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A special railroad coach equipped to demonstrate tyre (British spelling) conservation has traveled throughout England. More than 40,000,000 heavy-dut- y truck tires have been produced since Pearl Harbor, even though 90 of the sources of supply of natural rubber were lost at that time. THE 8 TOUT THUS FAB: Lt Andy Blake of Operation, waa Joined by hla wife, Arab, who itarted to work with Ordnance. On a boa looking for living quarters, Arab started to write down the loose talk the overheard. She waa soon spotted and h ery of 'Spy" went up. Arab and Andy Jumped off the bus, bat Andy soon tripped, fell striking his bead and woke up in bed. After telling the FBI what Arab was up to, he left the hospital and went with her to the rooming house. Be got into a fight with one of the guesta and met the landlady, whom ha had known In Paris. Arab and Andy were convinced that something was wrong in that house. Andy then started to drive home. , CHAPTER IV "Walt a minute, Arab a!d. "I want to write down my phone number for you. Arab came back and handed me a slip of paper. See you tomorrow night, she said. I got in the car and drove away and forgot . to look at Arabs slip of paper for several blocks. When I did, I stopped the car so fast that I almost scraped the tires down to thfe rims. I had almost forgotten that there was something terribly wrong with the house on Q Street. Arab had given me a page torn from the notebook she had used on the bus. There were the absurd chicken tracks of the Arabella Blake Shorthand System. Above them she had written the translation. It was the section she had skipped when she had read her notes to me. It was the section which had brought her to the house on Q Street, and had made her a candidate for the lead story in the obituary columns. A man on the bus had said softly to a companion, There Is a room vacant at 5797 Q Street, Northwest. It could not be helped. The girl saw too much. I swung the car around and started back and then changed my mind. Arguing with Arab would get me nothing but a sore throat. This called for action instead of argument For one thing, I could help her find out what was wrong with the house on Street I stopped at a drugstore and coaxed a clerk to let me look through all the Washington papers he had. I went through the preceding days editions without finding anything. I double-checke- d ington Post. iW PAZO IN TUBISI of people suffering from have found prompt simple 'Piles,PAZO ointment. Here's relief with PAZO ointment soothes why: First, Inflamed areas relieves pain and Itching. Second, PAZO ointment Millions lubricates hardened, dried parts s. helps prevent cracking and Third, PAZO ointment tends to reduce swelling and check minor bleeding. Fourth, it's easy to use PAZO ointments perforated Pile Pipe makes application simple, thorough. Your doctor can tell you about PAZO ointment sore-ces- SUPPOSITORfIS TOOf Some persons, and many doctors, prefer to use su ppositorles, so PAZO comes in handy suppositories also The same soothing relief that PAZO always gives. EHEMHHHE on that days WashThen, in the Stars section, I spotted it. Buried treasure couldnt have made me happier. The ad announced: ROOM FOR RENT Furnished room, bkfst. and dinner optional, in fine old house 5797 Q St., NW. Govt, girls only. Must be cultured, pref. college or bus. sch. grad. Call or write giving full details. Mrs. R. Fielding. Apparently Renee Fielding believed in picking and choosing, and of course in wartime Washington she could get away with it. I went to the phone, dialed the Wisconsin number given in the ad, and asked for Miss Arabella Reynolds. When I heard her voice, I growled, Hope I didnt break up a date with rooms-for-re- Joey. REGooMch AN Powel- lIKINER STARRING ARAB Q tive RicharS Were you worried? She giggled. Goody. Not about him. Listen, how did you explain that you knew a room was vacant?" Why . . . why, I just said I saw an ad in the Post Ooooh, and you said tonight there wasnt any! Its O. K. One was in the Star. Anybody would have thought you just got the papers mixed up. I read it to her, and added, You must have been bom with a silver horseshoe in your mouth. Suppose there hadnt been any ad? She said softly, You take awfully good care of me. Thank you, Andy. Youd better thank me. Taking care of you is a tough job. Its like being night watchman of a TNT plant Take it easy. Try to stay alive