PAOE TWO
MKDFOTID MATT, TRfRUNTI, MET) FOR I). OREGON, FRTDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1930.
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
tfy GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tot further proof address the author. Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. S. Pat Off.
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SYNOPSIS t Bobby Jonea, poa
ing aa Frankie Derwent'e chauj'
feur. 1mt hne arrived at Btaverley
with Frankie'a big car. Frankie
U Haying with the Baaainaton
frenchea, and euapecta Roger liaaa
inntOH'ffreneh ol murder. But even
more the auapccta Dr. Ntcholaon,
who runt a drug cure nearby, ana
ahe haa told Bobby to find out all
he can about the doctor in the vil'
lage. A little vuxalrd aa to how a
chauffeur ehould behave, Bobby
nevertheleae ta trying hie wtlea on
the landlord.
Chapter 22
LOVELY LADY
"TERY nice little place you have
here, Mr. Askew," aald Bobby
kindly and condescendingly. "Very
nice and snug."
Mr. Askew expressed gratification.
"Merroway Court the only big
place In the neighborhood?"
"Well, there's the Orange, Mr.
Hawkins. Not that you'd call that
a place exactly. There'a no family
living there. No, It had been empty
for years until this American doctor
took It"
"An American doctorT"
"That's It Nicholson his name Is.
And If you ask me, Mr. Hawkins,
there are some very queer goings on
there."
The barmaid at this point re
marked that Or. Nicholson gave her
the shivers, he did.
"Goings on, Mr. Askew?" said
Bobby. "Now what do you mean by
goings on?"
Mr. Askew shook hie bead darkly.
"There's those tl ere that don't want
to be there. Put away by their rela
tlons. 1 assure you, Mr. Hawkins,
the nioanlngs and the shrieks and
the groans that go on there you
wouldn't believe."
"Why don't the police Interfere?"
"Ob, well, you see, lt'a supposed to
be all right. Nerve cases, and such
like. Loonies that aren't so very
bad. The gentleman's a doctor and
It's all all right, so to speak" Here
the landlord burled his face In a
pint pot and emerges again shake
bis head In a vory doubtful fashion.
"Ah!" said bobby In a dark and
meaning way. "If we knew every
thing that went on In these
places . . ." And he too applied him
self to a pewter pot.
The barmaid chimed In eagerly:
'That's what I say, Mr. Hawkins.
What goe on there? Why, one night
a poor yo mg creature escaped In
her nightgown she was and the
Doctor and a coupte of nurses out
looking for her."
Somebody present said that there
was no knowing what went on In
places. And someone else said that
was right.
FINALLY the meeting broke up
and Bobby announced his In
tention of going for a stroll before
turning In,
The Orange was, he knew, on the
other sid; of the vlUHgi from Morro
way Court, so he turned his foot
steps In that direction. What he had
heard that evening seemed to him
worthy of attention.
A lot of It could, of course, be dis
counted. Villages are usually pre
judiced against newcomers, and still
more so It the newcomer Is of a dif
ferent nationality. If Nicholson ran
a place tor curing drug-takers, there
would naturally be strange sounds
Issuing from It groans anj even
shrieks might be beard without any
sinister reason for them.
But all the same the story of the
escaping girl struck Bobby unpleas
antly. Supposing the Grange were
really a place where people wero
kept against their will? A certain
number of genuine cases might be
taken aa camouflage.
At tills point In his meditations
Bobby arrived at a high wall with an
entrance of wrought-iron gates. He
stepped 'p 'o the gates and tried one
gently. It was locked. Well, after
all, why not?
And yet somehow the touch of that
locked gate gave him a faintly sin
ister feeling.
He movcu a little farther along the
road, measuring the wall with Ills
eye. Would It be possible to climb
over? The wall was smooth and high
and presented no accommodating
crannies. He shook his head. Sud
denly he came upon a little door.
Without much real hope he tried It.
To his surprise It yielded.
"Bit of an oversight here,"
thought Bobby with a grin. He
slipped through, closing the door
sottly behind him.
He found himself on a path lead
ing through a shrubbery. He fol
lowed the pith, which twisted a
good deal. Suddenly without any
warning It gave a sharp turn and
emerged Into an open space close to
the house. It was a moonlit nlaht
and the space was bright. Bobby hid
stepped full Into the moonlight be
fore he could stop himself.
NEW DEAL BLAMED BY
ATLANTA, reb, 38. ,TV-Governor
Etwene Tlm.wl6e, In t written state
merit today said the present situation
In Oeorgls "wsj deliberately brought
febout by the new deal to stop Tl
madge from oampswrnlng Min-u
Rooievelt tn the United Stat."'
ThJ governor littemetil came on
the hei of move by a sut miia
tor for a oall for a aelf-conrenlm
legiilstire to go Into the situation
artin from the governor effort to
operate the atsui this year without
an appropriations bill.
WINDOW OLAffrWW m,M wlnrlrw
Slits and will replace your nrofct-n
windows reasonably. Trowbridge Co
Uiet Works,
AT THE! same moment a woman's
figure came around the corner
of the house. S'io was treading very
sottly, glancing from side to side
with or so It seemed to the watch
ing Bobby the nervous alertness of
a bunted animal. Suddenly she
stopped dead and stood swaying .-
though she wou. '. fall.
