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MEPFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, .TTTNTE 5, 1938
BY PHOEB ATWOOO TAYLOR
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ilic Story So ai; guuitui;(l u
aroused mhen iu citizens are cari
catured in the pott ofTlce mural.
The next nioht the artist's wile,
unscrupulous Marina Lorne, is
murdered uiith her sister's kni)e.
Pamela Frye appeals to Asey
Mayo, Cape Cod detective, tell
ing him she found 50,000 worth
0 omberorie which Marina tried
to claim, and hid it after die
covering Marina dead In the
garage. Because Asey indicates
that someone in the woods, smok
ing Turkish tobacco, is listening,
she announces a false hiding
place for the ambergris. Pam
hides under the wharf as police
arrive. They are sure Pam is the
murderer, but Doctor Cummings
swears it was done by a left
handed person.
Chapter Seven
Danger
"AN' FURTHERMORE," Asey
conslnued tranquilly, "I'm
aort of sick an tired of doin Han
son's work for him. He says this it
clear as crystal, you say it ain't
Can't you compromise on the girl's
husband? Honest, 1 m sleepy, an
this don't move me much one way
or the other. Kind of a common
. place murder, when you come right
down to it Girl stabbed. That's all
there is to it Girl stabbed. Now. If
vou had auintuolets hung in a row
or someone stood up against the
mural an' mowed down with a ma
chine gun, why that'd be dill'rent
But girl stabbed!"
The doctor gaped at him.
"Well, really." he said. 'Really!
' If that's the way you feel come
on, Hanson. Let's battle it out to a
finish ouchl Owl Asey. why can't
you fix your damned wharf? I
nearly broke my neck on tnat loose
board!
Asey watched them stride up the
path listened to the cars as they
roared off in the direction of
Quanomet
Okay, Pam," he said. "Come on
out. Are you frozen?"
She swung herself up on the
wharf. "No, the water's not so cold
Asey, why'd you do that? Why
didn't you go over?"
"Because," Asey said, "I didn't
want to leave you wanderin'
around loose to catch pneumonia,
or meet up with our fine feathered
friend the listener, who ought to
be comin back pretty soon to find
out more about the ambergris. I
think. Hustle up to the house. We
got things to think about"
Pam chuckled. "Now that the
sheer terror is beginning to wear
off," she said, "I'm almost enjoying
myself. Cummings isn't he an old
lamb? I nearly giggled out loud
when he yelled at that loose board
he really didn't trip, you know.
He just yelled because he was sore
at you, and he had to take it out
some way."
"He yelled," Asey said, "because
I pinched him from the rear. He'll
be back shortly, an' find out what's
goin on. rne doc got consid rable
more brains than most folks, in
cludin' Hanson, suspect."
Unknown Watcher
UP IN his house, Asey un
strapped a suitcase and rum
maged through it.
"Here," he said triumphantly.
producing a pair of flannels, I
knew these was in the clean lot
They got shrunk so they're about
your size, an' here's a shirt An' a
sweater I was brinein' home to
Betsey Porter, but your need's
greatern ners. upstairs, tlrst left,
there's a bathroom. Take a hot
bath, please, an' a cold shower, an'
I'll leave food in the bedroom next
door. You stay up there while I
do some organizing"
There was cold roast beef In his
refrigerator, potato salad and a
custard pie all donations from his
cousin Syl's wife. With the deft
ness acquired from his earlier days
at sea. when he was a cook. Asey
dressed up a tray, brewed coffee,
and concocted a hot toddy.
He never thought to pull down
the shades in his kitchen, nor did
it occur to him to look outside the
window, where a figure watched
with interest as Asey left with the
. heaped-up tray for Pam. Asey re
turned, sat down at the kitchen ta
ble and ate his own meal. At its
conclusion, he toyed with the carv
ing knife beside the platter of beef.
Knives. He knew all about
knives. He had learned about
knives in a scries of installments
over a long period of years, and
from a strange and widely scat
tered assortment of people. There
was that Jamaican cook and his
razor sharp cutlass, and the dagger
of an Italian mate, and the stiletto
of that Spaniard in Hong Kong
The Spaniard and Asey had got to
be friends, later; he'd taught Asey
a lot about knives, and knives
needed knowing. Practically any
fool could pull a trigger, but a neat
stabbing, such as this seemed to be
that took a bit of skill.
Asey balanced the carving knife.
Somewhere around the house he
had a jackknife with a six inch
blade. For fun, he'd get it out.
Probably he'd be no use with It.
You had to keep in trim to play
with knives.
The watcher outside stared in
tently, and fondled the gun in a
nip pucKel. Actually neitnei Asey
nor the girl had to be killed. Asey
would be put out of business, and
well, if there were trouble with
the girl
Slowly the gun was raised.
Knock At The Door
ASEY continued to finger the
carving knife. It nod on the
whole a nice balance. He flexed his
wrist and then on sudden impulse
hurled the knife at the bread
board, hanging on the wall next to
the window. Instinctively, the
watcher ducked.
"Huh," Asey said to himself with
quiet pride, watching the knife
quiver in the exact center of the
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Instinctively .the watcher
ducked.
soft pine board, Mit must be like'
oicyclin : You don t iorRet.
He wrenched tho knife from the
board, and standing in the far cor
ner of the room, hurled it twice
more. Both. times it hit within a
quarter of an inch of the center.
The watcher returned the Run to
his pocket.
