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Newspaper Page TextKCGT5 ETGHT lnRDFORD MAIL TTJTBTTNE, lEPFORD, (TRFIOV. -WEDNESDAY. MAY 19. 1937. hv r.LUYAS WILLIAMS SEATING ARRANGEMENTS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof addreaa the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off. on tog db.vuu ::, ri SVIIL. ... - wild, norm nlplit 111 f arnnslon Bluff. hom I o Michael't aunt, when beautiul ' . Jude Bllnshop Is shot to dfolh m : Iht Muff. MUc; dislocates his shouldsr huntiTia for th missing . Skipper, Ms tall and cucedv ' younger aunt She fume up with - an alibi Aunt Martha, stout, and prudish, hat a few penteet tan trum. Cay Palmer, Mike'e red- headed etseetheart, iceepe airly calm. Next morning we search the , grounds, but find no intruder. ', Aunt Martha gets me to lead our j , group investigation, to J send everyone to his room and try to puzzle things out with pencil and paper. Chapter 12 Slow, Creeping Step A T LAST 1 put down the pencil. i Wear ly I read over that Dinar. fWhoT What? Why? It occurred to me tnat it is much easier to solve im aginary problems than eal ones, and this was all too real. I helped myself to another drink On a fresh piece of paper I wrote MOTIVE in large capitals and con sidered. M. farrlngton? Obviously not. Jude was M Farrlnfton's choice of the year for Mlchaal. If the old lady had any conceivable reason far wishing Jude out of the way, why send for us to swell the number of state's .witnesses? The Skipper? She had certainly asked me to keep Mike away from Juda for some reason. That she would go to the length of murder to gain her obscure end, 1 was not pre pared to believe. Michael? He had never lost his head over Jude, but that was hardl.t a suspicious cir cumstance. Again that Ute-i-tete in the game room loomed oefore me. 1 discounted it altogether. Jude and Mike had been frlenda all then Uvea. There were a million things they might have talked about. Gay? She had certainly been in a rage, but that was nothing un usual. The furniture might suffer from Gay's disposition, but the idea of murder was preposterous. The servants? 1 ticked them off on my Angers Hlgglna (ridiculous). William (pointless). Cook (more pointless), Annie (absurd). Such waa my state of mind that 1 gravely considered any possible mo tive of my own before 1 fully realised what I waa aclng. t left a blank after the word MOTlVt and wrote WEAPON also In large letters. Again I waa at a standstill. 1 wrote, "Revolver In the possession of Hlg glns. All the regular household awara of It." Sitting back, i reviewed my handiwork. Then I rang for Higgina. "Have you kept careful watch of the Servants?" "1 have, sir. They are all together m the kitchen." "Good. Rouse the rest of the house and tell them I'd like to see them right away." It occurred to me as 1 listened to his nlow shuffle up the stairs that 1 was probably making a mistake In questioning them In one another's hearing. And yet 1 was beginning to feel that the best way to p-otect that unhappy party waa to keer. Its mem bers all together J would have more luck with Michael anyway if the Skip per v ere present. He would never He to. her. But If he were shielding her? Suddenly x decided to recall Hlgglns and to approach the whole thing from I different angle. Too late. The door opened and Gay walked In. Prowling In The Ball ' ."lOOD Lord, Jim, don't do that VJ again!" "Do what?" . "Leave us all caged up like that and go prowling around In he hall. It's amusing to read about, out right now it's not so darned funny." I stared at her. "You heard someone In the hall?" "Certainly. Do you think I'm deaf? I heard you coma up and I heard you go down. You ought to give a Hal lowe'en party some time. The guests would be carried out in dozens." "They're always carried out when he gets alerted." said Michael from the door. "What's the big Idea? Some fancy thlrd-degreelng. or what?" 1 tried not to look as if I had lust seen a king cobra. "Oh," I said, "you heard something, too?" "Sherlock!" from Michael. The Skipper and M. Farrlngton coming in together saved us from an other argument. They both looked tired and worried. I didn't wait for comments. "Were any of you outside of your rooms after you went upstairs?" I demanded. M. Farrlngton answered promptly. "Yes, I've been in Barbara's room all along. I was nervous." "Did you go through the hall?" "Why, no. Did you want?" The Skipper interrupted. "What's the matter. Jim?" "Nothing." I snapped and once more rang for Hlgglns. The silence was charged with many things. 