? ? ??? *o?m Bruce, *? * trip to his old hone, T _ ""lo" *<>". Lu Doctor Tope "? a?#* ToP* He tent then eat to u ?to cup operated hp Bee Dewela. Let. *?PC Phoned Bruce, xikln, * **"" " ??ce mad brtnj suu T>ii| ii (Join The bod; ot a naa, who J**- "P1 thooiht Wat Ledtorge, head ol mmm Whdlend etUlOea, had haea toood. Hu helloed to hare beee itotea and ?* * "He "ardor was toad la the toillli- Tope exprestcd heUet that ?t He? wat dead la the car, whOa *?* torner employee at Bol too. to* walked away. Holdom wat to dead U hot pi tel. Ledtorge la New York. CHAPTER VH ^tpa exclaimed in a mild exas : "Didn't the doctor know waa? Holdom must have ?M letters, labels in his clothes, ?Storthing. A doctor that will keep ?atoconscious man for three days without trying to And out who he is ?ad let his people know, needs look tog Mo, Mat!" "Holdom told his office he'd had a^tonssh-up," Cumberland volun "Thnash-up! Smash-up!" Tope re peated exasperatedly. "That's a lie, ?all Ha and Ledtorge started up ?esw together, with Kell driving. Worjt came back to his office toaday morning with no word of ? seoaah-up! Kell came home with ?a ?aid of a smash-up! The car shaved no signs of a smash-up! It dsau't make sense. Mat." "fiWdotn told his office he'd be ?w tomorrow," said Cumberland. Tbpa looked at him. "If ha was ?ram ious in this doctor's hospital, ?la dilki't telephone from New York an Saturday," he said. "Telephone?" Cumberland echoed. "Some one telephoned!" Tope re ?atoded him irritably. "Telephoned ?e police st Ridgcomb, and said he WP Holdom and that his coupe had tan stolen!" "Holdom must know something!" Ctoiherland said. "I'll send for Mm. get him up here, as soon as to Is able." Tope nodded. "Of course. I guess jarfd better send Dane," he decid ed. "Dime, as soon as Holdom can hnel, bring him up here. He's a material witness, anyway. Make ?hi come." Bane protested: "No need of my Vang. Any policeman?" But Tope urged: "Needs a re maasible man with a head on his Aaldcrs, son." He hesitated. he apologized, "I'm speak Mg oat ol turn. After all, this is your "That's all right," Cumberland in BM. "Joe, you do what Tope Dane insisted stubbornly: "I ought to be here. Keep in touch with Tope touched his arm. "We want to know more about this doctor down ?ate, son," he declared. "Maybe ht one of the gang. You look him a Si, ask him a few questions, size Ho up, see what you think of him." So Dane was flattered into con senting. "Well, that's so," he ?greed. "I'd better do that. I'll Bui up on him, and bring Holdom hack. I'll see what I can get out of ?oldom on the way." But Tope objected to this, and with some violence. "Don't you, Bane!" he commanded. "Don't you ask Holdom anything. Just tell him pau've got orders to bring him up Here. Let him stew in his own Bace till we're ready to talk to him. ? he's been unconscious since Sat urday, there's a lot he doesn't know. % the time you get him back here, anybe we'll know more than we do ?mtm, be able to ask him some ques tions he can't answer." And he added, remembering: "By tos way, Joe, I want you to find out aaae things for me: Ask Medford ?bout gas from the exhaust, and whether it could get into the rumble ?eat, and whether this dead man tod breathed any of it, and whether to was drugged. And see if you mo find out where Mrs. Kell and todforge went last week-end. Joe and Cumberland turned to ward the door: but there they met toe Dewain The girl's face was iMte and strained; she would have ^idrrn Tope, with a sudden vio of words, urged Dane and fitonberland toward the car; and mdj when they were gone did be Baa to Bee. "How, Miss Dewain," he said yaialy, "I judge you've got bad toe nodded. "I telephoned Ed Bksfs camps," she said unhappi to "Mr. Eberly's not there. They toa*t expect him. They haven't Based from him." tope whistled softly. "That's where he planned to go?" "Yes, that's where he always gtss. That's where he said he was n tope wagged his head. "Qiild," | to ?" gently, "I hadn't ought to \ tose asked you to telephone up , ton. It's just a bad habit of mine, , walking on a business like this, , whenever anyone tells me anything, , check up and see if it's so. I've as ?"""" that Mr. Eberly has any- , MM to do with this. As far as ? toll ' IT where he is?" He chuc kled, touched her arm. "Don't ever 1 wsader about a fisherman," he tpl "You ean't rely on them i PM ton ?