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Is packed with high spots in the way of public interest, high spots that in many cases will quiver and sag before spring has moved into summer. sum-mer. The first high spot brings up the pursuit of the Cardinals and Red Sox. Will they be able to survive the 154-game chase and meet again In the next world series? This is the way it looks today. They were the two best teams in baseball last season sea-son and they look to be the two best in baseball this season. Both look to have the better ball players and this is a big part of the answer. Any rival team that beats either out will have to show about 40 per cent more than said team has shown so far. The Pennant Race Another high spot is fan interest What about the Brooklyn Dodgers? Where will they finish? How many games will Pete Reiser play? Will the Yankees or the Tigers fin ish closer to the Red Sox? The Tigers have the better pitching possibly the best in baseball The Yankees have good pitching. Both infields are uncertain. 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We'll vote for the Cardinals, with Musial, Schoendienst Marion and Kurowski, backed up by Cregar and Glavlano. Next best the Red Sox. Who will lead both leagues in hit ting? Stan Musial Is as good a guess as you can make now, with Ted Williams close. Williams will have the call In the matter of extra bases, What team can be the pennant dark horse of the year? The Boston Braves, especially if Mort CooDer has an old-fashioned Cooper year. The Braves under Billy Southworth can be an upsetting outfit replete with the cyanide touch. Cooper, in shape, is a creat Ditcher nnt merely a good one. The best rookie of the year? Keen an eye on Yogi Berra. the Yankees' latest fence buster. He is looked upon as one of the main Yankee hopes. Yogi came to the Yankees as a better than promising catcher. Then he was shifted to right field. TV A CHAPTER XVI THE STOBY TIIC9 FABi Todd McKln-aoo, McKln-aoo, Georgia Wyetb and small dan(bter, Barby, were liitln Mrs. Peabodjr, trying try-ing te solvo the murder of Adeline Till- CHAPTER XVI THERE were a few gentle questions ques-tions from the doctor. "You can't have just fallen down those stairs, man, if you were going up. Your foot slipped? But how did that knock you down half a flight?" Todd's gaze traveled slowly from face to face. After what seemed a long wait he shook his head cautiously. "I can't seem to remember much," he said, "except that the lights wouldn't work. I'd started up the stairs anyway, so I went on." - "Somebody took the bulbs out," Horace began in his hushed voice. "But what were you doing t" said Mary Helen shrilly. "Why were you on those stairs at aUT" "Why not?" Todd murmured feebly. His eyelids flickered. "I was in the garden shortest way from there to my bedroom" The others exchanged swift glances. "But what then, McKin-non?" McKin-non?" the doctor insisted. "How did you fall?" "Then" Todd said, and gazed vaguely into space. "Then no. It's black. All black." His voice trailed away. To Georgine all the terror and distrust of the last few days struck inward. She thought inco herently of the hard Tillsit eyes and the Tillsit secrets, of accusations accusa-tions implied and spoken, and the aunt with the reticule in Todd's story, and a door opening when an old woman invited death to enter en-ter her room. We've got in too deep, she thought in panic. We've started something that's going on inexorably inex-orably to finish itself, and if we get in its way GEORGINE opened the door and looked in. Todd, sitting on the edge of the bed, met her glance and got up swiftly. "Yes, I'm really all right," he murmured murmur-ed in answer to her gesture, hardly hard-ly a bruise, if the truth were told." "I gathered something of the sort," said Georgine in a low tone, shutting the door behind her. "A fine performance, chum. 