A few minutes later the knocker
on Asey's front door sounded.
The insistence of that continued
rat-a-tat did more than jerk Asey
back from his reminiscences and
his knife throwing; it made him
keenly aware of his stupidity in
shilly-shallying when he should
have been indulging in a good dose
of constructive and thoughtful
planning.
"Fool! Asey murmured to him
self. "Dum fool, you even left the
shades upl"
And anyone over two feet tall
approaching that side door, frotr
the back of the house, might wel!
have been watching him for the
last 20 minutes. Asev gritted his
teeth and summed up nis own men
tal caliber in a few terse nautical
phrases.
En route to the door, he detoured
into a bedroom and rummaned in
a traveling bag. Finally he brought
lorin nis tavonte Colt, the old sin
gle action Army forty-five, which
he thrust into his belt. To think of
it! To think that he could have sat
there like a lump, fiddling with
that knife! As if he hadn't a sincle
care in the world.
The trail of reproachful mur
murines accompanied him as he
slid through the dark hallway; he
wouia nave greeted with merri
ment, at that moment, any sugges
tion that his knife fiddlina hud
probably saved his skin.
bnapping on the outside lieht
he peered through the curtainec
side class at the straneer wht
stood on the millstone doorstep.
(Cetyrttkt, J9fS. 4mV 4hrf4 Tyte
Bowled "330'
Better than perfect that Is the
way his friends describe BUI Rogan.
Minneapolis bowler.
Strange aft It aeems, Rogan last
year did what no man had ever
done before on a bowling alley
scored 330 In a league game bowled
under official American Bowling
Congress rules!
The event took place oh January
36. 1037, when Rogan was bowttng
with the Budwelsers against the
Carnegie team In the Minneapolis
City league. The match wound up
with both teams tied at 1,129 pins
each. Rogan had bowled 13 consecu
tive strikes a perfect "300" gnme.
Because the tenms were tied, A.
B. C.s regulations specined that on
extra frame be rolled, Its score to
be added to the total. Strange as
It seems, Rogan proceeded to score
another three strikes In the roll-off.
Thus, in one game of 11 frames,
Rogan achieved the "Impossible"
score of 330. The contest took place
at. Minneapolis' Central bowling alleys.
Origin of Coroner
tn it original meaning, a coroner
had no part In condutclng Inquests.
The term originated In 12th cen
tury England and designated an of
ficer whose duty it wbb to record
the pleas of the Crown in a county,
and to guard the revenues arising
therefrom.
America's Oldest Hotel
Ppubllcatlon In Strange As It
Seems last March of the record of
Bennington, Vermont's Walloomsao
Inn, which has operated continu
ously for 174 years, drew forth sev
eral challenges by proprietors of
other old establishments claiming
longer records.
Best claimant to date for the title
of "America's Oldest Hotel" in point
of continuous operation la Rhine
beck. N. Y.'s Beekman Arms, found
ed In 1700.
This colonial Inn began as a one
story stone house of two rooms with
a .loft above. William Traphagen.
the builder, slept on a pile of sheep
skins before an open fireplace.
Beekman Arms has been the scene
of many historical events during the
283 years It has operated. Twenty
four landlords have run the establishment.
Monday: The Immortal fire I
advisory board of historians of the
Texas centennial commission of con
trol, took Issue with the ceremonial
leaders. He said he held a newspaper
clipping describing another type of
burial accorded the Alamo heroes.
also under Seguln's directions.
Ke-mp. however, waived his objec
tion to the ceremony but declared
he waa "positive the bone are not
those of the Alamo heroes," snd
refused to participate.
When Kemp's commission planned
to remove the bones of Boses Austin,
father of Texas' founder, Stephen P.
Austin, from Potosl, Mo.. Missouri
authorities objected and the proposal
we temporarily abandoned.
President of 'a score of students'
unions of universities and colleges of
Britain have Issued a manifesto at
tacking the government for "compla
cency In the face of international
barbarism."
More than 400 species of fish have
been observed In the Mediterranean
sea.
STOP AND ENTER'
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Texas Is Perturbed By Dispute
Over Bones Of Alamo Heroes
SAN ANTONIO. Ttxu (UP) TVjns
Is wrapped In Interment problems
Involving Its heroes.
Civil, military, church nd state
leaders are Involved In ft controversy
that arose over a ceremony at the
old Cathedral San Fernando here.
It all began several months ai;o
when workmen renovating the cathe
dral altar floor unearthed a small
pile ol bone and fragment.
Recalling an account written by
Capt. Juan Seguln. who commanded
ft company under Gen. 8am Huston
at the Texas-liberating battle of San
Jacinto, officials of the cathedral
assumed they had ample proof that
the bones found beneath the eitai
were those of Col. w.lUam B. Travis
ftnd t&e 180 heroes wUo died lta
him In the massacre of the Alamo.
Tot Seguin had written how, re
turning from the Texss revolutionary
battles three months after the bloody
Alamo Incident, he found the i-harred
bonea of the victims In ptlea where
Oen. Banta Anna of Mexico had
ordered all the boolw burned. Srguin
wrote that he gathered up the bone
and relnterred them beneath the
altar of San PVrnando.
Upon that authority, the officials
of the church recently at.ged ft for
mal ceremony of reburlal. tn which
army and state euthor'.tles partici
pated and paid tributes tj Travis.
David Crockett, Col. James Bowie and
many ctherj who met death from the
Mrlr.inv :-ad end stcvl.
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