*??" you can on trout in t the brook. .. . Did you think to (etch I that letter?" It was in her hand. "Here it is," the said. Tope unfolded the single sheet, he looked at the letterhead, then read the scrawled words. Dear Carl How about some fishing this week? Trout ought to take hold. Shall we try the pond? I'll be home sometime Wednesday aft ernoon. Come about half-past four. That will let us catch the evening rise. You'd better plan to stay the night in case we keep at it till dark. No need of answering this, because if you're not there by four-thirty, I'll go ahead alone. Here's luck! Leddy The old man asked: "Carl is Mr. Eberly's name?" "Yes.': "Ledforge wrote this, eh? That the way he signs himself?" "Yes." She watched him almost fearfully. And he returned the letter to her, touched her hand. "Now, don't you "Sh-b-h!" he whispered, "Sb-h-h!" , worry," he urged again. "Mr.' Eber ly's all right." And he asked: "Earl Priddy has disappeared, has heT" ; Bee answered him in some sur prise: "Why, yes. How did you know? Mrs. Priddy wanted him to 1 come and peel potatoes tor supper, ] but he's gone! Just simply van- | ished into thin air!" , Tope nodded, chuckling: "Earl's out spreading the news," he assured | her. "I guess the excitement is due ' to start," he predicted. "Country folks have tongues like a lot of dom- ] inoes. You set one of them wag- i ging, and you wag them all." < "I'll go after him," Bee prom- ' ised. "Find him, make him be I still." She hurried away. I Tope sat down on the edge of the bed. "I'm getting old," he con- ( fessed. "Going to catch a nap be- t fore supper-time." t He lay down, and Mrs. Tope cov- i ered him over and made him com- 1 fortable. I As Tope had guessed, Earl Priddy * was busy. When Joe had asked for ' Inspector Tope, Earl was startled c into a curiosity that would no long- c er be denied. An hour later, after c various investigations which includ ed a secret survey of Amasa's ' farmhouse, he came almost at a run c to the store in Madderson village. 8 He went directly to the telephone J and called the District Attorney's * office in North Madderson and v asked for Joe Dane. Of Cumber land himself. Earl stood in some ? awe; but not of Joe Dane. Joe was not there! 8 "Well, you tell him Earl Priddy'a got some news for him," Earl said ? vehemently. "Something mighty ? important about this case out here. ' He'll know what I mean. You tell \ him to see me, quick's he can!" And only then did he turn to re- c cite his tale to the audience that c while he phoned had been quick to d gather close behind him. While Earl thus brought the news to Madderson village that there was s a dead man in the small back room b at Amasa Dewain's, Inspector Tope was still asleep, Mrs. Tope on guard a beside him. He did not stir till the supper-bell roused him; and a little later he and Mrs. Tope came down h to the Mill. Bee met them apolo getically. jj "I don't know whether we'll get jj much supper, or whether it will be jj St to eat," she explained. "Earl p didn't get back till a little while ago, . and Mrs. Priddy had to peel her - 3wn potatoes. She may take it out .. an us!" ? Tope guessed: "Priddy probably h went to spread the news." r When Bee returned from the n kitchen, her eyes were troubled. "Mrs. Priddy says Earl knows all * about it," she confessed. "He saw b the dead man up at Uncle Amasa's ?peeped in the window." And (he said with a rueful feature: "I don't know how he knows, but he told Mrs. Priddy the dead man was found in Faraway!" She added, looking at Adam, her eyes twinkling faintly: "Earl I k? has some important information Uiat he's going to give Joe Dane! So if you and Inspector Tope don't hurry, Joe will be the one to?read the riddle, after alll" Adam grinned. "Joe couldn't read the alphabet in large type." he told her confidently. "And Earl wouldn't know information if he saw ft" I m afraid you've always under rated Joe," she retorted. "But then .