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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH 1 MdmLU&m B3 Lenore gienn ul tri u IWMM CIIAI'TKB VI TIIK 8TOKY THUS FAK: Returning from n vloit with Dyke MiKlniion, his nnrli', Todd McKinntin, Oaorflaa Wyrth nil small luui;litr, Itnrliy, stopped tu visit Mrs. l'eauody, a friend of Dyke's. Mrs. Pcaliody told about the death of Adeline Tillsit, from whom Qilkart IVa-liod- y Inherited the house. Todd and t.eor-Cin- e derided to stay over and Ret mar-ried. Todd wanted to liin'Hliifate the murder or death of Miss Tillsit. He first talked to Husan I.abare, former nurse of Miss Tillsit, who believed that OUbert etod ntllhtf strange following Miss Tillsit's death. She pointed out t hat 1m had been the lust person t vIsM Miss Tillsit before her death. siderintdy around the small parlor which was his waiting-room- . "A narrow enough life, this was, for a girl," he said unemotionally. "It only lasted six or seven months, back in nineteen-forty-on- e. I don't begrudge her any kind of happiness she can find, now." The two men looked at each other for a moment; then Todd added, with some deliberation, "We didn't come to you, Dr. Crane, to find out anything except the state of our health. 1 thought I should enjoy meeting you person-ally. That's all." The doctor relaxed slightly, smiling. "Good. Then none of this need be taken too seriously, you know; perhaps you can just enjoy your visit." "The background of Mrs. Crane's family history interests me, of course. No, I don't mean just the family, but the whole region. Am I right in thinking that Judge Tillsit has brought a good many benefits to this town?" "A great number," said Dr. Crane, "both public and private. The Judge's investments were made according to his own plan; he'd help out young people who wanted a career, at least to the extent of financing their training. A fine old gentleman," said the doctor, looking intently at his glass. CHAPTER VI Somehow, that evening, Virdette was telling them again about the afternoon of Miss Tillsit's death. She had been sitting at the piano all afternoon, beginning at half-pa- st one; doggedly playing over and over the scales of every key and the chromatic, up and down the whole keyboard, while her eyes searched the empty street outside. "Nobody went in for a long time," aid Virdette dreamily. "I thought once or twice maybe old Mis' La-bar- e was workin' round in the basement, because that side door 'ud open and shut. I couldn't see because the door was between her 'n' me, and anyhow, those trees almost hit it. Then about three Mr. Gilbert Peabody drove up. So he atayed in there a while "You don't remember how long, I suppose," Todd said as if idly. "Just about, because I got up to get a drink and stretch, but I didn't dast to stop practicing for long," said Virdette with reminisc-ent gloom. "It was only about ten minutes, and he was just comin' down the front walk when I sat down again, walking slow with his hands in his pockets and lookin' at the ground." "Did he usually drive when he came to see his aunt?" Todd mur-mured. "Him? No, he gener'ly walked, he just lived three-fou- r blocks down the street and over one. An' then there wasn't a darn thing more until about ha'past four, and then whoo!" said Virdette with enjoyment. "There was old Mis' Labare poppin' her head in and out the front room she just coots, she's in a hurry and in about two seconds here comes Mr. Gilbert back again, an' Horace over from the drugstore he'd come so fast he was still pullin' his jacket on while he went up the steps; and Mary Helen, she pre-tended she wasn't in a hurry, but she went in the house awful fast just the same. "And a while after, Rose, that's my sister, came home. 'Where's Mom?' she says. 'Horace has got word Miss Tillsit's sinkin'.' I says, "Ho, I knew that before you did,' says, arid I told her about it. And she said she'd been in the drug-store all afternoon she and Mar-tin was awful mushy before they got married, she'd go in there and when there wasn't any customers they'd sit and hold hands, and Horace used to go in the prescrip-tion room and leave 'em alone. Well, she said he was in and out a couple times that afternoon, the telephone once or twice, and then trade kind of fell off and he left 'em alone; and then just before she left he answered it again an' it was old Mis' Labare. Bo we really knew about it before anybody in town, only I knew nrst," Virdette wound up with deep satisfaction. They neared the door of another ane of those tiny frame bunga-lows; and under the yorch light he could read the words on the Drass plate by the door. "Dr. John Crane. H'm. McKinnon, have you no shame?" Dr. John Crane was in; for a wonder, as he said to himself, after 6hooing the last of his office pa-tients out of the side door. The taking of blood samples lasted only a minute, but he would not hear of his patients' departure immediately after. "I know who you are, heard all about you to-day," he said, his fatigue-heav- y eyes lighting up with a nice