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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1932-12-1, Page 641--Tburaday, December lit, 1932 ti TRY OUR Golden Guernsey MILK Now Table Cream and Whipping Cream Safe, becattee it is all pro- duced from a Government- inspfacted Herd. Your pati onage solicited' Clif. IcManus Dairy —PHONE 539— The Black Box of Silence Hy-.dro- Store BUY AN Electric -Stove (Sick - Clean - aI and cool to c k W. N. U. !Ante.. By FRANCIS LYNDE Copyright by William Gerard Chapman. SYNOPSIS Cleseter L—Having demonstrated the power of an extraordinary silencer, the "Black Box," which he has per- fected, Owen Landis, young inventor. in the little town of Carthage, confides to his chum, Wally Markham, that bb fears the device, if exploited, might be used for evil purposes. That night the black box U stolen from a sate In Lan- dis' laboratory. Chapter IL—Landis tell Markham the only person. besides himself, know- ing the combination of the safe, U Betty Lawson, with whom the inven- tor is In love. Markham takes • plas- ter latter cast of a woman's footprint. found SEE DISPLAY OF STYLES AND MAKES AT THE HYDRO STORE they go an. On the road to the mining town of Copah they get news of the II'tsetwing ahead of tbem. At a hotel in Copah they meet Betty. She ls sur- prised at their presence In the West. and explains the reason for her and her father's journey. Markham over- hears r conversation between Canby and the three Louisville men which convinces him he L on the right track. t'HAI"IER VII At the Chusehar "I learned something, but not as mucb as I hoped to," said Markham, In answer to Landis' repeated ques- beneath the window of the laboratory. tion as to what he had learned by fol- Crspter III --Betty, daughter of a lowing Canby and the three; and he re- concile professor, Is well known to counted the talk be had overheard. Markham. Both he and Landls believe "All I can make out of it is that Canby her to be above suspicion, but to assure Is hooked up with these men in some f deal in whhi 4e L the king - the he Lakes an opportunity to flu the cast to one of Betty's shoes. They are Identical. Betty tells him Herbert Canby, a stranger Lu town, who is pos- ing as a "promoter," had driven her home from the theatre the prevtbUf night, and that she had dosed in the car. Markham does not tell Landis of hie discovery. That the girl should h v deliberately stolen the invention GODERICH, ONT. to use 'eat Beeson I spoke was that be read the sign. "1 never knew be- we're e- wire down here for our payroll mon- fore just where that mine was." ey--It's conduit on Forty -One --and 1 "What about Or Landis asked. bad a hint that Red Gunter and his "Why, nothing much. except that 1 gang might try to grab it oft. That's own • few shares of stock in 1t ; use of why so many of us are here with bells the Items in the little legacy my moth - on. But if there's anything in the ru• er left me. Me was distantly related our. and they are after us, they likely to Starbuck ; or rather to Mrs. Star - won't bother with you. So long," and he went back into the nation building. As the two friends rv-ited else gar the di/deuce-diminishing bellow of a locomotive broke the diener of the de- sert night. "There comes Broughton's train." said Landis. 'Let's get away ahead of his truck. Then we won't have to pass it on the mountain road." "You didn't speak root enough," Markham grumbled, kicking • flat fire m,adern hotel. Turning the roadster under the roadster. "I wonder what over to the uniformed "hostler" they dld that?' went In to register. Whatever had done it, the tire bad "Have you bad anybody else in from to be changed, and they fell to work. the east this wornlug?" Markham When it came to the replacement they asked. found that the spare was only about "Yes; • party of three --eau 1a a halt inflated and would have to be couple of hours ago. A Doctor Lawsoa pumped up—by hand. While they and his daughter, and Mr. Canby." erre rigging the pump, the train came "Nobody else?" Markham pressed. thundering In. made Its brief halt, and "No. Were you expecting to sant went clamoring onfriends here?" Shortly after the disappearance of "These three gentlemen from Louis - the trail' they heard the starting roar vine," said Markham, producing his memorandum of the three names. The clerk read the names and smiled. "You've got your schedules mixed. some way," he suggested. "We