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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVER. UTAH. (8 iSUAkB private detective, I InVaUaln-,tSnder10 Curt Veronlc marry bout w ho wa too helress to thirty million doUari. W'T'tracU some damaging admli-cClinger and former Vau"ncot. Later Victoria. and Lin't sister, calls at his office recovering some Help i u,rle. ' a' r his VaUalBCiurfl apartment Mc-ber that the letters are not Shari apartment, bnt hints that ol . .v have them. Because believe evidence, the police McCale Veronica is the murderer. not yet formed not think so, but has telTs h t - conclusion. jlctory clues. CHAPTER XI SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS I've had a devil of a time and got nothing so far." "You'll get less, very likely, now hanCe t0 COtTlpare rfotesV There was a pause. Then y said, almost cheerfully "I guess Veronica's our girl." "You really think so?" "The Lynn woman's evidence will put the finish on it." "Oh." McCale pondered over that for a moment, then decided to add I d keep a sharp watch on the Lynn woman." "Why?" Donlevy's interest was immediate. "I would. That's all." Don-lev- "Now, Duke, ScaKopcd Jwo jP'iecer IJoidlifui 2)r?J3 for School! ROWN you must have a N.U. FEATURES Mil Its he only that I am so I know how things must be upset from now on. I see a whole way of life before my eyes, an slipping away. I know" "Yes yes. You won't need me again?" She spoke as if that would be abhorrent to her. "No. It is better that I do my -- dirty work alone." He smiled once more, as he watched her leave the room. Beleased by Western Newspaper Unloo. By VIRGINIA VALE em-Pi- re "That below the surface, things have not been what they seemed for a long, long time," he inter-jecte- d keeping the pity carefully irom his tone of voice, for he knew that this she would not have. reason. Why be mysterious?" He stood by the m,. telephone fireplace, staring "I'll drop in to see you later in moodily into rolled over, opened McCale the ashes of last ,ntiy the day. Okay?" and finally grabbed night's fire, until he heard the door one eye, swore, "By all means." it under open and close hphind v,tm n, the extra pillow, bundling McCale dropped the receiver onto ne turned, he saw Stephen with the light, his head He fumbled Bigelow us cradle. An emotion of concern standing irresolute and the telephone nervous in .napped it on, lifted crowded his mind and ho si priori . the gray light. morning off its cradle. of sheer sigh desperation. His brain It was clear, as he sat down in "McCale speaking," he growled seemed dulled, inactive, depressed. the chair opposite McCale. that he "Rocky, boss." There was something therP snmo. was completely shaken. where are you?" Although thing that would make it clear. It it was no doubt partly "Comer of Aspinwall, opposite was hangover, evading him. Until he could McCale den. Didn't you the Vallaincourt Intuitively sensed that not grasp it, he must blunder ainna a little of tell me to keep a lookout? it was due to the fact without help, without even the con All that he was on his own. A quiet?" "Oh, yeah. complex fidence of the ones he was Listen, boss to trying lad, this one, he thought, riddled "All luiet now. by Damn the medieval re help. this five morning" inne about complexes. He had seen enough serve of such people, at anyway. of Stephen to know What happened "All right. that in spite of his d tve o'clock?" arrogance, he was lost without the Sleep still hugged him tightly and support of his wife and silly mother. He ill! there was an unreasonable barb in pondered as to which one of them had been clevbis voice. a er Around five, girl enough to send him in first, so "Okay, okay. that either or both could showed up with a key to the Val expertly deny any break he might make. laincourt "Who was It?" In a business like way, McCale It "Hold on to your hat, now. said, "I am willing to take the powas Victoria Blgelow." lice report of your actions yester"Victoria Surprise Bigelow?" day afternoon verbatim. However. ierked him wide awake. I'm more interested in something "Uh uh. She was after some let that may not seem relevant to the ters of hers, she said." murder. If you will only have conVictoria had cer "Well, welL" fidence in me, I can assure you it will probably go no further. I ask tainly had a busy