La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 07, 1929, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Texto Page Ten LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Friday, June 7, 1929 (DieiLP BULLETS . by Charles G. Booth. 8YNOPHIH: IiivlnBf the Ok don mine attar Hammond had departed without :Hn them, I'eehi. i and Deacon rrturn to Han FYllpe. J'tehlr Is w.-rfoua-ly alarmed whn h learn that I.uoy and Jerry havi; not re turned. He dec-Mrs to wall un til the next day before organ izing a ;arohinf party. Knip tying the pocket of hl trou HerH. he find, to Mm mtr amazement, a playing card the ace of Hpades a card from the table at which Kit the two i tent figureH in the room of J,undy'n Kuloon. Kin night mare of horror had not been a dream. fhnpter 29 MAICKI.I) 'AUOS The powdbillly that iny experl-f-nco behind the bolted door might hi reality of a grim and t''ii.tl: kind hadn't occurred to me iins a few nil nut cm after my return to eonttclousner-K thi morning and I had ptit completely out of my mind the thought that It wu Hiiythlng else but a nightmare. And yet Jiere I wat with proof of lift reality In my hand! Kvery detail of the experience Htood out In my memory uh hIhh p ar a beacon on a, dark night, TJic earful cjuletiuH after the Morm . , the xhupeH at the tahle . . , the Htrihlng of the faulty match . . the two men playing pok-i In the dark . . . the card I had auto matical ly muffed into my pocket and forgotten about. And then . . Hello, w hat's thlM? 1 wh fiddling with Furle's eye ! piece, f'hanclng to look through It, i 1 flaw, to my Hurprliie, the. grain of the top of my dek enormously magnified. "f.ook through thin," I said, handling the I'-nn to MacNair. "Kxceilent for cloe-up work," he grunted, "lint I don't nee how I-'urio managed the distance. "1 doubt If he got much out of It at all." 1 wild. "It's effect upon, him fieemed to be largely psycho logical. It fteemed to give him con-: fldence In hiniHelf." j "I've got an Idea he inn't as blind j ax he pretends." "What makes you think that? Whipping five playing cards out of his pocket, MacNair tossed them In front of me, faces down. By their backs J recognized them as part of the deck lieacon bad found In Og- deli's nitCv. "Look at their back through the leriH." "These cards are marked," I shouted. MacNair nodded. "You wouldn't have seen the marks without the. Ii-iik, JiJHt the hitfh cards are mark ed." I studied the cards through the JeiiM again. The two marks on the diagonally opposite corners of each card were the same, but no two I cards were narked alike. On one j ca rd two curved lines we re j thickened; on another, two straight j lines: on another, two half circles; and son on. In no Instace was j the thickening longer than half un OUT OUR WAYi Me.Re. 1 "'-' ! REFfiAlM FROM FUNNIER Ml 7 : T ;I7N -JIGGUKJGr ?. 71 nrrir 1 1 FarTi I Pointers Marked canlH rurlr's lens "p my hand going over that cold face. "Hut they couldn't havo been dead!" I Kroaned. "And they couldn't have been alive! It in nut Iiavo been a nightmare'' And then 3 looked at the aee of spades aaln and know thut It v.nati'i, 1 tried nnothci tack. Why had Kurlu lied to me? Were ho and JMIIon in the thing loKethcr? Kor lie certainly hadn't found mo in .that room in which 1 had coma to my senses. As 1 had supposed at first, the room Into which I hud fallen was In the north wall of the building. Kurle, then, had gone to the trouble of climbing through the window of the north room, un bolting tilts door, and carrying me Into thu room off, the west side of the gallery. If ho weren't Idllon'H accomplice he must Imvit guessed Homethlng of the condll hms under which 1 had fallen into the north room; and in either evet lie had Htuashed in the door of the west room to create In nly mind the im pression that It wuh this room Into which , hud fallen. Evidently there was some) hlng In thu north room he wanted in conceal. What? The poker players? J'lohuhly, And who, ur what, were the poker players? There wun another thing, too, The rcrtirri'ticc of ihls "poker" luotlf, Andrew had dchHled the ttame, yet w had found the imple ment! ot it in his sale; t ho plnasn the "poker Kame that craekeil (he. town," and sonui nonsense about playing poker lor a human life Were U plirl id the IVtersoli legend and then I had come upon that Khastly uauic in Die north room. What did these reciu rem m mean? I decided to let thn matter rent until after supper when l would eo Henry or MacNair and give one or the other a chance to ex press an opinion about my experi ence. When 1 had deposed or sl.ahhi helpings or .Mrs. .Mnftlt'H te f;;teak pie and caramel pudding I unit Into iny di n, took out my lltthi red notebook, and heunn to peneii m it, 1 Was still wrltlnif when M cm M..r. fit Ushered 111 J.llt ht i- M:h Nil Ii- ! "Hello, there." 