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TXaVi TFT TirEDFOTCD MATL TRIBUTE, TfEBFORD. OT?EGQy. fSTiyDAY, 'AUGTJ5T 15, 1937. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS AT THE TENNIS COURT STRANGE AS IT SEEMS -By JOHN HIX Vat further proof address the author, tsclodnt (Umped enrelope tor reply. Ret V. B. Tat Oft seaman a. sssswaroa) $uftts SYNOPSIS: Firt destroys Kay Crandon't ranch house and barn. Neighbor Josh Hastings trie to buv her ranch and court Kay, ' but she hates him and is eager to rebuild. Ted Gaynor, a puncher $he impuWuelv hired, fights Scrap Johnson, a cowhand toho mo-. Jeited Kay. Shooting it out, they wound each other. Hastings finds them unconscious and kills Scrap with Ted's gun. Ted crawls to a . cabin uihere a girl (Marlon) nurses him a week. Kay sees . them together, misunderstands and deliriously glues away the 'hideout" after falling off her horse. Ted is arrested and Sheriff ' Zeke Farley quizzes Marion, Chapter 35 A Disturbing Return "tTOWD you come to be here in xx the first place?" asked Sheriff Eeke Farley. Marion steadied herself !d meet this question she had been dread ing. "My father and I were on a camping trip," she began, agree ably surprised to find herself speaking so easily and naturally. "He had to go back for a week or so on business, and I decided to wait for him here." . "All alone?" the sheriff exclaim' id. "You weren't afraid?" "I'm never afraid in the moun tains." Marion smiled faintly at him. "As it happened, it was lucky I stayed. Ted Gaynor wouldn't be alive today, unless someone had taken care of him. "Reckon that may turn out to be wasted effort," Zeke Farley com mented grimly. "But that's neither here nor there. What are you aim' ing to do now?" Marion looked at him with wide' tyed surprise that he should ask uch a question. "Why, wait here until my father comes back," she answered. "What's your father's name?" the sheriff asked abruptly. "Chris Howell, and we're from Missoula, i m Marion Howell. "Chris Howell." Zeke Farley re. peated the name reflectively. Strikes me I've heard something mout unris rioweii, ana just lately, too." Marion paused a moment, to be sure her voice was under control. . what rumors had he heard? And how much truth was there in them? "You may have heard that he's been sick," she said finally. "That's one of the reasons we came up here, to give him a complete rest. He'd seen this old deserted shack once, and always had a notion that he'd like to camp out here some time." "Maybe that was it," the sheriff agreed. "It 11 come back to me later." He rubbed his chin in a per plexed fashion as he gazed at Mar lon. "I reckon there's nothing I can do about you, if you're hell bent to " stay here," he said at last. "But you must let me know when you leave. You'll be wanted as a witness at the trial." "I'm ready to do anything I can," Marion promised. "I ra convinced this charge against Ted Gaynor is all a terrible mistake. That man's no murderer." "He sure has a way with the women, all right," Zeke Farley commented. "That's what Kay Crandon says." "Oh, you've seen her, then?" Marion asked with eager curiosity. "Sure I've seen her. It was her Dad's gun, that she'd given to Gay- Sor, that the killing was done with, ut even in face of that, she's sure he's innocent. Or "was, when I talked with her, at least. Seems like she'a changed her mind, though!" Zeke Farley stooped down and picked up his hat, preparatory to joining the others outside. Then he paused, as a sudden thought struck him. "Do you know Kay?" Marion shook her head. "Ted Gaynor told me about her. I'd like to meet her some time." "She's an Al girl," Zeke Farlev answered. "And smart, too. I don't know just how she found out Gay nor was here, but she sure did Cut ter and me a good turn when she tipped us off." "What's that?" Marion asked In horrified amazement. "Kay Cran don tipped you off?" "Sure she did. Or rather, she got ( friend of hers to do it." Zeke Far ley pulled open the door as he spoke, and before Marion could say anything more, he had waved his hat to her, and stepped out to join the others. Thoughts About Kay d'"y sense of having ' ' passed through a nightmare of unreality, Marion held on to the door frame of the shack and watched Zeke Farley and his men ride off. Sam Cutter had left with his posse and led. while she and Far ley had been talking inside. Marion felt a sirk disappointment to think that Ted had had to go of! without