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PAfiE TTCN MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNE, MEDFOItl). OREOON". SUNDAY. MARCH 8. 1936. BTNOPBIB! Frankie Derwent end Bobby Jonee have set them telvee to find the murderer of Alan Garetalre. They thought they had found him too, in the pereon 0 Roger Bassingion-ffrench. Uut now Uoira Nicholeon, wife ol a doctor who rvne a drug cure near the Baeelngton-ffrench ylace, hae given information which pointe toward her hueband ae the guilty man, Frankie ie on her way to inveett pate the only really damaging evi dence they have against Roger the tact that a photograph of Ure. Nicholson disappeared from the victim's pocket, presumably while Roger was watching the body. Chapter 29 THE PICTURE FORTUNE favored her, for he 1 fell In with Roger not far from th house. "Hullo," ha said. "You're back early from London." ( "1 wasn't In the mood for Lon don," ld Frankie. "Have you been to the house yet?" he asked. His face grew irave. "Nicholson, I find, has been telling Sylvia the truth about poor old Hen ry. Poor girl, she's taken it bard. It seems she had absolutely no sus picion." "I know," said Frankie. "They were both together In the library when I came In. She was very much upset" "Look here, Frankie," said Roger. 'Henry has absolutely got to be cured. It Isn't as though this drug habit had a real hold on him. He hasn't been taking It so very long " Frankie Interrupted. "Look here," she said. "There's something I want to aBk you. Just 1 question. I hope you won't think I'm simply frightfully Impertinent." "What Is It?" asked Roger, bis attention arrested, "Do you mind telling me whether you took a photograph out of that man's pocket the one who fell ver the cliff at Marchtolt?" She was studying him closely, watching every detail of his expres sion. She was satisfied with what che saw. "Now how on earth did you come to guess that?" he said. "Or did Holra tell you? But then, she doesn't know " "You did then?" "I suppose I'll have to admit It." "Why?" Roger seemed embarrassed again. "Well, look at It as I did. Here I am mounting guard over a strange oead body. Something Is sticking out of his pocket I look at 1- By an amas Ing coincidence Its the photograph of a woman I know a married wo manand a woman who I guesa is not too happily married. What's go ing to happen? An Inquest Pub llclty. Possibly the wretched girl's name In all the papers. 1 acted on Impulse. Took the photograph and tore It up. I dare say 1 acted wrong ly, but Molra Nicholson Is a nice lit tle soul and I didn't want her to get landed In a mess." Frankie drew a deep breath. "So that was It" she said. "If you only knew" "Knew what?" said Roger, pui (led. "I don't know that I can tell you Just now," said Frankie. "I may later. It's all rather complicated. 1 can quite see why yon took the pho tograph, but was there any objection to your saying you recognized the man? Oughtn't you to have told the police ho he was?" "Recognised him?" said Roger. He looked bewildered. "How could 1 recognise him? I didn't know him." "Alan Carstalrs you did know Alan Carstalrs?" "Ob, yes. Man who came down with the Rlvingtons. But the dead man wasn't Alan Carstalrs." "But he was!" THE7 stared at each other. Then Frankie said, with a renewal of suspicion, "Surely you must have recognised blm?" "I never saw his face," said Roger. "What?" "No. There was a handkerchief spread over It" Frankie stared at him. Suddenly she remembered that In Bobby's Brat account of the tragedy he had mentioned putting a handkerchief over the face of the dead man. "You never thought of looking?" want on Frankie. "No. Why should I?" "Of course," thought Frankie, "If I'd found a photograph of somebody I knew In a dead person's pocket I should simply have bad to look at the person's face. How beautifully Incurious men arc!" She paused tor a moment "Poor little thing." she went on. "I'm so terribly sorry for her." "Whom do you mean? 'Molra Nicholson? Why. are you so sorry for her?" "Because she's frightened," said Frankie slowly. "She always looks half scared to SPANISH WAR VEIS TO KEF IN DALLES THE DALES. Ore, March 7. (AP) The United SpanUll War veterans will hold their 1M state convention here July 13 to 1ft, state depart ment officers announced today. A memorial service Sunday, July 13, will be the opening event. A grand bsli at night will be Mon day's fenture, and the pamdc wlli be Tuesday nlsht. Some 600 Spanish war veterans were expected to attend. PORTLAND. March 7. (AP) The county grand Jury Imllctrd four men today on assault and robbery rharRc for a series of recent streetcar hold up here. Those Indicted were Clnrdon Johnson, Gilbert James, Eugrns Tsy. lor and Paul Willi. hi -j death. But what Is she frightened of?" "She's sure her husband's trying to murder her," said Frankie abruptly. "Oh, my dear!" be protested. "Sit down," said Frankie. "I'm go ing to tell you a lot of things." She gave him a clear and careful narratl" of all tbat had occurred since tlx day Bobby and Dr. Tbomas had found the body. She kept back only the fact that her accident bad not been genuine, but aba let It ap pear that she had lingered at Merrc way Court through her Intense de sire to get to the bottom of the mystery. "Is this really true?" be demanded. "All this about the fellow Jones be ing poisoned and all that?" "Absolute gospel truth." "Sorry