1 meet.-d l.lm. "When did you ct luu k " 'lhl munilng," Iu tt.tld bilelly, kcr game Ibal crackcfl thu townl' Inch and it had been done so dcli- l cately that It was almost Impercnp ' Hide to tho nakerl eye. "The cha nces of the crooked (j layer would b increased enor moiihly," MacNair was saying. "The i ni i Wtiiihi enCii ptf llioi HOW Ulld i hen but In crooked gambling a certain percentago of losses In de sirable,' "Hut he couldn't see the marks' I exploded, "unless he hud the cye:t of a hawk!'' MacNair took Hie lens out of my hand and stuck It In hlH light eye, leaning forward a Utile, "I see the marks o,nlte clearly as you hold the cards." f stared at him, dumbfounded. "You think (lood Heavens! you eoiineci that lens with these mark ed card! Nonsense! No one in ! his sensi-s would play a man with it magnifying glass In his eye!" "Not if I he glass were set In a pair of old-fashioned spectacles " MacNair drawled. I half rose In my seat. "Yoi mean- (iooil (iod!" 1 almost shout, ed. "The 'poker game that cracked thn town'!" ((-opyrlKht, Ht2'jt W. Morrow Co fan MacNair be correct? If ho. Is (his another imk in (he A in I re w I igden murder An other absorbing chapter tomorrow. A fat liiau may have trouble but H hi dlffei ent with a fat parse. ! let, III bill and, Us we shook bauds. "When (lid 1 set. von IiimI went on. "only yesterday mom Ink. was It? Keeuu like a month I've be,. a thi-OUHh a KOud deal, Mae Nalr." Whereupon I told ev.ny , of my experiences. When 1 done, 1 laid my exhibit , I'lui: Hie Torrhity I'lrel, KlirleV evenl. ee. tb.. a.-.. ..t "What do you think ot 1 1 pol ldnyeiH?" deionild. d. MaeNal,- laiiu.h d Krlinly. Vonr poker plujers? I u,ey were pnit ..f (he pattern. J'-Wrrylhlng you have told me about u part of the pattern. Hufl i of the pai ls are missing und u , ec notliiiitt but cuutu.vion, tho patt-m lM roioiiieie c prnbiildy have ., intricate ui mosaic uoi k as you or haw,' '!tut whal abnul my tw o m J persj Wi t ,, n,.. .i What? Von mlKht hazard a l; ' iniKht lui.nid a dozen u-itv,s,. What do -ou think yotit i It ?" "Th-y touidu't have hvi-n alive,' 1 Hi, hi. "HardK," M.N,.!,- Mn,,i,,l J "e J.oint ix; were they ), ', 'Y'' d- n'l Unow thai. should When shall a bit I h.t id i I ' BAKING POWDER ounces Mor lhn a poii ni and ball lor gun Her for over 38 years GUARANTEED PURE William of pounds used oymcuoixmmmr By Williams Thomas Edison Appears Before Group in Talkie ATLANTIC CITV. N. J., June 7 f Ai') Krom his home near Kort Myers. 1-Torida. Thomas A. Kdison f delivered a personal nieiige to 'the delegates of the National Klec ! trie Light a.ssociation who cele i bnitcd "Kdison I.Jay." Mr. Kdi son appeared through the med'.uin of a movie tone film, which pictur ed him as strong, active and smil ing. Mr. Kdison said: "When I invented the incades cent lamp, I realized that the lamp alone was not enough. It was necessary also to perfect a system of electric generation and distribu tion. I immediately set about to develop it, and it makes me happy to know that the system as well as the lamp still persist in all Its essentials. I "I had in those cays a high opin ion of my invention. All inventors have. Hut I must confess that I never dreamed that from it would come the stupendous electric in dustry of today. "Naturally I am gratified to feel that I have been privileged to play a part in this vast achievement. I am proud of the electrical industry of its vision, courage, zeal ano devotion to public service and I suspect every American feels the same way about It. "It is a great reward to me and the many colleagues and co-workers who I rejoice to say are still living, that we have survived to see the full fruit of our labors. The record is wonderful; but fine as It Is it can be made mill better mid I have a feeling that In your hands it will be." KOISK TO SKNI) TKAM nOLSE. Ida., June 7 (AI) The Boise polo club will send a team to Portland to meet the Hone Cily aggregation and other nearby points beginning June Dr. A. C. Jones, president of the club, an nounced yesterday. The Boise teams recently defeat ed the Portland club in u three game series here. Kvery colony of bee has a dis tinctive odor that Is recognized by the bees of that particular colony and In uniting two colonies the odors must be blended gradually so the bees of the two colonies may unite peacefully. It Is beBt to place a sheet of newspaper between the stories containing the two colonies to bo united.. Home time will elapse before the bees can gnaw iiway tho paper and in the mean time the two odors will have lost their Identity and tho united colo nies havo the odor of a single colony. 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