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PAGE SIX MTCDFOTiT) MAIL TTltBTTNTE, rEDTFCRD, OT?EG Qy. "MONDAY. JUNE 6. '1038 7 0! 801 cle Ca hu thl or Pli do thi yo or mi ch Bv It on fin yo ne bo pa roi Qi ou ' wi di( wi r or " frl ba ou th: go., ih off. m; lai wl He at SO u go mc ell: u mt K Th yoi sv Be gr thi bai I'll doi do 1 ref CUJ eoi ne: at dr ant I the itf wii wit . hei tur ble cor in kni knl ov fro ten wa raz of I of Thi be a 1 ' net foo sta! t' Sor hac bla Pre Yoi wit 1 ten T SA II In vol Ch leadt that, old ( It wher dral pile Re Capt a cd t U Jadi mui the vera and OtTAaon House, BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR ' The SKI. , '.. , .i . ..net u aroutcd iehen its inzens art ran catured In the pol office mural. The next night tht nrtUt'i ulft. ' unscrupulous Marina Lome, li murdered with her fleler'i knife. Pamela Frye appeal to Asey Mayo, Cape Cod detective, tell ing him the found tSOfiOO worth 0 aroberoria which Marina tried to claim, and hid It after dla covering Marina dead in the garage. Aware that lomeone, smoking Turkish tobacco, is lis tening, Asey hoe Pam announce a false hiding-place for the am- . bergria. Police arrive with Doe Cumminps, who says the mur derer is lel handed. After Asey conceals Pam In his house the mysterious listener returns. Then someone knock at the door. Chapter Eight Pleasant YoutiR Man. rvEFlNlTELY the young fellow - did noi nelong to Hanson's outfit, nor iv ..Id Asey recall ever seeing before that longish face, and the thick horn rimmed classes. It was possible that ho might be a messenger from Or. Cummings the doc was always commandeer ing tourtiis to do his errands, and mis une naa ine usual raw ana untanned look of the newly ar rived summer visitor. Of course, Asey 'thought, there was the possibility tnat this fellow might be the prowlei who had overnearf ram i story, and crawl ed off through the Dines. The Im maculateness of his white linen suit cried out that he couldn't have crawled through anything, let alone 1U0 yards of dusty pine grove. But that was no conclusive proof. He might have a car stuffed full of clean white linen suits for just such crawlings. Asey swung the dooi open wide. "Mr. Mayo?" the young man ceded, and a quiet, well bred sort 01 voice. "I'm Mayo." "How do you do? My name is Carr. Timothy Carr. I'm a boarder ai uciagon House. "Yes, Asey said, In a tone that said perhaps he was Mr. Carr of Octagon House, and perhaps he was not "The police have been here to tee you? And the doctor?" "They've been here." Asey'a grudging taciturnity did not appear to bother Mr. Carr. "That's fine," he said, "because It'll save me any amount of ex planations. Of course, as a matter of fact, I knew quite well that they have been here. Mr. Mayo, I'd like to come in and talk with you about this affair. I told Mr. Frye I'd talk to you, and " ''An' what?" Asey demanded. "And I intend to," Mr. Catr smiled his engaging smile. "1 fully intend to, even if I have to stand out here and yell through your spienaia panelea aoor. It would distress me to have to yell, but on ine omer nana, 1 promised Mr. Frye." He spoke very quietly, but he obviously meant what he said. Asey grinned. "Come on in," he aid. "an" tflllr "Thank you. And 1 have a verbal message from Dr. Cummings, too," Timothy said as he followed Asey Into the living room. "He'll be over hortly." "If you'd told me that first," Asey said, "you'd have got in quicker." "I know, but I'd have been en tering under false pretenses," Carr said amiably, sitting down on the couch and watching Asey draw the window shades. "I do really want to talk with you about this affair, and the message was incidental. I was coming here any way. And besides, I wanted to find out if you werd as adamant about playing with the rasp n that pohceman seemed to think. Gran and I that Is. mv ffrnnHmnther and I, we both decided you were iHKing, ana now i n sure you are. Gran's an old Asey Mayo fan, she reims every scrap she can find about you in the papers." Alibied " VTHAT did Hanson say?" Asey countered with another ques tion. Timothy Carr polished his glasses. "Hanson, he said, "prob