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S i Htm JftafcaU,., PAGE ETGHT JfEDPORD MAIL TRTBTJN'E. AfEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. TUXK 15. 1937. I D3UQDGD On tlE DLUC7C? SyVUfMS. .ui wild, stormy tossksnd at Fairington Bluff, horn 0 Michael' aunU, opsns uith lh mytteriaiu fhoolina to death o attractive Jua Blimhop. A leriee of itranse attack iJ ap parently explained when we Ind the tody of Michael's mad father below the bluff. Then Aunt Mar tha it shot in the ehoulder by an unteen hand, and the Skipper, '. Mike's tall, tweedy aunt. dlsap pear. Sleeping potcder nearly finish Aunt Martha. William, the chauffeur, Mike and J leave Gay Palmer, Mike' lancee, with Aunt Martha while we hunt utilely or the Skipper. . Chapter 35 Doped To The GiUs THE Skipper had run from June's room straight to the exact ipot ot hsr brother' fall, lust ai If h had known what ihe was looking for and where to Ond it She had particularly requested that her doubtful story bout the old man not be repeated to her sister, the only person aside from Higglna who could In any way sub stantiate or refute It. Her alibi with respect to the shoot ing of M. Farrington rested exclu sively on Higgins, who would have died for her with pleasure. Higgins had been In a bad state of nerves sines our arrival. I could not forget that he, Intentionally or otherwise, had almost succeeded In causing my fingerprints to be planted on a weapon that he certainly believed to be the only one used on M. Farring ton. It all boiled down to the fact that the Skipper was the center of the hor ror that engulfed us. She could use a gun quickly and well we had seen her do so in the case of the cat Her tory could be substantiated only by Martha Farrington. and Martha Far rington' life had twice been threat ened since we had heard it The Skip per had been left alone with her sis ter, who, but for our chance arrival, would be dead. And the Skipper was missing. My mind began to consider the un suspecting rescue party that would probably put In an appearance by morning. 1 wondered what they would say what we should say to them. 1 speculated upon who would be In that boat I pictured to myself old Andta Dar ral, with salt water running down his wrinkled face and his enormous mouth gaping at us. Andle would be la that boat And aftet Andie 1 couldn't seem to decide on anyone , else. Well, we should say that two people had been killed, a third both wounded and poisoned, end a fourth disappeared. Andie would gape at us, and then blankness. I went over the same ground a dozen times before William came In. "Mr. Michael says to come down to dinner, sir. I'm to stay with Miss Far rington." William was to stay Well, suppose he had locked that cellar door? He had saved the old lady's life first, and he would hardly have gone through all that if he were planning another attempt After all, It was Michael's aunt and Michael's decision. 1 went down to dinner. An Appalling Meal 1HAVE eaten some bad meals In my day, but I have never been con fronted by anything equal to that one. Hash-browned potatoes, cold and reeking of grease, underdone pork chops, limp and slimy, burnt peas fresh from a tin can. Mike threw down his fork In disgust "Higgins," he exploded, "what the devil la the meaning of this?" Higgins had been quite well aware of what he was giving us. He hsd served the appalling meal as quietly and carefully as he might have served a banquet for the Duke of York, and yet 1 had the Impression that he had been enjoying an excellent Joke. His face never moved a muscle. "The meaning of what sir?" Michael nearly strangled. "Dont mimic me! What do you mean by serving this disgusting mess? Has Cook lost her mind?" 