Show r GWTANn fHE GARMNn Donl think yon need fingerprints worry any more Ha won’t come again tonight and I’ll have my eyes open The’ policeman departed but the others continued to alt round the din lng room table excitedly discussing the Harold and Pudamazing happening dlngface found themselves the heroes at there a as admiration of the hour their deeds In every eye Harold found with dull surprise thnt he did not like being a hero under false He felt guilty as well ae Beared It was an hour before the party nr last was able to summon up the tnitla the to brenk up When at last at C four In the morning Harold found himself In bed leep only came very for Harold’s mind worked hesitatingly (WNU IcrrtcM at feverheat reviewing all the events Co Copyrisht by of the day from his examination of the letters In bed In the morning BUM uiBWMUaa (which seemed at least six months CHAPTER V— Continued ago) via his treatment by Airs Tilling In the afternoon Ids — T 8— freeing of 1’tid his ravaging dlngface from bis bonds At the bottom he must have collided of Danvers' bedroom hla meet lng with with the man Harold had first enencounter those his awful second girls countered and for the third time struck with Mrs Tilling and the scene with Mm to the ground falling on top of Danvers and Marks and the fight on Mm with considerable violence They the stairs to the final discovery thnt Instantly grappled and as they he had been folding In his trousers about the flout they rolled Into for two hours a cocked automata the legs of Harold and the other man pistol which apparently only a mis down bringing them with a crash ' aa well on top of the bucket Just acle had prevented from blowing hole In hla thigh or abdomen as they fell Harold had found hla opAnd then Just when sleep was com ponent’s right hand which as Harold was sinking had expected held a pistol lng Just when Harold A frantic into her warm embraces wrench by Harold and the shock of peacefully Harold leaped In Ida bed and turned the fall tore the weapon from his opa over with The letterl He groan ponent’s grasp and by the time they had forgotten to write that letter to reached the floor It was safely In liar And now old'e possession Mrs Tilling’ Marjorie! on venomous hla behavior report Signs of life were proceeding from would go uncombated At that gray the other rooms People appeared at bedroom doors The two strangers hour this was to narold’a mind (and who can say It ought not to have were roused Into yet more frantic been?) equally aa Important as bis Harold found hla man break activity of the love letters of the possession lng free from bla grasp— and be was Harold king of the Huns and Avars glad to let him go Puddlngface found hla man writhing free too— and mentally resolved to buy flowers on he could not stop him from going In the morrow and take them as a peace the dim light Harold caught a glimpse offering but he waa dully aware that And he of a classic not a hawklike profile they would be Inadequate but next Instant both the Invaders knew nothing even now of a Destiny were loose and had leaped for the who waa disposing of hla morrows atalrs They seemed to get down them quite without consulting him in a single bound each of them all In the Harold did not sleep The afreet door must have been unbolted cad and open for they dashed through It without stopping and Harold as be CHAPTER lay on the floor beard their footsteps dying away down Scae Fell avenue The dumfounded people at their Monday bedroom doors with one accord now the next morning After breakfast began to move toward the two proa llarold left the house' leaving Pudtmte warriors and aa they did bo dlngface and Mrs Pound to Interview Harold did some hectically rapid the police detective who arrived as He held an automatic pistol breakfast was thinking ending In hla hand by the muzzle and he Tet he was unpleasantly conscious knew that this weapon would be to of a hawklike profile which sauntered the police a very useful clue In tracing after him to Morley Park station the Invaders And he knew at once bought a ticket and climbed Into the that he did not want them traced— next carriage to Harold on narold’a oulte on the contrary He decided Intrain emerged with Harold at the to stantly suppress the pistol and be terminus Jumped onto the same bus did this effectively enough by thrustand traveled with him as far as Oxing It down Into the front of his ford street where Harold altghted to trousers before scrambling to hla feet take up his duties In hts branch of He had hardly achieved his object The presthe National County bank before some one switched On the landence of this profile exercised UaroIJ’i ing light and Harold and Puddlngface ‘ mind exceedingly were surrounded by a swarm of exAs yet he did not have a ghost of cited questioners an Idea of what he ought to do Clear"What In h — I d’yon think you’re ly It was his duty to restore the letup to now?” asked Danvers ters to their rightful owner and he “Oh dear oh dear oh dear whatCerwas hazy os to who this was ever Is Itr asked Mra Pound tainly It would not be the fellows who PuddlugfHea looked stupidly round had committed mrtrder on Morley the ring of puzzled fares would cercommon— rightful owners “So It wasn’t yon?" be asked Marks tainly call In the help of police and “It wasn’t you I was scrapheavily In would demnnd legal form the ping with?" of their property Ipsteijd restoration “Not