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Newspaper Page TextPAGE eight MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 1. 1936. BYXOPBlBl frankie Dertmi end Hobby Jonee have one too many candidates Jor tho murderer of Alexander Prttchardor Alan Car etaire. ae Frankie te convinced that the name te properly. One te toget BfielnQton-flrench, who now eeeme too trank and charming to have done it. Another ie Dr. Nioholeon. who rune a drug cure in the neigh borhood, and eeeme very etrange. Bohby. dleguteed ae Frankie'e chauffeur, hae explored Ntcholeon'e place, and found there a trtghtened woman whoee face woe that on a photograph in the dead man'e pocket. Chapter 23 CONSULTATION " R. HAWKINS?" A' A "Yes," Bald Bobby hll vole lightly muffled owing to a large mouthful of bacon and eggi. "You're wanted on the telephone, Bobby took a hasty gulp of coffee. wiped hla mouth and roee. The tele phone was in a email dark passage. He took up the receiver. "Hullo," aald Frankie'e voice. "Hullo, Frankie," aald Bobby In cautiously. "This la Lady Frances Derwent peaking," said the voice coldly. "Is that Hawkins?" "Ye, m'lady." "I shall want the car at ten o'clock to take me up to London. "Very good, your ladyship." Bobby replaced the receiver. "When does one say 'my lady' and when does one say 'your ladyship?' he cogitated. "I ought to know, but I don't It's the sort of thing that will lead a real chauffeur or butler to catch me out" At the other end, Frankie hung up the receiver and turned to Roger Bss- Ington-ftrench. "It's a nuisance," the observed lightly, "to have to go up to London today. All owing to Father's fuss." "Still," said Roger, "you'll be back this evening?" "Oh, yee." "I'd half thought of asking you If you'd give me a lift to town," said Roger carelessly. Frankie paused for an Infinitesi mal second before her answer (lven with an apparent readiness. "Why, of course," she said. "But on second thought I don't think 1 will go up to-day," went on Roger, "Henry's looking even odder than usual. Somehow 1 don't very much like leaving Sylvia alone with him." "I know," said Frankie. "Are you driving yourself?" asked Roger casually as they moved away from the telephone. "Yes, but I shall take Hawklna. I've got some shopping to do as well and It's a nuisance It you're driving yourself you can't leave the car anywhere." "Yes, of course." He said no more, but when the car came around, Bobby at the wheel very stiff and correct of demeanor, he came out on the doorstep to see her off. "Good-bye," said Frankie, Under the circumstances she did not think of holding out a hand, but Roger took hers and held It a min ute "You are coming back?" ha said with curious Insistence. - Frankie laughed. "Of course. I only meant good-bye till this eve ning." "Don't have any mora accidents." "I'll let Hawkins drive If you like." SHE sprang in beside Bobby, who touched bis cap. The car moved off down the drive, Roger still stand ing on the steps looking after It "Bobby," aald Frankie, "do you think It possible that Roger might fall for me?" "Hae he?" Inquired Bobby. "Well, I Just wondered." "I eipect you know the symptoms pretty well," said Bobby. But he poke absently. Frankie ehot him a glance. "Has anything happened?" ehe asked "Yes, It has. Frankls, I've found the original ot the photograph!" "You mean the one the one you talked so much about the one that was In the dead man's porket?" "Yee." "Bobbyl I've got a few things to tell you, but nothing to this. Where did you And her?" Bobby Jerked his head back over his shoulder. "In Dr. Nicholson's nursing home." "Tell me." Carefully and meticulously Bobby described the events ot the previous night. Frankie listened breathlessly. " Then we are on tn right track." she said. "And Dr. Nicholson Is tnlied up In all this! Bobby, I'm if raid of that man." "What Is he like?" "Oh! big and forceful and he watches you. Very Intently behind rlasaea. And you feel be knows all ibout you." EATING, DRINKING NEAR 1929 LEVEL; BUSINESS GAINS WASHINGTON, Feb, 29. AP A continued upward movement of re fit. I trarte on a foundation of 193ft fain wa claimed for January today In an of e aerlea of government report. The cnmmrrf department'! week. survey of retail buslne. meanwhile. Mid moat of th 33 cm pa onvereo reported ft a mi in the week ended Wednesday over the, name period laat year, but no