night, he thought it entirely in the hope of "The place was clean, like you helping I said. No secret panels, either. your foster sister, Veronica, out of a ticklish situation. that is I finally helped her hunt I know, of for them." course, that you are eager to be of "Go home and grab yourself any assistance possible to her." some grub and shuteye," said Mc"Oh, quite." The answer came Cale. "Get here about one o'clock. readily enough. McCale studiously I'm going to be busy this morniignored the contemptuous curve of ng." the lips that accompanied the rehe called Ann At eight forty-fiv- e mark. Harriot on the telephone. "Very well, then. I'd like to know To her cool "hello," he said, If you had known Curt Vallaincourt "Good morning. This is your boss." before he became engaged to Verondar boss. "Oh, good morning, ica. What you know of him. What on I'm Anything important? my you thought of him, to be exact. way In about five minutes." ,.,1 ,jh jafcMMt iili,j1,'t jt.f,- t How, for Instance, did it happen "No hurry. In fact, this is Just to that he came so suddenly to this say you might shop for an hour if "I want those letters. Do I get them?" city to be taken up immediately by you want to and then do an errand your family? I'd welcome anything for me. I want you to drop In on The police commissioner had you can tell me." Shari Lynn. Suite 802." come and asked a few pertinent He saw relief come over Ste". . . And pray what shall I use questions, stayed barely an hour. is an excuse for dropping in, as you and departed. At eight o'clock the phen's face, relief that the question was not the one he had feared. Stesay? Don't tell me you're sending district attorney had attempted to uneasy me along to smooth the way for you bully the police in charge as well phen smiled a a more subtle approach, so to as the suspects. He had left at smile. "I met him in Chicago," he said speak?" eleven in a huff. "No and that's comedy enough The body had been removed to calmly, "about six years ago. Vicfor now, my girl." He grew serious. the morgue and laboratory for full- toria was running around with him. I had gone there for a couple of "I saw her myself late last night, er examination. Lieutenant Donlevy for that matter." and his squad had finished with months, Just to renew a few old "You rat!" the preliminaries. The hungry press acquaintances." "I'd like a line on how she is this had been thrown a bone to nibble "Anyone in particular?" morning. You know sad, gay, ex- on. Men had been sent to Vallain-court- 's Ask her for her autopectant? apartment to look over pa- Stephen Tells of graph. Anything to get in. Talk pers and belongings for a possible about Vallaincourt if you can withclue. The orderly hubbub of official His Chicago Trip out being thrown out." "No." His hands shook a little procedure was over, for a time at "That all?" as he fumbled for a cigarette and least. The night had been quiet "Yes. Just a check-u- p to satisfy the quiet of nervous exhaustion perlighted it. "Just a couple of fellows i point that's been nagging me. haps, but quiet. I had known in the navy. At one She's fairly transparent. It ought Then, at nine this morning, a time, you see. things were not very to be easy." I ran well, pleasant at home. plainclothes man had interrupted "Oh, yes, indeed. It sounds too, breakfast with an urgent request away and Joined up. I made a few too easy. All right. I'll do my best. for Veronica. He was politely in- friends while I was In the service. See you when?" sistent that she must come at once I corresponded with them from "About noon. Here. 'Bye, sweet." to the office of Lieutenant Donlevy time to time after I got out. We He dressed leisurely and carefullShe was are not a particularly happy group, for further questioning. y. He felt like a twentieth century not to be alarmed. It was a matter McCale, en famille, so to speak. So warrior going forth to civilized battwhen things got boring again, and of routine. But le. He knew that to solve this er a little squawky, I decided to problem, he had first to break down Miss Adelaide Agrees hop out to Chicago and visit a chap the buttresses of tradition that surrwho bad since married and done ounded the Bigelows. He knew he To McCale s Plan quite well for himself." was up against The library was dim and still and something that even "Sort of