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?? arose thus FAR: Uu Bran, Mi RIlllM, Inspector Tope end Mrs. tope Bet k Ike Mslne woods. Tope MM a esse sswdeied at sate camp aerated ?y Bee Dewala. He was ke Rt'ed te ke Mr. Ledforpe, bead ol New Mataad adllUes- Ledfer(e-s Mead was i"d la hospital srltk head Injartes. His ekasdlem. Roll, was found, admitted that ke Ml Hotdom on head, soon Holdout's osdata Said ke did Bet kaew where Mm. Ren was. Joe Dane, assistant D.A.. "Bsed with Holdout aad learned from tail that a woman aad maa had been there at Urns ef murder aad Be maa was called Rape, which might Raws hesa Ledforge, as his aams was CHAPTER X _Ha admitted: "Matter of fact, I toonght there was two women in Mtofc. I thought she said 'Ruth,' till Earl here told me it was a man aad a woman." Joe took both men in his car back te his home in North Madderson. Here were vital witnesses; he meant to keep their information to himself tor a while. "And you stay here," he directed. "Don't talk to anybody till I come tor you, or send for you. See?" He went back to the courthouse, where Pringle still held his vigil mwLi Holdom. "He's been asleep Bast of the time," the detective re ported. "Seems kind of dopey. Don't aay a word." Joe nodded. "I've got a hot trail," he reported "Have you heard any . toing from Mat?" "Why, yes," Pringle told him. "They got that car out of the quar ry. Telephoned for Will Baiuon's ambulance here a minute ago. Mrs. Kell was in it. Dead." Joe nodded again, loftily. "Natu Rally," he agreed. "Well, I'll run out there, take charge." He made speed toward the quar Wf. Beyond Dewain's Mill, in the front seat of a car stopped at a fill tog station there, he saw Tope sit (tog alone, his head bowed, appar ently asleep. But Joe did not stop, ?e had no desire to share with this toterioper his discoveries now. . . . Instructor Tope did not see Joe Bane pass by; but the old man, Bough his eyes were closed, was not asleep. Yet he might have been ex cased for being. He had slept not at afl for many hours. When Bee, the night before, took Mrs. Tope away to see her safe abed. Tope led Adam up to the cab to where Whitlock and Beal were housed, and knocked on the door. Whitlock and Beal were still awake. "I talked with your boss, boys," Dope told them directly. "Take my ward for that? Or do you want to Het him on the phone?" Whitlock consulted Beal with a gtonce, and Tope added: "I know who put you on this. Charley told me. He said you don't know." "No," Whitlock admitted. "Charley gave me your reports up to yesterday morning, the last time pm called him up. I'll run through ton if you want, show you I know what I'm talking about." Whitlock surrendered. "Well take four word for it," he said. Tope nodded. "All right. But the party that put you on the job in the Krst place saya you can quit now. tort I need you, and Myers says you're to work with me. O.K.?" Whitlock grinned. "I've heard a tot about you, old man. Glad to watch you operate. What is this losiness, anyway?" Tope for a moment did not an swer. Then he said heavily, half to himself: "If it's what I think it h. it's about as bad a thing as I ever ran into." And he added grim fcr: "Unless I'm clear off the track, toere are three people dead already ?and if we don't watch ourselves, more to come. You boys come along." They set out in two cars, Whit tock and his comrade trailing: and Tope said to Adam: "Go to that lodge, son. I want to see Mr. Eberly." Adam assented. "Hurry?" he mked. Tope shook his head. "It's late already," he pointed out. "He'll be asleep, anyway. We'll have to wake torn up; and we're staying with him WD daylight, so take your time." "Right," Adam assented. "See if yai can go to sleep. I'll try not to give you a bumpy ride." Yet with the best of intentions on Adam's part, that drive through the BBgbt was still an ordeal of narrow Aad woods roads, missed turns and mnsequent doublings and diflftcul toaa. It was past four o'clock in the meaning, and Adam was grimly ?mstog Bee Dewain's idea of dis towcea and of direction before they me at last to a gate she had de atitoed?and found it locked. At toga's direction, Whitlock and Beal mayed here with the cars while Tope aad Adam went on, trudging along toe winding way. Insensibly a gray came stealing through the "Daylight," said Tope. "Well, JJwtoe enough I" And he asked: "?mm, got your gun?" -Yea. Why?" **eD may have brought some one ?Where that he didn't tell us about," ?J? Tope, and said no more. Then ?wy .came 0,6 lod8e?low, sprawl 55' ^ *?g?, an