"16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesaay, Jan. 25, 1950
A Man Is Missing
By ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
(Creator of the famous fictional detective, Ferry Maaon)
Her surprise on seeing Hank and Marion seemed a
little too pronounced
(Chanter Three)
When Marion wakened there was
the feel of dawn in the air. The
atar over the tons of the big pines
had receded into a sky which was
taking on just a faint suggestion
of greenish -blue color.
Marion struggled into her clothes,
splashed ice-cold water on her face,
and felt that surge of vitality which
comes with the dawn when one
has been sleeping on the ground
In the open.
sh ate with zest, and then walk
ed to the edge of the river, where
Dewitt was Just finishing putting
his trout rod togetner.
"Hello." he said, winning ami
ablv. "You're looking mighty fit
this morning."
"Feeling like a million dollars,"
she said.
A trout suddenly flashed up out
of the water, struck at the fly.
missed, and then went sulking down
to the depths of the stream.
"Missed him," Dewitt said, "I
was a little too anxious."
Hank Lucas, who had Joined them
without being observed, said, In his
peculiar drawling voice, "If you
want to fish an hour or so while
we're getting the packs on, you'll
have more fish than you can carry.
Haven't seen Mrs. Adrian, have
you?"
Dewitt snapped In the line, made
another cost. "No. Is she up?" he
asked, his eyes glued to the fly.
"She is up. all right. Took a little
walk upstream. She hasn't come
back for breakfast."
Dewitt said abruptly, "Huh? You
say she's gone?"
"That's right. Seems to have
taken a walk," Lucas said, "but there
nrent any tracks on the trail. I
thought I'd take a look along the
stream here, and then I saw you
fishing."
Lucas strolled more or less aim
lessly up the stream edge between
tne rocK-s, tnen saia suaneniy,
"Here's where she went."
Marlon had to look twice to sec
the track. Then It appeared to be
only a faint discolartlon of the
? round. But. some twenty yards
arther on, Lucas, who had kept
moving on ahead, uncovered an
other fresh track this time, made
In damp sand and distinctly visi
ble. Dewitt abruptly lost interest In
the fishing and snapped in his
line. "Guess I'd better follow her
up"
"Keep on fishing If you want,"
Hank said. "I'll go on up . . . May
be you'd like to take a walk," he
said to Marion."
Dewitt resumed his fishing, and
Hank and Marion moved slowly
upstream.
Almost Instantly the lazy smile
left Hank's eyes. His manner be
came tense and business-like. "Any
Idea where she might have gone?"
he asked.
"No. I woke up shortly before
dawn and then dozed again. I
didn't hear her move."
"You know what she's In here
for?"
"She wants to find her husband?'
Marlon ventured.
"That's right . . , You're a photog
rapher?"
"Yes."
Hank said, "Here's a copy of i
picture It ain't too clear because
It isn't a print, but It's a picture
of a picture. What do you make
of It?"
"To begin with," she said, "the
picture was probably taken with a
4-A folding kodak with ft rapid
rectilinear lens. It was taken In
the middle of the day."
"How do you figure that?"
"Well," she snid, "despite the fact
tht the leas was stopped 'way down,
there's still a certain blurring at
the extreme corners and there's a
peculiar diffused warmth to the
shadows. You get that with a rapid
rectilinear lens. Tde anastigmatic
lens has a tendency to cut things
wire-sharp. But there lsn t qmlc
the warmth In the shadows and'
"Wait a minute. What do you
mean the lens was stopped "way
down?" Hank asked.
She said, "When the diaphragm
shutter of a lens is wide open, the
speed Is Increased but there's very
little depth to the field. In other
words, if you take a fairly long
foul-length lens such as is neces
sary to cover a post-cara-size mm,
and set It, say, at twenty-five feet
and leave it wide open, things be
yond thirty feet or so will be out
of focus, and things closer than
twenty feet will be out of focus.
