Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 26, 1936, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text13. PAGE EIOHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1936. BYSOPSlSr Frankle Dencent not to ture Roger Battlngton ffrench murdered the man tdenti fied at Alexander Pritchard at the vat when the ttagtd an "accident" icith the help ot hobby Jonet, and tecured admittance to the Batting-ton-ffreneh country houte. Bhe it convinced alto that the victim't real name wat Alan Carttaire, al though that remaint to be proved. Meanwhile the name of a Dr. Ntch olton, a Canadian running a drug cre nearby, hat entered the equa tlon. Chapter 20 DR. NICHOLSON rRANKIB Attacked Sylvia the fol lowing morning. She etartel by asking carelessly: ''What was that man's name yon mentioned last nlghtT Alan Car- talrs. was It? 1 feei sure I re heard that name before." "I dare say you have. He' rather a celebrity In bla way, I believe. He'a a Canadian a naturalist -and big- game hunter and explorer. I don't really know him. Some trlenda of ours, the Rlvlngtons, brought him down here one day tor lunch. A very attractive man big and bronzed and nice blue eyes. "I was sure I'd heard ot him." "He'd never been over to this country before, I believe. Last year he went a tour through Africa with that millionaire man, John Savage the one who thought he had can- eer and killed himself In that tragic way. Carstalrs has been all over the world. East Africa, South America simply everywhere, I believe." "Sounds a nice adventurous per son," said Frankle. "Oh, he was. Distinctly attrac tive." "Funny his being so like the man who fell over the cliff at March- bolt," said Frankle. "I wonder if everyone has a double." They compared Instances, but . Frankle was careful to make no fur ther references to Alan Carstalrs. In her own mind she was quite con vinced that the victim of the cliff tragedy at Marchbolt had been Alan Carstalrs. He fulfilled all the con ditions. He had no Intimate friends or relations in this country, and his disappearance was unlikely to be noticed for some time. Very good then. The next step was to learn more about Alan Car stalrs. His connection with the Bas-elngton-ffrenchs seemed to have been ot the slightest He had been brought down there quite by ch .ce by friends. What was tbe name? Rivlngton. Frankle stored It In her memory for future use. "I don't want to be poisoned or knocked on the head," thought Frankle with a grimace. "They were ready enough to bump off Bobby for practically nothing at all" Her thoughts flew oft at a tangent to that tantalizing phrase that had started the whole business. Evans! Who was Evans? Where did Evans lit In? "A dope gang," decided Frankle. , Perhaps some relative ot Caratalrs was being victimized, and he had determined to bust It up. Evans may have been one ot the gang who had retired and gone to Wales to live. Caratalrs had bribed Evans to give the others away, and Evans had con sented and Carstalrs went there to see him, and someone followed him and killed him. Was that somebody Roger Bas slngton ffrench? It seemed very un likely. The Caymans, now, were far more what Frankle imagined a gang 'of dope-smugglers would be likely to be. ' 'pHAt evening Dr. Ncholson and his wife were expected to dinner. Frankle was Untitling dressing when she heard their car drive up to the front door. Her window faced their way, and she looked out. A tail man was Just alighting from the driver's seat of a dark blue Talbot. Frankle withdrew her head thoughtfully. Carstalrs had been a Canadian. Dr. Nicholson was a Canadian. And Dr. Nicholson had a dark-blue Tal bot. Dr. Nicholson was a big man with a manner that suggested great re serves of power. Ills speech was slow, and on the whole he said very little, but he contrived somehow to make every word sound significant He wore strong glasses, and behind them his very pale blue eyes glit tered reflectively. Ills wife was a slender creature of perhaps twenty-seven, pretty, In deed beautiful. She seemed, Frankle thought, slightly nervous and chat tered rather feverishly as though to conceal the tact. "You had sn accident. I hear, Lady Frances." said Pr. Nicholson as he took his seat beside her at the din ner table. CHEMAWA, Or.. PVb. afl. (AP) Tha beat of tom-tomi. oama and war dancra executed In tribal contume ushered In the two-day celebration of th flflfh anntvwraary of Chemiwa Inrllnn school here yesterday. Moie than 2!o alumni and former turtfnU were gathered here for the bluest celebration Chemawa had iwr wltnrnsed. Alumni vlui'.ora were guests of the whoal and atipt. Paul T. Jarkaon at dinner laat nlRht. preceding the stu dent' pronrnm featured by two play depicting Indian legend, life and cua tom. 'Emotion" Perfume by Vim) Chany, a favorite of movie etara. At Touag'a Dai Co., Mala tud Ceausl.i Frankle explained the catastro phe. "That was too bad," he said, as she finished, having perhaps made a more detailed story of it than seemed strictly' necessary. "But you seem to have made a very good re covery." "We won't admit she's cured yet. We're keeping her with us," said Sylvia. The Doctor's gaze went to Sylvia. Something like a very faint smile came to his lips, but passed almost Immediately. "I should keep her with yon as long as possible," be said gravely, Frankle was sitting between her host and Dr, Nicholson. Henry Basslngtontfrench was decidedly moody to-night. His bands twitched, he ate next to nothing, and he took no part In the conversation. Mrs. Nicholson, opposite, had a difficult time with him, and turned to Roger with obvious relief. She talked to htm In a desultory fash ion, but Frankle noticed that her eyes were never long absent from her husband's face. Dr. Nicholson