have reservations made tor these gentle- men fee the twenty-eighth. You've best them to It by • week or more." "So?" said Markham. "That's a bit odd. They've been just ahead of us all have 'the leaky pump, the railroad agent the way across from Indiana. and they from Landie' sate is unthinkable, but the evidence of the plaster cast seems they had bought their train tickets, came across on his way Dome, and drove out of popah lot night a very to prove she was present at the time of a then ifoytheyeedidn'tt wantd his mind s to askedN itfbe could help uuless you can tellususs where short sad the clerk, "they'll have the robbery. drive I'm wondering 1t it waru't the we can borrow a decent tire pump.- to take wbat they an get, it they turn Chapter IV. Markham, vaguely sus ell for hal that made him change his said Landis. up now. Their date Is the twenty- the of Canby's honesty, searches mind sial "Why, yea." was the friendly an- eighth. You say they left ('opsh ahead his hotel room, In his absence. He Plans? ower. "I've got a flivver, and a tire of you? Then you must have passed Sada hidden there two loaded autos.- "It may have been." t of bur- gh?' ar- ` Step b • step, each new development• pump is about the most useful attach -'them somewhere on the road." meat It Itis. Walt asd I'll fetch It." He crossed to • —Aid behind Clfa nearest of the halfdoaen darkened buck's family. I've never taken the trouble to look up the location of the that they were salting the mine stud SLIDe. 1 41wle ren wrnber the Star- thing W Nick somebody with It. Any - bucks. They stopped over in Carthage how that's now it, turnedout They wltb us on their wedding trip when 1 sold the Quavapal to Canby ; took his was a kid. If they live to Brewster money and faded away." we'll look them up." "The biter bit, eh?" said Markham A few miler farther, they found with a laugh.- "Does he still own Its themselves looking down ou a little "Owns It and operates It. He has city �trtding Tltnanyonl river. A kept a .mull gang in It ever aloe be little later they stopped in front of a bought It; rending good money after bad, you'd say, because there has never yet been a pound of ore shipped from it. Just what's at the bottom of all this, nobody knows. The place is geared as If It were a diamond mine. Some think that Canby has actually struck 1t rich in the Quarapal, and Is storing the stuff somewhere Inside against a big shipment. Other; day he la getting ready M stick somebody eine. You can take your choice." Starbuck danced at his watch and pushed his chair back. "Sorry, but i've got to chop it of," he said. "I'm doe at the bank for s meeting." (To,be continued oast week) mer resort the old Quavapal. u 11's called. became a sort et show place fur tourists, like the Mammoth cave. About two years ago a bunch of ttahuru treeseouts from Tonopah came War here and reloaded the guaranis; dolt! ed they'd explored It and foils. seri mineral In it. We never have known the real inside, but It's the general belief sort o a _. of the mine truck's motor, and a mo - yin. mo - "You say Canby gave the others r ment later the truck. with 1W Ind of map?' armed then, passed them. "Something of the sort. He called After the truck had gone, they found it 'the layout,'" the tire pump In their roadster's equip - "What did he mean by saying that : meet eft had a leaky check-valve,.aad the three had yelled for help?" wouldn't hold long enough to put the ••That is just another of the myster- proper pressure Into the half -Inflated les." tire While they were taking turns at "You heard what Betty told us; that tie revolvers and a complete se or half develepasen(. pointed to Canby ge r a tools. -Canby, returning, briny ! the revolvers and burglar's kit to the as the thief of the black btxlef x of sillence. hotel clerk, claiming to ha just found them In bis room. That night the safe In the bank of the email town of Pertbdale is blown open and looted, the noise of the explosion being unheard: Satisfied that his "black box" Is in the hands of crooks and ls being put to the uses he feared, Landis, with Markham, drives at once to Perth - dale. Chapter V.