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thurficday imbokubkr bul lfiko the acton free press paor che elrl clasped and unclasped her hands nervously except for the secretary she was the only per son in the reception room very imutrtly ttreued her appearance belled the an jdely of her lovely fixe she was poised on the very edire or her chair and every few moment her dark eye darted to the name on the nearest door jame drake attomy at lw the elrl glanced at her wrist watch and then reirumed clasnlna and unclasping her hands a man rmafffed from the nearest door closing- it after him the secretary frowned at a card aa ahe arose miss lorraine uuufolk she aald what did you say your business was mlu lass folk i dldn t say the secretary wore an injured aid as she took the card to mr drake a moment later a ffoodlooldna blond young man stepped out his blue eyes alight lorraine he said eanerly her smile vaa unsteady as she walked in and closed the door x i need ad vice she faltered perhaps im in trouble lie stood looklnff at her i haven i seen you since we left college he said two whole years 1 not stnee ymir silly quarrel she completed mulling a little i ve missed your friendship he said quietly my letters were retimed with left no address stamped on them you did write her dark eyes brightened momentarily only to nhadtw ojfoln as she sat down some thine utmnge has happened u me bfvomlnn businesslike hi seated him itfu behind the desk tell me shi hesitated pliicklna at a button i sow an item in the paprr say inn you were trylns a case i thoiajht maybe ymi could advise me hr waited after leaving collecr i took m nwn- tar la 1 course i came to mlddlelon n and not a position but brine the last w be taken on i was laid off trhon thr oltlcf staff was cat my resource dwln died and i answered srores of advertise ments onr of these was addressed to box 070 i think in care of the bulletin it as a strange advertisement it asked applicants to submit photographs and recommendations ond a list of quallnca tlon in answer i received a letter stating that i was occeptrd for thr jkwj tlon jimmy drakr leaned forward ou were accepted without an intirview ycs j who signed thr letter it was typewritten but not sinned on on jimmy said the letter said i uould find n noli villi instructions when i reached a cer tain office in the thomle touir build tnp the door was unlocked and i vrnl in it was a light beautifully rurnlshed suite on thr tenth floor thr outt r office had tun desks one of uhtch had a tppurlter inside the inner oltl i lnnr wufl open and i could bee thai except for u nteel nllny rublm i ii furnished itti antiques and jour employer viu in th inn r office no snjd lrroini then win a number of nruipnpen urn re tin mull man had left them and in n pap r box on one desk in the ouujr office u a note i nlsli id kept it but incfteci it snld i had been selected from scores ol applicants that my sakffs uas to le one hundred dollars a month to start but that m emplojment was to deiend on the one condition thai i must neer nte- the inner office your duties must have been dlfflmil if you were to dm a hundred right off the bat lorraine but thej wcren i jlmmj tht note nald lhut i was to clip out u ccruin type of urucle from newspapt rs which came in dall from a great manj cities sevrral clippings acre enclosed to show just vital was anlcd one uas aboat ay cxlpped newsboy ho had saved a baby from a fire another was about an old woman whe earned her living bv tending lawns one of hir employers hod dls covered trial she had a ftnc piano in htr poor little home and that she had once been a great sinner what could yourjemploycr want uh those clippings i dont know but papers wen brought lo the office three time a lav b the mailman i clipped uhal i thought my emplojer wanted and put them in the paper box tvrry so often thrj uould disappear jimmy blue eyes were puuled r never saw your employer no and i don t even know his name but i took the job because i was dcsu tute fcrld couldnt see how the cltpplnga could do anyone any harm how long have you held this position ismtalne six mtintna then you must have been paid very well but not by check after i had been working a month i found letter in my dk drawer with my name on it inside vu a hundred dollar bill the next two months i found the envelope in two different placea with a hundred dollar bill in fch the fourth month i found a hundred dollar bill wrapped up in a local paper on my desk the fifth month the en velope was pinned to a hanger in my coat closet it had a hundred and fifty lti il jimmy frowned dldn t it occur to you lorraine that you were receiving an awful lot of money for the sort of work you were doing yes it worried me terribly i left notes in the letter box asking what purpose was being made of my work there was no answer once i waited in the office and tried to see my em ployer but no one came have you any reason to suppose he has been using your clippings for a vicious purpose