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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH MUST HAVE BEEN reor A special phonograph U which it U claimed will enable to txAj of foreign l&n?uaff imolUoeoualy by eye and ear, been invented in Japan. THREE SHUTTERED HOUSES it-dtn- hs Clay As Clothing Natives who daub themselves witk wet clay as a protection against the cold in the highlands have been discovered near the Equator in Dutefc New Guinea. By BEN AMES WILLIAMS Copyright Studeat Aid WNU SEBV1CE HOTELS CHAPTER XIII Continued 13 Tore nodded, and he asked after t. moment: "Do you know whether the front door was bolted or locked, the n:ght your mother died, before v ent to bed?' 'Yes," June said. "Uncle Justus That's why, when the bolted it. me. I (joor blew open, it scared fcaew it had been fastened, and I thought there must be someone in But I didn't wait to the house. out. I just ran." "Mr. Taine bolted it, did he?" find repeated thoughtfully. said: "Yes, after Mother was in bed, I came to the head of the stairs, and I heard him tell Grandpa Hurder the door was fast." She "And he remembered suddenly: tried to slip upstairs during the evening before Mother died. Aunt F.vie saw him, called him back." Tope was silent for a moment, and lie asked then a new question: 'if you went back, where would they likely have you stay?" "There isn't anv room at Aunt Vvie's." June explained. "It's iust I'd have a small house, you know. to stay at Grandma Bowdon's." "They've put Mr. Hurder upstairs, in the Bowdon house," Tope reported. "The back room on the west Tope She 1 started forward, but June freed her- self, and she said calmly: "I'm coming. Aunt Evie. You need not hold me!" And she nodded to Clint in a deep reassurance, and led the way toward the waiting car. Tope had promised to meet Clint beside the road, on the way up Kenesaw Hill, as soon as it should be dark. It was still no more than dusk when Clint took the road up the hill; but at an angle the Inspector stepped out to halt him. "Doctor Cabler's at the house," he said. "He and Mr. Taine stayed with Mr. Hurder during the funeral. I want to see him when he leaves. Go ah.ead, over the top of the hill." Clint obeyed; and Tope explained: "Heale can't be here. He's laid up a Lad cold from last night. But he's lending us a couple of men." And he said, half to himself: 'Here are two women killed. A the room, he could not see whether the shade was drawn or not; but he waited, striving to peer into the blackness behind the glass. Once he looked down cautiously, and saw Tope's round figure at the foot of the ladder, Tope's round face watchfully upturned. He then saw June and Mrs. Taine come in, June with a lighted candle. Behind them he saw Rab and Asa in the hall, and Mrs. Bowdon's ample form. And then his heart suddenly was in his throat; for Mrs. Taine had a glass of milk in her hand. Mrs. Leaford had drunk a glass s of milk that night she died; the too. There was to Clint something hideous and sinister in this innocent beverage now. He took an impulsive step higher, his hand raised to break the window in. But Tope below him hissed a warning; and Clint leaned down to whisper desperately: "Mrs. Taine is giving her a glass of milk!" "She won't drink it," Tope promised. "I warned her not to drink anything, or eat anything except what the others did." And Mrs. Taine suddenly, still talking, withdrew. June did not move. She watched the door. Clint waited, his pulse d Hur-der- racing. Then, after a long minute, Tope whispered: "Down!" Clint was on the ground in an instant; and Tope breathed in his ear; "The door." Clint at first did not understand. Then he heard the click of a latch, and toward the rear of the house a figure did appear Mrs. Taine, he guessed. She walked briskly away. They saw her figure in silhouette against the light when she opened the kitchen door of her own home yonder and went in. Then Clint started to climb the side." "That's a spare room." June assented. "Grandpa and Grandma Bowdon used the east rooms." "If you go out there, then, you'd probably have the front room on the west side." "I suppose so." "I'd want you to try to arrange to take care of him," Tope told her. "To sit up with him tonight in the room with him." He considered. "They may not let you; but if you're in the next room, you can hear, listen." "The stairs are between," she said. "But the doors are just across the hall, opposite one another." "Are there locks on the doors in that house?" Tope asked gravely. "Locks, yes," June said. "There Even the are locks everywhere. close's are locked. Grandma Bowcarries a bunch of keys don ladder again. "Mrs. Taine is giving her a glass of milk." man don't often kill a woman unless on hei he loves her, or has loved her." Clint 6c d urgently: "Inspector, They passed the two houses which a ladder to have I'm going ready, stood atop the hill; but Clint still to her room, get in 50 I can gn scarce noticed them. "You mean the window i I have to." Mr. Leaford?" he cried, in incredu"Yes," Tope said seriously. lous astonishment. "That's good. Or so she can get "But a woman don't mind killing out and down to us, quickly, if anyone tries to get at her. And I'll another woman," said the