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-iff liil a? jr ,ti k I ,J V T - AWkPTlB f ROM Tilt MITBO 601DWYN MAYflt MCTuU What Has Haftsnsd 80 Ta: Hick CharUe - ami Ms wifo flora art ummoned to t Aofns o a old friend, Colonel 'iXaePay eonIdes 4 Mm Ms ear at HU fe mr tord. JTick slips awam from tA kouse. to visit FMI Cftttroft, former employ., of ' MacFay, 'Just out of iaU, oKO Am ors ssm is Colonsr dsatfc Arte dream. Catwc. Kick that he cannot understand why IfaoFay U ttiU aHvo since he 4tmm4 o kit Tatft fc t4rd Mm ihat afternoon. Lois, Mao Fat'e adopted daughter, is viU ing Nick and Nora in their room tot at night wm hot to hoard and MaoWay to- found dead en hi room, murdered in the same gruesome manner that Church had described. OWbl UN Iff lxw ft. Part Two Van Slack, the assistant district attorney, who had taken charge of matters In the MacFay home, was a tall, slightly stoop-shout-dered young man with a vague manner. "Some things here are a little confusing," he told Mick. "Mao Fay's broken wrist, this wire torn out of the base of the lamp... This newspaper all wet and crum- Sled up... the glass of water on ae - floor. ' There seems to have been quite a struggle." Wink nodded. ' The way I figure It," Van Slack went on, vMacFay la lying here, reading the paper, he throws it down and turns off the light, the murderer comes in... through the door or window. . .MacFay hears him and nabs for his sun." Van Slack paused, surveying the Soup gathered about the table, orn'a head was bent forward. Lola and Freddie were sombre and tense; as Mick stoically studied them. It appeared as though every one were suspicious, of everyone else, and afraid to make any com ment about the goings-on in that strange and disaster-pursued house hold. . . -The murderer was already bearing down on his arm," said Van Slack, "when MacFay got the Shot away." He paused. "Or else the gun could have gone off when H hit the floor after his wrist had been broken. Then the mur derer knocked him back on the pillow with a blunt instrument, and went after him with a knife" The conversation was Interrupt ed when one of the state troopers guarding the house rushed in ex citedly. There's a dog outside," he cried, "running around with a knife In his mouth!" Taking a flashlight in his hand, Kick made his way outside to the edge of the shrubbery, whistling to Asta. The excitement at the front of the house had taken all of the troopers away from the back door. Wo one observed Dudley Horn, "as he slipped out through the rear of the building, making for the cir cular row of bushes that led in the-direction which Nick bad taken. i The only person who was aware sf Horn's movements was Lois. ,phe caught sight of his shadow la Ide of the house. "Come on," said Mick enconrag iftngly, "bring it here." Asta eame p, and placed the captured knife ;At his master's feet "Mr. Charles! Mr. Charles!" cried liois. running up breathlessly. "What are you doing out here?" asked Mick, in surprise. ' Lola" eyes seemed to be searoh 6cr the darkness in front of her, ind she was unable to speak. . "Dudley ..." she finally mnr murAd. There's something wrong-" . With a sudden scream aha fryshed Mick violently to one side. A, revolver shot rant out and a bullet that bad apparently been meant for Mick struck Lois' arm. Mechanically, Mick seised his own gun, but there was no need to use ftrtha police 'bad already started to fire into the bushes. In another minute a fusillade- of bullets : Was being poured at the . shadowy un seen .assailant ": ' ' "We've got him," cried one of the policemen. . Nick, Van Slack and several of the detectives - stepped forward. Lying on - the - ground; hie - body riddled with bullets, was Dudley Horn. In falling, he had dropped his own revolver on the ground. ,-, "Boroi" exclaimed Van Slack, startled. - -.. - Lois was lying on the ground apparently unconscious, blood trickling .from her sleeve. Nick bent forward, felt bar pulse, then spoke to the nearest ofllcer. "She's aU right," be said. It's lust bar arm.