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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928. PAGE THREE china or crockery. Steaming Last Year's Velvet Place a wet cloth over a toot up turned flat-iron, lay the velvet on it. lift the nap with another piece Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Trunbald of Hermlston were visitors in Hepp ner for a short time on Friday. Mr. Trunbald is engaged in running a meat market at Hermlston. of velvet working gently and quick ly, and you will find last year' vel yet will look almost like new. Removing Tea Stains from China Salt rubbed on tea cups will re move tea stains, and also almost any other stain or discoloration on "I stole a kisa the other night My conscience hurts, alack! I think I'll go again tonight And put the darn thing back." Saved! x kM WHAT HAPPENED BEPOBE Simon Judd, amateur detective, and William Dart, an undertaker, are visit ing John Drane, eccentric man of wealth at the Drane place. Suddenly the house hold Is shocked to find that John Drane la murdered. The dead man la first seen by Josle, the maid, then by Amy Drane and Simon Judd. The latter faints. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY When Simon Judd returned to consciousness It was largely because of the pain in the ear and when he tried to move his head he could not do so. For a moment or two he was unable to remember where he was or how he came there for, cloBe to his eyes, was what seemed to be an enormous black pillar. It seemed to be, as his senses returned, a most unaccountable thing a low black shoe out of which arose a phenom enally large ankle, and when he put his hand to his ear he was no long er in doubt, a foot was Btanding on his ear. Someone was standing with one heel against his nose and the toe of the other foot on his ear, and he tried to push the latter foot away. "Lave be! Sthop it, you!" a hoarse voice whispered, but the foot removed itself from his ear and Simon Jud sat up. He found him self encompassed by skirts and he backed out from among them and got to his feet. He was in a group at the door of John Drane'a room; evidently he had been unconscious but a moment or two, for Amy Drane was still standing in horror on the threshold. The maid Josie still lay where she had fallen, but there were now others peering into the room. Norbert, the colored houseman, was there, and the big foot that had been pressed against Simon Judd's nose was that of the cook, a woman almost as enormous as Simon Judd himself. Behind the cook was a second maid, Zella, with her hands pressed against her cheeks, and Drane'a chauffeur was running up the stairs. To him Si mon Judd turned. "John Drane's been murdered," Simon Judd said to the chauffeur. "I can't look at him; I faint off at the sight of blood. Always did and dare say I always will. This here girl's fainted, too. Help me get her onto a bed somewhere and out of the way or she's like to be trompled. Here, you!" He touched Zella on the shoulder. "You come and get this girl out of her faint," he said. "Where we goin' to put her?" "Here this way," Zella said, crossing the hall and opening a door. "Miss Amy's room. Let me help you, George. You and me take her shoulders and he can take her feet. Go easy, George she's got heart trouble." They carreid Josie to the bed in Amy's room and Simon Judd fol lowed the chauffeur into the hall. "If you know who the family doc tor is you better send for him," Judd said. "You better send for the police, too; this ain't my baili wick." "Yes, I'll do that," the chauffeur said. He, at least, was efliciently businesslike. "You better not let them touch anything in there, un less he's alive yet." "I know all that, young man," Judd said. "I'll take hold here; you get a move on." "til telephone," the chauffeur said, and he started for the stairs, but the cook took his arm. "George! Ain't it awful? Ain't it just awful!" she cried. "Mighty bad, Maggie," he said, "but don't you get excited about it. You keep calm; you don't want to fetch on another of those spells of yours. You better go down and take a take a drink of water or something." "Yes, I'll be doin' just that," she said. "It's terrible, George; a mur der right in the house. Who done it, d' ye think?" "We can't tell that yet," he said "Come on, if you want me to help you down. I got to 'phone the doc and the police." Simon Judd turned toward the murdered man's room. He put his hand over his eyes to hide the dead man from sight "Now, you see here, Miss Amy," he said. "You better go downstairs awhilo until the doctor comes; that man of yours is sending for him and for the police. There ain't nothln' to be done until they come." "No, nothing to be done," she said and turned, and then, suddenly, she broke into sobs and threw herself against Simon Judd, weeping tem pestuously on his shoulder. "He was all I had!" she sobbed. He was so good to me; he was so kind to me!" 'There, there!" Simon Judd com forted her. "I know just how you feel, girl. You can cry all you want to, It won't do you no mite of harm. All of you keep out of that room!" he ordered, and then to the weep ing girl again: "I don't feel right comfortable about that hired girl we put in your room; the other one said how she has heart trouble. I don't know but what you might help in there some, if you feel up to it." Josie? Amy asked. "In my room? Yes; I'll go to her." She wiped her eyes and hurried across the hall, and Simon Judd looked after her. There's a real kid," he said to himself. "If that's a flapper she ain't flapped none of the common sense out of her yet, anyhow!" He looked at those remaining at John Drane's door. "Say, look here!" he said sudden ly. "Where's that other feller; the man with the whiskers. What did John say his name was? Dart?" The housekeeper turned. "Mr. Dart? Yes sir. Why, I don't know where Mr. Dart is. I made up the blue guest room for him. Mr. Drane said he was going to stay the night." I left him down theer In the par lor, or whatever you call it, when I come up to bed," Simon Judd said. 