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Show 1 i 45"i Thursday, October 18, Over But the RtcharS Powel- l- SKootitlO" J ill Ri lit,-, An th 9" hii 5TAKKING aU of your raw furs, rabbit eklne, Ship hiii.-and wool to NORTH WF.STKRN IU1K AND H'll COMPANY. 03 South grd West. Halt Lake City, where you WIC always receive highest market prices. AN ah ltff1ffpfl tn Walk down In thortband the various war conversation! the overheard. While In the act, she was spotted, and iMie word "SPY," ttrtt a whisper, de- Aeloped Into an angry cry. Andy pulled the stop cord In order that they could yt both Jump off. Arab started running 1th Andy fast after ber. m Fu; CHAPTER H There was only one word needed. 1A small, hissing word. My eararums kched as I waited for it. Then it came. It broke the Ice jam in my Diooa. My legs and arms came alive, tin- ling. I started wrestling forward White laces rough the crowd. J turned. Eyes stared blankly, iney Vdidn't want to let anybody through. I They were already jamming toward (L the front of the bus. Moving under the sting of one word. started in the back of tne had oujjt aot Ams and was working forward like . J alow poison, Spy." ted V "Spy nt They let me move grudgingly. It ns.yf wasn't for me that they moved Reside, though. They moved a little or the gleam of shoulder bars and Tbuttons and the eagle p Aon the my cap. I got to the exit at limf TLmiddle of the bus. That was the was Jam the that point Jit. Beyond Isolld. I yelled at the nearest people 1 they didn't even turn. They J shoved back blindly, not looking V round, When I tried to drive through. on each J I grabbed the handrail Hside of the exit and hoisted myself I up. I caught a flash of Arab's pale Vface. She was jammed against the front entrance. The people right Varound her didn't know yet wh.t was happening. They had turned to push I back resentfully at the mob. But ffcArab knew. She was clawing at the tight folds of the door. spy spy spy "Spy for-wa- rd ... an ambulance is coming "An from Walter Reed," Arab sniffled. Colonel Parker came in first, shook my hand, and said, "Glad you came through all right, Blake. Got to ask you some questions. These gentlemen" he sketched an introduction "need information. Know you need rest, but this can't wait. Feel up to it?" "Yes, sir," I said faintly. It appeared that I was entertaining the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counter Intelligence, the Military District of Washington, the Provost Marshal General's Office, and other serious-minde- d organizations. "Yes, sir," I said, "but first I ought to tell you " "Save your strength, Blake. Let them ask the questions first." Another colonel grumbled. "Can't make head or tail of the stories of the people on the bus. One says she was short, another has her nearly six feet tall. She has red, bru nette, and platinum-blond- e hair, is knock-kneehas beautiful legs . . . you see what we're up against." "Sir," I groaned, "it's a long Story. She" "Let's have a description." "Sir, I wish you'd let me go at this my own way. She " "Blake!" I babbled, "She has blonde hair, shoulder-lengtheight five feet seven and one half with high heels. -- rnd ... ... The word was striking at ner uw snake I yelled at people to stop t. but not a back turned. It would take a cops to halt them ow. I put an my lung power una yell. When the door opens. "Arab! half-doze- n WTun Then I grabbed the eord and hung on it Ordinarily the waited until the. Viriver would have . .I next loading station . . . aim .iui nirh hnvA rupn ton late, for Arab. But he must have known something was wrong, without quite knowing Vwhat. As I hung on the cord, pray ing, the bus suddenly swung to the curb and halted. I lumiied on the step which auto matically opens the center doors. .They flapped back. I leaped out. skidded once, and swung toward the 'front entrance. The front doors fold- back and Arab slipped out while still three strides away. I was b - nun I - x yeuea. She jumped to the sidewaix ana i faked a dive at her and clipped the Vfirst two men who spilled out after her. My nose left a rut in the street, but lt seemed worth while. It gave VArab a few seconds' start into the blackness ol a private driveway, i scrambled to my feet and followed. VFifty yards up the curving drive of the big estate I saw a white blur. When Arab runs she doesn't flap her the way most girls do, like a hen trying out clipped wings. I pounded up the drive well in of the others. But was I IL advanceahead of the rest? Once or really twice the white blur of Arab's rain- stop-sign- .... " -" fd 7 mother Arab flashed past window of the 1 Oig house, and a moment later I thought I saw a shadow flick across the same light A shadow as squat as a tub. It was nonsense, of course. My Imagination was pulling things w out of bats. Tubs can't move that t lighted figure. ground-floo- r J fast. Then, In a split second, my foot hit something and a fuse blew In my bead and I plunged down Into ringing blackness. I opened my eyes and peered up I at a lighted room. A circle of faces Vhunff above me like a Halloween group bobbing for apples. "How do you feel. Lieutenant!" somebody asked. 