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Two pines of good girth had been cut and trimmed to serve ae shears; their butts anchored on Me rim of the ledge, against iron hue set in holes drilled in the solid Manila; their tips crossed and lnhed with chains from which a at eel pulley and cable were suspend ed. The shears were guyed with jadre cables carried back and an ehacBd to trees in the fringe of the weed beh'-jd. Men were busy tight ening the cables, tending the winch, Mending questions and commands. _ At the edge Of the precipice the Mtman, on his hands and knees, welched a man who swam nude in She Quarry pool below. The fall from ?? pulley descended beside this bm. He floated on Ms back, pad Ming with his hands, and called up: "More slack, Mike! I must get a Hkh around the aziel" ?"O.K.," said Mike, and waved his hand In signal. The winch creaked; Ma ropes whirred; the steel fall Maeended six inches, a foot, two fleet deeper into the water. IT try it now," the swimmer derided. "Don't take any strain on R addle I'm daws." He made a neat surface dive; his Racks gleamed in the sun. He seemed to Re out of sight for a long time; tat at length Adam saw a pale blur to Me gray water, and then the Ban's head appeared. He rolled on Ms back, lay breathing deeply for Bmoment, shouted: Take up on it now I I think I've 9* it! Don't lift?just draw it tight!" The fall drew taut and stopped; aad the swimmer once more de W2mfk this time h* hrnkf* thA ?iir Ik* again, he swam a little away ?am the chain. "Now take it up!" he called. "Till the front end is out af water, so I can see if the hook to ast all right!" The winch revolved, and the fall began to climb laboriously upward. The man swam away a rod or j two and waited. Sr out of that gray concealing water, wheels appeared, and a fen der, a mudguard, the front of a streaming radiator... .Adam's heart leaped, driven by an intense excite ment. This was, after all, no more r ftao a car which some one had wWvd to hide; yet its resurrection toim that hiding place, where It might have lain forever, had in it something dramatic, almost omi auua. It was like the emergence of a monster, slowly, from its lair; slow, lethargic?and ponderous with Sunsi uuenccsl "Hold it! ' called the man below. The winch stopped while he swam toward the car. Adam felt some me beside him. Here was Tope, on bands and knees, peering down; the Htptrif I torney just beyond. "O.K.!" shouted the swimmer tri umphantly. "You can have it! Take ft away!' He began to swim toward the tortbei side of the quarry, where his clothes lay on a rock in the sun. ?ike Frame waited till the swim mer was well clear before he gave the signal. And at last it was here just be tow them. It hung six feet beyond ?sir reach, its bottom toward them. Itaey all stared at the bottom of torn car, searching it with eyes ab snrdiy intent, as though it might have some secret to reveal. bad then suddenly Tope stood up; ft* spoke to Mike, in sharp irritated ??we. "What are you going to do wUk it?" he demanded. "Eh?" said Mike. "Do with it? Why?drag it out of there! That's what you wanted, wasn't it?" Tups's temper flared. The old man was tired, impatient. "How?" he in sisted. "You can't reach out and pick it like an apple, and you've got m amy to swing these shears in. Tse*vs wasted all this time?and it's as tor away now as it ever was! ?an. you? " Than abruptly he checked himself. ?MgW were fixed on the car, hang bag now within tan feet at them, ftto fcet out of reach. He moved to WW atde, approaching the edge at too precipice as closely as poosibla. tow ww m the winch continued to wtad; the car rose higher. And Tops aafted sharply: -tosp! Stop Hi" ?toe Wad Us hand is signal. Mst tomiksrlssil cams to Tope's side, Ptoad: "What is H, Tope'" i 9km oU sua was staring to to lence at the car; and Adam came to aee. And then ha felt the Inside of himself suddenly slip away like wheat out of a bin from which the bottom is removed. The windows of the coupe were closed, and they were somewhat clouded by a gray deposit of silt' accumulated during the days the car had lain here submerged. These windows were, incredibly, not bro ken; the car must, turning in the air as it (ell, have landed on its wheels. The window toward them was that on the car's left side, next to the wheel. And against the glass of this win dow, from within, a hand was pressed1 Four slender Angers touched the window, from knuckle to first joint; the backs of four fingers. There was upon one of them a ring, a gold band, a wedding-ring. The hand with the fingers pressed against the glass had moved a little, in a short arc that left a smeared quarter-circle in the silt on the glass. There was in this mark a terrible suggestion that the hand had moved in signal, in a last pitiful appeal 1 They could see the rest of this hand dimly, the forearm faintly; \s? xwmmmimm "You promised to toll me If Mrs. Kell was found." but nothing else at all save one thing: about the wrist, something like a black cord was knotted; seen even thus dimly, it seemed to have been knotted tightly, to have cut into the soft flesh. And this was, clearly, a woman's hand and arm. Cumberland muttered: "Tope, there's someone