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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH ' . Margaret Nichole owned tome property In Joint tenancy with Kitty Chatfield. When Kitty died It meant 9200,000 to her. She explains the situation to her friend, Barry. While they are talking, Elsa Chat-fiela niece of Aunt Kitty, drives up. Elsa had been disinherited at Aunt Kittys death. Hun toon Rogers, a detective, asks what Aunt Kitty died of. He is told an overdose of morphine, but that the district attorneys office had their doubts as to whether the morphine was self-- 1 administered. Elsa, who admitted that she hated her Aunt Kitty, was glad to fee free of her and the centuries of no Reed Barton, one of the and cannot. last to see Aunt Kitty alive, was said to have had a motive. CHAPTER II The tires rippled on the pavement off the hills behind Hollywood and came presently to Laurel Canyon. Other cars flashed past. Laughter, song, earnest voices in wisps and snatches fell upon our ears and were swept away, but in none was there the note of deadly earnestness that vibrated in Elsas voice. We had started off from Dwights amid laughter, Elsa in her working girl suit, which proved to be one of Margarets street dresses. She carried an overnight bag the lightness of which she explained by saying: Just pajamas, Barry. I have to have something. We had moved off down the curving driveway and entered the road which descended Hollywoods backdrop of hills. She was very sure, this young woman with the almost golden hair, and eyes I believed to be gray, and which Dwight called blue. Put me down anywhere on Hollywood Boulevard, said Elsa. We had emerged from the winding canyon road and were speeding into I start from there. Hollywood. Its eleven oclock, I reminded as we dropped down Yes, since father died, in Pasadena. I didn't say anything more just then, remembering the shock of his fathers suicide. Beaten and penniless after a lifetime of comfort, the courteous old gentleman had leaped into the Arroyo Seco from the Colorado Street bridge. Oh, he said after a moment, you asked me at the station if I were finding beauty. Ive found her. He motioned with his fingers as if he would wipe out the miles of pavement, the street lights, the December night itself, and bade me contemplate an address in Hollywood. Its only a step or two off the boulevard. The place smells a little. They all do, with the cabbage of yesteryear. And of course theres chintz There, too, is the haunt of beauty? Chesebro sent me with some papers for her to sign. Had to do with her aunts estate. But it was difficult to track her. Shed dropped out of sight, and Id been hunting her for several weeks. I made mental note of the address as Reed Barton went on talking. Ink on her fingers. Some on her nose too. Hair you soft-spoke- n, cold-clogg- ed 22,-0- 00 (iHBoraiapGci QanfeDQ (gsdifciD' - comfort-cushio- comfort-cushio- her. It doesnt matter. Time never meant anything to me. And so I dropped her on the boulevard. She flashed me a smile,' patted my cheek with a soft, caressing hand, and skipped out to the sidewalk in that working girl suit and carrying the overnight bag with just pajamas, because she had to have something. The crowded sidewalks swallowed her up. I got into a traffic snarl. After a while it was broken up and I moved on. Near Vine Street the crowd opened for a brief moment on the sidewalk, and there went Elsa, the working girl suit and the overnight bag. Then crowd, night, and the moving traffic contrived to shut her wholly from sight. I had just seen my sister and her two boys off for New York. I had driven them down in my own car, so there had been four minutes instead of three, and the boys had entered into the spirit of the thing. Therefore, we made the gate with a full minute to spare, which accounts for the word Anne was able to put in about Reed Barton. Where? I asked, turning to stare back through the crowd which had closed in behind us. Over by the information booth. quick! Here, kiss me good-byDont forget to write. The gate slammed and they all went running down the platform, boys, Anne, red caps, boiling and bobbing in a last . Clearance Green Pastures economic independence to their How do you like the way Ive in the The physiology question riessed little bosoms they havent examination read: How may one fixed up my den? What would you got all there is in life. Not even obtain a good posture? say it needs as a finishing touch? half. Theyve only got the beginA match. The country lad wrote: Keep ning. off and cows let it it the up grow At the time it didnt occur to me No Ear for