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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER the scalloped stars and topsyturvy letters on this toy chest is sure to put you in gay spirits. The chest itself i3 easy to make from scraps of plywood and it has a STENCILING CHEST MAY BE MADE WITH OR WITHOUT number of special features that will please Mother as well as the youngsters. The rope handles and wooden wheels make It possible to move a complete assortment ol toys to any convenient spot. Then off eomes the lid; folding legs are opened up; and Little Miss Muffit has a table Just the right height for play. NOTE Pattern Is available to readers showing how to make this chest and folding table top. Also illustrated directions tor decoration with stencils which require no special skill for perfect results. Color guide is Included. Ask for Pattern 252 and enclose 15c with name and address. MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 23. Namg AHHrog- - the Shooting T;;;AU Over But sgRicharS Powel- l- Top for Toy Chest Is a Folding Table SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Two Topnotcli Doilies to Crocliet Due to an unusually large demand and the current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SANCTUM MYSTERY STARRING ARAB"" ANDY BLAKE wu features AN INNER ... Last night In the hospital a full An an ambulance is coming SEWING CIRCIE NEEDLEWORK from Walter Reed, Arab sniffled. colonel said you ought to be 709 Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. Colonel Parker came in first, spanked. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern She murmured, I do love you shook my hand, and said, "Glad you came through all right, Blake. terribly, Andy, and Im ever so No Got to ask you some questions. grateful to you for last night, and Name- These gentlemen lie sketched an IH be quiet from now on and not introduction "need information. get us into any more trouble. Address- I hope so. Know you need rest, but this cant Ive already been quiet since last wait. Feel up to it? night, and thats a whole twenty-fou- r Yes, sir, I said faintly. It apWhen Angry Llama Spits hours. peared that I was entertaining the What have you been doing? It Blisters Skin of Human Federal Bureau of Investigation, e, the Military Finding a room. Swell. Lets hear about it. District of Washington, the Provost The llama, common beast of Its out on Northwest Q Street Marshal Generals Office, and other burden in the South American, serious-minde- d organizations. Yes, In a big old house with lots of Andes, , is an odd creature. It to tell space around it. About sixteen girls I first I but looks said, sir, ought something like a camel, but n CHAPTER live in it and its owned by a you it has wool like a sheep, feet like refugee Frenchwoman and some huge bird of prey, and "a Save your strength, Blake. Let Here was only one word needed. some of the girls are the cutest like a rabbit. The llama mouth them ask the first. eardrums questions A small, hissing word. My combines the neigh of a horse Another colonel grumbled. "Cant things and I just know theyre all ached as I waited for it. Then it with the stubbornness of a,JXtul. make head or tail of the stories of going to make passes at you and came. "Whoa, I said. Youre peddling When mad it will spit saliva the people on the bus. One says Spy. this too hard. Now tell me what lt whose acid causes human skin to It broke the ice jam in my blood. she was short, another has her near- is I'm not to like about the going brublister upon contact. She has tall. tinsix feet red, came ly alive, My legs and arms is place. The llama is allied to the camel and platinum-blond- e hair, forward nette, I started wrestling gling. Well, its really a very little knock-kneebut is smaller, standing about has beautiful legs . . . faces White crowd. the through thing." three feet at the shoulder and is turned. Eyes stared blankly. They you see what were up against. 'T'HE pansy doily with its Vfi without a hump. It varies in color Ill bet So are thirty-calibe- r Sir, I groaned, "its a long didnt want to let anybody through. bullets. inch pansies crocheted in shad- from black to white. story. She They were already jamming toward Mrs. Fielding she ed purple and lavender thread is that Its just a forhave Lets description. the front of the bus. Moving rent really a beauty and the Sir, I wish youd let me go at married an American wont ward under the sting of one word. rooms to married women. That is, pineapple doily is one of the She own this the of my way. back the It had started in not married women who are work- laciest and most delicate looking Blake! like SMAPPY FACTS bus and was working forward I babbled, She has blonde hair, ing at it. She said that the first you could possible wish to have! slow poison. women married She says shoulder-lengtheight five feet sev- tiling. Spy . . . Spy. To obtain complete crocheting Instrucen and one half with high heels, who really love their husbands are tions It move me grudgingly. let for the Pansy Doily (Pattern No. They and around either always moping 5711) and the Pineapple Doily (Pattern wasnt for me that they moved RUwCEH in off or else rushing depressing her No. 5806) send 16 cents in coin for EACH aside, though. They moved a little hus- pattern, your name, address and the their a to wherever few months for the gleam of shoulder bars and bands are and there she is with the pattern numbers. d eagle buttons and the trouble of finding