Show r THE GARLAND WATCH THE CURUES RICHARD Copyright By HOFFMANN Richard Hoffmann Service by WNU SYNOPSIS hli father's bitter critFollowing icism of hi Idle life and the withdrawal of financial assistance Hal Ireland only ton of a wealthy banker flnde hlmaelf practically without funde but with the promlaa of a situation In Ban Francisco which city he must reach from New York within a definite time limit He takes passage with a auto paarty on a "share expense" basis CHAPTER II — Continued — 2— he said ’Sfunny" “how that Larsen thought I was with the chippy wasn’t it?’’ “How do you know she’s a chippy?” said Ilal in spontaneous Irritation “She looks It doesn’t she?” said Crack his lazy amiability undismayed “No" said Hal promptly hoping to confirm that she didn’t There was another pause— apparently serene for Crack but oddly Irksome A truck for Hal passing In the street shot out a violent backfire opposite Hal started all through his body them and glanced at the man again Crack was in complete indolent repose still his quiet look barely stirred by a hint of sly mischief— as If he had caused that sudden explosion to confirm some lazy guess about Ilal He stepped confidentially to Hal’s side of the door and said In a low tone: “See that big bird standln’ at the hack there? Ha’s a dick A detec- tive" Ilal raised his eyebrows ily before he said “IIow between the He chuckled as If he had outwitted some one ’Til show it to you “I guess I’ll see It soon enough" said HaL “What are we waiting for now?” “Nothin’" said Miller grinning “Well where’s everybody else?’ “In the office reckon" “How about loading ’em In and starting?" Miller chuckled “Guess we again might’s welL" Ilal leaned against a pillar of the garage— hands In side pockets quick sure eyes brooding mouth moodily set between the lean lines of his cheeks — and hatched them file In his “companions’’ for an July ride through country which he vaguely as the flat dusty setting for mldwestern novels First came Mr and Mrs Pulsipher— she almost scuttling like a brood hen who knows that in another moment panic will be at her heels and he following close with lanky bewilderment and the short steps of someone being from behind pushed They hurried Into the back seat Then came the nun who had sat cool and unmovlng all tills time In a corner of the office her tranquil face patient faintly sad and Immaculate as Its tight white framing And then came Miller stuffing soiled money Into his soiled wallet and then Martin Crack like an ambitionless looking easily pleased countryman except for the special tidiness of his thinning hnlr and the lazy speculation under his blue eyes After him came the girl and Hal realized that without knowing It he had been waiting to see her walk It had the grace that comes of effect the from unconsciousness charm that Is near awkwardness like the walk of a boy suggestive of Inquiry of expectance You can still go to the devil Ilal but If you walk to him that thought way I shall watch you with admiration Rut he wished Crack hadn’t said that about broad shoulders and slim ankles “The lacdes usually starts off In Miller said and Waited for Pulsipher to lunge forward abruptly and abandon his Injured wife The nun got in and the girl The dog wasn’t so keen about the Idea and hack” gotr ap — ‘Seven’’ said Miller “Six besides yourself 'ey 7" thinking Oh good G — d I “Seven” Miller repeated vention Got a seat stands said “Got on Hal a In- a box the Trafford I won’t speak to you Martin Crack announced himself then with a lazy sort of modesty and neither amiable nor otherwise Kerrigan looked at Hal “Henry Ireland” said nal trying to match the humorlessness of the brown sedate eyes even as he wondered If he really saw deep in them a flicker of something youthful Mystery Age-Ol- d Unearthed Mummy of Baby Perfectly Preserved New Mexico May Lead to Solution of Great Riddle of the Pueblo People The pick of a lonely gold prospector short time ago unearthed a treasure on the Jemes Plateau In New Mexico which brings one step nearer the solution of the great riddles of the deserted pueblos there and In thi Chaco canyon says the Kansas City Star Great mystery has always surrounded these prehistoric ruins In the district northwest of Santa Fe Where did those ancient peoples go? What drove them from their pueblos so well built and so strong? One day they were there 11000 of them living In 14 large towns In symmetrical pueblos four and five stories high Then they were gone leaving no word no sign to say where The prospector found one mute little messenger to throw a bit of surwhich light on the mysteries round the customs of these Tewa Instead of gold he uncovpeoples bundle ered a carefully wrapped from the loose soil With trembling Angers he began to loosen the outer covering The prospector found a softly woven blanket lined with feathers In a perfect state of preservation blanket Within that was another the downlike feathers duplicates of those In a modern baby’s pillow When that was opened there lay before the prospector the perfectly preserved mummy of a child There he lay with an ear of corn In his hand a little pottery bowl over his face Just as he had when he was burled about 1000 years ago nis hair was touseled as any child’s would he In sleep and his tiny hand grasped the ear of corn ns If tired he had fallen asleep in terrific great drouth and drove them desperation to seek other homes However no man can say definitefor here the scientists run ly against a blank wall at every turn The Tewa peoples though living In a high state of civilization bad no written word There are no old tablets to decipher no Rosetta stones on the New Mexico mesaa On every hand In these ancient pnebloa there are