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The Black Box of Silence
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SYNOPSIS
By FRANCIS LYNI)F.'
Copyright by William Gerard (7bemean
L,-.Savies tiessoowtr*terd the
power of u extraordinary Wearer.
the "Black Box," which he has per-
fected, Owen Landis, young inventor,
In the little town of Carthage, confides
to b1. chum, Wally Wareham, that he
tears the device, If exploited, might lee
used for evil purposes. Tbat night the
black box le stolen from a safe in Lan-
dis' laboratory.
"'flkilkie n.-allfYtW 'air- Int
the only person, besides himself, know-
ing the combination of the safe, L
Betty Lawson, with whom the inven-
tor is la love. Markham take. a plate-
let
iasler east of a woman's footprint, found
beneath the window of the laboratory.
(llmaesr ILL—Betty, daughter of a
college profs/woe is well known M
Markham. Both he and Iandle believe
tier W be abuse suspicion. but to .ssattt
himself he takes an opportunity to fit
the cast to one of Betty's shoes They
are identical. Betty tells him Herbert
Canby, a stranger in town, who I. pos-
ing
oding as • "promoter," had driven bar
borne Prom the theatre the previous
slate and that she had domed la the
cat. Markham does nut tell Landis of
his dl.covery. That the girl should
have delHrerately stolen the invest -1w
from Lndl/ safe L unthinkable, Oat
141e evidence of tbe plater cast seems
to prove she was present at the time of
the robbery.
g1er IC—Markham, vagoely sus-
picious of C'anby's honesty. starches
his hotel room, In his absence. 11.
Buda hidden there two loaded automa-
tic revolvers and a complete sort of bur-
g imes
urgut's tools Canby. returning. briny
the revolvers and burglar's kit to the
hotel clerk, claiming to have
just found them In his room.
That night the sate :n the hank of the
. mail town of Perthdale is blown open
■ rd looted. the noise of the explosion
being unheard. Bandied that hl. "black
box" I. in the hands of crooks and is
1 being pat to the taeit be feared. Landis,
with Markham, drives at ease to Perth-
Nle.
tae exeltid _dlewwiee of the ureter
tees bask •rwbbwp. 'roe r.h.. air ..ria
run gt..Itated coward the belief the
some new and nulselem eaplaiss BMA
have been used.
"Everybody's up In the ate Mtersl-
ly," Markham commented as they were
leaving the dlniatg room. 'We'Il find
"somebody who Isn't too exalted to talk
.rn•lble ; somebody who can give se •
little real infurwatio.. 111 ask 1n the
Wee lea iePtill o'1..'j*t1
wrll, president of the bank. la oar
man; lives just around the corner.
We'll go and hear slut he has to say."
They found tn. banker easily ap-
proachable --the more easily after
Markham had Introduced himself as
the eon of a backer.
"We saw the account In an Indian-
apolis paper, so Mr. Landis and I drove
over to get the facts at first hand."
Waltham explained: "If these bandits
have got bold of something aew, there
ought to be ■ concerted effort made 10
run them down before they wreck us
all.'
"Glad to give you the facts, but they
are meager thus tar," was the ready
reply. "At about throe o'clock, Big-
ger*, one of our two town night watch-
men, saw an auto come 1n from the
east, and he supposed it was merely a
belated tourist's car passing througb,
as quite pcwslbly it was. A little later
he saw the car standing in the street
opposite the bank. and a man bad the
bond open and appeared to be doing
something to the motor. The text time
he walked his tet, which was about
an boor later, the auto was gone and
the lank was a wreck."
"And he had beard nothing In the
meantime?' Markham queried.
"Not • sound; and neither did any-
one else, so far as we rho learn. As
explosion that ought to have aroused
everybody within the tows limits
didn't arouse anybody."
"It was the watrbaan who disco, -
wed the rubbery?.'_
"Yea. Pastime the Inst off be later
rounds he fogad became glass all Wee
the sidewalk , tae frail window bed
blown __8e Ion fit alms
std came Mad alba me. I nab! lard-
-17 believe try eyes when I Maw what
had been done. The interior of the
building is a complete wreck, showing
that an enormous charge of explosive
must have been used. Even the con-
crete walls are shattered."
