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PAGE EIGHT MTIDFORD MATL TRTBrTNTE, fEPFOTtD, OREGON. SUNDAY,. JULY 10, 1938 OCTAGON Hou$& 'THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addroaa the author, lncloln itataped envelop for reply. Keg. V. S. Pat 0. 6Y PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR v a Tht Story So Fan Alv Mavo, Capo Cod detective, ti tnoettioatine the murder of Marino Lome, whole hui band'i pott o)7ic mural ita enraged Quanomet. She woe killed by a let handed blow from the knife of her lister, Pam Frte, uho Mum in the - Octapon House. Interested parttei are. Tim Corr, once married to Marina, Jack Lome, the artiet; Roddy Strutt, U'hoee plane cached the night o; the murder; Peggy Boone, another artiit; Jenninpi, an irate plumber; Brigham Roddy's injured pilot; and persons unknown who smoke Turkish tobacco. burned down the barn, biffed Asey, Tim, Pam's father, and two troopers, and destroyed Jack's mural sketches. Af teeing ie a $50,000 lump of ambergris belonging to Pum, Asey ie interview ing the pilot at the hospital. Chapter 36 Rides In The Pretty Plane "CO that crash was planned." J Brigham added. "Didn't care it he killed me." "He took the chance of killing himself." Asey reminded him. "Aw, he probably didn't even think of that side. You know. Rod dy can't think of more than one thing at once," The nurse came in without waiting for her knock to be an swered. . "The time " Asey began. "I know it's not up, but would yoi. help? It's Earl Jennings. We had some trouble with a pipe in the lavatory, and he thinks some one broke It on purpose, to bring up that mural and the leaking pipes, and make him mad. We can't do a thing with him." "I'll come," Asey said. "Try an' remember more, will you, Brig ham, while I go calm this feller" ' Two agitated nurses sighed with relief as Asey marched into Jen ning's room. For a moment Asey stared at the man. His face was purple with rage, and the veins on his forehead stood out sharply. "For a man with a bad heart," Asey said, "you certainly manage to work yourself up. don't you?" "These women, they busted that pipe!" Jennings shouted. "They heard about the mural, and they busted that pipe to make me mad! Everyone's laughing at me be cause of that picture let me up, I'm going to get Jack Lome and wring his neckl He can't make a fool out of me " "No." Asey observed, "he can't. You're doin that all by yourself. Let him get up, Susan. Let him go kill Jack Lome. He'll die of apo plexy before he gets there, but when a man wants to make a fool of himself that bad, it's wiser to let him die happy." "Who do you think you are?" Jennings yelled. "Who" Asey came over to the bed and looked down at him. "I'm a man," he said, "with a lot of patience But you're tryin' It hard. Now. let's get this straight You're sore because of the mural. So're lots of others, but they don t make mat ters worse by callin' attention to themselves an their jorcness ' "They weren't made out as bad "Oh, yes, they were. Now, sore head, you do one of three things. You go over and wring Jack Lorne s neck, or turn jver and go to sleep. Or. I shall plant my fist smack on your jaw." he demon strated, "like that, only harder. Then I'll pour you into a strait jacket. Now, what are you going to do?" "No man can hit me and " "Susan," Asey said, "go get a traitjacket, please. "All right! Jennings said sull- 1 "All ftV. n "After we got back from Provi dence," Brigham said, "Roddy went tooting off. I'm sure he went to see Marina. He didn't tell me so, then or later. But that's what 1 think. There was a note waiting foi him when we got back. I'm sure it was from her." " "Are vou really sure," Asey said, "or do you just hope that Roddy'll get nice an' involved in the murder?" "He already Is, isn't he?" Brig ham returned. "What else would he have staged that crash act for? Doesn't that land him smack Into the murder?" Asey agreed. "I wonder, now," he said. "Aaron Frye saw Roddy's roadster out back by the lane. Prob'ly Marina did write a note an' leave it for him. From what Pam said. Pam don't bear Roddy any love, an' he prob'ly har got things against her" "That's Marina's sister, isn't it?" Brigham interrupted. "They talked about her. Not very well " "I sort of think." Asey said, "that I begin to get the gist of things here. You know what am bergris is?" Brigham was vague on the sub ject, so Asey briefly enlightened him. "I think," he said, "that while you was skimmin' over the beach around by the point, I think that Marina spotted that hunk of am bergris an' got to wonderin' about it She's heard Pam tall, about it all her life, an' she might have been curious enough to go see. That's why she left off flyin' in such a hurry" "And why she asked Roddy for his beach wagon," Brigham said excitedly. "I remember now she said she wanted to get something she left out at the camp. Someone else wanted the beach wagon, but Marina insisted she had to go to the camp. I'd forgot all about it, but now 1 remember. Sure, that must have been it. She spotted it from the plane, and then she went after it in the beach wagon. 