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; 1 i; Page 10 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER "The Mgotten Fleet Mystery by Van Wyck Mason CHAPTER XV Colby regained Geneva's side, very serious of expression. "Is there ebony anywhere else? Try to think." Several mintes of thought ended in a discouraged sigh from the girl. "Maybe," Colby suggested as they wandered out into the smok ing room, "we're going at the thing the wrong way." "What do you think?" she de mand?, "I think I saw a piece of carving in here that may help." The girl started, then looked about. '"The mantel? That won't do, it's oak." "J ust the same, let's take a good look at it." They halted to stare upward, playing their flashlights over four female figures probably intended to represent the four major contin ents. From the Greek goddess representing Europe their gaze wandered to an American Indian woman, and then to a stalwart negroid maiden whose thick lips seemed carved in an enigmatic smiJe. The fourth and last of the nymphs was a serene, slant eyed figure personifying Asia. "The third maiden," cried Ge neva in the hushed voice of over whelming excitement. "Look! She's a negress." mm fa COLORED With Pvnhosa of Pigs. m ass FLAKES Just thinkl You t m of these attractiTCFleata Colored Bowls with your purchase of 3 packaaas of MUler't Wheat Plakas. Choice of 4 colore. Just right for serving deU clous Miller's Wheat Flakes . . the eareal with "wake-up flavor." "And look at this," Colby said and, stooping, recovered a sliver of wood. The sensation he had ex perienced outside of Cabin 313 re turned a hundred-fold. "Vogel must have been at work," he an nounced as he stepped forward. "You can see he had started to use his jimmy." With their flashlights creating futuristic designs through the mote filled air, Colby dragged forward a chair and mounted it to better study the black girl. "Looks like the right track at last," he pronounced in a voice that shook with excitement. "Want to find out now?" ''Yes- I'll hold the light." Panting, dust covered and fasci nated at the prospect of success, Colby had no warning of Mears' presence in a far doorway until the dry click of his pistol's firing pin was followed by a feeble re port. Geneva screamed and re mained in the paralysis of com plete astonishment. Colby leaped down off. the chair, snatched at his own automatic and unfortunately fouled it in the lining of his pocket. The shadowy ambusher levelled his weapon and again tried to fire, but Colby's re moval of the powder thwarted that. Mears then flung the pistol clattering into a corner and rushed at Colby, roaring threats and with murder written in every line of his deceptively uninspired face. Colby leaped back, but still his pun would not come out so, brac ing himself, he shot through his pocket and expertly sent a bullet smacking among dingy flannel let ters sewed to the watchman's jer sey front. In the middle of the dim library Mears seemed to trip and his hand flew to the wound as usually happens in the case of a badly wounded man. An expression of vast amaze ment widened his eyes, the jer seyed watchman swayed a long instant, then turned half around before crashing full length onto the dusty floor. A piece of change fell from his pocket and went rolling off with a tiny tinkling sound, "Shoot without warning, would you?" Oblivious to the fact that his uniform coat was smoldering, Colby stood quite still a minute, a dangerous, dramatic figure peering down at his fallen assailant while a thread of gray smoke wandered up from his pistol muzzle. "How awful! How p-perfectly horrible," choked Geneva Benet How Nazis Execute Russians There are a lot of things I Not Available jenWal But that does not ap- wICm!!! S ply to a neat appearance . . . one of your greatest Main Street assets ... send us your 1 clothes regularly ... look nice . . . be successful. I 110116 113 sir 4 SPECIAL OFFER to br.ng OLD GLORY" Jojivery Reader of s? The Mountaineer m 1 5 s m r- Would You Like This 3x5 FT. AMERICAN FLAG? As a reader of this paper, we axe offering you an amazing opportunity to own a glorious. Urge "Stars and Stripes". Made of fine, durable cotton bunting, with individually sewed stripes. Stars stamped in fast colon on i rich, blue background. This beautiful flag, when opened to its full majestic spread, measures FIVE feet long by THREE feet wide. OUR SPECIAL OFFER TO YOU The MOUNTAINEER he It and turned aside, her slim body shaking as though" jostled by the hand of an invisible giant. "Sorry the swine gave me no choice." Quite deliberately Colby wet his fingers and extinguished the smoldering cloth, then strode over to bend above Mears. - He could see by the light of the lan tern that the fellow was not quite dead. "It was you who shot Connolly, wasn't it?'' Silence- "Come on, admit it there was a .35 caliber wound in his back and yours is the only ,35'on board." "Yes." It was just a breath of a voice that replied and the eyes were dreadfully fixed. "After