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iAGE TEN
HIGH FLY
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Octagon Nou&
BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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The Story So Far: jtiery Mayo. Caps
Cod detective, ti privately Inuestlaat
nn the murder o Marino Lome,
tvhote husband'! post ojffce mural lias
aroused Quanomet. She uics killed by
a let handed blote from her eiter"
knife. Suspected Pam True disappears
became an unknown person who
smokes Turkish tobacco is trailing
her to discover the whereabouts ol
f 50,000 worth of ambergris Pam
found the day of the murder. Agree
able Tim Carr, a boarder at the Frye's
Octagon House, is left handed, smokes
Turkish tobacco, and hated Marina.
Gabby Nettle Hobbs who iweart she
saw Pam commit the murder, is
called a liar by Peony Boone, an ar
tist And Roddy Strutt, whose plane
crashed in the square, pays Nettie
15,000 to keep his name out of her
ttory. Asey decides to see the injured
pilot.
Chapter 17
The Indestructible Man
"DY the way, how's the crowd
D over to Octagon House gettin"
along?" Asey asked the traffic cop.
"Hanson's eot 'em in order now,
I guess. But they ripped up the
flower beds, though, and a couple
was tryin' to make oft with that
Iron deer before he got 'em Under
control. There's some still around
the garage at Lornes'. Someone
went by a while ago with a load
of barbed wire, an' there was a
state cop on the truck. I guess
they're settin' up a barrier. Where
you Bound t
"Hither an' yon. Oh, if you know
where pickle limes come from,
Jerry, go tell the minister's wife
over at the Exchange. Tell her I
think she could nrob'lv nalm off
lemons dipped in brine, it she got
I 1 .... rth w toll Am thnv'rA
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missin' a good Dei in larry appies.
Thttv'd oupht to fetch half a dol
lar, an' the prime expense is
sticks.
He extracted Syl's truck from
the maze of parked ears, and
bounced over to the little Pochet
hospital.
The nurse In charge was the
daughter of a neighbor of his. She
hesitated a moment wnen Asey
addressed her by name, and then
the laughed. , '
"Why, Asey," she said, "I hardly
recosmzed vou in that outfit. I
don't think I'd have known you if
I hadn t seen Syl s truck. That
truck used to belone to Father, you
know. It's a family legend. Isn't
this business over in Quanomet
simply hideous? And is It true that
you re not helping with the case?"
"What do you think?" Asey
asked.
"You can't fool your neighbors,"
she said. "Of course you are.
You're up to something, dressed
this way, and driving that truck.
I suppose you want to see Earl
Jennings, don't you?"
"Who's he?"
"That Quanomet selectman who
got bumped In Roddy Strutt's
plane crasn last nignt.
It a - .,- .. II A .nM
na a hiuiivi ui itit-t, nocj oaiu,
"I'd like to see Hoddy Strutt's
pilot. Can I?
She shook her heati. "I'm afraid
not," she said. "He's in pretty bad
shape. We hoped Roddy would
agree to sending for Dr. Carter,
but Roddy wasn't interested. Rod
dy isn't even interested enough to
notify the fellow's family, if he's
got any. We telegraphed all the
people whose names and addresses
we found in his wallet, but no one's
answered, and two wires came
back. Unknown, or something."
"Get Carter," Asey said, and
charge him to me, will you?
And"
"Asey, that's swell of you!"
"Not a bit," Asey said. "And
when he gets so that he can be
asked questions, let me know. Be
sure. And just for fun, if Roddy
should take it into his head to see
the fellow ft-hat's his name?
Brigham? Well, if Roddy asks to
see Brigham, cause him to be
thwarted, will you?"
'Somelhln' Queer
"I will, and I'll tell the rest. We're
1 all so mad at him, and anyway,
you'll be taking charge. That'll
make it all right. You know," she
added, "I shouldn't say this, but
there's something queer about this
crash. Brigham's sleeping now, but
he's been unconscious, and he kept
muttering about the plane, ana
Roddy, and calling him names, and
telling him to keep off. It was sort
of bloodcurdling.
"Could vou sav. Susan. If all
Brigham's injuries come from the
crash?"
"Where else oh. Oh, I see what
you mean. That someone might
nave hurt him before it. I couldn't
say, Asey. Carter might be able to
tell you, and Brigham can, cer
tainly, when he s better. It was
quite a crash, enough to bang up
those cars in the square and shake
up Earl Jennings look, won't you
take pity on him and see him? He's
limply raving about this Uunncv
met business, and everyone in
town's so busy making money out
of the tourists, they haven't time to
do more than send consoling mes
sages by phone. His wife has been
over twice, for ten seconds. She's
making doughnuts by the hundred
thousands, and she says if she can
P
TO BUILD II
FOR CRASH VICTIMS
BAN FRANTISCO, Jun lfl. (AP
A new medical organisation to
dMl with the terrific toll of auto
and machine accidents waa formed
here today under the name of the
American Association for Traumatic
Surgery.
Autos and machines. It waa de
clared have created new emergency
medical prohlems. Traffic Injurlea
were awrted to be aa grave aa those
of the hattlerield and to offer an
opportunity to save many Uvrs by
building up technique to treat vic
live through another day, they'll
have a new car."
"Is this Jennings hurt oaoi"
Asey asked.
"No, he's sort of an indestructi
ble man. He's just bruised, but his
doctor wants him to stay for a
couple of days, and rest. He's got
a bad heart. Won't you see him?"
"Sure, for a minute," Asey said
"But I don't know the man. '
"That won't matter. He knows
you, and he's so eager to talk with
someone."
Mr. Jennings, a burly six-footei
who seemed far too big for his
bed, smiled at Asey and extended
his hand.
