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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH I Cll APTKK Win THE HTOBY THIS FAB: Todd McKln-n- , C.oorjrja yelh and small datiht-r- , Baxliy, were TkltlnK Mra. IVahody, try-ing to eolve the murder of Adeline- Tf II- - It. The evidence pointed to every mem-ber of the family, (ieorcine went up lo the attic after Itorby and found her tied In a rlntlx'i anrk. A voire behind a bead-boar- d demanded the "all dlamonda," or aid ha would drop the headboard 01 llarby. 'The voice" discovered thai (ieoricine was lying about tha diamond!, but prompt arrival of Todd aaved itarby, "the voice" escaped. something hidden. They were stuck there with vaseline so they wouldn't rattle. I might never have found them myself except that the jar broke." Mary Helen Crane gave a high-pitche-laugh. "You gone crazy, Mary Helen Jefferson Mrs. La bare de-manded sharply. Her black eyes swerved round. "TNDEED she hasn't Mrs. La-- 1 bare," Todd said. He gave one of his silent chuckles. "Quite a li'le rash of conspiracy broke out when we came to town, it seems. You probably didn't know that the jewels were still around some-where, until Mary Helen told you yesterday afternoon. You wouldn't have warned Mrs. Pcabody about the lights in the attic; you'd have been up there yourself, looking. I'll hand Mary Helen this much: she was ready to give up the search if her grandfather had been willing to finance her Holly-wood venture, but since he wasn't, she turned to you as a last resort. What did she do, offer to split the proceeds? What wouldn't you have done for a share in twelve or fifteen thousand dollars, Mrs. Labare9" He leaned toward her across the table, and his eyes were ugly and formidable. "I hope you've enough of your capita! to live on, because I can't imagine anyone's giving you another job now when they hear that you threatened to kill a small child in the course of your search." chain. Something else followed it; a thin strong cord of silk, flesh-colore- d, whose connection with the chain had been hidden by the silver plaque. On the end of the cord was a tiny bag like a sachet. Its contents were hard. Nella's head fell to one side, and she let her arms relax. "Open the bag," Todd said. "We've all guessed what's in it, but we may as well be sure." There they lay in Georginc's hand, six perfect bluish stones, unset, of perhaps two carats' weight each. "She had them!" Mary Helen cried furiously. "She had them all tha time!" She swung round to-ward her cousin. "It's too bad, Mrs. Crane," said Todd McKinnon soothingly. "All that trouble you took coming home on nights when vou were supposed to be out of town, so that Nella wouldn't necessarily associate the sounds in the attic with you; you knew she'd be too timi i to investigate alone, and that she'd call Horace to look in-stead, and that he'd insist the noise was made by rats. Startling, wasn't it, to find that there'd been strangers in the house on one of the nights you hose to search. I'm afraid Georgine and I ruined your plans. When Horace told you we were here, and you remem-bered some of the stories you'd told to interest my nephew, it made you nervous didn't it? You followed us when we came home from Dr. Crane's " CHAPTER XVIII TODD bit his lip thoughtfully. you say. These are still your innings. Hut" "She's safe, and that's all I care about. Let's just leave." "We'll go in a minute," his calm voice said. "We can be on our way before you know it. D'you think a nice quiet wedding would take your mind off your troubles or doesn't this feel like a lucky day?" "It'll be a long time," aaid Georgine slowly, "before any day will be lucky enough. Todd, don't hold me, or I can't say what I have to. Don't you see we can't be married." She never realized until he grew pale how much color usually underlay the even brown of his skin. He took his hand from her wrist. "Barby, please go into the sewing room nnd look at your book for a few minutes. Close the door between. Go on, cricket." "I don't see how I can give you up, but I'll have to." "Postpone the wedding again?" "Just about indefinitely. I never thought I didn't foresee anything like this, Todd. Of course there's danger in your profession. If you had anything to do with crime, even just writ-ing about It, you're bound to get mixed up in horrors every so often. I could accept that for myself, if I tried. I could take it for you; It's your life, so you have a right to risk It. But I never thought of Its touching Barby. How can I let her in for this sort of thing? She hasn't the choice; I have to make it for her." "Georgine," Todd said, "you're using the one argument I can't combat. I can only point out that a situation like this may never come up again." "You can't say that It never will. You can't promise that, can you?" "No. I can give you odds : about ten thousand to one." THREE days, she remembered could seem very long. "I didn't say I could givj you up forever," she fold him dully. "I don't believe