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arEPFORD MATL TRTBTTNT!!, MEDFOTtD, OTtEGQy, TUESDAY. MAY 31, 1938.
SUBURBAN nflGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author, Incloilnf a stamped envelop tor reply. Re. 17. 8. Pat OS.
BY PHOEBE' ATWOOD TAYLOR
The Story So Far: Sleepy
Quanimet on Cape Cod wakes
up wi'h a b..ng when all ill citt-
sent are caricatured in the new
post ojlce mural. Asey Mayo,
homesptn detective, learnj rom
Pamela Frye who lives in the old
Octagon House, that her ifeter
Afartna if married to the artist
and put him up to this malicious
trick. Late that night at Asey is
returning to his wharf, Pam
comes with startlinp news. She
hat found 150,000 worth 0 am
bergris on the beach, Marina has
been killed with Pam's knle, and
Pam it wanted for the murder.
Chapter Three
Running The Gamut
"WHEN I found the ambergris,"
' ' Pam rushed on. "I did a lot
of hard thinking. Funny that in
all these years of hunting, I never
once considered aftermath and
transportation problems. Anyway,
the lump wasn t staked, or above
high water mark. The sand was
soft there, and I couldn't see any
footprints. But I'll admit the wind
was whipping so that it practical
ly had covered my own prints in
the sand. On the other hand, any
one who might have found it be
fore me wouldn't have left it, any
more than I intended to."
I twisted smile. "Her modeling ant
Jack's painting would keep Fathel
and me in utter luxury. But Sistei
and Jack have expensive tastes,
i and they're usually more broke
; than we are. Sister caught on, all
' right. Don't think she's anyone'i
fool. I knew there wasn't any use
i haggling with her. I said, "All
j right. Half if you take it back.' "
I Her cigaretie butt described ar
arc into the weter.
"And Sister said," Pam contin
ued, "that I could go to hell. She
said she was the only one whe
could get the stuff back, and with
out her I'd have nothing, lr.
short, she would have it all her
self. And that was that."
Asey grunted. He hadn't likec
the sound of the bewitching Ma
rina when he first heard about her
Now he gave up being open minded
ana let nimseir nate her, thorough
ly and forcefully.
"I hope," he said, "you knocked
her teeth out!"
"I picked up the stick I'd usee
as a lever," Pam said, "and I don'l
know where I got the strength, bul
before she had time to understand
I had that lump of ambergris dowr.
in the surf."
Asey s eves narrowed. With S50.-
000 and all that it meant staring
her in the eye, this amazing chile
preferred to throw it away rathei
than let her sister get it
Sister was out of that beach-wagon in a flash.
"Right," Asey said.
"Well, I got a stick from some
dune drift and levered the lump
up above the highest water mark
of kelp and seaweed, and then I
mt down and got my breath and
wondered where to go from there."
"Think of cuttin' it up?"
"Oil, yes. I thought of that. I
usually wear a sheath knife, like
the one you've got on your belt.
Awfully handy, from cleaning fish
to digging weeds. But I'd forgot
ten it. then of ail times. I evon
remembered just where I'd left it
on tne oack porch, too. And"
"That's the knife that killed
jnannar Asey interrupted.
"Yes. Well, there I was, and
there was the ambergris I've
hunted all my life, and there was
the tide, bounding in. I thought of
swimming it back, but three miles
is too much for me, and if anyone
picked me up from a boat or any
thing, they could claim salvage.
And do you happen to know Rod
ney Strutt?"
"Young Rodney? No," Asev said.
"I don't, but Dill Porter claims
Rodney'll be the first of the idle
ncn they rend limb from limb,
come the revolution, and a good
thing it'll he."
Pam nodded approvingly. "That's
Rodney. He's got a shooting camp
beyond the point. I noticed fresh
tire marks he keeps a beach
wagon with big tires to taxi his
bunch over and bock. After con
sidering that angle, I decided I'd
E radically rather shove the am
ergris back into the water than
ask Roddy or his pais to help. I've
had my little run-in with Roddy,
like the rest of the local gals."
'Like A Tawny Tiger"
" A ND then Roddy's beach wagon
bounded up in front of me,
and in it was Sister, apparently oi:
her way to Roddy's."
"She plays around with him,
does she, huh?"
Pam shrugged. "Father and I de
cided years aiio that we wore hap
pier not knowing Marina's play
mates. It's all very well to take
up the white man's burden, but
you have tn draw the line some
where. Well, there was Sister,
Asey, and she caught on about the
ambergris. Her eyes gleamed like
like a tawny tiger I never saw
a tawny tiger, but that's the onlv
way I know of describing her. And
somehow I don't honestly think
I ever hated her more than I did
wmi mnmcni.
"Would the ambergris mean so
much to her? The money, I mean?"
The moonlight caught Pam's 1
"Yes, I'd rather have lost it en
tirely," Pam echoed his thoughts.
"So would you. When Sister saw
that lump hit the undertow, she
was out of that beach wagon in a
flash, yelling for me to get it. And
that time, I did the laughing."
'Old Rats And Mice'
"PJIDN'T she go for it?" Asey de
U manded.
"Sister," Pam said, "is terrified
of water. She can't swim. And let
me tell you, Asey, the primitive
emotions that got aired on that
beach I felt like something out nf
one of those earthy novels, all
heaving breasts and stark urges.
We ran the gamut, Sister and I
did. And the ambergris bobbed on
the surf."