'Hijacking' "AND when she got out to the noint." Asev said, "shn finds I hat s a nice point enlv. "All right, all r.ght What a splendid biffer, Asey thought as he went back to Brig ham's room. Jennings would have made. Jennings was born to be the bifler of the night before But Jennings had been in the hospital. 'Beach Skimming1 ASEY sighed, and opened the door. 'Thought of anything else?" he asked Brigham. "Well, no. I was trying to re member If Marina and Strutt had a fight Friday, but they cooed around like a couple of doves. All over each other. Strutt wouldn't have thought up so many funny things, if it hadn't been for her. She thought of everything, she did. Wanted to skim over the waves like a bird, she said, and fly over dunes like a seagull. She got tired, around four." "Brigham," he said, "you've given me an Idea I hndn't Drains enough to flg?er out all by myself. Look, you flew over Quanomet Point, didn't vou?" "That place? Any number of times." "An' Marina was with you on some of those trips, includin' one around four in the aft'noon?" "Marina, and a lot of others. They came and went in droves, all day, having nice rides in the pret ty plane." "Yup. An' rlcht after that four o'clock trip, Marina decided to leave After one of the beach skim min' episodes. That is very en liEhtenin" that is" And it was. It brought up a point which had not entered his head before. Marina, and heaven knew how many others, had seen the ambergris first from the plane. point. Pam there. Marina prob'ly seen it first, but Pam got there first. Marina didn't say" she'd seen it. She knew that Pam wouldn't believe her any way, an' she knew she was in the driver's seat lit'rally. What she f:ot stuck on was Pam's spirit That icked her. Yud. I think I begin to see how it went. Then later. Ma rina left the ambergris while she raced after some art'st " "He was the one we trailed," Brigham said. "Something-stein. Look. Roddv and I didn't see Ma rina again after she left In the beach wagon. We were busy with the plane. That's why she left the note. We eft before she got a chance to speak to Roddy." I think so. Asev said. "Now. let's see. What did she write him? Would she have told him about the ambergris?" "Oh. his grandmother lust left him a pile," Brigham said. He told me all about it. He wouldn't have cared a hoot about the money. "Maybe not," Asey said, "but Roddy has his savin' side. He wouldn't pay for the ambulance that brought you over here. Now, what was Marina's plans? How'i for hiiackin' sure, that's it!" "I don't get it." Brigham said. "She tells Roddy here's a nice olace for him to ploy a trick on Pam. an' get evei. with her for bein so standoffish," Asey said. "Dear Roddv. we're going to have a holdup. You're coin' to hold up Pam an' me. See? That's why he parked his car in the lane. He was goin' to the garage an' stage a fake holdup, an' make off with the car an the ambergris. Marina was clever enough to stall him off with some explanation somehow i won't think ambergris would mean anythin to Roddv even if she did tell him. She'd get her stuff back. all right an she could also null an act to make Pam think it was a genuine holdup. "But Roddv killed Marina." Brigham said. "Didn't he?" "1 wonder. Asev said 'Or did he come there an' find her dead prob'ly before Pam did? Must have been before. An he oaid Nettie hush money. That mean's that he seen someone, or someone seen him. either goin' to or enmin' from the garage. He thinks it was Net tie Hobbs, but it wasn't. Yes. this begins to fit itself some." But there s the time part of It, Brigham said. "I think in terms ot schedules. He left after eight o clock. Roddy did MarinB wasn't killed till long later. If Roddy waited in the lane, or outside the garage all that time, then he must hove seen everything. Including the murder." "Suppose that .toddy went somewhere else first," Asey said. "Suppose the note told him where Marina was going to be. thevd have had to lay a few plans Ma rina was at a party. Ai.yway. Rod dv didn't have to come there to the garage at once. But I'll soon pry the truth out of him. Brigham vou've been a great help." I'd feel more of a help. Brig ham returned, "if I could think of something to prove that Roddy killrd her." fCS-riril. I91t. re4&4 Amtad Ttfir) More about the mural, tomorrow. Fern Valley PERN VALLEY, J'J'.y 8 (Spl.i Knox McCloy ot the Elliot crvk min ing district and nephew, Mr Hlbbnrd of Los Angeloa. were overnight gueeU it the. L. H. Hughea