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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-11
SYNOPSIS

Brooke Reyburn visits the Office Of
Jed Stewart. a lawyer, to discuss the
terms of an estate she has inherited
from Ms. Mary Amanda Dane. Unwit-
tingly she overhears Jed talking to Mark
Trent, nephew of Mrs. Dane who has
/" en- disinherited. Mrs. Dane had lived
at Lookout House, huge structure on
the sea, built by her and Marks father.
Brooke had been fashion expert, and
Mrs. Dane, "shut.in,'' hearing her on
the radio had invited her ITO call and de.
veloped deep affection for her. Mark
dtscloses that Mrs. Dane had threatened
to disinherit him if he married Lola,
from whom he is now divorced, He says
he does not trust Henri and Clotilde
jacques. Mrs. Danes servants. e Leaving
her department store job. Brooke re-
fuses an offer to ego stepping. with
jerry Field, a carefree young man who
wants to marry her. At family con-
ference she learns she must live at Look
out House alone, since Lucette., her,
younger sister who is taking her Job,
and her mother plan to stay I'M the city:
Jed and Mark are astounded when they
hear from Mrs. Gregory, family friend,
that she had witnessed hitherto UNI
known will with Henri and Clotilde two
weeks before Mrs. Dane died. Brooke
has arrived just as she was leaving. Jed
suggests that Mark open his part of
Lookout House. get friendly with Brooke
and try to find out about the will. Jed
agrees to stay with him. Mark accepts
Brooke's invitation for family Thanks.
giving dinner at Lookout. Mrs. Reyburn
announces on Thanksgiving eve that she
has been invited to England. Sam and
Lucette decide to move in with Brooke
and Sam plans to produce new play
locally. After the Thanksgiving dinner
Brooke tells Mark that little of Mrs.
Danes silver collection is left. Jerry
Field and his sister Daphne drop in and
announce they will be neighbors for the
winter. Later Inspector Harrison of the
local police visits Mark and is informed
about the missing will and silver. AS
Harrison leaves, Lola arrives. She an.
nounces that she and her new husband,
Bert Hunt, have started a neighborhood
filling station. Mark almost makes a
break about the missing will and Brooke
is suspicious. Returning home, she sees
Lola talking covertly to Henri. Henri is
ugly and warns Brooke she had better
like him and Clotilde. That night while
the. cast of Sans play. is. /. rehearsing
and the Jacques are away, Mark shows
Brooke the missing silver which he had
found cached in an unused upper floor
store room in his house. He reveals
that the door connecting their houses has
been unlocked. A black gloved hand
pulls the key from the storeroom door.
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CHAPTER y1-Continued

What do you mean by coming
down when I told you not to move?
What do you mean? I might have
struck you!''
"But you didn't, Mark. felt like
gutter hiding in the dark while
you came down alone, so ] crept
after you. What did you see?"
Nothing here-but the door is
locked"
"A black-gloved hand did pull the
key from the storeroom door, didn't
it? I didn't dream it, did II"
If you did. l was in the same
dream, Brooke. Wonder when they
intend to remove the stuff"
"You think someone is planning
to take it away?"
"Why else should it be there? It
probably was moved from Lookout
House to this one, which has been
unoccupied for years, before I came
back here to live. After Aunt Mary
Amanda went, was the only per-
son who would know about the sill
yer, and was far away in South
America. That's why Henri's face
turned challky when he saw me en-
ter your living-room on Thanksgiv-
ing day."
'Then you noticed it too? /
thought it might be my imagina-
ton"
HE was white, all right. Come
on, we can't get back to Lookout
House through this door. We'd bet
ter beat it downstairs and out that
way. Lucky l pocketed your key"
Hurry! Hurry! Suppose it was
Henri who left those keys in the
doors? Suppose he remembered that
he had left them and stole back
from the movies? l told him that
you and Jed Stewart would be with
us for supper after rehearsal. He
may be looking for me now to see If
I was telling the truth"
In the lower hall, which was
slightly scented by the smoky aro-
ma Of open fires, Mark laie. de-
tanning hand on her shoulder.
"Wait! Listen!"
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CHAPTER VII

