The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Saturday; May 21, 1938
Henry .
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BY PHOEBE ATYVOOD TAYLOR
SYNOPSIS: Unscrupulous Marina Lome,
who husband' poatofflc mural bat
routed Quanomet, la murdered by a left
handed blow from her lister' knife. Aaer
Maro. Cap Cod detective, hide hunted
Pm Pry In hi bouse. He lerna these
fact: Pam found 150.000 worth of am
berrla which Marin tried to claim, and
hid It afur dlscovarlnf afarlna dead In
the e;arae; aomeone who smoke Turkish
tobacco was vesdropplnc on Pm's
arory to learn the whereabouu of the
ambertrls: acreeable Tim Carr, boarder
at the Fryea Oetaton House, amokes
Turkish tobacco, la left handed and hat
ed Marina to Nw York Then Pam dis
appear. Chapter 12
Footprints
It was quarter to nine that
same morning, just u Asey poured
himself a third cup of coffee, that
the tide gate clicked and the ample
figure of his cousin Syl Mayo's wife
hove in view.
Asey sighed. Jennie was a dear,
kind thins, and while few women
could equal her cooking, few also
could equal her curiosity.
He would. At least, hear all the
aeiaiis. Jennie was on me 21 ieie
I phone line, snd if Jennie was up to
par, she should have at least 21 ver
sions of Marina Lome's murder.
"My, myl" Jennie ran true to
form. "My, Asey, ain't It awful I
Who done it, do you know? I'd like
to ring their necks, that's what I'd
like to dol"
"You're the first person." Asey
remarked, "who's felt the slightest
bit of sympathy for Marina Lome,
or the least drop of anger toward
the feller that killed her."
"Marina?" Jennie sniffed. "I'm
not talking about Marina Lome
Marina I Huh. Plain Mary, that's
what she is. Mary Hosannah. And
she was a well, she was a bad
woman, Asey. Just plain bad. De
served what she got. Who done it?'
Asey was puzzled. "Done what.
the murder?"
"Bother the murder. I'm talkln'
about them petunias out by your
kitchen window here! Who tram
pled 'em down? I spent all day be
fore yesterday momln' in the hot
sun." Jennie said, "settln' in pe
tunias like you always have. An1
now they're trampled flat as your
hoel I'd like to find the wretch
that did itl I'd give them a good
piece of my mind"
"Trample?" Asey got up. "I
didn't know It, Jennie. I seen the
petunias yesterday, an' thought
how fine they looked. I was goln'
to tell you how I liked "em let
me take a look, now, at this. This
Is sort of lntereetln'."
Jennie's ire was considerably
mollified by Asey's solicitude for
the trampled plants.
"I thought myself, they looked
pretty nice." she said. "Come
here, see? Of course I can get
the car when Syl comes in from
quohoggln' an' drive up an' get
more. They was dear"
"111 pay for the next lot," Asey
said, "an" while you're up there
you get some cut flowers for your
self. Well, well. That's trsmpltn'
that Is tramplin'. ain't It? I think
yes. I think I begin to see. Jennie.
I was Just as dummed a fool last
night aa I thought I was. Some-
oooy stood out here and watched.
He figured it out. Somebody was
watching him there in the kitchen.
Pun. coming Into the bedroom
after her bath, must have peeked
aown and teen the person there.
She didnt dash downstairs, or
scream out, which on the whole
was sensible of her. To let the per
son know for sure that she wss
there would not have been so good.
Asey knelt down.
h Her Month"
"I wish." he said, "that he had
n't milled around this earth is
so soft, you eouldnt get one good
Print out of the lot. But here's
oho. He ducked at somethln say
I wonder I I bet It was my knife
comln "
Jennie stared at him. "You feel
all right?" she asked anxiously.
"I'm fine." Asev said. "Fine. An'
then he left. An' Pam wrote that
note"
1 "Pam Frye? Asey Mayo, you are
ilxed up In this, aren't you?"
"Pam left that not for me."
Asey said, "an' then she hid. I Just
locked up the empty room. Then
she slid out, probably while Can
vas here. Chance art pretty good
By
o
no u 1
r r '
that she gave the watcher the slip,
see? Because she knew about him,
an' he didnt know about her. She
figured that she'd told me all she
could, an' that her bein' here was
dangerous to me, as well as cur
talltn' my comin's and goln's. With
out her around, I'd be a lot freer
an' a lot safer. She probably
rounded out her thin sin' by Jeelln'
that she had nothin' to lose. An' I
guess she's right. I guess, Jennie,
she can look out for herself."
"You mean Pam Trie?" Jennie
said. "She's a mighty nice girl.
Clever, too. She give the women's
club a talk on art last year."
"Jennie, what about flashlights?1
Asey said. "How many do I have
around the house? Are they all In
the chest?"
