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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL- TRTBUNTTC, MTSDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1936. PAGE RTX By GLUYAS WILLIAMS TRAY SERVICE STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HiX 'Tor further proof address the author. Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TT. 8. Pat Off. -9 S3 BYNOPHIB: Bobby Jones ana Frankle Dement are trying very hard to find out something about a man named Basslngton ffreneh scho must be Implicated In tht mysterious eaee of the man who "tell" over the oltfj. But euriouely enough, nobody but Bobbie anil Frankle think there tt anything mysterious about the caee. eo then must proceed with caution. Frankle has verified the man' etory that he was househunting, and now i pumping the police tnepector. , Chapter 14 ABOUT THE BISHOP "ZONE'S right," laid the Inspector. v "Photograph of hla slater, it was, She cams down and Identified him." "How absurd to say there were three!" "Oh, thata' easy, your ladyship. These newspaper reporters some times exaggerate, and sometimes they get the whole thing wrong." "1 know," said Frankle. "I've heard the wildest stories." She paused a moment, then drew freely on her Imagination. "I've beard that his pockets were stuffed with papera proving him to be a Bolshevik agent. And there's another story that bis pockets were full of dope. and another ngaln about his having pockets full of counterfeit bank- notes. The Inspector laughed heartily. "That's a good one." "I suppose really be had Just the usual things In bis pockets?" "And very few at that. A hand kerchief, ndt marked. Some loose change, a .packet 01 clgareta and a couple of Treasury notes loose, sot In a case. No letters. We'd have had a Job to Identify him If it hadn't been tor the photo. Providential, you might call It" "I wonder," said Frankle. In view of ber private knowledge, he considered "providential" a singularly inapposite word. She changed the conversation. "1 went to see Mr. Jones, the Vicar's son, yesterday. The one who's bten poisoned. What an ex traordinary thing that wasl" "Ah!" said the inspector. "Now that Is extraordinary. If you like. Never heard of anything like it hap pening before. A nice young gentle man without an enemy In the world, or so you'd say. You know. Lady Frances, there are some queer cus tomers going about. All the same I never heard of a homicidal maniac who acted Just this way." "Ia there any clue at all to who did It?" Frankle waa all wide-eyed Inquiry. "It's so Interesting to hear all this," she added. The Inspector swelled with gratlfl cation. He enjoyed thla friendly con versation with an Earl's daughter. Nothing stuck up or snobbish about Lady Frances. - "There was a car seen in the vicin ity." said the Inspector. "Dark-blue Talbot A man on Lock's Corner reportod dark-blue Talbot No. 00 8282 passed going direction St Bo tolph's. "And you think" "GO 8282 is the number of tho Bishop of St Botolph's car." Frankle toyed for a minute or two with the idea of a homicidal bishop who offered sacrlflcea of clergymen's sons but rejected It with a sigh. "You don't inspect the Bishop, I suppose?" she said. "We've found out that- the Bishop's car never left the Palace garage that afternoon." "So it was a false number." "Yes. We've got that to go on all right" With expressions of admiration Frankio took ber loavo. She made no damping remark, but she thought to hersolf. "There must be a large number of dark-blue Talbots in England." On her return home she took a directory of Marchbolt from Us place on the writing-table In the library and removed It to her own .room. She worked over It for some hours. The result waa not satisfac tory. There were four hundred and eighty-two Evanses In Marchbolt "Damn!" said Frankle. She began to make plans for the future. A WEEK later Bobby had Joined Badgor l:i London. He had re ceived sovornl enlematlt-al commu nications from Frankle, mostly in such an illegible scrawl that he was quite unable to do more than guess at their meaning. Meanwhile the young man re mained very strictly on his guard. The effect of eight grains of morphia was to render their taker extremely suspicious of food and drink and had also Induced him to bring to London a service re.