"This auto that the watchman saw,"
Markham went on : "has there been
any effort made to trace It?"
"We have done what we contd.
Nothing definite has come out of 1t.
The made are full of care coming and
golnk at all hours of the day and night.
We couldn't very well authorise WM.-
Criminate arrests on a mere suspicion.
we eould do was to try to trade i
ear which had. presumably, passed
through Perthdale at a certain hour of
the night. Ruch • car has been found
■nd traced, but the occupant*, three
business men of Louisville, on their
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Aa Obstacle Bete
Markham spun the wheels os the rui
to Perthdale to such good purpose that
1t was only a little after dark when the
blue roadster turned to at the yard of
the fou ntr7-towe tavern.
Delaying only long enough to wash
off the duet of the long drive, Markham
and Landis went to the dining room.
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cEwen ,• ,. J. Calvin Curt
,,,�ssh�a�t •Intek �j eatnCrn mine. were
;ahleli a rWrf c!eiff -'O11t" or
health."
"You say this car fitted the watch-
man's description?" Landis put in.
"Where was It men lasts
"At Terre Haute --passing through
at about seven this morning. The three
men had breakfast there, and that Is
where tbey were questioned. As i say,
they produced a clan bill of health,
nod had tar documents to show it."
"Son got this by wirer
-elver long dlstan,-*. from the sher-
iff. He Bald the men langhed and in-
vited him to search them and their car.
Raid they hadn't robbed a bank. yet,
but they might nerd to before they got
through with their mining venture."
As they lett the banker',- house,
Markham said, "Well. what do you
think. owe's? Are we ,m the trail of
your black box?"
"There rani the slightest doubt. In
my mind. Wally. i've simply Invented
a new horror, and these scoundrels,
whoever they are, are truing It_ God
41114 .at*Aw-what..tsear.7J eto-aert?"es a"
"What about this Terre Haute clew
—which seems to he no clew at all?"
"I've been thinking about that.
While Mr. Mtockdalr wvs talking It
struck me eat once that those three men
might have been running a told bluff.
it would be the cleverest way of throw-
ing everybody off the track."
"That's go," Markham acquiesced;
and then, ahrnptly, "Are you moot for
an all-night drive. (Owens
"Anything to get action,"
"All right: well go. it's a long
chant•., lint it seems to he shout the
Holy one. We can take terns driving
and manage a hit of sleep that way. it
will probably probe a wild -goo," rhaae,
but well make 1t." •
Accordingly. half an hour Inter, the
Mtn. cwt took the road attain, fretnwing
the trail to the westward. Driving
and shwping by turns they reached
Terre Haute eerly In the morning and
Markham ordered all the morning pa-
ter*. When they ease. they both went
through thews painstakingly. and found
nothing. If the-Perthd"le exploit had
been repeated elaswh.re, the news had
not reached the prem wars.
'Bather leavre ns op in the air,
doesn't itr Markham remarked. "As-
o:wing that the three men we have
traced this far ■r; the Perthdale bank
wreckers ---and that's atr.tci:sing the
probabilities' a good bit—we don't
know which way they went from here.
1 alumnae there is nothing for it hat to
watt nntil the lightning strikes again
.ornewhere."
"With the w.apon they've got. the
bandlts who are noire It won't atop
with the longing of a eingN emintry-
town bank."
-'Yon "till think they have your Aleck
hair
"There can't he a doubt, 1n the light
of what we kernel In ferthdals"
ate 11 hnnt op the sheriff who tele-
phNad Mr. aMrkwetl. Maybe he en
fed) tea wbi*li way Me new 1w the Melt
tootles car wentlrom hors."- ._Y_,.n•.. _aw,ra�
rd. Jaird tr+fead 4, W ani :bbl orlfrdlilt fb +
Fdt teem the thing thio, n.M.* to
tither. Stwerft be maid. and did, glee
them • fairly good dew'riptts a the
three, roweling tt with advlr of a Me-
enaragtag eatnts,
"Tea felines are barking up the
Imam/ two," was the term the .dvice
GODERICA, ONT.
coos "i pet esose lase through the rows who duo b throat! fie* -L4/111-
mill yes srdal neonatal and they came elite. 1 pot a bailors ea.
