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_ ZENITH OF ADORATION "Mid you weigh a ton, I would love every ounce of you!". + » ’(Cone'lu!on) There was only the sound of Hilâ€" da‘s breathing as she sat perched rigidly on q chair. Mirthbone knelt with m‘%’h‘r and pliers before cold air grill He caught the %‘ between the tools and Hy out the missing minâ€" iature Hilda audibly caught her breath, The blade had been hastily wiped, but there was a longâ€" ish.dark along the thick edge. The det e unfolded his handkerâ€" chief and dropped the tiny weapon on it from the pliers. Thursday, Sept. 14, 1944 "This will be tested for fingerâ€" prints," he / said, watching Hilda, who sat staring back at him, wide eyed. "But EP know pretty well whose marks will be on the handle." aged to ‘elude .our monitoring sysâ€" tem. It‘s a big, lonesome territory, hard neougle to ‘case‘ where one stranger is conspicuous; but when you‘re being trailed by one of Mirthâ€" bone‘s plain clothes men,â€"" _ * The front door opened and George walked in. His suit bagged terribly ; heâ€"looked exhausted and disheveled. Seeming to sense the importance of the gathering, he barely glanced at Hilda, gave my hand a quick clasp, and sank into the seat beside me, without taking his eyes off Mirthâ€" bone, who still stood in the thick dust wheve the radio had been, holding .IT the tiny sword on his handkerchief.. . k â€"I looked at Roger. "He is taking it well," I thought. i) "Yes, I can tell you almost anyâ€" thing you want to know, now that we‘ve finighed the job in Texas," George answered. "We‘ve dismanâ€" tled a German espionage headquarâ€" ters with shortWwave sending station, and I think we were in ‘time to foreâ€" stall their getting out any data on weapons from your plant, Roger. We‘ve taken all the men except ‘Osâ€" car,‘ and I don‘t think he‘ll bother anybody any more. "My men picked up quite a little information down there," the detecâ€" tive said. ‘‘They might have helped you, Misty, if you‘d cooperated a little." *"I‘m ‘t:tl you got here, Misty," the detective said. ‘"I think you can clear up a few things for me." "They : were a hard bunch* to find," George went on. "We knew messages were beingâ€"sent by radio from southern Texas, but they manâ€" ‘"We‘re under strict orders not'to‘ work with anybody not trained for our service," George answered, "not even the police." Mirthbone nodded. "Of course our monitors would have located the station soon," George went on, "but speed was imâ€" portant. When I got the message from the man we had watching Rogâ€" er‘s plant that Miss Eilers had been in communication with a German, and had given him an address in the suburbs where he‘d find a drawing among papers, and that the house was to be empty and unlocked that ,:undly night, I took a plane to Chicago, picked up the addressâ€" you can: the shock when I found iX was our home, but I figâ€" ured t had brought:it out â€" I came here. ‘I hoped either to catch man â€" we‘d%have ways of getting information out of him, â€"or shadow him back to the hideout in Texas . . . Well, you know how lfonu.t...hnbody’dbon through pockets; a good agent doesn‘t carry anything important on him anyway. But I found one thing â€" his Pullman. stub, that showed the nearest railway town to . "I wanted to phone you at the party, Angela, to save you the shock of finding the body. But I was afraid you‘d give things away when the police started in. Too much was at stake. So I just stopped to shave and change clothesâ€"" Mirthbone : laughed. â€" "So that‘s what you‘ve been keeping from me, Mrs. Misty! I knew you‘d found some evidence concerning your husâ€" band, when jyou came down, all flustered, to empty ash trays." George continued, ‘"When I landâ€" ed in Texas, I rounded up the rest of my men, and we drove to the town named on the Pullman stub. The electricg power company there gave us the location of their: only new applicant for