- YfeU carry bar inside." Questioning of- Lois, later on, revealed MacFay's Intense dislike of Horn as a suitor, and bis de claration that if Lois married him he might take drastic action. Of course with MacFav srone. Lois would become financially independ- vtr WW;- ' lira." Bell am nodded. "I didn't want you to be alone twhen jrou woke up." "You're so good to mi," sold 'Whyshoufdn't ; I., be good , to my own flesh and bloodr" Sud Ldenly an expression .. of . horror came over sirs, souna s imam, mi the slip. Lois stared for a minute, unable to comprehend the signi ficance of the words. ; "Forgive me," begged .lira, pel lam. "I didn't ever mean to teU you.!. ' "t "I dont understand, aald XaU, in' a daaed tone.- yvr " ' "Don't hate me," pleaded the older woman, "I couldn't bear It If yon did.. IflsvgrouK mot!r,'' but I dont . ask anyUdhg. , . Jut tor be allowed to stay, near you. Say you wont send me kway. t . L0I4 stunned by the. startling disclosure, could say nothing. Meanwhile Mick was on bis way, with the new death threat in bis pocket, to meet Van Slack and Lieutenant Guild at the brown stone house where Smltfcy, Church's girl friend, lived in the city. Smitty amiably denied any knowledge of where Church bad gone. All she knew , was , that he ww4fW' ;v;-:-aV , ..... Itappearedet&eudi -mtM xrt mupV datuefemyeuteUt, ent In her own right... but what about Phil Church? And was Freddie, as it appeared, in love with Lois himself f Mora announced that she had Invited Lois, Freddie, and Mrs. Bellam, the housekeeper, to return under her protection to the city. And Mick felt that the case had become iribre baffling, not more transparent "Mr. Charles!" cried Freddie Coleman, entering Nick's room. "Look at this!" On a scrap of paper was writ ten, in wobbly -black letters: Lois MacFay better put on her shroud. She vitt ooon be vMh her father. l"Wherb did you get this?" do ntanded Nick. ' "It was underneath my door, Just when X came In." "Funny" saidNlck drily. "Oh, Nick, go take a look at Lois!" cried Mora, anxiously. Mick slipped across the hall, and opened the door-of Lois bedroom. Silently he stepped toward the bed, where the girl lay motionless. "Stay away!" a sibilant voice cried out Mick looked up to see the enig matic face of Mrs. Bellam. The housekeeper was standing back of a chair In a corner of the room. . ."She's asleep," added Mrs. Bel lam, lowering her voice. Til call you when she wakes p." r Nick nodded, and. went out In a moment Lois began to stir. Rousing herself, she looked at her watch. "Six o'clock!" she exclaimed. Have you been here all this time?" bad spoken of going to Cuba. After futile questioning, all of them left Nick's next stop, he bad de termined, was to be made on his own: it was the Latin-American club owned by "Diamond Back" VogeL And unless his check-up was very faulty, Vogel was the man who had been crouching on the hill the night before spying on Church, . A Cuban couple were doing a noisy rumba on the small dance floor, as Mick entered. Making himself as inconspicuous as possi ble, be strolled over toward a corner; on the way be noted a cluster of men standing around a center table, and vaguely wondered what the - attraction was. It was sen to be explained. After two mors Informally torrid dance ' numbers bad been run through, the waiter stepped over and gave Mick a note, indicating the sender with a gesture. It read: Sweetie: Wont you come over and have i fei for old rime's safcsf . - - Rising and stepping over to the center table, Nick edged through the circle , of men, who looked at him Indignantly. In a moment be was face to face with Nora, clad In evening dress. . "Why, .Kick!" exclaimed Mord, Cookie, as underworld floater who was sitting at the next table, looked up in .affable, alcoholio rec ognition. ' " "Nick Charles!" be croaked. "What're you doing down here?' "Looking for a murderer," said Nick sisnlflcantlv. - ? ' t! men around' Mora showed a sudden Impulse to dlswasw la another moment all of them bad. made their excuses and Mt "Give me fourteen dollars ,and. seventy-five cents," said Nora, t 4 "What for?" rejoined Nick oa ually, countings out the money. -(.. "i man," said Nora, reaching ; out her band for it. "He phoaed me after you left L's somewbera in this room. He heard you' wet -looking for Dum-Dum and said if I gave him the money Dum-Dum owed him, he'd tell me where. b-:-was." J' 'v 1 ii '. l ess," . said nick ruy. -am x bow are you going to contact this mysterious uuormerrvv 1 v.r- r feI toM.blm-rd be bolding tha money Uke tbia,'V said -fora7rlstng, "Wrasned in a handkerchief." - "So ' you're a sleuth, too,'; Nick. eWelL cood luck.'r A few minutes later hs smiled when ! t saw that Nora bad ap parently picked up the, wrong party, someone who looked like a paid gigolo.