c►eaa -demi a a Waists teeth. Why, "Two, yea MOP 't awn
tory gave ase the addre...s of • domes threw'?"
prominent people In Laulevtlle, and "No ualy Owe, 11. all'trillpbt. Tbo7
offend to stop over while 1 wind had a bill of sale, pJvhie the motet
•twat tsar awake and ail. To Bake sate` I
Yom didn't wire, did your Landis wired the Louleville dealer what sold
put la. 'ea the car, and got hie answer. They
"No; sot wanting ebdt time or lase Me ted Nab" Oaks sad ad-
mlae. Those Perthdale people didn't &Me"
nada • tains esu itmae cusp., out.t.;:y -YOU .me heel'.. Anal. tet. !1e
you know where tsar wee beaded
for?"
".Somewhere oat 1a Colorado, . they
Mid. They took the tour o'clock --or
1 'Owe they did."
"Oen you describe them?'
"Why-- I dou't know as 1 could; no.
thing pummel about 'ea except that
the fall one, the one that did most of
.tjl 1.144 111fl16 !' M ala409kjoi taw*
ea ewe ear. Rxcu.e,me, but what are
You two, anyway? Detectives?'
"Not exactly. But we are Interested
in them mien."
"No chance that Ibis 1s a stoles ear,
M tbire?"
'Probably not, since you bare traced
it to the Louisville dealer wbo .old it.
Did the men have any baggage?'
"Suitcases—temple of 'em."
"No other baggages Markbma
premed.
"Nothing but a camera. One of 'em,
the short one, was carrying that 1a a
shawl strap"
"What kind of • camera?
"I didn't notice. particular' ; Maly
that 11 looked too big for a kodak and
not big enough for a movie macbtaa"
As they left the garage Markham
Mid, '.Well, Owen, maybe it isn't sock
a wild goose chase after all. What do
you think now?"
*'"ILere have been tbree mea in that
car all aluml; I'm wondering what be-
came of the third man."
'So am I. Also, 1 am wondering
why they sold their car.
LeodIs was silent fora moment and
then be bunt out excitedly, "I've got
it, Wally --I'm almost sure I've got It!
It was ■ bluff --It's been one all the
way along. These men are the arm we
want, and they're going to stop off at
some small place and wreck another
bank! That's why tie third mea
more Oban that they happened to be
driving • car that looked like ere some-
body had seen gulag through their
tows. With diteen or twenty million
ears chasing round ever the co aatr'y
"Sure," raid Markham; taint, Did
these men ray which roots thee were
taking to the West r
"No; 1 didn't eak 'am. But if
A!ga'raoun iiia Sp',t:abloraiKAjjags,4.
ably took the N•tioual to St Loule,nd
Kansas City."
Entirely at a loss as to what to do,
other than to wail for the news of an-
other mysterious robbery, Markham
and Landis spent the greater part of
the forenoon making guarded tootle -
ire at the various garages and tilling
stations In the hope of heering some-
thing which might indicate the direc-
tion
iresttlon taken by the black touring car in
leaving Terre Haute, but black touring
ran paring through, In all directions,
were as plentiful as falling leaven in
autumn.
"Well," Markham announced. "fees
g ot one more shot In the locker. Fes
!fist remembered that 1 know the 0!. --
graph editor of The (Yelcago News and
1'11 wire him to let me know If any-
thing breaks. He'll do it, I'm sure."
Markham wrote his message and dis-
patched it, and within the next half
hour an viewer dame. Early In the
morning. too late for the news of 1t to
get into the morning papers, a bank
had been blown up in the small town
of ttmltbbury, ill.. and nobody had
heard the noise of the explosion.
A hasty examination of the route
map located the small town three-
fourths of the way across Illinois, and
• start was made at once. lly hard
driving the scene of the new devasta-
ttom was readied a little before dark.
• ted Inquiry proved that the Perthdale
raid had been repeated, this time. bow= didn't .bow up. He was loft behind to
ever. with a murder added. The body either buy or steal another ear !"
of the town watchman bed been found "Too late to prove Mlle that leer
In the debris of the wrecked bank with tonight," Markham said, "Well and
• bullet through his heart out bright sad early tomenew meraies
Again, as in Perthdale, tbeageepted If your goes is right."
theory seemed to be that a hitherto un- They were up betimes to p L Mata
known and noiseless explosive had been of the proof or diapropf of Landis'
employed. At this, Landis, with a lues• At the place to which they had
growing sense of his culpability as the been directed they found the auto sisal -
inventor of the box of silence, insisted I er opening his door. Markham titre -
deiced himself and asked his quashes.