until lunch tomorrow, and Ill buy you one. I didnt have much hope of getting time off the next day to hunt apartments, and it turned out that I was right My Middle Eastern theater was getting hot what with the British Eighth Army getting ready to tangle with Rommel at El Alamein. It was nearly seven when I got away. I grabbed a sandwich and milk at one of the beverage bars in The Pentagon. I took a bus into Washington, remembered that I was supposed to be starting a courtship, and bought some candy and flowers. It was silly, of course. If a guy really wanted to make a hit with Arab hed bring land mines. Three other men were waiting in the room: a big Marine in dress blues, a Navy lieutenant (j.g.), and a civilian. We exchanged nods and I sat down. We waited. We smoked cigarettes and tried not to let our glances meet and studied our fingernails. There might be eight girls to every man in Washington, but we. were being treated the way women have always treated rpen. The jaygee lieutenant was claimed first. A brunette trick came in and the Navy jumped up, almost wagging himself. The Marine and civilian went off on leashes next, and finally Arab appeared and looked around and decided Id do. I babbled about how nice she looked and how I hadnt been waiting long at all and gave her the candy and flowers as hopefully as a puppy bringing a rubber ball. I guess I have no pride. the SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Muff Bag and Matching Pillbox ShOOtiflCT venient and comfortable to wear later with your winter coat. Bag measures 18 by 16 inches is dona in one piece. SANCTUM mystery ANDY BLAKE whukmwu Arab took the flowers and candy, Now, listen. Three nights ago they How had a date. According to the official and murmured, For me? swell lovely! But of course you shouldnt story, Bill told her he had Job offered him in a war plant near have done it If you feel that way," I said, New Orleans, and wanted her to marry him and go along. Paula "maybe I could get a refund. couldnt quite make up her mind. on Come to them back. "Try get She came back here, decided she upstairs and I'll let you eat all the would, telephoned Bill, met him outmarshmallow centers and you can tell me whats wrong with the way side, and drove away. All in a few hours. Pm fixing the room. Whos authority for the story? of We went upstairs. At the head Paula. She telephoned here from the steps a painted sign hung down West Virginia the next morning. from an fixture. ceiling "Good old Paula. I knew shed It announced: VISITOR. come through. I like that girL So The totem pole who acted as col- now we can forget it, huh? ored maid was planted beside the Arab glared at me. A fine dedoor of a lighted room. tective you make, she snapped. Sadie, Arab said, do yju think "Always taking things at face I could get a vase for these lovely value. 1 dont want to be a fine detecflowers? She tive. Im not the detective type. I Yesm, Sadie admitted. got a hunch Im more the victim followed us Into the room, and antype. tell Mis Did you nounced, Fielding Cant you see she might have bout leaving the do open part way. been forced to make that phone call? Mis Reynolds?" She didn't give any information that Yes, she did, Sadie. The maid nodded and went out, would make her easy to trace. Just that theyd been married in a West leaving the door ajar eight inches. A moment later her head popped Virginia town and to please send her back in the opening. She stared at things to New Orleans to Railway Express and to address any mail to me, opened the door four inches wid- General The girls who Delivery. er, and vanished. talked with her admit she sounded Arab looked at me and her face very queer and strained. wrinkled in crying lines and she I joined her at the window, and flung herself Into my arms. Her breath came in warm little gasps peered out. Our game was a lot of of course, but I found my against my lips. Her slim legs nonsense, pulse shifting from second into high. I dont know what I expected to see. Something startling, probably. I was in the spirit of the game and ready for anything. Anything, that is, except what was there. Because nothing was there. You looked out and saw a tree. A common ordinary pin oak. Oaks dont shed their leaves early and this one was well equipped. The leaves and branches blotted out any possible view. What do you make of it? Arab asked. I growled, She looked out and saw a Nazi parachutist on the lower