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TirEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON". MONDAY, MARCH 23. 1936.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS.
.EVEN DIVISION
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Chapter 41 I
EVANSI
T WENT down to Gladys," the
eook continued, "all of a tremble
and said I'd never teen a gentleman
look ao like deatb, and Gladys aald
he'd looked all right the night be
fore, and that it must have been
something In London that upset
him.
"He'd gone up to London very
early before anyone was up. And
then I said about not liking to write
my name to anything, and Gladys
said It was all right because Mr.
Elford was there."
"And Mr. Savage the gentleman
died when?
"Next morning as ever was,
ma'am. He shut bimselt up In bis
room tbat night and wouldn't let
inyone go near him, and when
Gladys called him In the morning be
w&a all stiff and dead, and a letter
propped up by his bedside 'To the
Coroner,' it said. Oh, it gave Gladys
t regular turn! And two months
later Mrs. Templeton told me she
ras going abroad to live. But she got
Be a very good place up north with
big wages, and she gave me a nice
present and everything. A very nice
lady, Mrs. Templeon."
Frankle rose.
. xm4
Bobby
"Well," she said, "It's been very
alee to hear all this." She slipped a
note out of her purse. "You must let
me leave you a er little prosent
I've taken up so much of your time."
"Well, thank you kindly, I'm sure,
ma'am. Good day to you and your
good gentleman."
Frankle blushed and retreated ra
ther rapidly. Bobby followed ber
after a few minutes.
"Well," he said, "we seem to have
got at all she knows."
"Yes," said Frankle. "And It hangs
togethor."
"So we come back to the old prob-lem--what
on earth are Basslngton
(Trench ft Co. so afraid of our dis
covering?" "Nothing strikes you ss odd par
ticularly?" "No, I don't think so or at least
only one thing. Why did Mrs. Tem
pleton send out for the gardener to
come and witness the will, when the
house-parlormaid was In the house?
Why ' didn't they ask the parlor
mold?"
"It's odd your saying that,
Frankle," said Bobby.
His voice sounded so queer that
Frankle looked at him In surprise.
"Why?"
"Because 1 stayed behind to ask
Mrs. Pratt for Gladys name and ad
dress." "Well?"
"The parlormaid's name was
Evans."
F -HANKIE gasped.
"Oil. Bobby," we're getting
there at last!"
"The same thing must have struck
Carstalrs. And moreover I bellove he
enme to Wales for that reason.
Gladys Evans Is a Welsh name
Evans was probably a Welsh girl. He
might have been following her to
Marchholt And someone was follow
ing him and so he never got to her."
"Why dhln't they ak Evans?"
said Frnnkle. "There must be a
reason. With a couple of maids In the
house, why send out for a gardener?"
"Perhaps because both Chudlelgh
and Albert Mere were chumps,
whereas Evsns wss rather a sharp
girl"
"It can't be only tint. Mr. Elford
was there and he's quite shrewd."
1 APART 35 YEARS
NORTON, Ku (UP) Mrs. Fannie
Tntllock, 81 ini, Ku., and John 8tl.
Lin wood, Km.., rod aeveral hundred
mllea aa atranrre on iho aanwi bvia.
When they reached their deatlna
Hon only one taxlrab waa available,
ao Steele offered to share It with Mr.
TarUock, anylng ha waa going to the
T. J. Ward home.
"That'a where I'm going," the wo
mnn aatd.
"My name la John Steele,4 the
man eald In introducing; himself.
'That u my name before I waa
married," ah replied.
Subsequent conversation revealed
they were brother and aiKter and had
Cot seen each other for as year a,
(JH MM1 XUbUte. waul Kla.
Suddenly eba stopped.
"Bobby," she said, "If you're stay
ing in a house with two servant
which do you tip?"
"The bouBe-parlormald, of course,"
said Bobby, surprised. "One nei"
tips a cook. One never sees her, for
one thing."
