BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore.. Tuesday, March 10, 1953
It's Death, My Darlinc!
By AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG
(AP NtvifMturu)
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Chapter 30
For on terrible minute I had the
. awful suspicion that maybe Beau
bad been right after all, and the
. Dumonta were a little mentally un
. balanced. II Amedee was going
to start babbling about three uiue
etrips of red cloth beeing the reason
why half of his entire family had
, eeen rauraerea .
He must have guessed what was
. oasslne through my mind. "It's all
right, Peter," he said quickly. "Ito
not crazy. But I see the whole
thing now, and we were dead wrong
about most of It. Claude and Qrand-
.' pere may have been killed because
of what they knew, but :e and
Uncle Baoul weren't. They were
slated to die for an entirely differ
ent reason; and so, I'm convinced,
were nearly all the rest of us."
It seemed to me that the pros
pective candidate for the receiving
end of a murder was hardly the
thins to look so Jubilant about,
. and I. said so. He sobered at
once.
"I didn't mean It that way," he
said. "But the danger's past, now
that we know tne trutn. 01 course,
we'll have to produce some mate
rial evidence against our killer be
fore we can prove anything. But
I know wnere to get wai: or ramer,
Henri will. He and I will have to
drive in to New Orleans at once.
Will you be afraid to wait nere
until we get back?"
"Of course not," I answered with
dignity. "But you said something
lust now about that we know the
truth. Wasn't that a slight over
statement?" "Sorry," he apologized. "I forgot
mat you didn't Know. Tne mur
der Is" Then he stopped. "I'd bet
ter not tell you," he said more
gravely. If you knew, and should
betray Dy a wora or even a 100
that you knew well, I'm not taking
any chances."
I could have Jumped ud and down
In sheer exasperation, except that
l realized ne was rignt.
That evening immediately after
supper Amedee and Henri set out
for New Orleans, having explained
for the benefit of the others that
they were going to question the psy-
cmatnst, u,. srennaman.
It was later that evening that
Lewis Have drew me aside.
"Miss Peter," he began, "I sup
pose you don't believe in this idiotic
insanity idea of Beau's anymore
than I do: and Dede and Henri
must have some doubts about It, too,
or they wouldn't have gone to see
this psychiatrist, Brennaman. But
do you think that he'll be able to
give mem aeiinite proof mat uieres
nothing to it? Proof. I mean, that
wiu convince tne others."
There were deep lines of worry
In his face, and I thought I under
stood the reason for them.
"You mean Pick?" I asked.
He nodded.
"This afternoon," he said, "I
asked her if we couldn't be married
immediately, so that I could take
her away from all this. But she told
me that with this shadow of Insanity
hanging over the family, none of the
Dumonts had the right to marry."
He looked so utterly wretched
that I felt sorry for him.
"Pick will change her mind as
soon as she's had time to think
clearly," I offered by way of con-eolation.
But he didn't look as though that
ran neiped mucn.
Cousin Jeff came Into the room.
"Peter, will you go up and see
what you can do with Aunt Del
phlne?" Cousin Jeff asked. "She's
got the idea Into her head that
Amedee 's been arrested, and she's
demanding to be taken to the
sheriff at once."
"That's all right," I assured him.
Til see what I can do with her."
I found Aunt Delphlne in her
room, wearing her hat and coat over
her nightgown.
"Peter, you'll take me to Jeff
Wilkes, won't you?" she pleaded,
fastening both hands about my arm.
"I've got to tell before he does any
thing to Dede."
I urged her gently back to her
ehair, and removed the hat.
"Sheriff Wilkes Isn't going to do
anvthlne to Dede. Aunt Delphlne,'
I assured her. "Dede and Henri have
merely gone to .
But sne mierruDiea . me. - '
"No," she said, putting the hat
back on again, - out ne wui. i
thought They had sent him for Ui
and the others, but They didn't. So
now I'm going to tell before he can
hurt Dede."
"Aunt Delphlne," I demtnaea,
trying to control my tingling ex
citement, "what is It you're going
to tell?" .
But her attention had strayed to
something behind me. Turning, I
saw Beau standing In the open door
way.
"Sorry," he apologized, prepar
ing to withdraw again. "When I
first glanced In, I thought you were
Pick."
"Is anvthlntr wrong?" 1 asked.
"There's Just been a telephone cill
from Duval in New Orleans," ne re
plied. Dede and Henri are with
him, and they want me to drive
in at once."
Was this merely a ruse to draw
Beau away from the house? If the
latter, it could mean either that . , ,
"You 11 nave to hurry if you want
to reach New Orleans before ten
o'clock," I observed suddenly real
izing that I had been standing for
several seconds with my mouth
open, and that it must have looked
odd to him, to say the least. "It's
after nine now."