'No. sir. Cook Is a bit upset sir. Tm very sorry." "Sorryl" Michael's face turned pur ple. "Do you mean to" But Gay Interposed quickly. "Shut up, Mike. Is there anything In the ice box. Higgins?" "There might be. miss. 1 will look." Gay pushed back her chair. "Never mind." she said. "We'll look our selves." Unexpectedly Higgins planted his back against the door. His face was expressionless, but It stopped all three of us. "If you'll excuse me, miss, I irouldnt advise your going Into the 1 JOY RIDERS LOB ANOE1.E8. June 18.(AP Tro plan craahca and the d?ath of ftra arta. "Joy rldtn" In tha If Angel ea art, Sunday npurred draitlc nforemnt of Hying ruJca today. J. S. Marriott, aupervinlnt; Innpctor of the federal bureau of aeronautlca. aAktd Washington headquarters lor more men to handle increasing air traffic here and warned airport siralnat violations by pilot. Three orcupanta of an old model biplane were kilted when It lost a wing during a loop above San Ma rino and plunged floo feet to a ra cant field. A small training plane carrying two young men fell In a tallpin six blocks from IU hangar at Grand Central air terminal. Glendale. More Inlnn Voting PORTLAND. June 15 (AP I. B Weber, aecretary of the Northwfft Woodworkers PVderatlon. eald today that a balloting committee is in Longview preparing to conduct a rote on the question of whether loon la of the Lumber and Sawmill Workvrs Union In that area will affiliate with the C.I.Q. Jap Contul Moved PORTLAND. June IB (API Kin Tturuml Japane. consul here since . 1035. waa notified today of his p polntment as consul genera) for the Harbin Mtnchoukuo. district. His uccMt9f b4 bt& turned. kitchen Just now.' His word weie I civil enough, but nls ton waa com manding. It took Michael several sec onds to be abl to speak at ail. "Why not?" "Cook Is not quite herself. Nerves and a little too much stimulant sir." I glanced back at the untouched meal. "Do you mean she's drunk. Hig gins?" "No. not exactly." Brushing past the butler, Mlk strode into the kitchen with Gay at his heel. 1 took a good look at Hig gins. With a slight shrug, he stepped to the table and began to clear It 1 wanted to knock some answers out of the man, but his back told me plainly that 1 might Just as well save my breath. Reluctantly 1 followed the other. An arresting scene presented Itself In the kitchen. Cook tat at the head of the table, a huge spoon in her hand with which she from time to time dipped into an enormous bowl in front of her. The woman was not drunk. She was doped. Her eyes and skin betrayed that Mike was staring at her, dumb founded. But sheer terror was writ ten all over the face of Annie, who crouched on a stool at the other end of the table, apparently under order not to move. Through the open door Into the entry, I could see Gay rum maging In tha refrigerator. "What's the matter with you?" said Michael sternly. Cook waved a roguish, dripping spoon in his direction and began to curse fluently. We couldn't quiet her for a long time. Finally, she turned the full benefit of her glassy, muddled eyes on my face. Then, grunting like a ponderous animal, she wobbled to her feet and wove an unsteady course up the stairs, still clutching the repulsive bowl In her arms. Four of us gaped after her. I Cook An Addict? MIKE flung himself Into a chair. "Oh. hell!" he mutttered wearily. "What next? Damn It all, what next?" I didn't answer him. My attention for the moment was Axed upon Annie, still shivering a! the end ot the table. "Annie," I said, "have you ever seen Cook like this before?" The girl nodded dumbly, "Often?" ' "No no only once." "When?" "Last winter. It was only once, Mr. Wells. She ain't done It In years ex cept then. It was was an awful storm, sir. And she had a toothache." I chewed that rapidly. "Did either of the Miss Farringtons know of it?" Annie was on the verge ot tears "No, sir. We we said she was sick me and William. There wasn't no use in letting on to