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** W the NortbearUrn kllll, where he
had tsrmerly Urod, ru Into his prevtoes
tah las pre tor Tops, sad Mrs. Tops. Ha
steam snsdid that the Topas spsa? tha
meat at Dewala's Mill, operated bp Baa
Blasts whoas Brace retarded very high
ly Later' that alfht Tape phoasd Brace
m aaaas an la the aata eaasp aad have
?Sed Qelll. a state trooper, Jots then,
?amis the (act Brace was to Wave the
aan novates, ha west oat to meet Tope,
haaalu that toaaethlax sertoos had hap
pened. Be was assared that Bee was
aad h trsable. Be was to meet them
at Ma Faraway cartase.
CHAPTER U
While Tope began to get out
?e bags. Bee and Mrs. Tope ap
proached the cabin and the girl pro
duced a key. Then, as she tried
Oe knob, she said, in a surprised
kse, half to herself: "Why, that's
fcnny! It's unlocked!"
She entered and began to raise
shades and let in a flood of light,
and arhen Tope followed, with a bag
in each hand, she was explaining to
Mrs. Tope:
MY?1 T had oil fiirnlhtr*
huOt in. It s cheaper than buying."
Tope set down the bags; and he
saw beds end to end along one wall,
and a chest of drawers beyond. The
beds appeared to promise comfort
The carpenter had built frames to
?<4>port the springs and sheathed
these frames down to the floor, so
hsrt was no chance for dust and
?afcUsh to accumulate underneath.
Ihsca were windows in front and
i*ar and toward the brook; and a
?replace at one end, with birch logs
seady for the match, and kindling
and a crumpled newspaper under
them on the clean hearth upon
which, clearly, there had never been
a fire.
Said Bee Dewain: "I'll open the
windows. It seems stuffy. Would
pan like a blaze?"
"I think so," Mrs. Tope agreed. "It
aaay turn chilly."
Tope crossed to touch a match to
Me pa par under the kindling; but
as he stooped down, he noticed some
Msg lying on the hearth, and held
lis hand.
B was a thing of no apparent Im
portance. Another man, even though
be saw it, would have discovered in
Mia object no implications at all. It
wan simply a match which had been
?girted and allowed to burn down
IHl only half an inch of uncharred
wood remained.
Tope's eye was caught by this
match almost completely burned,
awd he saw two or three more, ly
lag here and there. He had an old
habit of noticing unimportant things,
H suspecting importance in them;
ao now before he lighted the fire,
he searched in the kindling and in
Ae crumpled paper and on the
hearth behind and beneath the logs,
HI be collected eleven matches
which had like the first been lighted
and burned almost to the ends be
??? i uivy were uiruwn away.
? ? *
Bee Dewain was saying: "And
?upper will be ready at seven
if dock. Now if there's anything
?be you want?"
"You say we're the first ones to
occupy this camp?" Tope asked
Mildly.
"The very first," Bee assured him.
"I do hope you'll be comfortable."
?he turned to the door. "When sup
per's ready we ring a bell! You'll
he sure to hear!"
As the girl's steps passed out of
hearing, Mrs. Tope said: "Oh, we
lorgot to give her the message from
Adam Bruce!"
"I was thinking of something
?be," Tope confessed; and he
asked: "Need anything more out of
?>e car?"
"Not for Just one night!"
"We might stay longer," he sug
gested, and she smiled.
"Because a brook runs past the
door?"
"When I see a place that looks
fshy, I always want to try it out,"
he confessed. Something in his tone
Made her look at him; but he chuc
kled disarmingly. She began to
npack the few things they would
?red.
"It's nice knowing we're the very
?rst ones in here!" she suggested.
He said, half to himself: "I won
der why they didn't turn on the
Kghts."
"Why should she? It's still broad
daylight!"
"Instead of using matches?" he
persisted, in a deep abstraction; and
Mrs. Tope looked at him with
amusement.
( "I discover new virtues in you
luij day," she remarked, "but
yaw've unsuspected vices, too! It's
??ne you quit detecting at your time
hfe, my dear. What are you won
\ dering about now?"
? He hesitated, said at last: "Why,
Mese!" He pointed to the mantel;
?he came to look, and he showed
her those eleven burned stubs of
Matches which he had arranged in
Mder there. "I found them in the
?replace," he said, watching her.
