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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., DEC. 8, 1938 "Sportsman Flies High" by Lawrence Keating Synopsis Detective Dan Colwell of the Graber-Vael private detective agency is assigned the job of shadowing McDonald whose wife fears gangster enemies are plotting to murder him. McDonald is killed in spite of Colwell's watchfulness. Now, with McDonald dead the smuggling ring which he led has become disorganized. Colwell risks his life to gather evidence by playing one against another. CHAPTER XI "Hold on, Otto," he begged. "We got a fella in the next room knows it, and all we got to do is make him spill, see?" Graber rose from his chair. His gun was put away and his big fists doubled at his sides as he chewed mentally on this latest information. "If I hadn't put a squawk you weren't going to tell me you had a guy who knows the numbers. Fine pals!" "Bunk, Otto. We weren't forgetting you! Were we, Helen?" "You know how the stuff is eoming in: we don't. That proves we needed you, Otto." "Who is this guy?" "Colwell." Through a crack in the partly open bedroom door Dan could see and hear. He watched Graber's face change. The man scarcely credited his ears at first; then he grew red in a wave that flowed up his thick neck and burst over his square German cheeks. "Colwell?" He cursed with lurid imagination. "Colwell! He got the numbers? So he's trying to horn in! Mac starts the double-cross--hell! You two figured to pull a fast one, laying the blame on Mac so I don't suspect anything! But I'm wise to you! "Now Colwell's got ambitious, eh?" Graber cleared his throat with a great urrumph. "That's rich. A forty a week peeper wants to horn in on the heavy sugar! Well," he flung at them, "don't gawk like a couple of dummies! Where's Colwell?" "In the bedroom," Helen said heavily. "Bring him out! Snap into it, Lefty!" Terrible Anger Quillen stamped to the bedroom, his face flushed a queer purple with rage he strove to control. He liked Graber no better than when he had set out to violate the confidence of the rir.£ \y ...dering McDonald. But Quillen had plenty of respect for Graber, and so had Helen Fane. Colwell complied slowly as if he were very weak. As a matter of fact he felt almost all right. He passed Quillen sullenly and went into the living room that looked like a Kansas cyclone had struck it. Graber greeted him with evil, slitted eyes, his fists clenched until the knuckles shone white. "Colwell," he barked, "you're a sap to monkey with us!" There was no reply. "So you won't talk, eh? You ain't going to tell us where you've got that "No," said Dan. "I'm not." He strove to make out what time the infinitesimal hands said on Helen Fane's wrist watch. Graber pitied his crass obstinacy. "I guess you better carve him, Lefty. That's good medicine for smart guys!" Quillen scowled. "I ain't got my knife. What's the matter with a gat?" "You got a bread knife around somewhere, haven't you?" Helen hesitated at Graber's imperative gesture, then slowly went to the kitchenette. She returned with a gleaming bread knife with saw edges. Graber squinted. "Put him on the floor. We'll carve a couple of figure eights on his chest and then maybe he'll talk. Colwell struck out. His fist tilted Otto's wide chin and brought a crash of teeth. But before Dan could whirl Quillen's weight was on him and bore him struggling to the floor. Graber recovered with surprising suddenness for a man with his soft look. The three rolled and threshed wildly, kicking'chairs, hurtling into an end table to send its lamp to the floor where it shattered in a thousand bits. The pair climbed up gingerly. ColwelJ, dazed by a blow on his temple, had bGeh unable to snatch a gun. He sat up with both palms clasped to his head. Otto's face was stamped with criie]ty as he rescued the knife. The bristles of his short cropped hair stood stiff as a mastiff's. He looked the lineal descendant he was, of Attila, chief of the Huns that had been the scourge of Europe centuries ago. Blood hungry. Implacable. That was why he bossed the narcotic ring. McDonald had been the brains, Graber the brawn. Dan knew now he had been a fool to put himself in more trouble than he could care for. But how else was he to learn the nature of the dope smuggling than by some chance, cleverly drawn out sentence? Not by staying away from them. It was a contest now whether he would get away alive. And hope diminished as minutes passed. It diminished too, for the knowledge he needed to get the quarter million worth of snow before they got it! "Have a--good hunting trip?" he panted at Graber, and stared at the tips of his fingers to learn if it was blood trickling down his temple. It was. "Swell! I shot a buck today. You'll see about it in the "..ews" tomorrow. Know that guy signs 'himself G.K.G. and runs that column "Around Town" ? Read about me there tomorrow morning, Colwell--if you can! "Before We Kill You" "Come on," he growled, "put him flat and let's get goin'!" Graber suited action to his words. Quillen sprang to his aid. There was another furious tussle but in his weakened condition Colwell was no match for the powerful hulks. With Graber seated on his che t and pinning his wrists and Helen's weight on his legs, he was helpless. Quillen had the knife. He put