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 . ID HWk OU TKOUSt to nnvtifv i nun .
pack These. i6Nf she? au6 andThev dost
IDOKS&UERVDISBEPUTABLI
FOLDEP BftDWH SUIT
DROPS 5Ulf BfitK M CbrtPlETCtt' DI5ARRAH6ES SAYS WEa IF THERE
TRlJNK AND PAUSES iO PILE M EHTRACTlN6 TWO IS N'T ANVTHIN6 MORE
EXAMINE PILE Of 5HIRTS SHIRT'S HE DDESNT WANT HE CAN DO, HE'U f IN-
SET OUT TO PACK TO TAKE ..SETS TriEM DOWN. ISH UP DOWN CELLAR.
OS PILE CSF UNDERWEAR WiFE'SI&HS IN P-ELlEF
WAT IS READY ToWCK
(Copyright, 198, by Bril yiHU, Inc)
AT WIFE'S CRY OF DIS
MAY, EXPLAINS HE
THOUGHT HE M16HT
HWE left the Tickets
IK THE POCKET
3 MATTEB POI
Bv 0. M PAYNE
Tinnorron: The inw thal
ultli hrr hums.
pomp!)
TO
BUCHAREST, July 35. (AP) Red
roses from President Roosevelt were
placed on the catafalque of Queen
Marie Saturday as a line of mourners
continued through Cotrocenl palace
for a glimpse of the body before the
burial Sunday.
A card attached to the flowers
which were arranged in the form of
a crown bore the president's name.
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.
T- -A ' i r -j ! - v -V i : I.
x s ii s " ii r l i i
cot it. tB'oMK'r-waifcJ MISTER .....
oan ntooitu uAKiiK Plenty Orders!
lr 1 1 - ii..-- 1
fWP2?UP . n g liSlg BSS5? - SURE' EED. ',MA S TO BUY THAT SALE WAS K PUSrVw-I
, iusomeimin, BUT AjUl THE BUSY BEE RESTAURANT. DAT SIS TURKEV Y WANM A AM i em-r tu orse Sr
E2
THE NTS Love-in Bloora ' -
1
.jgr-j iErro
By SOL HES3