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rEDFOTlD MATL TRTBCTNTE, MEDFOTID, OT?EGQy, THtfRSDAY. JULY 14.4933.
OtTAOou House,
PUTTING THINGS AWAY
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX-
For further proof address the author, inclotint t fUmped enrelope for reply. . JUf. 17, g. Pat OC
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
' BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR
The Story So Fan Asey Mayo, Cape
Cod detective, is fnuestipatinc- the
' murder of Marina Lorn, whose hus
band' post offic mural has enraged
Quanomet. She wot killed by a left
handed blow from the knife of her
lister. Pam f ry. Interested parties
are; Tim Carr, once married to
Marina; Roddv Strutt, whose alibilng.
plane crash wot deliberate; Peggy
Boone, an artist; Jennings, an irate
plumber; and persons unknown who
burned doum the Frye's barn, biffed
Asey, Tim and Pam's father, de
stroyed Jack Lome's mural sketches,
and defaced the mural itself. Missing
is a SS0.000 lump of ambergris Pam
found on the beach the day of the
murder.
Chapter 40
strange Reception
"MOW," Asey fold the Congress
1 ' man, "I'm goin' over to chat
with Roddy Strutt. I that car
that's comin' has a press card on
the windshield so long!"
On the way to the Strutt house,
Elliott asked for the Inside story of
the murder, and Asey briefly sum
med it up for him.
"And you think Marina saw the
ambergris first?" Elliott said,
"from the plane Asey, have you
thought that if she saw it, any
number of others, whoever they
were, might have seen it from the
plane, too?"
Up In the house, Carveth set In
motion half a dozen servants.
When things quieted down, Asey
and Elliott found themselves sit
ting out on the terrace that faced
the ocean. They were almost en
tirely surrounded by a series of
large silver trays.
"Cigars," Elliott sniffed, and
helped himself to a handful. "Ciga
rettes all very monogrammed
and crested and phew! Turkish.
Three kinds of whisky. Soda, gin
ger ales, white rock. My, my "
he stood off and eyed the plates of
hors d'oeuvres, "just look at those
things!"
"Whatever became of Carveth7"
asked Asey.
Elliott shrugged. "He said he
was going out to fetch Hoddy."
"I wish," Asey said, "he'd be
quick about it.
"Kelax." Elliott advised. "Have
a drink and eat up some of these
things. There's one kind 1 want to
tackle, but 1 want you to tackle em
first. If it's fish. I want to be
warned. Jean has some kind of fish
paste that makes my stomach
writhe lust to look at it.
Asey picked up a date of sand
wiches, and methodically ate his
way, layer oy layer, to tne bottom
1 didn t, he explained, have anv
dinner today. D you suppose thi
coffees any good here?
. "There's something you pull or
push here. I'll order some," El
liott said. "After all. ne told us to
make ourselves at home."
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New York City. Stevens then turned ' . -Vi""T Z JX A If J 1 V- J 'J I
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first rallrcad charter In America , jk ' n -pLo"-tfZ i -Jf
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a multitubular boiler and ran it on CV - M ) f (X C
the first railway track In this coun- J1 h ( PISeTT- ) I I -f IX,.
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1813 for the double-track railroad to JsP" j S I nil v icf
run from Albany to Lake Erie, to re- JnU l C ) wi, I
place the slower Erie Barge Canal. ' ' BjJ T- x!- ' Jl Jv
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; Jify iifrf into the air.
Asey admitted that he had given
that angle a considerable amount
or attention.
"As for Roddy himself," Elliott
saia, "i personally can t say a kind
word for him. I don't thifik he's
got the brains of an ox. I don't
tninn it's ever been my misfortune
, to meet a weaker and stupider
young man. But somehow I feel
that If Roddy had killed that wo
man, you'd have been extremely
positive about him by now. Roddy
wouldn't have had the wit to use
Pam Fryo's knife, for example. If
itoddy ever got up courage enough
to kill anyone, he'd lay such a
stupidly elaborate plan that you've
nave seen tnrougn It in a second.
Like this business of crashing the
plane for an alibi. It was expen
sive, and it was spectacular, and it
was eiaDorate, But it wasn t very
bright He might have killed him
self. And he doesn't seem to have
, taken the pilot into consideration
at all."
"That's true," Asey said. "He
wasn't even bright enough to be
solicitous about Brigham an' his
hurts. If he'd had an ounce of
sense, Roddy s have taken him to
tne Hospital himself, an called in
every specialist within 100 miles.
Then he'd have had Brigham on
his side, instead of havin' Brigham
hatin' him, an' wonderin' what the
whole business meant anyway
Well, we'll soon be seein' things."
The Filipino with the cauliflower
ears was guarding the closed en
trance to the driveway. If he rec
ognized Asey as the man who had
tried to come in the day before, he
gave no sign of It, but he refused
to let them through until he had
called the house. ,
"Mr. Strutt," he said at last, "he
come."
Deserted
pARVETH STRUTT tripped
down the driveway with the
odd springy walk that Asey noticed
so often in short, fat men.
"Mayo!" he said. "And why, It's
Elliott. Larry, old man, I'm so glad
you've come! This is very decent of
you, "ery. I assure you that we
won't forget this!"
He asked the boy who brought
the coffee where Mr. Strutt had
gone, but the boy didn't know.
