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TITfiTTT fEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNTE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18. 1936 CONTRARY By GLUYAS WILLIAMS mmtr i STRANGE AS IT SEEMS -By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the anthor,' Inclosing- (tamped envelope for reoly. Beg. V. ,8. Fat Off. 3-18 Pi A! jazy. rrttm ' SYNOPSIS; Convinced that Dr. ytcholeon ie the murderer of Alan Caretaire. Bobby Joner and Frankie Derwent determine to prove their ease. But Bobby ie cracked on the head while exploring Sicholeon'e place, and Frankie. oomlnp to Tu dor Cottage Chipping Somerton in rceponee to a letter purportedly from Bobby, ie chloroformed. They wake up. tied and lying vncom fortably on the floor of an attic room. Nlcholeon comee in to tell them that he plane to arrange an "accident" which will kill them both. Frankie eaye that Roger Baeelngton-ffrench knowe where ehe ie. Chapter 18 INSPIRATION NICHOLSON wai silent (or a moment. Then he Mid, "A food bluff but I call It" He turned to the door "What about your wife, you wine?" cried Bobby. "Have you murdered ber too?" "Molra la still alive," aald Nichol eon. "How much longer she will re main so, I do not really know. It depends on circumstances." He made them a mocking little bow. "Au revolr," he said. "Ton may snjoy talking the matter over. I hall not gag you unless It becomes necessary. Any calls (or help and ( return and deal with the mat ter." f , My God!" cried Bobby. "What is ltr 'Trankle, that wasn't Nicholson who came here Just now!" "Have you gone quite mad? Who was it then?" "I don't know but it wasn't Nicholson. AU along I lelt there was something wrong but couldn't spot It, and your saying 'ears' has given me the clue. When I waa watching Nicholson the other eve ning through the window I specially noticed his ears the lobes are Joined to bis (ace. But this man to night bis ears weren't like that." "But what does It mean?" Frankie asked hopelessly. "This Is a very clever actor im personating Nicholson." "But why and whc could it be?" "Basstngton-ffrencb," breathed Bobby. "We spotted the right man at the beginning and then like Idiots, we went astray after red herrings." "Bobby, you're right He was the only person there when I taunted Nicholson about accidents." "Then It really Is all up." said Bobby. "I've still bad a kind of sneaking hope that possibly Roger Basslngton-ffrencb might nose or our trail by some miracle. But no the game's np, Frankie. As be finished speaking there w: "A good bluff but I call It," said Roger. He went out and closed and locked the door behind him. "In books there's always an eleventh-hour rescue,' said Frankie at last, trying to speak hopefully. "The whole thing's so Impossi ble," said Bobby as though plead ing with someone. "So fantastic. I wish an eleventh-hour rescue were possible, but I can't see who's go ing to rescue us. Frankie, do you know what annoys me most about this business?" "No. What?" "That even now, when we're go ing to be hurled Into the next world we still don't know who Evans Is." "Let's ask him," said Frankie. "You know a last-minute boon. I agree with you that I simply can't die without having my curiosity satisfied." There was a silence, then Bobby said, "I've got you Into an awful mesa, Frankie." "Oh, that's all right. You couldn't have kept me out, I wanted to enme In. Bobby, do you think he'll really pull It off? Ds, I mean." "I'm terribly afraid he will. He's so damnably efficient." "Bobby, do you believe now that It was he who killed Henry Bas alngtonffrench?" "If It were possible" "It la possible, granted one thing that Sylvia Basslngton drench Is In It too." "Frankie!" "T KNOW. I was Just as horrified when the Idea occurred to me. But It fits. Why was Sylvia so dense about the morphia? Why did she resist so obstinately when we wanted ber to send her husband somewhere else Instead of (be Grange? And then she waa In the house when the shot was Bred" "She might have done It beraelt." "Oh. no surely!" "Yes, she might. And then have given the key of the study to Nichol son to put in Henry's pocket." "It's all crazy," said Frankie In a hopeless voice. "Like looking through a distorting mirror. There ought to be some wy of telling criminals lyebrows or ears or soniethtan." a sound overhead. The next minute, with a terrific crash, a heavy body fell through the skylight. It was too dark to see anything "What the devil" began Bobby From amidst a pile o broken glass a voice spoke. "B B B Bobby," It aald. "Well, I'm damned," said Bobby. "It's Badger!" THERE was not a minute to be lost. Already sounds could be heard on the floor below. "Quick, Badger, you fool!" said Bobby. "Pull one of my aboes off. Don't argue or ask questions! Haul It off somehow. Chuck It down In the middle there and crawl under that bed. Quick 1 tell you." The key turned. Nicholson the pseudo 'Nicholson stood In the doorway, candle In hand. He saw Bobby and Frankie as he had left them, but In the middle of the floor was a pile of broken glass and In the middle of the broken glass was a shoe. "Very clever, my young friend," he said drily. 