Bobby rushed forward and caught
her. Her Hps were white and It
seemed to blm that never had ha
seen such awful fear on any human
countenance.
"It's all right," he said reassur
ingly In a very low voice,' "It's quit!
all right."
The girl, for she was little more
moaned faintly, her eyelids ball
closed. "I'm so frightened," she mur
mured. "I'm so terribly frightened.'
"What's the matter?" asked Bobby
The girl only shook her head ant
repeated faintly, "I'm so frightened.
I'm so horribly frightened."
Suddenly some sound seemed to
"I'm to terribly frightened."
come to her ears. She sprang up
right, away from Hobby. Then ihe
turned to him.
"Go away," she said. "Go away
at onco!"
"I want to help you," said Bobby.
"Do you?" Sho looked at him for
a second or two, a strange searching
and moving glance. Then she shook
her hoad.
"No ono can help me."
I can," snld Bobby. "I'd do any
thing. Toll me what It Is that
frlKhtons you so."
She shook her head. "Not now.
Oh, quick! They're coming. You
can't help me unless you go now. At
once nt nco."
Bobby yielded to hor urgency.
With a whlnpnred "I'm at the An
glers' Arms," ho plunged Wk along
tin path.
Suddenly ho heard footsteps on
the path In front of him. Someone
was coming along tho path from the
littlo dour. Bobby plunged abruptly
Into the bushes at the side of the
path.
A man passed close to Bobby, but
It was too dark for tho young man
to nee bis fare.
When . Inn1 paused Bobby re
sumed his retreat. He felt that he
could do nothing moro that night
Anyway, his head was In whirl.
For the girl va tho original ot
the photograph which hod so myi
terlously dlnppeaicd.
(Cfytht Ifii JS, Atnk. C'i,li4)
Prinkl inif Bobby ttreik It, tt.
morrow, lor London,
WOOL SHEARERS PAY
SET AT 12.5 CENTS
TOOK TON, rb. aB.-A blfl
wnte of 12' cent per animal for
woo! shenrer. plus their board, was
fixed at district meetln of the
Cheep tir.irrrt' union of North
Amerlcvi hre. lut year s scale was 11
cents a heart.
In oskiiut Incren.v, union lead
ers declared eipenwa hive sfared to
the 1H29 level. w:ien the wie wis
IS cent a bend. They declired wool
fr rower are n'ttlivi h.:her prUe than
they hve sinoe that year. I
One hundred piy of MlMourt unl-!
veralty's 4'.noo trsfhis'ff live In the
Orient, and more thau 500 re in fur
eiftn countries, an olumil survsjr
fchowtd.
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at JL 1 'Vj. ll
$PMl. NORTH ICOMiLK.TrlSN WEST lOOMllES,
IrieN'sOUW 100 MH.&S, IW CrVs-T loo MllK -
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Z" 26? 3k KtVufhi SradluU. Im.
Strange se It seems, you can moke
the "round-trip" outlined above and
fall to end up at the point from
which you started. Explanation of this
fact la that the earth Is a sphere and
when you start directly north from
the equator you start toward the
north pole, no matter where on the
equator you begin.
The north and south logs of the
journey will not be exactly parallel,
because all lines straight north from
the equator converge on the pol.
Tho southern extremities of the north
and south legs of the trip will there
fore be farther apart than the north
ern. Hence if you travel 100 miles
west before starting south, you will
be more than 100 miles went of your
starting point when you return to
the equator. The final 100 miles east
will not return you to your starling
point.
Washington was the only President
who received all the electoral votes,
none being cast for any other candi
date. But Adams came within one
vote of beliui elected unanimously.
When It became evident that All Totes
would be cast for him, one delegate
cast a contrary vote so that the hon
or of unanimous election would be
slone for Washington. Two othe.-
TAILSPIN TOMMY Lost in
1A IKtA'HtlUU&,
Bos: - -
ARE
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BlANfETED THE
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AMD &4VCHO
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EVEWVH1VJG S ARRAM6ED BEM, CRP
AMD BRIAR WILL GO TO THE SHADOW
AA0UMTAM5 TO SEE VJHAT, IF ANYTHING,
HAS. HAPPENED TO THE MVSTERIOUS OR.
NOR WLOVITCH, NOTED eciENTVST AND
OEINER. INTO THE UNKNOWW REGION
P.EYOND THE c,tRATOePHERE -
OF COUP&E 1&H.V- OWE
LETTER TO UR KiLOVllCH
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P(m MIXED WiTrt
fV5 PRKIPEMT-
times In American history one elec
toral vote changed the course of poli
tics. In 1800 the electoral vote was
tied. Burr and Jefferson, polling equal
numbers. One more vote and Burr
would have been elected. As it wns,
the choice went to the House of Rep
resentatives which elected Jefferson.
Rutherford B. Hayes was elected
President with Just one more vote
than Tlldcn, in spite of the fact that
Tilden polled the greater popular
vote.
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