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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER, UTAH nrst I he sealed I run by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER Copyright by Tha Bob It strikes one that an Ideal set"Leap the instant you've looked," ting (or a mystery story would be was one of Martin's mottoes, and one of those he set himself In motion across the r-- r r--" bungalows atop floor to where she stood without of a giant hotel or apartment pausing to wonder whether he house; a habita- hadn't imagined that nod, or what tion up in the the consequences would be if he Had he ever seen her besky, attached at had. the foundation fore? Was that why he had smiled to the parent at her? Well, be was In for It structure, but now. otherwise sepaHe touched her companion on the rate and apart from It There arm a very solid arm and said, are numerous dwelling places of such character perched on the roofs of the taller buildings of large cities, Henry Kltrhell where the InhabWebaier. itants are more exclusive than they secluded and would be in a residence on the ground. Their only contact with neighbors la in the elevators which carry them to their lofty aeries. Suppose a rich man wished to fit up such a place for secret purposes, with sinister designs back of the He could have soundproceeding-proof walls and vaults like those ot abank. He could work alone or could house a staff of trusted confederates. He could fit up a prison and inveigle Into it anyone whom he cared to detain. Maintaining an existence entirely independent of the remainder of the building, as many actually do In such dwellings, he would be almost as secure from surveillance and interference as be would be were he located underground. It would be a choice spot in which to perpetrate a murder and keep it dark indefinitely. But there are no murders in Henry Kitchell Webster's story, although It does Introduce a ous bungalow on the roof ofmysteria great hotel, a bungalow In which the reader Is a witness to some strange and experiences a number of Bwift and unique thrills. There is plenty of excitement, but nothing morbid or gruesome about the tale. It Is mostly a happy story, exhibiting a delightful vein of comedy, with the spirit of vouth and love's young dream exemplified in the characters of a sweet girl and an energetic, capable, type of young man. CHAPTER Red Hair. 'TpUE first movement was compllciuea ana, oeing' the first. Is y wortn disentangling. ill? when there was time to Mik, Martin Forbes went back to it Ijloiself. come to the Alhnmbra toytle had night at the suggestion of Babe She was going to be Jennings. there, she said, and If she gave him the high sign he was to take It as permission to cut in on her partner and dance with her. Martin took a partyly professional Inter-,es- t in Babe. She had a very gtwd Job on his paper as an but she had an avocation which he was gfxen to understand was even more lucrative. She was, more or less, on the staff of the AJhambra. She was what might be called a professional nice girl. Men In pursnit of vice didn't come to the Aihambra. It wasn't that sort of a place. But lots of men did come who wanted a girl to dance with and take out to supper; a girl whose deportment, though not prim, would still reflect credit upon her companion ; a girl who, if she liked you, wouldn't mind your holding her hand In a taxi as you took her home, nor your kissing her good night when you got her there. Well, Babe was one of the girls who supplied this - . fiction writer, which Martin meant to be, she ought to prove a mine or variegated raw material. for her present job she was cultivating, he thought. His fVthe I i 1 I S if . was feature stories. the city editor sent hlra out on assignments, but mostly they let him alone to pick things up for himself, tie hadn't known whether or not Babe had anything special In mind In suggesting that he drop around at the Aihambra to-night,' but he didn't much care. He had a hunch that he was going to pick up some sort of story between cow and bedtime. At the moment, he however, wasn't thinking about his, story. He was wondering vaguely whether be hadn't discovered a new law ' of Was your repulsion to physics. the man you saw a pretty girl dancing with directly proportionate to jour attraction to the girl? There was nothing glaringly He might wrong about the bird. be something less than forty. He had a face, with a smile on It, and his complacent dress was a bit foppish. Ik danced I meaty-lookin- g well, but you could See he felt he was giving the little girl a treat. No, there was no law about It Martin would have hated blra anywhere. Just as the music stopped thev turned so that he could see the girl's face, and. In sheer pleased surprise, he smiled at her; Invol unhtrily. But It wag like a head vp'Xj.lislon, for her look met hln fihsoliiicly true. There was a sub stratum of smile about It, but above t(iat there was a sort of half serious that had reference, aicsperallon Martin was sure, to the man she'd .been dancing with. "Want to be rescued?" Martin asked, safely enough, since she stood twenty paces off and he Idn't. of course, speak the words ifjtoud. ,' But, exactly as if she'd heard Ihlm, she perceptibly nodded