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Show BEAVER PRESS BLACK" - 3Wi - JI SOMBRERO CLIFFORD KNIGHT rO Margaret Nichols owned some property In Joint tenancy with Kitty Chatfield. When Kitty died It meant $200,000 to her. Bhe explains the situation to her friend, Barry. Elsa Chatfield had been disinherited at Aunt Kitty's death, but Is clad to be freed from a tyrannical aunt who bad Imposed many restrictions. Huntoen Rogers, a detective, asks what Aunt Kitty died of, and Is told an overdose of morphine. The detective meets Reed Barton and discusses the matter of Kitty Chatfield and Elsa. He suspected that Kitty Chatfield was murdered although the police hold to the opinion that it was suicide. There were no fingerprints except her own on the hypodermi syringe she used. CHAPTER in who did that I want to borrow it long enough to take it over and raise heck with her." "What if you don't come back?" "Then keep the money. It's more than the darned thing is worth." "AO. right" he said. I rolled the thing lightly, made my exit and bent my steps toward the apartment on the heights above the boulevard. Elsa was not at home, but I found Reed Barton on her doorstep. He was knocking loudly like a desperate man upon the panel of the door as I ascended the last flight of stairs, and left off only when I poked my head within view. He was carrying flowers, which few men like to be seen doing however much they may esteem the intended recipient thereof. He sought at first to hide them from me; hence it was not difficult to see that his case was urgent "She's not at home," he announced with an air that indicated Elsa's absence amounted almost to a personal affront "I thought sure she'd be here, Barry." "Just leave the flowers on her doorstep. I'll tell her you called the next time I see her," I said. He "But Kitty talked. Lord, how she n talked! Sam, thank God, was a sort, however; he just laughed at her and went on loving his wife. And then Elsa's mother, to Kitty's great relief, passed from the scene. Pneumonia, I think, although it's hard to remember everything. Sam didn't remarry, however, until after he set himself up again in Mexico; and then it was to Berta, the Mexican. Berta was the last straw to Kitty Chatfield. Berta, of course, is all right, I like her." "It's time Margaret was getting here. Sam Qhatfield and his Mexican wife, Berta, are coming too. They're up from Mazatlan for a few days," he said. "I'm hungry. How about you two?" "I could eat now," Huntoon Rogers said. "Perhaps it is clearer now about the will, Barry," said Dwight, settling back in his chair once more. "When Aunt Kitty cut her niece off with only a year's income from the estate, knowing quite well that Elsa would spend all of it which she did it was a deliberate thrust at a vital spot, so she thought "Aunt Kitty never looked upon Elsa as a Chatfield. Elsa resembled very much her mother. What's more to the point she was not awed by the antiquity of the Chatfields; she refused to kowtow to the great god Family. Which of course did not endear her to Aunt Kitty. Toward the last as bitter a hatred existed between those two as you could well imagine. Elsa, of course, was not to blame for it. Kitty Chatfield was older; her neck was stiff." "But is that enough to make the two hate each other the way they did?" I asked. "There was the baby." "Who was the child's father?" inquired Rogers. "That has never been disclosed." A boy came out upon the veranda "Look at that! Look at that!" to inform us that Margaret and the laughed and brought the flowers others had arrived. around into view, drew a fat green from his pocket scribbled pencil face. a has Nichols kindly Dwight upon the white paper and something not is his Dwight is yet forty, but the face of a benevolent philosopher. snapped the flowers to the doorknob His brown eyes are benign, soft, with a rubber band. "She's the most exasperating peralmost feminine in their compassion for his fellow man. There is a quiet, son I know, Barry," he said. "But gentle smile constantly about his what's she done to you?" For the lips; his whole countenance, in fact, first time he realized I had reason Is lovable and sweet. His is a face for being there. The light was dim, widely known, for it has been seen but I unrolled the caricature and often in the press a face of charm, presented it He took the caricature from me, winning, inviting to confidence, and placing it against the wall scribfriendly. bled on the edge: "Dear Liar. BarThat's why the devilish caricature ry is a wild man about this. I think In the shop window struck so forciit's rotten too Reed." He chuckled, the was attention. It bly upon my proceeding to fasten it in the door eye that did the trick; the carica'Tell her when you see her, jamb. turist had provided him with an eye that I called to tell her goodBarry, over made It wicked. cunning, sly, rather sudden, you know. It's bye. the whole countenance of Dwight The Chief didn't let me know