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BEGIN HERE TODAY The gaiety of the Christmas party at "Thunder Mesa,” the de Forest hacienda In New Mexico, has a tragie ending when Pearl Sam de Forest, oldest of three brothers, is found dead with a knife In his throat. Each of the de Forest brothers has the first name “Pearl.” Pearl John is the youngest, Pearl Pierre next. Others in the household are Tante Josephine, oid and an invalid; Betty Welch, her young companion; Ramon Vasquez and An-

glance about, the second figure if only we could 2ll sneak off and | followed the first, though there leave this dreadful place. Ramon was every evidence that he did | said he was sure you'd fall in with not wish this known to the indi- | our scheme if the road is passable.” vidual he was trailing. | So every man on the place was Bob decided that he would walk outside, each on a secret errand of about and see if he could find out | his own. A smile crossed Bob's face, who, in the household, was missing. | as he thought of the possibility of He went first to the living room. |them all coming face to face and There were only Angelique and | the necessary explanations. Betty there. The two girls sat close | poh turned to Betty.

. together before the fire, as though! gelique Aleyta, guests at the party; . Would you think it possible for Professor Shaw, archeologist, and Kob they felt the need of mutual pro- | the old lady to do any walking?”

Graham, tire salesman whe stopped at tection. the hacienda when his ear broke down. “Where's Pearl John?” Bob asked. | he asieq,

ww > » Pearl Pierre, now head of the family, “Did he come along here Just now?” | na: ni k a war i She has his brother's body removed to the “I saw him going out with his | 25 . H h n Goepline : house chapel. The entire group assembles | coat on,” Angelique answered. «1 | Stronger than she lets on, that there for funeral services and is shocked think he said something about find- answers your question. She likes to to find that the body has disappeared. ing Pearl Pierre and Professor have every one waiting on her. Bob and Pearl John overhear a con- Shaw.” | That cane is something of a stage versation between Tante Josephine and prop, I sometimes imagine. But the Indian, Broken Shield. When they | why do you ask that?” demand an explanation she becomes “Oh, nothing,” he answered hysterical. ture of her pretty hand, and, as | lightly. “It was just that I had NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | Bob leaned over her, she whispered, ' something of the same idea. I | "Ramon has gone to try to find out | noticed that when she got so ensomething about that canyon road. raceq at Pear] Pierre she could He vows we're all to make a break | tang as straight as any one and it for it if somebody doesn’t come UP | gecurred to me that she would use from the city mighty soon.” | any means to gain her own ends.” “How does he figure to get past| Betty nodded. “Yes, she has the Indian?” inquired Bob. | hysterics very convincingly. Tante Broken Shield’s doing an errand | josephine is more of a fighter than for Tante Josephine,” Betty told | he likes people to know. She has him. “I heard her saying she |i, pe in this family.” ' wanted him to go at once and he | gop agreed then muttered halt went off toward the side of the ,,ger his breath, “Yes, she has to mesa opposite the road. {be all of that, but I wonder what

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CHAPTER TEN

" HAT was acting,” declared Pearl John as the two young men walked away from the scene of Tante Josephine's screams, “She hates every single one of us, and I wouldn't put anything past her.” This vehement candor of the part of Pearl John rather astonished Bob. More to distract his host's mind than because he expected an

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answer, Bob asked, “Just who is this Indian anyway?” “Broken Shield? He's the last member of the tribe that originally |

“Ramon watched and slipped out | when he saw the Indian start,” Angelique went on excitedly. “Oh, dear, |

else she is besides?” (To Be Continued)

had its home on Thunder Mesa. | Come on inside where it's warm and I'll tell you about him.” He held open the door of the house as he spoke. The sudden warmth was comforting and when they had found chairs in the deserted library, Pearl John went on with his story. “You see, when our family came here and bought the mesa, there were only a few of the Indians left. Broken Shield was a child then. Captain de Forest built this house gnd, in due time, it became the | property of my brothers and myself. | We inherited Tante Josephine along | with the house. She's always lived here. Nobody knows how old she really is.” “Then the Indian stayed right on, too?” asked Bob. “What tribe does he belong to?” “Oh, yes, he stayed on the mesa. His tribe is almost extinct now. I can’t even remmeber the name. It seems that this fellow has always | been devoted to Tante Josephine and when my brothers wanted to get rid of him she raised such holy cain over it that they had to let him live here in the hacienda.”