An hour later Jed S tewar t
slunlped deeper into a crimson
cushioned chair in Mark Trent's IL
brary and demanded:
''How was I to know that Field
had brought Brooke the gardenias?
Didn't he look like a meat-axe
though, when / barged into Lookout
House waving that flower and giving
the whole show away by telling
where picked it up? I'm the origi-
nal village cut-up, am" He lighted
his pipe.
ut wasn't all my fault. / didn't
know, did /, Mark, that you and she
had been cruising round this
house?"
''You didn't. hadn't told you
then that I had discovered Aunt
Mary Ananda's silver parked in a
storeroon. Decided to wait till /
had the goods on someone, but I
couldn't resist the temptation to
show it to Brooke. You should have
seen her eyes when she saw it piled
on that table,"
He poked the fire till orange and
scarlet flames, shot with pale
green, roared up the chimney and
sent a tangy puff Of wood smoke
into the room.
The sharp ring Of the phone broke
the silence.
''Trent speaking.-Lola! What do
you want?-Not interested. II you
like selling gas, sell it, only remem-
Der that the allowance stops.--Is
she? Mrs. Gregory's word goes,
here. YOU should have made sure
Of that before you set up shop
What? What sort Of paper?" Mark
Trent looked at Jed Stewart who
had come close and was moving his
lips without making a sound. He
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-11

Chiseling Money OF Me, Sus-
pect."
murmur, and Daphne's drawl. He
looked at the detected figure in the
chair, at the long legs outstretched.
whats wrong, Sam? Aren't you
home early?"
whats wrong with you, you're
white as sheet?'
"Tm okay, it's these artistic lights
that play the dickens with ones
color. Didn't Stewart and the rest
of the cast come with you?"
"Jed stopped at your house for
a minute, he'll be here pronto; the
ether MISUNDERSTANDING gone
home. I'll say I'm here early. After
they'd walked through the first act,
it was a choice between dismissing
the cast or shooting them. I had
sane interval and decided not to
shoot. I'm giving them tomorrow
night off,"
'Then I'll throw a party for tn.
Reyburns and Fields at that new
Supper club just opened in town.
Give them a let-up from the play.
What say, maestro?"
"Okay with me. It's darned good
of you. Perhaps / have overworked
them, but there is so little time be-
fore the performance" Sam sat up
and ran his fingers through his hair.
with that so near, wouldn't you
think those durnb-bells would know
their parts? I ask you! Besides
that, the leading man has walked
out on u.s.
cts tough. Can help, Sam?"
"Can you help! I'll say you can.
Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid Of their party
Take the lead" He caught Trent's
arm. BE a good scout. Help a
poor, distracted playwright-produc-
err, will you? With you and the
Crane woman in the leads, We'll
make a two-star Offering of it. That
girls good"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-11

BY Emile Loring
@ Emile Loring.
WNU Service.

She twirled the stem in her fin
gers.
"It is past recovery. She flung
it into the wastebasket. II don't
care for rejuvenated gardenias any
more than care for warmed-over
love. That sounds like car. Can
they have come so soon?"
Better not speak Of what we
discovered" Mark suggested hasti-
ly, as she started for the hall.
She left the room without answer
ing. He salvaged the flower and
thrust it into his pocket. He was
not keeping it for sentimental rea-
sons, he assured himself, but as a
reminder of how near he had come
to forgetting that all he had to-
o1ier girl was "warmed-over"
love.
Sam Reyburn entered the living
room and flung his blue covered
script to the table. He dropped into
the wing chair with a groan. Voices
in the hall thinned in the distance.
Mark Trent could distinguish Jerry
Fields laugh, Lucette's rather high
pitched tone, Brooke's questioning
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-11

