The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1931, Page 4

LEI: 2 | : & f im) § ‘ f ‘ 1 i HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1931 _ Whe Bismarck Tribune , An Independent Newspaper { THE STATE'S OLDEST ( PAPER i (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune (Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bsmarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Weekly by mail in state, per year$1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three VEATS ..ccsecesessseee sere 2.50 Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ...... +. 150 ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year .. ‘ 2 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of paper and also the local news of Spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. havision A definite change in the character Daily by carrier, per year........ $7.20/of the work being done is noted in Daily a mail per year (in Bis- a | Be report. All classes showed re- MMATCK) «0 .-seseoeeeeseseees -20)quctions except public buildings, Daily by mail per year Gin state |! which showed $74,451,400 for the first| Daily by mail outside of North [Six months of this year as compared) Dakota . io 6.00) with $62,322,200 for the same pertod all news dispatches credited to it or, not otherwise credited in this news-| leading agencies engaged in cowpil- ing these data. During the first half of the current) year, the nation’s building bill was) $1,808,226,800. ‘This represents a loss} of 24 per cent when contrasted with] |the first quarter of 1930 and of 37 |per cent when contrasted with the \second quarter. The loss in residen- | ‘tial contracts, however, was only 15 |per cent when contrasted with the first half of 1930, \a year ago. | Spurting ahead of May's $306,079,- /100, the month of June divided its! | $331,879,700 among the three major| classes of construction as follows:} |residential, $72,744,700; non-residen-| tial, $104,623,000; and public works and utilities $154,512,000. Both the Texas and the New Or- leans territories are well ahead of |June of last year with the month's record. ‘These two territories also show a gain over May. Gains over jMay are shown in the Middle At- jlantic territory, the Southeast terri- tory and the St. Louis territory. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LFVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. ‘Important People Few persons are more important in the economic and social scheme of things in a rural state such as ours than the postal workers who are meeting in convention here In many towns and cities, both} larger and similar than Bismarck, the postoffice is a social center as well as a focal point for considerable business. In the old days ti had a rival in the railroad station but now, since most of the population makes) its trips by automobile, the postof- fice has the ascendancy. But the postoffice of the by-gone days, which used to be a favorite sub- ject for cartoonists, has vanished. ‘The modern small-town postoffice is likely to be an up-to-date and bus!- ness-like establishment. The cracker barrels on which ancient worthies! used to sit and discuss politics or what have you, have gone down the Jong trail created by business progress. The cider kegs have been eliminated by other statutes and the modern rural postoffice usually has kept pace with the times in full measure. So has the service which the: postal workers render to a wide- spread constituency. The mail is handled skillfully and efficiently and mueh of the nation’s business passes through the hands of these govern-| ment employes | The rural postal carrier often is the: only contact between farm tamilies and the world outside their im-| mediate sphere for days at a time.| ‘Through rain, snow, mud, wind and all sorts of other hazards, the carrier| as on the job, faithfully making his rounds and bringing to the people he! serves, letters, newspapers, books, packages and the thousand and one, things which go to make up the post-| office business. " The railroad postal workers meet a similar standard of service. Day and night, as trains rush across the coun-| try, they sort and arrange ail kinds of mail matter in order that not even, the smallest postcard may go astray.| ‘The fact that so few of the billions of pieces of mail handled fail to reach! their destination is due in part to} their expertness. | And back of the rural letter car- riers and others stand the women folks of the government servi in-) spiring their husbands to continued | Service and even greater performance. Truly, they are important people in the nation’s scheme of things, these postal workers who are hono! ing Bismarck with their presence. The Entries Are In More and more each year the public 4s becoming interested in the games which are played each summer to determine the junior baseball cham- Pionship of North Dakota. The teams which will meet in this year’s tourney hhave been selected and are on edge for the call of “play ball” at Harvey. Few contests