aubitantla) improve ment over the preceding evca day "When did yon meet him?" "He came to dinner." She described the dinner party and Dr. Nicholson's Insistent dwell ing on the details ot her "accident" "I felt he was suspicious, she end' ed up. "It's certainly queer his going into details like that" said Bobby. "What do you think Is at the bottom ot all this business, Frankie?" "Well, I'm beginning to think that your suggestion of a dope gang Isn't auch a bad guess after all." "With Dr. Nicholson u the head of the gang?" "Yes. This nursing home business would be a very good cloak for that sort of thing." - "That seems plausible enough," agreed Bobby. "I haven't told you yet about Hen ry Basslngton-ffrench." Bobby listened attentively to het description of her host's Idiosyncra cies. "His wire ooesn i suspectr- i m sure sue ooesn u What Is she like? Intelligent?" I never thought exactly. No, I sup pose she Isn't very. And yet In somt ways she seems quite shrewd. A frank, pleasant woman." "And our Basslngton-ffrench?" "There I'm puzzled," said Frank ! slowly. "Do you think, Bobby, that Just possibly we might be all wrong about him?" "Nonsense!" said Bobby. "W worked It all out and decided that he must be the villain ot the piece." Because of the photograph?" Because ot the photograph." No one else could have changed thai photograph for the other." I know," aald Frankie. "But that one Incident Is all that we have against him." BOBBY looked at her coldly. "Did you say that he had fallen for you, or that you bad fallen tor him?" he Inquired politely. Frankie flushed. "Don't be so ab aurd, Bobby. I just wondered It there couldn't be some Innocent explana tionthat's all." I don't see that there can be, Especially now that we've actually found the girl In the neighborhood. That seems to clinch matters. If we only bad some Inkling as to who the dead man was" Oh, but 1 have. I'm nearly sure that, the murdered man was some body called Alan Caratalrs." You know," said Bobby, "we re ally are getting on. Let's spread out our facts and see what sort ot Job we can make ot It ' He pauaed for a moment and the car slackened speed a though In sympathy. - . First we'll assume that you are right about Alan Caratalrs. He cer tainly fulfils the condltons. Alan Car- stairs comes down to Staverly with these people what did you say their name was?" "Rlvlngton. There's a possible channel of Inquiry there. In fact I think we ought to follow It up." We will. Very well, Caratalrs. comes down to Staverley with the Rlvlngtona. Now, Is there anything In that?" You mean did he get them to bring him down here deliberately?" That's what I mean. Or waa It Just a casual chance? Was he brought down here by them, and did he then come across the girl by accident Just as 1 did? I presume he knew her be fore or he wouldn't have had her photograph on him." The alternative being," said Frankie thoughtfully, "that he waa already on the track, of Nicholson and hla gang." . . And used the Rlvlngtone aa a means ot getting to this part of the world naturally?" "That's quite a possible theory," said Frankie. "Ha may have been on the track ot this gang." "Or simply on the trifle of the girl" "The girl?" "Yes. She may have been abducted. He may have come over to England to find her." "Well, but If he had tracked her down to Staverley why should he go oft to Wales?" Obviously, there's a lot we don't know yet" said Bobby, Evans." said Frankie thoughtful ly. "We don't get any clues aa to Evans." They were both silent for a mo ment or two. Then Frankie woke up to her surroundings. "My dear, we're actually at Putney Hill. It seems like Are minutes. Where are we going and what are we doing?" That's for you to say. I don't even know why we've come up to town." The Journey to town waa only an excuse for getting a talk with you. (Cftrvti mi ll-It. CtriM) Tomorrow Bohby becomes an th.r p.raon ontlrtly. Another survey estimated total re Uil naJea in 1035 were i33.00O.OOO, ooo, ft u per cent increase, over 1034. Matl order houses, with an 1n creaaa of VIS per cent tn the year, and automotive dealer, with. 35 per cent rise, reflected the largest gain. The I93S Mlea were M per cent of the 1030 figure, and the largeat since 10.11. when retail trade waa 73 per cent of 1030. One group rea taurant. eating and drinking place reported a hiulnej equalling 00 per cent of the prosperity year's peak. Dulrar A glut or a Tn tte SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 30. vF) A military court pronounced formal death sentence today on Col. Dam y an Veloheff ant. Major Cyrlt Stantaeff. revnlutlontMs convicted of plotting the aaMuwination of King Bona and fomenting a rebellion. 