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Newspaper Page TextMTOFORD MAIL TRTBUXE. MEDFORD. OREOON. FRIDAY. MAY 14, 1937, PACT, TTVO Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS RRinr.F. RFI.OW C3UDDGD STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof addrest the author, lncloataf ttampad envelope for reply. Bag, V. . Pat OS, OD THE DVLUUU ttrmam (UiiVa rwnaj ' ' ' StNUtSiH. A ruti'nu taunt an) storm breaks on farrlnpton Bluff o Michael, hit sweetheart Gay Palmer and J arriue (or a weekend ollh hie aunts. That nlgM, .hide flllnshop. (he fourlh guest, and the Skipper, Mike's tall and tweedy younger aunt, disap pear. Michael It hurl in a fall while we eearch the Island. But William, the chauffeur, and 1 con tinue the eearch, fmdino Jude's bullet-pierced todv on the bluff. carry It to the kitchen and the Skipper tcalke In eaylno ihe'i been in the stable attending her rick collie. Mike, Gay and Aunt Martha take the newt about Jude rather hard. Chapter Eight 'Never Repent Thia ' MFARRINGTON'S room wi like her. Stuffy little knlck-knicks In glue cases Jutted out ell over the tablet and stands. From the walls, morbid looking men in whiskers and pompadoured women In bustles sim pered eternally. In an absurd bassinet beside the bed reposed Christopher, looking fat and disagreeable, and In the bed, pitifully white and shaken. lay Martha Farrlngton. Something In her face got ma at 1 erossed the room. For all her prudery nd (usslness, 1 wat fond of the old lady. 1 wat suddenly keenly aware of all the Innumerable little kind. Besses she had done me. All the inv possibilities of that impossible night seemed summed up In that picture of M. Farrlngton lying there help lent. 1 tat down beside her and took her hand. "Aunt Barbara has Just gone to say good night to Michael," I said. "You mustn't worry, Aunt Martha. It will all work out somehow." I realised how inadequate those words were, but couldn't think of anything more Impressive to add to them, , Her head moved fretfully from side to tide. She scarcely seemed aware of my presence. "1 thought It would all dnish when you and Michael came," the tald faintly. My breath came In to hard that It teemed to crack my rlbt. with an my might I wat lighting back the nor rlbla suspicion that was closing In on me like a monstrous octopus. "You thought what would finish?" 1 prompted, loyalty to the Skipper lying Ilka a ton of lead In my chest. There was no answer. M. Farrlngton was crying, not In the loud, ear piercing hysteria that had greeted us earlier in the night, but weakly, piti fully, as if too worn out to do any thing else. "Don't cry. Aunt Martha," 1 said. 'Try to rest I'll take cara of every thing." Wild promise! The hideous clock on the mantel ticked persistently over the sound of her weary sobbing. 1 strained to make my ,nlnd a blank to forget the Skipper's stricken face, to forget Michael's words, above all to forget that picture of Judith lying In the light of William's torch. Every nerve In my body Jangled to the sound of that clock and of that crying. And then slowly the sobbing diminished, paused for an Instant, started again and stopped altogether. The clock and I were alone In a nightmare world. M, Farrlngton't voice recalled ma to my senses. "James, promise me something. I rubbed my eyes dazedly. "Any thing. Aunt Martha." "Never repeat what 1 am going to tell you to anyone." "You can trust me." "I know 1 can." She hesitated. When she spoka again her voice was strong' er, nearly normal. "Something has been troubling Barbara for months. She refuses to see a doctor. She can't seem to bring herself to confide In ma. I sent for you and Michael be cause I was frightened." I felt cold and clammy. "I know," I said. "When 1 told her that 1 had Invited Judith, she seemed terribly upset, I would have undone It If 1 could, but Judith had already accepted. And now tier grip on my nana tight ened. "James, 1 left the bathroom door open when 1 went to bed. About half past nine 1 heard Barbara come up. She dldn t go to bed apparently, for she didn't come In to say good night 1 fell asleep and after a while 1 woke to hear her talking with with Judith. Aftor a few moments 1 heard them go downstairs together. James, I Her voice cracked and there was silence, wa sat staring at each other, and the horror in her eyes was caused by the fame thing that was creeping up and down my spine. I found my voice finally. "But what were they talking about? "I couldn't hear. I couldn't hear anything." Again the clock obtruded Itself upon my consciousness. 