1 am afraid I was a little disappointed when he Anally did appear. "Higgina, were you In the upper hall at any time after 1 instructed you to watch the servants?" "Why, yes, sir. Just now when you requested me " "I know. But were you there at any other time or could any of the ser vants have been there?" "No, sir, I'm positive." I digested that slowly. "Aunt Mar thaSkipper, old either of you hear anything unusual while you were up stairs?" Their negatives were prompt Some one then must have come up those stairs and gone down the ball toward the east end of the house, since Mike had heard it and the aunts had not Gay's room was opposite the head of the stairs. I whirled on her. "You heard this person come up and go down?" She shrugged Impatiently. "Really, Jim, you're too obvious. You could be heard from here to the mainland slow, creeping steps aa when the maniac la about to grab the heroine by the hair. You should have shrieked occasionally for local color." It Is one thing to have your ficti tious hero suspected by every person present it is quite enother to be sus pected yourselt by your own room mate and his fiancee. "Look here," 1 said, "you can believe me or not just as you like, but I haven't been up those stairs since lunch time." She didn't oelleve me. 1 could see it in her face and I could see it in Michael's. "Hlggins herd will tell you" 1 be gan hotly, but Gay intern pted. "Oh, don't perjure Hlgglns. It would have worked oetter If you'd only bad sense enough to" From somewhere In the rear of the house a fullthroatcd scream rang hor ribly through the hall, A Low, Hysterical Giggle INTO the startled silence that fol lowed that frightful sound, came a low, hysterical giggle. The hair on my neck was beginning to prickle, i could see Hlgglns' bulging eyes. It was M. Farrlngton, collapsed In a chair, her head in her hands, rocking spasmodi cally back and forth. Michael movej mechanically. - , "Stop It! Stop Itl With his good arm he seized her shoulder and shook it roughly. "Quletl" the Skipper said. The ef fect was Instantaneous. At off hours when 1 have had one drink too many 1 can still see that scen. Michael half bent over hla aunt's chair. Gay stiffly erect, and myself gripping the edge or the desk, while all eyes were riveted on the Skipper's haggard face. Half turned away from us, she stood star ing toward the hall door. Waiting. Waiting for uihot? 1 didn't walk across that room. J bolted for the door. If the devil him self had been In that hall, I would rather have encountered him than en dure that wathhi another minute. The devil, fortunately or otherwise, was not in the hall. Nor was anyone else. The scream had come from the kitchen and In that direction I gal loped as fast as my legs would carry me. The door of the servants' dining room crashed open to my hand. In the half light from the hall I could see that the room was empty, but I could also see the swinging door leading Into the kitchen moving, as if someone had Just gone through it Beyond that door 1 could hear the sound of heavy footsteps coming, seemingly, from a point halfway be tween the floor and the ceiling. One moment only i hesitated to see Hlg glns following me In a labored dog trot Then 1 went througr that door. Directly against the nearest wall ran the staircase to the servants' quar ters and halfway up It stood William in his shirt-sleeves, one half of his face covered with lather and a razor In hla hand. He was breathing heavily and his staring eyes were fixed on something on the floor, hidden from my sight by the kitchen table. Our eyes met for the fraction of a second. "Gawd!" said William hoarsely. Almost I had ceased to feel. Cer tainly 1 walked around thai table with as few qualms as 1 might have stepped to It tor a clgaiitte. Lying in a gro tesque heap on the floor war the mam moth figure of Cook. Her arms were sprawled horribly and blood waa flow ing from a huge gash on her fore head. As I knell beside her. William came heavily down the stairs and Higgina panted through the dining room. 1 felt for her heart tCcpvrloM. 117. Illlir Tyltr) Annie the maid Is found bound and gagged, tomorrow SPEED OPENING OF 10 nOSEBtma. Or.. May iTV Through arrniagemenu mtde today with th ktatc highway commiMtoii. equipment haa been aecured (or uae In an effort to open the road from Union Creek to Diamond lake, ac cording to V. V. Harpham, m per visor of the Umpqua national forest. It la hoped, Harpham. Mid. to have the road open to travel by Sunday, when the fishing aruon open .t the lake. Lacking equipment suitable (or re moving anow from the road, '(he for et eervlce, Harpham report has ae cured use of the highway depart ment't rotary tno plow '.orated at Union Creek. Snow depthfi up to 40 inrhee are reported on the road which, however, la clear to Mulr creek, five milea from the Junction Oround Immediately around Ola tr.ond lake free from enow. Harp ham aald he waa edvued, but nearby ..now depth measure up to three feet. A law number of (lahermen are expected to make the trip to the lake for the opening Any of the eeaaon. A l USING 3 UMNfllfiefcCrt 6QUM. WINDOW OLA.'