in the car." Tope nodded. "It's Mrs. Kell," he said briefly. "You'll have to?" He checked, his thoughts absorbing him. "Lower the car again, till it's awash," he directed absently. "Swim out or make a raft or some thing?get her out of there quick's you can. Send for the ambulance. Take her to the undertaker's. I'll meet you there." . He turned and strode away, Adam beside him; they reached the car and started down the road. They came to where Ned Quill held two cars of newspaper men in restraint. Adam turned off the road, crashing through the underbrush to pass them; and Tope leaned out and shouted: "Let them go on up, Ned! There's a murdered woman in the car, up there. They've got a right to be on the spot!" Then as the newspaper cars start ed up the hill, he bade Adam stop, called Quill. "Ned," he said, "I'll be In town, at the undertaker's. Come up there when you've seen the Tennant girl." "Right," Quill agreed; and he said: "Doctor Medford's on his way down here. I talked to him on the pbone awhile ago." Tope nodded. "Good. We'll watch for him," he agreed. They went on. When they turned Into the main road. Tope pointed to an approaching car, cried sharply: "Hold up! There's Medford." Doctor Medford alighted to speak to them; and his tone was respect ful. "You were right. Inspector," he said. "Found a drug in him, ehf" Tope asked. "Gas in his lungs," the medical examiner replied. "And doped. Chloral, I think; but morphine too. I'm not an expert on such stuff. We don't have much of it to do, up here. But after you'd told ma what to look for?" Tops nodded. "They're getting a woman dead out of the quarries up here. Doctor," he said. "I want to know how she was killed. And if she'd been given chloral, or mor phine, I want to know that too. I'll bo at Win Banian's." And ? moment later, ae they started on. Tope touched Adam's arm. "Pull up at that filling station. Adam," he directed. "There's bound to he a phone there. CnB up New York. Tell them to Sod out wheth er Bob Flint, that young pilot, had been givea chloral, or eome other knockout drops." Adam went to obey, and Tope aat deep in thought. His eyes were closed, so that he did not see young Joe Dane at the wheel of a car that presently went racing by. Adam returned from the tele phone. "They'll get it," be said briefly. He put the -car in motion, then asked: "Why do you want that. Tope?" Tope said abstractedly: "I figure he had Flint fly him up here, and back to New York in the morning. He could give Flint a drink of doped whisky, say. Flint would take off in the plane, pass out after he got into the air, and crash. Then he couldn't testify?" Adam uttered an ejaculation: "That's awful!" "I know it," Tope agreed. "But who. Tope?" Adam insisted. "Who is 'he'?" Tope said impatiently: "Oh, let me alone, son!" And he said no further word till they came into the borders of North Madderson. Then at last he spoke. "Go to the jail, Adam," he direct ed. "We'll get something out of Kell now?enough so we'll know how to go at Holdom." Adam nodded. "Something hap pened on their trip up here Friday, all right," he agreed. "But I don't see what it was!" Tope said briefly: "It was a plant, a game, a play somebody tried to stage." "How do you flgure that?" "Because Holdom told Kell to hit him over the head." Adam nodded. "That's right." He asked eagerly: "That was to make Holdom look like a victim too? Then you think he?" Tope said grimly: "I think some one made a sucker out of Holdom. Used him. Holdom's a crook, Adam. Always has been, in little ways. You heard Mat, at the quarry; heard what he said about Ledforge filing charges against Holdom, with the Stock Exchange authorities." "You flgure Holdom was double crossing Ledforge, and knew he would be found out, and killed the old man." Tope said quizzically: "Ledforge filed those charges himself yester day, Adam. How could he do that if Holdom killed him Friday?" They reached the jail behind the courthouse; and when barriers had been removed they came to KelL They found the big man sitting on the cot in bis cell, his head between his hands. He did not look up at the sound of their steps, nor when they paused before his cell door. The guard who had led them thus far knew Adam of old, and at the young man's word left them here; and Tope spoke, gently. "Kell?" he said. I Kell roused, and he cam* slowly to his feet, the bars between them. He stared; and then he seemed to remember them. "I know you, sir," he muttered. "You promised to tell me if Mrs. Kell was found." "Yes, Kell," Tope assented; and he added harshly: "She is found!" "Where is she, sir?" Tope said pitilessly: "The coupe was in the quarry, Kell. We got it out today. She had been murdered, and tied in it, tied to the wheel, before it was run over the preci pice into the quarry." "Dead?" Kell whispered, holding his breath. "Yes, dead," said Tope; and the breath came out of Kell in a long sigh, and the big man shivered like a stricken animal. He backed away, his hands up before his face; he slumped down on the cot again. Tope added harshly: "I think you killed her, just as you tried to kill Holdom!" "I didn't, sir!" he protested. "I didn't I" "Mr. Holdom says you did!" Tope declared. "You