the right girl for the at on my cap. I got to the exit the room again. So because Pm Hard Sponge," a new synmiddle of the bus. That was the limwith civil service under thetic rubber product develup signed was the jam it. Beyond that point oped by B. F. Goodrich, conn my maiden name of Arabella Reysolid. I yelled at the nearest people bines great strength with exidea that sort the of nolds she got and they didnt even turn. They treme lightness. Experiments not married and let me have Im not looking shoved back blindly, point to its possible use in the room. airplane wings. around, when I tried to drive That Isnt like you, Butch. You through. Poached eggs are much tastier A type of vine recently discovered know well be finding an apartment I grabbed the handrail on each if fixed in hot milk instead of in China, which attaches Itself to flat. and her leaving aide of the exit and hoisted myself trees and other objects, has been We had dinner downtown, and water. of Arabs pale found to yield latex (natural rubup. I caught a flash Arab mentioned that she hadnt rethe face. She was jammed against ber). Stems grow to 50 feet In When saving buttons from an raincoat and hat white covered her The people right length and yield about a pound front entrance. on ones old We garment, put matching after dropping them last night. of latex. around her didnt know yet wfast was drove to the scene of the chase and a safety pin to keep them together. to turned had push They happening. Inner tubes made with a spe- -. spent half an hour poking through It will save time later. back resentfully at the mob. But cial type of synthetic rubber It a with the flashlight. shrubbery the at Arab knew. She was clawing hold air much longer than In making coffee, tea or chocowas no use. Either Arab had formad of natural tubes tight folds of the door. be double to the late served artiiced, the she dropped gotten where spy spy rubber. spy Spy cles or somebody had walked off strength to allow for the ice used in cooling the beverage. with them. The word was striking at her like on the overhead light switched I to stop a snake I yelled at people If youre celebrating a birthday and drove on slowly and listened to it, but not a back turned. It would and dont know how many candles shorthand. her Arab! deciphering n cops to halt them take a had filled half a dozen pages. to use on the cake, place them in She r into now. I put all my lung power s' Some of the quotes started out as if the form of a question mark. i v I a yelL then but $ be v ' important they might When the door opens, Arab! VAV To keep brass or other metal turned into meaningless chatter run! about how the supervisor said this door knockers, door knobs, and Then I grabbed the and Edith snapped right back at the like shiny, apply a thin coat of the cord and hung on it. Ordinarily colorless wax to them occasionher. driver would have waited until the remarks four ally. were There perhaps next loading station . . . and that loose-tal- k but they the of type, Arab. might have been too late, for To make candles last double werent dangerous to anybody exBut he must have known something thousand guys who were time, hold each by the wick and a few cept without knowing was wrong, quite off fighting Germans and Japs, or coat with white varnish. Dry and what. As I hung on the cord, praygetting ready to. There wasnt a harden. The varnish prevents the ing, the bus suddenly swung to the which might have made grease from running down to remark curb and halted. to somebody on the waste. Arab dangerous autoI jumped on the step which bus. doors. center the a blur. saw white I matically opens Did you find anything in that? They flapped back. I leaped out, blue eyes, nicely cut she asked, closing the notebook. skidded once, and swung toward the weight one-tee "You missed it, I complained. front entrance. The front doors fold- cameo features, age twenty-thremust have been said while you It while ed back and Arab slipped out were listening and you missed it whistled softly. Somebody strides stm away. was three I We cant do anything about it Are you sure of all this? a civilRun! I yelled. Muscular Aches and Pains Sprains Strains can we, Andy? asked. ian She jumped to the sidewalk and I I said. a think Let me minute, Yes, sir. faked a dive at her and clipped the Somebody else said, Nope, too An idea was fluttering in my head. first two men who spilled out after brush the edge of my her. My nose left a rut in the street, good to be true. They dont come It would like a moth and then vanI female The last that. thoughts like spy while. It worth seemed gave but lt know whaf the idea Arab a few seconds start into the saw had hair like a broomstick and ish. I didnt was but I knew I needed it. Badly. Athletblackness of a private driveway. I must have topped Were here, Arab announced sudscrambled to my feet and followed. ic girL Went in for weight-liftinand I pulled over to the curb said Colonel Parker denly, nervously, Fifty yards up the curving drive of Blake, you dont happen to know and got my first look at the house the big estate I saw a white blur. on Q Street. When Arab runs she doesnt flap her this girls name, do you? It was in a rather desolate secI sandwiched a gulp between a feet the way most girls do, like a hen tion quite a distance beyond Georgeyes-si- r. out clipped wings. trying town. Only two other houses were is it? What in I pounded up the drive well I closed my eyes and said, Mrs. in the section. Arabs place