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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER,' OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 1928. PAGE THREE fruit for the school lunch dessert. If you keep on hand a supply of paper cartons such as drug stores use to deliver Ice cream, you can safely pack a number of favorites, such as rice pudding, blanc mange, fruited gelatins or tapioca, Spanish or Bavarian cream. These are all H WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Simon .Judd, amateur detective, and William Dart, an undertaker, visit John Drane, an eccentric man of -wealth, at the Drane place. Suddenly John Drane is murdered, and Dr. Blessington, after examining the body, makes the astound ing revelation to Amy Drane that her "uncle" is a woman and not a man. All the servants In the household are sickly, and it la revealed that John Drane never discharged a servant for ill health, Dick Brennan, detective, ar rives at the house and makes thorough Investigations. Simon Judd tells hira the story of the actual John Drane with whom he (Judd) was acquainted in Riv erbank. Judd proposes to Brennan that he "go partners" with Brennan in the solution of the crime. Brennan accepts, then Judd declares that Amy is not John Drane's niece or any relative of Drane. Mrs. Vincent, housekeeper, tells Brennan that Drane picked his servants from among the chronic patients at the hospital. Dr. Blessingto nis asked if he had ever noticed any special change In Drane. NOW 00 ON WITH THE 8T0SY "Change?" the doctor queried. "As If, up to some time, he was the real John Drane and from then on was this woman playin' she was him,' 'explained Simon Judd. "Why, since It la brought to my attention with this mystery In mind," Dr. Blesslngton said, "there was a time when I noticed a change In John Drane, a shocking change as I thought It The time is pretty will fixed In my mind, too. As a matter of fact there have been two very distinct changes in this John Drane. One was when he returned from California; I hardly knew him. The other the mos tshocklng one was some Ave months later. As a physician, coming to the house fre quently, I noticed It particularly. Just before he went to California this John Drane man or woman was decidedly run down in health; in bad shape, I thought, although I was not asked to advise him. Then he went to California and when he returned he was like, as we say, an other man. He was brisker, more cheerful, and he had put on quite a little flesh for such a thin man. He walked better and stood better. At that time his hair was dark, but he probably used a dye. The man who went to California may not have been the woman who returned. On the other hand the change may have been wrought by rest and the warm climate." "And the other time, five monthB later," said Brennan. "A more striking change," the physician said. "From the time Drane returned from California lookhig so well he began to run down again. I did make so bold as to speak to him about It and he said he knew he must do something; he said he thought he would go south, to Hot Springs, and take a long rest. A week later he went and he was gone three months. He came back with his hair absolutely gray, as It is now, his face emaciated, his body nothing but bones. It was a shocking change. Except for one thing I might be willing to swear that, in my opinion, the person who came back from Hot Springs was not the man who went there. That thing is a scar on this woman's abdomen- the scar of an appendicitis operation.. My opinion now is that she probably went there for the operation if that was indeed where she went in order that her sex might not be discovered by any one who knew her." "That's a possibility," Brennan ad mitted. "She could have changed into women's clothes at some stop-over on route," the doctor said, "chang ing back into male garments on ther return. If that is the answer she must have had a bad time of the operation to wear down so tremen dously. But it is possible that the man who left here that time was not the woman-man who returned here a little later." Brennan said nothing for a full minute. "I'm afraid I don't see much in that idea, doctor," he said Anally. "There's too much of the impossi ble in It. The person who returned from Hot Springs if that was where the person went was cer tainly very much like the person who left here as John Drane, is it not so? Enough so that you were not particularly suspicious? Then how could a substitution have been made? Who was this woman who was so much like John Drane that she could come back here and take his place In the house and at his office In Wall Street, going on with his speculations without creating comment? The thing is rather ab surd. Such a woman must have planned taking John Drane's place for years; she must have learned all about his business to the minu test details, and all about his home affairs here. She must have planned to murder him or make away with him somehow. It is too improbable, doctor." "You asked me, you know," said Dr. Blessington, a little offended. "And your answer 1 is perfectly good," said Brennan. "Now let me ask you another: did you ever no tice anything to make you think this woman was insane? I mean the victim of a mania. What do you think of her Idea of having sick servants and no others? What about her friendship with this un dertaker?" Dr. Blessington turned these ques tions in his mind before he answer ed. "You understand that I am not an alienist," he said thert, choosing his words with some care. "I am only what is called a general practition er. As one of the hospital staff I have sometimes recommended to Drane, at his request, chronic pa tients still able to do easy work, and It never occurred to me that there was insanity in his desire to aid the unfortunates. To tell you the truth, Brennan, I thought it was line of him to give these people jobs in his house. Even when they fell ill he saw that they had the best attention, medical and otherwise. When they died " "A good many did die, did they?" asked Brennan. and Dr. Blessing- Pathe Presents ton colored. "You will remember that they were mostly people doomed to die," he said stily. "They had, many of them most of them incurable diseases." "But they did die," Brennan in sisted. "What I mean Is this, doc tor: this woman known, as John Drane had great wealth, if she wanted to help these incurables she could have sent them to sanitariums and she could never have missed the money. She seems to have liked to have the sickly, the dying, and the undertaker clustered about her. I'd call that morbid, wouldn't you?" "Yes, I might call it morbid," Dr. Blessington admitted. "I wouldn't say it meant she was crazy." "Well, I don't know that it makes much difference whether she was crazy or not; she has been mur dered just the same, sane or in sane," Brennan said. "I'm just try ing to get a clear picture of her in my mind. That's all now, doctor; I can get in touch with you if any thing else turns up." The doctor opened the door lead ing into the hall, but Simon Judd held him with a question. Say, doc." he said, how long have you known this John Drane, anyway?" Dr. Blessington pulled at his chin, trying to place an exact date. "He came here, I believe in 1893," he said. "It may have been '92 or 94. I met him first that same year when I called on him for a gift to our hospital. I know that I hoped he might make use of my services if he needed a physician, but I was not called in until two years later say in 1895. I've been the family physician since then." And along back there in 93 and '95 he was just about the same fel ler he looks as he lies up there on the bed?" Simon Judd asked. "Yes," said the doctor slowly. "Yes, Increasing age and illness tak en into consideration." "You don't mean to say!" Simon Judd exclaimed. "Well, black my cats! And I dare say it was along about when he called you in that he began to gather these sickly hired helps around him, huh?" "Yes, I think that is so," Dr. Blessington said. "That is so." "And when, doc," Simon Judd asked cheerfully, "was the time when he murdered the first of these sickly hired hands of his?" (Continued Next Week) STAR THEATER, October 14-15-16 When you build, we are ready to serve you WHEN you build it Is always a comforting W thing to know that the building materials you buy are going to be up to specifications. Cheap, flimsy construction usually goes hand in hand with poor quality materials. 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