"1)o you mind telling us if you gold
• car yesterday?"
"I sold two of them; one on the in-
stallment pian, and one for good. hard
ash es the nail." •
"It et o cub sale that we are in-
terested -An," mid Markham. with his
most engaging smile. "Did you know
that it was no more than right that be
should tell the story of his invention
and its 1o.s, regardless of the melee-
quenees to himself. But to this Mark-
ham objected strenuously.
"it wouldn't belp matters in the
least, and It would most likely mean
all sorts of trouble for you," was his
emphatic protest. "You are no more
respoosible than is the Inventor of the your purchaser?"
nitroglycerin or dya.mite these yells . "Never laid eyes on him before. He
are using. ._.._ just blew In and said he wanted to buy
"But am i not withholding Informs- a ear. I showed him a new eight
tion that the authorities ought to we'd just got in, and he counted out
loves the money, climbed in and drove off,
-"They would doubtless' say you were just like lest." with ■ snap of his fin-
-and give you the third degree to try germ.
to get more out of you. No; thus tar. "Could you deacrlbe the man?'
a c*0 » . ,-'4. 1 -'a` �i�
anything at all, acid thea; el y a eu , i nd befynt, 'somews l
would only make a hash of It if we his thirties, I'd say, light comp/ected,
should pass it along to them. We'll sandy halt, smooth face, fairly well
get a Otte to at and go on." dressed. Nothing wrong, is there?'
"Where to from here?" landis "Eb--we don't know—yet," Mark -
queried. ham said. "You say be drove away at
"111 *how you. ■fter we flet a lunch owe? How ,tout the license plates?"
pat op. We an eat as we go." "1 lent him a pair of my own—deal-
er's plates, you know. He said he'd be
In his home /Mate In a day or so and
didn't want to buy a Missouri license
for sash a short time. /old he'd rend
my plates back to me w41ea he got
home."
"Well, where are we now?" handl*
asked, as they returned to the hotel.
"1'p In the air again," Markham re -
It was still early In the evening. and,
drlvibg art of town to the southward,
Markham made a halt circle, cutting
all the roads leading to the westward.
At each Intersection he made inquiries
at the nearest farm hone, and by this
means they were onee more upon the
trail of a black touring ear answering
the description given them by the
Perthdale banker. An early rising plied shortly. "If your guess is right,
farmer had seen such ■ car; it had there was probably another bank
stopped opposite his gate to change a emaah last night, somewhere; but if
tire: Markham goeetloned the farmer there was, It may have been either
closely. t' east, wet, north or south. We're stuck
"How many p vete were to the carr again until we ran get hold of a news
"Couldn't tell. There were two men wire."
�'hanging the tire and another !wide. Landis' Inspirational prediction of
That-was all 1 saw." ' the night before had a atartiing con-
�('an1M jfirritt'P'flfehriftifff isiiMigir treilitseinerr."01Ylle night opetatralit enlif4
descrihr them?"
"Not all of 'em—Just one. Tall fel-
ler, arnooth-fared, pretty well dressed
Had somethtn' the matter with one ear
--looked like what you read about
them prize fighters' ears; i forglt what
you call It."
"Cauliflower ear," Markham "ap-
plied. "What kind of clothes was he
wearing"
Here the farmer was at fault; could-
n't remember about clothes except that
they were neat and citified.
liarkbam Ire the clutch engage and
the blue roadster sped on to the west-
ward.
' Throughout the evening they had
little difficulty In taring tbe black
touring car. A garage keeper had
talked with one of the men, and he had
said he and his companions were from
Louisville and were on their way to
Colorado on a huslneaf trip. a Asked if
he had heard of the Rmtthbury robbery
and murder, the garage man said he
had: that the tire bnuyer lied told him
■Mit it.
"Rome nerve, end It Aimee in pretty
well with your notion of a bold, bad
bluff." was Markham'• comment, as
the+ drove on into the night_ But now
Landis was beginning to admit • doubt.
