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Mrs. Herbert Green of this town was
taken by ambulance Friday to Somer-
set Hospital for surgical treatment.
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you to finish the Job ] began! And
this time / finish!"
At the word Doctor Kathleen.
too. suddenly saw
Ralph
Their eyes met in one quick
glance but that glance, short
as 1t was, almost cost DR.. Cressy
his life.
Lecay had taken a couple of
steps backward and now his hand
was stealthily reaching into an
opened desk drawer. DIR. Greasy
slipped off his overcoat, threw off
the glasses, leaped forward. He
gripped Lecay's hand and jammed
tight tho drawer in which Lecay's
revolver lay.
You don't finish me quite as
quickly as that, Lecay!"
In the next instant they had
clinched and were desperately
fighting. The Turkish rugs
crumpled up and entagled their
feet. DIR. Cressy kicked them
aside. He could hear Kathleen's
voice, cutting through the sound
of their loud breathing and scuf-
fling feet;
Ralph Ralph the let.
tiers! Get the letters from him.
They mean everything. o, be
careful think he has q
knife on him! What can I do
to help? What can do?"
Lecay's feet slipped from under
him on the highly polished hard
wood. He crashed to the floor,
carrying DIR. Greasy with him,
knocking over the tabourette with
the newspapers and scattering
over both of them the black
scareheads. of the crime so close
to theme DR.. Greasy had landed
on top. With this moments ad.
vantage Of position, he cried:
Kathleen! Escape! Meet me
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for or after. But come into the
room ."
They turned and went through
the ground glass door. DR.. Cressy.
whom both seemed to have for
gotten also slipped through
the door and stood unobtrusively
in a shadowy corner Of the living
room of the luxuriously furnished
apartment. He saw on a tabour-
cite a number of morning papers.
He could read the staring head
lines:
'Taxicab murderess still at large.
Kathleen Crittenden thought to
have escaped to Central America. "
Kathleen knew then that she
was accused OF the murder: that
q warrant was out for her arrest
and the whole country was hunt
ing her!
Lecay crossed to what looked
like table, or stand, took off q
velvet cover and revealed a small
safe. He quickly worked the COM
bination and extracted a tin box
which he opened with a. key.
From this he extracted a bulky
packet of letters, secured by q
couple Of heavy rubber bands.
These he held in his hand.
How many did you say there.
were?" He turned to Kathleen.
Fifteen"
Count them" He handed her
the packet.
Kathleen eagerly took off the
rubber bands. Just as eagerly
his hands trembling a little, Lee
cay undid the numerous wrap
pings of the package. Neither
even glanced at the messenger,
still in his corner.
DIR. Cressy knew he would have
to act quickly. Lecay's back was
to him, but Kathleen was half
facing him. He raised his arms
above his head as IL yawning,
but busy counting, she paid no
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You Will Want to Know Beautiful Peggy Starr, Heroine Of
the Most Interesting Story OF Young Love Ever
Penned By Beatrice Burton.