outlook to west across the tumbled crests ^JWUnt wooded hilly like tossing ?toms. A car was parked by the ? tor; and door, and some windows, ? ??? area , - ^ ~ . Mr. Eberly came out to meet them, and remembered Adam, and said gravely: "I heard your car. Sorry the gate was locked." He smiled in faint mirthless fashion. "More trouble, Bruce?" "Not for you, sir,v Adam told him; and he introduced Inspector Tope, leaving it to Tope to explain their presence here. Tope handed Eberly that letter from Ledforge. "Miss Dewain thought you'd want it," he said. "As long as it's this afternoon Mr. Led forge wants you to meet him." Eberly read the letter swiftly; he looked at Tope. "Miss Dewain showed this to you?" "Yes sir," Tope confessed; and he said briefly: "Mr. Eberly, I don't want to try to tell you all that's happened. If I told you the story, you'd think more about the ques tions you want to ask than about the questions I'm asking you. Mind if I don't start explaining at all?" Eberly was white and still. "What is it you want to know?" "Why, that's fine," said Tope con tentedly. "You know Mr. Ledforge pretty well, don't you?" "I'm probably his most intimate friend." Eberly glanced at Adam. "Be will be here some time today." "Mr. Bruce has of course told you of the bank's collapse. Ledforge se curities were in large part respon sible. But Mr. Ledforge had ad vised me against carrying so much of his stuff. He believed in it him self, but preferred that I should not commit the bank so heavily. It was my own decision, my own responsi bility." ( Tope nodded. "Know his family, do you?" "Miss Ledforge, yes. There is no one else." j "You and he used to go fishing together and so on?" "Yes, and still do. Fish and hunt. Or sometimes Just come up here and rest for days on end." . Tope looked around reflectively. \ And he asked: "Mr. Eberly, come 1 down to Ledforge's place with us, will you? I want to see Miss Led- ; forge, and I'd like to see that fish , pond of his. I'm a fisherman my- , self." , "Certainly," Eberly agreed. "I'D i get some clothes on." He had come 1 in slippers and dressing-gown to 1 greet them. i At Tope's suggestion, they left 1 Eberly's car here and walked back to the locked gate, roused Whitlock ( and Beal, sleeping wearily in their ] car, and so got under way. Eberly | told them they need not go through I Ridgcomb. "There's a back road," he ex- < plained, "that comes down past the fish pond. A locked gate, but I have i a key." i When their ring was answered, ] Tope asked for Mr. Ledforge. "He's expected this afternoon, < sir," the servant replied. "Then Miss Ledforge?" I Miss Ledforge received them at ' the breakfast table; and Adam thought there was some shadow in i her eyes; yet she smiled in a friend- i ty fashion, and spoke to Inspector i Tope, remembering his call two ; days before. "My brother hasn't come yet," I she explained. "He will be here < sometime today." 1 Tope said slowly: "Why, that's < what I hear, Miss Ledforge." And he said: "We're from the Myers < Agency, you see." Her cheek colored faintly. "Oh, that absurd proceedingl" she ex claimed. "I should apologize for troubling you." And she explained: ' "It was my ridiculous solicitude. ] You see, my brother wrote last week ' that he was ill, was coming home 1 Friday." She hesitated. "He never took proper care of himself; and when he didn't come as he expect ed, I was concerned." She laughed ' softly. "He was so amused, when ; I told him what I had done. Told 1 me to?call off my dogs! So I tele phoned Mr. Myers." Adam saw Whitlock move aa though to speak, knew what the oth er was about to say. It was early Friday morning, before she could have known that her brother had not come home aa ha planned, that Miss Ledforge had set these men upon the trail. But Tope touched Whitlock's arm, restraining him; spoke himself instead. "Well, ma'am, that's all right." And he added: "I want to leave Mr. Whitlock here. He's expecting a phone call from Mr. Myers. Can he stay?" "Of course," she assured him; and then Tope was saying good-by. Outside, the old man said crisply: "Whitlock, you and Beal stay here till you hear from me." And he added: "Your Job is to see that noth ing happens to that old lady." "Happens to herT What?" "I don't look for anything," Tope admitted. "Your being here will prevent. But?you stay." And he turned and with Adam by his side strode toward the car. Whlt lock, gaping with bewilderment, swung away to where Beal waited in the other machine. At the Mill, Bee and Mrs. Tope were here to greet