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3, 1937
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Nednesday, April 28, 1937
ONLY 2 MORE DAYS
8
er
OF OUR
M/LESH4R7NER
74G4220/$
REMOVAL SALE
7Fe15,
This Sale Ends Friday, April 30, At 6 p. m.
“.A
TO SAVE
YOUR LAST CHANCE
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Dining Room
Bed Room
a
$189.50
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Regular $249 50. NOW
afterwards," she stated.
en
white
No one argued. Gay was
.T
..$110.00
Regular $460.00, NOW.........$298.00
Your Last Chance To Buy A
our
Round Mirror
R. F. ST. JOHN MOTOR CO.
490 PINE ST.
»2%
Only 2 More Days To Buy One Of These New
r
RED AND WHITE LEATHER
j
ODD CHAIRS
nent
$875
VA
time I went to bed. What was he
TICKETS
seemed like several centuries. The
ITION
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REGULAR
$4.50 VALUES
ONLY 2 MORE DAYS
T SMOPS
5 Piece All Steel
BOOK CONTAINS:
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THIS SALE ENDS FRIDAY AT 6 P. M.
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ubject, tn fact
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ABILENE
290 Cypress
YOU SAVE $1.40
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FURNITURE
Clzatet
TEXAS
PAN AMERICAN
1937
OVER 40% of these
250,000 Books Were
Sold In First 10 Days .
N-O-W
$189
Regular $13.50
Values NOW .
WHOLESALE BUYERS
BETTER HURRY!
Regular $225.00, NOW
Regular $119.00, NOW
Regular $149 00, NOW
cher
Class
p
5093
CAPUDINE
^HEADACHE
doing out there? Why did he later
head so determinedly for the boat-
$169.50
.$97.50
MAIL COUPON TODAY
FOR LITERATURE AMD WHOLESALE PRICES
7. Where was Mike until he call-
ed us? Outdoors, apparently. He was
1
r
2. Why is the Skipper so averse
to seeing a doctor?
3. Did she want to keep Mike
He bowed automatically and with-
drew.
ly for that.
' 4 What did Jude tell Mike and
for heufaidne and othe
funetional caunea.
Many tribes of savages do not
know that 'he sun is the wource
of daylight
Occasional
TABLES
wavy
ingly.
Good
! was
jr and
Maka
it any
op.
I,
8a
stiff drink and gulped it down. I
rang for Higgins. The man looked
sick.
"Higgins," I said, “at Miss Far-
ringtons request I am taking charge
here until we can get in touch with
shore. I wish you would so inform
the servants.”
“Very gocd, sir."
“I have asked everyone to go to
his or her room for a short time—
and remain there. I should be great-
ly obliged if you would keep a care-
ful check on all the servants. And
if you see any of them outside of
the quarters between now and the
time I call you, notify me immedi-
A or ream makes us rush to
the kitchen, tomorrow.
N-O-W
$1.89
The tigon, a cross between the
tiger and the lion. was produced
by the maharajah of Navangar, In-
dia and presented to the London
boo
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that is necessary ’
M. Farrington’s Proposition
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Living Room
Regular$198.s0,xow....s1.
Iterator VOW...I1UJ4
KeguUr 2113NOW ...»
Regular $269.50, xow.....
Regular $295.00, xow.....
Regular$197.s0,xow....s1s0.0
Regular $110.00, xow.... sm.s
Regular$235.00,xow....sse.s
Regular »13*50 now «iim»
Regular s 69.50,xow....ses
Beautiful
PICTURES
Reduced
the idea.
M Farrington smiled grimly At
CHAPTER 11
I Become Head Sleuth
™ —- -_____ b a night in a .stable with a sick dog’
cigarette shook slightly Gay » frigh- Why didn't she tell M Farrington
•I CNANGED TO CHRTSLER BECAUSE
If THE SOLD HAI ENGINE!"
"‘THE Royal is my first Chry-
det. When we looked at all the
ear* near Chrysler's price, we
decided the Gold Seal engine
was the most modern. I guess
we figured correctly, because
M. Farrington spoke briskly. "Ml- she went in a great hurry. No hat
chael, i you are right, we can end 1 or coat.
this situation here and now. We are -
These mirror, are becoming mere
popular every day, and U you don't
have at least one In your home
you're "behind the tmei- You ean
afford two easily at this SPECIAL
REDUCED PRIE:
Regular $3.60 Value
lace. It was absolutely expression-
less, but the hand that held his
Skipper Mt motionless, her eyes on
the table, and her right hand clen-
ched in front of her. M. Farrington,
a trifle pale, was studying Michaels
aa
1 NU JI al--u. —J-- thought, on the verge of saying
and shaken, the Skipper s abstract- something, but changed his mind.
