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PAGE TEN MTDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 20. 1937. C3UQDGD u a wild, tlormy .... at rarrtnglon Bluff, ftomtof .tiicnaet'j aunts, when attracltu ,ud Slfruhop is shot to death on the bluff. Mike dislocates a shoul der tunting or the missing Skip per, his tall anc" tweedy younger aunt who turns up with an alibi. Cay Palmer, Mike's red-headed sweetheart, worries about him. Next day stout and prudish Aunt Martha proposes that i lead our group Investigation of the mur der, for we are marooned on this small Island. A scream draws us to the kitchen where Cook lies cm the floor, a gash on her head. Chapter 13 Bound And Gagged "I yATER," I ordered. "Cold with , tee If there is any. Qulckl" t It was Hlgglnt who moved to obey me. William stood there staring down at her. Over and over beneath bit breath he was muttering, "My Gaw.il My Gawd I" The monotony of It wasn't particularly helpful. I tolf him to get bandages. "Bandages?" he repeated blankly nd .umbered toward the stairs. I was glad to be rid of him. Cook was bleeding profusely too profusely to make my handkerchief very effective as a bandage. By the time Higgins plopped a basin of water at my elbow, the handkerchief was saturated. Between us. Higgins and I staunched the wound and bound it up with the bandages silently offered by the still dazed William. Michael and Gay had Joined the party long before I rose trom my knees. I William's face was whJte. "She ain't upstairs, lr 1 lust went la her room after the bandages." "Perhaps." Gay was talking to con vince herself, "perhaps she's cleaning or something upstairs." Higgins frowned. "I doubt It, Miss When Mr. James told me, I left ex plicit orders that they wasn't to go no place outside or the quarters. Annie's a good girL Shu does as she's told." That was too much for Cook. She struggled to her feet "Good?" she shrilled. "Good? Why. that iirty little" "That will do. Cook." The Skipper stood grim and determined behind us. "We've had enough of this nonsense. Michael, go stay with your aunt Oon'l stand there gaping." Michael went, the Skipper shutting the door deliberately on his back. "Jim, that girl is in this house be quiet. Cook anu we're going to find her. If we have to tear the rotten place apartl Is that duor locked?" She referred to the back door. 1 stepped to It eagerly, but It was locked and the key was on the inside. "Higgins and 1 will take the lower floor. You and William take the upper one. Hurry!" There was a bread-knife In the midst of the mess on the table. 1 picked it up anil started for the stairs with William a- my heels. But we didn't get very far. For distinctly through the silence cams a sound a vague, shuffling noise, indescribable and rather horrible. 8creams And Hysteria FOR a split second we stood listen ing, spellbound. Then the Skipper moved. She sprang to the back door, turned the key. and threw the door open. On the floor at her feet lay Annie, bound hand and foot with Wijiy ,t3 i nisi, i iB,yr-,.t ,e . Cook stirred at last. Her lips moved. Neither of them had anything to say. Apparently the pictures thelrlmagina tlons had been able to conjure up in the other room made the actual sight eem negative. Here at least there was no question about the weapon of attack. All over the noor and even jq the table were scattered broken bits of a flower pot. Cook jtlrred at last Her lips moved and her eyes fairly new open. "The eyes!" she cried wildly. "The yesl Get them, I'm telling you! Get them before they get you!" Higgins tried to calm her, "Be quiet Utile," he said, rathei ineffectually. Michael nnally asked er what hap pened. That provoked the explosion. "Happened? Mothei of God! 1 should have known better than to stay in this God-forsaken place! I sent that good-for-r.c thing Annie out here for my glasses, and when she didn't come back, think . I 'I'll Just teach that young tool a lesson.' 1 had a good no tlon she'd sneaxed off upstairs. So I got Into my kitchen, meaning to get the glasses myself and accuse her it awlpln' 'em. And I'd no sooner got to the drawer they was In" here Cook's lip began to tremble "than 1 could feel the eyes borln' Into my backl' Michael sniffed Impatiently. Cook glared at him. "Rot is It you think? And 1 suppose It's rot I've got on my head?" Mrangely enough, no one laughed. Cook was gathering mo mentum. "I felt them, I'm tcllln' you. Cold, they was. I turned quick to care them off art1 there they was! Her freckled hand was point ing to the outer coor. "Like pieces of fire. Before I'd had time to so much as give a decent yell, they stabbed me!" Her voice rose higher and higher and ended in a blood-curdling whoop. 