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CAST OR CHARACTERS KAY DEARBORN — Heroine who inherits a vacht for vacation. MELITA HOWARD—Kav's and cn-adventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN—The turer. FORREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARPER—Yonung scientists whose expedition turned out to be a rare experience.

roommate

Third adven-

Yesterdayv—Stopping off at what they helieve is Larramore Island, the three girls anchor their little yacht while Kay goes ashore to a lighted cabin. Suddenly they hear Kay scream.

CHAPTER SEVEN

ELITA and Priscilla ran toward Kay Dearborn, caught her swaying. hardly able to speak. “Kay! . .. Kay, what's wrong?” When she did speak, it was in a tortured whisper. “In there,” si said, pointing to the window. Fearfully Melita and Priscilla drew themselves nearer to that window,

At first they could make |

|] In the light of day | proved to be well appointed. Fur- | niture and accessories were sturdy [and in keeping with outdoor life, | but were of the expensive variety to be found at exclusive stores.

There was no way to tell its exact |

age, but certainly it wasn't of an- | cient variety. »

URIOUSLY,

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the room was

equipped for everything but]

{ cooking. There was neither a stove { nor pantry, and no evidence of food | of any sort. And no trace of the

woman could Kay or Priscilla find |

in their nervous examination while Melita stood guard with the rifle.

the cabin

“This gets too d-deep for me,” Priscilla said, looking at Kay and | Melita. “My notion is that we'd

| better get away and do some cruis- | | ing—while we're all three young and |

| healthy.”

Melita and Kav were ready

| nous cabin behind them, they started

| down the path again, entirely ready |

| to let their part in the strange | business be confined to a report to [{he police. But when they reached | the dinghy they were due for a sur- | prise. A great hole had been hacked | through the bottom of the dinghy!

(To Be Continued)

to | agree. Closing the door of the omi- |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES OUT OUR WAY

THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1937

By Williams

NOTHIN WRONG an ONLY TI DONT FEEL SO HUNGRY THIS MORNIN, IS ALL,

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Daily Short Story

ELEPHANT MAN—By William de Lisle

out nothing among the weird and |

created by

flickering shadows Then

dying fire on the hearth.

they saw what had brought Kay's |

scream.

The woman

figure of a

was |

slumped half in a chair, half across |

a small table in the center of the room! One white hand hung loosely, and running slowly the sleeve and down to the fingers was a thin red trickle. The two girls turned, their faces pallid. But Kay had gained possession of herself now. Without a word she started for the door

the cabin and tried the latch. Tt

from | limp |

of |

opened with a sound that seemed |

to crack the stillness

wide open. |

Wordless and trembling, the three |

ventured slowly into the

lighted room. n

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light's glare.

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she bathed the room in flashThere was apparently

no other occupant in the one-room | The bullseye of the lights |

cabin. t beam came to rest on the maniel

where a thin trail of gray smoke drifted ceilingward. “Look,” Kay said . “Here's a lighted cigaret— and with lipstick on the end.” She stared at Priscilla and Melita.

The latter found her voice with difficulty. “There—there must be another woman around. The one who—who—" She broke off. «Or this cigaret was hers. . . Kav nodded toward the inert figur in ‘the center of the room. ‘This happened only a moment or SO ago. The—the murderer must be near here now!” “Let's get out,” Priscilla said, moving back toward the door. And that seemed precisely thing to do. Feeling that darkness was much safer at that moment, Kav switched off the flashlight. Huddled together they groped down the path toward the beach and the dinghy. “what'll we do?” Melita asked. “«1—I don't know,” Kay “Let's get back to the boat as fast as we can.” » EVER had the deck of the 1ittle cruiser seemed SO solid and so secure as when they returned to it after that awful sight in the lonely cabin. All three sank exhausted in the after cockpit and stared toward shore where pane of the cabin window still glowed from the fireplace’s reflection. Suddenly Kay got to her “If that's an island. I'm going to

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circle it and see if there's another |

boat around here.” Suiting the action to the word, she went forward, heaved up the anchor, and in a moment was at the pilot house controls. Slowly and cautiously the “Chinook” crept along, with every light dead. But they could dimly make out the shoreline—and cer-

tainly enough, the body of land was |

Within a Was

small. “Chinook”

And the

an island. short time

abreast of the cabin again without | boat, |

having encountered another or any sign of life along the shore.

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ERE'S what we'll do,” Kay said at last, switching off the igni“We'll stay right here until Then we'll go ashore see what this is all

tion. morning. again and about.” “I move we consider it none of our business and keep moving,” Priscilla suggested. Melita took a middle ground. “We're safe out here, anyhow. Let's take Kay's suggestion—and see how we feel in the morning.” “All right,” said Kay. “We'll keep a lookout. You two go below and sleep. I'll watch for two hours, then wake one of you up for a little rest of my own.” Following her suggestion, they did keep watches—but the fact was that none slept. The two in the berths below were every bit as wideawake as the lookout above. Yet at dawn nothing had happened to Justify their nocturnal vigilance. 5 “YN the daylight,” Priscilla pointed out, “that cabin looks as innocent and peaceful as can be.”

