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Show PAGE SEVEN hursday, May 18, 1939 seaas ma HOySiS WIWAKS By BEN AMES Copyright WNU SERVICE CHAPTER IX Continued 9 "You'll see lots more with me," Clint promised. "This is a bum one, really." And he urged: "Let's start home. We can drive slowly and be together without so many people round. Unless you want to see the rest of this?" June a little reluctantly professed a complete lack of interest in the film; yet she looked back wistfully as they went up the aisle. Upon their arrival, she had not re- ... moved her' coat till they reached their seats; but now in the lobby she expected some word from him about her new gown.- When he said nothing, merely offered to help her into her coat, she protested: "You haven't noticed my dress. Don't you think it's nice?" Clint stood back to survey her. chuckling. "Sure, grand!" he declared. He came close to her again. "But what you wear doesn't make any difference to me, June." "Asa gave it to mej" "Asa?" Clint echoed, frowning faintly. "Why?" She slipped her arms Into the sleeves of the coat he held. "He told me to wear it to catch a young man!" she confessed, laughing up at him over her shoulder. "He knows about you and me." Clint chuckled with pleasure. "It will be my turn to buy pretty things for you soon," he said happily; and her hand tightened on his arm as they went out to the car. They drove slowly, Clint clinging to this hour; and when they came in front of the great sprawling house at last, he stopped and turned off the lights, and said urgently: "Let's sit here a few minutes. You don't have to go right in." "I must, soon," she urged, yet made no move to leave. They found no great need of words. They were snug in the car, the windows raised against the rain. There was a light in the rear part of the Taine house; and June said, with a ripple of mirth in her tones: Uncle Justus is still asleep in his chair. If no one wakes him up he may sleep there all night." "Is that his room?" Clint asked, surprised. "No, he's in the kitchen." Her tone was mirthful. "He likes to warm his feet in the oven door." "Who's sitting up over there?" he asked, nodding in the other direc- tion.' "Aunt Evie and Asa are staying with Grandma Bowdon," she explained. "Rab had to go to Providence." They felt, rather than heard, a low rumble of sound; and Clint said: "Hullo, that was thunder, I didn't see a flash." "I did, out of the corner of my eye," she told him. "Off through the woods that way." She pointed past the houses; and she said, and he heard her voice shake: "We had a thunder-showe- r the night Mother died. A terrible one. And she added: "Uncle Justus has turned out his light. The thunder must have wakened him." Clint saw that the Taine house was indeed dark now; and then June cried, a sudden tension in her tones: "Clint, look!" "What?" he asked, surprised; and he stared past her. There was a faint brightness. In the shape of a rectangle, against the front of the Hurder house. The brightness assumed color; and Clint reached across the girl to lower the window so that he might see more clearly. That rectangle identified itself as the open front door of the house, outlined in red. And suddenly this dull red became bright; they saw the flicker of a flame. They scrambled out together; they started to race across the lawn. As they did so, a car passed along the road behind them, and Clint turned back and shouted: "Hey, fire! Ring in an alarm!" , He saw the driver dimly, taw the man's head nod. Then be ran after June toward the house, toward that front door through which billows of smoke began to pour. He caught her on the steps, caught her fast; for she would have gone headlong In. And she was crying: "Grandpa! Grandma!" When Clint held her, she swung to him in terror, beseeching him. "They're in there, Clint. Oh, quick, dear!" CHAPTER miliar sometimes, too friendly, offensive. She doesn't say much about Asa, but I think she knows him rath er well." Tope reminded her: "Asa went to see her, the morning after Mrs. Lea-for- d died. Remember? We met him in the woods, and you saw him down there." "I remember," Miss Moss agreed. "It didn't seem to me she was glad to see him, that day You know I've been trying to guess who will inherit the Bowdon fortune, now that Mr. Bowdon is dead. And Mr. Hur-dermoney, when he dies. Mrs. Leaford would have been Mr. Hur-der- 's heir, you know." Inspector Tope stared at her,' "You could outjump a kangaroo, Mrs. Tope," he