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'torsFonn Watt; mmuNT:, mtipfotit), ordox, Tuesday, jfxe ia, jsm. ENJOYED BT GIRL TROOP OF TALENT TAM-:XT, Ore., June 18. Fp1- Tin; UoHcbud troop of tho Girl hVdUtH held un all-day meeting nt the forkK of th road on AVaiier clerk. At this tlmo several of Hie K I pahhi tl llio tundcrfuut tt-st and riH'fivt'd nu'i-lt ImkIkcm. The day was hint In guinea and Instruc tion. A basket lunch was werved at noon, while the uhls enjoyed a weincr roawt for supper. The girls with atleiitled by their captain, ,M I .outer Newbry. Mm. Manning and Mrs. Jay Tor- rill and daughter Itarbara upont Thur.sday Khn)ping. Mr. and Mra. from Oitlnfpiin GOLD BULLETS , by Charles G.BootK SYOISIS: Ftirto tniiw 1ivhl4tt hi tho Luiuly wiloon iitut prepnreH Id kill,Jilm. I'lirio belirvcH that r4hlcH liileitdH Ut convict lilm or Ogden'N murder, JMIhm follimN IVcldcH and Ih waiting' otitfcltlo llio room. 'J'hrou lug 1'tirlo off guard by u m so, INH'bhf landn it knork out lilmv 4ni IuiieH Hi In. Pro tending to pleaul fir iiHrty 1 '' i lileN flrvt nt flio tvHtnjc. groaiiM and i hluuiM to tlw floor. Dillon cruhheM into the room, wheels In mtrttrlnn at J N' blew' voice, trie to h h o o t ! bini, but leehle' gun in tlu' quick-J before dawn tho next morning. I am not Kure why MacNuir wiiutod the piMtol I hud bought from Hyde and which he had overheard Jerry and Andrew tit I king iibnuL Jer-h.-tpH the Idea of a iiichkhko ttw geHted Itself. Ah It hiippeiied, I went in and caught MucXiilr. We struggled. Lucy and Mrs. Alofflt came as I was about done for. Mac Nalr took hiuiHelf off, pretended to collide with someone outside, fired a couplH of shots through his hat. and returned. And then MacXair made another mistake, lie said he cr. Illllon droM dead Dillon, who' was In the Ogden grounds and that Is Lutlicr MacXair, to CHAl'TKH 47. "A Simple Act of Justice.' Jerry gave me something drink and I felt butter. "Quite n family party," I re marked neldly. "Can't a man keep afturnuun In Mcdfurd '' appointment w itnout nnir it , gie lozen people chasing after him Riley Xyswarner might have killed you, uncle spent Wednesday John!" Lucy wailed, pressing me at the home of Mi Carvln. Chin les H. Robert from T-os An-! geles, t'al., is making his mother,! Mrs. Kmrnii Itobert, an extended visit. Mr. Itobert has been work ing In the oil fields In California for several years. Miss Gladys Crosby from On 11 fornia Is visiting her father, Will Crosby. Mrs. Malvln Men row, who was operated on a eouple of weeks ago for appendicitis, Is so far recover ed its to be moved tlie first of this week to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James 1'ellett, at Klamath Junction. Carl Glasgow suffered the loss of his tractor and ir0 gallons of gasoline and oilier farm Imple ments when his machine shop caught fire. Tho cause of the fire could not bo determined. Mrs. I .no Xeatherlnnds from Winters, Cal., who has been spend ing the past mouth visiting her mother, Mrs. Crosby, and other rel atives', returned to her home the first of the week. Iiert Simmons, who has been r-'ptnding the past three months with his parents at Pumpkin Cen ter, returned Wednesday to San J'ranciscu. where he has obtained employment. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Driskell of Ardiland are residing at the homo i'f Sirs. Cora Dcnbam during her als'iu'c. Mi's. lcnham Is (Spend ing a couple of months In Wash ington and the east and expects to return by the southern route, and . will visit her son. Lloyd Turner, and family In San Francisco en route. (ieorgo Whelpley went to Ash land Saturday morning to consult a dentist. Mrs. Clara Andrews of Medford spent AWdnesday afternoon at the bourn of G random Crosby. I'Yult thinning began In the Tal Hil district last Week, "Must all of the orchards now have thinning crews at work. and Mrs. Cliff 1 to her again "limn, J said grimly. l sup pose, it was you who got Ueacon to come." "How did you know It was Mac Xair, John?" Henry usked hum bly. "You'd have known It was Mac Xair, too, if you hadn't hud your eyes elsewhere." Henry flushed. I felt sorry for him und I turned my attention to Nathan Hyde, who had been eye ing me with an Ironic grin. "Still looking for the mine trans fer, Hyde V" I demanded. That ruffled his smoothensn a bit, but he replied suavely enough. "No, we were looking for you, Pee bles," and ho chuckled. c he heard me call out. "I cliff not call out. MacXair and I fought in silence, "Item four Polyundria followed inn Jnto the den. Somehow, she got tangled up between us. I heard her yowl and I was sure she lashed out with a paw. After the strug- I found a tiny drop of blood ongealing on one of her claws. She hadn't scratched me, so she must have drawn the blood of my opponent. "There was a scratch on Mac Xalr's right wrist. He at once pull ed up his sleeve and showed It to me obviously to disarm suspicion "Item five MacXair examined the cartridges before I did. A few minutes later, when I called his attention to the nicks on tho one that contained the note, he