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HrRfFOT?D "NfATL TRTBTTKTC, METF(VRr), P.SGT5 FOURTEEN COACH By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, inclosing s stamped envelope tor reply. Eef. 0. B. Pat. Oft BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR fcali i i r 1 rh Story Bo Fri Atey Mayo, Copt ad dIect(D, fj inveiltpatinp th uurder of Marina Lomt, whotl hut and' poit offlca mural hat arouttd Quanomtt. She uu killed by a I'll 'tanded blow from her lister knle. Uey knowe Pant Frye le innocent, u well u Tim Cart, boarder at the 'rye'i Octagon House. Marina wan 'Mirled to Tim, unknown to Jack jome, and also had played around oith Roddy Strutt, who It now being 'menaced." Then the barn burn ioum, Tim and Aeey are knocked out in the wood), and Pam't other it ound unconeciouf in the Lorne'i cot tacre. The problem uppermost in Aiey'i mind it a f50,000 lump o am 'urorlj Pam found the day of the murder. Pam tayt the. hid It In the coal bin. Aaron Frye tayt he moved it to the barnf Chapter 29 . Upset And Downcast "THE bells of Quanomet'i three churches were pealing out their summonses the next morn nf as Asey and Pam emerced from Aaron Frye's bedroom and ilowly descended the stairs. The instant the bells stopped. Aaron's clocks burst into their tirade Pegffy Boone, who had been waiting with Mrs. Carr in the cir cular hallway, covered her ears with her hands. "I hope Aaron's better," she had to veil to make herself heard above the din, "and golly, I've oi to get outi i nose ciocksi ' "Poor girl." Mrs. Carr said sym pathetically as Peggy rushed away. "The clocks nearly drove her crazy last night. They both Bred me at first, but I'm used to em. She says she woke up on the hour every hour, and lust as she got to sleep the half hour rolled around. She looks exhausted." "The cumulative effect is shat tering," Pam said. "I hate clocks myself. So docs Peg. But Father enjoys " ''How is he7 What enn 1 do, Pam? If on!) I'd known about him last night, and could have helped I'll never forgive Tim for letting me think all the to-do was over those troopers! Never! Can't I read him the Sunday papers, or something? Is he well enough?" "You might take him up the funny parts," Pam told her. "But should he laugh?" Mrs. Carr demanded. "Won't it be bad for him to laugh?" "He won't laugh!" Pam told her with finality. "Don't you worry, he won't laugh! He not only can't laugh, but he doesn't want to. He wouldn't laugh if he were in the best nf health, the pinkest of the pink." Pam followed Asey Into the study and threw herself wearily on the couch. "In all honesty," she said, "can vou find any small vestige of sil ver lining, Asey?" "Wa-el," Asey said, "Aaron's aw is broken, an' that tooth can ' ia replaced, an his ankle'll be all ight in a few days. An' when you :.ons!der what happened to Ma rina, it's nice to know nothin' worse happened to him." "I didn't mean about Father I know it's a holy wonder he's here. I'm thinking about the am bergris. Oh, Asey, that ambergris! t wasn't going to tell Father until he felt better, but the minute his eyes opened after Cummings' pills wore off, he raised himself up and peered out of the window and saw the ruins of the barn. And then of course I had to tell. I wish the filace had been insured. Somehow t would have consoled me lust to get $50 out of the mess. I'd settle for ten, cash Asey, why do you look so enigmatic? "Didn't know that 1 was," Asey returned. "I'm lust sort of wrestl ln' an' jugglin' things over in my head, an' I ain't responsible for what it does to my facial expres sions." Goose Burns Goose "1IHAT is there to wrestle about?" Pam asked. 'The ambergris is gone. There you are. That's that I suppose I should be t brave girl and stick out my chin and say I don't care, better luck next time, it's courage to face facts aren't there lots of worthy sentiments for misfortune and de feat? And all I could think of when I found the ambergris was it only the day before yesterday? It seems like 80 years. Anyway, all I could think of when I found it was. 'Gee!' Now I can prattle about counting chickens before they're hatched, and fools' para dises, and oh, damn! Aseyl Damn, damn, damn, damn!" "I dunno," Asey said. "I don't think it's as bad as all that." "Oh, I still have my health!" Pam retorted savagely. "I know. Father will be well in a few days, and I still have my health. Good old health! Think of all the poor Spaniards and the poor Chinese ami the unemployed and the dis tressed areas sure. We still have our health, and we still have what passes for a roof tree. Untold thousands would consider us heavily endowed. Overburdened with fortune. Dear me, yes!" Asey grinned at her. "Stop bein' o sorry for yourself." he said, "an' oausc an' reflect. Why was the barn burned down?" "For all I know," Pam said, 1938 SPRING PIG CROP 13 