said, in a deep ad"You're three jumps miration. ahead of me." He rose. "You've given me enough to think about to keep me awake," he said.' "And I had as much as I could stand already. Let's go to bed." X 's Hours later, however, something disturbed Miss Moss. Her eyes opened and she lay listening. Inspector Tope here in the bed beside And then Asa came her was sleeping. Then she heard again the sound which had roused her a moment ago. It was the doorbell, ringing in a long peal, shrill and imperious. In a swift haste she snapped on the shaded light beside her bed and found dressing-gowand slippers. Then the doorbell rang again, and Inspector Tope woke and asked: "What's the matter?" "Someone at the door," she said softly. She went out along the ball to the living-rooand heard the Inspector bestir himself behind her, but she did not wait for him. She came to the front door and opened it; and she uttered a low ejaculation of surprise and of dismay. n "It didn't hurt," June insisted. than a baby, Clint; and not much "So we tried to get in through the in the way of eyelashes." She was bathroom," Clint explained. "There busy tending him. Clint whispered, through set wasn't any fire in there, so I got teeth: "That's a lot more comfor- that window up and climbed in; but table." Miss Moss ached for him. when I opened the door into their He grinned at June, said then to room, it was all on fire inside. Fire the older woman: "This sweet kid was spouting out of the wall right has come to live with you for a beside the bathroom door." is there," while. Miss Moss. It won't be long. "The laundry-chutJust till she comes to live with me." June interrupted. Miss Moss looked at June, and "And it was roaring In the celsaw in the girl's eyes something like lar," Clint confessed. "I could feel a plea for forgiveness; and June it hot under my feet The smoke said softly: "He's talked so much was pretty bad. Then a piece of about you. I know you must be the floor in front of me burned hating me." through; and then the flames licked Miss Moss smiled fondly. "No, up at me, and I had to back out and dear," she said gently. "No, I'm shut the bathroom door." glad for both of you." Inspector Tope chuckled. "Well, "But you said you got them out," now that's all settled, to the satisTope reminded him. "Mr. and Mrs. faction of the womenfolks," he sug- Hurder." gested. "How about me? Miss Lea"I'm coming to that" Clint exford, do you mind if I ask what plained. "We tried another winhappened? You mind telling me?" dow, right beside their beds. I June shook her bead. "No," she smashed it open, and smoke poured said in a dull tone. "No. I'd rather out but no flames. So I straddled talk, I think, than not" She made the sill and my foot hit their bed inan uncertain gesture. "I'm I feel side." He spoke rapidly, his eyes as though I were walking in my fixed straight ahead. "I felt somesleep," she confessed. "It doesn't one, and I dragged Mrs. Hurder up seem real to me." and lowered her out of the window Miss Moss said briskly: "We'll to June, and then him. The bed have a cup of chocolate; all feel was all afire, little flames." better. June, come help me, will And he said, looking at the girl you?" She led the girl toward the beside him: "They weren't burned over shoulder: her kitchen, called much, I don't think. We were just "Inspector Tope, let Clint rest till in time. The Are spread awfully we come back. I want to hear." fast" But Clint said: "I don't want to Inspector Tope suggested: "Fire rest." His tone suddenly was grim. department must have been there "Let's go with them, Inspector," by then!" he suggested; and Miss Moss saw Clint shook his head. "No, them come on her heels. In the weren't! They didn't get there they till while little kitchen, she was busy after Mrs. Taine did. Not till after about the electric stove, Clint sat on Asa did, as a matter of fact June the sink and drew June close be- and I had been pretty busy, but it side him; and these two told what must have been quite a while." there was to telL Miss Moss echoed: "Mrs. Taine?" to a see June taken "I'd picture," "You see," Clint explained, "Mrs. Clint explained. "But the picture Taine and Asa were staying with to didn't seem to mean much us, Mrs. Bowdon last night Mrs. Taine so we left early, drove back to said they didn't hear anything till her house. And parked outside for their lights went out and she went a little while. to look at the fuses, and saw the "We sat there