonholes of theory where, at least, because Grove was in and out of they would lie without falling out in the apartment a good deaL Implic- confusion. Faint pink had come to itly he served notice on me that that Miss Agatha's cheek-bone- s and her was what he had told, or will tell, eyes sparkled. I asked: the police. He'll protect his sister "Has your nephew told to whom and leave Grove to be scapegoat he wrote the letter at this desk last for the death of Everett and the night?" if earlier murder, My possible. "He has not," Miss Agatha annephew's plight is a godsend to swered. "I never have known sihim." lence less golden than his." "And to lone?" I asked, doubt"Because," I went on, "I think he fully. is telling the truth," and then I "And to lone," Miss Agatha an- confided my own experience at that swered and her jaw grew hard. "She desk when, looking up, I had seen a hasn't spoken, has she? She has not light across the area and Grove pullcome forward with the truth to help down a shade in the Ferriter flat her lover. Hers is the perfect fear ingMiss when I bad ended, that casteth out love. I wish I knew reached Agatha, out a hand and, amazingly, what it is." my knee. Her got me by the patted David," she said quietthink, "I throat I blurted: wrong-heade- d "a very ly, pair of foul "How people are!" women owe you more than an apoloMiss Agatha cocked an eye at mc. gy for what they thought of you this "So you're finding that out?" she morning." asked. "Forget it," I told her. She sat silent a moment and I She shook her head. thought of the weathered figurehead, "No," she said. "Just postpone Immune to storm. it. Mightn't it be well if we were "Miss Agatha," I said, "what do to write down, separately, all we you want me to do?" know and suspect of this bewilderShe answered indirectly in a level ment? Thereafter, comparing our voice: lists, we might find some hint of "All my life, thanks to my legs, what else we should do?" I've been audience to the sorry "It might," I granted, humoring dramas mortals play. I don't like her. the way this particular one promanother "There's typewriter ises to end. I don't like the thought Miss Agatha thought aloud. about," of Grove still in Jail though I un- "I believe it's in the basement derstand he is only being 'held for storeroom. I'm sure It was put there questioning according to Senator when It came back from the repair Groesbeclc" man's. Allegra!" "Has he your nephew given any I do not think she saw the moveexplanation?" ment I made to check her call I The affectionate smile that accom- had small desire to face the scornpanied her reply was pitiful. Grove, ful girl again. It hurt too much and, it appeared, had said nothing to the at the same time, angered me. But police and little enough to his law- in an instant there she stood in the yer. He had been typing a letter at doorway, looking at her aunt and the desk In the workroom and had plainly not recognizing my existseen a light in the apartment, across ence. Sight of her smoldering niece the air shaft He had gone to the made Miss Agatha revise her pur Ferriter flat and had found Everett pose. about to throw himself from the "My dear," she said briskly, "I window. He had tried to hold him, have already apologized to David but the man had screamed and torn for what we both thought when his free. That was all. He would say friend's letter came this morning." no more. He would not even exShe paused. Allegra's face did not found note the had the police plain stir nor did her eyes move. I fumin his pocket bled for some word to end ihis or"And they say." Miss Agatha end- deal and found nothing. ed, "that chivalry is dead. Grove, "Why should I apologize?" the girl the young sophisticate, posing as asked. "So that I can read about it if it be Carton would funny Sidney in tomorrow's Press?" weren't so tragic. He won't see IX she could me so, I might that He won't help himself. Very be able to reachhurt her. I said, as easwell, I shall have to save him by ily as I could: putting Lyon Ferriter in his place." "News must be either Interesting The certainty in her voice stirred or important." mine to awe as I asked: "How?" I was sorry then, for she looked at Miss Agatha looked at me hard for an instant and the wrinkles about me, caught her breath and fled, her eyes deepened. (TO BE COXTISVED) well-bein- ELEANOR POWELL a successful musical comedy years Ann and years ago. It will Sothern (giving her a chance to get away from playing "Maisie" for awhile) and Tony Martin. Arthur Freed and Busby Berkeley, producer and director of "Strike Up the Band," will produce and direct, and the George Gershwin music will be used. co-st- What old favorite do yon suppose new aphas been scheduled for pearance nowT None ether than "The Phantom of the Opera," with Broderlck Crawford playing the "Phantom." But the real surprise is the girl who'll play opposite him It's none other than Deanna Durbln. She's always done comedy, and sung a few songs, superbly. But when she finishes "Nice Girl" she'll get away from all that temporarily, and appear in Universal's famous thriller. Something new In casting has bobbed up at Paramount Book reviewers on newspapers and magazines are to be polled for their nominations for players to appear in the screen version of the Hemingway novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Since book reviewers who know one motion actor from another are scarcer than hen's teeth it seems unlikely that their opinions will be of very great value. Jill Esmond, a talented English actress whom you hear on the air as Emily Eronte, author and narrator in "Wuthering Heights," spent her last night before leaving England d in a Liverpool shelter, reciting fairy talcs for hours on end to keep a group of children entertained. 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