Sans despair had changed to ex-
ultation. Mark Trent temporized:
"How do you know I'm good?"
'How do those bozos out in Holly
wood know an actor will be WOW
on the screen sometimes before they
give him try-out? Something here,
m'lad, something here" Sam tapped
his broad brow, tells me you'll
be stopping the show"
THAT same something couldn't
tell you where I'm to get the time
for theatrical career, could it? All
right, all right" Mark conceded
in response to Sans groan, "I'll
take the part. Give me the sides
and I'll try to know the lines at
the next rehearsal"
Sam caught Brooke as she entered
the room. He Rugged her as he
exulted:
What d'you think, gal? Trent has
signed up for Islands Arise! Will
he pack 'en in as the lead? I ask
you'll"
Jerry Field appeared at the door
beating huge spoon against a tin
pan.
First call for the dining car!
First call"
Sam held up his hand.
Just minute! We're all invited
to dine and dance tomorrow by the
new male lead in Islands Arise
Mark Trent! Sam Reyburn an
nouncing."
"You in the play, Mark?"
How exciting!"
Dinner and dance in the big city!
What break!"
Jerry Field interrupted the ex-
cited comments.
"Where are your gardenias,
Brooke?''
His tone set Mark Trent's lips
twitching. Under cover of lighting
a cigarette, he caught the girls
furtive glance at the wastebasket.
She put her hand to her shoulder.
''Why-why I must have dropped
them"
"Where've you been?"
Hi there, m'lad!" Sans tone
and manner were those of a stern
parent guarding his offspring. THAT
isn't topic for group discussion.
We don't make people punch the
frtime- clock in this fanily.'' @,s
Jerry Fields face turned bright
and lively crimson; his voice and
eyes were furious.
Il wasn't asking Brooke to punch
the time-clock. ] thought / might
find the gardenias for her.-T"
He stopped as Jed Stewart APP
peared on the threshold. He was
tapping gardenia against his lips.
''Run to earth, Mark. Who's the
charmer who leaves a flower out
side your door?"
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moan Of the wind at the corner of
the house, by the muted thunder of
the sea, by the sharp crackle Of a
burning log; was haunted by the
weird wall of the distant siren, but
no human sound intruded.
Coasts clear. Let's 60. Hold
on!" Mark Trent froWned at her
bare arms and throat, ivory tinted
above the lace of her frock. You
need, wrap.
To 60 from one door to another!
Don't be foolish. If we don't hurry,
( Henri may get there before us"
/ In theSgreen-walled living-room at
Lookout House, Mark Trent threw
a log on the smoldering fire and
apoked itiinto flame.
Come here and get warm,
Brooke. You are still shivering."
It'll am, it is from excitement,
not cold" She toasted her fingers
at the blaze. What do we do next?"
"Watchful waiting seems our
best bet"
''You would say that
II don't like the implication, but
We'll let that ride-for the present.
What move would you suggest?"
II don't know, but let's do some
thing. I hate sitting on the side
lines. hate waiting. First we must
find out who took the key from the
storeroom door. If you hadn't held
me, would have dashed at him
and found out
II had a bunch you would; that's
why grabbed you. Afraid crushed
your gardenia.'
Brooke put her hand to her Shout
der. They're gone! Where could I
have lost them?"
Don't make tragedy Of it. I'll
get you another
Mark Trent had never seen brown
eyes so famingly gold, cheeks so
red as Brooke's. I'LL, Ill. ..,s;s
"I'm not making tragedy Of it,
and don't want another gardenia..
For an amateur detective amateur
is the word with a capital A-you
are dense, Mark Trent. Suppose the
person in the attic went back for
something and picked them up?
Wouldn't he know at once that he
was being watched?"
II thought of that SOL brought
this along" He held a flower in the
palm of his hand. The once waxen
petals were brown at the edges, but
they had the feel of velvet in his
fingers. "You don't want it now,
do your" He slipped it back into
his pocket. 'I'll keep it as souve-
mir of our late dive into the under.
world"
II do want it and the other too"
Because Field gave them to you?
I don't know where the other is;
didn't realize that there were two.
You dropped this as you came into
this house. Better let me keep it.
WOS0A yOA WCAAC 1111ll W hllOW
it had been crushed out of shape
against my shoulder?"
"Just why should Jerry assume
that it was your shoulder against
which the gardenia was crushed?
You are not the only man in my
life, you know" Brooke reminded
disdainfully.
II intend-to keep the flower"
Mark Trent felt the color surge to
his hair and recede. He had caught
back ito be" in time.
II haven't had chance, Brooke,
to tell you how ridiculous Mrs.
Hunts suggestion was that-that
/ had any thought of trying to keep
Aunt Mary Amanda's money in the
family by"
why stumble over it? Why tell
me again that you wouldn't marry
me? This is the second time. First
in Jed Stewards Office and now
here. To save third attempt to
impress the fact on me, I'll tell you
tt at ! wouldn't marry you if you
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81 haven't

