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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TTEDNESDAT, MAY 15, 1935.
SYNOPSIS! Alison Rede has
come to England from Switzerland
in reeponse to a telegram from her
father asking her to meet him at a
house in the country. But he it not
there, and the houee ie dark and de
serted While washing up by the
light of her pocket torch ehe te
frightened by a ghostly intruder:
ehe rune downstairs, and ie stopped
by a rather personable young man.
She and the young man are eearch
ing the houee.
Chapter Tour
CRASH!
j'TpHBY eiplored a Itting room,
I rather pleasantly furDlshed In
'bine and dust-brown, but empty. A
second, uglier room, with orange
'cretonnes, led off the sitting-room
back into the ball.
A drawing room beyond con
tained nothing more terrible than
some Victorian engravings and Be
nares brass and took them back Into
the kitchen which, with red flag
stones smelling of soft soap and old
corner cupboards scrubbed white,
was by far the most cheerful part
of the house.
"Not a sign of a spook!"
"What about upstalrsT"
"We'll try down here first"
"That only leads Into the cellar,"
protested Alison
"May's well be thorough, though."
Ihe fancied that be gave her a quick,
turned them all on; the cellars
changed In a twinkling from ghost
haunted caverns of gloom and mys
tery to mere storerooms, lined with
cobwebs and disgraceful dust Gain
ing the kitchen steps again, he
turned the key In the door.
"There! If your frlend'a down
there he'll have to exit by tbe walls.
Where now?"
"Would It be an awful bother to
look upstairs? 1 mean, before you
go?" she asked shyly. "I'm not gen
erally such a fool but "
"It'd be no bother at all. But I'm
not going till your father comes."
She did not even try to conceal
her relief.
"That's awfully good ot you."
"Not a bit" He said It warmly. Bo
warmly that It embarrassed them
both, and he was quick to add,
"What about some light on the situa
tion?" "Let's turn them all on," agreed
Alison.
SITTING rooms, hall, kitchen,
pantry, even cupboards they
switched every bulb on and left them
all blazing. The front door was
locked and every window shut ex
cept the pantry, which they fas
tened, too.
The bedrooms seemed to be fur
nished without exception in thi
& it'
at J " '
A largs gray rat d.nea uoiween Alison's rest.
frowning look, as she hung back.
"What's the matter?" '
"Supposing he's behind us and
locks the door?"
Tbe young man took a step back
and dragged the cellar key out of
the lock. "Thore."
He swung the lantern, letting Its
beams fall on a larder with long
atone shelves, a very modern beat
ing stove and a recess which bad
once been a baking oven.
Very old, the cellars ran tbe whole
length of the house; a chain ot
amall. black, wlndowless rooms cut
oft from one another by close,
wooden gratings and full ot black
alarming corners, empty but for the
peeling plaster and a smell of mice
At the farthest end a coal cellar
to the right held a foot of coal dust
a storeroom, on the left, contained
helves with half a dozen rotting
apples; a narrower central room
ended In a dark, deep recess under
the front stairs.
Here two broken deck chairs, a
hallow heap ot straw, a small pack
lng case up-ended and a great roll
of new linoleum threw uncomfort
able shadows.
BUT though they swung tbe light
there was no sign of either man
or ghost.
"Ah!" Tbe young man stooped
auddenly.
"What?" Alison asked breathless.
"Main switch, lighting. Half a seo-
ond "
"Oh I"
The cry burst from her before she
eould stop It He jumped back so
swiftly that before the sound was
out be was beside her, ready.
Bang!
Tbe tall roll ot linoleum bad bean
rocking, now It fell straight back
with a tremendous crash Into tbe
recess under the stairs, sending a
chain of echoes through cellnrs be
hind. At tbe same Instant from the
prostrate linoleum, a large gray rat
darted with a flash of plnk-wcbbed
paws and naked tall, plumb between
Alison's feet and Into the dark coal
cellar, where It vanished.
Her companion laughed cheerful
ly. "For a moment 1 thought we
had him. didn't you? Rut I think
we'll leave the lights on, Just for
luck."
There were three switches and he
cheapest fashion with old Iron and
brass bedsteads, lumpy woolen mat
tresses, worn white paint and faded
wallpapors; In one front room lay
Alison's suit-case, open, as she bad
left It when she went to wash and
brush up.
What an age It soemed since sbe
had knelt there, nervously bum
ming, to unpack her brush and
sponge bag!
Peorlng under the bed, Into cup
boards, behind the curtains be re
ported "Nut heie," and they went on
to the bathroom. Alison could not re
press a shiver as she peered In;
then she caught sight of her own
face.
"D'you mind waiting Just a mo
ment, while 1 got my powder?" she
asked, very conscious of a nose that
shone. .
"I'll wait out here."
Yet she hurried. To be alone In
the bathroom brought back too vivid
ly the horror of that gray faco. al
though he was whistling loudly,
cheerily, as he strolled about tbe
passages.