'Where Is Annie?' 1 SEIZED a ragged bit of pottery from the table. "Cook," 1 said stern ly, "be quletl Someone came in that door. You saw the reflection of the light In his eyes. You weren't stabbed by anything. You were hit with a flower pot. Look here." But Cook wat too fai gone for Bower pots, "li s the devil, I'm tell ing youl" she shrieked. "And that Annie " "Great Scott!" cried Michael. "Where is Annie? She couldn't help tearing this!" piece of clothesline andgagged with a white handkerchief. A harsh, Inarticulate roar boiled from William's lips. R6ughly he brushed past On Skipper and knelt beside the girl His large, capable flngjrs had the handkerchief off in, a moment and were at the knots In the rope before Annie's preliminary screams split the silence and stirred us to life. The girl was hysterical and In no half-hearted fashion. There was no piecing together her Jerky words. Re moved to the iift in the dining room and treated with cold water, smellina salts and aromailcs, she continued o send scream uter scream echoing mrougn me nouse. The Skinner shook and even slapped her. Cook, a terrify ing spectacle in her bandages, addej to the general uproar by favoring us wun a vigorous description of her feelings toward Annie. "Beg pardon, sir," said William In my ear. "I think If you was all to leave her to me for a minute. I could quiet her." We Bled Into the kitchen thankfully. In the same room with the girl the racket was unthinkable, but trom be hind closed doors It was still bad. "Your party, Jim," said the Skipper. I said. "Thanks " bitterly. Thev were all looking at me waitlna. I Blared desperately back, and my eye fell first of all on Cook. "Did you hear anythlna at all In here alter Annie left you?" I demanded. "1 did not!" her retort was spirited. You won't be hearing the Old Wick. He's" 'Just answer mv aueitions. nlentn. How long had Annie been gone before you went alter oer?" How would 1 know? I didn't lime her. A couple of minutes, mavbe. She's that lasy, 1 never thought" "What did you do while you waited for her?" Cook looked uneasy. "Well, nnw I wai lyln' there on the sofy and J maybe took a couple of winks. I wouldn't know tor sure." And that wai lhat. For all the value of her evidence the might just as well have been at the South Pole. (Copyright, ifS7, EMthtr TyUr) I find a dlsturhlnr doe to Annie'a assailant, tomorrow. BIDS OPEN JUNE 3 WORK SOON SALEM, Mny 20 API Cnnfttme tlon and Improvement covering 8J ml lea of highways and erection of three bridge and an overcrowing wiil be Included in the bid to be opened at the meeting of the state highway com m 1m! on in Portland June 8. Ihe awards will total about l.ooo.OOO the highway repartment announced. The work will be done In seven counties: Clatap, DNwhutea. Jackson, Jefferton. Tillamook. WftAhhvtton and Yamhill. The J obi for which the bids were called today include: Jackson county-Phoenlx-Brar creea ectlon of the Pacific highway. 3 24 tnlles grading and Portland cement concrete pavement and ooe 33 -foot pan oo oc re te bridge. A blister run control camp com prising about 100 men will be estab lished above Union Creek the f;rt of the week. It was stated today ty Conrad P. Wtvwela. In charge of the traduction program In this district As soon an the camp Is established the men mill begin working tn the forest to wipe out the disease that n caiieM suMtantiBl 1oe In me timber btcw. it m-aa Indicated A smaller blister rust control camp of about 30 men as transferred re cently from the Siskiyou national for est to Prespect in the Rrue river na tional forest. WINIXJW OLASA-W sell window tiase ana t replace rout orker fVtndow reasonably, ITo brio Cao met Work. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof addreas the author, inclosing a stamped ,BTalope for reply. Reg. Tj. s. PL Off. i SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS yesterday's puzzle -iMAWHafhtfarSHfiiK $rSMe.ZrV&Tr& 3 MfcTcrtK fORfA h PVRftMlt? WtlHTriel EXTRA WnCHESs,. WOHlftfc 11.4. WOMAN'S t seouoib 6i6ftUTeP.tfcee-s of CMfORNift l5 UNKNOWN,,, 4&QMh Zh? 14 POISOHOUG To INSECT hHV OHVt ACCENTOR PE-STRUCTioN KfY BEEN KNOWN to KIM, ' k. . i ejr IIi)"jT A' H iu. women's fsl- i , im zimite Tennis V3 s l Ml Everlasting Life The amazing vitality of California's Big Trees Is perhaps best evidenced In the fact that even after they are cut down their foliage remains green and fresh for years. No Instance of a Sequoia glgantea dying of a nat ural cause has ever been recorded. Plre, lightning and man have thin ned out the ranks of the huge trees, but they are seemingly Impervious to the onslaught of disease or old age. Because the Big Trees reproduce only from seeds which require spec ial sou conditions m which to root, the species faced strong danger of extinction In spite of Its hardihood until the establtshmpnt of state and national parks for their protection. Fossilized trunks of the Sequoia genus have, been found throughout the world, but bo far as ta known, the live tree has become limited to California. The oldest and largest of the Big Trees is "Oeneral Sherman." A bor ing taken on It in 1031 Indicated It as being from 3500 to 4000 years old. Champion At 17 "My legs a as too weak I can't go on." Trailing her opponent, Helen Jacobs, 6-8, 6-3. 0-3. Helen Wills Moody brought to a dramatic ending her attempt to regain the Women's National Singles title In 1033 a title which she had first won at the age of 17. ten years be for. HtJfeufct 8rMlirt. lac, 52Qi7 Introduced to the game by her father, a Berkeley, Cal., surgeon, lit tle Helen showed tremendous ability and was placed under the guidance of a noted professional, "Pop" Puller. Knocking over minor Junior tourna ments with monotonous regularity in San Francisco's Golden Gate park, Helen entered her first national tour nament In 1923. Waltzing through the opening rounds, she found her self up against the veteran - champ ion, Molla Mai lory, In the finals and won In a startling upset. Miss Wilis won the championship again In 1924-25-27-28 and 29. winning It again in 1931 after her marriage. Tomorrow; The Royal Flutist. YONCALLA WOMAN DIES IN AUTOMOBILE PLUNGE ROSEBURO, Ore., May 20. IAP) Mrs. Alice Stlnson, 24 wife of A. L. titlnson, YoncAlla sawmill worker 6Ied at Mercy hospital here this after noon from Injuries suffered late this morning In an automobile accident near Boewell Springs. Evelyn McCoy. Ip, of Vonralla. suffered minor head and neck Injuries in the accident. The car occupied by the two women was reported to have gone over an embankment. . SALEM. May 20. (AP) Total en rollment of the Salem Indian school at Chemawa will be Increased to 350 with authorization of 50 additional students b? the Indian service, Super intendent Paul T. Jackson said. It Alii provide the greatest U tend nee since reduction of the school buogei in 1933. MARSHALL NAMED HEAD OF FOREST RECREATION PORTLAND, May 20. AP Ap pointment of Robert Marshall, for ester and author, as chief of the di vision of recreation of the U. S. forest service, was made today. Mar shall has been chlpf forester in the Indian service for four years, and u widely known throughout the north- 1 weest. r 1 H 1 vaH!LE TRVIW6 1b IMPRESS THE SDCIM LEADER Of THE NEI6HB0RHDOP WITH A VEPV COURTLV 5BEET)N6, ERNIE PlUMER HAD T MISFORTUNE -TO HAE HIS BA6 07 ORAtffSES BREAK 5-W (Copyright, 1937, if The Betl Syndicate, Ice.) Wilupr75 S MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE rf All at ?mc. (o, SometsoI) I TEV A12B A- ). I, J TOOT J TAILSP1N TOMMY Tommy Doesn't Want Sympathy! By HAL FORREST SoMfOMC- f-RAME-D TOMMY. . STtAUMG HIS PLAfie- AMD CRASHine IT. THE DFPARTHE'MT AIR irtSPfrCTOR GRounoto TOMMY, AP1D TMC -3;PCMT PILOT, MISTAKING HIS F-RltMDS' SYMPATHY TOR DOUBT, F-ttlS THfY HAVt" DtSE-RTtD HIM. PAUL SMITH TRIE-3 TO MAKe- TAILSPIM Ur-IDtrRSTAMD 2SI5 WE- ALL BfllEVt" IM YOuA v. TOMMY.. OU HE-A I? D WHAT ( THE- INSPECTOR SAID... ABOUT ) APPf-ALiriG TO THE-... if 11 w THANKS, CHiE-F-f ..I KNOW S YOJR SAYIMS THAT. ..TO MAKE ME: fErE-L 6000.. WHfM YOU KNO.. I kHAVeNvT A CHAMCE-...IF- VOU DOMT MIHD.. I D RATHE-R.. BE" ALONE. N I I VMDiTUV lite- S I S NOW. . SE-E-MS TO BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Here's the Proof! By EDWIN ALOE" DQUARS AMD.UELLO.k COMfc Oki klOVJ AMO 6ET v7 SOU .g THE M0K1E.V &AVit AUVJt, BEU H1661U; -THAT'LL bRURSlfc WE'VE CR065eP 1 A GREAT, Wfl 9MILE READYJ MEAU, TO PAV OUR UOTt AT C VJES6TCR 00 YOU 1 PROVE-if WOU'T !-' il Il " Ue ME A LITTLE EVTTvA TIME fJUT iK? ir cffi 1 ( OCT MV LET EAR WA?M V EN-MA SVCW.O LJrTiN,E: MECOMES-UJEajK -0 WAT A A AWO VD HtfSTD HH.ETO 63 jfj ALL? WE 1""". i THE NEBBS Desperation By SOL HESS
