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fEDFORD MATTJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREOOK FRTDAY, .TTTNTE 11. 1937. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I C3UDDGD LAST CALLS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof sddrm tk author, lneloetnf Itinpe4 einvalopej for reply. Keg. TJ. 8. Pt Of. on mc-DioizinsSMh PAG3 TWO' SYNOFSIS. Our wild, stormj weekend at Farrington Bluff, home of Michael's aunts, opens . with th mysterious shooting to death of attractivt Juie BHnshop. A series of strange attacks i$ ap parently explained when u find belou the bluff the body of Mi chael's mad father, supposedly long etnee dead. Then Aunt Mar. tha it that In the thoulder by an umeen hand, and the Skipper, Mike' tall and tweedy younger aunt, disappear!. I leave Mike with Cay Palmer, hie fiancee, and go with William, the chauf feur, to search the stable and garage for the Skipper. Chapter 32 Find Thoie Powder I' IT needed no flashlight to tell me that the room war empty empty and exactly ai we had left It Walking to the wardrobe door, William flunf It open. The cap and trousers still hung where we had found them. Picking up the former, William turned toward me, a puzzled expression on hla face! -What's this?" he said heavily, pointing to the bullet bole la Its crown. Like a flash of lightning another brainstorm struck me. 1 had fired Higglns' gun In the garage yesterday morning. The Skipper had fired It In the library yesterday afternoon. But only one bullet had been fired from the revolver which Higglns claimed to have found in the hall. Unless someone had cleaned the butler's gun at least toftee, there must be another revolver on Farrlngton Bluff, and that revolver must be In the posses sion oi we murcereri ' My stare was making William un easy. "That's a bullet hole," he said. "I'm sorry, William. 1 did that yi terday morning. Miss Barbara and 1 thought we heard someone In that closet and we weren't taking any chances. I'll get you another cap.1 He' didn't believe It I wondered what sort of evidence he could be piecing together in his stubborn mind around a bullet hole in a discarded old cap. "Come along." I said briskly. "It's still light enough to take a quick look around outside, If we hurry." We hurried. Clumping down the stairs, we raced Into the open air. This time It In no way revived me. I felt as If a tremendous weight sus pended over my head was being lowered by a slow. Inevitable pulley. It was much darker than It had been for our search the day before, but the clearness of the air made It possible to see farther with less difficulty. It took but a fraction of a minute to ascertain that the rocks on which the buildings stood and the beach below them were deserted. 1 was already sure that there was nothing between the bluff end the house, for I had stood staring In that direction when I first stepped outdoors. I figured that by following the driveway we could get a pretty good view oi the entire northern lawn. Accordingly, down the drive we went, William watching to tha right and I to the left. There was nothing unusual. Only Lumerous sticks and limbs blown down by the storm. In one. place halt of a huge elm had been napped off an4 hung suspended on a few retentive fibers, waiting for a breath of wine to send It hurtling to the ground, At the foot of the drive, water still seethed through the nar row gut separating us from the main land. From thla point, where the bridge usually stood, the driveway of the Stuff sweeps oft in a rough circle one lection going tuward the garage, the other toward the house. We followed the latter, and at the house we branched off to the path which runs from the west terrace to the tennis courts and beyond them to the boat house. Even less of the pier was standing now. A few piles still held their ground, but they were shaking prophetlcnlly In the boiling water. The boathouse wa still completely In undated. Slowly with difficulty we tllmbed the rocks, scene of Michael's downfall. No one and no trace of any one. I Look Over Tha Bluff XIELL, William," I said, "we may T as well go back to the house." He made no reply. I puffed down the rocks, nursing my stiff lingers and treading gingerly on numb feet The weather was getting colder by the minute and our raincoats were not exactly adequate. The storm, decided ly, was over, William had nothing to say through out the walk back to the house. 1 fancied him busy with his own thoughts, tn which he was no doubt hanging me with the last bit of evi dence. My own thoughts were dismal. 