a bit of It I was In bed when of making burglarious entry Into rethe row began" houses in quest of spectable people's “Then It must have been some one It And clearly It wav Harolda duty else" said Puddlngface with Irrefutto see tunt the letters did not fall Into able logic the wrong hands “Some one ran out of the front That was easy seeing that he was door” volunteered Emmie pushing to not only an employee hut a customer of the front No sooner had Harold hung the hank "Let's go and see" said Harold np his hat tlmn he sought out Knott making a move who had charge of this sort of thing “No— noT cried Mrs Pound “Per“1 want to deposit a packet for safe haps they didn’t go after all" keeping" said he to Knott- “Perhaps t hoy ’re still there" said aald Knott old man!" “Rtght-Emmie and every one Jumped a little “Help yourself to a form and Dll It sense told him Harold's common out" that no people who had a possible Harold took the form but to pull charge of murder hanging over them the leather case out from under his would dally anywhere near where the shirt called for a discreet preliminary alarm had been given nis clearretirement Tills done he took out headed habit survived the atress of acthe letters and sealed them In a large "I don’t think so" he said and tion bank envelope which he addressed to he pushed past and down the stairs himself then he turned his attention the others following at varying interIn It the bank made to the form vals formal acknowledgement of the ret He found the hall switch and turned ceipt of “a pneket said to contain prion the light The street dxr was vate documents" from Air II N so was the door Harold debated within himopen sure enough Into the dining room self tnpped his front teeth with the end of his fountain pen and "They've gone t1 right" said Dan“Better get a povers at his elbowthe form “only to be delivThat made liceman" ered to myself In person hnd already arrived But a constable things as safe as they could possibly at the gate attracted by the lights be as In that case with himself and open front door Half a dozen forgery ways present at the branch were Impossible told him part of and Impersonation people disjointed! what had happened and he entered to “I’d rather It was put away now" said He went straight to the Uarold Investigate TO BB CONTI XUBD ) front window and found at once what he was looking for There was a “Witch" Elm Claims Victim neat hole In the pane two Inches In How the “witch" elm tree claimed diameter close to the lock Some one another victim recently was told at had evidently climbed Into the front the coroner’s Inquest at Port Talbot garden and cut the hole pulled back Thomas J Richards Wales the lock opened the window and hnd been engaged by the Penyboni climbed In Then having unbolted the front door and left It ajar to Insure council to trim the branches A branch on which he was standing snapped a rapid retreat whoever It was bad and he fell 40 feet to the road and proceeded straight upstairs A lineman was killed “And dashed quietly too" said Pudpreviously had been killed while cutting away tha “I only Just heard them" dlngface branches of the same tree under 'simfinished scribbling In The constable ilar circumstances tree nearly The notebook his — 50 feet high Is known among wood “Very neat work" he Said “Looks as If— a chap we’ve hud our eye on men as “a traitor hnd done It think fur a long Arbitrary Word tl at’s all con do now The Inspector The word ”gas" Is without any derl will come tomorrow and make an exshouldn't touch that ration at all It has no “root It was amination or the banisby a Belgtan chemist window or the originated There may he about 1G3Q ter If you can help (Due Wonderful Week by S Forester at SPREAD POSSIBLE OF YELLOW FEVER Experts Foresee Dancer From Airplanes A “new aviation peril" said to be sensational In Its possibilities came up for discussion at the annual conference of the British Medical association Sir Malcolm Watson called attention to the likelihood almost the certainty of “aircraft carrying yellow fever from to East West Af- rica" If that happened lie claimed there waa nothing to prevent it from spreading to Asia frbm completely Other physlclnns paralyzing Itself At the conference undertook to show how airplanes might be the means of cholera smallplague “propagating And Sir George pox and typhus" Buchanan stated that a there was a possibility of aircraft Introducing new types of Influenza and cerebrospinal meningitis Into England the subject was engaging the attention of both the air ministry and the For himself he ministry of health regarded It as “an Important matter In the yellow requiring measures fever zones to prevent the spread of the disease” TTAF days And the alarm In Creaf Britain "Increased enormously” in June when 1331 Londoners received the new that the cholera had reached where S00 or “700 sail Riga of English vessels loaded chiefly with hemp and flux" were waiting to come to England It was then after an order had been Issued for the quarantining of all ships from the Baltic thnt "the plague established Itself first time" Id England Yet all through that period beginwith 1817 were there none of ning our modern airplanes In existence and no possibility of the cholera beAre they In ing carried by them any way specially fitted for the conveyance of contagtous diseases for stimulating jo special precautions and for thus alarming