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Show MGES1X BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1932 Reduced 30 Pounds Never Felt Better thoughts. a maze of dubiety, Markham restrapped the bag and returned It to Its hiding place. Clearly, the first Deep In thing to do was to tell Ormsbury of his discovery. Possibly the hotel manTake the case of Miss Madelone ager might be able to Indicate the next ' step to be taken. In replacing the bag Crowley, for instance, who lives in he tried to leave everything just as little Rock, Ark. Just read her he found It. rearranging the fallen suit letter: of clothes so that it might appear as "1 have used Kruschen Salts for If It had not been disturbed, and turnone year when 1 started I weighed 140 pounds now I weigh 110 pounds ing the key In the lock of the wardrobe door. and never felt better in my life. Five minutes later he was handing That's the big reason a host of I II u 4 ration Bti the passkey to Ormsbury and conmen and women take Kruschen to lose weight as the fat goes you gratulating himself upon an exceedO. Irwin. .AVyer For. as be skin ingly narrow escape. health in clears eyes gain emergpd from the elevator he had seen grow bright activity replaces in Canby getting his own proper key dolence. W.N.U from the clerk. Krusof , JTake one-ha- lf teaspoonful SERVICE- -. "If I had delayed a few minutes chen In a glass of hot water every fit 0, W'furn MOtHM longer." Markham said to Ormsbury, down cut breakfast before morning "You know me pretty well John, "he would have caught me n fatty meats, potatoes and sweets !" and Tm going to ask you to break all CHAPTER IV a jar of Kruschen that costs but a hotel was traditions for grinned. "It would have Ormsbury the me," way trifle lasts 4 weeks get it at any served you right I don't quite see on Ormsbury. he want "I to began world but in the for your drugstore Broken Threads borrow the master key to the rooms on how you could have ducked out of it" health's sake demand and get Krus the four days which inter"Neither do I. At the same time, During the third floor for a few minutes. Do chen Salts. (Adv.) vened between the disappearance of I get it? I found something that needs an exLandls' black box and the college "You've got your nerve, Wally," planation quite as much as my presCommencement, Markham burrowed Ormsbury chuckled. "What's your lay ence in Canby's rooms would have, If patiently and alone. If the foot- this time? Are you posing as a room he had found me there." "What was the something?" prints under Landls laboratory win- thief? Or are you playing around as dow had been made by Betty Lawson, "A pair of man-siz- e automatics By Mrs. Dan Garn an amateur detective? Whose room -4-her companion, and accomplice, must do you want to break Into?" wrapped up in a complete outfit of have been Herbert Canby. Hence, "Can't we let the room number hang burglar's tools, hidden under the botMr, and Mrs. Roy Thurston of Me- daring the four-daInterval, Mark-haup In the air for the time being? I tom board In Canby's wardrobe." "The devil you say I Bert Canby a tropolis, Nevada, and Mr. and Mrs. Ira spent most of his time keeping don't want to point a suspicion unless Steed of Farmington, spent Sunday the promoter of real estate schemes there Is something to point It at." burglar?" Ormsbury ejaculated. "That's with Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wood. under quiet surveillance. "Then you are sleuthing? Why not Miss Iva Wilcox of Salt Lake City, Nothing definitely helpful came of turn It over to the police, and so stay is spending her vacation at her home this. So far as outward appearance on the windward side of the law? I went. Canby ate, drank and slept the suppose you know what will here. happen Mrs. Emma Best and daughter, Bar Greater-Carthag- e scheme to the excluIf you should be caught out between sion last he of most other Interests; also, bara, of Salt Lake City, spent bases?" week end with Mrs. Gertrude Hansen. was gradually overcoming the obstacle "Of course. But Vro not going to be to the subconservatism Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford We- of small-cit- y caught out The rooms I want to lling had as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. stantial Increase of his deposits In the break Into are unoccupied Just now, Frank De Bry of Salt Lake City. Carthage Saving Bank A Trust, of and you may be sure 111 leave them which Markham