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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
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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.
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