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It's a high polishing toothpaste that acts like a jeweler's polish in removing tarnish from silver. Quickly but also gently colonel's erases stubborn surface film from your teeth revealing all their glorious natural brilliance. Get colonel's KOLY NOS colonel's toothpaste at your drugstore tonight. Now Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons. This time our story opens about a hundred miles from New York in a chemical plant in Connecticut. There's a hum of motors and a hiss of compressed air as Mr. Keen and his assistant Mike Clancy are guided across the floor amid great bats and retorts. Halfway across the floor their guide a thin near sighted man pauses to answer a question. Oh yes Mr. Keen our production right now is entirely for the war effort. And I gather Mr. Wallace this plant supplies chemicals for various types of explosives. Oh yes shells bombs mines. Mine mine mine look at the size of them big bats over there. It wouldn't like to think of all the shooting that's gonna come out of them a little bit. Quite right Mr. Clancy quite right and that may have a lot to do with the reason that our manager Mr. Morley has sent for you two gentlemen. Well why did he Mr. Wallace all I know is that he phoned my office yesterday in New York and asked me to come here the first thing this morning. What's happened? Well I'm only in the personnel division I'll have to let Mr. Morley talk for himself. If you come along to his office over there on the right. No sir must be on the left. The left. Yes there's the sign manager. Oh yes yes forgive me for not knowing the way around my own plan but I've broken my glasses you see I'm very near sighted. Never mind Mr. Wallace we'll guide you. In fact here we are right now. One moment while I knock. Come in. Good morning Mr. Morley. Good morning you must be Mr. Keen. That's right this is my assistant Mike Clancy. Glad to meet you. How do you do Mr. Clancy. Won't you come inside please gentlemen. You too Wallace. Yes. Right now if you just sit down and make yourselves comfortable. Thank you. Now then Mr. Morley what's it all about. I'll come right to the point Mr. Keen. As you probably noticed this is a war plant and a very busy one. Right now we're well we've just received a very serious threat to our production. How. By the disappearance of a member of our staff. In fact our best chemical engineer. That is serious. There is another man on the planet who has his know how. We must get him back as soon as possible. What's this man's name. Henry Trevor. And how old. Forty two or so. When did he disappear. Three days ago. Under what circumstances. Well I'll let Wallace here tell you. Well sir it was late Monday afternoon. I went to Mr. Travis office to check a personnel matter but he didn't have time to talk to me. He already had his hat and coat on was leaving the plant and not that he was a clock watcher. Oh no indeed. Continue please. Well Mr. Keen there isn't much more to tell. Mr. Trevor left the plant and just never returned. You've checked at his home. Well he has lodgings but he never slept in his bed that night. Was he in any sort of private difficulties. None at all. Unless Wallace here has an idea. What is it Mr. Wallace. You heard how valuable Mr. Trevor is to us. Obviously if anybody stands to profit from his disappearance. Are you hinting that his disappearance may be the work of enemy agents. Yes Mr. Keen. Glory be. I don't know whether I'm permitted to tell you but perhaps Mr. Morley. I think I can refer to it in a general way. Mr. Keen this plant has been working on an important new device. Really. And Trevor was handling all the experiments. Well that is important. And what's more Mr. Keen. Yes Mr. Wallace. When I went to his lodgings to make a check I found that several strangers had taken rooms there recently. Really. Well we'll have to look into that. But first I'd like a few more facts on Trevor's professional background. Wallace can give you all that Mr. Keen. Yes in fact I've dug up his folder from my files. If you don't mind reading it to me. Oh dear me my classes. I'm half blind until they finish making me a new pair. I'll read it myself then. Notice Mr. Trevor came here only six months ago. Yes that's correct. Before that. Why all his previous experience was as a school teacher. Yes quite so. Six months as chemistry instructor in the Tappingworth school for boys. Before that six months at the Jones Walton school. Then sick for a year in Nevada. Long trouble he said. But he was completely cured. And before his illness. Fifteen years at the Morton Latin school. This strikes me as very odd Mr. Morley. What does. Here is a man who was content for fifteen years to stay in one place. Then he becomes ill. When he recovers he shows an extreme restlessness. He rushes from one job to another. Well he told me that after he recovered his health he started looking for better jobs. And here's another point. You say he was your best chemical engineer. Absolutely. But all his past experience was as a teacher. Something very much different. Well Mr. Keen he had a college degree in chemistry so. We were mighty glad to have him. What with the shortage of technicians since the war. I still think that the only explanation is enemy agents. Well possibly. Meanwhile thanks for the information Mr. Wallace. I'll pay a visit to his lodgings. Whatever you wish Mr. Keen but just find Trevor we need him. I'll do my best. Come along Mike. Okay boss. If you'd like me to show you out it won't be necessary thank you Mr. Wallace. Good I have some other matters to discuss with Mr. Morley. Good day. I'll let you know just as soon as anything develops. Thank you Mr. Keen. Well boss what do you think. First let's get some facts Mike and then we'll think. Oh you may have Mr. Keen. My