Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October, 11, 1945
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Through the rents in them no hint
of underclothing was visible.
This was the whole picture. They
looked, and Mrs. Tope closed her
eyes and clung to her husband's
arm, and Tope covered her hand
with his. Adam Bruce was pale and
shaken, his face a drawn mask. Save
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for the cheerful murmur of the
punk ax the dickens, bring« on stomach
brook outside, the night was com
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort,
pletely still.
take D r. Caldwell’s famous medicine
to quickly pull the trigger on la iy “in
Tope said gravely: "When 1 saw
nards” and help you fe d bnght and
the tape, Adam. I thought of you.
chipper again.
The gags and the blindfold looked
DR. CALDWELL’ S is the wonderful sen
like kidnaping. This may be in
na laxative contained in good old Syrup
Pepsin to make it so easy to take.
your line.”
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Bruce nodded. "Who is it?” he
tions In proscriptions to make the medi
muttered.
a n s more palatable and agreeable to
CHAPTER III
Tope shook his head. "1 don’t
take. So be sure your laxative is con
tained in Syrup Pepsin.
know. I haven't touched him, ex
"But if a man is doing something in cept to make sure he was dead.”
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the dark by the light of a match, he
vorite of millions for 50 years, and feel
“There's been no kidnaping re
will hold it till it burns his fingers. ported,” Bruce reflected. "Or we'd
that wholesome relief from constipa
tion. Even finicky children love i t
This match would have burned a have known. The Chief knew where
CAUTION: Use only as directed.
man’s fingers."
I was.” And he exclaimed incredu
And he said: " I looked in the lously: ”1 was here last night. Tope!
kindling and the paper and behind Do you suppose he was here then?"
the logs, till I found eleven matches,
"Yes.”
all burned down about the same
But Tope spoke, in a tone of final
way. I lighted a match and timed ity.
"Well, there it is." he said.
it.
Handled carefully, it burned ''Quill, this is up to you and Adam.”
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over half a minute.
So eleven
Bruce objected: " I’ve no standing
. matches would give some light, in unless this chap was carried across
■ this cabin, for about six minutes. a state line." And he urged: "Be-
I A let can be done in six minutes."
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tor T o p *, and M rs. Tope. He sent them
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Tope phoned B ru ce and had him rom e
out w ith Ned Q u ill, a state trooper. Tope
had been shown to a cottage ra ile d F a r
a w a y , but seeing th a t something was
wrong, he had a tra n s fe r m ade to an
other cottage. Tope had Leen told th at
no one had occupied the F a ra w a y cot
tage, yet he had seen signs th a t led
him to believe something was wrong. He
sent his w ife out w hile he began a search
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Mrs. Tope suggested: "You can't
do much with one hand if you're
holding a match in the other!”
Tope nodded in quick pride.
“That’s right, ma'am! Adam, this
wife of mine is keen. So whatever
was done here, there were two peo
ple. One of them did it. and the
other held the matches, made a
light."
Bruce said: “I can see that. Go
on.”
And Tope explained, apologetical
ly: “So it seemed to me sure that
some one had done something here.
Either they came to get something,
or to hide something. I thought they
might have hid something: and I
wanted to—search the place, see
what I could find.”
He looked at Mrs. Tope. "But—1
didn't want to bother you. or worry
you,” he said to her; and then, to
Adam. "So I let her go outside.
Then I started to look under the
beds. That was the only place where
much of anything could be hidden.
You see how they're made."
Adam felt his pulses pounding
heavily.
" I found something under the
bed,” Tope explained. The young
man tried to speak, to ask a ques
tion; but his voice died in a husky
whisper. Tope said gravely: “It's
still there. I t ’s a dead man. I'll
show you!”
But as he was about to draw the
coverlet away, some one knocked,
This was, as Tope said, a body of
in a soft, furtive fashion, on the a man.
door. That quiet knock was terrify
ing! These three whirled as one; sides, Inspector, you’re not going to
and then a knock sounded again, and walk out on us! Mat Cumberland
Bruce opened the door. Then he will keep you on the job if he has .to
handcuff you.”
said in a vast relief:
"Cumberland?” Tope echoed. “ Is
"Oh, hullo, Ned! Come in.” He
drew the other man into the room. he still the D.A. up here? I worked
“This is Ned Quill, Inspector,” he on the Hichens case for him.”
Quill suggested: "But Joe Dane
said. “You wanted him, and I told
does all the work in the office. He’ll
him to meet us here.”
Tope extended his hand.
“I ’ve be back here, later, when he brings
seen enough of M r. Quill to know Bee home.”
Adam urged: " It ’s not up to us to
he doesn't like violins!”