Higgins. He'd have gone straight to the missus, and it'i hard to live things down, sir. I used to know Cook when 1 was little. She'd given it up, sir. And anyway. It wasn't like this. She was just quiet Mr. Wells, you're not going to" "I don't know," 1 said. "Go help Miss Palmer scare up something tc eat out there." She went, but I had tc help her t her feet As soon as she was out ol earshot 1 whirled on Michael. "She's doped to the gills now. Thai means" 1 was Just beginning tc realize what it did mean. The second attempt on M. Farrlngton's life hal beer made by dope. Anc. either Cook had once been an addict or Annli was a liar. No help was forthcomlni from Michael. He sat staring at th floor, not even listening to me. "What do you think, Mike?" Ni answer. Impatiently 1 shook hi! shoulder. But the entrance of Gaj and Annie stopped me. They had found food all right plenty of it Bui for once a successful raid a&'ordec me no satisfaction. We all ate because we needed food, not because wi wanted it Higgins made quiet en trances and exits to and from the din. tng room, assured us that he had at. ready eaten, begged permission to re tire, and took himself off upstalrf with evident relief. ' Over and over in my mind, I mulled the possibilities that this new angle lent to the situation. If Cook was now doped and there seemed very lltle doubt on that score there was a possibility that she had been In the same condition on the nighl when Norman Farrington made his dramatic entrance Into the house. In that case, all M out previous cal culations of time were worthless. There was no telling how long Annie had lain bound and gagged In the entry. And the unquestionable fact of William's lathered and partially shaven face dwindled In Importance. He might have taken all the time In the world !o prepare the' evidence. fCovvrtoM JH7 Bithtr Tvttrl Oay does a little sUge setting in the living room, tomorrow. LAUDED BY S PARIS. June 18. (API Farmer Qov. ernor Alfred S. Smith of New York said today his Impressions of Europe led him to believe the American sys tem of government was better than any kind of "Isma." Addressing the American club, the former governor Orlared ha waa a Jetfersonlan Democrat, "which mean that I am for the kind of government that can t be changed unlwa the peo ple want tn changed." Smith will be received by President Robert Lebrun Wednesday, and Pre mier Leon Blum Friday. He plins then to visit England and Ireland. Auto Crash Vlrtlm. POfDLETON. June IS (API Em It Biankenslilp, Heitx. waa In a Pen fieton hospital in a entire! condi tion with a fractured skull, the re sult of a collision Sunday ntght nine miles north of heie of cers driven by f.wciH- King. Helix, and Miss u. Fienfes Blanchrtt, Pendleton. Self Confirmed. PORTLAND, June IS (API fd eral Jude Jamra Alfler pre confirmed sale to the Pacific American Plsher lee for ISSono of the Italian mt.ior- ship Peltre, sunk In a collision In the commb'a river last svnmary. and subsequently raised and brought to svrtland. Use Mail fnouc ataaa. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address tha author, tnclotbur a aUmped envelope for reply. Bee- V. 8. Fmi Off. 51 &wef?- I WRKiLCti FW&6r'SrrM? The cause of the strange reflecting phenomenon found in the so-called magic mirrors' of Japan aroused considerable Interest in scientific cir cles some years ago. It was finally explained as follows: In common with practically all mirrors made In Japan up until re cent years, the "magic mlrrora" were made of metal and had raised de signs molded on their backs. Cast fist, they were curved by being scratched with Iron tools and then smoothed off by rubbing m mercury. Thla treatment caused a greater curv ature of tha face of the mirror over the plain parts of the hack than over the paru carrying a design. Due to this unequal curvature, beams