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Show I :r:... rmDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, AMERICAN FORK UTAH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946 ana?i wsraa vrJiuwrr Tfff STOAT THOt TAB! Atom Brace, lMctM Tope ad Mm- ....tnr I rVTlL i. tha If aloe wood. ToM o0 i Mala wood. 1 Ml at o eami . Bo wi eeUi 6 . j .1 n anaratcd -. niaravm - ' . ... ..,im. Bo wa salleveS to ko Vlo,,., aoaa of NOW EfUM till. V2nr'i frtead wm lorn la boo- id with atad lajarles. Bla eaaaftar. wm tocttcd, admitted that a kit CL. M head, apoa HoMom's orders. Cndllmed ho waa hwrttai for kla wile. LL b4 Breee wont oat to lodio wa.ro TZ. Mother Mead of Udforgo't, waa Zi They kaew a bow tkat the wdered naa waa act Ledforf e. Taey w kacw thai a wom mmm J7M1 (boat tho toe tho mmrft waa taimltted. CHAPTER XI Sure-oven if I have to put on long and dance to keep them hwi." ... He hurried away, ana me wa mn ti to watch tho proceeaings re. Aaam ana uuiuun"'" side him. , The wrecking-crew muit nave irked late lat night to accompusn much. Two pinet of good ginn d been cut and trimmed to serve ihean: their butti anchored on rim of the ledge, against iron set in holes drilled in tha solid nit! their tlpa erosiea ana jshed with chains from which a jeel pulley and cable were suspend-I suspend-I The (hears were guyed with Ire cables carried back and an-tored an-tored to trees in the fringe of tha bod behind. Men were busy Ught-ilug Ught-ilug the cables, tending the winch, touting questions and commands." ht the edge of the precipice, the reman, on his hands and knees. Itched a -man . who. swam nude in te quarry pool below. The fall from je pulley descended beside this ian. He floated on his back, pad-ling pad-ling with his hands, and called up: "More slack. Mike! I must get a tch around the axle!" "0.K," said Mike, and waved his nd in signaL. The winch creaked; ..ropeswhimdi the steel fan tscended six inches, a foot, twd Set deeper into the water. i'Ttt try it now." the swimmer fclded. "Don't take any strain on while Tm down." He made a neat surface dive; bis rr!la gleamed in the sun. He seemed be out of sight for a long time; at length Adam saw a pale blur the gray water, and then the tan's head appeared. He rolled on ' back, lay breathing deeply . for moment, shouted: Take up on it nowl I think I've it! Don't lift-Just draw it htl" .The fall drew taut and stopped; Id the -swimmer- onee more defended. de-fended. When this time he broke the sur-ee sur-ee again, he swam a little away m the chain. "Now take it up I" 1 called. "Tin the front end, is out water, so I can see if the hook I set all right!" The winch revolved, and the fan ;gan to climb laboriously upward, he man swam away a rod or ro and waited. So out of that gray concealing ater, wheels appeared, and a fen-r, fen-r, a mudguard, the front of a Sreamlng radiator. Adam's heart aped, driven by an intense excitement excite-ment This was, after all, no more tan a car. which some one had Jshed to bide; yet its resurrection Dm that hiding .place, where it dght have lain forever, had In it jmethlng dramatic, almost onl-frus. onl-frus. It was like the emergence of f monster slowly, from its lair; Jdw. lethargic and ponderous with insequencesl "Hold it!" caned the man below, se winch stopped while he swam ward the car. Adam felt some Be beside him. Here was Tope, on hnds and knees, peering down; the Istrlct Attorney just beyond. ."OKI" shouted the swimmer tri-mphantly. tri-mphantly. "You can have It! Take i' away!"" He began to swim toward the ther side of the quarry, where his othei lay on a rock in the sun. Ike Frame waited tUl the swim-r swim-r was well clear before he gave signal And at last it was here lust bo m them. It hung six feet beyond leir reach, its bottom toward them, hey ail stared at the bottom of ds car, searching it with eyes ab-ardly ab-ardly intent, as though It might ave some secret. tofeveaL And then suddenly Tope stood up; a spoke to Mike, In sbarp'irrlUted ones. "What are you going to do tfth It?" he demanded. "Eh?" aaid Mlke.