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Show t tuturdav, May 1T, PJ2t. THE - journal, logan city, cache county, utah The Zanetii Mystery & Copyright by Harry iloudinl (Continued from last Saturday) know but there aint no I know I use. Van Haarlem dosed his pudgy fist and shook it ifi the Gopher frightened facer "Now, youll listen to jne or therell be trouble I didnt come down here at this hour of the night ta argue with you. Come, get your cap. And bring along that flash light camera I left here. Weve no time to on, lose. ' ' ' 1 "Ah, boss, have a heart. I I "Do you hear what Irmsayjng, Gopher Im no man to fool Van Haarlem snarled. with tonight. .Its pur last chance. You can , Ill flip you' rest assured back that roU I took away the other day. This time there 11 be no chance in the thing. Ive got all the low-doon the way that house runs. The por- trait hangs in the libraiy over the fire- place. The Gopher had grabbed up his cap and .was involuntarily' following the man of superior will. He glanced once into the dreary room where his crippled child lay asleep on an old iron bed. He blew her a kiss, but Zanettis detective shoved him roughly along with one thrust. on the shoulder. Out in the Winter starlight the streets were deserted. Only Hie crunching of the snow under foot broke the silence of those Office buildings empty downtown streets. of their workers, loomed like' sacred tombs in the distance. Slanting amber shadows glinted fronj street lamps set at regular intervals along the crooked alleyways. They shone like beacons as the- Gopher trudged ' along beside the surly detective. They crossed a street and Van Haarlem hailed a taxicab. He would take no chances tonight being seen with this crook in the Tomorrow there might be . subway crowds. trouble when the newspapers learned that Steinways home had been broken into. There would be no t suspicion cast across Zanettis path, not, at least while Van Haarlem could see to it that it could be avoided. fNow get this idea well fixed in your cautioned mind, Gopher, . Van Haarlem when they had gone along a ' few blocks. You can't squeal. No matter what' happens, no matter what comes of this kttle adventure you cant squealr Understand! The Gopher assented, and Van Haarlem noticed he was shivering with frijjht, If anything happens to you, Ill see that Milly is taken care of. . , The lady from the League promised me that, long ago, the Gopher said sadly. She of bushes across the street. There wasnt a light glowing from the massive' stone structure. Only a beaten path in the snow proved that some one occupied the place. The path led around to the kitchen door at rear. ICt fore emerging. Van Haarlem last nJ time in getting Zanettis studio.- There was an evening ance in session ami he paced the floor - t t , to a in Van session. could see the flashing of signals as they were being relayed from ttsswtants - lielow stairs to the clever Zanetti as jte worked in his .studio aboye, The telautograph was in rap- $ id action. Zanetti must still I Laartem l i lie getting al fee for a phenomenthis, seance." w ten he accepted it., - Van Haarlem retreated from the roonp The, maid opened the door and the little old believing soul stopped into the chilly night air, content ith her bargain. -- Zanetti turned steely eyes on Van Haar-le' 5 What about the Steinway business. Everything ready? x Right! Van Haarlem announced cheer-fuBHe motioned Everythings great. for Zanetti to come downstairs where thev could talk it over in their sound-prorbom. Zanetti followed his chief detective, Van Haarlem, produced the print of Gretchen Steinway in her wedding gown. Zanettis eyes lighted with joy. But he settled .back in a moment and regarded Van Well? " q. The messages were com jug from the great be- yond in , quick, .succes-- ,, sion. The victim must have teen easy . indeed. 'Brent Mitchell had been investigating 4 'I se- the dcunataua quarters anxiously waiting to break the good news to his employer, An hour passed. 'The canee was evidently tried again to brace Inside his ragged colt he had ' shall come here again tomorrow'. My soul left my body for a little while. 