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I haven't had a chance to check on the drug end yet; came ahead so as to get things ready here." Tope frowned. "Is she big or lit tle?" he asked. "Large for a woman." "Then she was drugged first," Tope said crisply. "He couldn't have overpowered her. He's a small man." Steps outside; and Cumberland and Joe Dane were here. "Banion's right behind us with the ambu lance," Cumberland reported. "Tope, Joe says he can't stand this waiting any' longer. Says if you don't do something, he's going to." Adam saw Joe Dane grin slightly. "Why, Joe's right," Tope agreed. "I guess it's time to clear it up. We'll want to get ready to make the arrest." "Well, I'm glad to bear it, old man," Cumberland said with a heavy relief. "Who is it?" Tope hesitated. "If 1 told you myself, you wouldn't believe ?me," he confessed. "I want you to hear two or three things first from oth ers. Then you'll see I'm right." "Who?" Cumberland asked. "Who are your?witnesses?" "Well," said Tope, calmly yet with a deep triumph in his tones, "first one is Holdom. I know enough about what happened so I can make him talk now. He won't want to, because he's in it; but he doesn't know there's murder in the busi ness. When he does, he's bound to tell the truth. He wasn't in on the killing?just the kidnap end. He'll talk, to clear himself of a murder charge." He had their still attention now. ' "And the next is Kell," Tope con tinued. "He knows just as much as Holdom knows. He's lied to us so far; but be won't lie now. He'll tell all he knows?because his wife was murdered, and he loved her. I saw him awhile ago. He'll talk." He looked from one to another; ?ragged his head. "You'll think Hol dom is lying," he warned them, "You'll say it couldn't have hap Kned the way he'll tell you it did ppen. But I'll show you that it could. Bob Flint was Holdom's pi lot. He flew up here Friday night? with a passenger; spent most of the night up here. But be had a girl here, Sally Tennant. Her father's Holdom's gardener. If I know any thing about the way a young fellow acts, Flint saw Sally while he was bp here. Probably he told her who his passenger was, warned her not to tell. "But she'll tell now; because that passenger drugged young Flint, aft er they got back near New York, and after he got out of the plane? drugged him so that Flint went to sleep in the air and crashed and was killed. I'm having an autopsy on Flint's body to prove he was drugged." He concluded: "So there you are I Bally Tennant will tell you who Flint's passenger was that night, and Kell will tell you what happened to Ledforge on the way up here Fri day; and Holdom will tell you why it happened. "And if you don't believe them, Doctor Loud, the dentist down in flidgcomb, can possibly tell you what kind of teeth Ledforge had." Doctor Medford protested in some surprise: "Doctor Loud? But he's dead. Tope." The Inspector whirled on him, stared at him. "Dead?" he echoed. "Why, yes. He dropped dead two or three weeks ago." Tope seemed to tremble. "Dropped dead?" he repeated. He Miook his head. "We needed him," he confessed. Ned Quill came in; and Tope flpokft Quickly. "You see the Tennant girl. Quill?" "lure, had a long talk with her," Me trooper replied, and be added: "She'd been to New York to young Flint's funeral. Or whatever you ; call it. They had him cremated." Tope suddenly was pale. "Cre mated?" be protested in a deep dis may. He whirled to Doctor Med Mrd. "Then they can't do an autop ?r." Doctor Medford shook his head; and Joe Dane said, almost exultant ly: "Not on ashes. Tope, old manl" Tope hesitated, then turned to Quill again. "Did Miss Tennant see him last Friday night?" he Quill shook hie head in some stir fries. "Why, no. Hadn't seen him Mr two-three weeks," he answered. "As says he hasn't base np bars I" ? .ML,? . ?. Aik* Tope wu a man not easily shak en; but be was shaken now. He sat down as though wearily; and Joe Dane said derisively; "Your evi dence isn't coming through. Tope. Quite a bit ot static." Adam cried loyally: "But there's still Holdoro and Kelll" "Why, sure," Mat Cumberland agreed, relieved. "We'll send (or them. Joe, you go telephone." Joe Dane went out; but Tope said slowly: "You know, Mat, I've got an idea that this whole thing has busted on me. We'll have to figure something else?some other way." And he added, almost apologetical ly: "It's just a hunch; but I'm trill ing to make a small bet that nei ther one of them?" He had no time to state the wager. For Joe Dane returned. "You've spilled it now, Tope!" Dane cried furiously. "You wouldn't let me question Holdom! And you told Kell his wife was dead I You've had your way so far, made a mess of the whole thing. Now Til take charge." Tope looked at him thoughtfully. "Get out! You're tlyough!" "Kell kill himself?" he asked in mild tones. "Yes!" Joe Dane retorted. "With his own suspenders. Hung himself to his cell door. And Holdom's got a concussion, unconscious. They've taken him to the hospital, and the doctor thinks he'll die. So he won't talk, either. Blast it, if you hadn't meddled, I'd have had his story, had the whole thing by now! Get out! You're through! I'm taking charge!" Tope got up slowly, like an old man. "Why, Joe," he said, "I'm sorry. I hoped I could hand this case to you on a platter. But I can still?" "You can get out!" young Joe Dane