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Show S THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH f BANNER SERIAL FICTION Eq(b A dvty JPaBiaMl Edi? of love and inbuque . . . O Domford served. Ferdinand appropriated his title, cant be done. property and daughter. Before he dies. It was the phrase she used that Gering tells Exon there is a family secret, known only to the head of the house, to opened my eyes. be found in the great tower at Brief, by a No man could do any' more. doorway none can ever find. Exon inherits his uncle's fortune and sets out to right Perhaps. But a woman could. Gering's wrongs En route he encounters Listen, I said, youve come in Percy Elbert Virgil, son ot the villainous Ferdinand and sees him in conference with the nick of time. Can you see these Inskip, a diamond merchant He engages a bars? The two middle ones' are valet. Winter, who hates Percy and meets by chance at a garage. John Herrick, who splayed: but I cant move them faris a linguist and who as a youth served as ther apart, and Im too big to get a page at Gering's wedding, and had visthrough. But you can pass easily ited Brief.' Herrick agrees to aid Exon and the window is open beyond . . . Brenda at establish They headquarters Revoke's farm at Raven, a few miles from Very well. In a minute Im going Brief and make their plans They find the to lean down and pick you up, but castle almost Inaccessible They see a closed car occupied by Percy Virgil. a not by your hands by your belt. chauffeur and a woman Hearing a dog Put your hands above your head, as scream, they see the chauffeur flogging it, just as a horse with a girl astride bounds along the path and is felled by a strung wire. The girl, unconscious, is picked up carelessly by the chauffeur and woman, who then run away, after dropping her. Exon rescues the girl and carries her to his waiting car He identifies the girl as Elizabeth, daughter of the disowned Gering, tells her of her cousin's plot to abduct her and takes her to Raven, where he tells her the story of her father and promises to go the limit to help her right her fathers wrongs Elizabeth wins faith in her benefactor Percy Virgil brings the police to Raven, announcing that two strangers are being sought for the kidnaping of Elizabeth Herrick discomfits Virgil, tells of the morning's adventure, names a man called Max and hands the police a sealed envelope with the name of the leader in the abduction Percy Virgil Exon and Herrick suspect Percy of having sold the family jewels through fnskip. All realize the only solution is to find the Secret of Brief, which the impostor Ferdinand does not know. They decide to take possession of the Tower. IV CHAPTER doorways,' not one of which was hidden in any way; and since its form was that of the ordinary winding stair, it was hard to see how any other doorway could really be there, and harder still to divine where such another doorway could possibly lead for on one hand you had the chambers and, on the other, the wall of the tower itself. The door from the courtyard gave to a miniature hall which just accepted the oak when Elizabeth swung it back. This hall was but four feet square and might, in days gone by, have been held by one man against fifty who strove to pass. As you entered the hall, the stairway rose on your right, and, before you, another doorway led to the first of the chambers within the tower,' These were, three in number, and all would have had the same shape, but for the demands by five Continued Holding my torch in my teeth, I inspected the four beddings carefully, one by one. There was nothing to choose between them: all were apparently sound. I put my torch away, and tested the bars themselves. The first was not rocksteady: the second, however, might have been a part of the tower. ' Clinging to the cage like some I fought to loosen the first, ape, and when I stopped to take breath, I could move it an eighth of an inch. But for the cage, 1 could never have done what I did. As it was, I could work with freedom, ''and, when I was tired, I could rest: and this without the dragging, deadly oppression of what I will call Never at any time was I holding my own weight up. Without the mallet, the chisel was of no use, and I could not have used them together, because I had to hold on: but by working the bar to and fro, I gradually . crushed the cement which was lying within the sockets between the bar and the stone. After nearly half an hour this bed-- , ding was gone, and I could move the bar sideways a full two inches each way: but wrench it out, I could hot, "and after a little 1 knew that its ends had been 'purposely bent to defeat the very object I had in " - We Had Been Within the Tower for though you were going to dive: and when you come up to the bars, just wriggle your way between them and get a knee on the sill. Without a word, she put up her hands as 1 said, and 1 disposed myself as well as 1 could. Holding fast with my left to a I reached my right hand cross-badown till I touched the small of her back. Then I took her by the belt of her breeches and lifted her up. She could not have played her part better, if we had rehearsed the maneuver a score of times. As she came to the bars, she turned Sideways, her back to me: and before I knew where I was, she had taken her weight. And then it was all over, and she was within the tower standing, looking out of the window, with her delicate hands on the sill.. . For