MEDFORD MATT, TRTBUNTV MEDFORI). OREGON', MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1936
SYSVl'litS: ISobtiy and Frt.tk
are trying their beat to determtn
first, whether there waa murdet
dont in the matter ot the man Khu
lett aver toe ciij , kwhu. wnui
Baaainaton-ffrench'e opimioho"
with the matter was; third, how tt
happene that the photoyraph found
later in the dead man'e pocket teat
not the one tiouliv eato there in the
ftrat place, la ilaaaington-fjrench
oniltyt Are the Camane mixed up
in itt Who tried to poison Booby t
What do the dead man'e enigmatic
lat tcorde meant
A CCOHDING to our present the-
ory It goes Ilka tbla," Bobby
continued. "Dead man X la deliber
ately pushed over cliff presumably
by B. F. (pardon the Initials). It la
Important that X should not be cor
rectly Identified, so the portrait of
Mrs. C. Is put In bis pocket and the
portrait of Fair Unknown removed.
Who was she, 1 wonder?"
"Keep to the point," said Frankle
sternly.
"Mrs C. waits for photograph to
appear. Then turns up as grief
stricken sister and Identifies X as
her brother from foreign parts."
"You don't believe he could really
have been her brother?" .
"Not for a moment! You know, It
puzzled me all along. The Caymans
were a different class altogether.
The dead man was well. It sounds
most awful thing to say and just
like some deadly old retired Anglo
Indian but the dead man was a
pukka sahib."
"And the Caymans emphatically
weren't?"
"Most emphatically."
"And then, Just when everything
has gone oft well from the Caymans'
point of vlow body successfully
Identified, verdict of accidental
death, everything in the garden lova
ly you come along and mess things
up," mused Frankle.
"'Why didn't they ask Evanar"
Bobby repeated the phrase thought
fully. "You know 1 can't sea what on
earth there can be In that to put the
wind up anybody."
"Ah! that's bocausa you don't
know. It's like making crossword
puzzles. You write down a clue and
you think It's too Idiotically simple
and that everyone will guess tt
straight, off, and you're frightfully
surprised when they simply can't get
It in the least. 'Why didn't they ask
Brans?" must have been a most
frightfully significant phrase to
them, and they couldn't realize that
It meant notblng at all to you."
"Mora fools they."
"Oh, quite so. But It's lust possible
they thought that It Pritchard said
that, he might have said something
more which would also recur to you
In due time. Anyway they weren't
going to take chances. You were
safer out of the way."
"They took a lot ot risk. Why
didn't thi-y englueer another 'acci
dent'?" "No, no. That would hare been
stupid. Two accldenta wltbln a week
of each other? It might have sug
gested a connection between the two,
and then people would have begun
Inquiring Into the first one. No, I
'think thero's a kind of bad simplic
ity about their method which la real
ly rather clever."
"And yet you said lust now that
morphia wasn't easy to get hold of."
"No more It la. You have to sign
poison books and things. Oh ot
course, that's a duel Whoever did It
bad easy access-to supplies ot mor
phia." "A doctor, a hospital nurse, or a
chemist," suggested Bobby.
"Well, 1 was thinking mora of
Illicitly Imported drugs."
"You can't mix up too many differ
ent sorts ot crime," said Bobby,
"You see, the strong point would
be the absence of motive. Your death
doesn't benefit anyone. So what will
the police think?"
"A lunatic," said Bobby. TAnd
that's what they do think."
"You ace? It's awfully simple
really."
notiriY began to laugh suddenly.
- "What's amusing you?"
"Just the thought of how slck-mak-tng
It must be for theml All that
morphia enough to kill Ova or all
peoplo nnd here 1 am alive and
kicking."
"One of Life's little Ironies that
one can't foresee," agreed Frankle.
"The question Is, what do we do
oeit?" snld Bobby practically.
"Oh! lots of things," said Frankle
promptly.
"Such ss ?"
