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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. JUNE 18, 1934. MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROWN SYXOl'SIH: If An. . (mi lls on the identity of the peraon who murdered a policeman and a atranger in Pierre Dureane's house, Sergeant Harper has dtacov ered that a eet of threatening let tere sent Durceue waa written on paper taken Irom hie hnuae. and that at the time F.Uen llecker, a maid, left the Dufreane employ there had been a "arene" between Jir.r mostrr and mlatreaa. Harper ia queaHnnlng the Dufreane gardener. Chapter 40 ELLEN BECKER "X'AS there anything between ' ' Becker and young Donaghy?" Harper asked, with Quick percep tion. Whltmore pulled on hl pipe while he meditated. "Well, sometimes I thought yes and sometimes no." "When did she lcavo?" "The middle of November. I re member, because wo're paid on the 15th and 30th, and the 15th was her last pay." "Where Is she working now?" "I don't know. She never wrote to anybody nor came back to see us. She had an uncle wbo ran a little grocery store somewhere In the city, and that's all I ever heard about her family. She did tell me his name once, but I've forgotten, except that It wasn't Becker. Ellen wasn't much for talking about her own affairs, al- fhnntrji aha had ft lnt nf flnna 1 llrn 1 I joi you," Donagny laid Joe about rich people." Whltmore laughed. "Maybe she went out and got herself a rich widower," A rapping at the door afforded Harper a graceful way of bringing tho prolonged interview to an end. When the detective opened the door he found the Bame brlBk young man who had run down the origin of the dead man's disguise so success fully. Whltmore went out and the man from the Central Bureau en tered, banding over a batch of re ports from Headquartors, "Nothing very Important In these, I'm afraid, Sergeant," he commented. "I'm glad you came up, Harris," Harper repliod. "I llkod the way you handled that Fagllottl mattter. I'm going to give you another assign ment, a harder one this time." Young Harris sat silent and alert while Harper thought over blta of John Whltmore's talk. So there had been a serious quarrel betwoen Pierre Dufreane and his wife in No vember. A quarrel Inspired by jeal ousy, real or fancied. Whltmore thought that Ellen Becker was prying and sly and that there may have been something be tween Donaghy and her. On the 16th of that month Ellen had depart ed, somewhat mysteriously. On the 19th had come the first threatening letter. Then, on the day after the mur ders Donaghy had been surprised with a pocketful of money, as a re sult of "backing tho right horse." Were these facts links in a chain or tot? CEROEANT HARPEH looked Into Harris' keen oyos and spoke de cisively. "Harris, there was a maid In this house named Ellen Becker. She left last November 15Ui. I want her presont address. All I can tell you Is that sho had an uncle who ran a grocery store, but his name was not Becker. When you got hor ad dress, camp outside until I can get there. If there's anything in my tip, she may be warned to skip out of tho city. I leave all the details to you, Harris, but And Ellen Beckerl" "Yes, air!" Harris took up his overcoat and hat and departed. Har per pressed the button, and when Androws appeared asked him to end In Donaghy, Anotltrr 8tate rrohe WASHINGTON, June IB (AP) Vice President Qnrner todwy named Sena tor Bsnkhead (D., Ala.) In place of Senator Byrnes (D., 8. O.) to head the special senate committee to in vestigate campaign expenditures tn the 1034 senatorial election contn.s. QUAUTTJ5UM &Mwultx at Donaghy put in a prompt, appear ance, spick and span In his uniform and bearing himself with a jauntl ness that may have been designed to nettle the detective. "You sent for me, Sergeant? Are there any holes In my alibi?" Harper looked him up and down coolly. "That's a matter for Head quarters to check, Donaghy. What I want to see you about Is some thing entirely different." "At your service," Donaghy re plied airily. The detective frowned at the Im pudent tone. He placed paper and pencil before the chauffeur. "I want you to print the words I dictate to you. Print, you understand, not write?" Donaghy poised the pencil. "I get you," he said. "You think I wrote those letters." He chuckled. "Not me, Sergeant. I always stick to speeches." "Then there will be no harm In making sure," Harper retorted, drily. Donaghy went through the double test docilely enougb, but be evidently considered It as a joke and laughed as he handed ever the last paper. As Harper looked them over Donaghy said, "I thought the letter question was all washed up. Didn't the man who was killed write thorn?" ' "What makes you think so?" Harper countered. "Oh, just plain reasoning, logic,, or whatever you want to call it." rONAGHY'S eyes wore fastened on the detective. Under his ban tering manner he was eager for in formation, anxious to draw the de tective Into a discussion of the case. A virile, handsome face, that of Donaghy, but marred by those dis contented lines about his mouth. Behind the cocky manner Harper suspected an Intelligence of no mean order. "Donaghy, do you still maintain that you cannot Identify the man who was found in that chair?" The chauffeur shook his head. "I never saw him before, and that's the truth." "Donaghy, you're lying to me!" Even this bald challengn failed to' ruffle the chauffeur'! nonchalance, I and Harper took tht as a bad sign.! "It you know who this man is andj withhold that Information, you are guilty of wilfully obstructing justice. And that, Donaghy, In caBe you don't know It, can be built up Into a jail sentence." The chauffeur shrugged. "I can't I tell you what I don't know," he re-1 peated. Harper perched on the edge of the table and looked keenly down at the sullen face. "You're a very cocky lad, but I wouldn't lit a little tempo rary prosperity go to my head." "What do you mean?" Honaghy Instantly sensed the subtle change In Harper's voice. "Don't beat around the bush, Sorgoant. It you've got anything to say, say HI" "Don't get nervous. That was only my way of suggesting that It's a lit tle dangerous these days to carry a large amount of cash on your per son." The dark eyes narrowed. "What money?" "Don't try to bluff me, Donaghy. I could have you searched right here and now. I was reforrlng to the monoy you won by 'backing the right horse. I dldn t notice any hundred to one horses coming through. Did your horse have a French name, bj any chance?" (Copyright, itSi, by Walter C. Broun) Monday, Donaghy "blow up." Novelist Honored. BUnUNOTON, Vt June 18. (AP) Sophie Kerr, the novelist, today re ceived the honorary degree of doctor of literature from the University of Vermont. 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