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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, QTCEOQy. MONDAY. .TTJLY 25, 1938. &TA60t)UoUS& JCfiSg By PHOEBE ATWOOD taylou JSs HELP WITH THE TRUNK By CLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a itamped envelope for reply. Reg. 17, 8. Pat Off. tflUIAffet v-3 Chapter 49 'Is It All Real?' A FLOCK of shots rang out. Hanson bumped into Asey at the doorway. "We had to shoot, Asey!" he said breathlessly. "We had tol She went for the Carrs she'd got it out of the well, and into the bar row, and she was just making for your roadster when the Carrs came back. And without a second warning, she culled that sun and shot at Tim we had to shoot her!" "How's Tim?" "She lust wineed him. but- well, we got her," Hanson said, Asey pushed past Hanson outdoors. Timothy, gripping his shoulder, was sitting on the running board of the little coupe. Beyond, in the grass, lay Peg Boone. "Is it all real?" Tim asked blankly, "is it all real? Is it was it Pee?" Asey nodded. "We had to let her know where it was to get her. We just meant for her to to nang i 1 1 ..... ; ..u . M'r, n "Well, you certainly did," Mrs, Carr, hugging Emma to her bosom, neered out of the coupe. "You cer tainly did. Asey, what's in that barrow, that she was wheeling? Whatever made her go for Tim like that? Why, she she went for him! Like like Emma went for the bird! Whatever did she have in that barrow? "You can come out now. Gran Tim said. "I wish vou would, my arm needs fixing what is that stuff. Asev?" "That stuff in the barrow," Asey said, "that is ambereris." Half an hour later, Cummings spread a final piece of adhesive on Timothy s arm, ana leaned down to put the roll oacx in nis Dag. ''That." he said, "that'll hold you, I guess. Now just you keep quiet, and "KeeD auiet nothing." Tim said "Asev. explanations are tedious, but vou'd best begin. How did you know it was her? How did you know it was a woman? "I went back to the beglnnln'.1 Asey said, "an' it come over me that first off. it was sort of a fern' nine touch to pin that note back on the door for Pam, after takin' the knife. An' It was a fem'nine temper. An' she smoked cig'rettcs an' she liked your Turkish best. An' she's an athletic sort. I thought so wnen sne vaulted tne barbed wire barricade the other day. "How?" Mrs. Carr said. "WhvT I don't somehow, I can't get this xnrougn my neaa. ' "She was up in Roddy's plane. Asey said. "She seen that lump after Marina did. Brigham re membered her. She was over there that day only no one remem bercd till we started askln'. She was "Unobtrusive," Tim said, "but there. Everywhere. Well, I got tnat mucn, man t i, ram; l said she was all over the place. So she saw the ambergris from the plane "But Marina had taken the beach wagon, when she got to land Arcy said. "Peg didn't have any way oi geiim out mere, f rom what we have been able to dis. cover, she took her car out around the other side of the point, as far as she could, and then she walked. But the stuff was gone. I s'pose ner own tlgurin' as to what Marina wanted Roddy's beach wagon for. one got ner car an come oacK nere, an tooK Pams knife Marina's Pet Spot "WHY didn't she take the amber- ''gris right away, after Sister and I came back?" Pam demanded. "You was here, Nettie was here she begun to do some flgurin'. We know she was at that party wncre noaay ana Marina were. What part did Roddy play, ex, actly?" Tim asked. "First off, Marina got him to say ne a piay nomup, ana inKe the am bergns from her and Pam. He came over here to do that. An' he found Marina dead, an beat it "Why didn't he take the amber gris?" Mrs. Carr demanded. "He didn't, because he didn't know how valuable it was, Asey said. "Not till later, when he looked into the matter through en cyclopedias an' his grandfather's book on whalin'. That had a nice lot about ambergris. So Roddy come over, ingratiatin' himself by offerin' rewards, an' he must of seen Aaron take it to the barn. Later, he took it out an" dumped it in the well." "Well," Tim said. "Stop at the well I never heard of an octag onal well! How would Roddy know?" "It was one of Marina's net spots," Asey said. "Pam says she often showed it to people. That's how he knew about it He dumped it in before the barn burned. That same night, Peg went for Jack's orawin s wnne we was all huntin "Peggy Boone didn't know, either, not until she seen the whole mural when the post office was opened. The