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vW1!'V| ^8B^@wiSS| Vrthe Ilunu By Ellis Pa WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Simon Judd, amateur detective, and William Dart, an undertaker, are visiting John Drane, eccentric man of wealth, at the Crane place. Suddenly the household is shocked to find that John Drane has been murdered. The dead man is first seen by losie, the maid. then, by Amy Drane and Simon Judd. The latter faints. Police officers call and investigations begin. Dr. Blessir.gton is called, and after seeing the murdered John Drane. makes the- astounding revelation to Amy Drane that her "uncle" is not a man but a woman. Dr. Blessington discounts the theory of suicide. saying that Drane was definitely murdered. Dr. Blcssiiigton continents on the fact that nil the servants in tlte household of Drane are sick, and that Drane has never discharged a seivant for ii: health Dick Brennan. the detective, arrives to investigate the case. Bier.aan questions the rjersonr in the house asking A ray if anyone had any reason to kilt her "uncle." Amy says no one had any reason to kill her uncle. After further questioning, she is asked about Dart. Meanwhile -ludd has toid the story of his acquaintance with the actual John Drane in Riverbnnk. GO ON WITH THE STORY "Xo. Nothing. He was uncle John's friend r. log wnhile?long before I came hero." Amy said. "They have jdayed cord- together many evenings." "Never quarreled''" "No." "You've nor. noticed anything queer about the servants'.'" Brennan asked after a moment. "Do ycu mean that they wore sickly?" Amy asked. "Are they?" "Yes; 1 think they are all sickly 1 don't know why Uncle John had such sickly servants, unless he was so kind hearted. Dr. Blfcysirgton is here nearly every day for one or another of theni. some one of them is always in bed. It makes it very JTUES. -WEI Oct. 2 HORSE P. AFTERNOONS?F.XCEP Handsome Purses bred Horses ? I NOT A DULL M COME EARLY! 2 The Grix Gres AN EXTRAORDINARY The FaD SI ADULTS?Day or Nigh* Bfi CHILDREN, 7 to 3 2 Yea "SCHOOL.D. g^V;. IKH I Everytl ENTERTAINING aMm?ramun| in Sphinx rker Butler hard far Mrs. Vincent, the house-j keeper, hut I'm afraid she's the j; sickest of any." "But aside from that you've not; i noticed anything queer in them.j Anything you might catl craziness.' any mania?" ! i "Oh. no: never anything like J j that " Amy said." < "You don't know of any enemies! your uncle had?" ; "No: he never spoke of any" j "He had business in New York.; ' hadn't he? Had an office there?" i "Yes." Amy said, and told him I the address, which Brennan jotted uv.'\> n jij ins* nuiei'ook. n? was aj | speculator, I think, fie would wait. ^ and buy a great lot of some one; i kind of stocks and then they wouldj ; go up and fie would sell. I think he j ; I always made a gveat deal of money' | : that way. I don't really know much | about that. They can tell you more' < at his o ffice. His manager there is j Rufus Lodcvmann. He is quite an: ] old man and he has been with unch tor a -long while, I think.** ] 1 Brennan jotted down this name in i ! his notebook. 1 i "Who else is there? You don't] know? No matter-?I can iook that j I up," the defective said, putting hisj book in his pocket again. "And; i think that is a"' 1 have to ask you J i now. Miss Drane. unless you car tell * ; me something about the servants- -. 1 I who they are and wlieyc they came froiri." j "I think Mrs. Vincent, the house- ] keeper, can teil you more about J that." Amy said "I've m l ready ? paid much attention to chat; I've ] always felt I \vasn*~ wanted to ip> terfere. Mrs, Vincent had been here j quite while when I came, and uncle ? \yas old and liked to have things as | they were. He didn't seem to want i to have mc do anything but enjoy J myself."' i "But. you were aiways ready tcj do your share if anything turned I" I up," said Brrnnar-, smiling. "1 caivjt j see that, Miss Drane." "Of course," Amy said. "It] J wasn't that I didn't want to." ' "Mr. IVraiie just did r.ot seem to > ' want you to bother with the serv- ! j ants and the household affairs and; so on; that was it. wasn't it?" J < j "Yes; he- never said much but Ihr.tJ ^ST AND BEST EVER! i?r?. ixn niinw oii-SHIP - THURS. - FRI, - SAT -3-4-5 4CES FI TSATURDAY . -- Thorough- Elaborate rast Track the Sky ii IOMENT ! 