"We are taking an enormous tat for
granted, Wally, don't you think? The
men err not acting like robbers,"
"Yon may to right. at that," Mark-
ham conceded. "It le all a raw chases..
111 admit lint now we anew the way,
well keep going nnttl we catch up with
them and give them the once-over."
At Hannibal they learned the num-
ber of the Mack ear with the Kentucky
license plate.
Their stop tor th. night wee made
et • late hon- at (bllllcothe, and as
Markham drove tato the garage near
tee hovel he was assigned to • apace
beside a dark -relined tearing ear, duff-
ty and wayworn. As he was giving
the garage keeper dlrestloes about pet-
chanted to alone at the number !laths
of the dn•tr ear.
'ghat ear standing beside a l
who myna it?" be deesaadsd.
"1 dost know." mid to garage
owner ; "bought it tains Ibis !ws Y.
either • clew data, er tie
OM" that was ever pat up Ow
I'm still believing 11's a bluff."
Inquiring as they went, they Hard
. o word of w leiest'wteg Wiled Well
they readiest Olt. Jo•wpb. But ban the
submersed trail came to the sorbets
again. A scrap maws meoor•nda
showed that • sew fleotwiag Sight
bad stopped for gas. Driviag on tato
the cry, and to • bold, tbey
revthree wast -boned tourists. Wiling
from Louisville, had ootms la shortie
after midnight and had gone immedi-
stele to bed. Tb•y had checked wit
after breakfast and had resumed their
Journey.
Looking ap the names slgaed to the
register, Markham mad. • nota of
them; and • little later a wire of le -
spiry went to the dasher est a LOOM.
Eii1A.11ent. PLAdrier te10.4 the Jlee
Lure of a anweaout-settee at wild
water.
"Here's wbere we get It In the none,"
said Markham with a ahesptsh grin, ae
he headed the telegram to Landis.
Geodle read the few typewrlttea
l lass : •
"To Walter Ma
"St. Louis, Missouri. r..
"Parties named are prominent bud
n em men this cry stop Tbsy left for
Coioradu, driving, some days ago stop
Understand they are interested in
Western mines.
"A. J. Westover."
He was watching Markbaa's grin
when he passed the square of yellow
paper back across the table.
"1 sues that setdee It d.anite1;.
You said, 1n the beginning; It might
tarn out to be a wild-goose chase, sod
it bas."
"1'!1 say It ha!" Markham grunted.
"Just the same, there area few things
that need explaining. Thee men
started from Loulsvi.0e for Colorado;
why are tbey taking this roundabout
route?"
"There may be a cloaca good res-
pond."
"AU right; well cress that off. Next
comes this shitty bit of lewdness les
Chillicothe yesterday ; selling are car
and buying another ; and the split and
pick-up at the town 'Where the last
bank was touched off. And, back of
that, there's the fact that we trailed
them out a two different towns where
. mashes (occurred. /tether too many
coincidences, don't you think? We may
have been chasing the wrong bunch;
171 admit It looks that way mow. But
the fact remains that we've been rlgbt
on the heels of some bunch that las
been raising calm with these country -
town bank., and doing it with the help
of something that blots out noise. And
the last of these cant -raising' 1s only
a few w11ets--and bourn--beblyd as
right now."
"Well, when does that leave ndr
"Pretty well up to the air, I'll have
to admit. We've been concentrating go
pointedly upset these three Louisville
temps that we haven't been able to see
the wood for the trees."
A few minutes later, wises they were
settling their bill, the clerk said, "You
were inquiring about these throe
Louisville gentlemen who lett this
morning. Are tbey Mends of yours?"
"Not exactly friends," Markham
evaded. "But we art slightly ac-
quainted in Louisville." '
"I see," said the clerk. "Yea may
t4F;Pito:......'Att,. chs.-I,t1hil tsL,-w
this their car pee out, and two of 'em
decided to quit and take to the reit-
road. lint the other was game; sold
the dlaabled machine, bought another,
and wired the train -taken to stop off
and let him pick 'em up—which they
did."
"That's that." mid Lindls, as they
turned away.
"One little flaw In that story,"
Markham criticised. '11 was the two
train -takers wbo sold the disabled
auto; not the one who bought the new
one."