what d'you call it? The de sign of it was hers. An' add that to the ambergris" "And Marina's taking Jack away from her in the first place," Pam said. "I think I see" "Nettie brought that point up," Asey said. "About Jack an' Peg. Well, she got out some time after three, Peg did, Saturday night, an' fiaintcd out the mural with red ead. From Aaron's stock. Got out the tree, same as you did, Pam, that same night. That afternoon, she'd snatched Elliott's gold key to the post office from the Kid playin with it. We got him out of bed, an' he said it might of been a woman in pants. She wears dungarees all the time." "But why didn't she take the ambergris at once?" Pam said. "Gimme time," Asey said. "She had the same trouble you did transportation. You'd fixed the ga rage doors, an' Marina had the car key. That meant she had to take the ambergris out, through the side door. We'll have to guess a lot. Like maybe she went to that party where Marina was, to try to get the car key. That'd of been the simpler way. Her car ain't much more'n a wreck. An' she knew if she started with the am bergris, she had to keep on goin'. Anyway when she come here, she had to kill Marina to get the stuff. An' Roddy was around. You see, he thought that Nettie seen him. that's why he paid her hush money. Actually, feg seen mm, out she wasn't sure who it was. That's why she went to Nettie that day I overheard 'em. to find out if Nettle seen her. Then she realized later, it must of been Roddy. That s why he got menaced. She begun to dope out his part in the ambergris. That's why finally she killed him." But how did you know? How can you prove That Littlest Cat r HERE'S always clews," Asey said, "if vou can find 'cm to fit. In Roddy s car was a yellow glass bead. Didn't mean anythin' to me till I got to thinkin' about the clocks here, an' that littlest cat, with the little beady eyes. You see, Peggy Boone didn't like clocks sne s the nrst woman i ve seen for a long time that ain't got a white strip around her wrist, from wearln' a watch. She didn't like the ticking of clocks and watches. She didn't have one. But when she set out to kill Roddy, she knew she needed a time check. So she took that smallest cat along that was aurin the time that she was presumably gettin' her car from the garage. She got it. She timed it beautifully. Took Hanson some time to follow her moves, this mornln'. But she left the little glass bead from the clock In the roadster, when she started it." But the mural why was that ruined?" Assey smiled. "Everyone was sore, he said, "at the wav thov was pictured in that thing. What mey was made to iook llKe. wnen looked at the pictures of It while ago, I thought I'd been barkin' up the wrong tree. Pes Boone was an Indian girl. Lome naan t distorted ner any. "She was skinning some sort or animal, Pam said. Yup. An she was skinnin It with a knife. Asey said, "held in her left hand. See what I mean? There you are, anyway. That's how things happened. Marina took Jack from her, Marina swiped her drawings, Marina got the amDer gris first." "Her left hand! Pam said, Why. I never thought of that out why didn t we think of her? "Why should we at first?" Asey said. "She was so solicitous about you why not? You pointed to the ambergris! When she come back to get that, after killin Marina an all, you'd taken it, you see. But the minute she found you didn't know, she stopped bein' solicitous. Hanson, I see O Mnllc.v gettin out of that car, as is here I'm coin' down to avert some murders! The two troopers and Jennings ere carrying on what seemed to re a nrst-ciass rough and tumble when he got out on the lawn. "Come on!" Asey said. "Snap out of it" "Okay." Shorty said. "I suppose ain't dignified say it's the first me we seen him since Company duoanaea Asey went back to the house and arted up the stairs hut as the clocks struck eleven. The noise died away, and he heard voices rirtlng down from Aaron s room. "Asey." Pam said, "is marvel lous" All his work." Hanson said. All of it!" "Naturally," Cummings told them. "Naturally, Asey is a" Asey hesitated. Toots, the parrot, was staring the troopers. The mural was done i ahj?.fr,?m ,hls c?fe- from her drawin's you know. Ma-;., l0?" J81".- Piking for rina swiped 'em I lno "rsl.na oniy time in his life, "What?" Tim said. "You mean, like she swiped my old drawings didn't Lome know? He really didn't?" "He really didn't," Asey said. "ah, brains! Brains, brains, brains. Drains, brains! "Ain't it," Asey said, "the truth?" fOyr,,, JWI. ,, Jlmced Tsyltr) THE END IN STRANGE END OF VANCOUVEU, Wash,. July 3S.