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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931! PAGE SIX CHAPTER XII T3 LT Kidnaped The Following the brief phono talk with Markham at II Merest Landii bad cut the dinner Interval short In order to return to the lobby to mark the ad vent of new arrivals. A the evenlns waned, be had strolled over to the desk to ask some questions of the clerk. "Those three Louisville men Mr Black Box of Silence Markham and By Francis Lynde IDustratlona by O. Irwin Myers (THE f xtIm) THE STORY CHAPTER I. - Having- demonntrated silencer, th power of an extraordinary the "Black Box," which he haa perfect-in ed, Owen Landla, young Inventor, the little town of Carthage, confides to Etta cbum, Wally Markham, that he (ear the device. If exploited, might be need for evil purposea. That night the black box la atolen from a aafe In Landla' laboratory. CHAPTER II. Landla tells Markham the only person, beside himself, knowof the safe. Is ing the combination Lawion, with whom the Inventor Betty In love. Markham takes a la found cast of a woman's footprint, plaster beneath the window of the laboratory. CHAPTER III. Betty, daughter of a college professor. Is well known to Markham, Both he and Landis believe her to be above suspicion, but to assure himself he takea an opportunity to fit the cast to one of Betty's shoes. They sir Identical. Betty tells him Herbert Canby, a stranger In town, who Is posing as a "promoter," had driven her home from the theater the previous Slight, and that she had dosed In the car. Markham does not tell Indli of his discovery. That the girl should have deliberately stolen the Invention from Lndla' safe is unthinkable, but the evidence of the plaster cast seems to prove she was present at the time f the robbery. CHAPTER IV. Markham, vaguely auspicious of Canby's honesty, searches bis hotel room, In his absence. He finds hidden there two loaded automatic revolvers and a complete set of burglar's tools. Canby. returning, brings the revolvers and burglar's kit to the hotel etork, claiming to have just found them la his room. That night the safe In the bank of the small town of Perth-dal- e was blown open and looted, the noise of the explosion being unheard. Satisfied that his "black box Is in the hands of crooks and is being put to the uses he feared, Landls, with Markham, drives at once to Perthdale. " CHAPTER V. At Perthdale they find confirmation of their fears. Three and strangers,toriding In a Fleetwtng, be business men of Louisolalmlng ville, are the only possible suspects. Markham and Landls decide to follow them, although advices from Louisville seem to guarantee the standing f the three. At 8t Joseph Markham aeee Canby's ear, a Nordyke. He learns Canby la driving west, with hsr father as his Betty Lawson and car. The Fleetwtng, Caeats la the and the Nordyke, form car, procession on the Pikes Peak highway. - CHAPTER VI. While he and Landla are sleeping, Markham's car Is atolen aund wrecked. He buys another, and g go on. On the road to the they town of Copah they get news of the Fleetwtng. ahead of them. At a hotel in Copah they meet Betty. She mln-tn- la aurprised at their presence in the West, and explains the reason for her and her father's journey. Markham overhears a conversation between Can-b- y and the three Louisville men which convinces him he is on the right track. CHAPTER VII. Markham and Lan-41- a follow the three men In the Fleet-WlnThey And the commissary of the Cinnabar mine has been held up and robbed and two men killed. Again there was no sound of the explosion. At Brewster they learn of the arrival o Canby and his party. Markham meets a distant relative, William Star-hacmine owner. He gives them some Information which piles up the evidence as to Canby's crookedness, g. k, CHAPTER VIII. At Brewster they asset Canby. He tells them he Is in the West on business connected with his mine the "Old Quavapai." Betty and her father are with him as guests, the professor being Interested In Landls and Markham are as- -t aaulted on the street by knife wield- era, but beat off their assailants. Henceforth, Markham decides, the two of them will go "heeled," their enemies -evidently having become desperate. CHAPTER IX. Landls, despondent because of his belief that Betty ia In lovo with Canby. is encouraged by Markham. Leaving the car to Ina burned au'o, off the road, vestigate are shot at, but unharmed. The they shooters declare they took the two to ho bears, which they were hunting. Xvldence, later, convinces Markham and Landla that the shooting was murder. y. - CHAPTER X. Returning, with Bet. ty, from a dinner with friends of Star, buck, Markham beats off two men who attempted to kidnap him. At the hotel he finds Landls has gone out. Three men from Louisville are registered, of the same names as the three whom he j and Landls have been following, and rthey certainly are not the same men. CHAPTER XL Seeking Landla. Markham Is decoyed into taking a long trip from Brewster, and gets I back to find both Betty and Landls CHAPTER XII. Landls. lured from hotel. Is kidnaped and confined it. a old mine drift. Wandering, he finds .J Betty, also a prisoner. He tells her part f his experiences, but learns little from her. Seeing what appears to be a light, far away, he leaves Betty, to s lavestigate,hisand finds a gang of miners silencer muffing the noise. Sat work, 11a aager he destroys the mechanism of machine. The gang, dismayed, run jtho i from the drift, two men remaining. 