DFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, TirEPFWlD, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938
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Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
CITRTTDKAN HFTnHTS
The ilui au - Juununntl
around when its citizen art cari
catured in th pom offict mural.
TJi neil niphl lh ariut'i wile,
unscrupulous Manna Lome, iJ
murdered ou a let handed blow
from ner tljier'i (cnle. Ae
Mayo. Cape Cod delectlue, con
ceals hunted Pamela Fry in hie
house. He hat learner then facte:
Pam found $50,000 worth of am
oeroru which Marina tried to
claim, and hid it after discover
ino Marina dead in the on race,
omeone who smokes Turkish
tobacco wai eavesdropping on
Pam'e sloru to learn the where
about! of the amherorts. Then
agreeable Tim C'arr calls on Atey.
He is 30. a boarder at the Frye't
Octagon House, emokej Turkish
tobacco, it left handed and telle
Asey he hated Marina,.
Chapter Nine
News Of Octagon House
A R I N A never mentioned
Cape Cod," Tim went on,
"Never. I thought she came from
the Middle West. She called her
self Marina Fern. Not Frye, or
Lome. Fern, like the plant. She
was modeling at an art school I
went to ..t nicht. Jaci. L,orne was
in one of the classes, by the way,
but I didn't know that then. Or that
they happened to be married.
Those were Doints she didn't bring
up. Well, I fell for Marina, and not
even Gran's japing snapped me out
of it. In fact, I didn't emerge till the
day I found $400 of mine, and all of
Gran's jewelry, missing from our
spartment That emerged me."
"Why?" Asey wanted to know.
"Most anyone might steal "
"Yes, most anyone might, except
that Marina was the only person
who knew about that money of
mine. Id sold some drawings a
major miracle. I never sold any De
fore or afterwards. And I'd told
Marina about it, and how I'd hid
den it, and how I was going t take
Gran on a bust of a trip. Gran
man t know anything about It.
"What d you dor
"For three days I detected,"
Timothy said. ''Marina had disap
peared, no one at her boarding
house knew where she'd movea
The third day, I found a key shop
where the man had made a dupli
cate of our key for her. and the
time he made it checked with
Marina's going and coming to our
filace one day. She'd apparently
aken Gran's key from the hall
table, gone, had the key made,
came back and left Gran's in its
place. Carlton that's Gran's to
bacco beau he found most of the
jewelry in a downtown pawn shop,
and gallantly redeemed It We
never could have. At art school,
ihortly after, someone displayed a
post card from England. 'X marks
our room, wish you were here,
Marina and Jack.' And I discovered
they'd been married a couple of
years. That week "ack was award
ed a prize for some splendid work
happened to be copies from some
stuff of mine, with a lot of polish
ing and embellishments. StuIT I
was saving up for a scholarship
competition. Marina, someone said,
had helped him a lot. I thought so.
too."
"1 get," Asey said, "the Idea. An'
you didn't do anythin' about her?"
"There wasn't anything to be
done, then."
"Did you keep track of the
Lornes? Asey asked.
"Yes, through friends of theirs I
knew. When they returned to New
York, I took Gran and Carlton and
ruid Marina a call. She was wear
ing Gran's diamond rings. It was
splendid interview. I held her,
and l
firnn rpmnverl the rinss. Then
Cartlon said gently we'd like the
S400, and the money pam tor. re-
deeming the jewelry. She was
frightened to death, and wept and
waueu aim &UIU nicy wcin penni
less, and Carlton said, very well
the police could take a hand. She
had $200 cash, and so we took that
and then snatched a few pictures
off the walls and called it a day
after much rhetoric from Gran and
me as to what physical damage she
would suffer if she crossed our
paths again. We discovered later
that the original stones had been
removed from the rings, but by
that time the Lornes had flitted
again. That, in brief, is why we
don t like Marina
"An' when did you discover she
was here?
