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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FO-R MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTJNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUXE 28, 1935. SYNUFSIB! Willi ifuy Lumicy a help Alteon Hede haa determined that Daphne Humeri who is to marry Altaon's father in a lev minutes it really the mulderea Daphne royaler On their way It, confront Daphne (luy has an acci dent and la lorced to aa to the po lice elation Alison rushes ahead and rharaee Daphne with what she ana nay have learned. Chapter 40 COUNTER STROKE "T DON'T care." Alison Bald, "but I 1 know this. I'm not going to let you marry my father and kill him too!" "Why do you think that would please me?" "1 don't know, I auppose you'd get bis money." Alison's face was pale, her breath came quickly. "You'd better ask Dr. Lumley. He knows all about your arrangements at your house at Warley." It was a shot In tbe dark, but the effect was startling. All Daphne's coolness dropped from her; she stood up, her eyes glittering. "Oh!" The tone was menacing. "Does he? Then perhaps you can explain what he was doing there? You're In love with him, aren't you? Well, then, perhaps you know that the police are looking tot him on a charge of murder?" "I don't believe It!" Alison flung that back rcornfully. ,u eciu uuy down there, to Warley you meant to frame him wltb the murder!" It was guesswork, blind hitting In tbe dark, yet as she said it, Alison knew that she had bit on the truth. "You knew that other man had the letter and you meant Guy to go down there and And him dead and " She stopped Her eyes grow wide, almost black as the pupils, opening swallowed up the Iris. "Oh!" Alison gasped. "Oh! You sent him that awful man down to kill me!" It was clear now as clear as the glinting, narrowed black eyes which, shifting, avoided her own. Suddenly, as a flash of lightning throws up the contours of a dark landscape, Alison saw. A plan so sate, so simple, that no one could ever suspect Daphne Sumers of a hand In It, except the murderer, the one person who could never give It away! ' 'T'WO telegrams, one sent off for Robert, one to the movers' who would suspect that they got mixed on purpose? Above all, who could Imagine tbat Daphne Sumers had any deep design In sending a girl whom she had not met, bad never seen, down to the bouse at Warley? Was It only by chance tbat tha grey-faced and awful man bai 7 it: fw rrr . x - A deft shove sent Alison back to the couch. "No?" Daphne's bead was low. ered like a snake striking. "Will you believe me then when I tell you that 1 spent this morning at Scot land Yard, being questioned about what happened In my bouse? The night that you were there, Alison, a man was murdored. "You yourself told me that no one else entered the house that night! They wanted to know where 1 was and I told them dining wltb your father. Thoy asked m If anyone else had access to the house and I lied. Not for your own sake, for your father s. But If 1 told what I knew" She stopped dramatically Alison was white now, and she stared at her as though hypnotized. But she said bravely "I don't believe It. You can't prove anything against Guy. ,And I can tell them that he didn't do It Why, you yourself said that tbe movers' men went In next day and found nothing!" "I MADE a mistake." Daphne was smooth. "I've asked them and they tell me that they didn't go Into the cellars." "Even then, he'd nothing to do with It. I went down the next morn ing and there wasn't anything there." "Did you?" Daphne smiled grim ly. "Did you go right Into the recess under the stairs?" Alison's face answered the ques tion. "You didn't! And you didn't know, perhaps that Dr. Lumley went down to Warley to kill the man who wrote those anonymous letters!" "It Isn't true!" That was a cry. "Isn't It? You don't know perhaps that one of the lellers was found on the man that he killed!" And the police don't know that Dr. Lumley was there yet. Don't you th!Dk, All son, you'd better leave your father's affairs snd mine alone? Unless you want to see your charming friend hsnsM?" "You did It! You did It all on purpose!" The words broke In a cry from Alison's lips. "You think so?" She said that Insolently. come stealing on tip-toe through the bouse? Or had he been sent there to hide in some corner of the garden and watch for a hired car to arrive, a girl to enter and wait, un suspecting? Alison. Ice-cold, swaying back wards, away from the dark malicious face so near her own. saw too clearly. Suppose she had not looked up that night or heard the creak outside? Murder by proxy and a double murder that would at one blow clear Daphne from all danger from Guy Lumley, leaving bim safely banged or else In prison! No wonder Guy had been afraid to tell her the truth, thought Alison in sick fear; no wonder be was so sure that Daphne meant to kill a second hus band! For If that plan had not ml carrlod, Robert Rede's daughter, the heiress to his money would be lying dead nowl He would be able to leave his widow a rich woman! Clear, simple dlabollc.il! Alison's sudden rush towards the door was sheer physical panic. A leap and she was fumbling at the handle. Two steel strong arms closed round her, bearing her back, heaving her over and face down on to a