I could. In time I might even get used to this awful riskiness, and maybe you could go on writing. I know you love it, it's your real work, what rou were meant for. But I can't, accept It right away." "Dear Georgine," Todd said, "can't you manage to get mad, and sail into me? Tell me this is all my fault, that I got you into this and caused you a lot of suf-fering out of pure selfishness. I've got that coming, God knows. Then, maybe, when it was off your chest " "How can I say that, Todd, when it isn't true? Barby got herself into that mess, and vou IT'S all imagination." Mary said quietly. "He's only guessing, that's what he's done about all of this" "How'm I doing with my guess-Wor- k ?" Todd asked the doctor. John Crane's long face looked haggard with distaste. "All too well, I'm afraid. There are things I never mind, this is something I can deal with. And now, there are patients waiting for me, and I must get back. If there's anything more, Mr. McKinnon " "Just a minute, doctor, please. Nella may still need your help. Now, this document He lifted the yellow sheet from the top of the pile and tapped it with a fore-finger. "You must decide, all of you, what's to be done with it Should the guilty party be asked to sign it, and end all uncertain-ty?" "Why not if he'll do it"? Hor-ace inquired. He had been sitting in a straight chair beside the table, his eyes moving from one face to another, somberly inter-ested. "Not that it'd be of much value." "Very li'le; only let him know that people are sure of his guilt He can choose, after that, what course to pursue. What do you all think?" In his turn h spjirehpr? owrv face. "You're agreed, I see," Todd said, and drew a heavy breath. "Very well." He put down the sheet of paper and slid it gently across the table. "You sign it," he said, and raised stony eyes to meet Horace Till-sit'- s. "Met" Horace said, startled. "Man, are you off your rocker 5 Sign that stuff about the st-udio" He glanced down at the typed sheet, and his sentence died in mid-ai- r. There was no start ol muscles; Horace i.ad his body well under control ; but the blood came crimson to his neck and ears. Mary Helen looked over hia shoulder incredulously. "More oi his fiction?" she said in a high,; clear voice, and began to read aloud. As she read, the mocking intonation faded gradually from tha words. "I had prepared a single capsule containing ten grains or more oi luminal, intending to give it te Miss Tillsit during the first stages of my grandfather's illness. I wai unable to find the opportunity then, but on the afternoon of June 9, 1 heard, on the party line, a call to Gilbert Peabody which in-formed him that Judge Tillsit hai had a relapse and was sinking and wished to see him at once From the rear window of thi pharmacy 1 could check on Gi-lbert's movements. When he had gone, I caught the cat and shul it up in the prescription room knowing that it would move aboul on the shelves and clink the bot ties and sound as if I were there The cat scratched me. If Martii got her out again. I can't be grateful enough. But it's just the way things are. Let's not discuss it any more, please. We'll drop it for a while; we'll leave right this minute, and just go home." Todd came slowly to his feet. When he spoke, she looked up at him, startled; his voice had a queer metallic clang that she had heard only a few times before. "No, by God, we won't!" he aid. "There were two reasons I wanted to stay here, and I seem to have wrecked one of 'em pretty thoroughly. That being the case, ao help me I'll have a go at the other one." TODD turned toward the bed. made you faint on the stairs, Nella?" She spoke, her lips barely mov-ing. "Awful crash- - in attic, I fo-rgotI was so frightened I began running up." "I believe that's true," Todd said. "You could scarcely have been the person we encountered in the attic; you hadn't the strength to balance that heavy weight, nor quite the agility to climb down the lattice work from the widow's walk to one of the second-floo- r balconies." The others were exchanging perplex ed glances. He went on soberly, "Did you see anyone as you came up the stairs?" Her head moved negatively. "You hadn't a suspicion of who might have been there?" Todd asked her softly. "Yet for months you've known that something was going on up there, some kind of a search, and you never mentioned it to anyone until we turned up strangers, who wouldn't know about the background of this fam-ily. Georgine," he said, lifting his yes, "I should like a closer look t that identification disk Nella wears. Will you lift it out of her dress clear out?" Georgine went to the side of the bed as if she were moving in a dream; she detached Nella's fin-gers, which had flown defensively to the neck of her dress, and drew mt the silver disk on its long "Stand still, right where you are," said a harsh .hisper. MARY HELEN looked at him her naive-seemin- g mouth closed into a thin, hard line. "They were mine!" she said furiously. "Aunt Adeline's