the other night. I'm going out
for a while"
He turned away, taking off his
house-coat as he started. In the
doorway he turned for q parting
shot.
Were on each others nerves
you and I. We've been seeing
too much of each other and not
enough OF other people," he said.
You should have asked some
one in tonight of the old
crowd. That's what we have
friends for"
He looked as il he were going
to say something else. Then,
thinking better OF IL evidently,
he turned suddenly and vanished
into the bedroom.
Peggy heard him moving about
as he dressed He was whistling,
too, almost under his breath--as
IL he were glad that he was getting
away from her and didn't want her
to know how glad he was.
Then he came out into the hall
and called a humber on the tele-
phone.
Hello. Eddie" he said after q
pause. 'Is there q game on to-
night?"
A Game o. Poker
Peggy knew then that he was
talking to Eddie Carter about the
weekly poker game that Eddie and
some Of his friends had every Sat
urday. She knew also that they
played for high stakes rather
higher than a young married man
could afford.
She walked out into the hall just
as Ranny hung up the receiver.
Going to play poker?,' she
asked, putting her face up to be
kissed before she remembered that
Ranny was bored with kisses for
the present.
He nodded. yes. Any objec.
tions?''
mot an objection In the world, =
Peggy asserted as airily as Fay
herself might have answered that
or any other question.
As soon as Ranny had let him
self out Of the flat she telepF1oned
Fay.
81 suppose you're alone, too. to.
night" she said to her; "at least
you're not with Eddie Carter, I
know"
Yes. I'm alone, and as blue as
the ocean" Fay answered her,
Let's have a poker widows meet
Ing and go to a movie"
Let's go for walk, instead, II
you're not afraid OF the dark"
Peggy said. II want to talk to
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attention. He took a couple Of
soft steps toward her, then
thrust out his arms and swung
them back and forth. This pc
cuIiar maneuver was successful.
She raised her eyes and regarded
him in some surprise. He put his
finger to his lips to warn her to
silence. Then he shifted his cap
to the back of his head and let
down the muffler a little. She
stared at him in growing aston
ishment. but non-recognition. His
exact clothes of the messenger,
his glasses, the shadowneSs OF
the corner still formed too much
Of a disguise. He was just won.
dering II he dare remove the
glasses--it was necessary that
Kathleen recognize him
while Lecay had his back turned.
when the latter gave a cry or
fury like a baffled animal.
Tricked!
"Creesy's tricked usv'
He displayed what the last wrap
ping Of the package revealed
a small, smooth piece Of rock in
stead Of the Blue Scarab. He
dashed it to the floor with such
furious force that it made dent
In the polished hardwood.
"The deals off," he yelled.
He snatched back the letters out
Of the girls hand, and snapped
the band around them, and thrust
them into and an inside pocket.
''You damned idiot, Monter He
turned to DIR. Cressy. "Why
didn't you look -
He stopped short. DIR. Cressy
saw that his eyes. more trained to
suspicion, had caught what kath-
leen's hadn't.
"Well met, Doctor!" His voice
was suddenly soft, almost caress-
ing. This saves me hunting for
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THE BLUE BEETLE

might even have been killed by
the desperate criminal before
him. her handwriting Initiated
and her bracelet used!
Lecay got the last wrapping
Off. The emerald and silver
bracelet lay in his hands. He
cursed aloud and swung around.
God, bonehead! / didn't care
whether he gave you this back
or not! The other! The Blue
DIR. Cressy was again funbIing
in his pocket, his head bent
down. He again brought out a
package which he handed to LIE.
cay. The latter quickly cut the
string and began to undo the
wrapping.
There was . slight noise in tho
other room. A shadow appeared
upon the ground glass door. All
DR.. Cressy's nerves grew taunt
at the sight. The door opened.
Kathleen came into the hall.
Her face was paler and thinner,
and in this white face her eyes
shone out abnormally large.
Great publish-blue rings lay
under them like heavy ink lines
under words that are eccen-
tuated.
No Difference
She walked straight over to
Lecay and put her hand on the
package he was. so feverishly un-
wrapping, and which DIR. Cressy
had wrapped so intricately.
THE Blue Scarab is mine" she
said. you've no right to touch
it. You haven't completed your
part Of the bargain yet
You want them in your hands
first. l suppose?" he answered
impatiently.
yes"
"I can't see that it makes any
great difference whether you
get them few minutes be-
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at the ice-cream parlOr % tho
corner"
20, / can't" she walled des-
perateIy. "If I go out of here,
I'll be arrested for murder
Heavy VEIL he painted. Lee
cay was thrashing about the slip.
merry floor like some huge sea-
animal on a wet beach. 1t took
all his strength to hold him. He
couldn't think clearly He could
only put his will into one COM
mand:
Cor
Her Desperation.
eyes, yes, she whispered, II
win, Ralph, IL you wish it. no
matter what happens to me-" but
the desperate note was still in
her voice.
Again it was necessary to turn
his full attention to Lecay. The
latter had managed to free one
arm, and he swung, with q ter
rifle upper cut on DIR. Cressys
jaw. The room spun dizzily
around the physicians head. but
only for q moment: the next, he
nad again gTApp6G ASCdy ana Iucy
were locked together, straining
and rolling slightly, with a back
and forth motion. on the smooth
and shining floor.
Through the mist Of the strug-
gle, the physician was aware
that Kathleen, cloaked and yelled,
was slipping out through the
ground glass door. She stopped
a moment and there came to him
in agonized earnestness, her part
Ing words
"Get the papers, Ralph. They
mean everything!'9'
Yes, he would get the letters!
But he must get them quickly
and go! His strength, he
knew, had not fully come back
to him. The reservoirs had not
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NOW Continue