"Why not?" she protested,
amused. "Probably the carpenters
m the plumbers or the electricians
?new them there, when they were
Mushing up the cabin."
"They wouldn't be working at
?ight." he insisted.
"At night? Of course not! But
they'd be smoking, lighting pipes
?ad things."
"Whoever lighted these matches
used them to see by."
She said briskly: "Nonsense I
You've too much imagination! Are
you trying to?scare me?"
"No, no!" He stood by the man
tel, his back to the fire, looking
thoughtfully this way and that as
though he sought something. Yet in
this small place nothing of any size
could be concealed. There was no
hiding place?unless perhaps the
box-like under-structure of the beds.
"What is it you're looking for?"
she asked.
"Nothing," he insisted, menda
ciously. "Which bed shall I take?"
"The one nearest the fire."
He nodded, and went to the foot
of the bed, built against the wall.
"I never saw anyone yet who tucked
In my covers at the foot the way I
like them," he remarked.
"I'U do it!"
"Not even you!"
She laughed softly. "All right,"
she assented. "You're fussy as an
old maid I I'll be down by the brook,
if you're bound to be so independ
ent. Come out when you're through!"
' Mrs. Tope left the inspector in
side, and walked toward the brook
and sat down beside the water
"Now, if there is anything else yon
want?"
relaxed and at her ease. It may
have been ten mintues before she
heard his step behind her.
"Well, ready for supperT" she
asked.
He was a moment in answering.
"Yes, I am." She looked at him in
tently, and he added: "But you
know, I don't like this cabin, I won
der if Miss Dewain would let us
change to one of the others, nearer
the road?"
"Why? You act as though Fara
way were?haunted!"
He said in slow apology: "You'll
have to get used to my notions. I go
a lot by them."
"We'll ask her when we go to sup
per," she promised; and after a mo
ment she said, not looking at him,
looking at the dark water: "Of
course, 1 know something is bother
ing you and I know you'll tell me
when you're ready. But?if you're
uneasy, suppose we move on, to
night?"
He shook his head. "No, not to
night. Tomorrow, maybe; but not
tonight."
Her eyes were grave, but she
made no comment; and they came
down to the Mill together, came into
the bright dining-room. Bee Dewain
was here alone, and Mrs. Tope said
directly:
"Miss Dewain, may we change
our minds about Faraway?" And
she explained, smiling apologetical
ly: "Mr. Tope lived in an apart
ment before we were married; and
now he isn't happy unless he can
hear traffic going by. He wants to
be nearer the road."
"Of course," Bee assented. "I'll
have Earl shift your bags while we
eat supper."
Tope asked: "Have you a pay sta
tion here?"
The girl said: "Yes indeed I" She
showed him the phone in the closet
under the stairs.
When he emerged, he said at once:
"You know. Miss Dewain, I think
we have a mutual friend. Adam
Bruce?"
The girl cried with quick inter
est: "Do you know Adam?"
"Known him for years," Tope
declared. "I've heard him speak of
you I In fact, he advised us to stop
here. We had lunch with him in
Middleford today. He said he'd seen
you just yesterday. He sent you
his love!"
Bee, her eyes dancing, tossed her
head; and Tope said watching her:
"He warned us not to mention his
name; said if we did, you wouldn't
take us inl"
"Adam's an idiot!" said Bee De
wain, her cheeks hot. While Tope
was at the phone, the supper bell
bad been rung violently by some one
at the kitchen door; and as Bee
spoke, perhaps summoned by the
bell, the gray-haired violinist ap
peared in time to hear her words.
"Adam?" the newcomer echoed.
"Our young friend Bruce?" His tone
was sardonic, hostile.
Bee introduced him; and he
bowed, smiling. "Balser Vade, oth
erwise known as the Lone Wolf," he
explained. "I have the dignity of a
cabin named after me, as Miss De
wain may have told you." And be
asked: "What particular idioey has
our Mr. Bruce committed now?"
No one answered him, but Mrs.
Tope saw her husband's glance rest
upon the violinist, a lively specula
tion in the old man's eye. Then oth
ers came trooping in. The Murrell
twins and their father and mother
Mrs. Tope had already seen; but
there were others, new arrivals,
men. Miss Dewain introduced them.
