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SfEDFOTlD MAIL TRTBUXE, M"EDFORD. OREGON". THTT5SDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1936. BYNOPSIB: Bo far at anybody tan determine, the man found dying at the root of a can ntar int Varchbolt golf oourtt foil acciden tally. Prankit Oerwent view tht occurrcnct with tuagloton, but Bobby Jonta. who found tht man, teet nothing out of tht way. Ht hat arranged to help Badotr Btadon with a garagt in Lonaon. ana wnen a myattriout offer to go to Bouih America at a high tafary arrlvet. feel ht muat refute. Now Frankit it aakino Bobby to comt to a party tn London ana Bthby. feeling that ht tcnuld be out of place in her wealthy ttl. tt rtruttng. Chapter Nine. PICNIC rtTTHEN you're quite finished e ' pressing your Inferiority com' plei," said Frankle coldly, "perhaps you'll try netting out of the bunker with a niblick Instead of a putter.' "Hare I oh, damn!" He replaced the putterln his bag and took out the niblick'. Frankle watched with malicious satisfaction as he hacked at tie ball live times In succession, Clouds of sand rose round them. "Your bole." aald Bobby, picking up the ball. "I think It Is," said Frankle. "And that gives me the match." "Shall we play the byet" "No. I don't think so. I've rot a lot to do." "Of course. I suppose yon have.' They walked together in silence to the clubhouse. "Well." said Frankle, holding out ber hand. "Qood-bye, my dear. It'a been too marvellous to have you to make use of while I've been down here. See something of you again, perhaps, when I've nothing better to do." "Look here, Frankle" "Perhaps you'll condescend to come to my coster party. 1 believe you can get pearl buttons quite cheaply at Woolworth'l." "Frankle" His words were drowned In the noise of the Bentleys engine which Frankle had Just started. She drove away with an airy wave of her hand, "Damn!" said Bobby In a heart felt tone. Frankle, he considered, bad be haved outrageously. Perhaps he badn't put things very tactfully, but dash It all, what be bad said was true enough. Perhaps, though, be shouldn't have put It Into words. The next three days seemed In terminably long. The Vicar had a ore throat which necessitated his peaking In a whisper when he spoke at all. He spoke very little and waa obviously bearing hla fourth son's presence as a Christian should. Once or twice he quoted Shakes peare on how sharper than a ser pent'a tooth, etc On Saturday Bobby felt that be could bear the strain of borne life no longer. He got Mrs. Roberta, who with her husband "ran" the Vicarage, to give him a packet of aandwlcbes, and supplementing this with a bottle of beer which be bought In Marchbolt be set off for a olltary picnic. ' i He had missed Frankle abomln. ably these ast few days. These older people were the limit. They barped on things so. Bobby stretched himself out on a brackeny bank and debated with himself whether be should eat his lunch first and go to sleep after wards, or sleep Bret and eat after wards. While he waa cogitating, the matter was settled for him by his falling asleep without noticing It. When be awoke It was half-past three! Bobby grinned ss be thought how his father would disapprove of this way of spending a day. A good walk across country twelve miles or so that waa tna kind of thing that healthy young 'man should do. It led Inevitably to that famous remark, "And now, 1 think, I've earned my lunch." "Idiotic." thought Bobby. "Why earn lunch by doing a lot of walking you don't particularly want to dot What's the merit In It T If you en toy t, (hen It's pure self-indulgence, and If you don't enjoy It you're a too) to do It." Whereupon he tell to upon his un earned lunch and ate It with gusto. A'ltb a sigh of satisfaction be opened the bottle of beer. Unusually bitter beer, but decidedly refreshing. . . . He lay back again, bavlng tossed the empty beer-bottle Into a clump 3f heather. He felt rather god-Ilka lounging 'bore. The world was st his feet A phrase. But a good phrase. He could do anything anything If he tried! Plans of great splendor and daring Initiative (lashed through his mind. Then he grew sleepy again. Leth argy atole over blm. He slept . . . Heavy, numbing lie rfllVINQ her large green Bentley, Frankle drew up to the curb outside a large old fashioned bouse over the doorway of which was In scribed "St. Asaph's." Frankle