of light reflected from the face of trie mirror to a wall or other flat aurfnee shows the outline of the design on the back of the mirror In much the County Restricts Credits. COQUILLE (UP) Sales of all county-owned property for lesa than 100 will be for cash only, the county court decreed here.. Sales of more than $100 worth of property will in clude the provision for terms, '10 per cent down and the remainder In Installments. TAILSPIN TOMMY The Woman in the Case I HeM TOMMY, IMPERSOMATIMS THr 3LAIM SPV PlLOTj AMTHOMV LACtY, WASASKE-D FOR A RECtlPT FOR DE-LIVE-RIMQ PORTIF-ICATIOM PLANS, WHICH HIS DOUBLE", THfr LATC SPY HAD DtLIVE-PtQ TOMMY WAS RATH M hOMPLUSSE-0 POO THE- RtASOl THAT He- HAD NO BECE-IPT, WHE-N SUDDtNLYTHe DOOR OPE-hf-D... BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER SPR.UCU6 UP" 6000 l.U'ilwpftS CUiT0MEa; KiOllCEO n,TOL0 OTUERc, bEEM LIKE UEMWE.9 AUO aAVJUWE-V6 MM W REAL 0WJI0EUD9 Vr M&CVLi ' iTORE - j law me, mr-9. maaius, vou sure "i OOOK. PURTV AU' PRO-iVEROU-i BOTH'AVi' J'l THE NEBBS-It's Different tVFTSM-O.N.V VOTES FO? LUTVEfl' ..DCGVJT icA-e avri ceoscso .vrv vm.riA40Kj sal, r-xX-MT MOLcv.viJ, ivi.a.j to (owe AvsD MARSv' EMM4..0S.E PCTTS.TWKJX-S W6 CAVJ Mik EMMA, HIVPCV. orT-5 is fao. IVJ TuF Lf.r, W offices OfTrt ' m ffiwaJa MiUM Of ft JtNPMSSfc llMA6lC MlRROK VilH-RcrOKftiWU vtr wm twr ft vime OH 'HB UKfPtCK ur inc. jVUKKCKs same manner as a piece of paper covering part of the fact of an ordi nary mirror will outline Itself. On the "magic mirror." however, no Ir regularity is visible to a person look ing at lta survace. Presidential Race Fan Ready-fisted and wild, Andrew Jackson must have been a big dis appointment to his mother, who died when he waa In his fourteenth yesr. It was her fond hope that he would take up the ministry as his life work, but "book lsrnin,"bored young Andy to death. Raised In the Carolina frontier country, he came Into an Inheritance of $1600 at sixteen. This was a good-sized fortune In those days, but the young heir didn't keep it long. A lover of horseflesh from boyhood, he tossed the entire sum away on OSC Students Tour. CORVALLIS, June 15. (API Twenty-three students of the Ore gon State college summer session field course in home economics, representing U states, will sail from Vancouver, B. c, June 26 for a two-month tour of Japan, China and Korea. Class Tells! Now H EVERV X -aS - WETM0O6UT HE NOO COULD PUT MIM k' "fL "Pj Vaaasaaj '- yt tsaty Yfa raj s'a'So . c ONTHS BACK .. beta at a Charleston race track. Later, when he became a rising young lawyer. Andrew's flair for horse racing had him tn continual financial hot water. Heavily In debt, on one occasion, he backed his horee. Truxton. with every cent he owned f50o. The horse won. All-Round Athlete There are few important sporta which Hank Barber, now a profes sional wrestler, ha not tried. Three years a football tackle at Dartmouth, he was also a member of the school's track, basketball . water polo and baseball teams. He made the 1032 All-American nine In the latter sport. While at Cambridge Latin. Barber won the All-Interscholastlc tenuis championship. Tomorrow: Lnhtter Promenade. Waiting at Prison Gate. HELENA. Mont.. June 15. (AP) Governor Roy E. Ayera approved the extradition to Ve-le, Ore., on a swlnd- ling charge, of Harry Sullivan, allaa Steve Sullivan, due to be released from the Montana state prison where ha Is serving a sentence for forgery, I A. C- I MET UWEB. lUMULV OKI fw 0 MUCH PLEASAUTER. ) kTPERMlT ME, AUO Y" OH, MERCY ME THE STREET M0WEMTAR1LV THl-i fef f? I THAU THAT SEE0V L00U.1U' S. I THAUU. VOU, IUDEE0 j THAMKL VOU' V MORU1U' AU' WAS RBMARWU' TUlM-lf' OLD MAVJ 'HAD ROUUD BEFORE- FOB YOUR. PA1R0UA.GE I'LL 8E RACK ' ) HOW U1CE "WWA-i T6& VJAITEO OU V ! WELL, fiOT TO 6& 6nW HOME- MR5. 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