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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1932 PAGE FOUR Blade Sox of Silence By Francii Lyndo watchmen. The theory Is that some new explosive, noiseless In its operation, was used by the robbers, sod very effort Is being made to ascertain if such an explosive is known to science." "Here's where we get action!" Markham snapped. "Jam a few things into a grip and tell your family they needn't look for you back until they see you. I'll do the same and come around for you in a jiffy. If we spin the wheels we can be in Perthdale before dark. The 'noiseless explosion' settles it, doesn't "No quertlon about that. These yegys bad my box and used it" or "Right! Hustle your make-read- y 111 beat you to it Time Is the es sence of the thing. We want to bit the trail while It's warm. I'm gone!" And with a roar of its powerful motor the roadster shot away. Itr BluatratiaM by O. Irwin Myert XI CHAPTER V a wry smile. "I fuels I'll lock tbt bac op In the tot el fault for the time being, and wait to fee what, If any. tbLoj, develops." Tbat is sensible. Meanwhile, I'll keep an eye out for the Joker If It U a Joke." "Well, what do yon make of It, John?" Markham asked, after Canby bad gone. "Just whet you did. I Imagine. The fact tbat he brought the stuff here to me clears him. But that Isn't all You remember the series of burglaries we had last winter, don't you. At the time they were going on, we had a man and a woman who was registered as his wife In Suite Three-Slxtee- n Caaby's room. About the time when the town got desperate and called In detective agency to work with the local police, the couple van lahed disappeared between two days." "And you think the man was the An Obstacle Race Markham spun the wheels on the run to Perthdale to such good purpose tbat it was only a little after dark when the blue roadster turned In at tavern. the yard of the country-towDelaying only long enough to wash off the dust of the long drive, Mark-baand Landis went to the dining n burglarf "I've always had a sneaking Idea tbat he might have been and had nothing to tie It to. This bidden tool kit knocks out the doubt, doesn't itr Still holding a mental reservation r two on his own part, Markham satd. "Well, I suppose that clears up the mystery," and got up to go. There Was Little to Bs Gathered From the Excitad Discussion of the Mysterious Bank Robbery. room. There was little to be gathered from the excited discussion of the mysterious bank robbery. The majority opinion gravitated toward the belief that some new and noiseless explosive must have been used. "Everybody's up In the air. natural ly," Markham commented as they were leaving the dining room. "We'll find somebody who Isn't too excited to talk sensibly; somebody who can give us a little real Information. Ml attk In the office. " And when he came out. "Stoekwell, president of the bank. Is our man; lives just around the corner. We'll go and hear what be has to say." They found the banker easily approachablethe more easily after Markham had introduced himself as the son of a banker. "We saw the account In an Indianapolis paper, so Mr. Landis and I drove over to get the facts at firsthand." Markham explained. "If these bandits hare got hold of something new, there ought to be a concerted effort made to run them down before they wreck us all." "Glad to give you the facts, but they are meager, thus far," was the ready reply. "At about three o'clock. one of our two town night watchmen, saw an auto come in from the east and he supposed It was merely a belated tourist'? car passing through, as quite possibly It was. A little later he saw the car standing In the street opposite the bank, and a man had the hood open and appeared to: be, doing something to the motor. The next time he walked his beat. which was about an hour later, the auto was gone and the bank was a wreck." "And he had heard nothing in the meantime?" Markham queried. "Not a sound; and neither did anyone else, so far as we can learn. An ., explosion that ought to have aroused On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Storey of everybody within the town limits Eden, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. didn't arouse anybody." Brooks Shu man. "It was the watchman who dlscov-ere- d Mr. and Mrs. Lew Young of Briff-bathe robbery?" spent Sunday here with Mrs. "Yes. Passing the bank on his later Young's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos- rounds he found broken gloss all over the sidewalk; the front windows had eph Berchtold. . Mr. and Mrs. Engvar Peterson has been blown out He gave the alarm as their guests the past week, Mrs. and came and called me. I could John Call, Mrs. George Campbell and hardly believe my eyes when I saw two sons, Miss Audrey Call and Leslie what had been done. The Interior of the building Is a complete wreck, Hinsey of Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Granger and showing that. an enormous charge of daughter, Helen, are spending a few explosive must have been used. Even the concrete walls are shattered." days in Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Miller were "This an to that the watchmnn saw." visiting relatives in Brigham on Tues- Markham went on; "has there been; any effort made to trace It?" day. On Thursday evening at the home "We have done what we could. of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Peterson, Mrs. Nothing definite has come of It The Peterson and Mrs. Morgan Miller gave roads are full of cars coming and goa birthday party in honor of Miss Del ing at all hours of the day and night la Peterson. A very entertaining ev We couldn't very well authorise indisening was enjoyed with radio music criminate arrests on a mere suspicion. and games. Useful prizes were given All we