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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."
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"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
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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.
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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
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there Is a portion of two states, New
Hampshire and Maine three coun
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four towns, Parsonflcld. Porter, Proe
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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. To aid his
pupil in learning golf under his
handicap, the golf professional blind
folded himself to see how each club
should be handled.
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