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PAG : TEN fETForcn mail tribune, medford. onEGoy, sitxday, October 10, 1937 the dark ships TRAY SERVICE By CLUYAS WILLIAMS V STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof id drew tha tatbor, tncloftnf 1 stamped rartlope for reply. Hef . TJ, 8. Pat Oft BY HULBERT FOOTMC iiVOWiS. JVeili. a young Ind eral agent, finds hit beloved Janet, a gun and Prescott Fan nine's freshly shot body locked In a cabin on Fanning's yacht at Absalom's Harbor. Neill hides her nearby inr a disused liner, then join Mark Bonniger, local in vestigator. When Weill learnt Janet didn't shoot the flashy iwindler, he suspects Queer little . Eysler, who hated Fanning. Also on hand are Kettering, a Balti more lawyer, and Ira Buckless, a tough who trails Neill. While Bonniger leads a search of the dark ships, Weill breaks away, gets Janet and they dodge the searchers. Neill rejoins Bonniger, Chapter 31 Trouble On The Yacht THE search of the four ships was completed about midnight, and Bonniger grimly conceded defeat. That he was not satisfied became clear when he left six deputies be hind him to co-operate with Bick er men in watching the decks until morning. The rest of the party started for the skiffs. Kettering as usual was at hand to put in his oar. "There's always some darn fool who raises an alarm," he said. "That guy was see- In n tWinna at ninktl" Bonniger disregarded this. ! So Janet had been saved. But for ' how long? Neill couldn t afford to relax at all. He suddenly realized ne was pretty nearly dead beat I mere was a moment when he and Kettering stood together on tne piatrorm at the foot of the lad der waiting to get in a skiff. Ket tering said softly: "Congratulations, Wheatleyl I don t know just how you worked It, but it was neat!" Neill said: "You're talking In riddles tonight, Mr. Kettering." "Don't be afraid." he laughed.- Tin not going to give you away." New was not so sure of that They got in the skiff. Back in the village, Bonniger asked Neill into his mom to have a drink before turning in. Bonniger had one of the better rooms on the secotid floor of the hotel. He threw off his coat and vest and went to the window with t "Woof!" of satisfaction. Bonni ger's stern air, Neill had learned, was onlv to warn off fools and bores. When you were alone with him. If he liked you, he could be come very human. "Grand air down on this point," he said. "Orand for sleepingl" "You don't let anything get under your skin," said Neill en viously. "Life Is too short for that," said Bonniger. "I was drafted for. this work. I'm doing my best with what poor wits the Lord gave me. and when I meet with.a trifling setback I'm not going to let It cast me down. This case is a fascinating oroblem. I have nil the lines in tiv hand. I shan't fail to land my .Ish." The Beer Isn't Drunk "T0 you still think there is some body on the ships?" asked Neill offhandedly. "If there is, it's a good place for them to be," said Bonniger with a dry smile. 1 can put my hands on them easily." This had the effect of a challenge to Nelll. Oh, I don't knowl he thought He said nothing. Bonniger looked at him full. "You seem pretty well tuckered out," he said. "You shouldn't take til this so hard." Neill wished that he wouldn't sound the friend W note. He was letting to like the man too much. Oh, it isn't the case." he said light ly. "That's a welcome distraction. . . . I've got private troubles." Neill offhandedly. "Woman trouble, I reckon. Al ways la at your age." "Well . . . yes," said Neill with a wry smile. "Lord! I have Known what that was in my time," said Bonniger smiling. "I'm thankful it's over. Really a man gets the best out of women after he has passed 45. It may not be flattering, but they have confidence In you then: they open their dear little hearts to you. I have three nieces up the county who keep me young. You must come up and meet them when this Is over. "Thanks," said Neill, "but my hands are pretty full in that line. "Well, anyhow let's order up some beer and drink to them." "That would be fine." However, the beer was