'Extremely acrobat ic." He came over to Bobby, examined the ropes that bound blm and tied a coufla of extra knots. He looked at mm curiously, "I wlsb I knew how you managed to throw that boot through the sky light. It seems almost Incredible A touch of the Houdlnl about you my friend." He looked at them both, up at tht broken skylight, then shrugging bli shoulders he left the room. "Quick, Bulger." Badger crawled out from undei the bed. He had a pocket-knife and wilb Its aid he soon cut the otbei two free. That's better," said Bobby, stretching himself. "Whew! I'm stiff Well, Frsnkle? What about our friend Nicholson?" "You're right," said Frankie. "It's Roger Basslngton-ffrench. Now that I know he's Roger playing the part of Nicholson, I can see It But It's a pretty good performance all the same." ICetniiH 1HI H M, A,mI, CMtie) Tht thrtt do a little ttbls-turn. Ing, tomorrow. -STOP HOP FOR RUSSIA NEXT JUNE Copvricht 1038 by United Pre. NEW YORK. March 18 (UP) Cl.'do E. PanRborn, flrt to apan th Pacific by air, last night announced a projwtfd flight from th Unit! sutti to Rumi in June in an at tempt to ttrrmt the world non-atop titf-tivnee rword of MOV3 ml lra. Panjtborn Mid ho miftMt mnk the ffO hour flight alone If b geta an automatic pilot for hla "Vance flying Paiig-born hat Juat returned from Oakland, Calif., whtrt he made ar rangement to fly the ahlp to Key port, N. J., early neit menu. 'Tht flleht will tmahlit m to mm plet arrangement for refueling dur nig my rouna-wie-wwia non-amp flight lata thia summer." the 39 vear old pilot aald. "Since I had to make a trip to RuaMa anyway, X may at well try to lengthen tha dUtance record. "I don't expect to have much diffi culty. Thia flying wing will fly (10 hour-, averaging 130 milea an hour. Anywhere paM Miwow la a record." The prrarnt record of 6804 3 mile waa made by Captain Maurice Roaal and Paul Codoa, French aviator, in Augu-t, 1943. They fir- from Floyd Bennett field. Nrw York, to Rayak. Syria, In JO hour. ALBANY. Ore.. March 18 Dr. David Maaon, a former football cap tain at University of Oregon, received a thre-ycar fellowship at the Mayo clinic, effective July l, hla parent. Mr. and Mrs. Rockry R. Ma -on of Al bany, learned today. Cm Mall Tribune ad. 3 T;r? 1 i r ,ir WW -ft fbRTtffc OiscaverWoP JOHN Ch6oT 10 ($50) W It I cgNS0R6D Empire tth,H. 0tMOr&TRftTeO IU RUSSIft ww MPrSrieo before inc. czar because lite opgRM&R irwwefrrewTv played a. RECORP Op KlffUOPPS fABLSS-, BrvmEo cenos solars previously, frlE OFeHttiOR WhS FINED rVt?PuriKJMu3 fAOtfTrVS. rt?ULT SOUIDS IK FROM OMe INCH To 75 FESfoi IH. But nobopywoh IN1HE PEN) HEAT RACE BETWEEN , rWRENTiCE AND PARDEE If ; A'lf ma r v 1 wrf pWSfV ,,Vl A strange trick of betting odds, to gether with dead heat finish at Empire Ctty. New York, In July. 1932. resulted In some bettor breaking even, others losing a little, but In spite of It everybody was able to cash In their tickets. The race was between three horses Star Fire, Apprentice and Pardet?. Star Fire and Apprentice ran coupled as Butler Entry against Pardee. Odds at the track were 9 to 10 on the en try and even money on Pardee. Ap prentice and Pardee ran a dead heat, and the race was declared & draw. Those who bet on the entry lost five cents on the dollar, those who bet on Pardee broke even. -. phonograph, angry officials seized the demonstrator, fined blm and threw htm In Jail for three months. The phonograph Itself fared no better It was smashed to bits In the pres ence of the czar, all because of a 50-year-old ban on the fables. Fifty years before the first phono graph was heard In Russia, for some reason or other, the old fables of Klr loff came under the ban of the cen sors. Then came the amazing new American Invention the phonograph. A demonstration In court waa ar ranged for the strange new device that spoke like a man. During preparation for the demon stration recordings in Russian were made and by chance the recordings were of Klrloff's fables. When these banned words were spoken by the Tomorrow: Fingerprints 1400 years ago. ASTORIA. Ore., March 18. Dr. J. J. Plttlnger, Astoria dentist, announced today he will seek election to the state legislature in efforts to "repeal unjust laws oppressing mem bers of the dental profession In Ore gon." 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