a moment we regarded one view. I could loosen, but I could she as unearthly feir as I not displace it, unless I' had the another, was foul. from the strength to pull a stone Then ' tower. she said What cant you do? Now the bars had been set in the quietly. wall four inches apart. ' By holdI shall never forget that moment. ing my bar to one side, 1 now had The iron bars were between ''us, a space of six inches between that the bars which I could not pass. bar and the next. . But that was not Like some beast, I was peering bewide enough!. . . After a moment tween them at a beauty which was or two, I began to try to loosen the not of my world. Corruption sur' . second bar. veyed incorruption and found it his As well try to shake a statue or heart's desire. When you talk like that, I said so it seemed. As I have said, the thing was a part of the tower. But hoarsely, you make me feel rich. after ten frantic minutes I felt it stir. . t eeck new I look woe end think Nov could I verse on We Herrick opened his mouth. have now eight hours in which to discover a secret we know is here. Myself, I think we should do it: in fact, if we dont, I shall think the less of myself. When alls said and done, its a question of using ones brain. And thats where I think weve gone wrong. When our eyes and our hands had failed us, we ought to have let them, be : to go on using them was only detracting our brains . . . Well, Im going to give mine a show now before its too late. With that, he walked into the bathroom, to lave his head and his hands, and I sank down on the bed and did my best to marshal my weary wits. ' Hes right, sid Elizabeth, One always begins the slowly. wrong way. Once wed been over the ground, we ought to have sat down quietly and let our minds play upon the puzzle. You know. Like a crossword. doing " Thats all very well, said I, accepting some tea from Brenda, who But showed no sign of fatigue. who could do a crossword without any clews? Weve got two clews. We know that a doorway exists : and we know that, to reach that doorway, weve got to go up the stairs. If My God, said I, starting up. There was a moments silence. write e. th&.t?1 ,c WNU Service. DEPARTMENT PHOTOGRAPH ROLLS DEVELOPED 8 prints ,86x7 trimmed enlargements, or yonr choice oJL 16 prints witnona enlargements 86c coin. Reprints 8ew. NORTHWEST iOTO MRWC f Worth Daktii! Fargp- - DiptKj iwm BANANA CARL),. 2 cup soi teaspoon salt. teaspoon sodas' eggs, whites and 3 teaspoons baking V yolks beaten sep- - powder 2 cups cake flou, arately Vx cup nuts, cup bananas, chopped fine scraped fine cup oleo- - Vz 1 margarine Hi cups sugar 3 1 Vx Cream oleomargarine. Then aad sugar and salt. Have yolks beafBV,, en. Then add them to creamed oleomargarine and sugar. Then add milk. Have flour and baking powder sifted together.- - Add the bananas and the nuts. Last, the said that the doorway was on the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. staircase. He said it was. in the - Bake slowly until done in a loaf tower. or layer cake pan. Then ice. You mean I mean that we have been looking for a doorway which we can reach from the stair: but we ought to have been looking for something upon the stair which, when we have found it, will disclose where the "Like lemons, Ludens doorway is., said Herricks contain a factor that Thats right, voice. And the stairway bears him helps contribute toyour alkaline reserve. I preout. There is no doorway there I fer Ludens. think we can swear to that. But Edna Riggs, there is a spring or something Lecturer, Los Angeles which, when we can touch it off, will open some hidden door in another part of the tower. The case was now greatly altered. MENTHOL COUGH DROPS We knew that the path we were on was the right one and very soon would bring us up to our goal. With a Purpose Be not simply good, be good for And so it did. - Not more than an hour had something. gone by when I found on the thirty-sixt- h step a nick which' might have belonged to the lid of a pencil box. It was cut in the tread of the step, close to the edge and close to the outer wall. I( was choked with a cake of dirt which I had to cut out with my knife, and an obstinate film of dirt was encrusting that, side of Here's good advice for a woman during her change (usually from 38 to 62), who fears the tread; but when I had used a bWII lose her appeal to men, who worries wet cloth to rub the stone clean, bout hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, upset nerves and moody spells. there were the parallel cracks Get more fresh air, 8 hre. sleep and if you which 1 had expected to see. In a need a good general system tonic take Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, made word, I had found a panel a tiny, especially for women. It helps Nature build if I could draw which, sliding panel up physical resistance, thus helpe give more vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming it towards me, would discover a slot jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that in the tread, three inches by two. often accompany change of life. WELL WORTH TRYING! (Here, perhaps, I should say that no I 'have now doubt that the film of dirt on the tread was more than Serving a Feast the natural deposit which time will A cheerful look makes a dish" a lay, and that, after replacing the feast. Herbert, . 