'Swell," I said. Is there an tin- idertaker in the house?" "Oh, Andy," a familiar vote sobbed. "I thought you were dead." "What made you change your 4 mind?" I said peevishly. "What" I broke off suddenly ana stared around at the circle. Hera was Arab with a half dozen of the people V who bad been ready to get rough with her not long ago. "What happened to the girl?" I asked. "The girl in the white raincoat and the black felt hat?" Arab asked clear voice. "She got away." In "We called the police," somebody added. "They'll get her." "If they do get her," I growled, ."I'll be hsppy to testify for the prosecution. What happened to me?" A man said, "You tripped over Lomethlng, Lieutenant. Your bead hit the stump of a tree. We found you crumpled right up against the fttump, and carried you Into the bouse here." J I saw a white blur. blue eyes, nicely cut weight cameo features, age twenty-thre- e one-te- n, Somebody whistled softly. "Are you sure of all this?" a asked. civil-Ia- n "Yes, sir." Somebody else said, "Nope, too good to be true. They don't come like that. The last female spy I saw had hair like a broomstick and Athletmust have topped ic girL Went in for weight-lifting.-" Colonel Parker said nervously, "Blake, you don't happen to know this girl's name, do you?" I sandwiched a gulp between a one-sixt- yes-si- r. "What Is it?" I closed my eyes and said, "Mrs. Arabella Reynolds Blake." There was silence for a few moments. It was so quiet you could have heard a lieutenant drop, if I hadn't been lying down already. Tell it your own way," my chief muttered. My own way would have been by e telephone, but I went ahead, anyway. After I finished, one officer said, "Well, cross that one off the books as a wasted evening." After he left I decided that things weren't so bad. They couldn't really put a black mark on my 201 file in the Adjutant General's Office for the night's work. And Arab ought After all, I had to be grateful. helped her out of a nasty spot In the bus. Arab phoned that she would bring the car out for me whenever I was ready to leave, and I said not to worry because the Army nurses were very lovely. After that Arab called every hour and the hospital authorities got tired of it and decided In the late afternoon that I could be returned to duty. Arab got out to the hospital without delay, and I coaxed the prettiest nurse to escort me to the door and ven let weakly on ber. This had the proper sobering effect on Arab for at least five minutes. Then, as we drove away, she started fighting the war her way again. "You're Just bitter," I said, "because nobody consulted you before starting the war." "Why, Andy, do you really think I'm going to keep quiet after the way those people were talking last night on the bus? I'm going to do something about It whenever I get a chance." long-distanc- me-lea- 'Xast night in the hospital a full colonel said you ought to be spanked." She murmured, "I do love you terribly, Andy, and I'm ever so grateful to you for last night, and I'll be quiet from now on and not get us into any more trouble." "I hope so." "I've already been quiet since last night, and that's a whole twenty-fou- r hours." "What have you been doing?" "Finding a room." "Swell. Let's hear about it." "It's out on Northwest Q Street in a big old house with lots of space around it. About sixteen girls live in it and it's owned by a refugee Frenchwoman and some of the girls are the cutest things and I just know they're all going to make passes at you and " "Whoa," I said. "You're peddling this too hard. Now tell me what it is I'm not going to like about the ul place." it's really a very little "Well, thing." 'I'll bet So are thirty-calib- bullets." "It's just that Mrs. Fielding she married an American won't rent rooms to married women. That is. not married women who are working at it. She said that the first thing. She says married women who really love their husbands are always either moping around and depressing her or else rushing off in a few months to wherever their husbands are and there she is with the trouble of finding the right girl for the room again. So because I'm signed up with civil service under my maiden name of Arabella Reynolds she sort of got the idea that I'm not married and let me have the room." That isn't like you. Butch. You know we'll be finding an apartment and leaving her flat" We had dinner downtown, and Arab mentioned that she hadn't recovered her white raincoat and hat alter dropping them last night We drove to the scene of the chase and spent half an hour poking through the shrubbery with a flashlight It was no use. Either Arab had forgotten where she dropped the articles or somebody had walked off with them. I switched on the overhead light and drove on