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Her companions followed her gaze |

across the water to the wooded island. The small, well-built structure looked indeed idyllic. In the light of day the memory of its interior seemed like a weird dream. “Well,” suggested Kav. “Do we go ashore and have another look?” “At least in daylight we’ll have the satisfaction of seeing who it is taking a shot at us!” Melita hitched up her slacks with a determined gesture. “I'm game to see what this is all about. A murder is a little more than I bargained for on my vacation—but

there's a 22-caliber rifle down in| ot bold. curious eves.

the cabin, and I'm not a bad shot!” Melita’s light bravado fooled nobody, not even Melita herself.

dinghy and started shoreward, each watching the cabin and

of a hawk. » on 5

HE cabin they approached with

caution, Melita ahead with her

3 1 | AIT!” Kay whispered. Swiftly

the |

admitted. |

the |

feet. |

Nevertheless, the girls climbed into the!

] : the sur-| rounding wood with the keen eyes|

half- |

HE circus straggled through the village late in the afternoon. The doctor's wife watched it from | the sitting room window. {lumbering red vans, with the name “Bertoldi’ scrolled in gold, then the great cages on wheels, the frisky horses and the elephants. The elephants walked with an unbelievable gentleness, their huge feet { leaving hollow, flower-shaped pat- | terns in the dust. The doctor's wife watched them through the curtains. | She was petite and flat chested. She [had the little bored white face of a shopgirl cutting off ribbons. It was living in Sandyridge that had giver

her that look. There was nothing |

to see. And she had nothing in- | side herself to turn to. With her chin in her hands she {watched the elephants pass and the man driving them. He was young and swarthy, with a clean, strong profile. He wore tight trousers of faded fawn velveteen and a pinchedin coat. There was a speckled featir|er stuck in the crown of his hat.

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HE doctor’s wife leaned out of the window. She was smiling, with her short little underlip quivering. Something had suddenly come into her day. The silent | house, with its vague, intimidating | quality, its bitter antiseptic smell, no longer mocked her. George was away playing golf. Golf and medicine! These were George's chief | preoccupations. She did not care if he ever came back. Pouting a little, she took a red | rose from a vase, and idly dropped it in the dust of the street. | The elephant man stopped in his elastic walk, picked it up, and | looked curiously toward the woman | at the window. His mouth widened, | showing a row of perfect teeth. He | gave a low, sweeping how.

“Good day!” he said, in 2 musi- |

| cal voice. “Good day!” She crooked her finger toward the rose. and laughed a little tinkle of { laughter. “Keep it,” she called, i “you keep it.”

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HE man took off his battered hat with a flourish. [looked up and down the | Nothing moved but the tail of the { circus procession, wriggling away to | the vacant lot where they had already begun to set up the tent. “Listen,” she called laughing voice; “I'll be over before dark, before the show starts, and vou show me around. How is { that?” | The elephant man nodded, his | black eves meeting hers with a | laughing insolence. “Si, si,” he cried {in delight. | Claire giggled, and withdrew | again behind the curtains. She crossed the room and studied her- | self in the mirror. All dark men liked fair women! . The dust | from the street rose to her nostrils. | Hateful dust. Hateful street. Hateful life . . . nothing to do, and she | all the time clamoring for something wild and lawless and fantastic . . . but tonight? Yes, she would go. That man! A little | shudder of delight ran through her | as she remembered his black eyes, {alive in his brown young face, the | laughing insolence in them as they | met hers.

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HE tent was ballooning in the dry, acrid wind as though it | must blow away any minute. Claire | went along by the tugging canvas {toward the herded animals. She | wore no hat. She had pinned a | red rose in her white dress. | There were people about. Men | banging away with hammers. | Loungers watching them work. | Some women were sitting on the | steps of the big red caravan, They | all looked hot and fat and indiffer- | ent. Claire glanced at them oy What fun it | would be—life like that. Life in the | raw! She found the man with the ele- ; phants. He had changed into a | shert tinsel jacket, braided heavily in gold. His eyes swept over her with their old laughing insolence. He took her hand and kissed it, and laughed. “Good-day,” he said. “Good-day.”

First the |

Claire | street,

in a low, |

small rifle ready for instant use. Simultaneously they peered through | the cabin window, expecting again | the sight that had so unnerved | pe them last night. :

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E kept his slim, dark fingers on her arm. They went across to cages. There was an animal smell there, musty and “horrible The room was empty! Clai mle ie OW Only a small, telltale pool of | ne ler pr Hote, Staring blood indicated that they had not | gpened his mouth i io been the victims of some odd hal- | ene She stepped RR lucination. Sih | The elephant man laughed, too. We'll go inside.” Kay moved| Abruptly Claire stopped. shakily. “You stand near the door,| “Listen,” she said. She moved Mel, while Priscilla and I have a | with him over the grass. talking inook around.” coherently. “Listen! I'm sick of

the old mangy lion, who

“His eyes swept over her.”

. . . man

then hand

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| with a patient in the office! The

| bell had rung five minutes before, |

| and George had padded off, scowling, after a whispered consultation with the maid. She smiled again. She could see herself pinning the note to the pil- | low—snatching her suitcase through | the bedroom window — whisking | down the side path to the gate. A door clicked somewhere. Two | doors. George was showing some- | body out. Claire quivered. Would | he go straight to his room—to bed? | She looked up sulkily as he walked (in. He looked tired; there were | pouches under his eyes. “Just finished with my patient,” | he said. He walked over to a little | table and poured himself out a stiff | drink. “One of those fellows from [the circus. Fellow who looks after | the elephants. Had his hand mauled | by the lion.” She felt her heart give a sicken- | ing bound. George was looking at | her with a weary indifference. | “The man couldn't understand a | word of English,” he said, slumping | into a chair. “Smiled like an idiot {when I spoke to him. And only [knew how to say ‘Good day’ and Si, =i THE END

| The characters in this story are fictitious

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