which are open to the public will be more bitterly—or more honestly—fought than these for the state title. Every boy will be there doing his best and to everyone who, plays the tournament will offer valu- able lessons. To the winners it will offer the lesson of how to win with-| out gloating. To the losers, and they will be in the majority, it will give instruction in how to lose without squawking. The American Legion has done a great deal for the state in inspiring these “kid” contests. The ball play- ers of the future will come from the ranks of these players and many a man of the future will look back to his participation in these games as its of his boyhood. in the contest for the dis- |newly Selection Not Permanent It your life is insured you have a} good chance to live longer ian the average person of your age, accord- Jing to data compiled by the United s Bureau of Public Health af-| ter a lengthy confab with exports of: |the Actuarial Society of America and| Too Much Tail for the Kite! . the ciation of Life Insurance| |medical directors i After gi rance the benefit jof whatever doubts there may have jbeen on the subject, however, the ex-| rts ha: 1 to add that the -pos-| session,of such protection probably 1s} noi really the cause of the class aver- sion to the undertaker. They ob-| serve that “this tendency would s2cm| to be associated with economic or! social differences.” Putting it dif-| ferently, it is your manner of living] which counts and there is no bene-! ficent providence working to help the insurance companies make money’ ya) on you, An intere: | port deals with the effect of medical] tion for insurance purposes} When a medical ex firs approves you as a risk sure that you ate in good physical condition Wil When the sick and dis-/2° abled of your own age are taken into curtain and a few veteran perform- consideration, it is certain that your} |chances of living to a ripe old age are better than the average. The statistic- fans wanted to kno the goed effects of this s 8 the ctive p New York, July 28.—Writers of rious “June Moon,” which put Tin not yet reached this desk, but the| producer will be Chamberlain Brown, * e # Then, over in the Doctor's Hospital, a very funny play is being written |from a sick-bed. Only Ring Lardner} jcould do that! And Lardner it is, | propped up on a pillow, and reported | wielding a more wicked pen than ever. Each day, so comes the tale, George |Kaufman appears to collaborate. ‘The two worked together on the hila- And now the cry is going up that fine stage artist has been going about sults of three years of war. disguised as an adroit dancer. assortment of night resorts. Holtz had come up from a waiter to’ an entertainer. Now he is one of, =| Broadway’s successful producers, with @ large hit on his hands. Laurels for *ioTaight” roles con- tinue to fall in the general direction of Katherine Cornell, who plays s0 delightfully the role of Elizabeth Barrett in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street.” A round-up vote would probably place her name at the head of most lists dealing with the year’s most memorable characterization. Howevet, this list would have to in- clude Lynn Fontanne’s “Queen Eliza- beth”; Zita Johann in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”; Arthur Sinclair as “Old Man Murphy”; Edith Barrett in “Mrs, Moonlight”; Mary Boland in “The Tree”; Eugenie Leon- tovich in “Grand, Hotel”; Edna Best in “Melo” and a great many others. kK OR By the way, Burns Mantle, who solemnly picks the ten best plays each year and puts them into a book, has announced his choices for the year, as follows: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” “Elizabeth the Queen,” “Once in a Lifetime,” “Green Grow the Lilacs,” “Five Star Final,” “Alison’s House,” “Overture,” “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” “Grand Hotel” and “As Husbands Go.” ;|_ With about four or five of which, *)some of us may agree. But it's hard to understand how he overlooked the better comedies, such as “The Vinegar: Tree” and “Oh, Promise Me.” TODAY IS THE-Z sR BRITISH WAR SUMMARY On July 28, 1917, Ma}-Gen. Fred- erick B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the British war aloffice, issued a summary of the re- He sald, in part: “The first year of the war, broadly Astaire was called upon to appear speaking, was an attempt by Ger- in a pantomime, wherein he played) any to put into effect elaborate @ beggar; and again he came on as a Southern country lad in a satirical|Plans which her sketch. In each, he revealed himseif many long years. as an actor worthy of any legitimate| asa concentrated attack on France and Belgium.... France was checked, first on the stage. Whether the applause now going up will affect his future career remains, of course, to be seen. had been preparing over the space of military strategists The first phase The attack on 1 Even Fruits and Vegetab! EDITOR’S NOTE—This ‘is an- other of a series of 26 timely arti- cles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on “Food Truths and Follies,” deal- -ing with such much discussed but little known subjects as calories, vitamins, minerals, digestion and balanced diet. xe OR BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association) Whereas the medicine of @ previous era concerned itself largely with dis- ease and the control of disease by drugs, modern medicine gives as much attention to diet as to any other single factor in the control of the hu- man body. Modern medicine is con- cerned with appetite and with diges- tion. It has learned to control many diseases through control of the diet and to influence the appetite and the body structure by the use of foods Properly prepared. In addition to all of the attributes of foods that have been mentioned, there comes finally the question of food poisoning and food intection. ‘The development of transportation in the handling of food has brought problems of food contamination that are of the greatest importance in relationship to health and disease. Previous to the publication of Up- ton Sinclair’s book, “The Jungle,” but Daily Health Service Food Is Higher Due to Extra Processes to pone deg neg and Individ- ually Wrapped Before Sent to Market i ttention was given to the clean- iawe of food. Previous to the time when it became realized that typhoid fever, dysentery and similar infec- tions were spread by contachinated food, little attention was given to sanitary control. Indeed, there used to be a proverb to the effect that everyone had to eat a peck of dirt in order to be civilized. Everyone can remember when milk used to be left in a bucket at the family door- step, When unwrapped bread was tos- sed from the bakery to the wagon and from the wagon to the grocery clerk, when vegetbales were polished with saliva and a dirty towel. Our point of view, it can be seen, has changed in regard to food cleanliness. Now- adays bread is baked untouched by human hands, wrapped in sterilized wrappers, and delivered to the pur- chaser in the original wrapper. Milk is collected under sanitary conditions, transported with refrigeration, pas- teurized and delivered to the pur- chaser in a bottle that has been boil- ed and sealed with bacterlologic cleanliness. ‘When anyone complains of the in- creased cost of food today, he should be reminded of the increasing fasti- diousness of civilized man in relation- ship to food cleanliness. Even fruits and vegetables are today thoroughly washed and wrapped in individual wrappers before delivered. guste an cascada | Quotations | Lape ena teaaticeatate mnt After weeks of the scorching glare of the snows, it was pleasant to see green lawns and lie beside little brooks.—Frank 8S. Smythe, conqueror of Mount Kamet. eee I have no doubt that when the Romans drove their magnificent roads across the country, some aged druids complained of their oak trees being cut down—Sir P, Chalmers Mitchell. ee H days think that war hurts everybody, I prefer to believe that the major-/ ity of people in the world in these! | ter, Mrs. Frank Chesrown, who re- sides about 20 miles northwest of Lin- ton. Besides Mrs. Chesrown she leaves another daughter, Mrs. William Colville, Morristown, S. D. A resident of Emmons county for more than 40 years, Mrs. Burns was born in Scotland in 1835 and came to America in 1892 to make her home with her daughters. ADD TO FORESTS About 16,000 acres will be added to the National Forest area in eastern- southern and lake states territories as the result of the National Forest Reservation commission approving the purchase of that additional land. The land will cost about $52,600. | summery novelties, have suddenly) ¢o, |music shows, searching about for, Pan Alley in its piace. Lardner ha¢ been in bad health 1 some months. During the winter leaped upon the life and adventures) he went out to Arizona, and is now |of that famous young man, Rudy reported recuperating in a New York lee. | hospital. Word comes that there will be two trical season arrives, he will have ng section of the re-)song-and-dance productions in which) knocked off another amusing play But hefore the next thea- case of the widely known crooner) and audiences will, in all probability, t, due any week now, 1 Morrisey, who has been known able, a couple of chairs, an old portant events, to put on revues with little more than! Astaire is attracting most attention among the New York critical gents. For many a year, M. Astaire and his ‘The roll in the aisles in glee quite upcon- will be)cerned about the circumstances un- titled “The Crooner,” and will prob-|der which it was written. fe insurance company ably draw fire from irate fans, since you may be it will be kidding and satiric in spirit. xe x In the post-season round-up of im- the case of Fred has written the piece and will! sister, Adele, were looked upon as he second will be ‘more romantic] palpitant co-eds. ent it | being something like the last word in dancing. But when “The Band Wag- in nature, and closer to the hearts of on” came spectacularly into town, he The name has| Was