senior was the presMr. and Mrs. Clifton Wood and chilexactly as I find them." dren of Farmington, were week end ident "You've given yourself away," said Wally dropped In upon his father at the manager, with a laugh. "There Is guests of relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. David Wood and Mr. the bank for a word of counsel The nobody away on the third floor exceptand Mrs. D. G. Wood accompanied by young man had Inherited a comforting Mr. Canby. Wbnt have you got Mr. and Mrs. John Oyler, of East Gar- able competence from his grandfather, on him, Wally land, went to Salt Lake City, Sun- the bulk of which was Invested In a "Nothing at all. I merely want to local tool and Implement factory, the see how he lives when he's at home. to anniverattend the day birthday expansion of which was threat "All right," Ormsbury agreed, prosary party given in honor of Mr. and future ened by one of the ramifications of Mrs. Meda Gleason. "It's ducing the coveted passkey. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith of Og- Canby's schemes. the traditions, as you say, smashing "About that tract adjoining the but I'm den, visited Sunday with their mothbanking on your discretion. Don't you want an authorized witness er, Mrs. Alice A. Smith. shops," Wally began. "I was told that Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Coombs of Salt Canby Is trying to get an option on It. along?" "No; you'd better not come. What Lake, entertained their children and Do you know anything about It?" grandshildren at their home here Sun"Nothing definite. 'Gaultney he's you don't know you can swear you day afternoon. Thirty nine were pres- taken over the handling of the estate don't know. If anything develops, I'll ent. Dinner was served. Summer promise you'll be the first to know It. was here yesterday, and he said "The Devil You Say I Bert Canby a garden flowers were used to decorate nothing about it I'm reasonably sure Won't that answer?" Burglar?" "I guess so for this one time. But, the tables which were placed on their be would give us a chance If anybody for the Lord's sake, be careful!" ridiculous, Wally. I grant you anylawn. The remainder of the afternoon else were trying to tie the tract up." in lock you care to charge him with In With the his thing pospick key Is was delightfully spent in games of "I hope he would. But Canby field; be Is burglarizing session Markham made sure there was the blue-skvarious kinds. pretty cagey in his deals, and he knows on In no one the corridor when the pocketbook to the community looking how Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith and much we're going to need that taste in the promotion schemes. door of the he queen's Canby's opened some of sitting "the reunion attended held for piece day." ground family kit the Jensen family at Crystal Springs "You needn't worry a bit about Can room and let himself In. The sitting But he doesn't need a cracksman's to do that What did you do with it?" and bedroom the room, bath, adjoining a but He's by, noisy Wally. nothing Sunday. "I put It back where I had found It were all In order, and It took him but Miss Gertrude Laub accompanied false alarm as a good many people to rediscover it, If you the Junior class of the M. I. A. of In this town are going to find out be- a few minutes to make a rapid but It is upto. to you I don't know how It got in want search nook and every thorough As him. Garland, to the Girls' Camp at Man- fore they are through with corner large enough to conceal Landls' there, or what use. If any, he means yet, nobody can put a finger upon anytua, this week. make of it; but It's there." to box. He And black didn't the box; call Mr. and Mrs. Sam Capener of Gar-- j thing he has done that yon could "But see here, Wally; perhaps " he bad scarcely hoped to. or even the Just crooked, shady. were land, Thursday evening guests of What the manager was about to It was when he was shutting the same, I shan't be surprised any day Mr. and Mrs. N. Garn. doors of the clothes closet wardrobe say was left unsaid, for at that moMr. and Mrs. Seymour Hess of Brig-ha- If the bookkeeper comes In to tell me ment the office door opened to admit Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Ivy of Og-de- that Canby's account has been checked In the bedroom that he made a disand Mr. and Mrs. W. McDermaid out lock, stock and barrel When that covery. One of the several suits of the promoter himself; and