smile. "I hope Nella's house guests will accept a drink? I could use one myself." She liked the doctor's long thin lace, his dark eyes and graying hair. He'll be old before his time within a year, if this keeps up, she thought; the one doctor for a big farming community and a town of fifteen hundred people. "I want to consult you on something more, Dr. Crane," she said at a pause in the war talk which invariably opened men's conversations. "You know, of course, that we're staying with Mrs. Peabody? She spoke of a heart condition, and if it's not pryiruj into your patients' affairs won't it be too much for her to have three extra persons quar-tered on her? She won't let me help very much." "No, no, Mrs. Wyeth. Good for her. The heart wouldn't be much by itself, just something that had to be watched; but it's easy to ag-gravate those conditions with wor-ry and nervousness and uncertain-ty. Not good for Nella to be alone too much, d'you see? I'm very fond of Nella. Wish I could take better eare of her. Horace Tillsit and his cousin, my uh ex-wif- e, are nominally staying there to keep her company, but they don't take the responsibility very seriously. Well. Mr. McKinnon, so you're the uncle of the famous sergeant; aeems Mary Helen thinks she brought back a scalp from the Stage Door Canteen." He smiled gain, and let his eyes rova con- - acepter? I can do something with that," Todd said musingly. "Ele-gant old spider sitting in the mid-dle of a web, now and then jerking . . . And surely you didn't miss the fact that Dr. Crane knew very well we were interested, somehow, in Miss Adeline's death? He could not tell us much about it, without destroying the fiction that she died naturally; but, certificate or no certificate, he still thinks some-thing went on there." "But, speaking of senses of the past," said Georgine, just above a whisper, "I have a strong feeling about the present, too. Someone's been following us." "I heard that step," Todd said, unperturbed. "On the other side of the street, and just the same rate we're walking. Only for the last few minutes, though. Person could hardly have heard what we've been saying." "Maybe not. But it seems to me now that it's been there all the time, like an echo of our steps. You're sure that's not a prelude to being chased with guns?" "Quite sure. We might cross over no, here's the house." The footsteps died away. Maybe It had really been an echo? She glanced over her shoulder, as they went up the Tillsit walk, and tried not to imagine a shadowy figure melting away into the lilac bushes of that yard across the street. The moon had not reached Geor-gine'- s window when she went up to prepare for bed. It rose an hour later every night; that meant it would reach the western sky about two or three in the morning. The night before, she had been too sleepy to listen for long to the sounds of the old house. Tonight she lay awake for a while, hearing Barby's untroubled breathing in the cot across the room, and noth-ing else. How odd that there was nothing else. Why did the rats perform one night and not the next? Had It something to do with the position of the moon on the skylight, and were they waiting until its light fell in a barred rectangle across that dusty bare floor above her? And then would they come out to dance up and down, making that slow, regular tapping, shaking lit-tle showers of plaster down the spaces between walls? The moon waked her again, very late; or was it the subdued scram-- blings from the cot ? "You all right, Barby?" Georgine said drowsily. "I haff to go to the bathroom," Barby informed her, and proudly snapped on her new flashlight. Georgine wouldn't have put it past her to have waked up on purpose. "Shan't I go with you?" "No, Mamma! You said when I was eight I was grown up " "Shush, darling, don't wake everyone. All right, go by your-self. I suppose it does seem like a treat." Georgine nearly drowsed off, waiting for her. After a long time, there was the sound of a door, cau-tiously opening; then another A muffled clatter woke the night, and a loud thud followed. Georgine hot out of bed, barely stopping to put on the bedside lamp, and was out in the hall in a split second. She could see across its dimness, into the entry of the back stairs. Barby was on her hands and knees, sprawling across the handle of a fallen mop. Probably from sur-prise, she seemed unable to get up Her mother flew across the hall. "Darling, did you hurt yourself?" She turned her child into a sitting position, and found nothing worse than dust on her knees. "You are 8 silly," she commented in a sharp whisper. "Did you think this wai the door of our room? What good'i your f 1 a s h 1 1 g h t, for heaven'i sake?" "I guess I was kind of asleep,' Barby muttered. "I got turned around, Mamma. That thing feL down on me, and I sort of fell ovei it, an' I couldn't think where J was." "It's all right, Todd," Georgirw whispered to the figure that had materialized behind her. Shi moved modestly out of the shafl of light that streamed from tin door of her