'Black, all black!' Heaven give me strength." , - "Dear Georgine, I beg you not to snap your eyes at me." He grinned unrepentantly. "That was the most innocent li'le experiment a man ever made, and I got a fine surprise from it. No, I was not going up to the attic in the dark, sticking my head out for someone to bop me. There shouldn't have been anyone there." "Well, what were you doing, for heaven's sake?" "Yes, I'm scared again," she added defiantly. "Good and scared, and I'm in no state to consider logic, Todd, they're trying to keep us here, by one means or another, just so they can get us as they very nearly got you on the stairs." "Take it easy," he said tranquilly. tran-quilly. "That wasn't as bad as it looked. In the first place, what I was doing wasn't foolhardy. I simply wanted to go up those enclosed en-closed stairs without trying to be quiet, to see if the others would hear me and come to investigate. I meant to step out on the second floor, without going near the attic." "And," he went on levelly, "someone did hear me; someone who was already up there, and Knew, tnai i mignt come up through that well at any moment." mo-ment." "No, I didn't really fall. You might say I slid down the banisters banis-ters on my hands," said Todd, silently si-lently chuckling. "Knocked my wind out for a minute, and by then I heard the light cavalry charging up the front stairs and it occurred to me to play dead dog. Worked fine, too." "Did it, indeed. It took a year off my life." "T SHALL try to restore it, my JL dear," said Todd gravely. "But consider Nella's solicitude, calling for the doctor at once; it took him a fairish time to get to the 'phone too. Consider how opportune op-portune Susie's visit was, and the fact that Horace came down from the second floor to find me, and Mary Helen came up the enclosed stairs from the first floor almost as if I were being hemmed in so that if Td wanted to chase my giant bat toward the basement, I'd have bumped into Mrs. Crane and been headed off. All very rewarding." re-warding." "I see. Couldn't have been better bet-ter if you'd planned it Todd Mc-Kinnon. Mc-Kinnon. If you'd lay off these experiments ex-periments " "I give you my word, this wasn't was-n't planned." "All right But if you got to thinking of yourself as a great detective, after all you've said" "No." He frowned a little. Tm no detective, except that well, you remember what we said about the transparent mask." Lewore Qlenn wamicyi( It. The ov'tlenee seemrd to polat to Gilbert, Gil-bert, Mrs. Peabody'f botband, but any member ot the family could bat beea guilty. Cue night while everyone was Play in i bridge, Todd sneaked out. Booa "You know who Tillsit?" "I think so." 'ttrn j ii 4n killed Miss i said "tu, uon i icn me: Georgine in a vigorous whisper. "At least not until we're far away." She zot up. "I've had enough of this, I want to go home ana forget it." "You're quite right. Why don't you go to bed now, and betore you know it it'll be morning and we can " "Go to bed? You mean to sleep? Are you crazy? After all these goings-on I'm not even planning to take my clothes off, let alone lie there in the dark." "I'll be up, if that would help any." "What for, Todd?" "If our Impulsive friend goes up to the attic again," said Todd deliberately, "he's going to get caught in the act." THE sounds of people going to bed diminished and died to silence. It was nearly one o'clock. Georgine peered cautiously into the hall and saw that Todd was already there, on the plush settee by her bedroom door. "Leave your door open," he said on the barest thread of breath. "Leaves us in shadow and lights up the stairs." She lowered herself carefully to a seat beside him. When they were together there didn't seem any great danger about this vigil; it felt ridiculous and hollow. "Are you sure everyone is in?" she said in a whisper as soft as his own. "Yes; and asleep, I hope." "What made you pick on Nella? 'Todd, dear; you made a mis take in letting so much time elapse between our last talk and this one." "So?" "Yes. I've had time to think. Will you take me away now?" "Now .' His smooth head turn ed slowly. "Yes. But if we let them know we're going they'll find some way to keep us. I know you want to stay, to to see things out to a finish. You think something's due to happen tonight But couldn't we skip the last act and get out before the crowds? Look, Todd. You said you'd guessed all the answers; but you're not a detective, detec-tive, you're not a policeman, you're not even a private citizen who's seen a crime committed. This is all in the past the criminal part at least, isn't it? Well then; what do you have to do about it?" "What do I have to do?" Todd's whisper came at last" Nothing. I don't know of any way to see justice done. Miss Tillsit's body has been ashes for all of four years, and there is no other proof that a murder was committed." "And still you want to stay and see this out?" "No. Not if you want to go this badly. How long will it take you to pack?" "It'a all done," Georgine whispered whis-pered in a half -sob of relief. "Then I'll put my coat on," Todd began to ease himself to his feet, "and get the car out of the shed. ItH roll down without my starting the engine." He bent to her ear. 