them. After the first moment, Bee caught Adam's arm, drew him aside. "What's happened?" she demand ed softly. "Where have you been?" "Lost in an impenetrable forest," ha assured her, chuckling. "When it comes to giving a man directions, you're a total loss. What were you trying to ao, get rid of us tor good and all? We didn't find the lodge till daylight." "Idiot!" she protested. "You didn't listen! But it's hours since daylight. Where have you been since? And why did he bring Mr. Eberly here? And what did you find out?" "Well," he said, "we called on Miss Ledforge. It was she who put Whitlock and Beal on this thing, be cause her brother wrote her that he was sick." "But that doesn't make sense?" She had no time to shape another question. Tope was coming toward them, and he called to Adam: "All right, sonl Let's go!" He climbed into the car. "Where to?" Adam asked, and Tope said in a mild impatience: "The quarry, man!" So Adam drove down the road toward Ridgcomb, till he came to that byway which led up into the hills where the quarries were; then turned aside and began the steep climb. Adam asked: "You feel sure this is the Holdom car?" But Tope reported in an impa tient tone: "It's bound to be! Go along." When they reached the ledge above the quarry, Mat Cumberland came to meet them; beyond, Adam saw half a dozen men engaged in the task here under way. Cumber land said in slow bewildered tones: "Tope, Kell told the truth. Our dead man can't be Ledforge I There's s story in the New York papers to day that Ledforge has made a com plaint to the governing committee of the Stock Exchange about Hol dom." "No, Ledforge isn't dead," Tope absently assented. Adam pressed closer, as intent as the District Attorney to hear what the old man's answer would be; but Tope gave them no enlightenment. "I'll know a lot more two hours from now," he said. "But till I'm mre in my own mind, I'd rather not do any guessing." And he added re tssuringly: "But Mat, if I'm on the right track, we'll have all the dirty linen washed and hung out on the line by tonight." He took the big nan's arm. "Now come on. Let's see what they're doing here." They turned along the ledge and Cumberland said: "The newspapers have got the story, Tope. Got re porters on it I looked for some of them to be up here before now." Tope stopped in his tracks. "We don't want that! Quill here?" "Over yonder," Cumberland as sented; and Tope saw the trooper, kneeling on the lip of the ledge to look down into the quarry pit below, and called to him. Quill came to ward them; and Tope said quickly: "Son, go down the rc.~ 1 and keep the reporters from coming up here ?if they find out where we are." "Oke," Quill assented. "I ran into j them once already today." And he 1 reported: "I found the Holdom lim ousine, Inspector. Number plates gone, but it's the one, all right. Hid in the woods. There's blood aa the j door rug in the rear seat" He chuckled. "I sent the reporters up there. They couldn't make anything out of that." Tope nodded. "You looked H over first?" "Nothing in a" "Look at the tools?" "No. Why?" Tope said: "There was probably blood and hair on one of the wrenches. Unless Holdom kept his hat on. But no matter. Did you see?the girl I sent you to see?" "Not yet. Tried twice, but there wasn't anyone at home." "Well, after we're through here, find her, see what she says, come and tell me," the old man direct ed. "Think you can hold the re porters off our neck?" (TO BE LUUnEUXU) ??, IMPROVED JLUUl L< UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson Bi HAROLD U. LUNDQU1ST. D. D. Leuon for February 3 FEAST DATS OF A PEOPLE LESSON TEXT?Leviticus ?:1. ?; ?4?. 1?, IS, M, It, a 54, M-M. GOLDEN TEXT?TIM Lord hath don* *rwt thlno for u>; whereof wt an clad.? Paalm 1*5. God wants His people to enjoy their religious life. Being in fellow ship with Him is not something to dampen one's spirits, but rather to give Joy and enthusiasm full lib erty. Even with Israel in those ear ly days when Christ had not come and they bad only the promises and types of His coming. He arranged for regular religious feasts or fes , tivals which brought the people to gether to worship Him. One can well imagine the delight ful fellowship as friends, acquaint ances and especially relatives from various places went up to the feast together. Personal Joy was height ened by the great spiritual Joy which they shared. The obvious lesson for us is that we who know Christ and have peace and liberty in Him should enjoy our Christian anniversaries to the full in a manner