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DIFFICULT DECISIONS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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night at Forrinoton Bluff, home ol
Afichoel'e aunu, (wauliul Jude
Blinshop it ihot to death an fit
bluff; the Skipper, MUte'r tall and
tweedy younger aunt, disappears, -and
Mike dislocates hie shoulder
in a fall. The Skipper turni up,
laving she's been in the (table
u-ith her tick ecliie. Aunt Martha,
stout and prudli h, has hys tertci
a couple 0 timet, but Gay Palmer, .
Mike's red-headed sweetheart,
keeps fairly tane. Next morning, -with
William the chauffeur we
tet out to search the groundt or
an intruder. . '
Chapter 10
'Hie Room Over The Garage
TT HAD been yean since horses had
graced the premises of Farrington
Bluff. The six large box stalls cow
enshrined the Skipper's various dogs.
The stalls ran three on either side of
the opening which reached to the
rafters, and above them on both sides
former haylofts bore discarded relics
of Farrington carriages, harnesses
and boats.
The one thing that 1 wanted to look
t In that building was Diana, the
collie bitch, but 1 hadn't the nerve. I
propped a ladder against one of the
lofts and mounUu it cautiously. Junk
the melancholy, once-valued posses
sions oi a former generation, covered
with dust, bedraggled, and horribly
dcprcsilnf. I
- scouted through it,
sneezing Into the
remains of an old
Victoria, barking
my shins on the
grinning skeleton
of a battered dory.
. n d sending a
chokln. cloud of
dust Into the air as
I bumped Into I
venerable horse,
hair sofa.
There was no one
In that loft and no
sign of anyone hsv
lng been there
since the time of
old Michael Far
rlngton. One
glance at the dim
of dust in the other
loft told the same
atory, I went back
down the ladder.
The Skipper was
kneeling in the
stall at the foot of
it Diana's. On an
old plaid blanket
lay the colli and
beside her pup
pies. I felt much
better than I bad
for two days.
"Meert Toby."
said the Skipper,
"Look at his ears,
Jim."
But I'm afraid
my interest In
Toby was purely
perfunctory. The
Skipper gently de
posited him on the
plaid.
"Come on," she
said, "let's finish
this business."
The plan of ie
. garage was very
simple. It was a
two-story rectan
gle, facing the
rl-lva and wide
enough to run three cars into it easily.
There were lust thru, in it th.n
Mike's, the Skipper's, and M. Farring
ton i. ine snippers was nearest to
us, and I noticed with a start that It
was splashed with mud. Had she used
It since the rain started? 1 nnlnterf
silently, but she had already noticed.
mat s oao, Jimmle."
1 said, "Yeah," and 1 didn't say it
very enthusiastically. There was noth
ing in any of the cars, but spreading
in confusion irom the door of the
Skipper's all over the floor of the gar
age were smudges of the red clay of
the tennis courts The 3klpper's eyes
were very large and very dark as I
stared Into them.
'Come Out Or I'll Shoot!'
"CK1PPER," 1 said, "get Into the big
J car and lie down on the floor of It
quick!" 1 had Hlgglns' revolver out.
I had remembeied something. There
was a room over that garage where
William slept tn the summertime.
"I'm going with you," said the Skip
per. "Behind you if you insist, but
I'm goingl"
There was no time to argue. "I do
Insist," I said, and started for the
stairs.
1 suppose thai If my life depended
en It, I might possibly hit the broad
side of a barn with a double-barrel
shotgun at five paces. With a pistol at
the ssme distance and with the same
target, my expectation of life would
be very slight I thought of that as I
went up those stairs. I thought of
Jude on the bluff and Michael on the
rocks. The roar of the wind was tn
my ears. The Skipper's stiff oilskins
were brushing mine and her breath
was warm on the back of my neck.
