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Show FAGESIX BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932 "So am L Also, I am wondering they sold their car. Landl wai silent for a moment and then he burst out excitedly. "Pre got It, Wally rm almost sure I've got itl It was a bluff It's been one all the way along. These men are the men we want, and they're going to stop off at some small place and wreck another bank ! That's why the third man didn't show up. He was left behind to either buy or steal anwhy The Black Box of Silence other carl" "Too late to prove up By Francis Lynde on that guess grin, as be handed the telegram to Landls. Landis read the few typewritten lines: To Walter Markham, "St Jnsonh Mfeasnr-- f "Parties named are prominent bnsl- neso men this city stop They left for Colorado, driving, some days ago stop Understand they are Interested in Western mines. "A. J. Westover." He was watching Markham's grin when he passed the square of yellow paper back across the table. "I guess that settles it definitely. Ton said, in the beginning. It might turn out to be a wild goose chase, and It has." "I'll say It has!" Markham grunted -just me same, there are still a few wings mat need explaining. These men started from Louisville for Col- oraao; why are they taking this roundabout route?" "There may be a dozen good rea sons." "All right; we'll cross that off. Next comes this shifty bit of business in Chllllcothe yesterday; selling one car and buying another; and the split and pick-u- p at the town where the last bank was touched off. And, back of that there's the fact that we trailed them out of two other towns where smashes occurred. Rather too many coincidences, don't you think? We may have been chasing the wrong bunch; I'll admit it looks that way now. But the fact remains that we've been right on the heels of some bunch that has been raising caln with these country-tow- n banks, and doing It with the help of something that blots out noise. And the last of these s Is only a few miles and hours behind us right now." "Well, where does that leave u.?" "Pretty well up In the air, I'll have to admit We've been concentrating so pointedly upon these three Louisville chaps that we haven't been able to see the wood for the trees." A few minutes later, when they were settling their bill, the clerk said, "You were Inquiring about these three Louisville gentlemen who left this morning. Are they friends of yours?" "Not exactly friends," Markham evaded. "But we are slightly acquainted in Louisville." "I see," said the clerk. "You may overtake 'em yet Somewhere east of tonight," Markham said. "We'll find out bright and early tomorrow mornIllustrations by ing If your guess Is right" O. Irwin Myers They were up betimes to go In search of the proof or disproof of Landls' guess. At the place to which they (TNCSarrk.) had been directed they found the auto Villi Cmr Cktpmtu.) (C;rikl bj dealer Just opening his door. Markham Introduced himself and asked his question. "Do you mind telling us If you sold THE STORY a car yesterday?" I sold two of them; one on the CHAPTER Having1 demonstrated Installment plan, and one for good. the power of an extraordinary ailencer, the "Black Box," which he haa perfect- hard cash on the naiL" ed, Owen Landl. young inventor, in 'It Is the cash sale that we are in the little town of Carthage, confide to kl chum, Wall jr Mark ham, that he terested In." said Markham, with his fear the device, if exploited, might be most engaging smile. "Did you know need for evil purposes. That night the black box is stolen from a safe in your purchaser?" Landls' laboratory, "Never laid eyes on him before. He Just blew In and said be wanted to CHAPTER II. Land! tells Markhara the only person, beside himself, know-lo- g buy a car. I showed him a new eight the combination of the safe, is Betty Lawson, with whom the inventor we'd Just got In, and he counted out is in love. Markham takes a plaster the money, climbed tn and drove off. cast 01 a woman s found eeneatn the window offootprint, the laboratory Just like that," with a snap of his fingers. CHAPTER III. Betty, daughter of a "Gould you describe the man?" i well known to college professor, "Teg, In a general way; medium Markham. Both he and Landls believe her to be above but to assure sized and height, somewhere along In