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rKDFOTlD MAIL TRIBUNE, ftfEDFCmn, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938.
OCTAOd Mouse,
BV PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR
The Story .-.u - . . 'i. - -mc
Cod detective, it investigauny yester
day's murd? jj 11 irina Lome, whose
hubariti'i T'-roi.'".v Jtura' ho around
Quan.'.r.ct. S".' Hilt ty l?(t
hand'4 elom f-n .ttr,i '..
Pom Try Jl.ifllJ.tfn .'ft. ante atvt
Mdha J5t C('0 irof.'l of nnk-rvrit,
then sups back tntr :'ne winti e Octa
gon Hum ilsey kiatul 'f Inno
cent, well is 7 If Cert. soarJtr
with t.e fpe'i. Af-rHa irai marries
to Tim. unkno'u?n to Jacfc home, ana
also hcd plumed aroun-i fit fiodci
Strutt. ui'in U now being "mciuijtd.
Before the eyes oi Asey, Juk and
Peggy Hoone, the barn burnt down.
Realizing the fire was let by someone
who wanted to learn the location of
the ambernris, Attey prowl around
the woods He finds Tim knocked out,
then Tim finds Asey knocked out.
Back at the house they discover Pam't
fathar and two troopers are missing.
Chapter 27
Mun Hunt
"limERE are they?"
' CumminRs' lusty bellow
brought the trooper rushing into
the kitchen from the front of the
house, and behind him rushed
Lome, feggy Boone and Mrs. Carr
"Hanson said that Aaron Frye
and the troopers were with you.
Didn't he. Ding?" Cummings said.
"That's right," the trooper an
swered. "That's what Hanson said.
He said thev were all of them with
Asey. That's just what he said. And
now say, where are they?
"What inspired tha' brain ripple
of Hanson's?" Asey demanded in
tones that were crisper than usual.
"How'd he get that idea?"
"Why, 1 told him," the trooper,
said, that OMalley and Miorty
had gone, and t rye and the (Jarrs,
too. I told him when I went up to
tell him about the lire hose, like
you ordered me to. He asked how
things was, and I told him they
was all gone. And Hanson said if
you was nere, an right, not to
worry. You'd get 'cm. You got one,
anyway," he pointed to Timothy.
"You got one. Where's the rest?"
"They're not in my pocket."
Asey was tired of the trooper's re
frain. "Lome, you and Carr and
this fellow an' I, we'll have to do
tome tall huntin'."
"Can't 1 hunt, too?" Peggy
Boone asked.
"You better hadn't," Asey said.
The lad we met up with was a
great old basher. Say, maybe you
want to get home do you?"
"Go home, with all this going
on, don't be silly I"
"Tell you what," Asey said, "you
go down the streei an' drop In on
the neighbors, an' tell 'em we'd
like some help in a man hunt. Mrs.
Carr, you go along with her."
"To second the invitation? I'd
love to. How many people would
you want, Asey?"
"As many as you can Inveigle,"
Asey said. "But get natives, please.
No outlonders
As soon as the croup scattered.
Asey slipped upstairs to the attic.
Hi, Prim trye greeted him
genially. "You don't mind if I
on't welcome you with a light,
do you?"
"Hi yourself," Asey said. "I'm
certainly glad to know you're safe
an' sound how'd you get here,
an' when?"
"Oh, I walked In the front door,"
Pam told him, "while the rest were
on the back porch. And if you had
a can opener, I could enjoy a light
repast of cold beans."
Forgotten. Question
ASEY presented her with a Jack
knife, and told her about
Aaron.
"Is he missing?" she said. "Oh.
I wouldn't worry, Asey. He often
wanders. Probably in his present
mental stote, he had to wander or
bust. Who burned up the barn?"
"God A'mighty," Asey said, "is
the only one that knows that. Pam,
where does your father wander
to?"
"I've known him to walk to
Hyannis."
"An' we're shy two troopers."
Asey said.
"Then I c e r t a I n I y shouldn't
worry about Aaron, Pam re
marked, struggling with the can
of beans. "He wandered off to
town, and they went after him,
and probably they're ail up there
now. Didn't you see the to-do? I
spent some time viewing it this
afternoon, and apparently my
tourist face Is convincing no one
noticed me."
"Where did you go last night?"
"Someone." Pam said, "was
prowling around your house. I
don't know who it was. but I saw
the figure beneath the window.
There didn't stem to be any sense
in exposing you to danget. so I
upped and left Went to vour ga
rage, as a matter of fact."
"I looked in the garage an' the
shed too."
"Oil. I climbed a tree until after
jrou'u gone to bed," Pain re
marked. "Then 1 sneaked into the
garage and curled up in your
Porter. And if Jennie's mad about
a pie she missed from the shed this
afternoon, don't blnme tramns.
Asey. what's that noise outside?