tried to kill him! Because he was chasing your wife, Kell!" "No sir, I didn't, sir!" Kell mumbled: "Dead? She's dead?" "Of course," Tope insisted. "You killed her." "No sir. No!" "Then did Holdom? Was that why you tried to?" "No, it wasn't Mr. Holdom," Ken answered. "I took him back, left him by the road. But when I came home, she was gone." And the big man cried suddenly, starting to his feet: "I meant to hit him easy, the way he told me to; but when the wrench started down, I thought about the way he had? bothered her; and I hit harder than Td meant to." He caught himself. "Where is she, sir?" "They're bringing her to town," Tope told him. "What did you do to Mr. Ledforge, KeU? Or did Hol dom?" And KeU cried piteously: "Let me alone, sir! Wait. Let me see her first. I can't believe it Let me see her. Then I*U tell you anything." He collapsed, sobbing like a child, his head la his hands. Tope hesitat ed; but in the end he said: "Web, all right, KeU. m wait m come toe you?later." (TO BZ COimKUKD) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQU13T. D. D. Lesion for February 10 Lcmqo sublets and Scripture texta ?* Iccted and copyrighted by International ; Council ,^01 Religloua Education: used by A PEOPLE DISCIPLINED Temrerutt Lam LESSON TEXT: N?mbm H:ll* MEMORY SELECTION: For whom tlM Lord lovotb ho corrocuth; ovco u a father tba aoo In whom bo delishteth.? Provorho S:1A Instruction, training ami culture, sometimes calling (or the touch of Judgment or punishment, that the ) lesson may be rightly learned?this is the meaning of discipline. It is a good word and speaks of that which is much needed in a dia : ordered and dissolute world. Our lesson tells of God's plan for ; the discipline of the people of Is rael in preparation for their entry I into the Promised Land. They were i not ready when God first brought them up to it, but through hard and trying experiences they teamed. They did not believe God, so they had to learn the hard way. One wonders whether we will be wiser than they. America is now in the awful grasp of a postwar wave of careless living, of moral disinte gration and of awful dissipation. Al coholic liquors flow in an un controlled flood of destruction. Where is the moral fiber that made America great? I. There is a Limit to God's Patience (w. 11, 12). The background erf our lesson is the report of the spies who were sent up into the land. All agreed that it was a good land, but 10 of them were afraid of its inhabitants. Two of them, Joshua and Caleb, urged the people to take God at his word and go up to possess the land. But the people rebelled and wanted to turn back to the fleshpots of Egypt. % God had been patient with the people, but the time had come when further patience ceased to be a virtue and would only be indul gence. Then judgment came?and fasti There is a limit to God's patience with a sinful people. It is almost heartbreaking to think of the pos sibility that America may all too soon preis its downward course to the point where God says. It is enough. u. iucic hi rower in mereessery Prayer (w. 13-19). Moses stepped into the breach and made a mighty and moving plea for his people. He knew the power of intercession and called on God for mercy upon the people. He pointed out that the honor of the Lord was involved in bringing His people into the land. He recognized the guilt of the older members at the nation but asked for another chance tor the children. He based his prayer on the known qualities of God. his justice and, above all, his mercy. Does not this strongly suggest the importance of Christian people making their influence count in the solution of social problems? Pray er accomplishes more than this world has ever conceived to be pos sible. Praying people count with God, and hence they count in the af fairs of men. More Christian people ought to be deeply concerned about our country's liquor problem, and all the physical, moral, social, political and spiritual ills which are caused by drink. HI. There is Ptoriahsaeat fee Un belief (w. 30-23). The pardon at God for the people as a whole did not overlook or wink at the awful unbelief of those who had rebelled against God. He had not left them without a strong basis for faith in him Again and again he had made known his might in miraculous deliverances during their days of travel from Egypt But they simply hardened their hearts In unbelief. Lack of faith in God is no little offense against him. He has a right to our unquestioning belief and Im mediate obedience. Somehow we have come to regard it as a spe cial favor toward God if we believe him, when the fact is that unbelief in such a God is definitely and ob viously sin. IV. There b a Reward far Cour ageous Living (e. 34). God is looking for men of faith. All through Scripture we And the Lord coming magnificently to the help and blessing of the one who arill believe him. Caleb and Joshua were brought into the land, preserved through all of Israel's wandering, and kept in vigor even to old age in order to enjoy the promised possession (see Josh. l:?