Asey puffed at his pipe till the
bowl burned his fingers. He mar
veled at Pam Frye, and the im
personal way she could describe
such a scene, as though it had hap
pened to two other people entire
ly. It was, he decided, the Cape
Cod half of her speaking. Her
mother's family had been an in
domitable tribe.
"Go on," he said.
"I knew the lump would flo.V
back in with the tide," she said
"But Sister didn't stop to flgun
that out. After she got exhausted.
I said I'd get it, if she'd promin
to take it back for me for $5,00t)
And she put that in writing, Asey
on the back of a grocery bill. I've
got it here. After that, I marcher
into the surf and fished out tin
ambergris. She helped me get il
to the beach wagon, and we cov
ered it with a tarpaulin, and start
ed home. She was a rag, emotion
ally, and I was a pulp, physically.
The surf out there is something
awfu.', and fighting the undertow
almost caved me in."
"Did vnu trust her?" Asey asked.
"Trust Sister?" Pam lunched.
"Don't be silly. Of course not. Half
way home, she said we mustn't tell
a soul. I agreed we mustn't. Then
she said, let's take it strnieht tn
Boston, now. And the air was full
of the smell of old rats and mice.
1 said wo eouldn t, without mv tell
ing Father. Otherwise, he'd" have
the police combing the Cnpe foi
mo when I didn't return to cot din.
ncr. She said that mustn't happen,
and I kept on agreeing. It was
dawning on me, Asey, that she
hadn't an idra in the world of let-
ling me have my ambergris, after
all. It was one of those things you
could feel."
(Cfrmtll. lilt, ,i,s,,J r. v.)
What did Pam do with the ambei
iris? Continued tomorrow.
FOR AUTO FIRMS
SOUTH BEND. Ind.. May 31. (VP)
U. 8. District Attorney Jumps R
FleminR Mid today t!:e gnvprnnwiit
would hold thrr w-pnnte trlnla oi
automobile eor partition. n:fillitr
nd executives ncurfM of vl ."latin
the Sherman anti-trust act.
FVmlnR said tar., vi the muss
trloti would cover one dcfendim
group Kord Motor company, Chrys
ler corporation, or General Motors
corporation. The government will de
cide within the next month which
group Is to be tried first.
About 100 witnrss firm "all
part of the country" will iMt(
at tac;, tij l. r.c-r. I ' ; .!:!. rn?
trials will atari Id October unkas
pretvnt pin nt are changed.
Imllctnirnta against the defendant
compinlea and executives were re-
turtud Uie Friday by a federal grand
Jury which 1 .d deliberated the evi
dence since MondAy. Besides the
three lrge manufacturing corpora
tions. S3 subsidiaries and affiliated
finance companies and M) executives
were named.
World Cruise Ends
In Clutch Of Cops
OREGON CITY. May 31. iX, Two
Newburg boys, aed 13 and 14 years,
started around the world In a row
bont Saturday, spent the ntcht tn the
Orvrnn city .'nil and were returned to
their homea Sunday.
The boys were seen on the Willam
ette river near Canny by C. Tithe way.
who notified the sheriff and plcxeti
up the youn voy;R-urs. spelling, they
snld. their pinna to reach Portland
(hat n:!it. 1 hey figured on a )ear for
the entire voyage.
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A master engraver Is Qeorge Le
Vind of the Black Starr and Prost-
Gorhim company, New York City.
For 48 years he has followed the
craft.
In order to "keep his hand in"
and test his steadiness, Le Vlnd of
ten tries to see how minutely he
can carve letters and figures with
precision. Once Le Vlnd actually
engraved five completo alphabets on
the head of an ordinary pin. Viewed
under a magnifying glass they look
like this:
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Clock That Tells AU
Built in the 16th century, the fa
mous Strassburg clock has now been
running without stopping for R6
years since 1852 despite the fict
that It has several times been struck
by lightning.
This amazing, 36-feet-tall time
piece, besides telling the hour, ac
curately describes the positions of
all visible stars, has figures which
point to the day of the month, a
procession of gods and goddesses
showing the day of the week, figures
which strike the quarter hours, and
one which turns an hourglass!
Surmounting all Is a figure of
Christ, before whom at noon each
day appears a procession of the
Apostles, while a cock perched above
crows three times. Many other ce
lestial phenomena and special feast
days are Indicated by this wonderful
clock in the Strassburg cathedral.
Auction Town
Barro, Vt., originally was named
Wildersburgh in 1793, but that same
year a meeting was held and It was
decidefi that the person who wou'd
give the most toward building a
town meeting house could rename It
to suit himself.
Ezekiel Dodge Wheeler was tt i.
lucky man. The name he chose stl.l
stands. It cost him $310.
Tomorrow: The Cahtle In the Air.
PANKEY CONFIRMED AS
POSTMASTER FOR C. P.
WASHINGTON, May 31. (P)
Postmaster appointments confirmed
Saturday by the senate Included the
following in Oregon:
Hampton T. Pankey, Central Point.
Carl H. Massie, Grants Pass; Henry
R. Crawford, Salem.
lrnss Fire
The fire department's chemical
crew was called late Monday morning
to put out a grass blaze at Summit
avenue and Fourth street. The grass
had been set on flro to clear the
land but the blaze got out of con
trol. Chief Roy Elliott reported. It
was extinguished quickly by the
chemical crew. No damage was done.
Employers are obliged to shelter
their workers from the elements, the
Mexican supreme court has decided,
after a laborer died from pneumonia
and doctors said It resulted from his
working In the rain.
5-31
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