Hordes of people "
"Mv man hunt." A,,v
"Look, you slay here quiet for the I
night, will you? Don't go rushin'
olf again. I'll be up later an' bring
you some food. Cummingt an
Mrs. Carr'll be downstairs. I've
got to go an' make sure your fa
ther an' them fellers didn't meet
up with my biTer "
"01;ay," Pam said with her
mouth full. ,
It occurred to Asey as he ran
down the stairs to the kitchen that
ho had not. In his relief at finding
the tirl. .isked a single thing about
the question uppermost In his
mind. Ho still didn't know where
that lumo of ambergris wasl
"We've got around two dozen
for yoa," Mrs. Carr said with a
touch of quiet pride. "All natives,
and for ail I know, all of impec
cable Mayflower ancestry."
"A triumph," Asey said, "of or
ganization. Thanks We'll see if we
can" get somewheres."
At two o'clock that morning,
they gave t,p the search. Not a sin
gle trate of Aaron Frye or of the
two trooper could be found in the
woodier tne vicinity.
"An' that," Asey said wearily,
after cCsrnifiinx his searching par
ty, "Is tiilP
Cummir.gs agreed. "What are
you goin.; to do now? What say,
here's Hanson in his car. Maybe
he' got some news."
Hanson regarded them sleepily
through glazed eyes. "News? he
said. "I lie town's in order, if that's
what you mean."
"but i rye. and your two men,
thev're still missing," the doctor
said "Missing!"
"Don't shout. I believe you,"
Haiisar said.
"Woao up for a second," Asey
said. "Have you seen Shorty an'
O'Malley up town? They're still
missin' I'm beginnin' to believe
they must have joined your crowd
in the village."
"They didn't." Hanson yawned
widely.
A Complete Mess
"0 GRAB some sleep, Hanson.
J You need it. There's a ham
mock on the front porch. Tumble
into it. You can sleep and be on
guard duty at the same time. I'll
look after things here. I've got
Lome and carr to help.
"That's white of you," Hanson
said. "I mean it. Usually I can
take three or four days without
sleep, but this mob in the town got
me.
Asey led him to the hammock.
Before CumminRs finished drap
ing a blanket over him, Hanson
was dead to the world.
"I'll get another blanket," Cum
minRs said. "And look, what about
Roddy?"
"Ho could menace me," Asey
said, "more'n I could menace him,
at this point. If there was another
hammock, I d flip into it myself."
In the kitchen of the Octagon
House, Mrs. Carr was bustling
around with coffee and sand
wiches.
"You have a choice," she said,
"of ham with mustard or ham
without mustard. Last week 1 saw
an ad of the perfect hostess serv
ing a midnight snack, and she had
thirty-four different kinds of
cheese and sixteen varieties of
cold cuts. By those standards, this
is a low-class party. But it's food.
Peg, get the butter"
"I forgot about you." Asey
spoke to Peggy Boone. "Want
Cummings to take you home?"
"She can't go home," Mrs. Carr
said. "She's going to stay and take
the bedroom next to mine. I shall
feel safer. Did you know that my
bedroom has 16 sides?"
It was long after three o'clock
before Asey got the household
straightened out, with Mrs. Carr
and Peggy Boone upstairs, Tim on
the front porch beside the snoring
Hanson, and Jack Lome in the cellar.
'I'm takin the back porch."
Asey said, "and it seems to be that
between us, we'd ought to discour
age any further prowlin' or tlrin
or bashin'."
He had lust settled himself In a
straight-backed chair he didn't
dare sit in anything comfortable
for fear of following Hanson s ex
ample when Mrs. Carr tiptoed
out.
"You've found out about Tim."
she said, "and us "
Yes. Asey said, ' votive both
had a tough time."
And you re really not going to
arrest him oh, bless you!" she
scid. "He's all I've got, and I know
I Ret simply maudlin about him,
but"
"I know"
"But I don't think vou do. Asev.
He didn't kill her, nor did I. But
you'll never know how much 1
yearned to oh, Emma's followed
me! 1 thought she was asleep in
her basket grab herl"
Asey, with the cat purring in his
arms, steered Mrs. Carr up to het
room. "Now," he said gently, "you
go to sleep!"
(jiatitude was all verv well in
its way, and he liked the Carr fam
ily and its cat, but right now he
was too exhausted to cope with
them, singly or otherwise.
A nnre complete mess, he
thought as he resumed his seat on
the porch, a more peculiar mess,
he had never seen.
When will Aiey And out about the
ambergris? Continued tomorrow.
Pomona Grange
Hjr OcrtrmlP Hank
Orange Sundry uns Iimnnly ob
served In AA'-.lnnrt park with about
225 gathered around the picnic din
ner UilJlea, nearly every (Mange tn
the county bftru represented.
Arranemrm wir in rhnrnr oi
Mrs. Olive Hoyd, Pomona lecturer;
Mrs. Nora Wuit. Poiuunn c imptntn.
and Mn. Wlimrftrd Brown, iMmoim
home economics commit too . chmr
man.
A beautiful and Inspiring program
wave given tta (allows:
Group sliK'tiw, led by Mrs. Dork
Nealcm, Bcntriiv (i.i Urn-nth nt the
piano.
Invocation : A llutnnt Durham oi
the Solvation Army.