could do was to try to trace a away. A delicious luncheon was serv car which had, presumably, passed ed to thirty guests. through Perthdale at a certain hour The band concert held at Thatcher of the night Such a car has been on Monday evening under the direction found and traced, but the occupants, of Joseph Kirkham, of Garland, was three business men of Louisville, on greatly enjoyed by the people of this their way to look tt a western mine, were able to give a perfectly clean ward. On Thursday afternoon Mrs, Olive bill of health." "You say this car fitted the watchPetersen, President of the Y. L. M. 1. A., entertained the Bee Hive Girls at man's description?" Landis put In. her home. A pleasant afternoon was "Where was It teen last?" "At Terre Haute passing through enjoyed. A lovely luncheon was serv at about seven this morning. The s -I- PENROSE As 1 sH.v. they produced a clean blU of benl; h and had the documents to show for it." 'You gr this by wire?" "Over long distance, from the sher- iu. ne Nun me men laugnea ana invited him to search them and their car. bald they hadn't robbed a bank, yet but tbey might need to before they got through with their mining venture." As they left the banker's bouse, Markham said, "Well, what do you think, Owen? Are we on the trail of your black box?" 'There Isn't the slightest doubt in my mind. Wally, I've simply Invented a new horror, and these scoundrels, whoever they are, are using it God only knows what they'll do next!" "What about this Terre Haute clew which seems to be no clew at all?" "I've been thinking about that. While Mr. Stockdale was talking it struck me all at once that those three men might have been running a bold bluff. It would be the cleverest way of throwing everybody oil the track." "That's so," Markham acquiesced; and then, abruptly, "Are you good for an drive. Owen?" "Anything to get action." "All right; we'll go. It's a long chance, but it seems to be about the only one. We can take turns driving and manage a bit of sleep tbat way. e It will probably prove a chase, but we'll make it." Accordingly, half an hour later, the blue car took the road again, followDriving the trail to the westward. ing and sleeping by turns they reached Terre Haute early In the morning and Markham ordered all the morning paWhen they came, they both pers. went through them painstakingly, and found nothing. If the Perthdale exploit had been repented elsewhere, the news had not reached the press wires. "Rather leaves us up In the air. doesn't it?" Markham remarked. "Assuming that the three men we have traced this far are the Perthdale bank wreckers and that's stretching the probabilities a good bit we don't know which way they went from here. I suppose there Is nothing for It but to wait until the lightning strikes again somewhere." "With the weapon they've got, the bandits who are using It won't stop with the looting of a single country- town bank." "You still think they have your black box?" "There enn't be a doubt. In the light of what we learned In Perth-dale.- " all-nig- wild-goos- well-know- n "Not quite," Ormsbury smiled. "It doesn't tell me why you wanted to break Into Canby's room In his ab sence." "I had a notion which now seems so foolish that I'd like to keep It to myself." Markham pleaded; and be had climbed Into his ear and was driving home before be recalled an Incident, the significance of which he had entirely missed at the moment, namely Canby's mention of the fact tbat a trousers' leg of the fallen suit of clothes had been caught nnder the loose board, and had so been the means of disclosing the hiding place of the burglar's kit. "By George!" thought Markham. "I wonder If that was his way of telling us, or me, that be knew somebody had been prying around in his diggings. I wonder!" But the wonder became unimportant when, as he was passing the Lan-dlhouse be saw Owen waving a newspaper as a signal for him to stop. "It's come at last, just as I said It would 1" Owen said, passing the news-p:re- r to Markham. "Read that I" Markham read the news Item to which Landts was pointing. "At an early hour this morning the Inhabitants of the quiet village of Terthdale were electrified by the discovery that their one and only bank, the Perthdale Security, had been wrecked, actually torn to pieces as to lta Interior, by an explosion which should have rocked the town to Its A charge of explosives foundations. heavy enough entirely to demolish the bank vault, to make junk of the fittings and furnishings snd to shatter every window In the building had been fired some time during the night, the perpetrators of the robbery getting away with cash and negotiable securities amounting to over SM.OOO. "The singular thing about the bold robbery Is the fact that the crash of the terrific explosion was not heard, even by persons sleeping directly across the street from the bank, nor b.v either of the town's two ltgfet three men hrtd breakfast there, and that Is where they were questioned. Blg-ger- s, "We'll hunt up the sheriff who telephoned Mr. Stoekwell. Maybe he can tell us which way the men In the black touring car went from here." As It turned out. the sheriff couldn't tell them the thing they needed to know, though he could, and did, give them a fairly good description of the three, coupling It with advice of a discouraging nature. "You fellows are harking up the wrong tree." was the form the advice took. "I put those men through the mill yesterday morning and they came clean clean as a hound's tooth. Why, they gave me the addresses of a dozen prominent people In Louisville, and offered to stop over while I wired about 'em!" 