home 1 ursday night. Mr. nd Mrs. E E. MarAhitU, who Accompanied Mr. and Mm. O Ham mond of Klamath Falls to 9n Fran cisco, erturned Monday via the Rrd wood highway. Mr. and Mra. O. Peritonei are pending a short vacation in Ban Francisco at the home of Mr. Pen mnd'a daughter. Guttata at the J. G. Eld ridge home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs Churles Hansen and daughter Jane Mr. and Mra. Olaf Severson nnd lighter Thelnifc ol Med ford. Mr. and Mra. Fred WiliiH.ns an tht proud parent of 4 baby girl. They have named her Ann Elizabeth. Those of Fern valley spending the Fourth at Ashland were the Perdue. Hughes. Williams. Marshall, Beers. Kantor and Davis families. Guests at the Joe Kantor Jr. home Tuesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Den Rogers and family of Derby. Mra. Refers and Mrs. Kantor are sinters. A shower was given at the home of Mrs. Joe Kantor Sr. In honor of her daughter. Miss Lillian Kantor, who will soon be married to Allen Busey of the U. 6 navy. Those honoring Miss Kantor with useful gift were Mrs. Dover, Mrs, Fred Dusey, Mra. Lewis, Mrs A. Henslrr, Mrs. Chas. Higdon. Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. J. o. Elrttlttr. Mrs. Ivan Olaen, Mrs. Urnnret Uavit. Mrs. L. H. Hughfs, Mrs. E E Mar shall. Mrs. E. VV. Deer. Mrs Joe Kantor Jr., Mlsse Echo Alfoid. Va leria Whltni'y and I ola U wls s writ! liwllrs that could not be present sent tflfU. i ' i r ' r Am.i w in i M uu Hopkins, m famnhwoo, of 'Oakland, Cal - STepPlH6 ftCCI1?6NlNVV ttfkniklA-rn Ul Howie X (my CMCO on & 0eftrtire in Grove lotinship, Pa., intftb, 1W PicTURg at ft church W1W 32 VffcRS OH 1HB CftNMIftN NfcTiOHiM.RftlLltofcP,tf3l.. Sister Act Nine championship titles In a single season Is the record of "Hopkins, Hopkins, Hopkins and Wood," Spring field, Mo., swimming team composed of three sisters and a friend. The four glrls Bet tie Jane. Anna Lou and Ellen Gale Hopkins end Faustina Wood Included two Mis souri Valley A. A. U. championships, indoor and outdoor. In their total, besides seven sectional titles. Faustina specializes in the breast- stroke; Anna Lou, the youngest sis ter, swims backstroke and Is on the relay team; Bcttle Jane swims back stroke and specializes on the quarter-mile and half-milo events; and Ellen Gale swims all events, espe cially the 100-yard free style. "Three of us hold the Junior na tional 300-yard medley relay Cham plonshlp." Ellen Gale writes. "Faus tina swims breaststroke on the team: Bottle swims free style and I swim backstroke." Other records held by the four-glr) team Include the Doutt's lake cham pionships; the Capper meet at To peka, Kan.; the Wild wood Lakes meet at Kansas City. Mo.; Hie Clarlnda meet nt Clarlnda, Iowa; the Univer sity City meet, at St, Louis; tho Southeastern meet at Memphis, Tenn.: and the Greater Ozarks meet at Springfield, Mo., home of the four girls. Forest Sbrlne An old Italian lumberman, wishing to leave a living reminder of hts faith. In 1006 carved the picture of a church on the trunk of a beech standing In Grove township, Cam eron county, Pennsylvania. Witnessing the event was L. C Wykoff, now a retired forest ranger. Just the other day Wykoff happened to pass the some tree and. strange as It seems, saw the Identical carv ing, still there after 3a years. The carving was on the north side of the tree, according to Wykoff, and was cut only part way through the bark so that tho tree's growth had not disturbed the original picture. For amusement, an Intelligence test wns given by Miss Valeria Whitney, after which the gifts were opened and admired by all present. Dainty refreshments were served by Mrs. Kantor. Tar Pots set FIro TACOMA, Wash., July 9. (UP) A stubborn fire that originated in tar pots of tho Berkhelmer Roofing com pany plant late today caused damage estimated at (100,000 before it was controlled by firemen. More than 40 persons were forced to flee tho building. 4 Rrb Family tn Home EUGENE. July 0. (AP) Hie family of Donald Erb, new president of the University of Oregon, became for mally installed on the campus today as remodeling of the president's residence was completed and the family took possession. Log Camps to Open. ASTORIA, July 9. (AP More cheering news came out of coastal logging camps today with announce ments by three operators that they would resume work Monday. A fourth operation, however, will clot down for a three-month period. WHEiJ VOU ARC AU. PACKED IN FOR 1HE ANNUAL MOVE TO THE LAKE, "THE WELL-WEANING NEIGHBOR ARRIVES WriH A LAVER CAkE WHICH SHEfriOWHT WOULD BE Nice f&k VoiJ To have when vou sot There aHE Which Will HAVE TO BE CARRIED IN SOMEBODY'S IAP 7-& durikg the Trip (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) VAll, S MATTEB POI By 0. 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