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rEDFOTtD MAIL TOrBTTNE, MEDFOTtD, OTTEGOy. THTJRSDXY, OCTOBER II, 1937.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
By GLOYAS WILLIAMS'.
the dark ships
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For farther proof address the author, inclosing a stamped ejnrelopa tor reply. Reg. XT. 8. Pat Off.
BY HULBCRT FOOTHCR
SYNOPSIS: Netll, a younff
federal au'nl, finds his beloved
Janet, a nun and Preicott Fan
nine's freshly ihot body locked
in a cabin on Fanning' vcht at
Absalom's Harbor, MA Weill
hides her nearbv in a disused
liner, then joins Mark Bonnfner,
local Investigator. Aleill learns
Janet didn't shoot the flashy
swindler, but has to find out who
did to save her. He suspects Queer
little Eyster, who hated Fanning.
7ra fiuckless, Fannina's hulking
bodyguard, is arrested, Weill
also distrusts Kettering, a lawyer
doum from Baltimore to fish.
Buckless easts suspicion on Neil!
who knows ke Is in a tight spot.
Chapter 35
The Eyster Saga
ONCE again Neill and Bonniger
met at the breakfast table be
fore ))- of the other guests of the
hotel came down stairs. Neither
had had more than a couple of
.hours' sleep. Bonniger' manner
was still outwardly friendly, but
the warmth that Neill had had a
glimpse of was gone. He said:
"I see that you have the same
Idea as me. It's the early bird that
gets the ham and eggs."
"That's right," said Neill. "When
the mob charges, staff-work in the
kitchen breaks down."
Bonniger went on: "Our first
Job is to check this tough guy
Buckless' alibi."
Neill was surprised. "Our" first
JobI Evidently Bomiger expected
to catch him up by making believe
that nothing was changed. Neill
became wary.
"Suppose you and I make a
quick trip to Baltimore for that
purpose? Bonniger went on. "If
we start as soon as we finish eat
ing, we can get back here almost
before we are missed."
"Sure," said Neill. He thought:
He doesn't mean to let me out of
bis sight.
They set out in one of the police
ears before the village was up and
doing. Constable Mattingly drove
them. Mattingly, a fine physical
specimen like all his mates, was
pretty sheepish as a result of his
escapade up the road the night be
fore, and anxious to make good.
He drove like a streak.
From the corner of the back seat,
Bonniger conversed in his grave
fashion. Avoiding all reference to
the case in hand, he was trying to
draw Neill out as to his past life.
He was like a keen-eyed surgeon,
scalpel in hand, and Neill In or
der to protect himself let his head
nod as if he found it impossible to
keep awake. Bonniger finally let
him alone and Neill, with his eyes
closed, mulled over his own prob
lems All depended on whether
Buckless' alibi would stand up.
The address furnished by Buck
less led them to the modest oillce
of J. Harvey Braaer, a vouna man
who combined the occupations of
yacht broker, snipping agent and
dealer in marine supplies.
"Sure, I sold Ira Buckless the
yacht Nadji," he said, "and that's
where my responsibility begins
and ends. I never met Fanning'
He went on to describe the trip
to Absalom's on Tuesday night,
corroborating Buckless in every
particular. '1 am a methodical
Kind of fellow and I made note of
the time. We filled up at the gaso
line station on Hanover street at
8:25 and I left Buckless In Absa
lom's at 10:20. I was back home
In Baltimore at 12:15."
They left him. So Buckless' alibi
was watertight Neill was badly
let down, and perhaps Bonniger
also. As Buckless was cleared, his
manner towards Neill hardened.
"That eliminates Buckless, We
know that the movies were out at
10:15, and that the crew immedi
ately returned aboard the yacht
Fanning was shot before Buckless
arrived on the scene."
It was scarcely necessary to go
to tne lining station, but they did,
and the story was conlirmcd.
The Detective's Report
THEY sat in the car to discuss
the next move. Bonniger said:
"To me there is something queer
in the story this fellow Eyster told.
But since you and he h:.ve both
testified that you spent Tuesday
evening together, I reckon there
is no use trying to pin anything
on him."
Neill guessed from the dryness
of his tone that Bonniger was only
trying to draw him. lie said noth
ing. He felt now that Eyster must
be their man, but could not say so.
"Anyhow, let's check up Eyster's
story, said Bonniger.
This suited Neill. He didn't care
if he was proved a liar so long as
they obtained positive evidence
against Eyster.