- .'j... , . It wasn't long afterward that Dum-Dum, stuffing his cap in bis Socket came in through the front oor. As he passed Nick's table he stopped short A -i&tHtlng out all right with the police?" asked Nick, glancing up casually, and motioning him to a chair. 1 "Always I do," said Dum-Dum, smiling confidently "How about Church? Is ha making out all right?" "I do not know where Church is," returned Dum-Dum. - Cookie, who had been sitting at the next table, was obviously , in terested in the conversation. Nick, noting Dum-Dum 's glance of aver sion, decided there might be some thing worth looking into. "You know Phil Church?" he asked Cookie, pushing forward a drink at the same time. "Know him!" cried-Cookie, mov ing over. "Many'a the bottle him and me had killed in this joint" "Nice little sweetheart he's got Vi .that Smitty." : "Yeah," came back Cookie. "But Smitty'a a campflre girl compared to that other frill he had." "Oh, yes," said Niok, pretending a knowledge he did not possesa "What was her name now. . . ?" "Linda Mills." That's H," agreed Nick, snap ping his fingers. "Does Linda still live over at the... the..." "Cheat evere Apartments." Cookls prompted him. "Yes," rejoined Nick, concealing his elation. The Chestevere." "Sure," said Cookie. "But she'll have a long wait before she gets Phil Church back there." "Got to wait tin be gets back from Cuba, eh?" "If you-vall this Cuba!" retorted Cookie. Dnm-Dum looked as though h wanted to blot Cookie out of ex istence. Nick felt he was getting closer to his objective, and eagerly pressed on. . "Dldnt Church leave when be said he would?" he asked Cookie. "Naw!" was the sarcastic re-Joinder.-"He's been banging around these Joints here an the time." He leaned forward, heedless of the balefuL snakellke glare in Dum Dum's eyes. "Say, you dont know no mors about nlm than the po lice. And they're all wrong H they say that Phil was mixed up in that thing down on the Island. Why, I seen him about eleven o'clock going In to..." What Cookie was about te say remained unexpressed. Striking like a lightning thrust, Dum-Dum leaped up and hit the other man squarely with his flat As Cookie toppled back, '. there - were ' shouts from all directions, and a general list fight started. Nick thought first of Nora, but before be could look for ber, there was 4 resound ing crash, and in another moment the lights went out enveloping the club in total darkness. (To bo oonrlmtsS MM In V. S. a. . Examinations For Ovil Service The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for the po sitions listed below. Applications must be on file in . the Commission's office at Washington, D. C, not later than the closing dates specified in each case. The first date given is for receipt of applications from States east of Colorado; the second, for re ceipt of applications from Colorado and States westward. Telephone operator, $1,260 a year, for appointment in Washington, D. C, only. Applicants must have had certain full-time paid experience as telephone operator. They must have reached their eighteenth, but must not have passed their fifty-third, birthday. Closing dates are Febru ary 12 and February 15, 1940. Senior stenographer, $1,620 a year5, junior stenographer,. ,$1,440 a year, senior typist, $1,440 a year, junior typist, $1,260 a year. .The examina tion is open to men only as there are adequate registers of female eligi bies, Appointment from these exam inations will be made in Washington, D. C., only. Applicants must have reached their eighteenth, but not have passed their fifty-third .birth day Closing dates are February 12 and Fahruarv 15. 1940. Associate; aeronautical inspector, ssUU a year, assistant aeronautical JnBivBrtnr. S3.200 a vear. Civil Aero- nauticst Auority. . . Applicants : for both ; positions must nave reached their twenty-fourth birthday; for the associate 'gr6 they .must not 'have passed their fortieth, and ..for, the as sistant grad they' -must not have passedJi'tMAy-Wfli birthday. 