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BEDFORD WATL TTtTBUyE, fRDFORD. OT?E("!OV. SUNDAY. EE'BTJFA'RY 16. 1933.
SYNOPSIS: Until eomeone
tlipyed f grain of morphia into a
bottle of beet and almost killed
hin. Hobby Jonee took no etock in
tlit theory that a certain nice look
ir.n man ma puehed over a certain
eiifj to hie death Out Bobby, who
found the man cannot help but be
moved by Frankte Derwenl'e argu
ment that the man muet have been
pushed over the edge that the onee
icho pushed him believe Hobby
knows more than he hat told and
that they are trying to do away
with him. tie vlcke up a newspaper,
and suddenly he pushes the bell by
his hospital lied.
Chapter 11
BAS8INGTON-FFRENCH
"IITHATBVER'S the matter, Mr.
' ' Jones? Are you taken bad?" the
mirso demanded.
"Ring up the Cattle," cried Bobby.
"Tell Lady Trances ehe must come
back her at once."
"Oh. Mr. Jones you can't tend a
message like that."
"Can't IT" said Bobby. "If 1 were
allowed to get up from this blasted
bed, you'd toon see whether I could
or couldn't. At It le. you've tot to
do It for me."
"But the'll hardly be back."
"You don't know that Bentley."
"She won't have had ber tea."
"Now look here, my dear girl."
aid bobby, "don't stand there argu
ing wltb me. Ring up as 1 tell you
Tell her she's got to come here at
nee because I've got something
very Important to say to ber.'
Overborne, though unwilling, the
nurse went. She took some liberties
with Bobby's message, if it was no
Inconvenience to Lady Frances, Mr.
. Jones wondered if she would mind
coming, as be bad something he
would like to say. to her. But of
course Lady Frances was not to put
heraalf out in any way.
Lady Frances replied curtly that
she would come at once.
"Depend upon It," said the nurse to
her colleagues, "she's sweet on him I
That's what it Is."
Frankle arrived all agog. "What's
this desperate summons?" she de
manded. Bobby was sitting up In bed, a
bright red spot In each cheek. In his
band he waved the copy of the
"Marchbolt Weekly Times."
"Look at this, Frankle."
Frankle looked. "Well?" she de
manded. "This is the picture you meant
when you said it waa touched up but
guile like the Cayman woman?"
Bobby's Anger pointed to a some
what blurred reproduction of a pho
tograph. Underneath it were the
words:
"Portrait found on the dead man
by which he was Identified: Mrs.
Amelia Cayman, the dead man's sis
ter." "That's what 1 said and it's true,
loo. I can'', see anything to rave
over in It."
"No more cun I."
"But you said" '
"I know i 'said.' But, you see.
Fraukle " Bobby's voice became
very Impressive "this Isn't the pho
tograph that 1 put back In the dead
men's pocket. ..."
They looked at each other.
"Then, In that case began
Frankle slowly.
"Either there must have been two
photographa " '
"which isn't likely" "
"or else" ,
They paused. .
"That man what's bis name?"
said Frankle.
"Basalngton-KrenchI" said Bobby.
'"pHEY stared at each other as they
tried to adjust tbemselves to
the sltered situation. . .
, "It couldn't be anyone else," said
Bobby. "He was the only peraoo who
bad the chance."
"Unless, as we said, there' were
two photographs?"
"We agreed that that wasn't like
ly. If there had been two photo
graphs tney'd have tried to Identify
him by menni of both of them not
by only one."
"Anyway that'a easily found out,"
said Frankle. "We can ask the po
lice. We'll assume for the moment
that there waa Just the one photo
graph the one you saw. that you
put back again In the mau'a pocket.
It was there when you left him. and
it wasn't there when the police came.
Thorefore the only person who could
have taken It away and put the other
one In Its place is this man Basstnc-tou-frrcoch.
What was he like. Bob
by?" Bobby frowned In thi effort to re
member. "A sort of uondescrlpt fel
low. Yli-isan' voice. A gentleman
and all that. really duio't notice
him particularly. He said he waa a
ilrar.Ker dowi here and something
about looking for a house."
"We con verity that anyway." said
Franklo. "WLeok-r & Uwen are the
only house agents" Suddenly the
lave a thUer. "Bobby, hate you
'houslit? If Prltchard wai pushed
RELIEF COSES IN
STAIE LESSENED
8AI.EM. Feb. IS. ( AP) Relief r
tlvltle In Oregon up to the ftrit of
last December cost t)J7.4lia RflA. le
criiKB from all fmidh during Hint
time. Including the nun I) ttmoiint of
activity prior to Jaiuury. 1P33, total
ed aBia.9o.
