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PAGE TEN MEDFOT?D MAIL, TRIBUNE, fEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 27. 1937. budded OD Trig DB-OFF ",...i-'.n Attractive Jude ....i,uip is mysteriously shot to death on a wild, stormy niohl at Farrington Bluff, noma of Mi chael's aunts. Eoeruone ma rooned on this island f suspect: Mike, uiho talked uilh Jude alone that ntaht; the Skipper, hit tall and tweedy uounner aunt; itunt Martha, itout and prudish; Gay Palmer, Mike'l red-headed sweetheart; Hiuoin., the elderly butler; William, the chauffeur; Cook; Annie the maid etien 1 who have to lead the group in vestigation. I grow suspicious ol William as we two search the house. He cracks me with a nnil club and so out. Chapter 19 Who Hit William? HOW long I was unconscious I have never been able to determine. I came to lying in darkness, strapped Sown to something that 1 presumed to be William's bed, my hands bound under me, a gag tied in my mouth, snd pain playing an Anvil Chorus In my head. It was a long time before 1 could summon enough Interest to lavor the full horror of my position. William was the murderer and Wil liam was roaming the house, unob served and unsuspectedl I thrashed about wildly. But it was no good. Tha traps that bound me held! After again, frantically. .. . straining ears caught only the sound of reced ing footsteps and ft door closing softly. I have had my share ot disappoint ments, I suppose, but I have never had another like that one. Black despair swept me. Then suddenly a blinding ray of light shown full on my face. In breathless, motionless horror I lay there waiting. "Good God!" said Michael's voice from the darkness. In another second the room was filled with light Gay was with him. They were at ma in a twinkling. The trunk straps that held me were on the floor and the gag was out of my mouth. Michael's vigorous 'slaps sent the blood flowing into my arms and legs. My tongue felt like a balloon. My eyes ached in the sudden light. It was a full 10 minutes before 1 could either move or speak and more than that before 1 did either. Mike worked with a sort of determined fury. Gay nervously. "William?" 1 managed at last. "Where's William?" "At the foot of the back stairs with a lump the size of a house on his bean." said Michael. "What happened. Jim? What happened?" At the foot of Wires were crossing again. "William," 1 said, "hid In this door way and crowned me with a golf club as I came through." There was a long silence. "But" said Gay slowly, "but " "Good God!" said Mike, Then light flooded the room. while 1 gava up the attempt, ex hausted. It seemed Incredible that I could have hesitated over William's guilt My doubts about Michael and the Skipper were forgotten and I lay there tmpotently cursing my own stupidity. If anything more should happen be fore that night was over, I thought 1 could blame myself. My bright Ideas had huddled a bunch of women Into ft room with an Invalid and an old man and left them there unprotected. Worse than that had managed to avert their suspi cions from the guilty person and had Instructed them to open the door to him Immediately. Fool! Shortsighted, doddering idlotl Was William Insane? My flesh crept at tha thought of M. Farrington's dismantled room and the mangled cat Not the work of a sane man. Not as I figured sanity. He was mad, then. And what a crafty madness! 1 thought of his hefty shoulders and level, steely eyes. Why in the name of all that was holy would ha kill Juda Bllnshop? It was ridic ulous, but it had happened. Again I tried wriggling my legs, but the circulation had gone out of them. 1 tried to move my hands. No go. Well, sooner or later he would come back for me. 1 supposed. It was strange that he hadn't finished me on the spot and made a clean job of it Time pos sibly. Perhaps it was more expedient tor him to get the revolver first finish off the others, and then and then Tha gag in my mouth seemed to be strangling me. 1 roared and twisted and raged my self quiet Wondering dully what time It was, I realized that 1 was hungry. Lunch seemed several generations re moved and the recollection of It was torture. 1 longed desperately tor a cigarette. Michael! It was all up to Michael. If only ho could show a little more Intelligence tl.an I had, we might still have a chance. If There was a so'ind .rom the direc tion of the cornd-r. c!l nin unmls 1kablA trultem-.-c, ..noo alse? 1 lay rmrj mil. -urallm', Bi Mrs to catch Q tgain. .erhaot sMUian had finished alt fob ;ind rem .laaa to mat Tha qsIm fm vstln. uute lnudar. Bomaont wis talKl':i In a low. farafu! murmur Just 'uls!da ;ha doo A deaper voice answered. Mike! ! was sura V It Black Daxnelr latept Me I (ITH a amiv iton I wranohed tat lha itrsi, -widtna nf Aiaulaera The (aw .Ua ind I vrneb4 agalA its a-iad Ms -lomaailag wri the Ins td pott Ontttni nr h. t aojnded mkf b4 wa Thai Irva, It aem4 ve lhai lha nalsa woafctf hara weaenad tha 4ead. 8 M mare was t6 sound front tha nail wiad She didn't need to finish It. If Wil liam struck me and I was positive that he did who the devil struck William? And why? I stared at Michael. "Could ha have fallen?" 