Inspecas though finishing his give her a revolver, show her tor grimly, Clint looked at him and " thought; how The telephone interrupted him, with wide startled eyes. Before he could speak the quesand Miss Moss went to answer it. She turned to say softly, her hand tion in his mind, a man appeared over the receiver: "It's for June." in their headlights, a policeman in uniform; and they stopped. Tope So June crossed to the older woman's side; she took the telephone in opened the car door. "Hello. Rand." he said. "Doctor her hand. They heard her say: . Yes, Grand- still there?" "Hello. Yes . The policeman nodded. "And I've ma." And after a long time: "Yes . . . got the ladder," he reported. "Hid it over in the woods." Yes, I'm coming." "Good man," Tope approved, and . They will And then: "Yes in a little while." they got out and waited, till presbring me out, Clint felt his pulses pound with a ently Doctor Cabler in his car came at a deep terror; but he could not check down the road. He stopped her now. A moment later she said, signal, and Tope spoke to him apart "Yes," again, and put the instru- in low tones. When the Doctorto drove on, the Inspector returned ment down and faced them all. "That was Grandma Bowdon," them, and he explained: "Mr. Hurder is better! Tomorrow she explained. "Grandpa Bowdon's funeral is this afternoon, late. She will tell the tale, whether he's going wants me to be there, and to go to live. The Doctor thinks he will. home with them afterward." She He's given the old man something added slowly: "That's what I will to make him sleep." The house on this side all was do." dark, except that there was a lightIn the preparations that followed, ed window in the kitchen. Tope was Clint's hopeless protests were all at the rear corner there. The was drawn; but by movoverborne. June's dress, that new w-blind dress Asa had given her, was sooted ing out a little from the house, Clint and soiled. Miss Moss made Clint could see a rectangle of light where drive her to the nearest shop, and the window was. Some one was pretalking, probably. they brought home two or three paring supper dresses for trial, found one that Tope stood just below the window, would serve. When they thus re- as though listening. Inaction began to madden him, turned, Inspector Tope had rum at last there came an inciand was" when old revolver" out 'his maged to relieve the strain: a door mechdent explaining to June its simple anism before she left for the funeral. opened; someone came out. Clint saw that this must be JusThe ritual was scarce finished before Mrs. Taine came swiftly toward tus Taine, a heavy figure of a man, them. "It s hard for roe to forgive walking with head bowed. He saw you for this, June," Aunt Evie jtold J this man pause yonder by the ashthe girl, in her low, whispering tones. filled- - cellar of the Hurder house "You have' added much to the bur and stand for a moment beside the den we, have all had to bear today.". pit as though in some dark recov- flint snvi Rab rniidimr old 'Mrs' erv. before he went on Bowdon to their car: he heard June ; Later a light appeared in the say calmly: "This is Mr. Jervies, Tarne house, behind a curtained Aunt Evie." Her eyes met Clint's, window; then nothing happened for and she added proudly: "I'm going a vhile. to marry him. I'll stay with you Clint had time for thought, and as long as you need rae, if it isn't he remembered his own suspicions too long; but then I'm going to of Justus Taine, and was glad Taine was no longer here in the house him." June. But Tope had dismissed with Taine Mrs. "That is as may be," commented. "Such matters are not Clint's theory, and the young man remembered this, and his nerves decided so quickly, June." taut again. When someone He drew Then Asa came up beside her. drawled cheerfully:. '"Hullo, June. touched his elbow, he leaped like a but Hullo, Jervies. June, with a man startled horse, ready to cry out, like this one to take care of you, Tope whispered "Hush, steady, son!" you'd better hang' on to him." Clint nodded; he tried to speak, Mrs.' Taine said softly: "Asa!" but his voice croaked dangerously. The word hissed on her tongue. Asa.iooked at Clint. "Why don't He lifted the ladder, Tope helping him; and they leaned it against the you keep her, Jervies?" he suggestwindow-sil- l above them without a ed insistently. , sound. to!" want Clint cried: "I he Clint climbed it instantly; But Mrs. Taine said: "Come child." She took June's arm; Clin' stopped with his head level with the aw her fingers tighten cruelly. He sill. Since there was no light in i . . hud-die- The young man moved swiftly toward him; but before he could come to Tope's side, the Inspector was on his hands and knees. Clint whispered: "Hurt!" She I served on a jury once with And Tope said gravely: "There's all young ladies. another ladder here. I tripped over He Gosh! I'll bet it was a grand it." He added ruefully: "Spilled the jury. milk. That's bad!" "Another ladder?" Clint echoed. WHY N0T1 There was a dreadful clamor in his ears, his own pulse was pounding . windo- - "Careful," the old man warned him. "Don't show yourself above She might see you the window-sill- . from over there." But Clint could not resist looking once