Thursday, July 5, 1934
T;A CRANDE EVENTNfi ORRERVER. T7A GRANDE, ORE.
Page Five
CCDISCOVERER OF
RADIUM A MARTYR
SALLANCHES. Prance, July 5 UP)
A ftlmple funeral was planned today
(or Mme. Marie Curie, who died a
martyr to the cause of science, The
co-dlscoverer of radium, physicians
said, had accumulated radium rays
In her system during her experiments
and these contributed directly to the
Illness, which ended In . her death
early yesterday.
IIKill DlVti IN FATAL
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 5 UP)
Probably rendered unconscious by
the concussion as he struck the
water from the great height, Roland
Me Call, 22, drowned In the Columbia
river here yesterday after making a
beautiful swan dive from a pint form
110 feet high on the draw of the
Interstate bridge.
CONGRESSMAN'S MOT UK It I) IKS
SALEM. July 5 (JPi Willetta Mae
Mott, widow of the late Dr. W. S.
Matt and mother of ' Congressman
James W. Mott, died at her home here
early Wednesday night. She had
been a resident of Salem since 1899.
IH.AMKS L.UtOK
SALEM, Ore., July 5 VP) A de
claration that the United States "is
now on the verge oi" a social revolu
tion," and that the American Federa
tion of Labor Is to blame for the re
puted condition, was made here yes
terday by U. O. Mc Alexander of New
port, retired major general and one
of the candidates in- the May pri
mary election for Republican nomina
tion to the governorship.
It
HwuUx at"
MOCKING HOUSE
BY WALTER C. BROWN
BYSomtH: Ttco men have been
murdered in Pierre llulreene'a bio
hnttae. Ill the evidente vointa to
the tart Unit thru altot each other,
but ftruennt llnrver dure not be
Her thru did. Ilnwart.' IJnttle 1W10
inndierteutlu hrouulit Mrs. t)u
Ireane Into the innate ontu to hin t
her tnlnt and tniuie heraell telle
llnrver thnt ilia detertire will be
otad the miatuke ua muiie.
Chapter 13
DOYLE'S CONTRIBUTION
'TJERE'S tlie queer part. The Old
1 Man acted human Tor once
but firm. I was oft '.he case and that
wan that. H'a a puzzle, because I
huve gnod reasons for doubting that
Dufrcsne would go behind my bach
about a thing like thnt."
"Why shouldn't he Doyle? Mis.
nufresnu was scared hulf to death
and It led to an Injury that Is very
serlnuB to any woman, and especial
ly a beautiful woman."
"Sergeant, I'm surprised! Don't
you know a detective's ti rat duty Is
to keep his mind free from all pre
udlces. favorable or otherwise?" He
laughed.
Harper's face began to redden. "1
don't see anything funny about a
beautiful woman having her face
disfigured for life." he retorted.
"Of course you don't. Sergeant,
and neither do 1. Don't misunder
stand me. In such a situation one
must cultivate a philosophic atti
tude, like our friend Dufreene. If
that had happened to your wife, or
mine, we'd have taken a poke at the
chap who caused the trouble.
"But Mr. Dufresne Is content to sit
and murmur 'C'est la main du Seig
neur.' In case your French Is a little
rusty, that means 'It Is the hand of
Ood.' Does Dufresne s reaction seem
regular and normal to you?"
Without waiting for an answer.
Doyle continued. "I'm all washed up
with this case, but I'm going to let
fly a couple of broadsides Jjefore I.
go and you'll be smnrf'enough to
profit by them.
"What has that, to do with you
since you've been withdrawn from
the case?"
"That's what I'm coming to. Lis
ten, you've talked with Dufresne
about those 'crank letters;
"Yes."
"Didn't he sort of hint around the
bueh that the writer might turn out
to bo. shall we say. not a total
stranger to him?"
"Yes, he hinted something like
that."
"Didn't ho give you the linpres
sion that there was something that
he feared, but wouldn't talk about?
He was pretty well shaken up over
that ambush, wasn t he?"
"Yes, but that's only natural. No
one but an Idiot would make light
of It." "
"Don't you think It odd that the
first time he wont out without a
bodyguard he wus flred on? And that
It occurred on a lonely road, far from
the city?"
"No. It's not odd. If some one were
waiting for just such a chance."
"That doesn't say much for the
ability of Barry and Marklson, who
were supposed to be guarding him.
I've always thought they were pretty
good men."
"No one Is infallible, Doyle."
. "I think both Marklson and Barry
know their business." Doyle
shrugged. ''But let's look at It from
another ongle. Who knew where
Dufresne was going on that trip?"
"Only himself, Mrs. Dufresne. and
the two detectives, so far as we
know. Possibly Andrews, the butler,
knew also."
" A LL right, we'll drop that line.
but think it over and see it It
doesn't suggest something to you.
