Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1937 — Page 2

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| PETERSON NEWS 0— — ♦ Mr and Mrs. Edward Arnold visited Mr. and Mrs. HaneeJ Foley and son Odell Tuesday evening. Mrjand Mrs. Frank Spade had ae their Sunday eupper guests, Mr.

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and Mm. Leonard IJechty of Celina, Ohio, and Phyllis and Joan Dilling ' of Preble. Mr. and Mra. Martin Freuchte and ' Mm. Henry Bremer were business callers in Decatur Friday. ■ Mm. James Ernst visited in Peterson over the week-end. Ret. and Mrs. Grether visited

Mr. and Mm. Henry Brelner Sunday. Mr. and Mm. Alvin Bleneke visited Mrs. William Johnson Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Straub and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Al Straub Sunday. Mia. George Bright. Mm. Rollo Houck, and Mrs. Mabel Marshall at-

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tended the Ladies Club Tuesday at Kirkland. Mrs. Frank Spado visited m Preble Wednesday. Mr. and Mm- Albert Coppcss visited Mr. and Mrs. Haneel Foley and sou Monday evening Mra. Hansel Foley and son Odell vfeited Mrs. Otto Dilling and daugh- i tens Marjorie and Joan Wednesday | morning. Mm. John Bright ana daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. George Bright, Friday evening. —„ ——o Test Your Knowledge Can you answer seven of these ten questions? Turn to page |( Four for the answers. 1. What body of water separates | France and England? 3. What is lemon oil? 3. Os what country is Kovna the capital? 4. Who wrote the well-known short poem, “A Psalm of Life?" 5. Where is Cling man's Dome? 6. What is the name of the Arabian and North African jumping rodent mammal? 7. Name the most Important riv- 1 ! er in Great Britain. 8. What is excommunication? 9. Name the capital of Missouri. 10. What is a church calendar?

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CHAPTER XX As Sandy stood there undecided whether to risk walking into a trap and getting knocked on the head, perhaps, or to go back for reenforcements, there came a stir in the cavern’s depths. Some bulky white object took form against the black background. It immediately revealed itself as Colonel Carlton, his white clothes immaculate as ever, his splendid head of snowy hair brushed back over a forehead that was at the same time dominant and I serene. “Well, Sandy," said he, in a sonorous voice that reverberated i from the rocky walls, "so you must 1 come and see for yourself how I i fare. But you and Mike would never . have tracked me down if it hadn't 1 been for that old rascal Mouse, Lord | bless his heart.” The Colonel was surprised to i learn that Sandy had missed Isobel and Mike. While he had been following the fissure down the other i side they had left the Colonel to I return to where Mouse presumably was waiting, counting on meeting Sandy on the way. "Isobel caught sight of Mike and ducked back into the crevasse,” the Colonel explained. “But he hapI pened to look around and glimpsed ; her. She slipped and gave a little i shriek, and the good fellow must 1 have thought she'd fallen, or that i something had grabbed her. He came charging dov a in here ready | to fight anything. Anything, did I ' say? Anything but a ghost. That Irishman had a bad turn.” “He is not the only one, Colonel. What's the big idea?” Sandy spoke shortly. He could see no majesty in I this performance. “I’m like Mike,” said the Colonel. I “Dread but one thing. In my case, i family. The prospect of this visit was intolerable. I came here for , peace, tranquillity. The children ' distress me. Sometimes Vinckers | exasperates me and Jarvis’ wife makes me want to whip her. I gave them quite enough the first evening, to pay their bills and start afresh. Thought best to hand ’em that with my blessing and farewell. Counted on their clearing within a few days. Then when they decided to stick on indefinitely I couldn’t stand it. You see, I couldn’t leave myself because of Mouse.” "Raw stuff. Colonel,” Swndy said shortly. “For Isobel.” “Not for long. She had to get the bad news or she’s have blown the gaff. You can’t fake grief. The others would have twiggvd. But I knew her first act on polling herself together would be to go to the safe, and I left a note she couldn't miss. Told her the why and wherefore and where I was.” “Then she came here to see you.” “Os course. We both knew about ; this pretty place. Delightful, isn’t it? The negroes never come here, j Claim it's haunted. There are fearful groans and moans when the wind”s east Surf at the mouth of the tunnel, I suppose. Then there was a skeleton found in here years ; ago. Some poor devil of a maroon, . likely.” “I thought you wanted Vinckers i to paint your portrait You seemed i pleased pink.” “That was art, my boy. I wouldn’t hang a portrait by Vinckers in the glory hold, good place for it as that may be. But it wouldn't do to let 'em see I was sore. They might have suspected I was hiding out, and stuck on to spite me.” "Couldn’t you have packed ’em iff. Told them you lived here for ’olute privacy?” " es, but dammit, lad, I wanted

