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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE CHEERFUL CHERUB WffifflalE ) Emilie Loring. SYNOPSIS Brooke Reyburn visits the office of Jed Stewart, a lawyer, to discuss the terms of an estate she has inherited from Mrs. Mary Amanda Dane. Unwittingly she overhears Jed talking to Mark Trent, nephew of Mrs. Dane who has been disinherited. Mrs. Dane had lived at Lookout Rouse, a huge structure by the sea. built by her father and divided lot two. for her and Marks father. Brooke had been a fashion expert, and Mrs. Dane, a shut-in- , hearing her on the radio, bad invited her to call and developed a deep affection for her. Mark discloses that Mrs. Dan had threatened to disinherit him if he married Lola, from whom he is now divorced. He says be doss not trust Henri and Clotilde Jacques. Mrs. Danes servants. He says he is not interested in an offer of Brookes to share the estate with him. Leaving her department store Job, Brooke refuse: an offer to "go stepping with Jerry Field, a carefree young man who wants to marry her. At a family conference she learns she must live at Lookout House none, since Lucette. her younger sister who is taking her job. her brother. Sam, a young playwright, and her mother plan to tay in the cit;. Jed and Mark are astounded when they hear from Mrs. Gregory, a family friend, that she had witnessed f hitherto unknown will with Henri and Clotilde two weeks before Mrs. Dane died. Brooke bad arrived just as she was leaving. Jed suggests that Mark open his part of Lookout House, get friendly with Brooke ant trj to find out about the will. Jed agrees to stay with him. Mark accepts Brookes invitation for a family Thanksgiving dinner at Lookout. Mrs. Reyburn announces on Thanksgiving eve that she has been invited to England. Sam and Lucette decide to move in with Brooke and Sara plans to produce a new play locally. After the Thanksgiving dinner Brooke tells Mark that little of Mrs. Danes silver collection is left Jerry Field and his sister Daphne drop in and announce they will be neighbors for the winter. Later Inspector Harrison of the local police visits Mark and Is informed about the missing will and silver. As Harrison leaves, Lola arrives. She announces that she and her new husband, Bert Hunt have started a neighborhood filling station. Mark almost makes a break about the missing will and Brooke is suspicious. Returning home, she sees Lola talking covertly to Henri.- - Mr. Micawber, Mrs. Dane's pet parrot, is missing. Henri L. ugly and warns Brooke she had better like him and Clotilde. That night while the cast of Sams play is rehearsing and the Brooke the Jacques are away, Mark showsfound cached missing silver which he had in an unused upper floor store room in his house. A 'lack gloved hand pulls the key trm the storeroom door. - to dine and dance tomorrow by the new male lead in Islands. Arise, Mark Trent! Sam Reyburn announcing. You in the play, Mark? How exciting! Dinner and dance in the big city! What a breakl Jerry Field interrupted the excited comments. Where are your gardenias, - Brooke? His tone, set Mark Trents lips twitching. Under cover of lighting a cigarette, he caught the girls . at- - the wastebasket. She put her hand to her shoulder. Why why I, must have dropped " them. Whereve you been? Hi there, mlad! Sams tone and manner were those of a stern parent guarding his offspring. That isnt a topic for group discussion. We dont make people punch the k in this family. Jerry Fields face turned a bright and lively crimson; his voice and eyes were furious. I wasnt asking Brooke to punch time-cloc- t-n- ives me trees mountains hi$h. d never stopping dy' or ni$ht It tshes me j S i And WNU Service, but bring it here tomorrow at five. Sure, Ill be alone. Yes. Good-b- y. Mark Trent cradled the telephone. He looked up at his friend. Lola has a paper to sell me. She suggested that I have my checkbook in hand tomorrow. What do you make of it? If it is the paper Mrs. Gregory witnessed, how could she get hold of it? Henri? She said he had written to her, didnt she? Shes bringing it tomorrow afternoon! Theres a catch in it somewhere. It sounds too easy. You dont think shell back out ah the last minute, do you, Mark? Not if there is money in it. She said also that Mrs. Gregory was n out of busiputting the ness. It was started without a license. Started for the sole purpose of chiseling money off me, I susfilling-statio- pect. Right as usual. What say we call this an evening? Im due in court in the morning in my best Gentlemen of the Jury style; furthermore, well need our brains running wide open when Lola comes at five. She has a paper to sell! Wont we feel cheap about our suspicions of Brooke if it proves to be the paper were after? I stopped suspecting her some time ago. Shall we go up? We are getting provincial. If we were in town wed be just beginning to go places. Toddle along. Ill put out the lights. Mark crossed his dark room to the window. What a night! The sky was powdered with stars. The sparks of gold were like the lights in Brooke Reyburns eyes when she was happy or thrilled, and she had been thrilled when she had heard of his plan to dine and dance in town. He drew the gardenia from his pocket. Nothing