rung off.-Yes, I heard what you.
said. / can't imagine how any pa
per you may have will interest me,
but bring it here tomorrow at five.
Sure, I'll be alone.-Yes. Good
by"
Mark Trent Graded the telephone.
He looked up at his friend.
Lola has paper to sell me.
She suggested that have my check
book in hand tomorrow. What do
you make of it?"
IF it is the paper Mrs. Gregory
witnessed, how could she get hold
of it?"
"Henri?"
"She said he had written to her.
didn't she? She's bringing it tomor-
row afternoon! There's catch in it
somewhere. It sounds too easy. You
don't think she'll back out at the
last minute, do you, Mark?"
mot if there is money in it. She
said also that Mrs. Gregory was
putting the flling-station out Of bust
ness. 1t was started without a Ii
cense. Started for the sole purpose
of chiseling money off me, / sus-
pect." M
Fright as usual. What say we
call this an evening? I'm due in
court in the morning in my best
Gentlemen OF the Jury style; fur
thermore, We'll need our brains rum
ming wide open when Lola comes at
five. She has a paper to sell!
Won't we feel cheap about our sus-
picions of Brooke if it proves to be
the paper we're after?"
II stopped suspecting her some
time ago. Shall we go up? We are
getting provincial. If we were in
town we'd be just beginning to 60
places. Toddle along. I'll put out
the lights"
Mark banked the fire before he
ran up the stairs. Jed Stewart
yawned as he stood at his door.
"In spite of the late excitement,
I'm sleepy. Nightie-night, Mark.
I'll drop our problem into what the
psychologists call the deep mind.
Perhaps it will float to the top in
the morning all nicely solved" He
was whistling softly as he closed his
bedroom door.
Mark crossed his dark room to
the window. What night! The sky
was powdered with stars. The
sparks of gold were like the lights
in Brooke Reyburn's eyes when she
was happy or thrilled, and she had
been thrilled when she had heard
of his plan to dine and dance in
town.
He drew the gardenia from his
pocket. Nothing beautiful about it
now but the leaves. He didn't need
paper which Lola Hunt might pro-
duce to clear his mind of suspi-
cion that Brooke had influenced his
aunt in any way. He drew the flash
light from his coat pocket. Lucky
he had thought of it when he had
taken Brooke to see the Silver.
mark! Mark!"
Jed's voice? He laid the flower on
the dresser before he opened the
door. With the electric torch still
in his hand he crossed the hall and
knocked at Jed Stewards door. He
knocked again. Why didn't he an
swer? He flung open the door. "A
coat had been hung over the back of
a chair. A shoe lay on the floor.
Cold air was stirring the chintz
hangings. Where did it come from?
The bathroom! Mark sprinted to
the door and stopped in amaze
ment. The window was wide open,
but the air was strongly scented
with perfume. The shower was drip
ping. Shaving materials were flung
about as If hastily dropped.
He thrust his head out OF the win
dow. There were two ways to es-
rama from fhe little ha1conv ,1pdor
Evening star., 1937-10-06
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON, October OP.-The stock
after opening weak. with the decline ac-
CELEBRATED by the drop in prices at New
York Tuesday. The steadier tone was
also based IN the fact that liquidation
from continental sources seemed to have
subsided. Trans Atlantic issues closed
abov" the low levels of the day, and the
gilt-edged group also steadied Rubber
shares declined following the drop in that
commodity, and foreign bonds were easier,
PARIS.-Industrial stocks were in good
demand at the close of the Bourse and
the tone was firm. Rentes finished S. 10
24O centimes higher, and Bank Of France
gained 300 francs Royal Dutch shares
declined l60 francs. and Suez Canal was
down 375 francs at the close
Evening star., 1937-10-06
Copper Reduced
Tol2R-Cent Mark
AS Buying Drops
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 6.-The price
Of domestic copper was reduced one
quarter cent a pound yesterday by Gus
tom smelters.
Falling back to 1919 cents pound,
the market yielded the one-quarter
cent advance, announced yesterday.
The reaction was attributed by
metal circles to renewed weakness in
the export market and curtailment of
domestic buying following Mondays
boost.
Primary producers were reported
holding at 13 cents a pound, un-
changed from early last week when
they lowered the price cent. The
custom smelters made two cuts which
lowered the market to IL cents But
near the close of last week they lifted
the price to 1912 cents.
Evening star., 1937-10-06
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO october 0P.-Poultry. live.
81 trucks steady to firm. Springs,
pounds up and less than 4 pounds colored.
21: Plymouth Rock. 90: White Rock, %:
other live poultry prices UNCHANGED.
ta3 score), 35H-s.: extras ta2>. 34s4;
extra ffrsts f9o-9D. 34-34i4: hrsts (ss-
S9). 30 i4s4 seconds fS4-sT12). 2S-3Oa:
standards 100. centralized car lotsl, 34l2
EGGS 5'33s easy; prices UNCHANGED.
Potatoes. lis: on track. 3O1; total o
S. shipments. s72: dull. weak undertone
sacked per cwt., idaho Russet Burbanks
Y. S. No. l. 1880: U. S. No. .. I.1O-2O
Colorado Red McClures. u S. No. /
] .35-40: North Dakota Bliss Triumphs. U
s; No. 1. and partly graded. 1.o5-15; Cob.
blers' q. S. No. /. and partly graded. SIS.
%; early Ohios, y. s; No. /. and partly
No: /. ] ,25: Minnesota Cobblers and rounc
whites. U. s. No. l.. and partly graded
$500; unclassif1ed, rs; Wisconsin, round
whites, U. S. commercials. ..s0-s2h: Bliss
Triumphs, q. S. commercials, so.
Evening star., 1937-10-06
DECLINE REVEALED
IN OIL PRODUCTION
Petroleum Institute Estimates
Daily Average Crude Flow
OFF 1880 Barrels.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 6.-Crude oil
production and gasoline stocks de-
clined in the week ended October 2,
the American Petroleum Institute in
dicated.
The flow of crude dipped 1880
barrels daily to 3,647,450 barrels.
California output was up slightly as
the daily average east Of that State
fell 2l,250 barrels to 2,957,25O barrels.
Finished and unfinished gasoline in
ventories at refineries, terminals and
in transit declined $4,000 barrels at
the week end to 65,266, 900 barrels.
Cracked gasoline production was in
dicated to have averaged 100000 bar
rels daily, the institute stated, I'M
changed from the week before. I'M
ports Of crude and refined oils totaled
1,296,000 barrels, against 950,000 bar
rels.
Evening star., 1937-10-06
HEADS CLEARING HOUSE.