"Well finding out about the pho
toRraph Hint there was only one,
not two. And about Basslngton
ffrenoh't house hunting."
"That will prolmbly be quite all
right and above-board."
"Why do you lay that?"
"Look hero. Frankle. think a mln
nte. PaMlnKtr-n ffreneh mint be
. jt,,ti au-yicion. Ho uiust be all cleat
ud above-board. Not only must
.here be nothing to connect blm-ln
any way with the dead man, but he
must have a proper reason for being
down here. Ha may have Invented
house-hunting on the spur of the mo
ment, but 1 bet he carried out some
thing of the kind. There must be no
suggestion ot a 'mysterious stranger
seen In the neighborhood ot the ac
cldent.' 1 fancy that Basslngton
ffrencb Is his real name, and that
he's the sort of person who would
be quite above suspicion."
"Yes," said Frankle thoughtfully
"That's a very good deduction. Then
will be nothing whatever to connct-Basstngton-ffrencb
with Alex Prltcl.
ard. Now If we knew who the des
man really was"
"Ah! then It might be different."
"So tt was very Important that thi
body should not be recognized
Hence all the Cayman camouflage
And yet It waa taking a big risk."
"You forget that Mrs. Cayman
Identified him as soon as was buman
ly possible. After that, even It then
had been pictures of blm In the ps
pers (you know bow blurry these
things are) people would only say
'Curious, this man Pritchard who
tell over a cliff is roally extraordl
narily like Mr. X.' "
"There must be more to It than
that," said Frankle shrewdly. "X
must have been a man who wouldn't
easily be missed. 1 mean, he couldn't
have been the sort ot family man
whose wife or relations would go to
the police at once and report him
missing."
"Good for you, Frankle. No, he
must have been Just going abroad, or
perhaps Just come back (he was
marvellously tanned, like a big
game hunter he looked that sort of
person), and he can't have bad any
very near relations who knew all
about bis movements."
"We're deducing beautifully," said
Frankle. "1 hope we're not deducing
all wrong."
"Very likely," said Bobby. "But l"
think what we've said ao far Is fair
ly sound sense granted, that Is, the
wild 'Improbability of the whole
thing."
Fraukielwaved away the wild Im
probability with, an airy gesture
"The thing Is what to do next?" she
said. "It seems to me we've got three
anglek of Attack."
"Go on, Sherlock."
"The first is you. They've made one
attempt on your life. They'll prob
ably try again. This time wa mlgbi
get what they call a 'line' on them
Using you as a decoy, 1 mean."
O, thank you, Frankle," said
Bobby with feeling. "I've been
very lucky this time, but 1 mightn't
be so lucky again If they changed
the attack to a blunt Instrument. 1
was thinking ot taking a great deal
of care ot mysolt In the future. The
decoy Idea can be washed out."
"I was afraid you'd say that," said
Frankle with a sigh. "Young men
are sadly degenerate nowadays. Fa
tber says so. They don't enjoy being
uncomfortable and doing dangerous
and unpleasant things any longer
It's a pity."
"A great pity," said Bobby, but he
spoke with firmness. "What's the;
second plan ot campaign?"
"Working from the 'Why didn't
they ask Evans?' clue," said Frankle.
"Presumably the dead man came
down here to see Evans whoever be
waa. Now, if we could find Evans"
"How many Evanses," Bobby In
terrupted, "do you think there are
In Marchbolt?"
"Several hundred, 1 should think,"
admitted Frankle.
"At least! We might do something
that way, but I'm rather doubtful."
"We could list all the Evanses and
visit the likely ones."
"And ask thorn what?"
"That's the difficulty," said
Frankle.
"We need to know a little more,"
said Bobby. "Then that Idea ot yours
might come In useful. What's Num
ber 3?"
"This man Basslngton - ffrencb.
There we have got something tangi
ble to go upon. It's an uncommon
name. I'll ask Father. He knows all
these county family names and their
various branches."
"Yes," said Bobby, "we might do
Something that way."