himself be take suspicion, an opportunity to fit the cast to on of Betty' (hoes. They his thirties, I'd say, light complected, r luenncai. jtveny tens mm Herbert sandy hair, smooth face, fairly well a in town, who Is no vanoy, a a stranger in had driven her dressed. Nothing wrong, is there?" "promoter," home from the theater the previou "Er we don't know yet," MarkJiignt. and that she had dozed in the ham said. "You say he drove away car. Aiancnam Ooei not tell Landts of hi discovery. That the How about the license should at once? liav deliberately stolen thegirl Invention from Landls' safe I unthinkable, but plates?" the evidence of the Blaster cast em him a pair of my own "I to prove she was present at the time dealer'slent plates, you know. He said ei id roDDery. he'd be in his home state In a day or CHAPTER IV. Markhara, vaguely so and didn't want to buy a Missouri suspicious of Can by' s honesty, searches license for such a short time. Said his hotel room, in his absence. He find hidden there two loaded automatio revolvers and a complete set of burglar's he'd send my plates back to me when he got home." ujoia. wanoy, returning, brings the re kit tn tha voivers and burrlar'a "Well, where are we now?" Landls clerk, claiming to have Just found them n ni room. That night the safe in asked, as they returned to the hotel xne oanv or tne small town of Perth. "Up In the air again," Markham reaaie wa blown open and looted, the noise or tne explosion being unheard, plied shortly. "If your guess is right, satisfied that his "black box" I in the there was probably another bank hands of crooks and Is being put to smash last night, somewhere; but if nm n. learea, canals, with Mark- Jiam, arives at once to Perthdale. there was, It may have been either CHAPTER V. At Perthdale they find east, west, north or south. We're confirmation of their fears. Three stuck again until we can get hold of in a Fleetwing-- , and irangers, tonam be business men of Louis- - a news wire." claiming are tne only possible suspects. Landls' Inspirational prediction of yiue, Markham and Landls decide to fol- the night before had a startling conlow them, although advices from Louisville seem to guarantee the standing firmation. The night operator at one o" inree. a i au Markham of the railway stations had Just come sees canDy a car, ajosepn Nordyke. He ifirni Lawson tanoy is driving west, with In, and he brought the news. A bank and her father a his In a small town some fifty miles west Betty The Fleetwing, guests in the car. Markham's car, and the Nordyke, form had been blown up early In the night; m on tne rikes peak high procession and again, so the wire report said, the way. explosion had not awakened people. CHAPTER VI. While he "Well, I guess that knocks the last. are sleeping, Markham's carandIs Land! doubt for the count," was lingering mna wrecKea. lie buys another, stolen and they go on.or On the road to the min Markham's comment upon the railtown get news of road telegrapher's story of the latest ing copah or them. Tne aneaathey At a in Copah they meet Betty. She foray, "The two who took the train Jiotel ieeiwing i surprised at their presence In the dropped off at the agreed-upo- n place, Vest. and explains the reason for her and her father's Journey. Markham and the other drove the new Fleetoverhears a conversation between Can-b- y wing. Finish your coffee and we'll and the three Louisville men which convinces him he la on the right track. check up on the guess." A ninety-minut- e run brought them CHAPTER VII. Markham and Lan-4- 1 to the scene of the latest raid, the follow the three men In the Fleetwing. They find the commissary of mnrket town of a farming community. the Cinnabar mine has been held up At the railroad station they quesend robbed and two men killed. Aain there was no sound of the explosion. tioned the agent The man's answers At Brewster they learn of the arrival confirmed Markham's Two of Canby and his party. guess. Markhnm a distant relative. William Star-bucmeets men, carrying stilt cases and some"I see," Said the Clerk. "You May mine owner. He Rives them some thing that the agent thought was a (Information which plies up the eviOvertake 'Em Yet" dence as to Canby' crookedness. camera, had arrived on the local train this their car gave out, and two of 'em of the previous afternoon, and, Instead