Now, after you ran out on us so
mysteriously, I got to thinking about
the hints Dufresne had been band
ing out and I guessed you had made
the sudden dash to give the latest
developments to the new widow,
and. Incidentally, to find out lust
how she had been spending the eve
ning. I remembered having seen her
name In the society column, so I
looked up the notice. I found that
Mrs. Crelghton Morion's house was
only about a mile from here, eo I
left and walked over.
"And was I surprised when 1 got
there and found you hadn't been
near the place! And let me tell you
that the lady was expecting trouble
She didn't give me half a chance to
tell my story. At the first words she
rushed out of the bouse and Into a
car. The rest of the story you know."
Harper stirred restively. "1 don't
see where that alters the circum
stances." "Walt a minute, you haven't heard
all of It yet." Doyle'a alert eyes were
fixed steadily on the detective s
through the cigarette smoke. "By
and by the smart detective on this
case It going to call In everybody
concerned, one by one, and ask.
January 10th?' When that time
comes. Harper, you're going to find
that Mrs. Dufresne will have an alibi
that is really no alibi at all then
what?
Certainly. I'm aware that there
was a dinner party at Mrs Morlock's
last night and Mrs. Dufresne is a
house guest there. But, you will hear
that Mrs. Dufresne was so upset over
the news of the attack on her hus
band yesterday afternoon that she
developed a severe headache and re
mained In her room. She did not
come down tor dinner. .
I've found out that you tried to
reach her by telephone from the
Austerlltz and couldn't get an
answer. Perhaps you haven't bad
time to find out why, eo I'll tell you.
By a most strange coincidence, there
was a fire last night In the Morlock
garage and the telephone wires,
strung just outside It, were burned
and put out of commission.
When I got to the house the con
fusion wns at Its peak Are engines
all over the street, salvaged auto
mobiles parked anywhere, guests
and servants running In and out to
watch the show. No one knew where
auy one else was. or bad been."
Doyle lowered his voice Impres
sively. "While I was looking around
I saw a woman's figure going Into
the house through the side door. I
couldn't see her face, but 1 got a
good look at the fur coat and the
shoes. This woman had come up the
rear walk. 1 could see ber footprints
in the snow. Everybody was over on
the other side of the house, watch
ing the garage burn.
"TVELL, 1 Anally found a house-
' maid running excitedly around
the hall and I asked for Mrs. Du
fresne. The girl went upstairs and
in a minute or two Mrs. Dufresne
came down. Harper, you can Ima
gine the Jolt I got y.l)an,3Lrecognized
the slippers! 'i -..' .. j
"Not only that, but they were soak
ing wet from the snow, as wet as my
shoes were from walking over a mile
In it! And when Mrs. Dufresne sent
for her coat, to go along with me,
there was the same fur coat 1 had
seen disappearing through the side
door, the fur still damp from melted
snow. Now, what do you make of
that?" ......
Harper was silently digesting this
story of the reporter's. "That will
bear a lot of thought, Doyle," be
answered slowly.
"Get this my final broadside.
Harper. I don't know how tar you've
gone with your Investigations but It
strikes me that there's something
In this case resembling tbe state of
Denmark In Hamlet's time."
Doyle stood up and pointed
through the window. "Do you see
that stone wall? That's the boundary
wall of Dufresne's property. On the
other side of the wall are thick
bushes. Last night some one hid
there between the bushes and the
wall, walked up end down and
watched this house, most likely this
very room. There is your witness!
Find him, and you'll know what
went on here last night!"
A few moments later Sergeant
Harper and his assistant. Lafforty.
bent thoughtfully over the sketch
the former had drawn of the Du
fresne bouse and grounds.
They just had come In from their
Inspection of the spot Doyle had
discovered by a fortunale chance.
The reporter's final broadside had
been very telling. Indeed, riddling
Into holes the Inferential evidence
so far provided by the killings. A
witness, and a secret one. certainly
substantiated Harper's doubts that
the affair had been "!iapha-..-.rd."
Here was the first hlnl of premedi
tation. "That Is certainly a choice bit of
luck." Lafferty chuckled. "Wall till
we blaze away with that and see
whose feathers fly."
"That's exactly what we're not
going to do," Harper countered. "It's
an ace up our sleeve, but that's the
best place for it at pres-.nl. It's some
thing to think about quietly, not brag
about."
"Well, you're passing up a fine
chance to put on the screws. Vou're
giving them too much time to gel
their stories ready. I'm sure that
smart chauffeur. Donaghy. Is wise lo
something, and then there Is old
Andrews and that sour-faced Mrs.
Wbllmore all likely material to
work on. You con trust the servants
to know things."
Harper smiled. "Don't let your
patience get out of control, Jack. I'm
deliberately giving these people
plenty of time to think It over.
It they're concealing something,
they're sure to elaborate too much
and take enough rope to hang them
selves." ICovtirioht. UH. Ill trotter C. Broun)
Tomorrow, the dettctlvet begin
a cold, relentless sorting of svi-denes.
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