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■.i.. 'I I THUKDAT. JANUARY 7. 1937 /' THE Cl 1/ >N CHRONTCLE, CUNtON, 9. C. ^ ♦r'vr -y t^e edg« of the tarlffaite wa^ng Co be takeo!”', ~ They wheeled at a fast pace down the concrete road. *tTwo htu^fited a^ fifty thousand in snow! IrHa, that^V put us—” . _ r "Dan!” ipier exclamation was followed by a leap of the coupe that threw his head back. At the same instant she swerved aside. A sedan shot at them througih the dark. It bore no H:ght, and Irita, at ai^ht of the thinir lung- fore l>e was struck by her regal grace and the simple, yet.effeodre coetome she wore. The little maroon ^t tilted archly over her hasH eyes matched the rabbH'fl-hair maroon wool dress that shoffed through her open minkj coat. It chilly out hoday with the l PAG# 8] ** A»* . Modern Women We^^'ere- toW by Miss Josephinw ^p'ta!Sr<rf"^nte^'Siweli has just returned frora^ appreciatively. | the peace conference in Brusaeh^^I- He closed and’locked the door with*inum, that attending the women's care. "Wellr” he said, "youVe tapped | c®nmil*siohf over which she presided my wire and probably have a dicta- plhjne planted, so I’ll have to be po- Syrwpeis: Detective Dah Gdarell of the Graber-Vael prhrate detective agency is assigned job of shadow ing BicDonald, whose wife fears gang ster enemiea^are plotting to murder Tiim. McDonald is killed in spite of C<rfweH‘s watchfulness. Now, with McDonald dead the smuggling ring which he led hsa become disorganised. Colwell rnhs his Hfe to’ gather evi dence by playing one agaiMt another. 8EVBNTH INSTALLMENT "Had a little fracas, nothing much. What do you hear from Otto—is-^ie BtrH hunting?” ^^_yael Nodded. "Saw in the paper "ye^rday a note that Otto shot a buck.” A lynx-exed chap with quiet manners and the air qf a family man and‘ home-lover, ’^ael tried a spioke ring. “Gueee you’re -still on that case ior Mfs. McDonald, eh? Funny they haven’t-got the two mugs that 4cilled him. r»-6minent lawyer and all. One of them was found in an alleys you know.’ A« Colwell ‘merely shrugged the visitor i^undhed forward. "Say, what did you want me here for, Dan? You have something op your sleeve. I haven’t much time^ so spring it.” There was a short silence. “All right. I’ll put in plainly for you. Mc Donald, you know, was the boss of a enow smuggling ring.” “No. Arthur McDonald?” Vael whistled. “What do you think of that!” “And Otto Graber was—is—mixed up in this ring. You too, Vael. Don’t lie!” he charged as the’man started to protest. “Don’t let’s waste words I’ve got something tq help you, to there’s no use getting tough! Yo^re in it, Vael—you’re one of the smaller fry. Graber treats you like din, al ways has, always will.” / "Ilje greying complexio.i df Vael’s , face was ample proof tli^ he knew it to be true. / “Fve seeo it and filed it away for itference .Now, you aren’t such a bad sort. I like you a heap bett.^r than Graber. He’s—” Dan raised a hand to his h^ad and ruefully rubbed a spot there still tender, “You’re all right, Vael, but they’re making a sucker out of you. Had it planned before McDonald kicked the ghost. Now they are making new plans and leaving you'out just like before. And mors than that: they’ll likely make you the goat if anything goes wrong. You must have suspected this, Vael,” he appealed with a gesture, “^ucks. I’m not tettmg you anything, am I?” The visitor struggled-with conflict- emotions. “How do you know? You’re rmt in iKe deal!" Colwell admitted this with a shake of hie head. “Happened on to it from working for the agency you and Otto run. From this McDonald case. .Any how, I know it. And/1 like, you Vael. . . . You haven’t H, have you, Dan?” he wheedled. Colwell grinned and nodded. ‘For five hundred.” Withouft hesitation Vael placed the sum OR the table, making a cool thou- sand. ’ - "Now feel under the table and tidee out those thumb tacks. ItV‘ there. Here, I will.” He_rpee and stepped to H, His hand went under the table* A gun prodded hw back. “Stick ’eih up, you fathead!” ^ He stiffened, growling, Vael’s The rumble of another heavily-laden truck reached their ears and present-■ spHt-second prechiion. Jy its white headlamps swept the con- The cars seemed doomed to mtot Crete highway. Irita lookto intently jheadon; but at the last possible in- at OolweW but again he shook hisLst^nt the driver of the sedan twisted ing from nowhere, had to act with ^ ^ ^ inner fOffice please. Cagarette? I hope you brought a fat wad of Graber’s money. head. Another, and