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PAGE EIGHT MEPFORD MATL TRTBfTNE, MEDFOHD, OREGOX. MONDAY, JUNE 27. 1938. CTACOti HoU$& BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, lnclosinf a stamped enrelope for reply. Ret. TJ. 8. Pat OS. FAREWELL TO CAMP By GLUYAS WILLIAMS r J orjr So Far: Asey Mayo, Cave uU detective, is investigating yester day's murder of Marina Lome, whole husband's post office mural hat aroutea Quanomet. She was killed by a left handed biota from her sister's knife and Pam Frye te suspected. Pam dU appeari after hiding (50,000 worth of ambergris. Asey learnt that Marina't marriage to Jack Lome wot a fraud because the was already married to Tim Carr, boarder at the Prize's Octa gon Home. She alio plaied around with Roddu Strutt, whose plane crashed conveniently the night of the murder. Before the eyes of Asey, Jack, and Peggy Boone, an artist, the barn burns down. Realizing the fire was set by someone who wanted to dls couer the location of the ambergris, Asey prowls around the woods. He finds Tim knocked out, and then Tim finds Asey knocked out. Pam's father it missing. Chapter ?6 Menaces "T DON'T like this," Tim said. "To me this smacks of foul play. What do you think?" "We'll go back to the house, Asey said. "Most likely Aaron Frye is there, safe and sound. If he ain't here, he must be there. It's my idea that the troopers followed you two, and prob'ly they escorted Aaron back. Look, while we're on the top ic of foul play, what were you hunting so hard in the Lome house, an' roundabouts? An' why did I get told so much folderol last night?" "A little bird," Tim did his best to maintain his flippant tone, "tells me you already Know you ao don't you? Timothy s Error, or The Blighted Life. Who found the marriage lines and mat pretty note, you or Hanson "Lome." "Poor Gran." Timothy said. "It may sound like Galahad, or that man with that nair snirt, Dut i a hoped it wouldn't happen, for her 6ake. That s why you got mat yam. There was a chance the stud wouldn't turn up. I hoped I'd find it first. But if Lome found it, well that's that. We didn't discover until the clambake that Marina was Frye's daughter, living virtu ally next door. We left the movies early and drove around, wonder ing what to do. Then we came back and found she'd been killed 1 don't know where we drove No one' can alibi us. I'm left handed If Marina happened to hang onto some let ters I wrote her well. I'm as good as electrocuted right now." "Lome burned your letters." "He did?" "Look," said Asey, "did you or your grandmother kill Marina?" "On my word of honor," Timo thy said, "1 didn't, and she didn't" Asey nodded. "You don't mean that you be lieve me, do vou?" Tim sounded incredulous. "Yup," Asey said. "For one thing, I don't think you're the sort of per son who'd swipe Pam's knife to do your murderin' with. An' for an other thing, you're net the person who billed me. the one I blayed hide an' seek with. An' I don't think you billed yourself. So" "You feel that our pal the bifler," Tim said, "is the murderer?" "If he ain't," Asey said grimly, "then this little game has got more compl'cations than I like to c'n sider. Lome," he added as they came to the clearing behind the ruins of the barn, "has your two papers, but I shouldn't ask him for em for a while. I'd wait" "The barn!" Tim said. "My God. where'd It go?" "Bad mans," Asey told him with a chuckle. "Burney-burn, zzst, like that." "Did, did he?" Tim said. "The scoundrelly pyromaniac. Demol ishing a relic like thatl Thank heaven, 1 took pictures of it the minute I came. That's something. It's the first octagonal barn I've actually seen you know, octag onal barns were very sensible thoughts, Asey. You could drive your wagon in, and turn around. Didn't have to back. Asey, where is Pam?" Asey shrugged. Squirt Of A Match "rOR obvious reasons," Tim said, " "I've been soured on all fe males except Gran, fo- some time. But I liked Pam. I think she's a pretty swell girl. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that she Interests me vastly. And I'm worried about her." "Pam," Asey began, "can take tare" "Of herself," Tim interrupted. "Yes, 1 know. Gran's been singing that refrain at intervals all day long But you and 1 got smacked down, didn't we? And just suppose, Comrade Mayo, that Pam can't take oare of herself Suppose she can't, and you don't And it out un til later Or too late Shan't vou feel just a wee bit silly?" "Uh-huh." Asey said serenely, "1 should. But I'm bettin' my money on Pam." "You seem strangely convinced " "I am," Asey told him. And he was. The squirt of a match in the sky light winuo.v of the Octagon Hc. attic, and the cigarette tip glov. ing up there now both made hin feel considerably happier aboui Pam Frye. Like a sensible girl, sm had probably come back in thi cover of darkness, knowing tha: Hanson's attention was distracted by the mob up in the village. And there wasn't a much safer place for her. The Octagon House had already been searched. And some one had already tried to have tht ambergris pointed out to him by the barn burning. And it would. Asey thought feel ingly, be a relief to find out where that confounded amoergns was anyway, and to take steps about disposing of it. "Well," Tim said, "perhaps you are convinced about Pam. I'm not. You know, they seem reasonably worked up, whoever's howling there in the house." Asey chuckled. "Doc Cum mings," he said. "That's his extra de luxe bellow, for special occa sions of what he calls profound irritation. He's goin' to be so speechless with rage that he can't talk. That is. not more'n three hun dred words a minute. I wonder who he's mad at" Asey walked over to the doctor's old sedan, and played a tune on the asthmatic horn. "Cummings." he said "will be out directly." The doctor's stocky figure bounded out of '.he house. "Well." he said, "it's about time! Where have vou been? I never was so furious in all my life Never so thoroughly whrre hove vou been man? it's disgusting," he went on, without giving Asey a chance to answer, "it's revolting It's doing things to my stomach. You know who's in there, waiting for vou? Roddy's uncle, the feeble minded toad! That's lust what he looks like, a feeble minded toad, and that's lust the way he thinks In brief hops. In brief, aimless and undirected hops. He " "What's he want me for?" Asey asked. "Roddy," Cummings said In tones of great restraint. "Roddy's being menaced." Asey clucked his tongue. "Who is menacing him?" "Oh. thev don't know, but they want vou to save Roddy's little skin. Brought the Strutt check books with him. and for all 1 know, the best gold tea set as an added Incentive. Asey. if vou sully vour hands with that toad and that slug of a nephew of his that snot of mildew! If vou sully your hands with 'em. I'll never speak to you again." Asey grinned. "Send the toad out no. wait. I'll go in." Pink And Puffy CARVETH STRUTT did look like a toad, Asey thought as he entered the kitchen behind the doctor. Carveth was also a dead ringer for the sick capitalist up in the post office mural. Bloated and pink and puily. "My nephew," he informed Asey excitedly, "is being menaced! It's his legacy. His grandmother's leg acy. He's lust got it this week, and now he's being menaced!" "He is. is he?" Asev said. "Last I heard of Roddy, he was eambolin' with the mob up town. Kind ol sudden, this menace, ain't it?" He s kept it a secret till lust now. You must helo!" Carveth squeaked. "You must, you must!" Where s Roddy now? "Home." Dr. Cummings an swered before Carveth could "Home, with Filipinos on eithet side of him, all heavily armed. They are taking every precaution. every single precaution." How lona vou been here Strutt?" Asey asked. Fifteen or 20 minutes. See here. you've got to come and" 1 thought so. Asey said Roddy probably decors this i! a swift bit of brain work. Only it ain't. If he's bein'. menaced, then of course he can't be menncin'." Roddy is in dancer of his life!" Carveth said. "We must have vour aid We are prepared to pay" apeitlcally, Asey said, what Is the danger? Who's the menace?" A man prowiine around yester day," Carveth said, "pretending tc be a workman. Asking questions And then today whv. the pool boy's out of his mind with fear!" Yeah. Asey said. "Now. vou run along home an' vou tell Roddy that I'll be over to see him later. Then he'll learn jurt what men acin' is. Got that?" Cummings smiled as Strutt left. Asey noticed a cashmere sweat er casually tossed over a chait back. That was the sweater he had bought as a present for Betsey Por ter, the sweater he had given to Pam the night before. And it was a verv clever wav of letting him know that she had come home. "Where s Aaron?" Cummincj asked. Aaron?" Asev starpd at htm "Ain't he here? Didn't he come back with the troopers? Cummings let out a shrill yell. "Haven't vou got him" Isn't he with vou? Aren't those troopers with vou?" Asev shook his head. "Good gosh," Cummings said. "where are thev?" fCrtmttl. t'S ri.tft