Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1937 — Page 24

CAST OF CHARACTERS EAY DEARBORN—Heroine, who inherits| a yacht for vacation. MELITA HOWARD—Kay’s roommate and coadventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN—The third adventurer. : FORREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARPER—Young scientists whose expedition | turned out to be a rare experience, |

Yesterday—Grant finds Kay and is leading her back to safety when the two are captured by the madman and taken into a| subterranean hideout.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

T . Mistral’s speedy power tender eased along the shoreline. There were no green and red lights forward, no white light at the stern. | Only the creamy wake and the sound of the motor indicated its presence in the darkness. : Tom| Forrest, at the wheel with Priscilla beside him, had cut down the motor, wanting to keep their search jas quiet as possible. Although it would be desirable for Grant Harper and Kay to know of the nearness of the speedboat, there was every chance that the unknown island resident was with them. Mac, seated, tense in the after cockpit| with Melita, could stand it no longer. “This isn’t getting us anywhere,” he told his brother. “There’s not a sign of life on shore. I move we use a light and the whistle, and try to let Kay and Grant know where we are.”

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plan,” he said. “Priscilla, hand me that flashlight from the side pocizet.’! He took it from her trembling hands. It was in a foot-long slender case, with a huge lens and powerful bulb. The button clicked under his thumb and a shaft of light shot clear to shore, bringing into their vision the trees and sand—but no sign of humanity. - “Turn off the engine,” Mac suggested. “And give the whistle a ry.” 3 Tom obeyed. But there was only the echo and re-echo of the whistle to reward them. Doggedly, Tom drove the speedboat farther along and repeated the process. Occasionally he bathed the shoreline with the flashlight’s gleam.

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HEY had almost circled the island without success when Melita cried out: “See there!” She pointed toward the wood. “There's a light!” Tom motioned for quiet while they sat breathless in the gently rolling speedboat. Unmistakably there was a flickering light ashore. “It's someone with a flashlight,” Mac whispered. “He’s walking with it, and the trees between us and the light make that flickering effect.” “It must be Grant,” Priscilla said. “Give him a signal.” “No,” Mac advised. “Grant didn’t have a flashlight when I left him. That's the man we're looking for, 10 to 1. And maybe Kay and Grant are with him.” He started the motor at slow speed, began “coasting” down the shoreline. “We'll land a little farther down, and see if we can follow that light.”

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AREFULLY and quietly he nosed the speedboat into the sand. “You girls stay here with the boat,” Tom said. “We'll leave you one of the revolvers.” : “But—" “Remember what happened to the dinghy! The best thing is for you to stay aboard. Look here . .. the control lever is in reverse. If vou have to get out of here, just step on the starter. When Mac and I return we'll flash the light three times so youll know who it is.” He climbed over the bow and onto the beach. “Can you still see that light, Mac?” “Yes, but it’s getting fainter. We'd better start right now.” Melita and Priscilla had no desire to stay with the speedboat, but they realized the wisdom of a guard for it, recalling vividly the damaged dinghy which had been the start of all their present troubles. Melita touched Mac’s arm. “Please be careful.” “Don‘t worry ...” He smiled down at her, # EJ 8 MOMENT later the two men had disappeared in the darkness, leaving a pair of tense young women huddled in the speedboat. . They could no longer see the flickering light which they had detected from the water, and the very silence around them grew:frightening and oppressive. ‘How long they sat there, ready ‘at any instant to start the motor ©. of the boat, Melita and Priscilla never really knew. It seemed hours. ‘Then suddenly they heard a sound in the brush quite close to the beach. For a second they sat rigid. Melita’s foot crept toward the starter button—and then came the flash from Tom’s light . . . once . + ~twice . . . three times. “What did you find?” Melita cried as the Forrest brothers hurried down the beach. They did not answer at once. Shoving the speedboat out from the beach and climbing aboard, they were strangely silent. Tom started up the motor, veered around in the direction of the Mistral. “Tell us what happened!” Melita insisted. 2 ” 2 «ypRECISELY nothing,” replied Mac in a d&roubled voice. “That’s just the devil of it. We got quite close to that blamed light. Then suddenly it disappeared, and we couldn’t see or hear a thing. Finally we decided it would .be the better ‘part of valor to get out of there. We had a creepy feeling that ‘the man with the light had got on to us, and was watching.” “It wasn’t,” added Tom Forrest, “the pleasantest feeling I've cver had.” " “What do we do now?” asked Priscilla dejectedly. “The only thing we can do is return to the yacht and wait until morning. Maybe in daylight weil have a chance to see what this is all about.” His jaw set in a grim line. «I know I'm going to comb that island—every foot of it—until I find out something.”

- 8 =n = rvses was a moment's silence. Then Melita said slowly, “I guess that’s all we can do. But now I—I'm afraid of what we'll find.” Then she blurted out, “Why did we

have to come to this awful place, anyhow?” ; “Few people do,” Mac Forrest said.

“If ypu were headed for Larramore Island you were far off your course. This island here was up for sale by the government years ago, but I don’t think anyone ever bought it. It had a bad name, as they say. I can’t think what happened here, but I know I've heard some sort of story about it.” : All four were quiet until they reached the sleek white side of the Mistral. Tom maneuvered close while Mac helped the girls aboard. “Go easy until I get the lights on,” the latter advised. He opened the door to the main cabin, turned the master switch which bathed the yacht in light from stem to stern.