a fourth truck passed. Suddenly, through his side window, Dan saw a flash of light straight up into the black eky. It was a half-mile away. Colwell leaned to the girl. "Coming now!” She turned a S^itclL and pressed the starter. The motor buzzed softly. Irita looked at Colwell, then back to laugh was bitter and taunting. "Yaa. ™ »p! Pull me her. with « f.i5 rtory. ^ IT “ " they nstened and watched- Again a heavy rumble oame,^deep- Hear you and he are thick again.” She smiled up at him, shrugging. They both ,were aware lhat every word said could be heard dearly by Otto. Under a fake naihe he had rent ed the next auite south. Helen leaned to the match he cupped, then sat back in her chair and blew a little wrig- ening.and growing louder. The white paths of its headlamps grew vivid, ihis office on. the eleventh floor of the The truck came abreast and passed [ Lawyers and Doctors building, in the them. When it was gone a half-mile suite formerly occupied by that well- Colw’ell patted the girl’s arhi. She slipped into first speed-and eased the black , coupe through a shallow ditch into tl^ road. She twisted the wheel and headed aftei* the truck. As the roadster’s lights picked it up Dan read the license number. He saw packing boxes lashed on the ex tendi^ tail gate. Irita kept the little j proof, car tiailing until they lounded an-1 Dan other curve. Then ^he speeded along side the big van. IriU began to sing happily, loudly. . , , , , , . • ind to weave the car from side to powerful body tilte<l back_in side. Dan crouched out of sight oni^^*' chair, he ab^rl>ed the day s news, the floor. She ' brought the coupethe cigar from his mouth, abreast the cab of the truck and lean-! ashes on the' floor, and re- was com- Lilfkl^ For oven^ilfhe Enough to ask you here so I can give you the low-down and ^a warning. So you can protect yourself.” Vael conridered carefully. The ash on his cigarette grew very long and finally tunvbled to the carpet unheed ed. “It’s true,” he said with a sigh. “With McDonald gone, nobody trusts anybody else. It’s dog eat dog. What are you after, Dan?’’ He smiled. “A wle. Told ryou to bi ii\g a thousand cash, and I hope you brought it. Look here: I’m not ped dling snow. Goah, I wouldn’t touch it ■sith a ten-foot pole! But they’re out to rook yoiTand each other, if they can. Now, I don’t know what yam they told you, how the stufL^s ing in. But I’ve got it strai, five hundred I’ll hand it over, hidf grand looks good to me, Viel, for you fellowa don't pay me much.” TIm grey haired, ho<A noaed man a pakier your information doaHi*t coincide with mine. I'm not paying for aomething I- may know ahaady.-” ‘Of course not iSit your moneytoh the Ubk.’* There was some hesitancy about thia. But at length the visitor routod himself, stdo^ up, and produced five crisp one hundrto dollar bilks. He platod them on a snutll tpble which was an equal distanoe from the chair of each. Vael sat down again. "Well ?” _ "It’s coming in by truck. They’re going to lift a packing case off the truck—’ ’ “I know all that,” Vaql apapped im patiently. "Did you know at was in a case of toys from Cseeho-Slovakia?” Vael jumped to his feet. “Toys? That aUrai^ht?" He burst into a string of oaths, his hands working convulsively. the low rats told me it was brushes from Holland! I’ll be-~” Hs cursed again,- and b^^an to stride up aa4 down. "That was Mac's original schema. I’d swear by it! Un less Mae and Chabmr figons^” He halted and ahot a keen look at CoiwsU. "What else? Which way’s the truck coming?” ^ ‘Through the Anawanda violey akmg the Imhan highway.” Vael’s fiwy redouWed. "What!” he ejaculated. ’‘HWiy, ihoae dirty carpa ^^^aimed it’s ovor the Telegraph zoad! Of all the dopMe-erbaaeTS, the yellow livered doutlp erpsaert! And they think they cah shake me Ijke that, ah? Hot Mriaa, what abofit tJia tmtk nnotber? Bloc had that a^ sap! ■will you ? ” He snatched the crisp hun dred dolar bilis and stuffed them into a pocket. “Now back off. Oareful! I vmnt that litonse number, Colwall, and the boys are waiting downstairs for it. -Hell, they’re such dubs they couldn’t get it off you! Let you go on a fake 'phone call from Harry Deane, eh? I’ll take that license num ber, Colwell . . . and then polish you off like Otto should’ve a couple days ago!” While he talked he fumbled under the table and with his other hand held a deadly ^ad on hi^ victim. But Vael’s triumph turned slowly to sus picion. He fumbled harder, more anx iously, seemingly unable to find what he