1 papel, the late? Count, of Brief had washed the stone with some liquid which, when it was dry, would form ' an invisible skin.) ' for Half an hour went by before the Condition Du to 8lugglah anBowels little panel allowed me to have my laxatives Ifyouthli act alike. lust tty this way. Then at last, with a crack, it II veaets ble laxative. 80 mild, thorough, , reyielded, and two mihutes later I freshing, invigorating. Dependable relief from sick headaches, bilious spells, tired feeling when drew it out of the tread. associated with constipation. Its withdrawal disclosed no slot, Without Risk not delighted, return the bos to ua. We will but a miniature well, rather more Ifrefund the purchase than an "inch across; and sunk in prlee. That's fair, this well was a bolt of very old iron. Get NR Tablets today. lu ALWAYS CARRY At once we saw that the bolt was QUICK RELIEF thus holding in place the rise of the FOX ACID ' step upon which we were now at iXKGESTIQ.1 work, and that if we could pull the bolt up, the rise would be free to be - o r, 1 Elizabeth smiled. That was the idea, she said gen1 stopped for a moment to rip off tly. Be careful how you get down. ' my tie and collar and let them drop. ' Then 1 fell upon that bar, like a man CHAPTER V possessed. r minutes went by be-- ; Twenty-fiv- e I shall not' set down in detail the fore I had the spckets clear of ce-- j search we made for the doorway ment. which no one would ever find, for, J -, If 1 moved the two bars I had for one thing, we went about it as loosened as far apart as I could, anyone else would have done, and, 1 now had a space of eight inches for another, almost the whole of our through which to pass: but, short of labor was thrown away. But that, displacing a bar, I could have no I suppose, was inevitable. There was the winding stairway, more, for the iron of which they were wrought was not to be bent. sc&ling the wall of the tower, and within its coils were the chambers 1 have sometimes heard said that where a mans head Will enter, there which made the suite. From top his body can pass. On that exact- to bottom its walls and its steps ing night I proved that saying un- were. of stone, and the flight rose I could put my head into without interruption.' except for four true.. the cage, but, do what I would, I landings so slight as scarce to decould not pass my body between the serve that name. It was very simbars. ply built and served or was served , knock me ftat: 0 . . me now I never let, tkem upon , self-suppo- rt. . troubles bee.t Then Go on, said Elizabeth, quietly. What do you know? Your father said that there was in the tower a doorway which no one would ever find. And then he used the words you must go up, counting your steps.' But he never 9 , When WNU Service Three feet below me, I saw Elizabeths upturned face. She was Richard Exon, a poor young Englishon Herricks shoulders, man, befriends elderly Matthew Gering, standing leaning against the wall. who at his death, gives him a statement What is it? I whispered. What claiming be, Gering, , is Rudolph Elbert Virgil, Count of Brief-- of ancient Austri. is it? , , an nobility who was betrayed 20 years before by his twin brother, Ferdinand, .Leave it, Richard. You must. whose sentence for forgery he himself No man could do any more, but it ' CHEERFUL CHERUB ISftl7nnJ) WHITES Yatu SYNOPSIS ' TIE Hours. Thirty-Nin- e which lavatories and a bathroom had made. , Before we did anything else,, we bolted the door between the tower and the castle, as well, of course, as the door by which we came in. ' After that, I made for the window whose bars 1 had forced aside, and roughly repacked the sockets from which the cement was gone; and since, before we came in, we had gathered the scraps which had fallen whilst I was at work, there now was nothing to show that the cage had been tampered with. Then I joined my lady and Herrick, who were surveying the stair. If this was dark by night, it was dim by day, and we could do nothing useful without the help pf a torch: so, though we had not brbught Brenda with that idea, she had very soon to come to Elizabeths aid: togeth- er they shed the light, whilst Herrick and I conducted the actual search. That the work would require great patience was presently clear, for me walls seemed to be as blank ks an untouched page, yet we could not believe that a doorway could be concealed in the steps. . 1 You must go up, counting your r . steps , . Not until that time did I at all understand the portion confronting the prisoner of ancient days, who set himself to discover a way to break out of his hold: but now I know some of the trials those men en- dured, for though our case was different, we did as they must have done.' The constant chill and the rudeness of naked stone, the furtive light, the anxious fingering of masonry, the whispered consultation, the sudden shock of unfamiliar sounds of such was our two-da- y tenure of the great tower of Brief. It was five oclock on the Wednesday afternoon when Elizabeth straightened, her back and led the way to the bedroom where Brenda had set out some tea. We had now been within the tower' for 39 hours, for moje than 30 of which we had striven to fintj the door- -' way with all our might. And we were no nearer our goal than when we had bolted the doors and begun our search. At most, ten hours were left us, for by three on the following morning we must be gone. As I stumbled into the bedroom, - . E,7JSEft'S Hor Women in Their 40s Can Attract Men . LOJTYOUa PEP? . moved. 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