one word from her. A wave of svmpathv swept over her. as she thought of what the Vierifl had said about Kay Crandon having been the one who had tip- peu mm uu as iu icui w, ic. c abouts. It would just about kill Ted tn know that the eirl he was so crazy about had done a thing like that. "How could ehel" Marion ex claimed aloud, an angry resent ment against Kay possessing her, and excluding for the moment all thnneht of anvthini else. "She can't be as fine as Ted imagines her to be, she went on scorntuiiy, then stopped abruptly as another thought struck her and sent the blood flooding into her face, as it quickened her heart beats. How had Kay Crandon found out? How could she possibly have found out, except oy iiavmt seen them there herself? A memory of the noise sne thought she had heard the night hefore flashed over Marion's mind. Was it possible that Kay Crandon had crept up ana looxea in ine window, while she and Ted had been talking together? The irony of the fact that at the very minute Ted had been talking to her about Kay, nay nerseu might have been gazing in at them, unable to hear anything they said, but putting a wrong construction on the whole scene, brought a stifled cry of dismay from Marion's lips. In a Rash she could see me wnoie thing with Kay's eyes. Suppose Ted has been mistaken, and Kay ..M.. A f- Ulm na Ua AA fftl- her?'How must she have felt then to find him alone with another girl! Crimson flooded Marion s cheeks again, as she rememoerea now, just before she had heard that sound which she had taken for an animal prowling about the house, she had felt Ted's pulse and put her hand on his forehead. How must that have looked to an observer from outside? Of course, Kay's jealousy would have been aroused,. if shr had been in love with Ted! "But jealousy or no jealousy, she shouldn't have given him away to the sheriff!" Marion agonized aloud, "I must go and tell her " "Who shouldn't have given who away to the sheriff?" A voice behind Marion made her spin around in amazement. The next moment, she was flying down the steps, and over to the edge of the clearing behind the hut. "Dad!" she exclaimed, her voice vibrating with joy and relief. She started to throw herself into his arms, but he held her off, and with a rush of her old fear, she rec ognized the terrible wild look in his eyes. Cold Fury "T7HO were you talking about?" ' her father demanded. "What sheriff? Where?" "It has nothing to do with us." Marion said soothingly, her eyes anxiously studying his haggard race, ' i n tell you an about it later. But first, let me get you something to eat. Why don't you wait out here and let me bring it to you?" she ended, with a sudden realization of the disorder of the hut, and the in evitable explanations that would be demanded if he saw it. before she had a chance to efface the evi dences of Ted's occupancy. uuick suspicion nared in his eyes, and without a word, he thrust her aside, and walked to the door of the cabin. Her heart in her throat, Marion followed him, and stood tremblinf,, as she awaited the inevitable explosion of his unrea sonable wrath. He took one look In the door, then turned with a cold fury to Marion. "What Is the meaning of this?" The dangerous quiet of his voice was more terrible than if he had shouted at her. "Nice way you've followed my instructions!" "I couldn't help it. Dad!" Marlon reached out an appealing hand and put it on his arm. "Two days after you left, a wounded man suddenly crawled into the clearing here. He was nearly dead, and if I hadn't brought him in and taken care of him, he would have died. You wouldn't have wanted me to do such an inhuman thing as to leave him there to die like a dog, would you?" "Ha, ha!" her father suddenly gave a wild laugh, that made Mar ion start with horror. "Of course not! Don't let a stranger die! Kill your father instead!" A feeling of helplessness and a nameless horror deprived Marion for a moment of all power of speech. This was just the war her father had been when he had first had his breakdown! He had come back from a mysterious absence like this one. wild and uncon trolled, and it had been all she could do to manage him. It was from some of his muttered ravings then, that she had had an inkling of what he had been doing while he was awav, but she had closed her mind to tne terrible sus picion which his words had aroused. Now was it all to begin over again, just when she thought she had succeeded in