CHAPTER VIII. At Brewster meet Canby. He tells them he IstheyIn of going uptown, took a waiting auto decided to quit and take to the rail;th West on business connected with and drove away. road. But the other was game; sold 'his mine, the "Old Quavapai." Betty the disabled machine, bought another, iand her father are with him as guests "This was late In the afternoon, Jthe professor being interested in paleand wired the train-taker- s wasn't It?" Markham asked. to stop off ontology. Landls and Markham are asand let him pick 'em up which they the street by knife wleld- about dusk. Forty-thre- e saulted on was "Along out Deat ore their assailants. Hence did." Markham decides, the two of held up by a freight wreck and she gxonn, i xnem "That's that," said Landis, as they win go "neeled," their enemies was away late." .evidently having become desperate. turned away. They took their leave. When they "One little flaw in that story," CHAPTER IX. Landls, despondent were again whipping the miles to the because of his belief that Betty Markham criticized. "It was the two is In rear, Markham said, "Simple enough. train-taker- s t. ,w,lu vanoy. encouraged by Isn't tt?" who sold the disabled Markham. Leaving the car to innot the one who bought the auto; vestigate a burned auto, off the road drove away and They "Perfectly. are shot at, but unharmed. The they new one." hooters declare they took the two to waited until the town was asleep. b "I noticed that; but I guess it bears, which they were hunting. Their Job done, they went on west Kvldence. later, convince Uirbk.m lend Landls that tha shooting wa at-- I for a guess. That's the way they've merely means that the clerk didn't get the story quite straight" been heading all along. We've been tempted murder. one as we bet came They found chairs In a quiet corner missing along, CHAPTER X Returning, with Bet. of the lobby. After a thoughtful inty, from a dinner with friends of Star- - Wally; the names of these three men. buck, Markham beat off two men who We could have got them from the terval, Landis said, "I'm on the fence attempted to kidnap him. At the hotel Terre Haute i he find What you said that Landls has gone out. Three sheriff, or from the auto again, Wally. men from Louisville are registered, of denier In Chllllcothe." been on the heels of some we've right the same names a the three whom he If they're the bunch that Is pulling off these mysteLandls have been following, and "Nothing to that. ;nd they certainly ar not the same men. crooks we think they are, they'd use rious burglaries Is the one fact that of course; and different ones can't be Ignored. Cut I don't want aliases, CHAPTER XI. Landl. Markham Is decoyedSeeking to drag you Into It any further. Suppose Into taking a in different places." Uong trip from Brewster, and get "No, you're wrong there So far as you turn r? loose and go on back i hack to find both Betty and Landls are missing. home. we've been able to learn, they have It's 1'kf this; these whoever they are, have my been posing consistently as three CHAPTER XII. Landls. lured black men business I'm confident of it The box. from Louisville the hotel Is kidnaped and confinedfrom Ir. right old mine drift. Wandering, he find from the beginning. chances are they'll keep on going And you'll re a aiao prisoner. He tells her part ieny. member that two of them gave the west. I can't quit while there is a of his experiences, but learns from her. Seeing what appears to little chance of catching op with them; a be Chllllcothe garage man a Louisville IJight, far away, he leaves Petty, to address which he to that's could If you go wire." my responsibility. and find a j Investigate, gang of miner at work, his silencer mulling the noise. "That's so; rd forgotten that It's home, I'll take the railroad and go on." I In anger he destroy the mechanism of either a clean "Huh" disgustedly. "Think I'd let slate, or the nerviest machine. Th gang, dismayed, run jlh lwo mei remaining. bluff that was ever put up, Owen and drl.ftILrom do that? Not much I We'll stick .he, you I ' u,k' Landl. fear, they may I'm still believing it's a bluff." i find it out together, and, that being the Betty, and from a hiding place Attacks them with a shovel. as they went, they heard case, we may as well go get the car." In the Inquiring ...in i. luuaues DOtn men, but I. no word