“You mean he's right in the house with us?” exclaimed Bob.

By Marcia

“ HAT dumbbell cut me off!” shouted Vinton Churchill, | charging out of his private office. | The new switchboard operator for | the Churchill Real Estate Company | folded her hands in her lap and looked him squarely in the eye. “I did,” she said calmly. | “It took three weeks, six dozen roses, forty-five telephone calls and |

| seventeen letters to get Miss Mont- | {rose to call me back,” young | Churchill stormed, “and now this | happens.” Elise Walton continued to gaze at her employer. She was sorry about the mishap, but she hadn't liked Miss Montrose’s voice, anyhow. “Well, why don’t you explain?” Churchill demanded, squaring his jaw. Vinton Churchill was handsome. | Elise had thought so the first time she laid eyes on him, two days before. He, however, had apparently never noticed her until this minute. | During the past two days, when he had rushed past her desk, calling out his destination and the hour of his return, he had never even looked here.” at her. And that was strange, for “But the Mexicans—do they get Elsie was very pretty. Even in Los along with him?” Bob persisted. “I | Angeles, where pretty girls abound, should think—" | she stood out. “We never ask them what they | “This is only my third day here—" like,” was the rather haughty reply. | Elise began, in a contrite voice. “They live better here than they | “You must have been cultivating ever could hope to off the mesa, | stupidity for years to have it flower so they're content. The same goes | so abundantly, Why did you have for the Indian. Besides, Broken | to disconnect that call? Wouldn't Shield never has much to do with | any other have done? For instance, them. He's a solitary bird. Stays|a call from a tenant complaining in his room mostly. He's got some (about the plumbing in one of our fool idea about living on the site | apartments, or a call from a crediof his ancestral pueblo or some- tor. No! You have to choose Miss thing.” Montrose’s call to cut off!” “The house is built on its foun- “8. dations,” answered Pearl John. | : “That's what seemed to attract my | Liss SRISUEISY het Sere

i 3 i goofy ancestor to this particular | “I may be stupid, but I know

spot. Too bad he didn't lose his| : » . head when he was mixing with | Something about business,” she re

- re some of the Chink pirates he’s re- | Jorted 1 12 nat nad been 8 Duss puted to have run into. Then | Wh) "SOITV But a personal call! Higybe re have a B Shance lo ‘I'm ot even sure it could have been Rc ne Ro to hea A very ‘personal,’ considering all the wav?” 1 ’ *” | trouble you took to get it. Perhaps “y : _., | she simply called to ask you to stop (hal iPDose the Indian is Afraid | annoying her. 1 may have done you id lady, it Will mean that hell] JAVOL BY CULting you off. ARYWRYy, ve ol get out,” suggested Bob | I'm doing you another now by, re"Te rn hile ou | signing!” Is Sioa why he's so glum look | She pulled her purse from a desk ng? | drawer, together with her hat, ice | abruptly, and stalked out, her “JT might be,” answered Pearl eh crimson, her nose in the air. I John. “And you can jolly well! Vinton Churchill was startled. He believe that's just what will hap- | purried down the corridor after her. pen, too. I don't have it ir for| “Here—wait!” he called. “I'm Broken Shield as much as the other | sorry. I—I—" boys, but the less I see of him the! “you're just a wrong number.” better. Pearl Sam, especially, de-| “Maybe the lines were crossed— tested the very sight of him. And | let me call you back,” he begged. you can believe the Indian didn’t| «your line is out of order,” Elsie exactly love him. That's why I think | said coldly. he =r ae RW Stile Pings! Just then, Soetiiing odd Jegab they'd rather we didn’t find out.” |to happen. The floor quivered, “Then the obsidian knife might | seemed. to dip downward, then have had some connection with | straightened out again, leaving the Broken See a “- the slow | VO hallway Rrguers with something “It might have, was Slow | else to think about. reply, “though I doubt if he knew | .garthquake!” shouted Churchill. where it was kept. After my brother | ye seized Elise by the hand. SIT Se Tod | Same, Et oe es a : 8 . the first quake was follow: “Yet it seems to have been lent | Eee: A iy. Cia +» to Professor Shaw,” Bob reminded ? ou