branch. On the next one a gorilla And just was practicing nip-upabove that big crotch was a raven quoting Edgar Allan Poe to beat the devil. But Ravens, she murmured. that birdhouse isnt big enough for ravens. What birdhouse? In that crotch. Its odd how you can miss things. There was a birdhouse in the crotch. Enough starlight filtered down through the leaves to show it rather plainly. Most people would have been satisfied now, but not Arab. She got a flashlight from a bureau drawer and flicked It over the tree. The beam centered for a moment on the birdhouse, then went out. Did you see what I saw? Arab . asked quietly. Yeah. Its new. The paint isnt spotted. ,1 saw a couple of bright nail heads. But listen, Arab, that doesnt mean anything. Darling, do people put up "I think that yon will like each around here in October? other. Sure, all the best people. And trembled against mine. I could feel furthermore my heart rattling around like a cockDo they put them up facing tail shaker and my vertebrae play- north? I always understood that ing leapfrog up and down my back. birds liked a southern exposure. This isnt any easier for me than These birds are different They it is for you, she sobbed. dont like the sun shining in and fadThen lets stop this nonsense ing the wallpaper. They an- dAndy Blake! I sighed. "Yes? "Andy, weve got to find out What do you see over the top of whats wrong here! I groaned.. Just for once, I said, that birdhouse? Nothing. Now listen, Arab couldnt wfe find out whats right? You do so see something! You Lets find that the body in the bathtub is only a guy who couldnt find see the roof of the house down the any other place to sleep in Washing- street. What would happen if that ton and that the plot concerns a birdhouse werent there? The birds would have to get out pound of unrationed sugar and that and look for a place like the rest of the missing heiress eloped with us. They Freddie. Andy Blake, it wont do you any Arab drew back and looked at me to act like this. If that new good How know?" did you queerly. birdhouse werent there you would Know what? winAbout the girl who had this room. be looking at the second-floo- r of down the dows house the street. Three She eloped. nights ago. Then theres nothing And Ill bet that crotch of the tree Swell. wrong. I like that girl. I never met lines up a window like a gun sight. in on Somebody put up that birdhouse her but I like her. Count-m- e the monogrammed linen. A good within the past two days. He put it sensible girL Goes off and gets up to hide the window of the next married instead of murdered. 1 like house so that, if anyone Paulas going-to-beroutine, they that girL wouldnt look out of the window and more mononeed than Shell She get suspicious of the place next grammed linen, Arab said. here without from taking door. eloped The next house is fifty yards even a toothbrush or nightie. What could you away, I objected. My stomach dropped out of formawould make see that you dangerous of rest went with the tion my insides, and then fell off in to the neighbors? into a half-loo"It doesnif matter what I saw. It I said feebly, Lots of a spin. could have been a murder or a man girls Please listen, Andy. I want you in a Jap uniform or And why didnt you call the to hear the whole story. Go ahead, I said gloomily. "But cops? Because, darling, Id have to tell if this is one of those stories that whole story over the downstairs the teller ends by the shouting Boo, well phone. Because what Id seen insave time if I pass out right now. who lives here. BeWell, Arab said, her name was volved somebody cause the wrong person might hear Paula Thompson. Her name is Paula what I said. So I called good old Stop itl Bill and just asked him to drive Thompson. All right. Paula came here last around for me and said it was awful I was going to get him to spring from Indiana. Shes twenty. urgent to a drugstore phone or to me take an aunt been Shed brought up by And . . . and Bill station. a police who died last winter. Paula worked for five months for the Office of Cen- was the wrong person. I dont think I like this game. sorship. Off and on she had dates Please, Andy, try to think. It all with a man named Bill McAdams. doesnt it? fits, inhe was Nobody thought really I In her. got outside without seeing anyterested A body, although I could feel stares I get the picture, I said. quiet little girl. 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