'I guess I fainted, didnt IV That it what one would call it in the material bein, I believe. Yours is a soul of .strength not to be coped with- If sapped, my own magnetism so that I am limp from this ordeal. The woman opened her pocketbook and took out a large bill. know I felt it. And I am sorry vou have had this ordeal because of the nearness of my sister's soul tonight. Do not think I lack appreciation. Knowing my dear softer is so close to me at times is my only comfort. - She handed the money to Zanetti and he pretended a becoming modesty T himself. - by HOUDINI i , began counting them nut. ' Without saying anything further, Zaneik-ti- s chief detective wraped up the negative and clipped it into the inner pocket of his overcoat lie wahiffd the Gopher. bid him a cheerful goodnight, then wnt quickly from the doorway he had carefully scrutinized be- J placed the camera. He glanced at it now to see that it was sti undamaged by the snow. He climbed along the cellar door and let his fingers play liver the window sill A thrill ran through his body. It was like the oM days ; - the table, The Gopher fell upon them and The Gopher watched his'eqiportunity "Xigc sagging his way back and forth until he found no one was in sight. Then he darted through the front gate, went swiftly around to the rear and fell flat on the ground beside the cellar door. He thought .he heard a He listened sound hard and waited. The that had footsteps frightened him .were his own. - He cursed his ragged nerves and days that had netted him the fortune he had dissipated on drugs, fused his shrunken frame. He was glad he had decided to do this' thing. There was magic in 'the stealth of . the game. His finger nail was testing the lower casement. His other hand was running up and down the side of the frame. His eyes shifted from his work to the yard just behind him. He looked up, then down and took in the pano- rama on either side of him, without puee moving his head. A jerk at the lock on this wind and the glass began to slide up under the pressure of his skinny, h&nds. Slowly and carefully he lifted the window, until there was a gap which belched forth the soft warn air from the room within. The Gopher stood op hi tip toes, looked into the room, then jumped to the window sill with the grace of a' In the panther. Two seconds later he wa3 window the closed He mansion. Steinway uncarefully, making certain the lock was if anyone avoid would .suspicion set., It should be around. Meanwhile t,he window' could be opened in a jiffy in the event; of a . hasty escape. The Gopher felt the cold steel of the re' said volver Van Haarlem had thrust into his Never mind that, now,? Van Haarlem coat pocket. He remembered the detectives circuminterrupted him, Theres a more important warning not to shoot under, anyused only , rehearsal In progess just now stances. The revolver was to be Van Haarlem tapped on the window for as a' threat. Van Haarlem had precluded any the taxi chauffeur to stop the eab. He got possibility of the Gophers disobeying his out. The Gopher followed him. Van Haarlorder by emptying the thing of its shining em paid the hill and moved off with the blue bullets. , One flash of the light' and the contents of Gopher. , This aint the place, the Gopher beroom stood out in bold relief. .There this v , were a few chairs, a kitchen stove, a long gan. Of course It isnt. Do you . think Im table. Beyond it, a butlers pantry extended going to let one taxi chauffeur take me to through a long hallway leading to the flodr the door? If a check up romes through toabove. The Gopher snapped off his light morrow, do you suppose Im going "to nighthawktett where ' fare and where he left jhira least three .cabs take us about we reach Steinways door. ItTi throw every. one out of their smug lines. The Gopher followed Van Haarlem, mutely. When they had alighted from the last cab, Van Haarlem led him to a dark corner near a broken bill board fence where he ex- S FACE ITLiJ v Li7 of Zanetti victims ail week. Van Haarlem smiled when he began to mentally calculate the large slice of Haarlem speculatively. 'And now, he announced, comes the , difficult part of our task. It is up to you to th ewall and which threw 4 soft glow over Steinways money he was to enjoy. find her duplicate, Somewhere there is & There was a sudden flash of the signal girl who looks like this. She must know, the colorings of the portrait below it Aname plate ih gold belew the portrait was w ire over his head. He looked up and saw however, how to keep a secret. Van llaar-kI want yoa to find that woman by toinscribed beldw the portrait was inscribed. Zanettis flash of distress. Something was morrow Van night." Haarlem went wrong upstairs. Gretchen Steinway on Her Wedding Day. through - (To be continued next Saturday) door side stone the and mounted the steps Quickly the Gopher adjusted his camera. He dusted a little of the flashlight powder t the studio entrance at front. He rang the BAUSON REPORTS ON FJDIUDA over the holder, then posed the camera on bell and the maid, who assisted Zanetti in ocinformation from the obtaining guests a table nearby.. Before. lighting the powder (Continued from page seven) he took the precaution f opening the win- casionally, greeted him with , frightened from the merchants of the Great Lakes sec- , dow at the back of the house. It would eyes. A lady came here this evening to talk tion, from the prosperous farmers of the serve a double purpose. Central West, and from the employees of in"One silent flash-- of the trick powder and to her dead sister. She got the messages ad dustries and commerce throughout the But shes fainted. Zanetti is trying the photo was his. 