-olver. the possession of which was extremely Irksome to him. He was Just beginning to feel that the whole thing had been an ex travagant nightmare when Frank I RosKHima. ore.. rb. if api Mr. end Mrs. Ernest Cullon of Port land, wrrc nrouKlt to Mercy hoapllAl here last nlRlit auffrrtng from criti cal Injuries reuniting from an auto mobile accident near Drain. Ray mond N. Dean, Gold Bearh; Jarley Pete, Marehtteld, and Mary Ella Caiey, Coqullle, auftered cuts and brulfes but were not serloualy hurt. Cars driven hy Murphy and Denn skidded Into a collllun on Icy pae ment. praetleally demolishing both automnhllea. BUCKINGHAM 8 Cresin Csndy and Party Spihii rb Crest. 4S9 6o Central -- Cm MU mount ftsut aos. Uentley roared down the mews and drew up outside the garage. Bobby, in grease-stained overalls, came out to receive it Frankle waa at the wheel and beside ber sat a rather gloomy-looking young man, "Hullo, Bobb;-." said Frankle. "This is George Arbuthnot. He'i a doctor and we snail need blm." Bobby winced slightly as be and George Arbuthnot made faint ac knowledgement of each other. "Are you sure we're going to need a doctor?" be asked. "Aren't you being a bit pessimistic?" "I didn't mean we should need him in that way," said Frankle. "1 need blm for a scheme that I've got on. Look here, ia there anywhere we can go and talk?" Bobby looked doubtfully round him. "Well, there's my bedroom," he said doubtfully. "Excellent" said Frankle. Sbe got out of the car, and she and George Arbuthnot followed Bob by up some outside steps and Into a mlcroscoplo bedroom. "I don't know," said Bobby, look ing round dubiously "if there's any where to sit" There waa not The only chair was loaded with, apparently, the whole of Bobby's wardrobe. "The bed will do," said Frankle. She plumped down on It George Arbuthnot did the same and the bed groaned protcstlngly. "I'VE got everything planned out," said Frankle. "To begin with ws want a car. One of yours will do." "Do you mean you want to buy one of our cars?1' "Yes." "Thiil's really very nice of you. Frankfc," said Bobby with warm ap preclatlon. "But you needn't I real ly do draw the line at sticking my friends." "You've got it all wrong." said Frankle. "It Isn't like that at all. I know what you mean It's like buy ing perfectly appalling clothes and bats from one's friends who are Jusl starting in business. A nuisance but It'a got to be done. But tbli Isn't like that at all. I really neei a car." "What about the Bcntley?" "The Bentley'a no good." "You're mad," said Bobby. 'No, I'm not The Bentley's nt good for what 1 want It for.". "What do you want it for?" "Smashing it up." Bobby groaned and put a hand to bis bead. "1 don't seem very well this morning." George Arbuthnot spoke for thi first time. Hla voice was deep and melancholy. "She moans," he said, that she's going to have an accl dent." How does she know?" said Bobbj wildly. Frankle gave an exasperated sigh. "Somehow or other," she said, we seem to have started wrong. Now Just listen quietly, Bobby, and try and take In what I'm going to say. I know your brains are prac tically negligible, but you ought to be able to understand If you really concentrate." She paused, then resumed. "I am on the trail of Basslngton ffreneh." . "Hear, hear!" "Basslngton-tTrcnch our purlieu lar Bnsslngton-ffrench lives at Mer roway Court at the village of Slav erley in Hampshire. Merrowa) Court belongs to our Basslngton- ffrench's brother, and our