Jumped out and, turning, extracted a large bnnch of lilies. Tben sbe rang the belL A woman In nurse's dress answered the door, "Can I see Mr. Jones?" Inquired Frankle. The nurse's eyes took In the Bent ley, the lilies and Frankle with In tense Interest. "What name shall I say?" "Lady Frances DerwenL" The nurse waa thrilled, and hei patient went up In bar estimation Sbe guided Frankle upstalri Into I room on the first floor. You've a visitor to see you, Mr. Jones. Now who do you think It Is 1 Such a nice aurprlse for you." All this In the "bright" manual usual with nursing homes. Gosh!" said Bobby, very much surprised. "If It Isn't Frankle!" Hullo, Bobby. I've brought the usual flowers. Rather a graveyard suggestion about them, but th choice waa limited." Oh, Lady Frances," said thi nurse, "they're lovely. I'll put them Into water." She left the room. Frankle sat down In an obvloui "visitor's" chair. "Well, Bobby," sbi said. "What's all this?" You may well aak." said Bobby I'm the complete aensatlon of thi place. Eight grains of morphia, nc less. They're going to write about me in the Lancet and the B.MJ." What's the B.M.J.?" Interrupted Frankle. "The British Medical JournaL" "All right. Oo ahead. Rattle of! some more initials." "Do you know, my girl, that hall a grain Is a fatal dose? 1 ought to be dead about sixteen times over. It's true that recovery baa been known after sixteen grains still, eight U pretty good, don't you think? I'm the hero of this place. They've never had a case like me before." "How nice for them!" "Isn't It? Glvea them somethlni to talk about to all the other pa tlents." ROSEBURG TO TRY F( THE nurse re-entered, bearing lilies In vases. It's true, Isn't It, nurse?" de manded Bobby. "You've never had a case like mine?" Oh. you oughtn't to be here al all," said the nurse. "In the church yard, you ought to b. But It's onlj the good die young, they say." Sb giggled at ber own wit and went out There you are," aald Bobby You'll aee, 1 ahall be famous all over England." He continued to talk. Any algna ol Inferiority complex that ha bad die played at his laat meeting with Frankle had now quite disappeared He took a Arm ana egotistical pleas ura In recounting every detail o! hla case. 'That's enough," said Frankle quelling him, "I don't really can terribly for stomach pumps. To Us ten to you one would think nobod had ever been poisoned before." Jolly few have been poisoned with eight grains of morphia an got over It," Bobby pointed out Dash It all, you're not sufficient! Impressed." Pretty sickening for the people who poisoned you," -said Frankle. I know. Waate of perfectly goot morphia." It waa In the beer, wasn't It?" Yes. You see, someone found mi sleeping like the dead, tried to waki me and couldn't Then they gol alarmed, carried me to a farmhouse and aent for a doctor" I know all the next part," said Frankle hastily. At flrt they had the Idea thai I'd taken tun deliberately. Then when they beard my story. they went off and looked for the beer-bottle and found It where I'd thrown It and had It analysed tht drega of It were quite enough-foi that apparently." No clue aa to bow the morphli got In the bottle?" None whatever. They've Inter viewed the pub where 1 bought It, and opened other b o 1 1 1 e a, and everything's been quite all right." Someone must have put the stuff the beer while you were asleep?" "That's It. I remember that the top wasn't still sticking proporly." Frankle nodded thoughtfully. Well," she said, "It shows that what I said In tbe train that day s quite right." "What did you Bay?" That that man Prltchard had been pushed over the cliff." That wasn't In the trsln. You said that at the station.' Bobby feebly. "Same thing." But why" Darling It's obvious. Why should anyone want to put you out of the way?" ICrtfitei l') !. ,. Ctrulit) Two amateur detectives net Ia work, Monday. ROSEBUBO, Ore., Feb. 18. (AP) A resolution asking the federal government to give the city of Roeeburg a 45 per cent grant In the PWA project for construction of a trunk line aewer and sewage disposal plant was voted by the city council here last night. The original project, which provided an 18 per cent grant, waa abandoned recently by the council, when an advertisement for bide resulted In only one offer, which waa In the sum of 190,000 or approximately 920,000 above estimates. At nrunt T71 mwlMfi -. ?