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ALPATRIOT, NORTH iBsrs ORO. N. C. THIRD INSTALMENT '*1 'wiah you’d pliono m«, rra- tier, &s Booa «a you find out mom about it,” Henderson regneated ”Tod understand my curiosity? Will you let me know? I’ll be waiting for word tromi ybu.** "I’ll do that, gladly, old man. I’ll tell you aa much as Dan Flaherty will let iC '.> tell. He’s the boss.” ‘‘ITiat’s all right,” grunted the policeman. “We’ll gire you a ring. Come on. Max. Come on, Frasier. Going now, Mr. WilUams, or staying here?’’ ’They had settled their poker winnings and losses while wait ing, and all moved toward the elevator. Williams glanced again at Henderson. “You’re sure you don’t want me to stay with you?’’ he asked. “Sure,’’ replied Henderson forcing a smile. "You’re good to offer it.’’ “By the way, Mr. Henderson, '• * Star Single-edge Blades solve the mystery of good shaves. Made sinee 1880 by the Inventors of the original safety razor. Keen, I lasting, nnifonn. STAR BLADES' FOR GEM AND EVER-READY RAZORS Star Bhules Sold Ijocally By HORTONS CUT-RATE DRUG STORE At Money-Saving Prices have you got a flask, or can you apare a bottle of that Scotch?" asked Max Michaells. "Arc'hle may need It. I would. In his situ ation.” “Certainly. Take this bottle. It’a nearly full,” said the Inven tor. Warned by Inspector Flaherty the little group of four said noth ing about their errand In the presence of the night elevator man and doorman of the Highart Building. Williams said good night at the door and started oft on foot, through the three inches of fluffy snow. The others had ■but a few minutes to wait before a big sedan with the Police De partment shield on the radiator and a brass-buttoned policeman driving, pulled up before the door. Not until they were inside the car did any of them speak. Dan Flaherty was first to break the-silence. "This looks like a tough case. Max,” he said. “Sort of thing makes a policeman wish he didn’t have any friends.” "Jumping tO] conclusions, Dan, as usual?” asked Michaelis. “You talk as if you thought Archie did it.” "Suppose he did,” retorted the Inspector. “I've got to bear down on him harder than I would if I’d never known him; the 'best I can do I'll bo accused of trying to shield a friend.’’ ‘‘I get you,’’ agreed Michaelis, “but let me remind you that his calling you up was the act of an innocent man. He didn’t have to do it. For all we know now, he could have slipped away and said nothing.’’ "But his a.sking for you is the act of . man who realizes that circumstances look 'bad for him,” countered Dan Flaherty. ’’Agreed,’’ said Max Michaelis. "And I realize your position, Dan.’’ “1 don’t need to tell you that I’ll play fair in anything relating to Archie.” growled the Inspector, "and I’ll be glad’ to have your help, Max. You know that.” “Even then, we’ve got a per sonal interest, all of us, in find ing out who killed Fitz,” Max Michaelis rominded them. “Our first concern must be for tbe llv- i!ig, but v.'c must not forget our duty to avenge the dead. “Ail right, Dan, I wish you’d HAS TIMED ISO MILilON UVES ANOTHER RADIOCLAST CLINIC AN EXPERT RADIOCLAST TECHNICIAN, OF TIFFIN, OHIO, WILL BE IN MY OFFICE Thursday, Friday, Saturday JULY 22, 23 AND 24 Many people have visited our clinic and have found to their entire satisfaction just why they are net enjoy ing good health. You toe, may know what is wrong with your health i^-ailowing the (t^pert technician to examine you-tboroughly. You will be asked no ques tions, but.waWi*»told what your condition is, and how to correct yourrilte. MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT TODAY AS ONLY A LIMmS) NUMBER OF PATIENTS CAN BE TAKEN CARB OF. Mooer Will Be Cheerfully Refunded if You Are Npt Entity Satisfied With the Examination . S. COOPER 'OUROPRACTORi Mto SiiSrfMj tell me Just what Archie said to you over the phone,” Btax Mlcdi- aells responded, as the car halt ed for the stream of after-theatre traffic going up Seventh Avenue Into Central Park, Its progreea slowed up by the float of scrapers and trucks of the snow-removal gang, already on the