16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, January 23, 1950
A Man Is Missing
By ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
(Creator of the famous fictional detective. Perry Uuod)
Hank turned the card over and studied the phoiograpn
o, (Chapter One)
.T Bherlft Bill Catlln spilled the con--t-.tents
of the envelope on his battered
-desk and glowered at the younger
"mail across from him, who sat un
'"eomfortably attentive.
- "The trouble with these dudes,"
'the sheriff said, "Is that they think
" but here in Idaho we ain't civilized.
JNow, here's IM Harvel, me cniei ol
v police that was visiting out here
.-three years ago. He wants me to lo
- m nmnesla victim, and he
writes me a two-page letter telling
me how to go about It."
Hank Lucas nodded vaguely as
-the sheriff's steely eyes looked up
"liver the top of nis spectacles.
"Now, this here chap," the sher-
'Jjt went on, "had a previous attack.
-.Ke wandered off on his own. Was
"gone for three months, came back,
'and didn't know where he'd been.
""Didn't know what he'd done, what
"name he went under, where he lived.
..or anything about it. He Just left
- his office five o'clock one after-
noon and started for home. He
' showed up three months later.
" Ain't that a heck of a note?"
"That," Lucas agreed, "Is a heck
. f a note."
"Now then," the sheriff went on,
"a year ago he did it again. Dis
' appeared last September. But this
"time he writes his wife a picture
post card. Sends It to her 'way
back last October."
"Hey, wait a minute," Hank said.
"'If he sent his wife a picture post
"card, his mind hasn't gone plumb
'..blank. How did he know where
. to address It?"
'T'm nomlno- to that." the sheriff
said. "That's the funny thing. He'd
been married three years, but ho
ariftrpMpri the nrt card to his wife
. under her maiden name and sent it
to the old address where she lived
when he was courting ner. -
' HnnV Hlrln'fr. HHV AllVthinff.
"' "Now, Kd Harvel," the sheriff
went on, "suggests this chap, whose
jiame Is JTanK Adrian, is sua go
ing under Ms own name, Because
h slimed the oost card 'Prank.'
This here amnesia guy seems to
have gone over in tne Miaaie rxr
country and lived In a cabin. He
had a camera, and someone took
his picture standing in front of
til cabin. It was sent to his wife
addressed to her, like I said, under
her maiden name, Corliss Lathan.
"The post card was mailed from
Twin rails. Darned if they dld'nt
waste a lot of time corresponding
with t.h. folks down In Twin Palls.
Then finally someone suggested It
might be the Middle Pork country,
and It seems like the man who is
Jn charge of the missing-person
department found out Ed Harvel
had been out here three years ago.
So he goes to Ed and asks Ed for the
name of the sheriff."
The sheriff pushed the photo
graphic post cara across tne aesit
rnke a look."
Hank looked at the card. On the
aide reserved for the message was
written: "Corliss, dear, this shows
where I am living. It's the wildest,
most Inaccessible place you can
Imagine. I still feel the result of
that auto accident six weeks ago,
but what with climbing around
these mountains, living on venison
and trout, getting lots of fresh air
and exercise, 111 oe lit in no time
at all."
Hank turned the card over and
studied the Dhotoirranh of a moun
tain cabin, with a man standing in
front of It smiling fatuously at the
camera. "Auto accioentY" Mann
asked.
"According to Ed Harvel. that ac
eldent was three years ago. The
date on the card shows it was sent
about six weeks after the guy dis
appeared the second lime. Appar
ently he got his head banged in that
accident, and whenever his memory
slips a cog, it goes back to the time
of that accident."
Hank studied the post card.
A trapper s cabin, he said, "up
on a ridge. It was built In the fall.
You can see where the trees were
hopped off around near the cabin
Indicates there was about three
feet of snow on the ground. The
guy's sure a tenderfoot."
"He is, for a fact," the sheriff
urreed.
"Those high boots," Hank went
on. "11008418 m em too. net tney
r II
weigh a ton. Look at that hunting
knife hanging on nis oeic. rretty
far front. No protection on the
sheath . . . What makes you think
the cabin's around Here?"
