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TWM STOKT THUS FAR: Adam Rrwi, wm epurator, aid Iuipvctor and Mr*. SUpu M while an TacaQoa In Nurth ?eeteea wflSg. Top* discovered the body d a Bartered man at Iks sola camp tl mm ?nik, a friend of Brace's. Ha ?M Brace, who brought State Trooper SSS llpon the arrival of the D. A., ?kl CamherlAnd and Of. Madfocd, they SMM la heap the murder a secret as kmc aa pus!hie. The body was moved bksteaa ad A mass Delate for further Baatelisllna. Mrs. Tape told her bus hand that aha racof nlsad Lbs body aa that Of Mr. Ledforte, bead of Now England ?HHHae. Baa stated that a musky smaB aa ?Send man's hair reminded bar CHAPTER V "Mr*. Friddy was busy Saturday, a* 1 made the beds, changed the ?mem. 1 smelled this same musky mmM am one of the pillowslips in 1 JMIr Bear. Oh, I'm sure at It" "Who were they?" Cumberland *T don't know," Bee confessed. "Earl Priddy took them to the cab le. They came late Friday night amt left very early. I didn't see Mem at alls But I'm positive about Me smell." There seemed no more to say. They moved out of doors again, and Cumberland asked heavily: "What dH they do to him, Doc? How'd Mey kill him?" Doctor Medford said unsteadily: 1 can stand most things all right; hat this gets me." And he continued, without prompt Mg: "H was more or less luck that X hit it so soon. I didn't And any msemds, knife, bullet, nothing like Mat; so I went into the abdomen, Minking of poison. I found the an ??li mere. Be hesitated and Cumberland weed: "Go ahead. Doc." Tie Doctor said grimly: "All It's hard to believe; but this ?mb died of peritonitis, from a rup Mwl appendix. Rupture resulted tosm a gangrenous condition pro duced by a crease in the omentus kat bent a fold in an artery, the any you do a hose, and shut off the Mill supply. That's how he died!" Ft* a moment no one spoke, till Cumberland muttered: "Ihen it's not murder, Tope!" The Inspector said impatiently: "They tied him up, gagged him, left ltoa half-smothered with a blanket amend his head when he was run dag a temperature and pretty sick and needing a doctor quick. If that wasn't murder, it was the next thing ?a it!" "Manslaughter, maybe," Cumber Imd admitted. "Weil," Tope suggested, "suppose M was you that had fetched this man to Faraway and left him there to dto. Wouldn't you be worried for tonr some one had spotted you?" "It was dark," Cumberland re torted. "I'd have kept my hat pulled down, my collar turned up." "How about the car? Wouldn't you ha afraid Priddy might remember toe car?" Then, putting himself in toe other man's place. Tope went an: "Of course, maybe I'd steal a car to do the job. Mat, have you had any reports of a car being sto len around here?" "I wouldn't know about that," Ctonberland confessed. "Ned Quill would, though. The State police get all those bulletins." "Where is he?" "Asleep inside. He was up all Wei], send him out. Tope di rected. The District Attorney went ?to the house, and alter a moment ?ed Quill appeared, elaborately rub hmg his eyes. Tope spoke to him. "Get any rest. Ad you?" "Sure!" the trooper told him cheerfully. "A good three hours!" lope nodded. "Quill, have the IMe police had any reports of a car being stolen around here, the last few days?" "Sure, cars are stolen all the *s "You go find out whether any cars bare been reported stolen within fil A miles of here since Friday,",Tope defected. "Or since Thursday, lor Ad matter." Quill assented. He started away; Id Tope detained him. "Wait a ?mute," be said. "Something else. Yeu know the country around base?" "Lived here all my life?up to now. Ydk.1 guess 1 do." TVeU then," Tope asked, "sup pane you had a car on your hands Ad you had to get rid of, some where around here, where would you yd ?t?" Ybe trooper considered. "I'd run > ub the woods," he decided. I hue are a lot of old roads that ?abody uses except to park in, on ?aaulight nights; and nobody would ?alioe one more car among so 99 Tape shook his head. "That's not pMd enough! Some one might spot P the first day. Is there any place ?had a car could be sunk in deep "Well, there are some old lirae dsue quarries, above Ridgcomb. I haven't been up there since I was a Ufi; but there's always water in the panics, and it's gray with lime, an yen can't see doom into it." "Any other place that would do Ae MAT" "?say a one that 1 know of." Thpe nodded. "All right." be WNd "Maw you go find out whether there'* been a car stolen, and let me know." When Quill was gone, Tope turned to Adam. "Son, you know where these quarries are?" "I can find them." "Get Miss Dewain to drive you up there," Tope directed. "That way, you can enjoy yourself and help me too. Take a Bshing-line and a sinker and make some sound ings?see if you can locate anything in the quarries that might be a car. Look for tire-tracks on the road." "I came up to get some fresh vegetables for dinner," Bee remem bered. "Adam, come