-"Do with ttT Jhy-drag It out of there! That'a hat you wanted, wasn't itf" Tope's temper flared. The old man i tired, impatient "Howl"! he in-ilsted. in-ilsted. "You can't reach out and pick It like an apple, and you've got way to swing these shears in. You've wasted all this time and It's as far away now as It ever wasl Man, you' Then abruptly he checked himself. Bis eyes were fixed on the car, hanging hang-ing now within ten feet of them, ix feet out of reach. He moved to one side, approaching the edge of the precipice as closely, as possible. The men on the winch 'continued to Wind; the car rose higher. And Tope tailed sharply: i "Stop! Stop it!" 4 Mike lifted his hand In signal. Mat Cumberland came to Tope's side, asked: "What is it, Tope?" I The old man was staring in si-I lence at the car; and Adam came to see. And then he felt the Inside of himself suddenly slip away like wheat out of a bin from which the bottom s removed. The windows of the coupe were closed, and they were somewhat clouded by a gray deposit of slit accumulated during the days the car had lain here submerged. These windows were, Incredibly, not broken; bro-ken; the car must, turning in the air as it fell, have landed on its wheels. The window toward them was that on the car's left side, next to the wheeL And against the glass of this window, win-dow, from within, a hand was pressed! Four slender fingers touched the window, from knuckle to first Joint; the backs of four fingers. There was upon one of them a ring, a gold band, a wedding ring. The hand with the fingers pressed against the glass bad moved a Uttle, in a short arc that left a smeared quarter-circle in the silt on the glass. There was in this mark a terrible suggestion that the hand had moved In signal. In a last pitiful appeal! They could see the rest of this ... To promised to .tefl. me If Mrs. Kell was found." hand dimly, the forearm faintly; but no thin else at an save one thing: about the wrist, something like a black cord was knotted; seen even thus dimly, it seemed to have been knotted tightly, to have cut into the soft flesh. And this was, clearly, a woman's hand and arm. Cumberland muttered: "Tope, there's someone In the car." Tope nodded. "It's Mrs. Ken," he said briefly. "You'n have to" He checked, bis thoughts absorbing him. "Lower the car again, tin It's awash," he directed -absently. "Swim out or make a raft or somethingget some-thingget her out of there quick's you can." Send for the ambulance. Take her to the undertaker's. W meet you there." He turned and strode away,' Adam beside him; they reached the car and started down the road. They came to where Ned Quill held two cars of newspaper men In restraint Adam turned off, the road, crashing through the underbrush to pass them; and Tope leaned out and shouted: !lt them go on up, Ned! There's a murdered woman in the car, up there. They've got a right to be on the spot!" Then aa the newspaper can started start-ed up the hill, he bade Adam stop, catted Quill. "Ned." he said, 'in be In town, at the undertaker's. Come up there when you've seen the Tcnnant girl" "Right," Qum agreed; and he said: "Doctor Medfonfa on bis way down here. . I talked to him on tbe phone awhile ago." Tope nodded. "Good. We'U watch to...hinv?....h..,agreed, They went on. When they turned into the main road. Tope pointed to an approaching car, cried sharply: "Hold up! There's Medford.". "Doctor Medford aUghted to speak to them; and his tone was respectful respect-ful "You were right Inspector," he said. "Found a drug In him. eh?" Tope asked. "Gas In bis lungs." the medical examiner replied. "And doped. Chloral, I think r but morphine too. rm not an expert on such stuff. We don't have much of it to do, up here. But after you'd told me what to look for" : . Tope nodded. "They're getting a woman dead out of the quarries up here, Doctor." he said. "I -want to know how she was kitted. 'And 1f she'd been given chloral, or morphine, mor-phine, I want to know that too. I'll be at Will Banion's." And a- moment later, as they started on, Tope touched Adam'a arm. "Pull up at that filling station. Adam," he directed. "There's bound to be a phono there. CaU up ,New ioP -, :rtr.ni,twir: M1 r it- tsetse sr. i rv. "i a f York. Tett them to find out whether wheth-er JBob FUnt, that young pilot had been given chloral, oir some other knockout drops." Adam "went to obey, and Tope sat deep In thought His eyes were closed, so that hi did not see young Joe Dane at the wheel of a car that presently went racing by.' Adam returned from the telephone. tele-phone. "They'U get if he said briefly. He put the car In motion, then asked: "Why do you want that TopeT" Tope said abstractedly: "I figure