- celvlng a 4S per cent grant, the proportion of federal cooperation. within the 167,000 originally authorised. Be correctly corseted tn an Artist Model by Ethelwyn 8 Hoffmann: Olrlsl "Mlmry" perfume Is aa fresh aa spring, young'a Drug Store, Main and 8 Central. . : BUCKINGHAM'S Ice cream. Candy and Party Special. The Crest, HI So. Central. 4 (Tee Mall Tribune want ads. BANKING PROBLEM STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply.' Reg. U 8. Pat Off. ,ONLMQ- fHe rus ewes Me oufof House AMI? HOME Vth? AS ft 0COKMAIU, Seat rr t Hope -& Triee WlH.W3P6LVtbf?iT ? sweep vestM. f ttL , WNOdoPmONtfER && i'BwiHp? MesTZmMfe, lb wtrw hi ikvn. mj iiii mi n . hi ' i$oooioffi f kl5,000 ftAfll. INTO ft 6UrV&5 Of wife M) wam rr a tomx 8y GLUYA5 WILLIAMS GCT5 A NICKEL FOR D0IN6 AM ERRAND. WrfH SOME fll56llrfeS mi if lH HIS NDfVBAKK UAVE5 POOM HM-rilY ' BEFOSt HE CfiM RE-6RE-T If IWlEDIAftlV RESREfS If. REfURNS ArJP SHAKES BANK fo COMFORf HIM SELF whm -The sodnp OF 1HE NICKEL frtlNKS Of ALOfoFlVAVS HFP LIKE fo SPEND Vf. WONDERS COULD HE 6Ef rrOUf OFfHERE -TRIES fo WORK MickEL OVERSLOf IN BUNK. UjiuierfS 2,-13 SEffL5 DOWN fO SERIOUS VVORK. 1TRIE5 fO SHAKE NICKEL Ol)f SPENDS A L0N6 fltfE FiSHlNS TOR f WTfrt a piece of wire, SHAKES NICKEL OOf-A lrst , Finds ifs foo Me D 60 OOf AND SPEND if, AND Wlfrt A 5I&H, PU-13 If BACK IN BANK. . (Copyright, 1836, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.? S'MATTER POP- By C. M. PAYNE Sir Thomas Oresham, wealthy Lon don merchant, set a record for high priced drinks when he toasted Quetu Elizabeth with a 76,000 glans of wine; a gloss or wine, to be exact, with a little grit In the bottom. Tho grit was what was left of a costly pearl, one for which Sir Thomas him self reftiMKl $76,000 In cash. This display of throwing money away waa put on by the merchant as an answer to a Spanish ambassador who had boasted, In the queen's pres ence, of the lavlshnesa of his king's court. Sir Thomas, coming to the de fense of hla queen, told the Spanish ambasMdor that Queen Eltzabetn's subjects sometimes spent as much on a single meal In honor of their queen as was spent In a day for the upkeep of the entire Spanish court. To prove hts point, Sir Thomas In vited the ambassador to dinner. When wine was served, he pulled a (75.000 pearl from hts pocket, ground It to dust, dumped the dust In a glass of wine and drank It as a toast to the queen. Before the Invention of blotting paper, fine sand was used to hasten drying of Ink. It was sprinkled light ly over the Ink, then blown or shaken off. When the United States Senate 2-0- first met. each desk was furnished with a supply of sand In a shaker much like a salt shaker. This method of blotting is still employed In the Senate today. ' Strange as It seems, a longshot win ner at Charles Town, W. Va crossed the line at odds of $1,318.50 to 2.00 but nobody collected' because no body played her to win. The winner. Sweep Vestal, won the first race. Dec. 17. 1934, without a Det having boon laid on her at the track. Tomorrow: Why Lincoln Had a Beard. ! VJtU-TS CllCrfets 7wJat's Au7 p . , fa (Oopyrijrht; 1938, DyThTKugjmdlcate-. Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy and Skeets Doomed to Die I By HAL FORRES! USf.TER. DSCOVERED A SECVET TUNNEL LEADING F5QM THEIR DUH6E0ti UNOE-R THS TEMPLE OF THE SUN, AND ARE EXPLCRAG IT. AT TWMOiWT A MESSENGER APPEARS BEFORE POPOEHWATL , THE EMPEROR QF THE ISLAND IN THE SKY By EDWIN ALGER ' THREE LIVES LOST LAKEWOOD. N. J. Fb. IS (API At leset three persrm d!ed today In a fire which dtryed a three-story hotel In this winter resort rlUsee. A scire of others were Injured and ten more were mining when a check-up was made after the flames were under control. The desd were tentatively Identi fied by survivors end employes sa: H.rry Rrls-h. 4. of the Brnni. N. T. Mrs. Ruth firiesrman. of the Bronx Mils Mildred Cohen, of the Brons Amon,j thaw miMin were Benja min Keiman, 23-yetr-o',d snn of one of the hoters owners. Louis Kelmsn, and Bernard Bernstein. 30, brother of Mrs. Abe KvippersmlUi, wile of the other partner. ROSETil'RO. Ore. Feb. 13.(AP Edward Camprtell, 33. Eiurene. end , carl Kronremer, 20. Pandon. wre sentenced In the circuit court here late yesterday tn penitentiary terms after pleading guilty to charcea of larceny. 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