to be sure June was unharmed. He saw her carefully "propping a saw chair under the that the milk stayed untasted. She secured the door, and then blew out the candle, and so came to the window and opened it. She leaned here above him, and he whispered: "All right, June?" "But "Yes," she said slowly. Aunt Evie gave me a glass of warm milk. To make me sleep, she said. I promised to drink it when I was in bed." "She's gone home," Clint told her reassuringly. "Home?" the girl exclaimed. "She said she was going to stay with him. He's all alone. I'm going "No," Clint insisted. "Rab and Asa are still in the house. And she's coming back. Give me that milk, June. I want Tope to taste it." She brought the glass and gave it to him. He said: "I'll be right here. All night." "Poor darling!" she whispered. "In the rain." "Near you," he told her. "I shan't feel it." door-kno- b; so. He took the milk down to InspecThe old man dipped a finger into it, touched the finger to his lips. "Can't taste anything," he said. "But I'll send Rand to have it tested, right now." And he directed: "You stay here!" Clint nodded, and Tope started away. He moved past the corner of the house; and suddenly, when he was six paces off, he stumbled over something lying in the uncut grass, and fell heavily. Clint heard the breath go out of him with a grunt. tor Tope. When in KtSO. NfcVAUA. step at IB HOTEL GOLDEN Reno's larcest sod mot popalar hotel. APARTMENT HOTEL Block from Temple. Reasonable Rates: day week or month. famished Completely RICHMOND. Tt E. No. Temple. Bait Lass, Inlanders who visit North Carolina's primitive and romantic Outer Banks meet many strange sights and sounds, not the least of which is the native dialect spoken by the "bankers" who inhabit the narrow rope of land stretching thread-likfrom Norfolk, Va., to Wilmington, e The dialect is a strange mixture dialect and Elizabethan English, spoken on Roanoke island,Drrarnkp and other small fishine villages along the banks, and outsiders who sometimes stumble into the midst of this isolated colony are likely to be amazed by the language. If the outlander asks a native for information about the fishing thereabouts, he may be told that "a foine toime to go fishing, is at- hoigh toide." Because many other words and phrases are so similar in texture and construction to the phraseology of Queen Elizabeth's day, historians and philologists believe there is a distinct although unexplained connection between the two. Some contend earliest settlers brought their native English speech to the Carolina shores during the days of Queen Elizabeth, and that this has been preserved through - ' LINOLEUM FURNITURE " x yd. Floor Covering: Inlaid yd. Felt Base Floor Covering iie flt.tl Chair. Overstuff at Uttoman -til Mil New Style. Reg. SIS Lamps. BOWERS HOME Fl RNISHINC Salt Lake City Sooth State Street j - 1 j i j . - Please!" Clint hesitated. "I'll come in with you," he decided then. He climbed over the sill, and with their hands entwined, they crossed the room. Very quietly she removed the chair braced under the knob and opened the door. "He's sleeping so peacefully, like a cnua. Stranger Any amusements around When he descended the ladder, here? We have fish balls Native Tope had not reappeared; but Clint was content in the certainty that some times! June was safe. He stood by the foot OUTCLASSED of the ladder, tense, ready for any minutes drifted and by. alarm; Once there was a sound, toward the Taine house, a rumbling sound had been as though a garage-doo- r rolled back on its track. If Asa were departing for town now, then Rab, or Uncle Justus, or Aunt Evie, might presently come this way. Clint was in a sweat of tense, fearful anticipation. He began to wonder why Asa did not start the car and go. (TO BE COSTISLF.D) People on North Carolina's Banks Talk in Lingo of Queen Elizabeth of native Stat. St. - 4th So. Then from the window above u them, June called very softly: "Clint, dear, are you there? Are tit you all right?" "Yes, sweet," he whispered. NEW and USED ACCORDIONS "What happened?" she asked. Be Vic Smith at For Accordions"The Inspector fell down," he said the Utah Music Co.. It! East Broadway "Didn't hurt him!" tab Salt Lake City. reassuringly. 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State Salt Lake City sisted it was all right to leave $450 00 1935 Dodge K60 heavy Grandpa, insisted that they both go 375 00 I.. W. B. Dual 1936 Ford home." 895.00 Forward HI Mi Cab 1937 CMC S75.0O 1935 International C40 "I'll tell Tope," Clint assured her, TERMS and looked down. But Tope had Branch vanished. Mack Trucks-Facto- ry She urged in shaken tones: "I 807 So. Main Salt Lake City Waaatch 7491 want to see if Grandpa's all right KODAK FINISHING if they did anything to him. in" N. C. alt Lake -SBates II U St Hotel PlanJcm Parsnip No, I won't wrestle with generation after generation of naWillie Onion. You're too strong you, seltives who live on the "banks," dom if ever getting very far away for me! from their native hearth. NOT CATCHING At Rodanthe they still sing the old were and ballads that English songs popular in the days of Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. 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