Notice that little 'T.M.' uo in
the corner?"
Hank nodded.
"That's Tom Morton's Initials. He
mits 'em on the post cards he prints,
with a string of figures after 'em."
You talk with xomi" name
asked.
"Well, now," the sheriff said,
vou see It's like this. Hank. I
want vou to sorta helo me out."
"Now, wait a minute," Hank said.
"They way you're talkln', BUI, you
have gone ana maae some arrange
ments."
"Nothing out of the way," Sheriff
Oatlln said hastllv. "I've cot vou
a couple of customers. A couple of
dudes."
"Who?" Hank asked.
"Seems like this CorHis Adrian
has all of a sudden got in a lather
to get her husband located. Seems
like there's another man been
hanging around, and maybe she'd
like to get a divorce. To do that
she'd like bo make a charge of de
sertion and serve papers. Or, in
case she's a widow, then she could
get married again right away, 'mis
here new man has got lots of money,
and he's willing to spend It. And
tne nign-powerea city aeteouve
who's been in charge of the In
vestigation, a chap by the name
of James DeWitt, has a vacation
coming up. So he and this Corliss
Adrian are driving out together."
Hank said. ."Well. I've got mv
pack string where I could take a
party into the Middle Fork."
The sheriff and Hank Lucas turn
ed In at Tom Morton's doorway.
A lew minutes later the pnotog.
raphcr, tall, thin, wrapped In an
aura of acid fixing bath which
gave him the odor of a dill pickle.
said, "What can I do for you boys?"
.am ratlin snowed mm tne pnotp-
grapn. "iou make tnis post card,
Tom?"
The photographer took the print.
turned it over, and examined the
ngures in tne upper rignt-nand cor.
ncr. "That's right," he said. "Last
year I had a chance to pick up three
or four lots of post-card paper on
which the expiration date had pass
ed. I put figures on them so I'd
know which lot was which. In case
I had to discard one."
Try and think when you made
It."
Morton examined the flsure an
the poet card. said. "Sav. wait a
minute. I'm kind of beginning to
remember something about that pic
ture, -me guy wanted just one print
inane. '
"What's so funnv about that?"
"Well, when people want a picture
put on post cards, usually they want
tu least a oozen, to send to iriends,
This fellow came in and said he
wanted one print made, and only
one.'
"Remember what he looked like?1
"He was the guy in the picture.'
"Well, now, that's interesting.
r-rounoiy aiong aoout last aeptem
ber?"
Morton studied the pen-and-ink
number on the upper right-hand
corner of the postal card, said, "I
didn't tnink the sum was still on
hand In September. Tills was
batch I got around April. I thought
it was gone by August. Guess I'm
wrong, though."
"Well, Tom, Just make a photo
of this here post card and make us
half a dozen prints right quick."
As the two men went clump-clump-clumplng
out along the board
corridor, Honk Lucas sold to the
sheriff. "You know, Bill, 1( that
fellow'd been in the Middle Pork
country ever since last fall, I'd
nave Known about it."
"I know," the sheriff sold sooth
ingly "but this here Ed Harvel
he thinks the only woy to make
a search is to go on Into the Middle
Pork and prowl up and down the
country looking ror this cobln."
ira caoin. Honk sold, "can
probably be located. It's ua nn .
ridge, was built by someone who
naa a une or traps, was started In
the foil before there was any snow
on the ground, and finished after
there'd been a storm that brought
in auvui mice lBi't oi snow. YOU
can tell where the stumps were
nut close to the ground and then
higher up. And those lost saplings
that stick out over the door to hang
traps and stuff on were cut off
five feet above the around. Th.
stumps are rignt near the cabin,
jjui ratlin grinned at him. "I
wouldn't soy anything like that to
una miwiivB mats coming out
Hank."
"Why not?"
"Well, now," the sheriff said, "it's
a funny thing about oltv dtnMvi
They think they're the onlv ones
can do any of tills here deductive
(Sheriff Catlln and Hank are on
uis iron oi a strange murderer.
Don't miss tomorrow's installment.)
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