Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1935, Page 28

W hl eo o wwm-'h&qennm g:‘-'im Inhn‘ asking her to meet il i cre*3ad. the Souse is durk”and P mdwnu' muvbym-uxmor he 1s trightened b 1y lntnlder .m runs 83' a rather unonbh mnh‘ dnsflou‘l“ the young msn are CHAPTER IV. CRASH! HEY explored s sitting room, rather pleasantly furnished in blue and dust-brown, but empty. A second, uglier room, with orange cretonnes, led off the sitting room back into the hall. A drawing room beyond contained nothing more terrible than some Vic- torian engravings and Benares brass and took them back into the kitchen, which, with red flagstones smelling of soft soap and old corner cupboards scrubbed white, was by far the most cheerful part of the house. “Not a sign of a spook!” “What about upstairs? “We'll try down here first.” “That only leads into the cellar,” protested Alison. “May’s well be thorough, though.” She fancied that he gave her a quick, frowning look, as she hung back. “What's the matter?” “Supposing—he’s behind us and locks the door?” The young man took a step back and dragged the cellar key out of the lock. “There.” He swung the lantern, letting its beams fall on & larder with long stone shelves, a very modern heating stove and a recess which had once been a baking oven. Very old, the cellars ran the whole length of the house; a chain of small, black! windowless rooms cut off from one another by close, wooden gratings and full of black, alarming corners, empty but for the peeling plaster and & smell of mice. At the farthest end a coal cellar to the right held a foot of coal dust; & storercom, on the left, contained shelves with half & dozen rotting ap- ples; a narrower central room ended in a dark, deep recess under the front stairs. Here two broken deck chairs, a shallow heap of straw, a small pack- ing case up-ended and a great roll of mew linoleum threw uncomfortable shadows. But though they swung the light there was no sign of either man or ghost. “Ah!” The young man stooped sud- @enly. “What?” Alison asked breathless. “Main switch, lighting. Half a sec- ond—" “Oh!” The cry burst from her before she could stop it. He jumped back so swiftly that before the sound was out he B:ns beside her, ready. ng! ‘The tall roll of linoleum had been rocking, now it fell straight back with s tremendous crash into the recess under the stairs, sending a chain of echoes through cellars behind. At the same instant, from the prostrate lin- oleum, a large gray rat darted with a flash of pink-webbed paws and naked tail, plumb between Alison’s feet and into the dark coal cellar, where it vanished. Her companion laughed cheerfully. “For a moment I thought we had him, didn't you? But I think we'll leave the lights on, just for luck.” There were three switches and he turned them all on; the cellars changed in a twinkling from ghost- haunted caverns of gloom and mys- fery to mere storerooms, lined with * €obwebs and disgraceful dust. Gain- ing the kitchen steps again, he turned the key in the door. “There! If your friend’s down there CARRIER the U. S. CAPITO Carrier bas alse air conditioned the U. §. Supi Court, the nt of Commerce Build- ing, Folger Memorial Library, Offices of the U. S. Treasury, aad several thousand other buid- ings, stores and shops through- out the coustry. he'll have to exit by the walls. Where now?” “Would it be an awful bother to look upstairs? I mean, before you go?” she asked shyly. “I'm not gen- erally such a fool but—" “It'd be no bother at all. But I'm not going ti'l your father gomes.” She did not even try to conceal her relief. “That's awfully good of you.” “Not a bit.” He sald it warmly. So warmly that it embarrassed them both, and he was quick to add, “What about some light on the situation?” “Let’s turn them all on,” agreed Alison. Sitting rooms, hall, kitchen, pantry, even cupboards—they switched every bulb on and left them all blazing. The front door was locked and every win- dow shut except the pantry, which they fastened, too. ‘The .bed rooms seemed to be fur- nished without exception in the cheapest fashion with old iron and brass bedsteads, lumpy woolen mat- tresses, worn white paint and faded wall papers; in one front room lay Alison's suitcase, open, as she had left it when she went to wash and brush up. What an age it seemed since she had knelt there, nervously humming, to unpack her brush and sponge bag! Peering under the bed, into cup- boards, behind the curtains he re- ported “Not here,”. and they went on to the bath room. Alison could not re- press a shiver as she peered in; then she caught sight of her own face. “D'you mind waiting just a mo- ment, while I get my powder?” she asked, very conscious of a nose that shone. “T'll wait out here.” Yet she hurried. To be alone in the bath room brought back too vividly the horror of that gray face, although he was whistling loudly, cheerily, as he strolled about the passages. An understanding person, she de- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. cided, who guessed how she felt and was deliberately letting her know that he was close at hand. Some cold water splashed into her face, a comb ran quickly through her hair that glinted with gold lights, a touch of cream between her dark eyebrows and thick lashes to hide tne last trace of Then, with powder, coral rouge and coral lipstick she was ready. “Feeling definitely better!” she an- nounced. . He had lighted a pipe and was leaning back against the wall re- signedly as she came nut, and as he straightened up she had an impres- sion that those startlingly light eyes of his swept over her approvingly. “You certainly look happl “If I may say 80, I think you need & cup of hot coffee more. What about to make some?” “There isn't any. 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