electricity, a farm in the middle of nowhere, that had been deserted by the wife right afâ€" ter her h . died â€" he was a bleeder, said, â€" bled to death from a finger. The man who apâ€" plied for electricity claimed to be the man‘s brother." ho j . I thought again of the suit tha I had never examined, except in the "Why! it adds up beautifully," Mirthbone exclaimed. "Our corpus delicti here (I think of him now as Oscar) was a bleeder too, so he was 2; bn::: :how&d for electricâ€" on arm. Haemophilia runs in families, you know." . __Well, 1 thought, now we knew who Oscar was, and why he left . SHALLOWS THE BARRED SEVEN Aubusson, and why his blood was still liquid after so nnl{ harrs. But we didn‘t know who killed him, unâ€" less it was Roger. I glanced at Hilâ€" da, who sat crouched in her chair, pale, and trembling fitfully. _ It seemeil an uncalled for melodraâ€" matic byâ€"play to put her through such an ordeal, just to get mtr off his guard.: George, I noti¢ed, was eyeing Roger too, â€" €O" ‘ "My plain clothes men, emâ€" barrassed you down in ([Texas," Mirthbone continued, "got e loâ€" cal history from the nati about the couple who <used to ruin that farm,â€"that would be brothâ€" er and his wife. They didn‘} mingle much, ‘had no children, spoke with a German accent. But when there‘s a death, people in such a community will gather around, and are apt to ask questions. |Haemoâ€" philia is an uncommon -il?tnt, and aroused a lot of curiosity, The womâ€" an left pretty hurriedly for a trip to Germany, to visit her hfub.nd’s people, she told them. t "No, there aren‘t any now, Hilâ€" da," Mirthbone answered, "but when you soak one off it leaves a dull spot on the luggage. Yourbag has a dull spot just the shape of this!" and. hé brought out the Waldhaus Villingen label. if / "Now a German who goes back to the old country norm: stays with relatives, and. d« ‘t come back with hotel stickers from small German towns on her bagâ€"" _ "There aren‘t any!" in? from Hilda, and as we all looked at her she put her hand over her mouth. It seemed _ outrageously farâ€" fetched. "I don‘t see how travelâ€" ing around Germany a few years ago proves anything about gu murâ€" der," I said. W "It doesn‘t prove anythifig, I adâ€" mit," he answered. "It only indiâ€" cates an wnusual behavior pattern, perhaps a guilty conscience, to trayâ€" el so far, and yet not sgend the time with relatives. $ "But that isn‘t all I find linterestâ€" ing about Hilda. That, nor her manâ€" ia for dusting in here, yet neglectâ€" ing the living room . . . L&st night I visited her in the buem t while she washed. The ink stained clothes were soaking in one tub, the water already pretty green. I e ognized the percale sheets from Roger‘s bed. Mrs. Misty‘s bed clothes ren't in the tub, because they came down the chute while Hilda and 1 wére chatâ€" ting. But I saw soaking in the tub with the ink stained articles a white cotton garment â€" big | gathered sleeves, and embroidered! ruffles around the neck â€" somehow, I knew it didn‘t belong to either Mrs. Jason or Mrs. Misty ; in lpctfllm only one person I could picture wearing it. Now a good wash womah wouldâ€" n‘t put it in with her ink stained sheets unless it had ink on| it too!" ‘"You see," he went on, ‘"I knew the knife with the double edged wasn‘t the murder weapon, gnd when the medic confirmed my icion that Oscar was a haemo y S eouldn‘t: help: wondering | what a bleeder would be doing with such a knife on him. Every| bleeder knows his danger, or he wouldn‘t be alive. The knife is an old lone, and a.German make. But when I learned that one of the brothers. did die of a cut finger, a few years , on & lonely farm in Texas, 1: ed that somebody sharpened |the dull side of the blade for him; gnd when Oscar found it, he knew had happeéened . . . Come, Hilda, you might as well tell us!" â€" |_ I thought of that pa ‘betwcen the footsteps and the ed door! f "But Roger