beautiful about it now but the leaves. He didnt need a paper which Lola Hunt might produce to clear his mind of suspiCHAPTER VI Continued cion that Brooke had influenced his 12 aunt in any way. He drew the flash Jed stopped at your house for light from his coat pocket. Lucky he had thought of it when he had a minute, hell be here jpronto ; the have gone taken Brooke to see the silver. other actors After Mark! Mark! here Im home. Ill say early. first voice? He laid the flower on the act, walked Jeds through theyd the dresser before he opened the it was a choice between dismissing Started for the Sole Purpose of door. With the electric torch still the cast or shooting them. I had Chiseling Money Off Me, I Susin his hand he crossed the hall and a sane interval and decided not to pect. tomorrow knocked at Jed Stewarts door. He them shoot. Im giving I thought I might knocked again. Why didnt he anthe off. night swer? He flung open the door. A Then Ill throw a party for the find the gardenias for her. I He as Stewart Jed apcoat had been hung over the back of stopped new that at Reyburns and Fields on the threshold. He was a chair. A ahoe lay on the floor. town. peared in club just opened Supper from the play. tapping a gardenia against his lips. Cold air was stirring the chintz Give them a let-u- p Run to earth, Mark. Whos the hangings. Where did it come from? maestro? What say, Mark sprinted to who leaves a flower outThe bath-roocharmer Okay with me. Its darned good side your door? in amazeand door the stopped of you. Perhaps I have overworked was window wide The ment. open, them, but there is so little time bewas scented but air the strongly VII CHAPTER fore the performance. Sam sat up with perfume. The shower was dripand ran his fingers through his hair. ping. Shaving materials were flung An hour later Jed With that so near, wouldnt you if hastily dropped. about as d into a would know slumped deeper think those dumb-bell- s his head out of the winHe thrust lichair in Mark Trents their parts? I ask you! Besides dow. There were two ways to esand demanded: from the little balcony under that, the leading man has walked brary How was I to know that Field cape out on us. it. Drop to the terrace, or through brought Brooke the gardenias? Lookout House. Had Jed and an inIts tough. Can I help, Sam?can. had Didnt he look like a meat-ax- e Can you help! Ill say you truder crashed in there? Brooke Now is the time for all good men though, when I barged into Lookout would be frightened. Hed follow to come to the aid of their party. House waving that flower and giving them. He swung his leg over the Take the lead. He caught Trents the whole show away by telling sill. Be a good scout. Help a where I picked it up? Im the origiarm. Stop! I am. He lighted nal village cut-uplaywright-produce- r, distracted He went rigid in obedience to the poor, ' " r will you? With you and the his pipe. hoarse warning, but only for an inIt wasnt all my fault. ' I didnt stant. Why was he perching like a Crane woman in the leads, well offering of it. That know, did I, Mark, that you and she dummy with the light, from the make a two-sthad been cruising round this room behind making him a perfect girls good. Sams despair had changed to ex- house? ultation. Mark Trent temporized: You didnt. I hadnt told you How do you know Im good? then that I had discovered Aunt How do those bozos out in Holly- Mary Amandas silver parked in a wood know an actor will be a wow storeroom. Decided to wait till I on the screen sometimes before they had the goods on someone, but I ? Something here, couldnt resist the temptation to give him a In the late summer of 1914 Otto Sam tapped show it to Brooke. You should have here, something mlad, n strolled into a me yitte tells youll this broad brow, seen her eyes when she saw it piled land ' Balkans the of the ack alley be stopping the show. on that table. consid-re- d i snatcher a here goose couldnt That same something He poked the fire till and to be a gentleman and a sheep tell you where Im to get the time scarlet flames, shot orange with pale All it? could ustler, a nobleman in one word, for a theatrical career, green, roared up the chimney and ito enchanted Albania, the land of conceded Mark all right, right, sent a tangy puff of' wood smoke in response to Sams groan, Ill into the room. e A new king was expected to take the part. Give me the sides of the phone broke The ring sharp next within scene the the upon and Ill try to know the lines at the silence. days, and in the interim, the next rehearsal. Trent speaking. Lola! What do hirty Sam caught Brooke as she entered you w&nt? Not interested. If yoq Vitte thought,' he could take the d hrone himself in a the room. He hugged her as he like selling gas, sell it; only remema writer in Corstates oup detat, exulted: ber that the allowance stops. Is What dyou think, gal? Trent has she? Mrs. Gregorys word goes, net. Impersonating the expected have made sure signed up for Islands Arise! 