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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, JIEDFORD, OREGON", TUESDAY, JUXE 19, 1934.
CtHwuLvx. at
MOCKING HOUSE
bt AOrot . J lll
unable to Weitfi,. tranoer
Mho, iclth a policeman, taae killed
In Pierre Dureene'e house, he at
leaet hoe eome "leade." One is that
at the time Ellen Becker, a servant,
left the Dufreenee' employ Mr. ana
Ure. Duresne had a quarrel, An
other ie that there woe something
etranpe about Ellen'e leaving, and
a third is that Danaahy, the chnut
feur, hae recently been seen with a
lartie amount of money in hie
pock't.
Chapter 41
PUZZLING AMBUSH
DONAGHT auddenly recapture
his jaunty manner. "Certainly
I've got a big roll ol bills, a regular
man's size stake.
"What of it? There wasn't any
money missing, was there? I didn't
win It on the horses. That's Just a
yarn I pitched to nosey John, to
makes his eyes pop. This Is money
I've saved up from my wages and
I'm not trusting It to any hank.
Now, It you want to count It, or
write down the numbers, or look (or
fingerprints on it. It's all right with
me."
Harper waved aside the mocking
ly offered wallet "So you carry your
bard-earned savings around with
you, yet you borrow small sums of
money from your fellow servants
to tide you over to the next pay
day? ' must say I like the horse
story better, Donaghyr
This time the chauffeur's temper
blew up. "I don't give a damn what
you like or don't like, he sputtered,
"It's my business. . It you think
you've got anything on me, go ahead
and make the pinch. You can't bluff
ma and you're not going to bang
anything on me, either, by hanging
around the kitchen and wheedling
gossip out of the help.
"Put the screws to the servants,
make 'em Jump through hoops when
you crack the whip. Ask anything,
we've got to answer. But I haven't
beard you making any noises like
that upstairs. Try badgering them
and see what you getl"
Donaghy went on, unheeding,
'There are lots of things you don't
know about, Mr. Sergeant of Deteo-
tlres, for all your snooping. I'll
give you a couple of hot tips and
dare you to do something about it.
"You can't question Mrs. Du
fresne because her face Is all
wrapped up in bandages. Question
her, hell, you oan't even get into
the room. Well, she can talk, be
cause I beard ber talking to the
doctor, and talking plenty.
"Here's another! Mr. Dufresne
hasn't been near her since she came
back to this bouse last night. Is be
staying ovt, or is he being kept out?
It you can spare a little time from
the butler, the chauffeur, and tbe
cook you might look Into a tew
things like that, going on right
under your nose."
' Harper got down from the table.
"Donagby, I'm running this case In
my own way. Right now we're dis
cussing your psrt and I'm going to
tell you what I think, In plain words,
it's tor your own good. -
"I am convinced you hold the
key evidence In this case, because
you know who that dead man was
and why be cams Here. If you have1
accepted a bribe tor your silence,
or levied blackmail on the strength
of that knowledge, I warn you that
you're playing with dynamite.
"Both those murders were treach
erous, cold-blooded affairs. There
'may have been a strong reason be
hind tbe first killing but Officer
Ham ill was murdered tor one rea
son, and only one he knew the
killer's Identity. Any one who will
kill, and kill again to cover the first
crime, can keep right on killing so
long as there Is danger of discov
ery." jrrWB dark blue limousine with the
I -l blue and gold seal of the city
blazoned on the door slipped swiftly
past the snow bsnks that lined the
country road.
Harper and Lafferty had gone
over the scene 'of Dufresne's am
bush of the day before with extreme
care and with the help of Officer
Watson, to whom Dufresne had Drst
reported the affair. And they had
found exactly nothing whatever.
No cars had been seen, no trains
bad passed that could have served
the hidden gunman, and all traces
of his hiding place had been hidden,
It they existed at all, by the snow.
"It looks as If we're up against
an Invisible man," Lafferty re
marked. "Make It plural," returned Har
per with a sharp look. "The sniper
vanishes In a few minutes In the
midst of a bare, flat country. But be
must have been back In the city
almost as soon as Dufresne, who
drove like mad.
