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PAGE ETOHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MKDFORD, OTfEHON". TUESDAY. JULY 15. 1937 - s t I L hw t.LUYAS WILLIAMS C3UDDGD STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof addraa tha anther, lncloalng a ftaunpad envelope for replr. Ref . TJ. B. Pat OC BUILDING PROJECT OD TOO DD.UK717 Br wmam rtrISM Chapter S3 Aunt Martha' Machinatloni "I SUPPOSE Mirth! thoufht she had dont away with all posslblll tlea of Mike's hearing about hli fa ther. She handed Biggins the fun and went quickly back to bed. Poor Hlg f ini made lure that he could do noth ing for Jude. He cleaned and reload ed the gun and resolved to talk to me before he laid anything to anybody else. "As for Tie, my situation got In creasingly worse from the moment 1 walked Into the kitchen. I felt sure that either Martha or Norman had done It. but 1 had not one shred of proof and didn't have until Hlgglns spoke to me yesterday. Martha staged a frightened, elderly woman act I could get nowhere with her. I did nothing because we were as much on our guard is we could be and I want ed to avert panic. "How the dlckent Norman man aged to elude us when we searched the srounds In broad daylight. I don'l know. He may have let himself Into the house more than once with that key. I don't think there's any doubt that he waa the intruder who dealt with Cook and Annie. That handker chief he used on Annie was yours, aa a matter of fact. Mike. Hed been using some of your clothes. Hlgglns was the prowler In the hall. He told me so. But poor Norman must have ransacked Martha's room and muti lated the cat In just the sort of freniy the doctors had predicted. . "I'm sure that you and William suf fered at hla hands, Jim. Then, 1 Im agine, he let himself Into Jude'a room with his key and concealed himself in that horrible fashion. Martha must have known that he was there. 1 sup pose she really thought that he was better dead than confined. At any rate, the minute I realized that he was gone, 1 could think of only one thing the spot on the bluff where his mother died and where Martha used to brood for hours as a girl, in her mind she had made a martyr of her mother. Something told me that she Intended to do the same with her brother. 1 knew what we would find at the foot of that cliff before 1 had taken a single step. "You see, 1 still hadn't talked to Higgina. 1 knew tha. we war at the mercies of a homicidal maniac, but I had not one shred of proof and my chances of being believed were pretty slender. I put her to bed and 1 thought he was sleeping when I left her. Ap parently she wasn't Higgina was on the verge of telling you the whole story, Jim, when he saw her stand ing outside the window In my oil skins listening. She frightened him half out of his wits. What ah was doing out there 1 don't know. Look' lng at the scene of Norman'a death possibly. At any rate from then on she began to distrust Hlgglns. After you went looking for Mike, Jim, he let her In. And she threatened him, poor old boyl He was terrified. He got her to her room and went in . search of me. 'My Aim Waa Rotten' "A fE AN WHILE you got tha wacky 1,1 notion that you were Insane. Mike, and I did the hardest thing I've ever aone tn my lire. I went to Hlg gins' room, got his revolver, and walked straight down tha hall to Martha's door. In view of Hlgglns1 story she must have lust left the oil skins In my room and started to un. dress. She was at the dressing-table and as she turned toward me, I shot her. Unfortunately, my aim was rot' ten. Hlgglns had caught sight of me in the servants' hall. Aa 1 turned around he was right at my elbow. He never said a word. Took the gun out of my band, wiped It clean with his handkerchief, and shoved me to the head of the stairs. To all Intents and purposes we were coming up them as you rushed down the hall, Mike. Hlgglns had the alibi right on the tip or ma tongue. "When 1 heard that I had failed. knew that 1 had endangered your lives more than ever. Martha knew who had shot her, although I don think she actually saw me. She knew and she laid her plans accordingly. "I was with her for some time, you may remember, She pretended to be asleep, but 1 knew that she wasn't She was my sister practically my mother and and a grand girl, Godl How I pitied herl But we aat there within two feet ol c. . , an" planned each other's dealu i waited until she asked for another sleeping powder. 