sofa. Before she oould eveu cry. Daphne's hand closed on the back of her neck, pressing her face down Into the cushions. Suffocating, she kicked out helplessly, beating the sofa padding. "Lie still, you Utile fool! Do you want a scene In here? D'you want me to tie you up? You can say what you like about me make up any story you like, you can't prove It. The real point Is, are you going to keep your silly little tongue quiet or not?" "Let me by." Alison stood up shakily and tried to push past. A deft shove sent her back on the sofa. "There! Sit quiet moment. Thlnkl But remember, Alison. I can prove that Dr. Lumley went there to meet that man! And I'll hold my tongue just as long ss you hold yours!" (Copyright, nil, Ivelyn SI- ITIneht Alison facts, tomorrow, a eruol dilemma. TRY ALTURAS RANCHER ALTURAS, Calif., .June 38. (UP) Trial of John J. Wiley, prominent El dorado county rancher, on charts of cattle rustling opened here today be Joie Superior Judge F. M. Jumlson A Jury wa completed ia hear the trial after a ahort period of question ing prospective veniremen. Two witnesses, first on the prose cution list, acou1 Wiley of com plicity in the cattle stealing ring Both witnefsfe are implicated In the charges. "KICKLBN'ICK" Undergarment that fit at Ethel wyn B Hoffmann's Lawnmowers: Sharpened. Ph'sne 21. Medford Cyclery, 28 N. Fir. Phone 642 We'll haul away jour (ciude. dt' bauua,'j Service. FIVE NAMED TO AID BALEM, June 37. (AP) The State Board of Education today appointed five members of the Americanization council who will work in an advisory capacity in Americanization work tn public schools. The members named are A. C. Rice of Portland. Thomas R M honey of Portland. John Jnndrall of Astoria. Alfred Collier of Klamath Falla and Mrs. J. W. Mclnturff of Mirshfteld. Superintendent of Schools C. A Howard Mid he ould dealnmue Robin J. Maaske of hla department aa director of the council, in addi tion to Howard the members of the education board are the governor and secretary of state. WINDOW OLAf5 We fell window glaAa and will replaos your orocen windows reasonably. Trowbrids C0- PERVERT SLAYER PEORIA. 111., June 37. (UP) Pleading lor a "break," Gerald Thompson, who broke a girl's neck wlilla ravishing her, was arraigned today before Judge Henry Ingram, who ordered him to trial July 23, charged with the murder of pretty Mildred Hallmark. Thompson's stoicism, which he maintained during the reading at the Indictment, cracked when the name of hla "regular" sweetheart, Lola Hughes, was mentioned later by dep uty sheriffs who hustled him off to the county Jail. He sobbed bitterly. He had Just left the Hughes' girl home at 11:30 p. m. a week ago Sunday when he "picked up" Miss Hallmark, a cafe hostess, and took her on the ride which ended In her death In & cemetery ravine. Revealed by a sordid diary aa rav laher of lfl girls, some of whom he forced to pose nude for photographs before the glaring lights of hts auto, Thompson denied he hit Mildred hard enough to kill her. May Advertising Shows Gain Over Month Last Year NEW YORK. June 28. (AP) Ad vertising during May registered & gain of 2-1 per cent over the same period a year ago, according to the general Index for advertising com piled by Printer's Ink. The Index figure for May stands at 81.3 as compsred with 79 8 for April. Corrected for seasonal and other variations, the compilation uses an index figure of 100 to repre sent the average of advertising ac tivity during the five-year period, 1928-33. HELLO GIRLS GET Chosen as Best Dancers Miss Ard ath Williamson and Herb Harper and Miss Peggy Laurence and Earl Coss were the two couples chosen Wednes day night at Dreamland dance pavil ion as the best dancers lu the first of a series of fox-trot contests con ducted by the management. SALEM. June 28. f AP) Three Seaside telephone operatora who continued phone service during the rain and wind storm on the coast last October, were presented honor medals today by Oovernor Charles H. Martin In a brief ceremony in his office. The three women who received the Bell system's "vail" medals were Miss Marjorle White. Mrs. Cella M. Cal lahan and Mrs. Sarah L. Raw. Only one other vail medal was awarded on the Pacific coast for merltorous service during last year. The operators, the citation read, continued to man the switchboards for eight hours after the chimney of the building had crashed, tear ing a hole in the roof over the operators,' with windowa crashing near -them and the room in which they worked practically flooded. THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR By GLUYAS WILLIAMS DUCE DOFFS COAT TO AID THRESHING CREW LITTORIA. Italy, June 28. (AP) Premier Mussolini worked today in hla shirtsleeve, sweating In the duat of a threshing machine. He was Joining the peasants on the farmlands hts government made out of the old Pontine marshes in their annual celebration beginning the harvest. 1 J WHILE FXPJ.0RIN6 -friE OLD DESRD HOUSE, A SHUffER- , BPl S0MEWHER.E . UPSTAIRS S-MATTER POP Payne By Hal Forrest, I 1 ni i--- - 1 -rfwTH fmm L.mfm 4 1 J'UI 1 mn)l ij : mXm.iehr . WtUftW (Copyright, 1938, by Th. Bdl Syadicat., Inc.) &-8 . U'3 LIKE To ' WT' ! F Cm.LT. A. J H . ' 1 JW ( 1 W A- j VOUUTS ftfr So fMy TEM A UICK-! ' Wm, V CAK-t 4oT ( VA? 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