rrcnFOTtn mail tribute. ivreDFonn. ot?eooa'. Tuesday. February 2.-. ma.
PAOE TTTN
tsYSOPtllB: Bobby Jonee and
tjOttu b'rancee Uerwent, better
known a Frankie, have dectdi'd
that lloger Daeeimiton-llrench te
the man who tmehed Alexander
Pritchard over the ctlff at March,
bolt, and killed htm. But now that
Frankie hae gotten hereelt tnto the
naeelnaton-flrcnch country houee
.y a ruee. ehe wondere. ftootr eeeme
too nice, and Henry. ht brother,
turns out to take morphia and be
'fee pleaeant Beeidee. curious un.
der-currenta eeem to lead frankie
toward the Sicholeone, who run a
cure tor drug addict.
Chapter 19
ALAN CARSTAIRS
YOU'D better call her Frankie
I do," aald Sylvia. "Un't It odd
how whenever ope talks of any per
son or thing, somebody else does
the same Immediately afterwards?"
"They are Canadians, sren't
they?" Inquired Frankie.
"He Is. certainly. I rather fancy
she Is English, out I'm not sure.
She's a very pretty little thing
quite charming, with the loveliest
big wistful eyes. Somehow or other
I fancy she Isn't terribly happy. It
must be a depressing life.
"He runs a kind of sanitarium,
doesn't ho?"
"Yes, nerve cases and people who
take drugs. He's very successful, I
believe. He's rather an Impressive
man."
It must be a depressing life."
"Yon like him?" I
"No," said Sylvia abruptly. "I
don't" And rather vehemently, after
a moment or two, she added, "Not
at all."
Later on, she pointed out to
Frankie a photograph of a charm
ing, large-eyed woman which stood
on the piano.
"That's Molra Nicholson. An ap
pealing face, Isn't It? A man, wbo
came down here with soma frlenda
of oura soma time ago was quite
struck with It. He wanted an In
troduction to her, I think." She
laughed. "I'll ask them to dinner
to-morrow night. I'd Ilka to know
what you think of him."
"lllra?"
"Yes. As I told you. I dislike him,
and yet he's quite an attractive
looking man."
Something In her tone made
Frankie look at ber quickly, but
Sylvia Basslngton-ffrencb hsd
turned away and was taking some
deed flowers out of a rase.
"T MUST collect my ldoas,"
thought Frankie as ahe drew a
eomb through her thick dark hair
when dressing for dinner that night
"And," she added resolutely, "It's
time I made a tew experiments."
Was, or was not, Roger Basslngton-ffrencb
the villain she and Bobby
assumed him to be?
"Mem.," wrote Frankie on a aheet
of paper. "One And out where Rog
er waa on the 16th day when
Bobby was poisoned."
She thought she saw her wsy to
doing that fairly clearly.
"Two," ahe wrote. "Produce pic
ture of dead man and observe re
actions. It any. Also note whether
R.B.F. admits being In Marchbolt
then."
She felt slightly nervous over the
second resolution. It meant coming
ut into the open. On the other hand
the tragedy had happened In her own
part of the world, and to mention
It casually would be the most natu-
rsl thing In the world. She crumpled
up the sheet of paper and burnt It
She managed to introduce the ftrel
point fairly naturally at dinner.
"You know," she said frankly to
Roger, "I ran't help feeling lhat
we've met before. And It wasn't
very long ago elWier. It wasn't, by
tny chance, at that party of Lady
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OF SEWAGE PLANT
A new electric distribution ytm.
employing all therms! disconnects in
stead of the conventional fuses, is
now on display at tlte Peoples Elec
tric store. riVntined tor ue In the
MM ford sewite divrnftl plant now
under const n;rt ion. The kKk-ff in
ckc-c ot sn over'oAd or u direct short
circuit is a-Totnpllsh automatn-sllv
by the reoull of a thermal spring
which -omes heated. When the
sprtn;! has oooltd and the en vise oi
trouble corrected, a flick of the switch
by hand reopens the circuit,
The new dlMrHmMnn cen'er Is th
latest development of the westlivg
Shane's at Clarldge? On the 16th It
was."
