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PAGE TWO MEDFOTtD MATT; TRIBUNE. M"EDFORD, OREGON, THTRSDAT. JTTNE 24. 1937. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, lnclotlnf lUmpod enrelope for reply. Res;. V. 8. Pat Off. On tlE DB.UFCF SYNOPSIS. Jude BUiuhop, my old flame, it mtstenously ihol to death. That start our ttormy weekend at Farrinototi Blu0. horn of Utchael't aunts. A teriet 0 strange attacks occurs. Then tee find the body at Michael's mad father betou the bluff. Aunt Mar tha it that in the ihoulaer. then nearlu finished ujith sleeping powders. The Skipper. Mike's tall, tweedy younger aunt, disappears. Cook, William, the chauffeur, and Annie, the maid, suspect Hfogins, the old butler. 1 lock him (n hie room, belieuing him the killer, then write out the case against each perton. Chapter 43 Evidence Anil Motive (FUMBLED for more paper end hurried on. MICHAEL Hat refuted point blank to an. suer questions. Received tome mytteriout communication from Jude perhaps the last she ever made. Wat outdoort at some time near that at which Jude met her death. Furiously opposed to any investigation. Suggestion of hush ing up whole thing uncharacteris tic No proof that he did not kill the cat and wreck his aunt's room. First one on the spot after the shooting of M. Farrlngton. Would of my head told me to go on. 1 must think quickly, and my thought on paper were worth a dozen of my thoughts .eft to themselves. 1 needed another drink, and I took una. COOK A dope fiend at some time in her life. Very hot-headed. Strong at a bull. Capable of cleverly man. aged deceit over a long pcriou. Possible motivesame as William's plus the slightly unbalanced mind of the addict. 1 wrote my next idea down with fingers that trembled with excitement Episode In the kitchen might have been an act desigred by her to throw the authoritiei of the scent Same applies to mysterious appear ance and disappearance of William's Uttert. No evidence of het where abouts at any time given by anyone but William and Annie. Curing the episode in William's room, William might have acted for Cook, whom he was fond of. The mess in M. Farrington'e room was the sort of thing that might b expected of a drug-crazed person. Both of the Farrlngton sisters trusted Cook. She it at ttrong at a man. Might have bodily removed either the Skipper or M. Farrlng ton. Note: AH hypothetical. No real evidence. Nevertheless, I experienced a thrill over that possibility. In Its light, I could explain the entire performance. Cook, aiding William and Annie to I brooded over that sheet for several ninutes, cursing Michael. execute revenge for hts Imprisonment, might have been obliged to go to ap palling extremes fn order to cover thelt own tracks. It was highly pos sible that the poor old lunatic, wan dering around in the dead of night, bad observed something he was not meant to see and had, accordingly, been done away with. The only sub stantiating witness to Higglns' alibt had thus been removed. Perhaps M. Farrlngton had seen something, too. That would explain the several attempts on her life. What could she have seen? Apparently she was unaware of Its Importance. The coat-sleeve that she thought she saw In her mirror might have been William's. have been trusted by all the victims even more than Higglns. Might hove pocketed William's tetter. Seem to have had some Inside knowledge since the first nfpht. Nora: Could not have beaned either Cook, Annie, William or my self. Ignorance of his lather's ex istence singular. Bare pojs.btl.t, that hit dive over the rocks was an attempt at suicide. Motive incom prehensible. . 1 brooded over that sheet for sev-, ral minutes. Not much evidence,! aside from his queer actions that first 1 night. Nothing definite. Just a vngue, , Insistent undercurrent of duplicity! totally unlike Michael. His rows with Gay were encouraging In that they1 might have been expected. Mike wasl set up rather like an August day I warm and sunny with occasional j thunder-storms. For the dozenth time I cursed him for not taking ma into) his confounded secret, whatever It was. That close-mouthed attitude was not like him. ! Gay, I wrote next and stopped at a complete loss. As far 1 could re member at that moment we had not one shred of evidepce against Gay Palmer. True, no one had actually seen her In her room on the night of Jude'i death, but nc or.j had seen her out of it. The same applied to the episode of the cat and the dismantled room. She had been In the library when Cook and Annie were attacked, m her own room with all the others when William and 1 were brained. She had not been at the scene of a crime In one single Instance. Her actions, as far as I could see, had been perfectly natural and abso lutely predictable. There was no trace of a motive, jnlesj we were to go back to that tittle flare of Icnloiisy so characteristically exhibited on that first evening. Her slate was so clean that for a moment my mystery writing habits sen! a thrill of suspi cion buzzing through my head. But I was obliged to bugh at my own lusplcions. 1 wrote: Guide ncs none. Merit's none. Case Against Cook MY temples were beginning to pound tike steam pipes I knew that the time which 1 might decently allow myself (or sulking in a corner nad long since elapsed. 1 knew that the others upstairs must be getting Impatient But something, in the back Must Bag The Culprit TIME was passing. A very few hours remained before the probable ar rival of a rescue party from shore. Unless we were to go through a worse ordea) than any we had yet encoun tered, it was vttal that w have our culprit bagged and ready tot delivery when that first boat touched shore Gritting my teeth. 