help me. Then we can go." So she and Adam departed toward the garden, and the Inspector and Mrs. Tope got under way; at once he proposed: "Now ma'am, we'll drive down to Ledforge's summer place and see what they say there!" She assented; but first he bade her stop at the Mill; and he went to talk with Priddy for' a while. a ?llili.imiHUl I1K "They pot him under the bed in Faraway." When he returned to the car, there was a deep excitement in his eyes; but he only said: "All right, let's go along." Not till they were on the road did he explain. Then he told her: "Some one else is on this trail we're running." "Who?" "Those two men last night, Whit lock and Beal! Whitlock told Prid dy he was an insurance agent, said he was trying to trace a stolen car? a Chevalier coupe, pale gray with blue trim. Earl told him a car like that was here Friday night." "Is that the one with the English man?" "Yes!" "Did Earl get the number of the car?" "No, but he says it was a coupe, light gray. He didn't see the man's face, or the woman's. They drove in late, and Priddy had to get out of bed. He took them to Little Bear. The man gave him the money for the cabin without getting out of the car, and Priddy went back to bed; but he says the man was small, and that he talked like an Englishman whatever that means! And Priddy says the car had blown out an ex haust gasket. He heard it puffing." He added: "I had to go at Priddy easy, so he wouldn't realize I was asking suestions. That's what took me so long." For a while, then, he said no more. For several hours the Topes were busy . . . The District Attorney's office was in North Madderson, a dozen miles from Ridgcomb. Quill had precrti ed the Topes to announce their coin ing. Mat Cumberland and another man were here to greet them?a brisk young man, sure beyond his years. "This is Joe Dane, Inspector," j Cumberland said. "Heard Mat speak of you," Tope said courteously, his hand extend ed. "Says he couldn't get along without you." And he went on: "Late last Friday night, a little man who talked like an Englishman, and who had a wom an with him, drove up to Dewain's Mill in a gray Chevalier coupe with blue trim. They had this man that's dead now under the rumble seat. Priddy put them in the cottage called Little Bear. During the night they carried this man down to Far away and put him under the bed there." "How can you know that?" Dane demanded. "Well, I'm guaranteeing it," Tope assured him mildly; and he went on: "They put him under the bed in Faraway, and sometime before daylight they pulled out. I figure that they'd want to get rid of the car. I've a notion it's in an old quarry Ned Quill here told me about. Adam Bruce has gone to 999 " The District Attorney looked at Joe Dane. "You and ma wouldn't have thought of that, Joe," he said. But Dene retorted: "We dont know the car's there! That's just a stab in the dark." "Why, that's right," Tope agreed readily enough. "But I tried anoth er stab," he continued. "Quill helped me on this too. I asked him to find out whether any car had been stolen around here. Well, there was one, belonged to a man named Hol dom, has a summer place down near Ridgcomb It waa taken Friday night, out of the garage. Nettie Pineyard ? she's Holdom's house keeper?says Mrs. Kell, the chauf feur's wife, drove it away." He hesitated; but no one spoke, and he went on: "Saturday morning, Holdom tele phoned from New York to the po lice in Ridgcomb that the car had been stolen." He turned to Quill. "Ned you go call up your friend, the insurance man?see if he had insur ance on that car and whether Hol dom reported the theft to him too." Quill disappeared and Tope spoke more softly: "Didn't want Quill to hear what I'm telling you now," he said. "But Mrs. Tope here saw Led forge, the Utilities man that lives down below Ridgcomb, at a meeting once, and she saw the dead man this morning. She thought he was Ledforge!" Cumberland leaned forward, and Dane leaped to his feet. "Ledforge!" he whispered hoarsely. "By God frey! Say, if that's so?" His eyes shone. But Tope said mildly: "Wait a minute, Mr. Dane. I only said that Mrs. Tope thought the dead man was Ledforge. But Ledforge is in New York. He was at a bank di rectors' meeting there this morn ing." uane maae an exasperated ges ture. "Well, for heaven's sake, if it's not him, why set off a skyrocket here?" But then Quill returned. "Charley Fay had the insurance on the coupe," he said. "But he hasn't any report about its being stolen." Tope nodded, and gently he dis missed the trooper. "You've been a lot of help, Ned," he said. "I wish you'd drop in at Dewain's Mill and see if Adam's there. Tell him I'll be there soon." So Quill departed; and Tope looked at Cumberland. "Now, I want to do a little tele phoning, Mat," he said. "Mind if I use your name?" Cumberland as sented silently; and Tope put in a call for Police Headquarters in New York. While