1 went Into the bathroom to fix it, where she could not possibly see me, and I put a half a box of the damned powders Into her glass. "But she was ahead of me. I came back to And her crying. It wasn't as if her state of mind had been her fault Seeing her that way got me. 1 tried to comfort her. but she wouldn't listen for a long time. Then something appeared to snap in her and she poured out a story. She said thai she had lured you Into the old loft Mike, and shot you. Then, fright ened, she had put you inside one ol the cedar chests and left you there-alive. If 1 had stopped to thlru, would have known that she was lying. She hadn t been out or my sight since you had left the room. But she knew me well enough to know that I wouldn't stop. That loft was used as a sort ol strong-room In Grandfathers time. had forgotten Ita existence. I tore up to It dragging her with me. And when I got to the place where she wanted me, she simply crowne mc with something. The rest of that let'a not talk about." The Skipper's pauses were becom lng longer and more difficult but she went on. '1 think Higgina suspected her, but the place had never been used in hit time. He didn't know how to get intc it and he knew that Martha wa; watching him. r heard someone tap ping around down here trying to Bnr the opening, and 1 Imagine It wa' Higglns. Also, he probably wasn' sure of himself. Martha's nearly d; lng after aha finally took the powdc probably made him wonder whetl 1 hadn't simply attempted to mure her a second time and then beat It escape being caught. I heard him calling to me seve. times through the Door in his roo He apparently knew I whs there, L thought 1 could answer him or con down if 1 wanted to. When Mart! knew that 1 had been found del or alive she knew that Hlggii would talk. Poor old Hlgglns he been protecting her with his life. H even removed those letters that sh planted in William's room. She begge the originals from me long ago anc kept them all thla time. Those letter; were forgeries, of course. Hlgglns hac saved her life, but now he was dan. gerous. And so she killed him." A Moral Somewhere THE Skipper stopped abruptly anc the audden silence waa painful Micnael sat with his head In hli hands, motionless. Gay's subduec face was turned toward him. and hei eyes were anxious. But the Sklppei aat straight and stiff between them her face a mask and her eyes stralgh' ahead. Finally Michael raised hli head. "Ia that all?" he said In a mufflet voice. The Skipper's smile was twisted "That'a all. If you like, Jim, you car send Jack Blinshop out here to me 1 suppose It's poetic justice that I should be the person to tell him." Blindly I groped foi- words, found none, and choked out "I'm telling him." Gay got suddenly to her feet dropped one swift kiss on the top ol the Skipper's head, and went noise lesaly from the room. I wanted tc follow her, but my feet seemed rlv. eted to the spot. "1 suppose." the Skipper's voice went on. "there's a moral somewhere in this, although at the moment it eludes me. Something about th wages of sin, no doubt. Only. Mlckle I" Her voice caught and stopped One Instant there was silence; thi next the room waa filled with dry hard sobbing, Michael crashed to hi knees. 1 slipped through the game roon and out the aide entrance to th lawn, barely feeling the sting of th cold, salt air. I needed a coat but no badly enough to go back for one. Th foot of the drive confronted me be ' fore 1 was really aware that I ws walking. Pausing. I stared out acros the water toward the mainland. motor dory was headed straight foi tha spot where 1 stood. In anothei minute the leathery old face of Andif Darrel was staring up at me from under his sou'westet. "Hi there!" he trumpeted nasally. THE END AT CRATER LAKE CRATER LAKE. flpD Purk Nut uralUt John E. Dorr, Jr., hta an nounced member of the 1037 nttur alUt ataff hero to carry on a aummer pro ram of reaearch. guided field irlpa and other aervlcea. The men are trained tn different field of nat ural science and will continue actlv-j It lea begun tn previous year. ' Geologic research will be under taken by Wayne Kartchner, geolctgy profewor. flan Jone -Stat Teachers' Colleae, Calif., in roHnboratlon with Loren r. Miller. Santa Cnir. cllf high school science instructor. The two men will work closely with Doerr. Dr. Arthur D. Hauler. Voratown, Va. 1 1 mo nolo 1st. trained In freah water bloloxy, will study Crater lake fish life, including food sources, propaga tion, ae, abundance and other prob. Jems. Dr. Hauler, formerly with the U. S. bureau of fisheries. Is recognised as anauthority tn his line of work Wildlife aspects of the park will rlatm the attention of Dr. Ralph Heustla, professor of zoology at the University of Oregon for the past 13 years. He will study habtta of all birds and mammals in the park Waldo Osmond of the Piedmont. Cal. ntagh school, Is Interested In park bi ological research. An accomplished musician, he will assist in the presen tation of community house programs He win also assist In the preparation of Crater lake nature note and spe cial scientific papera. Dr Elmer I. Apple state, acting cu raW of the Dudley Heroarlum of Stanford university, will continue hi botanical research at Crater lake, as well as at the Oregon Caves and Lava Bed national monuments. He has classified 650 plant and shrubs in ths Crater lake area, 300 at Lava Beds and a largo number at Oregon Cvea. Gordon Heggeneaa of