Mr. Whitlock, she said, and Mr.
Beal.
The supper was a good one and
most of them ate in a silence that
was to some degree enforced; for
Mrs. Murrell, almost from the first,
monopolized the conversation. Once
Tope interjected a question.
"You say you've been here two
weeks, Mrs. Murrell? I thought
most people Just stayed overnight.**
"Most of them do," Mrs. Murrell
agreed. "But Mrs. Priddy, the cook
here, is my stepsister; and I always
did say I'd rather eat her ?wkfn?
than anybody'!. Poor thing, (ha
hates working all day In the kitchen;
but ihe married that good-for-noth
ing Earl Priddy, -and she's had to"
support him ever since."
Some pot or pan rattled angrily
in the kitchen, and Mrs. Tope sus
pected that Mrs. Priddy had per
haps been meant to overhear. Bee
said hurriedly:
"Of course, we have a lot of peo
ple here in the course of a week?
coming and going all the time."
"I suppose the week-ends are your
busy times?" Tope suggested.
"Well, yes," Bee agreed. "There
were six cabins full last night, and
eight Saturday night."
But Mrs. Murrell, not to be si
lenced, turned her catfechlsm to
Whitlock and Beal; and Mrs. Tope
saw that Tope watched Whitlock
with an unobtrusive eye. After sup
per, without apology or excuse,
these two men went out of doors;
and Tope turned to Mrs. Tope, al
most briskly.
"Shall we go to our cabin, my
dear?" he asked. "I thought you
might read aloud to me a while."
Mrs. Tope had never read aloud
to him; yet she betrayed no least
surprise at this suggestion. "We
must musn our dooK," she agreed,
and rose.
Inspector Tope turned with Mrs.
Tope toward their new cabin. It was
called Cascade. On the stoop, he
paused and looked around. Dusk
cloaked them from every view. He
made sure of this; and he said in a
low tone: I
"Go inside, my dear. Talk, turn
on the lights, draw the blinds.
Read aloud. I'll come soon." And
without waiting for her assent, he
slipped away, his feet silent on the
[ carpet of pine needles.
Mrs. Tope was half impatient
with this mystery, and half alarmed.
Nevertheless after a moment she
obeyed him. She went In, and drew
the blinds. Then in sudden bsste?
| the darkness was affrighting?she
switched on the lights, and found a
magazine in her bag and began obe
diently to read aloud. Alone in the
cabin, her voice went monotonously
on and on.
But her eyes did not stay fixed on
the page. Her nerves were steady
enough; yet the steadiest nerves
might have been shaken by this ne
cessity of sitting alone, in a small
closed cabin with drawn blinds.
Adam found the door open. He
went in, turned on the lights, closed
the door. Some embers of a fire still
glowed on the hearth, and he add
ed fresh wood, and stood with his
back to the fire, intensely alert, lis
tening for any sound outside, won
dering where Tope was, and what
the old man had to tell, and how
soon he would appear. But almost
at once ne neara sort footsteps on
the turf?not on the gravel drive?
outside; and then, without knocking.
Tope opened the door. He came in,
Mrs. Tope behind him.
"Hello, Adam," he said mildly.
"I didn't expect to see you again
so soon," Adam confessed, gripping
the other's band. "Hello, Mrs. Tope.
Inspector, if this is a wild-goose
chase, 1*11 take it out of your hide.
I'm supposed to be back on the job
at noon tomorrow."
"You'll have a job here,' Tope
told him. "Let me give it to you
in order, Adam," he explained. "So
I'll get it straight in my own mind."
And as Adam nodded, he went on
slowly, as if weighing each phrase.
"When Miss Dewain put us in thl?
cabin, she said it waa new thia
spring; and that no one had ever
spent the night in it She had a key
to unlock the door here; but the door
was already unlocked."
"Probably whoever cleaned up
after the carpenters got through for
got to lock it."
"Maybe," Tope assented. "But?
I don't like that word 'prooably't
Here's the next thing. I started to
light the lire, and saw a match on
the hearth. A burned match. It was
burned clear down; but not the way
a match Is burned when it Is used
to light a cigarette.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Ot Tm Moody Blbla ln?UtuU of Chicago.