the leather of Salt Lake City, spent Sunday with happens. If It happens, I'm thinking clothes had fallen from its hook, and case he laid upon Ormsbury's desk was we shall have seen tlie last of the when he reached down to prevent It the one Markham bad so lately reMr. and Mrs. J. H. Laub. Mr .and Mrs. E. 0. Wilcox of Lo- young man who says he's from New from Interfering with the closing of stored to its hiding place. "Hello. Markham 1" Canby exclaimed the door he found that the bottom gan and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gumm and York." Markham sought Landls In his back "Glad to find you here. cheerfully. board of was of the furniture were piece Barbara, daughter, Sunday Two witnesses are better than one, workshop, and found the robbed loose. guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eben Wilcox. yard Mr .and Mrs. Leo Earl and Mrs. Inventor a prey to the most gloomy Laying the fallen suit aside, he lifted any day in the week." Then to OrmsGertrude Hansen were Sunday visitors forebodings touching the use to which it Underneath there was an enclosed bury, "A few minutes ago, as I was I of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Earl of Logan. his stolen Invention might be put space of a few Inches in depth. At putting my grip away upstairs, a "I'm was In bottom hidden total found the the that loss, Wally," thing the farther end his groping hand came Mrs. Munns, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Tack and Mrs. Brough, members of the way he described his condition; "can't In contact with a leather bag lying of my wardrobe. It Isu't any of mine, Relief Society stake board, were visit- work can't even think straight And (lat. When he tried to lift It It was so I'm turning It In." "What Is It?" Ormsbury asked. ors at Relief Society work and busi- now Betty tells me she's leaving so hoavy that he had to take both the summer." for "Search me; I haven't opened It entire Carthage hands. ness meeting Wednesday. Their asMarkham laughed. "Which is anWouldn't, you know, not without witfrom Tnken Its and place hiding sistance and advice was interesting nesses. It may be an Infernal maof saying that the worst is niieued upon the floor, the case conother way and helpful. to did tained nothing to throw light upon chine, for nil I know." Rex Laub returned Sunday after yet see come, eh?" Then, "When you "Suppose you open It, John, and let Betty?" Landls' loss; still. Its contents were spending the week in Salt City. His us see what It is," Markham suggested. She came to the house In n "Yesterday. First, surprising. wrapped brother, Max, will spend this week to tell the folks goodby. They are chiiiniils r Ornisbury unbuckled the straps and Un, there were two Inrge there. for the West tomorrow, she the contents of the bag on his well oiled and spread leaving new, iiiitoniatlcs, Misses Nelda Burns and Emeline and her father." desk. Canby's astonishment was either with the magazines filled with cartHendricks spent the week end in Og-de- n "Did she come out here to your ridges. Next cntne a larger piece of real or faultlessly simulated. with friends. "Well I'll be d d!" he burst out. shop?" leather which served ns a wrapping Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Welling enter"Wouldn't that set your back teeth on "Oh, she couldn't well do less than for a sot of tools, drills, files, steel tained for their daughter, Enid, Mon to Include me In the goodbys." saws, pliers, a bunch of edge? Who do you suppose planted day evening. Out door games were "Well, what did you talk about?" that he took to be skeleton that out lit on mo?" objects played and luncheon was served to ten I wasn't fit to talk about "Shucks "Where did you say it was?" queried keys, and, lastly a short steel bar guests. anything. She saw It and tried to Jolly drawn to a chisel-en- d at either ex- Ormsbury, sparring for time. Co. Fair, Tremonton, Sept. me up. Wanted to know If I couldn't "Under the bottom of my wardrobe. tremity and beautifully tempered; take the summer off and go ont to the each piece looking to be as new and The bottom board Is loose, and when I wilderness with her and her father. unused ns the automatics. opened the door to put my grip away, Of course, she didn't mean It." I saw that one leg of the trousers had ns he of believed, Having, plenty J "Of course not," Markham agreed time at his disposal. Markham drew got caught under the loose board, and when