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P'A'GE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAT, AUGUST 10, 1933. llu. HIDDEN DOOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD SYNOPSIS Colin Hewitt, who now rail hitnaelf Vonold Howard as part of tha echeme ha hna adopt, ad to evade ttta ilaak, New York underworld kiiler, packe hta affecta in hi cabin on the bonaventure, preparing to land at Cap a l'Orage, remota aattlement on tha north ahora 0 the Quit of St. Lawrence. Tha Mask killed Colin' friend Bad ay Tumar, but not before Baddy had pledoed Colin to deliver a letter to Joe Lasarre, who Uvea near Cap A 1'Orape and presumably ie em ployed by the ilaak himself. Tha Mask us said to have "intereate" nearby. But aa he packa, Colin (who is o writer of detective fic tion) thinka of Qermaine Trem , Mov. Chapter II GERMAINE TREMBLAY THE captain. Captain Ralnville, bad Introduced her to him the acond day out. "Mademolsella Oer- malna Tremblay ' tha captain bad lingered over the name affectionate' iy. "You have only to be down here but a very little while, Mr. Howard, to know what tha name of Trem blay meana on the coast." She bad flushed prettily. "Captain Ralnville la always Ilka that!" she bad protested. "Don't you believe a word be aays. He la a great tease. But Captain RainTllle, who bad him aelt been born on the coast and knew everybody, bad been even con servative In what be had said. Those ot the coast who were aboard tad treated her with the utmost del- rence; and Colin beard much about the tame ol the Tremblaya and their connection with the north shore. Tbey bad been amongst the earli est settlers, the first Tremblay com' lng originally from France. Several generations. Prospering. Open-hand' ed. Respected. In short, the story ot the Tremblaya was the story ot the north shore and vice versa. Colin frowned over bis packing. iHer father was Dr. Louis Tremblay of Cap a l'Orage, the present head of the family. He bad married an English girl. A romance begun In bis college days In Montreal. But his wife was now dead. There was only daughter and a son left. The son, following In his father's footsteps, tad graduated In medicine in Mont- real, and was now taking a apecial course In New York. Germalne Mademoiselle Tremblay was re turning from a visit to some friends In Quebec. Marvelous hair like burnished ajold where.tbe sun glinted on It. She Inherited that from her mother, too, probably. Someone had said she could drive a dog team with the best of them and yet sbe was scarcely up to bis shoulder. Colin went up on deck. Her chair waa still unoccupied. He flung him self Into bis own chair and tugged a book out ot bis pooket. For soma unaccountable reason he did not feel like talking to anybody not even to Francois Jollecoeur, the old timber cruiser over there, who told entrancing tales of the coast and his own adventures alas, not al ways true! A priceless old liar! A great character for a book written round these parts! A book? What book? Would he, Colin, ever write another? He had his own skin now, to put it bluntly, to think ot first. Somewhere a winch suddenly (puttered and clanked noisily, dis cordantly. They were getting cargo up on deck. A sure sign that another port was near at band. Cap a l'Orage. He looked up. ' She had Just emerged from the captain's room up there off the lower bridge, the captain following her through the doorway. Colin heard her Uugh ring out as she gayly spurned the captain's offer ot as clstance, and came llthely down tho ladder. How would he describe her If be were Introducing ber as a heroine to bis readers? He wasn't much good when It came to his "girl" stuff never had been. Always afraid of It But he wasn't describing her now in a lame and groping paragraph aa be rose from bis cbalr to meet her and they automatically drifted over to the rati together ha was Just looking at ber. THH blue eye smiled at blm frankly out of a face whose only cosmetics were the sun and the out-of-doors. "I thought you'd gone down to pack," he said. "Oh, no," she laughed, "I did that before lunch, except, ot oourse, Just thjs few .finishing tonohes. And you?" "All set," he answered. "Captain Ralnville chased me way." She waved her hand shore ward. "We'll be In shortly. That's Cap a. l'Orage over there. See that bald old mountain sticking out Into tha water with a lighthouse on top of It? The town