run away again, is that the overestimated awe, or If you only the sound of a piano being it?" McCale's grin was sardonic. will, majesty, of the law could not luum uy He thought as you've run out on played in tne drawing He had to break down that .i.i.. thrmiph the nrmressine upend. rr SldllS everything unpleasant since you mug superiority which was so se- auiet as Adelaide Bigelow finished were a kid, I can bet. . I n,nA cure in the belief in its own Intelll-Fenc- e her recital oi events, nu wmcu a. "Well, I suppose you could call it that it made its own rules as McCale sadly, iwccaie mu imi that." it went weieht He rather pitied spcaiv. tr. -a minute The - of along. "You took Victoria with you?" them momentarily, and smiled his senses closed down on rum like "No, she came to fetch me back, whether wondered wryly at the pure cynicism of his a stone. idly He it were. All is forgiven, you own thoughts. as it was the gloom or the helplessThat sort of thing. Victoria know. : that voice nM Indv's iha ness 111 1 Curt in some of her wanIK met He of had futility. Syl caused this feeling ccomes I had met Karen by then wondered why Karen Bigelow was derings. want to leave until there implicated didn't so and Preludes paLiszt playing the of sme sort an so understanding was On impulse he dialed ssionatelythose romantic things police headquarters and asked for Donlevy. richly interlaced with religious between us. We stayed almost a After a slight A strange woman, year, until I married her. Vicky delay, the curt, inci-iv- e mysticism. voice of the lieutenant came Karen, but merely more obviously corresponded with Vallaincourt for a while after she came home. It i.. omen. through. tne strange than deterresicned. was she who finally got him here. him. ...fnro "Donlevy here." seemed Ran into him by accident in New courage, "McCale, lieutenant." with great mined, and she brought "Oh-s- ure. Not out yet hunting to belong in that house. Her voice York or something, He Just visit. a for -the fcrl criminal?" w.u. him along brought him awaKe Bgam all." that's ''On the way. I'd like to know stayed, tart. what the Blgelow women were wear-t- o He settled back in the chair, a "What are we going to ou when they came in yesterday less Jangled, as if a Job had little asked. ...... , i and rather well done. uiu '"tside of the green thlngamajig answerea, he done been "I think," m to see a little further. u veronica sported." McCale settled back in his chair may uc w- 'Of course. Didn't I mention Eei . mil. mn - than thecanpolice and looked at Stephen Bigelow with I gam ..nmnrealed disgust that?" Then he de were able to. That is. if "No." you w' to try a shot in the dark and their confidence. cided . in"h- - rose as she see what it would hit. ... . "Well, here it is. Victoria, an tnem w d- one by affair, yellow; Karen, a got up, smiled and adderif course you know that Curt Wack velvet n if was married at some you please, black suit, cape; Sybil. one, Vallaincourt " J'Cht brown raincoat. That help?" career." ier that way lively in hjs she time 'uh uh. It was ad"To trap them. I suppose, Sybil, then, who "Oh, yes. He was," Stephen walked away into the off guard. murmured, surprisingly. completely fog." mitted, the He bowed, 'You think so? She claims to "Why. of course." To Shari Lynn?" naye been at the drugstore." smile leaving his lips. Linsky to you," Bigelow .arah 'Not for my He felt the subtle antagonism bit his lip, realizing then money." came . .... blurted, Then she j1 kind of think not. uciwccii That fam-'- t' leap L. the trap pu y to him. impulsive almost impossible to get "You knew her, too? o.. "'m to admit anything thin patrician nana They're (TO BE CONTINUED) .i .k. u me. "Forgive Meeting one another. What? was ringing insist aAtj-to-1fflla- Mercedes was screen-teste- d for "Little Women," her friends thought she'd fit the role of "Jo," but it was "Meg" she was considered for, which certainly doesn't seem right for her. She's got WHEN them puzzled on another count; Mercedes, who's always solving problems on "Big Sister," does it in her dreams when she has to take an anesthetic. Has the dream so many of us have thinks she knows the answer to what life is all about. The last time, the dentist said she shout- - l I - 1 high-nose- M thin-lippe- -- .... 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