room, "Nothing slnis-t- r at all." Todd picked up Barby, took hei across the hall and put her in bed and was back with Georgine's rob within forty seconds. "What Is it?' he said quietly. "Did you reallj hear something that frightened you?" "No," she said after a moment "Close the door to those stairs, wil you, Todd ? I've I've outdone evei myself, this time. What scared irn was that I didn't hear anything.' "Say that again!" Todd 're-quested. "There's nothing up there to night, nothing at all, and la night there was." She cast a cau-tious glance around the hall; H waa cloudily dark. "Last nlghi there was. Tonight, subconscious ly, I suppose, I waited for the mooi to rise, (TO BE CONTINUED) "I hope Nella's house guests will accept a drink." They started homeward, walk-ing slowly under the arching trees. There were street lights only at the corners, and those were shrouded, so that the dim glow of lamps behind drawn shades, in the small frame houses they passed, gave the only light. "A nine o'clock town," said Todd dreamily. "And no through traffic on those streets. Tell me, do you feel a strong sense of the past in this place?" "Oh, yes." "It's funny," said Georgine slow-ly, "but my sense of the past is concentrated in in June, 1940, and right in the Tillsit house. The setting's unchanged, and I suppose that's why. If I sit on that green sofa, I hear voices upstairs. I've I've got so that when I'm down-stairs I find myself listening for the old lady moving around on the second floor." He was looking at her atten-tively. "Do you mind it very much?" "No-o,- " she said laughing. "And I'd better start getting used to your professional research. I hofce it stays like this!" "Like what?" "Oh just talking politely to people, and then going away and writing it up. I mean, on this pure-ly mental plane it's not so bad." "I never can figure out what you expect," Todd replied mildly. "Peo-ple chasing me with guns? Anon-ymous letters saying, 'Keep out of this or you will die, too'?" "Something like that, I suppose. And yet there doesn't seem any harm in a conversation like the one we just had. It's especially goofy of me to get worried, when I can't see what you get out of these talks." "Are you kidding?" said Mr. McKinnon. "What the doctor told me, aloud and between the lines, was worth five bucks a word." "Oh, dear. I must have been half asleep." "Not necessarily. You got It when he indicated that he himself is under obligations to the Judge, like a good many others in town? And that the Judge wields a heavy ZALE. middleweight ruler, TONY In the best ring fight of 1946 with a dozen miles to spare. His lurricane meeting with Rocky Grazi-an- o happened to be one of those thrillers you won't see twice in a lifetime. There was no other fight even close lo this one. I can't recall any other fighter who ever showed more intes-tinal fortitude than zale showed that September night, when he came out of a foggy dream-land to knock out j Graziano. It so hap-- i pens that Zale is in the toughest divi-sion of them all. Tony Among those after Zale his middleweight crown you U nna Jake LaMotta. Marcel Ccrdan, Geor-- ! gie Abrams, Charley Burley and one or two others-- all tough. Graziano, the toughest of the lot, has had his li-cense revoked in New York, but the National Boxing association has ruled that he can fight in any place under NBA's jurisdiction. This gives Rocky a lot of territory to swing his lethal fists in. Zale had been away from ring action so long when he met Grazi-ano thxt his handicap was known to be a heavy one. Various crowds had seen too many baseball and foot-ball players from the service show a startling lack of old-tim- e form, in-cluding speed and timing. Zale had been away longer than most, close to four years. So when Graziano knocked him down early In the fight and then had him dazed, bewildered and badly battered, his reign apparently was over. But Zale down the stretch proved several things. He proved that he was dead game and could take the hardest punch the hard-hitting Graziano could throw. He also proved that he had a punch of his own. He proved that he knew how to fight and what to do in a storm. Faces Tough Competition With more time in which to get ready, it stands to reason that Zale should be a better fighter in 1947 than he was in 1946. His win over Graziano gave him greater confi-dence, for one thing. He is also sure to be in better d physical shape. Yet in this present middle-weight outfit no one is safe. Tony is surrounded by a pretty rough crew, the best in any other weight division, nnd he will have to be better than good to keep his crown. LaMotta Is a rough and ready customer who won't be any soft mark. LaMotta is a hardy man to hurt and he also can hurt on his Dwn. Cerdan made a promising debut over here and he should be bet-ter on his next visit, when he has a longer time to become acclimated and to get in better physical condi-tion. There is no Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb or Mickey Walker hang-ing around the premises, but there is