PER CENT GREATER THAN PREVIOUS YEAR WASHINOTON. June 30. AP) The agriculture drpertment Mtlmt cd today the 1038 spring pig crop m-fut IS per cnt grretr than that of year ato and that the number of hows to farrow In the fall would be 9 Mr nnt grwtcr than lent fall. The aprliiR pl production was es timated at 43.3H4.000 head, or OflO. 000 head more than last spring. Nut ainoe 1933 has tbe crop reached that figure, the department wild. The Urgent Inrrroae In production 17 per cent was reported In WMt north central sUtet, Including much "someone wanted to toast a marsh- mallow. "The barn tot burned." Asev said, "because someone wanted me or anyone at uctagon nousa who might know about the am bergristhey wanted us to rush to it and save it from possible flames, thus pointin' it out, so that the someone could get a line on it location." "Weren't they fooled!" Pam said bitterly. ''What's the old adage about the goose and the golden eggs? It'd make a nice headline. Goose burns goose." 'Yud. Asev said. But would the goose have started the fire an' burned the barn without a nice careful investigation first? Don't be silly. Pam sat undent on the couch. "Asey!" 'Well, would thev of? Would you? I wouldn't, myself, an' I give this feller credit If he had brains enough to think of burnin' down the barn to nnd out where tne am bergris was, he had brains enough to make sure he wasn't burnin' up the ambergris in the process." "But if that's so no, it won't work out, Asey. Father found it in the coal bin when he went down foi coal for the kitchen stove Fri day night The cops were all over the place whose car is that out side? The cops? And. by the way, if it is, what's Hanson's attitude toward me?" "He's too upset about them two missin' troopers of his to have at titudes," Asey said. "Don't worry about him. That's the doc's car, IC know the sound of that coffee grinder anywhere. I'll bring him in." 'Belt In The Jaw CUMMINGS strode into the study and dumped his inevi table black bag down on the table. 'The recuperative powers of this village," he announced, "are amazing, simply amazing. The lit ter's cleaned up, the carnival at mosphere has departed, and Qua nomet's going to church as sedate ly as if things had happened in two other towns entirely If I hadn't seen that riot yesterday with my own eyes, I wouldn't be lieve it took place. How's Aaron, pretty unhappy?" "His iaw looks better," Pam said, "and the swelling on his ankle has gone down. I think most of his present suffering is mental He's seen the barn." "He had to know sooner or later," Cummings said. "But I'd imagine it would add to his suf fering. He thought he was doing such a big thing, to put the am bergris safely away in the bam for you oh, Asey. We didn't need to use the sea serpent " "The what?" Pam demanded. '"What sea serpent?" "Asey's idea,'" Cummings ex plained, "for distracting public in Interest. We didn't need it One of the Barn Players punched another Barn Player, and Senator Hem mingwell's sons cracked up their roadster, and there's a pogy boat ashore on Black Gull Bar. Be tween 'em, the reporters are hav ing a field day. I don't think they'll be around you for a while. But orders have been given to have the serpent spotted the minute the present attractions die down. You should see Nettie Hobbs. speaking of attractions. Piously going to church, dripping black crepe from every pore." "All set, no doubt," Pam com mented, "to pray for my soul. I know that crepe. It's a part of her Good Woman act, and she's worn it to every funeral since I can re member. "Well, she had her picture taken with the minister on the steps," Cummings said, "and then dropping a dime Into the foreign mission box. I hear it's the first time she ever dropped in any thing Is Aaron really badly broken up over the ambergris?" Pam nodded. "He's utterly downcast about it, and he knows I am, too. And even if I could pack my voice with conviction and tell him not to worry, it doesn't mat ter, he'd still be downcast. And every time he looks toward the window, his eves get all watery " "Were the X-rays all right?" Asey asked. "Yes. I drove over again just now. Nothing's broken, though I'm sure I don't know whv not. 1 think it was that tooth that messed things up so. and added such a gory touch have you found out yet what actually hap pened to him?" "We've pieced most of It to gether," Asey said. "When' he walked out bacx in the woods with Tim Carr and his grandmother, he thought he saw someone lurkins in the bushes. He slipped off with out savin' anythin, an' tried to in vestigate the matter on hh own Hi thought he saw someone sneak into Jack Lome's house didn't have on his long distance glasses s? he couldn't be sure, but he fol lowed anyway. He went in. an someone was waitin' for him b the door, an' give him that belt or the Jaw. He didn't see the person