not des tined to be drunk. Forsythe had hist been sent off to the yacht to relieve Constable Mattingly who had been on guard since six Suddenly through the window they heard Forsythe's deep voice hailing ihe shore. "Ho! Sergpant Wilson!" Wilson answered from the store next door. "Hello?" "Come out here, sir, and bring Mr. uonniger. ' "All right." The Yacht Guard Gone INSTANTLY Bonniger was the stern public officer again. He snatched up his coat and he and Neill ran downstairs. They met Wilson coming from the store. Some of the villagers had been aroused by the constable's hail, and heads were sticking out of the bedroom windows here and there As they went out on the wharf, Virgil Longcope came running down the hill behind the store, sliDDins his suspenders over his 'shoulders. He called to them to wait for him. Virgil's clerk, young Trueman, was on the wharf. "Gosh! I hope there ain't nothing wrong out there," he said. "If there Is, reckon it's my fault." "What do you mean?" asked Bonniger. "Come along with us." Trueman explained while Wil son plied the oars. "About nine o'clock fellow called up and asked for Sergeant Wilson. I said he wouldn't be back until late. So the fellow he said he was Constable Pcnnorth stationed at King's Green, 20 miles up the road." "Was it Pennorth's voice?" "I don't know the man." "Go ahead." "Well, this fellow said he was Pennorth. he said a man driving up the county from Cove Point had stopped by to say that as he come tmtwsmi vmi vr, ii'f "I'm not going to give you away," said Kettering. around a turn in the Cove Point road he seen a couple jump out ol the road into the bushes. And the girl had a pink dress and a black wrap on. Pennorth he said thai Wilson had ordered him not on any account to leave the King's Green section, and he wanted to know what to do. well, i tried a dozen times to get Wilson on the phone . . ." "The phone Is In Captain Bick- el's cabin and we were searching the snips, put in Wilson. "So I think I'll go out to the vnrht and tell Mnttinfflv. Maltinff- ly and me, we talked it over and he said he d better ock ud the yacht and go up to the Cove road on his motor-bike. He was all ex cited at the thought of nabbing that pairsinglehanded." "I dare say!" said Wilson dryly. "So I came ashore and at 10 o'clock I shut up the store and went home," Trueman went on. "1 cnllcd up the ships every little while to tell you, but there was no answer, and then . . . well, I reckon I fell asleep." As they drew near the yacht, Forsythe said from the deck: "Mattingly is gone." "We know it," answered Wilson. "What then?" "The yacht has been ransacked from stem to stern, sir." "Hn!" said Bonniger. "You seem to be pleased about It," said Wilson sorely. "I suspected our man was not far away, and now I know it." (Cetyrttkt, JW, h hmtfrl ffttw) Nelll finds himself In a tl(bt place, tomorrow. GIN-SIP DEATH UMMETT. Irtt.ro. Oct ft (API Audio Jumti Robnett. 31, Knniui City. Kas, was charged with murrter today In the gin-ptrlp hnntliii of Annr jtan Phlpp. 13-yrnr old rlghth gmd rtixlrnt of Kmmctt. The girl n klllcrl during ft wild party on a bleak hilltop 50 mil oorlb of thlt. ouUuvcirrn Idaho town rurwlay nllit. Robnrtt, Deputy Shnrlff Vnnrf Jone reported, haulM the Rlrl'i nude body In his car to a nmrby ranch and reported Mlu Hhlpp aht her aelf after wounding him "Instead of the gli) inft:i nlm And then JUllU Herwsli, beiitvt Roonett killed her and then attempt ed aulclde," aald Uem County Prose cutor Thomas Y. O will lam. The youth wa under gun in a BoiAe hospital, Buffering from a wound In the cheat. A coroner Jury decided the girl wa slain. SEARCH RIVER BANKS FOR SUICIDE'S BODY VANCOUVER, lluh, Oct B. (? Officers searched the Colum bia river hanks fptltlrsvly for the body of Arthur Kar' linrmley, SO. o( .Multnomah, Ore. following the tlmllnr of - man's leather coat am) an apparent sulclile note on Inter slate hrlilno last lilKlit. Tho note, pollco somnant Barry Hacuse sal I. was ad Irensod to "K'n ma and Ju.inlta" ami signed "Iiul I v." It read: "It no use. 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