8 3TAY LATE! jory Troupe ] AND EXCLUSIVE POSITIVE!. kTlON 1 BROl K?ii s NAT ] ADMISSION 50c rs Day or Night 25c A Y" ? FRIDAY, OCTO ling New j THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV was what t felt," she replied. "I'm trying not to lie unpleasant, asking so many questions." Brennan said, "but this whole thing is pieerish as you understand?Jhori Drane being a woman and being omrueved this wv.v?and I have to ret into my head ibc- best picture of the household as it was, the best picture I can. How v.as j our ancle shout money"" Amy wrir>ksed her loot.', trying to [jet the meaning of the question. "Dc you meai! with me?"' she asked "He paid me an allowance, always on the first of the month. It was tifty dollars while I was at ;chool but when I came here he fare mo a hundred dollars a month. l haven t used nearly all ox it. ? asked him what I should do with She vest and he told r.ie I coulrl put it in a savings bank, ar.d 1 didrite house expanses ho settled with Mrs. Vincent?once a month, I think. I've heard them going over the bills. He seemed particular about them." "He was a woman." suggested Brennan. "'and household t>ills were in his line, possibly. Did ho keep much money it! the house? Had he j safe here? Did he bring securities home, do you know?" "No, nothing like '.hat. He used checks, almost always." "No jewelry to amount to any.hing?" "He never wore jewelry at all: not. even a ring." "There was a scarf pin." Brennan reminder her. "Yes; that was all the jewelry he had," Amy said. "I thought, perbans, as he Was a woman," P.rennan explained, "he might have a woman's usori iiking lot jewels. Suppose we see Mrs. Vincent." Bob Carter volunteered to line Mrs. Vincent and while he was on lis way Brennan lighter, a cigarette. He leaned forward with his elbow >n nis Kr.ee- a :u "if-cKeu over tne awn. "You come purty near beiii' a irst class detective, don't you? ' simon Judd asked, hitching forward T! his chair lie filled to overfiowns "Irn not the worst in the world," Brennan said. ' There are better. tVe'vc some fine men over in New fork. Our men are a lot better ;h;m we're Riven credit for being. tVc have lots of crimes and we don't jet evety crook, but it's a bad mess iver there. 1 do well enough. It's tut as had here as it is in Jlanlattan " ' That's s.?; that's likely." Simon fudd agreed. "And we air.'t got it tear" as bad out to Riverbr.r.k. If - 6 FULL DAYS REWORKS i EVERY NIGHT t Displays ? Turning nto a Thousand Colors MHraMBflGflHHflEiMHHBHnBHI FREEATTKAC Silly Rice Trio Y THE FUNNIEST ACT EVER JGHT TO THIS SECTION REISS SH( BASILE One of Our Country's Greatest Morning:, Afte: BER 5TH.?ALL WHI1 and Diffei INSTRl ERV THUBSDAY?BOONE. N. C. I ycu sras out there you mouldn'1 : have nijoh trouble at ah, I. reckon." "There are tough problems everyi where." Brennan said. "Any piacc may turn out a bard problem at any j time." ,. 'Thathow I think about it," J Simon .Judd said. "That's why J ; kept pester:':' them out there until they said they'd make me chief oi . police. n'{|'Black my cats" J says tc them; 'the' ain't no tellin' whet you're goin' to need fust class de[ tective ability.' I guess." he chuck led. "they dor.'t think overly mud of me at that' Think i'rn some sort of fat eld fopi. mostly. And 1 don'l knew but what f am. The' ain't nc - mil tike an old fool, is the*? Whal you think? Am I a fool to go table np detectin' at a life work when I'm along past seventy years old?" "I'll reserve usy opinion on that Mr. Judd," Brennan smiled. "1 can't remember anv mat: who tool up investigative work at that ago, ; but I've known some men who took up crime as old as that and did ?;uite '.veil at it." "A detective has to be slicker than a criminal, that's the pest of t." Simon Judd said. "And it's s??a llarae hard for them folks to take a fat man. serious out there to homw ciaily a man that's mostly clung to jobs where he couid sleep most of the time, like livery-stablin*. 1 clung to livery-stablinr as long a; i could, and that's a fact, but these j here automobiles has given the business a black eye, and if a man goes into the garage business he's got to be lively and wide awake ai: the time. Now, a detective?in a io;m like Riverbank. Iowa?" "Car. sleep most of the time," laughed "Brennan. "That's the idee!" Simon Judc ehuckled. "Particular if he's not or ihe fcice- If he's just a policeman he's got to be out and around, but if he's chief of police and detective i he's got to sp'?r?d quite a lot of time in meditation-? si1 ii ' in his office in a chair tipped back against tfig wall with hi< eyes closed. Looked like a good job to me. sc I got shut of my livery stable and pestered the job. startin' January first, next." "Good job," smiled Brennap. "Yes, or I wouldn't have wanted I it." said Simon Judd. "But the main thing when a man hammer; down a job like that is to be able hang onto it. and that's why I figgered I'd come east here and learn the detective business from A to Z i says to myseli 'If I can get them 'tick New York detectives te let me help hunt up some murderer 01 something, I'll learn a lot, and when I ! come back and catch a couple ol Hk BHH| 1 SIb^H BIBS | FULL NIGHTS ? < EXHIBIT MORE AND BETTER THA Industrial, Live Stock, Field, Farm and i HMfflWMH MKAMIHM 8WUK* TIONSGALORE Guiran and Margu A BALLET OF EIGHT BEA DANCING GIRLS )WS - RID! S BAND Musical Organizationi, Playing rnoon and Night saannMiiHMBaiiia n wrarmmmmm iE CHILDREN OF THIS rent - Oui JCTIVE crooks right here in Rsrerbank the! ' j folks ain't goin' to ever let nobody | throw roe out.' :! Brennan looked up at the old I I i tnau's face suddenly, but all he saw? I j was good nature and smiling cheer[ ftiiness. [| '"This murder occurred very opportunely." Breonats said. \ That's what I was going to say," ' Simon Judd replied. "Must like it : was made to order for me. < It v couldn't have been handler. So j that fetches me to what I'm going to > ray?v.