'They had something to talk over, seemed like. I guess maybe they talked late; maybe he ain't up yet" 'See, Norbert, if he s in his room. Mis. Vincent ordered and the negro went He came back at once. No, ma'am," he said. "He ain't in his room; his bed ain't been slep' in. I guess he got so mad " You guess what?" Simon Judd demanded. "I said mad," said Norbert, "I mean mad. What I mean is I've got this cough on my chist and I been takln' medicine for it The doc gives me a medicine for to alle viate the cough, and he says take a swaller whenever the cough comes upon me, and last night I leaves the bottle down there. So when I starts to cough I go down to get my bot tle. Yes, sir!" What time was it?" Simon Judd asked. Well, I don't rightly know. May be one o'clock, maybe two o'clock. I ain't look at no timepiece, I jus starts down. And when I get on the steps here I hear Mist' Drane and Mist' Dart talkin' together an' Mist' Dart he surely Is mighty mad about it Yes sir! swearin' and cussin'; yes, sir! Mighty mad! So I don' go down. I comes up." What were they talking about Simon Judd asked. 'Now, that I don' know," said Norbert "I ain' listen; it ain' none of my business what gentlemens talk about I jus' comes up." The chauffeur George came up the stairs. "I got Doctor Blessington," he told Simon Judd. "He'll be right out And I got the police station; they're sending men. In fact the police officers arrived almost immediately, the local head quarters having telephoned to the station nearby. They came, two of them, on popping motorcycles which they parked alongside the veranda, and entered the house together. From the top of the stairs Simon Judd bade them to come up. "No one been In the room?" one of the officers asked as he saw the group at the door. "No one," Simon Judd told them. "Not that I know of, anyway," and he told of having heard the scream of the girl Josie and of coming at once from his room. The officers entered the room. "Looks like murder, Joe," one said. "Sure is murder," the other re plied. "Looks to me like a case for Brenny." "Yes; he ought to get on it right away, too. You better go down and 'phone headquarters; I'll stay here. This man's dead, all right Any body sent for a doctor?" "One's coming," Simon Judd said. "We're going to have Brennen on this case, most likely," the officer said. "They hand him most of these murders these days. He's a good one; he'll clear this up in no time if there's any clear up to it He's the best man we've got on Long Island. Who's that?" It was Dr. Blessington entering the house. He came up the stairs, a small black case in his hand. 'In there?" he said and entered John Drane's room. Below, the sec ond officer was telephoning head quarters. "Ah, good morning offi cer!" he said to the man In John Drane's room. "Murder, is it? Too bad! This sort of thing is getting altogether too numerous. You might ask these folks to go downstairs. We'll Just close this door." "And all of you hang around down there, see?" said the officer. "There'll be questions to be asked." Come! We ll go down, said Si mon Judd and, as Amy Drane came from the room where the maid Josie lay, he stood back to make way for her. "She doin' all right?" he ask ed. "That's good. The cop wants us to go down and wait; the doc tor's in there." They went down. The servants went into the dining room off the hall and waited there, and Simon Judd an dAmy went onto the ver anda. The girl sat twisting her hands, saying nothing, now and again wiping her eyes, and when the doctor came down the stairs did rot arise. She held her hand kerchief over her quivering mouth. Dr. Blessington came out onto the veranda and set down his black case. His face was drawn into ser ious lines and he was frowning. "You are Mr. Drane's niece his grand niece, I believe?" he said. "And this gentleman?" "Why, I'm just a feller that knew John when he was a boy," explained A "Byrd" Dog f 1 w JlUTOCASTiii Olie of the slprl Ancrm bound for the South Pole with Commander Byrd's expedition. Muskeg came from New Hamp shire to Boston by plane. The huskie, son of Chinook, famous blazer of icy trails, enjoyed the serial voyage. Simon Judd. "Him and me used to play together back in Riverbank, Iowa, long before he ever came East sixty years ago, anyway. I'm east on a sort of business and tele phoned old John yesterday, just for old time's sake, and he says to come out and see him a day or so." "How long Is It since you saw him last, before yesterday?" Dr. Bless ington asked. "Thirty-five years," said Simon Judd. "That Is a long time; he is greatly changed since then, isn't he " "Well, yes," Simon Judd admitted. "Yes, John had changed quite a bit Just as bony as ever and so on, but a lot older." "Would you have known him if you had not known he was John Drane? Would you have recognized him, for example, If you had met him on the street by chance?" Simon Judd rubbed the back of his head thoughtfully. "Now, that's a hard one, doc!" he said at length. " I might have, and I might not have. Maybe not. It's been so blame long since I saw John last Why, what are you getting at anyway?" Dr. Blessington turned to Amy. "I wanted to tell you this myself, Miss Drane," he said, "for I know it will be a shock to you. The 'man' up there in the bed, the murdered 'man,' the 'man' we have known as John Drane, is not a man at all. 'He' is a woman!" (Continued Next Week.) jf t mmmf4 TAUTOtASTCal "TSTtete for the mm by Afanq hart Modernistic furniture has achiev ed a great vogue, and often comes unpainted so purchasers may decor ate it according to fancy. 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