he had Flint fly him up here, and back to New York in the morning, He could give Flint a drink of doped whisky, say. Flint would take off In the plane, pass out after he got Into the air. and crash. Then he couldn't testify" Adam uttered an ejaculation: "That's awful!" "1 know It" Tope agreed. "But who, TopeT" Adam Insisted. "Who is lie'?" Tope said Impatiently: "Oh, let me alone, son!' And he said no further word tftt they came into tbe borders of North Madderson. Then at last he spoke. "Go tirthe Jan, Adam," he direct, ed. "We'U get something out of KeU now enough so we'tt know how to go at Holdom." Adam nodded. "Something hap. pened on their trip up here Friday, an right" ho agreed. "But I don't see what It was!" Tope said briefly: "It was a plant sV game, play' somebody tried to stage." "How do you figure that?" , "Because Holdom told Ken to hit him over the heact" " : " Adam nodded. "That's right" Ha asked eagerly: "That waa to make Holdom look like a victim too? Then you think be" Tope said grimly: "I think some one made a sucker out of Holdom. Used him. Holdom's a crook, Adam. Always has been. In little ways. You heard Mat. " at the quarry; heard what he said about Ledforge filing charges against Holdom, with the Stock Exchange authorities." "You figure Holdom was double- crossing Ledforge, and knew he would be found out and killed the old man." Tope said quizzically: "Ledforge filed those charges himself yester-' day. Adam. How could he do that If Holdom kitted him Friday?" They reached the Jafl behind the courthouse; and when barriers had been removed they came to Ken. They found the big man sitting on the cot In bis ceH his head between bis " hands: Be did not lob up it the sound of their steps, nor when they paused before his cell door, The guard who had led them thus far knew Adam of old, and at the young man's word left them here; and Tope spoke, gently. "KeUT" he said. Ken roused, and be came slowly to his feet the bars between them. He stared; and then he seemed to remember them. "I know you, air," be muttered. "You promised to ten me if Mrs. Ken was found." "Yes, Ken," Tope assented; and he added harshly: "She is found! "Where Is she, sir?" Tope said pitilessly: "The coupe was In the quarry, KeH. We got It out today. She had been murdered, and tied in it tied to the wheel. before It was run over the preci pice into the quarry."' "Dead?" KeU whispered, holding his breath. "Yes, dead," said Tope; and the breath came out of KeU In a long sigh, and the big man shivered like a stricken anlmaL He backed away, his' hands up before his face; he slumped 'down on the cot again. Tope added harshly: "I think you kttled her. just as you tried to kill Holdom!" "I didn't sir!" he protested. "I didn't!" "Mr. Holdom says you did!" Tope declared. "You tried to km him! Because he was chasing your wife, KeU!" "No sir, I didn't sir!" KeU mumbled: "Dead? She's dead?" "Of course," Tope Insisted. "Too kttled her." "No sir. No!" "Then did Holdom? Was that why you tried to" "No, It wasn't Mr. Holdom," Ken answered. 1 took him back, left him by the road But when I came home, she was gone." And the big man cried suddenly. starting to his feet: '1 meant to hit him easy, th$ way he told me to; but when the wrench started down, I thought about the way he had bothered her; and I hit harder than I'd meant to." He caught himself. "Where Is she. sir?" - .. "They're bringing her to town," Tope told him. "What did you do to Mr. Ledforge, KeU? Or did Hol dom" And KeU cried piteously: "Let me alone, sir! Wait Let me see her first I can't believe It Let me see her. Then I'll ten you anything." He collapsed, sobbing like a child. his head In his hands. Tope hesitated; hesitat-ed; but in the end he said: "Well, all right KeU. I'll wait I'll come for you later." T0 BE CONTINUED) SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Home Frock for Long-Day Charm A Trio of Blouses for Your Suit 72 10928) 3441 Slimming Boom Dresa A SIMPLE tide-button home frock with slimming lines And a neat, efficient air. Novel scalloped scal-loped pockets add a decorative touch. Make It in bright cottons for morning wear, in rayon crepe, spun rayon or shantung far afternoons. after-noons. Fatten No. S928 comes hi sizes M. St, 3a, 4oV -41, - Ait ' dS and 4s. . Size requires re-quires 4ft yards of 15 or Is-inch. 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