NEW YORK, October 6 R.-
James H. Perkins, chairman of Ma
tional City Bank, today was elected
president OF the New York Clearing
House Association. succeeding the late
A. A. Tilney. Herbert P. Howell,
president of Commercial National
Bank & Trust Co., was elected chair
man Of the Clearing House Commit
tee, succeeding William S. Gray, jr.,
president of Central Hanover Bank
e. Trust Co.
Evening star., 1937-10-06
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. October 6 R.-(United
states Department OF Agriculture )-Hoss.
10000, including 4 900 direct: market g5
Lower Lowe than than Tuesdays average: packing
choice hogs, 2QO-24O pounds, at the ' iSS5: top,
3uik good and choice 190-230 pounds.
u; ;7o.ll 90: 15O-ls0 pounds. 9s5-lO.s5:
10000 pounds, ,10.06-90: good packing
soWs ~ 5a60: light weights to 975.
cattle 5000; calves. 1900 little done
on o. rd ied steers and yearlIngs: shipper de-
marc very narrow and large local killers
bidding lower; scattering light yearlines
steady to small killers at 13 90 down: she
STOCK slow. steady to weak: larger in
terests bearing down on cows: low cutters
and cutters mostly 4.O0-5.OO: few strong
weights. 5.25: beef cows. 575-7.25 with
fbpIiifnrllnF bsifnra o6 Upward sd from 500 grassy
bulls and vealers little changed: practical
top sausage bulls. 6.75: vealers, ii 90
down: very few 11.50.
!, Sheen. 1000. Including 900 direct. fat
lambs active. strong to 25 higher: sheep
ana feeding lambs steady. good to choice
hpstive psti la lambs upward to 1925 and 1850:
eI.nobn.esiea osSn NEG nigner: best Montanas, 104O:
feeding lambs. 9.90-IO1O. 80"
Evening star., 1937-10-06
BOSTON WOOL MARKET