. There was something in that re-
mark that T didn't like, and a great
ideal about the whole proposition
that T liked even less, I glared at
him / 4
“11 TO 20 KILES FEI GALLON
III BUSINESS DRIVING!"
“My BUSINESS is Building, and
I picked the Royal as a smart,
modern car in which to call on
my clients. With the marvelous
Overdrive and the new Gold
Seal engine, I get between 11
and 20 miles per gallon day
after day.**
V. L RAVEN,
Valballa, New York
THESE AKE A SPECIAL BUT THAT MEAN A SAVING OF $5.25
TO YOU!
THIS SALE ENDS FRIDAY AT 8 P M.
Card Table Sets
Regular $13 78 Value
$975
Gay took it up. Not until Higgins ginning to appreciate to the full
withdrew at the end of the meal, the shortcomings of my own at-
was there silence. M. Farrington tempts at fiction. The thought of
my remarkable Billington infuriated
me.
45285 5221282804243484 MRS. 3. 8 O’BRIEN
#Rysa2Bee7"
TME LO" n
- $3.73 - $3.95
$5.50- $5.95
that alternative of course. Any sort away from Jude for the obvious
of story might be bluffed through, reason? she put it a little strong-
William and Higgins were to be
counted on. Ana the police wouid
than any car we ever owned.**
CRAIKS I BECKER,
__________________iu.
OF GAS/"ass
(Regular Value 40c each)
htclt/Jing:
(!) "ROAD TO RI," Latin American
Village and Casino; (2) "THE BOW-
ERY," New York in the Gay Nineties;
(3) •’BLACK FOREST," sensatioha ice
skating show and Tyrol village; (4)
"WORLD-A-MILLION-YEARS-AGO,"
A Lost World authentically repro-
duced.
h several
orchestra
t for sev-
MRS. J. R. O’BRIEN
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.
We all stared at him. There was
(Nemed a.
; Street______________
, • Requested by
tened eyes caught and held mine.
There was a question in them that
puzzled me M Farrington s hard,
dry voice cut through the sllence.
“Very well The police will be here
by tomorrow or the next day at the
latest. If we wait for that, things
will be very unpleasant I am of the
opinion that an organized investiga-
tion will be much happier than an
Brazilian crab spiders have legs
that occupy a surface nearly a foot
in diameter. The bodies of these
spiders are seldom more than two
inches long.
took a deep breath end plunged in.
“I surmise," she said, "that you
nnAVL1 necessity for taking steps. There has from trying to marry off Mike, and
I lVli 43 4 1 been an accident. Very well. As Soon has even upset Higgins in some
as we get in touch with the main- way. He was certainly off his feed
..... land, the police can do everything last night.
I finally sat down at a desk and
located pencil and paper. I decided
to go carefully over the whole con-
--------- founded visit and jot down every
we may take, can be taken right peculiar incident. It was no easy
here with a little thought and a task. At the end of an hour I had
Ii
PAGE SEVEN
all events, it would be more suct
cessful and it might spare us the
ordeal of » public police investiga-
1 non " .
Police! At Farrington Bluff But
of course there would have to be
are all satisfied that no one is lurk-
ing in the grounds?"
No answer.
Then I think that all the steps
w "D
)( Just take two teaspoonfuta
M of Capudineinalittle water.
Almost before you realizeit
the headache has eased sway and you
are comfqrtable again. Elasant to
take mo ha "—--- —
dnu -tar-t‘ —--------
|ed, Michael silent and morose. But
m’ Farrington and I talked. We
talked about the deplorable condi- I t k myself into the living room.
। tion of the drama, if I remember The impossibility of the situation
| correctly. And when I gave out, no longer Interested me. I was be-
individual and furtive one Who slept in the garage last night?