—At Pertbdale they find confirmation of their fears. Three strangers, riding in a Fleetwing, and claiming to be business men of Louis- ville, are the only possible suspects. Markham and Landis decide to follow them, although advices from Louis- ville stem to guarantee the standing of the ohm: AC Joseph Markham sees Canby's car, a Nordyke. He learns Canby Is driving west, with Betty Lawson and her father as hie' guests In the car. The Fleetwing, Markham's car. and the Nordyke form a grocer sion on the Pikes Peak highway. Chapter VL—While he and Landis are sleeping. Markham's car is stolen and ereeked _SS.buys another, and �OWpRDSD(/gC "CROWN BRAND" CORN S. RUP u "rifling cost The CANADA rrAt4 DO.DIONTWIAL -I/tensest �st aid elktoujFOOd hr•00/ ai41111 7tita liallialeallatlaallett g THESE 1 FOOD SA -V. MAKE A DIFF Durham ,Cornstarch A R Buy Pkg. 7c Orange Marmalade Large 21c Campbell's Soups A Kind Tin 10C "Maybe we did." Markham offered; and with that they foftowed the boy to But if Canby were a the elevator, somewhat mystified. Lawson was just as certainly his ac- houses and presently returned with the 1 They were up In time for a late censors,. And that. Markham thought. pump. good-naturedly taking a hand luncheon. At a table oppose sat fast ass unbelievable. Yet there was the and helping them 1111 the big spare. I elderly man of a type whle great stone. tumbling down the moon- "You've saved our lives," Markham disappearing, even in the farther West; fain side in utter silence. to point the said, returning tete borrowed pump. the pioneer who has made good. and Is finger of implication at Canby. Wbatl' l!Ibnks • thousand times- Good t at last able to take his ease in a civ11- desperate undertaking was Canby en-, night." cation for whfdt he was once one of gaged In that would warrant a cold- As he started the motor he glanced the pathfinders. blooded domemurder as one of Its I at the duh clock. Never hampered by the formalities, conditions? " t was just midnight when we iMarkham pealed els card_ across the The lights of Copah had long stare stopped. and now it's a quarter to one; table and got precisely the reaction the vanished in the eastward distance be- three -quartets of an hour wasted— Ielderly man's appearance presaged. fore Markham spoke again. time enough to pit that Fleetwing "That's neighborly. Glad to know thirty miles ahead! That's the tough- I you, Mr. Markiam. My name is Star - est piece of luck we've struck yet! I buck," and he reached across the table We're out of the fight. so far as keeping and shook hands. cases on the Fleetwing Ie concerned," I -Thanks." said Wally with his good - Markham greabted. as the car stormed natured grin. Then, "Not, by any chance, Mr. William Starbuck: 1- -111131)E 'It ls not money that lie more; 1t is confidence In money."—Hernard M. Baruch. - FREE WHEELING Little Jean's father was • mechanic and he heard much about free wheel- ing, brakes and the Itke, but did not quite understand what it was about. It happened one day that be had to take his baby slater las the peram- bulator One of his friends calked to him: .Iley. luau, are you getting paid fur tidies your dater around?' Jean. with* teak ..silos - disgusted loot a0 his "Naw, this tea tree wbseilog lob... "Sorry your time with Betty was tilt so short. Owen. But maybe we'll see more of her later." "The time was long enough." was the sober reply. And then, halt hesi- tantly "I'm out of It with Betty, Wal- ly. Canpy'a the man." They had surmounted the first long leer in the Little Alice mine?" "No, he Isn't; not if our suspicions grade, of possibly five miles, when a L The bronze -faced man smiled. are justified." sudden turn In the road brought a 'Where's only one of nee. i guess." Landis' amble was a mere haring of group of mine buildings into view, the You've just 'shaken by hands the teeth. "You ought to know women scene partly lighted by the red glowowith a faraway cousin wwith a very sinal, better than that, Wally. Buelnces a conflagration at the roadside. Mr. Starbuck; deals, straight or crooked, don't mean ham let the car roll slowly up. When fractional owner In your mine. My he stopped. Broughton put a foot on mother was a Fairbairnon her moth - anything to a woman in love—" "If you think Betty would wink -at the running board. •-______ er's d1de; and once --1 think It was on criminality. eyed In her lover—" "Well. Red got tt alter all. Blew your wedding trip—you stopped off for "We haven't anything t0 bum -► the safe and the commissary all to a short time with as in Carthage. But h-1 and set the wreck afire." excuse me; you shook hands with me— Landis saw two-►lanket-covered lig- won't you repeat the operation with my ares lying