1 counted Its ticks one two three four And the Skipper came quietly in. And So To Bed I ROSE clumsily to my feet to ftce her. "Just dislocated, Jim. I think I got It, she said. "That's great," ! said dully. ine HRiuut!, i.i; tor a mo ment and I thought she wlncad. "Oat to bed. Jim," she tald. "Just leave the bathroom door open and keep an eye on Mike. We'll be all right." It was risky to leave tnem aione like that And yet, looking the Sklp- Der tauare In the eye. It wat impos sible to think I murmured a Jum bled good night to M. Farrlngton and got to the door. There stood the Skip per. I kissed ner ana ran ou. oi was room at fast at 1 could go. For one moment after I had closed Michael'a door the ticking of that infernal clock seemed to have tot- lowed me. There was Michael and there wat Gay, both looking Detter and both looking a bit surprised. "Where's the ftre7" demanded tne former with a faint smile. 1 hadn't seen one In many hours. "I won't run away not after the manhandling I've Just had. How's the Aunt?" WeeDY. but still with us. Beat It, Gav. and take tome mora aspirin. Thlt guy's going to sleep. If you want anything, bang on the wan ana ill come roaring, armed to the teeth, Scram!" Gay laughed. Whatever I had Been going through In that last half hour, It was evident that the Skipper had bolstered up those two very effectively. In that case, I won I bang. " one kissed Michael, threw me a "see you later" look, and took herself off. Over the weird arrangement of bandages, blankets, and pillows that surrounded him, Michael considered n-.e. For once." he observed with a chuckle, "you'll admit that It would have been a good Idea to nave stayea In New York." His chuckle reminded me of the Skipper, 1 gave him what 1 considered enough aspirin to numb an elephant My watch said s: id as 1 put out nil light The last thing in the world J had any Intention of doing wat sleep ing. My program wat all for action. 1 would merely wait until I wat sure he had dozed off. As 1 flopped down on my bed. head In hands, I could hear Gay't restless footsteps In the next room, 1 meant to figure tome thlngt out before 1 Joined her. 1 meant personally to In spect the locka on every door and window In the house. 1 meant to do a lot of things. And Ava minutes later I was stretched out "sawing wood" for all I wat worth. Bad Temper Prevails I HAVE seen many a morning after, but never one Ilka that. 1 woke with a pounding head and an un shaken conviction that It the powers that be were attending to their Job, they would dispense with creation In general speedily. But the powers must have been otherwise engaged. I was still sitting on the edge of my bed, holding my head on with both hands and experimentally ttretchlng one stiff leg after another when Michael appeared in the bathroom door. At I considered his sling and the bandage on hit head, dimly won dering where he got them, ha burst Into vehement tpeech. "Perhaps you 11 be through admir ing my physique by lunch time and help me get on a shirt." Memory did tome effective dirty work that left me feeling like a com bination traglo muse and Jackass. "How do you feel? I hazarded. "If I felt lousier, they'd fumlgati me!" AH In all. 1 felt more like the Jack ass. 1 had slept slept while an un known killer My thoughts weren't very pleasant, t cut myself shaving, burned myself In a scalding shower, and broke two