By Morse44-08-2634Dead Men Prowl8prowler With The Rope Around His Nec

Adventures by Morse. Prosonie Morse presents... Dead Men Proud, featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder.

Come with me. Probably no village of 30 houses in the world, besides Holman on the Marin County coast of California, had the morbid luxury of its own morgue, certainly not with a morgue so modernly equipped, with slabs and ice niches and refrigeration rooms. You will remember that earlier this afternoon, Captain Friday and Dr. Croft were knocked unconscious and locked in a closet

in Andrew Walter's home. When they broke out, they found that Carmell and Andraste Ruiz and Gail and Martin Stanley had disappeared from Captain Friday's cottage. But here is Captain Friday himself. We began the search and finally discovered the four locked in the refrigeration room in the basement of the morgue.

We found them all right. We also found something we hadn't bargained for. Standing guard in the anti-room before the door were the bodies of the three proling dead. Doc Sims, Andrew Walters and Rich Hartley's murdered half-wit boy.

While Dr. Croft rushed the half-frozen young people back to the cottage on a morgue hand-wagon, I dumped the three corpses into the icy refrigeration room and locked them in. There would be no more prowling dead if I could prevent it.

For half the night the doctor and Captain Friday worked over the four young people with stimulants, and in the case of Carmel Ruiz with even harsher methods. Corschia of the four was almost past saving.

But toward midnight the danger seemed passed. Leaving the four in the doctor's care then, Captain Friday disappeared for two hours, and when he returned he was full of unsuppressible excitement. Doctor, Doctor Croft, where are you?