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OCTAGON House,
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
"WHAT'S THAT NUMBER?"
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS '
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN BIX
For further proof addresa the snthor, Inclosing. stamped envelope for reply. Reg. XT. .8. Pat OS.
The Story So Fan Asey Mayo, Cape
Cod defecllps, is investigating yester
day's murder of Marina Lome, whose
husband's post otflc mural has aroused
Quanomet. She was killed by a let
handed biota from her sister's knife.
am Frye disappears for awhile after
hiding a $50,000 lump of ambergris,
then slips back into the tower of Qcta
gon House. Asey knows the is inno
cent, as well at Tim Carr, boarder
with the Frye'e. Marina wot married
to Tim, unknown to Jack Lome, and
also had played around with Roddy
Strutt, who is now being "menaced."
Before the eyes of Asey, Jack and
Peggy Boone, the bam burns down
Realizing the fire was set by someone
who wanted to learn the location of
the ambergris, Asey prowls around
the woods. Both he and Tim are
knocked out bu an unknown "bifer."
Later they discover that Pam's father
and two troopers are missing.
Chapter 28
The Ambergris Enigma
A MORE complete mesa, Asey
thought as he resumed his seat
on the porch, a more peculiar mess,
he had never seen. It must have
been Roddy Strutt's fellows who
were bashing around In the woods.
It seemed very likely. In view of
Carveth's alibi visit and even
though Tim insisted that the man
he had caught sight of was not one
of the Filipinos.
out where that ambergris was, and
do something about it
Pam Frye. without any warning,
swung up over the porch, railing
before Asey reached the kitchen
door.
"You, huh?" he said, briefly
flicking his flashlight at her. "How
did you get out?"
"Tree. Pam said. "A leaf from
Marina's book. She always used
that big maple for sneaking out in
her younger days. Asey, I need
your help. I've found Father."
"You've found"
"Yes, all of you kept beating the
woods, but no one seemed to think
of Jack's house. He's over there."
"Is he is he all right?"
"He's got a broken ankle, and
his face is smashed up. I think his
jaw must be broken. He can't talk.
He's in the cellar. I gather he'd
been thrown there. He couldn't
get up, or veil "
"Just a sec." Asey said, "till I
call Tim. He can phone Cummings
an' join us there. An' I want to see
Jack. He can stay here."
He found Tim sleeping as heart
ily as Hanson, on the front porch.
It took a good shaking to awaken
Lome.
Asey snorted with disgust
"Guards!" he said. "Some guardsl
Mrs Carr an' her cat'd of done bet
ter. Now. Pam. let's get over. An'
on the way. will vou tell me
before these feet of mine make me
forget where is that ambergris?
Where is it. Pam?"
"Coal bin." she said. "Not a very
"Get paper and a pencil! He's tryin' (o say somethin'."
On sudden Impulse he walked
through the house and asked Tim
if he knew Roddy Strutt.
"Saw him when he was offering
rewards for the murderer," Tim
said, "but he wasn't the one 1 saw
in the woods, if that's what you
mean."
Asey returned to the back porch.
When you sorted it all out, the
essentials of the mess were simple
enough.
Someone, between nine-thirty
and ten-thirty the night before,
had stabbed Marina with Pam's
knife.
Almost anyone had access to that
knife, holding up Mrs. Carr's note
to Pam on the back door. Anyone
could have twitched it out. There
was very little to be done in the
matter of tracing the twitcher.
And the time element didn't
mean so much. You could ask
questions til) the cows came home
on the Where-were-you-last-night
-from ninc-thirty-to-ten-thlrty or
der. But it was Asey's experience
that people, when they set out to
commit a murder, usually saw to
It that their whereabouts at the
time could be explained with great
fullness and conviction. '
Jack Lome was lucky enough
to be alibied. Tim Carr wasn't, but
he believed Tim. Those two were
out.
Then you came to the problem
of motive.
Practically everyone, he thought,
who ever had dealings of any
length with Marina wanted to kill
her. Just knowing her seemed to
be motive enough in Itself. All the
people in Qunnomet vented their
wrath about the mural on her. The
town was sorry for Jack Lome, but
they blamed and hated Marina.
Coal Bin!
AND then of course there was the
ambergris.
Someone might well have killed
her for that; but why hadn't they
taken it with them?
And before anytl.ing else hap
pened. Asey decided as he got to
his weary feet he was going to find
bright idea, but the best I could
think of at the time. Asey, who did
this to father? What's going on?"
Barn!
ASEY swallowed hard.
"I wish 1 knew," he said.
"But' Father is strong!" Pam
said. "You mightn't think so to
look at him, but he is. Who could
have done this?"
"I'm strong," Asey said. "So is
Tim. So're those troopers. Tim an'
I got knocked out, though. An' I
don't think I ever got hit much
harder in all my life."
Pam sighed.
"Anyway." she said, "the amber
gris is all right. Old Strongarm
Hasn't got that. That's something
to be thankful for." .
Asey couldn't bring himself to
the point of telling her that the
ambergris was not in the coal bin.
He tried to, but he couldn't
Over in the cellar of the Lome
house they fuund Aaron Frye.
His face and jaw were bruised
and swollen, and his face was con
torted with pain.