talking awhile, and fire through the pantry window. then she saw that the house was on She came running over, just about fire." the time we got the old people out; Tope nodded; and June explained: and then Asa came. He and I car "I must have left the front door ried them into the Bowdon house, open when I came out or else I out of the rain. And Mrs. Taine and didn't latch it and it blew open; be- June started taking care of them. cause we saw the flames in the front But June came out again when I hall." And Clint continued: did." "So we started to run toward the "Were they dressed?" Tope asked. house. A car passed, and I shouted "Mrs. Taine and Asa?" to the driver to ring in an alarm. "Oh, yes," Clint said casually; and By that time June was on the front he went on: "By the time the fire steps. I caught her just in time. engines came, one wing was all She was going in. The smoke was afire, and the other was well startpouring out of the door, and there ed; and they couldn't get the plug were flames inside; but she told off the hydrant right away. There's me Mr. and Mrs. Huraer were in only one hydrant and that was there." three or four hundred yards down He held June closer, and she the hilL The whole thing went, bewatched him with wide eyes. fore they got it checked at all" "It was raining," he explained. "I "Burn to the ground?" wet my handkerchief in the rain, "The floors fell in," Clint assentand wrapped it over my mouth and ed. "And part of the roof. I don't to hall. in But started the crawl know; maybe the walls wouldn't the smoke drove me back, and then go." June said they slept in the wing, June's eyes were closed, and Miss on the ground floor; so we ran Moss tried to sign to Inspector Tope around the house to the windows of to be still; but he asked insistently: their room." "What about the others? Mr. Taine, He hesitated, then went on: "The and Rab? Where were they?" windows were shut and the curtains It was June who answered: "Rab were drawn, but some of the cur- had gone to Providence right after tains were on fire. The windows supper," she said. "He had a case were all shut tight. I managed to in court there tomorrow morning. climb up and break the glass, with And Uncle Justus is deaf. He for a hammer. I wouldn't hear anything." She remy pocket-knif- e reached in 'and sprung the catch membered: "We saw him turn out and pushed the window open. I bit light to go to bed, just before guess that's when I burned this we taw the fire." hand; because when I opened the "Saw him?" Tope echoed. window a gush of flame came out in "Saw hit light go out" June my face, and I let go all holds and amended. "In the kitchen. He liked fell." to go to sleep in his chair after He looked at June. supper, and tometimet be didn't 1 fell on her," he said. "She wake up at alL But we saw his was right under me. I fell on top light go out" of her." (TO BE COHTISUED) smoke-begrime- - Miss Moss had never seen June Leaford. and as she watched Clint' increasing devotion to the girl, during the fortnight after Mrs. died, this fact sometimes disturbed her. She said to Tope one evening: 'I've been asking about her, here and there. You know Lissa Thayer I've spoken to you about her." "I know her. yes." Tope assented. "Llssa end I have become almost friends," Miss Moss explained. "She knows about Clint and June. He often leaves his car there when he goes in to the cabin. And Asa and Rab buy gat there for their car. 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Miss Leaford" June whispered: "His hands are burned! I wanted him to stop and get them fixed, but he wouldn't. Ob, take care of him." Tope uttered a low ejaculation; he stood blinking in the light There was a moment's alienee; and then Clint, bis arm still encircling June, Also added slowly: "Mr. and Mrs. Hurder wt got "Trees of death," gnarled shrubs them out; but " Mist Moss saw June shudder and which are held in superstitious awe by Indians, have been discovered tremble, and she spoke comma ' in a lonely canyon. John W. Hilton, authority on des"Come in," she directed; and at they obeyed, the shut the door be- ert lore, has disclosed that he found hind them. "Miss Leaford, are you the trees after a long fight to overcome superstitious fears of Indians. hurt too?" she asked. The tap of the "tree of death," or "No, no." June told her. "You must fix Clint I'm all right." elephant tree, is believed by the Miss Moss nodded. 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