Music that Reed Barton had never heard of awhile. Willie was destined to become Little the baby. I supposed, of course, he a great violinist at least, so thought his Sound Advice had, for he knew Elsas friends. adoring mother. in men all With Suzie the good But it was revealed subsequently But one evening while the lad was armed the services, its pretty his that, during the height of the gosstamped in from practicing, hard looking for a husband these the garden and father glared around. sip, he was in Mexico. ' Why didnt you tell me Willie was The conversation came back to days. Que Just the same, if I were doing his fiddling this evening ? he Aunt Kitty Chatfield. Rogers asked Id leave the husbands alone snapped. Ive just spent half an hour if there had been any physical re- you, look for a single man. and oiling the gate. semblance between Elsa and her aunt. None whatever, answered Reed Exiles Contribution Tou breathe freer alBarton. That is, as I remember most instantly as Just 2 drops Penetro Nose Katherine Chatfield. I never saw in The nine governments-in-exil- e Drops open your the two side by side, however As London have so far contributed to nose to give your head cold air. a matter of fact, I had never met the Allied nations approximately Caution: Use only as Elsa until today. She must have 450,000 soldiers, 27,000 aviators, directed. 25c, iy times as much for 60c. Get been at home that night her aunt seamen, 240 naval vessels and Penetro Nose Dropa died, for I remember that the maid about 2,300 merchant ships. asked me which Miss Chatfield .1 wished to see. You were there that night? inquired Rogers, his mild blue eyes coming to rest upon Reed Bartons face. b Yes. You see, Im one of Chesebros slaves. At times only his errand boy, alJhough Im supposed to be something of a mining engineer. NOW WEAR YOUR PLATES VERY DAY But I am required to run a great HELD COMFORTABLY SNUG THIS WAY many personal errands for Chesewear so to 7. Worlds largest selling plate powIts easy your plates regubro. I think I took Miss Chatfield larly all day when held firmly in der. Recommended by dentists tor a book something that had interover 30 years. place by this ested Chesebro, and which he wanta dentists formula. 3. Dr. Wemets powder is economed her to read too. ical ; a very small amount lasts longer. I. Dr. Wernets plate powder forms n I see, said Rogers. between And she 4. Made of whitest, costliest ingredisoothing ent so pure you eat it in ice cream. died that night? plate and gums lets you enjoy solid Dr. Wemets plate powder is pleasfoods, avoid embarrassment of loose Yes. She killed herself some time ant tasting. plates. Helps prevent sore gums. that night. AU druggists 30i. Money back If not delighted. Rogers was silent for a moment, then he looked at me. Theres one chap from the police department in Pasadena whose report interested me, Madison. He says that he smelled chloroform faintly when he went into the room to investigate. That was several hours afterward. No one else smelled it, however. It might have been an overactive for there was no imagination, odor of it noted in the autopsy report. But chloroform is peculiar in Uncle Sam needs every deer hide he can get that respect; the odor is not neceseven in at a autopsy sarily present to manufacture gloves for our soldiers. , death from chloroform, Yes, of course, I said. Uncle Sam also asks us to save all the deer fats Youre not by any chance thinkwhich is so urgently needed at this time in ing that Katherine Chatfield was order to reclaim the glycerine contents for the murdered, Professor Rogers? inquired Reed Barton. manufacture of explosives. I have Rogers smiled faintly. no opinion, Mr. Barton. The case You can do your part by saving both and has been closed for over a year these to our nearest branch where bringing now. Who am I to stir it up at receive highest market prices will you this time? The police were satisfied that it was suicide; there were no CO. COLORADO ANIMAL fingerprints, except her own, on the HEBEI CITT GARLAND SPANISH FORK LOGAN LAKE CITY SEDER SAIT on she or used, hypodermic syringe the bottle in which she kept her sup- Attention InKLOCvl'iriKSo Put me down anywhere in Boulevard. ply- I guess I was one of the last to know how it would be I mean, alive, said Reed Barton beauty wont yield even to disorder. see her a after short silence, looking beyond color But the Natures Thats way. Im still trying to decide what it Rogers to a group making merry in Ive since been is. Drawing like mad. There were an opposite booth. sketches all over the place. Clever glad it wasnt murder. The police things