Show One Wonderful Week l ly by y c S forester SERVICE b by Bobb Babb Menon Co Co CHAPTER VII Continued VII Continued 24 24 There was a of sounds from the house beneath him lie He heard Bluer B s har harsh h s voice once olce blaring In InGerman inGerman InGerman German Doors were ere opening and shut shutting shutting ting People where w running up and do down don n stairs Ch Clearly they had already found that thit he was as missing lie He was wass s swallowing allowing twice tIce t Ice ns as hard hird now and his hie grip on the Hie lie sl skylight ski light frame frume was tighter than before Ills other hand rIpped gripped his Ills club but it was wis rather a clack and nen nerveless eless grasp p Footsteps on the stairs sounded nearer Some Someone Someone Someone one was wis running up the topmost lt flight ht to the attic A snitch mitch scraped and flared and ond some gome one entered the at attiC attic attic tiC shrank aside alde from the sh skylight ht The light from the showed shoed sho ed through the glass gliss tor tar t i second or t two 0 and abruptly went ent out again Two r N o hinds on the skylight frame Harolds s eye eyes l grown accustomed to the dark darl saw them pale In the dim light Then n f held head came through the opening It was II a ins hn rashly tor toran Foran nn an Infinitesimal portion pOI of ot time their eyes e es met Haw lIa kins mouth opened to emit a n shout and he grabbed for tor a weapon But before beCore he lie could reach his pistol even esin a sound pa passed sed his lips s right arm reacted lIe He brought Ills his club do down don n with a dull crash on Buskins 11 forehead at the place where the brow bro ended and the hair hall began So tint that Harold s years of tennis playing pInyin were of ot some use to him That t Id Idi r r i 71 c r r rY rr Y r tr C y yr r He Brought His Club Down With a Dull Crash quick fierce blow automatically erect ered hind Ind prototypes pes In dozens of un unrehearsed unrehearsed unrehearsed rehearsed low volleys trolleys at the net Il ins hands lost their grip and he fell back bick Into the attic w where here for tor the empty trunks broke his fall so tint that his collapse did not cause a sound Harold rold listening ten tensely ely at atthe atthe atthe the I lIht could heir hear nothing lIe He stuffed his club Into his breast pod et and set out along the roof root Ills rl right ht foot toot was wis In the gutter which constituted a n good foothold as long as rold gasped and shuddered as the possibilities occurred to him the gut gutt gutter gutter t ter r did not break ind was not missing at any unexpected point Ills HIs left foot sought eternally without find findIng indIng lag Ing a safe grip on the slates Ills His Hist t two 0 hands rested on the roof and ind In Inthis inthis inthis this way wiy in a sort of I nil all fours fashion with Ith one of the tour four unable to get et into action shuffled along the roof lIe He crossed It came cime to another wall scrambled otter 0 er It and continued his panting course Se Seen Seventeen en teen houses right hid salt That meant nt se no seventeen no no six sixteen sixteen teen of these infernal low walls to pass He lIe could feel his strength tall fail tallIng failing fallIng Ing him as ns he edged his way alon along his arms ached intolerably and ond there was as a deadly pain In his right ankle where here It rested on the edge of the roof By the lie time he be had pissed os 0 er cr three houses every joint within him himas was as clamoring for rest and his head swim with Ith giddiness let et 1 et the knowledge e tint that behind him were a lIa Haw kins a n Bauer and an un unI I 1 no non n Schult urged him forward Perhaps even eken now no Hawkins Haw kins had re- re re- re recovered re recovered covered and pistol In hand was scrambling over oser 0 er the roofs after atter him did not want ant to encounter again It It an accidental kick kickin kickIn In tile the stomach could make male him as re- re reven revengeful re revengeful ven vengeful as he lie had displayed himself a crack on the head from a club wielded with Hh all the strength of ot lIar old s right arm would rouse him to heights which Harold did not care to thin think about He lIe continued to make his Ills way ay along the gutter utter And as ns he did so a re- re re remarkable change came reme over oser 0 er his feel feelIngs feelIngs lags Ings Perhaps that wet et warm wind Ind ruffling his hair had something to do with It perhaps It was just a fuller funel of ot the fact that the blow he had deist out to IIa was as an ample repayment even for tor the enor enormous enormous cruelties of that unsavory char char- character character character acter perhaps and thIs tills seems the moSt probable Harold s misfortune hind had merely driven hIm light headed However eter It tt was Harolds s spirits s rose and rose At the lie seventeenth house just as he had arranged