her bend and then looked up at her her. partner, who had spoken-t- that she was indebted to one of "Tell me how you made sure, 1 the floor managers for a dancing suppose you got her to tell you "May I cut In?" From the way they both flashed around on him you'd have said he'd surprised thera equally. But In her face, which was the only one he looked at, there dawned a delighted recognition that would have con- vinced anybody. partner. He'd resolved not to try to think her out until afterward, but It was a resolution he couldn't Who was she? What was keep. she? She wasu't a professionally "uice Babe girl" like Babe Jennings. would never have abandoned as good a prospect as Lewis, nor would she have ordered anything as cheap as root beer. No, this girl lived In a different world altogether from Babe's, he was certain of that much anyhow. He smiled at the echo of her fine speech In his mind's ear: "Maxwell, or Maxfield, or Maximilian." "There conies the orchestra," he said. "Let's go down and dance again." Just then they'd moved to leave the box, but even the girl wasn't yet out of the corridor he saw Babe Jennings coming along with a client In tow, and be got a fleeting notion that some sportive Olympian was having fun with him. For the one thing he'd decided he was certain about concerning his own companion was Instantly de- "I thought I saw you just a minute ago," she said. Then, to the man she was abandoning "You'll j excuse us, won't you? It's literally forever since we've had a dance together." Forbes felt himself wearing an indecently broad grin as he danced away with her over that "literally forever" of hers. She had told the blighter the exact truth ! "I didn't know anything like this molished. could happen," he said, after they'd i Babe said to her with sisdanced in silence about half-waterly familiarity, "Hello, Red I You through with that box?" His girl "Red," Indeed! an swered In a perfectly matter-of-faway, "Yes, come In. We're going to dance," It wasu't until then that Babe "Hello, Marty I" recognized him. she said in lively surprise. "I've been looking around for you. But I didn't know you two knew each other." I I . His companion smiled. "We don't," she admitted. "We picked each other up in the middle of the last dance." "I wish," Martin put in, "that you'd be good enough to introduce us." It amused him to see that Babe was shocked. "Miss White," she said with cold formalilty, "let me introduce Mr. Forbes." She added, as she turned away to summon her companion who had been hanging In the background, that she liked I yCven i WHTJ Co. the whole story of her life." "1 made a pretty fair start with her," be said complacently. "She's a cagey little brat, though, and I didn't want to press too hard. I'll get more next time. But I found out her first name, and it fits." "Kept her own first name, did she?" the woman said. "She's the one, then. I was practically sure when I saw her." "I guess It's all right," the man said. "It won't do any harm, though. If I try to find out some more about her." The woman uttered another short "You listen unpleasant laugh. here, Max," she said. "You've got Find out Just one Job tonight. where she lives. If I can get her address, we'll have G J. where we want him. Until we know that, we're nowhere. We haven't any time to waste fooling around. She may see that ad tomorrow and answer It Find out where she lives. As soon as you know, come around and tell me. I'll do the rest. I'll go now. No, sit still. I don't want to take a chance of her seeing us together. So long!" She came around Martin's side of the sofa, and without stirring he watched her go all the way to the stairs with a miiid quite blank, however, as far as she was concerned. He had something else to think about, He had 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 McFarland. It was part of Martin's daily routine to read the personal column pretty carefully. Every now and then he found the beginning of a story in It. He had especially noted these advertisements for Rhoda McFarland because of a minor oddity about them. Usually the advertisers for the addresses of missing persons were firms of attorneys who offered their own names and addresses In full. But these had all been blind ads. The answerer was Invited to " communicate his facts to or something of the sort, care of the Daily News. Today the form of the nd had Uhoda McFarland, It had changed. said, would learn something to her advantage by communicating with Rhoda McFarland, though, WORLD WAR YARNS nflMHifr.au INDISPOSED? by Lieut. Frank E. Hagan X Hero An "The boy stood on the burning deck" as a matter of fact the deck wasn't afire but it was most decidedly a "hot place" In which Jack Ainsley, son of Capt Charles Ainsley of the coal barge, Lansford. found himself that morning of July 21, 1918, off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. For the Lansford was one of four barges which was being towed around the cape by a tug, Perth when suddenly the (one submarines of the six German which succeeded In running the gantlet of destroyers, cruisers and eleven-year-ol- d Am-bo- sea-goin- 6 subchasers patrolling the Atlantic coast and which sunk thousands of tons of American shipping In our waters) loomed up through the fog and began shelling the tug and the barges. 