The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 11

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1929. ; )/, NATALIE | SUMNER LINCOLN SYNOPSIS: Confined to Yew Lodge with a sprained ankle Peggy’'s spirits soar when Jim appears after an absence that “Hold hard,” cautioned Obadiah quickly. “Did Ben find it empty?” “He declares he found it in the condition in which he gave it to| to her seemed prolonged and Miss Prescott in my presence.” shows tender solicitude. He has | “Well,” Obadiah drew in his) engaged a celebrated criminal |breath and let it out slowly, “Ben’s| lawyer to defend her against statement gives the lie to Miss| the murder charge. She is wor- ' Prescott.” ried about the loss of a letter | Jim's start almost upset the ‘to Obadiah Evans from Com. 'lamp. Jamieson Sinclair which was | “What do you mean?” manded harshly. placed in her mail box by mis- “If Ben picked up an empty en-| take. Ben, the Evans’ hired boy, | returns the letter to Peggy. Jim |velope immediately after Miss Pres- cott lost the letter, she must have examines it and finds the en- velope open and empty. removed its contents before that,”| retorted Obadiah dryly. “You over- 'look the obvious, I'm thinking, same |as Ben.” he de- Chapter 18 FURTHER COMPLICATIONS “Pop! Where are you?” “Ben is the liar,” Jim’s protest “Here I be!” lrang out hotly, “and not Miss Obadiah Evans dropped his Prescott!” He sprang to his feet stockinged feet off the ottoman “I'll wring his neck.” and started to lift his big frame “Go to it!” exclaimed Obadiah out of the deep-seated armchair with whole-hearted encoux-agemerm| just as Jim appeared from the “Ben’s been courting trouble for hall. some time, snooping around where “What's wanted?” he oughtn’t to be. Stop a minute,” “You,” answered the young man and Jim, already at she door, paus- tersely. “Let’s have a talk.” ed reluctantly. “If Ben has the let- . “I'm agreeable” acknowledged ter well and good, get it; if not,” he | Obadiah genially, sitting back in his hesitated, stroking his chin with' chair, “Well, what'll we talk about cold fingers, “it'll be time to reckon —Miss Prescott?” and the twinkle with Miss Prescott.” in his eye was unmistakable. | Jim swung back, his eyes blaz- But there was no levity in either ing: “No threats—" Jim’s expression or manner. | Obadiah regarded him steadily. Miss Prescott was here this “If 'm not here when you get PRICES REDUCED The Ford Motor Co. believes that basically the industry and business of the country are sound. Every indication is that general business conditions will remain prosperous. 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Juneau Movors, Inc. FORD DEALERS . noon—" back, don’t wait up for me,” and! “How come? 'Twarn't nobody so saying, the farmer, ignoring the | home.” Obadiah asked. other’s presence, took up the Litch- | “Mr. Chase hadn't left; he field Inquirer and holding it spread | brought her here after she sprained out before his face, proceeded to her ankle.” peruse the editorial page. ! Jim strode over to the mantle But Obadiah made no sense of shelf and fingered the ornaments the printed words, and as the front there. Suddenly he faced about, door slammed on Jim's departing e “Ben’s the liar, not Miss Prescoit,” Jim protested, rising to his feet. propping his shoulders against the | figure, he st tne newspaper fa: mantle. unheeded %o the floor. “Our mail got mixed,” he began,| Time passed and still he sat “and the fool put a letter to you in | head back, eyes half closed, his ac. the Prescott box.” tive brain busy with many prob. “Well, what of it?” questioned lems. A bedroom door closed up: Obadiah. ‘“Tisn't nothing to get|stairs as Beborah, his housekeen mad about—my mail's innocuous. er, retired for the night, and arous. Let's have the letter,” and he ex-|ed him. tended his hand. Getting slowly to his feet he wen “I haven't it—" over to the smoking table and re “Didnt Miss Prescott give it to plenished his empty pouch. As h you?” put back the large can of pipe to “No, she lost it.” 1bacco, he noticed the scratch pa {was written on and adjusting hi Obadiah eyed Jim through a| 2 cloud of tobacco smoke; he was ac- |[eAding glasses inspected =Aquil customed to the latter’s irritability, | Chase's memorandum as to the sal ' of a pig. llor. bu:m‘:: :::,s, u:;m z:d p;nrdmg, Below the fine chirography of the i botanist, with even the time of da forward in genuine concern, to beirmorded, was scrawled a furthe: mm&h"f:‘:’f‘y by Jim's UNCOM= | message in his housekeeper's writ prom Q! iing. “Then what 1in tarnation ails| «Sundown was hanging round all you?” he demanded with some|day looking for work; I sent him to heat. “I ain't fussing ’'cause Miss!the shed, but the woodpile beant Prescott laol?t the letter; she’s wel- no bigger”— so ran Deborah’s cryp- come to of mine.” tic message. “This,” Jim spoke slowly, lmpres-; A small photograph in one of the sively, “this letter was from Com- givisions of the old wallet slipped | mander Sinclair, and it fell into!gyt of his hand and for fully a Miss Prescott's hands.” | minute he continued to stare at the “So that's it.” pictured likeness of his wife. Her Obadiah laid down his pipe. "Andieyu smiled up at him with the Miss Prescott knows—" 4 same trust and devotion he had “Nothing,” harshly. “She lost the known in Ythose happy, bygone days lfl; W."envelope Aol —eyes like, yet unlike, Jim’s. took - an ; Obadiah’s toil worn fingers brush- pocket and tossed it in Obadiah's eq nis wet lids and then slipped the | lap. precious photograph “back into its “Ben picked it up on the way piging pl:ce. here from Yew Lodge and took it t0 Going to the barn, he stepped her—empty.” into his car and drove off toward After one comprehensive 100k at morrington. the envelope, Obadiah twisted it into a cocked hat and threw it into the fireplace. (Cnpyrlght: D. Appleton and Co.) What mission takes Obadian “Haven't you anything to-say?”| ¢, Torrington? 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