shouted. "Mat!" He appealed to Cumberland. "If you let this dod dering old has-been fiddle around here any more, I'm through. I'll resign. Tell him to drag himself out of town!" Cumberland hesitated; but Tope spoke. "Don't bother. Mat," he said. "I'm going. Joe, I hope you get it all straight, spite of the trouble I've made." Adam Bruce, watch ing him, could have wept for this old man. Then Tope caught his eye. "Adam, you want to drive me back to Mrs. Tope?" he asked. "Why, sure. Inspector," said Adam. In a sober silence, while the oth ers watched them without speaking, they moved out to the curb and the waiting car. They got in; and Adam, at the comer, turned toward Ridgcomb, but Tope spoke then. "Wait a minute, Adam," he said. "1 want to buy some things before we go. Drive downtown." Adam obeyed him. "What is it you want. Inspector?" he asked. "I can get them for you." But Tope, instead of answering, inquired: "You a good rifle-shot, Adam?" Adam whirled toward him, star tled, incredulous; and he saw Tope was not downcast and humiliated, not the crushed old man he had seemed a moment ago. but alert, his eyes intent, his color high, al most beaming. "Why, yes," Adam admitted. "Pretty good." "Then we'll buy you a rifle," Tope said. "You pick out one that you're sure at at anything up to say two hundred yards. And after that, we want to get an outboard motor that will start every time." He saw Adam's incredulous be wilderment, and chuckled. "And the only other thing,'* be concluded, "is one of these vests padded with some patent stuff that makes them float like life-preserv ers. Now go along, Adam. Let's see if we can tad one In this little town." During these forenoon hoars while Tope brought the structure of his to vestigations to the point oI comple tion, only to eee it collapoe like a house of cards, Mrs. Tope and Bee Dewain and Mr. Eberly waited at the Mill. Presently Ned Quill ar rived, seeking Tope; but Tope was not here. "He ought to be, by now," the trooper protested. "He left live-ten minutes before I did." "Left where?" Mrs. Tope asked. "Was he coining here?" "I thought be was," Ned declared; and?their questions prompting him ?he told the story of that scene in Will Banion's chapel, when Tope's case crumbled and Joe Dane took charge. "I'd like to slap Joe's facet" said Bee hotly. But Mrs. Tope only asked; "Where is Inspector TopeT" "Why, ma'am, he left us there in Banion's. I stopped in here to tell him not to take it too hard. I'll Jog up to the quarry now?see how they're doing with the car. Tell the old man I'm for him, will you?" He started his engine with a kick, and wheeled out into the highroad and so away. Ten minutes later, Tope and Adam reached the Mill. These two had been some time in finding, in North Madderson, the things Tope sought; and when they bad secured these objects and stowed them somehow, well concealed, in the back of the little car, Adam looked at the old man inquiringly. "What's all that for?" he asked. Tope chuckled. "Why, Adam," he said cheerfully. "I thought I'd take you out to shoot a fishl" Adam looked at him; and after a moment he said gravely: "Inspec tor, I've gone along blindly so far. But?if you're suggesting that I shoot anything but fish, I'll have to know where we stand." Tope looked at him. "Why, Adam," he suggested, "if you saw one man trying to kill another man, and no way to stop him but to shoot him, you wouldn't wait for explana tions, would you?" "You expect some one else to be killed?" 1 expect there 11 be a try to kill two people, before night," Tope as sented simply. "Who?" Adam demanded. "What two people?" "Mr. Eberly," said Tope. "And Miss Ledforge." Adam ejaculated: "Why? Who?" Tope hesitated. "Well, Adam," he said, "you ought to be able to see it by now." And while Adam drove more slowly, listening, he explained: "This business builds up like a brick house, one brick at a time. First thing, a dead man under the bed in Faraway. Second thing, two people put him there. Third thing, they stayed in Little Bear, and one of them was a woman. Fourth thing, the man was small, and he knew Kell. He knew Kell because he imi tated Kell's way of talking, and he wore Kell's shoes with the heel plates on them. Fifth thing, they came in Holdom's coupe, and the woman was Mrs. Kell." He added: "Those were facts; and Bob Flint being dead was another fact. And that telephone call from New York Saturday to report the stolen car was another fact. The dead man being Ledforge wasn't a fact, but it might get to be. Then the hair-oil on the dead man's head was a fact; and the hair-oil on the pillow in Little Bear was a fact. The two of them together made an other fact." But Tope said: "Here we are? here's the Mill. Wait till we leave here, son. We won't stay long." Bee and Mrs. Tope were quick to meet them. Bee voluble with sym pathy for the Inspector. But Mrs. Tope, watching them, thought him in no need of sympathy or reassur ances. "Why, I take that kindly of you. Miss Dewain. But he couldn't be Joe Dane and do different," the In spector assured Bee. "Don't go ex pecting people to be different from what they are." He turned to Mrs. Tope. "I was thinking," he said, "that before we pull out of here, you might want to make a call some where. Like as not Miss Dewain would go with you. Mr. Eberly still here and all right, is he?" Eberly said from the doorway: "Quite all