They went to headquarters to
enlist the assistance of the police
In searching for a taxicab that had
made a trip to Absalom's on the
previous Tuesday.
While they were there, addi
tional information was forthcom
ing. It transpired that when
Eyster's name was first brought
into the case a headquarters de
tective named Penly had been as
signed to look up his antecedents.
The trail had led him to Canan
daicua. a town In New York slate.
EXTORTION ATTEMPT
WINDS UP IN ASYLUM
NEW YORK. Oct. 14 .-(f) Wilbur
Rothtr, 48, forirwtr ftmn and Bronx
tenement Janitor, who vk Indicted
for t tempting to extort M,0O0 from
Oeorge ratmcr rmnnm, the publish
er, under the nretcnw tht he knew
where Amelia Enrhnrt Putnam could
be found alive, wm committed to
Mnttewan state hoxpltftl for the
criminal tnAnne today.
Rothnx wrote Putnam a letter in
which he Mid he hnd been a mem
ber of a uhlp which found Mlu Ear
hart, wife of Putnam, on an unin
habited Pacific .aland ehortly after
he and her navigator were loat last
July while making a round-the-world
flight.
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from which ha had .Just now re
turned. The commissioner had him
in to tell Bonniger what he had
gathered. It was all in the day's
work to Penty. He told his story
without a trace of feeling.
"Eyster up to a couple of years
ago was a manufacturer of straw
hats in New York state and dding
welL He had a hard life when
young and couldn't marry till ha
was above 45.
"He marries a girl that worked
for him in the factory. A sweet,
pretty, gentle kind of girL She was
poor and he gives her the nice
things she never had before. For a
couple of years they was as hap
py as a pair of clams at high wa
ter, though she was 25 yean
younger than him. Built an ele
gant little home and all.
"Then she gets to running
around with a slick, showy kind
of guy, the usual thing. It was go
ing on some time before Eyster
gets on to it When the show-down
comes, she runs off with the slick
guy, leaving Eyster fiat He went
through hell And that wasn't the
worst of it because a year later
she comes back to her husband
sick and ready to die. This slick
fellow, it seems, was an out-and-out
swine. Treated the girl some
thing awful. The folks didn't know
his name.
"He takes his wife back and gets
doctors and nurses and all. But she
dies anyhow and Eyster they says
wasn't never no good after that
He sells his business and just bums
around. They said when the money
was spent they reckoned he would
fust jump off a wharf somewhere!
But his sole aim and desire wai
to get square with that slick guy
before he died."
The hard-boiled grin with which
this story was told somehow gave
it a sharper edge for Neill. Taken
with what he knew already, it wai
certainly true, and his feelings to
wards Eyster underwent a change
He and Bonniger exchanged a look
and each knew what the other wai
thinking.
The poor little devil! Who could
blame him for shooting the man
who had wronged him so?
Both Eliminated?
A3 BONNIGER and Neill pro
ceeded to the Lord Baltimore
hotel, Bonniger said:
"Had you neara any or tnis7
"No details, but I had guessed
there was something of this sort in
his life."
"But if It was Eyster, whers
does the girl come In?"
Nevertheless at that momenl
they both felt that they were about
to solve their case, and they were
almost friends again.
In the hotel all this good feeling
was shattered. In answer to Bon
niger's question, the clerk said:
"Mr. Eyster checked out at nins
o'clock Tuesday morning."
Neill stared at him incredulous
ly. "Are you sure?" he demanded.
"Absolutely. I said goodby to
him when he left."
"Was he tight?" asked Bonniger,
"Oh, no. Sober as a judge."
Bonniger had left word at po
lice headquarters that he could be
found at the Lord Baltimore and
he was now called to the phone,
Neill waited outside the booth in
a state of blank discouragement
If Buckless and Eyster were both
eliminated, where was he to look
for Fanning's killer?
Bonniger said on coming out!
"The police have found the taxi
driver who took Eyster down to
Absalom's on Tuesday morning."
"So that lets Eyster out," said
Neill dully.
"Not altogether. The taxi-driv-er
said he was sober.. Why should
he lie unless he was implicated?"
"The man who shot Fanning was
carried down on the yacht."
"That's an interesting theory.
But, after all, the crumbs of
bread and tobacco are not conclu
sive. I'm convinced that Eyster
had something to do with it."
That didn't help Neill any. Ha
knew now that Eyster was inno
cent of the killing.
While they were talking, a bell
boy came by. It was the boy that
Neill had talked to on his first
visit to the Lord Baltimore. The
boy recognized him and grinned.
