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Show 333 UncUPklig THREE SHUTTERED MOUSES mm We Have When to Shelve Patience Patience isn't much of a virtue waitirg or when it is spent turn to up. something When a girl discovers she can't attract attention except by being wild, she has made a dangerous discovery. A high degree of education sometimes makes a man con"It didn't hurt," June insisted, of the rest of us. "So we tried to get in through tha temptuous bathroom," Clint explained. "There It Pleases Him More wasn't any fire in there, so I got It is much easier for a woman that window up and climbed in; but to mend her husband's clothes when I opened the door into their than his ways. room, it was all on fire inside. Fire The two most beautiful things was spouting out of the wall right in the universe are the starry beside the bathroom door." heavens above us and the feeling is there," of "The laundry-chut- e duty within us. June interrupted. An adult is a person who has eel"And it was roaring in the growing at both ends and lar," Clint confessed. "I could feel stopped at the middle. started growing it hot under my feet. The smoke a boy has a with love" "First was pretty bad. Then a piece of its as object. the floor in front of me burned dog through; and then the flames licked up at me, and I had to back out and shut the bathroom door." A WNU SERICE miliar sometimes, too friendly, offensive. She doesn't say much about Asa, but I think she knows him rather well." Tope reminded her: "Asa went to d see her, the morning after Mrs. died. Remember? We met him in the woods, and you saw him down there." "I remember," Miss Moss agreed. "It didn't seem to me she was glad to see him, that day . . You know I've been trying to guess who will inherit the Bowdon fortune, now that Mr. Bowdon is dead. And Mr. money, when he dies. Mrs. Leaford would have been Mr. heir, you know." Inspector Tope stared at her. "You could outjump a kangaroo, Mrs. Tope," he said, in a deep ad"You're three jumps miration. ahead of me." He rose. "You've given me enough to think about to keep me awake," he said. "And I had as much as I could stand already. Let's go to bed." CHAPTER IX Continued 9 "You'll see lots more with rr.e," Clint promised. "This is a bum one, really." And he urged: "Let's start home. We can drive slowly and be together without so many people round. Unless you want to see the rest of this?" June a little reluctantly professed a complete lack of interest in the film; yet she looked back wistfully as they went up the aisle. Upon their arrival, she had not removed her coat till they reached their seats; but now in the lobby she expected some word from him about her new gown. When he said nothing, merely offered to help her into her coat, she protested: "You haven't noticed my dress. Don't you think it's nice?" Clint stood back to survey her. chuckling. "Sure, grand!" he declared. He came close to her again. "But what you wear doesn't make any difference to me, June." "Asa gave it to me!" "Asa?" Clint echoed, frowning faintly. "Why?" She slipped her arms into the sleeves of the coat he held. "He told me to wear it to catch a young man!" she confessed, laughing up at him over her shoulder. "He knows about you and me." Clint chuckled with pleasure. "It will be my turn to buy pretty things for you soon," he said happily; and her hand tightened on his arm as they went out to the car. They drove slowly, Clint clinging to this hour; and when they came in front of the great sprawling house at last, he stopped and turned off the lights, and said urgently: "Let's sit here a few minutes. You don't have to go right in." "I must, soon," she urged, yet made no move to leave. They found no great need of words. They were snug in the car, the windows raised against the rain. There was a light in the rear part of the Taine house; and June said, with a ripple of mirth in her tones: "Uncle Justus is still asleep in his chair. If no one wakes him up, he may sleep there all night." "Is that his room?" Clint asked, surprised. "No, he's in the kitchen." Her tone was mirthful. "He likes to warm his feet in the oven door." "Who's sitting up over there?" he asked, nodding in the other direc- Lea-for- . Hur-der- 's Hur-der- 's Hours later, however, something disturbed Miss Moss. Her eyes opened and she lay listening. Inspector Tope here in the bed beside And then Asa came her was sleeping. Then she heard again the sound which had roused tion. her a moment ago. "Aunt Evie and Asa are staying It was the doorbell, ringing in a with Grandma Bowdon," she ex- long peal, shrill and imperious. In a swift haste she snapped on plained. "Rab had to go to Providence." the shaded light beside her bed and They felt, rather than heard, a found dressing-gowand slippers. Jow rumble of sound; and Clint said: Then the doorbell rang again, and "Hullo, that was thunder. I didn't Inspector Tope woke and asked: see a flash." "What's the matter?" "I did, out of the corner of my "Someone at the door," she said eye," she told him. "Off through softly. She went out along the hall the woods that way." She pointed to the living-rooand heard the past the houses; and she said, and Inspector bestir himself behind her, he heard her voice shake: "We had but she did not wait for him. She the night Mother came to the front door and opened a thunder-showe- r died. A terrible one. And she add- it; and she uttered a low ejaculaed: tion of surprise and of dismay. "Uncle Justus has turned out his For Clint stood there, with a girl light. The thunder must have wakened him." Clint saw that the Taine in the circle of his arm; and they house