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Show THE hursday, June 1, 1939 TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHI. UTAH PAGE SEVEN SEW SHUTTERED WNU SBtVKs' CHAPTER 11 And Mrs. Taine added, in her low, precise fashion: "We have no lformation to give you. My moth- r was in bed and asleep. I was vith her. My son Asa was asleep n the vas dining-room- . My husband at home. My son Rab was In Miss Leaford was I rovidence. ion't know where. I knew nothing ill the electric lights went out, and started to look at the fuse-box- , nd saw the flames from the pantry incident than an ugly intrigue, and Tope offered no comment. So presently they drove back up Kenesaw Hill. There they could only wait, while the embers of the Hurder house still smoked and steamed. Inspector Heale went presently to sleep, here beside Tope in the car. A gray and miserable dawn came at last, through the drenched and sodden trees to reveal the desolation here. Where the Hurder house had stood was a black pit now, with d timbers embers and scattered all around. Firemen were busy; and steam still rose from the embers. Dawn became day, and Inspector Heale woke, and took Tope away to breakfast and brought him back again. They could only wait; and it was near noon when they got back to Kenesaw HilL The Chief at last came swiftly toward them, with something in his hand. He extended it triumphantly. "There, look at that!" he cried. Tope saw what it was: a large fuse of the sort used in electric circuits designed to carry a considerable current It was a cylinder half-burne- window." Rab insisted: "Gentlemen, you an't annoy these ladies! They have uffered " But Mrs. Taine said quietly: 'Nonsense, Rab. It is not a ques- ion of annoyance, or of endurance. do not choose to be questioned; hat is all." She repeated: "And I vish this dangerous gossip stopped, iow." She nodded toward the door n a gesture of dismissal. Tope said gently: "I see you urned your hand!" Mrs. Taine eyed him steadily. 'Yes, when I lighted one of the amps," she said. "The match- ead " But Rab cried bitterly: '"Gentle- iifien, I won't permit this! You must o." Tope looked to Inspector Heale or guidance; and the other yielded. io the two men came out together; Lnd out of doors, in the lee of the louse, sheltered from the rain, Heale mopped his brow. Hearing his name, Chief Mason turned; and Tope with a nod toward the ruins of the burned louses asked: "You think you can find anything stopped, and h there?" 'It will be a piece of luck if we io," the Chief confessed. "Arson s always hard to prove." He added: sure. "There was a And by the way the fire ripped up I should hrough that laundry-chuthink oil had been poured down the e, 11l :hute, or gasoline. It's not likely we'll find anything, but we might" And he said grimly: "But I'll go hrough the ashes with a sifter. If here's anything there, I mean to ;et it. Old Denman Hurder was a ' "You're fine, Miss Leaford," ;entleman. He always had a word or any man on the street. I liked Tope said. "This Is hard for yon, and I know it and understand." um. 'He's still alive," Tope pointed some three inches long, with brass out. or copper ends, of heavy waxed "He's full of smoke, and gas too," cardboard composition. Mason replied. "Must have had At one place this tough composinough gas to kill him." tion, harder than wood, had been "No chance it was accident?" whittled with a knife till the soft rope asked soberly. metal conveyer within was exposed. "Might have been," the Chief This metal now was fused. The comjrudgingly .assented. "There was a position was smutted all around the k somewhere. The cellar and opening. The whole was set as heir room must have been full of though it had lain in water. t. And crossed wires sputtering And Chief Mason cried trinight have set it oil. The place umphantly: "There you are! That's Mr. Hurder had how it was done." vas a firetrap. lad electric lights put in, with a de- Tope turned the thing in his hand. ent installation, but then the others "Just how do you mean?" he asked. onnected up to his line, and did the And the Chief explained: Poor job, prob- jvork themselves. "Someone turned on the gas In bly. It's a wonder they hadn't the cellar, let it run for a while; d bad trouble before." then he the light Tope nodded, and he asked: "Then wires, somehow, and blew this fuse. how do you know it wasn't Just The flash would set off the gas." crossed wires, and a leaky union in And he added: "It was a piece of luck we got this. The explosion peThe Chief said honestly: "I don't must have blown it off the wall, know how I know. But when you've and it fell in a drain-ditc- h full of been in this business as long as I water, didn't burn." tiave, there are some fires that don't Inspector Tope felt a quick