they waited, "There are two or three things we ought to know," Tope explained. "Kell was at Hol dom's Friday night; but he left, and Mrs. Kell hasn't been back since she drove the car away. I'd like to know where they are. And there's anoth er thing; There was a man named Whitlock at Dewain's Mill last night, said he represented the insur ance people, trying to trace a sto len car. The way he described it, it was this car. But if Holdom hasn't reported it to the insurance peo ple-" "Where is Whitlock?" Dane de manded. "He sounds fishy!" "He got away before I found out what he was up to," Tope confessed; and Dane made a disgusted gesture. Then the phone rang, and Tope took the instrument. "Hello, Pat?" he said in friendly tones. "Tope speaking. Tope! Tope, .......... nk-lnl " .. /WU /vuug i?v?i BI? /wu, Pat? Haven't seen you in live years . . . Sure, you heard right! I was married a year ago. Still on my honeymoon." He became serious. "But Pat, lis ten. I'm speaking from Mat Cum berland's office. He's the D.A. up here in Highland County. Massa chusetts, yes. North Madderson is the town. He wants some informa tion. O.K.? All right, take this down." And he gave careful instructions: To find out whether Ledforge was in New York; to check his recent move ments. What kind of hair-oil did he use? Was he in New York over the week-end? Check op on Holdom, where he had been, where he was now. "And Holdom's plane crashed Saturday morning," Tope explained. "Pilot, named Bob Flint, was killed. Down on the Sound somewhere. Find out what made the plane fall." He finished, hung up the receiver; Joe Dane started to speak, and Tope looked at the young man, a certain sympathy in his eyes. "Son," he said, "I know Just about how you feel?you're itching to get action. I'm too old to run around in circles; but If you want a Job, here's something you can do: A week ago, Mrs. Kell drove down to Middleford and met Ledforge at the train there. Where did they go? See if you can find out, Joe." And he added: "We'll know a lot more when we hear from New York. You know pretty near as much as I do, right now." Then the phone rang, and Joe Dane took the call. "It's for you. Tope," he said, surrendering the in strument. And they heard Tope say: "Hello . . . Oh, Adam . . . Good, glad you did . . . It's there, is It? Fine . . . Fine . . . Adam, did you notice whether there were heel plates on his shoes? . . . Good." He returned the receiver to the . book. "The car's in the quarry," he said. "Adam located it You'll want to get it out Mat ** ?to bb casrrnruzD) 1 j ljimprovedu 1j " uniform international Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L LUNDQU18T. D. D. Of Tb? Moody Bibia. institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for December 30 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. WORLD FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS LESSON TEXT?Acts 10:M-43. GOLDEN TEXT?The same Lord over all la rich unto all that call upon Him.?Romans 10:12. Fellowship Is impossible where there is prejudice and intolerance. The world is full of it even now, after we have fought a global war to stop such inhumanity of man to man. It would be a surprise even to some Christian people to learn- that "God ia no respecter of persons." that with Him a man ia not re ceived because he is of a particular race, color, education or social posi tion. God created all men, He loves all men, Christ died for all men, and every Christian ought to be desper ately concerned that all men should hear about their Saviour and come to know the love of God. The church of Christ has Its greatest opportunity now to show that the things it professes to be lieve actually work in the relation ship of man to man. They will work if we will only let them I Our les son presents: I. Principle?God If No Respecter of Persons (w. 34, 33). Peter hsd learned about God's love for the Gentiles by the vision given him concerning Cornelius. (Read Acts 10:1-33.) Peter was a Jew, and God now used this vision to teach him a much needed lesson about the carrying of the gospel to the Gentilea. The Jews wore (and still are?let us remem i ber it) God's chosen people. How ever, uicy were nui cnosen xor uieir t own comfort, convenience or glory, 1 but that they might be channels for the outflowing of God's blessing to all nations. Cornelius was typical of those in every nation who are ready for the preaching of the gospel. He was a God-fearing, righteous man, but nonetheless In need of redemption. God brought this man, who was ready to receive the message, to gether with the man Peter, who was prepared to preach it, and the result was salvation. Whatever it may be that keeps us from carrying the gospel to all na tions, we ought to recognize as un christian, and put it aside. It may be race prejudice, for it still per sists; but it may be an equally dead ly indifference to the needs of oth