he killed Vogel." . "You were in with Vogel?" "Yes. Met him 'Tuxtown: Offer- five thous'n- let him aboard. Night 'fore last hid him on Amerika. At first didn't-know whatafter. I I" Quietly, def initely, Death cut short the mur derer's confession and Colby start ed to rise, but remained frozen in his tracks when a voice spoke from the doorway Ferguson's J voice. "Better not move, Soldier!" Careless lool! isungler! re proachful inner voice shrieked in Donald Colby's ears. Why had he not more promptly re-secured Hans? Now he'd pay for that omission with a vengeance and, what was worse, another would have to suffer for his stupidity. The ex-soldier straightened jerkily, like a badly motivated toy. ''Vhat a pleasure, Mein Herr." Ehrenbreit's thin, inadequate look ing figure jerked a sardonic little bow, then he advanced into the room, a baleful flicker in his yellow ish eyes. Ferguson and the others remained in various entrances to the smoking room in which the faint bitter reek of burnt smoke less powder still tinctured the air. On the signal from Ehrenbreit Tug sidled forward, took Colby's Colt and Geneva's small .25 auto matic. During this operation Colby stood quite motionless, overwhelm ed by a flood of bitter self-reproach; , Ehrenbreit spoke suddenly, sharply, dissipating the deadly silence. "Vhat vere you doing in here?" Colby's tongue crept out to wet his lips. "Fighting with Mears didn't you hear us?" "Vhat about?" "He tried to shoot me " "He had the right idea," Fergu son growled. "C'mon, Hermann, let's not wait we'd better turn on the heat right now." "Nein," the German snapped, "this man he knows something." "Ja," Hans agreed, ' dot fellow perhaps mit Vogel was?" "'At's a idea," Tug admitted. "Well, Hermann, how about it?" "Seize them both." Ehrenbreit stepped back and the lantern on the floor drew a golden ray from his pistol barrel. When the quartet commenced to close in Geneva Benet aroused her self from the semi-stupor of ner vous exhaustion. "He he doesn't know he never did." "Shut up you!" Ferguson dealt the girl a stinging slap. "You're too damned smart by half Barely in time Colby restrained an offensive which could have been nothing but suicidal, so, livid with fury, he watched white welts ap pear on Geneva Benet's smooth cheek. Ehrenbreit, prison paled fea tures contracted in a hard smile, said, "I am, mein Herr, inclined to agree with Hans." He fixed on the prisoners a long, searching glance. ' I am not by nature a violent man, fcut Ferguson iss NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF HAYWOOD. TOWN OF WAYNESVILLE, : vs. JEROME J. BRIDGES (widower) ; BESSIE BALL and husband, AU- ES; and wife, MRS. JAMES BRIDGES;' FLORA DAVIS and husband, GUDGER DAVIS; YAN CEY BRIDGES and wife, MRS YANCEY BRIDGES; BENJAMIN BRIDGES and wife, LENORA BRIDGES, and HAYWOOD COUNTY. The defendants, Jerome J. Brid- ges, Bessie Ball, Augustus Ball, James Bridges, Mrs. James Bridg es, Yancey Bridges and Mrs. Yanc ey Bridges, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Haywood County, N. C, to fore close tax and special assess ment liens on real estate situate in the aforesaid county and state, and the said de fendants will further take notice that they are required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Su perior Count of said county in the Courthouse in Waynesville, N. C, within thirty days after the 14th day of October, 1942, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demand ed in said complaint. This September 14th, 1942. C. H. LEATHERWOOD, Clerk Superior Court. No. 1238 Sept 17-24 Oct. 1-8. " t'f ' I rH L'J i f v v i "n ; iff i-zrav a (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, SEPT 17 J uable feitilizei good for Kitchen cannot be fwl t 7 K if Dry 1- Zdn, Composts May Relieve Fertilizer Shortage With many valuable fertilizers y, 1 . - ... .. irnm tv, l. cut off because 01 the war, xsortn " 'c ""use and ha r.1ina amvm hin lutn. rOUnds, fruit ...... USrll, sorvntinn nf fprtiliwr materials ' w.a ashes are ,i-6 ' from minor -sources and helD re- , 1 agronomiBt conHn .-il lieve shortages, says Dr. E. R. P") "'ay be Z Collins, extension agronomy leader . . . r Wi of N- C. State College. made Composts or mixtures are being ; Waste and made constantly through the rot ting of leaves, twigs, roots, and other organic matter. Various sub stances may help supply organic matter and also often supply nitro gen, phosphoric acid, potash, and other elements needed by grow ing plants. "For example," Dr. Collins said, "in butchering hogs on the farm, I DUt th. n o-utlm. !nate 'to of stabIpVlH -Uis such as drier) W. 1 H and sod. Th. ' and turned Sev kt .7 "-"F"i morouehlv side of the pile j U here PiUe, the lege man went on f of the material 1? This photo was found by Russian. In the German soldier killed on the Russo-German front and ft nh Nazis execute Soviet citizens. They line the vfctim 1 up in front of trench and kill them with machine gun fire. Note the trench and the bodies already