1 Ttom their talk, Landls fears thsy may nd Betty, and from a biding place -- .attacks them with a shovel. In the both men, but Is i r tight he subdues hurt and makes his way back to badly 1 to fall Into her arms un- -, only ' Betty conscious. A the CHAPTER XIIL In a hospital Laa-idlearns from MarVhara the details of Canby's plotting. One of hla acrom-- I ailcee had told of the selling of Betty and Landla and the place of their lm Their .rescue followed. i crtaenment. Canky. head of a criminal band, had "carted" the Quavapai to sell It to a Louisville group the three men whoee aamee hla confederates had use but, badly needing money and learning ac of Landls' silencer, ho had cldeatally ctolea It and had hla gang use it In their bank and other robberies, and to conceal his operations In the ' also Prom Batty herself Landls Quavapai. ' .learns how Canby, the night of the - ' disappearance of the silencer, had hyp. stctisec her and had her open the safe. .That part of the mystery cleared up, remains is the wonder, as jail that see It, why lan&i had ever had Bettydoubt of her love for hla. She aay I ccarlacee him of hla error. la ' I were Inquiring about the day we arrived. Have you heard anything more from them?" "We have. There was a wire this morning. They will be in on the Ne- vada Flyer this evening." "Is that soT We understood they were driving." The clerk smiled. "It's quite a little Jaunt from Louisville to Brewster. They probably had enough of the open road after a day or so. Anyway, they are coming on the Flyer. That Is what their wire said." It was at this conjuncture that the telephone switchboard girl had come up to say, "Excuse me, Mr. Landls, but Mr. Starbuck has just called up from his office across the street to ask If you would come over a few min ntes." "Certainly," Landls had said, sur prised to learn that the mine owner had returned from Copab so soon. As he had stepped out npon the sidewalk he saw that the offices of the Little Alice Mining company were lighted, and standing in front of the bank building elevator and stairway entrance was a car with its motor running, but with Its lights turned off. His first thought had been that it was Starbuck's car, but as he heard it, he had seen that It was a different make. Since it was blocking the way, he stepped aside to pass behind it. When he was In the rear of the car, and before he could step up to the curb, the softly Idling motor suddenly roared alive and the car leaped backward at him. There was time only for a futile effort to save himself, and then the street pavement rose np to smite him Into oblivion. When he came to he found himself tied and blindfolded and jammed In between two men In the back seat of a car which was being driven somewhere at reckless speed. When he stirred, the man at his left pressed something pointed against his ribs. and a grating voice at his ear said, "You've been asking for It for a good while, and now you've got It I If you make a move or raise a yell, you'll get Ing hands he searched his pockets for He found a familiar little matches. card of safety matches, and the reaction from despair to hope renewed made him dizzy. There were only seven, and with miserly care he struck one and held the flame to the candle wick. Witb the candle held high he sur Two other veyed his surroundings. passages came into the one In which be was standing. On every side there was ample evidence that the workings were very ancient, and that they bad been long abandoned. Ho longer obliged to grope In darkness, be plunged haphazard into one of the four passages and was again involved in a maze that seemed to have no end and offered no outlet. finally, he was about to stop and rest when he heard sounds that he could compare to nothing but the sobs of a human being in distress. Unable to determine from which of the confusing passages the sounds were coming, be found It at last by method. At the the foot of the steep incline down which be slid, digging his heels In and clutch ing for hand holds, the flickering tight of the candle revealed the figure of a woman. She was sitting on the floor of the passage with her back to the wall, and she was crying. Quickly he recognized her and ran to kneel beside her. "Betty !" he gasped. "What under heaven are you doing here? Tell How did you me, what's happened? get Into this chaotic place?" She pointed, and, following her gesture, he saw a mine bucket standing at the end of the passage, with a rope attached which disappeared upward Leg-wear- ' E. TREMONTON ! By Mrs. P. E. Ault I I - -- I :x: Miss Leona Garfield was in Salt Lake City over the week end and also attended the teachers' Institute while there. Mr. and Mrs. George Abbott had as dinner guests Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Noel Bennion of Brigham City, Miss Martha Wentz of Provo, and Emerson Abbott of Ogden. The high