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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUflTTC, MEDFORD. OREOOX. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1936. THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS- By JOHN HIX Tor furthef proof addresi tie author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat Off. SYNOPSIS! tranklt Derwenl hae maintained all along that Prttehard. the man Bobby Jonee found living at tht loot ol a clljj near Uarchboll wae puehed over. And until Hobby wae neorly killed by beino flipped I ornln ot mor phia in a bottle ot beer he ecouted her theory Uut Frankie and the morphia have convinced Uobby at last, and nou, the two are n Hobby'e hoepltai room trying to diecovet what Hobby aould know that toould tuetify an attempt on nn ll. Chapter 10 AMATEUR SLEUTHS "vrOU'VIJ not annoyed a male A olent chemist lately, have you?" asked Frankle. "Why a chemist?" Bobby In quired. "Free access to morphia, of course." "Well, 1 haven't annoyed anybody at all that 1 know of. excepting my clergyman father." "And you haven't got any enemlei that you know of?" Bobby ahook bis head. "Well, there you are," laid Fran hie triumphantly. "It must be the man who was pushed over the cliff. What do the police think T" "They think It must have been a lunatic." "Nonsene. Lunatics don't wander about with unlimited supplies of morphia, looking for odd bottlea of beer to put It Into. No, somebody 'Je.7 '"'J1': "And you haven't any pushed Prltcbard over the cliff. A minute or two later you come aloog, and he thinks you saw him do It and so determines to put you out ot the way." "1 don't think that will bold water, Frankle." "Why not?" "Well, to begin with, I didn't see anything." ' . "Yes. hut he didn't knowhat" "And It 1 had seen anything I ehould have said so at the inqueat "1 suppose that's so," said Frankle unwillingly. She thought for a minute or two. "Perhaps he thought you'd seen something that you didn't think was anything but which really was something. That sounds pure gib berish, but yon get the Idea?" Bobby nodded. "Yes, 1 see wbat you mean, but It doesn't seem very probable somehow. "I'm sure that cliff business had something to do with this. You were on the spot the first person to be there " ' "Thomaa was there too," Bobby reminded her. "And nobody's tried to poison him." "Perhaps they're going to," said Frankle cheerfully. "Or perhapa they've tried and failed." "It all seems very far-fetched." "1 think It's logical. If you gat two out-or-the-way things happen ing In a stagnant pond like March bolt Walt there's a third thing." "What?" That Job you were offored. That, of courae. Is quite a small thing, but it was odd, you must ailmIL I've never heard of a foreign firm that specialized In seeking uut undlstln gulhed ei-Naval olflcera. "You hadn't got Inio the fl. M. J. then. But you nee my point. You've seen something you weren't mean! to aee or so they (whoever they are) think. Very well. They flrsi try to got rid of you by offering you a Job abroad. Then, when thai rails, they try to put you out of the way altogether." "ISN'T that rather drastic? And 1 anyway a great risk to take?" "Oh. but Tiunlerers are always frightfully rash Tht more murders they do, the mors, murders they want to do." M'NARY CENSURED BY MONEY FOR S1AND KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. H API Mayor WUIU K. Mnlioney, CAndtdate for the Democratic nomlnntlon to the United tntM nennte, today cenaured Senator Mr Nary for nia ttand on tht TowiiMnd pvnalou plan. Mahonry Bald the aenatr'a mes age to the atnte Townwnd meeting Jn Ei(tene maa "without conviction." "Ther la no neutral corner in the Town send laaue. the mayor aald In a letter mailed to MoNary, "A man la either for It or agtinat It- The mayor la making ft etrenft bid for th aupport of the Orrg n Tun end club. Oh Mall Iribuiia waot Ida, -V- S ci Like The Third Bloodstain'," said Bobby, remembering one of Ma favorite works of fiction. "Yea, and lo real lite too Smith and his wives, and Armstrong and other people." "Well, but rrankla, wbat on earth la It I'm supposed to have seen?" "That, of course, lb the difficulty." admitted Frankle. "1 agree that It can't bave been tht actual pushing, because you would bave told aoout that It must be something about the man himself. Perbapa be bad birthmark or double-Jointed Angers or some strange physical peculi arity." "Your mind Is running on Dr. Thorndyke, 1 see. It couldn't be anything like that because whatever 1 saw the police would see as well." "So they would. That was an Idiotic suggestion. It'a very difficult. Isn't It?" "It's a pleasing theory," said Bobby. "And It makea me feel Im portant But all the same, I don't believe It'a much more than a the ory." "I'm sure I'm right" Frankle rose. "1 must be of now. Shall I come and aee you again tomorrow?" 