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Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office or customhouse in this city, or from the Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners at any firsb or second-class post office. when the production of a farm: pro duct is in such quantities as to de press the producer's return below normal or fair levels. 1 . Commodities allocated to schools may not be sold, traded or exchanged and must be distributed to the chil dren daily only in, such quantities as they may normally be expected to consume, .Langston said. Education al establishments having facilities to provide hot Hunches for the under: nourished children were not eligible to participate in the expanded pro gram, thediriectorsaid. SERVICES AT WOODLAND Services will be held at Woodland Methodist Church on Sunday even ing at 7 o'clock. At this time Rev. J. D.' Cranford will preach.? The public is cordially invited to Attend. WOODLAND W. M. S. TO MEET The' Woman's Missionary Society of Woodland. Methodist Church will meet Thursday afternoon, Feb W, at 2:30 o'clock,! with Mrs. Jack . Ben ton, i All , members are urged to be present. Visitors are cordially in vited to attend, ' '"''' Expanded School Lunch Program To Aid Small Units Small rural schools having no fa cilities for providing hot lunches to be $ given to needy, undernourished graded school pupils were brought under, the new school ?Mch program this month when the commodity dis tribution division of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare mail ed to school heads application blanks f or.requests of fresh, fruits "and oth er commodities that can normally, be consumed -without cooking;. 'tt' State Director of Commodity Dis tribution; AE. langston,' called at tention to the fact that a Very defin ite limit ia placed on the amount and Idnd "of ; commodities available teach month since purchases of the Federal furplus' Commodities ; Corporation of Excess foodstuffs ' are made only O.ASS1FIED AMD ; VLEGAtS LEARN .BEAUTY CULTURE Better training; , better positions. . For information - write ; Peggy'B .School of Beauty Cuflture, Wilson, K.ai , ... feb,9,l3pd. NOTICE OF SALE - : By virtue of the authority contain ed in that certain mortgage deed exe cuted on the, 21st 'day 'of October, 1925 by K. B. Coffield and. wife, Mary Coffield,' to Martha E. Penning ton, mortgagee,-and recorded in the off ice of the Register .of Deeds for Perquimans County, N. C., in M.'D. Book 14, page '802, default having been made in the conditions of said deed of mortgage, the undersigned mortgagee will on the 24th day of February, , 1940, at 11 :30 o'clock . A M.j at the court house door of Pef quimans County, N. C, of fer fir f "!j at Public auction to the highest bid der for cash, the following described property: Being in Bethel Township and be ing lots 7, 8, 13 and 14, situated near Hertford on Piatt of property known as Hertford Heights. For further description of said lots see Piatt Book No. 2, pages 2 and 3, Register of Deeds .office, Perquimans County, being; same lots conveyed to - said Coffield by Cannon and Newsy. Dated and posted this 23rd day of January, 1940. MARTHA E. PENNINGTON, Mortgagee. By Chaj. E. Johnson, Attorney jan.26,feb.2,9,16 NOTICE OF SALE . Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Perquimans County, made in the Special Proceed ing 'entitled " Mary Baker and hei husband,' Charlie Baker vs. Sallie tailings (unmarried), et als, the same being No. upon the' Special Proceeding docket of said court the undersigned ; 'commissioner ' . will, on the 24th day of Februaryi l940, at 11:30: o'clock; A Ui at the' court house .door in - Perquimans County, Hertford, N. O, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash that . certain tract of land Jying :and being; in Belvidere .. Township, t Perquimans County, N. C, adjoining the lands of Benjamin Hinton i and others, and more particularly .'described as ol lows, to wit:' v.;, i -' -'i - -, ' .First Tract: A tract of .land known a the land of Noah . Stallings' gift to W. Stalling lying "and being. in the county , of . Perquimans, N. C, containing by estimation, twenty-six acres be tihe same more or less, mounded by tn : lands . 