"Boy," he said feelingly, "am
I glad to see a human facer
Asey laughed. "I hear you're
sort of marooned an' deserted."
"Oh, lots of folks phoned, but
as soon as they find out I'm all
right, and just being kept in cold
storage, they send their regards
and say they'll drop over when 1
get back home. You can't blame
'em. There hasn't been so much
money loose in town for years.
My boy he's IS he's had trouble
this summer, selling little wooden
windmills for a dime apiece. To
day, he and his friend got the idea
of making little octagon houses oui
of two by fours, and painting 'em
up, and they're getting a dollar
apiece for just as many as they
can make. Think of itl If only the
doctor but .1 suppose he's right.
I wouldn't keep quiet, if I got out.
I'd be out hawking with the rest.
Say, what do you think about this
murder?"
"There's more to it than meets
the eye," Asey said, "if that's what
you mean."
"Sure there Is," Jennings agreed.
"After I heard about it, I went up
town I was going to rout out the
other selectmen, and have 'em
send for you. But they told me you
was away, and then that fool
crashed his plane, and I landed
over here. But you know what 1
think and what everyone else in
town thinks? We think its some
one that was sore about being pic
tured in that mural thing. You
don't know how mad people in
Quanomet are about that!"
'Red Lead Faint'
"E)Y degrees," Asey said, "I'm
D gatherin' that there's been
consid'rable Indignation. But the
point is, is there any one person
that's madder than any other? And
why should Marina be killed, and
not Lome, who painted the pic
ture?" "Oh, Marina put him up to It,"
Jennings said. "Lome's a fool. The
only way that fellow can think is
with a paint brush in his hand,
and then he isn't too bright. Every
one knows she put him up to paint
ing in the faces. He wouldn't have
thought of it by himself."
"Then you think it's a local per
son, who knew enough to figger
that Marina was to blame?"
"I do," Jennings slid emphati
cally. "And I thought right ofl the
bat about Aaron Frye. He's in the
mural. Father Time, or something.
I don't know. But he's had more
than that from that daughter of
his in the 'past. So has Pam. The
way I figure, if they haven't killed
Marina before, that picture
wouidn't move 'em to kill her now.
Then you'll laugh at this. But I
thought of Nettie."
"Is she in the paintin'?" Asey
asked. "I seen it, but I got to
laughin' so, . had to go out before
I took in more than the main
panel."
"The other panels are the ones
with Quanomet faces," Jennings
said. "Nettie's cn old hag gutting
a fish."
"A flsh wife, huh? Well, that's
apt," Asey said.
"Uh-huh. And beside her are
two pickle limes. She's had a jar
of pickle limes in that window of
her store for years. Then I decided
it couldn't be Nettie, because the
time they said she left Octagon
House and the time Pam found her
sister, they didn't hitch up. And
besides, I had a better idea. And
you'll think I'm crazy, for sure. 1
thought of Roddy Strutt."
"Is he in the mural, too?"
"He sure is. With two girls on
his lap, and his fnce well, it's
Roddy all right," Jennings said
bitterly. "Anyway, las night when
he crawled out of that plane, he
was laughing like it was a big
joke. I hate him anyway, but that
made me sore, with Brigham lying
there. I limped over, and lousy as
I felt, I kicked him square in the
seat of his pants. Knocked him
down, too. And while he was down.
I give him a couple more kicks. "
"That," Asey said approvingly,
"was the proper gesture."
"And you know what I noticed
when I kicked him? A couple ol
streaks on his pants. I thought
they were blood at first, but later
I seen they weren't. They were
red lead paint. And I'm a plumber
by trade. And yesterday morning
I spent up to Lornes', fixing up
that pump, and painting theii
water tanks with red lead. And
the old water tank that I painted
the big one, that's out in the garage
where Marina was killed. See what
I mean?"
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Tomorrow: Asey dors a bit of think
Im. tims within the first hour after In
Jury, The new organisation Includes
general surgeons expert on broken
bones and abdominal, blood vessel,
nerve. Joint and head Injuries. It
started with a membership -of ISO.
drawn from deletes to the Ameri
can Medical association now In ses
sion here. The membership will be
limited to 200. It Includes many
teachera of medicine, aa well aa prac
titioners. Chinese Laundrymen
Aid Home Defenders
HONOKONO. June 1 fl ( AP Four
American ambulances bought by Chi
nese laundrymen In New York ar
rived todsy on the steamer Greystoke
Castle on their way to Canton for
"China's heroic defender.'
With them were two ambulances
bought bv Chinese in Manila and 15
huge containers of American aviation
products, reported to Include 15 wai
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Ten minutes a day, every day for
five and a quarter years, h. E. Look
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friend In a local hospital.
Lookabllt act this time aside for
the one purpose and let nothing In
terrupt It. Death alone intervened
to halt' his daily visits which con
tinued without a mlae for 1016 con
secutWe days.
Lookablll In all spent 310 hours.
or 13 '4 days at his friend's bedside.
yet stranger still la the fact tha,
this time wns divided Into 10-mlnute
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period of tlmo.
The sick friend waa Captain Ed
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planes for Chinese forces and a num
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The Grey s toko Castle sailed from
New York April 18 by way of the
Panama canal, arriving at Loa Ange
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ADMITS STEALING CAR
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GRANTS PASS, Ore- June 16.
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of a car from his employer, a man
who gave his name as Stanley Mayer
surrendered to Sheriff A. Donley
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Tomorrow: The Walk of Famel
Precautions Realistic
LONDON (P) Smelling bottles con
taining actual warfare gases and i
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mustard gas, are being used to train
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