jewelry was left to me." "Not quite." Todd smiled gently. "The jewelry in the safe deposit was yours; the contents of this house belong to Gilbert You had to find them without Nella's knowledge, otherwise you'd be in for a long legal battle. Once get them out of the house, and no-body could prove they'd been here. And Nella," he added, "realized that the same thing obtained from her side. She couldn't let you or anyone know she'd found them." "She could do nothing," Todd was continuing, "until her hus-band came home to stand by her, because the whole family was in league against her. I think she was wrong, that even Judge Tillsit would have to admit that in law these diamonds belong to Gilbert. A pleasant ii'Ie legacy, they'll make, too; it's the way his aunt must have wanted this, when she arranged to keep her stones here. How much would they be worth?" "About two thousand apiece, when she bought them," said Mary Helen, smoldering. "H'm," Todd waited a minute before he added gently, "People have been murdered for less than that." "She wasn't!" she screamed. "I had nothing to do with her death, you can't pin it on me. And now you're trying to talk me out of my property. Just you tell me, Nella, where did you find 'em?" Nella turned her head, and the gray eyes opened languidly. "We must all have looked straight at them a hundred times, Mary Helen, in those days after Miss Adeline died." A slight smile curved her lips. "They were in one of those cut crystal jars on her bureau, that seemed so transpar-ent nobody would look inside for Kinter and Rose Bacon had no-ticed my twenty-minute- s' absence I had another story to explain it but this was not necessary. M3 ereat-aun- t had no suspicions ol me when I came into the room wearing, to make her laugh, th nurse's cap which I had taker from the clean laundry at the fool of the stairs. She took the capsult willingly on my telling her that it was a new tvpe of patent medi cine" (TO BI CONTINVK I i. ... Summer Weddings Will Be Incentive For Many Parties I LYNN CHAMBERS' MEM'S Sliced Cold Roast Chicken Potato Salad Vegetable Salad Whole Wheat Muffins Beverage Berry Pie a la Mode Recipe given. garnish, and additional slivered strawberries, if desired. a ANOTHER EASY but satisfying answer to the refreshment problerr is a salad served with homemadi muffins that tak just a few minutes to b;ike. Bui first, consider the salad, made with easy-to-us- e canned shrimp: Shrimp and Avocado Salad Ring. (Serves 6) 2 tablespoons plain gelatin Vi cups cold water 14 cups boiling water 4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt 4 eup lemon juice 2 ripe avocados 4 cup chopped celery 1 No. 1 can shrimp Mayonnaise For a simple bridal shower re-freshment, a punch bowl with floating orange lltofM and slivered strawberries makes a pretty pic-ture. Serve this with cake or cookies. Bridal days are once more with Soften gelatin in 4 cup cold watei for 5 minutes. Add boiling water us, and there's hardly any circle of friends where at least one wed-ding does not take place. A good friend of the bride usually gives the honored girl a shower, and it is with such pleasant doings that we are concerned. Whether it's a lingerie, kitchen or personal shower, the theme of the with sugar and salt and mix un-til dissolved. Add remaining cold water and lemon juice and mix thoroughly. Ar- - party refresh-ments should be daintiness. If you can carry out the theme with a cen-terpiece of bride and bridegroom, well and good, but it isn't neces- - range about Mt of the shrimp in the bottom of a 1 quart ring mold which has been rinsed in cold water. (Re-serve remaining shrimp for filling.) Cover shrimp with Vi cup of the clear gelatin mixture and chill un-til firm. Chill remaining gelatin un-til thickened. Peel and mash 1 avo-cado and fold into slightly thickened gelatin mixture. Peel and dice other avocado and add to mixture with celery. Pour over jellied shrurip and chill until Arm. Unmold or crisp greens and place Shrimp Fill-ing in center. Serve with mayon-naise. Shrimp Filling. Remaining can of shrimp 1 cup diced cucumber 4 cup diced celery Salt and pepper Combine Ingredients and seasor, to taste. Place in center of shrimp-avocad-ring. sary. Use your daintiest linen and fresh, fragile flowers, and your table Is bound to be pretty. Pastel color combinations In table settings and refreshments are high-ly favored as they carry out the theme of the occasion. Food, how-ever, need not be elaborate, because the girls probably will be too excit-ed to eat much. Do, however, make everything delectable, and you will be well rewarded for your efTortf. a A SIMPLE afternoon or evening party might consist of a light de-lectable cake and punch as follows: Whipped Cream Angel Food. 1 cup whipping cream 3 egg whites hi cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups flour l'i cups sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder M teaspoon salt Whip cream until stiff; beat whites until stiff and combine care- - fully. Add