for my Incredulity but the facts do take a bit of swallowing, don't they?" He was silent for a minute, frown ing. "Look here," he said at last "Fan tastic though the whole thing sounds, I think you must be right In your first deduction. This man, Alex Prltchard, or Alan Carstalrs, must have been murdered. If he wasn't there seems no point In the attack upon Jones. So far that aeems sense but I dcn't see by what process ol reasoning you tlx on Nicholson as the criminal." "He's such a sinister man, and he's got a dark-blue Talbot and he was away from here on the day that Bobby was poisoned." "That's all pretty thin as evi dence." "There are all the things Mrs., Nicholson told Bobby." She recited them and once again they sounded melodramatic and un substantial repeated aloud against the background of the peaceful English landscape. Rogers shrugged his shoulders. "She thinks he supplies Henry with the drug but that's pure con jecture. She's not a particle of evi dence that be does so. She thinks he wants to get Henry to the Grange as a patient well, that's a very natural wish tor a doctor to have. A doc tor wants as many patients as he can get She thinks he's In love with Sylvia. Well, as to that, of course, I can't say." There's her belief that he wants to murder her," urged Frankie. ROGER looked at her quizzically. "Vmi ffllrj. that ..!,.. "She believes It onyhow." Roger nodded and lit a clgarot. 'The question Is. how much atten. tlon to pay that belief of hers," he said. "It's a creebv sort of nlace. the Grange, full of Queer customers. Living there would tend to upset a woman's balnnce, especially If she were of the timid, nervous type." "Then you don't think It's true?" "I don't say that She probably be lieves quite honestly that he Is try ing to kill her. But Is there any foun dation In fact for that belief?" Frankie remembered with curious clearness Molra's saying, "It's Just nerves." And somehow the mere fact that she had snld that seemed to Frankie to point to the fact that it was not nerves; but she did not know how to explain her point of view to Rocer. Moanwhlle the young man was going on: "Mind you, If you could show that Nlcho.son had been In Marchbolt on the day of the cliff tragedy, that would be very different or If we could find any dennlte motive link Ing blm with Carstalrs. But It seems to me you're Ignoring the real sus pects." "What real suspects?" "The what did you call them Haymans?" "Caymans." "That's It Now, they are undoubt edly In It up to the hilt First, there's the false Identification of the body. Then there's their Insistence on the point of whether the poor fellow said anything before he died. And I think It's logical to assume, as you did, that the Buenos Aires offer came from them or was arranged for by them." "Oh!" cried Frankie, "I've Just thought of something. Up to now, you see, I've been assuming that the photograph of Mrs. Cayman was substituted for the one of Molra Nicholson." "I can assure you," said Roger, "that 1 have nover treaaured the likeness of a Mrs. Cayman." "Well, she was handsome In a way." adniltled Frankie. "A sort of bold, coarse, vam pish way. Uut the point is this: Carstalrs must have bad her photograph on him as well as Mrs. Nicholson's." Roger nodded. "And you think" he suggested. ICihtilll USS-SS-St. A title Ctittiel Ivcntt tend darkly towsrf trag edy, tomorrow. SIADELMAN IB DECIDE CANDIDACY IN 10 DAYS 8ALEM, March 7. (API P. J Stadelman. former secretary of state and ftromlnent business mm of The Dalles, Mid hero today he would an nounce within 10 days whether or not he would me republican nomination f.r state treasurer. Stadelman, who wtw Appointed secretary of Mat to fill the unex pired term of the late 1U1 B. How, did not ae re. election because of business Intereeta, but frlenda de clared he had received hundred of tequesta for his return to the board of control a state treasurer. Be correct u corseted to an ArtiM Model oy Etheiwya 0 Hull m ton. NEW YORK. March 7. (API A storm of protest today enveloped the granting of free radio time to the communist party of America for a discussion of political problems. Earl Browder, secretary of the party as he spoke on a coast to coast Col umbia hookup, was picketed by ion 'STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing i stamped envelope tor reply. Reg. TJ. 8. 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A complete list of Theodore Roose velt's published works would Include nearly 8,000 titles among them the late presidents various books, pam phlets, addresses, campaign speeches, contributions to books, translations, and articles written for periodicals. jTollflc as an author, Roosevelt waa K - ? Ik' K n A 1 1 &UN--Aiuto TH5ntJ.'XTaJ-r it W.5 THEN v V McAllister Files I Campaign Notice ' SALEM., March 7. ( AP) Carl Bit- rup. Junction City, filed notice with t the secretary of state Friday of his candidacy for delegate to the Repub lican national convention. "For the ' constitution and. sound surrency," I wa his slogan. Other filings Included: William M. McAllister, Medford. Republican, for state representative from Jackson county. R. S. Anderson. Grants Pass, Dem ocrat, for district attorney of Jose phine county. even more so as a letter writer he is known to have written not less than 160.000 letters during his lifetime. 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