Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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The Interrupted ' ' oot-Print . was a cold, windy day in y, 193.9. Hufo banks of clouds pally obscured the bri ht- tfrp sun which was faot sink- the bills, for the short day w a lr awing to it: cIcep. tcctivp Burton stepped out of if; on Main .trppt, and walked down ttor snowy thoroughfare. tir . and . is a , be- e had been worki rd of late. opertinj; throughout ntry , unci )■ ept busy, icerton eteotlve tgenc hud I en eases of a var i r iri{ nature. Already h i. d arrests of any dan, rous pre: a workman in a eraoker who nut powdered glass for the sal tines; a peddler who jirt plaster containing tetanus il n to dyn- . But now he was on th most baffling case of Dmewhere near Southbridge wasa Lese station vher ges latently being sent and received. th hir I d bow in thought he notice where he was going until hp looked up to find that he ] e Cemetery. nic peaceful nlaee! h mut» himself. T ' ll be carried in irer to come ou1 in, myself, n ' t find out soon where those have their wirel »si on, climbed to the top of a knoll 3d br-side the old Ammidown tomb. reral foot-prir.ts in the illen snow; subc sciously jaw them, but his ini was too inv stigate. — st red moodily landscape and was about to his footsteps when his eye fell thin, ' whicl ' him to rtop e in ent. There in the snow was the print of a heel goinj under the tomb doer A low Bxcls ti.on escaped hir lire, what eould it • • n? Thin i 1 pri- vate be« n sealed for over thirty years. Ye S must b ' -1 inside, or how oas the f oot-pr ' I re? t was that? H listf intently. It sounded like the muf- l I Jurn oi voice?, issuing from the t(;.b. Eut it stop; al ost imi - diuteiy and I ' d thim the moaning of the wind in the pine trees round ab t. Burton placed his ea r against the door and listen - eould hear quite distinctly a ryt 1 lo clic click-dot, dash,- the um bis ell Ok inn of a wi roles 1 ne o- r ting. Had he at last di ccv- ered where tieir hiding place? Burtoi looked around to see shore the aerial eould be. There, sure enough, in the ton branches of the pine trr , rr b lr a eu f 1 ed by pj nr t Lgs. J thr i r rendes-vous withoul bt. sli hurriniback n ' ' xt : ornin the nest of how the force surro in the doer prisoners. t Ln in his of r ceivin tainlng Pre eongratulat qui tl to his ofl ice. all t] S dlinr- telling of how r;t les had been raided, apartment in full tl to I , rs mmed 1 ■ ' ' t t ctive , E i t- office, had tie pieasute a tel ni- si dent filaon ' s ions. . . .»20