water, vanilla and dry ingredients, which have been sifted together at least three times. Bake in layers at 350 degrees about 30 minutes or until done. Use the fol-lowing filling: Lemon Filling De Luxe. cup shortening 1 cup sugar 3 eggs, beaten slightly Grated rind of 1 lemon 6 tablespoons lemon juice teaspoon salt Place shortening in pan over hot Combine shrimp and avocado for a pretty salad. Make your salad in the morning and save last minute flutter when the guests ap-pear. Bread and butter sand-wiches made finger style, or whole wheat muffins are a good accom-paniment. a a a YOU'LL FIND these whole wheat muffins nourishing as well as a de-lightful change from other types be cause they're less well known. Whole Wheat Muffins 94 cup flour 1 cup unsifted whole wheat flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 4 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup milk 4 tablespoons melted shortening or salad oil H cup raisins Mix together dry ingredients. Combine remaining ingredients. Add water to soften. Add remaining ingredients. Cook over simmering water, stirring constantly, until well thickened and of good pi-ling quantity. Cool before using. all at once to the flour mixture, stirring, not beat ing, quickly and vigorously, until just mixed and ol a lumpy appear anee', but no long er. Over-stirrin- g Strawberry Punch. (Makes 4 quarts) 1 quart water 4 cup granulated sugar 4 cup corn syrup 2 quarts strawberries 3 cups chilled orange juice 1 cup chilled lemon juice 4 oups ginger ale 2 thinly sliced oranges or limes Combine first three ingredients. Bring to a boil and add the washed, hulled strawberries, and boil, cov-ered, for 3 minutes. Remove and strain through a sieve, without pressing, and chill. Just before serving, combine with remaining in-gredients, using orange slices for Will make your muffins coarse. Fill greased or oiled muffin pans full and bake in a moderately hot (375-degre- for 35 oven minutes. Rele-aae- bv Weatern Newspaper Union. LYNN SAYS: Make Baking Easy Give your biscuits a rich, brown crust by brushing them with milk or cream before baking. This will prevent your bakir.g them to the drying point by making them brown more readily. To prevent boiled frostings from becoming sugary, add 1 teaspoon of vinegar or Vi teaspoon of cream of tartar to the syrup while cooking. Custard pies should be cooled on a wire rack to prevent them from steaming and becoming soggy. To save sugar used in icings, spr.n-kl- a small amount of sugar on the cake before baking. This, jn turn may be sprinkled with finely shred' ded nuts or coconut shreds Fruit pies as well as berry will have better flavor if the ltn pies of half a lemon is sphnkled the filling before baking over Bread and rolJs will be mucn more quickly made if the ..., in them is doubled. Four teaspor, of vinegar also will help speed the process and keep bread better dur ing the summer months. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS 1 Coot Comfortable J4ou6e Al Summer Frock FXPERTLY designed youthful air is this su for all your summer Bold ric rac accents sleeves and upper skirt how cleverly the large trim the bodice,as Pattern No. 1528 is for siza 16, 18 and 20. Size 12, cao i yards of 35 or 3 yards The Summer FASHION has sewing Information for even-h- maker. 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WHY BE A SLAV HARSH LAXATIV Healthful Fresh Fruit Has Restored Million Normal Regularity Here '8 a way to overcome a tion without harsh laxatmi juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon in of water first thing on arising Most people find this all & --stimulates normal bowel act after day! Lemon and water i9 0 Lemons are amontf the richest of vitamin C, which combats helps resist colds and infection supply valuable amounts of ' Bi and P. They pep up appeb' alkalinize, aid digestion. La? water has a fresh tang too-- di mouth, wakes you up, starts P Try this grand wake-u- p i mornings. See if it doesn't he Use California Sunkist Lemon lf.I-HH.Hj- fi To hold your loo.se uPPe" J?fJ era comfortably secure all every day, try demist s amsi-- covery cafled STAZE. Not J Tg powderl STAZE is pl8sa".w paste. Get 35o tube at drug lodayl Accept no substitute. 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Combine one-ha- lf cup cooked sal-ad dressing or mayonnaise with two tablespoons grated horserad-ish to achieve a new dressing. Lunch-bo- x vegetables (such as carrot strips and celery) stay fresh longer if they're sliced small enough to fit into a waxed paper cup An ice cube in their midst will keep them ice-bo- x fresh. This will make a hit with lunch-bo- x diners. u"yinK fish select the ones With bright bulging eyes, if you want tasty ones. nJr" T'0n t stick lf run is sprinkled on a paper towel. iln ?0inwgelal sma" Plastcr repair to remember to wet the instde as well as the outside surface of the crack. i0rsnli8 that 'd P'-te- risTe m a way. It will suck he moisture out of the new pla- stered make it virtually worth- - |