-hat'd you say if ? was to sort of go partners with you ami the two? ! of us together hunt out who done} 1 j this crime?" "We're always glad to have any! assistance we can from any soiireei ;. whatever." Brennau told Judd. j "Yes, 1 reckon." said the fat nian.i J: Only that ain t any idee. I want I you should say we'll work at this '! case together, so's 1 can get the iiiside of how you fellers co at it. || What say ot it?" Once more Erennan looked Simon i Judd in the face. What he sought, was the eye of an insane man?the! . eye of a man who might have come ' to this house anil tnuvdered John ' Diane *o make a case worth solving. : Or. perhaps the eye of a man who had held a grudge against -John Drane and had come here to satisfy ' i it. What he saw, if he couid. Judge, ' was the keen eye of a man who was ', not such a fool as he looked, the keen ' laughing eye of a man who, possi' bly, was laughing at the detective good naturedly while laughing at j himself. "This," B veil rum said to (' himself, "is a man who is. laughing at me because he knows something i don't know!" "i won't he no more trouble to you than need he," Simon Judd said. I j "Only thing is it would he quite an II experience to me to work hand in aim, so to say. with a real detective ' like you are." "I think we can manage it," Bren' nan said. ' "Black my cats, that's fine!" Si1 mon exclaimed. "Amy, that fixes 1'nnl fiixc-. ? .vaio' t -. | ,.11cil . ... SVJ? I., pri.n i'guu -1 in and work at this thing until we ' get it al! cleaned up asvl the murderour person put right where he I ought to ho. Fine! Note, first off, gill, you go up to my room and, if them officers has got through rumifuagin' in my baggage, fetch me down a note hook l ie got in my i valise up there. It's a blank one, ' Amy, without anything wrote in it i yet. I didn't know whether real 'i detectives used rote hooks or not, j but 1 see Brenr.an does, and 1 wont 1 i to do this thing right. It's right 'j down in the bottom of the valise, mmSSSSSm 29TH ANNUAL EXPi NSTON-SALEM, NORTI stt 2-3-^ S HOR! N EVER ADDE! Poultry, Friday iomc Octob* I MORE THIS Yi EVER BEFORE erite The Clario UFIFUL A THRUJLJNG MUS BEAUT KS.v.Dav an J PROGRAMS COM* AFTERNOON, promptly at EVENING, promptly at GATES OPEN each day at \ TERRITORY ADMITTE ??? r Supreme SEPTEMBER 27, I92fl ^ Amy." The girl went into the bouse and Simon Judd looked after her. When he saw she was gone he drew closer to Brennaie "Nov. that you and me are lr. cahoots on this business, partner,*' be said, "we want to start off clean and clear and 110 favor.'. What I know you want to know. If not nothinV, no good. And there's soinethin** wrong here right at the start." "It being?Brennan asked. "The girl. Amy. here,'" Simon iudd whispered. "She ain't what she says she is." (Continued Next Week) SCHOOL CHILD NEEDS WELL BALANCED LUNCH Folks are 'earning in North Carolina tbut the progress a child makes at school depends on his general health and that his health is greatly affected by the fciml of food he eats. "This makes the school lunch of i ? ....... \i ft* v?i vnijrt?nauvi, :?> o ."jui v Thomas, nutrition specialist at State ? College. "About one-fourth of the food for a day should be in the lunch box and to balance this food so that the child will be well nourished, some planning is necessary. The wet! planned lunch will contain milk in some form, a substantial food, usually in the form, of sandwiches, some fruit or vegetables, a fat, preferably in the form of butter, and a sweet in the form of simple cakes or fruits." Then when such a luncheon has heen prepared, pack it well, suggests Miss Thomas. Often, she states, the best lunch ir spoiled by careless packing. A metal box or bucket with holes for ventilation, or a good substantial basket makes the mcst desirable container. Oil paper fotw rapping the food, paper napkins, a spoon, a bottle for the milk, a cup and a jelly glass with a light fitting lid or a screw top jar for cooked fruits, salads or desserts will go far towards making the luncheon more attractive. In parking the lunch, the heavier foods should he placed at the bottom of the container and as compactly as possible to prevent spilling. Those .. / foods which are to be eaten first ^ should he placed on top where pos Miss Thomas has prepared a number of very attractive menus ro use for the school lunch. Just a few cold things left ever from the breukfaSt table is not. sufficient, she states, and she will he glad to mail a copy of these menus to those, parents who wish to have this information. DSITION! * CAROLINA g ^ SEJHOW | sr 5th and 6th IAR THAN 11 ! COME! COME! R n Trumpeters 1CAL ACT WITH FOUR I gj I ID FREE! COME! 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