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. AUGUST 6, 1942 BSDAV THE VfAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 7 THE fORGOTON FLEET MYSTERY' py van wycK. Mason CHAPTER IX 'voice, "you may like this and U. -round 'till he Soc. butIdon't.ee la vu the girl him "HI tell you noth He Italian j."- P", n,ns I've developed," he business. There's fv n it somewhere. Men gel K.n i. for anything fBkTy" SeeT"' Now, . ... .miner to come across K!ou,r,fc. :. oil .Smit-jir hat tnis 0n ca" to the devil," suc- replied Geneva Benet. Lay. Sister. .iman in the umiorm cu-t ZA his peaked cap aside and Lked the high, green tnmraed fWve got a funny way of look things," he observed, "when ffleti have een muiucicu w- tA I ve just misseu, iiv's ,lu ' ' -.1 ..Ml 1L. tori N'1W' llner jwu agly-or 1 m going - you do." .lui'pt" the irirl on wuumn i " ; 4 at him as she stood ouumea Bst the white panelling. ijon't bet on it. I m not fussy i do when my nme s in uaa- (or no good reason. Are you to talk: v i1" The worn oursi, liuin iiei as propelled by an explosive. . le could not but aamire ner rage, and she certainly maae a .ngely appealing figure as she there with eyes ablaze and J thin nostrils opening and shut f sharply. But still the sound ithat silencered ouiiet was snarp this memory. !ike a fox upon a rabbit, the lean oldier was upon her and his ers were exerting an agonizing ssure upon her left arm. she ,yed weakly and he promptly re- Led her. Oh-h you devil she choked U dabbed at overflowing eyes. M-that's enough. You're brute lugh for anything."' So you've got some sense after 1 Colby grunted and resumed eat. "Now lets get the low- down." Making an obvious effort to pull htraelf together, Geneva Benet sank onto a green upholstered settee opposite the scarred ex soldier, produced a package of ci garettes and with trembling fingers at one. "The whole story is in that drawer." She nodded to the cap tain's desk. ' Second from the top." She pulled the brown felt hat off, but all the while narrowly watched her persecutor as he removed from thp draw r nothing mure stnrtlino than an old fashioned book design ed to contain clippings. Seating himself so that ha wax at once able to watch both this enig matic young woman in th worn .tweeds and the door, Colby opened the book. On the first page a screaming black headline jumped out at him from a yellowed clip ping. . MILLIONAIRE'S MANSION ROBBED AT NEWPORT '"German Baron, Guest of Corliss Benet, Proves Impostor and Thief. $250,000 to $300,000 Worth of Jew elry Reported Missing. Valet Sus pected as Accomplice," Brows merged in a rather sur prised furrow, Colby skimmed through a description of the case, of how the bogus Baron von Ehren briet, and his accomplice called Krau, by frequently changing their names succeeded in dropping from sight for a time. On other pages time dimmed pho toirraphs of K. Corliss Benet. at "Chateaudun," his Newport estate. oi an aristocratic looking woman regarding twin babies in a summer perambulator, and of a hie pvpH. long legged girl at her side. These, so the article stated, were Mrs. K. Corliss Benet and Miss Geneva Benet. -While the wind rose and com menced to sigh softlv about the bare frame of the old liner's bridge, Colby scanjned further articles which described how Inspector Daniel Connolly of the Burns Bu reau had been paid to take up the trail once the Metropolitan police had admitted their failure. The girl smoked in silence, her gray eyes riveted as in specu lation on that hard bitten figure across the cabin. "Very interesting," Colby re maked. "And as our time'n short.. Suppose'' you tell me the rest of it. Hi f VU m r ) Why did you and Connolly come down to this forsaken hole V With great deliberation Geneva Benet ground her cigarette but in a handsome bronze ash tray. "Probably for the same reason you did." Colby frowned. "Never mind riddles." "Well, Connolly got on Von Eh renbelt's trail, but he couldn't catch up. Just too late he learned that Kranus and herenbreit had sailed for Europe, presumably taking my mother's jewels with them. It was one of the big disappointments of Connolly's life, Connolly tried to extradite them, of course, but the German police wanted them on other charges, They were arrested as soon as their ship reached Ger man territorial waters, but " The ex-soldier's head Inclined shortly, "But the police found no jewels on them. Was that it?" "Yes, Connolly was absolutely certain that they had embarked with them, so he argu d that my mother's jewelry is still somewhere on the Kronprincessin Cecelie." "I see. But just why do you have to go through all this melodramat ic discomfort on these ships?" "Needs must, she said and a shadow crossed the girl's face, "Connolly was down and out and so was I almost. He took to drink just before we got in the war, bungled a spectacular case and was fired. He pulled himself together and tried to come back, but it was too late, nobody would hire him." Geneva Benet sighed. "So Connolly who had been one of the smartest detectives in the country, began taking odd jobs as a night watch man." "Yes, but that doesn't explain about you." Her eyes wandered to a mural depicting a Phoenician gallery in full sail. "Oh, you've heard the story a great many times, My father was