cast in several “legitimate” bits. Marne, later on the Yser and at/benefits nobody except the profiteers, Also, the theatrical essayists arelypres,... and settles nothing—Field Marshal beginning to compare Beatrice Lillie] “tn ‘the autumn of 1915 Germany|sir williams Robertson. ee Mieny coe aoe ed ee definitely abandoned her old pre-war * % * a feminine counterpart. In “Thelstrategic scheme and started in on| 1 know of no two nations with ab- Third Little Show,” Miss Lillie is most}, new plan... namely, an effort to| solute mutual confidence, and that is Chaplainesque in a hilarious pan-|upbuild ‘Mittel Europa’ as a great/one of the gravest calamities weigh- tomime, wherein she appears as one| block composed of four so-called cen-|ing upon the nations of the world.— of those grand dames at a theatrical|tral powers which would command Foreign Minister Estrada of Mexico. performance. Certainly hers is one of|the road to the east. % & % the outstanding performances in New| “The end of 1916 found the situa-| Advertising has played an im- York, tion betwéen the two groups of con-| portant part in raising our standards The music shows win even further|testants about equally balanced, but/of living, in stimulating invention, acclaim, thanks to Lou Holtz’s sud-|with the scales leaning slightly injand in maintaining competition— denly acquired English accent and|favor of the entente. During the| president Hoover. his general clowning in “You Said It.”| whole third year of the war Germany * * % Holtz, in case you don’t know it, was|and her allies attempted nothing on! In the last war you had a horrible one of the San Francisco unknowns|land. They everywhere have been on|time the next is inconceivable, and about the time I was a lad in those|the defensive.” yet the world is going on steadily, parts. He was ee seen and heard —_———— .. horribly, stupidly Feomgeetr nd ie the about the old Black Cat Cate, in the next war, singing the songs of peace days when Mason Strec} was that| The United States maintains 55 em-|.54 prepering for war—David Lloyd town’s hot spot center. Just up the|bassies and legations and 345 con-| George. street was “Spider” Kelly's, and a/sulates in foreign countries. STICKLEBS i cess lasted, so they pencils and went to They found, first of all, that thr insured man is a one-third better risk than another of the same! age who had carried insurance for| a longer time. But in three or four years the advantage acquired by the physician's OK had worn off. The pelicyholder is then back on the same plane as the other men of his own| age, except those who have chased policies in the meantime. The report says of this situation: “The duration of such selection would appear to be three or four 's for all causes, except pos- | at the highest ages. of the change occurs in year or two of poli rtain diseases, such as it is possil factor is of much longer dw Editorial Comment |] Editorials printed below show th |] trend of thought by other edit “Come Back to Erin” (New York Times) Figures of the ebb and flow of mi |gration suggest that the soft voice| jof Ireland is heard more appealingly| |than ever across the seas that “r ‘their green ridges in mist.” Padrai jColum a few days ago, when Ma: was on its fair hills, spoke of it as a land “untouched of realism and the hubbub of the world’—as still aj |“haunted land” in the sense that| |there is some living presence in its jscenery. No doubt economics have had something to do with the statis-| tics showing that more people wen |back to the Free State of Ireland in| |th® first six months of this year than {came from her shores to America, jand that fewer are coming away and ;more returning than in the preceding] like period. Ireland was one of thd three coun- jtries in the world “to show signs of ployment; agriculture was healthy state; the export figures showed no decrease as compared with recent years; the burden of taxes had been lightened; the standing army had been reduced from 50,000 to 5,001 there had been a hydroelectric de- velopment which would relieve the Pree State to some extent from depend- ence upon imported coal; the na- tional debt was small and the budget had been balanced. All this may ac- count in some degree for the reduced emigration and the increased im- self, as Padraic Colum suggests, which makes it unique and apart to the Celtic heart, wherever it beats, in the world’s confusion. These words are imputed to an old Irish hero: ‘The man is like a shield. On lore part is wrought the sign of his splendor. In hind part are hidden joints actress, mcets and falls in love with VAN ROBARD, handsome man of the world. Caxs begs Liane not to have anything to do with him, without explaining why. MURIEL LADD, debutante who shares Lianejs duties at the theater bor office at Willow Stream, L. I, pro- fesses to be in love with a re- porter, CHUCK. MOND, Later rhe announces her engagement to Nobard and Fane tries to forget him. When her m: is taken seriously {1 on toni ne rushes to her. Cass reco’ ut in her a m babbles