â€"" Gertrudg began. ‘"Yes, Roger had ink onfi.yzhe back of his hands, and on the top of his sheets and spread. Easy to put it on him while he siept. And can you imagine a man who huju-i::ed to strangle a woman calling Mttention to himself by slamming his door?" s »| Her face was an unlov{ cheeks puckered and wot&» lips drawn back from her ing silently. "All the time I have bad luck," she moaned between sniffy. "First, I hide that knife so good, after Herman cut himself ; I knew a place upstairs where was a 1 baseâ€" board, and I put it behind, and heard it drop inside the wall. Iidon‘t gsee how Oscar could find it * *They must have opened when they did the wiring dio apparatus," George h "I was going to stay Mest Mn iac, I what a th such bleeder ldn‘t be 1e, and learned d die of ‘He was all the urt himâ€" d read tell me : how I .ruffles v I knew s. Jason was only i wouldâ€" stained it too!" between slammed that wall r the raâ€" ined. sharpen ‘s knife ly sight, and her here and sA PIp Friday evening, the Kenilworth G.8.0. will sponsor a ing party. The 344th Ar will play, and Miss Dorothy Lin will sing a ft selections duri terâ€" mission. Refreshments will be served at 9:80. | .. $ ‘SBunday, Sept. 17, the ce Mothers club will serve a ial breakfast for the Java cl t 10 a.m. During the day, golf rseâ€" back rldtg are availab im 6 to 8 the Service Mothers the leadership of Mrs. Florénce will serve a buffet supper. 6:80 there k:'ii‘be a singâ€"song. T a fullâ€"length feature movie be shown, and at 9 the B44th . y band will play for d‘m#n( On Tuesday .&gtal‘,thelwhh, Welfare board wil} sponsor =â€" ing party: at the USO, 40th M. P. band will play for dancing and at 9 there will be a iety ghow. At 9:30 the J.W.B. will s leTv re> freshments. 4 Cw oo t Pn C498 inapan xt On Hdu':'s:’;t 15, the| Wives club will meet at the Hi d|Park USO for luncheon and bridg¢. All new comers are invited to come. Woman‘s Symphony Wives‘ Club at U Begins Season Oct, 6 . Friday, ‘Oct. 6, will be tx penâ€" ing date ior the Woman‘s Symphony orchestra season, under the dlirecâ€" tion of Jerzy Bojanowski, new conductor, at Orchestra Hall, Chiâ€" cago, according to the announceâ€" ment of! Mrs.. Jack ; 8 ner, Oakmont, president of the arganizâ€" ation. t » } Thomas L. Thomas, barito highlight the performanc "Harnasie‘" ballet suite by owski, will be played. | / Jennie Tourel of th:flce opera company, will grace ond program, to be ¢iYen o day, Nov. 8, and the |8rd slated for Monday, Deéec} 11, ture Gilette and Micardi, d ists. _ These concerts will given in Orchestra Hdh. Chi LIBRARY WILL MAKE: u sUMMER READING AWARDS bone, I didn‘t want to ?u ‘olks, or his, thinking about the jrhy he died. So I staid a while at aldâ€" haus ‘until I started to wo bout money. Then I came to Chicago and got work . . ." fls LC Awards for summelc-l reading will be ‘made at the public lib Satâ€" urday, Sept. 16, at 1 ?30';. The guest speaker will beers. &‘ KBR Boetsch. | | I A farm, but when people found dut he was dendr they all came to kee me, made a big funeral, and asked (questâ€" ions, always more questions. |Then one woman said I wouldn‘t|feel so bad if I took a trip and d his folks, and they all helped ime get _"I heard the door open," she went on. "When I heard that light click, I knew it wasn‘t Mrg. Misty or the doctor, so I came . When I saw Oscar, I nearly died! I ught I was seeing Herman (that‘s my husâ€" band) again. Oscar was scared, too. He said, ‘I‘ve got to ;:t sométhing out of the library here‘. I sajd| ‘You can‘t‘. He said, ‘You try toitéll me what I can or can‘t do, after| what I know about you?" And he showed me the knife. [ +4 s "And you were here, â€" night,, when Oscar came? bone prompted. [ * ‘"Well, I thought he would |make trouble about the wnf Herman â€" died. ~So when . he â€" was nting around and ‘had his back turned, 1 grabbed that Schwert and|â€"+â€" hit him with it. He walked ju little and fell