job. "What’s the starting point? How did he come to be at Miss Lane’s rooms? Did he explain that?” “Yes,” replied the Inspector. "He said that he went to his own rooms when he left the game and had been there only a tew min utes when his telephone rang and Miss Lane, apparently greatly ex cited, asked him to come at once. Bomething terrible had hap pened, she said. H© got no an swer at her door. Got in through some sort of back entrance—he knew his way a'bout there—and found Fritz and the girl both dead-—shot. “Said he hid done nothing be fore phoning me except to tak© a quick look around the apartment to see it anybody was hiding there, and that was all ho said.’’ "That fixes the time of the shooting pretty closely, then,” was Michaelis’ comment. “Archie left us about ten-thirty, perhaps a few minutes later. He phoned you about eleiven-twenty-five. Give him twenty minutes to get here, another five to look around, and he must have been talking to Miss Lane just about eleven o’ clock. She, at least, was alive then. If the ‘something terrible’ which she said hEd-haiypened was the shooting of Fitzgerald, then that must hav© occurred just be fore that. “It’s a quarter of twelve now. Whatever happened must have occurred within the last forty-five minutes.” “If he’s telling the truth,” growled Dan Flaherty. “I can’t make any other as sumption,” replied Michaelis. “One thing we’ve got to re member,’’ said Martin Frazier, as the car pulled up in front of Number 213 West Fifty-ninth, “is that Archie Doane is an actor. A good actor, trained to simulate emotions which he does not feel, to wear a mask at will.” “A point w-ell taken, which is offset by the fact that when he does feel emotions he has difficul ty in hiding them,” commented Michaelis. “We hav© only to think of his evident distrait during the game this evening to realize that.’’ Another Police Department car was standing at the curb in front of the converted dwelling In which Lydia Lane had her apart ment, and a uniformed police man, on guard at th© door, salut ed Insipector Flaherty as he and his t’wo companions alighted.’’ “'Medical examiner got her© yet?’’ asked the Inspector. “Five minutes ago, with three plain-clothesmen,’’ replied the policeman. “Is this the only entrance to the building?’’ “Except the trap door from the cellar, and that’sj right here in front,” the policeman answer ed. “Nobody’s been in or out since I got here.’’ “Let ’em in if you’re satisfied they live in the building and have ■been out all evening,’’ the inspec tor instructed him, “but take their apartment numbers in case I want to talk to them. If any body wants to go out, send up to the penthouse apartment tor me. Where’s the janitor?” “I haven’t seen him. I think he has a room in the cellar.’’ “Better ring for him and keep him around to run errands for you,’’ said Flaherty. “Any hall- boys or elevator attendants?” “No: it’s an automatic eleva tor. One of these push-button ones.” The building had once been a rather pretentious mansion, which had been remodelled, after the New York fashion, into small suites. It stood between two tow ering new apartment houses, ov erlooking Central Park. Yet, like most 'buildings of Its type, it was tenanted at high rentals by those who preferred privacy and com modious rooms to the outward gorgeouaness and cramped tiring quarters of the ordinary apart ment. It was clear enough at a glance that an intruder migiht find little difficulty in entering and leaving unobserved. There was not much room for Mu MtchaaUa and MarUn Fra zier after Den Flaherty had In serted bis ibnlky form Into the tiny elevator. The in^>ector press ed the upper hniton and the cage ascended, to stop at a landiTEg on D} hy A B: CHAPBvf Annual D McGrady iJei ^e annual cemetesF VI tloiS will b© held at the cemetwy near F. P. Itaylor’s the 2nd Bunday in Aofnst. Bv« 'body that has relatives bur there come on Wednesday -beto the 2nd Snndayi to help prepq the CMBdtery for deooratioB. Lien Filed Against Mazie ■ .X New York, July 13.