usdaillipmdorti sstld. %'C$ mead, ead, Owen Landis?" nalties?" --- "Sure. And he's as welcome to the "Yes; murder. Yy day foreman and Timanyoni as you are. Walter." the Watchman. There was a Inn -Gosh!" said Markham. "You don't battle; both of the foreman's gnus mean to say you remember my name!" were empty when we found them. But "Sure I do; now that you've told me what's running us all ragged is the who you are. I recollect you as a fat - faced little chap, but, of course. I wouldn't have known you from Adam now. What are you and Mr. Landis doin?" "Nog plans whatever ; just driving about to see how far we an go on so many gallons of gas." The mine owner nodded. "i see. You may not believe 1t, to look at me now. hut 1 was young once, myself— and I sure had a restless foot. I'a sorry Mrs. Starbuck and the girls are on a trip east. If they were ben. we'd have you both out of this dump, pronto; not that It isn't • pretty fair sort Of ponds, at that" "1'll say it Is,' said Markham. Wouldn't you, Owens' Landis agreed- "The Carthage Ban- ner would ran double -leaded editorials about It for a week if we had a hotel as good as this at home." ' llptaking o><,Gt'thage Starbuck put 10. "►1'fl?r Si other people from your town is the hotel; got In thin morning. Maybe you know 'em—or know about 'em?" "We know two of them rather better than well. Professor Lawson used to make • mamma '• pet of Owen. here, at the game time that he was doing bis level beet to flunk me in Physk's Four." Starbuck smiled. "I took an eye- shot at the professor—and at the daughter. 1 take 1t you'll both agree With inc If 1 say that Miss Lawson i+ pretty enough to start a stopped clock?" "Ask Owens" said Markham with ■ grin: and Starbuck switched to the third member of the party. "'Idle Canby person, who writes himself down as from cartilage: do you know him. ono" Markham answered, for both. "Reim onebly well; though we haven't known him very long. He le a comparative newcomer In our town." Starbuck'■ smile was grim. "Using the word yon Suet now tacked onto your friends, the Lawsnne, we know him a heap tetter than well, out here." "is It tellable" Markham asked. "Oh, ware. He was here all last summer booming • beuxlte mining and reduction scheme; sold a rood chunk of stock." "And atterwardr• Wally prompted. "There wasn't any afterward, sot saw you could notice It. The hoomest mine was—well you might say 1t wasn't ex- actly a straight fake, because there was, and Is, a small deposit of the min- eral in It, but not esough to maks it a commercial proposition." "All of which Is mighty Interesting M Ilsten to," Markham reemeeted. "lite more so, because last no be Is trying to float a factoryasd-addition scheme 1n our tetra I'm wesds1jsg what hemp blur wet here, right he the thick at kfa.DartMa e ' might ha act u to � that." suis the ware eysiil. "lab ,,rawl a+AtlsOlktcIA.MMtIl. to tmatsas not of w here --and thee got Ids ow. Mut ilei: About half a ark above the Little Alter here i• a edam that L older than anything els la this newt o' the wso When Lake lbws bona to bea lum- charge of ertminallty on. -"'Nealei g positive. maybe. But what 1 overheard in Copah see- to Mao that way—not to go any farther back In the mese." "Do you think so?" "I'm thinking so hard enough to make me run the wheels off Ole wag- on to keep In touch with that Fleet - wing Eight somewhere ahead of us." fact that nobody In the whole ramp As he spoke, the roadster was top- ping a slight rise, and Landis pointed out a faint dot in the forward distance. "You've got the touch," he remarked. After this, for an Isternlnahle time, the two flying cars held their relative positions. It was not until they began to draw in toward the foothills at the northwestern edge of the desert that they loot sight permanently of the red dot to advance. They came to the little way station at Atropla on the railroad. where the road forked. "Here); where we balk." Markham announced. slowing down. Then he re- called what Canby had said to the than who was driving the Fleetwing, "Your route book will show you where to turn off." Rut which was the "turn off"— to the left with the railroad, or to the right up the mountain? -CtInerhyg oat, Uvea vest'' Sby..praekt' to the railroad station. When they stepped Weide they almost ran into the arms of a group of roughly dressed men, each man nursing a Winchester. Markham apologised for 'tumbling over the feet of