MEDFORD MAIL- TRTBUNTTC, MTSDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1936.
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
TRAY SERVICE
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HiX
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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.
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and Party Spihii rb Crest. 4S9
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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.
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cf t!:e r.nt'.nr.sl f!rolirn wen by ex- ,
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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. '
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reality for some time to come.
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start of the day. It varies, accord
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lette table at Monte Carlo Is usually
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to have "broken the bank" but
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