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Show UINTAII EASIN RECORD es EDiast PJ o ing So On Through Life Rudy in Another Role Ingenious Quiz Program Ily Virginia Vale By BEN AMES WILLIAMS Copyrishl WNU SERVICE ra IPTER : jjS! ' vM XVI Continued 15 Rab dead? "is Lissa asked iadingly. 'Rab? Miss Moss echoed. You can Asa? Lissa straightened, quick hope in it eyes. No, no, she protested. Hab is mine! Is he all right? Miss Moss tried to collect her Rab is hurt, but he will get , ts. -- Vw: she said then, and she felt But flow into this girl. is dead." I m Slad! Lissa Oh- I,m glad! ,.,ed; and she demanded to know ,rat had happened. Miss Moss told it swiftly as much as she knew; nd having done so, she ventured a I?. jestion in her turn. So Lissa, cling-Ihin- g cjose t0 thg 0i(ier woman, yolr- ured out all her story, landan(j j were married over a Father she confessed. ear ago, a. nj :d Mother knew; but we didnt tell rl2 ese because Kabs people 1 be iyne sould disown him. "I knew Asa too, and he used to f. "lake love to me. So finally, to Ung :,ake him stop, I told him Rab and and were married. But it didnt do 01iy ".y good. He kept after me just ae same, and when I threatened to d 15 eu Rab, he said if I did, hed tell wing ,d Mrs. Bowdon we were married. 259 jo I didnt tell Rab; but last night y l5a kissed me, and Rab saw him, ad- - jid was furious with me, so I had inly, a tell him. Then he was wild at ie!l, ?; e' life a - And he said: But Asa was making love to Lissa whenever he caught her alone. I didnt know it, till I saw him kiss her, last night. Shed been in Providence with me. We used to go away together whenever I had business out of town. He looked up at the girl beside him with a deep fondness. I saw him kiss her, he explained. And she slipped away, and I found her crying, in the woods behind the barn. Hed hurt her, his hands on her arms. So she told me how hed persecuted her for months, and I came back to do something to him. His eyes met Inspector Heales. "And then you told me someone had killed Aunt Kitty, and set that fire, and I forgot about Asa for a nent of t s at i f 1 f f t ? a aly 7 st 00, Ion l ind for na- - of ien om i as tier ich tH- ea- ien ien ks kE the if ad ug- - She broke off, for they were come jddenly to the top of Kenesaw Hill, o the Taine house. Inspector Tope urried across the lawn. Miss Moss saw how tired he was, and held him hard for a moment. dear she whispered, There," nan! Where is And she asked: Clint? Where is June? He pointed to the Bowdon house a 'ittle way off, where there was a lighted window on the second floor. "Theyre asleep up there. Miss Leaford is in bed with a blanket over her; Clint in a chair beside her, holding her hand. There was a deep exhilaration in her; then turning to Tope she said: So it was Asa? You know, I picked Rab, all the time. He was in Tope shook his head. Providence last night, when the fire started, he reminded her. 1 thought he might have gone down there and registered, and then come back to set the fire, raced back to Providence again. There was time. "No, hed put his car up for the night, He was Tope insisted. there, all right. He added awkwardly: I didnt tell you, but he bad a girl with him. They registered as man and wife. She remembered, suddenly, Lissa Thayer, and turned back to the car. er Lissa and her father were no longthere; so Tope and Miss Moss toward the house. They met Cabler with Mrs. Taine in the hall. Doctor Cabler explained: Im sending Mrs. Taine to bed. She must rest. Mrs. Taine protested wearily: "Rab needs me. Hes all right, the Doctor assured her. His wife is with him. And he and Mrs. Taine went on went Doctor upstairs. His wife? ously. Tope echoed incredul- course Lissa. She was the with him in Providence," she whispered. Tope and Miss Moss withdrew uneat noticed. They went out on the front it porch together, and Tope sat down. md He shook his head helplessly. Well, ipy thats one on me, he confessed. I fuess Im getting old. I was sure she was married to Asa. "So was I, she admitted, eager to comfort him now. "Till she told the truth, on the way up here . . Now tell me about tonight. Of one i 3 3 ns be hn I i i r t j s And she listened while he recited I blame myself, he declared at last, "for holding off, wait-hto be sure. And he said in a somber tone: Asa was mad, drunk with killing. He had a ladder ready over there. He must have meant to come back tonight, climb to Junes room, kill her and old Mr. Hurder too. And he explained: "Mrs. Taine June milk tonight. gave I think Asa had drugged that; but spilled it, like a clumsy fool." "Cabler says Rab can talk now, cale told them a little later. Rub had a twisted frown between eyes. Lissa bent