one of the men. "My fault," said the one whose feet had suffered. "I wasn't looking for anybody to open the door. Are you travelling --or fast going eomewherer "Both," Markham said with a grin. "More particularly. we are trying to keep in touch with three--.r—friends just ahead of us in ■ Fleetwing Eight, and we don't know which road they've taken. Perhaps you can help us. Ib both of these rondo go over to Firewater M the Tlmanyonl?" "They sin." The ',pecker we+ mie deutly the leader of the squad of armed mew. "The one to the left te)Ilnws the railroad as far as 1t ran, end � climbs the 7Ymanyonl range by way K bed Horse pass. The other begins lo limb right here and goes in over Dump mountain, and the two came to- gether at one of the big hills south of Brewster." "Thanks," said Markham; "hut we don't know whtcb way our—the Fleet - wing went." "i can help yon there. It went w the mountain." "That helps Da," Markham asserted. Thin. "A mining man. are you? I didn't know there were any mines over here.' "There are net many. Ours. the Cin- nabar, le tbNu$ is Slily one 'hippies ore just now. !Stoughton', my name.' "Markham Is Wild," was the prompt rejoinder ; 'yad ls 1• my friend, Ow- en Lindh. Web ohllged for the tofor- matlon amort the roadd, WWII bs'get- 1leg along our Fleetwins party gets tee of na." As t w out the seem n�t� wed them. wDtt .'Ilii llbav&eA" Wks* ".>e STD Ina. gadda leis 'flu/lee.' as wt,Oi oft lw, '*s° Matli�u� • eUt his toe -tor! to taadie' as- awtp a HarkMall W sag - loam to isotone bis pnrc'bitsa. "'will tiers do 7" iso "Flee and dandy. If leu kg, ALL FOR HERE'S A GOOD ONE, FOLKS 1 Good 5 -string Broom. Regular Value. _ 50c rid 1 Long -handled Dustpan. Regular ritASL !!dile—via. 1s Not ammo Mor tebaadimm. c g Soa1 Tea SuPCi1oe Stores Infant's Delight Real Tasty Cake 5C Lb. 39c Raisin$ New r Sultanas 2 Ibe. 25c • Orange and Lemon Peel Li, 19c Citron 'Peel Lb. 27c InVoirE TOIIR ORDER -bELIVIlRT t�oDERiC4i 2 is wen erior heard a sound while all this was going on; wouldn't have known about 1t till morning, I suppose, if a miner's girl In one of the cables hadn't happened to wake up and see the light of the fire. Isn't It h—lr "What's that?" Landis cut In. "You say nobody heard the explosion? But perhape there wasn't any expi&fon." "Oh, yes there was; safe look. as 1f It had been bit by an 11. E. shell. Be- sides, there was gun fire." Just here one of bis men drew Broughton away. "Not much doubt as to who has your black box now, le there?" Markham asked Landis. "Not very much. The circumstantial evidence is piling in too thkk and fast to leave much room for doubt." "I doh't want M believe that these tees are the criminate,: sajd Lap iI, . . "Why not?" "Don't you see! It they are, Herbert Canby ie the fourth." "Well, what if he Is?" "He is going to marry Betty." "I'mp! That's up to you, isn't It?" "Not now. It has gone too far." Markham made no comment upon trio until after they had passed the point wbere the shorter road by way of Red Horse pare came in. Then he said. "You have (only yourself to blame, Owen. It's Net as I told you the night you showed me your inven- tion; a girl can't welt forever. I don't suppose you have ever asked Betty to marry you." "No, 1 haven't," was the etralght- f orward confession. "It's this way. Betty haft always had a small time of It as her father's daughter. The '1r doMtt't pay Its faculty members enough to warrant any other kind of time for their families'. AIN she de'serves something better." "On you've bees waiting until you could Invent 'something that you could sell for ennngh money to let her wear diamonds'? You don't know' Betty Law- son half as well as f do, even If you are her lover! 1—Bello—what's that?" in the bottom of the gulch, some dis- tance below the road. a fire, too large to figure as • campfire, was horning. Markham stopped the ear. "Queer." said Dandle. "Doesn't neem to he anything down there to bars." "No; hut i haves% oaileatty efssttp to make me climb down there to And out wbat 1t le. 1 don't know how you feel, but I'm shoot dead for sleep. Leta go." Hite to a blowent whirls hit them Shortly atter paeslne the gnich of the are, sad wbkb Imposed a tedious Yoh nf'paaleg rh.ngine, the male esRta er dawn web brotaktm gather aatrtetl La Tgyss. A DOT. Wise 1hsrusts-ts a, cryidt eft. n•t+t. **55a01., > - - .abSM-ta►•• the fuer, eetl : "LITT .. 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