THE EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD
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LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
Good Business
By HAROLD GRAY
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FORBUSH
..uPTER XII
jTd W and
rf''nr'" Tota's mother wa.
kill I-".'.,... . tor wanted.
LI.SArilInUd."N.
fB"""i!" Tom telephoned
K tfnniased the oat-
.1hm airily but Linda waa
her normal ana
! t i., . little breakfast now.
B,,,..r-b''W. thi.la.thour
-..a new 'A" aour or
K.T.rf bn early-before S
: f dH mother-in-law. in
VKJtX her mneh-harasa-
"Crr back to you a. fast
i n T know. I made mm eat
nrZ,J. va down for
Wewhenhemenp.So
trVu to ber cheek, and
fa'.' m with a reaigned
JgT-rt b .on at the door
. oat as he came In.
j.rlinc'" All the anxiety
M " i"S'.. S, hi. exclamn-
CToor baW-you poor
Lre, Tommy-rm all right
':. I.., lie down! Yon
pit.
ft
ITon
I black blur. Bnt whan 1 came up-
talr, Marvin "
"W.it. Tom. YaiiV ati nt
elf. You came op the lawn"
un ma aeaa run. Ul conra I
. ..n this n-nv
fr. to atay riRht here. Stop
ink, Dpnnve yom.
.1 not to talk. The doctor's
kfVUJv tnauired Linda
rMU .d "ice. He looked
ftSlephoned Parson., of course
L t here just as quickly a. he
f There was nothing he could
, JZt is ho attended to you
try to reach Pat Boyle
J. the county medical examiner.
WeVaway. ao Paron . sahl
the rMpnn"iuj j
If tilt it was nn
P Sow what happened to Cousin
1 . him look at
tike
Lthit
Inj." Her tone maue uiu . " --
Sttn'from the balcony," said
v'Acain he was punled by
tune. "Well suppose, Tom,
Kliied suddenly, leanins aimui.
I pOlew, -suppose yui -u
It whit did happen a far as yon
L a. hack t the very becin-
km remember we . were going
fcia together ' t
II ej. 10U went aoeaa oi inc.
M, I was just climbing up on
,ir Innkinr toward the house
a yon came out on the balcony."
Ton eonld see me clearly?"
Why yes. Ton waved "
Ton saw me wave?"
i eonld not understand her ten-
!. "It wss all over so quickly,
itood for a moment like like a
Irt eidamation point against the
t of the house. And then your
went ud and just as I was wav-
hick I saw you pitch forward
of itinrir and fall. Qosb, Bulks,
wit a scare!"
f patted his lean brown hand,
hit have given you a turn, poor
Well?"
F'l I dove, I saw a man "
mTut?" She was sitting up, de-
Mr clutching his hand.
jT right behind yon In the door
rinH you see who 7"
Bra, no. I didn t stop. It was
T i lerond between the time when
I yoa fall and when I took that
ind came np headed for ahore a
I minute."
pmld yon still see, the man?"
pot when I was diving naturally.
i came to the surface I just saw
"Cousin Amos.'
"When I was just a few yarda from
tha from the body who should .troll
around the corner of th hons. but
Shaughnessey, At that hour of the
morning!"
"Oh!" she gasped. "Which anil of
tha house?"
"End toward the garage."
"Did he aeem "
"I didn't notice a darn thing about
him. Marvin heard ma coming "
"Marvin? Did ha coma from his
room?"
"No. Be waa with yon. Tha man
I saw from the w.ter."
"What?"
"He'd heard yoa fall, he said, and
saw the room door open."
"Hm!" Linda digested that
"Where were the othera?"
"DeVoa and Statlander? Oh, the
excitement brought them out, too. We
brought you in here "
"And telephoned for your mother.
That was nice of you, Tom."
"Then what?"
"Well first we called Dr. Paraons."
"Go on, Tom. I'm quite all right,
Really. I'd rather have you tell me
everything.
"Well, he made an examination.
Looked at the place and the body.
He was a bit upset as to what was
best to do because technically any case
of sudden death like that has to be
certified as an accident by the medi
cal examiner. You're not supposed to
move the body till he has seen it and
said you could. Parsons isn't any
too friendly with this man Boyle. He's
that roughneck, old-time pill peddler
one of the county political gang,
you know. Anyhow the office ia a
nice little bit of graft and he's never
around on the rare occasions when he
renlly Is needed. This time he's on a
fislnmr trin with some of his cronies
down nt the end of the island. So
Pin-sons had to act on his own. He
examined everything very carefully
it was obvious what had happened to
the poor old man and that you'd prob
ablv seen him fall. A. far as we
could figure out, you stopped at hia
room on the way downstair, and found
him' feeling badly. I told Parsons
about his upset yesterday afternoon
and the row. Anyhow you must hav
actually seen him go over. No won
der yon fainted! Parlons 1. .Mil
downstairs, incidentally. He'll be np
any minute to look at you and prob
ably give me hell for talking and let
ting you talk." ,
"So that's the story!" Linda drew
a long breath.
"That's what happened from our
end anyhow. Ton can fill in the
gaps." ' '
"Yes." Linda looked him atraight
in the eye, opened her month and
then shut it aa another thought came.
"Our guests are they all .till
here?"
"Hnnev. don't worry about them.
Ho patted her hand reassuringly. "Of
course they're hert now but they're
going aa quickly aa they can get on.
You needn't aee one of them again
if you don't want to."
"Vo?" said Linda.
"I told them the train .ervice into
town on Saturday morning wa rot.
ten and naturally I didn't want to
hnrrv them too much. Especially ue.
Vo and StAtlandei' rather rough on
them, an accident like thia after the
.noil, unset, we ve bad
"Vnleska, you mean. It la bad, that
way," Linda apoke abstractedly, har
mind racing ahead to meet thia new
complication.
"They were very decent, though,
Blnks. After all, auch an unusual ac
cident no one would expect a host-
M" " , ,
"Tom listen! Someone', coming 1
(To Be Continued)
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