I picked the clothes up, the brutally. "As you say, she was merely up a chair and sat down to consider By Miss Annie Hurd -l- . trying to Jolly you up a bit But what his prize thoughtfully. Of course, board came with 'em. And there In about the black box? Any new de:s: there was no doubt as to Its nature. one corner, was this thing. What Is It a plant, or a Joke?" The Wm Cottam family held a re- velopments T" It was a complete kit of burglar's Markham was watching Canby narunion here Sunday. There were 111 "Nothing; less than nothing. I've tools, with the guns to back It up, a direct descendants present. A count been buying newspapers from all spare kit, as It appeared, since there rowly as he talked, but his open-eyewas every indication that the tools frankness was as convincing as It of the descendants-in-lawas not tak- - around and reading them for the crime news, rienty of crime, of course, but had never been used or the guns fired. was disarming. "If It Is a joke, somebody must At noon a basket lunch was enjoyed nothing to hint at any mystery. But What was Canby, figuring as an enerunder the trees and at one o'clock a It will come, you mark my words I" getic young promoter Intent upon have a badly distorted sense of hu"Good stunt, that watching the making Carthage grow, doing with a mor," Markham put In. "It strikes me program, to which the general public was invited, was given in the Ward papers. Keep It up." burglar's kit hidden In his wardrobe? that the point of a joke like that "I shall I suppose you haven't . Meeting House. It consisted of speech During the four days In which he would be rather hard to discover." learned been quietly pursuing his Investihad anything?" "Oh, I don't know," Canby returned, the older members and songs es, by with an easy laugh. "There are still a "Nothing that yon could give name gations Markham had found the cirmusical numbers, readings, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Israel Larkin, of Wil-lar- to," Markham evaded. Obviously, he cumstantial evidence, based on clews few standpatters In Carthage who are were in town Sunday, their couldn't tell Landls the length to revealed the morning following the calling me all the hard names they which had In checking up the robbery, gradually losing Its bold. can dig out of the dictionary. I don't daughter, Rachel, who has been visit- scorchedht shoe. gone could he make Apart from the fact that Betty Law-so- n doubt some of them would be ready to Neither ing here, returned with them. had demonstrated, or had seemed shout, '1 told you so!' If I should be Lorin Larkin, of Howell, Merlin Lar- any mention of his suspicions of kin and Miss Mary Larkin, of Ogden, Canby, since Landls knew that Canby to demonstrate, her Innocence of any caught with a burglar's kit In my poscalled on relatives here Saturday even- was Betty's escort on the night of the part In the robbery, Markham was re- session. It's up to you. now, OrmsWhat will you do with the play. It was a mess, any way one luctantly compelled to admit that, up bury. ing. chose to look at It to the present moment, he hnd disstuff?" Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tubbs, of Later that afternoon Markham "I suppoe I ntirrlit to torn It over covered nothing upon which to hang an visited their daughter, Mrs. learned from the room clerk of the assumption of Canby's guilt Moreto the police." he said, half doubt Archie Neal, Sunday. Collier where Canby had his over. If Betty were Innocent her ac- fully. Miss Wilma Larkin returned to her rooms, house, the that "That would be the part of h good promoter had left quittal necessarily cleared the young home at Ogden, Saturday, after spend- town, to be away citizen," Canity agreed. overnight Wherepromoter, since the two were together two months here. ing upon he took another lawless stop In from the close of the theater performother "On the hand, though. It would Mrs. C G. Arbon and her mother the path which, up to the present, had ance up to and Including the return to earn a good bit of unpleasant P"b spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. An- led nowhere. Ormsbury, mnnnger of the Lswson house. Yet here was this Hclty for the hotel, wouldn't It?" drew Anderson, at Stone.Mondav. the hotel, was a time-trie- d "It would," Ormsbury admitted with friend, and burglar's kit cunningly hidden In CanCo. Fair, Tremonton, Sept. 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