1 Will here. You should he dispatched a telegram to he pack em in as the lead? ask ot that before ' you set up shop. senate announcing his tie Albanian What? What sort of paper? Jiflark you! next day. All 5,000 the rrival door the upon at who Field looked Jed at Stewart' Tient appeared Jerry crowded its Durazzo of ihabitants tin a had come close and was moving his beating a huge spoon against street to main and arrow r winding He sound. a without making lips pan. new theii ail , potentate.. I havent First call for the dining car! nodded understanding. As the first week of the new rung off. Yes, I heard what you First call was drawing to a close, the said. I cant imagine how ,n paSam held up his hand. called upon His Ma officials tate invited will all interest have me, Just a minute! Were per you may -- so-call- ed time-cloc- nice-roun- d world so much. It '5 Myj ERnniLDIE UDELIIRUfi furtive glance the I love k. Stewart crimson-cushione- p, ar ridind tkrou6h the .shy. target for the person who had gruntW"! ed? He movgd his leg. No response to that from the balcony. Quickly he flashed his powerful light in the direction from which the sound had come. That woulJ blind the perWNU Service. son watching. His eyes followed the light. In his amazement he lost his balance and pitched forward. At one corner of the railing, blinking and shivering in the glare, huddled the green parrot. Held up by a bird! He slid to the Potatoes for Short Cakes. Hot, balcony. Reached for Mr. Micawber, grabbed him, flung him into the boiled and mashed white potatoes room behind him. He could hear are good in making short cakes the parrot squawking with fury as and puddings. They not only save he closed the window. flour, but require less shortening. That seems to be that! Now, wheres Jed? ' When Dry Soiled Clothes. He peered over the railing. No clothes are sent to the laundry uprights on this balcony to slide they are usually paid for by down. The next one had iron trelweight. Money can be saved if lises which connected it with the the housewife makes certain all stone terrace. Had Jed entered articles are dry before they are Lookout House by the window? Who sent out. occupied the room of the next house which opened on it? He would inWhen Peeling Small Onions. vestigate. Cover small onions with hot waHe tiptoed to the window, reduced ter and let stand for a minute or the light in his torch before he two and the skins are easily reflashed it over the glass. The shade moved. was closely drawn and the sash WNU Service. locked. No one could have gone in there. Cracks of light were visible in the two rooms beyond where French windows opened on another I LEARNED balcony. Had Jed entered that lighted room? How could he get there? TO BEAT- He was too stout to swing across. Could he himself do it? He appraised the distance, stepped over, and swung. Cautiously he stepped over the rail and ripped his hands from the frosty run-aw- ay ACID INDIGESTION iron. little-know- apsy-turv- y. ar-iv- single-hande- sov-reig- n, re-;i- LITTLE ALKALIZE" BUT NOW-A- T SIGN OF I USE self-sam- THE FIRST ACID-INDIGESTI- PHILLIPS' AND I FEEL LIKE A NEW PERSON ALMOST IMMEDIATELY The fastest wag to alkalize is to carrg your alkalizer with you. Thats what thousands do now that genuine Phillips comes in tiny, peppermint flavored tablets in a flat tin for pocket or purse. Then you are always ready. Use it this way. Take 2 Phillips tablets equal in alkalizing effect to 2 teaspoonfuls of liquid Phillips from the bottle. 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Five years ago in the old German town of Dessau, one Otto Witte, age sixty, was reported as having been arrested for stealing two loaves of bread. e Otto Witte It was the who, once upon a time, had stolen the throne of Albania. SLEEP... UNTIL THE DOCTOR SAID (TO BE CONTINUED) Otto Witte Who Stole Kingdom Also Found to Have Purloined Some Bread try-out- LlfE WAS MISERABLE, NO APPETITE... ONCE heart drumming like an motor he concentrated his airplane attention on the window. A crack of light showed between the hangings. Whose room was it? Should he take a chance that it was Sams or Brookes and tap lightly? A window was being opened cautiously. Where? He flattened himself against the house. Must be the end balcony outside the studio. He visualized the interior as he had seen it the day he had helped Jerry Field sketch in the tree trunks on the backdrop. Someone was crawling out! A man! He was sliding down an iron trellis like a monkey! Now he was running across the lawn bent double! He was entering the garage! Mark Trent crammed the electric torch into his pocket and swung a leg over the railing. He hitched along till his feet found an upright, went down hand over hand, his palms sticking painfully to the iron as he moved them. From purple tree shadow to purple tree shadow he skulked. Near the garage he hid behind shrubs. The click of a lock! He held his breath as he listened. Who had been in the Lookout House garage at this time of night? Whoever it was, was leaving. He could hear cautious footsteps. An automobile starting! He strained his ears. It was speeding down the street toward the causeway. That didnt prove anything, it would be easy enough to turn into a side road and cut back. Was the man who had sneaked from the house driving? Had he stolen the car? Even so, he couldnt follow it, he must find out why he had entered the garage. With his 4037 Act Above Doubts Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety. 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