ttot.J inter) Mouday: Asey talks to Fam. News of 4-H CLUBS 11) It mu ii Vorton Antelope -H torU club iwt June 2a lit the home of Maurice Davi, with IS members present Highlight of the mating was ths report of Alice Day on her trip to -H summer school at Corvail!. She told of cIraacs In sewing. coox mtt. Jelly -mnking and also cissies In common courtesy. These, with swimming, parties and other forms of entertainment, made tha trip sound so attractive that other mem bers hop to go neit year. Alice plaoed fourth in Judging cooking Mrs. Von dcr Hfiicn told the club ot piau or , tour oX Ja.koa aud Josephine counties to be held In August. The tour was to have been held In July but due to the date conflicting with 4-H summer camp being held st Luke of the Woods the time was changed. Members go ing on the tour will visit stock ranches, hop yards, poultry farms and other places of interest The tour will require three dsva and two nights, the nights bi'ing spent camping out. The trailer scale which were made for the clubs of the county have arrived and Mr Conrad Is going to each coir.nr.mitv. wtghsrg the club members' stock. He was In Antelope district June 23. Mr. Conrad made a trip to Klam ath Falls June 21 to rxchnr.ee Bernett and Tod Yor ion's barr? n ewes for ewis with lambs. Next meeting will be held at Dale RlKhnm's July 1 J. SFMl ANNUM Cl.KA.MNrK Coats - l.He.'se - Mats p. w JEW ft HlRTCUFf or WO Ml&SEDSHAKlNd THE PRESIDENT . HHtiO . WHEt- 1HY WSi Vi Trie MASN, afrlbefHeWtyti-f fS-JW ON EftKlry m Lea&redclaho) Hih School juniorc, OF 83 Mll& VMV foRTrtE PfVsT 3 QoiNQ 3 MP COMIN& FROM SCHOOL ... A'. ... ' SIWt9 J 1 V mmkss0m fey trap b1 Jfii i i f i ' i i i LA M-r U L Traveling School Girls If the statement that "travel broadens one" means anything, Mar; and Ions, Nlelson will certainly have had a broad education when they finish high ftchool next year. For the past three yeara these sis ters have averaged 68 miles dally traveling from Leodore high school. In Leodore, Idaho. Not only that, they have had to walk four miles dally in addition to the long school bus trip, as they live two miles from the end -jf the line. During their freshman year they lived only 42 miles from school, but In their sophomore and Junior years they had to ga 00 ml lea a day to get their schooling. All 70 students In Leodore hlgb school, this put term, have averaged dally trlpa of 34.8 miles to and from school. The school bus runs parallel to the Continental Divide, only a few miles from It. Shirt Cuff Autograph When Charles S. Am wake, of Phlla delyhla, failed to meet and shake hands with President Theodore Roosevelt when be parsed through that city In 1909, he wrote the presi dent a letter. "My sole ambition was to shake your hand," he said, "and now I ask In a most appealing manner to let me have your autograph on the enclosed cuff, nearest to the hand that didn't get shook when you came through Broad Street station." He got the autograph. Sacred Grass Grass, to the Masai tribe of Kenya, Africa, Is the most beautiful and sacred things in the wold. Their life la dependent upon it, and rain, which makes the grass grow. Is given the same as God Ngai. Masai natives use grass as a sign of peace, and a retreating enemy who holds up a tuft of It will not be killed by the pursuer, according to the tribe's strange code. Tomorrow The Flute Fortune. Wagner Creek WAGNER CREEK, June 37. (SpU Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyd of Klamath Falls visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith, June 18. Mr. and Mrs. O- W. Walton and eons Darlo and Lee of Anderson, Calif., visited Mrs. Leila Lynch and family before driving on to Corvallls, where Mr. Walton Is going to attend summer session at O. S. C. Mrs. Wal ton will be remembered as Ena Davis before her marriage. While George Kerby was driving his car home Tuesday evening the car caught fire in front of the Slagel home. The fire was extinguished be fore any damage was done. W. J. Griffin drove down from Se attle, June 18 to join his wife and infant son, where Ihey are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Nun steel. Mrs. Carrie Purvis and daughter, Oeraldlne, of Ashland visited Mrs. Leila Lynch, June 32. Mrs. A. G. Hayes and Mrs. M. A. Doran registered their children, Wen dell and Harry Hayes. Richard and Gerald Doran in the Medford baby clinic In Talent, June 23. Phone 542. We'll haul away your refuse City Sanitary Service. 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