ably has a heart of gold. He must have some redeeming feature, and heaven knows his teeth aren't it, or his brains. Look, to begin with, Aaron Frye is frantic Naturally. Then Hanson set a copper over him, and forbade his stirring from Octagon House, which made him more frantic. Gran and I worried bout him, and the only way we could calm him at all was to prom ise that we'd come to you and ask your help. Hanson said we couldn't go, but the doctor took our part, and gave me that message when Hanson was otherwise occupied." He paused and pulled out cigarette case. The initials, Asey noticed, did not stand 'or Timothy uiucm, ivir. hit spelled Tim othy with a G and Carr with an M. 'What," Asey asked blandly, d you propose should be done abwit things are those Turkish cig rettes that you're smokin'?" Won't you have one of the ai.. uiiuft. ...,ut., . ;ful up ana offered him the case. "They're Gran's fault, she hat an elderly beau in the tobacco business who fives her these in carload lots." Asey declined the cigarettes and lighted his pipe. Mr. Carr, he thought, was as left handed young man as he had observed In some time. "What," he asked casually, "did you say your name was?" "Carr, Tim Carr oh, you taw those Initials? That's Gran again She gave me this case when I wat 21. She brooded a week to find t suitable sentiment to - have en. graved on it, and with great sim plicity she landed on G. M. Grown Man,' he explained. "I see," Asey said. "You're quite a southpaw, ain't you?" Tim Carr stared at him. "You certainly take everything in!" he said with admiration. "I'm left handed, but I'm really not grist to your mm, you Know, uran and I are alibied bythe movies. But that left handed item is one of a number of odd and instructive de tails I wanted to talk with you about, if you'd care to hear 'em. Things like how I fell In love with Marina, and my offering to kill her. ana an snail i go onr , "Just why." Asey inquired, "are you so lush an lavish with your information?" Whenever It seems likelv that 1 shall become Involved in a situ- ation," Timothy said, "I find It's simpler to tell than wait to be tound out about. A nob e an high-minded senti ment," Asey commented, trying not to look at the pine needle thai was caught in the sole stitching ol Mr. Carr's brown and white saddle shoes. "Almost lofty." 'Bellowing With Rage' 'VES," Timothy agreed, "it's the type of homely honestv 1 trv to implant in the young, and it get; me promoted to a mastership over much worthier folk. I'm a teaehei of mathemntics, by the way, in Banks and Webster s swanky little prep school on UDDer Madison Avenue. Everything pointed to ward my becoming an architect originally. Everything except the depression, and that pointed to a job. Once I got into this quadratic surd business, I never dared leave a regular salary. Just another square peg. I'm quite sure, he added, ''that you don't care a rao about my career or my early youth, dui it going into tnem win melt those base suspicions gleaming in your eyes, I certainly shall go into tnem at great length. "Just what makes vou feel that you'll be involved in this busi ness?' Asey asked casually. "All the murders I've read about. in fiction and in the papers," Tim othy said, "always dig up vast quantities of details concerning uysianuers. mi oystanaers. Inno cent or otherwise. Gran and I are bystanders. In a sense. Amazine how one slips into the language of murder, Isn't it? Gran just called it Foul Deed. Anyway, when peo ple begin delving into Marina, they'll find us. Bellowing with rage and screaming murderous threats. It just seemed simpler to tell you first." "If vou and vour erandmnlhnr." Asey said rensonnblv. "disliked Marina so much, what in time did' you come an' park yourselves practically next door to her for? What made you come to Quan-omet?" You don't think we knew she was herel" Timothy said. "Perish the thoughtl We came because Gran had flu last month, badly and expensively, and we needed cheap country for her to rest in. Gran found the Fryes' ad, and we both liked it. It said. 