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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934. oWwulvt at fil MOCKING HOUSE r KY WALTER C. BROWN SYNOPSIS: BIten lu mtr maid in the house uj . . .ire Dufresne, has taken bribes from both Mr. and ilre. Dufresne to maintain silcncs about tome bub vicious notes demanding rendez vous which ehe has found. But Ser geant Harper, investigating the double murder in the Dufresne house, hat forced Ellen to talk. A'oio he has left orders that Ifrs. Dulresne muat not leave her room, and has pone to the library to con front i'e master of the house. Chapter 46 JOLTING DUFRESNE '"pHE bloodhound of the law," Du- fresne declaimed, "come to read the handwriting on the wall. Meno, mene, toko, upbarsln. Good old Harper, come to Alexander's Feast. No, not Alexander's Bel shazzar's. Read me tho writing on the wall. Harper!" The detective did not answer this fanciful Jesting. Dufresne grow res tive under the growing weight of Harper's silence. "Well, what did you come up for?" be asked, testily. "I want to have a serious talk with you, Mr. Dufresne. We're Hear ing the end of the chase now and It has narrowed Itself down to two persons. The question Is, which one to arrest and charge with the mur ders?" Dufresne drained his remaining liqueur and put the glass down heav ily. "Why come to me? I don't want to testify that both were made by the samo hand. You planned to kill that man and built up false clues to conceal the real motive. "Today I wont over the scene of your alleged ambush. You got out there and fired at your own car. You see how your story falls to pieces? If there was no crank letter writer on your trail, then there was no am bush, and without the ambush there would have been no turnout of police guards to establish your alibi. "Your purpose was to get out of the Austerlltz, unseen and unno ticed, but you didn't dare Incrimin ate yourself by asking any of your friends to perjure themselves by giving you a false clearance. So you thought out a way to do It. You faked the attack on your car, locked yourself In your bedroom with the avowed Intention of drinking your self Into a state of coma and left tbe police on guard between your door and the elevator. "It was all very Ingenious, Mr. Du fresne, but this afternoon I repro duced your feat under similar condi tions." T-vUFRESNE leaned back comfort- ably and crossed one leg over the other. "It sounds very clever. Since It Interests you, suppose you explain bow It was done?" "I'll explain," answered Harper, with sarcasm. "There are two suites T NEW YORK, June 25. (AP) Trlxle Frlganza said today If Holly wood thought she Intended to "rock out" her time waiting around movie lota doing' nothing, "they were crazy as a fried egg." "I got dog-blted tired of twiddling my thumbs out there," said the good humored, white-haired actress who for 45 years has starred on the Amer ican stage. "So I packed up my hot water bottle and came back to Broadway where they are doing things." And this morning, Chamberlain Brown, the theatrical agent, tele phoned to ask the 63-year-old actress how she would like to appear In an Atlantic City stock company playing "Orandma" In "No More Ladles' Miss- Frlganza, who holds that If sho had as much money as health she could pay the war debt, said, "You should have heard me whoop. I told him I'd be just tickled to pieces. Orandma In that play 1a Just my gait plenty of zip." Taking off the spectacles through which Ahe had been reading the Acrlpt, MUs Prlganza remarked: "I wouldn't wear those things on the sidewalk If I stubbed my toe and fell down. It's a woman's business ! to make herself look attractive and ; no woman ever set tho world on fire In spectacles." TIN CAN MAIL BOX IS USED IN SOUTH SEAS noSEBUno, Ore. (UP) Robert Warren, patient at the U, S. Veterans Hospital here, received a letter from his son, R. S. Warren, mailed origin ally In a tin can thrown Into the South Seas. . R. S. Warren Is an electrician aboard the U, S. S. Mariposa. He threw the message overboard, as Is ' the custom with large passing ships, 1 near the Island of Nlu Po'ou. The can was picked up by native and the mall relayed to smaller boats ' calling at the port. A BOY AND THE MORNING PAPER By GLUYAS WILLIAMS "Read me the writing on the wall) Harpsii" to hear about It. You're wasting your time.". "Nevertheless, I'm going to tell you what I bave found out. May I borrow your koy-rlng for a moment? That will Illustrate what I mean." Dufresne handed over a flat leath er case. Inside wore Ave or six keys on separate catches. Harper spread them out fan-wise. "The