boss somebody's calling. Mr. Keen. Yes that girl over there by the machine. Yes young woman. Mr. Keen I heard Wallace mentioning your name when you came by before. You're the famous investigator aren't you. Yes. Well I guess you're up here to look for Mr. Trevor. You know about his disappearance. Why sure everybody knows. Well do you have some information that might help me. Boss I think she means. What do I mean. Somebody stuffed him into one of them big bats. What I wanted to say is if you could get interested in the women's hats women's hats you might find out a whole lot more than you know right now. What do you mean by that. Stop that machine for a moment. I got work to do please this is important. I told you. Stop it. Please young woman listen to me. Oh you might let's get out into the hall. Women's hats what does she mean by that. Mike I have half an idea. On our way through the town we stopped once to ask directions. Sure in a cigar store did you notice what was next door. Oh yes a hat store a very smart looking little place unusual for a town like this. You think that's what the chick meant let's find out. This is the place and there's the owner's name on the window Mrs. Lydia Groves. This is only a hunch but I'm going to play it for all it's worth OK. Nobody here as she comes now from the back room a brunette and done good looking. Mrs. Groves. Yes that's my name. You haven't come to buy hats. No this groves to ask a question. I don't understand. When did you last see Henry Trevor Henry Trevor. Yes the engineer from the chemical plant. I don't know him. This is a small community you must know. I mind my own business which is to make and sell hats but Mrs. All my hats are for women. Good day gentlemen but lady this is important. You've made a mistake. Good day. Very well. Good day. Come along Mike. Boss do you think she was telling the truth. No Mike I don't. Enemy agent Mike in my long life I found out that a beautiful woman can cause plenty of trouble without being anybody's agent. But this fellow Wallace said we still need more information. The only way to get it how so let's circulate around town and dig up every bit of gossip that we can. You hang around the lunch wagons the gas stations as for me I'm going to get a haircut. Take more off the side sir. That's right Baba. Nice day. Oh it's a beautiful day. I think it's going to be warm after all. Definitely. Yes. Don't think I ever saw you around here before. I'm doing a job for the chemical plant. Chemical plant. I believe our Mr. Trevor is one of your customers. Oh sure. Every two weeks. Interesting about him and Mrs. Groves isn't it. Him and Mrs. You know the whole plant knows. Funny thing he took to her from the first day she come to this town opened her shop. Thick as thieves also. When did she first come to town. About the time my wisdom tooth was raised in King last September. More off the side. Yes please. He hung around her shop all the time is still to folk start talking so then they took to cover. You know. They've been meeting there every night. Thrush Lane. All. That goes on there. And just where is thrush Lane. Half miles off the town right by the factory. What are you doing. You can't get up in the chair. Yes your money I'll see you later but I only done one side of your head. Come back. Crazy fellow running off with only half a haircut. No boss there's nothing in the underbrush over here well come over to this side or Mr. Keane so sure we've been out of the three hours already I know Mike this is our only real lead. Remember what the barbers said they met here every night. Oh boss take off your hat just once more I will not. The strangest haircut I ever did see and you such a proper gentleman here help me put these branches aside. And you're still hoping to find Trevor's body out here in thrush Lane not hoping I'll be glad if I'm wrong well there's nothing here all right let's get back on the path Mike so far we can be sure of only one thing what's that Trevor and Mrs. Groves knew each other long before they ever came here that I'm certain you see I found they arrived here actually within a week or two of each other. Trevor to take the job at the plant and Mrs. Groves to open the shop then promptly they became friends then promptly. Yes Mr. Keane what are you staring at something there on the ground just yard ahead of us I don't see it look Mike from over here where the sun strikes it sure but what of it just those few little chunks come over here Mike bend down help me pick them up okay so okay. Judging from the thickness of these fragments I think we'd better have another talk with our friend Mr. Wallace. 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Grange you're the headmaster of the Tappingworth school oh yes for 20 years do you recognize this photograph well yes this is Henry Trevor he taught chemistry here last year excellent grasp of his subject too I wish he'd stayed what can you tell me of his background why he came here from the Jones Walton school with the usual references that's all you know well yes Mr. King thank you dr. Grange oh yes yes mr. Trevor taught here for one term at the Jones Walton school he got along well miss Mott our girls simply adored him where had he been before he'd been sick I believe for a year before that the Morton Latin school look at this photograph please is that a good resemblance perfect well mr. King we had mr. Trevor with us here at the Morton school for 15 years until it became ill and then he went to Nevada for his health dr. Heinz quite so you never heard from him again only when other schools asked us about his references I wonder if if you would have a photograph of him we should any one of the yearbooks let me see on this shelf up here yearbook of 1940 that will do very well there we are you say that's Henry Trevor course well let