until of a made rascal it him, Nichols; yesterday. I'm on my way this evewhereas he Is an upright man, Come on. I've got to go over sportsman who has written many ning. to my hangout now. There's not exa man and life books of afield, much time left" traordinarily fond of his wife and We went down the stairs and set home. off on foot tor it was not far. And, heavens! there was myself "Where are you going and why?" beside Dwight, my own inconsequential physiognomy. I blushed as I I inquired as we reached the boulestood there on the sidewalk, oblivi- vard and jostled along through the ous to the afternoon crowd that crowd. "Mexico Mazatlan. Because the swarmed along the boulevard. Was I such a villain as that? Was I so Chief says to go." old? "Mazatlan! Why, that's Incredibly And, heavens again! Beside me removed from the Hollywood scene." In the window, overwhelmingly, so "Yes, I know." "But what for?" huge and coarse that at first I had "The Chief says I'm to report at Dot seen it, was Jimmy the Cheese. In other shop windows up the the Mazatlan office for permanent boulevard that mild April afternoon work. Take charge of things down I encountered still more caricatures there." We swung on up the boulevard. by the same clever band. There was one of Huntoon Rogers ludicrous As we passed the shop window, we in the extreme; the thinning hair halted to gaze in at the caricatures on top of his head was all but gone; of Dwight and Chesebro, add again his ears stood out like flapping farther up the boulevard at still othwings, and his nose 'was twice its er caricatures. Near Highland the sidewalk became impassable. We already generous size. "Let me see that thing in the win- endeavored to worm our way for Reed's hotel was just dow," I requested of the clerk. For through, the corner. The first intimabeyond full of mounting spirits I had rewas more than a mere turned to th first window out of tion that itof pedestrians came with breath, thoroughly reckless now. I congestion the sound of a man's voice a reedy, The own likeness. to my pointed voice shouting: man was hesitant. "I want to look husky at that! Look at that!" "Look at it I want to make sure who We pressed our way- - into the did it. .It's me. Don't you see?" Helorked startled for a moment, crowd and beheld at the center of as if h were trying to divine wheth- the throng a hatless figure, red of er or not I intended to sue him, then face and vociferous to the point of got the caricature from the window apoplexy. "Is it me?" he demandand laid it on the counter. Eagerly ed plaintively of the gaping crowd. I scanned it for a signature, and "Is it me?" He pointed at a shop there modestly in the lower right window wherein I could make out a corner was the word I had not been group of caricatures, the origin of able to see from the sidewalk. It which was quite apparent. I recognized the fellow, a minor comedian; was "Elsa." "Let me take this for a little he was a bit player who was cast while." I requested. The clerk in an occasional picture. I don't know why a second figure shrugged his shoulders in a way that said no. "Here!" I pulled out on the sidewalk should catch my eye my billfold and dropped some money at the moment unless it were that on the counter. "I know the girl the Drescient monitor within me km hu-ma- SlRVICt PJ TTERNS. :,xj I XI3 again directed my eyes Into the misty pool of future time to that terrifying experience at Mazatlan. For the man was an utter stranger. He was inactive, standing idly by, apparently not greatly moved by the indignity that had been done him. The man was smoking a frayed cigar. He was hatless, dressed in an incredible sports coat brown slacks and a pink and white check shirt that would have affronted the esthetic sense of a moron. "I won't stand for it!" bellowed the comedian. "I won't! Give me a brick, somebody. Where's a brick?" I don't know where the brick came from. I suspected, but with no reason whatever, that the man with, the frayed cigar was guilty. "You know," laughed Reed Barton, as we rolled down town to the union station, "I wish I could stay and see how this comes out" "I'll tell you how it comes out when I see you at Mazatlan," I said. "I've arranged to go with Dwight and Margaret on their cruise. Leaving in a week or so." STAGESCRE ENMDI0 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. vacant spot in the THAT world is filled, now that John F. SullivanFred Allen to the world at large is back on the air on Sunday evenings. Once again, he's working 40 to 50 hours a i 3?. week to bring us that 30 minutes of entertainment During the last war Fred served with the AEF; during this one he's doing his best for men in the service; while he was on that long "vacation" he did several programs which were exclusively for transmission to overseas Allen fans in the armed forces. He played his Jliii 1-1- -1 1852 r.".7 "There is more than a fine talent here," said Dwight his voice having a judicial sound in the