Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1937 — Page 34
. CAST OF CHARACTERS \, | KAY DEARBORN—Heroine, who inerits 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 — Failing to find |Kay or Grant, the party returns to the Mistral and there find a note warning Y‘there is no chance to be of assistance to your friends.” It orders they leave the island at once.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
HEN Grant Harper and Kay Dearborn went down these dark, steep steps they fully expected some death trap . . . perhaps an abandoned well to smother them out of existence. Or a pit in which they would be at the mercy of the owner of that insistent voice that came to them out of the night's blackness. Clutching Grant Harper's arm, Kay found her mind filled with all sorts of fiendish possibilities.
Step by step they went deeper, and |
she felt sure that each step would
be the last. Lt “Here we are,” the voice said.
Then Kay felt the man brush past her, heard the unmistakable sound of a latch. What Kay and Grant saw in that sudden flash of light they would " never forget on this earth. : ‘® 8 = = Whe a long, paneled hallway, = carpeted. Beyond was another door. Dazed, Kay turned to
her captor. He was the same man who had taken command of the
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attempted escape. Easily he slipped the flashlight into his pocket, but the revolver he kept ready. “You are surprised,” he said with a smile. “Indeed, I have other surprises in store for you. I am proud of my little place. I find myself anxious to show it—after so long a time.” “We're not anxious to see it,” Harper said evenly. “We're not alone on the island. You can’t possibly—" “Never turn down hospitality,” the man interrupted with a strange gleam in his eyes. “That door ahead will take you into the living room. Please go ahead.” The revolver moved ever so slightly.
AY urged Grant ahead. “Please,” she said. “We— we may as well do what he says.” “May as well?” The mad man chuckled pleasantly. “You must do what I say. You will find the place delightful. The electricity comes from my own little motorized plant. There is an air conditioning system, too. Youll note that the air is quite as [fresh here as above. I have only one slight inconvenience. It does grow too chilled in the earth. Does it not?” Kay shuddered, felt Grant’s arm slip tighter around her waist. “Steady,” he whispered. “Try not to show you're. afraid. We may be able to . . .’ He stopped as their strange host drew closer, opening the door from the hallway. i Ahead was a large room, paneled like the hallway, even to the ceiling. It was beautifully furnished, and the pictures and decorations reflected impeccable taste. “There is still more,” the man said. “But suppose we sit here for a moment. You both must be —ah—tired after so strenuously trying to avoid my hospitality.” 2 FJ 8 |
nd HANK you . . .” Grank Harper shot Kay a’ glance full of meaning. “Of course, you can un.derstand that we weren't aware of your intentions?” He settled in one of the huge leather chairs. “This is hardly what one would expect to find.” | The other smiled. With a curious gesture he slipped the revolver into his pocket. But there was no doubt that he was still aware of it. “I am glad you find it acceptable. You will have to excuse me for brief time. There are some things I have to attend to. Please fell free here. There are cigarets on the table there. In the sideboard you'll find fresh sandwiches and a bottle of very good wine.” He started toward the door. There he turned. “Of course, it will do you ne good to try to escape. I wouldn’t advise it.” With that he left. the room. Kay and Grant heard the lock turn definitely from the outgide. : 2 2 8
N panic, Kay started across the room toward the door. *“Wait!” Grant said. “One thing we must not do—and that’s lose our heads. The man is obviously a paranoic of some sort. But that may bel in our favor. At least he has nothing logical against us. He's not out for revenge against us in particular— so we may have a chance to dissuade him.” “But what can we do?” . | Harper smiled grimly. “For -a moment, nothing. He said there was food in the sideboard. I move you we make use of it.” “It—it_ may be poison,” said Kay. Grant was at the sideboard. “Well, at least we can depend on the wine. This seal is authentic, and hasn't been tamgpered with.” Kay vo slises = break it open, fill two glagses set atop of the sideboard. He brought one to her. “Here you are. To what shall we drink?” Kay took the glass in trembling fingers. “There’s no use,” she said weakly. “I'm—I'm scared. Why should we pretend that he isn’t going to kill us?” : ! ” 8 ” “JQECAUSE,” said Harper, touching his glass to hers, “we're goir = to keep him from it.” When they had sipped the wine, Harper walked to a fireplace where logs and kindling were laid neatly. “A glass of wine and a hearth fire. You bad, at that.” He bent down, match to the rolled paper. “We must accept his hospitality. He’s very positive about that, you remember, and it may be the key to his heart, if he has one.” Harper stood up before the fresh blaze. “Besides, that smoke has to go somewhere above. It might be seen by the Mistral. . “Do you really think they'll find us?” “One thing you can be sure of. Mac and Tom are looking. When we came along that path I could have sworn I heard the speedboat’s
T was more than an hour later when their host returned. Now he looked as Kay had seen him on the Chinook, for his clothes were dripping wet. “Ah,” he said, smiling. “You have made yourselves at home. That is good. You will pardon my appearance, I know. Sometimes it is a bit inconvenient, living on an island without a boat. But then, I do not mind. I am a strong swimmer—and one dries out quickly before a hearth fire.” Harper went forward disarmingly. “Better let me take your coat, old man. It’s soaking.”