down. I wanted to go away quick, but I was afraid ight have something in his pock that would get me in bad‘!. . . d to turn. him over to ‘go& in hig pocâ€" kets, so I pulled out â€"â€" that thaing â€" and I thought where I it it would . goâ€"down :the wall e the oother time . .. " Her vo iled off and she started to cry i. 4 eyes off Hilda. ‘*"Mr. Craig, would you mind callâ€" ing Reddigan #o bring | rlear?" "What we didn‘t find," bone said, almost to hi £, Oscar‘s billfold, Su: he| c one." Ts SE d : Roger heaved his bulk sadl the wing chair. . | _ **You sure it, w;on*t. Gertrude called after him. "I saved it â€" it w leather," Hilda volunt me to get it for you? ened and started up. *"No, you don‘t. shoved her back, l;ta shoved her back, into chair. She started to sniffle , and it was a relief whlqdp di came with Hurley and Keller to e her out. It was a scene [I didn‘t want to watch. Mirthbone staye hindy too,. :: * | f "You don‘t mind g this | miniature sword, you?" : he asked. "You‘ll never use it again | for a letter opener, I don‘t ne." hy fake io M . You! need it for rprin t you?" ; He Iaughed. "That ably hu,evorybody?s on it, â€" It got me that‘s what I needed. he fondled the a collection I‘m C (THE EN dow i7 rints # e con But '{1 blade, ig." ) as su eered. @99 oncert, r;):Lfeaâ€" o |pianâ€" a be politan 1 Mon Li#g- his ssion ; ,"" and ‘is for L“d"d good ‘Want rightâ€" Mirthâ€" rou?" irried irthâ€" will and bone P RESS Tea will be served in the te.eherd‘l conference room. Mothers with «mal children are urged to bring th along if necessary. They will be cared for in the lunch room, a P.T.A. service for parents. :. â€"_ Dr, E. C. Reichert Will Speak at Elm Place PTA The opening meeting of the Elm| ‘Mrs. Hortense Steiner, 900 Place P.T.A., Wednescay afternoon,| St., is among the members off the Sept. ‘20, at 8 o‘clock, will afford| North Shore Art league whose {yi parents the opportunity to get ac<lis now on exhibit in the | quainted with the new superinten<| of the CJub Woman‘s bureal t dent, Dr. E. 8. Reichert, who will| Mandel Brothers. Mrs. Steing is address the meeting. : . > showing both an oil and a w ol> Dr. Reichert‘s talk will be precedâ€"| or, study. Her oil is a flowem#arâ€" ed by a Community Sing, held rangement called ‘"{Lilacs" but Jt is Miss Sproul‘s room,‘ and followi |a beautiful composition of frui his talk, a short skit, "Women ini flowers done in deep rich ton er Revue,"> will be given. \| still life in water color is an Toa will be sorved in the teachers‘| arrangement of flowers and Suit. Dr. Reichert‘s talk will be preced ed by a‘ Co mity Sing, held Miss Sproul‘s r:zm.‘ and followi his talk, a short skit, "Women 1:11 Revue," will be given. | Miss Lucille Hutchins of _Glenc:j was the bride‘s ofifiv attendant, and John Ogelby, of P III., a cou, sin, served the groom. A wedding at the home of the bride‘s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. YÂ¥oeman Cromptonj 186 Elmwood, followed the ceremo-’ ny. | s | Mrs. Fossberg received her educaâ€" tion in England, and F. P. Fossberg was awarded his wings on Sept. 2 at Victorville, Calif. ”w.d Mrs. Howard Flinn, the lates case, is being cared for in his hom at 417 Oakwood, Pastor Leaves For New Field Rev. F.:S. Robinson, pastor of th First United â€" Evangelical .church having completed seven successfu years and enjoyable years in thi community,, will leave soon to tak up a new pastorate in Youngstown Ohio. He will preach his farewel sermon next Sunday morning. â€"© | His pulpit will be filled by Rev. R. 8. Wilson, who was, until regent: ly pastor at Dixon, Ill. ; ! A luncheon honoring Rev. Robin{ son was given at the Open"“}{oue‘j tea room on Tuesday by his fellow pastors of Highland Park. | POLIO PATIENTS ARE DOING WELL The three polio patients in this town are all said to be doing well Young John Petéers, 61 Windsor, is entering school part time, this sem} ester. Miss Delora Scheemaecker, 