We’ll get Mat. If
Quill grinned, and took off his cap, call Joe, Ned
and shook hands with Tope and with he wants to turn it over to Joe,
Mrs. Tope. “That fiddler makes me that’s up to him."
tired!” he agreed. He stood looking
"You ought to get the medical ex
at them, waiting. “Well?” he chal aminer too,” Tope suggested. "But
lenged. "What’s the matter? What’s —I ’ve a notion it might be a good
all the shooting for?”
idea to keep this quiet, just at first.
Tope, after a moment and with Don’t use the telephone. It's a par
out a word, turned again toward the ty line.”
“I left my bike up at Amasa’s,”
bed.
They came silently behind
Ned Quill explained. " I can ride
him.
“There’s a dead man under to town and get Cumberland."
Tope, when the trooper had gone,
here,” said Tope. He removed the
blankets and the sheets, and he took laid a sheet over the naked springs
hold of the mattress at one end, of the bed, and he and Adam and
looked at Bruce. "You take the oth Mrs. Tope drew near the fire. Adam
stood leading against the mantel;
er end,” he directed.
They lifted the mattress, laid it Tope filled his pipe and lighted it;
on the floor. There was left on the and Adam said;
“Looks like a tough one, Tope.”
bed a spring, made of a square pat
"Well, it may get easier as we go
tern of heavy wire. The electric
light, a shaded bulb, hung almost along." He puffed contentedly. "Aft
directly overhead; and its rays er I found this man, 1 did a lot of
shone down unhindered, so that the listening. Your friend Miss Dewain,
wire squares threw a network of she talks without much prodding;
shadow on that which lay in the box and there’s a woman, a Mrs. Mur
rell, that likes to ask questions.
like space below.
This was, as Tope said, the body Maybe you know her?”
“Sure,” Adam agreed.
of a man. He lay a little on one
“ I listened to some of her ques
side; yet not as though his body had
been arranged in this position, but tions,” Tope explained. “And asked
in a twisted fashion vaguely disturb some of my own. They tell me eight
ing, suggestive of some spasmodic cottages were full Saturday night.
effort or movement in the moment I figure that was the night he was
of his death. He was an old man, put here." He asked: ."Adam, how
his age manifest in thin gray hair, many people were here last night?
scantily seen under a ragged cap What time did you get here? You
pulled down to his ears. There was weren’t here Saturday night, were
a prickling of gray beard on his you?”
chin and the upper part of his cheek.
Bruce shook his head. " I was
But except for brow and cheek here Tuesday night," he replied.
and chin, his countenance was con “Left Wednesday, and then came
cealed by two strips of black adhe back Sunday. That’s yesterday aft
Bee and I went for a
sive tape bound tight over his mouth ernoon.
and over his eyes. Each band was walk after supper last night, upon
carried clear around his head, dou the ledges back of Amasa's barn.
ble and triple for full security. Also, There's a moon, you know. We got
his hands were bound behind him, back late. But I didn’t see anyone,
with lengths of Insulated wire twist anything."
"Who was here? How many?”
ed around the wrists; and these
wires held in place around his hands Tope Insisted.
a thick fold of blanket. His feet in
“Well, Vade and the Murrells,"
the same way had first been Bruce said. "And a man and his
wrapped in a blanket and then wife—a Maine man, by the way he
bound with wires; his swaddled talked. And two Harvard men in an
hands were secured to a rope that old flivver, on their way to Chicago
circled his body like a belt.
or California or somewhere. And a
As for his garments, he was fellow named Bowen, a hardware
dressed in a very old sweater, gray, 1 salesman making this territory. He
too large for him, stained and soiled; ] likes to tell Bee how his wife mis
and a pair of overalls, also too large, u n d e rs ta n d s h im . H a rm le s s ,
and stained with grease and ciL thoughI"
"Some one here wasn’t harmless,"
Tope suggested. "How ubout this
Although the Germans manufactured
man with the violin!
Know any
and vie d tynlhetlc rubber In volume
thing about him?"
long before America, a g e n eral
Bruce hesitated. "Why, his par
superiority o f the American synthetic
ticular hobby is rivers and water
rubber over the G erm an product has
been eitabllshed b y lechnologhts.
falls. He's the secretary of an as
sociation for the protection of our
T a o b ta in e n o u g h r u b b e r to
streams. I don’t know whether there
m a k e a t ir o f a r ■ la w -p r ic e d
is any such association, but he's the
c a r, t w a r u b b e r tr a a s m u t t b a
secretary of it, unyway!”
ta p p e d f a r a w b a la y e a r .
Tope looked at the young man
thoughtfully.