''H'are yeh, mister? Well, that
big guy Fanning that you was ask
ing me about he got his, didn't lie?
The crazy little guy that was talk
ing to you, he beat It next day. it
would be a great note, wouldn't it,
if it was him got Fanning?"
Neill stared hard at the boy.
"You've got me wrong, kid. I nev
er heard of Fanning until he was
killed."
"My mistake," bt said with a
grin, and started on.
But Bonniger had overheard,
and Neill without looking at him,
knew how he was hardening.
"One moment," Bonniger said to
the boy. "Give me your name,
please. I may want to call you
later. My name's Bonniger."
The boy, scared now. gave hit
name. "I don't know nothing."
"All right Beat it."
He lost no time in obeying.
"Come on," said Bonniger to
Neill without looking around.
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reveal Jn i' hideout.
INCREASE IN ARMY
SOUGHT FOR FRANCE
PARIS, Oct. 14 T) An Increase
of nearly 30 percent In the French
army budget for 1938 waa aAkrd to
day by Minister of National Defense
Edouard Dnlrutler.
The minister, In a tentative com
bination of the ordinary and extra
ordinary budget submitted to parll
went for etudy. anked 13.900,000.000
I franca (about M2A.7OO.0OO) tor next
year, aa compared with 10.POO.Ooo.rvoo
trnnca (about a3M.7O0.OO0) for 1P37.
Nearly 10,000 men would be added
to the land foroea, wnieh nlready
number more than 050.000 In France
and her colon lea.
Oeorgla produce one-half of the
country'a turpentine.
The National Civil Service Reform
iNgue wr formed in Newport, R. 1.
In August, 188U
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Flower of the Desert
"Full many a flower la born to
blush unseen,
And waste it sweetness on the
desert air."
Thomas Gray In this manner paid
an allegorical tribute to the wild
flowers of the American desert. One
of the strangest of our desert flowers
la that of a cactus, commonly called
the night-blooming cereus. Sensitive
to darkness, It opona rapidly when
the light of day falls often In only
one and a half minutest So permeat
ing la the delicious odor of this flow
er that It can be detected as much
as a half mllo away. Many of the
cereus blossoms reach well over a foot
In diameter.
PART OF CHILD'S FOOT
IS FOUND IN MAIL BOX
SEATTLE. Oct. 14. iffi Sheriff's
offlcera today investigated the dis
covery of part of a child's right foot
in a residence mailbox.
Mrs. Jele Hitchcock found the
foot. Dr. J. L. Worcester of the
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Scavengers
Next time a customs official bur
rows through your luggage In search
of a bottle of contraband perfume,
caU. him a "scavenger." That's Just
what he used to be! In the Middle
English period, customs Inspectors
Included among their multitudinous
duties the care of public streets and
were officially known as scavengers,
for obvious reasons.
Bowling Wizard
Andy Varlpapa Is unofficially con
sidered by the American Bowling
Congress to be this country'a out
standing trick -shot bowler. Easy for
Andy but nonetheless spectacular In
his "boomerang" shot. This alley art
ists flips a 16-pound ball with such
a tremendous amount of reverse spin
anatomy department of the Univer
sity of Washington said It came from
a child, probably 10 or 16 years old.
Sheriff W. B. Severyna ordered a
check of missing ohlldren and of all
recent foot amputations In Seattle
hospitals.
Phone 643 we ll haul away yout
refuse City Sanitary Service
Tries to Trap Bently!
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that It will roll 20 or 30 feet, atop.
and roll right back to him I
Then Andy can place the ball at
the foul line, kick It Into a wide
curve to strike either the number 7
or 10 spare. Or, for diversion, he will
set two pins up In one alley and one
in the adjoining alley. With a single
shot, he gets all three by striking
the two pins in No. 1 alley so that
one hops over Into No. 3 alley to
strike the third pint
Vartpapa's coup Is hla famous "tun
nol shot " He llnea up 1 pins In
two rows Just wide enough to permit
the ball to roll between them. Then
he gracefully flips the ball down the
"tunnel' with Just enough "English"
to clip off the last pin In the left
hand row)
OREGON REGISTRATION
HITS ALL-TIME HIGH
EUGENE. Oct. 14. (jf) A new 1I
tlme enrollment record at the Uni
versity of Oregon was reached today
when registration figures revealed
that 3.103 students were enrolled
The figures exceed the previous rec
ord of 3.0BS by .wen.
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