was talking about life In the country. "Do you know what a culture Is, Lady Frances?" "Do you mean book-learning?" asked Frankle, rather puzzled. "No, no. I was referring to germa They develop, you know. In specially prepared serum. The country. Lady Frances Is a little like that There Is time, and space, and Infinite leis uresuitable conditions, you see, for development" "Do you mean bad things?" asked Frankle. "That depends, Lady Frances, on the kind ot germ cultivated." Idiotic conversation, thought Frankle. Why should It make you feel creepy? Yet It did! She said flippantly, "I expect I'm developing all sorts ot dark qualities." TTE looked at her and said calm n ly: "OH, no, I don't think, so, Lady Frances. I think you would always be on the side of law and order." Was there a faint emphasis on the word law? Suddenly, across the table Mrs. Nicholson said, "My buaband prides himself on summing up character." Dr. Nicholson nodded his head gently. "Quite right, Molra. Little things Interest me." He turned to Frankle again. "I had beard of your accident, you know. One thing aboul It Intrigued me very much. "Yes?" said Frankle, her heart beating suddenly. "The doctor who was paaslng. The one who brought you In here." "Yea?" "He must have had a curious character to turn his car before going to the rescue." "I don't understand." "Of course not You were uncon scious. But young Reeves, the mes senger boy, came from Staverley on his bicycle, and no car passed him. Yet he comes round the corner, finds 'the smaah, and the doctor's car pointing the same way he was going towards London. "You see the point? Tbe Doctor did not come from the direction ol Staverley, so he muat have come the other way, down the hill. But in that case, his, car should have been pointing toward Staverley. But It wasn't Therefore he must have turned It." "Unless he had come from Staver ley some time before," said Frankle. "Then his car would have been standing there as,ou came down the hill. Was It?" "I don't remember," said Frankle. "1 don't think so." "You sound like a detective, Jas per," said Mrs. Nicholson. "And all about nothing at all." "Little things Interest me," said Nicholson. He turned to his bostesi and Frankle drew a breath ot relief. Why had he catechized her like that? How had be found out all about the accident? "Little things Interest me," he had said. Was that all there was to It? Frankle re membered the dark-blue Talbot and the tact that Carstalrs had been a Canadian. It seemed to her that Dr. Nicholson was a sinister man. She kept out of his way after din ner, attaching herself to the gentle, fragile Mrs. Nicholson. She noticed that all the time Mrs. Nicholson's eyes still wstched her husband. Was It love, Frankle wondered, or fear? "Well," said Roger after they bad gone, "what do you think of out Dr. Nicholson? A very forceful per sonallty, hasn't he?" "I'm like Sylvia," ssld Frankle "1 don't think 1 like him very much 1 like her better." l!) JS-3S. Alttke Cl'ilHe) Prinkl Mnda in urgt nt msisage, tomorrow, to Bobby. 1M.0V1E STAR'S CHILD hoixvwood, mi , rh a api Pellet jiiaM tu mnlntAinfd tiy it tin hom o! Virginia Bruc, evrern aetrwi. wtio J-ymr-old dughtr. Svin Ann OIllM-rt, was trportM thrarnd with klrtnuping. Cllxlvs Hn. Mm wrltrr and Mlna Bnwt's pfrnonal rrprNwntntlvc. told drtrrtiirM n unldf nlltlrd woman had w-artiM hr th Mnndf player and her child mP In "giralfr dan ger and muat b notified." WINDOW tll.AS-We aril wind.- glau and will replace your broken rlndowa reaaonably. Trowbridge cb Inrt WOrk. j UK Mall ttlbuui waul a4i. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS -For.rurther,proof addrau .th? ...Irig '.-.. l -X Hon iHPiftNs in new w&ico wmv iriein vcbv on hbh aint wftAe, WiTd Dirt BROUGHT UP rKDfi HtXusttt Syndlcm, 1m. With the exception of the sun and moon, Venus la the brightest object that we see In the sky. Tet, strange as It seems, we do not see Venus best when it is brightest, or nearest us, or farthest from the sun In the sky. When Venus la nearest us It Is not at lta brightest, and we can see but- a crescent of It, lik the new moon. When the planet presents a fully Illuminated side to the earth, as the full moon. It is not at its best because when it Is so far from the earth the size of It Is dwarfed. When It Is farthest from the sun It Is not at Its brightest. We see Venus beet In an intermediate posi tion, when It appears to be a well lllumlnated thick crescent. Thomas Fuller, seventeenth cen tury English hlstdrlan, had one or the most remarkable memories on record. He could repeat flOO uncon nected words In order after hearing them twice, and could reclt a like list of 600 strange names upon hear ing them two or three times. 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I THAT AM'T BOTHERIKJ'ME - Ml WAMT 5 TO KEEP 1 VJVLL 1 1 THE TWO FOR A JOB I RAVE THM J . iS WrMm Hrnn H m vim viwm rrv'um mLt THE FAMILY ALBUM S03UR5tAIIfOSE stissoRs for wire ' FROM HER WORK &A&KEf - 6:S HAUWAV powrt WrM SCISSORS WHEfJ Wife CAas tt briK6 TfiE SPODL OF BLACK siix.-foo COMES Wrfrt S'MATTER POP- STAIRS COUS WHERE DID SHE SfV WORK-BRSKEflS? CAN MAKE HER HEAR, AWD COMES HAlrWAV t0vM i0 REPEAT flOERV WW UPSTAIRS REtRACES S1EPS MO DISCOVERS rrwwfrif DOWN AGAIN EM&ROlDERV SCISSORS AND SPOOL SHE WANTED TfclJD&ft UP (Copyright, 19M, by The Bell Byndlcate, Inc.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 2-16 AMd HEARS WlfE CALL AM tiowK fo see what rt Ys. finds she merelv iWANte 10 KNOW did hf IFiNDtf? 60ES UPA6AIH RETURK& Wrfrt EMBROIDER! SCISSORS Scissors, Wife remark- AND 1N& 5t DOES NT 5tfc ONCE MORE WHV A UlE ERRAND . AVWAVS WEARS R)M OUfl By 0. M. PAYNE By HAL FORREST lOE'VG. 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