"Tonight, when we came back
from the moviea, all God's children
roamed the rrounds and vicinity of
Octagon House and a woman
named Hobbs was having hysterics
and saying lhe d Just come oacK
for her pocketbook, but she knew
all the time, she knew, she knewl
And nolice raced around, and final
ly we got someone to tell us the
trouble. They said Marina Lome
had been killed, she lived in the
CaDe Cnd cottage at the corner, be
vond. Gran asked who did it, and
thev said her sister. Pam Frye.
That was the first we knew of Pam
and Marinif being related
Gran And Emma
HORN blew outside.
"Who's that?" Asey asked
"Oh. it's Gran," Timothy said
"She thought she'd better not come
In, she has Emma with her. Emma
Goldman. Her cat. It s a red Per
sian." he added in exnlanation.
"Do you mean that your grand-
DESTROYED BY FIRE
TACOMA. June 7.-(AP)-Two TVomo
factories were burned and a tldellnti
bridge da ma Red Sunday night in a
general alarm firn that taxed trie
city's flre-ilghtlng forces and md
damage estimated nt more than 1200,
000. The flume levelrd the Taroma Saah
and Door Company plant, tmread tc
the Pioneer Sand and Gravel com
pany and licked at the approaches of
the newly constructed 15th street
bridge over main line railroad truck
Ashe, sparks and burning mater:ai
were acattrrd over a large area id
the aouth end of the city, acme of it
falling three mllri Lftay.
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.tuthdi na ucen siuiiiA out there
all this time, holding a cat?" Asey
sounded incredulous.
"Oh, Emma's trained to a leash,"
Timothy said. "There goes the horn
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aKUlll II uaau uu,
Asey started to follow him, but
remembering Pam Frye, he first
ran upstairs to the bedroom. There
was a note stuck on the door. "Dear
Asey, I am taking a nap, I am ex
hausted. but call me when you
need me for anything. Pam."
Asey hesitated, and then thought,
as he carefully locked the door and .
pocketed the key, the Lord knew
she needed a nap.
Outdoors he round iimomy
standing beside a small coup
parKea in mc uiivcwbj.
"My grandmother. Mrs. Carr,"
he said. "With E"ima."
The white haired woman inside
was too absurdly youn looking to
be anyone's grandmother. Asey
said so, to Mrs. Carr's delight.
'There, Tim, she said, "mars
the sort of gallantry 1 miss in your
contemporaries. I I watch Emma,
she's getting out."
The largest Persian cat Asey had
ever seen jumped will, dignity
from the seat down to the grass.
"She's still ruffled." Mrs. Can
said. "Just the sight of brass but
tons annoys her, and there were so
many over there. Has Timmy told
you how we yearned to kill Ma
rina, and that we're botti left hand
ed? And what's to be done about
Pam Frye of course she didn't kill
Marina, she's much too nice a child
But everyone seems to think so
That Aunt Nettie person do you
know that Nettie?1'
Asey found it hard to maintain
his prejudices against Tim Carr
and his grandmother. Perhaps, he
decided, they were just naturally
expansive and chatty. Perhaps
they lust couldn't help It On the
other hand, under the circum
stances, their very matter of fact
attitude was in itself suspicious.
"Aunt Nettie Hobbs," Asey said
"has been a pain in folkses'-necki
as long as I can remember. An' it's
Kind ot hard to sum ner up ioo.
'Combing The House'
MRS. CARR announced tartly
that she personally could sum
up Aunt Nettie in several words,
and that nothing but modesfy pre
vented her from doing so. ' She
takes 'jelly and custards to the
sick," Mrs. Carr said. "And after
she departs, the sick prompt'y die.
Yes, I know the Aunt Nettio type.
But the stinker dear me. Timmy,
you do add such foul words to my
vocabulary! But tne sunner was
identifying the knife that killed
nna as fam l rye s
LQh nh Was nhe?" Asev
caught himself just in time to keefl
from adding that Pam had ad
mitted that the knife was hers.
"Yes. I knew it was. I recognized
it. But listen here. Pam was away.
this afternoon when we all de
cided to go to this clambake, and
we left a note for her, and I per
sonally stuck It on the back door
with that knite it was just silling
there, that knife, on the railing, i o-
night I noticed that the note was
still on the door, but it was held up
hv a Din. A common Din. And "
"And obvious! y," Timothy
chimed in, "Pam Frye wouldn't
remove the knife and then pin the
note back againl That's just silly.