This Is Not Funny!
"I'M beglnnin' to have a horrid
feelin'," Asey said, "that we
been foxed Come on. Let s find out
iust what'n time is goin' on here."
Elliott pulled the bell cords, but
no one answered the summons.
"Let's try yellin' There was peo
ple enough flittin' around when we
come!" Asey suggested.
They yelled. No one came.
well, we'll pull every damn bell
cord in sight, simultaneously," El
lott said, "and see what happens
then!"
But nothing happened.
"I'm damned!" Elliott said angri
ly. I m everlastlnulv d
What do these birds think they're
trying to pull, I'd like to know!"
"Let's hunt," Asey said.
They hunted through the house,
and around the house.
Finally Asey drew out his old
Colt, and fired it info the air
"That," he said, "ought to do some
thing!" In a minute a house hnv nn-
peared. He .was followed by more
servants. At last Carveth wearilv
walked up to where Asey and
Elliott stood.
"Have you found him?"
"Have we." Asev asknrl. "fmmrt
who?"
"Roddy!"
"Listen." Asev said. "Thi t nnt
funny. This is not smart This is"
It s a damned outrage!" Elliott
was thoroughly aroused. "We come
here to help you. and to help yout
precious nephew and what nap
pens? You Stick US vnil mnrnnn
us! You maroon us on a piazza and
go away, leaving us to cool out
heels while you Hit around damn
It, man! I m not used tr bems kenf
waiting! I'm not used to such treat
ment! What's the meaning of all
this? Where is Roddv?"
"He s disappeared. Carveth was
so excited that he squeaked. "He's
disappeared! He's gone!"
'CotvritU, mi 'W Aimcti Tsrltt)
a trlrkf Continued tamor-
John Stevens, Inventor
The history of transportation In
America might bo a vastly different
story tf it had not been for tne In
ventive genius of Colonel John Stev
ens, early American Inventor.
Stevens waa nearly 40 when he
turned to the study of steam engines
and their adaptation to water craft.
In 1788 he built U:e first multitubu
lar boiler on record f:r use in his
marine englnea.
In a desire to protect this inven
tion. Stevens petitioned Congress for
a patent law. My profession a tawyer
In New York, Stevens was able to
draw up a sucessful outline for a
patent system which waa passed by
Congress as the Patent Law of 1790,
the foundation of the present Patent
Office.
Stevens was the first man to apply
the principle of screw propulsion to
navigation, building in 1804 a steam
boat with two underwater propell
ers of the screw type In the stern.
Stevens then directed his efforts
toward the invention and develop
ment of high-pressure steam engines
and boilers. In 1807 he built, with
aid eYom Ills son, Robert, the side
wheel steamboat. Phoenix, launch
ing it only a few days after Fulton's
Cleremont took to the water.
While Pulton's engine was Import
ed from England, Steven's was home
made. Fulton, however, beat Stevens
to a franchise to operate a steam
boat line on the Hudson, so the lat
ter boldly sailed through the Atlan
tic Ocean to the Delaware River
City Leases Oord Mine.
REDDINO, Cal. (UP) This city Is
probably the only ono In the world
that owns a municipal gold mine.
The mine was leased to a Sarramento
company which has been operating
it lor two months. The city's first
monthly 10 percent cut amounted to
1,000. and for the secont month
(1,230.79.
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(Copyright, 1938, by The Bell gyndleate, Inc.)
TAILSPIN TOMMY Potter A.W.O.L.
It this
row.
GRANTS TABS, July 14.
ThrM college student employe, rush
1ng down the Oregon Caves mountain
tilghway this morning from the Cave
peort to the scene of an accident.
rere wrecked by tire trouble.
Clyde Dunn, chateau bellboy, about
SO. of Portland, was critically injured
about the head, with him were col
mar Lombard, about 33, of Portland.
yho operate the Caves service sta
ton. end Ray nor Smith, son of i
"Methodist minister at Rose burg They
received slight Injuries.
The econd accident occur: ed about
one-half mile from the scene of the
first, three miles down the mountain
Side
A car driven by William Milter, San
Francisco, wss forced over the grade
when two cars passed. Hla son-ln-low.
Prod Klener. and Pred s father
Charles of Oakland accompanied
Charles Kleser suffered lnjtitlra.
Involved in the tccjde&t were four !
Portland women, Mrs. Alfred Zlmmer,
Mra. L, C. Brunner, Mrs. Connie Le
vake and Mrs. Dudley Turuacllff
COLUMBIA IN SAFETY
PORTLAND. July 14. The
Chsrlee L. Wheeler. Jr., first veniu.1
of Us site ever to penetrate the 80
miles of the Columbia, rlrer between
Vancouver, Wash, and The Dalles,
loo mllee from the sea. ended Its
epochal, voyage when It (locked at
Vancouver at 7 p m. yesterday.
The 300-foot boat, negotiating dan
gerous rapids handily, made fast time
on the downstream trip. The Wheelei
twice passed through the Bonneville
dam arnlocks, highest single lift In
the world, and unloaded a cargo at
rhe Dalles' new docks, she returned
In ballast.
Motorcycle rnllre Curlivd
CLEVELAND. (UP! Mitorcvcle
traffic policemen here have bn or
dered to cease hiding and 'popping
out of nowhere" at unsupectlnc
motorists.
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