The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1945 Page: 2 of 8
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CHAPTER 1
Adam Bruce decided it was time
for lunch, aought the hotel. He gave
his order, and while he waited, two
people came into the dining room
and stood just inside the door. A
gray-haired man, round without be-
ing fat, apple-cheeked, with a mild
blue eye and a curious suggestion
of physical readiness in his walk.
Beside him a woman, not so old as
he, with a certain formidable sobri-
ety in her countenance that was be-
lied by the warmth in her eyes.
Adam rose, stepped toward them,
said in quick pleasure: "Hello.
Tope!”
The old man turned, smiled broad-
ly and clasped him by the hand.
| "Why, hullo, Adam!—Mrs. Tope,
this is Adam Bruce, an old friend of
I mine.”
j "Sit down with me,” Adam urged.
They obeyed, and Bruce looked in-
quiringly at Mrs. Tope. "I didn't
know you were married, Inspector.”
"Oh, yes, over a year ago." And
the old man told Mrs. Tope: "Adam
here was a youngster on the force
while I was on the Homicide squad.
He spoiled a first-rate policeman to
become a second-rate lawyer."
Bruce grinned. "You're behind
the times. Inspector! I’m a police-
man again." Tope looked surprised;
and the younger man explained: “I
passed the bar exams, but no one
seemed to need a lawyer. So I
went to work in the bank commis-
sioner'* office for a while, and now
I’ve hooked up with Washington—
Department of Justice."
"Your outfit has done some good
Jobs lately," Tope said approvingly.
“Anything happening up here?”
Adam aaid casually: "No, I'm on
vacation.” And under Tope’s inquir-
ing eye he added: "I used to live
up this way, when I was a boy.
Biean home on a visit. I*hi leaving
on the midnight train. I often wish
we had you with us, Inspector. We
need a man who can see the hole
in a doughnut . . . Which way are
you heading?”
"North, I think. We’re just gypsy-
| ing. I plan to do some fishing as we
go. We may hit Canada by and by.”
Bruce nodded. “Every little brook
up this way had trout in it when
I was a boy," he said. “I haven't
tried them lately.” And he asked:
"Where do you expect to stay to-
night?”
“We may camp out. Or we may
try a hotel, if one attracts us. Or
a roadside camp.”
“There’s a good camp about forty
miles from here, between Ridgcomb
and Maddison village. I was there
only last night,” Adam said eagerly.
“A place called Dewain's Mill.
You’d like it!"
"We might take a look at it,"
! Tope agreed.
"A girl named Bee Dewain runs
it," Adam explained. “She's a can-
tankerous, stubborn young woman;
but if you’re careful not to mention
my name, she may take you in!"
He felt Mrs. Tope's eye upon him,
and was conscious that his ears
were red; but after lunch, when he
1 came out to see them continue on
their way, he suggested again: "If
you do stop at Dewain’s Mill, tell
that young hussy I sent her my
love!”
When they were gone, Adam paid
calls here and there, at police head-
quarters, the post office, the drug-
store. There was a wealth of time
upon his hands. A little past six
o’clock, he returned to the hotel to
dine; and while he was at table, a
bell-boy came calling his name.
Adam shut himself Into the tele-
phone booth and heard a familiar
voice.
"Adam?"
“Yes,” Adam replied, wondering
faintly at this call.
“This is Tope.”
“Yes. Sure. What's up?”
“I’m phoning from that place yaw
recommended, Dewain’s Mill.
Adam, you'd better come up here.”
"What's the matter?”
"Rather not talk over the phone.
But you—*
"Miss Dewain all right?”
"Yes, of course. Do you know the
police up here?”
"Sure. Ned Quill—he’s a state
trooper—is an old friend of mine.”
"On your way here,” Tope direct-
ed, "get word to your friend the
trooper to meet you—without any-
one seeing him—at the cabin called
Faraway. You hire that cabin for
the night. I'll see you there.”
"But Tope, I’m due in New York
tomorrow."
“You've a job to do here,” Tope
tosixted. “Good-by!”
And Adam heard the receiver
dick as Tope hung up. The young
man stared at the instrument for a
moment in a perplexed and indeci-
sive fashion; but—here was at least
a pretext for seeing Bee again, and
Tope had not used to be one to cry
"Wolf" without cause.
Adam sent a wire to his chief.
"Possible trouble here. Staying to
investigate. Will report Bruce.”
Then ha retrieved his bag from the
check-room, hired a car and driver,
and started north along the moonlit
roftd. *
When they left MidtUeford after
that chance encounter with young
Adam Bruce, Mrs. Tope saw that
her husband was silent, and she
asked:
“What are you thinking?”
“I was wondering why we hap-
pened lo run into Adam.”
“Just an accident?”
“Call it that. But—accidents have
a trick of fitting into a pattern by
and by. As if some one had planned
them." And he added: “It struck
me that Adam had something be-
sides a vacation on his mind."
“I wondered whether Miss Dewain
is as cantankerous and stubborn as
he pretends!"