<*on'' 'mow much about real criminals. You've spent your time annoying innocent men!" Mrs. Tope watched them, amused; and Adam protested: "Bee, I never claimed Eberly had committed any done anything wrong. But the bank had to be closed to protect all the depositors. Those Utilities bonds?" He checked himself, looked at Tope in a startled way. Inspector, I forgot about that. It Ledforge stuff that ruined Eberly s bank. Do you suppose Eberly?" Bee uttered an indignant exclam ation: "Adam Bruce, if you try to pretend that Mr. Eberly?'" Adam shook his head; he grinned at her. "No, Bee," he said. "You're a stubborn young hussy, and no ona can beat any sense into you; but? Kberly's all right. Tope. He threw all his own money into the bank, made every sacrifice possible to help save the depositors." He looked f' t*le k'rl in sudden concern. Bee," he asked, "you don't think it possible that he would?" "No, no," she whispered. "He's too?" She was interrupted. The door burst open, violently. Here was Earl Priddy, his eyes wide and gog gling with excitement, his hands shaking. He leaped into the room, and banged the door behind him, and set his shoulders against it. his hands outspread to press hard against the panels. "Sh-h-h!" he whispered. "Sh-h-h!" Bee said reproachfully: "Earl, you're drunk! Don't be a nuisance! Go out of doors!" "Not me," said Earl Priddy hot '!? "I don't go out there again to night! No sir, not me." Some one pushed at the door from without, and he fought to hold it shut. The door bulged, and Adam leaped that way. There was sud denly a weapon in the young man's hand. He thrust Priddy aside, and Earl stumbled and fell, and Adam jerked wide the door, his gun ready, expecting anything. But he saw only Vade, and Isaac Murrell, and Mrs. Murrell and th# twins clustering curiously there, pale and alarmed. They recoiled before Adam's weapon; and Earl, scrambling to his feet, cried: "Come in! Come in, quick, e" *ery body! Shut the door! Lock itl rhere's a man in Faraway!" Half a dozen people had beard Earl's announcement. Tope regret *d this; but regret did not Impose in him inaction. He said briefly: 'Adam!" And with young Bruce leside him, he started up the drive award Faraway. There was never in Tope any par icular capacity for fear; if he knew langer lay ahead, he was not above aking precautions, for there was >o arrogance of folly in this man. 3ut tonight he had?or seemed to lave-no feeling that it would be langerous to surprise the intruder n Faraway. He made haste to :ome to the cabin; and before Adam | rould intervene, he had thrown the ' loor open and stepped firmly in. Night had by this time almost ful- 1 y fallen, and the interior of the abin was dark. Yet there was light nough for them to see the bed hat bed under which a body once lad been bestowed?all in disorder, rith blankets and coverlet and mat ress in a heap upon the floor; and i man, with a lighted match in his i and, staring down through the prings at the empty space below. The man, at their entrance, ' whirled, and the match went out; 1 ut Adam snapped on the lights. .lien Balser Vade came up on the ' arch behind them, and Tope turned 1 nd saw him, said curtly: "Vade, go tell Miss Dewain to < all Mat Cumberland. Tell him to I ome here." He added: "And Vade, I on't you come back!" "Hello, Kell," he said. 1 The big man twitched as though 1 ome secret agony tormented him, I ut he made no move nor sound. I "What are you doing heref" Tope i sked. I The answer came stammeringly. i "I?wanted a place to sleep. I'm i unting work, walking?" . Tope looked at the other's shoes, i ow wet with dew, though they had een faintly dusty. Then Adam | niched the Inspector's arm, whis- , ered in his ear. Tope nodded. "Of course," be assented impa- j iently. "This Is Kell, all right." He , iced the mustacbed man again. Go on," he said then. "You're out , t work, tramping the country, look ig for a Job; you thought you might teal a night's sleep here. You havs j o money. Is that your story?" And when the other did not an wer. Tope said: "Adam, turn out > is pockets