rIght was vas awaiting him But nul chance had In inthis Inthis this case dictated that the skylight should be high up the roof root clo close e be- be besIde beside elde be-elde sIde the ridge and end far out of reach ot of an anyone one standing In the gutter Come along alons whispered Wright fiercely through h the darkness lou 11 hate ha e to climb Tint was obvious and ond Harold did not shrink lIe He started to clamber on his hands and 1 1 nee aces noes up the steep elope of the roof root Seemingly his light heal head headedness edne edness 1 made him careless s as ns he came nearly within reach of ot the lie skylight ht hI he retched reached for It off of missed It lIe He slid down the root out face fice downward dowD on the lie clate slates elates he felt himself elt slipping down Then his toe slipped clIpped off the list slate slite and landed In the gutter utter The fhe gutter CI ominous Is but held to together ether was ns bro 1 brought ht up gently all nil standing spread on the roof lie He begin to chub up It 11 i this time he reached the sh lI light ht and held on I 1 thought you were ere gone one for tor sure then you ou blinking fool whispered right 11 right Cant you ever be careful Clearly Cle f rIghts frights rights right's nen nerves es could not nor stand the llie strain of see seeing Ins five fine thou thon thousand snail pounds of his own property slip slipping ping to blare D y ou nu think I did dill It on purpose snipped sn speaking up for himself him himself himself self for the first time In years ye right 11 right made no reply He shifted his grip on the frame neatly doubled himself up and pulled himself feet teet foremost t through the skylight ht Into the attic He lie hung by hy his hinds from the frame and then let himself drop rop lIar Harold old heard rd his ed feet teet land on the floor noor without even n a jar All All clear cleir whispered WrIght Come along llong Harold managed to pass his legs Into the skylight lIght and ind to Induce the rest of his body to follow them caught him as he dropp dropped nail they stood together In the pitch dark attic Then end and not till then WrIght produced an nn electric torch tori-h and let It light up the little room for a In ten teral al of time But nut Its glow vanished hed almo almost t as soon as ns It hid had begun Ibis Ibis w iy 1 muttered mutterer Wright He opened the he door and then begin beg to descend the lie stairs 11 right right hid h succeeded wonderfully lIe had de devised a n brilliant plan and ond had earned it through with tulle tude But Wright with nil all his nen nerve e and skill 1111 had ma made e no allowance allow for tor Harold turning light headed As they went down the stairs to together together gether ether Harold realized that e every ery step stepI I they took tool was wis rr c curving cirri Ins Ing him nearer to another and perhaps worse bondage lie realized that WrIghts WrIght's wiry Iry promise about good treatment by the Frank Frankfurters Frankfurters flirters might be as as the promise lie he hid made to Bluer Bauer ne Be Besides Besides sides Harold was as sick of ot the business All things considered lIar Harold old would much prefer not to be de de- delivered delivered livered up to the I I They ha had descended four lights of stairs A At t the held head of ot the nci nl nAt t Wright once more allowed 1110 ed a little glow clow from his torch to ll light ht up their path HivIng Ing once more taken in the lie lle of the had he pushed on down the stairs I a yard In front of Harold lIe He hid h hIs Ills foot to descend one stair but his stride took tool him down all twelve and only ended when he reached the bottom In to a n senseless lump For Harold light headed hc and bv by the memory of the lie smiting of H Rawl ins drew out his rub rubber her ber co cos covered ered cred bar bir of or lead and struck WrIght with ill all his strength on the back of ot his lie he just head ju id just t as a Ih hid smitten Harold yesterday It only been i slight ht miscalculation on the part pirt of ot right right but It is the slight which upset the plans TO HE me CONTINUED Mother Earths Earth's Earth A ATlIe Age Ae e The earth cirth Is years old according to the lie estimate of Prof Dr Otto Mahn director of ot the Kaiser Kalber Institute at Berlin The noted physicist t bases his on the of ot lend leid to be found on the p airfare of the earth The The progress made recently In the stud study of radio active e substances and the disintegration of the atom enables enable us to fix ax the age of ot the world orld with tall fair accuracy the prote professor sor told an audience of ot n German scientists Urn Ura Uranium and thorium contained In certaro taro minerals are ore converted concerted com in the course of millions of years Into radIum and finally Into uranium lead and thorium lead The lead findings help us to determine the age of the earth at years |