5 00 RPBC1AL 910 00 Urea, Coat. Robe miLWYN HOFFMANN WANE PAST YEAR WASHINGTON Feb. 29. (AP) The Justice department reported to day "a decrease of aerlous crimes during the put three years." Murders, assault, auto thefte and robberlee all declined, according to statistic compiled by the bureau ot STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX .For farther proof add res the author, inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Off. Cmmuh lAKfc, ONLY b m& FPoM JAKE CRie PRAiNS INToTrtB . 6UIP Or MEXICO MiCPTlIqa ftOO Mil rWft Although the Rnuian writer Tur- genav knew the Russian language, he rarely spoke It for bis aasoclatoa were chiefly Oerman and French and, further, It waa the cuetom of the times for the aristocracy of Russia not to apeak the language of the land. Turgenev knew German and French better than Russian. Science and Ingenuity of man have combined to make many an old saying scientifically obsolete. "You can't see through a brick wall" la an old favorite, once true, but now ll ', : ST- -(He RUtfR Or INPIA, foMli XV 4 TAILSPIN TOMMY The Island in the Sky Disappears! 3VA THICK roe, TH THGE yve PAtS OF TOMMY AND JWtTTEe, TS BUT UITH rA? GIO'O COV74CT 4G TQYA& TO coA?ecr tc?g posrovs- sts THEY TE Si1AeO N TW SKY BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Jabei Thorpe 'i Story! 1 111 1 Sg?.ii.vi0.ll U-'L v 11-'-. II I 3 If &aWETWeo t SEEMS A& TV0U6H I OVvP.TWOR.PE,tUAT RINIMVA THAT'S WHAT I TOLD HIMA ftwe VoTOR HAD AAEMTIOMED AAVN MAOKMOWN 0R.WLOV1TCH ALL MV UFE-)T&ipS, LOOWN6 UTTLE AAAN , ZZ BUT HE HE HAS THE Y f HOBBY WHICH AS VQUMnw SwrwJ M I THEN ACjAIK1,ITEEMS AS IF 'D MEVER DR WLCMTCH, IS OUTSIDE P 3 ANSWER. TO MOUR SEARCH Jf HE LEAM ME INTO TOnuw p iwVrvAP-i JKNOWN HIM-LET Me GIVE VOU THE W- AGAIU AUD IS ASKING. J d FOR OUIET AND SOLITUDE-Ji DOES ? ) TIMES OANAEft-SO VTofn Tuptnnkifl J C(S-B-t .f5pT!3?P -W'lbA ' I ' MvTTO lOW ip ' DONE TUE RIGHT THINQ-J nun 1 1 . . . v ' P . 1 JUL UMBO rrieunsiup oi a iiiiciime -r MBS.KEBS, I UJAMT I NOU COULD DO X -lCK OUST CAJOT V3UQAJ urxi uc c-tr, TO TLv:. TO VOU ABOUT ) cBWSMUW-N -SOETWSJG. TO BRISJQ, OUR I jTJ TO RUDY W ff rrwaf, I FtELS . OMeTWI.s.G, MAW 1 If s--p )KJ MS;S HUSBAMDS TDGETkES. ASAinJ- FEELS -rul-rrH" J,I EEM A V HAVE A ESIT Qf yDEi 7 TmE WAS A FR.EXJOSWIP ) f uuv,r7l?aeMD5W'0 XOUB. TIMETgX V!h V &ETVOE.E.NJ THEM TWAT SHOULD I I dTartME 't C 1',?. 1 SMOULD Investigation from reports of 71 big cities' police departments. Auto thefts dropped from 78,737 In 1S33 to 63.408 In 1038. A "heartening" decrease In rob beries was reported from 30,038 In 11,33 to 14.348 tn 1S3S. Murders decreased . from 1778 in 1933 to 1488 In 1338. Aggravated as sault dropped from 13.104 to 10.788. while burglsrles declined from 87348 to 78,001. . "Lsrcenles still predominate." the report said, but show a amsir de cline, from 181,328 in 1333 to 179,103 tn 1938. IVftrtllifleeriw Ru9si?iN novelist; gORM IN ANP ePnc&T&P IN completely wrong. X-ray apparatus permits vision through opaque ob jects. With the aid of a periscope you can see around a corner con trary to the old saying. Just to prove it possible, a sci entist not long ago actually made a silk purse out of a cow's ear. He treated It with chemicals so aa to make synthetic silk which he spun Into a purse. Water can be used to turn a mill wheel after It has run by If you utilize power from the mill to pump part of the water to the upper pond. It la an Inefficient, but nevertheless possible, process. PANCHO H4B2Y.'- BUST lf Tr-GOU&W CEIUM& AND tCE Li. CONFO&A1 Douglas Solon Not To Seek Cong. Mott Seat B06EBUBO. Feb. 29 ( Bute Senator Walter S. Fisher ot Boeeburg, who he been urged by lesdtng demo- orate of the at&to to become a can- dldate from the first congressional district for the seat now held by James W. Mott, stated he had Inform ed party leaden by letter today of hla decision not to enter the con test. He will probably file hla can didacy for reelection to hi present seat in the state enat in a short time. 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