shos laces. By the time we were both dressed it wai 0:30 and 1 had exhausted an exten sive vocabulary. Michael, disdaining my suggestion that ha might stay upstairs for a little while, marched down ahead of me a bad case of grouch written In thi set of his chin and the way his one good hand slapped the banister Tragedy seemed to have taken a fling out the window that mornlnrf in fa vor of common, ordinary bad temper We found the dining room enveloped in forbidding silence. The Skipper was at the table, absent-mindedly Addling with torn! bacon, while Gay banged angrily among the coffee cups on the side board. The Idea of the women being up and about while we calmly slept well anyway, slept annoyed ml Into speech. "It Is," I announced with finality, "a rotten morning." 'Think of your discovering that all by yourself!" said Gay, and spill her coffee, to my InAnlte satisfaction. The Sklppei laughed. "How s youi arm. Mike? Get any sleep?" Michael's arm, as he had already explained to me with some violence, felt better and he had had more sleep than any of us. But he slumped into a chair, took the coffee Gay handed him, and growled "O.K." In a tons that made It quite clear that anyone who wanted to argue about anything would be accommodated Imma dlately. rCopyHcM, lsr, Kntr T!r; We search the grounds for a tramp, Monday. ART MOVED FROM SALOON TO SALON SAN TRANCloLnj (UP) Arthur Putnam, fnmou American culptor whnw work may be found In the Metropolitan Art Gallery at New York, haa acen some of hie early art works transferred from a aaioon to a a Ion that of a New York art deal er. tn hla early daya at Sin Pranclaco, Putnam produced a baa relief for the Hippodrome, one of the notorious dance halla of the Bartmry Coaat. It wat a baa relief of satyra c has in nymphi- Some of the detUa of the baa relief were so frank that even Jaded Bnrbary Coast blinked So put nam wax obliged to apply a little red planter where tt would do the most good. Barbrtry Coaat went out under the campaign of 1917 and the Hippo drome turned from a dance hall to the buMneea of fire of the Alaatta Canneries Worker' Union. The Put nam baa relief, with the red planter addition, however, was allowed to re main) intact. Putnam, however. In the meantime EFFECTS CHERBOUHO. (P) Experiment designed to anew that flrea caused by Incendiary bom ha cannot be extingu ished by any known method hare been carried out at the naral araenal here. Protection agAlnat fire waa accord ed by coverings of cement, aand. plaater, milk of lime, the experiment revealed. AU efforts of firemen to put out the conflagration of wodshed hit by Incendiary bomb were In vain. But Incendiary bomha encmtlng a heat Of IfiOO riraree centUrnde had no effect when dropped on a plank covrred with aand. Nor did four thermit'.1 bomb dropped on a ahed wiih a covering of. planter and milk of lime on Ua roof. At the outbreak of the World war Prance and Germany ea-n had an air force of iwiit 600 planea having be-ome a world famous sculp tor, a New York art dealer discovered the early ha relief and obtained It. Avme fcoievn- WlFC OF, HENRY 311,. Brsr..v. W K WCWT OH h t. Pine W 1 Ok tows fUtflFlClM RKUSClTrVT.ON fS IK rYS 1&12, -S iul MM. - lAW cc,6t$ oveT, Tfrteg MMUCH - Trie UHlTeP -STATCS PAID FOR ALAZKh MO Wishes moUzks BRitoE oub WOULD HUSRV UP AKC 60,50 HU0l)lt HCiVE-THE RUNOf IMS HOUSE FOR LACK OF AN'rH'rllKS EtfE1oP0 PEODES-fO MAKE A BW FOR HIS FI6HIK6 iACXLE ItiLD 1b 50P TUftT POUKD- SOFflY friEV WON'f 8E IM6 IMMEPlMTtV AbLE 0 HEAR HIS WAR MOMICA POWKSfAlRS P1AV5 AlMDtf IKAUDI' 8LY 8Uf ftR6E AND 6EA5 "flME LOODlV MCrtriER FROM WWER HA1VA6KS HOW HE ifr Pa6 HEM 1b P1AV BRIWE WiiH-lHA-fRACKE-f 6DIK& ON OVERHEAD 1b1fcoUBl.E IFHEREBD5 AND SELECT'S A BOOK FROM SHELF ON DESK BOOK S-OekS, PULLING 6Ha)ES OVER. VI' PAR& HASTILY FOR OiK-Of-DOORSBYBACK STAIRWAY 5-5 (Oopyriitt, 1W, by Tlie UH iTtvUetta, lac.) . S 'MATTER POP By 0. M. PAYNS Battleship Cost When the Louisiana territory, cov ering about 1.730,000 