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MB U TKB II S f'AK: lrlvln ICII Todii't nephew, UyUe .,irramento, ttUIf.i rmy (ieorjlne Wjetb, and her imall daughter, Barby, made . detour to Valle,llle, to pay a bri,t , on some new frl.nda ot Ujke'a. It waa with aome aurprlae thai they found their tal to be crumbling mon.troiity of a Victorian manalon. Once Inalde and aftei having nut their hoateaa, the charming Mr. I'eabody, Georgine had a premoni- tion that there waa mora to the place than m, t her eye. "chapter B ... e third, tiny un-th- e last few H,eh i i is furnished with Btonrd plu.h chairs and BZjth ' lllorP chromos. out oi it into this room 3, j from one cen-- 0 another. There was a nulli."!!! rug; there was a Kjinary bedroom suite ot i ii ity and chest and i bed table, certainly thin the past tew years, re than an anachronism ; lysterious way it was al-ls-to the eyes. ;abody must have read its or her expression. "It ily one we did over. Most it of the house is just if course, and we'd meant hat, too, when we could but of course I shouldn't Iouching it until Gilbert ne. There isn't going to ing different," she said s if challenged, and gave lead a little shake. In the ent she was all business, s right here, In the sew-0- h, no, it isn't. We must I it up attic, the last time iry Helen a dress ; it's so eally get around up here, and make sure." girl's dress, but the parents had changed their minds. "I just love to sew for little girls," she added smiling at her youngest guest Barby looked at her mother with a slow dawn of hope. "There's nothing we'd like bet- ter than to have you make some-thing for her, if we were staying here, Mrs. Peabody," she said but you know we must be start-ing home in an hour or so. No, darl-ing, don't even ask to stay. We mustn't argue, you've talked plen-ty this morning already." "I was just talkin' to myself, then," Barby said. "Toddy does that, he was doing it last night when I woke up. You know what you said, Toddy? You said some-pi- n' about had a lie 'n' tells it. Who had a lie?" At this seeming irrelevance Georgine was surprised to see Todl's lips tighten. He glanced at his hostess. She had turned off the spigot of the percolator, though his cup underneath it was only half full, and was returning his look intently, her eyes wide, her breast rising and falling with uneven breaths. "Adeline Tillsit," said Mrs. Pea-bod- y softly. "That was what you said, wasn't it? You've heard her name, then ? It meant something to He was forty before Pearl Harbor, Gilbert was. He needn't" Her breath seemed to give out, and for a brief minute she put both hands over her eyes. Todd and Georgine gave each other a horri-fied look. "I can't tell you how sorry we are, Mrs. Peabody," Todd said gen-tly. "1 can only assure you I hadn't heard a word of your husband, nor of the family, from anyone; that is, not in connection with a mur-der. Will you forgive us, and let us go as gracefully as possible?" "I don't know what you're talk-ing about, forgive you," said Nella Peabody fretfully. "What differ-ence would it make if you had heard about it ? The fact's there." Georgine got up. "We'll never forget how good you've been to us, taking in perfect strangers like this. If you'll excuse me now, I'll put things in my suitcase and get hold of Barby" "Do you have to go?" Mrs. Pea-body looked up, startled. "I if Mr. McKinnon is interested in mur-ders, at least he might want to hear what happened." "I'm sure he would," said Georg-ine somewhat dryly. "He he might be able to help me. I've never known the truth. Sometimes I think I may die if I can't get at the truth!" She must have shivered, for Mrs. Peabody said, "I'll make us some fresh coffee." Georgine did not meet Todd's look. For a mo--1 ment there was no sound in the kitchen except the homely ones of running water and a spoon click-lo- g against metal. Mrs. Peabody's movements were nervously quick. Presently she sat down again, and the percolator began its first pale bubbling. "Now," she said, turning her gray eyes on Todd, "I'm going to tell you why you never heard any more about Miss Tillsit's death. And don't let me forget and let the coffee stew itself to nothing, because I'm likely" she laughed a little "to get pas-- 1 sionate about this affair." Her mouth set hard for a mo-ment. "The the worst of it is that after it began to dawn on me, I couldn't ask Gilbert. He'd never opened the subject himself, and I couldn't, I couldn't probe and nag and have it look as if I" She stopped, and got up hastily to refill the cream pitcher. Todd lit his cigarette and Georgine's with-out expression, without a meeting of eyes. When the woman had re-turned to the table and switched off the percolator, he said calmly, "I gather that all you know about the case is completely objective? That may be the best way for us to get the outline." Then he composed himself to listen, with his motion-less type of attention. "The Tillsits were just about the earliest settlers around here. Those were the old ones, the pio-neer couple that came from Maine in the sixties. You've seen their pictures in the dining room, per-haps? Adeline was the eldest, she'd be