clues are like these keys," he explained. "Only one will open the truth about this case, but the eye alone cannot tell which one of these keys will fit the lock. The trick Is to find the one that Ms." Pierre Dufresne was watching this demonstration with bored grav ity whon the detective put his hand over the keys and asked, suddenly, "Mr. Dutresno, why did you kill that man?" The expected reaction did not come. Dufresne's head tlltod up sharply and his manner tensed, hut his gazo was level and without a trace of fright. "You'd better explain, Harper. Your mental procosses are too Intricate tor me." Harper brought a notched key from his vest pocket and laid It down beside Its counterpart on Du fesne's ring. "These are both master-keys to the service-rooms of the Austerllti," he said. "Does that ex plain?" 'T'HE dark eyes narrowed. "I can't say that It does. In fact, I don't remember that particular key at all. Probably I found It somewhere and lipped It on my ring." "It means the breakdown of your very clever alibi tor last night, Mr. Dufresne. In the best-laid plans there's always some little thing that slips by unnoticed and In this case It's tho possession of this key." "Is that so?" Dutrosne ro-niled his glass with steady hand. "Is this the appropriate point for me to break down and confess all?" he drawlod. . "Your whole story Is a take," Har per answered. "You wrote those threatening letters and sent them to yoursslt. We have specimens of your hand-lotterlng and experts are ready on that floor, separated by a corri dor. There Is a bend In this corridor, but, since It ends at a window twenty-eight stories above the street, no attontlon was paid to It. But next to that window Is a sorvlce-room and In that service-room Is a large dumb waiter used to send laundry ham pers and such things up and down to the various floors. "I went out the rear door of your suite, crossed the hall, got In the dumb-waiter, pressed tho button, and rode down to the baseraont. I came out Into a sort of store-room, walked out the employees' entrance, ro-en- tered tho building by the front door. and rode up again In the elevator. The men on watch had seen noth ing, because they could not see around that bend In the hall. That Is how you got out last nltfit, Mr. Dufredne." "Pardon mo, Harper. You have ex plained a ii Ho Ingeniously how It was possible to get out, but that doesn't prove that I took advantngo of It. There's a considerable legal distinc tion there, don't you think?" 1 "There Is one person who knows you were out of the suite last night." I think that will be even harder to prove." . ."Perhaps. If you will summon Andrews, I will ask him why he was so startled when I came back to the Austerllti why he tried to stop me from entering your bedroom why he lookod so flabbergasted when he saw you were really tnore, lying on the bod. Faithful old Andrews! He didn't know what It was all about, but he did hla best to protect your plans. It was well conceived and well executed, but here and there your hand was a little hoary. That smell of brandy In the bedroom was en tirely too strong. You spilled It around to drive home the Idea that you were dead drunk. That heavy smoll and the pocullar expression on Andrews face when he saw you thore gave me the drat twinge of suspicion about your alibi." (Cotmrteht. 1(11, by V alter 0. Bntcu) Monday, another tr.gsdy In trudes ititlf Into the tanol. renilleton Brewery Fire PENDLETON, On., June 33. (AP) A fire started by an overheated mo tor In the Roesch brewery here this morning caused between M.ooo and $5,000 damage to tho Ice ptant and stock. Tribute raid SALEM. June 23. m Acting u chief speaker at trie memorial services held here last night for Will R. Kin;. former supreme court Justice, John L. Rand, present chief Justice, lalitted King as an attorney, cltlsen and Jus tice. The service was held unde the auaplcM of the Jefferson club of Salem In the Unitarian church. Orcsuii Heather. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, with local showers In the mountains; little change In temperature; mode rate changeable winds offshore. IIIILUUI nnillMU i Tr-ck Regulation A " X AFX y A I III I I LI 1 1 Unl I I III. Hospital here, received a letter from mlMlonor, will leave here tonight "lor I XI I 1 I 1. 17 Jl Salt Lake City to Join representatives 1 I I 'f of the state department, highway de. i I X 1 V 1 I Yer f7 ' tsT ! 1 I partment and the legislative Interim I 1 II tT II I I I committee to attend the western con- I I 1 II y V I I ference on bus and truck legislation. 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