right. Inspector." And Mrs. Tope asked, surprised: "Call? On whom?" Tope said: "Why, on Miss Led forge. She's a real nice woman. Why don't you get Miss Dewain to drive you down there?" He looked at his watch. "It's going on three o'clock. Time you get prettied up and get there, it will be Just about time for her to give you a cup at tea." She hesitated. "I think I know what's in your mind," she admit ted. "Ned Quill told us you sent for Mr. Ledforge's dentist. But?is that possible?" "It's bound to be," he assured her soberly. And he added: "I'll be with Mr. Eberly, and you'll be with Miss Ledfbrge." He looked at Bee, here beside them. "You ladies, like as not youTl meet Mr. Ledforge. He's due home this afternoon." And Bee, watching him, cried soft ly: "You haven't given up? You're still working on it? I'll take Mrs. Tope down I" Her eyes were shin ing. "What do you want us to dot" no m ooraroxDi MJJUAWJ IMPROVED , UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL ; Sunday i chool Lesson ] B7 HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST. D. D. Of Tt* Moody Blbto Institute of China#* Rolooaod by Western Nowapopor Union. Leuon for February 17 tuns nMku t&d IctMm tMtl M cS?rti*s1 ssaitseersns TRUE TO A GREAT HERITAGE LESSON TEXT: Duetoteoomy ?:L ***>? MEMORY SELECTION: Ha hath mad* hla wonderful worka to ba ramambarad.? Psalm 111:1. A goodly heritage la the gift of God to hi* people. By faith they must enter into it and possess it. Thus they honor him who has prom ised, and they witness to all the earth that he is a great God and a loving heavenly Father. It magnifies his name to believe on his word and to set an his promises. Israel, having failed God and plunged themselves into years of wandering by their unbelief when they Just came up to the Promised Land, were now ready to go over Jordan and take the land. A new generation had grown up, and for their instruction Moses re hearsed the history of the peo ple, repeated the promises of God, and renewed their remembrance of his lsw. The book of Deuteronomy gives that "second law" ? actually a review of what had been given before. As they entered upon God's rich heritage for them they were admon ished to I. Hearken to God's Law (v. 1). To hearken means more than to hear and forget. It carries with it the giving of attention to what is heard with the purpose of doing something about it. God's law, his statutes and judg ments are for the good of his peo ple. They are not designed to limit their freedom, but to provide the channels through which they shall be most free to live and to accom ; plish that which is good and noble 1 and useful. Two things were assured to Israel if they hearkened to the law of God. They would first of all "live." This does not mean only that they should escape death, but that they might enter into the fullness of life. "The Bible teaches that we are free to choose between a high grade of life or a low grade, be tween a life which involves fellow ship with God or a daily existence which means nothing more than the enjoyment of animal comforts and following our own willful ways" (Earl L. Douglass). The second result of obeying God's law would be their going into and possessing the land which God gave them. There is victory and attainment, as well as blessed fel lowship for the one who obeys God. That is true today as it was in the time of Moses. II. Remember God's Leva (w. 33-36). The loving mercies of God toward his people had revealed his infinite greatness and glory. He revealed himself in the fire? and they might well have been con sumed it?yet he graciously spoke to them instead of destroy ing them. They were to recall, too, that he had done a mighty and won derful thing in taking them out of the powerful hand of Egypt and making them into a people for his name. Sad is the state of the soul of the man who has lost his sense of the miraculous. To live in the midst of the constant demonstration of God's power and his mercy, and to see and feel nothing but the com monplace touch of humdrum daily life, is to be blind and deaf?yes, to be dead spiritually. Is he any less powerful today? Certainly not! He is still the God of the miraculous and nowhere is that divine energy more evident than in the spiritual life of man. The wonders of -God in creation were rehearsed for Israel. They learned of his care for his people. "But far more wonderful are the works of God in the new creation and his infinite care for his peo ple redeemed from a ruined race, and made inheritors of eternal resi dence in the heavenly Canaan" (Hight C. Moore). III. Dupend on God's Promise (w. 37-40). The Promised Land was before them, but it was for them to (o in and possess it. There were warfare and struggle ahead, mighty warlike peoples to overcome. Were they able for it? No, not in their own strength! How were they to accomplish this formidable task? By counting on God. He had promised to drive out the nations now holding the land. He is a God not only in heaven, but also on earth (v. 38). The peo ple who believe him may go for ward expecting miracles to hap pen. Obedience to God's law brings fellowship with the eter.ial and omnipotent One, and the confident assurance that he will bring victory and the full accomplishment of his will for the obedient believer. That is as true now as ever. 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