eighty-si- x now if she'd lived. Theron, her brother, was eight years younger, and Phoebe came last. The first generation is all dead, of course, and there's only L Theron we call him the Judge left of the second. "Adeline never married. She; bought their shares of this house from her brother and sisler, and made it hers. She'd done pretty well with managing her share of the inheritance, and though she didn't leave a huge estate, she could live comfortably enough for all that long life. I think it must have been in 1935 that she had her first stroke, she recovered from it partially at least, and went on liv-ing here; only she had Susan , a practical nurse, to look after her and run the house. She was quite a wonderful old lady: she wouldn't give way to her ill ness any more than she could help Susie couldn't keep her in bed any where as much as she wanted. Aunt Adeline got so she could move round the second floor with a cane, though of course she couldn't go up or down stairs. That's one of the clearest associa-- 1 tions I have with this house, com-ing in and listening to find out if she was up. You could hear her cane tapping, from any of these rooms." fjBJp!' : reurgine tn- - Hvith an attempt at laugh- - fgii ir, 1 keep telling you they Bioon, a night or two past Tm poured lifiht through the bay window; that must H?n what awakened her, for Hiis in the garret were bare-Mpnbl- Pattering, scraping. Hd then a little rattling Has if bits of plaster had Hine. burrowing deeper into Hed it was true that nobody Hv' the rats. She wondered Hwhat it was they did that H like tapping, very far off Hilar. It was true that the Hse creaked and cracked Hly as its atmosphere grew Hhe was glad she knew the Hr it, because those sounds Ht be laid to the rats, nor e impression that she had door closing somewhere Has also glad, the next , that she hadn't let her-Hin- e anything sinister, for Bain that at some time dur-Hiig-one of the other oc-o- f the house had arrived. H saw him, to their shared in the hall ; a tall, young-- , his blond hair in a mat vplment, lightly clad in Br half ol his pajamas and Brging from the bathroom. Bod!" the man exclaimed, nearsightedly at the open Ber room; and then bolted entiy across the hall to Br behind one of those ne had clutched her dark B mere tightly around her sion, but was moved more B'er than to horror. That Horace, whom Mrs. Pea-S-mentioi ed; what was he, Bew, cousin, or what? She B him as part of "the fam-- ice never let his B'v when he was coming served him right to be Bd by strange women. she returned, Barby was B'ng with energy after a hour sleep. She jigged Be foot to the other as B attempted to braid her button her dress. "Mam- - is fun! Just think, night ,''"' iyed at a hotel and B vve stayed here. I wish m ever have to go back Bi't," said her mother, vigorously. I1 guess I'd like to be back Dillman's birthday par- - love it when we go on Pro this. Mamma, where'd BP? Can I go and wake ne Might down the hall? am!-- , ,. when I kiss Toddy m that little smooth spot BRr his eye; if I try any-S- e his whiskers prickle me. v ever prickle you?" coming quietly in and mi the three ladies, said eas hungry. m Barby squeaked hap-f- 3 your brain come back again?" I a figure of speech, said Georgine repressive-wel- r hostess looked an ffd question. I 'he feeling that I'd been ry I had it last night. WI np;'rd me mention it," BP vuh antodd gravity. abody said how beeom- - orchid cotton print was ILS fuairness; had her IT th,ught of a deeper, rhae; amost violet? Mrs. C5 lovely piece of chal- - Depn meant for a little The sounds in the garret were barely perceptible. It was a minute before he spoke. "Yes, I've heard her name," he said in that casual voice that was so restful, so unexcited. "She was very old when she died, wasn't she? And this house was a show-plac- e in its day. I remembered why I had thought I'd been here before; one of my newspaper friends had a full set of photographs that were taken while she was still alive. They'd planned to run a feature story on it some time: famous belle of the eighties, that sort of thing; but I believe the war pic-tures rather crowded it out." "Yes," Mrs. Peabody said, with a quiet that matched his, "she died on the same week-en- d that France fell. That was why there was no publicity at all; we were spared that, because nobody outside of town heard much about it." Her heart-shape- d face looked set, and a patch of color stained her cheekbones. "Your newspaper friend, Mr. McKinnon, must have explained to you that the place where those photographs were taken had become the setting of a crime. What did he tell you about it?" "Very li'le that I can remem-ber. I did watch the papers for a few weeks afterward, but I never saw any other mention of it." "There was a reason for that. I think you're being kind to me. not actually telling me his sus-picions." The small, gentle woman actually grasped the edge of the tabic and shook it. "My husband did not do it! Gilbert is absolutely innocent, it was just those wicked rumors and never anything you could put your finger on, nobody saying openly what he thought, so you could tell him he lied. That sort of indirectness it's a stab in th back, you don't know you're Struck until you find yourself slow- - ly bleeding to death. Maybe those rumors sent him to his death. 