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4., PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, AlTGTTfft 1037 THE FAMT ALBUM-HOME SERVICE Bt GLUYAS WILLIAMS 1 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof tddraa U author, lncloalng a stamped enralnna for reply. RC. V. 8. PbL OS. SVNOVSls: Kay Crondon d cidei to rebuiia her burned ranch house and barn, though Neighbor Joh Haetingi, whom h hot, uiant to but hr ranch and marry Kay. Ted Gatnor, a puncher the impuUioely hired, liohu Scrap Johnson, a cowhand uiho mo oted Kay. They ihoot it out, wounding each other. Hasting! tneakt up and kilU Scrap with Ted't oun. Ted crawls to a cabin where a girl (Marion) nurie him a week beore the iheriff crreiti him due to a tip uncoiuciouily oiren by Kay. The sheriff and hil poe tart off with Ted or Clear Water Bajin Jail. Chapter 38 The Cards Are Stacked "It rAIT a minute!" Ted reined in i V by the stream where he had 10 nearly breathed his last. "Where was Scrap Johnson found?' "Exactly where you dropped him. Ain't that a surprise, nowl Sam Cutter winked at one of hut men, who guffawed in apprecia tion of his chief's sarcasm. "Come on I The state ain't asking you to do any investigating." Biting his lips to cut off the re tort that sprang to them, Ted obeyed the order. But there was one more question he had to know. He turned to the man following him. "How did you find me? And how did it happen that both posses got there at the same time?" The other one grinned. "Tipped off by a girl," he answered with relish. "You're sure one hell of a fellow with the ladiesl" "A girll" Ted echoed, his grip on himself shaken for a moment with the surprise and shock of this news. "What girl?" Ted's mind reeled before the thought that Marion might have crept away while he was sleeping, and have betrayed him. She cer tainly was the only girl that knew his whereabouts! But the next in stant he cursed himself for even harboring such a thought. Marion would have been utterly incapable of such a sneaking act! She could no more have done a thing like that than Kay could. "Search me!" It was evident that the man he was questioning was greatly enjoying Ted's stupefac tion. "It was some Jane over in the Red River section. You seem to have girls all over the place!" he ended with mock admiration. "Red River!" Ted had a gone feeling at the pit of his stomach, and for a moment he swayed diz lily in the saddle. "The Red River section?" he repeated incredulous ly. 'There must be some mistake there! No one in those parts had any idea where I was! ) any " 'Pears she was prowling around doing a bit of investigating on her own. Hi, there, Saml" he called ahead to the sheriff. "What was the name of that girl that tipped Zeke Farley off about this bird's whereabouts?" "Crandon," the sheriff called back. "Old Man Crandon's daugh ter, who's been running the Lazy Nine since ha kicked off, about a year ago." Ted gripped the saddle horn to keep himself from toppling over as a rushing blackness closed in on him. Fighting with all his power against the faintness that assailed him, he gradually felt the roaring in his ears give way, and the reeling landscape steadied It self. "It must all b a mistake," he kept telling himself, but a ter rible conviction persisted that Sam Cutter knew what ht was talking about. As though In a nightmare, Ted listened to the con versation of '.he two men, who were still talking back and forth, over his head, to each other. "I didn't stop tc ask Zcke any more about It, Sam Cutter was saying. 'The Crandon girl was staying at Jnsh Hastings' ranch, and she telephoned in from there. Said she saw him up there, with the black haired filly." He turned around in his saddle and leered at Ted. 'Take it from me. it don't pay to have too many of 'em on the string nt one time! Get 'em jealous and they raise hell!" Ted was too dared even to at tempt a retort. Kayl Kay Crandon had betrayed him! He felt like shouting aloud that it was all a wild lie, but the shout died in his throat Tride To His Aid pHEY said that Kay had seen A him with Marion! How ... a sudden groan escaped Ted. He remembered now that Marion had thought she had heard something the afternoon heiore. wnen tney had been talkinc. But If Kay had happened on them, why hadn't she made her oresence known? Whv . . . suddenly, the significance of Sam Cutters leering advice flashed over him. Jealous! Could it be possible that Kay had been jealous? Ted's heart quickened at this thought and what It Implied, hut Ihe next minute he was In the depths again. Fool that he was. he told himself savagely, to think for a moment that Kay cared enough about him to be jealous! For a long time, Ted rode on in silence, his mind turning '..lis way and