ers. Let us, like Peter, go to them and open our mouths (v. 34) to pro claim Christ. II. Practice?Jesus Did Good to All (vv. 36-41). The attributes of God are always active. He not only is good. He does good. So the principle, "no respecter of persons," is perfectly exemplified in our Lord Jesus who "went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil," and we may well place the emphasis on the word "all." The death of Christ for their sins (v. 39), His resurrection from the dead for their justification (v. 40), the coming judgment for sin (v. 42), and the remission of sins in His name? these are the essentials of Peter's message. Note how plain is the truth. Jesus has come and has wrought redemp tion for all who will believe. Nov- -?'e must choose whether we went Him to be our Judge or our Reaeemer. Either He is your Saviour, or He will be your judge. (John 3:17, 18.) The proclamation of this message of redemption was never completed, even "while Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon them all" (v. 44). Blessed interruption! Would that we might have more like tt in our churches and Bible schools! This leads up to our last point, namely, that we have a III. Privilege?We Are to Preach te All People (w. 42, 43). Yes, it is a command (Matt. 28: IS, 20), but it is also an unestimable privilege to be called of God to tell all nations about the One in whom they have "remission of sins." Let us preach that message. Book reviews, political addresses, discus sion of civic or social problems will not bring the result. Forums, clubs, discussion groups, unless they have tor their subject the Word of God, need not expect anything like this to happen. Preaching of the Word of God con cerning the person and work of Christ, whether it be in a home (like that of Cornelius) or In a great cathedral (and thank God, some of them do have such preaching), will result in some soul finding Christ and receiving the Holy Spirit. It is worthy of note that these be lievers gave evidence of their new found spiritual life by magnifying God, obeying Hif word, and testify ing to others. It is to the credit of Peter and his companions that they recognized the workings of God's grace in the lives of these Gentiles. May we also be quick to see, ap i precista and encourage every true gospel work, whether it be among j our own people or with some other race, whether in our church or in | some humble cottage. "Gad is no niDictir of ptreoao." pi ReictMd bv VMtm Ntvipiptr Unto*. COMMUNITY SHAKE OF DEBT PROVES HEAVY DRAIN NO ONE OF US can visualize our individual, family or community part in the enormous totals of the national indebtedness, the annual interest charge, government spend ing, or the number of government civilian employees. Aa totals, the figures are meaningless and we pay no attention to them. Highland Park, Mich., a 51,000 population suburb of Detroit, is a place of unusual per capita wealth. A resident of that place has figured Highland Park's portion ot these federal government totals, and what they mean to the people of that community. Aa reported by the Cit izen's National committee at Wash ington, the results are: "The toUl of Highland Park's share of the federal debt Is <9 per cent of the total assessed valuation of all of the property of the community; the federal government has incurred debts for Highland Park's citizens which are IH times the legal limit which Michigan state laws would permit them to borrow for themselves, and 32 times what they have actually bor rowed; It's enough money to run the community's public schools for 49 years; It's per capita share of all federal em ployees is 1,591, though High land Park, as a corporation, employs only 1.25a, including police and school teachers and every other city employee; Its share of Just the Interest on the federal debt would run Its scnoois lor nan a rear; us share el a 20 billion dollar federal budget would wipe out its entire school bonded debt et Just un der 2 million dollars in one year." Those are appalling figures for the people of Highland Park, Mich. The same kind of figures showing the portion of that federal indebtedness and federal spending the people of your community must pay would be equally appalling to them. The basis is simple. It is arrived at by sim ply multiplying the number of peo ple in your c enm unity by $1,881, each individuj's share of the na tional debt as of September 1, 1943. On the same date the total of civil ian employees of the federal gov enment was just about 8,600,000. We did not, or would not, protest against the war expenditures, ex travagant though they were. The cost of the war was not too large a price to pay for freedom. But we can protest against a continuance of government deficit spending; a continuing increase in the federal debt, and the continuing employ ment of an army of civilian bureau crats. ? - - ? ? ? THERE ARE MANY