“Look!” Melita cried, pointing to the deck. They stared at a trail of water near the rail. | In one spot there was the unmistakable imprint of a bare foot. “Someone’s been aboard,” said in a low voice. Cautiously they entered lighted cabin. On a table in the center was a square of damp paper on which something was scrawled with a wet pencil. Tom Forrest picked it up as the others crowded around to read the ominous message. “THERE IS NO CHANCE TO BE OF ASSISTANCE TO YOUR FRIENDS, AND TO SAVE YOUR OWN LIVES YOU MUST LEAVE THIS PLACE AT ONCE.”

Tom

(To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

NO GAS—By Adele S. White

“Want a lift?”

INKEY BURNS stepped hard on the gas. “Old rattletrap won’t do more than 30!” he growled, easing the unaccustomed stiff collar. of his shirt with one stubby finger. “It’s mean and ornery like Old Man Martin, its. owner.” Silas Martin, proprietor of a hardware store and Pinkey’s late employer, was the stingiest man in town. That very afternoon he'd deducted all but a mere pittance from Pinkey’s weekly pay check and he'd fired him, into the bargain, all because some goods had been stolen out of the delivery truck which Pinkey was driving. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time! The widow O'Brian, a plump, apple-cheeked little woman with a neat house and a comfortable income, who resided in the next town 10 miles away, had been receiving Pinkey’s attentions more and more favorably of late—ever since the day he had rescued her sleek, white Persian cat from the ravening jaws of a police dog.

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IS hand, badly scratched, had been tenderly bandaged by Mrs. O'Brian and he'd been invited to partake of fried chicken and corn bread, prepared by her own capable fingers and served on the golden oak dining table in her neat cottage. Since then Pinkey had found himself in the role of a timid but tenacious suitor. Tonight was to clinch the courtship—he’d invited her to a barebcue dinner and a movie, a romantic one, filled with hearts and flowers and designed by Pinkey to put her in the correct frame of mind for a proposal of marriage. Now, he’d have to break the news that he had, no job and only $3 in cash, most of

gasoline—he had just enough left in the tank to get him to Mullins’ gas station. ” ” ” OR 37 years a carefree bachelor! Pinkey sighed deeply. Now, for the first time, he felt the sweet pang of Cupid's dart. He knew, however, that the widow O’Brian had much too good a business head to marry a man with no svisible means of support. He knew, moreover, that she would regard with definite disfavor any attempt to muscle in on the snug income left her by her late lamented husband. Suddenly, with a squealing of brakes, Pinkey came to a stop and started to back up. He had caught sight of a man in clergyman’s clothes, standing beside two large suitcases and looking hopefully toward each oncoming vehicle, “Want a lift?” Pinkey called, touching the worn rim of his fedora. “Thank you. It’s very warm, isn’t it?” The clergyman, mopping his brow, climbed in with his luggage. “That dog-collar of yours must be the devil on a hot day,” Pinkey began conversationally, then recollecting himsélf, “Excuse me, I mean it’s hot, ain’t it?” “It’s all a question of mind over matter, my son,” the clergyman observed. » 3 2

T= drove along in silence. The road forked in the distance, the highway turning to the left, and a dusty country road to the right. As they approached this turn Pinkey suddenly felt. cold steel pressed against his side. _ “Drive up that side road and make it snappy or you'll get a stomach full of lead!” his passenger hissed. Pinkey obeyed, his fleshy face apoplectic. “Hey, ain’t you a minister?” he ventured. “Naw, mug. Ever hear of Joe Patini, wanted all over the East? Well, you can tell your grandchildren that you met up with him. The guy that owns these duds is probably walkin’ round in a barrel. Turn out your pockets.” Pinkey emptied his trousers of $3 and some loose change, with the able assistance of his companion.

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“NTOW scram!” Patini® snarled. “Start hoofin’ down this road unless you want daylight in your liver.” i Without a word Pinkey got out. The car drove off. Then, sitting gingerly down on the side of the ditch, he removed his hat. This was the finish of him and his dreams. The dreadful truth must come out! He'd pinched, or rather borrowed without leave, Old Man

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Martin’s car in order to make a more faworable impression. He had meant to return it that very night, of course, as soon as the evening would reach a successful conclusion. Now, with the car stolen from him, it would be a most unlikely story indeed that he would tell to the officers of the law when he returned on foot. The assumption would be, of course, that he had sold the car and. used the money. Silas Martin, with the ardor of a bloodhound, would be on‘his trail. Jail loomed threateningly. What to do? Pinkey rumpled his sparse hair in a valiant effort to concentrate. ” o ”

QUDDeNY his face broke into a wide grin. Getting up quickly, he started toward the twinkling lights of a distant farmhouse. A few minutes later a startled farmer was listening to an unusual phone conversation. “This Mullins’ gas station? That you Jack? I'm sending a little business your way. . What of it? Nothing, except a guy just stole Martin’s car and forgot to bother about the gasoline supply. Hell just about make your place, A Also, ring up the sheriff and have him on hand. There’s some reward money headed my way and I want to be sure it doesn’t get sidetracked. Boy, can I use it!” : THE END

The characters in this story are fictitious (Copyright, 1937. United Feature Syndicate)

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