He chuckled. "You're looking for
romance! But I’m wondering what
fetched a Department of Justice
man into these hills?"
It was obviously Impossible, as
yet, to answer this question. As they
went on, the hills were bolder; the
valleys deep, the streams swift and
silver. They passed big estates, and
great houses.
The little car required gas, and
when they came to Ridgcomb,
Chet's Place invited their patron-
age. A lean, dry man as old as
Tope, with shrewd twinkling eyes,
came out to serve them. Mrs. Tope
"We might take a look at It,” Tope
agreed.
stayed In the car, but Tope, mild and
beaming and inquisitive, alighted.
"Handsome stretch of country
through here!" he remarked.
“All right in the summer-time,”
the man—this was doubtless Chet
himself—assented. His hand was on
the hose, his eye on the clicking
pump gauge. "But in winter, it's
cold as a canker's heart!”
Tope chuckled. "A lot of big
places around."
"Summer folks, mostly! Not so
many now as there used to be. There
can’t many people afford to hire a
hundred men just to cut lawns, these
days!"
"I noticed one place that looked
like a castle, back on the moun-
tain,” Tope suggested.
“That’s where Ledforge lives,
when he ain’t in New York.” Chet
spat, as though the name left a
bad taste in his mouth. "He owns
half the water power in New Eng-
land. He sold a pile of his stocks
and bonds to the folks around here.
Stuck ’em, mostly.”
“Didn’t stick you,’’ Tope flatter
ingly surmised.
“Not me! Me, I keep my money
where I can handle it any time I’m
a mind.” And Chet volunteered:
“You don’t see Ledforge around here
much, now. I dunno as it’d be safe
for him to walk through the vil-
lage.”
“Married?”
"Sister keeps house for him. She’s
all right; but they don’t mix with
nobody only the Holdoms."
"What Holdorn is that?”
Chet shook his head. "I dunno.
‘H.H.’ they call him. In the stock
market I guess. Good feller. He'll
stop and talk, when he fills up at
my pump here.” He hung up the
hose. “Check your oil?" Mrs. Tope
nodded. "You c’n stand a quart,"
Chet decided. And he said: "I sell
H.H. all his gas. Cars and airplanes
too.”
"Planes?”
“He’s got him a landing-field down
by the river. I dunno but he’ll give
it up now, though. I would, in his
place I”
“Why?” Tope was always curi-
ous. "Don’t you like flying?”
“Guess’t I don’t! Never done any
of tt my own self; but my nephew.
Bob Flint, he got killed here Sat’-
day is one of the dummed things.
Holdorn and Ledforge, they used to
ride back and forth from New York
in Holdout's airplane about half the
and he'd fly ’em up and back. But
he took a dive into Long Island
Sound, long about daylight Sat'day
morning." He added resentfully:
'TV, have Bob's ma to support, I
guess. It ain’t likely he’d saved
anything.” He shut the hood-
Mrs. Tope said quietly: "Shall we
go on?” So the inspector climbed
in beside her, but as they moved
away he protested:
Don’t you hurry me all the time,
ma'am! I like to get the flavor of
the country as I go along. I like
to talk to folks.” And he said in-
quiringly: “You acted kind of
mad!”
"I was," she admitted. "When be
spoke of Mj\ Holdorn.”
"Know him, do you?”
"I know who he is.” Mrs. Tope,
before her marriage, had been the
effective head of the Jervis Trust,
with an active interest in business
and finance; and she explained:
"He’s the floor specialist in the Led-
forge stocks, and he's a crook!”
Slowly they drove on, stopping
now and then to look across the hills
and down the deep bright valleys.
They ascended a steep grade, Mid
at the top she checked the car. Tope
looked to see why she slowed down,
and discovered beside the road a
large white-painted sign, on which
black letters cried invitingly:
COME IN AND MILL AROUND!
He chuckled, and a moment later
saw by the brook the gray weath-
ered structure of an old mill, neat
and in repair. An arched entrance
and a gravel drive offered admis-
sion.
Mrs. Tope said: "This must be i
the place your young friend Adam
Bruce told us about. It looks clean.
Shall we try H?"
"I’d like to try that brook below
the road,” he admitted, so she
turned in and stopped by the Mill
door.
Tope surveyed the surroundings
with that quick interest any new
scene always provoked in him. The
Mill was on their left. Beyond it by
the stream side there was a turfed
terrace, an open hearth, picnic ta-
bles. A gray-haired man sat on one
of these tables and played a vio-
lin; and a girl stood near by, her
shoulders against the trunk of a
treggfiUaeelung him and lialening. A
State Trooper in uniform bestrode
his silent motorcycle—to which a
side car was attached—in the drive
near them, and his eyes were on
the girl.
Beyond, the millpond was visible,
and a spring-board; and two small
boys so much alike that they wera
clearly twins were diving, swimming
ashore, climbing on the board and
diving again, chasing each other like
squirrels in a cage. A bald-headed
little man in a bathing suit sat with
his feet in the water; and an ample,
comely woman with knitting in her
hands, seated on a boulder near by,
turned an interested eye on the car
and the newcomers. Small cabins
were scattered among the trees.