"And then a stIU smarter man
murdered the sniper, and escaped
from Dufresne's house without leav
ing a track In the snow. Either it's
.BY WALTER C. BROWN.
magic, or someone's been dragging
red herrings across the snow."
"You mean some of our clues have
been planted?"
"Exactly. By the way, you
haven't told me bow you made out
at Mrs. Morlock's." '
"Well, Mrs. Dufresne's alibi Is
Just as strong as ber unsupported
word. Here is tbe situation, Steve.
Dufresne called up his wife about
4:30 and told her about the ambush.
He said be was safe, was staying
in the Austerlitt for the night, and
that there was a police guard.
"She seemed greatly upset by tbe
news, complained of a nervous bead
ache, begged oC attendance at Mrs.
Morlock's dinner party and imme
diately retired to her room.
"About Sve o'clock the maid left
a tray outside ber door. When she
passed a little later It bad been
taken In. The point Is that no one
actually saw Mrs. Dufresne from
five o'clock until the maid went up
to announce that Doyle was asking
to see ber.
"Dinner was served at seven and
while they were dining one of the
chauffeurs gave the alarm about the
Ore In the garage. The telephone
wires were strung at the back of tbe
garage and the 'phones went dead
right after they'd called the Fire
Department Naturally, the whole
house was In an uproar, but what
Mrs. Dufresne did no one In the
house seems to know."
"'pHAT wouldn't take any prise as
an alibi, would It?" Harper
asked quietly. "I always thought
that when a murder was planned
the murderer usually turned up
armed with the best alibi not the
worst. It's almost a law of criminal
nature. Now who, would you say,
had the very best alibi In this case?"
Lafferty groaned. "Sherlock
Holmes Is In again."
Harper continued with a. sly
smile, as though he had been an
swered, "You're quite right, Steve.
Dufresne and Andrews. And what
portions of our evidence have been
most troublesome to place?"
"Personally," Lafferty said, "I
could get along better It I knew
nothing of the case that dated prior
to sundown yesterday. That fellow
buying the disguise months ago, the
crank letters, the ambush, those
damned things make everything
dlszler."
"Right again, Jack. And why? Be
cause those three events should be
links In a sequence, the logical out
come of which would have been
Dufresne's death I That's why I've
felt so uneasy about the letters
something tells me tbey were not
written by our dead man."
Lafferty nodded. "I see. The let
ters furnished Dufresne with his
alibi. It the letters are 'phoney,'
then the alibi I get your drift.
Where's our next stop, tho Auster
litt?" "Not yet. First we have to nay
a little social call on the mysterious
housemaid, Ellen Becker." Harper
took a slip of paper from his vest
pocket. "Ellen llvej at 1221 West
Magnolia Street. I don't think we're
expected and I doubt It we'll be
welcome. ; .
'Harris foun . her In a little over
an hour," he told Lafferty. "That
youngster will make his mark. He's
got a nose for the scent as sharp
as a beagle's."
'Do you expect her to cut and
run?"
"If she knows something, that's
very likely. I'll be Interested to see
her reaction when she finds out who
we are."
The police car threaded Its way
through the city lanes until the
driver pulled up at the opening of
a narrow street. "Here you are.
Sergeant," he announced. The '.
tectlves got out and Harris emerged
at once from a tobacco shop on the
corner and Joined them.
"Any sign of aotlvlty?" Harper ,
asked.
"I think so," Harris reported.
"Miss Becker haa been railed to the
'phone In that store twice. There's
a booth, so I couldn't bear what she
said, but she looked excited."
"Good enough. Walt here for us,"
Harper directed, and he and Laf
ferty turned Into the narrow street,
solidly lined with neat, but small,
two-story houses. They mounted
the low step'i at 1221 and pulled the
old-fashioned bell.
They had a wait before the door
opened about a foot and a middle
aged woman with Iron-gray balr
looked out at them suspiciously.