of a Fleetwing Eight until The garage was at the rear of the badly hurt and make. hi. way back to .. Betty only to fall inta reached St Rut and as they were turning the here they Joseph. hotel, " conscious. the submerged trail came to the snr- - corner, Markham saw a handsome ' CHAPTER XIII. In a hospital Lan. face again. A garage man's memlimousine pull up at the hotel en,,rom Markham th detail of oranda showed that a new Fleetwing I'V" trance. Markham caught a fleeting Canby' plotting, on of hi. accom. Ullc.s had told of th .elilng of Betty Eight had stopped for gas. Driving glimpse of the driver. nd Landl. and the place of their lm. on Into the "Tou go on, Owen," he said, "and city, and to a hotel, they , prlsonment Their rescue followed d tourists, let me go back and get some cigars. Canby. head of a criminal band, had found that three iaalted" th Quavapai to .ell it to a hailing from Louisville, had come In I forgot" tJoutsvlll group th three men who Landls walked on slowly, and In a hi confederate had use but. shortly after midnight and had gone !tama money and learning an. Immediately to bed. ihadly needing had few minutes Markham reappeared, They cidentally of Landl' ailencer, he had atolen it and had his gang us It in checked out after breakfast and had saying, "You can't guess what I went their tobank and other robberies, and resumed their Journey. back for? Did you see the car that J also conceal hi. operations in the Looking up the names signed In the came up as we came out?" Uiuavapai. From Betty herself Landl .learn how Canby, th night of th register, Markham made a note of "I dldo't notice It particularly. Was disappearance of th ailencer, had hyp. them; and a little later a wire of inIt the FleetwInR?" and had her notlsed her open the safe cleared up. quiry went to the cashier of a Louis.That part of th mystery It was Canby's Nordyke. "No; I J all that remain th wonder, as ville bank. The answer was in the I recognized him as he got Thought Landls hud Bettydoubt It,of why love for ever had nature of a sudden J any her bucketing of cold out and I went back to see if I was b hint, convinces him of hi error, water. right I was." t . "Here's where we get It In the "Canby? What is he doing here in nose," said Markham with a sheepish St Joseph?" t caln-ralsing- kti ue k, i r, "That's what I wanted to know. He was talking to the clerk when I slipped In. and neither of them saw me. Canby has two passengers." "People from home?" "Very much people from home; Be,tJ ind her father, If you'll be ! lleve iu . . . Landis stopped short and racea bai-t about. He would have gone the hotel If Markham hsidn't and held him. kNo use; you're too late. They've gone. After Canny drove away, I crossed the lulihy and asked the clerk for a ninli h. He said, T.y fJeorsre! I thought you and your friend had gone. There was a gentleman Just now ask Ins for jou. and I told him you'd left not five minutes before. He said he was sorry, and ihen he msI:p(1 about those three men you were Inquiring about ; when they came, and how long they'd been gone.' I could see he had his rurlosity aroused, but I didn't say anything." "What does Cunby know about the Louisville men, Wally?" Landis asked. "That's Just what I'd like to know, Owen. And, added to that, how he knew they'd been here in St. Joseph, and how he knew we'd been here." Landis' eyes, the dreamy eyes of the inventor and research student, "I think we are grew thoughtful. Justified In going on." he said ; and, as the blue car turned Into the main street, "1 wish P.etty and the professor had turned that fellow down when he asked them to drive with him. I don't trnsf him. Wally." Crossing the river to Klwood. on the Kansas side of the Missouri, they soon learned that a Fleetwing had gone west earlier In the day; also that a Nordyke limousine had followed within the Inst half hour. So it came about that, later In the afternoon, three cars might have been seen speeding over the Pike's Peak highway. Well In the lead was a Fleetwing, with two men In the rear seat and a third at the wheel. Far In the rear were a Nordyke limousine and a blue roadster. And thongh the two men In the blue car thought they were following the Nordkye. this or der was reversed; It was the limousine that was following the roadster. 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