-9; 14:10-13). Caleb is an esample of what i courage, faith, self-control?yes. dis cipline, can do for a man We need ' men and women?yes, young men and woman with the spirit of Caleb. Social customs of our day encour age self-indulgence Drinking is an the Increase. Moral standards are low and seem to be getting lower. What shall we do? Teach our young men and women to have faith In God and to discipline their lives in accordance with his worii, so that they may be act free for cour ageous and useful living. Latest Style Trends Emphasize Sleeves New Silhouette His Narrow Waistline, Accented Hips. Bjr CHERIE NICHOLAS Fashions' ready to march in the spring style parade tali a most fas cinatinf story tn regard to exciting new style trends. Perhaps the most amazing change is seen in sleeves, real bone fide sleeves have been put on the map again. They are bigger and at every type imaginable from puffs to the gathered-in-the-armhole type. Width, flare and swish is giv en to skirts although slim lines have by no means gone out of the pic ture. The new silhouette glories in whittled waistlines aid, newest of all, hips are being accented with tucks, pleats, gathered-in fullness, pockets and big bows. Believe it or not, some of the dressier models have panniers at each side. The new coats are beauties. They give you Just one surprise after an other with their intriguing details. Many have yokes, others have flare skirts. Some are Miort and others are long and are so cunningly styled some of them look more like a smart wool dress. An opposite trend is seen in fitted princess types and tunic styles, some of which are double-breasted. A striking feature about many of the newer coats is their full push up sleeves that fall gracefully about the elbow from dolman armholes. This type sleeve is important usws. Many of the toppers at lovely spring wools are discreetly accent ed with light fur. The animated lit tle shortie with a flare-out at the back is a high spot faMtioo and the younger set adores it. A suit fashion that gets applami and admiring glances wherever It goes is causing s whirl at excite ment among the teen-age and col lege girl groups. This suit tops a youthful skirt with front fultness with a perky little basqae-Jacket that stops at the waistline. There are two types. One buttons irimly in a single row down the front. The other is styled with a double row in double breast effect. The wrist-length sleeves ere at the mod ish deep armhote type. It ie one at the most important young suits scan this season and it is destined for a dizzy career this spring. A suit that ie making a?a tioo in tire fashion wig Id has a stole-cape wrap at seif-aama cloth as the jacket and skirt. It csn be worn separately with light ilri an i on balmy days. This suit iw crvst 1 ing a wnisfssi in fash inn realms I and we win be hearing a great deal about it in the days to coma. There's big usws too, h ribbon trimmed hats, some with big smashing bows, others with loops | and loops, others Just aa tailorah as they can be with a simple band. Ribbon-Trimmed Hats Ribbon is ncitb| hvs in the millinery realm. The sew hats | , flaunt every type ef ribbon trim from simple bands and intricately worked cocardes and rarious la> lored-kwking items to splashing big bows and other (etching arrange- l ments of loops that often are later mingled with flowers. Refreshingly | spring-looking is the straw hal t, shown at the tap. Its deep brim is face-flattering and young. The tall . crown carries a twisted hand of soft satin together with a duster of bows high on the crown. The hat below bespeaks the very spirit of spring via its satin ribbon trim highlighted with a cluster of rosea. Style Notes Creamy white wool Is mews (or spring sweaters. lfany-strand nacklacao and multi ple bracelets are warn. Longer skirt, longer Jacket, mere sleeve (or spring suit I New "rave" with toon-age grotgp Is the pert little basque-cult M smart wooL ? J SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Side Button Princess Is Graceful A Gay Two-Piece Frock for Tots npw-ililfu freak IT SPECIALLY created for the . larger figure ia this flattering , side buttee dress. Princess lines : are flgure-mcld.113 and graceful, and tend to make ou look tall and j sfim. Shoulder slurring gives a , soft feminine touch. A frock to wear everywhere. ? ? ? Pattern Wo S81 cornea m uzes M. 3L 40. 42. 44. 40. ?. M and 52. Size M. ?hurt sleeves. 4Pfc yards of 39 or 39-incH material. Charred wtit krawa may be cleaned by placing between toe grids a cloth wet with household ammonia and wrung nearly dry, and allowing it to stand tor sev eral hours. Remove the cloth, clean grids with a stiff brush and air tor some time. Recondition the grids with oil. as you did when toe iron was hew. Ta ifsrr seat from a rug wilfcr aut shutting, cover thickly with dry salt before attempting to sweep and there will be no resulting stain. As yaw wan clathes, stack them according to the drawer or room in which they belong and set aside clothes that need mending. ?see's a clever feriek for lining the sleeves of your child's play coat. Cut toe foot off an old cotton stocking, insert the part that's left mm toe sleeve, and whipstitch it in place at toe wrist and shoulder. You'll be surprised how much warmth and comfort it gives. 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