him. | “Yes. it was” de Forest admit- | [JALF an hour later, when the

ted, “though my brother did not worst seemed to be over, they approve at all of letting the knife | were back in the office. out of his own hands. I heard him | “Sit!” commanded Churchill, arguing with my aunt about it. shoving Elise into the chair before She was the one who persuaded | the switchboard. “You and I have him it would be safe to allow work to do! Not much damage Professor Shaw to make microscopic | done in this section, but I've got to examinations of it. If Pearl Sam |check on all this company’s buildhad refused, he might have been !ings. alive now. “Then you think your aunt had calls for me!” something to do with the mur-| He dashed into his private office. der?” Bob asked the question Then, together, they plunged into hesitatingly. The mere

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of laying the crime on the half-| Churchill disposed of one call, Elise

insane old lady seemed too horri- | made another for him. Listening ble for belief, |i, she seized the important details “I'll not say,” Pearl John an- and acted on them. swered coldly. “But I do know her | «get Marvin, the electrician, for hysterics are just a smoke screen me» he ordered at the conclusion to cover up the scheming of her|,r one frantic call. crooked old brain” He got up,| «pye already got him. Here he is making an excuse to leave, and Bob —go0 ahead,” she responded. was alone in the darkening room| mwo calls later, he asked, “Did with this disquieting suggestion. |you cet that? Burst pipes at the n | Lorenza Street building.” | “Youngsten, the plumber, is on Ofome matches and lighted ail | the Wire.” she anticipated him. the candles and lamps the place af- | Together, they located trouble forded, then started to draw the | throughout the city, dispatching heavy draperies across the windows help wherever it was needed. to shut out the gloomy outdoors | In the midst of all this, Miss

As he did this, he caught sight of a | Montrose began to call. , S0 wrapped in Se coat | “Mr. Churchill's line is busy. Will d muffler that it was impossible YOU wait?” Elise asked, with disarmtell whether it was a man or Ing sweetness, She interrupted Churchill to say, “Miss Montrose is waiting. She's called four times. I asked if shed

toward the edge of the mesa. was nothing unusual in this, for the fact that Bob was t

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now, at a crucial time like this, she decides to get mellow! I can’t talk to her now—to call back.” Tell her. = “ = LISE continued her swift handling of calls. “The foreman at the Meilert properties is on the wire to report a minor accident. I also have the compensation people on another wire—thought you might like to talk

to them after hearing the foreman’s report.” “You're a great girl!” approved Churchill. Elise smiled. It was nearly midnight when they finished. “Everything under control,” sighed Churchill over the wire to his switchbcard operator.

“Everything but Miss Montrose. There's another call on the board, and something tells me it must be she.” “Put her on.” “Here you are. Go ahead,” cooed Elise. She plugged the call in, listened in for two minutes, then calmly disconnected the cords, and put on her hat. Out of his office bounded Mr. Vinton Churchill, beaming.

“Let's get some dinner. Thanks for cutting me off! I'm sure I can make happier connections locally. I think I've been giving too much time to the long-distance stuff. Cute hat you're wearing, operator.”

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