Thif- the report made to Gov
f rnor Murlln today by VU4e 8.
Wharton, eke'uilvr seerrlnry, tollow
n - rruot-d llvlinlllt. of ahe
-chef wt-up In Portland. 'Mir rrivirt
lulled to show eonf irnitttlon of r'tt
coiiiplr.iiita thnt the otflens aere over
sUffed. Whsrton stated thnt since the fed
eral ilManre for teller ended during
November, the olfice personnel and
over -Baaalugton-Drench must Dt
the man who did It. . . ."
"That's prof.y grim," said Bobby.
"He seemed such a nice, pleasant
sort of fellow. But you know.
Frankle, we can't be euro Prltchard
really waa pushed over."
"I'm quite sure!"
"You have beeu, all along."
"No, 1 Just wanted it to be that
way because It made things more ex
citing. But now it's more or less
proved. It It was murder everything
fits in. Vour unexpected appearance
which upsets the murderer's plane.
Your discovery of the photograph
and, I consequence, the need to put
you out of the way."
"There's a flaw there," said Bobby.
"Why? You were the only person
who saw that photograph. Aa soon
as Basslugton-ffreuch was left Xlone
wltb the body be changed the pho
tograph, wblcb only you bad seen,"
Bi.l Bobby continued to shake bis
head, "No, that won't do. Let's grant
for the moment that that photograph
was so Important that 1 had to be
got out of the way, aa you put It
Sounds absurd, but I suppose It's
Just possible. Well then, whatever
was going to b done would have to
be done at once. The tact that I went
to London, and never saw the
"Weekly Times" or the other pa
pers with the photograph In tbem
waa Just pur chance a thing no
body could count on. Tbe proband!
ty was that 1 should tay at once.
'That Isn't the photograph t saw.
Why wait till after the Inquest when
everything was nicely settled?"
"There's something In that," ad
mitted Fraukle. ,
"And there's another point 1 can't
be absolutely sure, of course, but, I
could almost swear that when 1 put
tbe photograph back In the dead
man's pocket Basslngton tfrench
wasn't there. He didn't arrive till
about five or ten minutes later."
"He might have been watching
you all the time." argued Fraukle.
"I don't see very well bow be could
have," said Bobby alowly. '"There's
really only one place where you can
see down to exactly the spot we
were. Farther round, tbe cliff
bulgea and then recedes underneath
so that you can't see over. There's
Just the one place, and when Bass-
logtonffrencb did arrive there I
heard blm at once. Footatepa echo
down below. lit may have been near
at band, but hit wasn't looking ovei
till then that I'll swear."
THEN you think that he didn't
know about your aeelng the
photograph?"
"I don't set how he could have
known."
'And he can't have been afraid
you'd seen him doing It the mur
der, 1 mean becauso, as you any,
that's absurd. You'd never have held
your tongue about It. It looks as
though it must have been some
thing also altogether."
"Only 1 don't toe what it could
have been."
"Something they, didn't kno .
about till after the Inquest 1 don't
know wb) 1 say they "
"Why not? Aftor all, the Caymans
must have been In It too. It's prob
ably a gang. I like gangs."
"That'a a low taste," said Frankle
absently. "A single-handed murder
Is much higher class. Bobby I"
"Yes?"
"What was It Prltehnrd said Just
before he died? You know, you told
me about It that day on the links
That fuuny question?"
"Why didn't the., ask Evaus?'"
"Yea. Suppose that wss it"
"But that's ridiculous."
. "It sounds so. but It might be Im
portant reall) Bobby, I'm sure It's
that Oh, no. I'm being' an Idiot
you never told the Caymans about
It"
"I did. aa a matter of fact said
Bobby slowly.
"You did?"
"Yos. I wrote to them thst eve
ning. Baying that of courae It waa
probably quite unimportant."
'And what happened?"
Cayman wrote back politely
agreeing that of course there was
nothing In It. but thanking me for
taking the trouble. I felt rather
snubbed."
And tro days later you got this
letter from a strange Arm bribing
yon to go to South America?",
Yes."
Well," said Fraukle. "1 don't
know what more you want They try
that first. You turn It down. And
th noxt thing Is that they follow
you round and selre a good moment
to empty a lot of morphia Into your
bottlo of beer."
"Then the Caymans are In It?"
"or conne the Caymant are tn III"
"Yos," said Hubby thoughtfully
"If your reconstruction Is correct
they've slmpli got to is In It."
rCVrVirl l!l:'l-l, .ltlkct rt'lix)
re-morrow. Fronklt Ind Bobby
1i.ewr atill mother chi
ovcrheiid were red need bj -10 per
crni. Further reduction of the foive
and expenditures for mlnilnlt-tnitlon,
. recommended by the bud net do
part mem. m now In print rum, h
Muted.