—^Tho, In ternal Revenue department today’ filed to tax Hen for $23,711.66 jalnst Max Scbmeling, Oermaa heavyweight fighter. The Hen cov- | ere an aseeeement for the year 1932 and 1933. Lost year anoth* er Hen for $40^000 was tiled a*i gainst^ScKtoelRiir. eiwo'' Sentinels of Health Don't Nagloet Thaia I (MdrnapariS ■ft rM tf tamf • Ui» . tku roity nan of MjfavRppnvtL An nSssiS ^ imtft •* DMa.L 8oM tl sOdfis itsfw. Doans PILLS of the cage, there was a door which apparently gave access to the flat root; to the right, a door on which a small brass plate bore the name of Lydia Lane. Inspector Flaherty rang the bell and the door was opened by a tall, dark young man. who bore none of the customary earmarks of the police. However Flaherty soon dissipated this idea in the way in which he addressed the fellow. “Hello, Tony,” said the In spector. “What does it look like?” •‘Hello, Chief,” was Detective Marlinelli’s response. “I don’t know enough yet to make any thing of it. It looks bad . . he glanced over his shoulder and lowered his voice as he spoke, “ . . . it looks bad for Mr. Doane.” “Where's the Medical Examin er? What diiM he say?” Inspector Flaherty demanded, aa he and his companions pushed through the door and Into a squaro foyer Ing to 'Roosevelt Hospital. | E. Cadorin, famed Italian sculp- Smoke from the police camera ^ recent visitor to Treas- man’s flashlight wm oozing out L^e Mnnd, site of the 1939 Golden of a window which had-been low- ... „ j D iu International Exposition. Ca- ered from the top, and the first#,1.^ j.-j 'dorm 18 one of the few red-haired sensation of the new arrivals was the acrid odor of magnesium powder. Stretched on a chaise lounge in the farther corner of the room lay the body of Lydia Lane. Sh© was; attired in a flowered silk kimono, which had been partly pulled or thrown aside, revealing the dainty silken lingerie beneath. The face whoso pure profile had made her the darling of the screen was as beautiful in its white waxinees as when th© puls es of life had colored it. Her boy ishly-cropped golden hair seemed dark by contrast. One bared arm hung limply over the edg© of the conch;- - Its whiteness marred 'by a dark streak which began at a blue- bordered hole midway between Italians in San Francisco. from which other doors gave at ] ©Ibow and shoulder and coursed opposite ends. One of these doors opened as he apok© and th© Medi cal Examiner himself came out. He reached for th© telephone on a stand between the doors. •‘The girl’s alive!” he said. “I’m going to call an aimibulance.” Th© Penthouse apartment in which Lydia Lane lived consl.''ted of a large studio on the north front of the building, overlooking Central Park, a smaller but still commodious bedroom on the southerly side, connected with the studio both through th© en trance foyer and by a dressing room wliich opened into 'both rooms, off whiich was a bath room. Also opening off the foyer, at the rear, was a little kitchen ette with a tiny room for a maid servant adjoining. At th© front, the structure, really a bungalow built on the roof, was set back some six or seven feet from the cornice, mak ing a little roof garden on which French doors gave entrance. At the rear there was a much larger roof expanse, running back' per haps twenty-five feet, where an I^haped extension had been con structed. The windows of the bedroom, the kitchenette and the maid’s room opened upon this part of the roof, and there was another French door leading from the bedroom directly to the roof. To give the janitor access to the root and as a means' of exit for tenants below in case of fire, another door, on the opposite side of the elevator shaft, open ed from the elevator and stair landing on to a narrow passage which led also to th© rear roof garden of Miss Lane’s apartment. And up the side of the ©levator shaft ranj a vertical Iron ladder, for the us© of workmen In. mak ing repairs to the elevator ma chinery or the roof of the' pent house itself. At the rear of tbe roof extension which formed Miss Lane’s roof garden, an iron fire escape ladder led down to a courtyard. There •were window^ only on th© front and back of tb© aitart- ment. On both sides tb© building was hemmed