school Pep Club enjoyed a Hallowe'en party Wednesday even- - ERNEST E. CLARK Candidate on the Democratic ticket for the Legislature. m traii-and-err- ' '.V. $i e I'm glad I somewhere up above. couldn't see what they were doing with me." "You couldn't see? Were you blindfolded, too?" "Yes; were you?" "1 was. Indeed." Then, "You're not afraid of the dark, are you?" "No-no- t when I can reach out and touch somebody that I know." "AH right; I'll blow the candle out and save it It's the only one there Is." And with the return of the pitchy darkness, "Now, tell me all about It." "You'll hardly believe me when I I do, Owen. You knew that Wally and I had dinner with the Smiths at Hill crest, didn't you?" "Yes ; Wally got me on the phone at the hotel and told me." "Well, we left about nine o'clock or a little before, and were stopped on the knife!" Landls made no reply. Half dazed the way by two men who pulled Wally as he was, he realized that he was out of the car and tried to kidnap or I helpless, for the time being, at least. murder him, don't know which. Mr. came Smith up just in time. Then him he took As his brain cleared self savagely to task for having fallen we drove on and when we reached the so easily Into the trap set for him, Stillings' the house was all dark and and from that he strove to And an I remembered that Mrs. Stillings had swers to the questions that came told me, when I phoned to her from thronging npon him. Who were his the Smiths', that she and Mr. Stillings I came kidnapers? Where were they taking might not be at home when if and the they weren't, him, and what were they going to do back, and that servants had gone to bed, I'd find a to him? These vital questions were still un- latch key under the mat." "You didn't find the key?" answered when the car came to a "I didn't look for It. The night was sudden stop. There. were sounds as of the removing of a barricade, after so still and pleasant that 1 sat in one which the car went forward slowly. of the porch chairs to enjoy it. Wally's car hadn't been out of sight more than At the next stop he was roughly hustled out. Next, he was led up a steep five minutes when another car drove path or road on what seemed to be up. The man who got out of It had on the slope of a mountain. At the sum- a white uniform and said he was one mit of the ascent the forced march of the nurses at the railroad hospital, and that daddy had just been brought, was continued on a level. After the first few steps he realized in from the fossil beds badly injured. that he was no longer in the open. I didn't stop to think, just flew down The air was dank, and his footsteps, the walk and jumped Into the cnr. The and those of his captors, echoed hol- man got in with me. "In Just a few minutes the man lowly as If In a envern. Landls counted his steps, to one hundred, two clapped a bandage over my eyes and hundred, three and still more before told me to keep still. Of course I knew then the story about daddy was just he was halted. He to get me away from the There was a click of a lock and a a made-uInto the car. I tried to get house and of Then the hinges. rusty creaking so I could jump out. It door the open him man who had hold of gave him a shove that made him stumble and fall didn't do any good, and when it was headlong, the rusty hinges creaked over he had me tied and blindfolded and was threatening me with a pistol." again, and he was alone. "And after that?" Satisfied, after a moment or two, "1 don't think we'd been going more that he was no longer in danger of fifteen minutes before the car than being knifed, he rolled over and began to work at his knotted wrists. His stopped and 1 was made to get out and walk. In a little while I could tell we fingers, trained to the manipulation When of delicate mechanisms, soon got the were somewhere underground. twisted bandanna manacle untied. they finally let me stop, they put me Then he tore the bandage from his into that wooden bucket thing, untied I eyes only to find that he was still my hands so could hold on, and lowme down here. What does It all ered In almost darkness plunged sightless; mean, Owen?" thick enough to be felt. "It seems to mean that somebody, or Getting upon his feet, he begnn to be a bunch of somebodies, wanted may explore his surroundings by the sense of touch. Cautious groplngs proved to get you and Wally and me out of that he was In an underground 'pas- the way, for some reason." "Of course. But why?" sage of some sort. Before he had "You know how we Wally and I gone very far his fingers told him that he was not In a natural cavern. The drove through from Carthage. There wall at his left was shattered and were some startling things happened broken, and once his touch fell upon on the way. We seemed to be close a smooth half groove In the stone, behind a gang of safe blowers. Since marking the path of a drill. This we were right behind them all the Identified the passage as a drift In a time, Wally and I began to make Inmine; an abandoned mine, he assumed, quiries along the road. We soon since the silence was not broken by learned that there were three men any sound of activity. Stumbling on, driving a few hours ahead