Is Just this side ot it Pendleton Warms I'p. PENDLETON, Ore.. Aug. ( API maximum temperature of 103 de grees was reached bere Tuesday, after period ot comparatively cool wea ther. The higher temperature has enabled ranchers to resume harvest ing after a three-day bait caused by tain. r 1 ! In that little bay. You ean begin to see the houses now." "I see." Ha nodded. "Storm Cape. I've always meant to ask bow It came by its name." Studying ber, be saw the amlla fade from her eyes aa sba shook ber head gravely. "I am afraid It has earned It," ahe said seriously. "I can't explain It Ot course, the Gulf la very wide here, like the open sea, and you can't see the other shore; but then that's true In lots of other places. But the storms do seem to center bere and at times are very violent "Besides, though the Gulf Is fa mous for Its fogs, we seem to get more than our share of those too and so often tbey coma upon as al most without any warning at all. Tha storms are really very treach erous, and there is scarcely "year goes by that one of our men Is never heard ot again. And another's sor row In a little place like ours, yos know, Is one's own too." He nodded his head. "I can well appreciate that" he said quietly. "And so that's how It came by Its name, is it?" She nodded ber bead in turn; and then her mood changed swiftly and she was smiling at him again halt teasingly, and yet half in earnest, too. It seemed. "rvO you know," ahe said, "that a-' I've really been worrying a lot about you ever alnce I know you were getting off at Cap a l'Orage?" He fell in with ber mood. "How awful!" be exclaimed trag ically. "No, really!" she returned quick ly. "Madame Frenler does the best she can with her so-called 'hotel,' but it la far from being a modern hostelry and far, I am afraid, from wbat you will expect It's mostly post office and general store. You know, we are supposed to be hospi table here on the coast and I am sure father would take you com pletely under his wing, only" her face clouded suddenly ''I don't think he's very well. . "That's what has brought me back little sooner than I bad expected. But in any case, I promise you that you won't be utterly deserted ... It you like an occasional tramp through the woods . . . and I've got a rather Jolly little motorboat not terribly swanky, but a brave little craft Just the same." "Glorious!" he exclaimed enthusi astically. "As for the rest, I am sure that Madame Frenler and I will get along famously. And besides" He studied her for a moment His thoughts raced suddenly. Why not? He conldn't go around everywhere asking for Joe Laiarret This was the' obvious, the natural, the least suspicious nvove to make. He didn't like that with herl But what could he do? "And besides," be went on, "I'm not sure that I am going to be whol ly stranger In a straLge land. A friend of a friend of mine!" He laughed a little. "You know! I be lieve he'a down here at Cap a l'Orage. His name Is Lazarre. Joe short for Joseph, ot course." "Lazarre!" she repeated, and shook her head. "It's not an uncom mon name by any means, hut I am sure I know everyone In Cap a rurage, and there Is no one by that name In the village." Colin dug for a cigarette and lighted It Lazarre wasn't the man'a real name, of course. Everybody In the whole business soemed to In dulge In fictitious names himself Included! But Reddy had said that it was aa Lazarre the man was known here. Not so easy, apparent ly, from what she hsd Just said, to pick up the trail! And yet he had scarcely expected to And the man a resident of Cap a l'Orage. Reddy's uncertainty as to Latarre's exact whereabouts had suggested a decid ed uuestlon mark in that regard. But someone In Cap a l'Orage must have seen or heard of Joe Laiarre. Oh. well," he said lightly, "It really doesn't mstter." "Walt!" she cried out impulsive ly. He waited. He liked the dainty way In which her brow waa sud denly profoundly puckered. Of course!" she said. "I hadn't thought of that! If he's a friend of a friend ot yours, and moving In ex alted social circles" she was a lit tle witch she made him a staid bow "perbapa he's one of the men who coma down every year to the club." 'The club?" be echoed. "Then there is a club at Cap a lOrage?" (Copyright, Hit. rrank L. Packard) Colin atumblaa aoreM tha trail of an old aoquslnUnco, Monday. SALEM. Aug. 10. 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