HENRY
HORDED
On THE DLUFF
Chapter S3
AUNT MARTHA'S MACHINATIONS
"I suppose Martha thought she
had done away with all possibilities
of Mikes hearing about his father.
She handed Higgins the gun and
went quickly back to bed. Poor Hig
gins made sure that he could do no
thing for Jude. He cleaned and re
loaded the gun and resolved to talk
to me before he said anything to
anyoody else.
"As for me. my situation got
increasingly worse from the mo
ment I walked Into the kitchen. I
felt sure that either Martha or Nor
man had done it, but I had not one
shred of proof and didn't have
until Higgins spoke to me yesterday
Martha staged a frightened, elderly
woman act. I could get nowhere on
her. I did nothing bccuase we were
as much on our guard as we could
oe and I wanted to avert panic.
"How the dickens Norman man
aged to elude us when we searched
the grounds In broad daylight, I
don't know. He may have let him
self Into the house more than once
with that key. I don't think there's
any doubt that he was the intruder
who dealt with Cook and Annie.
That handkerchief he used on Annie
was yours, as a matter of fact, Mike.
He d been using some of your cloth
es. Higgins was the prowler In the
hall. He told me so. But poor Nor
man must have ransacked Martha's
room and multllated the cat In Just
the sort of a frenzy the doctors
had predicted.
"I'm sure that you and William
suffered at his hands. Jim. Then. I
Imagine, he let himself into Jude's
room with his key and concealed
himself in that horrible fashion.
Martha must have known that he
was there. I suppose she really
thought that he was better dead
than confined. At any rate, the min
ute I realized that he was gone, I
could think of only one thing the
, spot on the bluff where his mother
died and where Martha used to
brood for hours as a girl. In her
mind she had made a martyr of
ncr mother. Something told me that
she intended to do the same with
her brother. I knew what we would
find at the foot of that cliff before
I had taken a single step.
"You see, I still hadn't talked to
Hiirgina. I knew that we were at the
mercies of a homicidal maniac, but
I had not one shred of proof and
my changes of being believed were
pretty slender. I put Ikt to bed and
I thought she was sleeping when I
left her. Apparently she wasn't.
Higgins was on the verge of telling
you the whole story, Jim, when he
saw her standing outside the win
dow In my oilskins listening. She
frightened him half out of his wit.
What she was doing out there I
don't know. Looking at the scene of
Norman's death possibility. At any
rate from thin on she began to dis
trust Higgins. After you went look
ing for Mike, Jim, he let her In. And
she threatened him, poor old boy I
He was terrified. He got her to her
room and went in search of me.
"Meanwhile you got the wacky
notion that you were Insane. Mike,
and I did Uie hardest thing I've
ever don In my lite. I went to Hig
gins" room, got the revolver, and
walked stralRht down the hall to
Martha's door. In view of Higgins'
story she must have Just left the oil
skins In my room and started to
undress. She was at the dressing
table and as she turned toward me
I shot her. Unfortunately, my aim
was rotten. Higgins had caught
sight of me in the servants' hall.
As I turned around he was right at
my elbow. He never said a word.
Took the gun out of my hand, wiped
It clean with his hankerrhlef. and
shoved me to the head of Uie stairs.
To all Intents and purposes we were
coming up them as you rushed down
the hull, Mike. Higgins had an alibi
right on Uie tip of his tongue.
"When I heard that I had failed,
I knew that I had endangered your
lives more than ever. Martha knew
who had shot her, although I don't
think she actually saw me. She knew
and she laid her plans accordingly.
I was with her for some time.
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to be asleep, but I knew she wasn't.
She was my sister practically my
mother and and a grand girl.
God I How I pitied her! But we sat
there within two feet of each other
and planned each other's deaths. I
waited until she asked for another
sleeping powder. I went into the
bathroom to fix it, where size could
not possibly see me, and I put a half
a box of the damned powders into
her glass.
"But she was ahead of me. I came
back to find her crying. It wasn't
as if her state of mind had been her
fault. Seeing her that way got
me. I tried to comfort her, but she
wouldn't listen for a long time. Then
something appeared to snap in her
and she poured out a story. She
said that she had lured you into
the old loft, Mike, and shot you.
Then, frightened, she had put you
inside one of the cedar chests and
left you there alive.
"If I hod stopped to think, I would
have known that she was lying.
She hadn't been out of my sight
since you left the room. But she
knew me well enough to know that
I wouldn't stop. That loft was used
as a sort of strong-room In grand
father's time. I had forgotten its
existence. I tore up to It, dragging
her with me. And when I got to the
place where she wanted me. she
simply crowned me with something.
The rest of that let's not talk
about."
The Skipper's pauses were becom
ing longer and more difficult, but
she went on.
"I think Higgins suspected her.
but the place had never been used
in his time. He didn't know how to
get Into it. and he knew that Martha
IllRDS WITH MUSTACHES
By Mary Graham Bonner
"Oh, there go the flickers with
their mustaches!" exclaimed Willy
Nilly.
"I thought you were pointing out
some birds to its." barked Rip.
"I am," smiled Willy Nilly. Flick
ers are birds and they have mus
taches. At least, I should say that
the Mr. Flickers have black marks
by their beaks that look very much
like mustaches. They have cous-
Ins, too, known as the red-shnft-ed
flickers who have red mustaches.
"They're whistling gaily. I sup
pose because they know that soon
at least 8 or 10 eggs will hatch Into
little flickers.