- We sell arino.i glaaa and will rrplaos youi oroaei windows rraaonaoljt. Trowbridge cao met Works. PACE QUICK TRIAL POUOHKEEPSIE. N. T May 10 i.JV Anktng "How long will it be be fore J get the electric chair?" Lester Brocket hunt 33, wanted on murder c A a i gea In t h ree st n t e, board ed a train today with Bernlce FWton. 18. bound (or a swift trial In Arkausna, They were ahackled together end In the custody of Prosecutor Joseph P. Melton of Lonoke ctninty. Arkamaa. Prosecutor Melton, who quoted BrockelhurM as Aktnk( how toon he xould face legal death (or the mur der of Victor Ciatc. wrauthy Little Rock plantation owner, aald he re ined: "Six daya at the lciwt after trlat 'taru. and 30 dnya at the most." "1 am willing to reutrn." aald the former Sunday acIuK)! teacher. Ill swert heart, charged with being ,n accesory. likewise told County Judge J. Gordon Flannery. "1 am willing to go back." RoSerT GrSRRflT of frlncebn, NSVBR $AW A DGCM UNfll. HE ARRIVED IN fiREtce fOKIHS Wb 0WMPICS Hi W0tfTHPWJJ$ PUMPKIN PUMTCftN PRODUCE OVS q ounces o? tfisesTiMftTepTrt&THE VKoTe cNtt QO.OOp $3Ja Prolific Pen. "The pen of the Revolution" Is the title aomettmca applied to Thorn na Jefferson third president of the United Btates. Well doea he rate It. In the Interests of America's fight for Independence and In later life he wrote more letters by hand than la believed to have been written by nny other public man In history. Existing today are more than 10.000 letters which he personally wrote. These constitute only a small frac tion of his correspondence. He Is credited with having written from 10,000 to 16.000 letters each year for & long period of time. Jefferson wrote under a severe han dicap after his term as minister to Prance for he broso his right wrist while holding this position nnd the injury bothered him the rest of Ms life. When the pain In his- wrist grew too strong to continue writing with It. he switched to his left hand and continued his work. Eventually his left hand became as proficient in writing as his right. No scribbler wna Jefferson In spite of -the quantity of wltlng he did. All of his correspond ence was done In a neat, legible hnnd. Ulsriis rhamp. As captain of the Princeton Uni versity track and field team. Robert S. Garrett made up his mind to at tend the 1896 Olympic games In Greece an a member of the U. S. team. Hearing that the ancient sport of discus throwing was to be one of the events on the program, he tried to find out what a discus was like. Discus throwing was practically un known In America at the time. Gar rett managed to get a rough descrip tion of a discus, however, and bad a home-made contraption fixed up. He practiced with this for a while before going to Athens for the games. There he saw a real discus and found It much lighter than the weight he had been using for practice. In spite of the difference, he entered the Olym pic event and took first place. Tomorrow: Everlasting Mfe! MAE WEST WINS FIRST SKIRMISH IN LAW SUIT LOS ANGELES. May 19. (A) Mae West emerged victor today In a preliminary legal skirmish with Frank Wallace. New York actor who seeks to have himself declared her husband. Miss West's demurrer to Wallace's suit which tests the validity of their alleged marriage In Mllwaukle. April 11. 1011, was sustained yesterday by Superior Judce Robert W. Kenny. The court specified 20 days In which Wallace might file an amended complaint. An X-ray tube In St. Bartholomew's hospital, London, la 30 feet long and weighs ten tons. The patient under tientment converses through a mic rophone with the doctors who ob serve him through a mirror system KISS AND LOSE TEETH IS DOCTOR'S WARNING ATLANTA, May 19. Kiss of ten and lose your teeth was the warn ing today of Dr. Marvin M Harris of the Georgia state health department And If you want case history he can ' give it to you. j Four of six girls engaged' In kissing t games at a recent party developed a -mouth Infection, he said. I SlffuES POWrV fO AfYCR NOON Or" BRIP6E BF6iKS1'oFiD&E1',MUR MURIM6 AUflS-f C0W.D SHEfRV ANMfoER CHAlRj MI$0rJFbftrHI&H 6ml SlbPS WHILE WAIRS ARE SHIFTED. 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