quiet of the ship's lounge on the Orizaba. The thin smoke of his cigarette ascended through the lighted area made by the green-shade- d light. He rustled the papers on the table, looking at first one reproduction of Elsa's caricatures and then at another. There was a full page spread of Elsa's caricatures in the rotogravure section, besides others in the news section. Elsa had made a hit; she was being hailed as a find. "Oh, hello, Chesebro. Come in!" Dwight looking past me into the passageway beyond the open door of the lounge, suddenly called out I turned to behold Jimmy the Cheese on the threshold. We shook hands all around, and Dwight waved Chesebro to a chair. "We were just talking about Elsa," he explained when we had settled. "About her mugs, as she calls them." A voice broke in upon us as we sat there in the lounge, a strange voice, slightly blurred in its tone and smacking of New York in its inflections. "If you're speaking of Elsa, I brought her out Just now." "We were, yes." Dwight rose questioningly to his feet and made as if to move toward the doorway whence came the voice. "Don't bother to get up," said the voice heartily. "Elsa and I just got here a few minutes ago. The steward helped us on board, and I saw you fellows in here so I came on in." "That's quite right," Dwight assured the man. "I'm glad you did. My name's Nichols." "Glad to meet you, Nichols. My name's Rumble. George Rumble." "This is Mr. Chesebro, and Mr. Madison." "Glad to meet you both," said Mr. Rumble, shaking hands swiftly with Chesebro and then with me. "Don't believe I've ever heard of you two before." He helped himself unasked to cigarettes and sat down on the corner of the table. "Nice little boat you've got here, Nichols. Looks like a swell traveler of the ocean blue." "Yes, thank you. I'm glad you could come down and be with us tonight" "Thanks. I always get a kick out of going-awa- y parties especially when it's on a boat Understand you're starting to Mexico tonight" "Yes. We're sailing about mid- night" At the moment I was speechless. I observed Dwight endeavoring to adjust the newcomer to his surroundings and us to him. It was plain that he was totally unexpected. His statement, however, that he had come with Elsa made him authentic. But as I say, I was devoid of speech. For I recognized the man. He was minus the frayed cigar he'd had when he so calmly looked on at the frantic actions of the outraged comedian. His black curly hair was oiled down to his head, and he was now smoking one of Dwight's cigarettes. Otherwise he was the same. "How did you come down?" Dwight was asking. "Come down?" repeated Rumble, dislodging a fragment of tobacco from his tongue with a sharp noise of his lips. "We came in Elsa's car. She's got a good car now, and a chauffeur. I helped her pick out the car. And I know the chauffeur's okeh. He's a nice boy. Cousin of a friend of mine. I got him the Job." "That's interesting," said Dwight. Chesebro bad shrunk into himself at the advent of Mr. Rumble; he sat like a huge, reddish-browsilent malignant oyster. I'm sure that if it were the gentlemanly thing to do he would have bitten Mr. Rumble. "What's your line, Chesebro?" demanded Mr. Rumble, turning upon Jimmy the Cheese. For a moment there was no reply. I could fancy he was struggling with himself, then he hissed, "Mining Investments." "Investments? Oh, yes. I never had anything to invest myself, but that's a good lire, I guess. Me, I'm in- -" But whatever it was that he was in had to wait for the moment, for Elsa called to us from the thresh' old. (TO BE CONTINUED) If; IWMBi 'v FRED ALLEN 1932 Helen Morgan was his guest star. Now, 11 years later, he's at it again, better than ever. 2rst radio role in Tried and True it VES, is the tried and true two--1 piece fashion, always so useful in any wardrobe, which is presented in this pattern. The jacket is smartly belted. Tm7 For the first time in 23 years of stardom Richard Dix turns from hero to heavy in RKO's "The Ghost Ship." 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The treaty of Portsmouth prides himself on manfully remainterminated a war between what if back aches from when scolded for bad countries? ing behavior. But recently he came 7. An albino animal results from need of diuretic aid home from school with a good report lack of what? Functional disturbance due to need were Gracie and and card, George 8. Who was the inventor of of diuretic kidney aid may cause stabbing backso proud and pleased and praised ache! May cause urinary flow to be fredynamite? him so much that he stood it as long 9. How many times louder can quent, yet scanty and smarting You may as he could and then burst into a normal man shout than he can lose sleep from "getting up nights" often -- may feel dizzy, nervous, "headachy." tears! whisper? In such cases, you want to ttimuUlt 10. If, after the war, you wished So if action there is nothing kidney fast. 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