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TtfEDFOKD MAIL TRTBTTXE, MEDFOTtD, OREOON". TTTTRSDAT. TTTXE 17. 1937. I C3UDDGD THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, tncloalni a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. U. S. Pat Oft On THE DD.UI7I? iiwmtm rtrS7t PAGE TEN I - i SYNOPSli 2 he mytttrlou (hooting to death o Judo Blin shop, my old flame, opens our stormy weekend at Farrington Bluff, home of Michael' aunts. A series ot strange attacks is appar ently explained when we find the . body ot Michael's mad father be . low the bluff. Then Aunt Martha is (hot in the shoulder by an un seen hand, and the Skipper, Mike's tall, tweedy younger aunt, disappears. Sleeping pow ders nearly finish Aunt Martha, and Cook gets "doped to the gMs." Mike, his fiancee. Cay Palmer, and etart searching the bedrooms for a clue to the killer or the Skipper's uihere abouti. Chapter 37 William1 Secret AT last only one thing remained to be investigated the bed and Its silent occupant. Great beads of per spiration stood on Michael's face. But we had failed to look at that bed once before, and our failure had been dis astrous. I took a deep breath and stepped toward it Moving so lightly in my clenched hand as almost to throw me left my balance, the sheet came back. tJude Blinshop lay where I had placed $er. 1 replaced the cover quickly. The stillness of that room seemed Ho follow us down the hall to my quarters. No one spoke during the entire performance of dumping all my things on the Door. 1 couldn't get Judo's disfigured, staring face out of !my mind. It seemed to be reproach faig me for something. I'm afraid I wasn't ot much help at that stage of the game. Michael's voice was hushed as he asked me if 1 was all right. ' I said that 1 was. I stumbled after them into his room and helped paw through his belongings. There was devil of a mess there, but nothing more. And that brought us to a halt Aside from the servants' quarters, there remained only the rooms of the two aunts. Annie and M. Farrington were in one of them, and the bath room door Into the other probably still stood open. Cook and Hlgglns hwere in their rooms or should have been. That left William's room and lAnnie's. Annie, it seemed to us, would be more apt to remain where she was than William. We decided on his room first. Breathlessly we tiptoed across the main hall to the servants' quarters. Not a sound. One dim light was burn ing lust above the stairs In the nar row hallway. We listened at Hlggins' door. A light was burning inside, but there was not a sound. We crept down the corridor to Cook's door where the sound of heavy breathing was clearly audible. Pushing open William's door, I groped for a light Two Letters Fall Out THE tumbled bed still bore testi mony of my struggles there. The trunk straps that had held me lay on the floor as Michael had flung them. Inch by Inch we went over that room through the dresser, the wardrobe. his uniform pockets, under the rug, all over the bed and its mattress. 1 Anally shrugged helplessly and turned to the door. "Walt a minute." It was Michael at the window against which reposed a small leather cushion of the sort , used In the driver's seat of a car. Mike picked it up. We all crowded around him and as we did so a sec tion of the cushion unsnapped. Two 'letters fell to the floor I stooped and picked them up. They were both In plain white en ivelopes, one typed and one addressed iln a vertical. Arm handwriting. In the corner of the typewritten one, 1 read Office of the Warden, Wethers .field Prison, Wethersield, Connect! cut. It was addressed to Mr. William Wilier, 137 Nassau St, New York City. My hand shook so that 1 could Ihardly get the letter out of the en velope. The data was In July of the previous year. I read: i am sorry to team from our mutual friend that you have en countered difficulty in securing employment. It is my suggestion that you get in touch with Mr. Blinshop who, in spite of the fact that he was obliged to take the stand against you, bears you no malice, and is most eager to help you now. He is a generous and sympa thetic man. In spite of the trouble you have caused him, you need not hesitate to accept his assist ance. I heartily endorse the plan of a fresh name and a fresh start Do not lose your nerve. Please keep In touch with me. It was signed by the warden of the prison. "Dca Bat." read the other letter, "I was glad to hear from you. Vou've been on my mind for a long lime. I'd hate you to think that 1 had any grudge against you because of your tough luck. I felt then and I still feet that you were a good chap In a tight spot "fortunately, J thlr.lt we can manage to get you a job where you will be (tut as well off as you were here. Then yo'- can forget i.ie whole business. With your permission, I'll drop in on you Wednesday at 11 a. m. and we can go around and see about it "It bucks me up to have you write to me after all Let me know if Wednesday isn't all right Yours sincerely, John Bunshof." So William had known Jude Blin shop Worse than that he had appar ently gotten Into trouble while work ing tor her father and been prose cuted for it For the first time, we had discovered a clear and plausible motive. Another Scrap Looms MICHAEL spoke first. "The rat!" he said. "After a guy went to all that trouble to give him a llftl" There were several things about the situation that puzzled me. Why should William have kept those twe letters? He was not a sentimental soul, nor yet an Imaginative one. As suming that he had been responsible for Jude's death, he was a treacher ous, cold-blooded devU, 1 couldn't seem to Imagine such a man keep ing Incriminating evidence to gloal over