slowly and listened to Arab deciphering her shorthand. She had filled half a dozen pages. Some of the quotes started out as if they might be Important but then turned into meaningless chatter about how the supervisor said this and Edith snapped right back at her. There were perhaps four remarks of the loose-tal- k type, but they weren't dangerous to anybody except a few thousand guys who were off fighting Germans and Japs, or getting ready to. There wasn't a remark which might have made Arab dangerous to somebody on the bus. "Did you find anything In that?" she asked, closing the notebook. "You missed it" I complained. "It must have been said while you were listening and you missed it" "We can't do anything about it, can we, Andy?" "Let me think a minute," I said. An idea was fluttering in my head. It would brush the edge of my thoughts like a moth and then vanish. I didn't know what the idea was but I knew I needed it Badly. "We're here," Arab announced suddenly, and I pulled over to the curb and got my first look at the house on Q Street. It was in a rather desolate section quite a distance beyond Georgetown. Only two other houses were in the section. Arab's place was planted on several acres of unkempt It had been built maybe grounds. thirty years ago by someone who had hoped it would look like an emmansarbassy. It was a three-stord-roof type, with a tiny porte-cocheand a couple of pillars. The pillars were oversize for the house. They stuck out like buck teeth. "What a comedown," I said. "Hmmm?" "This house. It starts off thirty years ago in the society columns and ends up In the rooms-for-resection. You said you saw lt advertised today, didn't you?" In the Washington "Oh, yes. y re Post" The mothlike Idea fluttered back Into my head, and settled down. I asked in a carefully restrained tone, "What's the number of this place?" ninety-seve"Fifty-seveQ Street, n n Northwest" I got out a cigarette and struck a match. My hand trembled so that the match went out I tried to strike another and merely crumpled It "You're awfully nervous," Arab said. "I read the Post this morning, too." "Did you? But what's that got to do MRS. LYLE BRAGONIEIt IS TELLING HER WANTED TO BUY INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY ARAB - " ANDY ULAKt fiaturhs ' wide-wing- ... PAGE SEVEN Classified Department THE STORY THUS FAR: Lt. And; lake, assigned to OperaUoni, was agree ably urpriied by the arrival of bit wile, Arab, who announced the bad taken a b In Washington with Ordnance, to aid In the war effort. They left the office to look for a room for Arab. Arab told people talked too Hnd; that thoughUesi much about their war work and plant. tX7HI1 NEI'III, UTAH TIMES-NEW- AH , I- ground and take ft THT: 1943 with" "I had plenty of time," I said. '1 read the rooms-for-resection. There wasn't any ad for this house." "I I must have resd it in another paper." I grabbed ber shoulders and shook her and shouted, "You read it in your notebook I That thug on the bus dropped a remark that brought you to this housel And you skipped It when you read me your notes. You utter dsmned fool, are you trying to get yourself killed?" nt (TO BE CONTINUED) FRIENDS ILLINOIS. BL00MINGTON, Mrs. Lyle Bragonier .certainly is leased with Faultless. Starch, A .iere is what she wrote in a letter: AUT()S,JTRCCKS & ACCESS "I surely am very much satisfied with Faultless Starch. It c v. v. v. v. v.s v. w.vwvo'v.v .: ssv.: .; : v.". v.v. w. v.v.v. vsvv ww. w. tops any make of starch. I'm through with all other starches. 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They're 2 teaspoon cinnamon a large square of cheesecloth delicious in spite of it all, and bath; this bag full of soap can be teaspoon cloves In a basin of strong, hot put into the tub and you'll have there's a grand variety from which soapsuds Cream sugar and shortening, add Let it soak for a while, then wring wash cloth and soap in one. to choose. Take your pick: out Add well. and beat sour cream. and egg dry. When the cloth beBran Devil's Food Cake. comes Sift flour with baking soda, baking soiled, it can be washed and (Makes 16 cupcakes) retreated. powder, salt, cloves and cinnamon. 1)4 cups sifted cake flour Add two tablespoons of the dry inW cups sugar Cleaning Diamonds gredients to the creamed mixture. To clean diamond rings, cover cup cocoa Beat thoroughly. Add remaining dry 2H teaspoons baking powder .them with wood alcohol and let Ingredients to the first mixture, H teaspoon soda stand for five minutes. Remove and beating well. Pour Into a well- 1 teaspoon salt polish with white tissue paper. and greased cup shortening .i pan and M cup whole bran bake in a pre- - M 1 cup milk Fattening Lambs 'i heated 350 - de- One help in putting weight on 1 teaspoon vanilla I gree oven for 30 lambs is to keep sheep and lambs t eggs 9 minutes. free from parasites, especially noduSift flour once, measure then sift An unusual va worms Inlar and worms. stomach with