The scene was peaceful, but
abruptly its peace was shattered.
The trooper kicked his motorcycle
into life with a series of explosion:
of entirely unnecessary violence
and he wheeled his machine, dart-
ed past the little car, turned into th<
highroad and raced away. The gir
looked after him with amused eyes
and so saw these old people in theii
car, and came toward them.
“Have you room for two lodgers?"
Mrs. Tope asked.
"Oh, yes, plenty,” she assured
them. “There’s hardly anyone here.
Not many people travel these days.”
Tope remaiked: “That policeman
don’t really enjoy the violin!”
The girl laughed softly. “Ned’i
not very musical,” she agreed. "But
it was rotten of him to start his mo-
torcycle right in the middle of Mr.
Vade’s fiddling. I shall tell him
so!” *
"Be back, will he?7’
"Oh, he always comes back!"
Mrs, Tope looked around with an
appreciative glance. “You run this
place?”
The girl said readily; “Oh, yes.
I’m Bee Dewain. Mrs. Priddy cooks
for us, and she's been famous for
her biscuits and waffles ever since
I was a child. Earl—he’s Mrs.
Priddy’s husband—does the chores,
and rakea the drives, and cleans the
cabins. But I keep the books and
generally run things.”
“How’s the fishing?" Tope in-
quired.
“Earl Priddy brings in a good
mess, now and then.”
Mrs. Tope asked: “May we—
choose our cabin?”
“They’re all juat alike, inside, only
those up there on the knoll are near-
er the road of course, with cars go-
ing by—”
“I shouldn’t like that,” Mrs. Tope
decided.
“Then why don’t you take Fara-
way?" Bee advised. "It's new this
year, and it's clear out of sight up
in the woods, so if you want to
be really quiet... No one has ever
spent even one night in Faraway.
It was only finished about two weeks
ago. You’ll be foe very first ones."
She stepped up cm foe running
board. “Just go straight ahead.’'
t Tairagea Vtoagar
" Tarragon vinegar Is a favorit* in
dressing summer salads. Th* dark
green leevet of tarragon »re used
(or seasoning foe vinegar. They are
used both fresh and dried. This herb
needs a little covering of Utter and
leaves for winter protection.
Cage Crickets
In foe Orient foe chirping noise of
foe house cricket is highly appre-
ciated end many households keep
them in esges. the cages often elab-
orately wrought and decorated.
Two-Headed Stream -
The Rhine river rises as a two-
headed stream In southern Switzer-
land, enters the Boden See (Lake
Constanee), and emerges to con-
tinue Its winding 850-mile course to
its multi-mouthed outlet in the
North sea. In Its oresnward Jour-
ney it picks up several important
tributaries, such as foe Lahn. th*
Neckar, foe Main, and foe Ruhr
from the east, and foe Mosel from
foe west. In some stretches the
river Is an International boundary.
It is a frontier between Switzerland
and tiny Liechtenstein, between
Switzerland and the old Austria, be-
tween Switzerland and Germany,
and between France and Germany.
Through Germany foe river flows
in a geperal northwesterly direc-
tion. turning sharply west at the
Nefoerlandi line to enter the North
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Fertilizer in Fall
Late August or September is foe
best season to give lawn grass a
"lift." After the hard summer sea-
son. some refreshments in foe way
of fertilizer, and possibly lime, la
caUed (or. Thin standi ot grass are
particularly In need ot help. 1( your
lawn has not been limed tn the last
few years, it is suggested that you
apply SO to 75 pounds ot ground
limestone per 1,000 square feet
This will sweeten foe soil and make
K possible tor the grasses to respond
better Jo fertilizer treatment
The addition of 10 to 20 pounds of
fertilizer per 1,000 square feet of
lawn will do wonders. Fertilizers
such at 5-10-5, 4-12-0 or those of
similar ratios art well adapted for
thickening lawn grasses. Uniform
distribution can be obtained by
spreading foe material in two di-
rections. Measure out half of foe fer-
tilizer needed for foe lawn and
spread it in a north-south direction.
Then spread the other half in an
east-west direction, and there should
be little difficulty In getting even
coverage.
Lawns given a tonic tn the manner
described soon will assume a good
healthy color and develop a dense
stand of grasa. Lawns composed of
dense turf will resist Invasion by un-
desirable weeds such as crabgrass,
buckhom and dandelion.
CambesUaaible Hay ’ f
' Experienced farmers know that
hay. If incompletely cured at tlma
of storage—meaning that It has •
moisture content of 25 to 10 per
cent — if subject to spontaneous ,
combustion.
Perk Up rotate Sated
Potato sated will teat* batter IT
placed in th* refrigerator to chill d
several hours before serving Ume.
This gives foe onions and season-
ings a chance to permeate the sal-
ad, making tt uniformly delicious.
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