An understanding person, she de
cided, who guossed how sbe felt and
was deliberately letting ber know
that be was close at hand. Some
cold water splashed Into her face, a
comb ran quickly through her hair,
that glinted with gold lights, a touch
of cream betwoen her dark eyebrows
and thick lashes to hide the last
trace of tears.
Then, with powder, coral rouge
and coral lipstick she was ready.
Feollng definitely better!" she
announced.
He had lighted a pipe and was
leaning back against the wall re
signedly as she came out and as he
straightened up she bad an Impres
slon that those startllngly light eyes
of his swept ovor her approving.
You certainly look happier."
If 1 may say so. 1 think you need
a cup of hot coffee more. What about
trying to make some?"
There Isn't any- 1 looked for food
and couldn't see any," said Alison.
"Hut If your father " He stopped
short
Alison said nothing. The same
thought had struck ber.
(Copyright. I9SS. Evelyn U. trtncA;
Alison, tomorrow, tries to pusxl.
out her father's ouriout actions.
BITE OF RATTLER
FATAL FOR LAD
LODI, Cfillf.. May 15. AP Th
venomous bite of rmtlMnnkc to
day claimed the life of never. -year-old
Robert Howell, son of Mr. and
Mr. Oeorfte Howell, Lodi.
The child waa bitten while on a
picnic with hla parent near LoomW
Sunday. He waa unaware of the ncci.
dent until a companion saw the
reptile and warned tl.e family. They
tried to locate a physician in the
vicinity, but were unr.ucoeiwi'ul and
meantime, rhysiolan here nald, the
polaon took deadly effect.
Doctors worked over the lad more
than 30 hours before he succumbed.
,
Ou MoJJ Tribune want a da. 1
PAN FRANCISCO. Mv 1ft. (AP
Thomas J. Mtxmey. mio preparedness
Osy bombing prisoner, wim drilled a
writ of rmbe.v corpus Tuesday by the
tMc dUtrtvt court of sprals.
Mooney can now take' his Hunt for
fieedom a tain to the California su
preme court on sppeal in the habeas
corpus procftMUuf. tvilowiiw rtvom-
j mendatlon made in a recent rulm of
...o r:-n court of the United
States.
Judee D. A. Cw!v,n disputed in the
district court's opinion todnv. hold l na
na believed Mooney entitled to
release. "
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Use Mall Tribune want adj.
FOUR CHILDREN SAFE
AFTER LOSING SCHOOL
OUTING PARTY TRAIL
ALBANY, Ore.. May 18. (AP)
Four children, footeore a-nd exhausted
after having wandered almlewiy for
seven houra over the mountain trail
on Cleveland Rock. 4000-foot outpost
of the Cascade range, were sleeping
happily today after their rescue by a
large BearchlnR party. During the cold
night they had plodded over & six
mile area. The youngest of the group
or three glrla and a boy was 8 years
old.
Late yesterday the four became
separated from a group of other chil
dren on a walking trip with their
teachers. They took the wrong trail
in descending the mountain. Dark
ness had overtaken them before they
realized their danger.
As soon ae the teachers discovered
the four were missing a call waa sent
out to police and nearby ranchea.
At 3 a. m. today a party headed by
Sheriff Herbert Shelton and State
Trooper T. R. Rodman found the
children who had wandered into a
farmyard.
The four were Dora Bellamy, Delma
Middlestadt, and Viola and Keith
E ben berg.
The state capltol of Georgia in At
lanta, built about 60 years ago. has
Just been given Its first exterior
cleaning by FERA workers.
Home portrait of family groups
and children at Special Prices
Shangle Studio Phone 1308
WILL CELEBRATE
Extensive plans are being made for
a five-day Fourth of July celebra
tion in Mt. Shasta City, Catf.. July
3. 4, 6. 6 and 7, offering a pro
gram filled with Interesting events,
reports from there said todayi
Located at the base of Mt. Shasta.
100 miles from Medford. the scene
of the celebration Is within easy
driving distance, and will undoubt
edly attract quite a large delegation
of southern Oregon visitors.
In addition to celebration events,
numerous scenic and other attrfic
tlons s u r r u n d the picturesque
mountain town. Including the veorld's
largest fish hatchery, which In turn
has the oldest living two-headed
trout, now six years old. Race horse
stables there boast of horse-flesh
valued at hundreda of thousands of
dollars.
IP'
Members of Rotary club met for
their regular noon luncheon at the
Hotel Medford Tuesday, and were en
tertained by musical selections spon
sored by Lee Bishop and Invited by
Mrs. Anne Purucker of the Baldwin
Piano shop.
There were two presentation on the
plano-acoordlon. one by Mr. Wheat
ley, and one by Mr. Thompson. Gene
vieve Brown rendered two vocal se
lection, and Mrs. Purucker and Mr.
Wheatley entertained with a piano
duet.
Arrangemente were made for the
Rotary-Klwanls bridge tournament to
be held at the Hotel Jackson on May
27, and It was decided to hold a Ro
tary ladies-night the first two weeks
of June.
Max Pierce and W. H. Fluhrer were
guests.
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