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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.
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