in It A cloud of dust spurts on the embankment ai 1 five latest victims are shot down. This picture was flnb7p"? from Moscow to New York, (Central trttt and he vould very much like to veil, do unpleasant things to you, so I invite your confidence you shall share veil if the jewels are found that I promise." "I would talk if I could," the hollowed-eyed prisoner declared Winter Peas Raise Value Of Next Crop If handled properly, every acre of Austrian winter peas should be worth $10 to $20 an acre in in creased crop yields the first year, and mustered a convincing smile, 1 say-j . Wair, agronomy- exten- "but I never even spoke to Vogel he was dead when I first saw him. Supposing that Mears," his eyes strayed to the dead man's awkwardly sprawled blur of a body, "had learned from what you suggest, would he be likely to tell me about it?" "Ja, but Vogel might haff told die fraulein?" Hans suggested rubbing his bruised throat. "If she knew, she'd have grabbed the jewels long since and beat it," Colby pointed out. "She doesn't know any more than I do." "Hey, boss," Ferguson strode forward a little, "how about it? Do I get him now?" ''Nein, not yet, lieber freund, not yet." The German who had stood tugging at his stiff gray mustache now shook his head slow ly while a tight cruel smile twitch ed his lips. There was something subtly menacing about this straight, wasted figure something that disturbed Colby far more than the blunt ferocity of Ferguson or the callous deadliness of Tug. "Ja! that last night out Kraus must have rehidden those jewels. One or the other of you knows,", Ehrenbreit said, "or else vhat iss this doing here?" He kicked the jimmy which had lain in plain sjght. "Ja. Hans iss right that vardammt Graus sent Vogel in his places -Vogel hired Mears and this one." An expression of overwhelm ing rage distorted the speakers' face. "Ferguson, mein bub, how shall we make them talk?" "I got just the right idee-no noise, no trouble and plenty er convincing. If they get obstinate, why they won't be found t"U we've high-tailed a good ways away. Listen. Hermann, how's this?" He drew Ehrenbreit aside while the other two being suspicious and alert continued to cover the down cast prisoners. "Gut, sehr gut." Ehrenbreit's beard glittered in the lamplight as sion specialist of N. C. State Col lege. Farmers are now planting these peas, many of which have been furnished by the AAA through Vogel j jts grant-of-aid plan. Blair said ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Administra tor of the Estate of Henry R. Win chester, deceased, late of Haywood County, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to exhibit them to the un dersigned at Waynesville, N. C. on or before the 2nd day of Septem ber, 1943, or this notice will be pleaded in bar thereof. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This September 2, 1943. R. L. PREVOST, Administrator. No. 1 1231 Sept, 3-10-17-24-Oct. 1-8 of 2-Way Help suggests -you try S directions on iabol the seudings should be made in September, the earlier the better. He warned that peas planted in October and November will not be large enough to turn under until winter peas may be planted after corn, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, cowpeas, soybeans, and other crops. They may be turned under in time to plant corn, and in some counties in time for cot ton. It is not advisable to plow them in for tobacco. They may be turned under for peanuts, soy beans, and cowpeas on sandy soils. Blair advised sowing 35 to 40 pounds of seed per acre on land where the peas have not been grown before. Twenty-five pounds per acre is sufficient when the peas are drilled in, or 30 pounds when broadcasting on land that is well inoculated. The agronomist said the seed must be inoculated, unless they are to be sown on land that has al ready been inoculated. Land ino culated for garden (May) peas does not require inoculation for Austrian winter peas. County agents will furnish information to farmers on this treatment. Blair pointed out that it pays to fertilize the Austrian peas, us ing 200 pounds per acre of 0-10-10 in the Coastal Plain, and 200 manure Ki.i : various Darts of the carcass are not KQ , 1'Jantit frequently wasted. These are val- should be mnV 1 s-m&" ,;1 . 1. , u'ld to inocu!,. 1u wun the bacteria of 7J nniinda of (1-14-7 in the Pipdmnnt. Position. " "I Ud and Mountains. The fertilizer ap- i Where very tine plication to the next crop may sired, well-rotted cu"31"'' then be reduced by these amounts, screened, and the ivaSt tti T.imn la Twpdp.1 nn hiVhlir arid not li.n,...ui. , ,"s tr he nodded emphatically. "Ve vill take them down there at vunce." (To Be Continued) Announcing A Change In Installment Buying i Owing to conditions beyond our control, oa BUDGET BUYING is now limited to RADIOS AX BICYCLES only. We appreciate all the installment buying of many customers and trust that they will continue a the new cash basis. 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