'Old fashioned boarders wanted, for impossiblv inconvenient house with no mod'. ern improvements whatsoever. Oi' lamps, outhouse, pump. Prunes foi orcaKiast, eaten your own tish, dii your own clams.' It had a curioush honest ring. And then when I found out it was an octnson house that clinched matters. I've always been fascinated by octagon houses I don't know why. Anyway, I've collected a lot of junk about them Pictures, photographs, floor plans the old Orson Fowler book. So Gran and I came" "Fowler," Asey said thought fully. "That name seems familiar. Who was Fowler?" He knew nerfprtlv Fowler was, for up in his attic were a hundred odd Fowler books, the legacy of a great-uncle. Most of them concerned phrenology, but the rest covered practically every thing from bee-keeping to the evils of tight lacing. "Fowler.' Timothv said "nra some lad." And forthwith he em barked on a discussion of Fowler, his invention of the octagon house the gravel wall mode of building and the general sanitv of Fowler's architectural Ideas. "Yes," Asey said, a little disap pointed that he hat) not been able to catch Mr. Carr. "but let's bp back to Marina Lome. You knew Marina in New York. You musl have known where she came from." tCrtmrtf. Itlt. rttvb 4Hrd Ttrll Monday: News of Octagon Boom STRANGE AS , IT SEEMS -?By JOHN HIX For further proof addreu the author, Inclosing a lumped envelop for reply. . Rag. U. 8. Pat Off, II I irtois Central baddade man, X CftU6HT6VCRY fAftlU NORTH CftlftJ ftNP CBHTRfeMft . Wi1H Hte ftRM I tecauee fir? fram ha J no man wan en . -1136- ' .mm a ..,t4!3e t I ,W, F M-H'l lf QUIET By GLUT AS WILLIAMS aXv ttii Sioa Uue. RilOUPW I erehDlLi, MTHOUTONCB HMNQ mpMD To Qo OUT tf t$ IfeHPet? W WllWMA fAoRRrS, HendPfisoHiiillp. M ?.. WHO KT u IN in 1 1 SfARfS 1t1rK GAN6 Irl 1t) 6f DRINK OF WATER. REMEMBERS ABOOfBE IH& QOlEf BECAUSE WOfriER'S ftKINS A HAP SU66B1S fHAf )M5fftT SU&6E5iOH MEETiHS or-ffiODPX61rlR006H Wifrt VOCIFEROUS AP tHE HOUSE. -frlEVaiMB PR6VAl.,1to;P&H. lU KKCVIEN WlriPOW WHuDPlhG, AROONP H0U$ APltR KMSY ARGOMErtf. WlWSRteHffOBEFlRsrll UP, OK ACCOUNT OF If S HlSHOUSfc ' WrfHASREAf PEW-OF SH601"lW6 BV All COr CEKNEP, 15 B005TED UP OIMB OUYArJIlfiPffeE BRCK TO THEIR &mty TtiMBiEs Through hbps puli The others WltflJOW. CARRYING THR0U6H, ANP PMSE5 with him an alarm drinks of water round. havW6 made enoU6h CLOCK AHD TlN TRAY" AM1P MOCH NOISY" SHlCK- N0I5E To WAKEJ ANV- THAT WERE ON 5ILL. OrtETWO B10CK5 AWAV ,6UJYj . .lIHnb Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Syndicate, lac.) S MATTER POP Bv 0. LM PAYNE The Immortal Fire Symbolic of the liberty Ma ances tors fought for In the American revo lution. William Morris today care fully tends a small fire In the fire place of bis home, that has been burning for 147 years. When the going was toughest for America's colonial forces In their split with England, one loyal Phlla- delpblan almost alone saved the day oy pouring three-fourths of his en tire estate into the revolutionary war funds. That man was Robert Morris, "The Man Who Financed the Revolution." Morris lived to see his Ideals of a free country come true a free coun try that Morris' brother, John, faced happily with his bride, Sarah, one day In 1701. Pioneering Into the mountains of North Carolina, the hardy couple cleared a section of land and built themselves a strong cabin. The cabin contained a cheery open-hearth fire place. When their new home was com pleted, the couple built a fire In the fireplace and, keeling before It, vowed never to let it go out. Tht fire was symbolic of all their dreams of their 'love for their country and for each other. Throughout their lives the fire burned away year in, year out. Sa rah died, but John ' continued tc feed the everlasting flame of love and liberty. After oJhn, his sone. his grandson and hta great greatgrandson, Wil- i Ham Morris, continued to keep that I lkNnM StoU, lac, --'33 flame alive. William Morris today is the sole survivor and caretaker of the fire. With great care he tends the blaze; during the day he covers the glow lng embers with a layer oi ashes so that it will not go out while he tends his chores. At night he un covers the fire and stirs It up into a blaze, throwing