Gripping the revolver jnlil my flngera
: ached, I pushed open the door at the
To all Intents and purposes the room
and the tiny bathroom beyond it were
empty. My eyes swept it rapidly
dresser, book rack, chairs, bed. And
then i jammed u.yself into the door
way In a wild alUmpt at shielding the
Skipper. That ned had been slept In
recently. Was someone under It? 1
dared not stoop to look, for In the far
corner of the room stood a large, old
fashioned wardrobe and in that ward
robewhat? 1 made a quick decision.
Kneeling swiftly with my gun still
trained on the wardrobe, 1 took one
quick, desperate look under that bed.
Nothing.
I got to my ftet "Get outside, Skip
per, 1 said, and my voice was ridic
ulously near to cracking. "You, in the
wardrobe! Come out or I'll shoot!" No
answer. Only a rervous chuckle from
the Skipper behind me. For a frac
tion of a second I hesitated. Then 1
pulled the trigger and 'fired point
blank Into that wardrobe door. The
report of the gun was like the crack
of doom.
Deafened, hardly breathing, we
waited. No movement from behind
that door. 1 walked across the room
and jerked it open. Hanging inside
were one pair of dark trousers and a
chauffeur's cap. The bullet had
pierced the cap neatly In the middle.
Back To The House
ONLY once in my life have 1 ever'
experlencto anothei sensation
like that one. Some idiot had put me
mm:
kiMWAi
For a fraction of a second I hesitated.
Then I pulled the trigger.
In charge at a dinner party, and In m;
fuss and flurry i found myself Intro
duclng the guest of honor and his wifi
to one another. Standing with tha
wardrobe door in my hand, 1 rellvef
that memorable sensation. Dully I
waited for the Skipper's laugh. Bu
It didn't come.
"Jimmle," hor voice was hoarse
"let's get back to the house.
1 was too grateful tor the absenci
of that laugh to protest Without i
word I followed her down the stain
and out of the garage. While 1 wi:
fumbling with the lock, 1 could se
her signaling to Gay, fai down thi
drive, that the hunt was over.
As we turned toward the house, tht
wind from straight off '.he blurt wai
terrific, and the torrents of rain onci
again assured us that if there had beer
any traces of red clay on the drive
they had long since been obliterated
Fro.n the corner of the house, we ges
tured to William and made our way
to the front door. Hlgglns had already
admitted Gay and Michael by the time
we got there.
M. Farrington was alone In the hall
for once without any questions. She
favored us witn one quick look and
took decisive action.
"Don't wait to talk about It Bar
bara," she said. "I've sent the others
up to change, too. Take a hot both,
both of you."
We went giatefullv, parting In
silence In the upper hall.
rcopvrlont, Ml. gather Ttftr)
M. Farrlnston gets me to head an
organlsfd invrstlratlon, tomorrow.
Mothers Honored In
Program At Beagle
BEADLE. May 17. (Spl ) A de
lightful and Impressive service atnd
program were presented by the Autl
och Sunday school of Beagle, to com
memorate Mother's Day, after which
the men and children of the congre
gation placed flowers on the graves of
11 mothera.
Those taking a apeelal part were:
Song, Mrs. Grant's class of girls:
reading. Ruby Schulta; song, Jack
Fdler; reading. Ethel Hull: ttirH'
chorus, of Anttoch Sunday school;
reading. Rimer Lucas; violin tolo.
Walter Foote: duet, Mr. and Mrs
Myron Rromewood; quartet. 'Tell
Mother Ml Be There". Mr and Mrs
Ray Bowen: Mr. and Mrs. Myron
Bromewood.
Record Mushroom
Found Near Ruch
BIO APPLEOATT. May IT. (Spl I
A prlre winning mushroom, measur
ing three feet, two Inches id circum
ference, waa discovered recently by
Mrs. dene Mee near her home at
Ruch. The fungus wss of the puff
ball variety, and weighed slightly less
than eight pounds
Al Smith Off For
Europe Cheered
NEW YORK. May 15. (API Al
fred B. Smith, whose knowledge of
the sea has never been extended
very far beyond the waters or Conry
Ulanrl, sailed for Europe Saturday,
tor the first time In his life.