draw away from her ever 50
slightly.
whats the matter?'' she asked,
knowing that she shouldn't ask
him that, even while she was
doing 1t. do you mind my kiss
ing you, Ranny?"
He laughed. "WeIl, I've had an
awful lot Of It the last two or
three weeks" he said, and grinned
UP at her. you must admit
yourself that q person tires of
everything when he gets too
much Of it-even kissing"
Peggy caught her breath sharp
", as she might have done IL
someone had reached out and
given her a sudden blow.
You didn't seem to mind when
Fay kissed you the other night, 2
she said.
The minute she had said it she
knew she had made mistake.
For Ranny got up. laid his pipe
down on the little table beside
his chair and stood looking at
her.
Finds . Good Excuse
After half minute that seemed
like q half century, he spoke:
Look here. Peg, If / stay here
You and are going to have an
other row like the one we had
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and was ready for forty winks
when Bunny whispered:
Look! Look over thereY'
Bobby and I looked in the direc-
ton to which Bunny had pointed,
and there swimming along were q
father bird and a mother bird and
four babies. They looked like wa
ter hens, which are something like
wild ducks, but Bunny whispered
to us that they were coots.
We sat very still hoping they
would not see us. but as luck
would have it, Bobby sneeZed. 1t
frightened the poor coots almost
to death, and l will tell you
what happened. Immediately the
father coot became so terrified
that he started Tapping his wings
and screening and in a moment
he and the four little coots were
ecuttling off UP the bank of the
river and quickly disappeared In
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yet filled up completely since that
blow on his head. He could feel
1t in his muscle. His endurance
was going. He was fighting
largely on his nerve and
nerve would not last forever
against Lecay's unimpaired
muscles.
With sudden, unexpected
movement, he threw the full
weight of his body flat on the
other, at the same time forcing
both his adversary's arms above
his head with one Of his arms.
His free hand he thrust under
Lecay's coat and drew from his
pocket the packet Of letters.
Then he leaped up, opened the
ground glass door, flew through
the little apartment hall which he
had first entered. He had to
tumble a moment at the door Of
number 1T" itself before he could
open it and reach the hall outside.
In that moment he heard Lee
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Tense Situations, Thrilling Clmaxes and the Amours q
HOt-Headed Youth Feature This EngrOsslng
and Exciting Serial Novel