'You didn't wire, did you?" Landis In. put "No; not wasting their time or mine. Those Perthdale people didn't have a thing on these chaps; nothing more than that they happened to be driving a car that looked like one somebody had seen going through their town. With fifteen or twenty million cars chasing round over the coi'ntry " "Sure." said Markham: then, "Did thesp men say which route they were faking to the West?" Rut if "No; 1 didn't nsk 'em. they're making for Colorado they took the National to St. proliiiMy Louis and Kansas City." Entirely nt a loss as to what to do, other than to wait for the news of another mysterious robbery. Markham and Landis spent the greater part of inHie forenoon making guarded quiries at the various garages and tilling stations In the hope of hearing something which might indicate the direction taken by the black touring car In leaving Terre Haute, but black touring cars passing through, In all directions, were as plentiful as falling leaves In autumn. "Well," Markham announced, "I've got one more shot in the locker. I've just remembered thnt I know the telegraph editor of the Chicago News and I'll wire him to let me know If anything breaks. He'll do It, I'm sure." Markham wrote his message and dispatched It. ond within the next half-hou- r an answer came. Early In the morning, too late for the news of It to get Into the morning papers, a hank had been blown up In the small ,own of Rmlthbury. III., and nobody had heard the noise of the explosion A hasty examination of the route map located the small town three-fourth-s of the way across Illinois, and a stnrt was made at once. By hard driving the scene of the new devastation wns reached a little before dark, and Inquiry proved that the Perthdale raid had been repeated, this time, however, with a murder added. The bmlj of the town watchman had been found In 1he debrl of the wrecked hunk with a bullet through his heart. theory seemed to be that a hitherto unknown and noiseless explosive had been employed. At this, Landis, with a growing sense of his culpability as the Inventor of the box of silence, Insisted that It was no more than right that he should tell the story of his invention and its loss, regardless of the j consequences to himself. But to this Markham objected strenuously. "It wouldn't help matters In the least, and It would most likely mean all sorts of trouble for you." was his emphatic protest "You are no more responsible than is the Inventor of the nitroglycerin or dynamite these yeggs are using." "But sm I not withholding information tbat the authorities ouj;ht to have?" "They would doubtless say you e and give you the third degree to try to get more out of you. No; thus far. we have the only clew that promises anything at all, and these city sleuths would only make a hash of It if we should pass it along to them. We'll get a bite to eat and go on." "Where to, from here?" Landis queried. "I'll show you, after we get a lunch put up. We can eat as we go." It was still early In the evening, and, driving out of town to the southward, Markham made a half circle cutting all the roads leading to the westward. At each intersection he made inquiries at the nearest farm house, and by this means they were once more upon the trail of a black touring car answering the description given them by the Perthdale banker. An early rising farmer had seen such a car; it had stopped opposite his gate to change a tire. Markham questioned the farmer closely. "Row many people were in the w-r- Tremonton Business Guide And Directory The merchant who advertises is offering the readers of the news paper a service that has no obligation attached to it. lney home give free the news of the products that can be had in your town. MAKE THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS PAPER YOUR SHOPPING GUIDE BATTERIES - - TIRES - - TUBES ASSOCIATED GASOLINE & OILS LEA'S SERVICE LEA DUNN. Prop. I fied. Markham let the clutch engage and the blue roadster sped on to the westward. Throughout the evening they had little difficulty In tracing the black touring car. A garage keeper had talked with one of the men, and he had said he and his companions were from Louisville and were on their way to Colorado on a business trip. Asked if he had heard of the Smith-burrobbery and murder, the garage man said he had; that the tire buyer had told him about it. "Some nerve, and it chimes In pretty well with your notion of a bold, bnd bluff," was Markham's comment, as they drove on Into the night. But now Landis was beginning to admit a doubt "We are taking an enormous lot for granted, Wally, don't you think? The men are not acting like robbers." "You may be right, at that." Markham conceded. "It Is all a raw chance, I'll admit. But now we are on the way, we'll keep going nntil we catch up with them and give them the j Unlimited Money to LOAN car?" "Couldn't tell. There was two men changing the tire, and another inside. That was all I saw." 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Excuse me, but what are you two, anyway? Detectives?" But we are inter"Not exactly. ested In these men." "No chance that this Is a stolen car, is there?" "Probably not, since you have traced It to the Ixnilsvllle dealer who sold It. Did the men have any hand baggage?" "Suitcases couple of 'em." "No other baggage?" Markham pressed. One of "Nothing but a camera. 'em, the short one was carrying that In a shawl strap." "What kind of a camera?" "I didn't notice, particular'; only that It looked too big for a kodak and not big enough for a movie machine." As they left the garnge Markham said. "Well. Owen, maybe It Isn't such a wild goose chase after all. What do you think now?" "There have Im'pp three men In that car all alohtf; I'm wondering hnt be came of the third nuin " TO BE CONTINUED MAKE GOOD OR WE DO Fronk Chevrolet Co. Tremonton, Utah " At Hannibal they learned the number of the black car with the Kentucky license plates. 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