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pact: twelve AfEDFOHD MAIL TRTBTTXE, fEPFORP. OHEOOX. TFTTTRSfDAY, MAY. 13. 1937. PODDED By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHtfHIX Tot further proof address: the author, factoring eUmped enrelope for replr. Reg . U. 8. Pit Of. CD THE DLUIFIF SUBURBAN HEIGHTS a r mam rirJa4 SYNOPSIS. A ratmo roruarv $torm breafu on Partington Bluff after Michael, hi tu;t heart Gay Palmer and arrive for a weekend ittth his aunU. That nipht, Jud BifnJhop. tnt fourth Cueit. and ch Skippei Mike1' tail and tweed iounper aunt, disappear. Michael hurls himself In a fall while we are searching the island. W it ham, the chauffeur, and I continue the search, find ing Jude' body on the bluff, I have fust carried it to the kitchen, when the Skipper walks in tajino the hat been in the stable with her collie which was bearing a litter. Chapter Seven Wb It A Tramp? TfiEY wera all waiting (or me to ipeax. uesperateiy 4 piungea in to my itory, an anxious eyt on the Skipper'a face. But the Skipper wai never hysterical. Aside from the color of her face and the slight twitching of her mouth, she might have been listening to a plot for a novel. After I had finished there wait no sound in the room but the crackling of the fire The Skipper recovered first The Qrst thing for us to do Is to get hold of George Foster. He s the coroner and a good doctor." "We can't" I said dully. 'The bridge U down and the telephone wires. Her grip on my shoulder tightened "Are you sure?" -Positive." She drew a long breath. "I see. Well, go up to Mike and tell him the best you can. I'll handle Mar tha. Higgins, you and William had better carry Ju Miss Blinsnop to her room. Wait until Mr. Wells and 1 get upstairs. I'll send Cook and Annie down right away." At the foot of the stairs 1 stopped ber. "Skipper, wait a minute," 1 said. There aren't any other servants here on the Bluff, are there?" "We're all here, Jim," she said evenly, "Then It must have been a tramp on the grounds or some fool shooting to to call for belpl We stared at each other. As plainly aa any words could say it, her eyes aald, "And Judo went out there for what?" God, but she looked haggard! Taking my arm, she started me up the stairs. "We've got to bite on It Jim," she said in a husky voice. Mike's Implication I LEFT her at M. Farrlngton's door and walked on to Michael's. It took an effort to knock and turn the knob. Michael was asleep. Gay. still holding his hand, half rose from his sl&n as I entered and closed the door behind me. "How Is he?" i whispered. "Just fagged out, 1 think, Jimmle! you didn't And them!" Her voice was low, but not low enough. Mike's eyes flaw open and lighted on my face. He struggled up. "Jim! Where are they? You" "We found them, Mike," I said, -but" . "But what?" My lips wera dry. I was obliged to , a shred of coverlet tearing away In bis clenched angers. "Skipper." he said heavily. "Skip per! Oh, my God!" 1 was riveted to the spot too busy fighting back the implication of those words to do anything. But Gay moved blindly to him. -Mickie!" she said. "Oh-oh " Michael's arm went around her. but the expression on his face never changed. 1 turned away to the mantel and left them that way. There were a few pictures in my own mind right then that were all 1 could deal with. In the eni-lt was Michael who forced me to go on. Gay huddled beside him. her freckles standing out in startling relief against her chalky face, but Mike, propped up against the pillows, was ghastly. The hand that supported Gay was shaking. "We found Jude on the bluff, Mike. And lust as we got into the house the Skipper came In. She'd been with a sick dog in the stable. Jude must have gone out to look for her and been hit by a shot from a boat In distress or" "Bunk!" said Michael curtly. The bluff was a sheer drop of at least fifty feet to the water, and i knew it There was a strained silence. Then Gay's voice, forced but level, said: "There must be a tramp Is the grounds somewhere." More silence. A tramp coming to a place like the Bluff on such a night? Hardly. Burglars? That didn't make sense either. Jude would never have pursued a burglar into the storm Would she have followed the Skipper without hat or coat? Was there some one else out there? My head was roar ing with wild Ideas. 