wiped out in the Crash. About six months later he fell," she looked at him squarely in the eyes as she said it, "from his office window. My mother is an invalid and Polly and Inez, the twins, aren't old enough to work, even if they could find Jobs, which they can't, I had just lost the job I. had at a third rate department store when I bumped into Connolly in the subway one day. I told him how desperate I was. We we really were hun gry sometimes." Colby slouched 'deep in his chair watched shadows deepen bn that sensitive' face across the room. "Connolly told rne he'd been having a hard time of it, too, .He said he had been looking all over for me." Geneva Benet plucked another cigarette from her badly crumpled package and went on, her gaze now fixed on a set of brass speaking tubes beyond Colby's narrow dark red head. "Go on,': the latter invited with not a trace of reaction visible on his scarred features. "To cut a long story short Con nolly had always kept track of these two thieveshoped to redeem his reputation by recovering moth er's jewels, you see. Well, he learn, ed just before the war broke out that Kraus and Ehrenbreit had been sentenced to twenty years at hard labor in a Berlin prison and in Germany that means twenty years. Connolly figured that they would be due for release about five months ago. He was sure they'd hunt up the Kronprinzessin SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK By R. J SCOTT 1 M" AU. BAXO . AH ORlilSfA RoDOLfO JA.0KA. 4kMAi&U A VotvruiU. ? 44,000,000 im four Yiar wm BttUf lfiKiHl - MtX A. BUSHIL O? CORK .WIH t9 fa 9t vnu f 1tK POUNDt O I PDRK PiSfiUlP- rr b MAICU FWE AUOH 'jjWlUOR- rfwiU. 'orm oil . 49 iimmI txi A MEM.. SO TOUHP T 4o Pouun of SiRU, B fltM 4AR I 1 0COUHrt)U MK uHrtb tfMlt f 3 Cecelie to look for mother's jewels." Geneva Benet paused to light her cigarette. "In the old days the loss meant nothing; but now two hundred and fifty thousand dollars -Oh Lord!" Tou're telling me?" commented Colby with a faint smile. "Well, it seemed like the only thing to do, so we looked and look ed, but we had no luck." Desper ation rang in Geneva Benet's tone. (To be Continued) Schedule of Home Clubs Given For Part of Month The schedule of the home demon stration clubs for the first two weeks in August has been announc ed by Miss Mary Margaret Smith, as follows: The Beaverdam club met with Mrs. Will Clark at 10:30 on Tues day morning; the Allen's Creek club held a meeting with Mrs. L. u. Alien yesterday at 10:30 o clock. ' The Dellwood club will meet thin morning at 11:00 o'clock with Mrs. Prank Henry: the Jonathan OroeV club will meet with Mrs. J. L. Palmer, at 11:30 o'clock on Fri day, August 7th; the Morning Star club with Mrs. L. L. Smathers at 10:00 Tuesday morning. August 11th. The Maple Grove club will meet with Mrs. Sam Queen at fi-an o'clock on Tuesday 11th; Francis ove ciud with Mrs. Robert Mc Cracken at 6:30 o'clock on Wed nesday 12th ; Fines Creek club with Mrs. C. S. Green at 10:00 J clock Thursday, Augfust 13th; the Iron Duff club with Mrs. E. W. White at 10:00 o'clock on Friday 14th. Traveling in a small circla make one dizzy and gets him nowhere. Representative Of Social Security Board Here At Post Office, 13th A representative of the Ashe ville field office of the Social Se curity board will be at the local post office on Thursday the 13th, at 10:00 a. m. All wage earners who have work ed in a job covered by the Social Security Act, since December 31, 1936, and have attained the age of 65, may be eligible to file claim. whether they have an account number or not. j The great usually remain great until they become aware of it. NOTICE Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of W. L. Hardin, Jr., deceased, late of Haywood County, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned at Waynesvule, N. C on or be fore the 30th day July, 1943, or this notice will be pleaded in bar thereof. All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate settlement. This July 30th, 1942. (Mrs.) LUCILLE L. HARDIN. Executrix. No. 1213 Aug. 6-13-20-27-Sept. 3-10. SALE The Waynesville Art Gallery w stock consists in part oi Gorgeous Diamond Jewelry Watches Sterling Silver Antique English Silver Oriental Rugs Fine Linens and Laces Im ported China and Porcelain Lamps Mirrors Clocks and hundreds of other terns too numerous to mention. Beautiful Gifts to the Ladies Given Away At All Sales LOCATED AT Massie Building Main Street Three Doors From Park Theatre Two Sales DAILY 10:30 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. ttiis May Be Your Last Opportunity To Buy This Kind cf Merchandise At Your Own Price. Take Advantage Waynesville Art Gallery Tg aO Old Friands and Patrons we extend a personal invitation to say "HELLO" LAST CAM FOR 1941 TAX E8 THE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE ADVERTISE and SELL All Property On Which 1941 Taxes Have Not Been Paid. The Names Of All Delinquent Taxpayers Will Be Published EN modulus) II And Sold On 1st Monday In September No Extension Of Time Will Be Given !! Notice is also given that we will garnishee and levy on all personal property on which taxes are due Jo Eo FERGUSON, TAX COLLECTOR AND TAX SUPERVISOR OF HAYWOOD COUNTY
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