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PAGE SIX
OtTAdOMtloUJE,
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
: PFI
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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SULKY
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
mo Story So Fltt Untcrupu
low Marina Lorn, whote hu
band's pott office mural hai
aroused Quanomet, it murdered
by a let handed biota from her
eleler'i knife. Asey Maio, Cape
Cod detective, conceali hunted
Pam Frye In hie ftouie. He hai
learned Iheit facie.' Pam found
f 50,000 worth of ambergrlt uihfch
Marina tried to claim, and hid it
after discovering Marina dead in
the garage; eomeon who imokei
Turicuh tobacco luae eavesdrop
plng on Pam'e etory to learn the
whereaboufe of the amberg j,
agreeabl Tim Carr, boarder at
the Frue's Octagon Home, smokn
Turkish tobacco, ie let handed
and hated Marina In New Yo-k;
gabby Aunt Nettie Hobbf aw
Pam running out of the oarage:
and police are combing Octagon
House for Pam.
Chapter 10
Another Myatery
ASEY felt sure Pam must have
" hidden the ambergris in the
cellar. It was lucky Tim had kept
the police from moving the coal.
"They thought," Tim went on,
"she was under the briquets. I tried
to point out the impossibility of
anyone's hiding in a coal bin, and
then pulling the coal over 'em, but
they took a lot of convincing. This
is my first actual contact with the
fiolice, you know, and it amazes me
o find that they think the way they
do in movies and books.
"Painl"
He groped for the switch and
flicked on the light Pam was not
on the bed Pam was not therel
Asey Jerked at the closet door.
A strong odor of mothballs filled
the room. Inside, as he had left
them, were his old suits, forlorn
looking in their cloth coverings.
Pam was not in the cupboard
under the eaves. The window
screens were firmly hooked in
place. There was no connection
with any other room.
Asey was peering under the
bed when Tim Carr bounded in.
His white linen suit was streaked
with grass stains, caused when
Emma Goldman s leash had
tripped him and sent him sprawl
ing. "What's the matter?" he de
manded breathlessly.
"That," Asey said briefly, "is
what I'd like to know. She's gone."
"She who? Say, did you have
Pam Frye here all the time?"
"Yup," Asey said. "Come on.
We'll do some huntin' "
Hastily he looked through the
house. Then, equipped with flash
lights, he and Timothy set out to
explore outside.
I know this place," Asey said
after half an hour's frantic search
ing. "1 know itl There's no road
except the one out front. No one
can come or go without using that
road, right where we was. It'd take
an army to cart thai girl oli
against her wNII And how'd any
one get in? How'd they get out?
Them screens was In place. Thai
door was locked. I never heard ol
a human bein' evaporatin' into
thin air, but she hasl She certainly
has!"
"But they found," Asey said, "no
trace of Pam?"
"No. Where is she"?" Mrs. Carr
asked. "Where can she be? And
what can we do for her? And poor
old Mr. Frye we've got to do
something, for his sake. Did you
ask him about charges, Tim? My
dear boy. what have you been do
ing in there? Mr. Mayo, how much
do you charge for solving things?
Because if you have a special rate
for widows and orphans, Tim and
I would like you to clear Pam Frye.
You will, won't you?" she added
briskly, as though the whole mat
ter were settled.
"I don't do things for prices,"
Asey said, "an' why are you two
so set on helpin'? You never met
the Fryes till you landed here, did
you?"
"No," Mrs. Carr said, "but we
like Pam, and her father and I
feel a sort of sympathy with them.
And to be brutally frank, I am glad
that Marina Lome finally met up
with someone who gave her what
she richly deserved. Even if I
thought Pam killed her, I should
still ask you to prove she didn't.
And proving that she didn't won't
bo hard."
Asey grinned. "How so?"
"Why, it's Jack Lome, of course.
Aaron Frye told us he'd been over
there today, trying to borrow
money Mnnna was in some sort
of scrape. Frye refused, and 1 sup
pose everyone else refused, and In
desperation, Jack Lome killed
her. I can't see why he didn't do it
long before. He is a what's that
expression, Tim? A summer guy?"
"A fall guy," Tim snid gravelv
"And he1 left handed"
"He isl" Asey said. "Are you
sure about that?"
"Timmy." Mrs. Carr said plain
tively, "what did you talk about so
long in there in the house? Didn't
you lell him anything at all? Jack
Lome paints with his left hand,
but hes right handed in every
thing else. He Mr. Mayo, this
seems rather a persona' question,
but is there anyone upstairs in
your house? I can see a light and
it's acting so queerly. going off and
on."
Hunting
IN ONE motion, Asey tivisted the '
1 key and swung open the door of '
ma upstairs bedroom.
. . "Site's gone!"
Mrs. Carr and Em.na joined the
hunt. It was Emma, shying and
hissing at something that fluttered
in the underbrush, who found. the
only trace of Pam.
'In Danger'
"TIER handkerchief," Asey said,
n picking it up. "Least, it's
mine. One I tossed on the pile of
clothes I give her tonight. It's the
last clean one of that batch of
monogrammed handkerchiefs."
"What does it sll mean?" Mrs.
Carr demanded. "Did someone
take her away? Did sht lust go?"
Asey shrugged. "Presumably
she was in that bedroom, takin' a
nap. That's what her no'," said. 1
locked her in, because it seemed
to me I'd been awful careless. II
she was in the room, how'd she get
out? If she wasn't, where'd she
go, and what'd she leave that
note for? It don't seem possible
she'd go rompin' off without tellin'
me she knows perfectly well thai
she's in danger.
"But the police don't know she's
here." Timothy said. "They're all
over Quanomct, combing and
scouring vicinities."
