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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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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stronghold at the entrance of the
Mediterranean Sea, but very impor
tant in that respect, England's Rock
of Gibraltar la her one colony that
costs her much and yields her nothing
In material wealth. Gibraltar pro
duces nothing of Importance In agri
culture or manufacture.
Tomorrow: The Kovlnp River.
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