And for the friends of the former
governor and hta wile It was a gala
occasion, something of major im
portance. The friends seemed to
swarm over the Italian liner Conte 1)1
Sax-oia. They Jammed the corridor
outside the Smith stateroom, they
trailed the onetime democratic presi
dential candidate from the boat deck
to the upper salon deck. Women kliw.
ed Mm. men shook his hsnd as
though they hadn't seen him In
years.
Ilm Hln Verillrt
TILLAMOOK. May 17. (API A
Jury gave Alice Ward, suing tor her
eight-year-old son. Keith, a verdict of
14374 for leg Injuries the boy suffer
ed In February. 1030, when he fell
through a plaster-ooard celling into
the main school room. The mother
sued teachers of the Neskowln school
and the school board. Her husband
was a Junior memher of the board at
the time of the accident
Use Msll moune waut Ma.
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pthces THew in
TREE FORKS IN ORDER
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Singing I ,n k OH
Usually heard In th parly morn-
Ins, a Bound like the chord of a
huge pipe organ sweeps across Yel
lowstone and Shoshone lakes, sounds
loudest as It passes over the head
of the listener, then fades away In
tho opposite direction. No one knows
what causes the atrange "music,"
according to Yellowstone national
park officials, though various explan
ations have been offered.
Some say the sound Is due to an
escape of volcanic gues. Others as
scrlbe It to nn echo from a dis
tant noise, an electric current, or
a flight of birds. One theorist at
tributes It to the rush of wind de
flected by the peaks of the Grand
Tetons after crossing the Continen
tal
tal Divide. This might be accept
able were It not for the fact that
the "lake music" Is heard over Sho
shone lake as well ns Yellowstone
lake.. The former would not be in
line with this wind current.
Klephnnt T links
Tuska weighing 100 pounds and
more apiece are not overly uncom
mon on old bull elephants. Toting
that sort of weight around some
times becomes a real problem and
the aged animals have frequently
been observed In the act of putting
their Ivory between forks of trees
for a while to give their necks a
rest.
What Is believed to be the world's
record pntr of elephant tusks Is on
exhibition In Bronx Park. N. Y.
Taken from a Sudan elephant shot
near the Ethiopian border some 33
years ago. the pair weighs a total
of 293 pounds. One of them Is 11
feet, 6 Inches long and Is 18 Inches
In circumference at the base.
Ted Allen
A wizard at the sport of "barnyard
golf," Ted Allen can perform a good
many amazing feats with the horse
shoes In addition to his "foot ring
ers." His repertoire of stunta In
cludes: ringing a peg with a person's
chin on the stake, knocking the
ashes off a cigar In the mouth of a
man standing in front of the stake,
and ringing a moving stake.
Tomorrow: The O-host Handicaps!
Fishermen Suved
OREGON CITY. May 17. (API
Three Portland fishermen swam to
safety Saturday when a river boat
swamped their rowboatjn the Wil
lamette near Jennings lodge but their
little Cocker Spaniel drowned.
Lnhnrite Accused
PORTLAND. May 17. (AP) A
charge of assaut and battery rested
today against A. E. Rosner. business
agent of the Teamsters union, on the
complaint of his former wife. Kath
leen, that he slapped her Monday.
Rosser was freed on his own recogni
zance. Recently the former wife par
aded before a home where Rosser and
his second wife were visiting.
Police Work Fast!
MANILA, P. I., May 17. (UP,
Twenty-six years ago, Edward Stock -ley,
an American, reported to police
that his watch had been stolen. To
day police announced they had found
the watch, but they can't find Stock-ley.
IX
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run -The risk of her haviN6 for6ottem all about meeting Vou ?
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(Copyright, 1937, by Ths Bell gyndlcata. Inc.)
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By 0. M. PAYNE
PORTLAND, May 17. (API Work
on the scenic Larch mountain Bum
mlt road will begin immediately fol
lowing an agreement reached Thura
day between the WPA. the C. S. for
est service and Multnomah county for
cooperation in construction.
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