was indeed dark now; and were both their then June cried, a sudden tension faces sooted and dirty and streaked in her tones: "Clint, look!" with water. Also, Clint's forehead "What?" he asked, surprised; and was red and inflamed in a streak he stared past her. across above his eyes, and his eyeThere was a faint brightness, in the brows were singed, and she saw in shape of a rectangle, against the that first glance an angry blister on front of the Hurder house. The the back of his right hand. brightness assumed color; and Clint . He said grimly: "Miss Moss, reached across the girl to lower the here's my June. I've brought her window so that he might see more home!" "You're hurt!" Miss Moss cried. clearly. That rectangle identified itself as the open front door of the She remembered to welcome the house, outlined in red. girl too. "Come in. both of you. And suddenly this dull red became Miss Leaford" June whispered: "His hands are bright; they saw the flicker of a burned! I wanted him to stop and flame. They scrambled out together; they get them fixed, but he wouldn't. Oh, started to race across the lawn. As take care of him." Tope uttered a low ejaculation; they did so, a car passed along the road behind them, and Clint turned he stood blinking in the light. There was a moment's silence; and then back and shouted: Clint, his arm still encircling June, "Hey, fire! Ring in an alarm!" He saw the driver dimly, saw the added slowly: "Mr. and Mrs. Hurder we got man's head nod. Then he ran after June toward the house, toward that them out; but" Miss Moss saw June shudder and front door through which billows . of smoke began to pour. He caught tremble, and she spoke command-inglyher on the steps, caught her fast; "Come in," she directed; and as for she would have gone headlong in. And she was crying: they obeyed, she shut the door behind them. "Miss Leaford, are you "Grandpa! Grandma!" When Clint held her, she swung hurt too?" she asked. "No, no," June told her. "You to him in terror, beseeching him. fix Clint. I'm all right." must in Clint. Oh, quick, there, "They're Miss Moss nodded. "Don't try to dearl" talk," she insisted. "Clint, sit Miss Leaford, come help me. down. X CHAPTER Soda, I think, is as good as anyMiss Moss had never seen June thing. He needs to be cleaned up, And you'll want to wash Leaford, and as she watched Clint's too. I expect." face, your durto devotion the girl, increasing "I don't matter," June said. "But ing the fortnight after Mrs. died, this fact sometimes dis- Clint's burned terribly." Clint protested with r wry smile. turbed her. sweet, it's just this blister "Now, one to She said Tope evening; That's nothing at all." "I've been asking about her, here on my hand. They found in the end that he had and there. You know Lissa Thayer. in fact suffered no more than minor I've spoken to you about her." hands and wrists, and "I know her, yes," Tope assented burns on his e on his brow. , "Lissa and I have become almost that "1 wrapped a wet handkerchief friends," Miss Moss explained. 'She across my mouth," he explained. knows about Clint and June. He "To the smoke out. Had my keep he when car there often leaves his on, and that helped too." goes in to the cabin. And Asa and hatMips Moss said cheerfully Kab buy gas there for their car She says Rab is unpleasantly fa "You've no more eyebrow now n smoke-begrime- Lea-for- d flame-strok- than a baby, Clint; and not much in the way of eyelashes." She was busy tending him. Clint whispered, through set teeth: "That's a lot more comfortable." Miss Moss ached for him. He grinned at June, said then to the older woman: "This sweet kid has come to live with you for a while. Miss Moss. It won't be long. Just till she comes to live with me." Miss Moss looked at June, and saw in the girl's eyes something like a plea for forgiveness; and June said softly: "He's talked so much about you. I know you must be hating me." Miss Moss smiled fondly. "No, dear," she said gently. "No, I'm glad for both of you." Inspector Tope chuckled. "Well, now that's all settled, to the satisfaction of the womenfolks," he suggested. "How about me? Miss Leaford, do you mind if I ask what happened? You mind telling me?" June shook her head. "No," she said in a dull tone. "No. I'd rather talk, I think, than not." She made an uncertain gesture. "I'm I feel as though I were walking in my sleep," she confessed. "It doesn't seem real to me." Miss Moss said briskly: "We'll have a cup of chocolate; all feel better. June, come help me, will you?" She led the girl toward the kitchen, called over her shoulder: "Inspector Tope, let Clint rest till we come back. 1 want to hear." But Clint said: "I don't want to rest." His tone suddenly was grim. "Let's go with them, Inspector," he suggested; and Miss Moss saw them come on her heels. In the little kitchen, while she was busy about the electric stove, Clint sat on the sink and drew June close beside him; and these two told what there was to tell. "I'd taken June to see a picture," Clint explained. "But the picture didn't seem to mean much to us, so we left early, drove back to her house. And parked outside for a little while. "We sat there talking awhile, and then she saw that the house was on fire." Tope nodded; and June explained: "I must have left the front door open when I came out, or else I didn't latch it and it blew open; because we saw the flames in the front hall." And Clint continued: "So we started to run toward the house. A car passed, and I shouted to the driver to ring in an alarm. By that time June was on the front steps. I caught her just in time. She was going in. The smoke was