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YESTERDAY—Hugh shoots the lock on the door as the storm crashes about ® them. Rushing upstairs, the men find all the doors .nd windows locked, find no evidence of an intruder. There is a scream from the Jungle. When candles are brought, Braitwood sees Adam, w leaning oddly against the lioness. Marta Hempfield is at his feet. Near her hand is Alam’s gun.

CHAPTER FOUR ° ADAM LANGDON’'S hands hung stiffly forward, his feet extended to- |# ward the floor like a figure hung on|}# a gibbet. A small red spot stained * the bosom of his shirt. The gaping rigidity in his face told the rest. So might some dreadful scarecrow have appeared, to a passing farmer on a moonless night in a fingering ray of ' 4 lantern light. Langdon’s buttoned coat had caught over the iloness’ head and

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the scimitar, fastened to the beast’s : : : X71 . . ’ = ‘ neck, had penelvsted Danesh J : / 9 t EVERYBODY'S yl] — shoulder, bo elping to ho imi| p HAPPY = If STEPPING ON in crazy erectness. All this Brait- ; i J 9 Jo Le (HL THE JTEWRLAMS, . x ; ! Ey EE STEPPING STONE $ wood saw in a glance. : : ! ] 3 y ) A :M REC. U. 3. PAT. OFF.LY 70) “Is it a double murder?” Craig ; H Z, ’ & Gundrum asked. | {_Copr. 1940 by United Feature Syndieate, Tne. = 143 Te) HE'S VANISHED.””- I'VE : GREAT SCOTT ALS OKAY JZ = 1'L.L. EXHAUST “Mader Not that!” Hugh SEARCHED EVERY ROOM IN {coup 1 &-BE THAT The, SHAMBERZ. BUY od groaned. : | “For omce your friend didn’t soil my guest towels . . » but come and 4 ORDER THE ENGIA ER IF HERE = ANYTHING The word had an eerie sound in look ‘ant ny. New. crrtains!” NEER IN. THERE. == » that dark room. Yet it was no § new curvains. TO EXHAUST THE CAS IT'S DEAD rer INSTANTLY.” ip

stranger there. The shadowy beasts crowding the darkness had all known violent deaths. The weapons] HOLD EVERYTHING on wall and rack had drunk deep 3 from the wild, free life of jungle and veldt; the ancient blunderbusses and obsolete daggers had been employed to grim purpose more than once.

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BUT THE six persons in the room reacted to it in oddly different ways. It sponged the blond vigor from $ Hugh Langdon’s powerful face; : Nella had refused to uncover her eyes and face the horror that had been her uncle a few short moments before. At the table, Patricia Langv don had frozen in her seat, apparently unable to utter a sound. Togi trembled perceptibly. Gundrum'’s

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Marta was alive. Her pulse, how"ever faint, her breathing, told Sidney that. She stirred slightly as he bent over her. “Marta has only fainted,” said Hugh, who had joined them. “I thought at first it might be murder end suicide.” Between them they carried Marta to the window seat. Sidney brought liquor from the table and forced it through her bloodless lips, while Hugh and Togi began a search of the Jungle for traces of the murderer. It seemed impossible he could have passed them on: the ¢ stairway and made his escape through the floor above, but there was no other exit. Marta stirred, Her eyelids flut- ; ° tered and then she had caught FUNNY BUSINESS i the lawyer's hand in a desperate

eyes were brilliant with excitement. ¢ Braitwood was shocked, but calm. R : Sidney had dropped to his knees E beside Marta. It was only afterwards, when he tried to recon- D struct the scene, that he recalled . hearing Gundrum whispering to Pat Rr Langdon. Y D E ; R

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“Adam is dead, Sidney,” she. ) whispered. “I felt his face.” | “Do you know who Killed my husband, Miss Hempfield?” Pat Langdon had crossed to them, All the strength of her young: will lay | ® behind the question. | “No, I do not know who. Killed Adam, Mrs. Langdon,” Marta mut- | tered, “but I know he is dead.” »- “please do not question Miss Hempfield. She is too weak to talk,” Sidney said, sternly. “Mar-| ta, vou are not to discuss this with | anyone.” He was certain Langdon had not shot himself. No powder burns framed the red spot on his shirt ; front. : : ? & And above all others, Marta had 8 motive for murder. She had been . found lying at Adam's feet, all but grasping the weapon with which he ) had armed himself. She had adoo mitted she knew he was dead. Alert in her defense, the lawyer realized the need for caution. “Sorry.” Pat turned toward the lioness and its dreadful burden.

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for the police.” ; 2 2 zn : “DO WE need to call the police?” “Well, well! What brings you here?” Nella questioned plaintively. “Can’t : you all see how this happened? Uncle Adam was standing on the| TH] oye lioness’ block. I don't know why, S CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson but he must have been. Like the] 1 res : floor, it's highly waxed and slippery. He slipped forward. His coat caught

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until’ the police come,” he said, AY o ( o> ~~ : again the formal attorney. “You Le ; : OWE ? understand that we shall all be ) 7 ea ST £2 A a searched for the weapon that killed N ’ 2 : “5 : Adam.” : : eas N : ' a “Weapon?” Nella sobbed stub- ~~ / \ = , . A bornly. o a : “Adam was shot,” Sidney said. =. 2 a 3 “There is a bullet hole in his shirt : front, Nella. The rest of us no- don \ L St SER | —== Al “The police will not have far| { IN % to look. Miss Hempfield all but| )AERLETOLOS/S7, —= T 7 Sa. had the gun in her hand,” Pat AGRONOM/IS7 >, S Res. U. 5 Pat. Off All rights reserved CIC

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TREAT THE FAMILY TO E-Z-BAKE DOUGHNUTS

TO PROPERLY FRY DOUGHNUTS THE FAT SHOULD BE HOT ENOUGH TO N E Bg UTE 3 Cups E-Z-BAKE FLOUR or enough to maka a soft dough 1 Cup sugar 4 teas now Ion A a rT. S . . as ns baking powder, 1 tables a- . spoon nutmeg, 1 cup mitk, egg, 1 Sm As . ablesveon melted buiter, 1 tea

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by any chance, have wiped off her Off. I see both.” the room of death. fingerprints?” “Let's get upstairs into the light,” (To Be Continued) Bake Flour to make soft dough. Roll on floured board to 1 inch thickness, then cut, FRY in deep fat until “Not by the remotest chance”|Hugh suggested. “The thieves, if yy —— : delicate brown. : Sidney replied, evenly. any: will have left the house long| ‘AT *"Sits; "ames And cRarttiom I this v $

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