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PAGE SIX MEDFORB MAIL TRIBUNE, MT5DFORD, OREGON. WEDSTESDAY. NOVEMBER. 11. 1938. The Wrong Murderer By HUGH CLEVELY syNOHStS: At wast the exctt ment of tha lint tew hour hat con vinced Terence Uahonu thai Lee Rameden, Ruth Fraeer's guardian it in league with Ambrose Lawson and Lawsan's vicious anno But Rul. In tryino to help Terence light Laweon, hoe got herei II in baa with the police : Terence himeclf is suspected at a murder he did not commit. Now he hae orranged with Fatty Baesett to administer drugged champagne to the patron el the notorious Golden Centipede club for a reason he does not ex plain to Fattv Chapter 84 . DINNER WITH ELSA rT WAS soon after ill wbon Ma bony left Bassett and returned to Clarkford's. There he Interviewed an assistant, obtained a fen lips about meana of disguising himself, and bought the materials necessary for a disguise. After that he returned to his lodgings and changed Into eve ning clothes for bis dinner appoint ment with Blsa Little. At halt past seven he rang the front door-bell of Elsa's house. Bis aeart waa beating faster than usual as he waited for his ring to be an swered. Elsa was wearing a white aeml-evenlng frock of a soft, silky material that had the effect of en- Oil!' salj Mm In a oorrifl..d lone. She shrank back sllgbtl; from Urn. She bad been hopfni; for that admission, planning tor It. ana now that she nao It, It came t , hei with all the force of a sudden stunuing shock , "This Is bow It happened," went on Mahony "I hear, nulU by acci dent, that there was likely to be a plan to kidnap you at Albert Hall that night. I decided to Interfere. I saw you kidnapped, ana got yon away from the kidnappers, and took you borne. "Your uncle let me Into the bonse and 1 carried you Into his study. He ollowed me In. While 1 was putting you down on the sofa, wltb my back to the donr, a man bidden beblnd the door stabbed your uncle In the back and ran out of the house. I tried to do what 1 could for your uncle, but he was dead. "Then somoone rang the front door-bell. 1 went to the window and ssw a policeman outside. I decided that I'd better got away quickly, and I got away." "And who waa tbe . . . the man yoij say you saw kill my uncleTV asked Blsa in a halt-whisper. "I only Just glimpsed his back go ing through the doorway." answered Mahony. "1 didn't see bis face at all." wK dues 2-'J 0 J-T,,- , f ,"SCa , ifkjsr , . "So glad you could corns," said Elsa. nanctng her fair slim loveliness. She smiled In a friendly manner at Ma hony and held out her hand. "I'm so glad you could come," she aid, "I waa afraid you might be too busy. You'd like a cocktail, wouldn't yout" Before dinner, and during dinner, they chatted on ordinary topics, and sever once did she refer to the mur ler, or the events which followed the murder. With all the skill of a nonsNimmate actress playing a diffi cult part faultlessly, she set herself out to please him and make him like her and trust ber, Mahony was no mug. But It did not even occur :o him that her change of attitude inlghi be mere pretence. Since be knew himself to be lnnocont of her uncle's murder. It did not strike him aa unnatural that she should have come to believe In his Innocence. Elsa, an actress conscious of the reactions of ber audience, was aware thai Mahony was responding to her skilful pretence. That ploased her, and, In a way, displeasd her. Every now and then she tell that It waa rather hateful to be pretending like this, making up to a man with the Idea of luring lilra on to bis own de struction. A FTER dinner they returned to the drawing-room for coffee, and there Elsa made her first reference to the murder. "It's tunny I should have thought It waa your voice I heard In the room that , , . that awful night when my uncle was killed," she said noaltal Ingly. "Ilui now 1 know you hotter I ... I foel that even It It had been your voice 1 should be sure you hadn't committed the murder. 1 tblnk Ruth waa right when she said that you're not the kind of man who would stab anybody In the back." vthony could bold out no longer. He had always hated deceiving her, anJ now the Impulse to tell her the truth assailed blm with over-mustering force. "1 was In the room when your tncle was killed," he said Quietly. "How did you And out that tha attempt to kidnap me was going to be made?" she asked. Xyf AHONY hesltatod for a fraction of a socond. That was a question which he simply could not answer truthfully. Hilly Ross, his dead friend, had been In love with Elsa. The thing he would have hated most would be tor Elsa to learn of his criminal past. Mahony could not be tray the secret, even to Elsa. "I hesrd some men talking In a railway carriage," he answered. "I waa standing In the corridor. Either the) didn't notice mo. o: they didn't roallze that I could hear what they were saying. I didn't take It very seriously at first; I thought It waa probably a Joke. Then when I heard that thore had been a lot of kidnap ping cases lately. I decided to go along to the Albert Hall and lee what happened." "Then whore doea Ruth come Into ItT Whorj did you drat meet her'" demanded Elsa. "Aftor I