"Don't try to talk," Asey said
"Just wait Dr. Cummings will
be over in a sec. an' then we'll gel
you up those stairs In a stretcher
an' fix you up. I"
"His ankle looks frightful," Pam
said. "Father, don't try to talkl
you mustn't you mustn't Asey,
we've got to
"Get some paper," Asey said.
"He's veamin' to say somethin1
get some pnper and a pencil."
Pam raced up to Jack Lome's
studio.
With difficulty, Aaron scrawled
on the block of drawing paper
which Pam had brought
"I found," he wrote, "smb. In
coal bin when I got coal for
stove "
"Where Is It now?" Asey asked.
"Man, where is it now?"
Aaron Frye grinned the pencil.
"In barn." he wrote.
ICtSmtU, 1931. rkeilm Amci Ttvltr)
Thick gloom at Octagon House, tomorrow.
ATTENDANCE AT STATE
It Is expected that t number of
mining men from here will attend
the etate-witte mining , convention
to be held In Baker July 9 and 3.
The convention It sponsored by the
Eastern Oregon Mining and Mineral
association.
Morning and afternoon sesMons
will dc held Saturday with a lunch
at noon and a banquet at 0 In ihe
Hotel liaker The grnfrnl fcssloiu
will be held In the Elks hall and
the public Is Invited.
The Saturday morning program
Includes talks by Rex Putnam, itnte
superintendent of puhllc Instruction,
and A. M. Swartley. cansultlng min
ing engineer, state department of
asolgy ind mineral Industries. A
gold exhibit may be viewed In the
First National bank lobby.
Principal a(!dreps at the Saturday
afternoon aoslcn will be given by
J. D. Rom. Bonneville dam admin
1st rat or Othfr sp?akem win be Wal
ter Fellows, on "Practl"il Mining."
Earl K. Nixon, on "Mining and
Stream Pollution." and Prof. War
ren D. Smith, on -What It Takes
to Make a Mine." Mr. Rosa and
Prof. Smith will also speak at the
banquet.
Sundny will be devoted largely to
a tour to various mines.
News of 4-H
CLUBS
Kenneth lien dure
C. D. Conrad. 4-H club leader,
weighed the calves and sheep of the
Elk Creek clubs recently on the
new trailer scales bought for the
Jackson county 4-H clubs. The trailer
scale Is a recent development at the
Oregon State college, the Jackson
county set being only the fifth
niade. The stock will be weighed at
regular Intervals to check on their
development.
Two. not provlounly mentioned,
who donated toward the Elk Creek
scholarships, were Brophy's Jewelry
store of Melford and the McLeod
Home TxU'P.sion unit.
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So prevalent was the custom .of
grave-robbing ' In early nineteenth
century Scotland that steps had to
be taken to protect Interred bodli&
from the macabre maraudings.
Ono of the most Interesting rellca
of this perl on is the strange "Mort
Safe," pictured above. Strange as It
seems. It was actually found neces
sary to Inter caskets In such odd,
wrought Iron prisons to protect them
frorr grave robbers.
Unprotected bodies were quickly
disinterred by the wily resurrection
ists and sold at a good price to
medical schools, which always form
ed -i ready market for cadavers.
Bodies more than six weeks old
were considered unfit for such trade,
so it waB customary to unearth the
"Mor'' Safes" after this length of
time for use again on a fresh grave
The King's "Yard"
In this day of precision It is hard
to understand how certain common
units of measurement came Into be
ing. During the Middle Ages almost
every town had its own standards of
weights and measures.
Italy, as late as the 18th century,
had over 200 different units of length
called the "foot." all In dally um.
No standardization was effected until
royal and parliamentary enactments
forced the adoption of specific units.
Many of these were amusing In
themselves: The English yard, for
example, was decreed by King Henry
I to be the distance from the point
of his nose to the tip of his thumb.
This was in the year 1101. Previously
a yard measured 39 6 Inches, almost
the same length as the present meter.
Similarly, a fathom, unit of meas
uring water depth, originated as the
length of a sailor's outstretched arms
six feet. The word means "to em
brace. The distance from a man's
elbow to his knuckles was called Dy
the ancient Egyptians one "pygmy."
giving rise to the name of those small
people. The Inch In 1224 was stand
ardized as the 'length of three dry
barleycorns, laid end to end.
Tomorrow: Is the Ice Age Over?
Thin Out Wildlife
JERSEY VILLE. 111. ( UP) Among
the deadliest enemies of wildlife can
now be numbered the automobile. A
count along a 10-mtle stretch of state
highway near here showed as victims
of autos three turtle doves, one car
dinal, two woodpeckers, one flicker.
a meadow lark, two robins, five rab
bits and a possum.
Use Mall Tribune Want Ada.
Juvenile Crime Up
LONDON (UP) American gangster
pictures are blamed by Juvenile court
authorities for the large Increase in
Juvenile crime revealed In the latent
criminal statistics for England and
Wales. The number of indictable of
fenders under 17 years of aga, It Is
shown, rose from 20,540 In 1034 to
27,120 In 1037.
Use Mall, Tribune Want Ads.
Licenses L'rged
HELSINKI. Finland (UP) Pedes
trians as well as cyellsts and motor
ists may have to take out licenses
If a suggestion put forward by the
Abo Chamber of Commerce Is adopted.
It Is proposed that courses In "road
culture" be given to walkers and cer
tificates be awarded to those who
pass the required tests.
Use Mali rrlbune Want Ads.
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