Relaaaad by Waatero Nowapapor Uoloo.
Lesson for December 9
Lesaon avbjacta and Bcrlptura taxta aa
lactad and copyrighted by International
Council of RaUgloua Education; uaed by
parmiaskm.
THE CHHISTIAN'8 PLACE IN
THE LIFE OF HIS NATION
(Temperance Lesson)
LESSON TEXT: Matt I:IS-IS. 4SU; I
Peter 2:1S17.
GOLDEN TEXT: Blessed U the natlaa
whose Cod Is the Lord.?Psalm 22:12.
Men make up nations. Human be
ings in a land like ours determine
by their Interests and attitudes the
direction In which the entire social
order moves. That in turn deter
mines what kind of government we
have.
If the totalitarian philosophies
have colored our thinking and
caused us to forget the importance
of the individual in the life of our
nation, let us turn at once to the
right view.
Particularly important Is the bear
ing which individual Christians can
and should have on our national lif*.
We have tended to draw back and
fall to use the power and position
which we have by God's grace.
Nowhere does that show more
than in our failure (perhaps one
should say shameful failure!) to
bring Christian principles to bear
upon the appalling liquor problem.
This is temperance Sunday. Do not
fall to Stress thtft phase of Christian
citizenship today.
How should Christians make their
influence felt in the nation? By be
ing what they ought to be and con
tributing to its life. Note these
things in our lesson?ths Christian
fives:
I. Salt (Matt. 5:13).
We are the salt of the earth, and
the pungent savor of Christ is to be
evident in us as we touch life round
about us?in the church, in the
home, and in the nation.
True salt is antiseptic and purify
ing. It flgbSe- ciesenptloa-wherever
it-is found---Haw effective the spir
itually salty Christian and church
should be against the corrupt polit
ical system, the liquor industry, vice
and sin of all kinds. Have we lost
our savor (v. 13)?
U. Light (Matt. 5:14-15).
A light is intended to give illumi
nation to all round about it. It al
ways does unless someone hides it
under a cover, and then it becomes
not only useless but dangerous.
A life lighted by faith in Christ
will shine to the very ends of the
earth - and, as a missionary once
said, "The light that shines farthest
shines brightest at home."
We are the light of the world, but
if we cover our light we deny the
very essence of our natures. Here
is no thought of proud or selfish dis
play. Light does not shout about
itself, it just shines.
Who will deny that there is need
of some real spiritual light in some
of the dark comers of our national
life? Who is to shine in such places
but you and me, fellow-believer?
Then, too, let us not forget that
God has sent us nut tn liffht nther
tights. We can best serve our na
tion, and best meet the challenge
of liquor by turning men to Christ
That doesn't mean that we should
neglect other "good works," but it
is well to keep "first things first"
in. Love (Matt. 3:43^8).
"Love your enemies" (v. 44); that
is the standard which Christ has
established for His followers. While
the love one has for the brethren is
i without doubt a more intimate re
lationship than the love one may
; have for an enemy, we must not
: seek to minimize the real love we
| should have even for those who
curse and revile us.
It is to move us so deeply that we
not only treat them kindly, but also
pray for them. Humanly speaking
such a thing is impossible, but in
Christ it is not only possible, it has
actually been demonstrated in life.
It is so easy for Christians to
speak with derision that borders on
hatred about "the devil's gang," and
to lose all love for the crowd that
hangs around the tavern and the
gambling house. Let us hate their
sin, but may God help us' to show
that we really love them.
Love will do more to reach the
world for Christ, and more to direct
our national life into right channels
than any other influence we can
bring to bear. Let us do all we can,
but let us do it all in love.
IV. Loyalty (I Pet. 2:13-17).
The loyalty of the Christian to
right authority should be glad and
free, not by necessity or by co
ercion.
The believer will see in all men
the image of God and will honor
them even though he may not be
able to respect or approve their way
of life. The dignity and position of
the individual is always recognized
by Christianity.
The brotherhood of true believers
should call forth a peculiar love. Wa
need to renew that brotherly affec
tion between believers.
Fear of God, that is, the desire to
do His blessed will, shows itself in
the best kind of citizenship. Govern
ment would serve itself well if it
encouraged every effort to win its
citizens 1o Christ.
llfcMome
*Jowh.