on more wood. "Then r sit down before-it with my dog." says Morris, "and I can see In the flames my mother and father, my grandparents, and great grand parents who started It burning 147 years ago. I'll keep it going as long as I live, but I'm 77 years old and have no children, so I guess the fire and I'll be going out together." Tomorrow: The International Soldier. through a 32-inch redwood log In 3 minutes 40.4 seconds are that he weighs 264 pounds and stands 6 feet 6 in his stocking feet. He took 304 strokes with the saw to sever the log. Cowboys orguntze HELENA, Mont. (AP) The sole purpose of a newly organized Mon tana cowboys' association Is to 're store the hospitality common In the early days of the west and preserve the Ideals and the color of the old west." America failed Vague LOS ANGELES (UP) America suffers seriously from too much vagueness and especially from too many vague words, according to Fred W. Orth, visual education au thority. The only solution, he be lieves, is education by the film, which brings to the student reality and objectivity first and words aft erward. It is estimated that 20,000 years have elapsed since -the close of the glacial period. TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Is Stunned I c walKin' alls (yi V r . . -N-- V 7 OUT!, V K0VJ COrAB.) ZjJ ( MAwxse III..) V' r- I'm J V,A vatc-H- f J j V poute-"! W jwBtU Scl By HAL FORREST ASTORIA. Orc, June 6. (API Aldycr Chaw, 4-monthi old dHvih trr of Mr. and Mr,. Edwin Chaw ot HninmotKl. Ruffocatrd In hrr brd last nlghl. the coroner", office re ported today. 'Hie parents found the baby lying f.-ue down with her noae burled In the bedding. She apparently had turned over In her sleep and had su(fo.-ale! without waking. P.ilnt Adams coast guardsmen were unable to resuscitate the child. lull Kill. TENDIXTON, June 01 API Chaa Beam. 48. of Echo died today of fractured skull received yesterday when he fell from a tree. (ilant Ins llnld-l p Thwarted sroTIA ri .iiipi i. t .u. PORTLAND. June 8. 1 API Be- refnin i,v C"nrli lit!,-': won ihe cause two detr'-tlvp. Here nispl Ions j l.xg.bii. l, mt' , ;i m. o. -U p the ot tie action, of a man near g,a-1 California rcdwooti, by w 1 n 5 oline filling station, they were on hand to prevent hold-up. Th, of flccra, revolver drawn, slipped up behind Edison R. Womack. 38, as he attempted to rob Merlyn A.bee. the attendant. Seek Ham Approval WASHINGTON. June 6. (API Con gressional apptovnl will be sought at this aetsion for the t23.700.0lX) Uma tllla navigation dam. Senator Charle. McNary Mid today The project would be part of the uavlntlon. power and flood control program on the Colum bia river. - ' ''. SH&3 EVEN i4$?'' . . . ; .kiy model! i . A '. .--,"" x ' " "' f THATi SAYIHS V, f&-k 1 '. 1 A MOUTHFUL, '. .. 'lV ' A JEa' A W WELL, CHIEP, I MOW O SHE I V 1 - . ..r. we've sot the GOVERNMENT OKAY TO OFFER OU Sit TOMMY OUI HJR OMLY TEN SH1PS Or THAT TYPE ! VEo . . AND THE. ASMY MIGHT USE IHEM AS TRAIriERS! TRAINING .SHIPS? ' tA.uii; lit, BUT.. BUT ARE YOU KlUUtrHS US y BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Not Licked Yet! GEE, I JUST CAN'T TELl BEN THE JIPPEMS ARE S0IN6 TO DRIVE HIM OUT OF BUSINESS. HE'S GOT EN0USH TROUBLES NOW. WHAT WITH- By EDWIN ALGER R PP! IF! ftxnWHAT WITH-jJ flj LEU "HIS PARTNER, JASON V, JONES, FLAT ON HIS BACK AN ME BE1N ANOTHER MOUTH TO FEED AROUND THE PLACE. Ml DARN IT! MOM USED TO TELL DAD THE DAKKcST HOUR WAS JUST BEFORE THE DAWN.' KNOW BEN WON'T TAKE THIS THINS LYIN DOWN, AN NEITHER WILL I J l"M G0IN' TO TRY A LITTLE - wlu HOUSE-TO-HOUSF 4 CANVASSING MAYBE WE OUTSMART THE JIPPEMS THAT WAY THE NEBBS Steve Continues TuiS IS A CctAXCfoflUS kiKJG'S SOLDIERS " cr STEvcsCeucrv RavED ME OVER TO ecoTvER.nitEsiccy am islanjd mameD fs SIsJCEHELEPr I POCLTONJ WHERE I caugut's THE KJEB8 HOME A TRMo stEMEQ By SOL HESS -IM AFRICA 1 GOT A OOB 1NJ A DAMOiOD f mikje muotikjg PAMONiDs-j ' ' -Wy-i gM i was -rue okjly wjuite I iyMAM QNJTME QOB jjg- y-f-j M- MOl THE boss CAME iHKOUaH OWE DAN AlOD Mf? Siu; fit amu ASKED- UJHO HIRED THAT <V T-SUPPOSINJ HE FOUlO A OAMONJD-.VJUO'D GET IT ? ;n POR SAFE TV HE MiDF MP- UPERISJTEMDEMT