square miles of land, waa bought from Napoleon by the United States for ait.000.000 In 1803, a howl of protest waa raised. "That'a a lot of money to be spend ing," waa an oft heard comment. Xt would be Interesting to hear what those objectora would have to aay today on being told that the aum would only pay for one-third of one of the two battleships scheduled to be built In the near future by the V. 8. navy. Fifty million dollars apiece la the estimated price to be spent on the 3a.ooo-ton vessels. when Alaska was bought from Rus sia In 1867, another moan went up. The price waa 17,300.000 and the area B00.6B4 square mllea. Thus, for a total of 133,300,000. the United Statea annexed more than 1,763,000 square, mllea of land less than half the cost of a single "floating fort." The returns on the Investments In the Louisiana and Alaaka purchases are Incalculable. Already Alaska haa paid back more than 50 timet Its original purchase price In gold alonel From 1880 to 1930 Inclusive. It pro duced (389.336,000 In gold. Through 1930, 1 1,896.000 In silver waa mined and 313,008.000 In copper, other minerals, agriculture, fishing, lumber ing and the fur trade have produced I millions more. Yet, strange aa It seems, the 60 million dollar battle, ahlpt will probably be antiquated within 30 years. Maid of Honor Beautiful even as a girl of 11, Anne Boleyn waa chosen aa maid of honor to Princess Mary of England when she went to France to become Louis JII'S wile. In Paris, Anne waa taken Into the household of Queen Claudia of France a maid of honor and later won a similar post In the entourage of Margaret of Nsvarre. Returning to England In 1633. aha became maid of honor to Queen Catherine, whom Henry VIII later di vorced to marry Anne. Pay To gee Flower COLOMBO, Ceylon (UP) Queuea form up every day at Nugegeda, near here, to aee a mystery flower which botanists have Identified aa a rare apeclea of arum Illy, Admission Is charged to see the flower and smell It. One of Ua peculiarities la an ex traordinarily strong scent. Policeman Has Luck PASADENA. Cal. (UP) Good luck, like misfortune, seemingly never come, singly. On the day that Lieut. Harry Thomas of the police depart ment received a (5000 Inheritance he caught an escaped Mexican convlcr, with a $300 award attached to him. Relics of Fair Found ST. LOUIS (UP) Remlndera of the almost forgotten World's fair daya of 1904 were churned up here by giant excavators working on grade separation projects. Masses of wooden- pilings, burled remains of fair buildings, were found. The largest group of plllnga was thought to be part of an .old railway station used for transfer of visitors to the exposi tion grounda. Voice (shatters Olass LONDON (UP) John Loverlng. Welsh baritone, standa alone among most singers. He has broken a wine glass, with hla voice. It waa at a banquet that Loverlng first reallied hla strange power. He sang a O note loudly and a wine-glass at a dis tant table waa shattered by the vl-bratione. lT" -vold STilu! Zn Tok'av.wiuuvuA' ' ' (r5eE I I K-u4lTV jltfta f L ETT UT "mL r -"';-"";v:n f'k - fctV jJ jMOcpyrtgbt, 198T, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) ' L TAILSPIN TOMMY The Enda of the Mystery Plane I By HAL F0RKE1 .Lf-T'5 r-OLLOW 1 ISuODCrMLY I Kfe ..INTO A DfADLY TIGHT 7 . , " " JTs TOMMYS MVSTKrf STALLS... Ikfer EARTHWARD.. . WMWErf A . P fe WA3NTMT WHIPS" I'Pfl SyJ' SJuftHw izz - fff11 "ffc r- uWjjsjS sol! . yr fF BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Not Yet! By EDWIM kLQT I ,-- - DOU.ARA DUt TOMORROW 1 YOU K.UOVJ OAA6THU ' WR0U6, OOU't YOU, BRWRSlt f 606H,AR 'VMS UP A6AUST H 5? t1 -ta VJOVJOta MOVJ MUCH OF BAUttER ' CRUWCHtM'S TAlVi MR.&. WieWUSf wtARo aeFoae we fakited ? . '0 BtlTER STALL FOR. RUIWEO, AUT VJE,OVJ MAY (3O0 FORtVtR. BLE4 &EU, FOR. TM MELP YOU'VE l AU OLD MOMAVJj 7 ? : YOU, V ( RUIVJE0 ? GAY. WHERE DO YOL1 GET THAT oTUFF AftOUT BEWJ6 RUIWED, MR. WSCrtVJ ? 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