'He grabbed his camera right.. nation. to now. her out of it , bring ran to the back window and let himself down Fifteen years ago I was ridiculed in Wheres Doc? Van Haarlem asked as he heard the maid running up the stairChicago, especially by the Sludebaker. people Why isnt he here at a time like who were then making wagons, for saying I way. He dosed the window with one arm; sna(ipily , a trick he had learned to his earlier days as this? would live to see almost every' prosperous ' He was here earlier, but Zanetti told farmer have an automobile.- Today there' man. He slid gently .down a second-stor- y the cellar door and ran across the , yard, him he could get away to go to some dinner are more automobiles owned by farmers than hurdling over the iron fence at the bade In party. there are farmers! Permit me to make the less ,than five seconds he was walking nonConfound the luck, Van Haarlem prophecy that I shall live to see almost every chalantly across a back street, his camera breathed; Here, rush- - downstairs to the prosperous farmer spend his winters in swinging like, a working mans lunch box medicine cabinet and bring me a bottle of California or Florida, There are 2,000,000 from the laped of his coat He looked back spirits of ammonia." farmers in the United States with Pet inonce and saw the lights switch on in the The maid obeyed at once. , Van Haar- comes in excess of $5,000 per year who library he had just left. He saw that the lem opened the sliding door leading into the have never been In California or Florida. If maid was looking about the room wonderstudio and found a woman stretched out on we can get 200,000 of these to journey to one ing, no doubt, what that strange flash of the floor. Zanetti was bending over her, of these states this coming winter in their light could have been. trying to 'bring her out of a faint. Zanetti automobiles, and spend only $600 each for At the street corner he met Van Haar- glanced up at Van Haarlem, but said not a the best three months they have ever spent in their lives, this alone will amount to more lem and they fell into step without ottering word, p a word. When Van Haarlem was very certhan the total received from the entire Van Haarlem got to Here, let me and celery crop, and tomato tain no one was within hearing, he turned hiq kpees and benttry. crop, crop of the ova? prone figure and spoke for the first time. the 'woman. He raised her arms and swung all truck vegetables reused in the, State of - m, 1 ( Cit-ru- some amined the camera equipment for the last time. He handed the Gopher his flashlight and silently moved off from him. Two blocks away the resplendent Steinway mansion stood out In bold relief against the frost cov- - The Gopher started toward it. But he was a moment too late. A small room at the newly-mafront of thfe house, evidently besuddenly servants, bathroom for the someone heard came flooded with light. He turn on a spigot of water and he held his breath in dread- of the next move. He timed hall and into the himself to step across-thde - e -- library, On the last step the light in the front room flashed off and the door opened, The Gopher moved silently, in the darkened eied paik. The Gopher crossed the street hallway, and let himself slide behind tne Haarlem and went quietly toward it. Van half open door. There was a moment of intense speculation; a terrible dread of dismoved off m the opposite direction. HaarThe moments ticked off on Van covery. The maid who had qpme from the lems watch. , He began to be , impatient. bathroom passed by the door, stepped From his antagfe point he saw the Gophers around the turn in" the stairway and proceeded downstairs. The Gopher mbved into the slight figure disappear at the corner. ' It was the Gopher who was impatient, library. of his light revealed the porflash how ever ; One had which nerve the that impatient seen him through so many second-stor- y jobs trait of the old millionaires wife. The should suddenly have deserted him. He tried Gopher steped forward and gave the huge to brace himself for courage. He found himpicture a jerk. The frame moved slightly crooked on