What we think Is, someone passinfi
by grabbed the knife, and the same
person used the knife to kill Ma
rina with, knowing that it would
implicate Pam. uoesn t mat seem
likely?"
Asey aomittea tnai aid.
"And that Ncttiel" Mrs. Carr
said indignantly. "There she stood.
when we left, telling noroes oi po
lice and all those reporters thai
Pam must have had the knife on
her belt this evening, because she
had on the bcltl That woman is a
menace, she should be forcibly re
strained! And so should the police.
Did Tim tell you they're simply
combing Octagon House?"
"Combing what for?" Asey de
manded, thinking instantly of the
ambergris. That was hidden there,
somewhere.
"This Nettie saw Pam run out of
the garage, and she saw Jack
Lome stumble "
"What was Nettie dnin" back
there or," he amended hastily,
hadn't she gone, or what?"
"She'd come back fdr her pock
etbook, she said. She is," Mrs. Carr
said, "one of those women who al
ways strews things so she can have
a legitimate excuse to return and
stand outside the door and find out
what's being said about her after
ehe went. Anyway, Nettie started
for home, but returned in time to
see Pam dashing off, and Nettie
wasn't sure that Pam hadn't
dashed into Octagon House."
"I ain't sure but what Nettle
shouldn't be forcibly restrained.
Go on."
"Well, 'that floor plsn--it's sim
ply fascinating the police. AU
those odd closets, all alike, and
everything They were banging
the wall far hideaways, or secret
panels, or something. Timmy had
to go down and stop them from
moving the coal in the cellar."
Asey drew a deep breath. Pam
hadn't told him exactly where she
had put the ambergris, but he felt
sure it must be in the cellar.
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SALEM. June 7. (AP Dean Jack-
aon of Lane county was awarded See
retary of State Snell'a first prtw to
day In a traffic safety play writing
contest for Oregon 4-H club members
Helen Marguerite Michael, alw
member of the Lane county club,
took second place.
The winning play will be broadcast
Wednesday at 12:15 p. m over station
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Mrs, J as. Roosevelt
Subs For First Lady
WAPH1NOTON. June 7.-( AP)-Mr.
James i:oosevelt. daunhter-ln-law r:
President and Mr?. Roosevelt, iun.
at 1 tuted for the first lady today
the annual White Hoae ;.inten psry
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International Soldier
Charles Lee got bis first commis
sion as a major at the age, of 30
when. In 1761, ho was appointed
major of the. 103rd Foot Regiment
In the British army.
He Is said to have received a com
mission when 11 years old, but bis
name first appears in military records
on April D, 1746, when he was ap
pointed an ensign In his father's
regiment.
1 Lee served In the British army In
America under command of Oage.
He was at Fort Duquesne during the
disastrous Braddock campaign, and
commanded a regiment (44th Grene
dlers). He was wounded at Tlconder
oga and was present at the capture
of Niagara.
After winning his appointment , as
president alone would be on hand to
greet the veterans.
Mrs. Roosevelt was at the beds! do
of her secretary, Mrs. Malvtna Schled-
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In 1764. Lee was appointed a major
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become Interested in establishing
military colonlea along the Wabash
and Illinois rivers In the United
States. Two years later he accom
panied the Polish legation to Con
stantinople, where he was appointed
an honorary general In the Turkish
army.
In 1769. strange as H seems, Lee
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became Interested In America's bid
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turned to the new world. He re
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His rank was second from that of
Washington himself.
Lee was suspended from command
in 1778 for one year, in spite of his
brilliant fighting, for certain charges
directed against him.
Lost and Found Department
A communication from N. H. Slack,
Knowlton, Quebec, golf fan, relates
this amusing coincidence:
"I lost my cigarette lighter on the
golf course one day last summer and
on the following day drove a ball
Into the rough, which I also had
done on the previous day on the
same hole. When I found my ball
It was lying an Inch away from the
lighter!"
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It Is said to Include more than b.000
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