1 pushed on with my notations. ANNIE Also capable of good bluff. Least so of the three. Was certainly tied up bt someone else. Hysterics might have been due to strain instead of Irlght Has seHtked unafraid of empty house since first night. iVo definite evidence. incapaMs of any of it alone. Might do anything for or with William Motive plausible. M. FAHH1NGT0N invited Jude here Heard last con versafion between Skipper ana Juttc. With 5ktpps when person was heard fn upper hall. With others luring attack on Cook and Annie and attack on William and me Brother .could have trusted het im plicitly iVot strong enough to re more anyone oodilb. Last person to see the Skipper Nearly killed twice. Apparently withholding evidence, consciously or otherwise. With Annie when tet ters were removed from William' room. Has acted charactertsticall, throughout. Motive none. (CovyrioW IDT. ttsther Tyler) I look over the blaft and tt a Idea tomorrow. ENJOY SIGHTS OF rtT Richard Tlilfrolf.) SAN FRANCISCO. June 31. tB) Mall ) We irrlvM in Oakland this morning, safe and out.rt. Last night we plckrd up our last load of boys at Dunnmuir. Thing- would htue btrn all right from then on If t had not been for Jlmmle Elliott and Rogor Olmnchelrt. Jlmmle walked back and forth alter water, spilling It on e wry one, and Roger talked aU night; coiurquently the whole out fit was up and about by 4 o'clock this morning. We spent the day stftMwina. around the bay. noelnp the China Clipper, bridges. Pie1dio Alamed Vube siiu otliet tills poUiu of lu- tercat. as gunsta of the Standard Oil company of California. At noon we visitod the huge tfeish acker swimming pool and roo. Tlie noon menl wnjt enten In the peaeti Chalet overlooking the pacific ocean. After lunch we went back to the city and apent the afternoon In the , Boy Bcout trading post. This pout nutribute supplies to all areas on the Pacific coast and Rooky moun tains. In the evening we went to China town where a real Chinese dinner waa enten In the Shanghai Low rea taurant. Prom their we went to the Chinatown telephone exchange where, itutead of asking for a numtvr. the Chine? gtey the inme of the peraon to whom they wth to speak. There are 3S.0O0 nnnir listed in the -change and the Chine girl oper ators have niemorljvd alt the namos. Prom thrrc we had to run to the Perry building tn order to catch the last rerry. It is now 9:30 and w are on our way to Salt Lake City. The boys had a tlsv full of new ex prlence. nfw MghiA and thrill and a cUm- tills little t-pi-tle 1 nut ice tti.it even Roger and Jim are leady ioj bvd. J 7 m MM- 1He wwwrocftH 1 1 Art. I K ff frtfV m tefrllCK & f ffie Wt SHRINK, near HaAoM, Japan, tav w i sr u. tr w faat Dukh statesman. MO?m W 17 AND WcftWE , Hugo Orotlus Ranted In Ley den, Holland, Hugo Grot Hi aet a terrific pace in his ed ucation. At nine he was writing first oIsm Latin verseat 12 he entered university. Three years later he edit ed the encyclopedic work of Mar tl&nus Capella, then went to the court of France with a special em bassy. In 1599. at the age of 17. Orotlus condur ted bis first law ault, won widespread fame for the ability he displayed In the handling of It, and waa appointed States -General his toriographer at 30. When 24 he was made Advocate-General. Life stopped running smoothly for Orotlus In 1518. Involvcdln e poll tlcal oattle, he was thrown Into pris on under a life sentence, escaped and went to Prance. Here he Uvel until 1031 when he returned to Holland In the hope that the charges against him would be dropped after his long exile. His enemies were still active, however, and Grotius was condemned to perpetual banishment. Sweden became hts next place of refuge. He waa gladly welcomed, waa befriended by the government and won a post aa Swedsh ambassador to Prance, an office which he held for ten years. Returning to Sweden via Holland, the expatriate was given a rousing welcome in Amsterdam. Moat of his onemles were dead and hla country men demanded his return. Hasten ing to Sweden, Orotlus wound up his afaflr there and headed back for ha native and. At Danzg a storm stop ped him, he became 111, fought his way U. Rostock and died, August 29, 1645. Today Grotius la chiefly rememb ered for his "De Jure Belli et Pacts," regarded as the basis of modern in ternational law. Elephant Jewelry So thick are the tall hairs on cer tain species of African elephants that they sre highly valued by natives aa material for "good luck" rings and charms. Elephant hair Jewelry la becoming a popular novelty through out tr.e world, according to Olga Trltt. noted New York Jewelry expert. Tommorw: The Towel That Ended n Marl HOOD RIVER GROWERS PLAN STORAGE PLANT HOOD RIVER. June 24. (API Construction work on a new storage plant for the Apple Growers associa tion, designed to refrigerate 800,000 boxes of apples and pears, started to day. The plant, which will be one of the largest In the northwest, will be five stories high and refrigeration costs are expected to run less than 7S cents per box. Plan Wallowa Bank SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. (API Transamerlca Corporation's Oreigon banking subsidiary, the First Nation al Bank of Portland, will open a bianch at Wallowa, Oregon. July 1. Tnere Is no bank in the community. Mall Tribune want ads. NEW K. F. BUILDING TO HOUSE LIQUOR STORE THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE By cluyas williams oXjl-UL or in jfej FE&1X6 -trlAf -frtElR SAME6 WOULD SEM MOFE IMPORIW IF THEY HAD A CHEERIK6- sectioH, -The -rtrAM Forced -the younser ELEMENT 0F1UE NEIGHBORHOOD fo SERVE A R0ME"R6. If WAS NOf ft SUCCESS (Oepyrtilrt. 1837, by The Bell Byndicete, Inc.) WlUJAMS By 0. M "YNE KLAMATH FALLS. June 34. 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