"It couldn't hare been on the
16th," said Sylvia quickly. "Roger
was here then. I remember, be
cause ws had a children's party that
day, and what I should have done
without Roger, 1 simply don't know."
She gave a grateful glance at her
brother-in-law and be smiled back
at her,
"I don't feel I've ever met you
before," be said thoughtfully to
Frankie and added, "I'm euro. If I
bad, I'd remember It." He said II
rather nicely.
"One point settled," thougbt
Frankie. "Roger Basslngton-ffrencb
was not In Wales on the day that
Bobby was poisoned."
The second point came up fairly
easily later. Frankie led the talk to
country places, their dullness, and
the Interest aroused by any local
excitement.
"We bad a man fall over the cliff
last month," she remarked. "We
were all thrilled to the core. I went
to the Inquest full of excitement,
but It was all rather dull really."
"Was that at a place called March
bult?" asked Sylvia suddenly.
Frankie nodded. "Derwent Castle
Is only about seven miles from
Marchbolt." she explained.
"Roger, that must have been youi
man!" cried Sylvia.
rRANKlE looked Inquiringly al
mm.
I was sctually In at the death."
said Roger. "I stayed with the body
till the police came."
I thougbt one of the Vicar s sons
did that" said Frankie.
He had to go off to play the
organ or something so I took over."
How perfectly extraordinary!"
said Frankie. "I did hear somebody
else had been there too, but I never
heard the name. So It was you."
There was a general atmosphere
of "How curious! Is'nt the world
small?" Frankie felt she was doing
this inther welL
"Perhaps that's where you saw
me betore in Morchbolt7" sug
gested Roger.
"I wasn't there actually at the
time of the accident," said Frankie.
I came back from London a couple
of days afterward. Were you at the
Inquest?"
'No. I went back to London the
morning sfter the tragedy."
'He had some abaurd idea of buy
ing a house down there," said Sylvia.
Roger laughed. Then he turned
to Frankie. "Any polnta of Interest
about the accident? It didn't turn
out to be suicide or anything?"
"Oh, no, It was all painfully above
board, and some appalling relations
came and Identified the man. Did
you aee his picture in the papers?"
"I think I did," said Sylvia vague
ly. "I've got a cutting upstairs from
our local paper."
Frankie ran npstlra and cams
down with the cutting In her hand.
"Don't you think he's good-looking?"
Frankie demanded.
"He Is, rather." said Sylvia. "He
looka very like that man Alan Car
stairs." "He's got quite a look of him
here," agreed Roger. "But there
wasn't much real resemblance, you
know."
Frankie went to bed undecided.
Everyone aeemed to have reacted
with perfect naturalness. The only
thing ahe had succeeded In getting
was the name of Alan Carslalrs.
Tomorrow tho tferk blue Telbot
re-entere the puttie.
house Electric laboratories, and ta a
forerunner of the everyday house
hold diitrlbutlon tx of the future,
according to Ben Trowbridge of the
IVoplea staff. Electric energy total'
Ing 3tW horsepower will flow through
the center distributing system, op
erntlng the sludge ptimps, Mowers
and drying Ivd mehsnism at. the
disposal plant. Ble-Mrle enemy ot
6,uOO watts will also be controlled
, thmiiRh tlie board. It was stated.
I The new control was shipped he-
tsfcen down, and aseemhled in the
!V.p plnnt. When Installed It will
have cost apprxix'.mately J.0O0. and
will emprise ttlxMit a third of the
electrical apparatus t the plant.
1 hoy interested in lnsivt-tlng the
Interesilng no-fuse rir- 'ult hreskr are
Invited to do so. a-rdnvT to peoples
Else trie r.tore offlcisin. I will be on
display for stMUt one mont-h
POWBHiS. Ore, rt IS r. T,ie
; Cots Day Uhtiilng company's csmp on
' Eden Hidge remained closest today as
1 a result of an additional foot of snow
! About 40 men were affected The
c .i m p it K.i 1 r v 1 e w and t '.i e mill e :
' MArshfleld continued opeiitiona.