I" { (TO BK COirrUfUXD) y I 11 ' 'improved uniform international Sunday i chool Lesson By BAJIOLD L LUNDOUIST. D. D. Of th* Moody H Me I naff tut* of Ckiaala. B*l*|**d MfMUtl Klanitm Union. Lesion for January 13 ^^"?1 Whjffti and Scrtptur* teat* aa BfW ond copyrighted by International Council at RaUgtoua Education: uaad by parmlaalon. A PEOPLE DELIVERED LESSON TEXT?Exodus U 17 21 GOLDEN TEXT?] will trust, and not bo afraid; for th* Lord Jehovah even lbs Lord, to my atrength ?Isalab U:t "Is thy God able to deliver theeT" was the question asked of Daniel in the lions' den (Dan. 6:20). It is in the minds and on the lips of many in every hour of crisis. God is able to deliver. Moses found that out when in answer to his complaint that the Lord had done nothing for his suffering peo ple (Exod. 5:22), the Lord revealed Himself as the One who was not only able but ready to take them out of their bondage. I. God's Promise (6:5-8). Moses was to remember that he was dealing with the Eternal One, unchangeable, and always true to His word and able to make His will come to pass (v. 2, 3). So often men in dealing with God think of Him in terms of their own weakness and failure. What we need is to have a Godlike concep tion of God, not a manlike idea of Him. God is the infinite and the Eternal One with whom we have no right to quarrel, and whose deal ings with us are too high for us to judge (Pu. 139:1-6). God's covenant with His people was established (v. 4). He had heard their cry (v. 5), and His de liverance was sure (v. 6). The only thing Moses had to do was to wait and see God work. That word "wait" is a little one. It seems to call for no effort, to be easy of fulfillment; yet it seems to be the hardest thing for a human being to do. Christians who can speak and work for God when things are active and moving become querulous and despondent when they have to wait or when they are laid aside for a time. His promise is sure. That is not just a religious sentiment. It is a fact, and it is proved by history, n. God's Plan (13:17-19). There was a direct, easy road along the coast of the Mediter ranean up to Canaan, but God with His pillar of cloud and fire did not lead in that way. How strange that He should Uke them by a longer, more difficult way! Not at all. He knew the dan ger of the easy way. It was there that the warlike Philistines,.would be lying in ambush. Such immedi ate conflict would discourage Israel and tempt them to return to the fleshpots of Egypt. So He took them the other way. Note that God's guidance for them was one of intelligent planning, not just impulse or chance. He knew what to do, and He did it. for their good. God has a plan, not only for the nations, but also for Individuals, for your life and mine. Let us find His will for us, for it is good, accept able and perfect (Rom. 12:1, 2). Note the honoring of the faith of Joseph in God's promise (v. 19). The memory of his assurance was a blessing to his descendants, and they honored it and him. What will our descendants have to say about our faith in God? in. God's Presence (13:20-22). Our Got! does not just send a plan or program to His people. He is al ways with them and is ready to go before them. God's pan is made known to His people as they follow Him step by step. This means that there must be guidance, moment by moment, U His plnn is to be worked out He gives such guidance and it is only when His children fail to follow it that the pattern of life becomes confused. The flell of divine guidance is one in which Christians have widely divergent experiences. Some know the sweet, unconfused daily experi ence of God's hand upon them, car ing for even the minor details (or ere they minor?) of life. Others have known the directive power of God In some life crisis, but not in the ordinary affairs of life. Many, and perhaps roost, think of divine guid ance as a spiritual theory of which the preacher talks, but know noth ing of it in their own lives. What makes this great difference? Faith?or the lack of it. Those who trust God accept and receive His blessed leadership moment by mo ment. It is as simple as