bringing him out of his mental unrest to a more reasonable state of mind? frorvrtsM, IJJ7, Marie tit .Vi-Mnaiitl Mnrlon far? tha truth about her fathtr, tomorrow. PORTLAND SLAYER IS PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 14 (UP) In Roy H. McCarthy, 37, confed killer of Floyd Feulner, Standard OH company employe, during a service atntlon holdup Tuesday night, Ore Ron'i lethal gas chamber may have tU first victim. Deputy DUtrlrt At torney Tom Work aaid today. Work kald the atate would Inalat on a Jury trial rather than allowing McCarthy to plra guilty to murder In hopes of netting a life sentence. If a Jury finds him guilty It may fix the death penalty In which caia Mc Carthy would be rxivutrd by an-i Ida iumoa truttad of by the rop. McCarthy has been eharaoterlred by police aa "cnllouaed and heart lew" They Mid he admitted killing Keulner without any apparent re morse and that he declared he would have killed hla captor. Patrolman William Langley, had hla gun not Jammed WAFM ICE . WH COLVlCB Mil WlVUM COIDIROH In U. rr VArAi iu i ' u v A. w i aw fTfiif 1 . rr i i WfY5 PuT To PBATH Vi AM WCiftom WHos UPS He HAP OHCd GMBD- 1tJf Wnc?nOf5t?(?iPv" & rte?itn tOnkh 5z Mill W ' 'I $00, OOO, OOOfchW-OVD f fwiet? CAUTION TWO SWEPT TO DEATH BY ARIZONA DELUGE MIAMI, Arlr.. Au. 14 ( AP) A 10-foot wall of water roared down motintalnalde aa reult of a terrific cloud burnt In thta mining area late Thuraday, submerged an automobile, drowned a 10-year-old woman baa- aengrr and wept ft little Indian girl to her death. The automotui. driven by John Executed by the Man He Saved. Strange as it seems, the word 'derrick" la derived from the name of villainous English hangman or the 16th century, George Derrick- Official executioner for George Deve reaux, earl of Essex, during a mili tary expedition In France. Derrick waa arrested In Calais for ravishing woman, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Only the Inter vention of Devereux saved him from the death that he meted out to so many others. Returning to England. Derrick was appointed crown executioner In rec ognition of a new type of gallows he Invents. It consisted of a mast, booms and a pulley arrangement for hanging several persons at a time. Because of the fame of Derrick's gal lows, his name came to be applied to all hangmen and gallows, eventu ally arriving at Its present usage In meaning various kinds of hoisting apparatus. At the start of the 17th century, Derrick's one-time life saver, the Earl of Essex, fell under the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth, was convicted of high crimes and sentenced to the chopping block. Detailed to perform the execution, Derrick displayed little squeamlshness tn beheading the earl on February 25. 1601. Warm Ice Failure to let ice of low tempera ture "warm up" before using It to cover shipment of vegetables may freeze some of them In transit. In vestigations by the Bureau of Plant Industry. U. a. Bureau of Agriculture, show. Freezing damage can be pre vented by allowing the Ice to gain a bit of heat before It Is crushed. It will not melt until It reaches 33 de grees Fahrenheit. Prehistoric' Monument Fitting Is the monument to David White on the campus of the East Central State Teachers college at Ada. Colo. An outstanding paleobo tanlst and geologist, he made Impor tant contributions in the study of prehistoric plants. The petrified tree monument dedicated to his memory Is estimated at well over three hun dred million years old. , Monday: In What Three Klnpn siuln'? Battle Were Carey, road construction worker, be came stalled when the crushing waters hit it. Carey's wife drowned while he carried their two children, three and five years old, several feet from the wash, the sheriff's office reported. At the same time, Mary Lewis, three-year-old Indian girl, walking along the road with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.. Albert Lewis, was swept away and drowned by the raging torrent. Cardinal Hayes Much Improved NEW YORK. Aug. 14. (AP) Car dinal Patrick Haves was reported "much Improved" today at St.. Vin cent hospital where he - became a patient last night after suffering an attack of Indigestion at his sum mer home near Montioello. N. Y. There Is no cause for alarm, the hospital said, adding the 69-year-old prelate probably would . remain a few more days for observation be fore returning upstate. 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