that in an effort to find a way out of the labyrinth of . despair that this act of Kay's had thrown him into. Any way you looked at it, the conclusion was forced upon him that he had been mistaken in Kay. There was no excuse, after what had passed between them, for her to nave given him up to the sheriff without allowing him a chance to explain his side of the story to her. He could forgive any thing but treachery. And that was what Kay's act had been. A reckless despair closed over Ted, but pride finally came to his aid. If Kay had done that, there was all the more reason to prove his innocence! If he was convicted, she would fee! justified in her treacherous act. But when he was proved innocent, she would know what a despicable thing she had done. Not that he ever wanted to see her again, Ted told himself fierce ly. This time, he was finished with women, now and forever. A vision of his mother and sister flashed before him, and he re proached himself bitterly for hav ing concentrated so on Kay, to the exclusion of them. For their sake, he must fight himself clear of this web that he had become enmeshed in! For their sake, and for no one else. It was nearly dark before the lights of Clear Water Basin showed up in the distance, and Ted was hanging on to his ebbing strength by sheer force of will. When they at last reached the county jail, he heaved a great sigh of relief. Anything was better than that endless ride, with the des perate fight against physical weakness and those torturing thoughts. He swayed as he dismounted, and reeled like a drunken man into the jail. The only thing of importance at the moment was sleep! Like a man in a trance, he an swered the questions put to him, and at last, after what seemed an eternity, he was led to a cell at the end of a corridor, and the key grated in the barred door behind him. Dropping down on the iron cot, he fell into a deep sleep of ex haustion. Wheels Within Wheels IT WAS dawn of the second day of the trial. Ted Gaynor sat on the edge of his bunk, and watched the gray light steal through the bars of the high window opposite him. For seven days, now, he had watched that light change from drab gray to a sunny radiance, and back to gray again; then had come the long period of black void, through which he snatched fitful hours of sleep. As he sat now, with his chin in his hands, he was forced to admit that things were going bad ly. There was no doubt that feeling was being stirred up to run fiercely against him, and it was not hard to recognize who was behind it. Josh Hastings was out to get him convicted, and Ted knew that from that source he could expect no quarter. He held a damning knowledge of Josh Hastings' past that would utterly ruin him, if Ted could ever bolster it up with tangible proof. Knowing this, Josh Hastings naturally was out to make the most of this chance to get him out of the way once and for all. As Ted had sat in the courtroom the day before, watching the force? arrayed against him. he had real ized that far more than the murdei of Scran Johnson was involved There were many wheels within wheels, and he was being made the victim of varying passions and desires. Sam Cutter was determined to have a conviction to his credit before election. Josh Hastings wanted Ted out of his path. And Tom R u n y o n , Ted suspected, wanted to gain credit in Kay's eyes by helping to convict him. Ted writhed inwardly as he re membered Tom Runyon's testi mony yjsterday. He had described finding Kay on ihe trail, and how she had told him nhout Ted and Marion. He had carefully left out any word of her real condition, and her delirium. Ted had heard only the damning confirmation of the account of his capture that had been Riven him on the trail by Sam Cutter. The gun Kay had given him had been exhibited, and the bullet that had killed Scrap Johnson had been indisputably proved to have come from that gun. They had also produced as wit nesses the men who had been in Kelly's place the time Ted had fought with ixrrap Johnson, arm they testified, one after the other, that Ted had threatened to kill Scrap if he ever heard him men tion a certain girl again. (Copyright, XS1T. MnrU if VervflwrfJ Kay tprlngi a surprise si the trial, tomorrow. ZANE GREY PREPARING LEAVE IPQUA CAMP ROSEBtma. Or.. Atlg. 18. tp) Ziino airy, noted Author and i ports man, waa reported today to be break ing camp at hi location near WIN llama creek on the North Umpqua river, eat of Rose bung, where he ha been fishing for several weeks, and will leave, probably tomorrow for bos Anele, to prepare for his forth coming trip to Australia. Orey la reported to be recovering from an lllnea, raiued, It was said, by a light sunstroke. His condition Is reported not seri ous Ht