got away from here, I met one of the men who'd been re sponsible for the attempt to kidnap you. I re'nenibcrcd reading In a pa per tbat Miss Craser was missing from home, and guessed that the same gang had kidnapped her. I made the man I met tell me whore they'd taien her." A slight smile touched Mahony's lips. "I'm afraid I treated him rather roughly," he went on. "I got Miss Fraaer away from (hem. and took her home. . didn't tell her lijp name, or anything about the attempt to kid nap you. Next morning, when she stuck up tor me to the police. It didn't occur to her that I might have boon hore before 1 rescued hor. Even now she doesn't know that I was hure that nlRht." "Why did she tell that slory about staying wltb a friend In the coun try!" asked Elsa. She was trowulug a little, as It pus sled. But she waa no longer acting. Mahony's story had gripped her at tention. Almost against her will, she was beginning to think he nilght be s-eaklng the truth. (Copyright JJ. Hugh Cletelvl Ruth's tetter ie dhvered, to. morrow, but oy a policoman. THE LAKE L GIVEN IN TRADE KLAMATH FALLS, Nov. It. ;4 An exchange involving lands valued at 9100.000 lias bwn clfectcd here. Mary K. IUynoUta of the Colonial Realty company said the firm had re celved laOO acrea of rich Title lake acm.g In exchange for territory In the low lying country southwest of Klamath FnHs, The exchange was authorized by an act of congreM after Mra. Reynolds claimed she had been misled as to the value of the original holding by a pamnhlct Iwued by the department of fie hit prior. She Mid the land bad been damaged by the reclama tion bureau. J Tl PORTLAND, Nov. 11. tfp Claims of an "outstanding victory" at the general election In Oregon were ad vanced tday by Dr. R. I. Shadduck, manager of the state Townsend dubs. Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman's elec tlon over Congressman William A. Ekwall In the third district was de scribed aa "a winner for us." James Mott, Rep., re-elected to congress In the first district, was made possible by Townsend support. Shadduck said. He also claimed the Townsend ranks "put over" 75 percent of the soata In the state legislature. Of the senatorial race he said: "Charles MeNary held the most en trenched position of any other poli tician In the country or nearly so i yet our WUUa E. Mahoney came ' within 7,000 votes of defeating him, and without the support of any major newspaper. Willis Mahoney la one of the biggest men In the west at this time, as the future will show." Half of tbe pecan supply of the world Is produced In Texas. . 1 The cash -on -delivery system was Introduced into Australia In 1877. THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS j STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX for further proof address tbe author. In closing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. O. 8. Pa. Off. (ft q-lH-ONe ELAND, 0HI lfc 6?UARE RbPS IN &Rgf TW5 ra-ftNP on ins fcflflfeScarffleAHP TOWNS atoMas skins wizWPeiNceTHe Mtlm WORLD WfsR(&Htf ft SCORE Nine -In -One inland. Should you be a bit limited for time and still desirous of following the old suggestion, "See America First," perhaps a logical aide trip would ba a visit to the tiny Island In the Osalppl river. Strange as It seems, within the island's area of only 16 square rods, there Is a portion of two states, New Hampshire and Maine three coun ties, Carroll, Oxford and York and four towns, Parsonflcld. Porter, Proe dom and Effingham. PORTLAND. Nov. 11, Un less the lust week cif the ItWfl -lvn wnson on Oregon elk nets more re turns fur Hunter thnu the Htm lew days, the forest sen-ice estimate inat sport-amen have a 3 to 1 chance may be a bit off this year, It appeared today, , In the Pendleton area, a check of cold storage ;Unts showed no ani mals brought in. &. were checked In at La Orande stations and a Oozen around tlaker. There appeared no question that the kill would Increase materia 1 ly la t er t h is week , how ever. Hunting conditions vnriert, The wwn opened wumiwy ami ex tends through Wctlneaday, November 19. ' Non-Chamols Chamois. Though "chamois" originally meant only the horned goat-antelope of that name, found largely through south era and middle Europe, the word gradually came to apply also to the hide of the beast, commercially valu able becauso of Ita softneai and warmth. Ultimately the word departed still more from its original meaning ni la now applied to the skins of sheep, goats, calves, and other animals whoso skin la worked Into a soft, pliant leather by frizzing and working oil Into it to take the place of the ordin ary astringent. tllhirl Golf Htar. The first British officer to lose his sight In the World war, Captain Oer- ald Lowry haa not let the handicap Interfere with his golf. Under the tutelage of Russell Kelly, golf professional at the Kensington Country club, Lowry Is a crack golfer, regularly shooting In the low eighties. On May 13, 1039. he rounded off the 10 holes on the Kensington course with the phenomenal score of 77. Kelly places the ball on the tee for Captain Lowry and points htm In the direction of the green. 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