"All eight," she told him
promptly. "I put 'em all eight in
the blue sea chest when I cleaned.'
"Then let's see," Asey said,
"how many we got now. I know
she didn't have a light with her. I
think we had three last night,
Carr and I."
The eight flashlights were duly
accounted for, and Jennie prompt.
ly wanted to know why they mat
tered.
"To prove that a light that flick
ed off an' on," Asey said, "presum
ably In the spare bedroom, was
really a flashlight that our fancy
watcher was flickin' to see If he
could draw Pam to the window.
Probably he Vas havln' doubts If
she was there. We seen the light
from the front, an' he was aimin'
in the back. It come straight
through the dormer, see? Well, If
he wanted action, he sure got It.
An' certainly, subsequent events
ought to of proved to him that I
didn't know where she was or
where she'd gone. Jennie, your
petunlas've been pretty helpful"
"Maybe they have," Jennie said
"I can't make head nor tail of It,
myself. But I do know one thing.
I know you ought to go straight
over to Quanomet and shut Nettle
Hobo's mouth, tight. Why. the way
she's been talkln'! Its awful."
"What do folks think of the
things Nettle says?"
"Those that know Pam, they
dont believe Nettle," Jennie said
"But those that don't well, they
alnt got anyhlng else to go by
than what Nettle says. It's a
shsme. My mother used to say
that Nettle Hobos was weaned on
sour milk and pickle Juice, an' she's
right. She's a dour, spur old thing.
Just the same as the pickle limes
in her store window, and now she's
got her chance to get back at Pam,
he's dotn' everything she can. An'
you'd ought to stop her."
"She Laughed and Laughed
'To get back at Pam? What for?"
Asey asked. "What'd Pam ever do
to her?" ,
"Aaron Prye." Jennie satd mean
lngly. rolling her eyes.
"What about Aaron Prye?"
"Nettle," Jennie said, "she set
her cap for him. Of course, they're
about of an age, an' Silas Hobb's
been dead for years poor man.
what a life he must have led! Did
you know his tombstone says 'At
rest at last ? Well. It does. I've
seen It. An' of course Aaron Prye
been a widower for nearly nine
years. He's a nlos refined man
used to be a professor an' he's a
nice lookln' man, an' Pam keeps
things up
"Do you mean," Asey said, "that
on the strength of Pam Prye's
meager earnln's, Nettie was aimin
to marry Into the family?"
Jennie nodded. "She don't make
much with the Woman's Exchange.
I suppose she figured If she could
get Into the family, Pam or the
son-in-law or someone a seep ner.
If anything happened to Aaron.
Well of course It wss silly, the
whole thing was stilly. I said so. the
minute I heard about It last winter.
But Aaron Prye's sort of a gentle
soul, the kind that can be led Into
things. You know. No." she added,
looking at Asey's Jaw. "I dont
Hoi wou do. Anyway, he's sort of
easy goin' an' absent minded, an'
if Pam hadnt caught on about all
the pie an' cake an' Jelly brintln'.
maybe Nettle might have got him.
I wouldn't go so far a to say Pan
Carl Anderson
and Nettie had words, but I guess
Pam let her understand she wss
wastin' her time, an' her cookin',
too"
"So Nettle's down on Pam for
that. Maybe that accounts for
things," Asey said.
"Thais not all," Jennie an
swered. "At least, that Isn't the
part that matters so much. The im
portant part is that Nettie kind of
let on to folks that she was goln'
to marry Aaron, and one night at
a church supper, someone asked
Pam about it. An' Pam, she choked
over her baked beans so hard they
had to bring her water an' bang
her on the back. An' when she got
her breath, she laughed and laugh
ed and laughed so hard she cried
an' they had to bring her more wa
ter. Well, Nettie heard about It, of
course. I guess that was the part
that"
"That griped," Asey said with a
grin. "I see. No more powerful
weapon than ridicule say, that
reminds me. You got anythln'
Nettie? Like well, I dont know
what, exactly. But If you could
rout up somethln' I could use as a
club, 1 might oe aoie to stop ner,
"There's two things," she said,
"but neither of 'emU be much
good. There was always talk about
the church accounts the year she
had 'em, but I don't know how
you'd prove it. Mostly I keep think
In', Nettie and Pam are related, an'
it's a mean skinny way to treat
your own flesh and blood, talkln'
like Nettle Is."
Asey wanted to know how they
were related. The minute he asked,
he knew he was In for it. Jennie
began to trace the Sparrow family
down through the centuries.
Tomorrow: News of Quanomet.
Ashland Theater Sold
Salem Heights Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Lewis (Helen) and Mr. and Mrs,
Harvey Larson, all of Ashland, Ore.,
have sold their theater at that place.
and are visiting home folks, Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Larson, while seek
ing a new location.
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