On the other hand, if the lens Is
stopped 'way down, virtually every
thing will be in focus. The stopping
down gives a depth of field. Ob
jects only eight or ten feet away
win oe lainy snarp, ana so win
things in the distance."
"This lens was stopped down,"
Marlon said. "Moreover, see the little
white fog down there In the cor
ner? Well, that's a light leak, and
probably came from a little hole in
the bellows of the camera. If it
had been careless winding on the
spool, you'd have seen a little dif
ferent type of leak and . . . Here's
Mrs. Adrian now."
Corliss Adrian, trim and fresh,
stepped out from behind a rock.
Apparently sne was engaged in
wanning tne otner siae 01 tnc
stream verv intently. But she seem
ed to watch it a little too long, and
her surprise on finally seeing Hank
and Marion seemed a little too. pronounced.
Marion started to say. I think
she's been watching us," but then
abruptly changed her mind and re
mained silent.
Hank said good - naturedly. but
still with a certain rebuke in his
voice, "This here is a searching
party out to locate the lost tenderfoot."
Don t ever worry about me," Cor
liss Adrian said, with a quick,
nervous laugh. "I decided to get
up and see If I couldn't see a deer."
"Breakfast is Just about over,"
Hank said.
"Oh. I'm sorry. I'll rush right on
back. Hank
"Yes?"
"Do you see that canyon up there,
the one with the peculiarly shaped
rock up near the top of the ridge?"
"un-nun."
"What place Is that?"
"Broken Leg Canyon."
"I wonder if we could go up there
It looks Jlke marvelous country."
"That's Just about where I'm aim
ing to go," Hank said.
"Oh, that's wonderful.
When camp had been broken and
all but the last two horses loaded.
Hank Lucas approached his dudes.
"Kenney can finish throwing the
packs, with the help of the cook,
and bring the string along," Lucas
said. "I want to move on ahead and
pick out a good campsite. If you
folks would like to come along with
me, you can save a little time."
'That'll be fine," Marion said.
"Walt a minute." Dewitt inter
posed cautiously. "How do you pro
pose to make this extra time? As
I see it. the pack train will be ready
to start in ten or fifteen minutes."
"There's quite a bit of smooth
trnil ahead," Hank said. "We can
put the horses in a trot."
"In a trot!" Corliss Adrian ex
claimed in dismay.
Hank grinned. "Don't appeal to
you, eh?"
"If it makes any difference to the
others I'll be only too glad to go
along," Corliss said with dignity,
"but If it doesnt I think I'd pre-
ier to wrik my norse."
Dewitt stepped into the situation
"You two go right ahead." he said
"Take all the time you want. "We'll
come along with the pack string."
"Okny; let's go," Lucas said.
They started out at a brisk trot.
There was a wide valley to skirt
where another stream came into the
Middle For, it took a detour or
nearly three miles to brino- them
back opposite the mouth of the
canyon on the other side of the
stream.
Marion regarded the sweating
horses during one of the brief rest
periods which enabled the animals
to catch a few quick breaths.
"Aren't you pushing the horses a
bit fast?" she asked.
Hank tilted back his sweat-stained
sombrero. "To tell you the truth
I wasn't anxious to have those other
two aiong."
"What are you looking for?"
"The cabin shown in that photo
graph?" Marion surveyed the tumbled
waste of wild, nigged country. "How
in the world do you ever expect
to find it in this wilderness if you
won't know where it Ls?"
"Same wav the, rwv.r1 wVia UlA
-in t luuwi it, name said. "Take
aiong in tne winter when trails
were nrettv well snnwri nvr
had to have something to 'guide
them when they wanted to go
"Oh. vou mpnn th hlav.?"
"That's right. Now. you see, along
this trail you've got a long blaze
twm uiKu-riieiun u two short ones
"And you think these men blazed
mm m io rneir cabin? '
"Must have."
"HOW much fnrtlior?"
Hank grinned. "I'm darned if I
know. I'm Just looking for blazes."
(Hank finds the cabin and evi
dence of a murder. Dont miss to-
murrow s installment.)
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