of nome mystery e raing the girl's birth. ‘onvaiescing at MRS, CLE! PAUGH’S magnificent home, wi Iinne has been staying, C: chafes at being under obligation jostexss. So when CLIVE 2H asks Liane to ze in name jouse guest rude to d attempts to break off ement, Liane ix threat- h blackmail and goes to MeDERMID, a policeman who bad once befriended her. Shane scares off the blackmatlers but warns the girl she has an + At bal ry N PRIN Liane disappears. She ts naped and taken to a lonely ho on the shore. During a struggle with one of her captor: cutting her head. and McDermid are al her. unting: Clive and a police officer, UGH, pick up the trail of a girl in a sedan, Melingh makes the girl lead the he suspects may hi NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPYER XXVIII ae fat woman seated herself in the other collapsing chair. Liane watched her fearfully. She could hear the steps of the two men moving down the hall. There was a rumble as of voices arguing and a door closed. She put her hand up to her throat. Her pearls! They were still there. Odd they hadn't been taken when she faint- ed. What, then, did these men want of her? The fact that they hadn’t taken the pearls seemed ominous. They were not, then, ordinary thieves, The string of precious beads gave her an idea. The house was very quiet now. The room was quiet except for the unpleasant breathing of the wo-| cha! man called Molly. Liane stared at her, noting the glitter of her Porcine eyes. The girl touched tho pearls again. Faintly, she whispered, “These are worth thousands of dollars. I'll give them to you if you'll let me go,” The woman sat quite still as it sho had not heard. Only her eyes slimmered with a faint, greedy Then she spoke again. “Pooh,” she said. “Thousands of dollars, my eye!” “Yes, yes,” Liane answered eagerly. ‘They can be all yours, to sell, to do what you want with. Here!” Sho unclasped the fasten- ing set with a sapphire. She held out the milky strand. ‘Here, she said, fixing her eyes on the woman who sat immovable as an ugly Chinese idol. But the other only shook her head. “I dassen’t,” she said hoarsely. She looked furtively at the door. Liane sank back weak- ly. It was no use trying to tempt the woman. But there must be other ways. She looked about desperately. Two windows there were, both closed and locked. The doorway with the fat woman guarding it. There must be a way! The girl feigned drowsiness. Slumped in her uncomfortable chair she pretended to nod, The room was warm, the air stale and heavy. The fat woman, after one or two intent glances at the re- laxed form, also closed her eyes. Still and alert as any wild animal, Liane crouched in her chair. Presently the regular hum of the woman's breathing resolved itself into suores. She was asleep! Liane waited a minute, two, five. Then with infinite caution, her head still throbbing, her pulse sounding noisy as an alarm clock, she began softly to creep. Four steps to the door. She had passed her captor! Her heart stood still. Ths woman stirred ever so faintly. Liane remained quiet as a statue. She waited another endless 60 seconds. Then she began again softly to crawl into the hall. A board creaked ominously under her weight. Tears of frustration rose to her burning eyes. But the fates were with her, and the fat woman snored on. eee HE house seemed utterly silent. Terror, icy and inescapable, ripped the girl’s heart. She was still giddy from her fall. Fear- fully she fixed her eyes on the dull face of the slumbering woman. Somewhere in the house a mouse began to gnaw at a partition. The sound struck through the quiet jike thunder on a summer night. Liane shivered. But her intent gaze on the countenance of her guard could discover no change there. The woman slipped deeper down in her uncomfortable ir. Inch by inch the girl began to move again. A board creaked and her cold hand flew to her throat. Nothing now should keep her from that door! Anything, Liane thought hysterically, was better than this grim and horrible room. She thought of her two cap- tors. Where were they? Lurk- ing just outside, po doubt, wait- ing to snare her e ran from the trap they had laid. She re- fused to believe this. The errand they had dispatched themselves sheveled in his. Bond Street eve- upon must have been an impor- tant one. They had thought her ill as well as frightened, and f BARBS Sotchmen are said to be most charitable when giving their daugh- ters away. i + MABEL 0 £6 janes caution Liane took another step. Never, never had she known what anguish there might be in simple motion, At last she reached the front door. There was an old-fashioned chain lock. With painstaking care she unlatched it and the door swung quietly on its hinges. She felt her heart pounding in her throat. Softly she swung the door to, felt her way in her stockinged feet, her one silver slipper in her hand, across the splintered porch. Salt air rose gratefully to her nostrils. The unmistakable breath of the south shore marshes was in the wind. Blindly in the dark she began