prefcmell right; that's all. You get a monition of success. It was such without accidents as this which bad befiunch they're wrong, trayed murderers before, and would The Inspector looked at him ap again. He looked at Inspector Heale provingly. He had observed some- - wondering whether the other bad hing of the sort himself, so many the same thought; but Heale's eyes Rimes. He inquired: were fixed on someone a little dis'Chief, were you slow In answer- - tance off, and when Tope swung ng the alarm tonight?" that way, he saw the man whom "Don't think so," the Chief as June had called Uncle Jim apsured him. "I wasn't there, but proaching them at swift long lobody said anything about a de- - strides. He came near, and he cried: ay." "I'd like to know what time the "Where's Miss Leaford?" him. came told ilarm in," Tope Heale said harshly: "Where've 'And what time the first apparatus you been? I've been looking for ;ot here." you." "I'll get It for you," the Chief Glovere made an Impatient gesromised. He turned back to the ture. "Is she all right?" be inlying fire. sisted. Tope and Inspector Heale went Tope said gently: "Yes, she's all n to the police car beside the road; Mr. Leaford." right ind Heale confessed in an irascible And at that word Heale swung one: "We've got almighty little to toward him, then back to the other No place to begin." Ko on. Tope. man. "You Mr. Leaford?" he de"I like to And out as much about manded in a quick astonishment h? time things happened as I can," There was a long silence; the othrope suggested. "Let's drive down er at last lifted his hand helplessly. on now check that "Yes. Yes. When Kitty died. I went and up right elephone-cal-L Nothing to do here away . . . Came back yesterday. ill daylight, anyway." But I didn't know about this till Heale agreed; so they departed Just now." n this mission. Heale phoned to "Where were you last night?" isk the Providence police to make Heale demanded. nquirles about Rab Taine; and they "In my cabin down there." :ot from Fire Headquarters a rec-r- d "Didn't wake up?" of the alarm. Then Providence "No. I'd lost sleep lately." ailed batk; Heale answered, and Heale made a gesture of satisfacamuse-nena to with Tope, dry tion. "I guess you're the man I eported want" be said. "Here's something! Rab Taine was June's father stared at him with here, all right; but he wasn't alone. narrowing eyes. "What are you Mr. and Mrs. Registered in, under talking about?" he demanded. lis own name, late last night, It was Tope who answered. "We hecked out about midnight, after think Mrs. Leaford was murdered, .e got a phone call" think this last night was murder Tope felt his pulses quicken; and too," he said. And Heale added in a complacent Icale commented: "Pretty cool proposition, going off on a spree, tone: "So that's why I want you, Mr. Leaford. You're going for vith hit grandpa dead at home." He seemed to see no mora In the little rid with me." short-circuite- gas-line- t: CHAPTER XII June woke to strange surroundings; to a room she had never seen before, a bed she did not know. She woke, and lay with wide eyes, remembering; and for a while she was content to stay abed, putting her thoughts in order, assorting all her horrified impressions of the At last she heard night before someone stop outside her door and stand still there as though listening; for a moment she shuddered with vague terrors, then decided this must be a friendly step, and called: "Come in." So Miss Moss opened the door; and June saw kindness in her, and strength and affection. The older woman came gently to her bedside; she said quietly: "Good morning. Miss Leaford. Did you sleep well?" "I must have, I think," June confessed. "What time is it?" "Past eleven," Miss Moss told her gently. "Stay in bed. I'll bring you some coffee." Bnt June sat up quickly. "Oh, no. So late!" And she asked: "Where's Clint?" "Sound asleep." "Is he all right?" "Yes; yes, my dear. Perfectly. Just a few burns and blisters." "He was so brave," June whispered proudly; and Miss Moss said smilingly: "He's sleeping like a child. He took Inspector Tope out there last night after you went to bed; but he came back soon himself, and I took care of him." June nodded. "You've always taken care of him, haven't you?" "Since his mother died, yes. Of him and of Clara. The girl insisted on arising; and she and Miss Moss had a long hour together before Clint woke at all, moving quietly, speaking in so that he might not be disturbed. Once the telephone rang, and Miss Moss answered it June heard her speak in a steady negation to some insistent one, and guessed the truth before Miss Moss confessed to her. "That was your cousin," the older woman explained. "Mr. Taine wanting you to come home. He said he would come fetch you." "Rab or Asa?" June