none at all in the first place hi wanted clippings only on down and- nuters lie couldnt exploit them could he not in any way i can think of at the moment jimmy said did you ever go into the inner office well i started to once when i was worried about receiving so much money for such simple work i decided i d look at the filing cabinet i felt i had a right to know if my work was being used for some wrong purjtose just on i started to cross the threshold a voice cried stay out of tills room fright ened i j umiwd back the next mom log tilt n was a curt note on my desk saying that since i had given such excellent service my disobedience would he forgiven provided it wan not repeat ed 1 hi n there was nomi one in hie intu r office nn i m sure llirn uami i dldn i hie leuulng uimii enter ihe urrice never they had strict instructions lo li ave il tindthlorhed my employer put all waste paper in my banket and if hln office was cleaned he did it himself or hired it dune privately if he save such lustnicllotu the mauag r of the tnomley tower dulldlnu must know who employ you nu he never seen my employir tlther he recrlved a letter saylnu my employer wished to rent loos which was vacant the letter asked the manager i to announce the rental of loon in the paper when that was done money orders wt n received from john doe for the u hole ear n rental fictitious name or course tht papers come ui uie offtc number and must hove bri n subscribed for in thi same manner llavt jim enu red tlu inner office since then no it uiik too good u job u iom jlmmj an you itoltlve jou heard that voice as eleirlj as i hear jours now and vim re pnsfuve there uiu i o out in thr office absolut ij jlmmj it uas emplj ou spokt of tx lii emplojed six monuu hut jou onlj meutloned re cclving salarj lor five ah jour ndwmr muv i inquln if jour sixth months nularj was live same as live fifth it vvii due two dajii hko i vi luoktd hlth and low for tht eixvt on but 1 mill rind it tin clippings hint con llmud to i ih up in lh box and i vr rett md n lnstrucuona ou re worried about tht moiuj not trtaltj on set i dldn t bt lleve tht thing could last uiid so i vi bunked all i could what im worried uihhii ih im implojrr im ufruld some thintt hutt hu opened to him jlinnii drummed his fingers on the blot- u r dt llbt rating lorraine lit said doemi t it huik to you as if you were cmplojed toj on eocentrii to do thin fnuk work and uu eccentric has lotu interest in it lu the girl umvv ercd six duv ago hie note left on mj dt sk taid ht was vir much pleased wtu thi wu i earned on the good work good work x what the note said of course i dldnt understand what it meant whj do you think something has happened to your employer ou must understand jlmmj that mj onb wea of him is from the tone of his tvpe written notes jexcept for tliat onr curt note they have alwajs been kindly and intelligently phrased mj picture of hjm is o a ge of tlve od school gracious juu ham he ever before failed to collect the clippings for six dayef no usually three day is the long- est generally though thfy disappear every night surety some one in the building lias seen him then the young lawyer stated with punjfed frowhi llave you inquired yes i lhlnk lie e evator boy and the cleaning woman have seen him anwa they close up like clams when i tr lo question them thu is a strange business jimmy said after a pause if your employer is engaged in some work tor profit i don t see how the clippings you have collected can gain him anything i don t either as i understand it your coming here was concern for ills welfan yea prom certnln phrases in his icturs i judged he was an old man lie hss been so kind and considerate in so mafly ways- that i can t help liking him even though i ve never seen hfm jimmy rofcc and picked up his hat the place to start solving this mystery then he smiled must be in jour office voj have the time the girl in quired engerty iii lake uie time voti have me very much interested and pussledl i ve nerr heard or anything quite like this jimmy drake pushed open the door of lftoa and larralne walked in surveyed the mahogany desks and the rich carpet and whistled softly it cost a pretty penny to furnish jills office 1 the girl nodded soberly jimmy walked over to a well filled correstondence box he scanned five of the clippings his brow waahboardlng what anyone would want of those i can t make out hir ryes travelled to the door of the inner office i m going in there he decided suddenly limine griped his arm please don tl hi lose my job it looks he observed as if you ve already lost it and its the only way see of getting to the bottom of tills she trembled as he approached the open doorway scarcely hod he crossed the threshold when n loud voire cried stay out or tills officer jimmy jumped back a startled light in his widened eye as he turned to face the girl whew he gasped he peered into the inner office no one tlvere thats certain don t go in there jimmy i m area id i of n voice he laughed