'Tou won't be afraid to stay alone for five minutes? If anything went wrong you could scream, you know." She heard the front door open and close softly as he passed through, but she doubted that anyone else would have sensed it She slipped quietly back into her own room, leaving that door open the merest crack, and stood look 111! ItSfwl mmmi mmiwrn It iiff7. T J- 7 'fJZ afterwards ey 'leard r. crash rushing upstairs, they found Todd, lying apparently appar-ently neonsclous oa the floor. While overyona was busy, ha let Oeorglno know be was UK. ing round carefully to make sure that everything was packed, bne could carry her own bag and Todd's light one, and he could take Barby. With care, Barby would not wake at all. If she should, and they were caught She lifted her head and stood gazing incredulously at the wall I The lowest attic stair had creaked. She could see perfectly. The light illuminated the full lower half of the flight, but there was nobody at all on the stairs. CHE was sitting on the floor kJ when Todd came back a few minutes later. Her palms were pressed to her eyes and she was saying to herself in a low voice, "I've gone mad. I must have gone mad." "Georeine. what is it?" He knelt beside her. "I couldn't scream when I saw nothing at all, could I?" She took down her hands and looked at him dull-eyed "G-get everyone up lust to tell them there wasnt &ny- one on the stairs but f-footsteps?" "Wait a minute. What is this?" "The treads creaked, one after another, and no one was there! He was halfway to his feet wherr she caught at him. "No, Todd! Don't go into that stair well! Please, if Ive ever asked you for anything "No, listen to me.". She took a deep breath and shuddered once, strongly. "I know that wasn't a ehost. of course. It can't have been. But it's some kind of trap." "I'm not so sure." He was still unruffled. "If someone did engineer engi-neer that special effect, maybe we were meant to think that we had been mistaken all along, that there had never been a living person per-son in the attic. Or, if we didn't believe in ghosts we might convince con-vince ourselves that the house made those noises all by itself; you see?" "Maybe," Georgine murmured, her eyes fixed on his. "But I don't like this human agency any better than the supernatural. Thank heaven, we're packed; we need not waste a minute.'.' "I'm afraid we must." His arm was steady about her shoulders. "Just before I started to roll the car out I looked at the gas gauge. Somebody's let all the gas out of the tank. And the new coupons aren't good, for two more days." "Can you take it for a few hours more?" he said levelly. "In the morning Til see what I can do with a few threats." "I'll have a try at taking It," said Georgine drearily. "There isn't much else to do. You won't go into the stair well? Will you promise?" "I promise. My poor love, it s about time you had your innings." She heard him quietly re-seat himself in the hall; she fell back against the pillows, still weak with shock. It would be impos sible to sleep. ... MORNING sun made the new leaves a gilded green, outside. Barby was climbing Into the bed beside her, jabbering about breakfast, break-fast, and there were voices in the hall. Horace's soft tones, muffled and booming in the enclosed stairway, "Hey, who left this mop down here?" "Mop?" Todd was courteously interested. "Yeah. Wedged into the banis ters, right across the stairs. Great God!" Horace sounded aggrieved. "If a fellow had come running down here in the dark, he'd have tripped on it and broken his neck." Georgine sat up. "Yes. darline ." she said in a low voice to Barby, you get aressea now, as fast as you can. We're going home-ditto!" home-ditto!" "Today? Oh, Mamma. I haven't half finished looking at those old things in the trunks." 'But we must eo some tlm dearest You can't stav out of school forever." Todd lighted a cigarette nnri strolled into the front hall in her wake. "The question of pay," he said gently, "is rather involved, I'll admit You're an honest woman, wo-man, Nella, and you have no car or your own. She turned, the gray eyes wide. "I haven't" "So you'd have no use for the gasoline. You're thrifty, too. 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