vm, lyiren Orey. Irft Sunday for us Angelas to make advance prepartUona lor ibe Australian trip. "1 iaHa If iMrrNTotf OF PjCOVERSO 1H PRINCIPE IN ft DKcflM-- o W ?mm of w m in me , Neep Point fVfTER WINNING IMPENDENCE fflOM bl&Tr?lr WU WOkLO m. eOSNIrVHKZESOMr. STlll isetf fttKlrawi-reiMfeo iwiheeftMte M PUNCHED HoLK iKTrtEM To (AER CoMTCMrT 0? (IS MOUTH V7 FIELD ARTILLERY TO ENCAMP AT CRATER CRATER LAKE, Auff. 1R -'KpU A field march from Fort I jew la, Waah., to southern Oron will hrlnR the ninth field artillery corps to Crater lnke Septemlier It. nark ofilclala have been adviaed. The coii, with men. !8 pieces of motor equipment and a number of lanre. field puna, will be encamped here for three days nrar Lost creek on the cant entrance road. After leaving the park, the art 11 lery men will proceed l Klamath Pall. Med ford and return to Port Lew!. hy way of dnint Pa, and the coast highway. tM M&U JfrlOUiia ftailt al. VcNtifht SfrWicaU. It The It renin Inventor. Success was almost within EUmj Howe's grasp In the early 1840's success In devising one of the world'a most revolutionary inventions, a prac tical sewing machine. Only one ma jor question still presented itself, but It had the Massachusetts Inventor thoroughly stumped a needle for the machine. Howe had expected no difficulties so far as the needle waa concerned when he started to work on hla In vention, believing that he would be able to use an ordinary seam stress needle built to fit the machine. This wouldn't work. The eye, being at the heel of the needle, made Its uie an Impossibility. He tried to over- if Mrn come this with trick contraptions, but nothing seemed to do any good. Over and over the problem ran through his brain. There seemed to be no solution. Asleep one night, a nightmare dis turbed his slumber. He dreamed he was In the hands of a tribe of can nibals, about to be led to his exe cution if he did not complete his sewing machine In 24 hours. As the savages led him out to be executed he noted In surprise that the heads of the spears the warriors carried were all pierced with holes. The dreamer awakened In a cold sweat. His prob lem was ended. T'.ie solution lay in placing the hole of the sewing ma chine needle In its point. ON VW IN OUSShMb. fcM hufi me mom - - but Allows TOR ftlOlftU OY SO, hNOlncK to,WMe RECORD Granted a patent on his machine In 1846, Howe ran Into conslderaole lnfringementtrouble, but eventually established his rights and died a wealthy man in 1867. Toad Tongues. U usually entirely toothless, the toad depends on his tongue as a food pro vider. Fixed to the front of the mouth so the hind end Is free, the tongue Is provided with a special set of muscles for flipping Its out with amazing speed and accuracy to seize Insects. A mucus coat on the end of the tongue works like fly paper In snagging victims. Tomorrow: Which Wonder of the World Was Built Because of Home-(sickness? CRATER LAKE FISHING IS GETTING" RESULTS CRATER LAKE. Aug. 18. (Spl.) Crater lako angling continues good. Several limit catches of 13 trout per person were reported over the week end. Anglers are using large spinners. Jack Lloyd, Dave Davis and Multi light, with bait, preferably worms. attached. There has been some fly fishing but trolling 'remains the most popular method. SLAIN INDIAN FOUND BY ALTURAS TRACKS ALTURAS. Cal., Aug. 18. (A) The body of Fred Wilson. 53. an Indian, was found near the Southern Pacific railroad tracks by a freight crew today and Sheriff John C. Sharp said there was evidence the man was slain elsewhere. Sharp said Wilson had been beaten over the head. The sheriff sent Deputy Ernest Server to Lakevlew, Ore., to question another Indian with whom Wilson was seen Mon day. 4 Closing time for Too Late to Clas Mfy Ads is 1:30 p. m. Calu io Wilfred up stairs would he mihp brih6im& down her Sf.lSS&RS.WEAf-e ? 60ES ON W RESPONSE fO ailERV, WIlFREP CAUS HE1r0U6rrf SHE MEAtW f OR HIM "lb BRIK6 -foEM WrlEhl HE CAME DOWH IfvfER ilMETAES. ASKS MIL DRED WbBLP SHE MIKP 60IN6 UP, WILFREP PRO BA&LV CArJl" riHD rfHEM REALIZES FROM S0UWD& YHA-f5eiS$6R6 HAVE BEEW F0R6CrtTEr) IN AR6LIMEHY OVER WHO IS 60lN"6lbUSE fHE CAR IbNlfeH-f ASKS HUSBRHD, IF HE'S 6WW6 UPAKVWAV, WOULD HE PLEASE SEE WHAtfHEPOAVlS? AFVERA-fiME HUSBAND CALL'S HE HAS 1HE SCISSORS, HE'LL BR)r6lHEM AS SOON AS HE SEES WHY "THIS TAtfCFf IS LEAWN& 60ES UPSTAIRS AMP 6E5 SCISSORS (Copyright, 1W7, hy The BtU Byndict, Inc.) g-ia S 'MATTER POP By 0 M PAYN -ot c?si mv "A Vou aim't ioTT , ..vu mCo ( VsiL.L.1 AM I -MoT9 ON MV 5l ISj OKAV 1 V ! y&&i A eletpUant an' SoT. J (Copyright, 1937, by The Ball 8tmicm, laa TAILSPIN TOMMY The News Leaks Out ! By HAL FOEREST CALL IMG ALL CARS.1 LOOK FOR BODY Of- WOMAN.. 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