Basstng- ton-ffrench Uvea there with the brother and his wife." "Whose wife." "The brother's wife of course. Thai Isn't the point The point is, bow are -you or I o, both of us going to worm ourselves into the house hold? I've been down and recon noltrcd the ground.. Slaverley's a mere village. Strangers arriving there to stay would stick out a mile. It would be the sort of thing thai imply Isn't dono. So I've evolved a plan. This Is vhat Is going to happen. Lady Frances Derwent, driving her car more recklessly than well, crashes Into the wall near the gates of Merroway Court Complete wrocksge of car, less complete wreckage of Lady Frances, who It carried to the house suffering from concussion and shock and must em phatically not be moved." "Who says so?" "George. Now you see when George comes In. We can't risk a strange doctor's saying there Is nothing the matter with me. Or per haps some olHclous person might pick up my prostrate form and tak It to some local hospital. No. what happens is this. George la passing, also In a car (you'd bettor sell us a second one), sees the accident leaps out and taVes charge. (Cerru'l IHl-3 lt, AietHe CMitie) Franklt buys, tomorrow, a very bad oar lndrd. STAGE WILD RIOTS MADH1D. fVb. 10 -,..TVrr!Ron riots flsred si'ross Spsln today In tht irnke cf t!:e r.nt'.nr.sl f!rolirn wen by ex- , tremlMt how prtneipsl campaign ' plnnk whs umin-My fur pnrtirtpm.ts In the U;(4 sivinllstlc rrbrlllon Ten prr-M-Min have hin klllrd in riots lnule and oit of prisons. Following riots tn the prisons at CsrtsRtioa, Valencia, 7,raK'1,- nd Hurgos, In which two arp known to have been slntn and a rore wnu tided. ' the prisoners in the (tijon city Jt.ll nuitjnlrd. j WINDOW (1LAS-W sell irlndc I iau and will rrpim-p votii broken ! ainduw renvmaoiy. froabridi Cau loet Wuiils, fy " m mtecmo B I $te J ft ed motif. Mo., ft KING- fnznn. veAPs- v 'Xs ir, : KIN6- WrlO.PST llrWOK Trie first 6kanp P rteWrVSw.&YEWwieKEf? I fljAR ' '111 rtewfvs even in. b WbM 3 HOLtfS ANP lAe f?sT five rVSNMsr champion imzon urne wine mewm fVlfcTeuR 60Vr CHAMPIONSHIP,,. The man who broke tho bank at, Monte Carlo exists only In fiction, for the bank at Monte Carlo has never been broken. Bet limits and the fact that the gambling con cern has plenty of financial backing Indicate thnt the man who breaks the bank Is not likely to become a reality for some time to come. The term "breaking the bank" la erroneously used at one particular table. Thla Is merely the amount or money allotted to that table at tho start of the day. It varies, accord ing to the stakes and game. A rou lette table at Monte Carlo Is usually started off with about 15.000. It somebody wins all of It ho Is saltt to have "broken the bank" but he has not, for the bank always supplies more, sometimes before even the original amount has been lost. This tnklng all the money at any one table Is a rather common oc currence and aome players have taken It several times in a single day. This comparatively small amount of cash nt each table Is called the bank," but It Is really only a very small branch of the real bank for the bank of Monte Carlo Is backed by millions of dollars. Rtrantte as It seems. 14-yenr-oid TAILSPIN TOMMY A Landing in the Desert of Desolation! fWvit-er AN AERI4L. THE flYSrEROUS VMLSY OF THE W WE SKY FOG. TO) MY 4AD SATtTerreQ, PWCtK) pstvia's Atoroz TO HE FOGCSTO HS OVER. A JY6e OF AtOMTAMS ' THE NEBBS -Cruel World I 7i i BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Rescuo! . PETE T7fe-- - ( BEN ) FAST-THe WRE'LL BE HERE yMi f H, V ( FIND SOME KEYS f HERE THEY C3LOR.Y PWfl d AROUNO f bZff - V J AUV MINUTE-SAY, WHOSE V-Z. PETE'S- f j U T AND WE CAN i. ARE MCiLORY AA? 1 (eri uo- yj ''j i 9 i P-U5-1KJES5, TCSCTW1r.l5...H.L GO V iXNjO TCLL MS- DEAL years Lares PAIRS? 1 M Jl MtKmotfct H WaiGLEV'S SWINGS WRIGLEY'S. 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