After considerable persuasion. I.
finally managed to get Aunt Del
phlne tucked into bed, minus the
hat and coat. Bobby met me In the
lower nan.
What's going on around here?
I Just saw Beau drive away In one
of tne cars, and he looked as
though he was going somewhere in
a nurry.
"He's goine in to New Orleans."
I replied. "Mr. Duval sent for him."
I sank down wearily upon the bot
tom step. "Two murders and an
insanity scare all In one day," I
complained, "not to mention vari
ous and sundry other alarms and
excursions I Now all we need around
here to top It off is a good fire."
And believe It or not, within the
next hour we had that tool
(To Be Continued)
I III
Runkel Talks fo
Women's Club
Independence The Woman's
club of Independence met in the
club rooms recently. In the ab
sence of the president. Mrs,
Keith Mitchell, first vice presi
dent Mrs. Ralph Evans presided.
Mrs. Ed Taylor acted as secre
tary pro tern.
Mrs, Taylor, also on the pro
gram committee, announced that
at the March 17 meeting, David
Duniway, state archeoloeist.
woui speak: on "Older Homes of
Oregon," and will show slides.
Hostesses chosen for this meet
ing will be Mrs. Gordon Had-
ley, Mrs. Stella Calbreath and
Mrs. Robert Gray.
Mrs. C. Ai Fratzke. education
chairman, urged that everyone
vote at the election for consoli
dation with Buena Vista on
March 13. The election will be
held at Central high school from
2 to 8 p.m.
Guest speaker of the day was
Dr. Howard W. Runkel of the
speech department of Willamette
university. His subject was
"Making Up Your Mind." He
stressed the importance of mak
ing up our minds on world prob
lems, 'improvement through ac
tion, keeping informed through
at least one good daily paper,
and the fact that the funda
mental solution of our problems
Jies in our own hearts and minds.
Serving tea were Mrs. O. B.
Lyday, Mrs. Flavia Branch and
Mrs. George Ruef.
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District OES
Woodburn A district meeting
of Gervais chapter No. 118, and
Evergreen chapter No. 41, Or
der of the Eastern Star, was held
Friday night at the Gervais
Masonic hall for the official visit
of Mrs. Carl Wimberly, worthy
grand matron of the grand chap
ter of Oregon.
Gervais chapter conducted the
opening, escort, good of the or
der and closing ceremonies;
Evergreen chapter, exemplified
the ballot and gave the degree
work. Presiding for Gervais
chapter were Mrs. Florence Burr,
worthy matron, and J, Pierre
Aspinwall, worthy patron, and
for Evergreen chapter, Mrs.
Lois Wengenroth, worthy ma
tron and Gail Wengenroth, wor
thy patron.
Mrs. Wimberly was intro
duced, escorted to the east and
greeted with the grand honors.
Other guests honored in the east
were Mrs. Thelma Heater, pay of
representatives committee of the
grand chapter; Mrs. Mabel Dix
on, grand representative of the
State of Maine for Oregon, and
Mrs. Lillian Quigley, worthy
matron of Venus chapter of Donald.
After the opening ceremony,
the flag ceremony and escort,
the officers of Gervais chapter
surrendered their chairs to the
officers of Evegreen chapter for
exemplification of the ballot
and the initiatory degrees. Re
suming their stations, officers of
the Gervais chapter conducted
a business session followed by i
clever addenda for the worthy
grand matron, by the Star pointi
and marshal, and she was pre.
sented with a gift from the two
chapters.
Under "good of the order"
Mrs. Wimberly gave an addrea
and complimented the officers
of both chapters on the excellent
work. There were also short
talks by the other honored
guests, and other members and
visitors.
Refreshments were served by
a committee from the two chap,
ters which included Mrs. Ethel
Russell, Mrs. Lily Wadsworth,
Mrs. Ruth Jefferson, Oscar Ev
ans; Robert Harper and Fred
McClaughry from Gervais chap,
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wright,
Mrs. Lois Gaviola, Mrs. Mar.
jorie Enos, Mrs. Ruby Peyton
and Mrs. Evelyn Paulson from
Evergreen chapter.
Anniversary of
Aid Society Due
Woodburn The 63rd anniver,
sary of the organization of the
Presbyterian Aid society will be
observed at the regular meet-:
ing Wednesday, March 11, at
2:30 p.m. in the church social
room. Mrs. H. F. Butterfield
will lead the devotional service
and the history of the society
from its organization to the pres.
ent time will be read. Mrs. Har
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lia liavil IB 111 vuaigc Ul lift .
program and will present the Jj
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iiifiii auiiuui scaici in aevenu
numbers under the direction ol
Miss Harriet Nizic.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Clari
ence Wampole and Mrs. Man
garet Johnson.'
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THAT ENCHANTING ODOR.
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