riddles but the greatest of all Is the location of their burial ground Up to the present none baa been found for this large prehistoric of Chetro Ketl in Chaco community canyon In The prospector hastened to the authorities with bis treasure It was they who fixed hla bnrlal date as about 820 The priceless find was all examined Its minutely history searched out by the signs which only expert archeologists understand Then It was put on display at the Feast of Raw Peanuts Museum of New Mexico In Santa Fe Upset the President Only four such mammies have ever been found and this seems to be the most Interesting specimen of all Calvin Coolldge was browsing So proud are the archeologist conabout the basement rooms and cornected with the museum that they ridors of the White House a abort are carefully preparing a report to time after taking office when bo be printed In learned scientific Jour spied a large sack of peanuti near a nal s Meanwhile they zealously door leading to tbe rear grounds guard the child against photograThis discovery Interested him at phers until they have made their once He always bad a passion for weighty reports and safely lodged kind of nuts especially peanuts him In the archeologists’ Hall of any This huge bag was open at the top Fame and looked most Inviting He gazed Already the word has gone around upon his find for a second or two and among the native Indians and many H then helped himself liberally of them resplendent In their silver filled bis two coat pocketa and and turquoise rings armbands Later in the morning while at hla necklnces have come to view the litIn the executive office he rang tle mummy They have walked by desk for his secretary and told him he felt with Impassive faces sick and directed that his engage“A pity” they say In their strange He went to bis voices "a pity to take ments be canceled expressionless the little child from his grave where bedroom suffering with pains in the Ills physician made him he has rested so long” Some seem stomach to be afraid bad luck will follow drink plentifully of castor oil and In those who leave him there In a glass a few hours he was feeling more like cabinet sleeping his timeless asleep himself before the eyes of strangers Upon Inquiry the President dishave covered the peanuts he had been eatMany scientific explanations been advanced as to the cause of ing were raw He did not know that the departure of the Tewa peoples the nuts to which be helped himself For years a from their homes Some say a pes- were for the squirrels tilence wiped them out Others that sack of raw peanuts had been kept and garBut on hand lor the policemen an enemy annihilated them which seems verified the theory deners to fill their pockets before goIt after the Intense drouth of the last ing to their duties In the grounds summer Is that the ground level of was In this way that the squirrel their water supply sank during some were fed— Boston Globe and Pulsipher tumbled quick words from behind: “Any relation Frederick Ireland that banker that Ireland who’s president of that bank here?” Hal turned his head big as far as he could without moving his body “Oh yes” he said “Eldest and that?” Ilal If girl’s expression was as soft and gentle as that name but he could see only her clear possessed profile and the brief flow of golden hair under the protective rim of her blue hat Go ahead look like that: somebody’ going to speak to you now But her barely pursed Ups parted la a slight smile when Mrs Pulsipher said “And your name young lady?” “Trafford" said the girl In tone nearer huskiness than you expected: “Barry Trafford” “Barry?” said Mrs Pulsipher “That sounds like a man’s name” “I know” said the girl quietly “my father liked It" “And did well to" said Kerrigan in grave courtliness “If you’ll allow me" Ilal saw her head turn saw her bine eyes large and solemn but not hostile as she said “Thank you” Even without looking In the mirror he was conscious of her — both In It and behind him Relax you d — n It relax: Light on eager Mrs at him to that perfunctorknow d'you “I thought he was” Crack said "and then I saw his badge” “H’m” said Ilal Crack smiled and except for a vague Ills7 his eyes speculation In drowsy smile was youthful halfway candid not unengagiag “He’s not looking for you Is he?” he said cocking his head a very little “If he were he shouldn’t have much trouble finding me and I’d be an ass to tell you anyway wouldn’t I?" Crack’s smile sobered Just a shadow “Think she’s After a while he said It happened to going to Hollywood?” what Ilal was moodily be precisely and he was startled Into a wondering shrewder look at Crack “Wouldn't be surprised” he said and wished he hadn’t been trapped even Into that much interest “She's got a good figu re” said Crack "I like sorta broad shoulspeculatively ders and nice cleaurcut ankles on a babe don’t you?" “Hadn’t Hal murmured thought” straight ahead of him angry and a little ashamed that this the should mention very stranger things he looked for first In any girl Hal snapped his cigarette Into the gutter and went Inside to sit on his suitcase again The girl hadn't altered waither position of solemn ing But the terrier stretched luxuri-- ' ously — leaning ’way forward with his and his chin hind legs straight out stretched up The stretch broke Into a friendly grin and a wagging of the docked tall when he met Hal’s eyes Hal smiledT winked and held out h!s band The dog came stepping forward to the end of his lead and put a cold nose against Hal’s fingers The girl’s saw that her head turned quickly solemn eyes were large and of a deep blue — also that they were alive with the beginnings of defensive at once she pulled hostility the dog back and looked away You can