In by the ■window- less side ■yvalta of the adjoining stmetnree, ■whldh rose fifty feet or mf^re above the ro«rf of the little house. All of this was not, of ooniao, Inune^ately clear to • Insjeetotr Flaherty and ble companions, the top of the bnlldlr^, ftvgjrhalr first concern mm wUb the apt ilha elss^:'. doivi: AvBIBis4)eane. ' opened upon a sky-Ughtod lobby;> - They toUosrad Detective Marl- trom which the ataiis descended, nelll toto tb» bedroon while 4&a|i To their left, aa they step^ ontJ iil|Mfeal Kxamlnei^wu tede;^^ down to the ends of th© tapering fingers which touched, it seemed almost caressingly, the face of the man who lay on the floor in a crumpled, disorderly heap. ((Continued next week) Ads. get attention—and results! SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE By virtue of authority contain ed in a certain Mortgage Deed executed on the 8th day of Decem ber, .1928, by J. L. Bell and wife, Cora Bell to B. C. Caudill, Mort gagee, and by him duly assigned to Dr. C. 'W. Moseley, said Mort gage Deed being recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Wilkes County in Book 149 at page 137, and the stipulations in said Mortgage Deed not ha'^ng been complied with, the undersign ed assignee of and in said Mort gage Deed will expose to sale at public auction on August 9, 1937, at 12 o’clock noon at the Court house door in the Town of Wil- icesboro, for cash, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by sai'J Mortgage Deed, the following de scribed real estate: Adjoining the lands of Curtis Johnson, Jim Combs and others. Beginning on a pine running north 58 poles to a white oak on the bank of the creek, then 60 de grees north 18 poles to a persim mon on the bank of branch, then West 19 degrees south 9 poles up the hollow to a white oak on the point of the ridge; then Wert 40 poles to a stone in Payton Dow ell’s line; thence west 78 1-2 poles to a stone, then north 36 poles to a red oak, west 48 poles_ to Bogs branch, then up and with said branch 36 poles to a stake on the north side of a hill at the mouth of a gully, then with said gully 34 1-2 poles to a stone: then west 26 poles to a stone in the old line; then south with said line 70 1-2 poles to a post oak; then west 2S r les to a white oak; then north poles to a stake: then west 40 poles to a stone; then South 46 poles to a red oak; then South east 36 poles to a stone on Sloan’s creek; twn down and. with the center of said creek to Matilda Spt^ line; then 61 degrees east with the old line 38 poles to two small chestnuts, then North > 14 poles to a post oak; theooe west 30 poles to a post oak; then north 32 poles to said creek; then up and With said creek 10 poles and 10 1-2 feet; thmi 80 dei^ees east 72 pMea to a holly; thmiee south 12 poles to a sourwood on a hill side; thenea sooth 68 oagitaa east 42 poles, wHh a marked ing the Inraach 1-4 spring to a stake: east direction 9 pol then a northeast pelss to a hiokof to a white oak; i poles to the U4i Dcr.r.’s I’iils Sold L3Cil!y By HORTON’S CUT-RATE DRUG STORE At Money-Saving Prices U5C the BABY POWDER that FIdHTS OFF GERMS 'V Don’t' let germs Infect your baby’s delicate skin Instead of using ordinary baby powders, use Mennen AntisepUr Powder. 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The lead ing farm papers of the cenntry will carry the story of North Carolina’s opportunity for diversified and profit able farming and many well-to-do farmers will be seeking farmlands in North Carolina. Let ns pat our house in order. Every cidsen of the Stale and every commanity must cooperate if North Carolina is to reap the ma'rimnni results and ike in creased prosperity that wiO come from oar advertking. Lei our eonunanities pot on bri^t, deina fieeea. Let m heautfy our Ughwaya Lei «vauf Nendt Carolinian greet vWiem to Aa Stalo wi& dm apirat of hoepilali^y far which MwA CaroBna la jnsdy fmmams. Let onr FaUaa Foooea to (Mkira onrt evnig affort to hn frfanAy, 1: whhto l^^eru, or -MI-(M) the 8th ati I»87. B. .’C,'W. Moseley,. }iLL, Lm M'l In KorA Cmsitoa'a MaaA af PtogiuM.'' jCa>TJigi’*a NORTH GAROUNiirlS ■ :