sugar, cocoa, baking pow- riation in cakes is to use again festation with parasites holds back gingerder, soda and salt into mixing bowl. bread as an upside-dow- n cake with growth and increases feed costs. Add shortening and whole bran. Add an apple or orange topping. This Serious losses from parasites can of the milk, then vanilla; saves about be prevented by providing clean WITH beat until perfectly smooth, about not both sugar and fussing as it Is pasture, by the use of phenothiazine, necessary to make an icing for 100 strokes. Scrape bowl and spoon and other this of cake: by taking type precautions. and mix well. Add remaining milk SOOT IRADICATOR Bike Passenger and beat until well blended. Add Cake. Gingerbread Upside-Dow- n TEASPOON of XZIT n when You invite Y cup shortening disaster the eggs. Fill greased you full. Bake in a modermuffin tins H cup sugar carry another person on your bike. sprinkled on the fire regu1 egg oven about 29 or 30 ate larly will remove soot from minutes. tt cup molasses chimneys, fireplaces, furnaces 1V4 cups sifted flour Do you like a cake served warm, snd stoves and keep them dean. in squares, with the tangy flavor of yt teaspoon salt Soot wastes heat-- is always a fire 1H teaspoons baking powder a citrus marmalade? This, then, Is hazard. r: teaspoon baking soda TIME teaspoon cinnamon Marmalade Tea Cake. Try XZIT. It's safe; easy to use. teaspoon ginger Is excellent in an emergency for 2 tablespoons melted butter or subTAILS TO cup sour milk stitute tT putting out chimney Bottom of pan: cup brown sugar fires. 2 tablespoons butter or substitute 1 cups corn flakes H cup light corn syrup s cleaner house ltt cups sifted flour ' riT Keep and get all the heat you S teaspoons baking powder H cup nuts V 1 loot tot mi urnat jefl eaetM'f pay for. Ask for XZIT 2 sliced apples or oranges 2 tablespoons sugar at your hardware, fuel H teaspoon salt Cream and Add dealer or grocery store. sugar shortening. 4 tablespoons shortening egg, beat well. Add molasses, blend. 1 egff Air Conditioned Trolleys XZIT Soot ErtJicMor Sift dry ingredients and add alterA fleet of new street cars in Atmud by industry for cup milk with the milk to the nately mort than 20 ytort. lanta, Ga., has been equipped with cup marmalade creamed mixture. To prepare pan, Blend together butter, brown sugar melt butter and add corn refrigerating units. This will be th ArXZIT 'SOOT syrup. IRADICATOR first time that passengers can enjoy and Vi cup corn flakes. Set this aside fruit and nuts. Pour batter the benefits of air conditioning. for the topping. Sift together flour, range U Aaaetet 44, CeJlfenMe) over fruit and bake for 35 minutes in baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut a oven. Turn cake out in shortening. Beat egg and add of after removing pan immediately milk. Add to dry Ingredients, stir- from oven. ring only until combined. Add reFor those of you who like your maining 1 cup of cornflakes. Turn Into greased sal square pan. Dot whipped cream and can't get it, ft her Is an excellent way of miking lt: rTBs6rsAniCrstrods" VI f) Whipped Cream, Lynn Says: m teagpoons plain, nnflavored gelof atin V retfocc't Rlc Krrtfifou! Make Dishwashing Easier! SyJw rS M cup cold milk or water th whoW rtp (raio in nearly r on " I dishes by Stunt fishy odors all th protective food le-Vjf f" 1 cup d Jm X declared CMcnttsU to light cream I m ftnt IT washing them in soapy water to """Hi hagnafi f I J V jyi Soften gelatin In cold liquid. Set which some vinegar has been over hot water and stir until thoradded. Rinse dishes In hot vinegar water, also. oughly dissolved. Pour cream Into Hot, soapy water is Indicated fairly deep, narrow bowl, making sure it Is deep enough so cresm for greasy dishes; cold water for covers at least of the beaters. egg, starchy and milky dishes. Stir in softened gelatin gradually. Scrape dishes before starting to Set bowl in a pan of ice and let wash and hsve a strainer In the stand S minutes, stirring around sink to collect all leftovers. It's much easier than scooping them edges several times. Leaving bowl In ice and water, beat with rotary beatup out of the water. er S minutes. Cream will be light Stack dishes carefully before and fluffy but will not stand stiff washing. It won't seem like you have so many, and there's less enough to peak. Let stand 1 or S chance of their breaking. minutes more in Ice water, stirring China can be allowed to dry by gently. Cream will thicken and become stiff enough to peak. This may Itself on a dish rack, but glasses, be sweetened and flavored to taste. V Joints 'Tired Mutclss Sprains Strains Bruises silver and cutlery should be It may be served immediately or wiped Immediately after washing. kept in refrigerator or cold place . until ready to serve. Texture imMake sure you hsve plenty of absorbent dish towels good proves on standing In refrigerator 1 for Vi hour. Stir until smooth and handy. 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