'Sleep. Do Voti Get Me?' "IT wouldn't do any harm to see 1 that the house Is locked," 1 said. "That's one thine we can do." The look In his eyes was giving me the creeps. He was h. sick man and. un less I missed my guess, he was going to be sicker. "And you're not going to do anything. You're going to sleep." 'Sleep!' said Michael violently. -Sleep" Gay's hysterica laugh agreed with him. Look here." 1 said, "you've been through enough for 1 good case of pneumonia. We're cut off from shore and will be until this sea stops run ning. And there's a lot of damned unpleasant figuring to do In the morn ing, if you don't sleep, you may die on our hands. Do you get me?" He didn t but Gny did and that was all 1 wanted. 1 left her to carry the point The Skipper opened M. Far rlngton's door in ensue, to my knock, and Just one glance told me that she had not been having an easy time of it "How fa she?" 1 whispered. The Skipper smiled, a rather twisted imile. "She'll live. How did Michael take it?" Hard." I hated to alarm her, but there seemed no help for It "I'm afraid he's pretty sick. Skipper. Shock, cold water, and his shoulder." She nodded. "Stay with Martha a minute. 1 want to have a look at him." Of all things on eart:. that 1 did not want at thai moment, a tete-a-tcte with M. Farrington headed the list It was difficult enough to answer her (Sir U--H-"V"V''Vf Wrj! Tfl Mf.rr'r 1 if 11 1 c SWOP For one never-ending second they stared at me. moisten them before tney would seem to move. "There's been an ac cident The Sk.pper'a all right but we we found Jiule out on the bluff." I swallowed hard. "She's been shot. Mike. She's dead." For one never-ending second they stared at me. Then G;y's hand flew to hr throat "Not" she cried sharp ly. "No!" But Mike ittt like a wooden Indian, questions when the answers were ob vious. Right then there were no answers and 1 was busy enough with questions of my own. But the Skip per didn't wait for a reply. For the s time in my life 1 entered M. Farrlngton's room. (CapyriQht I!J7. KflVr Tver) Aunt Martha confides a bit of tn formation, tomorrow. STAR! NEW BORE G.B.S. REFUSES TO BE By CORONA! With formal sanction revived from Washington, preliminary work wa begun today on a new tunnel In the Oreon Cave. It wh announced hjr David II. CanfieM, artmlnlfitrator of the national monument. , The tunnel will extend a tfad-eml npur until it connects with the main paafHge, thus mnkinjt It oMlfol? t" guide additional partiee through t.r caves. Mr. Cmlleld explained. As : la now vlMtor muM wnlt uni. parlies In the spur return. The new tunnel will ie construct ed by CCC men. Two am! jwwibiy three fthltta wilt be utilised to com pleti the pawhtte brfnre the t'CC camp la moved for the summer to Crater lake about June 1.1, Mr. Can field Mated. H1LLSBOHO, May nn,tnneph C. Hatw, 74, first mayor of thU city and a native, rllrd l.iM night at hu Portland home after a ton tllnei Use Mail Triuune al ada. LONDON. May 13. Oeoritt Bernard Shaw boycotted the corona tion Wednesday. "Nature has made me prortf against the illusion and Idolatries which aurh ceremonies are Intended to create." he atd. "As I am by profession a creator of theatrical tlluions." the famed iir'trnntlst added In a statement to !,c tommunlst organ, the Patty krr, "tlie.se amateur iMgeant . bore me." indirectly Shnw refer rtvi to the nhdicatcd King Fdward V 1 1 1 a an rxample. of the restriction imea on the monarch to change hin pow er srt they would be embolic rather than actual. Salem Unionization Near 100 Per Cent 8AIJT.M. May 1. wV. Including t i t e house em p) overt and nnery workers in their rjimnatKn leader of labor unions here declared ijaiem mil hSKMfcrtoWlUhPeeR?" WHUnM SHnK6SPt?hRe fill dM&fihz rNH& OP DEMMRK WPVlo30f?ROWfr rV& QUcEN Or mm fwrt "Trie HlPPOCftrAPU-S , ft M0HHy-LlK m, m 1H$CT-IIK SHSU. pouch,., eur PlRlrt 1,0 U5NG, Comhlniillnii Fish Dame Nature must have been In a freak lah mood when she designed the blppocamptu, commonly