1 de manded. Mike's face was screwed In thought "Sure, but Good Lord, he was clouted first! He has an awful head. Must have been hit with something sharp and heavy." "Such as a golf club?" "Yeah. There are pieces of one at the head of the stairs." He offered me cigarette with shaking fingers. Horrible Little Room AS THE match flared. Gay's voice quavered, "Are are you sure It was William?" I Inhaled furiously. "Why, It must have been. He " But was It? William had gone through the door. I had seen him, and 1 had not seen him come out 1 tried to recall the twisted face that had con fronted me. 1 had assumed that It was he, but "'1 don't know," 1 mumbled In be wilderment "I thought It was. but 1 don't know." "Think!" urgeu Michael. "You must have seen him. Think!" "Why, he came in here and and Damn itl I suspected him all of a sud den. 1 sneaked after him. He was standing In the door with a golf club, and he got me." "You did see him. then," Michael muttered. "William! It's cockeyedl" My head was aching with the effort to make sense. "1 saw him. Yes. 1 thought It was William, but" There was no dodging the implication. "It might have been someone else." Mike rose slowly from his knees. "1 think." he saU, 'that In either case we'd better get back to the others." Tha o'hersl 1 had forgotten them completely. "Where are they?" 1 demanded. "Down the hall. We came out to look tor you and found William. He eouldn't seem to make sense, so we took him back to tha rest and cam I afUr you." As I stepped out of that horrible ! little room, 1 locked the door after 1 m. and, slipping the key Into my "vaet. realized that the other keys tun there. Whoever had brained , .. ouhe awi have known that 1 had tham r eaoea keys In his hands, I w aaeuM aee awen at his mercy. It ; was yA4 that should have left Wil i ttazn'a loot unlocked and the key for i ua u find. ' (CrfyH. I'!', I'" Tylf) , Mlrhael's good left crumples V71I ; Ham. tomorrow. BY CLIPPER PLANE 10 HOSPITAL 9 AN rRANC18CO, May 37. (AP) Hurried ncroM the Piclfic by Clipper f.ltne, Oeorn Humeri, New York bro ker, was brought to a hewplUI here Vday for treatment of fractured ver tebrae. Injured In an automobile meet lent In Manila. The after part of the Clipper waa converted Into a trick bay for the injured man, who made the trip on i irether He waa aocompanled by a nurse. Humeri apparently itood the Pa tine flight well and appeared clwfui V he wai carried Into an imUilanc I Alameda eea baae for the trip to tha hoapiui here Om Mai. Tribune waat ada. SOCIAL SECURITY STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author. Inclosing ft stamped envelope for reply. Reg- V. S. Pat OS. vl . rrr.-ut i ijuiiaiii II m wm 1 "If great German composer, 4r5 fJURISP IK ftf COFFlH ml ft l 1 iiliiS n-ft ill II l 1 AUUU I :"" Jta Pun Town v& -we nonet? cflY" wwt A ' flaOlW CflY"-WCMSB oFffe j NURSERY TRMc RW rvom mw? in MinneJpoli'S, Minn., j Y?X ft KITS ftlOFT OlO I LI Llnllt? ... iM rjt V eT . ' Jf ; i aW fvAe Wtbowtm YtmtvowiiZVz ounces r in -Headed Monster Estimated to have lived from 100 million to 200 million years ago, the huge Stegosaurua was one of the most remarkable animals that ever walked the earth. The beast's tiny head contained a brain weighing only about two and one-half ounces but It had a pe culiar spinel cord formation In Its lumbar region which served as a brain In controlling the reflex move ments of the tall and hind legs, menta of the tall and hind legs, necessary by the distance through which the animal's tiny "head brain" would have otherwise had to negoti ate with a command to the hind quarters. The Stegosaurus ranged In length from 30 to 30 feet. t0t Bach's Coffin With hi genius almost entirely un recognized during his lifetime, Jo fcann Sebastian Bach, the great Ger man composer and musician, was a poor provider tor his wife and 20 children. When he died In 1760, he left his family almost penniless. Placed In a $4 oak coffin, his body was carted off to the old Johannls church cemetery In Leipzig and un ceremoniously dumped Into a pau per's grave. Then the quality of his music waa discovered, his fame- grew and Investigation was launched Into his history. The cemetery In which his body lay was discovered, but his unmarked grave went unknown. A full century passed before his resting place came to light. Strangely enough, Its discovery was owed to the fact that Bach had been burled in a cheap coffin. In going through the records of the Jchannls church one day, the di rector of archives found an Item stat ing 'that 64 had been paid for Bach's oak coffin. Oak coffins were seldom used In those days. A search of the locality in which Bach was believed to have been buried uncovered two oak coffins one a woman, the other a man. The skull of the man was taken to a famous autonomist. Pro fessor His. Investigation convinced the scientist that the skull was that of Johann Bach. Tomorrow: The Lost Skull! Probe Brawl Death. McMINNVLLLE, May 37. ( AP) Otto Sltton of Carlton died of a fractured skull at a hospital here yesterday. Sheriff O. W. Manning and District Attorney Earl Nott are in vestigating an alleged altercation at Carlton Friday. Economy Kirk Back PORTLAND, Mav 27.-1 AP . -Th cit has been trying to control the zoo population for economy reasons. Re sult: ono young bison and seven San ta Rosa hogs. Marlon Asks Funds SALEM, May 27. (AP) The Mar lon county circuit court filed its ap plication yesterday for a 48 per cent, federal grant on a 9588.500 new court house. The project coat waa increased fiom 550,000 to allow for the fur n.shing of the proposed structure. High Democrat at Feast PORTLAND, May 27. (AP) J. p. T. O'Connor, federal comptroller of the cuneney in Washington. D. C, Will be honor guest at a banquet here June 18 given by former North Dako ta residents and alumni of North Dakota university. fHE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS -TRVIVJS fo APPEAR PLEASED WHE"K TCLA-flVES ARRIVE UNEXPECTEDLY TOR A UlSlY JUSI" PA V0U ARE S)"flr5 fo iWO "Tables of serious briD6E (Copyright, AST, by Tha Ball Bmdlcata, Ina.) 6JDYA5 S MATTER POP By C. M. 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