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It may be a stomach upset; it may be sluggish bowels. But when little tongues are coated and there is even a slight suspicion of bad breath it's time d high-backe- Max-fiel- - Over-exerti- e 1 V'- Eye-strai- Uncle Dudley some people's nerve ! Sergeant Jacob Phipps quit the Babe's disapproval of (heir manarmy Just once In his twenty-fivners advanced their acquaintance years' enlistment He said to her as another step. "Got a Job with Robinson circus," they danced, "I don't like that he recalled briefly. "First night out name: Babe Jennings' nickname for. with the Uncle Tom show they you." wanted me to sleep with the bloodShe smiled "Bed? hounds and jackass. Your Uncle not? fits." It "Because I Didn't Say It to You at Why Dudley jumped the job and came not Rhoda White. It he "That's what doesn't," just to the army." All!" What had made the memory of back Insisted. "I want a better name Once the troops kicked about 1 of series advertisements that know I to of don't than around the floor, "and that think pop food. "Your Uncle Dudley," you by. Phipps yet how it did happen. It's more wish you'd tell me your real one." into his head so suddenly? Max told them, "has traveled from the out was find where to the lived She looked rather searchingly like a perfectly gorgeous dream girl to the Maine rockbound coast of Into his face for a moment be- tonight because they hadn't any golden shores of California but nevthan anything else." around". She time for fooling might er on such "Don't wake up, then," she said. fore she answered, but the decision chow as you're getIt was an easy Injunction to she'd hesitated over was In his see that ad in the paper tomorrow ting In this good man's army. Don't forWhether she was a perfect favor. "You may not like my and answer It Martin sat sud: get it 1" obey. dancer for all the world or had been real name, either," she said. "It's denly erect and theD slumped back A cowardly blow with a bottle of specially created for him, he didn't Rhoda. You don't like It, do you? again Into the corner of his sofa. rum laid him low as his regiment know. He might consider it later, Or if you do," she went on, over- Had it been his Rhoda they had left for the lines. Phipps climbed but It wasn't worth speculating riding the protest he made, "what been talking about? from 8. window and remade yon look so funny when I He hadn't yet seen the man who joined thehospital about now. They merely danced. outfit as soon as he was was still sitting on the sofa be- conscious. When disengaged, they stood told you?" But his pep was gone. to He didn't alwoman he but had that hind at he called the each other deny him, said, try looking He grew morose. most reverently, "Oosh !" and her might have looked funny. "I've got him Max. The obvious thing to do "Phipps Is old," said the officers faintly audible sigh expressed the some association with the name was to walk around the sofa and doubtfully. "What'll he do in the I I I'm sure t. can't don't take a look at him; find out If he line. How'll he act under fire?" that same thing. sp But was the same Max that Rhoda had "Do you have to go back?" he know anybody named Rhoda. Their answer came a few days In " the name's been To him, I mean." my mind within wanted to be rescued from. But later when Phipps' company capprotested. to do that openly would probably tured a town. He led two "To Mr. Lewis? No, I don't have the last three days." platoons to go back to anybody." She "Well, don't try to find It now," give may to the blighter the fact without losing a man. And some smiled faintly as she said that. she admonished him. "Ton don't that his conversation with the wom- one had seen him when Phipps an had been overheard by some one climbed He was thrown out of his stride dance as well when you think." upon a firestep at "H" hour So for the next few minntes they who took an Interest In It. Better and faced his for a second by a pleasant perceptroopi. sit still a minute first and check tion that she knew how to pro- dispensed with thinking altogeth"If you want to see the Statue of er. They allowed themselves, In- up. nounce the name "Lewis." Liberty again follow your Uncle "Well, then, why , . , !" he deed, to become a little too oblivThe pair wanted to find a girl be- Dudley," Phipps barked happily. to In when ions their he rails the the fore somebody else did, somebody got surroundings. His goatee pointed aggressively began next pause, as they stood waiting who was advertising for her. The toward the enemy trench. again. Phipps to for Marorchestra the go on. "Just because you were kind woman had thought she recognized was himself again. a a saw of I me flicker frown cross her but hadn't been sure. ApparIf didn't wish tin enough to ask to be rescued," she explained, "it the girl's eyebrows, and the next in ently she'd sent for Max to come When "the Kid" Went West doesn't follow that you've taken me stant a voice said at his elbow. and scrape an acquaintance with on Indefinitely. Haven't you any- "May 1 have the rest of this the girl and find out whether she Sergf. James J. Washa of the Indance?" a rather scared voice; it was the