was advance of the others. But was I Blake. There planted on several acres of unkempt really ahead of the rest? Once or Arabella Reynolds moments. few a for It grounds. It had been built maybe was silence raintwice the white blur of Arabs someone who coat seemed to be blacked out by was so quiet you could have heard thirty years ago bylook teawcsseMy like an emwould it had I been if lieutenant hoped hadnt a flashed drop, ' WTL Arab past mother figure. three-stor- y mansara was It down bassy. window of the lying already. I lighted ground-floo- r type, with a tiny Tell it your own way, my chief d-roof big house, and a moment later I a couple of pillars. The and muttered. across flick , thought I saw a shadow I My own way would have been by pillars were oversize for the house. the same light. A shadow as squat buck teeth. out like telephone, but I went They stuck as a tub. If was nonsense, of course. What a comedown, I said. After I finished, My imagination was pulling things ahead, anyway. Hmmm? out of hats. Tubs cant move that one officer said, Well, cross that house. It starts off thirty "This eveas a books off wasted the one fast. in the society columns ago f t years Then, in a split second, my foot ning. After he left I decided that things and ends up in the rooms-for-rehit something and a fuse blew in my saw it adverhead and I plunged down into ring- werent so bad. They couldnt real- section. You said you didnt 201 tised on file you? black a mark today, my ly put ing blackness. In the Washington "Oh, yes. I opened my eyes and peered up in the Adjutant Generals Office for And Post. Arab work. A faces of circle the ought nights at a lighted room. The mothlike idea fluttered back After all, I had hung above me like a Halloween to be grateful. out into of a my head, and settled down. I in her nasty spot for helped apples. group bobbing in a carefully restrained tone, asked bus. the How do you feel, Lieutenant? Whats the number of this place? Arab phoned that she would bring somebody asked. ninety-seve- n Fifty-seve- n Q Street, I said. Is there an unthe car out for me whenever I was Swell, Northwest. I and not to said to leave, ) dertaker in the house? ready v .insgft. I got out a cigarette and struck a a familiar voice worry because the Army nurses Oh, Andy, were very lovely. After that Arab match. My hand trembled so that I thought you were dead. " And listen, Honey-her- e's sobbed. how you can What made you change your called every hour and the hospital the match went out. I tried to strike be I'll me. a fan suit wearing recognize and merely crumpled it authorities got tired of it and decid- another What mind? I said peevishly. match." to tie and Arab tan a nervous, Youre I awfully afternoon that could late the and in stared ed I broke off suddenly said. around at the circle. Here was be returned to duty. I read the Post this morning, Arab got out to the hospital withArab with a half dozen of the people too. I coaxed the and to who had been ready get rough out delay, prettiest Did you? But whats that got to What hapnurse to escort me to the door and with her not long ago. Eveready No. 6 Dry Cells continue to provide with on do lean me her. let I asked. even weakly the to girl? pened dependable power for the vital field telephone equipI had plenty of time, I said. I The girl in the white raincoat This had the proper sobering efrooms-for-resection. the ment of our Armed Forces. and the black felt hat? Arab asked fect on Arab for at least five min- read She got away. utes. Then, as we drove away, she There wasnt any ad for this house. in a clear voice. But youll be glad to know they are available in I I must have read it in anWe called the police," somebody started fighting the war her way other paper. her. added. again. Theyll get increasingquantities for civilian I grabbed her shoulders and shook You're just bitter, I said, beIf they do get her, I growled, long-live- d use fresh, You read it in Ill be happy to testify for the pros- cause nobody consulted you before her and shouted, That on notebookl the thug war. the for Ask them your as ecution. What happened to me? starting always. You tripped over A man said, Why, Andy, do you really think bus dropped a remark that brought dealers now. at And house! your this to you skipped something, Lieutenant. Your head hit Pm going to keep quiet after the you me read notes. when your It you were We last of found those a tree. talking people the stump you way damned fool, are you trycrumpled right up against the night on the bus? Im going to do You utter killed? of National Carbon Co., lot. The uorJs "Z. ercaJy and "Ignitor art regiitered stump, and carried you into the something about it whenever I get ing to get yourself BE CONTINUED) chance. .(TO a here. house THE STORY THUS FAS: Lt Andy Blake, assigned to Operations, was agreeably surprised by the arrival of his wife, Arab, Who announced the had taken a Job In Washington with Ordnance, to aid In the war effort. They left the office to look for a room fer Arab. Arab told Andy that thoughtless people talked too much abont their war work and plans. While on the bus, she decided to walk around and taka down in shorthand the variant war conversations she overheard. While in the act, she was spotted, and the word SPY," first a whisper, developed Into an angry cry. Andy pulled the stop cord in order that they could Arab started running both Jump off. with Andy fast after her. 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