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arEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THIIBSDAY, MARCH 5, 1936
CTNOPS1B: Boooy sum ana
Frankia Dtrtcent have tuo promis
ing candidate for the murderer o
Alan Carstalrs at least, they be
lief the murdered man vae Alan
Caretaire. One is Roger Basslng-ton-tfrench
; the other is Dr. Nlchol
on, who rune a drug cure near
the Basaington-f trench house. But
Roger eeeme euch a nlca young
man to Frankls, and note llaira
Hicholeon, the Doctor's wife, is
confirming their eueptcion of Nich
olson by conleeeing that ehe her
eel is afraid of htm. Her story ts
impreeeive, partly becauss shst is
very beautijul indeed.
Chapter If
NEW ANGLE
iHA'S brow furrowed i aha
tried to think.
'It'i possible," the laid at last.
"He asked one or two rather pecu
liar questions but no, I don't think
he can really hare known anything
about If
"Would you call your husband a
jealous man?" Bobby asked.
Rather to hie surprise the an'
wered. "Yes, a very Jealoui man."
"Jealous, for Instance, of your
"You mean even though be doesn't
care? But yes, he would be Jealoui,
Juat the same. I'm his property, you
see. He's a queer man a very Queer
man."
Bhe shivered. Then she asked
suddenly, "You're not connected
with the police In any way, are
you?"
"I? Oh, no."
"I wondered. I mean
Bobby looked down at his chauf
feur's livery.
"It's rather a Ions story," he said.
"You are Lady Frances Derwent's
chauffeur, aren't you? Bo the land
lord here said. I met her at dinner
the other night."
"I know." He paused. "We've got
to get hold of her," he said. "And It's
a bit difficult for me to do. Do you
think you could ring up and ask to
speak to her and then get her to
come and meet you somewhere out
doors?" "I suppose I could," said Molra
slowly.
"I know It must seem frightfully
odd to you. But It won't when I've
explained. We must get hold of her
as soon as possible. It's essential."
Molra rose. "Very well," she said.
With her band on the door handle
she hesitated. "Alan," she said.
"Alan Carstalrs. Did you say you'd
seen him?" ,
"I have seen him," said Bobby
slowly. "But not lately." And be
thought, with a shock, "Of course
she doesn't know he's deed. . ."
He said, "Ring up Lady Frances.
Then I'll tell you everything."
MOIRA returned a few minutes
later.
"I got her." she said. "I've asked
her to come and meet me at a little
summer house down near the river,
Bhe must have thought It very odd,
but he said she's come."
"Good." said Bobby. "Now Just
where Is this place exactly?"
Molra described It carefully, and
the way to get to It.
"That's all right," said Bobby.
"You go first. I'll follow on."
They adhered to' this program,
Bobby lingering to have a word with
Mr. Askew.
"Odd thing," he said casually.
"That lady Mrs. Nicholson I used
to work for an uncle of hers. Cana
dian gentleman."
Molra's visit to him might, he
felt, give rise to gossip, and the last
thing ha wanted waa to let gisslp of
that kind get about and possibly And
Its way to Dr. Nicholson's ears.
"So that's it. Is It?" said Mr.
Askew. "I rather wondered."
"Yes," said Bobby. "She recog
nised me and came along to hear
what 1 was doing now. A nice, pleasant-spoken
lady."
Feeling that he had achieved his
object, he strolled out
He reached the rendeivoua suc
cessfully and found ler there wait
ing for him.
"There's an awful lot I've got to
tell you," he said, and stopped awk
wardly. "Yes."
"To begin with," said Bobby,
plunging. "I'm not really a chauf
feur although 1 do work In a garage
In London. And. my name Isn't Haw
kins It's Jones -Bobby Jones. I
come from Marcbbolt In Wales."
Molra was listening attentively,
but clearly the name Marchbolt
meant nothing to her.
"Look bare, I'm afraid I'm going to
give you rather a shock. This friend
of yours. Alan Cartlalrt he's well,
you've got to know he's dead."
She was silent a moment or two,
then she said In a low thoughtful
voice, -"So that's why he never came
back. I wondered."
Bobby ventured to steal a look at
her. She looked sad and thoughtful
hut that was all.