"I notIeed that; but I guess it mere-
ly means that the clerk didn't get the
story straight."
They found ehein In a quiet cor-
ner of the lobby. After a thoughtful
Interval, Landis said, "I'm on the fence
again, Wally. What you said—that
we've been right on the heels of some
bnoch that Is pulling off these myster-
ious; burglaries -Is the one fact that
can't be ignored. But I don't want to
.Jet eoe.lette 4t e3► •liffit re- .:9qatels.
yon turn me loose and go oe back
home. It's like this; these tank -blast-
ers, wtfoever they are, have my black
box. I'm confident of It. The chances
are theyll keep on going west. I can't
quit while there is a chaste of catch -
tug op with them; that's my resporsl-
b111ty. If you go home, 111 take the
railroad and go on."
"Huh"—disgustedly. "Think I'd let
you do that? Not much! Well stick
It out together, and, that being the
case, we may as well go get the ear."
The garage was at the rear ed the
bot.l, and a* they were turning the cor-
ner, Markham saw a handsome Iimou-
slne poll op at the hoed entrance.
Markham caught a fleeting glimpse of
the driver.
"You go on, (horn," he mid, "and lot
me go back and get some eiders. i for-
got-"
Ln11a walked on slowly, and In a
few minutes Markham reappeared, say-
ing, "Yon can't goon what 1 went back
for? Did you ser the car that ams op
as we came out?"
"i didn't notice It patttcularly. Was
it the Fleetwingr
"No; it was C.aby's Nordyke.
Thought 1 rerognlsed him as he got out
and 1 went haek to see It i wee right.
i was."
"Canby? What Is he doing here Is
St Joaeplt ?"
"That's wield i wasted to know. He
was talking 'to the clerk teles 1
allppM In. geed neither of them saw ne.
Canby has two paseenipa s."
"People from homer'
"Very tawsh Sieges tram home; Hat•
ty soul her father, If yon71 believe t."
fondle! stopped short aid faced
abut. 8e wedd ban pat beak to
the hotel if Marsham hadn't caught
and bald him.
"No air : you're teed late. They've
gone. After Canby drove away, 1
crowd the lobby and rated the cleft
fora match. Hi illlt. It, George, 1
thrmalst Yew sad- year Mond bad sem
neve *le L"rWl�
for roe, and 1 told ham 1.tt sot
ger itastM avow. Hp w1d be title
Derry, and Mee ha a*0! about Passe
three Louis/rift mar Yea wed.Y�e1!•
lag shoot : wbes they tmlaat t 1Abo
Coag they'd hep geed. 1 4901 are he
War
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of the railway stations had just come
in, sad he brought Ole news. A bank
In a small to*n some fifty mile west
had been blown up early In the night ;
and again, so the wire report said, the
explosion had not awakened people.
"Well, 1 guess that trivets that last,
lingering doubt for the count," was
Markham'a comment upon the railroad
telegrapher'. story of the latent foray..
"The two who took the train dropped off
at the agreed-upon place. and the other
drove the new YIeetwtng. Finish your
coffee and we'll elect rep on the guess."
A ninety -urinate ran brought them to
the scene of the latest raid, the market
town of a farming coinwinity. At
the rallroed station they questioned
tbe agent. The man's answers con-
firmed Markbam'ni lues. Two men,
carrying enita.es and something that
the agent thonght was a Tamen, had
arrived on the local train of the pre-
vious afternoon, sled, tasteed of going
uptown. took a welting auto and drove
away.
"This was late to the afternoon,
wasn't It?" Markham asked. '
"Along shout dusk. (rorty -three w*.
held up by • frelgh't wreck and she was
*way late."
They took their tare. When they
were again whipping miles to the rear,
Markham wail, "Wimple enough. Isn't
itr
"Perfectly. They drove away and
wilted noel the town was asleep. Their
Joh dour, they went on west-- for a
goats. That's the way they've been
beading all along. We've been miming
one bet •• we none along, Wally ; the
names of these three men. We could
have got them from the Terre Haute
sheriff, or from the auto dealer In Chil-
licothe."
•hll-
11 - ,
"Nothing to that. it they're the
crook* we think they are, they'd use
album, of costs.: and different one. Is
different pieces."