"Don't you think they look some
thing like woodpeckers?"
Rip. the dog, agreed.
"Oh me. oh my. there goes a lit
tle ruby-throated humming bird!
He's after the honeysuckle bush and
will flit about, and then put his
long beak into the honeysuckle's
sweetness and drink. How quickly
he flies!"
"They're brave, too. aren't thev?"
asktd Rip. who had remembered
times when it was hard for him to
be brave before creatures stronger
and blffgcr than he. The humming
bird was so little.
"Yes, the humming birds are
brave," admitted Willy Nilly. and
then, as they passed an orchard
they saw a kingbird a fine, big
bird with a small patch fo orange
colored feathers on his head.
"I m glad Christopher Columbus
Crow Isn't around now." Willv
Nilly told Rip. "Kinebirds dont
like crows and will peck at them.
Oh. lets hurry and get on a
distance, for Christopher may be
returning at any time.' i
Tomorrow - "Chrlstoph.r . Return "
lilllS
THE
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By Carl Anderson
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was watching him. I heard someone
tapping around down here trying to
find the opening, and I imagine it
was Higgins. Also, he probably
wasn't sure of himself. Martha's
nearly dying after she finally took
the powders probably made him
wonder whether I hadn't simply at
tempted to murder her a second
time and then beat it to escape be
ing caught.
"I heard him calling to me sev
eral times through the floor in his
room. He apparently knew I wae
there, but thought I could answer
him or come down if I wanted to.
When Martha knew that I had been
found dead or alive she knew
that Higgins would talk. Poor old
Hiegins had been protecting her
with his life. He even removed those
letters that she planted In William's
room. She begged the originals from
me long ago and kept them all this
time. Those letters were forgeries,
of course. Higgins had saved her life,
but now he was dangerous. And so
she killed him."
The Skipper stopped abruptly and
the sudden silence was painful.
Michael sat with- his head In his
hands, motionless. Gay's subdued
face was turned toward him, and
her eyes were anxious. But the
Skipper sat straight and stiff be
tween them, her face a mask and
her eyes straight ahead, Finally
Michael raised his head.
"Is that all?" he said in a muffled
voice.
The Skipper's smile was twisted.
"That's all. If you like, Jim. you can
send Jack Blinshop out here to me.
I suppose it's poetic justice that I
should be the ptTson to tell him."
Blindly I grouped for words, found
none, and choked out, "I'm telling
him."
Gay got suddenly to her feet,
dropped one swift kiss on the top
of the Skipper's head, and went
noiselessly from the room. I wanted
to follow her, but my feet seemed
riveted to the spot.
"I suppose." the Skipper's voice
went on, '"there's a moral some
where in this, although at the mo
ment It eludes me. Something about
the wages of sin, no doubt. Only,
Mlckie, I" Her voice caught and
stopped. One instant there was sil
ence; the next the room was filled
with dry, hard sobbing. Michael
crashed to his knees.
I slipped through the game room
and out the side entrance to the
lawn, barely feeling the sting of the
cold, salt air. I needed a coat, but
not badly enough to go back for one.
The foot of the drive confronted
me before I was really aware that I
was walking. Pausing. I stared out
across Uie water toward the main
land. A motor dory was hended
straight for the spot where I stood.
In another minutes the leathery old
face of Andie Darrel was staring up
at me from under his sou'wester.
"HI there!" he trumpeted nasally.
THE END
ANSWERS
to .
QUESTIONS
I By Frederic J. Haskins '
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Q. How much money has been
paid to Uie Dionne Quintuplets by
advertisers? E.G.H.
A. The total earnings of the chil
dren to date from various advertis
ing and picture contracts are $861,
146 39.
Q. Please gne some Information
about the candlemakers who made
the famous Caruso candle. EJ.H.
A. The AJellos of New York City
are the world's most famous candle
makers. The business was started
In Sorrento, Italy, 165 years ago.
and Is now carried on by members
of the family in Chicago. St. Louis,
and Beverly Hills, as well as In New
York. Their output Is approxi
mately 2.000,000 candle a year,
it.. ii i .
iniiimiH l-lir Wi ll MIUWII ln'ISWi WHO
hav. been customer, of tht AJellot
CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON
are the Duke of Windsor. Colonel
Lindbergh, MusioUni. Queen Marie,
Tascanini, and a number of presi
dents of the United States.
Q. How many people in this coun
try have defective vision? How
many wear glasses? CR.W.
A. According to figures of the
Better Vision Ins ti Lute. 90.000.000
persons in the United States have
defective eyes and 34.000,000 wear
glasses.
i Q. How much do fishermen spend
for tackle? C.B.
A. In 1936 accrued and unlicensed
fishermen spent $15,000,000 for tac
kle. Q. In pronouncing "subpoena" Is
the "b" silent? SC.
A. It Is not.
Q. What was "the scalplock"? G.
H.
A, In scalping, the portion taken
was usually a small circular patch
of skin at the root of the scalplock
just back of the crown of the head.
The scalplock itself was the small
hair braid which hung from the
back of the head, as distinguished
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operation was performed by making
a quick knife stroke around the
head of the fallen enemy, followed
by a strong tug at Uie scalplock.
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made? J.
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having radiating branches, which
are cut off about an Inch and a
half from the stem. It Is used to
stir a mixed drink.
Q. How much money did Alexan
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A. He died Insolvent.
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many, and Russia? H.W.
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the headsman's ax; Russia, the fir
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