"Tell me about It," she said.
"He fell over the cliff at Marcb
bolt the place where I live. I and
the doctor there happened to be
the ones to find him." He paused
snd then added: "He had your pho
tograph In his pocket."
"Did he?" She gave a sweet,
rather sad smile. "Dear Alan, he waa
very talthtuL When did all this
happen?"
"About a month ago. October 3rd,
to be exact."
"That must have been Just after
he came down here."
"Yes. Oh. hullo! Here's Frankle."
Frankle came hurrying along the
path. Her face, at the sight of Bobby
and Mrs. Nicholson sitting chat
ting together, waa a study In con
flicting expressions.
"Hullo, Frankle," said Bobby.
"I'm glad you'vs come. We've got
to have a great powwow. To begin
with, It's Mrs. Nicholson who is the
original of the photograph."
Oh!" said Frankle blankly. She
looked at Molra and suddenly
laughed.
My dear," she said to Bobby,
"now I see why the sight of Mrs.
Cayman at the inquest was such a
shock to youl"
Molra was looking bewildered.
"There's such an awful lot to
tell," aald Bobby. "And I don't quite
know bow to put It all."
He described the Caymans and
their identification of the body.
"And then," continued Frankle,
"Bobble waa poisoned."
Eight grains of morphia," said
Bobby reminiscently.
Dont start on that," said
Frankle. "You're capable of going on
for hours on the subject, and it's
really very boring to other people.
Let me explain."
She took a long breath.
vrOU see," she said, "these Cay
man people came to see Bobby
after the Inquest, to ask him If the
brother (supposed) had said any
thing before he died, and Bobby
said 'No.' But afterwards be rem em
bered that the man had said some
thing shout somebody called Evans
so Bobby wrote and told them to.
And a tew days afterwards he got
a letter offering him a Job In Peru or
somewhere, and when he wouldn't
take It, the next thing was that
someone put a lot of morphia "
Eight grains," said Bobby,
in his beer. Only, as Bobby
has a most extraordinary Inside or
something, it didn't kill him. And
so then we saw at once that Prlt-
chard or Carstalrs, you know-
must have been pushed over the
cliff."
"But why?" aaked Molra.
"Don't you tee? I expect I
haven't told It very welL Anyway.
we decided that he had been, and
and that Soger Basslngton-ffrench
had probably done It."
"I see," said Molra thoughtfully.
"And then." continued Frankle, "1
happened to have an accident Just
here. An amazing coincidence,
wasn't It?" She looked hard at Bob
by wltb an admonishing eye. "So 1
telephoned to Bobby and suggested
that he ahould come down here pre
tending to be my chauffeur and
we'd look Into the matter."
"Are you telling me the truth?"
Molra asked. "Is It really true that
you came down here by accident?
Or did you come because be
cause" her voice quavered in spite
of hertelt "you suspected my hus
band?" Bobby and Frankle looked at each
other. Then Bobby said:
"I give you my word of honor that
we'd never even heard of your bus
bsnd till we came down here."
"Oh." I see." She turned to
Frankle. "I'm sorry. Lady Frances.
but you see I remembered that, on
the evening when we came to din
ner, Jasper my husband went on
and on at you. aaklng you things
about your accident I couldn't think
why. But I think now that porhans
he suspected It wasn't genuine."
Well. If you really want to know.
It wasn't" aald Frankle. "Whoof
now 1 feel bitter! It was all camou
flaged very carefully. But It had
nothing to do with your husband.
The whole thing was staged because
we wanted to to what does one
call It? get a line on Roger Bas-slngton-Prench."
Roger?" Molra frowned and
smiled perplexedly. "U seems absurd."
"But he must have taken that
photograph," said Bobby stubbornly.
"Listen. Mrs. Nicholson, while 1 go
over the facts."
"1 see what you mean. It teems
very queer." Molra paused a minute
and then asked unexpectedly, "Why
don't you ask him?"
(CrtrriiSl 1'IS-iS le. t,H, Ct'iine)
Frinkla takes steps to end out
sbout the photograph, Mondev,
PEAR RECIPE BOOKS
SOUGHT FROM AFAR
Exactly 99 ittr inking for pear
rtc!pe bonki -r rwMvl In the
morning ' mail by the Jarluon Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce.
