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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Not Licked Yet!
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BEN THE JIPPEMS ARE
S0IN6 TO DRIVE HIM OUT
OF BUSINESS. HE'S GOT
EN0USH TROUBLES NOW.
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