FLAN IS EXTOLLED
6T. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 25. (P A
single-headed administration of state
supported Institutions of higher edu
cation It not only most economical,
but has a great many other advan
tages over the decentralized plan,
prominent educator from all parts
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX i
For further proof addresa the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply, Reg. U. S. Pat Off. 1
BffW5miHt I. It W'Wf'YU IJl .
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Carbon monoxide is po.sunous nly
to red-blooded animals, It robs the
red corpuscles of their ability to
carry oxygen to the cells. The fly.
which has no red blood, is Immune
to this deadly gas.
The great synthetic dye Industry
was born of a failure of 17-year-old
William Henry Perkln. English chem
ist, in 1856. He waa trying to mnke
quinine, but something went wrong
and In the product of his experi
ment waa a beautiful violet dye. He
called It "mauve' it waa the first
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of the United States were told
Monday by Dr. Frederick M. Hunt.,
chancellor of higher education for the
state of Oregon.
Dr. Hunter described the operation
of a unified administration of higher
education for Oregon before & sym
posium of the department of auper
lntendenu of the National Education
Association.
The Heather.
Northern California: Generally fair
tonight and Wednesday, except un
settled with light rain on extreme
north coast and snow over extreme
CftRBoHMONCMJe-
Mux. rues
in
ujl IrWItUi, tM
of many synthetic dyes that are now
known to industry.
Oeorge Washington led the col
onies to freedom snd victory but
his war record shows that he lost
more battles than he won. Before
the Revolution he and his followers
were defeated and captured at rort
Necessity, 1 754, a nd a year In ter
Washington was defeated at Fort
Duquesne. Howe defeated him badly
In August, 1776, nenr New York
then came a succession of defeats:
Brandywlno Creek. Gcrmantown.
Monmouth, and a series of narrow
escHpf", from the enemy. Victories
Desert Mystery!
f V W HIM 8ECSe THEV FEARED DAUGHTER, JUNE.;- THWT CMA TOO, IF DON'T
ArV9 TH D6VILS OHTHg I3LANC ( BUT WE DIE.O BEFORE IT'S. OU&T ANOTWE.R V lAM i &Mx REPAIR THIS
H& C0UL SlJ JPESE
northern mountains; slightly colder
In south and central portion to
night; heavy frosts or freezing tern- '
perature Wednesday morning; mod
erate northwest wind off coast.
Oregon: Occasional snow In east
and rain or snow In west tonight and
Wednesday; little change In temper
ature; strong southeast wind off
coast, gales off Washington coast to
day; southeast storm warnings order
ed at 7 a. m.. at all Wellington porta
and at the mouth of Columbia liver.
Use Mail Tribune want ads.
credited to Washington are the im
portant battles at Trenton and Prin
ceton, and finally the decisive battle
of the war the capture of Corn
wnllls at York town.
In some pnrts of arid Chile rains
fall so rarely that the oldest in
habitants can recall but a shower
or two In their lifetime. Here so
dium nitrate, which is readily solu
ble In water like ordinary table
salt, is used In building houses. A
good rain would melt the walls to
shapeless heaps but the odds against
mln of any kind are ereat.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
AFftR LVlK6 Iti WAlf IN 1HE COLD
FOR -THE BOV WHO AMBUSHED VOU
VESTERDAV , TJ.ANN1N6 0 CAfCH HIM ON
HIS WAV -TO "DANCING SCHOOL, VOO DISCOVER
HIVf HI6 MOfriER HAS "DEODED 10 GO Wrfe. HJM
WHUflrlfe' (Copyright, 1M6, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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yrlght, 1936, by The BeU'dlc tl i
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
By HAL FORREST
By EDWIN ALGER
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