HUNDREDS of thousands of homeless European Jews who are seeking a place in which to start again. There are many hundreds of thousands of unoccu pied acres in former German, Ital ian and present English colonies in Africa. Why not put these unoccu pied acres to work, and save all the argument about Palestine? ? ? ? CONTINUED STRIKES MAT INJURE LAhOR CAUSE THE WAVE OF STRIKES is up setting the economic apple cart of the nation at a critical time. Direct ly or inoirectly every community is affected. Regardless at what merits their demands may have the strikers are Injuring themselves with their own weapon. It might go so far the government would large ,ty nationalize Industry. For those who are seeking -to make America over into a socialistic state that would be a desired end. For labor it would mean the passing of the labor union Just as it did in Ger many and Italy, and as It has in Russia. It may result only in a loss of prestige tor the unions; the demand on the part of the public for, and the enactment at, drastic regulatory legislation. It will, un doubtedly, result in a decrease in union membership, and a loss of sympathy for labor organization. The public, generally, feels the de mands were too drastic, and the public will resent any interference with reconversion, and the supply at peacetime commodities we must have if we are to escape disastrous inflation. In the end public opinion will decide, unless we should have a runaway congress that nationalizes industry. In either case the unions stand to lose. Injured by their own weapon, the strike, called at an in opportune time. ? ? ? IN DAW OF YORE, and not so very yore, the man who paused to glance at a picture at well-rounded feminine legs was stamped as a vulgar brute. Those who then con demned today display the originals, and he who fails to stop, stare and appreciate Is considered a stupid prude. The grandmother, dressed only in a one-piece bathing suit, who paraded by the bouse, bad passed all of sixty years. ? ? ? BEING SMUG Is but displaying both ignoranoe and Indifference. DO YOU BELIEVE IT? Others Do Believe 1946 Superstitions Many are the superstitions that still thrive in the United States. Among the things you may or may not do on New Year's Day and the penalty or profit you will receive, according to existing su perstitions, are: Making a wish will bring bad luck. Have something good cooked, and you will never lack for some thing to eat during the year. Cook white beans and you will not be broke during the year. Eat cabbage and you trill have plenty to eat all year. Have a head of cabbage in the house and you trill be successful during the year. Eat fish and have luck tor the coming year. Leave your house to call, you drive away your luck. Eat rice and you will have sil ver all year. If the first caller Is a woman, it is unlucky. If your house Is disorderly, you will have bad luck. Whatever you do on New Year's Day, you will do every day during the year. Carry corn in your pocket, and you trill never want. Spend money, and you trill al ways be poor. Break something, bad luck will follow all year. Go to church on New Year's Eve, and you will be good all year. It is unlucky to cut your hair or nails. It is bad luck to quarrel. To wash anything, you wash a member of the family away. Wanted People's Best Wishes King Tatius Is Given Credit For Well Wishing at Start of New Year. Our New Year's Day customs date back to a gentleman who may never have even existed?to the legendary King Tatius and his desire to have people wish him good luck. Bis subjects gathered branches of ver vain in the sacred grove of the god dess of strength, Strenua, and pre sented them to him on New Year's Day. Kings and common men thought well of the idea and in the old days?before Christmas became established as the gift-giving day New Year's was marked by an ex change of presents and good wishes. Our ancestors thought drinking to each other's health on New Year's Day a somewhat less than burden some duty and took to it wholeheart edly. In colonial times, the master at the house brewed his own punch tor the occasion and ladled it out him self to those who wished him well. During the Commonwealth in Eng land, the custom of offering New Year's gifts to the sovereign died and was not revived at the Restora tion. Gradually, the commoners adopted the same attitude about presents for each ether?in demo cratic America particularly, because the giving of gifts to the king had been practically a levy. But the punch bowl lingered on. Once the church bells rang and trumpets blew so that colonials might wake from their straw couches and know a new year was born. All over the world now, the year awakes with a squall and a din so that wherever you are, in Jungle, desert or on sea, this is one time of year when you need no eyes, only ears, to tell it is midnight. 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