It was only common sense We all Who tried to leave the Bluff in the
realized that but no one encouraged Skipper , car’
(Copyright 1937, Ether Tyler)
BARROW’S
«West Texas Largest Furniture Store"
IEALK
where she was going? Why did the
object to Jude? What were she and
Jude talking about when M. Par-
rington heard them? Where did
they go’ Was the Skipper the last
person to see Jude alive?
». Why doesn't Mike want a
search or investigation of any kind?
10. Whose footprints are on the
tennis courts and in the garage?
Blinshop is shot to death on the
bluff, the Skipper, Mike's tall and
tweedy younger aunt disappear
and Mike dislocates his shouldez
in a fall. The skipper turns up;
she's been in the stable with a
sick collie. Aunt Martha, stout
and prudish, has a few genteel
tantrums, but Gay Palmer. Mike's
red-headed sweetheart, keeps fair-
ly calm. Next morning we search
the grounds for an intruder and
find that someone has slept in the
room over the garage.
f
i
4
. ■
Th.
hostess to
>le class of
with Mines,
ambill and
. hostesses.
1 the novel
I Douglass,
served to
C. Houser,
P. Stinson,
gan. R. D.
Tom Mc-
J. W. Pool,
oser, O. C.
V. E. Gray,
arris, Mary
on. J. M.
Whitaker.
Kelly and
house?
». Where was the Skipper? The
puppies are there all right, but did
they come last night or before that?
Would even the Skipper spend such
Only 250,000 books are being offered in this
Advance Wholesale Sale. Nearly half this number
have already been sold to business firms, churches,
civie and women’s clubs. At the low wholesale
prices there is good money to be made in selling
these books at retail. The saving of $1.40 makes a
big hit with prospective Exposition visitors. Don't
delay. Place your order today. The Advance
(Wholesale) Sale positively doses June 3. When
the 250,000 art gone no further books will be sold
st wholesale prices. Write for complete sales plan,
literature‘and prices.... PAN AMERICAN EX-
POSITION, DaJlea—June 12 to October 31.-
should prefer it to be neither a
I woman nor a servant. Since Mi-
chael has seen fit to go bathing in
February, obviously not Michatl
James. I am afratd you will be
obliged to offer your services
Without warning. laughter m-
' guli-d me. thrill, meaningless eusts
of it ' -----.
Well." said M Farringtons oor-
donic voice la that an acceptance
। or otherwise?"
Michael answered for me eyes
narrowed, a peculiar expresslon on
I his face.
Jims your sleuth. Aunt Martha
He ll love It An authority on the
' all friends. If one of us was so un-
chairman
ittee and
stant. W.
less man-
in charge
lay. stage;
a; Oulda
mond By-
Gardner,
sets and
enna Faye
Williams,
show will
AH8 en-
at Austin
police. For the first time the mat- —
ter ceased to be personal Gays
hand gripped my knee convulsivel} .
-Oh,—" she began. ■
Very surely, sai M Farrington ■
-Someone must take charge I ■
fortunate as to—cause this accident soaking wet. He said he saw the
—that person should speak out now bridge down at 10 o'clock, just the
you?” ‘Watch the Servants’
Only once did I speak to him dur- Then I was alone in the dining
ing the long, tedious process of get- room. They were both right, of
ting the two of us ready for M. Far- course. And yet—I poured myself a
rington's inch table. I couldn't stand
the tight lines around his mouth.
“Mike," I said, "the Skipper is
Royal uses less gas
Regular $5.75 Values
$350
He blinked. The man was, I
GENERAL ADMISSIONS to
EXPOSTTION GROUNDS
(Regular Value 50 each)
"CAV ALC ADE ADMIS-
SIONS
Gigantie ErPmUm Spectacle
(Regular Value 50c each)
BIG MIDWAY ATTRAC-
TIONS
Title_,,l
-6
In my room, Michael was spraw1- rooms and stay there."
. a -tting He had Michael snorted at the feeble at-
ed on the bed, walting: He h«i tempt. 1 heard M. Farrington's
managed to get out of the oilskins, ‘Come, Barbara,” felt the reassur-
but the feet stretched in front of Ing presence of Gay’s hand, and
him were still encased in hip boots, suddenly found myself alone in the
Well?” he said jerkily. room with the Skipper.
"Nothing,’ 'after a moment's heal- "I‛m sorry about all this, Jim,
tat ion. sorry that it had to happen at all
He straightened up to study my and particularly sorry that you were
face. Whatever he saw there appear- dragged into it. But, believe me,
ed to satisfy him He stretched out Martha is right. It‛s better this way
gingerly on the bed. than in the hands of the police.