the world? Must It not be assumed that there Is a like risk In the trips of our ocean steamers and sailing vessels that have been so long connecting the continents the latter for Introduced many centuries past? disease whether Inqiorted by airplane or at earner Js dangerous In any case Tb call Is to prevent such so far as that can be done bat especially to continue the fight against disease In all’ the countries which are affected or serve as Its breeding ground so that there will be as little as possible of U to export And thli Is the task at which the scientists and are the physicians working In their campaign against that enemy of man the poison microbe with these Almost simultaneously deliverances though without any sort of connection with them came In Timet setLondon the an article ting forth facts regarding the transover the world mission of cholera Sol Proclact Voter after Its appearance at Cnlcutta In The city of New York will save 1817 and asserting that by 1811 It had become certain that no country $400 next primary election day four will be out of work and Manhatmen was secure against the Inroads of tan will be minus one election disthe disease Appearing successively trict because George' Schrader has at Bombay and Madras It reached moved Mr Schrader for two years Ceylon In 1810 and spread theme and has enjoyed the distinction of being from India over eastern Asia and the Islands of the Indian ocean By 1823 the only voter In the election district was reached threatand Europe Syria from Turkey ened It disappeared Yon can’t talk i bnchelor out of but began to push north and west though often eccenagain after ravaging Persia and the Ms lands south of the Caucasus In Rus- tric ways of enjoying hlr self 250000 more than human sia beings Do yon choose your friends died as the result In Cairo and Alexor do andria 30000 were swept away In 24 they choose you? Lum parts of their bodies will not be painAll of this of coarse fully pierced Is merely mother form of s most philosophy— s comprecomforting hension that there are flaws in the Serve to the Individual advantages that are enjoyed by the most enviable Bounds “‘Buck’ I said referring the suby ject as I do most puzzling questions "The rose culturlsti have accom- to s man who has Ideas ‘don't you plished so much in the development think that with alt the advance horof blooms that I have Often wondered ticulture has made the experts ought why they have not been able to do to be able to develop s rose without away wltbthe thorns" said Mr Cato a thorn?1 Ninetalls “ Terhaps’ he responded ‘but why “I’crhapa It Is !mioss!h!e or perhaps In some Instances they should they?’ have sncceeded but the roses of the because thorns hurt peo“’Why garden still have thorns and vicious ple They are bad things that serve enough they seem to the amateur no good purpose’ who when he prunes his bushes or “ ‘As usual you are wrong’ be his climbers should be sheathed In elated Thorns serve a very good plate armor even the experts do not purpose They keep people within I I escape' unscathed understand In fact they ought to be on bounds have sometimes Ijad the feeling when a good many other things than roses I was applying an antiseptic solution for Instance’ " — InAccelerators to my lacerated arms and hands thnt dianapolis News roses shouldn’t be allowed at large hut that cultivation should be Jack Mail Route wholly within guarded boundnrles The carrying of the mulls has progwhere they could do do harm And In' late years that yet a rose In bloom Is— a rose In ressed so rapidly the airplane how speeds across the blooml And as long as blooms s fraction are produced If seems highly prob- country with mall In only of the time required by trains of a able that we’ll endure the thorns ago yet In spite of all the “In horticulture rose thorn are few years fliere Is one mall route In literature they are progress menacing Id the 3ft monitory Many of the classicists for which goes on unchanged In Edwards many a century have recorded the years of Its operatloa s veteran discovery— which has been made by so Colo IV H Wellington has the contract many other people— that there is no of the mall service the mail from the rose without a thorn and then with tor transporting railroad station their usual the post office to the Ignoring of facts and thrice daily for 30 years he has talk of mefnphnrlsta paths a the ways of delight nnd beds driven the mail back and forth Iq a buckboard wagon drawn by a Jack of roses ns couches of luxurious comIlls is believed to be the only fort Fellow amntenr who ha done mule in the fed conveyance some of his own rose pruning would eral mall service yon like to walk along a — path or lie on a bed of roses? Ton needn't answer I’ll answer for you Is Agreement “How Is your boy Josh getting Certainly not I “Let ns then bear all this In mind along with his employer?” as we contemplate the superior blessi"Well” replied Farmer (Jorntossel ngs of our more fortunate fellows "they have come to an agreement at Those whose ways lead along last Josh said he was gn’ to quit paths must often And them an’ the boss be said so too" rather painful to the feet and those who lie on beds of roses probably You can he tolerant of the foolhave a good deal of difficulty In ad- ish but how about being tolerant justing their posture so that tender of the ’Intolerant? 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