of us, busihe found the passage beginning to as- ness men from Louisville, they called counted paces themselves; and from some suspicious cend, and seventy-ninhim Incline to a place circumstances we began to wonder If the up brought they might not be the bank wreckers. where the drift forked. "At a little town In Kansas Wally's left-hanthe he passage, Taking car was stolen and run out In the eoun-was stopped within a hundred pace try and smashed. We then went by by a wall of rock extending all across the passage. Turning back, he tried train as far as Colby, where Wally the right-handrift This led him bought another car. Nothing more Into a maze of branchings and cross happened until we were this side of drifts Id which he soon lost every Denver, when he found that we were Just behind the three men. They were vestige of the sense of direction. Weary, and with his head still achdriving a Fleetwlng car. Just before ing from the blow given him by the we reached Copab we passed a stopped assaulting auto, he was about to sit car on the mountain road; and as we were running down the next loop be down on a pile of broken stone to rest when his guiding hand on the wall low. a big rock came tumbling down came In contact with a smooth, cylln and barely missed us." drlcal object wedged In a crevice. Fingertips answering for eyes, he knew at ouce that what he had found .was a miner's candle, and with stink TO BE e ' . , : a chimney-likshaft. "That Is the way I came," she said, "I was lowered in that bucket from In ing at the home of Miss Katberine jmonton, Friday. Abbott. Dancing and games were enMr. and Mrs, Tollman Burke of joyed and delicious refreshments were Honeyville, are spending the week served to fifty guests. with Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Seager. J. T. Abbott was host to 12 of bis Austin Seager and Zane Abbott friends at a Hallowe'en party Friday the evening spent the week end with their parents. evening. They spent dancing and playing games, after They are students at the U. S. A. C. which Mrs. Abbott served dainty reMiss Eva Garfield of Lovele and freshments of a Hallowe'en nature. Mrs. A. W. Garfield of Harrisville, A. W. Garfield and eon, Wayne, of visited Thursday evening with Mrs. Harrisville, were guests of his mother, George Garfield and family. Mrs. George Garfield, Wednesday. Kennedy Seager of Fountain Green They were accompanied by Mr. and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Azur Evans and children, Lolla 0. A. Seager, for a few weeks. and Arthur, of Oakland, California. Mrs. Frances Hill and Mrs. Lavon The Evans family returned home Sat Garfield visited Friday with Mrs. Mat urday. tie Garfield who has been very ill at Mr .and Mrs. Nick Charnous and the home of her mother, Mrs. Bert children spent the week end in Provi- Haws at Brigham City. She is very dence. much improved at this writing. . Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Kay and Mrs. County Attorney Lewis Jones, and Ada Garfield were in Logan, Friday. Mr. Christofferson of Brigham fyy, Henry Garfield has moved to Brig-ha- and Dr. Jay Schaffer of Tremonton, City for the winter. were served a delicious venison dinner The roof of the home of Albert Monday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thompson caught fire from a spark Abbott. from the chimney, Sunday. ConsidMr. and Mrs. Lewis Abbott motored erable damage was done before it was to Morgan, Sunday. discovered. and Mrs. Cephus Anderson and Mr. Mrs. Carl Peterson and children of attended the funeral of Mr. children week a few last days Logan, spent Anderson's mother, Mrs. Marie An with Mrs. Charles Peterson. Mrs. Calvin Kay was a Logan vis- derson, at Brigham City on Friday. John Fridal was host at a Halloitor Wednesday. The Ladies Farm Bureau meeting we'en frolic, Monday evening when has been postponed because of a coun- 40 of his friends met with him and ty training class being held in Tre- - made merry. Ernest E. Clark is well and favorably known in Box Elder county, having resided here for over 25 years. He was born in Benson ward, Cache county in 1887 and grew to manhood there. He attended the B. Y. U. College at Logan and finished his education at the Utah State Agricultural college. In school he won a reputation as a debator and entertainer. He married Adelaide Kent of Lewiston in June 1912. They have a fine family of five children. Mr. Clark is one of the pioneer wheat farmers in the Blue Creek and Pocatello valley. He has held and is holding responsible position in the business world. He knows the problems of the farmer as well as the problems of the business man and is highly admired by everybody. The people of Box Elder County feel he is highly qualified to represent their cause in the state legislature. (Paid Political Advertising) I AGAIN!!! for 1 VARNISH SALE We have heen fortunate in securing another shipment of the famous 2 Uni-Sp- Buy one can Varnish ar at regular price and secure the second one 1c for UNI- - SPAR is MAR PROOF! and QUICK DRYING WEAR PROOF! WATER PROOF! WEATHER PROOF! We have METAL and FELT Weather Strip FIX THOSE WINDOWS ! ! Wilson Lumber Co. 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