husband If you were nlarrieo'
wouldn't your" ,.n
rays clear light laugh rippled
out on the darkness. $.
ssOf course, I would, crazys
she said, but I'd never pe Lns
kind of wife that you are, 1Ok
instance. ia never sit around
and lust bIirsNsy adore Ranny the
yvav Won do--Isd still have per
feeflv thrilling little friendships
with other men, just as your
wonderful Ranny win 90 on hav-
ing them with other girls. Ana
don't think that he won't. either
because he win. He's made that
way!''
An Unpleasant Prospect
Peggy's hold on Fay's arm
frightened. ooh. do you think he
win, Fay2 DO you really think
hen go on having friendships
with other women. now that he's
married to me?''
Fay nodded cheerfuIly, DO :
think he will? know he win.
she answered. 'Ranny Is not =
one-woman man. The wonder e
me is that he ever married any.
one, even you. much as he loves
you. He once told me that the
thought Of getting married was
about as welcome to him as the
thought Of his own funeral.
Peggy was perfectly silent. Her
thoughts went back to the night
when she and Ranny had sat 70.
gether In the woods and she ha0
proposed that they run away and
get married. She wondered 4
Ranny would have run away that
night Il hs had not been drink
ing would he have been 80 eager
for her IL he had been cold sOber4
That Is, IL the thought C3 being
married was as distastefuI to him
az Fay had just said It was.
s'I'1I ask hiung she made up
her mind, I'll ask him tonight
when he comes home from the
poker game. e
At that morning she WAS
still waiting for Ranny ome
home TO her. She sat 10 n bed,
prOpped against the pillows with
a magazine on her knees.
But she was not reading Her
big eyes, as blue as wood violets.
stared straight ahead Of her at
the flowe termed paper Of the
room
How different this life or hers
and Ranny's was from nlarriage
as she had pictured il during the
enchanted months Of their en-
gagementI
rs -.
tTo Be Continued ToHn01rOW.l
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pose. Neither Of Us meant It.
And we both knew that we
didn't!''
Peggy was silent.
She couldn't for the life .of her
/ understand that sort Of kiss be
tween two people. IL q kiss didn't
mean anythingif II didn't mean
love where In the world was the
thrill of II?
.sYou needn't be jealous Of me,
Peggy" Fay was saying now, IN
her clear metallic voice that was
ike the jingle Of silver. You
needn't be jealous of any of the
girls that Ranny has seen. It's
the ones that he hasn't seen vet
that you've got to be jealous OF!
See what mean3'
GOod-LOOldng, All Right
Peggy shook her bent head.
.Well, you know that Ranny's
one Or the best looking men
you've ever gazed upon, don t
your? Fay asked, and besides
that, he's interesting and full Of
pep. He has what you'd call
charm in q woman. And theren
always be somebody or other wild
about him.
Peggy reflected that charm"
was exactly what Ranfy did
have. No matter how angry you
were with him, or how disgusted.
you just couldn't hate him or
scold him when he smiled at You
with that crooked smile Of bis.
And he had '.way" with him
that would have made him at
tractive even Il he had been q one
eyed dwarf.
IT understand Ranny because
he's exactly the kind Of man that
/ am Il GIRL Fay said bluutly.
s.and that's why we didn't ret
married, II you want to know.
Neither Of us had any trust IN
the other.
Peggy looked at her sharply.
'.But, Fay, you'd be true to your
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HERE'S FOXY GRANDPA'S STORY

the thick brush. We could hear
the cheeping of the babies as the
father led them farther and far
ther away from US.
But the mother coot kept her
head. She made no attempt 10
get out of our sight, but swan
away quietly as II to divert our
attention from her precious little
ones.
Then she submerged over near
a tree and all that we could dee
of her were two little spots
one was yellow and one was red.
They looked like leaves, but in
reality they were her bill and the
top of her head.
Don't let's move" said Bunny,
"and then she'll know that we
won't hurt her."
We followed BUnny's sugges-
ton and stayed as quiet as
three mice and in q little while
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IT was a lovely Spring morning

1T was a lovely Spring morning
i and Bobby, Bunny and decid-
ed that it was just the day to take
our lunch and go in a canoe up the
little river which flowed through
the town in Southern England,
where we were visiting.
So we had a lunch packed up and
before noon we were padding up
this quiet stream.
We padded on a distance and
soon came to a place in the little
river where the trees grew so low
and thick on the banks that we
almost he'd to cut our way through.
"Well eat our lunch right here"
1 announced. reaching for the
hamper.
What a good lunch it was ana
how lazy and contented we felt
after lunch. I was just leaning
back against the pillows Of my
eAnO0 and had finished my pipe
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she rose to the surface and we
could hear her calling her babies.
Presently she swan away and
we started on up the river. We
passed great tree a little way
up, the roots of which grew
down into the river, and what do
you think we saw. There in a
nest in a crotch where two of
the roots branched out were Mr..
and Mrs. Coote perched on the
side Of the nest feeding the four
little cootes In the happiest family
reunion you ever saw.
Funny they build their nest
up out of the water instead Of
the reeds. isn't it?" asked Bobby.
'Not at ALL" replied Bunny.
eff they didn't build them there,
the first thing you know great
big pike would jump out of the
water and gobble UP their family
before you could say Jack Robin
son."
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By STELLA WYNJNE

cay, swearing and cursing, get
on to his feet. He heard his hand
on the knob OF the ground glass
door as he himself got the front
door open and went through e
into the third floor hall He
raced down this hall, its tnick
carpet muffling his running
steps. He heard the door of No.
''17'' slam as Lecay went through
it. He could hear his muffIel
footballs gaining on him in the
hall. He came up to the auto
matte elevator. The outer glass
door slid open easily enough. but
the inner door, whose upper pOr-
ton was composed Of q grin Of
fancy bronze rods, he didn't man
age so expedit It caught
and it took him several precious
moments before the heavy inner
door swung back open. He
leaped in. slammed shut both
doors. then pressed his finger on
the button marked II. !"
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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By Stella Wynne
Whose Stories OF Mystery N
Love Are Causing Wide
spread Comment


