Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1938 — Page 20

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‘Serial Story—

. HAYWIRE HOUSE

‘By Edwin Rutt

CAST OF CHARACTERS . KINKAID PARKER—hero. Handsome, . Jobless, he has just inherited half-in-“terest in a vacant Connecticut home. SALLY PENNINGTON—heroine. Blond, pretty, she has inherited the other half i. ‘of the home. Together they turn it into = & “Restatorium.”

“ ~ Yesterday: The Narknesses arrive and then Kinks gets his second urprise. Sally ““tells him that she will probably marry «'Wiiton Ames.

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CHAPTER FIVE

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i. Then he shook his\head. “Lady,” he said, “youre all wet. + Youre not going to marry some ;-blemish named Wilson.” ~. “Por your information,” said Sally, coldly, “Wilton Ames is not ..& blemish. He's in the bank here

~ ..and doing very well, too.”

;~ “Okay, okay. I merely said that + you weren't going to marry him.” . “And just who are you to decide

that?”

. “Me?” said Kinks. “Don’t you ~ know me?. I'm the guy'you are go-..-ing to marry.” She looked at him as if he were = an escaped lunatic. -. “Stop babbling,” she said. “And

take these bags upstairs.” The Hark-

nesses will want their things.” . Kinks retrieved the fallen luggage. - “T,00k here,” he said. “This carbuncle Wilton Ames must be something to the gent at the bank. You know, the one who holds the mortgage on this place.” . . “He’s his son,” said Sally, “So & w ” ¥ _ “So if this Wilton thinks enough of you to want to marry you, he ought to be able to get his old man to extend the time of the in- ~ terest payment.” : 2 =z = ALLY shook her head doubt- = fully. “I don’t think he could. You don’t know Spencer Ames. He's as hard as nails. And I—well, I ~ think he’s got some sort of interest in this place.” “What makes you think that?” ~ Kinks asked quickly. “Well, it’s only a hunch. But just after your aunt died, Spencer Ames came out here. There was another man with him. And they seemed to be looking the place over.” . “What reason did Ames give for coming?” “Oh, he made a great show of wanting to know how I was getting “on and whether I was all right. And + while he was doing that, the other man kept in the background. But when we'd finished talking, they didn’t leave right away. - I saw them . through the window. And they— they went snooping around the grounds.” ss “Snooped, did they?” said Kinks. “And you want to marry a guy whose father is a professional snooper?” “Don’t be silly. Wilton is very “different from Mr. Ames.” “Like father, like son,” quoted Kinks, -. “Please take those bags up,” said Sally. “Now that you've brought those people to the house, you’ll have to pay some attention to them.” When Kinks came back there was a concerned look on his face. : ~ “We're going to have to watch old Harkness,” he said, “or we'll all be electrocuted. He's got a couple of = suitcases full of electrical gadgets. And he’s already begun to tamper with the wiring in his room.” <= “Well, I don't know what we can do about it,” said Sally. “The customer is always right, isn’t he?” _ “Guess so,” said Kinks. “Well, come on, beautiful. You're driving me to the station.” Ls 8 zn 2 "*O\TATION? What on earth for?” “I'm going to New York,” Kinks announced. “I'll check out of the * place I live, get some things and be back bright and early tomorrow. I , suppose we can both live under this roof. There seem to be plenty of chaperones.” : © “You would do something like . that,” wailed Sally. “You saddle me . with two strangers and then leave : me to cope with the situation.” = Kinks did not quite make good his threat to get back to the Preston place bright and early the following day. True, he returned to Winstock on a morning train. But upon arriving he spent several hours in the village. His ambition was some form of advertisement which would announce the existence of the Pennington-Parker Restatorium and ‘he finally ferreted out a man of ‘many accomplishments who listed ssign-painting among them. -And while Kinks was standing over this gentleman superintending _the preparation of the sign, a two“man conference was going on in the First National Bank of Winstock, ‘Connecticut. 2 2 = R. SPENCER AMES was looking across his desk searching the countenance of his son, Wilton. “What's all this that’s going on at the Preston place?” he inquired. Wilton shrugged. He was a thickset young man who, as yet, had not . taken on his father’s corpulence. <But he had the same cold eyes, col“ored a light blue. His hair was straight and brownish, parted carefully in the middle. “Search me,” he said. “I didn’t know anything was.” “Then you don't keep your ears open,” said his father sharply. “It’s =all over the village that the Pennington girl has taken in boarders.” 5° Wilton sat up in his chair, “Boarders?” i= Spencer Ames lit a cigar. .. “Here are the facts,” he said. That nephew of Mrs. Preston’s, who Anherited a half interest in her es‘tate, finally showed up ‘ yesterday. ‘He and the Pennington girl called ~ on Kenworthy. Just what was said ~ pver there, I don’t know. But by nightfall there were two other people at the Preston house. Who they are or where they came frcm, I haven't any idea. But . . . well, what do you make of it, Wilton?” “Nothing. It doesn’t mean a thing to me.” . “It ought to,” said his father halfjocularly. “It ought to upset you, even. I thought you were sweet on the Pennington girl.” 2 3. 85 nN 1 ILTON began dimly to see > daylight. © “You—you mean,” he ejaculated, “that this nephew of Mrs. Pres-

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his feet, “I'm going down there and find out about this.” “Not so fast,” said Spencer. “I've one or two things to say to you, Wilton.” He put the tips of. his

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