Solos: Hy Mm. WYrner Jew on vt
Zlon Lutheran cMiMi, ncccmpanlMl
by Mrs, Beatrice Gdluri'utb at the
plana
Baritone solo: Harold Fish, ac
companied by Mrs. Beatrice Gal
breath. Address: "in this ever changing
world. Ood alone remains unchanged
throughout th agra." by Adjutant
Durham of the SalvatKn Army.
Duet: By Mn. Edith Bohnert and
J. E. Vincent with Freda Young at
the p.ano.
Etpreanlon of appreciation by Roa
coe Hobrrts. Pomona master.
Boned let Ion: Ilev. Werner Jeaen
of Zlon Lutheran church.
Clslntt group aong, "Bleat Be the
lie That Binds, ' led by Mrs. Doris
Nealon.
The Pomona ornitne la deeply ap-
p:viattve of all thone who so kindly
helped t.i make the program and the
ilnv such a success.
Oramie Sunday Is an annual fea
ture fponvred by the Jackson Coun
ty P'!iicns Orain;e.
n.i-:i'ri i. me fm IVo Late to Claa
Mf) Ada la 1:30 p m.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX
Tot further proof address the author, Inclosing itamnad anrelop tor reply. Bet. U. & Pat Oft
w& pispfcfcrttp to rw America
rSN INDIAN UPRISING AFTR 1HB
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M w wum$ 20,000,000
Astora Fortune
When John Jacob Astor came to
America In 1783 he had a vague
Idea of making a business of Bell
ing musical Instruments. He paid
26 for a steerage passage and In
vested the remainder of his wealth
In seven flutes.
After an unusually rough crossing.
Astor encountered a strange twist of
fate that was to start him In the
fur trading business, through which
he was to amass 20.OO0,OOO Ameri
ca's biggest fortune at that day.
When his ship reac'.ird Chesapeake
Bay the wind died, and a sudden
freeze locked it tightly for a month
only a day's sail from Baltimore
During this enforced wait Astor met
a German fur trader who told hlra
of the Immense profits to be made
In that business.
Slowly at first, young Astor set
out to learn all about fur and
soon had a buslnesa started. Alone,
he trekked miles back Into Indian
country from New York, trading
trinkets for furs. These he sold in
London for profits as high as 1000
per cent.
Astor soon began trading with the
Orient. He shipped cargoes of trin
kets to the Pacific Northwest, traded
them for furs and shipped the furs
to China. There he traded the furs
for tea at a great profit and
brought the tea to New York.
Once, In 1807, whon an embargo
was tn effect on Chinese trade, Astor
Is said to h,ave dressed a Chinese
dock laborer as a Mandarin and
secured permission from President
JoKltsod to escort him to China,
His hold contained a full cargo, and
on this trip he realized 200.000
profit.
Astor died In 1848, leaving a $20,
000.000 estate amassed In fur trade
from a start with seven flutes I
Trouble In Alaska
The United States had owned
Alaska only 11 years when, in 1878,
an Indian uprising threatened the
lives of 300 U. S. citizens living
near Sitka. An appeal for military
protection went unheeded, so the
colony appealed to the British ad
miral at Victoria. B. C, who sent
the H. M. 8. Osprey to the scene,
Later arrival of the U. 8. Alsska re
lieved the situation.
Tomorrow: How Did the "Yard'
Originate?
AT ITS WORST
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
THE WORLD
?H express t rr
Wlfrt FiVEKIimmsfO 60 BEFORE TRAlM liME, THE
HVTAD OF TriE CW9. WHO HAS JliSf DISCOVERED -rHA-f
HE HAS ONLY l8-flCK6f5 FOR 19 BOYS, IS REQUESTED 0
1AKE CARE OF GEORGE'S "TRUNK KEY; 1b REMEMBER "THAT
ALBERT" CANNOT EAt TOMA-foES. AWD lb SEE IF HE CftjJ
SET SOMETriiKG OUT Of OUNlOfc'S EYE
(Copyright, 1938, by The BeD Syndicate, Inc.) WHUfttft)
S MATTER POI
By C M. PAYNE
TO
FOREGO HOTEL JOBS
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 28. (API
Student lenders of six Oregon col
lies appealed to fellow students to
day to "seek honorable summer em
ployment' 'elsewhere than the 16
Portland hotels affected by a strike
They said the students who re
placed workers on strike would "un
dermine the American splrtt of fair
play and help drive down the stand
ard of living."
"The men and women whose Jobs
we take are resisting breaches ot
contract and threatened tub
sequent wage cuts In an effort to
maintain a standard of living whlcn
may enable their sons and daughters
to have the advantages of education
which we now enjoy." the appeal
said.
Copies were distributed to students
working in the hotels.
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Vestebday A MAN,
WHO CALLED MIM5ELC
OOEL SMELTZ, OFFERED
TOMMY TEH THOUSAND
DOLLARS IM CASH
IF HE WOUL0"THROVV'
THE BENDIX RACE
in pavob. op comet
Airlines, tommy
refused and ran
the man off the
airport. today we
introduce ben snoot:
ACE PILOT FOR THE
COMET COMPANY.WHO
IS IN CONVERSATION
WITH LEM POTTER.,
THKEE- POl NT
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