the Washington State College will assist Dr. Applegate in the botanical research. B CGC AT LAVA BEDS UVA BROS, Calif. (Spl.) Devel opment and construction of two self, guided trills In Captain Jack's strong- noin or nistorical erea, of thla na tional monument have been placed underway, David H. canflrld. super intendent, announced today. When completed, thene trails will permit visitor to explore the area, through ineir own efforts, gaining a general undemanding of the Modoc Indian ar toutht here In 1873-73. A short trail, alx-tentha of a mile long, passes by a number of Inter 'ting polnta such as Captain Jack's headquarters. Indian entrenchments, council arra and caves where Indian families made their hemes. Kxplsn atory Information will be placed on Rigns at different points of the stronghold. A long trail of VI, miles covers the entire battleground. In cluding corral., where Indiana kept stock for food, first lines of detenu, communicating trenches and a string of crude fortifications constructed by soldiers durtrar the war. mis work la being accomplished by enrollrea of the Lava Beds camp, which la canjing on general im provement protram In the monu ment Use Mai) rnouua wanl aua, VC&rkelius' 1 mm VJU iruts M?rA tivo ftWttMfe owe OF fWRlCWs ft i$ re OWNED Ttio SrtlpS m ChPTAlH OP A THIRD vt WWLftl6ttatSS OftcN VrftNS on us fremiti -HeuMM', MrNaacM SrMaraU. lar. f- 637 11 r ut 18 It waa Corellua Vanderbtlt who founded the vast form no that es tablished the Vanderbllts as one ol the most prominent families in America. The son of a Dutch farmerr, he was raised near Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y. His education was mea ger, but his driving ambition, his shrewd business head and his amaz ing faculty for sizing up men over came hla lack of schooling. The age of 16 found him already embarked In shipping, the business that was to be the stepping atone to wealth. Owner and commander of a, ferry boat he scraped up enough money to buy, he operated a profit able passenger and freight business between Staten Island and New York. Twa yenre Inter ho owned another ship and was captain of a third. At 33. Vanderbllt was operating the first steamship ever run between New York and New Brunswick, N. J., and was already a powerful figure In American shipping, California's gold ruati netted him about ten million dollars when he established a fast line to California with passengers be ing transferred across the Isthmus of Nicaragua. The Crimean war brought him Into the International shipping limelight. English shipping forsook the seas and Vanderbllt cashed In by establishing a steam ship line between New York and Havre, Prance. Cornelius Vanderbllt died In 1877, leaving a fortune estimated to have been In the neighborhood of one hundred million dollars. Most of It was left to his son, William H. Vanderbllt. Woman Mali Man When world war enlistments thin ned out th ranks of Uncle Sam's msll carriers, the government Issued a call for women to fill their shoes. Miss Anna McDonald of Anaconda. Mont., Is said to be the last woman still on active duty of those who took the Jobs. In line of duty she has walked about 58.500 miles, averaging 11 miles dally, alx days a week. With her average, two-a-day load weigh ing about 95 pounds, she has carried a total o more than 253 tons of mall. FfffWER COUIP HE USE SOME Of 'fHE IUMBER WWN CEllAR "fo BtWLD HOT BAtK OF THE 6ARA6E ' fclWlb HAVE HIM BUffr1) TprfHER COK$ErtfS MAKES HALF A t0ZW fRlPSBWlVlWG WM BER OlK fO YARD RtfinWS-foASXWTHER HE USE OOSf A FEeV OF HIS MOD fbOlfc FROM -fVnT WORK BEKCH CARRIES CHK ARMFUL OFOOIS OFEvtRY CON' CEIVRBU VARIETY COMK IN AXP ASKS MAY HE HAVE E 01t CHAIR FROM 11E ftffk. fcPDf IH Hrfe HlHVHErJ if & FINISHED feETfS CHAIR ANP ALSO A DISCARDED ?)diRE AMD A BROKEN MIRROR PILES EVERV-(V)H6 IH MIDDLE OF BACK. LAWK. AMP 60ES OFT 0 FLAY CWCH Wt1i4 ETDIE SELZEI (Ooprrlitt, 1WT, by The Ball tytieata, fac) WltUArt fc-30 S 'MATTER POP Tomorrow: Leapfrog on file Race frock! Talent (p Full sway. ' SAN LEANDRO, Cal. (UP) The parents of 18-year-old Vicky White consented to her carrying out an am bition that had poaseased both her mother and three sisters to become a roller aknte top dancer. In prepar ation for the ncces.ary training the family moved from an apartment to a privoto residence. Record Clnlmed. LONDON. (UP) A world record milk yield for a Shorthorn la claimed for Bcggarmald, a cow owned by Capt. E. S. Fielding Johnson, of Man or Farm. Campion Bt-Mctt. Wiltshire. In 24 hours sub guve 72 pounds of milk, bringing her yield up to 32.715 pounds In 357 days. Lilliputian Village Built. LORAIN, O. (UP) Mr. and Mrs. P. 0. Falrhead have transformed their back yard Into a Lilliputian village. The miniature town contains a caa tlc, a church, two small houses and a tavern. All buildings are made of small stones gathered and cut by the Falrheads themselves. By C. M. 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