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THES HAILEY BURIAN THURS., AUGUST 14th, 1930 FEAST by | blundered into a hedge. A mo- ment later I blundered into it |myself, and as twigs scratched |my face and raindrops showered I dropped the telephone and|over me from the wet bushes, I leaped forward. I thought Lhad/heard footsteps scuffling away judged the location of the switch | through the gravel beyond. 4 correctly but I missed it in the | The hedge was high and deep. darkness and collided violently | How themtrordan got through it eeeitay the wall. a \so quickly, I could not imagine. Someone moved swiftly past|Sheer luck, no doubt, or perhaps CHAPTER III The Man at the Table me. I wheeled and grasped | she had found an opening that I blindly. My fingers closed on a|missed. The tough branches held sleeve and at the same time I was|me back, stung my face, and fin- conscious of a delicate, feminine | ally tripped me up so that I fragrance, a perfume that seem-| plunged forward on my face into ed vaguely familiar. This waS|q gravelled walk, my feet still entirely a flickering impression |kicking among those wretched --I was not concerned with anal-|pyshes. hae ve then, The sleeve was) with scratched face, bleeding aioe twitched away and when|},nq5 and bruised knees, not to unged ahead, seeking to grap-| njention a chastened spirit, I got ple with this invisible intruder, 4\to my feet. The running foot- hard little ame Cc I} . . ¥ i ale lit I fist cam ut of t he |steps had died away. The fugi- dark, smacking with a sharp Im-ltive had disappeared into the vies be Brae ue 2 BA Off ae |roaring obscurity of the storm. ance 2 yas se 2 stag-| i pe dee ce ae te 2B Thoroughly drenched, and in a » sideways a 2 Tger e, aide recover. en es lf I * 1 very bad humor, I returned to the ) cove 7se ard lq meats a . ne E s aie |house and went up the steps and ciel ian ae ootsteps down! nto the hall, followed by a trail I Ma Satd |of water that dripped from my nstead of giving chase, I grop-| soaked clothes. The telephone ed for the electric _Switch. It Hay on its side, with the receiver was, of course ,elusive. Just aS| dangling below the table, emit- 1 fone it, I pos the front door | ting a hollow and insistent buzz. slam loudly. he hall was flood-|7 picked it up: ed with light; I raced toward the "Ves?" door, wrenched it open, and ran| The Ghiccs voice: out onto the porch. "Oh, there y'are! What hap- Rain still poured from the|pened? You hung up on me black skies and in the drenching|near took my ear off." darkness of the night I could see "Haven't you left yet?" I de- nothing beyond the front steps. | manded. "That car will be half- I listened and heard someone|way across the country before running across the grass, away |you get started." x over to the left. I jumped down| "Don't worry. from the porch, sprawled inglor- jiffy." . iously on the wet lawn, scramb- "Keep your eyes open for a led to my feet and gave chase. woman along the road." "A what?" T'll be out ina The fugitive did not have a big lead, but in that torrential gloom "A woman. There was a wo- it was quite sufficient. I heard|man in the house and she just got a snapping and crackling ofjout. That's why I left the tele- branches, the threshing of leaves,|phone. She's around the grounds and judged that my quarry had|/somewhere." DEAD MAN'S | Leslie McFarlane feet "That's queer. I wonder who in kelly she can be. There ain't no womenfolk at Blenheim's place 4 "Never mind arguing about it. Hurry up. I'll wait here." I slammed down the receiver on the maunderings of this dim- witted yokel. He should have been started on his way by now. |Even yet it was ten to one that he would revert to his original |suspicion that it was all a practi- cal joke and decide to stay in the house. His stupidity increased the aggravation | felt in having let that mysterious woman slip through my hands. Who was she? Where had she come from? She must have been jin the house all the time, although |I[had not heard a sound. In hid- ling, doubtless. My noisy ap- | proach had alarmed her, she had remained in concealment as I went through the rooms, await- ing an opportunity of escape. Her exact knowledge of the lo- cation of the electric light switch seemed to indicate that she knew the run of the house. She had emerged from _ the li- brary. I went over to the door. She had taken a long chance on turning out the lights and evad- ing me in the darkness. Why hadn't she gone out the back way while I was at the telephone? I tried to identify that elusive fragrance. Lilacs -- violets -- roses? No. Apple blossoms! The perfume of apple blossoms. I remembered that from my boy- 'hood, when there had been apple ltrees in the orchard on our farm. |The scent was unmistakable. And |the woman, whoever she was, had [been young; she had fled from |the house and across