commercially. Theyll get by might have made it uncomfortable easily. Probably make her a living. for me; they could have saddled a She signed up the things I brought motive on me that I couldnt have denied. Because Katherine Chatwithout looking at them. Get out! she said. Tell Jimmy the Cheese field killed my father just as much (meaning my boss), to let me as if she had pulled a trigger. Things were looking up, you know. alone. I pulled into a parking lot at a Father had struggled all through restaurant on Vine Street I was the worst of the depression to keep hed managed melee. hungry. The excitement of getting a things together; somehow to make the interest payfaThe fact that Reed Barton was woman off on a long journey is said he wasnt ments to her. She held a mortstanding still had caught Annes at- tiguing. Reed Barton went in with gage, you know, on all he had. Even he but tention. He would be doing just really hungry, as little as a two months extension me. that in the station when others were would have seen him out of the a from voice a Hello, called rushing about like ants in a disturbed woods. But you know, theres no was Huntoon booth. sitting Rogers anthill. like a woman Shylock her dinShylock of a late I try to live with the fundamen- alone over the dessert of flesh must come from the pound ner. tals, he had said one night at Not brooding, are you, Hunt? I heart. And so, he shrugged his Dwights. Simple things are more father jumped. He for there was a shoulders, satisfactory. The world is befuddled inquired lightly, on went a moment: The poafter introduced I him. about with glumness with needless things, complexilice could have said I hated her. ties. They are so many that there Reed Barton. No-Sit But I dont think I did. he said hesitantly. is no lohger room in life to live. I Oh, I should say that Katherine comme enjoy your must have time for the contempla- down and let Chatfield might have been forty-on- e tion of beauty. pany. or two when she died. She was not Whats the trouble? old. Finding beauty? I asked, slapTheme papers, he said with a ping him on the shoulder. He turned According to the files, Huntoon me down They get his gaze upon me, reaching slowly wry smile. said, coming to life after Rogers sometimes and Im driven to ex- long contemplation for my hand and said: of the sea, she afterI the Therefore, spent ten months and was years forty Ive just seen one of our slaves tremes. over the files in the old. off for Mazatlan Chesebros slave. noon looking case.1 ' Katherine Chatfield I began. A mining engineer. But Elsa Barton shot a quick glance Reed I am coming to her. We are alSomehow his words brought back but said nothing. ways getting back to Elsa. There town far at Rogers d that dreamy, to interest you? Find anything was new blood with Elsas mother. down the western coast of Mexico, Yes. And no. Its one of those It was an alien strain to the Chat-fieland a vague wind of prescience new and fresh and vigorous, keep coming back to, wonstirred uneasily within me as at the cases you the answer is. what a clear mountain stream flowlike dering It horrible of some thing. prospect ate Barton a sluggish river. Sam ChatReed into mechanically, ing was one of those strange, unaccountfield married his stenographer. That able experiences; it caused an in- like a man in' a mild trance. Reed was telling me about Elsa sort of thing is heroic. It does vioward shudder which Reed Barton out from lence to family traditions; it puts a detected, for he looked at me in- Chatfield as we drove to terrific strain on family pride, but I said Rogers. town, quiringly. But, instead, he asked, You know her, Professor Rog- biologically it is a good thing, proCan you give me a lift out to Hollyvided it doesnt become a habit. ers? Reed inquired quickly. wood? Sam didnt reason things out quite met her. Ive to have compaYes, glad, your He like that. He loved the girl, which Interesting, isnt she? ny. We walked out to the car and is much simpler, and so he martold had me he what climbed in. Living in Hollywood sketched briefly ried her. He was young. You he out. know, the on on way now, Reed?. I asked as we rolled J (TO BE CONTINUED) clutch when even they out Sunset Boulevard. concluded, r. . e, WOMAN Itl THE WAR Ethel Brett, who works In U. S. Navy Yard, agrees with the men in the Navy a o, sun-bake- ds - . CHECK CAMELS WITH YOUR Y-zo- ne The Taste and Throat is the proving ground for cigarettes. Only your taste and throat can decide which cigarette tastes best to you . . . end how it affects your throat. Based on the experience of millions of smokers, we believe Camels will suit your |