asked, almost fearfully. "I don't know." "Oh, I don't want to go," the girl declared. "I can't bear to go back there." "You need not" Miss Moss assured her calmly. "You will stay here as long as you choose, my dear." She smiled and lifted the receiver off the hook. "We'll not even answer the telephone," she declared. "Besides, it might wake Clint He needs sleep." "I want to see him," June admitted, her cheeks bright; Miss Moss smiled, and on a sudden impulse put her arm around the girL Later Miss Moss heard a buzzing in the telephone, and it continued so persistently that she lifted the receiver. This was Aunt Evie, insisting in her even, pitiless tones that June come home. But Miss Moss yielded not an inch; and June, when she heard who it was, cried: "I can't Miss Moss. Mother's dead, and now Grandma. Ob. I can't go back to them." Her voice was raised; it may have roused Clint asleep in Inspector Tope's own bed. He came in to the door, his hair rumpled, his eyes drowsy, still not fully waked. But when June saw him there, she ran into his arms, and he held her close; and Miss Moss said in a deep and tender mirth: "She wouldn't be happy till you did wake up, Clint I couldn't please ... rs as her." Coffee 'Stains. Remove from silks or woolens by soaking them in pure glycerine. Wash off in tepid, soapless water. V Use for Newspapers. Save plenty of clean newspapers for the moth season. Moths loathe printer's ink, so you'll find the papers useful when woolies and blankets have to be stored away. June looked back over her shoulder and said gratefully: "You were sweet to me. But I did want Clint too." When Burning Vegetable Refuse. Put a handful of salt with the rubbish. This will prevent any unpleasant odor. and while they washed dishes afterward. But early in the afternoon Inspector Tope came home. The old man was tired and worn and haggard, and his clothes were sodden. Miss Moss seized on him and hustled him, protesting, away to change; she would have put him to bed, but the Inspector balked. June asked Clint desperately: "What is it, dear? What has happened? Why is he that way?" And suddenly: "Why do you call him 'Inspector'? Is he a policeman?" "He used to be," Clint told her. "For years." He thought uncertainly to distract her attention; and he said almost eagerly: "He can tell you the greatest stories, about the cases he had, the things he did. I guess he's the greatest detective they ever had around here." She stared at him with narrowed eyes. "Detective?" she whispered. "But why " And suddenly Clint saw the blood drain out of her lips and leave them white as marble; but her eyes were steady. "Clint," she demanded, "does he think " But he was saved the necessity of answering, for Inspector Tope and Miss Moss came out to them again; and June turned to the older man. "You think someone killed my mother?" she said swiftly. Clint protested something, and Inspector Tope stood uncertain; but June turned to Miss Moss. "Tell me." she insisted. "Is it true?" Miss Moss answered her. "Yes, June," she said. "I think it is true." Her voice was infinitely kind. June's eyes closed; she seemed to grow tall, she stood so straight and still. She looked at them all again, and said slowly: "You must tell me. Oh, tell me what to do." Miss Moss and Clint were silent full of tenderness; but Inspector Tope spoke in a deep approval. "You're fine. Miss Leaford," he said. "This is hard for you, and I know it and understand. I would like to talk to you," he explained gravely. "If you can stand talk, questions." Tope began with Mrs. Leaford; he came at last to the tragedy of the night before. "Your grandmother died," he said. "Mr. Hurder is still alive. He ought to be in a hospital, to have every chance; but Mrs. Taine insists on keeping him there. Attending him herself " He was silent for a moment, frowning, foreboding in his eyes. Then he went on: "Now you've already told me about your mother and the night she died. You remember, when I came out with Clint But Miss Leaford, I want to ask you about last night about everything that happened before you left the house to meet Clint: who you saw, what you did, what other people did." So June, picking her words with care, arranging her memories in order, began to tell him; and while she talked, he made an occasional note, on a pad of paper, till she concluded at last: "And then Clint brought me away, brought me in here." Inspector Tope nodded with a deep approval. "That's fine," he said; and he explained: "I've been trying to figure out the times when some of these things happened. I've made a schedule. Some of this you don't know about; but you and Clint look at it and see if it's about right, as far as you know." For Discolored Handkerchiefs. 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