1 was thinking that the things hap pening during the Skipper's first dls appearance weren't exactly calculated to cheer us up about this second one. Where the devil could she be? She had been left taking care of M. Far rlngton before lunch, and no one had seen her since but Hlgglna, when he received hts orders for an early lunch. That was three or four hours ago. Avoiding the game room door, we swerved along the rear terrace In the direction of the kitchen. As we did so, 1 was struck by an appalling thought My eyes swept toward the bluff. "We forgot one place, William." Ha got what meant- and showed it plainly. We crossed that strip of lawn like two old men whe have Indulged in a skating spree and have difficulty with their underpinnings. X forced myself to look over the edge of tha bluff. There was nothing but sand, water, and dead scrub grass. The tide was well out If there had been anything there a few hours ago, It had long since washed away, and the chances of Its ever being found again on Farrlngton Bluff were slight The sight of Norman Farrlngton's body there that morning had been pretty bad, but tha mental picture of the Skipper floating for days in that churning, half-frozen water was worse. Wa turned dumbly back toward the house. We let ourselves in at the main door. An unearthly silence seemed to settle down upon you In that house, envel oping you like t blanket It was dark much darker than It had been out side and more terrifying. 1 didn't want to face Michael jug then, and the Idea of my own company was Insupport able. I followed William Into tha kitchen. They were waiting for us at the kitchen table, rilgglns with a dilapi dated old pipe In hla hand and Annie trying furtlvelj to extinguish her cigarette. Cook's face was red. het eyes bleary, and her breath strongly alcoholic. "Did you find her?" burst out Annie. Under drawn brows. Cook was re garding us oddly. "No," 1 said. "Which one of you fed the dogs last?" There was dead silence. Then Cook rumbled, "They ain't been fed, I forgot 'em, and so did Miss Barbara, The meat's there In the Ice box like al ways." "Who fed them Friday?" I de manded. Cook's voice, if anything, was little thicker. "Miss Barbara fed 'em of course. They ain't been fed since." "Are you sura?" I snapped. "Sure I'm sura. I handle that Ice box I" "Feed them now, will you, Wil liam?" I said. Since Hlgglna had ob viously told some of the story, there seemed little un In keeping them tn the dark. The results might be disas trous when the police arrived. "We can't find Miss Barbara," I told them. "There seems to be some danger of her having fallen over tha cliff. Did any of you see her this after noon?" There was no answer. They were ill staring at me. 1 turned to Higglns, "When did she give you the order for an early lunch?" His reply was prompt. "At 11:30. When I heard the bell, 1 glanced at the clock to be sure I had not failed to start things at the usutl hour," "Where did she ring from?" "She rang me on the house phone and gave me her orders then." "You mean that you didn't actually see her at 11:30?" "No, sir." More computations. "How many rooms are connected on the house phone?" "All of them, Mr, James. You may overhear a conservation from any room In the house, but the buzzers ere Independent for each room. You push the one yor. want" Then the Skipper might have called from any room in the house or some one else might have called for her. Had the early lunch been part of the plan? For the life of me I couldn't see why. I turned wearily to the door. Ipecac! I PAUSED for a second outside ol M. Farrlngtor's door to let ms breath before I went in. (Jay and Michael were both leanlni over the bed, and the faces they raised to mine were drawn. I shook my head. "Not a trace o. her." Gay's breath came sharply, and Mike turned away from us. My eyei fell to M. Farrlngton's pillow. Her face was colorless. Even In that silent room her breathing uas Imperceptible. "Uiok at her, Jim." There was I catch In Michael's voice. "She looks-queer." Queer was hardly the word for It Her mouth was drawn and tight hei throat working spasmodically, a rop ing or her pulse, I found her hand to be like Ice. If her pulse was stlrrlni at all, It was stirring very feebly. 