known aa the aee horse. Prom Btm to stern , It ta one of the oddest forms of life on earth. The head of the hippocampus close ly resembles that of a horse but its horse's neck." Is not a neck, at all. In common with other fish, It has no neck, the part of Its body that looks like one being the front part of Its abdomen. Bony pinto, much like those of Insect ta on the outsldo of the horse's body make the fish a poor swimmer, permitting it to bend sideways only. A delicately adjusted air bladder serves na the sea horse's means of I buoyancy and. when punctured, drops the fish to the bottom until the "inner tube" heals. Other strange features of the hip pocampus Include a monkey-like tall which It wraps around tho stems of sea plants to remain stationary and eyes that can be operated entirely in dependently of each other, being capable of looking backward and forward at the same time. Of all the fish's weird characteristics, how ever, Its reproduction of the species is the moat curious. Equipped with a kangeroo-Itke pouch on the under part of Its body, the male sea horss "gives birth" to the young. The fe male lays unfertilized eggs in the pouch and the main carries them about until they hate.ht aVNMcht Srcat tw The sea horse la said to be the only fish capable of "talking." with its Jaws it makes a scarcely audible snapping noise which Is believed to be a means of communication with I Its fellows. ALARKl OVER FRED PERLEV'6 FAILURE fO RtfURN FOR SUPPER WAS NOf SEf RES1 ON-flL LftfE -friftf EuEKlNG, WHEN HE WAS FOUND IN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT OH "trlE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWhl, MAROONED DY A FALLEN LADDER- 5-7 (Copyright, 1937, by Tht Bell 8yndlet. Ine.) WILLIAMS S MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE Molasses Highways. Mixed with surfaco soli and water, molasses baa been found an excellent highway stabilizer on roads of the Mysore province in India. The mo lo&se. taken as waste from sugar factories. Is mixed with water and spread out over the road to be sur faced. After being allowed to soak Into the road for about half an hour. It la covered with coarse sand. A 50-mile stretch la now in use. Tomorrow What Price Navy, be 100 percent organized within a short time. Clarence A. Chambers and Ralph A. Harlan, union business agents, said the immediate program would be the organization of clerks and completion of the building trades organization. Nets tn line will be the cannery work era, the state highway department and ittnte. office clerks. Salem Lifts Ban On Married Teachers SALEM, May 13. (P) Mnrrltd women will be permitted to teacb In Snlem schools hereafter If they quali fy above single women. Tile school board lifted tue ban at a meeting last utftht but qualified Its action by Matlne that "where qualm- cations are substantially equal, pref erence shall be given to single women over married women." The action followed protest over dlamlasal of a' grade, school teacher because she was married. Mrs. H. L. Gregory of Shelbyvllle, tnd.. celebrated ber eighty-second birthday by walking six miles Into ! the country to visit relatives. I r'JfSyy I ICE-ma ki out T-tIeHeTN VJELL.AT r (J'j I'M &CA2ET3 I UY y 'tMtSi iihJ feS-4,l jj - "7tto. i&l, y The BU Byadlcats, Inc.) KsA TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy 'g Plane Stolen By HAL FORREST JV POLICrMAM, riOTIMS TOMMY STUMSLinG ALCTie LATE- AT MIGHT, sur-r-t-RiMG MJOM CUTS AMD A BROKtfl ARM , SUSTAIhtO WHC-n Hf r-t-L DOWN THt tMBANKMt-NT, HfLPtD THf LAD TO A HOSPITAL.' A SHORT TIMC- Af-T t(? tom Lrr-T THt AIRPORT, OLD TIM, THt" WATCHMAM, HfABD A MOlSt-.. VSki W. - 1 ( L th,Amorrow i-S 'ySUlWriA BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Paymen In Full! By EDWIN ALQED M'M"UU.U"TO VOUKICj 1 i vcvPtH. POT.AiMiwcr; , 0 -CLE?.' YOU'LL FIWO HE'S MOR.E POT iMPRtlOM, WE. e VEPPER. J .Jail wgut.mv fiue,voum3 FaitUO-VLLtELL VOU VJVAAT I STARTED TO TELL HETTY UtCXb1U- c,U6'i GOT A MOTE FOB. FWE" MUK1PREP DOLLARg. PUt AT THI TOMORROW AIM'T EXPECTlU' VJO SOU6 AU' PAWCE A&OUT fe. 1, 5EE ? 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