and loaned over to examine the panel at either side of the entrance i m beginning to set he passed his hat over the threshold about three and ont half fit i above the floor attain the volci cried stay out of tills office smiling jimmy lww1 the hat back and forth each time the command was repeated through thi office the girl walked to i ie n x what in it she nnked in a thlt k voice a phonograph no answered jimmy set those circular jlgvri m in t orh jianil ytn i ve lften wondired about thi m thty n what in railed an electric eje one transmit uie in am of light and tho other receives it tlu re n a garage over on main stmt which has an electric eye that rings a gong when a car t tilers or linves the place but i don t see any beam of light jimmy doubtlefui the beam in thin com is an infra rid ray invisible to the human je but the electric eye is sttl sensl uvi to it hut what about tle- voice lorralm asked jlmmj smiled i imagine we ii llnd an automatic fiecretary in the close t tin y re used in a few one man offices to answer phoms they lirt the recriv er say not in until three or same thing of tlve sort and haiir up when a person rxikhinu through tin door in tercepls uie beam of light iient out by the t loclrlc eji iui i lee trie impulse is transmitted to tht automatic secretary just as a plinm call is in thin cut howtvir it ulls the intruder to slaj out ltn seel as thtv siarttd across ihe threshold otict luon thi voice cautioned tht m to stttj out but now understanding its aourcl u did not hold any terror for lorrulin jlmmj swung open the closet door inside iiu u tablntt and j small amplifier jlmmj trrlnntd as hi closed thi door that s m ttled ht said lt t s si if wt can find tin address f uiir t m ployer the rummaged throuuh tin disk but found nothing except blank paper and envelope of fine quality jlmmj walked ovtr to thr steel flllnr cabint t as lit reached to pull opcila drawir a voice cried tenvt that cabinet alotu jlmmj junitd and lorrultu ft li as if hi r liuir were standlnu on nd he grinned and glanced at thi wall an otlur tlectrjt tyit thai would ur tulntj make a burg ur run hi ct m n ented deipltt the warning volt jlmmj sw ung ok n a draw t r of tht cabim t lorraine joined him wlttitn wltc cards with cllpi ings fosu ned to them jlmmj thumbed through tht cards mont of them had the number 100 typed on thrm seviral had other figures ioo 750 1000 5o0 aside from tht re numbers ach bore a date recognise anj of these clipping jlmmj asked lorraine nodded every one i clip ped them myself but he must hove clasped them to those cards and added the date and numbers numbe jim bprcuatl i wonder could they be amounts oh the old jeart she cried in relief do you surmise tljat why he wanted the clippings to help out peope in dire need we can t tell no dollar signs but it s possible here s one under a middle town date line its about a ten-year- yearold who crawled over thin ice to take a rope to a man who had broken through while sxatimz it says here the lltt e fellow s clothing was ragged but he wouldnt uke a cent and the figure lao beside the dipping 111 tell jou lorraine the boy s address u here we might drive out and see if he received a hundred and flftj dollara fit he did he might be able to tell u what hla benefactor looked tike the drive helped jimmy and lorraine to bridge the two year ep hi their friendship but it helped wtle toward solving the mystery they learned that a fifty and a hundred dollar bill had arrived in a plain envrlojie with an un signed note asking the boy not to men tlon the incident to anyone save his parents he was loath to discuss t all we ve learned jimmy said ail he drove back is that your employer is a very secretive philanthropist the amounts on those file cards ae the amounts he has given needy veople he admires yes lorraine agreed he la secretive he dnean t evrrt want me know the good work he is doing his disappearance is as mysterious as the things he has done jimmy said i m afraid i don t know any way to locate him except to go to the police and tell them uie whole story the girl s eyes shadowed oil i d hate to do that it would spoil everything jimmy isn t there any nthef way the young lawyer dellbi rated for some minutes and then said let s go back to your office one of those clipping 1 read has given me an idea upon their return to the office jimmy delved into tlve clippings and finally found the one lie sought he handed it lo lorraine it read plkkb aptcn owing last hun dhrd to newsboy iikro injured ait rlderly lady the account went on to say confused by traffic lights at sixth and main streets had backed into the path of a speeding truck and was saved only by the swift action of a newsboy tommy bartosh twelve years old who barely escaped the truck h wheels in his axu mpt to push her out of danger a quietlydressed elderly man wllnens of tho near accident had walked up to tlu newsboy ami presentd him with a hundreddollar bill he hod turned lie fore the astonished hoy could