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Show bT' b BjBi Slock Needed In So Manv Recipes Utilize All Scraps of K Hr Meat Recipe for Pineapple Pie. K $ "Nell," called Olive Kllson from Bj H& the machine as her friend came to I M the door m answer to the doctor's HE Hft nummons, "get on your wraps and 1 '' come along. 1 bellevo wc have a clue Hti H, l0 the whereabout of the baby at last. B Hi I want to tell you about it." K HF In a verv short &me Nel1 and , HIIK; Hal were seated In tho automobile HjH&, llnd they wore speeding down the Hr'flfc road. KjHEB "Tell me all about it," Nell exclaim- HfrHE C(1, leaning forward eagerly. K1 "About half an hour ago," began HL'H 01ive- "Mr F'UTer, a farmer who lives HpBT' about five miles from liere, rang the HW doorbell He asked If 1 was Mrs. Ell- EB son and said that he had read of our HHT" trouble In the paper, and had at onco Irraf decided to come and tell us of a E'HI strange experience he had had the HhKIF ' very day the baby was stolon He Elll' overtook a woman walking and carry- HJH ing a baby, when he was a mile from Kft the cross roads where he found the HI; . bupgv " 1 "Which wav were they going?" ask- Kll, ed Nell. ., "Townrd Judson's coners. She got Hl out there and started east " HH& "How did she account for the fact Hp91 thai she was walking and enrryinc a KB hmw babv on a hot day like that?" BIHf pskerl Noll IB; "She 'did not account for it He KB could not get her to say anything ex- KV rep that she did not live in these vK parts" Bin "How long ago was this Mr Farrer wfBr at )OUr houso?" continued Nell. K8V "nh. not more than half an hour Bm Oivlord came about fifteen minues HB' after he loft and you can imagine it Ell d'cl not take lone for us to get start Hilw ' on our s?ai cn " HiK 'Well, there is one thing, if a wo UK man has started out with a heavy K babv on foot ho cannot be vary far Hfll of' ' romforted Nell K "Tint is what I told Olive." The K doctor turned toward them as he H spoke "Yes, but it makes the affair Hp all the more mysterious "What wo HM& man in her senses would plan to walk Hu tod enrrv a heavy child Why did Hflr not she leave it in the buggy?" There HH? AVaB a won Icd wrlnlcle between Olive's KS eves as she spoke W1& "Oh. she evidently planned on get- ting rides." remarked the doctor. "She 'if knew that a thorough search would rllij De ade. aJ1 over the adacent roads HM and that there was no chance of get jijI ting awav with a buggy She knew JUm she would be able to get rides to help IliB herself along and planned on it." IJUj "Who could do such a thing?" asked fw Olive sadly. There was no answer fil "from either or her companions. ' "I think this is Judson's corners nil ahead here You say the man saw OM her going east from there?" asked the m S doctor. flirj "Yes. he looked back as he diove n!l off, and she was walking slowly down B I the road," replied Olive. The magi ma-gi J chine turned in the direction indi-jM indi-jM cated. Sfl 'How aie you going to proceed with iffl the search?" asked Nell. Jill "I shall comb this district with a if fine toothed comb," he announced. til "1 shall call at every houBe and ques- wl tion every person I meet. Somebody gfl would surely see her in the course of Hj the afternoon, and she would have to Hi stop for 'food and shelter by night. "It Hi seems to me we Btand a very good il chance of finding the woman. Wheth- II er she had our baby or not remains Il to be seen." The doctor's tone was u cheerful. It was such a relief to have 1 something definite to do to prosecute I the search. He had spent the best jl -part of two days in travelling aimless- 8j ly about, trying to light on some clue, ft (To be continued.) Q . |