"No, and she never sees you. At
most she might catch a glimpse of
you If you were there tor some time.
But a house-parlormaid waits on you
at dinner and calls you and bands
you coffee."
"What are you getting at,
Frankle?"
"Tbey couldn't have Evans wit
nessing tbat will because Evans
would have known that It wasn't
Mr. Savage who was making It."
"Good Lord, Frankle, what do you
mean? Who was It then?"
"DASSINGTON-FFRENCH, el
O course! Don't you see, he Imper
sonated Savage? I bet It waa Basslng-ton-ffreneh
who went to that doctor
and made all that fuss about having
cancer. Then the lawyer Is sent for
a stranger who doesn't know Mr.
Savage but who will be able to swear
that be saw 'Mr. Savage' sign thai
will, and It's witnessed by two people,
one of whom hadn't seen him befor
and the other an old man who wai
probably pretty blind and who prob
.' r 1,1 T"i'i
VN -llli
ably had never seen Savage either.
Now do you see?"
"But where was the real Savage
all that time?"
"Oh, he arrived all right, and then
I suspect they drugged him and put
him In the attic, perhaps, and kept
him there for twelve hours while
Basslngton-ffrench did bis Imperson
ation stunt Then he was put back
In his bed and given chloral, and
Evans finds him dead in the morn
ing." "My God, I believe you've hit it,
Frankle!" said Bobby. "But ona(
thing wa must do. Find Evans."
Frankle groaned. "That's going to
make it even mora difficult."'
"How about the post office?" sug
gested Bobby.
Tbey were Just passing It. Frankle
darted Inside and bought a book of
stamps, commented on the weather
and then said:
"But I expect you alwaya have
better weather here than wa do. I
live In Walea Marchbolt You
wouldn't believe the rain we have."
The young woman behind the
counter said that last Bank Holiday
It had rained somothlng cruel.
Frankle said. "There's someone In
Marchbolt who comes from this part
of the world. I wonder If you know
her. Her name was Evans Gladys
Evans."
The young woman was quite un
suspicious. "Why, of course," she said. "She
was In service here. At Tudor Cot
tage. But she didn't come from these
parts. She came from Wales, and
she went back there and married
Roberts her name la now."
"That'a right." said Frankle. "You
can't give me her address, I sup
pose?" "Well, now," the other replied, "I
believe I can. Walt a minute now."
She went away and rummaged In a
corner. Presently she returned with
a piece of paper In her hand.
"Here you are," she said, pushing
It across the counter.
Bobby and Frankle read It to
gether: Mrs. Robrrti, Tht Tiroragt,
ilarrhboll, Wales.
DAth from an odd quart.r
haunts Bobby and Frankle to-morrow.
PENNY SAVINGS HELP
47 NEEDY F.
81MCOE, Ont. (UP, Because Al
derman Joseph Church believed in
looking after the pennies. 47 families
on relief here were supplied with a
large roast of beef and two loaves of
bread each.
Last year when Church took office
he Installed a large glass barrel lu
the municipal building Every time
he had pennies he deposited them,
and had his friends and callers do
the same. When he opened the bar
rel after a year he found coppers
and spent the money on the food for
relief families.
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Enrico Caruao, great Italian tenor,
waa the eighteenth son of his father
nd the first one to reach man
hood. The seventeen brothers before
him all died In Infancy. After En
rico's birth, three more children
were born In the family two boys
and a girl. The first boy died in in
fancy. The second, Btov&nnl, was
the only one who outlived. Enrico.
His slater, Assunta, reached adult
hood, but she died before her fa
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In 1899, years before the first
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brothers too off for its epocn
maklng flight over the sand dunes
near Kitty Hawk. N. 0.. another
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until he' waa 04 .years old, but In
subsequent experimentation and
practice, be logged more than aouu
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duced to three, then two wings. His
famous bl -plane glider employed
method of .wing bracing that are
still used by airplane designers.
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