1 stared up Into Michael's smoulderlni eyes. Find those damned powders!" I ordered. "Gay, see If any of the serv ants know anything about this stuff. Hurry! I was trying to remember what I had ever heard about poisoning, and I couldn't remember a single thing. One used a stomach pump. I supposed, but where the devil were we to get a stomach pump? White of egg? They had given me that dose once when a. a kid I had amused myself by eating toadstools. But was that of any use a long time after the poison had been taken? The memory of a very poor collegiate practical Joke flashed acrot, my mind. Ipecacl There might be Ipecac In the house. fCoeyrteM. tJT, KttSer Tvlr Mike and I frantically searek the cellar for the Skipper, Monday. YEAR IN JAIL 10 BEATER OF BABE noscnima. or4 Jun n Leonard Hopkins, CanyonvllU barbtr. and hli 22 -jr oar -old wife, Cordelia, entered toddy upon a long wpnratlon. u tha woman left for Salem to bo Bin a arnlence 04 13 yaara for tn Yoluntary manslaughter, and her hutband was plneed in a cell in the Douglas county Jatl to which he was sentenced today for a term of one jesr. Thus the lUti closed a chap ter In a child beat in caae which aroused more widespread sentiment In Douglas county than any criminal action to be heard here In recent years. WINDOW OLASOW asU rtna.j glass and will replace youi orofcet windows reasonably Itowbrldis Cao met Works MAHONEY INVITES N0RR1S 10 VISIT WASHINGTON. Juns 11. (Af) W1UU t. M honey, former mayor of Klamath Falls and frequently men Uonrd as a senate candidate against 8nator Frederick Stetwer. Invited 4etor Clcorwe w. Norris o( Nebraska today to visit Oregon and speak on hts power program. Norris said he would attempt to arrange the trip wt alter congress ndJourns The eenator said he was interetted in carrying his message for a Columbia river suthority to the people moat directly at fee ted by the legislation. The Klamath Fa Hi visitor left for Oregon last night after discussing the Onon senatorial elevfon with Postmsiter Jme Farlty. chairman of the democratic party, J LA CsCdE) 4 X W V. hrtlMM MONfcY- coiH of Trie iRisrt fircesiMfe ftKtof friRp eeftffe ho fart. xxxxx Solution -h yesferchij's puzzle CROSSING trie 10 fAATctfE IN 5 W0V&$, MOVIMS OHt MWCri WW JUMPING Z .at . a. I a North went Passage For centuries navigators and ex plorers sought the Northweit passage, a waterway north of the equator over which a ship could sail west ward from the Atlantic to the Pa cific and onward to the Orient. Century after century they mlsatd their goal until Roald Amundwn finally hit It In his sloop, the "CI Jo" only seven and a half years before man constructed a "Northwest Pas sage" with the . Panama Canal. Strange as it seems, the centuries of search had gone for naught. No other voyages have been made through the watery trail which Amuncleen blazed In 1006, for Its treacherous Ice makes It of no prac tical use to commercial shipping. The Panama Cnnnl. completed In 1914, did away with any necessity for nature's long-sought Northwest Passage. Search for this passage began not long after Columbus' first voyage, for It we soon discovered that he had not found India, but a continent, in between. Explorers firmly believ ed that by Bailing northward and westward they would discover a waterway to the Orient. First trips made with this definite purpose In mind began with the voyages of the Cabots in 1497 and were continued from time to time by English expe ditions until 1847 with the Ul-fa'-ed Franklin expedition. Many discoveries were made by these explorers, but never the North west Passage. In 1903 to 1906, Amundsen made the trip by wwy of 1omi wiwi 4MALLKT CHAMPl0H(WrV5ONW WRTeRMDlOOrfl Lancaster and Peel Sounds to King William's L&nd, then westward through channels between the- Amer ican mainland and the Islands, ar riving near Herschel Island on Aug ust 31. . Mighty Mite With a fighting weight of about ISO pounds, Tommy Burns never topped 180 pounds during his ring career. The shortest of worlo 's heavyweight champs, he put in his bid or the title In 1906 when he punched out a 20-round decision over Marvin Hart, followed that up with a victory over Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and then mopped up a batch of British contenders. The tallest of champs was Gar ners, who was a full foot taller than Burns nnd weighed 960 pounds. To Return Suspect. SALEM, June 11. (AP) Pennsyl vania officers are expected here to morrow to return William Meyers, murder suspect, to that state, Salem police said today, Mt. Hood Lodge to Open PORTLAND, June 1 l.p) visitors at Portland's Annual Rose festival will get a look at thettlmberlln lodge on Mount Hood Sunday when the new government-owned hostelry la opened. PORTLAND, June 11. (AP) Steve McPherson, Portland matchmaker, received weather faded letters today taken from the wreckage of the air line, in the mountains of Utah. 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