it all happened too quick. In fall in', he went head over heels down the cellar steps that lead off th entry. That accounts for his ankle an' the gen'rnl abrasions an' con tusions he's got." tCftmtit. I'll. fWi AtmetJ T;Le-l Airy declare on motires, tomorro-t of the western corn belt. Increase of U per cent In east north central states, 7 per cent in south Atlantic. IS per cent In south central and 9 per cent In western states wore re ported. The department est 1 muted the number of sows to farrow this fall at 4.103, an Increaae of 340,000 over the fall of 1037. The department said average pro duction In the fall would give a t itnl 1P38 pig crop of about M 000.000 head, an Increase of about 7.000,000 head over 1037 production. 550-Pound Oracle On Weather Dies BOAZ. Ala., June 30. .(AP, wlt Cagle, ftand mountain's 530-pound weather prophet, died today at Ms farm home near here. Cable's appearances In Boar were holiday ocvaalons Thou. -nids warmed into town Just to see twin, ffflVe NOT 7CI WWrTflfW NSW WfW, -rvHNin I "sor too A acyevfc wAy S A CNftMIHSPECTlOHToUR J f. I iVW M b UNION ARM LNlfORMM V1 Violin meKPt, . VJ0ULDN0T'5I6N V maps iA7is jn life, how: rww Modern Ice Age Reference to the Ice Age ordi narily inspires the thought of some vague period burled In the dim pa gea of t orgotte n h t story. Yet. strange as It seems, we are living In the Ice Age this very mlnutej This remarkable episode in the earth's history Is believed to have begun at leant 600.000 years ago, when great glacial blankets burled North America, Europe and other sections of the globe under their Icy stillness. The cause of the Ice Age In dis puted. Some writers offer the opin ion that at one time the areas af fected were at a higher elevation than they are today, and that snow consequently lay there the yoar and hear his forecasts for long, cold, short or wet winters. Last year Cagle went to New York for a radio appearance to tell the secrets of his weather forecasts. He said he watched the birds and ani mals, and If the bird went south early, and the squirrels stored lots of nuta, a "hard winter' was coming. TAILSPIN TOMMY Fixed I WW WELL, I LATEST BETTER THAN THE STOJ. ID6A HAD. .OF TAILSPIN "7 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS-Lond Speaker ' RECKON THAT BlRP'S FKM ) NO, MISTER, HE AIN'T- THE MAMMOTH TURKEY I HE'S FROM BEN WEBSTERs- 1 FARMS, EM, SOU ? ; BUT HE'S A MAMMOTH fi U t b J-lrj. TURKEY JUST, , ,. J 1 7 lVV. KJEV.'ER. COP.GET OJE UAW 1 W INJ A RtoTALKAMl isj MACEmiKlG.SOUTK APRICA. I ORDE.CEH.D FWre AMD A LOT OP OTMER, FAMCV piswes Twey didisjt wave S! r UVlH6IN1HEtaA6e j in MT' t SrrAlrtt. t-e around, forming the great glacial sheets. Another hypothesis Is that varia tions In the eccentricity of the earth's path around the sun once caused northern winters to fall when the earth was farthest from the sun. Instead of nearest to It, as happens today. Regardless of the cause, great Ice sheets formed In three different sections of North America, In Eu rope and elsewhere. They completely covered Canada and the northwestern part of the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi, the Great takes, the whole of New Eng land, Ohio. New York, Pennsylvania and part of New Jersey. The, whole of northern Europe was covered at som plnces reaching a depth of 8000 feet. Eight million Germans Protest Insult To Hitler TORONTO, June 30. (Canadian Press) C. G. Kropp. German consul, protested today to Mayor Ralph Day against a recent remark by Alderman William Croft that the Toronto zoo i MOPE YOUR it'j a PLAN IS HUNDRED PERCENT BETTER IP SNOOT YOU BUYING OFF! PUTS IT OVER Purchaser? DEL FOiH. GRAS NoTA It IS PRopERLV ft HiRM, NMW6 to ptf Rich . square miles of north America and 2,250,000 square miles of Europe were under Ice. Although some 20.000 years have passed since the last general retreat of these Ice sheets, remnants re main In Switzerland, New Zealand Tasmania and Greenland. Some geologists claim these vast Ice sheets may return, on the assumption that we live today In an lnter-glaclal period. Rock Rjiuhtts Native to African shores of the Red Seo, the tiny hyrax, which looks like a rabbit, but Is not. has as Its nearest relative the elephant and rhinoceros by virtue of anatomical structure. Tomorrow: How did July get Its name? was so dirty "the only thing Td put In there would be Hitter." Kropp said he had been Instructed by Dr. Erich Windels, German consul general at Ottawa, on behalf of the German government, to request that "the offensive remarks be with drawn." MM ITS ALL FIXED, BUT ANY MORE OF THAT STUFF AMD. YOU CAN COUNT ME OUTl THAT RIRD WOIIIO RF il SNOOT ? ff.XM GREAT ONE TO SERVE AT OUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER- the waitress wemt ikjto tub k:itcwej anjd out lOOkllMGa GLN ANJO. 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