over him, and 'ss Moss saw his fingers tighten on( her hand. Wheres Mother? I dont want to hear "Asleep1 Doctor Cabler assured the tale. g him. The hurt man nodded. Wheres he asked then. No one him, but he seemed not to jMice this neglect. "It was about usia," he repeated. "You see, she u'd 1 were married. We kept it because Asa and June and I ,'ri'n't supposed to get married ;ho it It was in permission. Bow ilmis will, and Grand jrnl)j H irdcrs too. that if any of us J irri( d w ilhout Grandma Bow dons "nt, we were outcasts, disinher- vi- Aia? d se-rrc- t, "l en, that night got himself some milk out of the bottle, could have drugged the milk then. I dont know whether he did that or not. It doesnt matter. But I know he started the fire. He was alone on the ground floor of the Bowdon house, his mother and Mrs. Bowdon upstairs. He slipped out and came over here. Theres an electric light above the Taines back door. Youll find the bulb is broken and the edge of the socket is fused. Asa made a short-circuthere, and then he raced back and got into the Bowdon dining-rooagain before Mrs. Taine came downit stairs. And he proved tonight that he was insanely ready to kill, that he had murder in him. He tried to kill Rab, and hed made his plans to kill June and Mr. Hurder too. Asa convicted himself tonight He added sternly: And executed himself too. Saved you the trouble, Heale. l Is- a- to the kitchen for a glass of water. And he had a chance to dope the milk the Hurders drank, too. He came for a cup of tea, in the kitch- life-tim- house; young Doctor Derrie swung to the ground and came briskly toward them across the lawn. The Medical Examiner greeted them cheerfully. Whats wrong, Heale? he asked. More trouble up here? Heale hesitated. Why, they had a smash-ucar piled into a tree, he explained. Asa Taines dead, and Rab got a crack in the head. Derrie nodded. Bad, he said gravely. Then he looked at Tope and grinned. I suppose youre trying to make a murder out of this he suggested in amused detoo, rision. But Tope shook his head. Why, no, Doc, he said mildly. No, it was an accident, I guess. Matter of fact, he added, Ive come around to your way of thinking on Mrs. Leaford too. Guess you were right. Guess it was an accident, just the way you said. The young doctor chuckled. Sure, he agreed triumphantly. I told you so. Youve been seeing goblins in the dark, old man. He said: Well, Ill go in and take a look at them. He turned into the house, and Inspector Heale looked at Tope. What do you aim to do now? Heale asked; and Tope hesitated, but Miss Moss said cheerfully: Why, I think well wake Clint and June, and go down and get her father out of your jail, and go home. Heale chuckled. Ill telephone down, fix that for you about Mr. Leaford, he agreed. He went into the house to do so. Tope stood still, suddenly tired. But Miss Moss hugged tight to his arm, and she smiled proudly up at him, and her eyes were shining. You know, my dear, she said, youre a grand man! He grinned uncomfortably, wiped his mouth with his hand; and she rose on tiptoe to kiss him. Then they went together across the lawn to rouse Clint and June. . THE END p Heale stood silent awhile; the day brightened, and the sun began to burn away the clouds. The man said at last: You know, I kind of hate this. Im sorry for these folks up here. Four of them dead, in less than a month. Theyve had about enough, it looks to me." he Yes, Tope smiled faintly. agreed; and he said gravely: Outside of a few people who wont talk, this thing tonight might pass as an accident, Inspector. Cars have smashed into trees before. As Heale considered this, Tope added: Youve never charged Mr. Leaford, have you? Nothing in the newspapers?" Heale reNo, just held him, plied. He was willing to stand for that, wait till something happened." To arouse Clint and June. Tope nodded; and then he looked while. But tonight I meant to have toward the road and chuckled. A it out with him. So on the way car had stopped in front of the home, I made him stop, and we went into the garage, out of the rain. Uses in I told him hed got to leave Lissa alone, and he laughed at me, said A cousin of the familiar a native of South The cow-treif I made a row, hed tell the folks called Tephrosia, is used in America corresponding to the fawe were married. the West Indies and Polynesia for miliar bread-fruit- , yields a milk He hesitated, continued grimly: But I found out, last week, that a very unsportsmanlike form of an- practically indistinguishable from gling. The crushed leaves and ordinary cows milk in chemical Asa had been stealing trust-fund- s in the office. I told Grandpa Bow- stems are thrown into the river, composition and nourishing