Fiv of th lmr came from Eng
land. four from Canada and 20 from
Wlvonaln. N-w York, IUlnoia, MaaM
chuaett. Nw JtvfVT. Rhode Inland
and Nehraaka.
The chamber receives request for
the recipe booka a 1 moot dally but thla
waa the Urgent number to be re
ceived In any one mail. The letter a
are forwarded to the Oregon-Waah-Ington
Pear bureau from where the
booka are distributed.
BUCKINGHAM t ice Cream Caa
and Party Special. Toe Creat, iH
Bo, Central.
DOUBLE IN 1935
WASHINOTOK, March 5. (AP)
Post office department figures show
ed today that 1936 air mall pound
age nearly doubled that of 1934.
The 193ft record., setting ft new
high In air mall business, snowed
13,376,023 pounds carried compared
with 7,411,004 in 1934.
Ten of the 13 months of last year
showed more than 1,000,000 pounds
carried during the month. Previously
the hlgbeat single month's business
was the 931,426 pounds carried In
December, 1934. December, 1936, set
a new monthly high with 1,317,774.
The previous record year in
mall waa 1931, when the service car
ried 0,102,376 pounds.
METHODIST STUDENTS
DEFY NO DANCE RULE
COAT HELPER
tsy GLUYAS WILLIAMS
DALLAS, Tex., March 8. (UP)
fTTstrictly agalnat the rules for ny
stuOxita to danei on the campus at
Southern Methodist university here.
So a furor was created at the insti
tution last night when some 300 col
lege boy and coe-eds entered the
university gymnasium, aeated a hired
orchestra at one end of the room and
held a dance.
STRANGE . AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX
For, further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope tor reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Off.
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The most amazing career in Amer
ican business la the career of Timothy
Dexter, born In 1747 and died In
1800. He made s fortune In deals
which, on the face of them', appeared
to be Idiotic. Born. In & poor family,
ha worked for a time as a leather
tanner snd saved enough money to
buy stocks In a falling market. That
began his fortune. Eccentrically he
added the title "Lord" to his name
and was hence known aa Lord Tim
othy Dexter.
His subsequent ventures were
strange. Indeed, but they were money
makers. He sent a shipload of mlt-
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tens to a tropical port where no ono
ever wore mittens but he made
money on the shipment for the cargo
was quickly bought for trans-shipment
to cold Baltic regions.
Another time, Dexter shipped a
boatload of cats to the West Indies.
They were sold at a nlc profit to
warehouse owners to keep the mice
and rats down. He also sent a cargo
of bed warmers to the same hot cli
mate. Bed warmers couldn't be sold
there, but Dexter marketed them an
frying pans and cleaned up.
Hla crowning deal was "carrying
coaiA to Newcastle." He actually ship
ped a boatload of coal to Newcastle,
the center of the English coal pro-
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duclng regions e venture that seem
ed to be nothing but sheer folly. But
strange as It seems, when the boat
got there Nercastle coal production
was hampered by a strike and Dexter
waa able to sell his cargo at a nice
profit.
Eccentric In many ways. Oextor
transformed his mansion In riewbury
port. Ma., into a museum, and In
the yard he erected 45 life-size stat
ues mnreiu.nt.lniy urViar. h. hAllauarf y
be the 45 greatest people In the world. I
Chief among them was a statue of
himself, labelled "I am the greatest
man In the East."
Tomorrow: Invention by Hobby.
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By EDWIN ALGER
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HAD LEFT "THE CAR, THE BCrV3 BADE FAREWELL
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Representatives of four national
forena net In the federal build
ing In Klamath rlU today to
dlacuas tha new forest service policy
under which ten-year grazing per
mlta are to be turned to qvialltted
stockmen. Otftcli'.a of tht Southern
Oregon Gracing aftanciatlon, compris
ed of stockmen. al.o attended the
conference.
Karl h. Janouch. supervisor; H. C.
Ohye, assistant aupervlv. and Hush
Rlter. ranger, represented the Rogue
River national foreet. Others attend
ing Included executives of the lfmp
que, Slsklvou and Fremont nAilo,,!
foreets
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