the wall but the Gopher discovself shivering miserably. He found consolaered there was a trick device for holding the tion in believing it was the cold air. The "Gopher studied theSteinway house , thing in place. No wires were visible; only ftom the front, moving stealthily in a clump an electric fixture which jutted out from -- -- jswmwtwux virrH eouGHf "OUft RAtCROAP Mav be Small. tuem that A view CAR- - Awp VESYEPAV oo im fxviee rr - , asked. - Dont worry bout that. Well tkip back -- to your place and devetop the plate and you chn have the money the minute Im sure youve got the thing right. They walked several blocks, then hailed a cab. Changing several times, as they had done when coming uptown, they found themselves at last in the lower section of the city where the Gopher lived. Van Haarlem hurried to his quarters and threw off his coat. Van Ilaarlem went at once to a dark closet and lighted a small red lamp. He drew out the negative and began developing it with eager fingers. Into a solution .he poured in a small saucer the first print went, then he placed it between blotting paper and dried it hurriedly. ' Hi face beamed. Great! he cried, rusmng into the stronger light with the print. ' You've done a wonderful job, old kid. , Heres the dough Van Haarlem threw a roll of bills on Van Haarlem snatched the bottle from ter hand.5 He held it below the woman's nostrils and she began to draw deep breaths. Zanetti stood up and walked to the back ' of the long room. When Van Haarlem had thoroughly revived the Woman, he moved close to Zanetti and muttered; ,1T knew )t wou d come sooner or latere, better go easy on these old ones. - Rotten luck Good luck, you mean. Zanetti smiled. Shes firmer in her belief than ever before. Thinks her dead Sister was trying to . take her airing on the same route Madame, Zanetti said, when the woman was again herself, you are a very remarkable person. You have a magnetism of soul not given to many in this material world. You are magnificent in your soul strength I marvel that you have not been given mystic powers yourself. Flattered by Zanettis compliment, the woman began to smile. No, she said, that has not been the great Makers gTft to me. On you Zanetti, He has bestowed all that wondrous power. I. Wear Miwipy Uw ""jJtjsST" STZ3--' osar. together with PRAjriS0 Sunday Bjugkt DftOPPEO essential. "Business now registers, by the Babson-ihar- t, at 9 percent above normal which compares with just normal' at this time last year. m UV1UG ROOM CM and Mouqav jUORNlto EARcr ms POVsIN PwSkJVi' OJt A (Continued From Page Seven) ........ annual meeting of Piccadillies. and George V. Roundtree wife of Chicago were in attendance as special guests. Mr. the the wife wux SRAM UEW A VUFLK? "uox caa! rr, With ohln cue n iahuv ANNUAL MEET OF PEA FACTORY EMPLOYEES was But rr wcves MA$ active churches. ed SWING'S IN cast wee. good Economical living conditions. T" For the present there are enough expensive hotels in Florida and California. Mere dairy farms ratter than more golf courses are the need of the hour. New England dinners with baked beans Saturday night and fish chowder Fridays, will attract more good people to these states than more billion dollar developments These states today need producers and to attract them, such lower rents and iowrer cost living conditions are absolutely, 3. W flow or our sotjw AMO A FEW Ull euifti mokj "mas 1. Healthy living conditions. With few exceptions all Florida and California cities now have this to offer. 2. Clean attractions and amusement, The people who are to make Florida and California do not want wide open cities, Sunday celebrations or all night dances. Checker-board- s and the amusements which made st peteVsburg are what is wanted, This and That Rf Qtatfct Sugtjro MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL specuateo ' ABV perch set wesrrnever, we wu in wau, "There you are, Van Haarlem drawled,, I told you it was easy. Just ' you follow my directions, kid, and youll be eating 1 off gold1 plates. the Gopher ' How about the jack? Roundtree is auditor for cannng company. They enjoyed the festivities ' of the occasion. tlvor-Ough- VERY USXlOPSewee eoAt where Mis A SUTTON PUNS wife could tee, AMP INSTEAD OF BECOMING "rwe pear, creature Garments brought tevERAu OF HE OWN -- THAT NEEDED Buttons, aaims AjjErv EORGB JEFFERS CEX OU OtD CAR, S BAP EUOUGW, Bur A (Mr fSUMA WITH TWO CARS UK Oto HBS ear MIGHT "JEST AS VJEU. QUIT HI? JOB AMD GIVE H,3 HUU. TIME "Tt'EU ' tiUmeo! ly - ' To replace mometer on the radiator theran autorw.. He a device has been invented that" condenses and saves the alcohol vaporized as a mol or becomes heated. |