pre tended that lie had not seen them. That was nonsense. Jle couldn't have helped seeing them. I hold up the little red notebook "Item six some of my conclu sions aro written hero. When Mac Xair and 1 were in my den Katur day night, I put the notebook down on my desk and left tho room for a minute or two. When I returned Knrly oil wells nt otiped out by hand. Jlaku wero SiBHTj -XSSI EST WITH 2 t TEA ORANGE PEKO& - ICED Peebles notebook Viclil tho aina.liig solution of Andrew Ogden: murder. "See here, Undo To1in!"' Jerry r fori nil the book had been dfs eut in unceiemonloiiHly. "Vouiiurbed us i had exported. I wanl wero supposed to be Watson and i od MacXair to know I believed him you turn out to ho I In hues. A ml the supposed Holmes Ih tho vil lain." "Thanks for the comparison Jerry." I said modestly. "Holmes. I ' Angel took upon himself the role- of Wat son as n matter of expediency." "You mean you knew all along that MacXair killed Andrew?" Henry exclaimed. Well, since the day after It hap guilty. "Item seven Sunday moVnlng MacXair stopped his car at my house and told mo he was going I purposely glanc ed at his speedometer. It regis tered tf.S-'Ii miles. Last night, after the car was supposed to have cov ered a distance of -2ri0 miles, It registered 7.010 miles an Increase of only 1X5 miles. MacXair went pened." I admitted, "llut my cvl- j l" Tonidlty to plant Jerry's flan , Coo! refreshment for summer days. Tree Tea gives perfect iced tea flavor. ill dence was Incomplete. 1 didn't be lieve It would stand up under the attacks of a battery of criminal lawyers MacXair Dillon would summon to his defense. 1 waited for him to force the Issue. And ho did tonight. I'll give you the cvldenco Item for item." I ruffled the pages of my litllo red note book. "Item one," I began. "Today is Tuesday. , Jerry left his father at 15 inliiulea past nine Friday evening. At exactly half past nine I was railed on tho tele phone, presumably by Andrew Og den. The speaker asked me to come over at once. His voice wan strain ed and unnatural, but I had no a son then to believe that it wasn't. Andrew. On tho way over 1 saw a man In Jerry's white flan nels flying down tho drive. I found Andrew dead in the library with his left hand dosed around the telephono receiver. Tho Infer ence at first glance was that Jerry had killed his father us Andrew telephoned me, then ran for his life, llut, while most people hold the receiver of a telephone to the left ear. Andrew was deaf b the left ear ami he. always held It to his right ear with his right hand. e( 1 found him holding It In his left. "t contend, therefore, that It ' was not Andrew who' telephoned me. but the man who killed him; that his murderer was not Jerry, because Jerry would have known which hand to place upon the re ceiver; and that tho murderer tele phoned me to come over so that I would see him escaping in Jerry's dothes and conclude that Jerry had killed Andrew." "Item two -after Kurle left the Ogden house and before he called Jerry Into the library, Andrew wrote- a card to MacXair. Mac Xair returned to his house shortly after the card was bft there, and! not several hours later, n he prc t ended; he left for the Ogden house nt once; saw a light In the Ogden library and a sense of dan ger sent him there Instead of to the front door; lie overheard An drew telling Jerry tho story of hi Torrldtty days, without, however, disclosing to him 1 u lion's present idem It y. MucNsir realized If he would preserve his own life und liberty he must make tw ay with Andrew as mnn as Jerry hail gone. Them was no moon nnd ho easily stood on the Utile i nlle.Mn bal cony without helmt seen, "My evidence of this ts flimsy. MacXair was having a stucco nun room built on his hungnlow, I found traces of plasterer's cement on his shoes and a deposit of it on the bal.onv. Item three my dep. WAS entered nets. "Items right nnd nine Lust night I telephoned au old colleague of mine in Los Angeles and asked him to get Information I wanted, ile called me back this morning. He told me, first: "That MacXair was involved In tho Phabmn oil swlndlo and that he had to return IIOO.OCO before the end of this week or face a criminal court action. He de manded $ ion, nnd of Andrew. "Second: That MacXair was dis charged by tho riinkerton Doteo tlvo Agency 30 yoars ago for ac cepting a hribo of $10,000." (Copyright, 102!!. Wm. Morrow Co.) The hi hit oT how Preble clinch imI tho case against MacNiih Is In tomorrow's chapter. ELECT LOWE SCHOOL TALKXT. Ore.. Juno IS. (Spl.) The annual election of district No. 1! J occurred at tho schoolhouse Monday afternoon. H. II. Lowe was elected for tho three-year term by a majmity 'of seven over Lnrl Newbry. Mrs. Jay Terrill re ceived the unanimous vote of the meeting, being tho only nominee for dork. ... 1 ti''.:'.:. A million motor' iftt are firtHing thai they ncrtl not pay premium price fofine performance. VIOLET RAT null-knock Car oline.... today' r.i motor furl ... m sold for the price of ordinary ga$aline. 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