sought. “Drop thirt gun: It was a feminine voice fi-om the kit^enette. At first Vael paid littie Dan watched hawk-like for an oppnmg, a chance to spring on him. ith a nrraffled oath V-ael started crook his trigger finger. “I’ll kill Wham! The small apartment rocked wnth the explosion. There was a yell of pain, the metallic clink of a gun strik ing the hard composition floor that helped make the piece sound-proof. Vael huddled with his wrist between his knees and blood trickled down his forearm where the ripped sleeve ex posed it. Dan 'had out his own gun in a flash. The wielder of the weapon that had been fired did not appear. The slen der, white arm withdrew into the, kitchenette. Colwell backed to Vael’s! gun. Getting it, he kept Wa own lev-1 “Look out! Hey!” The truck river elled, while he got the cartridges out'careened Iris vehicle nearer the edge of it ,and tossed it to Vael. j of the road at another mad lunge of "Get out! And if you’re wise you’ll;her car. "Keep away! Get that thing get way out! Keep away from those j away from here!” buzzards waiting for you, Vael; take The second ntan leaned out. “Go on, a train tonight, and never, never come honey—we don’t want an accident,” back. Don’t play with snow again, j he begged. “Listen, this thing would ever—that’s my best advice. Chmge»bust your ear to .kindling. You too!” your Hfe manl^’- |He all but pitched at the coupe aa if Astonished that he was being per-1 veered at him and his comrade jerked .mitited to leave,, the visitor hurried j the truck a.side. The mhn shrank back inside the cab. “—drunk and crazy as—” Colwell heard. ■—- Irita went into a new series of corkscrew lunges and a new series of gestures ajid calls. The coupe kept edging the big truck nearer and near er the edge of the road. The driver was increasingly nervous; his com panion tensely awaited the cfasih. It came. A final reckless swoop brought a hard scrape of fenders. The truck lurched away to avoid a bad smash- up. It double rear wheels mired in the soft shoulder of the -road and the driver abruptly was bereft of .strength to get it back. There was a prolonged sucking aound, a series of yells and warnings from both occupants of the truck—then a crash. _ One headlamp shattered i^gfnnst a tree. A fender scraped its tire; The big five-ton truck with Acnie Car rier, Inc., U. S. Customs Bonded, Permit 229, printed on her side, came to a dead^Aalt. Irita alid~stopp<^. Colwell dipped unseen out the far hftnd. He numed to the rear of the truck. - Irita climbed out with the air of a aside and Irita’s twist gave them a foot between* ,»• Glaas tinkled. There was a thin spray on the girl’s arrivT Agilh it tinkled as the second orange stab of flame came from the other car. Its tires shrieked on the concrete. Thejsrling smoke ring, car plunged like a piston to back and “Why not be reasonable?” ^ turn. The spray of the rear window! Colwell feigned surpri.se. "As if I’m not!” Helen Fane took ,a tiny memo pad from her purse, and a patented pencil stUng Colwell’s cheek. "IriU|:=^ep on it—'they're turning! I’ll give ’em something to chew ori; but git! lt’s~ Graber and Quillen and V«l!-’ if.t Colwell sat reading A newspaper in known defender of criiminals, Arthur McDonald. The opaque ~glass corridor door had been replaced by' one of metaf finished in ipiitation of walnut which bore the Simple inscription; The Federalist. Transoms were of metal and immovable. Such' glass as the suite still boasted was bullet- 'had treated himself to a box of fifty cent cigars of the brend Otto Graber smoked, one of which he puff ed luxuriously as with his feet on the and which Wa^ one^yf ll oommUmona, wre delegates representing 45 mil lion women all over the world. It waa the largest representation of womeo ever brought together and the peace conference was the most significant meeting in the interest of peace ever held. Of the 5,000 delegates one-third were women. Miss Schain went as the representative of the National Com mittee on the Cause and Cure of War, *of which she is chairman. ing out,, gave a careless wave of her arm. "H’ya, boj-sl Whito way Washpn- ville?” — The coupe swerved dangerously close to the front of the truck. "Hey!" the man beside the driver yelled. "Look out, there!” Irita laughed recklessly. "Wanna play?” She swerved the car back and forth* It darted withinan inch or the truck’s front wheels, then cork8<;rewe<l shoulder away—only,to come back again. Irita drove with one hand, continuing to wave her other out the, window. ^ "C'mon — isaa game! Whish way Washonville? Hoo-pee!” she cried. "C'inpn, less’ race!” placed it. Sighing, he turned a page of his paper to reati the Around Town colunwr. " ‘Word reached us today’,” he read, ! “that Otto Graber, partner with Hor ace Vael in a local detective agency. As she talked the wrote a few words, slowly and carefully. “You’re not a ^17 good insurance risk these last few days. After all, fiftew thousand is more than a private detective earns i a ntaid.h. Or a year. U’s a lot of mon ey. Hard to come by.' And you could have it so easily!” Helen purred. “Fifteen is chicken feed. Look hero,” he told her earnesifly, “I’m boosting the pric^fiv? tboiMand a day. Tomorrow, forty-five thousand, i Next <iay, fifty. Take it or leaVe it. I Maybe I’ll use the stuff myself," Dan j grinned. "Why not ? There’s enough to last -till I’m eighty.’* "You'll never live to" be eighty.” Finishing her writing, she handed the slip to Colwell. He read it, raised his eyes to hers, and tucked the paper away. "How mi^h tiid you bring?” "Twepty-five,” she said.— "Nqt'hing doing. Waste of time, .lust out of cussednoss. I want forty. -You tell Graber I’m not commg down and he can send you back with forty or not at all.” H^ spoke with impatience but it THE CHRONICLE’S WANT AD RATES Ic per ward for first tion; fl^e insertions lor tho price of four, Minianv chargo 25e. Card of thanks and tribiton of respect, le n word, payablo in sdvsnce. Minimum 50c. suffered a huntinR aecideat four daya^"’"' «*'•' FOR RENT—Furnished or uhfurnish- ed apartment. Apply to Miss Rosa Mahaffey. itc FOR RENT—4-TOom apartment with bath. Also two furnished bedrooms. Mrs. Annie Giles Bailey, 66 Woodrow Street. ic whining with pain to the door. Dan opened it and with an -upraised foot gave impetus to Vael’s flight. He clos^ and locked it again, quickly, then turned. “Good work, Irita! Saved my bacon, that’s all. Came up imre to kill me. Sure of himself* too.' We’ve got to get out quick and over to the other place. They’ll be up here in ten "minutes and break down the door. “You know,’ ’he muttered reflec tively, "I think Vael told the trirth about it being brushes from Holland. Anyhow, I’m sure going to find out if there are any brushes coming in from Holland and if ao we’U have the whole story, time,,place and all!” Colwell sat beside the driver of the black coupe admiring her profile dimr ly' seen. He smiled as he reflected Irita was p good sport, plucky and daring. She had to be for the game they were in. She waa the kind who could hold her own in a drawing room, cuhoveL or in a dangerous gamble like this-Shough Dan tho^ght^ pre- ferred having her in a drawing room. -M-maa dark all' around them, the sky ~a murky maaa'-of ominous clouds, the heavy trees an efficient cmihou- fiage for the -jjjn drawn off the road with Its tadiator iwhrted ’to the Wgli- way. Cohrell heW his pahn over the flowing stub of his cigar. IritaJ>emds him seemediistoning and watcbing intently. — ^ "I hope Ihey’re coming,” She chang ed posture. "I’m tired of waiting. And how do we know there’s a^l the money in it you think? Just a guess, Dan. I alntost wish I had a soft job selling hosiery over a counter, or laundry soap or somethdfig. Twenty a w^k might be better than trying to collect thirty-five 'or forty grand apiece from two who maybe haven’t that much anyhefw.” Colwell grinnW in the darkness and squeezed her hand on the wheel, "iniey’ve got it, aH right. They didn’t set up in this game just yesterday; tiwy’ve made plenty. Um!” he ex claimed at a sudden taringe in hia •boulder, ‘'ft takes more than three days to forget how Grsber and Quil len can play!’’ She tumto her oval face to study bhn. "I’m sorry it still hurts.'I’m sur prised you’re still aHve. You're ao apa- bhloiiB, Dan, ^ it leads yod from one ac»pe td another, doesn’t it ? Oh!” she broke off. "There goes a tiruck!" “Hot the one.” He watched the big canvas covered vtinde r^jmble out of rnght- around a tnril in the road, its red tail jight diaappearing aa though wiped eat hy an inviaible hand. They waHad. Ten minutes pass^ ago. Graber and a party of friends were stai'ting from their camp near Ewing, Pennsylvania, early one morn ing when one of their guns accident ally discharged. Graber suffertMl a wound which local doctors pronounced not. serious. Otto, well known as an aviation enthusiast, ex- pects^ to fly his Monogram plane back to be at his desk in the sleuth agency next Monday morning'.” Dan puffed interestedly on his ci