1900 S. Sheridan, still in the Evans, ton hospital, is said to be improvinf’i and Richard Flinn, 16, son of M /5 iA i4 d This shop will speciahze. in mfarfi 'nceds an perience in STORES Fotj Highland Park} .. ~One door east of the Mens an SHOP FOR CHILT Storeâ€" hours: Monday. thru F © Saturdayg:00 to Announce the Opknin Edwards who ' h.tltd much exâ€" childreris wear % ‘in charge. . Badie Whitworth, 2387 Deere Dr:, is another wellâ€"known r of the group who has two oil ies in the current exhibit.. One is #deâ€" lightful bunch of brilliantly eo! asters in a vase. The other pi $ "Wilows," is a landscape #udy which throws the willows into p#pmâ€" inence in a very pleasing coft Ganâ€" ner. 7 : Mrs. E. Moore, 828 8. St.â€"J&hns, has two water colors on exhibil#on. One is a landscape sketch wh i a penetrating‘ effect with a Mond running through the deep woods. The other is a still life #indy delightfully done. "It is a | of fruit and cactus harmoniousiy‘® arâ€" ranged. This sketch is also flone in deep greens. Local Talent Re In N. S. Art Clu Membership in the League is n to all patrons of art living orf the North Shore from Evanstor® to Lake Forest. The offices andistuâ€" dio of the North Shore Art 1 e are in the Community !Hous® at Winnetka. The league has thWown its membership open to t«nI in the service on the North Shore.ff‘wo men who have taken advan of this opportunity are Cnpmn E. Cotsonas and Lt. A. Rayma:nd vis who are exhibitirig with the @g#roup this year. The exhibit will b§ on view at Madndel Brothers inf the galleries of the Club Woman‘# buâ€" reau through September. | || . Miss Randall, a gradua! tional College. of Ed: & anston, has been a teacher elementary <schools at St. J Mich., where her fiance is m as head of the high school n matics department. * / | The engagement of Miss llis Randall to Wendell Hianer, of Willsâ€" dale, Mich., has been announci@f| by her parents, Maj. and Mrs. Philfp M. Randall, 261 No. Linden.‘ P | Announce Engagement| Of Phyllis Randall .‘ â€" PLEDGED TO SIGMA CHI Richard McDaniel, son of M Mrs.: W. Lyle McDaniel, ‘:65 pect Ave., has been pledged t ma~Chi fraternity at m‘ Richard in an apprentice flunf in the Vâ€"12 unit. L4 MEN, WYOMEN 09 Central Avi FELL FELL Mc eie® Sn of a Speciali Winnetka at F4 § Sigâ€" uniâ€" Naâ€" Evâ€" ‘the eph, yed and o f r.nndlin.I.J.w.m Jeffreys, High , A girl, Sept. 10, | Mr. and Mrs. August Hirschner, 182 S. First, a girl, Sept. 11. ~ Mr. and Mrs. inand Kelley, t’ba Summerset, Deerfiéld, a boy, t. 18. f yielded up by tl»*;ll of Cherbourg was â€" Admiral .Hennecke, who reâ€" arked. wearily he had for two ( been a prisoner of the . British \the last war. Now he‘s a prisoner f Americans, and he wonders Into / Bgt. and Mrs. Wm. Jordon, 308 fi%'o"d' H“‘M ‘.Wo Sept. 4 A . and Mrs. D. A. McGaw, 914 yside, a girl, Sept. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kurz, 2419 rkeley, a boy and a girl Sept. 7. ‘â€" Mr. and Mrs. George Shadick, 282 Iway, Highwood, a girl, Sept. 8. ‘â€"Mr. and Mrs. John Castellari, 8 Webster, Highwood, a girl, Sept. 8. E; and Mrs. John M. Derby, 932 Whukegan, Deerfield, a girl, Sept. what captive cage he will wander ext. The admiral seems to have nh4de a career of it And to judge rom his wry comment, it‘s getting & bit monotonous and inconvepnient. &Tt others of his bnid-broth'% are in the same scuttled boat. When will fiu Junker boys realize that they doomed to th or prison just ’QLJ:!!: as the:.ienilt with their historic mania for supermanning Bloom, a girl, Sept. 7. [ EVERY ‘ ~TUESDAY Among the brass hat trophies GOVERNOR‘S . EXECUTIVE MANSION NIGHT : RADIO BROADCASTS REN o to 6:00 CHILDREN â€" 15 Downstate Stations ~] tation : WGN (Chicago) :30â€"8 :00 O‘Clock & over Open Round Table Discusâ€" sions of Public Plans and Problems Between Repreâ€" sentative Groups of People and Governor Dwight H. Green. af y‘ 5 s Births at Curtis C. Eiker, 821 Page 3 7 * 2984 t . 19 T3