BOSTON October 6 Up UNITED States
Department of Agriculture - Medium
in the Middle West to Boston wool houses
at lower prices today.
Country packed lots contained combins
and clothing lengths of three-eighths and
quarter blood Ohio feeces were bought al
30 to 40 cents in the grease delivered
East. Similarly packed Indiana WOODS were
cents and bright Missouri medium woods
at 40-4I cents.
Evening star., 1937-10-06
CURB LIST TENDS
TO HIGHER LEVELS
Many Steady to Fractions
Ahead After Wide Early
Decline.
Nv the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, october 6.-After a
wide decline, rallying tendencies CROP
ped out in the curb market today and
as trading went into the final hour
many shares were about even to frac-
tions higher. Losses generally did
not exceed a point.
Taking the recovery trail for minor
gains were Northern States Power
"a" Lake Shore Mines and Amer
lean Gas & Electric.
A few higher priced stocks showed
declines of around point, including
Sherwin- Williams and Pittsburgh
Plate Glass. Fractionally lower, but
improved from earlier levels were Gulf
Oil, Aluminium Co, American Cyana-
mid "B," Standard Power & Light
and McWilliams Dredging.
Many popular issues, such as United
Wall Paper, Wright Hargreaves,
American Superpower, Cord Corp.
Creole Petroleum, Electric Bond 6,
Share and International Petroleum
were unchanged.
Evening star., 1937-10-06
NEW YORK SUGAR.

NEW YORK. October tPl-Early losses
IN sugar futures, which carried some of
the No. contracts into low ground for
the season under renewed liquidation. were
partially recovered in later trading here
today
March No. 4. after selling of to III. or
3 points net lower was ruling at 112 at
the beginning Of the last hour. and the
net lower
January No 8 declined from 2.27 10
2.26. while July held around 232. or net
unrbarped -
Evening star., 1937-10-06
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. October R.-Butter.
1862; unsettled. All grades UNCHANGED
= Cheese. I76.177: firm. Prices un-
fesa Eass. 2e.sse. unsettled: mixed co)ors
special packs, 25h-3O; standards 24K-
20, dirties, No, /, 20l2; refrigerator spe-
cial packs. 22H-2412; refriserator stand
orator. seconds 81; refrigerator mediums.
20-20l2; other mixed colors unchanged.
., Dressed poultry. easier; fresh tboxesl,
tboxes). chickens. broilers 25-36 Other
fresh and frozen prices unchanged.
Rocks 1926; colored. 90; fowls. colored
1926: ducks. 1712-20. Other freight
prices unchanged.
BY express. easy; chickens. Reds 2o-23:
Rocks, crosses and Leghorn. unquoted
broilers Rocks. 26-29: crosses. 1928;
Reds and Ieghorn 25 fowls, colored. 23-
keys and ducks unquoted.