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PODDED
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHtfHIX
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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
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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
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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-
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(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
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