that. Oth ers reach out and take it when the pressure of life makes them cast theinseives on God. Others simply muddle along "doing their best," which is not their best, for God is not in H. The pillar of cloud, which became luminous at night, was idea) for the guidance of Israel. It provided ?hade from the hot sun by day, and it was a sure guide in the dark ness of the night. We who believe in Christ have an even better and more precious evidence of God's presence?the Holy Spirit who indwells us. He reveals God's trill to us, urging us on, or restraining us as the need may be. Are we obedient to His blessed promptings? Do we walk in the light of His perfect guid ance? Spring Mode Features Changing Silhouette Full Skirts, Deep Armhole Sleeves Give New Lines. By CHERIE NICHOLAS Now that apring home-tewing ac tivities will soon begin, prepared ness is the word for those who plan to make their own clothes. It is j wise to become informed in advance as to that which is to be new in silhouettes, new colors and style right materials that have the new look. You'll And that you will work with much more confidence if you give careful forethought to your pro gram. Silhouette interest is keen this year, for there are interesting and important changes on the way. The new trend is toward skirts that are fuller and about an inch longer, swinging out into animated hem lines. Lots of pleating will be used, not only as trimming but pleats in the skirt at each side or gathered fullness is a very new style gesture. The all-around pleated skirt is "in' again. There is a big change in aleeves In fact, sleeves are really in the newer fashions, and they make an Interesting study, for they are so versatile and "different." Most of them are gathered into the armhole, and they range from short puffs to bracelet and wrist lengths. The silhouette for coats and suits call for rounded shoulders, deep-cut armholes, wing effects and varied interpretations, all of which calls for soft styling. There are many belted in and tied effects. A trend to fitted lines is also seen. The con tinued success of toppers is as sured. Boleros and brief jackets will be featured. Bright colored wool jersey Is high on the fabric list. Home dress makers will find that jersey is very easy to work with. Pretty and sim ple little suits and daytime casuals are made of aralac flannel. Wools In lovely colors and soft neutral shades are still top fastvon for spring. Striped surahs and taffetas will be just what you want for the tunic blouse you plan on making. Pure silk prints are with us again, and there's big news in nylon weaves. The first dress you will probably feel an urge to make will be a gay print. Look up the new prints that show lots of imagination in their patternings. Keep in mind when you are looking up your pat tern that the two-piece suit-dress is of high fashion rank. Color puts navy first. However, browns are in close competition, especially the new ginger and copper shades. Bright colors stress vivid coral, royal blue, cornflower blue, tangerine, much red, the cop per tones and a new tone of yellow. Competing with these are the ex quisitely refined neutrals and the much-beloved off whites, especially the white wine tones. Scarf Forms Dickey This eye-thrilling dickey really isn't a dickey. It is a perfectly gor geons silken scarf artfully manipu lated to play the role of a dickey. Woven satin dota contribute to the deslgnful patterning of this lovely Echo scarf which comes in a range of very beautiful jewel color coih binations. It is worth while to have several richly colorful and designful scarfs on hand as they can be con verted into endless glamour accents such as draped about the hips to form a decorative overskirt or aproo effect, or made into flattering headwear. Fads and Fancies Airy-fairy evening gowns of float ing chiffon are again in the pic ture. Velvet is big news in the realm of lounging robes and hostess gowns. Some of the handsomest types are styled of black velvet that drapes to a side fastening, finished off with scallops about the edges. 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