01 lieniamin Hinton, Job Riddick and Willie Rid- dick, being the land., which hereto fore belonged to Martha Stallings. See Deed I!ook 4, Public Registry of Perquimans Coun!y, N.C 3ronJ Tract: That certain tr -l i tj r:crry EK"--- ly t' ? t t' 0 1 '-Asa .' Richmond Cedar Works, as of Elias Et&uings,J and Charles .White (form- erlyW. F. Onley,) containing forty acres, more or less. - See Will ox Asa Stallings, WUl(Book "I", page-, Clerk j Superior Court's, pfflce, , er duimans County, Nk C ? Dated and posted this 23rd day of January. 1940. , , ,..,.. ,4., " u CHAS. E. JOHNSON," jan6iebi,9,16 " .Commissioner, ' " NOTICE OF ' SALE , v ' By virtue of the authority contain ed in ' that certain deed of trust exe cuted on thtf 11th day ' of August, 1937, by Josiah Elliott and wife, Min nie Lee Elliott, to W. H. Hard$astle, Trustee, and recorded in the office of th Register of Deeds J for Per- Suimans County, " N. C in VI. '. D. 00k 20, pagft 692, default haviag been made in the conditions of said deed of trust, at the request of the holder of the note, the undersigned trustee will on the 24th day of Feb ruary, 1940, at 11:80 o'clock A. M., at the court house door of Perquim ans County, N. C, offer for sale at Public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: - , -.. 1 Bounded on the north by the lot of C. W. Reed (formerly lot of Er nest Reed) east by the lot . of Mrs. Isa G. Tucker, south by Pennsylvania Ave., and west by the lot of Allen Perry, being the same lot conveyed to Martha A. Copeland by David Cox and wife, and conveyed to Josiah Elliott by Martha A. Copeland. Both deeds recorded in Public Registry of Perquimans County in Deed Book 7, page 588, and deed book 15, page 449. Dated and posted this 23rd day of January, 1940. W. H. HARDCASTLE, Trustee. By Chas. E. Johnson, Attorney. jan.26,feb.2,9,16 of Bert Williams, on the west by the lands d A. N. Winslowyfo the south by the lands of Luther - Winslow, and on the East by Jhe lands of the White heirs, containing by estimation sixty two acres', and beingall of 'the lands owned by the said Jessie T. Winslow " at the time of his death, heired by him from his father, Axioifl Winslow, and in part bought of Elisha Perry, I Bidding will start at $2,625.00. ; Dated and posted this 22nd day of January," 1940, J ' " ' , ' ' "'....' , -;'. C. R. HOLMES," ' ' feb.2,9 ' . "" - . a, Commissioner.. NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE Pursuant to the terms of an order of resale made in that certain Spec ial Proceeding now pending before the Clerk of the Superior Court, en titled T. E. Winslow, Admr. of Jessie T. Winslow, vs Maggie Spivey and husband, Warren Spivey, et als, heirs at law of the late Jessie T. Winslow, due to the filing of an advance bid on said lands, the undersigned Com missioner will on Saturday, the 10th day of February, 1940, at 11:30 o'clock in the forenoon, at the court house door of Perquimans County in Hertford, offer for sale to the high est bidder for cash, at public auction, that certain tract of land lying and being in Belvidere Township, Per quimans County, N. C., and particu larly described as follows, viz: Bounded on the North by the lands -3 : NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION , l Having qualified as Administra tors of the' estate of Mary Li Felton, deceased,' late of Perquimans Coun- ty, North Carc&natiiis is to notify all spersons having claims against the estate - of said . deceased , , to exhibit them to the undersigned at Hertford, N, C, R F. D.'l, Box 279, on or be fore the 29th day of December, 1940, or this 'notice will be pleaded in' bar of their recovery. AU , persons in debted to said estate will please make immediate payment.1' "" This 29th day of December, 1939. JACOB FELTON ; LATHAM FELTON ? Administrators ef Mary L. Felton jan.26eb.2,9,163,mar.l. Get That; Next Mule or Horse df lis We Guarantee as Represented EASY TERMS WILSON MULE EXCHANGE HERTFORD, N. C. T. W. Wilson Frank M. Wilson Wmm ' ": K 1 v- fr liliiliil mm i " f ' When potcrto plants can't gst enough potaslv iht leaves turn very dark green in color, crinkle and curl, and the edges turn brown. The leaves finally die, ?and yield and quality of -4he potatoes are decreased. .Lett, normal lsai; rlghv petash-starred. , . t- 1 ' poTAsn-sTunvED mmm Potatoes oto greedy feeders on potasK . 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