“I told you so," his voice was Don’t blink at anything. We leave
tired. "Get me out of this stuff, will it to you.”
“Thank you,” pursued M Far-
rington dryly “James, there la. of
course, the possibility that you are
conducting an investigation against
' yourself But we shall have to run
that risk It is understood that we
j are all pledged to help you in every
way Proceed, if you please."
I, the creator of Billington
Traithswaite, sleuth extraordinary,
surveyed the members of that par-
ty. No blase* quip rose to my lips.
Neither did my steel-gray eyes glint
menacingly. Rather I gaped foolish-
ly for a full minute before I could
so much as blurt, “I’ll have to think
You—I wish you’d all go to your
4 Pieces, Re zu1 ar $149 50, NOW .$119 50
4 Pieces. Regular $179 50, NOW . $139 50
4 Pieces, Regular $259.50, NOW $195.50
4 Pieces, Regular $95.00, NOW .... $69 50
4 Pieces. Regular $195.00, NOW $149 50
have no reason to question it. Gay when did they separate?
made up her mind tint. 5. What did Mike expect to find
I don't like that. Mike." in the boathouse that prompted him
“Why not? We might as well face to jump over the clit?
it The chances are that the person 6. Did Jude walk or was she car-
1 who shot Jude la sitting at Ihs rled to the spot where we found
। table. Do you think anyone here her? If she walked, for whom or
would shoot her intentionally?" what was she looking. Obviously
square. You know it."
He turned away, picking up a
comb. When his voice came it was
perfectly steady. "I know it."
I didn’t try again. With fiendish
intensity, I concentrated on soap,
towels, collar buttons — anything.
The lunch bell rang while I was
struggling with Michael s tie.
M. Farrington was worth her
weight in gold at that lunch table.
Right there she made amends for
every Farrington state dinner I
have ever endured.
"We'll eat first and discuss this
CHRYSLER ROYAL DEFEATS NINE SMALLER CARS
in EcOnomy TEST 1 UNDER OFFICIAL A. A. A.
supervision, the Chrysler Royal showed 22.14
miles per gallon for 352 miles in the Gilmore-
Y osemite economy run. Four cars with smaller
engines failed to do as well. Eight cars of
lesser roominess could not match Chrysler*s
record. No wonder owners everywhere agree:
the big, roomy Chrysler Royal has the thrifti-
est power on the road.
★ Easy to buy. Time payments to fit your purse on
■edit Company plan.
MURDER
OM THE BLUFF .......
SNYOPSIS: In one wild, stormy trap Jude’s murderer. II And If it
night at Farrington Bluff, home . should turn out to be—I didn't dare
cf Michael’s aunta, beautiful Judo ! finish the thought.
for the sake of all of us."
We waited for an interval that
K•
NXT
• “We KEPr track of our mileage on a
recent trip and were delighted to find that we
got better than 3 miles more per gallon with
our big, roomy Chrysler Royal than we used
to get from our previous car. Three extra miles
out of every gallon is pleasant of course, and
even more important is the safety all-steel
body and remarkably easy handling of the new
Chrysler Royal.”
ADVANHSALE
a sH4aMeAAB- *==
i
little cooperation from each one a list that read like this:
of us." 1. Something wrong with the
More silence. Michael's lighter skipper—something that prompted
Hared. M. Farrington to send for us in
I "I fail to see," he observed, any the middle of winter, diverted her
Other Odd Chairs $3.50
Tapestry, Velvet and Velour ___;
aryeura ca e i mie ognimem;
1 . _
Joseph Wilson Swan, an English-
nan, took out the first patent for
naking artificial silk in 1883. In his
nethod, a pulp of wood and cotton
e vas squirted through small holes.
Yon must see these to really
their beautyt
•Weh? impatiently from M Far-
ringten
AU right, I aaid stiffly. I was to .
They’re Going Fast!
I* Department of Admissions *
; GREATER TEXAS end PAN AMFRICAN EXPOSITION :
• Dallas, Texas I »
• Wirhout obligariogom my part, please send literature and •
• information on wholejale prices for ADVANCE SAI E EXPO »
; SITION TICKETSA’- $
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