qualidon about it, the day he died. It where the fish are quickly stupe- ties, from which excellent cream and cheese are made. upset him terribly, may have killed fied and easily caught. Another West Indian, the hog gum Linnaeus, the famous Eighteenth-centur- y him. But I told Asa last night that Swedish botanist, made a I knew about that, and that if he tree, is so called because wounded didnt leave Lissa alone, Id send hogs rub the injured parts against sort of floral clock. The dial conthe tree to smear themselves with sisted of names of flowers, arranged him to jail. Asa didnt the abundant resin it exudes, which in the order of their opening and He grinned ruefully. say anything. I thought Id stumped heals their wounds. This resin is closing hour by hour. The dandehim; and I was fool enough to turn so powerful that the natives make lion, for example, opens about 5 my back on him, and the next thing torches of the branches. Another a. m. and closes about 9 p. m. g plant is the candleberry Greater accuracy is obtained from I knew, my light went out. This a native of Polynesia related a Japanese form of magnolia. The tree, all on . . . crack the head Thats I remember. What does he have to our common spurge, notes a writ- watchmen use the powdered bark s er in London to say? magazine. The for burning in graduated tubes, to walnut-lik- e of kernels the fruit are mark the time by the regular comto was about Heale Inspector speak, but Tope touched his arm so rich in oil that they are stuck bustion of the powder. Perhaps the limit of queer uses quickly, restraining him; and Doc- on reeds and usd as candles. Certain of the Fiji islanders never of plants is reached in the case of tor Cabler said gravely: . to thrift and Youve talked enough, Rab. Get use forks except when they eat their plumbago, related fresh-roo- t The is a powerful make these forks neighbors. They some rest now. of Casuarina, a tree that looks like blistering agent, and the beggars He cleared the others briskly out a huge specimen of our common of San Domingo use it to raise ulof the room. Tope and Heale moved horse-tail. Each fork bears a name, cers on their bodies in the hope of on through the hall to the front and is handed down as an heirloom exciting the sympathy of the as and veranda; they emerged from . passers-bygeneration to generation. there, Tope said briskly: "Ive had my eye on Asa ever since he produced that bottle. What reason had he to go looking for it in the cellar, m the laundry-chute- ? The answer is, there wasnt any reason, unless he had some other business in the cellar. You think he did find the bottle there? Heale asked. Tope said explicitly: "Yes. Justus Taine dropped it down the chute. He left the Hurder front door unbolted that night, slipped back over BY there to get some of Mrs. Leafords There were only sleeping-tablets- . two in the bottle, so he took them, and dropped the bottle out of sight in the handiest place. With so few tablets In the bottle, shed miss them in the morning; but if the One night, on a dark road, brutal tragedy 6trikes whole bottle was gone, shed just the little community of Beverly, Southern resort think it was mislaid. He added d honestly: Part of this is guessing; town. A killing involves Kirk Odd for Plants, Trees Distant Lands r, light-givin- Tit-Bit- sea-pin- Beginning Next Issue of CHIL OCTAVUS ROY COHEN cold-bloode- part I know. So heres went on: what weve got: Asa Taine was a thief; and he needed money. You heard vihat Rab said, that if any of the young ones married, they were to be disinherited. Well, Rab was married and Asa knew it; and Asa bought June new clothes, encouraged her to marry Clint. If she did, with the old gentleman dead, and Kitty Leaford dead, and June married or dead and Rab married and so disqualified under the will, Asad have all Bowdons money, and Ilurders too. Heale listened grimly, and Tope went on: "There are three elements in every murder," he said: Motive, and opportunity, and capacity. Money was motive enough for As for opportunity, he had Asa plenty of chances to steal some of Kitty Leafords pills, and he had a chance to drop some of them Into her milk that night, when he went And he Reynolds, worthless gambler, and Kay Forrest, a beautiful nineteen-year-olgirl. From this point on, the community is torn by dissension and strife, the clamor reaching fever heat after two dramatic events, one of them the incomprehensible marriage of Kay to Kirk. Ilere is the real deep South, revealed in it3 unique colors and character types, and coming from the pen of one of the most discerning authors writing today about the provincial South and its people. 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