pouring out of the door, and there were flames inside; but she told me Mr. and Mrs. Hurder were in there." He held June closer, and she watched him with wide eyes. "It was raining," he explained. "I wet my handkerchief in the rain, and wrapped it over my mouth and started to crawl in the hall. But the smoke drove me back, and then June said they slept in the wing, on the ground floor; so we ran around the house to the windows of their room." He hesitated, then went on: "The windows were shut, and the curtains were drawn, but some of the curtains were on fire. The windows were all shut tight. I managed to climb up and break the glass, with for a hammer. I my pocket-knifreached in and sprung the catch and pushed the window open. I guess that's when I burned this hand; because when I opened the window a gush of flame came out in my face, and I let go all holds and fell." He looked at June. "I fell on her," he said. "She was right under me. I fell on top e of her." son-in-la- w OPPORTUNITIES, INC 530 Bro.dwy, San Diego, Calit'0f.i. PHOTOGRAPHY j j ROLLS DEVELOPED s unnu , snk or Jour ctwiw, of 16 i,r nlarcrmrois tix ooin "But you said you got them out," Tope reminded him. "Mr. and Mrs. ATTERN j Hurder." "I'm coming to that," Clint ex We tried another winplained. dow, right beside their beds. I smashed it open, and smoke poured out, but no flames. So I straddled the sill and my foot hit their bed in side." He spoke rapidly, his eyes fixed straight ahead. "I felt someone, and I dragged Mrs. Hurder up and lowered her out of the window The bed to June, and then him. was all afire, little flames." And he said, looking at the girl beside him: "They weren't burned much, I don't think. We were just The fire spread awfully in time. A , llg fi,, Kolsora St. - San lr, PERSONAL Work on Steam Ships. Fjll 1,1 cents. P. O. Box Hi, Los Aug tie'-,'-, 50 ( 'a, It includes, you see, a bonnet, a pinafore and a play suit that little folks can wear happily and comfortably on the hottest day. Make them of calico, seersucker, gingham or linen, and trim them with rows of ricrac braid. ; The Patterns. 1773 is designed for sizes 'M, ?,$, 40, 42, 44, 46, 43, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 4r?s yards of 3!) inch material with short sleeves. 4!s yards with long sleeves. Inspector Tope suggested: "Fire department must have been there ' I then!" 1; , Clint shook his head. "No, they weren't! They didn't get there till after Mrs. Taine did. Not till after Asa did, as a matter of fact. June and I had been pretty busy, but it must have been quite a while." Miss Moss echoed: "Mrs. Taine?" "You see," Clint explained, "Mrs. Taine and Asa were staying with Mrs. Bowdon last night. Mrs. Taine said they didn't hear anything till their lights went out, and she went to look at the fuses, and saw the fire through the pantry window. She came running over, just about the time we got the old people out; and then Asa came. He and I carried them into the Bowdon house, out of the rain. And Mrs. Taine and June started taking care of them. But June came out again when I did." "Were they dressed?" Tope asked. "Mrs. Taine and Asa?" "Oh, yes," Clint said casually; and he went on: "By the time the fire engines came, one wing was all afire, and the other was well started; and they couldn't get the plug off the hydrant right away. There's only one hydrant and that was three or four hundred yards down the hill. The whole thing went, before they got it checked at all." "Burn to the ground?" "The floors fell in," Clint assented. "And part of the roof. I don't know; maybe the walls wouldn't I 1766 is designed for sizes 1. 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. Size 2 requires 3:,s yards of 35 inch material. 13 yards of ricrac braid to trim. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept.. 14:) New f W imfe Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. (Bell Syndicate WNU Service I Jlsk Me Jlnother A General Quiz Q VDU'LL feel cool, and look smart, as well as much slim- a is When fired, you mer, in 1773, a soft afternoon see the flash gun the report or hear dress with full, graceful sleeves, a paneled skirt, and shirred bod- first? 2. What is the difference beice that fits beautifully over the an immigrant and an emitween bust. In chiffon, georgette, or voile, it will be lovely for lunch- grant? 3. Where are the Plains of Abraeons and afternoon parties. ham? Summer Comfort for Tot. 4. What is a prestidigitator? You can really make a whole 5. Define equilibrium with one summer wardrobe for your tot from this one easy design, 1766. word. 6. Who was Mollie Pitcher? A June's eyes were closed, and Miss tried to sign to Inspector Tope still; but he asked insistently: Moss to be 1. do The Answers Faithful Friend The flash. Light travels faster than sound. 2. An immigrant enters a place, and an emigrant leaves a place. 3. Quebec. 4. A juggler or magician. 5. Balance. 6. The wife of a Revolutionary soldier, who took her husband's place at a cannon in the Battle of Monmouth after he had been killed. 1. Oh! The comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together: certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. go. "What about the others? Mr. Taine, and Rab? Where were they?" It was June who answered: "Rab had gone to Providence right after supper," she said. "He had a case in court there tomorrow morning. And Uncle Justus is deaf. He wouldn't hear anything." She remembered: "We saw him turn out his light to go to bed, just before we saw the fire." "Saw him?" Tope echoed. "Saw his light go out," June amended. 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