his blunt fingers to Dan's shirt and ripped it, leaving" his chest exposed. Of a sudden the captive set up a new battle that interrupted proceedings. He got an arm free and shot a hook to the jaw that sent Otto reeling But they subdued him. Helen buckled a belt around his thighs. The heavy Graber straddled him. "Go on, Lefty!" he panted. "Colwell, tell us those numbers. You hear? Damn you!" he rasped. "Give us those numbers before we kill you!" (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) When Girls Grow Taller Than Boys "Adolescent Spurt" Starts for Girl When She's 9; For Boy When He's 12 - One tact that very few parents realize is that boys and girls grow differently" Dr. Josephine Kenyon, of New York, last week told the Fifth Institute on the Exceptional Child. "Until they are 8 years old, the growth is the same, but the adolescent spurt starts for the girl when she is 9 and for the boy when he is 12. Eventually Grows Taller "So while the boy is still slowing down, the girl is shooting upward so rapidly that before long she outstrips him and for three years the girls are actually taller than boys of the same age." Dr. Kenyon said that a boy's adolescent, spurt," is well underway by the time that he is 14, while a great many girls have reached the full height when 16. Boys continue to grow until they are 21, when the average youth is slightly more than four and a half inches taller than the average girl. Long-Sleeved Bathing Suits Elizabeth Arden Hints at Possible Changes in Beach Attire; Now Worn in Florida TORONTO. -- Elizabeth Arden of New York, who was in Toronto to visit the Royal Winter Fair, showing her horses, was guest of honor at a press lunch-Miss Arden maintains that good health and spirits are the basis of good looks. Color trends for spring, said Miss Arden, indicate browns and yellows as among leaders. There may be a definite change-in bathing and beach attire soon, Miss Arden hinted, as she told of the new long-sleeved, high-necked "bathing suits" which her "exer-i cise girls" are wearing in Florida. SHIRLEY TEMPLE <&Uo/"REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM" A 20th Century Fox Picture Mothers! Even children with the "pernickty" appetites just love Quaker Puffed Wheat. You never need to coax when you serve this delicious, crisp breakfast. Not only is Quaker Puffed Wheat easy to digest, quick to give ing of Quaker in energy value t. as m uch as two whole Iamb chops. 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For charm is going to be her stock in trade, to be frank. It is the finest asset of any human being, indeed, but the girl without charm seems to deny her femininity. Or is being denied it, because it is the parents' place to train her, writes Olive Roberts Barton. Naturally the art of kindness and friendliness should have been also taught from early childhood. And friendliness is an art as well as a virtue. It is one thing to feel very friendly to people but another thing to show them we feel friendly and make them feel comfortable and happy in the knowledge. But there are certain graces to be added to the unsophisticated sociability of early years, to make the woman womanly, the girl, just as the word implies, "gracious." Tact is a wonderful thing. To say the right thing at the right, time is the crux, I think, of gentility. To rescue a situation by turning the subject quickly to another matter. Boys and girls, too, need to be, taught this social habit early if they are to make friends. And keep The police of Ploesti have arrested a boy who had stolen 100,-000 lei (about $850.), of which he spent 12,000 on having his teeth drawn and gold ones fitted in their place "so that the girls should like him." HOW YOU CAN ATTRACT MEN Don't let love and romance pass you by. Men tike girls with lots of pep and energy. ^ PmkhaSm's Vegetable Compound and note the difference. Pinkham's Compound, made especially for women from wholesome herbs and roots, helps Nature *-- more pep to really enjoy "life. For over 60 years one womai other how to go "smiling thru" Compound.0 LeTit help' YOU! ;s and gives you Issue No. 50--'38 Of Interest to Women . Readers . CHRISTMAS GOODIES When you feel inclined to groan at the thought of the Christmas presents you have to buy and wonder where will the money come from--forget about it. For a very little money, some time and some materials, you can give lovely gifts to all those people you want to make happy. There are so many people who would enjoy homemade candies at Christmas time, men and women who live away from home and don't get homemade treats very often ■-- boys and girls at boarding schools who may be going home but who would like to take something- back to treat their friends and those unfortunate people who will have to be in hospital during the happy season. A daintily packaged box of home-made candies is not just a gift--it carries something of your personality and is doubly appreciated by the recipient because of the personal effort that "has been put into it. Her :cipes for ; CHOCOLATE CARAMELS 1 cup sugar 3A cup light corn syrup 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, cut in pieces % teaspoon salt 1 ]2 cups heavy cream. Combine sugar, corn syrup, chocolate, salt, and % cup cream. 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