gar as he Te-read the item. His eyes squintwl at the window. Graber had a neat alibi ivorked up. Very good. Even to the "accidental” discharge of a gun. But as a matter of fact the “ac cident” had occurred out on the Teler graph road when Graber just barely , , misse*! getting that two hundred fifty separae sjm e tlH.iH.nd dollars _ -ee...: . . ,.n could loly OR SoRimers, of course: he e smoked her cigarette in silence. The telephone rang. "No,” Dan said into it directly, “you cam’t come-in, Otto, Your little messenger here is enough for now. Anyhow, I want to get better acquain—” “What’s that?” His face change<l as he listened. “Oh, Sommers! Sorry, J expected isomeone else. Whatritrit ?”' . “Now, Mr. Colwell, you gave strict orders not to be disturbwl,” the build ing superintendent went on. “But I’m afraid 1 need to get a man in your offictL.for about half an hour. Steam- fitter. Oh, he’s dependAble! The suite next yours burst a radiator and they are all connected, and he must get in your lilaee'to shut it off. Built for one suite, you see, but when Mr. Mc- ,C( .Colwell now was offering to sell him for f»rty thousand.. He tossed the new.spaper on his desk. Yawned and stretcher!. It was tiresome waiting^Colwell wished the boys would meet hi^rice and get the thing over. Forthy thousand from Graber, forty also from Quillen. ^Each side acting independently, the same Boston bag of .snow sold both parties —if it could bejio worked—would net Colwell a sweet eighty grand. His telephone tinkled. "Graber or Quillen?” Dan asked without a mo- Tnent’s hesitation. “Oh, Lefty! I’m here till 1 get my price or rot. By the way, it g5es up five thousand a day from now on. You fellows have to pay me for all the time I’m wasting. You think I enjoy putting off my little vacation?” —^ About to replace the ear piece, he listened. A grin overspread his blujtt face at the torrent of heated curses. Dan felt gingerly of the adhesive tape crisscross on his head. "Certainly I'll sell to Graber! First come, first served. So you boys fell out again? Yes, yes, I know, Otto is ambitious that way. So it's every man for Wm- self now—and that goea for me too.” He listened a moment. “Never mii^ threats”— ring me up when 'ydu^re bringing in the cash. Where can you make a buy like this? Sure, I know, woman «een]ied Mid aboirt t(>4o aome-i But'that two iuzndred and fifty G’» had paid the man enough. "Well, .said in some reluctance, ."all right, then. Provided ^au bring him up. I want to isee you with him .so there’s no mistake, but of course you don’t need to come in.” (Continued Next Issue). 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Lefty: as a special favor, see, I will hold the stuff for you. It’s a deal. But not a minute after three! Re-* ?'Who j member, when you come, come alone. says it? \l’m a lady. TbaMwhat lam!” Else you don’t get in! She Atrail^htened proudly. "I’m a lady. What you mean bending my fender? Have you arretted. Terrible driving. Want to kiH me? Cantcha see ‘^ere you’re gotag?” He hung up. The grin deepened on his face and Dan laughed aloud. So Quillen had given in: he would buy! But he could not raise forty thousand in cash until afternoon, he sand. Col- She carried it out with zest, as if i well rubbed his hands witlr"exuber- she enjoyed it. Hut it waa hard, hate- fill work. Irita declaimed, complained and bertited them. She had the men perspiring. 'Riey began to think she waa right aiid that they were wholly witoog. Until at length ahe seemed to lose iotereet, and turned back to- her coupe. r—-s With that she ban^^ thi door on her aide, started up the motor, and hacked gingeriy £r^ contact with the truck fender. Colwell, crounched low beside her, waited until they were a mile away frum the truck. Then be straighteoeff with a aigh. "That was a rotten tob to ask you to di^ But Irita, you it nobly. Atld we’ve got ’em in the rear deck— bmabee from Holland. It waa right on ance. One signed up—that wa.s great! Now to book Graber. Forty-five minutes paased. Dan •tiired at the summons of the buzzer, i He swung his feet from the desk, felt for the gun in his shoulder holster, and moved for the door. But without toudimg its knob heh stealthily open ed a wire wall screen panel. The per son outside could not see in, nor wotili any tiny pinpoints of light suddenly show through yellow kalsomine. But Olwell coulld see out, and he raiaed one eyebrow as he recognized Helen Fane. He thought a moment. 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