Harper greeted her politely. "W
would Ilk to see Mies Ellen
Becker."
"She's not at home," the woman
answered brusquely.
(Copvrioht, mi, by Walter C. Brown)
The mysterious Ellen Backer Is
put on the "spot," tomorrow.
FIRST COVER SPRAY
FOR SECOND BROOD
OF
The first cover spray for control of
second brood codling moth worms
should be completed on all varieties
of pears and applea by June 97, ac
cord Ins to the advice of L. o. dent
ner, entomologist of the Southern
Oregon experiment station, and L. P.
Wilcox, county agent.
Um powdered arsenate of lead,
three pounds to one hundred gallons
of water. If spider mite Injured
leaves are noticed prior to the appli
cation of this spray, a combination
summer oil emulsion arsenate of lead
solution may be used, this control!-
10
CRATER LAKE NATION AI PARK,
Ore (Special.) Naturalist services
will be rnderway at Crater Lake July
1, offering numerous guided nature
trips, caravans, lectures and com
munity house programs, Acting Park
Naturalist Warren O. Moody, an
nounced this week.
A highly trained staff of natural
ists will contribute to this Important
feautre for park visitors who fully
understand and appreciate the scenes
of rare beauty found In the park.
These men rere carefully selected on
the basis of specialized training and
a number of them are members of
college faculties, thus providing the
public with the highest type person
nel possible.
Called back to national park ser
vices In Washington, D. C, last year,
the poet i ion so efficiently held the
past three years by Park Naturalist
D. S. Llbby, Is being filled this sea
son by Warren G. Moody of Fresno.
Calif., a veteran of numerous seasons
with the national park service. The
latter Is a, graduate of Stanford Uni
versity and Is an Instructor of science
with the Fresno high school faculty.
Remaining members of the staff
are: Dr. Carl Swartzlow, Columbia,
Mo., Instructor of geology in the Un
iversity of Missouri; Prof. Worren D.
Smith, head of the department of
geology, University of Oregon, and
author of many geologic treatises;
Russell Andrews, Klamath Falls,
Stanford University graduate, mem
ber of Klamath high school faculty,
administrative assistant to the act
ing park naturalist. Craig Thomas,
Fresno, Calif., zoologist and mu
sician; Dr. Elmer I. Applegate, cu
rator, Dudly Herbarium, Stanford
University, botanist: Stanley Brode,
member of Pendleton high school
faculty, biologist; Prof, Ernest O,
Moll, Eugene, Ore., member of Uni
versity of Oregon faculty, botanist
and ornothologtst; Prof. Hugh Waes
che. member of Virginia Polytechnic
school faculty, geologist; Berry
Campbell, John Hopkins University,
zoologist specializing In mammals.
THE DALLES. Ore., June 19. (AP)
Helen Conley, 18, a graduate of the
Tygh Valley high school near here
this spring, was instantly killed early
Sunday when a car In which she was
riding with three youths from The
Dalles overturned on a highway
curve while the party was return'ng
from a dance at Tygh valley, pari
Spauldlng, musician, was driving.
All kinds of legal blanks for sale,
for rent, no hunting, no trespassing
and other cards for sale at Commercial
Printing Dept. of Mall Tribune.
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By 0. M. Paynt
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log the mite infestation as well as I
codling moth worms. I
ThA ivimhlntilnn inr.t nuM h I
as follows: One and one-quarter gal I BRINGING UP FATHER
Ions medium summer oil emulsion, j
plus two pounds of powdered arse-j
nate of lead, plus on-half pound ,
spreader to the one hundred gsllons
of water. ,
To data apples and pears generslly
throughout the county are compare
lively clean of worm Injury. This, i
however, should not be grounds for:
growers to relent on their spray pro- I
gram from now on. The battle lei
only one-half won with the heaviest!
fighting yet to be done. Apply the I
sprays as called tor, with as much I
thoroughness as has been exhibited i
so far thta season, and at harvest
time a worm-free crop will be youri
reward. j
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