4 LMOST instantly the door
0opened. Lecay stood holding it.
DR.. Cressy walked into a little
hall lighted by a deeply-shaded
globe. whose dimness DR.. Cressy
blessed. At the end of the hall
was a ground glass door evidently
leading into living room. But
nothing at that moment seemed
further from Lecay's mind than
doubt.
'sweIl, you We're long enough"
he snapped. Quick did
you get it?"
The Package
For answer, DIR. Cressy dug into
his overcoat pocket and produced
one of the packages he had so
carefully wrapped up in his labor
atory. Lecay seized it eagerly,
with a half grunt, half exclama-
ton of triumph, and began to
tear off the voluminous tissue
paper. DR.. Cressy noticed that
one Of his eyes was swollen, that
his forehead was bruised, and
that he had a cross of courtplaster
On his cheek. These, he surmised,
were mementoes Of Lecay's fight
with his strange rescuer Of the
bArbaric bracelet on the lonely
highroad two nights before, who,
however mystic, struck material
enough blows.
While Lecay impatiently un-
wrapped. the physician tried to
figure out the situation. Were
there other men in the apartment
besides Lecay? Was Kathleen
held prisoner here? Had any.
thing happened to her? She
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-19
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tlnenseIves-the things that they
thought, as well as the things
that happened to them. Sisters
could not have been better friends
than they we're.
There were things that Peggy
knew about Fay that would have
made Aunt Agony's gray hair
stand straight up on end II she
had known about them. Peggy
had known when Fay smoked her
first cigarette, taken her first
cocktail. and gone out with her
first boy friend secretly. Of
course.
The friendship between them
was 90 strong that not even the
love affair between Fay and
Ranny had spoiled It. It Was 50
deeply rooted that not even
Peggy's bitter jealousy Of Fay
could kin 1t now.
And when the two Of them met
each other tonight In the soft
June darkness they kissed each
other Hike the good friends that
they still were and always would
be.
s.sure you don't want to 60 to
movie, dear2" Fay asked, az
they linked their arms and started
OFF down the lamplit length o.
the street.
4 want to talk to you" Peggy
answered. and then because she
couldn't make up her mind how
best TO say what she had to say
to Fay, she pulled her over 20 g
nniIIiner's window to look at the
YOU'D be q doll in that green
hat n the corner, Fay she said.
Fay looked down at her and
laughed. Honey" she said, quiz
ideally, ~ know what you wanted
to talk to me about, tonight
you're upset because you saw me
kiss Raniay the ether night, aren't
you? Wen. you needn't be. !
don't want your precious lamb.
And he doesn't want me.
she drew Peggy away from
the window with its gay display
81 hats and they walked on.
ado you want mo TO tell YOU
something about Ranny7 she
asked suddenly.
Peggy nodded, without q word.
wei. then, he's the same kind
az shallow person that / am,
H,ay went on. You know me bet
ter than anyone, Peggy. You
know how I'm always falling
head-over-heels in love with some
body. or other and then falling
out Of II, just as suddenly. and
Ranny's Just like me. We kissed
each other the other night just
for the thrill Of the thing, ] sup
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BY Beatrice Burton

RTo. I just feel sort-a dopey."
~ Ranny answered. with Z sec
end yawn. do you know. woman.
that this Is Saturday night7 And
weare sitting here as IL we'd been
married a hundred years and were
Just about ready to drop into
cur graves
She closed her book and laid
G on the table.
Wen. what do you want to
10? Go to a movie?'' she asked.
Instead Of answering, he looked
g1oomier than ever.
Peggy got up and went around
- the back of his chair and put
her arms around his neck. Then
she bent her face down to his
and began Co cover Il with little
airy kisses butterfly kisses"
he called them in the first days
Of their engagement, q year ago.
A year ago he would have
turned in his chair and pulled
her down to him IL she had done
that. But now Peggy felt him