"Your—vacation up
longer, more uniform fire life , con-
here have anything to do with Dim,
stanf g o a l o f Hre manufacturers. It
now being achieved through use o f
Adam? I gathered he didn't like
a new type o f synthetic rubber d e
you.”
veloped by I . F. Goodrich.
Bruce chuckled. "You’re cute as
a weasel. Tope, for smelling out a
•ta e r ln g w heals o f p a s t-w a r
trail, but you can cross Vade off."
cars m ay ba cushioned w ith a
The older man did not press the
covering o f synthetic ru b b e r.
point. "All right.” he said. "We ll
cross Vade off. But two men came
in tonight after we got here. One
of them—culled himself Whitlock—
was talking to Priddy after supper.
I think they're after something; but
— they
weren’t
here Saturday
night?”
"No,” Adam agreed. "Nobody
here by those nam es ”
“How about the Murrells?"
Adam chuckled. "Out," he said J U S T like a little g irl’s wardrobe
positively.
** — a complete set of clothes for
"And Miss Dewain? She doesn't a doll including coat and beret,
seem as stubborn and cantankerous dress and panties, jum per or slip
as you said she was. What about and nightgown. Use pieces from
her?”
your scrap bag.
• • •
"Why. I met her two or three
F o r doll size IS. 16 and 20 inches. F o r
years ago,” Adam explained. "While In d iv id u a l ya rd ag e a. see p a lte rn .
t í
I was working in the bank commis
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sioner's office. I came up here to
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look over the local bank, and she
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was secretary to the president. A
Enclose 25 cents In coins for each
man named Eberly.” He spoke rue-
pattern desired.
fully. " I liked her. and she liked
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me, but the bank was in bad shape.
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After I made my report, the com
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missioner closed it. and she has held
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it against me ever since. Or at
least she pretends to. She was de
voted to Mr. Eberly. . . But Tope,
this doesn’t get us anywhere. Not
on this business. I don't see that
we've got any place to start, on
this."
''Well, son, we know some things,”
Tope reminded him;
"We know
there were two people In it, because
one of them struck matches to make
a light, while the other did the job.
And by the way the bed was made.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of
them was a woman. Not many men
can make a bed right. Then there’s
“TIN Gull* An firut Fssd»" —
another thing: That's electricians'
tape around this man's mouth and
K ellogg's R ice Krispies equal the whole ripe grain
in nearly a ll th e protective food elements declared
eyes; and the wires he’s tied up with
essential to hum an n u tritio n .
are old ignition wires off a car;
and the clothes on him are greasy.
Maybe whoever tied him up was a
mechanic, a chauffeur.”
"That’s just guessing.”
"Well, I believe in guessing,"
Tope insisted. "Then those pieces
of blanket wrapped around his hands
and feet and head—a dog had slept
on that blanket.
A police dog, I
think. You can see the hairs."
"Plenty of police dogs around!”
Tope considered; and then he
asked, in the tone of one who has
made a discovery:
“Adam, why
were his feet and his hands and his
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head wrapped up in pieces of blank
et? Why were his hands tied to his
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body behind?”
Bruce shook his head. " I don’t
know!”
Tope said positively:
"Why, to ’
keep him from making a noise, by
kicking, or butting with his head,
or beating with his hands. A noise
that some one might hear."
Bruce stared at him. “ You mean
he wasn’t dead when they put him
here?”
"Well, it's sure he wasn't dead
when they tied him up, anyway.”
Mrs. Tope spoke swiftly. “ Inspec
tor!” They looked at her. "Inspec
tor, no one would kidnap a poor
man! This man has on old, shabby
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clothes.”
Tope watched her.
“Oh. they
changed his clothes."
“Why?” she challenged, as though
she knew the answer.
"So he couldn’t be identified by
what he had on.”
"You mean they changed his
clothes after they killed him?”
"Why—yes!”
"But you just said,” she argued,
"that the reason they tied his hands
and feet, and muffled them with
blankets, was because he was alive
and might make a noise.”
“Of course.”
She cried triumphantly:
"But
don't you see that won’t fit? If he
was already tied up, they couldn’t
change his clothes without untying
his hands and feet; and if he were
already dead when they changed his
clothes, there wouldn't be any point
to tying him up again afterward.”
And she urged: "So he was alive
when they changed his clothes; and
he was alive when they brought him
here, because otherwise there was
no point in muffling his hands and
feet and head to keep him from mak
ing a noise.”
They heard the sound of footsteps
on the drive—Ned Quill returning,
with Mat Cumberland and Doctor
Medford. Cumberland was a large
man with an almost bovine calm;
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troductions, the Doctor went to
where the dead man lay, and Cum
berland asked a question, and Tope
told briefly what there was to tclL
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