when the nights were long and lonely. The evidence was right under my nose, but I wasn't satisfied with it Could this be what Jude had told Wmm Breathlessly we tiptoed across the .nain hall. Michael? Perhaps she had not beer, aware that the aunts knew William 'i Identity and wanted to warn them. Perhaps 1 asked Michael for the sixth ot seventh time what Jude had told him in the game room. I don't know what 1 expected him to do, but he certainly didn't do it His eyes Jerked from the letters In his hand to my face. They held s startled, panicky look that turned rapidly to one ot rage. "I told you that she warned mi about the chimneys." His voice wai thin and tight. "Perhaps you could understand it better If 1 repeated that It was none of your business." Gay's face turned a dull red and her eyes began to glitter. "You listen to me " She hid Mike by the arm, and another scrap wai close enough for me to see the whitei of lis eyes. Cut it out!" 1 snapped. "Gay. shul up. I thought that It might have been about William. Mike. That's all. Wai it?" "No." I believed him. Well, at lent I knew of one thing that Jude had nol laixea about. fCoevrteal jut, tiltir Tvler) Someone aulpklw ..... . In William's room, tomorrow. NAZI ITALY BACK IN NAVY PARLEY LONDON. June 17. (AP) Or .tntny nJ Italy formally announced today their tlwlaton to mum co opera. If n witti the International non intervention committee and to tAite an active part in the neutral patol or 8pm Uh water. Oerman and Italian ambaaMdora made the announcement In a Joint communique which aald the declaim waa eached the result of ;ite ARree.i.ent on Saturday, June 13 be tween the four powtra reaponair.e for t e naval patrol." ' Th '.wo countries withdrew from tr.a oanmltt May 31 after warah.i-s of bom Italy and Germany had been bombed, by BpanUh jorernnviit plane. During afternoon revival meetings In rural Georgia towns it is cus tomary lor store to doe. BAKER. June 17 (jn Al tele phone lines in Pine Valley M mUea Tom Baker, were thrown out of com mlMion thl morning by severe tnrm. dwribed cyclone ac cording to ft telvram received here Tom Roblnette. The extent of the d&mtige caused ny the storm could not &e a-arned aa he Pacific Telephone and lVegraph company lines were aluo out of order aa a result of the storm between Paker snd Richland. Iha telephone .lne in Pine Valley are owned oy the Panhandle Coopeiattva Ipheoe company and the Pine Vsllev T1 oK'ne ayntem. - Oorlllaa Attain a height ot six ftvt but because of their stooping pontine they riee only about four feet from the ground. f t.i'llSS, - I .. vw. ... f A iir a A A aaa V' CA nlJ I.MOISlkleU ' IN 3 DlFPffPENT COUNTltlBZ ' i MrNtijfh! SjrttttiuU, IfeHNlSSIHaLtS CHfWlOfASHlP VPiH ftLEN, IN trie flNPilS rjrv "wi mmk nsr-n COMPERED TH& &REfir&reeRVIC To Hi C0UNTRV-- IT me UNA Otic OF THE KftUH?OPULPK WEN IN Trie Chloroform Coincidence. As far back aa the days of ancient Egyptian surgery, science spught methods for Inducing sleep In pati ents while they underwent painful operations or treatment. The Egyp tians made their contribution to the science of anaesthetics by knocking patients Into unconsciousness with a club. .That was a bit hard on the patients, however, so medical men sought gentler methods. Narcotics such as opium are be lieved to have been used In various parts of the world aa "paln-klllers" centuries ago. but not until the 19th century did the modern anaes thetic of ethen and chloroform come Into use. The latter drug was dlficovered by three chemists In the same year 1831 though none of the three men knew of the othera' work and did their research in different countrieat The three discoverers were: Samuel Guthrie of America, Liebig of Ger many, and Soubelran of France. Paradox Town. That water supply of Sweetwater, Texas, comes from Sweetwater lake, an artificial lake formed by the dam ming of Bitter creek. Thus, strange aa It seems, Sweetwater gets Its water from Bitter creek. John Adam. In his own words, John Adams de sired "no other inscription over my grave than this: "Here Ilea John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of the peace, with France in 1800." Adams' term as president was a stormy one. At its start conditions offered strong possibilities of drag ging the United States into a war with England as an ally of France. This situation soon went into reverse and the nation clamored for an alli ance with Great Britain against France. Adams stood firmly for peace throughout both war scares. His stand is credited with having beep the major factor in keeping the na tion out of war in both Instances, yet it made him one of the most unpopular men of his time. Tomorrow: The Superman! School Fund Per Capita. SALEM, June 17. &) Common school funds available for the 1937 distribution will amount to 91,32 per capita compared with 91.25 last year, Lewis Griffith, clerk of the state land board, said today. Klamath Too Hulny. KLAMATH FALLS. June 17. (fp) For the first time tn Klamath county history, farmers today were complaining of too much moisture. Democratic Confab. WASHINGTON. June 17. ($) President Roosevelt will confer with more than 400 Democratic congress men about general legislative prob lems during an outing at secluded Jefferson Island club in Chesapeake bay, beginning June 25. Would Enjoin Chlloqutn. KLAMATH FALLS. June 17. (&) Suit to enjoin the city of Chllo quin from paying Arthur W. Prl aulx. Republican state committee chairman, and publisher of the Chllo quln Review, for printing, stationery and supplies has been filed by Nick Roufos. a Chlloquln taxpayer, it was learned ' today. 6-1L WHEH tf'S 1b0 LftTE" to TURN AND RUK . 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