“No, thanks . , .” The man drew
back suspiciously. Then he smiled again, ble?” “Very. You know, I'd like to know how in the world you've done all this. It’s remarkable.” The other shrugged. “Not so temarkable, my friend. It was begun many years ago. I have merely improved it. Over a long period—ordering my materials and equipment from one ‘place and another, so as to avoid publicity.” He walked toward the hearth, turned suddenly with his back to the fire. “Would you really like to hear the story of these rooms?”
(To Be Continued)
Daily Short Story
DON'T FORGET—By Kenneth A. Fowler
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OMMY PATCHETT dialed the number, then remembered he had forgotten to drop a nickel in
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- He inserted the coin and was gratified by the immediate improvement in the service. Ella’s voice sounded preparatorily ominous. Probably expecting he'd forget something again. Well, he'd surprise her. “Hi, angel! Be home at 6 tonight —big surprise! Nope—haven't forgotten a thing. Sugar?—right here in the booth with me! Just had to think’ of you. Sweet, sugar—see? That Platt Institute memory course is a whiz! Huh—oranges? W-e-l-l, I did forget those. . . . Now, never mind—see you ‘at 6. Remember— surprise! G’by!”
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OMMY walked out of the drug store leaving the sugar in the telephone booth, possibly because he was strajning so anxiously to remember something else. “Let's see. Something about colors. Red? Nope! Blue, brown, yellow—orange. Ah—the oranges!” He walked to the curb where he had parked the new car—boy, was Ella going to he surprised with that! —and opened the door to the back seat. That. reminded him—he must've opened the door because he'd intended to put something in the back. Of course—the sugar! Gee, that Platt course was the nuts! He remembered with almost ridiculous ease where he had left the sugar. Applying the Platt technique, his mind made a swift recapitulation of antecedent action —new car, tell-wife-to-expect-sur-prise, telephone, telephone booth, put-down-bundles-to-make-call , , . The phone booth!
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ATHER pleased with himself, he went back to the booth, retrieved the sugar, then stepped around the corner to Tony Picconi’s. “Half a dozen oranges,” he .told the" clerk, reflecting how swell it was not to have to jot down everything on a pad, the way he’d had to do before enrolling at Platt. He handed the clerk a half-dol-lar and ‘started for the door, trying to imagine the way Ella would look when she saw the new chariot. “Hey!” the clerk yelled, “yuh fegotcha change! An’ doncha want these oranges?” “Huh? — oh, thanks!”
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HE clerk gave him a look that implied things, but Tommy let it pass. He emerged from the store, determined to forget nothing else until he had arrived home with the new Silver Streak. Let's see—he’d parked it somewhere around here. Oh, yes, around the corner by the drug store. He stepped inside, put the oranges back with the sugar, and turning the ignition switch, stepped on the starter. The motor purred. Quiet as a kitten, thought Tommy, as he shifted gears and started carefully down the avenue. He had a vague feeling that there was still something he had forgotten, but outside of a definite sense of disturbance in the region of the medulla oblongata, he couldn’t seem to bring it into focus, even with the aid of the famous Platt Association-of-Ideas System. He ‘was almost home and still struggling to set ths proper train of thought in motion, when a policeman directing traffic at the avenue and Kittredge St., held up his hand. Tommy came down hard on the brakes.
E wasn’t entirely clear on the sequence of things after that. There was a resounding crash and Tommy was thrown forward against the Silver Streak’s guaranteed nonshatterable windshield. The windshield didn’t shatter, but Tommy's Spanium (not guaranteed) nearly d. When he came to, things seemed to be coalescing again into a more or less reasonable pattern. A young woman with a tear-stained countenance was kissing him excitedly and moaning. “Tommy! Oh, Tommee!” A harassed traffic cop was saying, “He’ll be all right, ma’am, just shaken up a bit, that’s all.” And a grimy-faced truck driver was grumbling, “Why didn’t ‘he put out his hand, that's what I wanna know.” a Gr ?
UCKILY, although not much to boast of interiorly, the head of Thomas Patchett possessed a and resistant exterior.” “Just a bump,” he mumbled, emerging slowly from a nebulous cloud world. “Why, Ella!—what are you doing here? I—how do you
like the-—he surprise?”
clerk yelled.
“Oh, Tommy! It’s wonderful!” She looked back and winced. The rear bumper-and two fenders of the Silver Strea were inextricably mingled with a section of coal truck. “Oh, Tommy, youre not hurt, are you?” Tommy struggled up. “Naw, ho./ could I be?” adding, with a touch of the old Patchett spirit, “landed on my head, didn’t I?” Mrs. Patchett kissed him. Kiss—sweet—sugar!
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Tommy. “Sugar’s in the back seat. Sugar and—don’t tell me now! —sugar and—mmmmmm-—oranges! But there are something else, something I was trying to think of when——" “When what?” chett. yonmy emitted a whoop. “@ot it!” he shouted. “Oh, boy, what a memory!” : Mrs. Patchett looked rueful, but Mr. Patchett was too excited to notice. ’ “Ella—don’t you see? Automobile —wreck—insurance! That's what 1 was trying to remember—to take out insurance on this new car!”
THE END
The characters in this story are fictitious (Copyright, 1937. United Feature Syndicate)
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