to Ree, pa oa det th appre cons Willie Hoppe, billiard champ, has| | {lo four similar parts, which, when ce contracted to make a movie, You'll] |{ ‘on a piece of white paper, will admire the “shots” in this film. * form a black square with a white central * 4 {ross showng through from the white ‘Then there's the neurotic who paper, as shown in the diagram? claimed he was hit by a repression, * ¥ # FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: how could this girl with the red- rimmed eyes possibly have any- thing to do with his fiancee’s dis- appearance? “Softly, now,” McHugh warned, as they rounded a jog in the path. A big, bare house loomed into view. Behind drawn shades, here and there, a few lights gleamed. “You hold her here,” the po- Iceman directed. He began to hand Clive his gun. Quicker than a flash the girl flung herself at them both, The gun barked once, a curious muffled sound, McHugh flung an ugly oath at the girl, whose arms he now had pinioned. She moaned, “It got me, you and slumped to the Pennsylvania, by imposing a fine of one dollar for people who thumb rides, has put the hitch in many a hitch-hiker’s plans. x ee ‘The bigger the corn crop, says the; office sage, the better for the chiro- podist. eee Some folks can’t keep their minds off motoring. Even in bathing they use inner tubes. ee # “Thanks for the add,” as the cus- tomer said to the waiter on receiv- ing his check. - (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Oldest Emmons County! Bag) run. Where she was going she| ground. H . ! knew not. Anything was better . The two men bent low. “Aw, Resident Dies at 96 than that terrible house and the| i, only her arm,” grunted the | people in it, policeman, Linton, N. D., July 28.— Funeral Liane suspected some trick, eee services for Mrs. Ann Burns, 96, said | some barricade. It seemed in- conceivable that those men had| [4S eirl lay whimpering. Mc- left the place with only Molly to| ~ Hugh said, “Jt barely grazed guard {t. They had ‘reckoned,| YoU. Shut up!” To Clive he te perhaps, without her determina- Marked Pil want Bee ee ourage. g . ae ae ana t ing stealthiness to move toward ‘all n Stockings were tort! the house. Clive, still guarding by brambles and barberry. Her} +44 prone woman, hair was disarranged, her face) saaow disappear in a blur of scratched. There was no moon, shadows. The girl began the first and for this Liane was grateful. 1 o+6 of a clear whistle. The dark shawl of the woman Y Clive put his hand over her called Molly covered the giri’s mouth. “Stop that!” he ordered. to be the oldest resident of Emmons! county, were held Thursday from the| Linton Methodist church, Rev. 8. J. Brooks officiated. Mrs. Burns, who had been confined to her bed for the last three years, died Tuesday at the home of a daugh- THIS CURIOUS WORLD T ok Twenty-rve | You gan always spot a new dress. moon-pale frock. His voice was as harsh as Mc- She heard steps running toward her. A man’s steps. Determined ee ‘Tho girl muttered, and ones. A voice said, “Whoa, there!’ ‘ Liane stumbled in her terror and| Clive saw McHugh’s big bulk mercifully fainted again. for an instant in the oblong of eee light ere by the Gaaad . a door. [cHugh was within for Mere ee ite pones one minute, for two. Then bs re- on, McHugh, burly in his uni-|*peared. swinging an arm in sig- form, Clive, elegant though dl- “Come on,” Clive ordered the lothes, wprostrate girl. She obeyed, nurs- Clive was half frantic with|ngers. He felt an instant’s com- anziety by this time He felt|Pumction. Well, after they had that they were following the| ‘ound Liane they would take this wrong trail. It seemed lunacy to| creature to a doctor. waste precious moments in ques-|__ McHugh motioned them within, tioning this dowdy young woman. | The girl moved with lagging steps. They would, Clive felt sure, find| The fetid air of the room struck the traditional surly father wait-| Clive like a blow. ing bebind- the door, doubtless} The big man nodded solemnly. with a shotgun. If he had not think we've picked the spot,” beeg £0 grimly anxious, he might | he said with satisfaction. “I sus- have smiled at the’ fantastic| pected it the minute I saw that thought. But he had put himself) girl, She's one of the mob. Must in the policeman’s hands. For|have been out passing the high the moment there was nothing! sign to some of them.” ig t0 0 but pursue this faintest} «put what makes You, think They stumbled on, the. giri| ™ ae ee an ahead, Clive and McHugh bring- the shabby wall. ing up a close rear. The Boeing around, ‘ect’ ? “There's no one around.” held, his gun cocked and ready, eR rhe path wound through ras Mace page eet pee oak and underbrush, beneath He Le Me arkich a matty. scarred and leafless trees. It was of pearls glowed softly. a mad night, This final madness|*tring of pearls glowed softly, was only part of the pattern. d Clive’s mind revolved frantically, and there’s counted on the old woman to guard her easily. With infinite like an animal stalking about ir’ @.cage. Where was Liane? And