New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 31

NEW R}"IT\I\' D—\TTY HERALD, TF'RID: AY, I)I CEMBE R 20, tragedy confronts Peggy when she learns from Philan- der Chase that the bulk of the estate | for which she has endured misery and faced death and disgrace is cphemeral. A million dollars’ worth of securities Herbert Prescott had placed in a safe deposit box is 1 ing and Chase corroborates Peggy growing belief that her uncle was mad. Yew Lodge alone remains and lase urges her to come to New York to aid the search for the se- curities. The only clew is a slip of paper found in the box, on which was scrawled a Bliblical quotation. Chapter 29 THE LUCKY BAG Within a few minutes v had regained her self-control and, thank- ful no one had been present to wit- ness her breakdown, she dried her cyes, dabbed on more powder to cover the tear stains and sat back in lier chair. After all, she still had much to be thankful for, cven if her uncle's large fortune had dwindled to Yew Lodge, its contents and its ound- ing property. Philander Chase's com- ments on the furniture and paintings ndicated that the belongings within the house were of real and perhaps commercial value. No, in- stead of being upset, she had every reason to feel clated. Pegey's spirits soared high as the inevitable reaction set in; she was of too buoyant and happy a tem- perament to remain long downcast. Why should she worry? Never before had she owned any- thing more valuable than a diamond hrooch and \ffairs stood, it Uncle Herbert was found to have been in- sane, such property as he had, would go to her father, and, if the will stood, then she would inherit, provided she carried out the stipula- tions therein. She bent forward and consulted the calendar on the desk—but 13 days remained to the h o An unlucky number—perl v's determination to res lodge for that length of grew adamantine; nothing should budge her; the detectives cauld come to her, and her exercise hereafter would be an hour's constitutional around the house, with Julia timing lier. She would leave no loophole for the courts to award Yew Lodge to Comm. Jamieson Sinclair—she was commiencing to loathe the man, even his name was growing obnoxious. With her arms resting on the desk. | Peggy did some figuring; had ust enough ready cash to meet cur- rent expenses for the month, provid- ed she included the $20 gold picce he had found in the old Bible two nights before, The gold picce bro=ght to mind the Bible and its three under- o need to look the pages a ¢ could re- cite them blindfolde “‘Good mnews from a far cou try, " she repeated, aloud. * ‘Fret not thyself because of evil doers.’ ‘When thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy ex- pectation shall not be cut off.’” The disjointed phr when run fogether into sentences, made sense. Peggy sat up. Was her too vivid imagination playinug her false, was she attaching too much importance fo this message “from a far coun- And, strange emed, the completed message, as she recited it, seemed most appropriate 1o her situation. Evil men, Edgar for instance, had “fretted put it mildly; her “expectation” a large inheritance had been sum- marily “cut ofi” by the news that her uncle’s negotiable securitics were missing. But if those quotations applied to her did not the passage, “When thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward,” hold an even deeper nificance? Suppose it related to the missing securities? Suppose her uncle himself had removed the se- curities and brought them to Yew Lodge and secrcted them in some seret hiding place? Electrified by the thought sprang to her fect. It Herbert cott had gone daft on religion, more likely than that he had uscd | those passages to cloak the hiding place of his wealth? B8he paufed with her hand on the two Bibles; she had alrcady gone over them again and again and had | found no more black arrows on the margins of any page. Perhaps if she could locate the missing pages from the Lig Bible, | there might be some indication— some hint. She and Obadiuh ILvans had found the book in the basement | in the padlocked room; why not, therefore, investigatc that room more thoroughly? The thought appealed and Peggy scarched in one of the smaller | drawers of the desk which she kept | locked; she had placed the key | there, carefully marked. Locating it | with several others, she went to get | hier electric torch. But at the cellar | stalrs she hesitated: Julia had not | returned and she was Sane in the | liouse. Tor a moment doubt assailed | her, then, with a characteristic toss of her head, she ran down the | stairs. Placing her 1ng‘h where the light would play direcfly on the door, she thrust the key into the padlock. It would not turn. Surprised, she tried inserting it upside down, but that did not work either. ““Much perturbed she withdrew the koy and examined the tag attached to it. “Bedroom door in basement,” so read her writing. Had she been such a fool as to attach the tag to the wrong key? Swiftly she tricd the | other house keys; none fitted. Baffled, Peggy looked more close- | Iy at the padlock, and its fresh con- dition caught her attention. The | padlock as she recalled it, had becn | rusty; even the locksmith had | spoken of it. Then how came this | new padlock on the door? | Peggy stood upright, thinking. thinking—yes, she had gone up- stalrs leaving Obadiah Evans to close and lock the bedroom door. He might hasve given her the wrong key | before leaving. She opened her hand and held the long thin steel key under h(‘rl NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN - torch; th marks made by the file of the 1 padlc ocksmith as he fitted it to the ock were plain upon it. No, de- cidedly th the 1 adlock By whom? Obadiah Evans had 1 move key « i 0 BRATILIAN NEHRHES king & puzzled head iropped by Obadis ing his loss, he might have her dwel, pond uppe verte book six o one ot ia—tarmers wse pac- | (Hrigtmag Wik Clebnte v more frequentl; lers s windons towara | SUTAIGELY by Native Blacks side stood several Loxes; r one, a slat fruit box d into a packi s, and through the slats P out a large volume lyi r more paper-back novels, § e it was another Bible? silling out the novels, she volume and 1 to the living room its p ing. half from book class dustcloth out rs of dust book on the desi 18 Iy to Its highly one illustra in uniform we the contents issue of Acadenr class had and hools, mi at a well-th she looked into t handsome young 1in, 1o, uniforn Cash Price Delivered and Installed (Less Tubes) Small” Carrying Charge Guzrantced U/ Year 30 Day's Trial “hose Who Compare Choose Siivevtone Choice of 7 Tube Screen Grid or 8 Tube Neutredyne Models In faiimess to y\.u'self before buying ANY radio, checlz to see how it compaves with Silvertone. 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