-(AP The Rtrange death of Forrest C. Bur rill. 39 -year-old lumber factory au perlntrndent, assumed new puzzling circumstance for Investigating offi cers today when sea captain vir tually killed a theory that the man might have been en route to see him when lUa automobile plunged Into the Columbia river laAt June 8. In the belief that Burrlll. when hi automobile plunged off a drvk here, rv driving to ate Capt. O. H SwatiMon of the freighter, Nabesna. Chief Deputy Sheriff R. E. Brady interviewed him. Brady had been Informed that Burrlll and the cap tain were old friends but Swausson did not remember Burrlll. although he said he might have known him yean ago when Burrlll was at Long view. Wash. The captain confirmed the fact that the N a hem a was tied up here the night of June fl but he aald he had gone Mhnre, while the vessel waft being fumigated. Burrlll, who left a Portland party and never was seen alive again, wan missing for six weeks before dock employe noticed hla car in the river here last Wednesday, friends and relative have been unable to ad vance any reason for hla death be yond the fact that he drew onto the dock for some reason and mla-; Judged a narrow road which swerve I landward nesr the em! f the dock c xyi Wji 1 wwftuiLifrhtf. ".Hi ,,. fcu,''. v -r. -v i .12. -'mm v-s Maw ('NWMVtttmrsrH 7AOOCK1H0MFS0N Vermont hfcfortffit, (I7-I85b) ftCCIPENTftW-Y FORECAST Me pushed,., whsn rrtw snow . Trtfyr July ne mhwt famous oveRNiaw v ii i. - . i ' i r v" .' ..u ORgWOUTOFft PU$11ERWLL JeffersoM'lle.Ind, 1HCMMW6EW pLrWfeR BEFORE (T HARDENED, AND SPROUTED ujo filiate Piftp Hockey tea m PtfcYED 1 DAY5 BEFORE EITHER - Munehf Lea&iie, Cork, Intend, ma- Fame B.v Accident It took a snow storm In July to start Zadock Thompson, noted Ver mont naturalist and historian, on his road to success. In 1819 he began publishing an al- manaa to earn his way through the University of Vermont. His almanac was read casually by tt:c stolid Ver mont farmers, and for a time Thomp son had a hard time making his pub lication realize a profit. One dny while delivering copy for his. almanac to the printer, ho was Informed that he had omitted a wea ther prediction for a day in July. 1 Absently he replied, "Snow about tnis time." When the copies were off the press Thompson was horrified to read such a disastrous forecast. Obviously his almanac was doomed to be ridiculed out of circulation. Jokes were made of the strange prediction until the fatal day arrived when strange as it seems It did snow I Thompson's almanac was the talk of tho staLe. Demands Increased for copies of It. Surely, a man who could make such a prediction was a true prophet. His reputation was estab lished. Thompson tcok advantage of this 1 quirk of fate to continue his studies and his writings, and later published an excellent history of Vermont. Inland Lighthouse Years ago the Absecon Lighthouse, Atlantic City, New Jersey, was built far out In the Atlantic Ocean. Yet today, strange as It seems, the li-?it-house stands three blocks Inland! The structure did not change Its position rather, the water retreated due to a geologic change, leaving the lighthouse high and dry. ASKS WIFE CAN HE HELP HER PACK AND ISIbLD T0BRIU& HIS BAiwwee FROM CUOSEf APPEARS Wrfrt HIS 0U STANDS AROUND IN "frit DROPS nHEM 3UHL" ' 6RAV TROUSERS IHSfEAIl WAV, AR6UIN6 Vf!5 HAHDV AND DWES FOR -TRUNK, sAVIHa .SmP.S ADlNb 70 . 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Maria, dowager queen of Yugo slavia, arrived at the station. She was weeping and was comforted by King Carol. Tho Duke and Duchess of Kent of England, arriving later, were wcl-' corned by Carol and other members of the royal family. Wat her. Northern California: Pair tonight cud Tuesday but fog and mist aloug coast; little change In temperature; gentle northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday but fog on tho coast: slight ly cooler Interior of northwest por tion Tuesday; moderate northwest wind off coast. TAILSPIN TOMMY What's This? froopTrtKht, 1938, ty Th. B.U Byio i Lf S4fl V you've got several HKJUko start on TAILSPIN. . YOU KNOW k WHAT TO DO, SHOOT? By HAL FORRF0"" V I KNOW HIS BREED. .AND I GIVE YOU MY WORQ AMOS. THE THREE-POMT MERCURY WILL I NEVER PLY IM THE MIAMI By EDWIN ALGER. On Mau mbuna Want Ads. 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