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’em to think me dead, and keep on thinking so for as long as possible. Also I was curious to see what they would do.” i “If you mean about the will, I < think they’ve done it” The Colonel chuckled. Sandy | wondered if perhaps there might ( not be some truth in the charges i against his sanity. This looked like 1 senile dementia. “If Vinckers scoffed the will, that , would be a joke on them.” i “What else could he have got?” j Sandy asked. "Nothing much. A little cash.” ( "Did Vinckers attack Isobel last , night Frighten her in any way?” ( Sandy asked. “Frighten her? Lord bless you, no. Why should he?” The Colonel looked surprised. “Then why should she have made off in such a hurry. On Mouse.” , “I don’t know. Did she?” The , Colonel stared. "What do you mean?” | “Just an idea I had,” Sandy said. He made a quick decision to say nothing more about Vinckers, his watch still running, until he should have talked*to Isobel. "I’d better be going. They may be waiting for me down below.” “Well, this is not going to be for long. Mike’s to bring me what I need, and I’m nicely quartered here for a few days. Rather like old times . . .” he checked himself, then added easily, “when I was a prospector. A bit of solitude is good for a man. Enables him to reflect, contemplate, examine his soul, and get in closer touch with it. I go up on the mole at night and commune with the Infinite.” Sandy wished him good morning and went out. Here was anticlimax, a let down. An absurd form of tremendous relief. There was something wrong about it. Something that did not ring true, in character with the Colonel, unless Sandy had been al! wrong about that character. A king might creep into a cave to escape his enemies, but not to escape his family. It was the family that crept into the cave. Especially a family like this. Returning as he had come, for i the cavern was a cul-de-sac, Sandy met Mike who had climbed up again J to look for him. He wore no grin for this farce uncovered, as out of I business hours a clown is often a sage. “You let me wander off on a wild ' goose chase, Mike.” , “Sure Miss Isobel was after ; failin’ . . .” “Save the fairy story for Mouse. ' I found the old fraud. Hiding from ; that band of four-flushers back there ...” “And have you wondered why, , sir?” Mike interrupted. t “Not much.” “Hush money,” Mike said briefly, "cannot be squeezed out av a ' corpse.” ’ Sandy stared at him. “Well, f there’s the makings of an alibi in ‘ that.” “Vinckers was for years out in the East, sir, and may have got something on him. Sure the Colonel B has the look av a vi’ient man, and j him roused. Old as he is, one would not care to crowd him.” t Sandy nodded. You’ve rung the e bell. I don’t know just what a blackt mailer looks like but I should say t that those four back there would t make a perfect composite photograph of one. The Colonel hopes to save not only being bored but blackn mailed. How is Miss Isobel?” r “None so gay, sir. ’Tis plain she does not like this dodge. She did :i not want you to know. Only that

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you had found the Colonel I should lave had to lie cheerful.” They had been making their way down circuitously where the going was easier than coming up. This was much longer, a semi-jungle path. Emerging from the bush they came directly on Isobel seated in the shadow of a rock. Mouse close by sampled the wild fodder in which ha reveled despite its dryness as a city boy might relish infinitely the acrid fruit of a wild apple tree found in the mysterious woods. Sandy was suddenly conscious of a less clear vision of Isobel; as if this little glade were a stage setting and they were actors with a rauze curtain between. He felt embarrassed, at a loss. To remove the filmy barrier if possible he said briefly, “I found your uncle.” She rose. Her face showed signs of strain. There were shadows under eyes. "Sorry to have given you such a bad time, Sandy. I had one too.” “Well, I suppose the Colonel knows his business. Will it work?” “I don’t know. Let’s hope that now they’ve got what they came for they’ll go.” “Do you think they’ll suspect?” “Probably not. This is so unlike him. Perhaps they're right about his brain softening. But the chances are they’d expect it to take a different form. That he'd play the autocrat but not the trickster. That’s what fooled me.” “Did Vinckers threaten you last night?” She looked surprised. “No. I didn't see him after you left except to say ‘goodnight.’ He went up early.” Sandy decided not to tell her about the watch, that Vinckers must have followed her. He asked merely, “How did you happen to go so quickly?” “That was Mouse’s doings. He reached in as I was writing and lifted me out through the window, then started off. I climbed on his head and let him go. I had an idea where he was taking me and thought I might as well let him carry on.” “Did you climb up there in the night, in the dark?” “No, I waited here until daylight. I found Uncle’s note when I opened the safe.” “Did you close the safe again?” “Yes. There was nothing in it of value to anybody but Uncle, except about five hundred pounds in bank notes, and some silver.” “What about the will . . and your jewels?” “They were not there,” Isobel said tonelessly. “Did you tell your uncle that?” “Yes. He said that the will was in a safe place and that I need not worry about the jewels. But he did not tell me where they were.” “But you are worrying all the same,” Sandy said. He added, reflectively :— “That old safe wouldn’t be hard for even an amateur to open.” “If Vinckers or Jarvis had ■ opened it after Uncle disappeared," Isobel said, “they’d have found his ' note to me.” 1 “Yes, and known that he was hiding out. But if they had stolen ■ the jewels I should think they’d have decided to call it a job, and beat it.” I “No." said Isobel, “because this ■ act of Uncle's has killed what little i fear or respect for him they had left It makes him look in his second childhood, or worse.” (To be continued) I CwnlKht !•>« br Mr, Henn C. RowUnS ntttrlbuted by Ktn< TMturM Srndlra?* Ine

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