more class in this section than the ring has known for many years. Just how the tangle will be unraveled is another guess. LaMotta must be given a chance and so must Cerdan '' he can repeat his opening perform-ance, or show improvement. In addition to the leaders named, Jersey Jones still insists that his man Burley can slash his way through the entire list. With the heavyweight bunch, out-side of Joe Louis, in such a sad state, it begins to look as if the ts must take over a big part of the show. But as good as many of his challengers are, they will find Zale none too easy to shove around. Tito West Coast Stars The west coast is keeping an alert eye on the coming actions of its two favorite baseball sons. Their names are Joe DiMaggio of San Francisco and Ted Williams of San Diego, both reporting from the extensive domain of California. DiMaggio, bothered by physical ailments, had an off year. Regard-ed as one of the great outfielders of all time, a brilliant artist, fielding, hitting and throwing, Joe finished with the worst season he has known in big league baseball. He fell back with many other big league stars who had been in war service. Williams, who looked as if he were on the verge of wrecking the entire American league without help up through mid-Jul- began to skid lat-er and spent an unhappy fortnight during the 1946 World series. De-spite this decline Williams batted well over .340. which left his e average still over .350. Ulcers Stopped Joe Anyway Joe and Ted were not what they had been in their former seasons. Only Dom DiMaggio came along to repair part of the damage, as far as California was concerned. Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky were two west coast features from further north. Joe DiMaggio wasn't feeling any too well when he report-ed for spring training. A few stom-ach ulcers didn't help him. After an early start at high speed, Joe n to fall away. STAGIEN RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ROSALIND RUSSELL monotonv! In Columbia's "The Guilt of Janet Ames" she wears one costume consisting of 33't pounds of diamonds and about 2Vfe pounds of tulle, net and sequins. The diamonds ore set in huge necklace, earrings and a se- - ries of bracelets. Quite a change from her "Sister Kenny" costumes, and from those she'll wear in RKO's ROSALIND RUSSELL version of the O'Neill play, "Mourn-ing Becomes Electra"; she spent a couple of weeks at Palm Springs resting up preparatory to working in that one, set to go before the cameras just about now. Danny Kaye's 1947 picture Is all set; called, at present, "That's Life," it revolves around the central character of a professor of serious music who becomes involved In an iCtetania analysis of jazz. We hear it'll be Kaye's most elaborate musi-cal so far. Pat Buttram, comedian of the Sat-urday Night Roundup, wanted some patchwork quilts for his home, but the prices asked in antique shops ap-palled him. So he wrote to friends in Alabama who used to make quilts by the dozen, found he could buy them for $3.50 and got started or-dering quilts and couldn't stop. So now the situation's reversed he's looking for customers for patchwork quilts. Ezio l'inza, Metropolitan Opera star who has added grrally to his popularity by doing guest shots on the radio, has signed with I'nited Artists for three years. You'll see him In "Carnegie Hall" before long; after that, In "Babes In Toyland." Rise Stevens, star of the Sunday "Family Hour," tells this one on berMl One season when she was leaving Prague for an opera tour of Europe, Walter Surovy, whom she'd met there, said "Write to me when you have a chance. I'm collecting stamps." Not a line did he get from her, not a stamp. But he must have learned a more romantic approach somewhere she finally married him! m Jim Backus, best known for his "Hubert Updike III" role on the Alan Young show, plans a club called "Millionaires Anonymous"; says it'll be made up of busy radio stooges whose names don't mean much to the public, but whose week- - ly Incomes pass the four-figur- e mark. Take Jim's case; besides his Friday night stint with Alan, he's frequently heard with Fibber McGee and Molly, Bob Burns, Jack Carson and Jack Benny. Five-year-o- ld Mareia Anne North-rop appears In Samuel Goldwyn's "The Bishop's Wife." Her mother, a Goldwyn Girl, appeared with Ed-die Cantor in "Palmy Days" way bark in 1931. So Mareia Anne has beea enrolled as a Goldwyn Girl, elaaa of i960. Three years ago Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy broadcast from Mexico City, the first time a major commercial program had originated outside the U. S. Now, on March 16th, they'll do it again. 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It's a good idea to wash new nylons be-fore you wear them. 100 --Year Sale The library of rare books and manuscripts left by Sir Thomas Phillips of England upon his death in 1872 was so large that, although its sale has been going on for 60 years, auctioneers estimate that 40 more years will be required to sell the rest of its contents. |