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The librarian approached, s for?"

"Not really," I said "Would you have anything else?"

He took up his field guide with patient interest in our plight "Let’s see here Well… it looks like there was an aftershock to that nineteen twenty-five earthquake Here… June twenty-nine, nineteen twenty-six… exactly one year later to the day One fatality The only other earthquake of note would have been November four, nineteen twenty-seven, but there were no fatalities recorded in that one Would you like to take a look at the one in ’twenty-six?"

"Sure"

We went back to the saain, we flew through the calendar, tiray As we reached the end of the reel, I slowed theone colu sure I didn’t ood theory-hell, it was my only theory If this didn’t pay off, ere out of luck

I read about Babe Ruth, who’d just hit his twenty-sixth homer of the season back in Philadelphia I read about soe was annulled when she found out her former spouse was still alive I read about Aied kidnapping at the hands of strangers…

"There it is," Dietz said He put a finger on the screen

I let out a yelp and laughed Six library patrons turned around and looked at me I put a hand across ift- such an unexpected pleasure-lines leaping off the page The article was brief and the style faintly antique, but the facts were clear and it all seemed to fit

WOMAN KILLED AS BRICKS FALL

Chimney Crushes Out the Life of Local Resident

Emily Bronfen, 29-year-old bookkeeper employed by Brookfield, McClintock and Gaskell, met death yesterday afternoon when bricks fell from a chimney at the fa an earth tremor at 3:20 pm The body was taken to the Donovan Brothers funeral parlor and will be cremated today at 4:00

The Associated Press reported that the shock, which swung doors at Pasadena and swayed hanging electric light drops at Santa Monica, was also felt in Los Angeles, where occupants of office buildings noticed their swivel chairs doing a wild shi the floor