IRefUVitei
h WASHINGTON
?y Walter Shead
WW a WmsbiDgtoa Burin.
J?J? Kft St.. W. W.
What la Future of Price
Support System?
D ECENT removal ot the flve-cent
e-pound subsidy on butter
brings into focus the whole question
of government subsidies Insofar as
they apply to farm products. Will
these subsidies be rapidly removed?
Will the change-over be a gradual
one? And whose policy will prevail?
that of Secretary of Agriculture An
derson for a complete elimination of
food subsidies as rapidly as condi
tions warrant, or the more cautious
policy of OP Administrator Ches
ter Bowles, who wants to keep
prices down with the help of subsi
dies.
Farm-minded congressmen and
government officials concerned
with the operation of the subsidy
program, mostly agree that subsi
dies were all right as a wartime
practice, but that they have no place
in a peacetime'economy. Farm or
ganizations, particularly the dairy
interests, have been outspoken
against the subsidy practice, espe
cially against those subsidies known
as "consumer subsidies," and have
declared that the consumers are
well able to pay fair and fixed prices
without the beneflt of e subsidy paid
out of the federal treasury.
Costs 2 Billions a Year
The whole subsidy program has
cost the government, and that
means the taxpayers, approximately
two billion dollars a year. It is
! agreed that the roll-back"S"t?sldles
during wartime have helped to ab
buiu oiAiut inaiij iu^ii wui uuie pro
duction costs end keep prices on ?
"reasonable" plane. Whether the
Subsidies, however, have saved the
general, public any money in the
long run is a' moot question upon
which not all are agreed, although
testimony before one of the congres
sional committees was to the effect
that, tor every dollar spent in
government subsidies from three to
live dollars would be saved in the
'price of food at the retail level. If
this, hi true, then based on an annual
two billion dollar outlay, this would
mean a yearly saving of at least
sin billion dollars to consumers in
the retail stores of the country.
Government subsidies ire of two
classes and work both trays?one,
the consumer subsidy,' piM4 to hold
down prices, and the other the price
support or Incentive subsidy, paid
to bold up prices and to increase
production In oartpin products.
WUl Prices Hold Up?
The question which remains un
answered is?will removal of subsi
dies bring about a drop in prices
to farmers? Or will supply and de
mand help keep up the parity prices
which the farmers are guaranteed?
The best opinion here is that
there will be a compromise base
adopted on consumer subsidies, and
that they will be flna^y eliminated,
but on a piecemeal or gradual pro
gram, with the sugar and flour sub
sidies probably the last to be elimi
nated.
Besides these, commodities subsi
dies sre in effect on wheat, milk,
peanuts, cooking oils, beans, meats
and a few other items. There is also
a subsidy paid by the RFC to a cer
tain class of oil operators. This
alone has cost almost a hundred mil
lion dollara.
The RFC also has handled the
subsidy on meats, butter and wheat,
and at the end of 1644 these pay
ments had been approximately 860
million dollars on meat, 117 million
dollars on butter and 68.1 million
dollars on wheat and dour.
New Bate Wanted
While the program for elimination
of subsidies goes forward slowly,
farm organizations are busy organ
izing themselves for a fight to set
up a new base for arriving at parity
prices for farm products. On the
theory that the present parity price,
which means farm purchasing pow
er equivalent to the 1909-1914 period,
no longer fits the picture under pres
ent increased costs of production
and living, action may go along two
courses:
1. Setting ap an entirety new set
of figures for determining parity, or
demanding 166 per cent of parity
instead of tbe 96 per cent now guar
anteed under the law, or
1. Attempting to add farm labor
costs Into the parity price as pro
vided In the bill introduced by Con
gressman Paeo (D., Ga.).
A measure attempting to do this
trick was defeated in the senate dur
ing the 78th congress, although from
this writing it appears the Pace bill
I may have a good chance of passing
the lower house.
And in the meantime, there is
considerable bickering and differ
ence of opinion on Just how long
present prices are guaranteed un
der present laws. It is pretty gen
erally agreed that on wheat, cotton,
rice, corn, tobacco and peanuts, the
parity figure is guaranteed for three
years. (Two years after January 1
following official end of tha war.)
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