Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1938 — Page 14

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EB o 4 a By Edwin Rutt : CAST OF CHARACTERS KINKAID PARKER—hero. Handsome, 5 jobless, he has just inherited halfoa interest in a vacant Connecticut home. | SALLY PENNINGTON—heroine. Blond, pretty, she has inherited the other half

of the home. Together they turn it into a “Restatorium.” +

Be Yesterday: Grave days lie ahead for : Haywire House when the Little Cheese decides to visit it and rub out Bull Griffin,

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Si RIDAY was the most peaceful > day that Pennington-Parker Restatorium had enjoyed since its foundation. The Great Pierre had gone to New. York on an early train. He had business there, he \ announced, which would keep him overnight. Bull Griffin and Mr. Spaldini settled down to pinochle. Mr. Harkness worked furiously at SN his wiring. Mrs. Harkness and Miss Fenimore read novels on the front lawn. + So the inmates of the house £32 8-23 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. passed Friday serenely, all unaware

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Red Scala, neared Winstock at : about 10 p. m. All during the 5 journey the Little Cheese had been : regretting that moment of bravado when he had undertaken to rub out Bull Griffin single-handedly. It was so long since he had personally rubbed out a guy that he felt a trifle rusty.

Still, he would have to go through | with it. But there was one absolute prerequisite. Before tackling such a formidable personage as Bull Griffin he would simply have to have a drink. In a surly tone he directed Mr. Scala to stop at a roadhouse that now loomed on their right. ” = 2

I was not the wisest course that he could have pursued. For some time the Little Cheese had been “abusing the privilege of the grape. In fact, he had abused it to the point where his underworld physician had issued a warning. Under the stress of the zero hour, however, he forgot the doctors warning. He had a drink. He had “another. He had a third. He bought the bartender a drink. He had one \ \ on the house. The result was that To, by the time he stood in the grounds Zi [(—4 of the darkened Restatorium the 2 Little Cheese was somewhat pol- a> / ) luted. ; % (iif It was Little Cheese’s boast that, : 3-233 IY drunk or sober, he could jimmy a| . : ——— window to the queen's taste. He| * °° 3% J S0iia win if Jou wan} Ze lo Se Joup sovond again. GCENE: VIRGIIAS HOME TWO DAYS AFTER HER OPERATION. approached the house on unsteady $0 Wy proiessnal repuia jon 10 or ARE YoU SURE. WASH, THAT WEBBIE degs and inspected it with slightly : y ! OURS : glazed eyes. It was as dark as the| GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty |W ACES The SOMES OK WASN'T A grave. Taking out his jimmy, he| | N go —— OPERA? VIRGINIA. HE set to work. { § : pe > 2 T= UNNERSTOOD And at almost the same moment : -z © PERFECKLY. something unusual occurred with- o in the house. A door on the upper a 9 Ny floor opened silently. An apparition in a flowing robe, that might have been Lady Macbeth in her sleepwalking act but minus her candle, issued forth. This presence passed down the stairs, went along a hallway and entered a bedroom near the kitchen. | ££ #7 8 HE Little Cheese finished jimmying the window and climbed stealthily into the living room. All he had to do now was to find out

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_ began mincing across the living 3 room. { Had he taken long strides all ' might have been well. But he minced. And when one minces his ankles are close together. In fact, all of a sudden, the Little Cheese’s ankles seemed stuck together. Something soft, yet substantial, wedged between them. The Little Cheese. ¢ stumbled and brought up sharply against a wall. As he struck it, the flashlight was jarred from his fingers. Cursing ‘volubly and feeling along the wall, ‘his hand came in sudden contact with a wire. He felt along it. The wire ended in a wooden 8-TY Cope. 1938 by United Peature Syndieale, Inc. knob which in turn ended in a] : a % button. Obviously a light switch. Worst pitcher I ever seen!—I could bardly sit through it twice! He pressed the button. 5 Lights went up. But they were not| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson the kind desired by the Little ; Cheese. Instead a horrible face, the > eyes glassy and staring, peered into his. Paralyzed with fear, he glanced over his shoulder. From across the i room another face, even more ghast3 ly than the first, glared at him. And then to his horror he discovered an- |’ other one. : Convulsed with terror, the Little . Cheese looked suddenly at the floor. And there at his very feet B glared up the most awful face of 3 all, a great, grinning countenance * with a long tongue and a row of £ frightful, gleaming teeth. The| bones of the Little Cheese turned to jelly. His shaking lips babbled a supplication. And then, all at once, the truth dawned on him. 8 8 = J

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