go to the devil Ilal said to himself — you and your broad shoulders and your slim ankles I hope Martin Crack makes you and makes you like It A little after eleven some luggage — two veteran suitcases a cardboard already losing the rim of Its lid tied up with two kinds and a of string — arrived from the Grand Central It was the work of but fifteen minutes more for Larsen to find Jake Hiller In the garage behind the office and start him lo'adlng Miller's car was a large Packard sedan of another decand lusterless ade with paint stained as the garage floor a diagonal of adhesive tape across the dull windshield and all the nlckeljwork the color of old and unloved pewter Miller’s futile hand unfolded an Immense trunk rack on the back took out a tarpaulin and began spreading It with care over two oil puddles on the garage floor On this he stacked the luggage with what seemed accidental neatness and lashed the tarpaulin around It with clothesline else thought Added to everything Hal he’ll go sound asleep at the wheel and run us Into somebody’s house “IIow many passengers have you Hal asked when the luggage was to see UTAH GARLAND TIMES 1 am lookKerrigan— Giles Kerrigan ing forward to this Journey but I Judge we’re mostly strangers Let ns have Introductions” Uls unsmiling look continued past Hal In the direction of Mrs Pulsipher “Mrs Ella Pulsipher" she said less severely: “and that’s John Pulsipher my husband" ' "You’re from Iowa mam" said Kerrigan “Yes" said Mrs Pulsipher interested beyond distrust now “Burbank How did you guess?" “Los Angeles Is the capital of Iowa mam" said Kerrigan solemnly “and I was told this crare — this car was going there" Hal thought the man’s prohably a nut Kerrigan went on: “I vote for yon for chaperon of this emMrs P igration Will you get ns the names of the other ladles?” There was a moment of silence and then a very soft careful faintly foreign voice behind Hal said "I am Sister Anastasia" It was surprisingly beautiful to hear her say Hal looked up at the duplicate There Was Something Funny About the Unreality of the Thing he growled ominously as Crack stooped to help him And then Hal saw that another man had come — a bulky rudman of perhaps fifty dy no waissuit In a tcoat gay bow tie and panama hat him with a Miller surveyed in and said his sleepiness “You’re biggest: you better get In front" And he added a drowsy “Hey” for Hal Crack got Into the farther Pulsipher took the Invention next him and Hal cramped himself In last There was a slamming of doors and the of the eight days ahead pression crowded among these dull and mutually distrustful strangers was shut Into atmosphere the close Miller leaned over the wheel as If he were already going very fast and lever The back the noisily dragged engine gave a first tag against Its load moved It gathered sudden mowith venerable and plunged mentum the ramp Into the down eagerness street hazy heat of Score for the first speech of the trip went to Mrs Pulsipher time: ten mithe long Passing nutes docks with sunlit masts and flags and funnels visible over them she suddenly “That’s where the boat announced goes to Europe” The burly man In the front seat turned slowly and suspiciously round a fresh but unheeded cigarette puffing and Joggling at the side of his lips as he said "Which boat ma'am?" “All the boats — to Europe" said Mrs Pulsipher her manner Implying she hadn't been speaking to him The man edged himself sidewise with his arm along the back of the seat and looked at her with a scholar’s potential respect “You’ve been to Europe" he stated “No" said Mrs Pulsipher severely “But we've been In New York two from Bridgweeks and my eport showed us all over and showed ns where the boat goes to Europe This Is where It goes from" “I believe you mam" said the man his deep voice quiet and respectful I “It’ very Interesting My name Jj favorite son” Gaunt John Pulsipher racked by some surprising and hampered eagerness began to stammer quick unconvincing laughter In his throat until he snapped his lean fingers then he said ain’t got but the one son" “That would still leave me eldest" said Hal drily Pulsipher’s earnestness slowly faded he blushed tried to smile dropped bis “I thought you eyes and murmured was foolin’" Ilal glanced Into the mirror and a slight wry satisfaction stirred hla lips the Trafford girl’s eyes— not meeting his — were angry as when she had pulled her dog back from him angrier perhaps for the knowledge that be was looking at her reflection and smiling to himself He hoped so “And our pilot” Kerrigan said gesturing briefly with a strong not ungraceful hand: “Mr Jake (Ace) Miller" Miller grinned “I always think” said Mrs Puls“that severity ipher with resumed come It’s when strangers together nice to try to make everything pleasant as they can for each other It’s not hard to be nice" “It must be hard for some people" said Barry Trafford’ low voice “Maybe It Is" Mrs Pulsifer agreed grimly pleased “It’s too bad If It’s that way too They miss so much for themselves’’ “They think It’s the others who’re missing It so I s’pose that makes It even” said Barry Hal chuckled Inside That’s the girl but I’ll make you madder than that too And before we get to Los Angeles possibly you’ll be sorry for It He looked at Kerrigan The brown eyes were thinly sedate over wise and then one eyesparks of laughter lid flicked down and np quick as a camera shutter was There something funny about tbe unreality of the thing Hal had to believe New Jersey and the hot sun and the unyielding lnmplness of the seat but he couldn’t believe anything visualize the beyond that couldn’t journey’s ever getting farther than New Jersey He couldn’t believe 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