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MEPFORD MATL TRTBfTNE, MEDFOHD, OREGOX. MONDAY, JUNE 27. 1938.
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BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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FAREWELL TO CAMP
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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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.
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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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