'Ob, do. The arch chatter of the nurses gets very monotonous. By the way, you're back from London very aoon?" "My dear, as soon a I heard about enemies you know of?" you, I tort back. It'a most exciting to bave a romantically poisoned friend." "1 don't know whether morphia li so very romantic," aald Bobby reml nlscently. "Well, I'll come tomorrow. Do I kiss you or don't 1?" "It's not catching," said Bobby encouragingly. Then I'll do my duty to the sick thorough! y." She kissed him lightly. "See you tomorrow." yhe nurse came In with Bobby's 1 tea as she went out "I've seen hsr pictures In the paper often. She's not so very like them, though. And of course I've seen her driving about In her car. Not a bit haughty, la she?" "Oh. no," said Bobby. "1 should never call Frankle haughty." "1 said to the head nurse. I said, she's aa natural as anything. Not a bit stuck-up. She'a Just like you or me, I said." Dissenting violently though silently from this view, Bobby re turned no reply. His eye was caught by the vases of lilies. Frightfully aweet ol Frankle to bring him all these flowers, and of courae they wen lovely, but he wished It had occurrn to her to bring him a few detectlvi stories Instead. He cast his eye ove the table beside him. There was i novel ot Oulda'a and a copy o "John Halifax, Gentleman." and l week'i "Marchbolt Weekly Times He picked up "John Halifax. Gentle man." After Are minutes he put It down To a mind nourished on "The Thlt Bloodstain." "The Case of the Mm dered Archduke." and "The Strang Adventure of the Florentine Dat ger." Mrs. Mulock Cralk's Mohi Halifax" somehow lacked pep Will a sigh he picked up last week'i "Weekly Tlmoa." A moment or two later he wa, pressing the bell beneath hla plllov. with a vigor which brought a Burst Into the room at a run. ICwit lS!-) !l. AteiU CVfaftW Frankle and ftae-by puttie over s very uepleloue vircumtunce, to merrew. SEVEN MILLION GIF! 10 NORTHWESTERN U. IVANSTON. Ill, Feb. 14. (UP) A 7,000,000 gut to Northwestern unl- teralty from the estttte of Roger Dear tng, heir to tht IVarlng farm machine fortune who died February 3 at Phot nix. Aria, was announced today by President Walter Dill Scott of the university. 'Die gift waa thi Urgeat tingle bt qtirnt made to an institution of high er learning elect It-,13. when tha latt George Etvatman, kodak magnate, left 914 000,000 to tht University of Roch ester. Air 1ln.yi In thaVniud Statu em ploy l7 young women aa hoateaaet. The tailor shop of Prmldent An drew Johnwn anil stand" li Greene county, Tennessee. V'AIW 1ST Jsrfiiiip in I.itT1j5iRU H6 WOPUP l-OOK ETtER 10 aiiMA- w& TriH 7oo vews - ftTReiGMEfe WERE MOT PEWiTrePT& LEAKHTrie Like Japan's more effective JuJut u, Iceland's national form of wrest ling was long preserved as a national secret and all foreigners wera forbid den to witness Its performance or learn Its technique. Not until 1874 did Iceland permit glim a wrestling to bt put on In public exhibitions where tt could be seen by non-Icelanders. The ban had been In effect since about 1100; the secret was kept for nearly tight centuries. In recent years the glima has been filmed for news reels, and In 1020 a band of Icelanders toured Europe giving exhibitions of the picturesque form of wrestling. In gllma wrestling the contestants wear ft small harness about their waists and thighs. Each contestant grasps his opponent's harness with both hands at the waist. Standing fact to face, then, the wrestlers at tempt to throw each other off bal ance, with a quick turning move ment ft successful wrestler will some times turn his opponent end over end In throwing him. Strange aa It aeema. Oriental pearls are not necessarily those produced In the Orient. The term now la applied to any true pearl from a salt water mollunk. 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