well-pleasing to Him. We need such occasions to renew our faith, to quicken our joy, and to cause us to remember God's grace and His blessings. The first of the assigned Scrip ture passages does not directly re late to the feasts of God's people but rather speaks of-: I. The Holiness of the Lord (Lev. 20:7, 8). God is holy and His pefeple in their earthly walk are to show that they have been sanctified by Him. This I involves a separation from worldly i practices and an eagerness to do the will of God. Keeping the statutes of God should be the delight of His people, not a burden or a trial. There is real liberty In conformity to law. Holiness makes for freedom and fruitfulness. Now we turn to the consideration of the feasts of the Lord. In select ing the verses, two of the feasts were omitted, so we shall include Leviticus 23:3, 9-12 with the others assigned. H. The Feasts of the Lord (Lev. 23:3-6, 9-12, 15. 16. 24, 27, 28, 34, 39-44). This is one of the great chapters of the book of Leviticus, presenting both practical and prophetic teach ing. The holy "feasts" and the "set times" of Israel (which we shall consider under the one heading of "feasts") were for their spiritual Instruction-and edification, but they also reveal God's prophetic purpose for both Israel and the Church. I. The Sabbath (v. 3). This is not strictly considered one of the feasts but a set time?a holy convoca tion to be held after six days of la bor. It is the type of the rest that God has in mind for His people. (See Heb. 4:1-11.) A word of admonition is in order regarding America's awful disre spect for and misuse of our day of rest?the Lord's day. Is it not time we did something about the desecration of Sunday? 2. The Passover and the Unleav ened Bread (w. 4-6). These could be considered separately but they are closely related. The Passover spoke of the Lamb of God who was to sbed His blood on the cross, even as it pointed back to redemption by blood on that dark night in Egypt (Exod. 12:12, 13). The unleavened bread speaks of holiness. This is not the result of "servile work" (v. 8), but a show ing forth of faith in the offering by fire. 3. The Firstfruits (w. 9-12). Just as the one sheaf was waved before the Lord as the earnest of the har vest, so Christ in His resurrection is the firstfruits of them that sleep in the grave. (See I Cor. 15:20-23.) Note that it was waved "on the morrow after the Sabbath" (v. 11) which is the resurrection morning? our Sunday. What a blessed thought! 4. Pentecost (w. 18, 16). Fifty days after the feast of firstfruits came a new meal offering; two wave loaves are presented before the Lord. This new meal offering speaks of the believing people of Christ, and so it came to pass that it was on Pentecost that the Holy Spirit eras poured out on the Church (Acts 2:1-4), Just fifty days after the resurrection of Christ. 5. Trumpets (v. 24). This looks forward to the day whan God shall call His people Israel In the latter days. This will bring them togeth er for the great day of 6. Atonement (w. 27, 28). On that day Christ shall take away the sin at His people (Zech. 12:1), and they : shall be prepared for the crowning ; and Joyous feast of 7. Tabernacles (w. 24, 39-44). This eras the great feast at ingathering of the products of the year. Israel then dwelt in booths to recall their days in the wilderness. It was a time of full rejoicing, when sor row and crying were put away. It is the type of Israel's ultimate res toration and full blessing. Such are the feasts of the Lord delightful and faith-stimulating?fo' Israel and for us! New Spring Hals Gay With Ribbon Trim Intriguing Shapes Also Make Interesting News. By CHERIE NICHOLAS Much of the millinery story for spring can be told in one word? ribbons! For all except the formal ized cocktail and dinner types rib bons register as the outatanding trimming among designers. Speak ing In general, there is a trend to ward less trimming on hats as com pared with over lavish decor. Ribbons work perfectly into the millinery scheme for the coming months. The new collections stress ribbon treatments that are sim plified into mere bands with neat tailored bow or casual streamers. Most of the fashion-first felts are just like that ? little trimming save a pert ribbon cocarde or a wheel like ornament that has been in tricately manipulated yet preserves a conservative, thoroughly wear able effect. The new shapes are intriguing. There is a trend in the smaller hats toward high-cuff turbans. 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