"]Wo, you'm wrong there. Wo far u
wee.hem tine totem, dm ban beet[
i asistr1 .17 am carve nmrie•e
men trout iouirvfle right from the be-
g inning. Med you'll renumber that two
of them gave the eldili o*s garage
mast • IMabeife addrme to andel' he
maid win."
"lays se; I1 Webb. that Try
afik
bi>a1 tate Mk*, ar.s ., t
want does Omar knew skeet
Louisville soar, Wally r "moss
"That's just what I'd like Mkt
Owen. Aad, added M tet, haw
knew draped bee& bore la St. J
and how he 1peow we'd ke.pbtr.r
Laski/*yea, the dreamy yam st
taveaiar sad remote* stadeat,
thor+tfr}. "1 think es are 1aaWa/
MI,' lot said i 1M.'sa the dee
Todd ilii hila lib alma, "1
Setts a d taw p.1__ bed
Oat 111.w does ba laked
te drive with him. I duel trust
Ormolu We river M ■wNi. M
lamas side of tbe'Jfjraettri. taffy ENS
learned that a rleetwtsg had gene
earlier ta the day ; also that a
hot.ltitaiv t► •writers abs
So it case about that, tater la IN
afternoon, time ears might have NMI
mesa apesdlag over the Pikes Ped W
was. Well is the lead was • pleat-` aga,, p
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wing, with two mea In the rear eget
and a third at the wheel. par la gm
rear were • Nordyke sad a b&u. real- - jl
iter. And though the (Vo spa le the
blue ear thought they were 1b11ewtat
the Nordyke, this order wile reversed;
It was the limousine that was renew,
Ing fie roadster.
(Tb be mansard next weak)'
NOTHING MS
"1 have aotWng but praise for eie
new vicar," said a mesaber of the Mee
gregation to the verger. after the mem-
lug service.
"bio i observed when the pram was
taken •round," mid the verger.
Excess Fat ' • -
Her --
Seder after lai.g 14 be.
There are a number of bodily tea.
menta that tea apt to •r1.e la attar
weight men and women, and If mean
fat is reduced In the right way, vow
often improved health follows—as it
did with this woman:
"1 teed to beet a great deal et 6t
that sueaed 10 Wally stop me breadl-
ine, especially when I knelt down to de
any housework, or was walking up a
4101. i would simply have to Opt tee
m7 breath for about 110 catheter". Bat r
n ow that has aU lose thanks to Ktam-
eben. I Wee Leet 14 lbs. d welgbt,
and am able to get about la comfort.
I can work all day sad sot feel tired.
1 feel so mseb better, and am se
pleased to have loot some of tee tat
that wa steadily gaining ground with
Inc aid natal"( fa, pseral hearts."—
(Miss) A. L.
There are six vital mineral salts r
Kruschen. These mita rombel les
acne of fat by assieting the lateens!
organa to perform tbelr function' pro-
perly—to throw off each day these
waste products and poleons whish, if
allowed to accumulate. will be cm -
meted by the body's cheml'try toes fat-
ty Sante. Ilnlike ordinary aperients.
ICruscbeo doer not eonhae Its aetlea eo
■ single p.rt.-ef the system. ,its basic
effects extend to every organ, gland,
Deere sad vein
, tct.asa. .n ,^sasyr
WE Give Facts and
Figures t0 prove
Our
Reduction in
Prices
THE UST
FOR
THIS WEEK
Dedra Kidney Pf is 1111.
(7sagorta ...wide
A. B. S. C.. IN 'llableta....111.
kleatksbnow fie aid Ne
Um Bak ZPe
Gln Pah. 1111.
Vkk'. Vase -Rab tie
Umberto* ?orb Pate 2Se
gonws.d Candy Twist .. a 21e
ipsea Toa ii Piste -1Mt
C. B. Q. Tablets for adds. , -Ns
Nds
4
KMsas Paper Han*ershMts..
23e
(leen Lhsesd Mesh full .f (MI:
A.t1M.ertk.
few realism. b. ase
Pea" orbs aid vatrbbng ....
Cream 1140
I.ver'1., Merge fib
MI 0eahyptee b.tf'. b.t1M..
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PACE POITDQA
We Imre • few odd lbws see ON
charted.
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