SELECT JURY TO TRY !
G. P. EAGLE FUND CASE:
CI HANTS PAW. rh. 1S(AP
With rWeotUm of Jury roniplrte una
opening tt-ment madr. trltil o'
I Knrl B. Thompson on ilmrRe of em-
beTlrmeiu of !R:i Rs rotUUiued tn
elreult court txl. TiiomptMtn W
KAN-UJted of diverting t0 hU own in
thnt smonnt. fnun 1o.-ni aerie fund ;
fOr thr Mint I'KlltKllliM.. f.a M
' held hem 1am July. I
Hum Acenrtr IMd WrU 1
8AI.KM. yb IS - ( Apt 'vimiitR
Alon ntd lltpior fenete during lmt
yenr on 11 Nile biKi touii-d flHttTiJ,
the budget drpnrtmrnt ntorted o
dnj There wrrr l.vi nveui'ica m i-p-eristion
at the end of lius.
DEATH HEARS FOR
BRITISH ADMIRAL
LONDON, Feb. 15. (AP) Anxiety
arose today for the health of Earl
Beatty, 05 -year-old naval hero, who
retired a month ago u an admiral of
the British fleot.
His 'physicians, after announcing
laftt night thnt his condition hart been
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Strange as It wems, wme species
of ants enslnvo others and depend so
completely upon their slitvea that
they, the slave holders., ennnot food
themselvea or raise their own young.
The slavers capture unhatched chkh
from nelKhborltiR out nests to keep
up their number of ulnvea who do nil
the work for them. They oventwnlly
became degenerate and sutler more
than their slaves, Tor they arc help
lens without them.
experiment have shown that aluve
holding ants are so completely de-
TAILSPIN TOMMY The GoHon Girl Disapproves!
ronny AND
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THE flYSTIC
PASSAGE UNDER
THE TE-MPLS
OF the: SUA
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SUODNLY
ATTACkEb GV
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,;rk!r.
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unsatisfactory and that he haa been
advised to take a complete rest, la
sued a bulletin today saying.
'His condition 1 aa well aa can be
expected, but gives cause for amJety."
Admiral Beatty, whose retirement
became effective automatically when
he reached the ago of 05. January 17,
suffered a severe cold when he par
tlclpated In the funeral procession
for King George V.
He had also left a sick bed last No
vember to attend the funeral for Ad
miral Jelllcoe, whom he succeeded as
commander of the grand fleet during
the World war.
Admiral Beatty retired aa first sea
id HklTii uiiTU
SKnT Him
pendent upon their slaves that they
will starvo to death with food set bo
fore them unless the slaves are there
to feed them. , '
When Abraham Lincoln ran for the
Senate In 1858 he lost the election In
spite of the fact that more votes were
cast for hlin than for his opponents.
D041KIHS, his opponent, carried a
greater number of dltrlcts and was
elected.
In the Presidential election of I860
more people voted against him thnn I
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MY PAL ALONE
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lord and chief of the naval staff In
11)37, but maintained a keen lu teres t,
In the Brltlth navy.
Archdeacon Renamed
PORTLAND. Feb. 16. (AP) The
Venerable Henry Duncan Chambers!
of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon !
waa renamed Archdeacon for Western !
Oregon today in the first official pas
toral appointment by Bishop Benja
mln D Dag well, ner Episcopal bishop
for the state,
Be correctly corseted in
an Artist Model by
Ethel wyn B Hoffmann. -
AMMorOVaoTe - '
THfcN FORHM
voted for him and In spite of It he
won. Lincoln polled a greater number
of votes than any one of his oppon
ents, but together they polled over
900,000 more votes than Lincoln. Out
of approximately 4,600.000 votes. Lin
coln got 1,800.000 while his oppon
ents got about 2,800,000.
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Is used as a contraction of "dares
not." it can thus be used only In the
third person singular aa "he dares
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TO SEE U& -UNTIE HIM.TOO
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spends ten MiNuite
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P0IMTIN6 HOW MUH WORK
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LEFT-OlERi
WITH VftTER RINSES OFF WnH PAPER. REALIZES
AND RESTACKS
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(Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
(Oepyrlght, 1936, by Ths B11 Bjrndltste. Inc
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GLASSES SINKS DOWN WEARILY
some of -The plate?) That hot vm& dishes has
DISHED TAKEN FtfE MINUTES LONfeERl
THAN rf USUALLY TAKES 10
DO -THEM
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