"At any rate we are going to do
something?"
"Ot course we are. Do you think
I'm going to be given eight grains ol
morphia and do nothing about It?"
"That's the spirit!" said Frankle
"And besides that." added Bobby
"there's the Indignity of the stomact
pump to be washed out."
"That's enough," said Frankle.
fCffrrit! WJ-JJ-J. At' Cariiti
Franklt oeta tome Information
from her father, tomorrow, and B
thnrt l,ctura h,'l
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Fat Off.
SNOWBALLER
THE DALLES MINI
NEVER OPERATED
Few people know that conn-Teas
once appropriated 100.000 for mln;
In Oregon, that the mint wm con
structed at The Dallea In IRtVfl but
never coined a dime.
A field nfnrkfr tor the. American
Guide, WPA writer' project, report
thai the building, made ot tin live
no) Ml stone, was prepared to take care
of the heavy output of the mines In
Idaho and the John Day country. At
one time the annual output of theae
mines was estimated at twelve mil
lion dollars.
When the mint waa built H. A
Hog ue waa named superintendent of
the brninh and D. M French, disburs
ing officer. Tnee were empty it tie
Ths plAcer mines were exhausted and
uw mint buiMW bwui a wheat
warehouse. Today tt stands a block
off Second street between Madison
and Monroe in The Dalles.
lnhMrmi. Kites Held
PENDLETON. Ore . Feb. 17. (AP)
Funeral services were held here yes
terday tor Henry C. lie-hlstrom. 44.
oil compsnv agent who died here
suddenly February 13. He wni for
mev chef de pare of the 40 et A in
Long vie.
mmvmcove, ; walked, m
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fS CURIOSITIES... 1 ,
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Strange as It seems, the Lapps have
heavy wool socks but they do not
wear them except at night. In the
daytime they wear socka made of
marsh grass straws, aavlng their wool
en socks tor sleeping. It may seem a
strange custom to others, but the
Lappa say that their grass socks are
more protective than fabrics, that
they are cheap and available any
where, and best of all they are warm
when wet. Wool socks are better, how
ever, for keeping the feet warm at
night.
As far as we can learn from the best
records of the travels of Christopher
Columbus, that discoverer waa never
was within more than 1000 miles of
the South American land that li now
Chile, he may have never come closer
than 3000 miles of It, and beyond
question the now accepted fact that
Columbus touched the South Ameri
can mainland at all. Yet, strange as
It seems, Columbus has been honored
by Chile in seven out of eight of Its
early stamp Issues.
In the first 83 stamp Issues made
by the Chilean government, 73 of
of them bore llkness of Columbus.
On tho other hand, Colombia was
named for Coiumbua and he Is be-
JfeTvoO HAVE "lib
HP
lleved to have explored part of that
country In 1503 out there only one
stamp issue nonored the discoverer.
Tomorrow: The Fading Star.
Br GLUYAS WILLIAM3
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Weather
Northern California: Rain tonight,
Tuesday showers; snow over moun
tains; slightly warmer south tonight;
strong southerly wind and gales off
the coast.
Oregon: Fair north and unsettled
in south, with rain or snow extreme
south tonight and Tuesday; no
change In temperature; fresh south
east wind off coast, strong on south
const.
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By SOL HES3
PAI.FM. fVh. 17. (API A thin
layer of iileet and snow covered the
Rrounrt here this momma, m chill
weather continued, The thermome
ter recorded a minimum reading of
IB derees ijttnday morning and H9
todsy.
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WC'E MDE UP STUR MHOD TO
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costumes were worn by suburban Oak
Park hlch school Riils In staftlnj
thrlr lrtih annual revue. r.nt.'h child
hsnded lt parents a hill for the cos
tume, reprewntln j a totnl cost of lea,
than 1, a new all time low.
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VM BEGISJMIIOG TO UNJOERSTAUO
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because vm mad amo you havemt fared
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DO UMLESS IT TIRED VOU TO TURsJ OVER. THE.
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