one tliev wanted. "She's One Hundred and Thirty-firs- t body to go back to?" He laughed. "Not a soul," he wouldn't he Lewis, anyhow and he the girl, all right." Max had said. fantry captured and killed enough "Let's go up to one of turned to see a blushing eager She was a "cagey little brat," hut enemy machine gunners In the fighttold her. those boxes In the balcony and get youngster who'd cut In on him. he'd found out her first name. And ing of August 9, 191S, to merit a a soda or something. Distinguished Service cross. Annoying as the Intrusion was, this, added to the woman's On October 8 the sergeant and Her wants In the way of refresh- Martin couldn't help liking the girl he regarded as conclument were modest. A glass of better for her kindness In sive. He wouldn't have said that, his company crossed the Meuse and puffin" root beer was the only thing she'd the shy boy at hlR ease. She In- wouldn't have gone through the advanced through the mud. toward have. troduced him to Martin Hlggins. process at all, Martin reflected, had Oonsenvoye. A group of stretcher "It was a funny coincidence," he his name was and danced away the name under which the girl was bearers approached. The collar orremarked, "your saying, as you did with blm. Introduced to .him been that of the nament of one of them Identified It pleased Martin Just now, that I had asked you If though, to observe that he danced girl he was looking for. The first him as a soldier of "Company I, Inyou didn't want to be rescued, name fitted In, .and the second one One Hundred and Thirty-seconbadly. that Is exactly what I did didn't: Rhoda White. Instead of fantry," the company to which Serleft and the floor, He made for ask, I mean, those very words." geant Washa's "kid" brother, MichRhoda McFarland. a vacant sofa, a low, "Well," she Innocently ques- overstuffed thing, one of a Ills sensitive reporter's nose Und ael, was assigned. that pair "How's my brother, Mike Washa, tioned, "why not?" back to back thwartwl.e in detected the trail of a story and "Because 1 didn't say It to you at stood the mere professional Instinct started getting along?" sergeant corridor. side Its fellow the had. ' all. I was standing sixty feet away him off planning how be could run shouted. for Its he noted, a tenant solitary a him saw from you. I said II to myself. How "Just mile down the It toto Talk down. Babe Jennings whose aggressive hlondness did you know exactly what I said?' girl road," the stretcher bearer replied. a really focused glance nec- night and find out how much sh made "Telepathy," 6he told him; and essary to satisfy Mm that she knew about the girl. She probably "Looked like he was badly shot up." American dead soldiers, she said It wlih a grin. aud wasn't P.abe Jennings. Reassured knew where she lived, anyhow. wounded, She lenned forward a little to on It there, Get file tomorat everywhere. the advertising he that Into the row point dropped seemed the roud. watch the crowd on the floor, but vacant seat he along Finally out find and who morning her. behind But he'd Just as his gaze followed hers, she was. For a guess, he'd turn came upon tK body of his brother. begun thinking shout Khodu "The kid" was dead. suddenly drew hack Into the shad- hardly when his attention was sharply di- out to he the C. J. whom Max and The sergeant stooped down. He ows of the box. The reason was his friend to were take lady a felt frying Jar as somebody removed a diary and a Bible from The man he'd res- verted, sat tiedown beside plain enough. of. And then advantage go through the the woman heavy cued her .from Lewis. If that was on youngster's Inside pocket. A the other sofa and heard him all the McFarlnnds In the "morgue" his name was coming across the tiny paper marker was In the P.ible, to If see could he discover any ren to her, "Well, you were right. say floor. Martin drew bark, too. son why a Rhoda of that name He turned to it It was marked In "Do people's names ever strike She's the girl." should have changed It for the the Book of Matthew, at the story Is she now?" "Where of the death of Jesus. you as misfits?" be asked. "His on the floor. She can't see colorless came of White, and dis"Out & 1530. Western Newspaper L'nlon does. My Idea of a man named us here. . I guess I've beaten appeared. Well. Lewis doesn't look Hke that." His reporter's mind went as far old man to It tills time." the Old Art Revived "It may not he bis real name," "You?" the woman questioned ns that point as easily as a she remarked, "or he may have Artists In England are reviving car rolls down hill. But ironically. t thai the ancient painting, changed It from something else, point It stopped with a tempera "Oh, that was a good hunch you All I know method whose secret process was both shocked and astonf'eople do sometimes. that Jolt Is that's the way one of those men had," he admitted. lost for years, aud are using egg He saw her face smli The woman's comment was n ishednt him. In while trousers introduced him him In friendly confidence as yolks aud wax as part of the ingre Ing He asked me to call him contemptuous laugh, to me. she'd smiled when she danced away dients. Martin, Interested without know with Hlggins. 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