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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1941)
,13,1941. TBS REGISTER. GUARD. EUGENE. ORZQOH LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE MURDER IN PARADISE L f i AOfltltRtTE GAHAGAN r "Ttr ."".'Ji.tiMiea ISSm ""7, J 0 SKI jrCJDUOS CAMK CHAPTE v . um nneil and F 4W. Mine mans f rated t was hap- f v.( (a b firm with Tod editor w ul ,7. . ft, little weekly paper L .n h local news from p, festivals to ton auc lh sad Mauds sewed my PmrZ. .1.1. 4ntrviewln KJu hastened to soothe charming young man: .....j:. .lurava had ft IXwoarrledllleathree iriftUs strange assort- 7i..,i..rlfcl in saying that Ea' wasn't 1tk 'the news mi knew. He wa t ibout 29, with nice wavy r v.i. ., itadv brown eyes ken serious to his tanned, hwed ftce. raaua w U.a rfmw moit of the inter- L.I was happy to learn. She r0'. i.i m 1 m Um warn f umith one could call L jnt name immediately forked In DetTOK a lew years fc coming home to ecui me fcretkly paper his father had tin the result of a life's flod was the Kit. to fit Into It eonmunlty too. He was fa kind, tolerant, but tor all Hired ana a tnorougn son i i nan. ma of ui has much to tell," ted. "We don't know why, lot by whom the man was ltd that s what maxes tne iseed. "Well have to wait b tojaeit for light on those it," nil Maudie, "I should III jou snooped about a bit mi find what people have M'tnd what those people doing last night. I m sure skat I'd do-" htyou've no part in this pic- hire," I reminded her grimly. Be fore the couia ao mora wan give ma cold, dignified glare through ber glasses a ear stopped outside and I beard a voice, calling. FOM the look of absolute de light on Maudie'i face and the sinking sensation la my own In terior, I knew who bad arrived. Why it bad never occurred to me mat Denny would come, I don't know, except that things bad moved so swiftly as to leave me more confused than usual. But be was there. Dennis Flynn bad worked with the boys In the dty room and waa one of the best crime reporters In town. If be was here now the story must-have big angles, I thought, following Maudie outside. I sort of gathered myself to gether, figuratively speaking, be cause Denny did things to me. hadn t seen nun in a year and I hoped now that the sight of his red head and freckled lace with the funny, crooked eyebrows wouldn't make me feel In a way no teacher of Lit. I should feel I'd felt that way about him for a long time and I had put up with a lot, too, because being with Denny after teaching smarty soph omores In high school day after dar was like changing from Cin derella Into the traditional fairy princess. I mean life to Denny was a grand adventure, only sometimes the adventures were too crazy. It was one of those that be bad taken In stride that finished things between us a year ago. After all a school teacher has her repute' tion to consider, and I was quite sure the Board of Education wouldn't approve of his calling for me In a patrol wagon he hap pened to meet up with while wait ing to eaten a taxi out to our house. Well, Denny had met Tod Palmer when he was out this way on some state assignment, and the way young Tod looked at him I could see he was another pushover for the Flynn charm. The young reporters always were that way. Denny stood for the old type school of newspaperman to them and they were naive enough to hang on his every word In open mouthed admiration. At least, I thought, I can look at him with out such an expression on my face. The vision of that Black Maria parked before the house while Denny waited to escort me to the theater in It was still vivid in my mind. We sat there, Maudie and I, and listened to Denny and young Tod put the pieces of the picture of the crime together. Where Denny had acquired all his Information I don't know, but he knew what we knew and more betides. Maudie waa in seventh heaven. While passing out beer and goose liver sandwiches, which she had made In about two minutes, she managed to ask all the questions she had been mulling over. e DENNY let her talk. "Sorry, uuiiui, dui a none think . there's going to be much romantic mystery," he told her finally. "Maybe this little country dame Jeanie did have cause to bump Cord off, and maybe your green-eyed Dixon gal bad Just aa good cause, but he waa plugged by a good old .3J slug and, know ing nis pais in town, I'd say It was the work of the numbers boys." I was nonplussed, but Maud! put It Into words. "Numbers boysT i suppose you mean the enea being investigated by the Grand Jury," she said. Maudie keeps up on tne news. "Cord had bean doing a little fine manipulating," Denny said. "He was getting bis cut all right and he was due to be called by the Grand Jury. He's been around town long enough so that someone probably ngured he'd talk and talk plenty." Maudie looked bewildered. "What's the matter?" I demanded. "You've still shad a murder. Aren't numbers boys exciting enough? Here you've had one right in your back yard, so to speak, with a smoking gun In his hand and a nice corpse left as a remembrance. What more do you want?" Personally I felt like drawing a big breath of relief. I don't know just what I ex pected to develop out of that crime, but now I was sure that little Jeanie Morris wouldn't be involved, and her faded romance with Cord wouldn't have to be blazoned across every front page. But that feeling wasn't evidenced on Maudie's plump face. "You may be a good leg man, Dennis Flynn, but this time you're wrong." "How come, darling? What do you know that I don't know?" She went into one of her dow ager freezes and fllckecTthe ash into the tray at the crucial mo ment. "You're such a great re porter you should know all the possibilities," she said with dig nity. Denny looked at me and flicker of doubt clouded his eyes, I felt a moment's panic myself. Maudie spoke with such authority. (To Be Continued) POPEYE Secret Agent X- ' "I it" ,x ! If A SST, L fiKAjrSHING MACHINES TO PLANE BUILDING IT'S A CINCH. Time sm does i woman's place in the scheme of thins. Vultee Aircraft Co.. Downey, Whl .il .w?m.en who work shoulder to shoulder with men in the machine fhop, IftatehiZ. t , 5nop and on tt8 finaI wmbly Una (above). Thia group U work- . .ullage structures. , SIDE GLANCES "3 on't (ell V At tea efVlt. a . s)T ey WJFtWWWeJe1yWy Dashing Mounted PollcjJ Guard Canada Since to is. CANADA'S dashing, romanuol and efficient Royal Canadian' Mounted Police waa founded in 1873. 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