me show you a photograph dr. Heinz this one hmm how good a resemblance is this one mr. King this is the strangest thing do you have time for a story all the time in the world go right ahead I began to wonder what had happened to you I've been away mr. Morley for two days any luck any trace of Trevor yes no what do you mean by that he's alive all right and well I'm sure of that well but where he is and whether he wants to be found that's something else mr. King all I know is that I've got to have him back at the plant he's done fine and important work here we need him desperately all right mr. Morley that makes it a whole lot easier mr. King it's you again yes mr. Groves mr. King if you've come to plague me with questions again no no more questions because I know the answers I I'm not feeling well please come back some other time now is the best time you see Mrs. Groves I've just finished tracing back the history of Henry Trevor or rather the man who called himself Henry Trevor I don't understand the real Henry Trevor died two years ago in Nevada but I told you that I know nothing about it and the moment he died his identity was borrowed by someone else in fact by his brother John Trevor oh yes there were two trevors John and Henry both were trained in chemistry Henry became a teacher John became an engineer John the engineer was very successful made heaps of money but his wife spent it even faster than he made it I know nothing about it in the end this led John to embezzle $5,000 from his company he and his wife ran away wandered all over the country used up every cent they had because there was no job that John could apply for without giving himself away interesting but I don't see how finally two years ago the real Henry Trevor the quiet schoolmaster died immediately John saw a chance to borrow his brother's identity make a new start and so John became Henry how how did you find all this out by going back to the Morton school the headmaster remembered the scandal about the embezzlement very well and how much sorrow it caused Henry at the time all that I had to do was to show him the photograph the man who claimed to be Henry quite simple really Mrs. John Trevor what did you call me you are the wife of John Trevor the man I've been asked to find I I don't suppose there's any use now to deny it none yes it was my extravagance that caused the trouble I wanted things John couldn't afford believe me I regret the whole thing we we've struggled so hard to live it down but Wallace found out the man at the chemical plant yes by by following us to thrush Lane several times and overhearing our conversation then he tried to blackmail your husband yes and last Monday night after John left me Wallace came along again to ask for money five hundred dollars otherwise he would expose John but your husband refused yes he he began to scuffle with Wallace but then he became frightened and decided it was no use he decided he have to run away once again where is he now don't ask me please don't you must tell me no he's my husband and this was all my fault in the first place mr. Keane it was my foolish vanity that caused John to embezzle the money oh please go now but Mrs. Trevor I beg you please the telephone Mrs. Trevor the reason that you want me out of here would it be because your husband is right now calling you on the telephone I have nothing more to say pick up the phone Mrs. Trevor answer it but mr. Keane tell your husband I want to see him in my office in New York any time tomorrow if he can make it I I don't know please do as I say you won't regret it well boss do you think he'll come I have every hope Mike what it's almost five in the afternoon already no he won't come not a guy who embezzled five grand and stole his brother's name there's one thing you've overlooked what's that come in good afternoon Mrs. Trevor you came alone no not alone oh your John Trevor yes come right in both of you this is my Clancy my assistant how do you do how are you sit down now mr. Keane my wife says you insisted on my coming to see you I wouldn't have done it except I was sick of hiding Trevor I want to ask a question if you had the chance to make restitution for that $5,000 would you do it mr. Keane why do you think we've been slaving for the past two years I had any job I could get Lydia in one hat shop after another to save enough money to pay back well why didn't you get in touch with your old firm because we've only got $2,000 so far because I was afraid of what attitude they might take well Trevor there are two things that impressed me about this case first that you and your wife have worked so hard ever since you made that mistake second that you prove yourself so valuable to the war effort it's nice of you to say that mr. Keane but no buts I'll be glad to accept the $2,000 you've saved so far let you pay off the rest in installments what did you say I got a telegram this morning from your old firm what let me read it in view of circumstances as explained by you we are delighted to accept your check and drop all charges against John Trevor why mr. Keane you mean you went ahead and I took a chance on you too I paid off the $5,000 with my personal check oh how wonderful of you mr. Keane certainly is but there's still mr. Morley I've already made your excuses to him what did you tell him the truth the best excuse of all and he still wants me back be very much obliged if you'll take the next train out of here for Connecticut mr. Keane you'll find one little change though at the factory what do you mean mr. Wallace has suddenly resigned mr. Keane how can we ever thank you what kindness what understanding never mind the speeches that you'll miss your train along with you there's a war on you know this the next week at the same time as mr. 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