the lawn with amazing swiftness. Her footsteps had been light and quick. | Ruefully, I felt the bruise un- jder my eye. In the vernacular, 'she packed-a sweet wallop. "What a beautiful sock that was!" I murmured. The hard vicious little fist was at strange variance with the tender frag- rance of apple blossoms. The whole affair grew more puzzling every minute. The masked man in the car, the two dead men in the house, one slain by a bullet and the other with no mark of violence--and now this mysterious girl. If she were in- nocent of any complicity in the crimes, why had she hidden her- self? If not, why hadn't she left in the automobile? The Chief had said there were no women- folk at the Blenheim place, so this disposed of the theory tnat she was a member of the family and had hidden herself'on my ar- rival, believing the masked man had returned. It was too much for me. I went into the library. I sat down ina roomy, comfort- able chair beside the table. The library was so cosy and peaceful that it was difficult to believe that the shadow of tragedy hung over the house. Gradually, un- der the soothing influence of a cigarette and the calm atmos- phere of the room, my nerves be- came steadier. I did not look to- ward the dining room where the dead man sat at the table. My best course, I decided, was to sit tight and disturb nothing. I wondered where the woman had gone? If she had made her way toward the village she would soon be picked up by the police. The fact that she had not headed toward the road in her flight meant nothing. She had fled from the house blindly, bent only on getting away. There was lit- tle doubt in my mind but that she would be eventually captured. A woman on foot, out alone at such an hour on such a night, could not long hope to escape discoy- ery; she would have to seek re- fuge somewhere. In a surprisingly short time I heard the clatter and a roar out on the driveway. The Chief, slow as he had been in getting started, had lost no time driving out from the village. I went to the door in time to see three men coming up the front steps. A prehistoric Ford stood disconso- lately in the rain. The leader of the trio was a short, bespectacled little man --------E--------eEeee iii Mc CAAA errr rrr rr cc cc rc rcrc rc sr cere eee ee DVERTIS REGULARLY! iS ig E e & & should ed word!"' about it SHANA Y PAY in modern business. are on the map. Silence Will Never Bring Prospective Buyers to Your Door be they coined that adage "'Silence ts golden" they have added reservations. In this day and age, you've got to let folks know you If you've got a product you believe in--if you know the public wants it--why keep quiet ? Advertise and KEEP ON Advertising! Use the columns of THE HAILEYBURIAN Its circulation in Temiskaming District means "talking to" potential buyers -- THINK THAT OVER! In fact, there wouldn't be any business to speak of were it not for the "voice of the print- iy DOES NOT with a scraggly gray mustache. He wore an official cap with the word "CHIEF" emblazoned in gilt letters and a voluminous black raincoat reached to his jheels. Behind him came a long- legged, long-nosed, long-faced villager armed with a very long shotgun; and a pop-eyed youth with buck teeth and ears that stood out at right angles, brought up the rear. "Well," piped the Chief, stamp- ing up onto the porch, "what's been goin' on here tonight? Where do you come from, stran- ger, and what's you rname?" "My name is Allan Brook,' I told him, "and I come from To- ronto. I've been on a motor tour and my car is stranded back on the main road. I came on to this house just a little while ago." "And you say there's two dead men here?" I nodded. The Chief took off his cap-and scratched his head; the long-faced villager regarded me mournfully; the pop-eyed youth gulped. "Well, I guess we'd better go inside and see what's what. Been near twenty year since anything like this ever happened around these parts. I guess from what you told me, one of these chaps must be old man Blenheim his- self." "An old man with a_ white beard. He's in the dining room, sitting at the table. The other chap is lying in a room off the kitchen. He seems to be a ser- vant." "That must be the fellow Blen- heim called his vally. He only kept but one man around the lace. Furriner?" "He looked like a foreigner to me." "Guess that's him all right. Well, we'll go in and take a look around." They trooped into the hall. "Don't touch nothin', boys" said the Chief to his followers. "Don't want to lose no clues." "T left everything just as found it," I volunteered. The Chief advanced cautiously into the library, with the air of ahunter sneaking up on an un- suspecting rabbit. The lanky vil- lager took a tighter grip on the shotgun and the pop-eyed youth made queer noises in his throat. 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