thank him ami had dashed into traffic only to ih struck by a taxi unconscious he had hrn taken to tin county hospital win re an examination r vealeti a ug injury he carried no pal rs of ldi n tlflcnllnn and only a ti w tents changi tin artli li i mu hided iuki stcadfantly maintains that he cannot rt niemlm r his n vine pol 1 1 1 belli ve that in an impul slvt miimtut he govt bin last money to the courageous newsboy jimmy lorrnim cried hir tv glowing do you mippme tlmt toulil be he that hundred dollar bill sounds uk him hi replied and then there n his unwlllliignt n to nvi ive any redll for hla good d ed if t n go out to tht county hospital and set it was not a law drive and aitrr some explanation a nurse led thi m to a gardt n nl the rear win re several old men vt in wheel chairs apart from tin otlwrs reading wus one of the finest looking men iirralne hod ever he glanced up at their approach and shook his head riease he said r unnt you reporters leave mi alone haven t done anything to cause all thin extttemi nl lorraine lmndwl him thi cllimintc thls ls you yes uie old man said impautnllj i said lorraine taking n whol in the dark am your secretary h gavi hir u fctartlid glance and tin n sloulj mulled so jou vt run me down at lanf just as well i win about to rt vt al my idtntlly to you anyway i tt it you could bt trusted who ls this joung man james dnikt a law j i and a vt rj hood frli nd in rlmu the philanthropist suiapst etl hi will be kind niough to push ihls chair out to some secludid mol in tlu garden so that ui con tau in prtvau whi n this hud bt t n dont lnrralm slit iched tin stt pa they had made leading to his discovery so she finished your cllppingn onuilned thi cwy nllal clui tht old miui smiled i could hav been found some dnjs ago if i d only betn willing to rtveal nij idtiitilj but t uould havt ruined mj puuin upd 1 will find out who ownttskicb us and stole of utah will twit question in the courts washington december ilh op government la getting ready lo determine legally who owns the air over con tin ental united statu or at least that part of it covered iry airways since the passage of the civil aeronautics act in i03b the government has iwen troubled by challenges by airplane htou maw uie state of utah has adored n law qslabllshlng it own sovereignity ov r the air above its borders and that com plication brought the state attorney aeneral s office into the conferences ovi r uie suit bfffnbivk hwfdfn stockholm opt aweden has on ti sire to lue iter growing fighting nervlcth tor aggresslvt purposes said mlnlsttr of defence skold but will strive to lmtrovt its defensive iwiwer still further wi1rrr fihii h arcr sydney n a w op because tin australian government has taken over many trawelers for defence purposes fish are scarce here and some fish shom hav elated up i hut recruit from out west u awful stubborn carrolls baking sale rt ft rred to stoy here to doing that suppost ymi know that i m dudlej in gram i thought i rrcognlrtd tlie millionaire in uu convalescent jimmy smiled but i d seen onlj on plctun so i couldn t be sure ah mj life ingram said i vt tried to avoid publlcltj just m nature i suppose somt six months ago mj last relative dlid i had no one to whom to leave my fortune and though up this plan of disposing of lt miss lassfo k has been good enough to help me find deserving p ople and ivc tried to do m bit his klndtj old face lighted whatsoever a man sourth that shall he also reap i believe thats true the last six months have been the happiest jones of mv life i canharcly walttp gtt out of here to go on with it he cauoht jlmmj s eyes on lorraine his smile faded and ho sighed i suppose he said 111 hove to flrtd myself a new secretary before long crimson crept into lorraine s cheeks jlmrrty laughed softly i hope jou re yight jsm dingo cut peel 25c chateau cheese pure lard 1lb pkg swansdown cake flour plg jfcxc cri8co i9c 49c australian seedless raisins 2 x9 mpi ur mincemeat x xse alllanc almond extract z-o- bd ioc gronnj- cinnamon 5c cbrlslua cbrlslamaa cakes light or dark bv q ckrlsllas clieeeute cream rolls jtoc wailcawaotl craarn sandwiches 1 clean australian currants 25 cocoa cowani 1lb apple juice f 46o tin 18c m oxydol carrolls baking powder green valley peas b flakes 9 i soup halnb 4m 10 os a4 aiurtul a lit a3sv brights choice ontario peaches 15oz tin xo ou puleh cleanser x 19 toilet soap 3 16c hswsi floor wax x3e43e silver star pastry flour three bis ads of llptona tea 36 4 46 clcj red cherries 41e 31iuj almonds ma ic 24lb bag ammonia handy 2 ac surprise soip j bara tfq raspberry or strawberry jam glasscoa with pectin 32os 2a crwp white ce1erv hearts each 10c juicy nacl oranges per dozen 23c red emperor grapes l for llrc firm ripe crannkrries per lb 29c london icpi londdn alrmld slreris hae becri nlclcnamed b australlana-here- dismaljlmrtuo the dingo betoit n australian dog that doesnt bavk but howls moumfutly in the night rjfruu and vejreuble ivic unui saturday niieht only carrolls