1 haven't had a letter in two weeks. He may be dead this very minute. And he needn't ever have enlisted. he never would have gone away after we'd been married less than have left me-liket-his a year, he wouldn't if he hadn't been driven. They'd give him an honorable dis-charge, if he applied if he's alive. She paused for a moment, look-ing down at her hands. Georgine glanced involuntarily at the ceil-ing. Tapping. Tapping? Yet that sound she had wondered about, that was supposed to be made by the rats, had come from the attic; she would swear to it. Just the same tapping. "How much of her family was left?" Todd inquired. "Only the Judge, in her own generation. In the next one no-body but Gilbert, who was the son of her younger sister Phoebe. You see, that made him her next of kin after the Judge." (TO BE CONT1NUID) First, Last Bullfight The only attempt to establish bullfighting in this country was made in New York 67 years ego, according to Collier's. The pro-moter, after being refused the use of Madison Square Garden by Bar-nu-built an arena at 116th street and Sixth avenue and staged his first bullfight with celebrated Spanish matadors before 2,000 spectators on July 31, 1880. But the ASPCA saw to it that he never staged another. Add a bit of nutmeg to the sauce or cauliflower. Eggs should be kept at a tem- - erature between 32 and 45 de-;ree-s. To prevent lime from forming in he tea kettle, place a piece of mus-i- n in the bottom of the kettle. The lime will stick to the muslin nstead of to the kettle. Build your rural mail box just ligh enough so the carrier can each it conveniently without get-in- g out of his car. Underneath the ox construct a small platform for he reception of packages. An ideal jlatform size is 14x18 inches. Try baking biscuits for meat pies separately in one pan, while the illing cooks in another. If the Daked biscuits are placed on filling ust before serving, there will be 10 sogginess. Wet walls inside a home should :ause the householder to check the .lashings. Also examine the ex-:eri- or walls for holes or breaks. If your vacuum cleaner belt 3reaks when you are in the midst jf cleaning, put a rubber jar ring n its place temporarily. To make gloss paint flow more readily, place the container in a pan of warm water for ten min-utes. Ash trays carelessly dumped are ften the cause of fires in waste oaskets. To keep files sharp see that their surfaces are protected when not in use. Normandy Beach France has decided to leave un-disturbed the wrecked ships, tanks and other debris of battle on the beaches of Normandy as a war memorial to the Allied troops who landed there to begin the invasion 3f Europe. gmileMi9 So He Is! Smith I'm a father! I'm a fa-ther! Boss So's your old man. Gowan back to work. Cut Up Bill What in the world ever happened to Pete? John Oh, he was being shaved by a lady barber when a mouse ran across the floor. A skeleton is a man inside out with his outside off. Lasting Effect He I once loved a girl and she made a fool of me. She I wondered what made you act the way you do. Should Work Father What is a tactful way for a girl's father to let her boy friend know it's time for him to go home? Friend He may casually pass through the room with a box of breakfast food. Not Dry Cleaned "He's so very slovenly" "Yes. he is." "Do you think he washes?" "Oh, he washes all right, but he dries t bad color," Substantiation Diner This is the toughest steak I ever ate. Waiter That's what the other customer who left it said. By Dopey Alice What do you mean you give "Advice to the Lovelorn"? Dopey Why, I give 'em my tele-phone number. There was a man who was so fat that he was two inches taller sitting down. f O- P r fV O f v fv- O" O- O O" O- (" O- - ' O" O f- - - O- - - - O" o ASK ME ?A quiz with answers offering ? jjQTHHJfc information on various subjects 8. In a police station. (It's a fin-gerprint record.) 9. One, wampum showed the In-dian's wealth and position. Two, the beads were arranged in differ-ent ways to keep an account of his-tory. Three, the Indian used his wampum as a passport to the hap-py hunting grounds. 1. How many steps must be climbed to reach the top of Wash-ington monument? 2. When was the first comic book published? 3. What is anchor ice? 4. Is the moon hotter or colder than the earth? 5. How many miles of railroad are there in the United States? 6. "Remember the Alamo" was the cry of what battle? 7. What is the weight of the smallest screw used in a watch? 8. Where is a dactylogram most likely to be found? 9. What were the three major uses of Indian wampum? The Answers 1. There are 898 steps. 2. The first weekly comic maga-zine was published in Philadelphia in 1848, called "The John Donkey." 3. Ice formed at the bottom of a body of water. 4. In its sunless region, the tem-perature is about 240 degrees be-low zero. In the full sunlight, the temperature goes up at least as high as that of boiling water. 5. Approximately 233,670. 6. San Jacinto. 7. It weighs 1563,000 of a pound. |