"The 'ianger," Asey said, "ain'l
from the police. She must havi
understood we didn t talk abou'
It, but I thought she knew. I know
she knew. And tha'. note!"
"Gran," Tim said, "have you got
that receipt she gave you for the
board money? She wrote it out, all
very formally. You might compare
the writing on tin receipt with
that on the note. Perhaps someone
else wrote the note."
Mrs. Carr finally produced the re
ceipt from the depths of her capa
cious pocKemooK. Asey marveled,
as he invariably did, at the amount
of miscellaneous objects that a
woman could Dack into a hanribas
of given dimensions. Mrs. Carr's
was unusual only In that It con
tained besides the usual truck a
quantity of puppy biscuit and
three chewed catnip mice.
"Emma's." she explained. "We
always carry cans of evaporated
milk, and paper cups in the car foi
her. too."
"Gran." Timothy said, "give hin
the receipt."
"Here you are." Mrs. Carr passef
it to Asey. "Now, whores tin
note?"
Indoors, in the living room. the
compared the handwriting.
Vri4r. I9!t. 1m fawi Tllftl
What has hanntnrd to Pam? Can.
tinned tomorrow.
UPSTATE BERRIES CUT
ALBANY, June 9.Mt Hcnt and
drought hv rrduccd the Mnn conn
ty itrawb-prry crop nenrly BO percent.
County Agent Floyd C. Mullen Mid
today.
He warned hoiuwwlveji to beftln
cunning early Instead, of watting for
lower prloefl.
The berries ripened prematurely foi
lack of moisture.
OHESHAM. June 8 Clrowtre
estimated today heat and atnenre ol
rain had cut the Mrawberry crop In
thin area about 3 to 30 percent. They
nald the Iom would be Rreater tin
!e. a the fi-Md were mniMened mithln
the next fw dsyi.
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CAVEMEN WILE SEEK
OF
O HANTS PASS. June 8. (AD
Twenty Oregon Cavemen ind Cave
women will lenve here Thursday
morning with the avowed Intention
of bringing back at leant one girl
from the Portland rose festival throng
to Join the tribe. There will be 15
men and a royal court of five cave
women. Keeper of the Wnmpum W J. Moy
er. acting for Chief Bighorn Stanton
Rowell. refuse, to divulge the entire
plans for the Invasion.
"Too many men." he growled.
"We'll trll Vm It s the ravemn love
moon. We'll get m "
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refuse. City Sanitary Service.
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f UtNmcht Sjmdlrtta. Inc.
Trl -State Congressman.
Matthew Lyon began bis political
career In the Vermont state legisla
ture, to which he was elected ID times
tn all.
Then, strange as It seems, Lyon t
out to represent. In succession, threo
different states In the U, S. congress
at Washington!
In 1707 Lyon was elected Vermont's
representative. He Immediately be
came the center of attack by the Fed
eralists and was viciously lampooned
along with Jackson and Jefferson In
the Federalist press. He was a bitter
foe and outspoken critic of President
Adams.
This opposition culminated In a
four-months' Jail sentence for him In
October, 1798, when the was sentenced
for violating the federal sedition act
with certain libelous statements In a
letter directed against Adams.
Strange as It seems, whllo still In
Jail In Vergennes, Vermont, Lyon was
re-elected to congress by an over
whelming majority, where he con
tinued to serve Vermont until 1801
In that year Lyon moved to Ken
tucky, representing that state In the
U. S. congress from 1803 through 1811.
He was then appointed a factor of
the Indian Territory In Arkansas .ind
moved to that state.
Arkansas saw fit to elect Lyon to
congress also, but he died before
taking over the office.
Slaves and Slavs.
United by a common tongue an the
largest group of people tn Europe are
the Slavs, comprised mainly of the
Russians1, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and
the Bulgarians and Yugoslavs.
Strange as It seems, their national
name Is derived from the word slava,
meaning glory, but It baa also given
rise to our modern word, slave.
"Slave" first came into general
usage to denote a man of the Sla
vonic race captured and made a bond
man to the Germans. In the state of
captives or subjects they overspread
eastern Europe, according to the his
torian Gibbon, and the national hp
pelatlon of the Slaves has been de
graded by chance or malice from the
signification of glory to that of servi
tude. Tomorrow: What King's birthday ly
celebrated June 0?
TRIO MEET DEATH IN
RANDOLPH SMASHUPS
SAM ANTONIO, Tex., Juno 8. CSV-
Two Randolph field Instructors and
a flying cadet wcro killed and a stu
dent officer was critically Injured In
two separate crashes near the mrln
airdrome today.
The dead:
Second Lieut. Arthur M. Kepplcr,
30, of Houston.
Second Lieut. Nathan H. Codding -ton,
38, of Los Angeles.
Flying Cadet William H. Coneby
25, of Washington, D. C.
The student officer Injured was
Second Lieut. Frederick M. Thomp
son, 24, of Los Angeles.
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Suspects Nabbed.
ROSEBURG, June 8. (P) John
Sanderson, 25, and his brother Chat-
les, 21, both of Portland, who alleged'
ly escaped under a rain of bullets
from an attempted robbery of the
Brock way store, were arrested at
Myrtle Creek last night by state po
lice and sheriff's officers.
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MENDRCKS INFORMED PAUL
THAT "THE WA DEBWMENT
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ON TEH SHIM OP THE ,
MERCURY TYPE AS TRAINERS
PAUL WAS STUNNED.. AND
TOLD THE OFFICIAL THAT
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EVEN ON COSTS. THE MAJOR
THEN ADVISED HIM THAT
THREE-POINT'S RIVAL, THE
COMET AIRLINES, HAS A
SHIP WHICH CLAIMS GREATER
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WANT ID MATCH AGAINST THE
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MERCURY.. UNLESS
AMOS SNEADE, COMET
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